Hey everyone, welcome back to Nintendo Prime. This is a bit of a different video because I haven't done a channel update in a long time. In fact, based on my ability to search my channel on the back end, I haven't done one since 2018. I feel like there's probably been some in between that I just didn't call channel updates, but really there hasn't been an official update since then. There's been announcements of plans that never came through, but things are a lot different today, I'm a lot more organized and the channel is a lot more consistent. So because of that, I wanna be sure to address some things here that are happening. Some things have already happened at the channel. Some things are gonna be happening in the future, give you guys an idea of where the channel's going, address some complaints, address some questions you guys had, and yeah, we'll go from there. So first off, the very first thing is something we did talk about in yesterday's video, although a lot of you might not have got to it or skipped that section, because it wasn't something you cared about because it wasn't really new, like gaming news. Our podcast is moving. So the Nintendo Prime podcast now has its own YouTube channel. So I wanna clarify what this YouTube channel's for. It is not to put the podcast up after the fat and throw clips up, although we will have clips there. We're actually gonna host the entire podcast on that channel, so when we live stream our podcast on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. central time, we're gonna be live streaming them on that channel. Now, we're not moving the podcast over there right away. Like I don't think we will be live streaming there this upcoming Wednesday. We are not gonna be streaming there until we have all of YouTube's features unlocked on that channel. So for now, I am just uploading old episodes there, and I will upload any episode we do in the future on this channel there. So it's gonna feel like we're not using it for that, but we plan to use it for that. We just need to hit 1,000 subscribers on that channel to unlock it. Right now we're like 265 subscribers or something like that over there, which is incredible considering that I barely even mentioned it exists. So go over and subscribe to that channel. There'll be a link in the pinned comment and down in the description as well to do that. Again, we wanna try to get that up to 1,000 subscribers so we can unlock all of YouTube's streaming features specifically. That way, I can bring you guys the same quality of cast over there, if not better than I do at this channel. Also, if you really enjoyed the Nintendo Prime podcast in the past, you're gonna wanna subscribe there and set your bell notification there so you actually get notified. Since the only thing going up on that channel is podcasts related content, be it the full podcast or clips from the podcast. If you really enjoy the podcast, and you don't wanna miss it, make sure you're over there. For now, I think it's still gonna be here maybe through the end of this month. I'm hoping by December to fully move everything over there if we can hit that 1,000 plus subscriber goal. Be great if we got to 2,000, 3,000, 5,000, 10,000, if you're really great, but let's see what happens. Now, some updates specifically for this channel beyond the fact that we're gonna be moving the podcast away. I have now gone through an unlisted and or privated a vast majority of the playlists on this channel. We had over 70 playlists and frankly, most of them aren't that relevant. A lot of them lost all their viewership after we got hacked. Yes, folks, for those who aren't aware, we got hacked right at the end of October, close to Halloween. My YouTube channel's name changed to like Sheena, Eboo, or something like that and there was a big crypto stream and technically I still can see the crypto stream on the back end.  I'm the only person that can view it.  But the interesting thing here, obviously, is that a lot of this old content really lost all its ability to give views. We had old video game walkthroughs for like the Wind Waker HD, Spirit Tracks, and stuff like that. And unfortunately, because of the hacker, they ruined all of the SEO on those videos and they pretty much don't have any views anymore. So we have gone ahead and essentially privatized and or unlisted. Now, all the videos are still on the channel and you can still dig through the channel and find them. I'm not deleting videos but we are getting rid of the playlist to make it a bit easier to find the content that I guess matters today. That being said, we now have four playlists and one of them might be going away or getting shuffled a bit. One of them is gaming news. So we have renamed the Nintendo news playlist to gaming news. So if you already follow that playlist, just know that nothing's changing there. I just decided to do away with, because I used to have a Nintendo news playlist, an Xbox news playlist, and a PlayStation news. I decided we're just gonna make it a general gaming news playlist. Now it's probably only gonna be Nintendo news anyways but anytime I do cover a news story for say, Xbox, PlayStation, PC, et cetera, we're just gonna throw it into that specific category because that category is literally a news category playlist. So it just makes sense to leave it there instead of trying to confuse people with a playlist that don't get updated as often because obviously we don't cover PlayStation and Xbox news enough. I think to really maintain its own playlist like that. That