We need cool backgrounds as well, Thomas. We've got to have matching backgrounds. We're innovating all the time, guys. Welcome everyone to another one of our videos about the Azure Stack Partner Solution video series. Again, I'm joined by Tiberio Radu from the Azure Stack Hub team. I hope he's doing fine again. Tiberio, who I'm going to talk to today? Hello, Thomas. Hello, everyone. Today, we're going to talk with a Caribbean partner. They are a service provider offering a managed services offering to their customers. As we've seen before in our series, we have from an Azure Stack Hub perspective, we have various partners across the globe, offering different levels of service. That means they're either partnering with other ISVs or they are offering a managed service themselves that the customers will use to build a solution on top. I'll add Blair to go through these. Awesome. Thank you very much, Tiberio. We'll switch over to Blair and Blair. First of all, welcome to our video. Secondly, I hope you're doing fine. I just talked with Tiberio a little bit about it. He explained a little bit about the company. But can you go a little bit deeper on who you are and also talk a little bit more about the company itself? Sure. Good morning, Wothian. Good to see you. Thank you for having us. Salt is a Caribbean-based Microsoft partner. As you can see by our cool backgrounds, we won partner of the year this year. That's three out of the four last years. What we have is the we're the only ones in the Caribbean offering a multi-tenant Azure Stack offering. We've had it up and running for about a year and a bit now. In Cayman, Bermuda came online right in the middle of COVID. Actually, the equipment arrived like two days before lockdown and we built our Azure Stack offering in Bermuda during lockdown. I think it was the first time anyone had done it all remotely. That's from HPN Microsoft and of course ourselves. We're happy to say that we just ordered equipment for Jamaica. We have an extensive roadmap on rolling out throughout the Caribbean. We work in that partner ecosystem. Clients can obviously come directly to us, but we found that there was a niche for companies such as ISPs or service providers to be able to or want to consume Azure-type services within the Caribbean for data residency and low latency concerns. We took the initiative of building these out. We do not focus just on the ISP. I know a number of people initially have rolled out Azure Stack clubs using just the ISP services. We've chosen to go down the path of offering the full suite of software from right from one end to the other. We've been going to the company about four years old now, and that's who we are. That sounds pretty cool. Not only the location sounds pretty cool, but also the solution you're offering. You mentioned you're working in a partner ecosystem. Can you explain a little bit more who your clients are or your partners are and how they work with you? Sure. We are off the offset. As many of us know, each stamp has its own interface, its own provisioning engine. We realized very quickly that we would have to create our own API to be able to manage this as we plugged into the ecosystem. Our clients are everyone from distributors in the US, so we've got IncomeX who have come online and you'll be able to within the next couple of weeks, be able to provision right through their interface, their platform services with us all the way down to some of the ISPs. We have them here in Cayman and Bermuda, Jamaica that we're working with, where they wanted to add value to their clients. I think the big thing around this was that, a number of them already have Cloud platforms, and one of the big selling points for us is obviously security and compliance around Azure Stack. It's a closed system. It's not your traditional private Cloud where it's a high provider who's reach up theoretically and touch the VMs and do as you wish with them. It's closed as the solution provider don't have access to that data. The security and compliance, I think is a huge thing that even when we're approaching some of the ISPs and partners that already have a Cloud platform, they could see the benefit that there were the areas where there are clients that would want to consume these types of services. It was complimenting their offering rather than competing with their offering. I think that's one of the things really important to highlight. Okay. Now, that's a good thing to know and how it all fits together. Obviously, this is about Azure Stack Hub, and what I usually ask is why did you choose Azure Stack Hub and how does it fit in your solution? That is one thing. But then on the other hand, I also want to ask you, why do your customers choose Azure Stack Hub? Vic's been with me throughout this journey. I'm the owner of the business. Vic is a technical director. We started this journey with a view of being a Microsoft shop down the Caribbean. We have a lot of places that are jack-of-all-trades and nothing against them. I was in that business for many years before I went into solely being a Microsoft shop. We built out the solution thinking and knowing about Azure Stack was coming. We thought we were going to be able to install it on our own hardware. We built out S2D data center with many servers and we played around with it. That was our first version of Cloud that we had. I think that had a lot to do with why Microsoft chose us to give us the exception, because in the Caribbean, you need an exception for every single location you go. We have to write to Microsoft. We have to prove that with the business case. They do interviews. It's not just I want to purchase it and you're on your way. We have to do a lot of justification to them. But we knew that all along, we'd heard about Stack and it come in. We're like, this is the perfect Cloud solution for us. It's Azure but down here. It's same interface, same CSP billing model, same marketplace, the APIs, all these kinds of things, the DLL, the versions. It's all the same and we really wanted to. We had a vision from day one on extending Azure outside of the regular data centers into our regions. That is awesome. Again, I love that and that is also why I want to remain reasons we have Azure Stack to actually expand Azure not just in our own regions, but to regions where it's just not available. We were talking a little bit about the why and how it fits in. I'm also super interested in what platform or how are you using the platform to deliver value to your customers? I'll take that one on Blair. As Blair mentioned, we started off by running our own Cloud Platform, very common in the region. One of the big things we were doing with those Azure Stacks was taking clients who had a heterogeneous top design and saying, let's give you a bit of standardization. With the Azure Stack, these customers can't leave these regions for a variety of reasons. It could be data sovereignty, regulatory control. What we wanted to do was start that journey by moving them out of there onto the Azure Stack. IS was a big part of that initial roadmap. That's a lot easier said than done. Right in the beginning, we came up with our own data box solution. We stole shamelessly from Microsoft's portfolio. We could help our clients to take those big data workloads that they've got sitting in their data centers. We could help them to securely ship their data using our backup solution. Take that, bring it into our data center, give them high-speed access to the Azure Stack, and then be able to upload their virtual machines and their data in a time that's reasonable. I mean, the internet is great, but it's not great when you're trying to move 10 or 20 terabytes worth of infrastructure into a data center. IS was absolutely the start of our journey. Of course, they had that high fidelity. Those clients who could move minor workloads out into public Azure, they were already aware of how to get their ARM templates running, a Terraform running, how to get those things going. Really, that was the start of our journey doing a lot of IS. The other thing that we started doing from the very beginning was offering virtual desktop solutions, which is actually really interesting with the Azure Stack. We eventually built up those virtual desktop environments that were to almost dozens, if not 100 or so concurrent today. When we went to Azure Stack, that was another thing that we really excited about was the ability. We could take what we knew about that and give clients the Windows Virtual Desktop experience on our Azure Stack, but using the session host model. We did that. We found ourselves in that place where we had clients, here's your application servers, here's your file servers, all running on IS. Now we give you the Windows Virtual Desktop experience. Of course, through the power of Azure Active Directory, we were one of the first partners in the Caribbean to sell the E5 licensing suite. We could give them all the security of Azure Stack's SOC2 data center, absolute Azure Stack security. Now they've got their tendencies, they've got their virtual networks into there, they've got their infrastructure, bring the virtual desktops in, and we really saw that explode with COVID. Unfortunately, as more people had to work from home, and they were able to scale those out so quickly on the Azure Stack platform within their regions for low latency. Then as we've moved forward, we've obviously now finding that we have clients who are very savvy, but they still have that problem. They can't leave these geos for whatever reason, and sometimes it's even just a DR concern. Like a hurricane comes through, takes the telecommunication, links with them, they still got to operate. This really opened the door for us for the PAS solution. We're very, as an organization, we've always been very aggressive with keeping up the ASD case, the Azure Stack Development kits, so we were always trying to stay on the edge of that. Now we've gone in and put our SQL solution in, which is actually extremely popular. We have this issue now with clients reaching end of laugh on their 2008 R2. Thanks to Microsoft, appreciate it guys. We now have the option to extend the patching in the service laugh with the Azure Stack, which we've done, and we're offering PAS SQL, which is the cheapest way to consume SQL, compared to trying to run the last to see models yourself. That just a small insight into how we're starting to leverage this product from a technology perspective. To be honest, that's very awesome. There are many, many different things you just put out there, which I really love.  