changes in the future, we'll see if anything, I would probably spin off channels. If I'm gonna start covering hardcore PlayStation news daily, that's gonna be like its own channel, right? Beyond that, the other one we have is basically Nintendo discussions being rebranded to gaming discussions because this is where I'll put my ramps. This is where I'll put any discussion videos or if I do a top 10 video, which again, I don't do those kind of videos very often, but if I do a top 10 or a top three or a wish list or some random video where I order a bunch of items off Wish for Switch and then make a fun video out of that, all that's gonna be in that category. So it's kind of like the other category on the channel where I sort of stuff most everything else. The third category that's still there right now is the Nintendo Prime Podcast since it's not fully moved to that channel until we get our subscriber count up there. Yeah, we still have the podcast category right here. And then our fourth one is actually one that you guys might not even be aware we have. There is a Zelda documentary playlist on the channel. This documentary is actually an official Nintendo documentary they only ever released in limited quantities on VHS, I think back in the late nineties. And as far as I'm aware that we are the only place on the internet right now to find that documentary. It's in multiple parts, it's been translated. And yeah, the captioning isn't like the greatest in terms of trying to read it but it is there. It's in English, so good luck. If you guys wanna go check that out, literally. It's a Nintendo made one that has been lost to time. In fact, you'll see at the beginning of each video you'll see the words Zen Tendo. They're the ones that actually had the original VHS and transcribed it and put it on the internet. That website no longer exists. And when they were gonna go out of existence I talked to the owner and founder of the website that actually owns the documentary and got his permission to re-upload it at our channel so it wouldn't be lost to time. So yes, we're gonna leave that playlist up as well because that to me, I'm a big Zelda guy and this is a piece of Zelda history that literally you can't find anywhere else. So that's really cool that we can say that about our channel that we have something that nobody else has. This pre-date title, Historia, it goes over timeline stuff that's crazy and totally contradicted today. It's a lot of fun if you guys haven't watched it. But again, it's an old school video. All right, moving on, we have schedules and any of our long time viewers know how well I do with schedules. But I think they can also admit that I've been very consistent at the channel for a while in terms of I basically get up a video a day at least. Sometimes multiple, but typically at least a video a day except on weekends when I don't promise I'm going to get videos out on weekends. I would like to get videos out on weekends but that's also me and family time, school time, et cetera. So weekend videos are not guaranteed. But Monday through Friday, I've been very consistent at getting a video out. So I wanna up my consistency with that by having a little bit of a schedule. And what I mean by that is I'm aiming to have my daily news content. These are the videos that contain multiple news stories. You guys know them, you guys love them. I'm planning to have that video out by 11 a.m. central time on Monday through Friday. So that would be noon Eastern time or 9 a.m. Pacific time. I don't know if you're outside of those time zones. I'm not sure what time it is for you. You'll have to do the conversion yourself. But I'm aiming to have it open to them because I've obviously noticed when I release videos anywhere from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. they tend to perform better because they get a better start because a huge chunk of my audience appears to be on YouTube around that time which isn't shocking because those are like lunch hours. So yeah, if you have a job as an adult like most of our audience is actually adults that are working. Yeah, it actually fits right in. Oh yeah, I wanna check out this video on my lunch break while I'm eating, popping the headphones and kinda listen to today's news while you enjoy your lunch. So yeah, we're gonna try to aim to have that. I don't wanna say it's exactly gonna come out at 11 a.m. but we're really hoping to. Obviously there can be times when the video's extra long. Like we had a 27 minute one earlier this week and maybe the render time on it due to all the various edits in it might be a bit longer and cost some delays. But in general, I'm pretty confident about this because essentially what this means is I get up, get my children off to school, at least right now during the school year, obviously different during the summer. And then yeah, I get to spend pretty much the next four hours putting the video together and getting it out to you guys. And that's something I'm willing to dedicate to you guys every single day. So yeah, that's like my four hours Monday through Friday that I'm gonna give you guys on this channel to try to make that consistent and then I have to do my other work stuff and school and all of that. Now, there are, as there was another thing we do on this channel, this is Streams. We do Streams two days a week. I'm actually gonna increase this to every Monday, Tuesday and Friday. Now this doesn't count the podcast stream but again, that would happen on a different, a very different channel.  