Also, I like that you mentioned the offering with Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2, which customer if they move it to Azure or also Azure Stack Hub, they get free extended security updates for these. Again, you mentioned also then the modernization parts, so you're not just taking them and just leaving them at just virtual machines, you also help them to modernize and go forward. A bunch of different things and awesome things here, I just took out and I find it super interesting. With that, that brings me to another very important question, but I'll let you first go and add something to it. Yeah. I wanted to talk about a little bit more about the PAS solution. We had a customer, we're under NDA with their customer, so we'll talk about it in a very general term, but we had this customer approach us, and they're doing amazing things with IoT. They have a model that they've built up for themselves, and it's been doing the job, but it's becoming very expensive for them. I'm very proud that with the Microsoft's roadmap, we now have all the benefits of IoT Hub, all the web apps features, and so with this client, we're very proud that they're actually developing their next generation platform directly on to the Azure Stack. I mean, it's not often that you get to look at the Azure Reference Libraries, the architecture patterns, and actually apply those in places like this. We're very excited that we're going to actually have a client who's going to have all these telemetry sensors uploading directly into the Azure Stack where we're doing the hard computation, and then a lot of that data will then flow up to Azure to make use of Azure Search and Cognitive Function. So it's a really advanced use case, and I mean, this is something that's really exciting because Salt actually had a case study where we worked with a client that was doing artificial intelligence and we helped them to achieve that platform in public Azure. So for us, it's really rewarding to not only have these solutions being built now for clients who can achieve public Azure, but those who are now going to be in the Caribbean as well. No, that's awesome. I love that you're bringing these Azure services to where the customer actually need them, right? Again, many, many different services, and I love how you built that whole Cloud journey, if you will, and help customers in whatever state they are and whatever actually they need on that. That brings me up with a question which I want to ask you. So during that journey and obviously, also the journeys you see with your customers like where they are in, do you want to share any lessons learned or something you learned during that process and that journey? I think there's a couple of things for it. I think as part of us learning about the Azure Stack, we had a lot of tremendous support from our partners and Microsoft to do that, and we've overcome a lot of that. A lot of that was learning barriers. When it comes to the most important people to us who are our partners, these are our resellers, these are guys who are making the journey possible for their clients and their Geos. What we've really learned is that we need to listen a lot more. What's really exciting is they can come to us with their particular use cases and we can apply those within the Azure Stack. For example, what are they doing with networking? We've had to learn a lot about how to integrate people into the Azure Stack and a lot about networking partners. In the beginning, we found that in the marketplace, for example, there wasn't a lot of, there were very few handful of Telco or I have to put this, networking providers that had their virtual appliances in the marketplace. That was very interesting to try and we have to challenge to go to a client who might be running, let's say a Cisco product and say to that client, well, Cisco isn't yet in the marketplace, you need to use a product that we have. The beautiful part about that though is that we built such good relationships with the people who are in the marketplace, and that's really helped us to continue to get those solutions out there. The other one was we had to, essentially, if you think about the clients we have, who can't leave these regions, right? That limits our options for backup. Think about that because we can't just go and use a lot of the Microsoft type, public Azure type backup solutions, which we'd like to use but they're not really isolated. We learned a lot working with our strategic partner to build a high-speed DR and backup solution within the islands so that we can say to the client, well, you're not only are you going to run on the Azure Stack and that's great and you're going to be in public Azure, but you also have a bring your own key, secure backup solution that's high-speed running in our data centers as well. As Blair said, you can see from the theme, it's that end-to-end. So our challenges are to find our clients and understand what their customers are trying to do, because a lot of our clients are partners, give them the Cloud Solution Architecture Experience, and then help them to shape and reform a lot of the perceptions and technologies in their clients' environments to fit within that model. If you don't mind it, I'm just going to add two things to that. I think when we started this journey, we came out and we talked about this partner network. Our managed service is actually Azure Stack. Azure Stack is a service, whether it's you're consuming it as an end-to-end client, or whether we're running and operating it for you in your own data center, however you choose to consume it. But I think for quite a while, there was a creating that perception, or having a number of conversations with a partner saying we're not going to compete with you. We're thinking of us as like an extension of Microsoft. We're here to help you. We have the engineers, we have the sales team, we're not going to compete for the office licenses or any of that. We're looking for people to consume Azure Stack and let us help you build those solutions for your clients. That continues to be quite a challenge. People kind of go, are you really serious? You're not going to come in and bid on this? No, I promise we're not. But the other one was, as we know, what it says on Azure Stack on paper, as with anything, I think it's any product when you read it and says, this is what I can do. We've found some of those limits and barriers actually don't exist. It's what's built in. So if you use third-party products, like I just mentioned around checkpoint or other firewalls, your VPN throughput gateways, and these kind of things goes away, your 200 meg limit, and these types of things. It's all based on what your connectivity coming in. But it's also about, Vic had touched on a couple there being the backup and some of the other solutions. The other one was ExpressRoute, that connectivity. So we've created our own quasi ExpressRoute equivalent to be able to allow clients to get in. So again, every day you're asking the lessons learned, and we've mentioned before we go to the call, every day we learn something new and there's a new challenge that we have to come up with or do, and that's just part of being on the forefront of technology. You get to be one of the ones who sit there and go, great, we have another challenge today. Billing was a huge one. Actually being able to build more than just IaaS. If you're wanting to build against the entire platform and be able to offer that to clients, I don't know how many providers we went through or people partners we've partnered with that it just didn't work. We now have a working solution. We've got a great partner we're working with. But every day there's new challenges and we enjoy it. As you can see, Vik and I wake up each day and we're like, right, what are we on today? What challenge comes today? Now I was about to say our big Microsoft fanboys, and I think that that really takes us to the other part of it which is we want to make sure that people, we want to drive Microsoft consumption. We're desperately passionate because we know how good it is. We drink that Kulein ourselves every day. So I think a lot of part of it as well is these people have relationships and they are trusted people. That's really great. We are really love our position is being able to go in and give them a skilled hand because this is all we do to actually make that experience.  You know, the stability is great and the performance is awesome and their costs are coming down and they're getting to reuse a lot of what we sold them before. That to me is honestly why I wake up every day. I think that that is beautiful. And the Azure Stack is what's allowing us to do that because if the Azure Stack wasn't in the Caribbean, right, what you'd find is you'd find, okay, we've got whatever platform we have and we're kind of trying to shoot them in. But because it's fully integrated with the Microsoft journey, that experience, that fidelity is there. And it gives them a seamless, pleasant experience from the moment we meet until their clients are done and everything's in support and they're just using the system reliably day in and day out. No, I love that to be honest. And I love the energy and especially like how you use that and actually not like, you really believe in these products and you really know they're working, but then you're taking that knowledge and that experience you have and enable others, right, to help their customers as well. And I think that that is really a really powerful thing to do. And I think it really important, especially in these times, right? Absolutely. I agree. So obviously there's a lot of exciting things we just talked about and I'm sure there's much, much more we could talk about, but if people are watching this video and they wanna know more about you and your solutions, where should they go? I think, you know, in this day and age, it's the website, so salt.ky is our website. And obviously, I think you guys are gonna share the contact information for our team. So we'd love to hear from them. The word's always open. They can also, if they're in our region, come into our office, have a coffee. We'll do our social distancing. We've got the desk space, the chairs. We've got a chess board if you like, if you like to play chess. Awesome. Now, thank you very much Blair. Thank you very much Victor. Thank you very much TB for adding and connecting me with salt. It was absolutely fun talking to you and a lot of exciting things are happening and you're doing. So people definitely check out the link. We will put it in the description so you can learn more and contact Sol to learn more about how they can help you with that. Thank you guys for watching and hopefully see you in the next one. Thank you very much. Thanks guys. Bye. Have a good day everyone.


Stop waiting for the federal government's convene national unity summit to save Nigeria. Former Vice President Atikwa Bubakar says to governors and Yahya Bello tells governors to implement financial autonomy for judiciary if they believe in restructuring. Well this is plus politics and I am Mary Anacol. Former Vice President Atikwa Bubakar has called on Nigerian governors to stop waiting on the federal government to make changes that may not happen anytime soon to resolve the problems challenging the country. Instead he has asked leaders to convene a national unity summit of all Nigerian governors to iron out the issues and also ignorance and mutual suspicion has been said to be the what is feeding the insecurity and criminality in Nigeria. This was said by cleric Umau by a Grand Patient of the National Advisory Council of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria PFN. Well joining me to have this conversation is Bimbua Waileh. He's a journalist and of course Samayla Moussa is the Director of Strategy and Communications of CNG. Thank you very much gentlemen for joining us. Thank you. I'm going to start with you Bimbua. Of course as a journalist and someone who's in the newsroom you get to get more and more reports on what's happening in Nigeria in terms of insecurity. Last weekend I spoke with the INEC representative who complained about you know the fact that they're being targeted and was seeing all kinds of violence but they all seem to have stemmed from one particular case of insecurity which has now become a hydroheaded monster. Now when the former vice presidents asked that governors decide to call a unity summit I mean there's so many people who have asked for conferences to be held. Waileh says that governors should not wait for the presidency to do that. Does that not mean that the the governors may be assuming the duties of the presidents of the Federal Republic of Nigeria? Well being someone who has been in the presidency and who knows how government works that's talking about article. He should have a better understanding. I feel he should have a better understanding. The presidency is one one person. But governors seem to be more in control. Governors seem to know a bit more sometimes than the presidency and it kind of you know depends on who is running or who is in charge in the presidency. And then let's not forget that Nigeria runs a very very unique style of federal government. We are not still in my opinion running you know what the real federal system should be where government states should be autonomous. States should you know run their own security system. States should be able to control their own resources. You know so in the real sense governors should actually you know be allowed what article is saying should play out. But with the kind of federal system that Nigeria runs everything always points back to the presidency to the federal government which is why it kind of seems like it doesn't really have a leg to stand on right now. If the states were really as autonomous as they should be if the states were to control their own security system if you were to control their own resources if we really really run a real federal system then perhaps you know what you said on the suggestions yes we would have a leg to stand on. Even good luck Jonathan said this yesterday at the program where it was you know and this is another ex-president and someone who has also been in presidency also saying something similar that governors are in a position to do more than the president. So why are they not you know giving the governors the actual ability or you know let us run a real federal system by you know letting governors be able to control their own resources you know letting us have state police and you know letting the local governments you know really run as the least form of the three-tier system that we have. I think you know that is really where we should go back to and I think you know that is part of some of the subtle things that article is saying here that we really need to look into if you want to get out of you know some of the challenges that we face as a nation because the foundation upon which a lot of these things are built you know seems to not be as it should and it's really really part of why we are facing some of the challenges we have at the moment. Does this also mean that because there are projects who have said that the reason why the governors the owners is now on the governors or the governors are beginning to take these stands because maybe the presidency is not necessarily leaving up to its expectations it has you know failed the people when it comes to dealing with the issues that the country is facing and so the governors have taken it upon themselves because they want to protect their citizens as opposed to the body language that they're getting from the federal government. The governors have to do something and I think Nigeria is at you know at the precipice of something either great going to happen or something on the other side of the number line going to happen because of some of the steps that we are seeing right now it has never happened before you know that we see southern governors meet on the unified umbrella we've always had the Nigerian governors forum but for the first time you know southern governors came together in Asaba Delta state and they came up with the communique and all of a sudden now everybody you know seems to be shaking and they are wondering well you know what's going on here so it seems it seems something is about to happen and the governors are now you know trying to live up to a responsibility that they should have lived up to years ago and you know you might want to say yes they were not giving free hand or free range to do some of the things but I think they had they've always had the opportunity to do these things they've always had security votes and which a lot of them cannot account for we don't know how they spend you know some of these monies and so many other ways you know a lot of them you know wait for fuck our locations they have not been looking in words to sell they can generate money you know to build infrastructure that will lead to job creation that will point people in the direction where they will not have to do nefarious things you know to try to get money because poverty is also part of some of these security challenges that we're talking about and if governors had always you know done what they're supposed to do in terms of raising their own internally generated revenue are not waiting for fact all the time then perhaps you know we wouldn't be in some of the situations that we are in right now so the governors are now you know moving in the right direction in my own opinion and but everything has to be done with care with proper calculation and with precision so that you know it doesn't go off the rails it is right in the direction that they are coming together and they are unifying they are putting away that especially in the south where things can be very very polarized this is the first time and I think you know it's it's going in a very good direction but at the same time we need to be careful so that it doesn't go on you know off the rails well let me go to a smile up because when the southern governors put out that communique they mostly hapt on you know putting a ban on open grazing and they also called for restructuring the senate president has come out to kick against it of course certain northern governors are not in agreement with that move by the governors in the south in fact they have said that the senate president had said that the governors are not paying attention to the most important things that the ban on open grazing is not really the solution to the problem that Nigeria is facing. Smyla can you explain to me why you think that or why the senate president took that stand is that the stand that the CNG is also taking do you think that the southern governors have something else off their sleeves other than you know fighting the level of insecurity that we have in the country? Well for me I don't think anybody is actually worried or cheated about whether they've got something off their sleeves or not really I mean it's almost inconsequential to us you know but what we just after is you know sometimes you want to shy away from taking some positions because you feel at this point especially now that the country is almost at some kind of precipice where Ellen little things can actually push it to the brink of you know anarchy so really we felt there should be more kind of some more mature approaches to this and I tell you why I need to just digress a little bit so that you have a feel of what I'm trying to the templates I'm trying to lay is that the governors themselves are largely you know the course of the problem they try to profile solutions to. How so? Yeah now the body language is what I really make the difference I tell you one thing he mentioned something about security votes you know what? They don't spend a penny on anything in their state on security from that money. That money is given as a matter of fact you know I know you robust call it a job we call it Adachi a governor can bet his life that he's guaranteed every month he can have this contribution of X amount of money that he knows is coming to his step because nobody sees Jack I give you an example in the past where we have the issue of between Adidibu and a lot of job back in oil state then the man was saying you know the late Adidibu was saying I'm the one who holds the security of the state I'm the one who says no trouble no trouble goes anywhere I'm the one who says there's gonna be chaos and everybody and they everywhere is on fire if you say you have been spending your collective security votes you're spending it even not getting the penny so you tell me who is it going to who are you giving it to because I'm the one who controls the security we have these issues and we have tried to let them understand over here in the north now look some of these issues shouldn't even go out of the governor's office you will have some of this chaos if somebody I mean some people are complaining they have cattle rustlers disturbing them in their area and these are confirmed genuine cases it doesn't take you how much does it take you to pull out money from that security vote in a month and buy like hundred cows and begin to shed among these people who are feeling a grip they don't need to resort to arms because over time there's so much neglect their castles are also you know their properties vandalized by the rustlers and all of that they have been displaced and the governor is keeping them in an IDP for how long would you do that and your collective security vote what are you using it for for quite a loud so really they are part they are part of parcel of this whole problem because you see everybody just feel oh nobody's don't ask questions there's no any accountability they receive that money nobody ask any question nobody really so this is what you have so no matter what kind of well because you know you're talking about what they're talking about that the issue of restructuring and all of that is this body language nothing is going to change is the same people the same attitude they go about the office and sometimes they come up with different kind of ideas in order to cover up for their inadequacies and all of that I mean come on we've been so all these dummies for how long we're going to be leaving this way okay so my I want to go back to what you just said so you're telling me that in all of all the things that you just said all I got was that if they were the cows were replaced or the government had used in your part were able to deal with cattle rustling we would not have banditry so you're telling me that it's okay or that the result of cattle rustling is why we have banditry is why we have cows I'm trying to understand please make me understand why it has metamorphosed to this point because cows were not for them I'm saying we have cases genuine cases in some states and I give you some for for example we've had an interface with the governor at our own level at CNG you know we listen to him you understand we know some of most of the testimonies he got when he came on board I mean of people's grievances and all of that there are genuine cases where because of what is happening in Zanfara the illegal mining in 90% of the mining going on in Zanfara is illegal now the people who are doing it illegally need to display some people so that the business will try some person some villages have been identified after carrying out some suspect tests to say that these people are actually you settlement actually on gold we need to displace them in some cases some of them are cattle rustlers so what do we do you are gonna is people they come rustle their cows just to make sure that they leave the place and I'm telling you most of these people go back and say okay since the government the government is not helping us they also go and acquire ammunition I've had work you know some of them have been caught who said well you can go and verify my name is so so I had my my land in social place I had about 70 cows I had about 100 or something cows they were Russell I complained to the police book house the Commission of Police we had meetings several times nothing was done so what I'm saying in essence is that if the state governors have been to active enough to stem it at its board to say look okay let's get this genuine cases you don't you guys don't need to resort to ammunition I mean carrying out our arms for because you need to leave there's questions of survival anyway how many cows are being Russell here how many cows are being Russell there let me have the total that you know so that we can do something you need to alleviate the suffering of these people if that has been done no you don't need to even call for any money from the federal government just your security boots can take care of all of this but because they don't even remove a dime from the security boots it's just solely for them as far as they are concerned this is their own you know consolation so what I'm saying in essence is that at their own level they can take care of some of this without waiting for any money from anywhere outside the story to vote and we have several cases like that you need to come to the north and ask there are several of those testimonies going on and this are the same people are going back that's why this thing is on the increase I will come back to you some of that go into kidnapping I will come back to you because I have a lot of questions for you and I need that need answering but let me go back to bimbo before we let him go bimbo let's talk about revenue mark by who's saying that ignorance and some other things is responsible for the killings that's happening in Nigeria he's also said that our leaders have not necessarily lived up to the expectations in terms of good leadership that and good governance and that it's become some source of a mirage for us in this country hence the reason why we're having so much chaos from all sides of the country and he's also said that we have mistaken our brothers for enemies because we're ignorant of the history of Nigeria does ignorance really do play a role in all of the things that we're experiencing today especially if you look at the south southeast they're asking for secession yesterday Sunday Boho was saying that the 2023 polls may not happen in the southwest for reasons that he stated so I mean there's literally problems everywhere in the country but does ignorance have a big role to play in all of this well there's a lot to unpack you know in all that you've said but I would like to really understand the context of you know with which he has used the word