So this stream schedule is based around this channel and the notifications this channel sends out. So I'm looking to do live streams at this point every Monday, Tuesday and Friday from 8 p.m. central time until whenever. Some of them will be shorter, like say some will be an hour or two hours. Others will be longer, like say three hours, four hours sometimes. So I can't guarantee how long each stream is. It's gonna depend on my time but I will guarantee you'll get at least an hour long stream on those days. What will we be doing on those Streams? Well, a lot of it's gonna be the same thing we do now, two of the streams. Right now it's looking like probably every Monday and Friday. Those two streams are going to be kind of standard streams that we do. So where we bring up some news topics, when we do some Q&A and we have some fun and have some drinks and all that, we're gonna keep that kind of going. I really enjoy that kind of stream. Tuesday's live stream is gonna be a little different. I'm aiming for Tuesday to be our game night of the week. So we're gonna be doing some game streaming on Tuesdays. Probably of Nintendo Switch, of course. And yeah, it's gonna be whatever I kind of feel like playing that day. If it's a multiplayer game like Splatoon 2 or Mario Kart or, I don't know, Super Mario Party, Superstars or whatever. The thing is anybody who wants to play multiplayer matches with me needs to be a member of our YouTube channel by hitting the join button. That's how you become a member of the board of directors here. Or you need to join us at patreon.com slash Nintendo Prime. If you are at one of those two spots and a backer of one of those two spots, you can get my friend code and our Discord server, which will also be linked below. We have some private channels for the members and they can get my Discord, they can get my Switch code there, Friend Code, and then we can hook up for some multiplayer matches. And I will try to let members know ahead of time if we're gonna be doing a certain game. I'm on that night so they can know if they can be around or if they have the game, et cetera. Now, the chat's still gonna be open to the public and all you guys are still gonna be able to chat with me and watch me play. And sometimes I'll be playing single-player games as well. So it's not always gonna be multiplayer games. But this just gives a chance to get back into some gaming at the channel. You notice we haven't done a lot of gameplay clips or reviews or anything like this. So this just gives everyone a reminder that yeah, I do play games. So let's actually play games and be kind of a community on Tuesdays. All right. So yeah, in addition to this, we do launch streams for games that I'm really interested in or that will be a big deal on Switch. As an example for Breath of the Wild 2, not only will we be streaming the Friday it comes out, I guarantee we'll be streaming all week and long, probably eight hour plus live streams. It's gonna be insane. But yeah, that's just something that I do for special, for things that you guys might remember from my old Breath of the Wild ones in 2017. Yeah, it's just something I do that's extra and special and on top of what we already do, I can't guarantee which games, but I'll try to announce ahead of time in the community tab if there's going to be specific games that I will be doing launch streams for which are in addition to our normal streams or sometimes we'll take over a Friday stream instead. So yeah, we'll see the game stream also by the way. You know, if by popular consensus people wanted to move to a different day, we could see, I know some people are gonna say streaming on Saturdays. Again, I'm keeping my weekends open for my family. All right, beyond all of that, I wanna remind you of any current community events and basically the current community event we have upcoming is Prime Giving. It happens on November 28th at 8.30 p.m. Central Time might start early at eight, although we probably won't give anything away till 8.30 since that's the current scheduled time. Yeah, that's the event where we're giving away the Switch OLED bundle. We got some other prizes involved on this, potentially a Pokemon Switch Lite could be one of those other prizes. So don't wanna promise that quite yet, but we got some stuff going on behind the scenes. And yeah, setting that thing aside, we also have a $100 charity donation. The next community event after that is gonna be on December 9th. We'll get that stream set up here in a bit as well once we have finalized times for it, which I think we're gonna get soon for the game awards. So we're gonna do an hour pre-show before their pre-show and then we'll cover their pre-show and cover the event and then do, you know, I don't know if we'll do a full hour after the event, but we'll see. That's gonna be another fun event. Both of those events will involve Eric at this time. So you guys, you know, if you liked our stuff that we did during E3, kinda look forward to another thing like that. Remember, people loved what we did during E3 and we're gonna try to roll it back again here and have a good time. So I'm trying to make the Prime Gaming event fun. It's gonna be obviously, you know, we'll take questions and we'll talk video game news, but we might have some gaming competitions in there and, you know, little stuff like that that, you know, maybe some, a quick game of Smash, quick Splatoon 2, you know, something we, the stuff we try to do during E3 except actually have it work this time. Yeah, so look forward to that because I am