ignorance specifically perhaps you know it was using it in the biblical you know context you know where you were saying ignorance as to that we really don't know our history we do not know how we came together and that's why you know we're having all of these agitations because you know in the biblical sense I said my people perish for lack of knowledge of us so maybe you know that was where it was talked about you know the history is part of the problem you know if it was going to talk about that because the foundation upon which this house was built in the first place you know it was not under the best of circumstances and I know a lot of people you know will agree with me or on that we then needs that there is a need to have a conversation every business even businesses corporations after a while no even the successful ones you look at you know known brand names every year Coca Cola Pepsi they don't have to to rebrand or to you know always do large commercials and activations but every year they sit down they spend a lot of money they have a conversation how do we keep this successful this this success going how you know you know do we they change their bottle they do it but when you talk about let's have a dialogue in Nigeria you know to to know where we're going you know today people start to get afraid and I do not understand why there is a need to have a conversation about Nigeria past present or future especially the future the present right now I didn't want to go you know going to the present because you might not live here but you know you know talking about what you know was said earlier I cannot you know for the love of me understand why we are still having problems of cattle wrestling in Nigeria this was an issue that was solved in the United States in the 19th century in Brazil in Argentina these issues were solved you know we are still having conversations about open grazing in Nigeria in 2021 please come on so these are some of the things you know that you know we have to have a conversation is it's not really about ignorance maybe perhaps you know that was the context upon which we spoken about because we have to understand some things we do not have to reinvent the wheel there are a lot of problems that Nigeria you know is dealing with right now a lot of security challenges that we're dealing with other things that have been solved by people we just have to run by the software or the hardware and plug it on the Nigerian motherboard unless the Nigerian motherboard is outdated and we need to replace the motherboard all together but I think a lot of these things are things that we can pay money for you know there are a lot of things that we can pay money for security to think that Nigeria for example you know we are still having issues with electricity in 2011 electricity plays a huge role in security the other day I was walking down one of the major streets in Victoria Island and it was around 10 p.m. and I could walk freely because the whole place was lit up but you know and then I got to another street and it was so dark it was pitch dark but if somebody jumped me or if somebody was walking two meters in front of me I wouldn't know you know so these are some of the little things those are little ways that you can solve security that you can you know solve issues of security the street camps and so many things you know that we can pay that we can actually use the security votes for so it's not really about understanding there are places that are more diverse than Nigeria South Africa seems to be more diverse than Nigeria there are so many nationalities in the United States so it's all about doing what you have to do have the right infrastructure and then the people will be okay all right pay money for security and do what you have to do educate and innovate but we don't want to have conversations. When this comes, when people bring up issues of less of the dialogue, less of the conversation around restructuring, I do not know why they are afraid. If you don't have any conversations, maybe some of you do, some of us just don't see it. Well Pimba thank you so much we know we have to let you go because you have other things to attend to me thank you for speaking with us. It was always a pleasure. All right back back to you Islima, smile I beg your pardon. You made an issue of the security vote so I wanted to you know circle back to that. If you are saying that the state governors played a role in what's happening today. Now the southern governors have decided to take a stand because they do not want to have more problems in their states and that stand maybe not everything is going to sit well with everybody. But don't you think that the southern governors are doing something that the governors in the north should have done? I mean they're trying to protect their own people because the governors in the north have not done so.  People carrying AK47s that are not licensed. So this is a failure on the part of governors in that in those areas. For example in Kaduna state we see what's been happening the kidnappings the government has said that they're not going to negotiate. Parents have had to rally round and do go fund me so that they can rescue their children. The soldiers have also done their bit. But then the several people we've spoken to, security experts have said that the government's body language is also part of the problem in terms of dealing with the security. And then there's also an ethnic and religious undertone as to what's happening in Kaduna state. So again the governors in that region seem to be under fire. What is the CNG doing to deal with these issues and liaising with these governments to make sure that they do right by their people? Okay I think one of the first things you will notice in the statement because I'm not sure if you've read the statement where we released the statement yesterday. But of course one of the first thing we address is that this is for that and it exposes the kind of leaders we have in this part of the country. You know I mean it's a wake up call for them but you understand for them to actually wake up to the reality on ground. But I haven't said that is that there was no time we were not at the forefront of calling them to other from the president down to the governors. As a matter of fact some of them don't even want to see our faces because they felt whatever we are talking about is personal. We're probably just picking some of a few of them out for whatever reason they had. But of course you can't guide us. And I'll tell you a point in time where we notice these people are very like a disciple. They're not looking for the solution to this problem. They're not after the solution. Rather probably they are also beneficiaries in this industry of the insecurity in Northern Nigeria. So really we started making some kind of consultations we called retired generals, retired GIGs and all of that. People from different walks of the security system who are retired now and some clergymen both Islamic and Christian religious clergymen. We call for a summit in Kaduna. This kind of summit that is being called for now. We call for this summit in Kaduna at Ariwa House. And unfortunately on a Monday like this the summit was to kickstart at about 10 a.m. About 300 hoodlums were put together with all manner of ammunition to come and disperse us at that meeting. Some dignitaries escaped through the windows. That's to tell you the kind of people these people are. Of course you will know that nobody in this right frame of mind, no youth in this right frame of mind, will come when we're trying to look for a solution, especially something that is actually one of the greatest problems confronting us in this part of the country now, will not on the Monday morning leave his work, leave his job, whatever it is, and now go get all manner of arms to say no, these people must not sit. So does this mean that somebody is benefiting from the chaos and the killings, the insecurity in the north? It doesn't mean that there's a higher power that is benefiting from the killings, the insecurity in the north and does not want it to change because I'm trying to understand who would send hoodlums to a meeting like that. Some persons, of course, it's obvious. It's obvious some persons are benefiting from a system that is absolutely correct. If nobody's benefiting from the system, how do you put hoodlums together? We all know that nothing happens of such in Nigeria without a sponsor. Some persons who are benefiting, who are these people that want to put an end to this thing? And they came and attacked us, they dispersed us, it was all over in the news. The next day I was on AIT just to speak about this. You see, that's the problem. So really, I feel they all know what they're doing because the same people who are benefiting. In some cases, you ask yourself, when people are coming together to say, oh, there's kidnapping in this place and then we need to negotiate and all of that and all of that. You do not know how to contact these people before this crime is being committed, but immediately the crime is being committed. All of a sudden, no, the people who can reach them within less than 24 hours, your people are already reaching out to them and they are already negotiating and yet you cannot use the same media to address these issues and you tell me, come on. So really, what's just mind-boggling is how wicked can anybody be to be benefiting from these killings and all of that. Sometimes when they negotiate, I can tell you that the bandits themselves are actually getting maybe 30 or 40% of the money. The people who are running the industry get the lion's share. Well, Samayla, I mean, I would love to continue this conversation because of course, the million dollar question is how do we get these people cut down so that this does not continue because like you have stated, somebody obviously is gaining and benefiting from this. But I want to say thank you, Samayla, Moussa, for speaking with us. We really, really appreciate it. You're welcome. All right. Well, thank you all for staying with us. We'll take a short break and when we return, Yahya Bello speaks on restructuring. We'll get to find out after this break.


Hi there. It's Ryan here. You kind of caught me in the middle of something, but I figured it might just be a good example. I think today's topic or this video's topic should be about contingency-shaped versus rule-governed behavior. Contingency-shaped and rule-governed. I mean, that's all we got here, right? A polish in the car. There's a whole bunch of things that can go wrong. So we talk about contingency-shaped versus which involves the direct connection with the contingencies of actually doing a job, right, and actually engaging in the behavior. The rule-governed stuff is just following a particular rule. Move your hands back and forth, so on and so forth. So we're going to look at the differences between those things. So in the meantime, let me get back to polishing this thing. I'll finish it up for you, and we'll give you an update here in a little bit with some of the more details about what we're talking about with contingency-shaped. Oh, by the way, I really don't like the term rule-governed, and it implies that there's this physical thing called the rule with which there's not. So I'd really like us to think more about rule-following behavior. So again, rule-following behavior versus contingency-shaped is getting in my hair. All right. Cheers. See you in a bit. I've been working on the car for a little bit, and I just want you to know a couple of things. I said that I was going to come back, and I was going to talk about contingency-shaped versus rule-governed behavior. My gosh, you've probably heard that 50 times in this video alone. So I figured I'd give you a good example here. So the idea is contingency-shaped means you've actually come into contact with the real contingency. Your behavior is doing something, and it's getting reinforced, punished, extinguished, so on and so forth. Rule-governed or rule-following, as I like to call it, means that you're following a rule, and you've learned to follow rules in the past, so you'll likely do that again in the future. That usually works, right? But the moment you follow a rule and do something like this, everything changes. You get into contingency-shaped, right? So for example, I might have a rule that says for cutting the first pass, you use wool pads, right? But for buffing, you use foam pads. So what kind of foam pads? Well, it depends on what kind of buffing you're doing, right? So no product placements here, don't worry. The idea being that the rule, the rule-following behavior is use wool for cut and then use foam for finish, right? So that's the rule. But the basic idea to go from rule-following to contingency-shaped is to do something. So what are some of those things that you worry about? Or what are those things that I mean that actually create the contingencies? They're right here. When you're doing cutting and buffing, I mean, this isn't a really sharp body line. You can see it right here, right? So there's the body line there, and there's another one up here. Well, if you overheat the paint, guess what happens? You burn through it. Well, that's not a good thing to do on a brand new paint job, is it? So you don't want to burn through your material. Well, you have to learn that feel. You have to learn when it's just getting too hot or when it's just getting too dry, right? So you don't want to do any dry buffing. It's always wet. So you want to... So there's the rule-following again, right? Make sure you wet buff or a wet cut. Never get it dry, right? Well, then you feel that once you get into the contingencies. And when you run into a punisher, man, on a car, it's expensive. You know, it could be thousands of dollars of a punisher there, right? Simply because you have to redo a whole section of paint. Tape off the lights. Why? Because have you ever tried to get that junk out of the grooves in your car? Man, it's awful. So through contingency shaping, I learned to put the tape on there. Why? Because all you have to do is pull the tape and it's clean. All right. So one of the other things that kind of started out as rule-following is these little guys. So my beautiful camera person here in my life is hiding on behind. She's probably going to run into one of those that she pans across. So oh, these little wonderful strings hanging, right? So someone once told me, hey, man, when you hang your parts for paint and you need to make sure that they're like out of the way and nothing touches them, you know?  So how do you paint that? Right? You got to set it on something. You got to do something with it with a string, right? So you hang this thing up. So my buddy Jason taught me to hang stuff. Right? Why? Because it makes it easier. He said it first. There's the kids. He said it first and then I tried it now. I understand. So I went from a rule, switched into contingency following, and the cool thing is that rule-following behavior got reinforced. Why? Because the contingencies shaped me, right? Because I followed Jason's rules and it worked and it totally made me want to follow Jason's rules again in the future. And as a result, I do a lot of my body work and car work similar to how he does because, hey, I trust him. His rules worked when I tried them. So again, strengthens rule-following behavior. It also strengthens it specifically to one person or person. I mean, it does generalize, but it can often tie in with one person. So that's what these things are for. You could also think of it as generalization, but that's not really our topic today. But generalization, you know, I mean, this is just a string. You're using it to hang for paint and anything. So you get the idea. See you soon.