going to be working really hard to make sure we don't have any streaming issues with our Switch this time around. I have a solution in-house that I think is going to at least get us by for now. So yeah, that's kind of what we have for the next upcoming events. So another thing I wanted to address now is how the channel is done post-hacking. So I mentioned we got hacked by crypto people at the end of November or at the end of October. And I can say viewership-wise, we're actually doing quite wonderfully. We did have a lot for a few days, but after talking to a lot of people in the community, both through the community tab and our Discord server on Twitter, the community outpouring towards my channel to help me get back on track has been absolutely incredible. Our viewership is actually right back to where it was before the hacking, which is just amazing since before the hacking, we were still getting viewership bumps from Switch OLED. So to still have that kind of viewership bump now is incredible. But what's cool about the viewership bump, or I should say, what's basically become our standard viewership, which is 4,000 to 8,000 views a video, sometimes 10,000, is that 70% of every video we have posted since the hacking, the viewership numbers have been from subscribers. 70% before the hacking, it was around 30 to 35% of our viewers on every video were subscribers. So that means that if our viewership didn't dip, but more of our subscribers are watching the videos, now it means the community is showing up big to support the channel and keep the videos at a high volume of views. And I really, really appreciate that. It also means that if we're at that same number of views before the hacking, but more from subscribers and less from new viewers, it also means our growth is a little stunted at the moment. It means that YouTube AI system is not yet suggesting our videos to new viewers at the same rate it was before the hacking. And from what I have taught to our MCN and talked to some people at YouTube, it's just gonna take a while for the AI algorithm to pick us back up again. So thank you so much for keeping my sanity a little bit by keeping our viewership up and really supporting the channel in that way. Yeah, I literally can't thank you guys enough for it. I'm absolutely moved at how much the community has stepped up for our channel. Please keep it going moving forward because why, why not? I hope you're enjoying the content. That's the big thing. I don't want you just doing it to help me out. Do it because you actually want to. So to give you an idea of how we haven't fully recovered yet, we were gaining 2000 to 3000 new subs per month for the last like three months. But unfortunately due to the hacking, our last 30 days has now sunk to only 128 new subs because of how many we lost due to the hacking. And there's not really a whole lot we can do about that. We just have to keep pressing forward with our videos, not getting suggested to new viewers at the moment. It's really hard to gain growth, but we are seeing a little bit of smidge of growth over the last couple of days. Hopefully we can just keep sustaining that. And eventually YouTube should turn around for us, we hope anyways, no guarantees. We don't control YouTube. Those worried about us losing revenue. Well, we did have a lull for a week. We're now back to our typical advertising tier on YouTube. At least that's what it feels like. Although this could just be due to the holidays because everyone gets bumped up a tier during the holidays anyways. But I think this is going to sustain at least partially sustain after the holidays. All big YouTubers know, yeah, your money still goes down after the holidays, but you can still maintain a certain level. So we'll see what happens in January. We'll be a really telling month. So some people want to know what you can do to help. If you want to get this back on our growth path that we were on, just do mostly what you already do. Like the videos, watch the videos and try to watch them all the way to the end unless you don't want to of course. Share our videos with your friends and family and comment on them. Things that we already try to push for people to do anyways. So you guys are already doing it. So just keep it up. So Bacon Pancakes, I'm just using him from our last video. But some other people brought this up as well, including on our Discord server, says what's all, what's with all of the breath of the wild click bait? Stop luring me back here if you don't have any news of the game that's in your thumbnail or I'm unsubbing for real. Well, for starters, I'm sorry Bacon Pancakes to probably lose your subscription at some point. The thing is, I don't like having to use what you would call click bait. I don't like it. I would rather just make whatever thumbnail I think looks the best to match the news and make the headlines really boring and straightforward. Why? Because it makes my job a lot easier. I don't have to think. It's what's the news? Put the exact news in the headline, put the exact imagery from that news in the thumbnail and call it a day. You know how much less work that would be for me? How simple that would be for me? The problem is when I do that, people don't watch. Now, I don't know if this is just an algorithm related thing or if it's because maybe I guess the news isn't that exciting in the first place. I don't know. I try to only pick stories that I think are important.  If it wasn't, we wouldn't be covering it. Obviously, I recognize there are some stories that people consider to be bigger deals. Like, oh, news on Switch Pro. News on Breath of the Wild 2. That feels like bigger deals to some people while to others might not be big stories. I can't help what your subjective opinion is on that. But what I will say is the biggest and hardest thing to do on YouTube is get attention or get new viewership through the door. My biggest goal with my videos is first and foremost to provide a quality video. And I think if you sit through my videos and you watch them, I think you can agree the editing is pretty okay at least. You know, my set is obviously different than pretty much anything else on YouTube. So I think that adds an air of difference and professionalism. Obviously, I use a lab mic as well and not everybody uses lab mics. And I also just want people to think that I've put together a good quality production and can be entertaining when it calls for it. Again, I don't script my videos, including this one. So the thing is that's my chief goal. But my second goal is to get new eyeballs in to grow the channel because I obviously have a dream like pretty much any content creator probably does to sit down and be able to quit any other jobs I'm doing and just do this because I enjoy it. Everyone would love to do something they enjoy for a living. That might never happen here at YouTube and that's okay if it doesn't. But I'll be darned if I'm not gonna try to make it happen. And the first thing you gotta do is get new people to view your channel and then you hope whatever I present be it the giveaways, be it the actual news, be it my personality, be it the presentation style or whatever that people end up watching a video or watching me as a content creator that they might not have otherwise watched and then subscribe. I mean, that's really the goal, right? To grow a channel and to do that you gotta get new people through the door. Now, clickbait unfortunately is something that does work really, really well on all social media platforms via TikTok, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube or whatever the hell other thing, other networks people are using. Clickbait just works.  Like in this case, you're specifically probably complaining about the thumbnail in yesterday's video where it had the Zola 35th anniversary and there was like a breath of the wild to fan art along with like the Wind Waker HD or something like that. And I could see how that might be annoying because maybe it made people think oh, there's gonna be a trilogy. Honestly, it was a pre-made image. I got off Google Images. I was just trying to get the 35th anniversary logo, like a clean fan logo of it and I couldn't find a clean one that wasn't already thrown on to other imagery. So I ended up just using imagery that already existed. It really wasn't an intentional clickbait in that sense. I just wanted the logo and well, the rest of the imagery just kind of came with it. So I do apologize for that part. I really wasn't trying to tease breath of the wild too stuff. That was not my intent. But there was all the 35th news in the video. It just wasn't that exciting of news and maybe the thumbnail and the title makes it sound like it's more exciting than it is. But that's kind of sort of what clickbait is in a way. It's not us that are always lying to you. It's just getting you through the door and then you decide from there. So the biggest thing for me as a channel is just to get people in. Once they're in, if they get disappointed by the title, okay. And you might go, Nate, that hurts the channel. You're hurting the channel by doing this. People like Bacon Pancakes are gonna unsubscribe. And that's fine. You also likely want to follow my channel and subscribed in the first place if it wasn't for these kind of videos. That's just the unfortunate truth of the matter. Plus, if you're unsubscribing, I'm sure people will be happy because it's just one less person trying to win our giveaways. But that's either here or there. If you wanna unsubscribe from the channel, unsubscribe. I always tell people, if my content isn't for you, it's not for you. But I gotta worry about growth and I gotta play the YouTube game and the YouTube game is get people in the door and then hope you win them over with your content. If you don't get people through the door, you don't. So when I don't do that kind of stuff, I barely get any views and we don't grow. In fact, the last few videos that I didn't clickbait at all didn't do anything. It was just direct. Here's the news in the title. Here's the news in the thumbnail. All of them got less than 4,000 views and they only got like 5% of views from Suggested, which tells me, yep, people don't care. The click through rates were horrendous. It just wasn't good. And I ended up losing an average of 30 subscribers per video that I did that. Whereas the last two videos I did that admittedly were a bit more baity in trying to get people to click, I gained over 100 subscribers between those two videos. So you kind of see the conundrum. It works. If it didn't work, we wouldn't be doing it. I don't want to do it. And someday we might be so big that I don't have to. But hey, you know what? We're all just trying to get by in this world, aren't we? And I really enjoy what I do and I'm sorry if those titles make my content unenjoyable for you. It is what it is. I guess people expect me to apologize for something that I'm clearly doing intentionally. So why would I apologize? All right, I want to address mistakes from this past week. It is something that I wanted