With the aid of Armenia, Russia increases missile production. Russia has overcome sanctions and export controls imposed by Western countries and increased missile production compared to pre-war levels. The New York Times reported on this with reference to European, American and Ukrainian officials. At the beginning of the war, Russia was forced to drastically reduce missile production due to sanctions. But at the end of 2022, the production of the military industry began to increase. Thanks to the income from high energy prices, Russia was able to smuggle micro-electronics and other components as a result of which military production not only recovered but even increased sharply. The report said, It is noted that Russia bypasses export controls by obtaining the supply of key components for production through other countries, for example Armenia, where it is easier. Russia mainly needed commercial chips used for various purposes. If we give an example of increasing the production of tanks before the war, Russia produced 100 vehicles a year and now it produces 200 vehicles. In addition, Russia is close to producing 2 million artillery shells per year. As a result, Russia currently produces more ammunition than the United States and Europe. Russian military production exceeds the West by 7 times and production costs in Russia are lower than in the West. Nevertheless, Russia is experiencing a certain lack of weapons, for example. 655 air-launched cruise missiles, the publication said. It is emphasised that the Pentagon is trying to help Ukraine by equipping it with air defence systems. However, Ukrainian officials say their numbers are still insufficient and defence forces are forced to choose which targets to protect. Increasing missile production could result in a difficult winter for Ukraine, as Russia often uses them to attack energy infrastructure, trying to leave people without electricity and heat.


Good morning! It is Monday, November 1st, which means it is the start of Nanorano, and unfortunately I don't think I'm going to be doing any writing today. Now that is not the end of the world because I originally had planned it this way. So the way my schedule is set up at the moment is I work full-time, I work from home on Mondays and Thursdays and go into the office the other days, and that means Mondays and Thursdays are also my gym days, so I go to the gym before work. So the plan was do my writing before work but do it on my non-gym days, so Tuesday and Wednesday, Friday, and then of course I've got the weekend to catch up on words, which I think is reasonable because when you work a full-time job you work five days a week, so why not write five days a week? The problem is if you saw my last video you know I was in Nice with Nicole Wilber, and I didn't end up getting home until like 11pm just because of the timing of the trains and the planes, and I'm usually in bed at 9.30, like I'm a toddler, so I got home around 11 and then of course my husband hadn't seen me for a few days so he wanted to hang out and chat so I probably wasn't in bed until midnight, so this morning when I woke up at six I was like oh should I go to the gym or maybe I should just rest a bit because you know last night was a late night and today's going to be a big day catching up on everything at work, so I did that forgetting that it was nanorhymo and this means now I've got to go to the gym tomorrow, so I might not be able to write tomorrow either, so um week one has gotten off to a great start. Good morning and happy Tuesday. It is a bit after 5am because I woke up at five, looked at my clock, considered going back to sleep and then said no if I get up now I'll have time to both go to the gym and do some writing before work, so at the moment I feel like I deserve a medal. It is now quarter past seven I'm back from the gym I've decided to hop back into bed and do my writing for the day because I deserve it so I've got about an hour before I need to like do something about this and head to work so hopefully there's probably not enough time to get my 1667 words done but it's time to do something. Approximately 10 hours later. So I'm home from work and I'm not sure how well you can see it on the camera but I have like zombie demon eyes at the moment. I don't know if it's something in the air in Lausanne but my eyes are a lot redder here and the fact that like I get quite tired at work doesn't help so I get home and I look like a zombie. Great for YouTubing. Anyway this morning I wrote for half an hour and did about 700 words so obviously not on the Nanorano target but I was just writing like a linking bit between the scene that I finished on Sunday and what I'd already written because I'd already written the scene where Chiara first sees her glass statue that sets everything in motion so I linked those two and then went through the original scene that I wrote already done just to polish a little bit and now I know what's happening next but I'm not sure how to write it because if it was like a movie it would be like a montage so I think I need to do a little bit of planning so tonight I actually was meant to go to like a CMO networking event and decided not to so I'll use that time for plotting instead. Good morning it is Wednesday and I woke at 4am today and I could have been good like I was yesterday and gone okay I'm up all uses time for writing but I was tired I'm like okay I'm gonna see if I can get back to sleep and that meant I spent three hours not sleeping so except when I gave up I got up and I did another half hour of writing 808 words so obviously about half what I should be doing for Nanorano but I figure anything is better than nothing. What I'm realizing though is that I actually don't know how I'm gonna write with this job because I just don't have the time for thinking during the week or not even time I don't like when people say they don't have the time or not so much I don't like when people say they don't have time but often when you're not getting stuff done it's treated as okay you don't have the time let's reorganize let's get you some more time and change your priority so you do have the time and my thing is I feel like I have time like I woke up at 4am today I could have had four hours before I started getting ready for work and similarly after work so last night I got home at 7 so that's like two to two and a half hours before I go to bed tonight I need to get home by 6.30 because I've got a French lesson but I'll be done with that by 7.30 so again I've got two hours but it's two hours when my brain feels like it has been rung out and I don't have the capacity to do anything so what that means is now I'm at the part of the book where like I know what's happening but very very broad strokes like I haven't outlined scenes and I feel like I it would be so much easier if I'd already had the scenes outlined because then like I would have done the thinking and it's just the writing part so for this week I think I'm just going to continue trying to do like half an hour to an hour of writing a day just because anything is better than nothing and then on the weekend what I'd like to do is start really outlining some scenes so that when I have my next four week of work it'll be easier to write but now it is time to go to work so I have another day in the office. I'm in my very fashionable blue light blocking glasses with a very red face and now I am facing the conundrum that all of the tutors face which is do I edit a video or do I write? I think I'm going to edit a video. Good morning it is the 4th of November and it's one of the other days I work from home so I went to the gym this morning and I didn't get up until 7 actually so it was quite late so now I'm home and I've got to jump on to work immediately so I don't know if I'll get any writing done after work just because I do need to go out and buy a couple of things because we're doing a video shoot tomorrow and I need a top to wear that's not green because that'll fade into the green screen so I've got to like head to Zara or H&M or something and get the top and maybe some more makeup because one of the things I noticed when we last did videos was like I put on the heaviest makeup that I had and it looked like I was wearing nothing as soon as I was under the lights so got to get some proper stage makeup but for now I need to get to work Good morning it is 5.30 on Friday and today we've got a day of filming some new videos from work so I don't actually need to be up this early we've got to be we've got to pick something up from the office at 9 and then at the studio at 9.30 but I woke up I knew I wasn't going to get up to sleep so I thought I'll get up and use some more time for my morning puffiness to fade before I'm on camera and some time to do some writing. Point in the book where like I have a list of things that can happen but other than images of every now and then I haven't really thought about how the scenes are structured and how to write them and some things are really hard to write like I want Chiara to have a day which is just breaking everything she tries to work on in the workshop and this is something that's very easy to see in my head visually but like I don't know actions sometimes hard to write because things sort of happen all at once but they can't happen all at once when you're writing them because you can only write and read one word at a time so there's this combination of like images of moments I have in my head and a list of scenes they can go into but I haven't really thought about where to start or finish these scenes so at first I was going to try doing some outlining and just wasn't getting anywhere so then I did a for the words endurance battle with a monster where you basically need to write continuously for 15 minutes so you don't die so that was good for getting like 550 words out but I don't love any of the words and so at this point I'm like okay I could either push through and keep writing babble that I'll probably have to cut or I can take a step back and try planning again so I think I'm going to try Susan Dennard's magical cookies exercise which I've done in the past which is a planning exercise but you start with why you love this scene or why you love this book and it's supposed to want to help with planning but also make sure all of the scenes are exciting and magical so I think that's the best starting point. Hello everyone it's Jackie here now I'm actually not scared George to do the Instagram takeover today so you know don't tell our social media managers but I wanted to jump on because we actually are working on a very special project. Bastion our chief growth officer and I are actually filming some videos to help explain CHSP yield to our community so I'm in the studio now which I mean it's a green screen there's not that much to see behind me but I'm in the studio we're getting set up and ready to film so I thought you could send all of your questions about CHSP yield 2.0 and once Bastion gets here we'll both answer them for you. The main difference between CHSP yield 1.0 and 2.0 is that we're implementing like a tier system so basically there are different rates for the number of CHSP you hold and the best thing about this is that for your first 2000 CHSP you're actually going to get the highest rate so it's like a bonus if you're a smaller investor. So today was not a long day in terms of hours like we were done by about 4.30 and then went to the office for a little bit but I feel so wiped out and maybe it's the week that I also think there's an element of when you're filming and supervising filming um like you're very on all the time so now it's like I have time to breathe though um I'm also feeling very sad that I didn't do filming when I was there because there was so much lighting so obviously the quality would be much better than this. Oh well so like I said I'm exhausted I'm going to have a shower and de-utify and um yeah then chill for the night and hopefully I can revive my start to NaNoWriMo on the weekend. So it is now day seven of NaNoWriMo and at this point or not at this point but by the end of today I should have 11,669 words if I'm on track to hit 50,000 at the end of November. Guess how many I have? Go on I'll give you a moment. 2,033 words. Now this might not be a surprise to you given the lack of writing that we've actually had in this vlog but um it is a bit worse than I was expecting to do especially considering that when I was in Nice last week like I did 5,000 words in three days and it wasn't difficult and part of me wonders like did I use up all of my steam before NaNo started? So there have been like a couple of factors here one is that I got back from Nice quite late so Monday was a bit of a wash. Tuesday and Wednesday were fine I didn't do the amount of writing that I needed to but I did something and I think just during the week with my job at my mental state like doing something is better than nothing and then um yeah I got to the end of the runway that I had and I'm now in this part of the book where it's like I need to get from she's seen this glass statue for the first time to she's got a clue to who built it and she's going to go on a quest to find it and I know that during this period I want her to visit the glass statue twice more because the rule of three so she visits three times and then she gets the clue is like a reward I want her to be getting more and more distracted and doing worse with her work and like her family noticing and I did have a list of scenes like maybe four or five scenes here for what could happen but none of them are really inspiring me so like I said on Friday I think I need to go and do the magical cookies exercise a bit just to remember why I love the idea of this story and figure out how to integrate some of the things that I love into this part that I'm struggling with the problem is I just haven't had the time to think because Friday was a long day and then yesterday you may have noticed I did not film day six so I don't know if you've heard of the term revenge scrolling it's the idea that you spend all day doing things for other people so work family and so on that you get to the end of the day and you haven't done anything for yourself and so what happens is before you go to bed you end up on your phone and you're scrolling through Instagram or Facebook or Twitter or whatever your poison is and it's then making it harder to sleep which means you're more tired the next day and so on and I felt a little bit like that yesterday where it's like I went to the gym and then got home around 11 30 or midday so had a full day ahead of me when I could have been writing and brainstorming and I just didn't want to I'm like I wanted to play Final Fantasy 8 so I played Final Fantasy 8 on PlayStation and there was this little voice in my head going is this like revenge scrolling behavior and I think it was just because like I feel like so much of my job is and it's like everyone's job I'm not saying that I'm special here but so much of my job is about everyone else and I think um anyone who's in a management is anyone who's in any job is doing stuff for other people but when you're in a management position like it's all about the other people and keeping your team happy and making sure lines of communication are open and solving problems and I feel like I don't even do my own work anymore it's ridiculous like I just coordinate everyone else so I get to the end of this week and it's like I need a day to just waste because I haven't had the time to waste all week so that's not great the one saving grace though is that Drew and I are going on holiday this week so today in about an hour we're actually heading to the airport to fly to Portugal and we've got a week off and I know you're like you were just in Nice weren't you but I'm I'm sorry in advance to everyone who's in the US who doesn't get much holiday leave but in Switzerland we get five weeks and we need to use it by the end of Q1 next year otherwise it disappears so this year before Nice I'd only taken one week so like I had Nice I've got this week now over Christmas I'm taking two weeks so it's um I'm like I've got to cram it into the end of the year so I am lucky enough to have another week off this week and I guess I can see if I fit in 23,000 words if anything I'm hoping it will be more like Nice in that because I have the time to relax like I want to write more and I have the capacity to write more I am a bit concerned about what will happen when I get back from Porto because let's say I do do 23,000 words and then on the 15th I'm back on track for the 50th given what the last week is like I don't actually know if I can keep up the writing when I get back so I've been thinking about like do I just not worry about it so we're not going to do 50,000 words and I'll just do what I can or maybe I should try cramming it all into the weekends so we'll see at this stage I'm just looking forward to this trip and getting some writing done and editing this video for you so I'm going to end this video here and I'll see you in the next one if you are doing NaNoWriMo please let me know in the comments below how you're doing and yeah one if you're ahead of schedule how you did it two if you're running behind do you have any plans or ideas on how to catch up because I need help like this is the I've only done NaNoWriMo once before but I think this is worse than the first year when I was running quite behind like I was you know 10,000 behind maybe in week two or three and now I'm basically 10,000 behind in week one this is not good anyway that's all from me for today so thank you for watching like subscribe comment hit the 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The Minnesota Vikings theme team. Coming in at a 94 overall, I gotta say this is probably gonna be one of my most fun ones. Now, yes, I know that the Vikings often beat the Lions and I shouldn't really care about the Vikings, but when I first started watching the NFL, my absolute favorite player was Adrian Peterson. He is supposedly getting a golden ticket. The golden ticket is not out as of me recording this, so I don't have it. And he is the backup here to Delvin Cook, who was on my fantasy team, and he was amazing. 97 speed, 99 excel, agility, 96 carry, 96 aloofness, 99 break tackle. With these chemistries, these cards are so insane.  Adam Thielen just got the color smash card. A solid offensive line, Matt Burke, Brian O'Neill, Josh Klein, Randall McDaniel, Riley Rice, Dave Casper, Kyle Rudolph, got Diggs, Thielen, and Moss. That's a really good wide receiver core. Love Eric Kendricks, Kentro Brothers, Anthony Barr, Ben, ooh. That's the ugly spot in this team.  Anthony Harris, Harrison Smith, Xavier Rhodes. Rows are closed, 99 overall. 99 man, 95 zone, 99 press, 99 jump, 98 play rec, 97 speed. I also like the safeties on this team a lot better than the Packers. That's when I just used last. Anthony Harris, Harrison Smith. Okay, this D-line is actually disgusting. Everson Griffin, Alan Page, John Randolph, Daniel Hunter. This is the best D-line we have played with, and it may continue to be the best D-line we will ever play with. I don't know who's gonna be able to rival this, because that's insane. As I'm recording this, we're undefeated in the theme team series. Huge shout out to Dylan, by the way, for letting me use this squad.  Our top three, Kendricks, Cook and Thielen. He's got a really good team, too. Oh, he's got the Max Randolph coming in, damn. Oh, we got a hat bag dive or a stretch to Barkley to start this out, huh? Let's see it, Anthony Harris. There's the stretch. We got the edge contained. Let's go. I'm gonna come in for the sack right here. Oh, no, that's the counter. No, that's really bad. Oh, he ran that so poorly. That's a touchdown if he ran that correctly.  Oh, no, this is a pass. Oh, good stop. Oh my God. I lit him up as soon as he touched it. Fourth and three. Uh-oh, we got a big stop coming up, going cover two. Gonna play those underneath routes. Oh, and he dots me up with an out route. Good play. Good play. Hmm. I'm not really sure what I'm gonna do here on the football. Can we return? Oh, but you can't return it, but hey, let's go. All right, we're gonna try a stretch to Dalvin Cook running right at Lawrence Taylor to start this game out, which is bold, but it totally works. Do I have a juke in me? I do. Let's go. He's still on his feet. This is God tier already. 37 yards on a Dalvin Cook on the first play of the game. Ooh, got lots of room.  Inside zone to Dalvin Cook. Let's see it. Let's see it. Let's see it. Yes, sir. Give me a juke. Got it. Roll. I'm to the one. Know how to the same thing. It's there. No way. You can't stop it. You can't stop it. Yes, sir. That's too easy. I'm interested to see exactly what my record is when this, oh, get it, get it. Oh, come on. We were so close. I wanna know what my record is because I'll have 32 games, right? Exactly. I'm interested to see what my record will be. I'm coming in with Harris. I'm getting the sack here. Oh, was that a read option? Damn. That's the free safety's responsibility right there to get this tackle in the open field. And since I screamed it down, it's my fault. Second in 10, Dave Casper. Wide open. Wow, the dude doesn't even wear gloves. That looks so weird. Oh my God. What a savage.  I'm gonna go back to this stretch because this thing has been really good so far. I'm gonna see what it's got here. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. I'll take five. Gonna go no huddle. Let's look for one of the boys up there. Oh, he's wide. Got it. Oh, and he missed his tackle. Got it. Oh, I'm gonna get there. Done. Let's go. Out of feelings. Not sure what he's going for here. I see it. I see it, but I don't think I can recover in time. Trey Wains. Nice recovery. I don't know why he lofted that pass. If he didn't loft that pass, he would have gotten a touchdown. Okay. This is gonna be Barkley.  Eye blitz the corner. This is so bad. Nice tackle, though. Damn. This might be a harder game than I initially thought. First and 10, we're ready for Barkley. Okay. Look at that, dude. Denil Hunter off the edge. And another one. Third and 28, he's gotta go deep. So he's blocking and he's just sending a bunch. He's gotta dig over here. Playmaker Kendricks. I didn't get it, but Rhodes gets it off the tip drill. Hey, no fly zone, baby. Rhodes are closed. I kind of wanna throw deep. I want Randy Moss to get the ball. Oh, I can get it. I can get it. Yes, Randy Moss has it. He's got wheels. Let's go. Nice play at Randall Cunningham. Made something out of nothing there. All right. I'm gonna stay in this inside zone because there is a lot of second level here. I just gotta reach it. Great block. That's what I'm talking about.  Dammit. Embarrassed, though. Now we might get a rage quit on the Vikings game. Two point conversion. I've been sucking at my two point conversions. I'm knocking a lot. I'm throwing DK. This is actually getting bad. Third and nine corner route from the tight end. Uh-oh, that post. Uh-oh, that post. Anthony Harris. No, you did not.  Just got speared in the nuts and you hung onto that. Fourth and three. I'm sending a blitz.  Let's go. Good play call.  Okay, great. Okay, well, you know, he doesn't need anything if Dalvin Cook's gonna go for 600 yards every game.  I messed that up so bad. I would have been a touchdown and then I almost just lost the ball. I'm looking for digs over the top on this. Oh, that's totally there. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Catch that. All right, I'm gonna try a little tight end screen to Dave Casper. That's what our world has resorted to. User's strip fumble. Okay. You're lying. You did not just get a one-play pitch touchdown. Unbelievable. This is one of the luckiest games I've ever seen someone play. There's no business. This should be 18-14. I'm just gonna throw a base screen to Thelon. I like how those blocks look, especially if this is a blitz. Oh, absolutely. Please. Yes. Good juke Thelon. Get into the edge. All right. We're gonna go with the slip screen. Oh, he sees it. That ain't good. Oh, but he missed. And I got a, oh, I needed that one. Nice play by him. I'm surprised he saw that set up so well. Dalvin in the middle of the field. I got sacked. Is this really how this game is gonna go? Is it really gonna turn like this? I can't tell if there's a QV spy. I'm just, oh my God. Are you kidding? I'm blocking five against three. I wanna see this guy score without say Kwame Barkley running for 600 yards instantly. Oh, this is just kind of a good way to do it. This take on Barkley is nice as I'm, ugh. And all my missed two point conversions are so bad. Right now I'm down by three because of it. I, yeah, we're gonna go to a mid draw here. Good run, Dalvin Cook. Third and eight. We're dropping back. No QV spy. Gonna take off with escape artist and take my first. All right, we're gonna stay in it. I'm thinking this screenplay is gonna be there to Randy Moss.  Yes, sir, look at all that. There was so many blockers and they never blocked the one dude right in front of them. They never do. I hate it. Third and 10. Let's see what's there. Yes, sir, Randall Cunningham around the edge. Honestly, B was open there to throw, but I'll take my freebies. I am trying my heart out for this dub right now. I'm looking for a favorite backup. I think he can be there. Just don't follow. Yes, sir, putter's out. All right, now we just kick our PAT that puts us up by exactly three. I believe, if I'm at this correct. Yeah. Oh no, it puts us up by four. Wait, that's huge. Just goes with one of them cheesy out routes. Seen it a million times. We're going with a blitz. Oh, it's to say Kwan. He's gonna get nothing. Let's go. Second and 10. We've seen him do this before. I believe it's the dive. Yes, it is. Do we have the, dude. Why is he getting so many yards with a base half-pack dive? It's unbelievable. 12 rushes, 260 yards. First and 10 is he passing? No, he's not. Eric Kendricks, let's go. You gotta get in the end zone, my friend. You can get up here all you want. Okay, he ran this before and what did he throw? He ran this before, what did he throw? Oh, an out route. An out route. Okay, a read option. He gets lit up in the backfield by 99 Kendricks, but he doesn't fumble. Unbelievable. It's fourth and 15. There's like no time on the clock. It could be an out route, but I don't know if it's deep enough. Totally is. It was totally an out route. He hits McColl-Harmon in the middle of the field. I went to go cover the out route and I didn't see that developing. Tough, boys. This is a run for sure. We gotta get to it. Nobody's on it. Literally my P-A-T's, I wouldn't even be losing right now. 37 seconds left. If I get in field goal range, I can take this into overtime and we'll see how we fare in overtime. First and 10. RB wide. Diggs, huge catch. Got the time out. We're out to the 44. I need 20 yards for a field goal. Third and 10. Big play. Didn't fumble. Fourth and two. I'm gonna go digs on a slant and I'm gonna hit him. Got him. Got him! Field goal range. 10 seconds left. I gotta take the field goal right now. Oh! If I get in this, we're going into a T. Got it. 100% got it. Why didn't I take any of my P-A-T's?  Look at that. A clean seven from him every quarter.  Oh, the coin toss. I'm going heads. And he won the toss. Are we surprised? I think I'm not. Okay, he goes with the counter. Here's it's Smith. Minus three. Look at that stats, dude. Four TDs, 260 yards. Okay, well we know what this is. It's gonna go to the edge. It just depends what edge. It's gonna be a dive. Okay, it's a stretch actually. Dude, what is this shit? Oh, read option. Oh, an actual play fake. Got to keep him out of the end zone in this game. Hat back draw. Got him in the backfield. That's minus four. Okay, he's done this before. What was, what did he do? No way! Get it! Let's go! And the DeHarris has it! Let's go! Oh my God. Oh my God, oh my God. Okay, first and 10. All we need is field goal range. I'm gonna go down and cook. We're gonna bounce into the pit. Oh my God. And I got caught on Dave Kasper. Dave Kasper, wear some gloves, bro.  I don't, I couldn't tell you how. Second and 10, I'm going back to it. I know it's there. Dalvin is feeling it right now. Oh wow, he really blitzed. Dalvin with a joke! He's got it! He missed! That's almost, that's literally almost field goal range. Let's go, Dalvin! Come on, Seyquan, we got a, we got a battle here. I would like a little bit more yards. I don't want much more, but I want a little bit more. Who's his user? That's so open. Out of feeling! Walk it in, feeling, walk it! He ran commit, he couldn't get to it.  Oh my God, let me see the stats on this puppy. What do we got?  Well, I hope that tells you what happened there. Boys, thank you for watching. As always, Mikey's team was lit. We're still undefeated on the theme team series. I think I'm 4-0 or 5-0. Packers, Ravens, Browns. I'll see, oh, and Chiefs, 5-0. I'll see you boys in the next video. Thanks for watching, guys. Peace out.


What's up everybody JC of a jazby's case base calm 2020 leaf lumber Kings baseball just sold out It is a five box break through random teams number one And they're gonna get three random team or three random players Per spot taking it guys in a very very popular product hard to find and not a lot of boxes made usually only make Thing go under a hundred cases of this stuff. And again, we've done plenty of these Just in different ways. I think it's the first time we're doing a random players And again, three random players from all our pools all the way down to Willie Wilson So we tripped up your names. Let's roll it and we got a three and a two five times Good luck one two three four and five Five times Nancy Then our Nancy All right five times one two three four And five Brooks Robinson Don't attack I'm gonna show you guys the way your guys names came out first and then well besides my customer name So they go all the way down here to 72 Hello Nancy, how's it going? Some lumber Kings lumber Kings baseball All right, so Anthony there you go Frank Robinson Barry bonds right now are Johnny Benj and tell me Pete Rose Chris each row Willie McCovey Willie Wilson Diane with trouts her mortal more George Brett and you got Greg Maddox Mike Piazza and Ken Camantini Commit me tea. I'm not sure Eric you must be a old-school player Paul Mueller Sammy Sosa Fred McGriff Jack you have Ron say rock crew and Eddie Murray Jeffrey with Tony Perez Ricky Henderson and Kirby Puckett Josh X-Line Vladimir Guerrero. I must be senior dare Jeter and Andre Dawson Kevin you have Lou Brock Alex Rodriguez Tom Glavin Mark Pujols Nellie Fox Kangriff a junior Matt Thurman Munson Don Madeline Dave Winfield and then Nancy you have a handful of players From Brooke Robinson, you got Carlos I got a general Stan Joe Carter Mickey Manna new Lou Pinella Joe Morgan Wade Boggs Maddie Ramirez Willie Mays Johnny Mice Paul Warner Paul Wiener sorry Jim Rice claim Kershaw and Ted Williams Renee With Tony Gwynn catfish hunter Babe Ruth Rick with Bo Jackson Jeff bago Jason Giambi Shane You have Reggie Jackson Jose Canseco Roger Maris Dave Parker Duke Schneider Calvin Jr. Gary Sheffield David Ortiz and Larry Walker The poll you have Bill Russell John Crook and George Springer with that's a combo team with Ted and Tim Reigns And Zack you have Frank Thomas Yvonne Rodriguez a no Marguerite seapara So they go and just let it fly a bit. Well if you decide to trade you have to trade the whole lot Can't say I'm gonna just trade Bill Russell and the rest of them No, so anybody that wants to trade for this So I don't trade in a whole lot. So and I'll give you guys time to make any trades if you guys want to Just title this page and I'll let you guys view this as well. So that way You guys can keep track of who do you guys have as well? Let's give me a quick second. So here is Lumber Kings I'm player number one list. So you guys can view it Bruce gets cornerstones Why would there be a lot of randoms? Oh? because of a Being two players three players. Yeah, probably. Yeah, that makes sense Yeah, I didn't realize that I forgot about that, but yeah, I guess there will be randoms. So We'll have to take that into account But again, this is the way the Nick decided to sell it. So Gotta go by whatever they sold it sold it by all right, um Nancy said I'm ready. Let's break everybody else must be ready to break Let's do it. I'll probably pause the video for those randoms gonna party me a little bit to write these down. So Yeah, there probably will be some randoms. I forgot about this All right, so there's a five box break. So Looks like we'll have another five boxes after this Lumber Kings One two three four five boxes to the left five boxes to the right. Oh Yeah, sorry. That was probably just a typo. We refunded a customer earlier. I'll change that right now But it was supposed to be 99 Give me one second So we refunded the customer because he had originally bought it. Let me change that really quick One second But yes, it's supposed to be 99 Whatever the cart ends up saying sometimes it was like a typo All right, it should be updated now. All right, cool Roll it one two three for the left four five six for the right three one two three These ones here will be for The next one. All right, first one. We got is Dave Winfield nine out of nine Dave Winfield Matt Buckler And we got a no ma nine out of 12 no Marcus Yopara, which Where's no more Zach, I don't know I just had it on it looks like it's fast and furious and we got a Quad bat rack for Cal Ripken jr. George redwood box and Brooks Robinson So I'm sure that'll be a randomizer be very amazing of one person had all four of these though Cal Ripken jr. Is gonna be Shane George Brett Diane Wade box Will be Nancy and Brooks Robinson Will be Nancy so Nancy has two out of the four I Will have so much fun Matthew. I love randoms rounds on my favorite and then we got a Legendary lineup. This is even numbered. Oh, yeah one out of three There you go. Little Willie McCovey Joe Morgan Mike Piazza tell Williams Derek Jeter Brooks Robinson Willie Mays and Paul Wanner That'll be another random as well. There you go. What a legendary lineup that would be right All right, there you go one box Next one there could be autos in here Known for the relics though, especially bat relics lumber But there's also fat knobs in here, too But known for their bat relics Three out of twelve Willie Mays nice Willie Mays Nancy there you go 14 out of 25 Rod Carew Rod Carew Jack four out of nine Jim Rice Dave Parker Eddie Murray and Willie McCovey Sure, that'll be another randomizer put that over there and another eight way Which is number two out of twenty five Rod Carew, George's bread Jim Rice Andre Dawson Tony Gwynn Wade Boggs. Kevin. We're gonna Joe Morgan two out of five now We got Willie McCovey eight out of twenty five five hundred home run relic club Willie McCovey going to Chris Then we got eleven out of twelve Sammy Sosa. That's Eric with that one And look at that. We got a dual auto bat relic coming up and It's a cow Ripken jr. And Wade Boggs Signature sticks 14 out of 15 cow Ripken jr. Is going to Shane Wade Boggs going to Nancy So you're gonna another randomizer But a very nice one coming up and we got a war room one out of 25 Wade Boggs George Brett Kangaroo Virginia Rod Carew We must have got a lot of Wade Boggs in this round Wade Boggs is like I want to be all over lumber Kings I know right Boggs wins automatically just because he's all over this product Automatic entry winner. We got number to 25 Ted Koldewolski Clues the walls Clues Lee Let's head Vipold us. There you go We had a piece of the lumber about filling the relics of s 4 out of 12 Brooks Robinson But a Nancy Then we got that rack for Jeff Bagwell Jim Tommy Carlos Delgado and Albert Pujols two out of 25 And we got six out of six This would be Boston versus Yankees rivalry We got Derek Jeter Don Madden Lee Reggie Jackson, then you got Wade Boggs. There you go one in every box Maddie Ramirez and no Marguerite Cipara and the last one four out of four Fred McGriff Dinger Kings Fred Going to Eric we got a four out of four lumber Cal Rilke and jr. Going to Shane and we do have a Mickey Mantle home run club three out of three Mickey Mantle Going to Nancy. There you go.  Nice three out of three Mickey Mantle and we got bat rack three one of one. Well, that's nice Frank Robinson Eddie Murray and Cal Ripken jr. So Frank Robinson Anthony Eddie Murray Jack Cal Ripken jr. Shane There you go Top let all these really quick too. All right guys, I'm actually gonna pause the video because I have to do a handful of randomizers So when I come back, we'll start the randomizers and then We'll see who these cards End up with which customers There you go, so we have One two three four five six seven eight Appreciate it. All right, guys. Welcome back I just set up the nine randomizers we need to do so the first one we're gonna do is Jeff Bagwell Jim Tommy calls the Agata Albert Pujols, which is a bat rack for and it's two out of 25 And use the same dice over for all of them. We got a five and a one six times Six times for all one two three four five six boom Six times stays with Jeff Bagwell So Jeff Bagwell is Rick could do random letters. That'd be a good one. Next one Cal Ripken jr. George Brown Wade Boggs and Brooks Robinson. And it's a six out of six and It's a six times One two three four five six ah Wade Boggs did not win this one, but Brooke Robinson one and Brooks Robinson is Nancy I think you also had Wade Boggs as well, right Nancy? Yes. So either way you still won six times you're now on the eight way Legendary lumber lineup William McCovey, Joe Morgan, Mike Piazza. I think I went backwards. We'll go Joe Morgan Derek Jeter Brooks Robinson Mike Piazza I did the back that's why Ted Williams really okay. This is it six times one two three four five and six Willie Mays at the top after six times Which is Nancy as well. Damn Nancy's three for three or two for two. I mean another one Jim Rice Dave Parker Eddie Murray and Willie McCovey four out of nine six times one two three four five six And Dave Parker at the top Which is Shane All right guys halfway there next one is going to be an eight way And it is uh, Rob Caru, George Brad, Jim Rice, Andre Dawson, and then Tony Gwynn, Wade Boggs, Cal Ripken, Jr. Joe Morgan six times one two three four five and six Cal Ripken, Jr. at the top This was a random player break Sean, but um We had some randomizers because it was multiple players Yes, Sean you're buying a spot in a break. So the whole case and um If that team hits you get those cards if they don't hit then unfortunately you don't get anything but instead of you buying the whole box for however much it costs you you're buying a fraction of the box price or case price for that team specifically There's a good good video that's on our website or on our youtube page that Literally show being sorry. It it really shows you Um, how group breaks work and here you go Look at this video and you'll get a quick quick little uh insight on how group breaks work All right, so Cal Ripken, Jr. That is Shane Wade Boggs 0 for 3 now All right now Cal Ripken, Jr. Wade Boggs auto This is a good one 14 out of 15 six times one two three four five and six Wow stays with Cal Ripken. I don't even think this moved Six times Cal Ripken, Jr. Three more next one Wade Boggs, George Bradford, Jr. and Rod Carew one out of 25 war room relics one two three four five six Rod Carew at numero uno After six times Which Is jack All right two more guys Derek Jeter, Reggie Jackson, uh, Don Maddenly, Wade Boggs Manny Ramirez and no margarita parron. This is a six out of six six times one two three four five and six No ma at the top. Oh, Wade Boggs came in second though No more That is Zach And the last one guys appreciate the patience Frank Robinson, Eddie Murray and Cal Ripken, Jr. And this is a one of one No problem Shane. Congratulations, man. Thank you for buying buying into this break All right six times one two three four five six Goes to Eddie Murray And jack no more complaining. You lost that randomizer before now. You just want a one of one Frank Robinson, Eddie Murray, Cal Ripken, Jr.  That was the break. This was lumber kings uh Number one three random players each on jaspyscasebreaks.com. The second half will be up soon. Appreciate it guys