to start doing in Friday videos, but I didn't do it yesterday because I kind of just forgot about it. I would really only have one mistake from this last week. And this was in regards to talking about the Skyrim anniversary edition. I mentioned the only change in it was fishing. And I was corrected by heavy metal Riley. He said, or he or she said, I need to correct you about the new Skyrim edition a little. You said it only had one new thing and that is a fishing mechanic. However, that is not all they included in this new edition. They added new dungeons, new quests and missions, new armor and weapons and so on. So there is more than just a new fishing mechanic added to the anniversary edition and package. Yes, some of it is from the Creation Club, AKA it's been available already. But it is still new content that was not in the game previously. I would say that for all of those things would be very nice to have available on the Switch version. Keep up the great work. So they weren't complaining. They were just wanting to make sure that I and others were aware that the anniversary edition has additional stuff in it, which makes it all the more disappointing. It's not coming to Switch at least at this time despite the announcement that it's going to all platforms. But Switch isn't included. So it's not all platforms. Meando that I wanted to address some questions we took on Discord. The first one comes from Emerald Temple444. He says, when is the next big channel event? And again, I mentioned it earlier. It's November 28th at 8.30 p.m. central time, possibly 8th, but I did 8.30 just to be safe. That's when we have our giveaway, big event question, some tournament stuff. It's going to be a lot of fun there. Our next question gave him electro TDS on Discord as well. So here's the question, will you do more walkthrough live streams? And my answer right now is probably not. If my channel ever gets to a point that I am doing it full time that is a potential content, I'm looking forward to maybe adding, if not full walkthrough content, at least full live stream playthroughs that people might pseudo use as walkthroughs, but that's not their intent. So there is a possibility we might do full live stream playthroughs. It won't be 100%, I don't think, but at least full play streams of them, especially of games that I do launch events for. I think it would be cool to just keep playing it until we beat it on live stream. So probably not anytime soon, but I mean, at the rate the channel's going, you know, if we end up full time by the end of next year, which would be a dream. Yeah, that is a content type I am considering adding with the additional time and effort being put into the channel. Next up, this is some Chinese or Japanese username and then them, she, hers. I don't honestly, I can't read that language. I don't know. It says, I'm a content creator stuck at 74 subs and 10K views for starters. 10K views are only 74 subs. That's really good, man. Looking to become better at the community part, like it's just, I have no clue what does good and what doesn't. I'm trying to figure out what I need to do to make my channel better, that's all. So it's hard to give you specific advice because obviously I haven't reviewed your whole channel. I do know the channel based on what you said it was, has a one hour introduction video. You don't want a one hour intro video. If you're gonna do a channel trailer, you want it to be like one or two minutes at the most. So that's one tip for you just for people who are brand new to the channel. They're not gonna watch an hour long introduction to your channel, it's too long. Beyond that, don't worry about what does good and what doesn't, especially when you're starting out. Worry about making content that you would want to watch.  Look for it. And if there isn't a lot of good examples of it, perfect, time for you to get into that niche and be that example. So that's my number one thing is make content that you wanna make that you're passionate about that you would also want to watch. Beyond all that, I did listen a little bit to a couple of your videos. I don't know, there's one piece of advice I wanna give you but I'm not sure how easy it will be for you to work on. But it does sound like you mumble a little. If not mumble, just have poor diction and pronunciation which can make it hard to understand. Now this could be due to medical conditions. This could be due to several different factors. Maybe English isn't your first language. I'm not in your life to know but I'm not sure you're even aware. So I wanna make you aware that you are a bit hard to understand. What to do about that? That just takes a lot of practice and patience. One thing that used to happen to me a lot in the early YouTube days is I mumble a lot because before that all my experience was written work where you don't have to worry about diction and pronunciation, like when I would say debut instead of debut, right? That was one of my recent mistakes. Like I didn't worry about how it was said in written work. I just knew how to spell it. So yeah, it takes some time. So what I ended up doing is I used to be in choir so I had a voice coach a long time ago and I just contacted the voice coach and asked for some general advice to make my voice sound more clear when I'm talking. And I think for the most part, a lot of my mumbling where people don't understand what I am saying is gone. It still crops up every now and then and I hear it when I'm editing. But yeah, it's something that took me a long time to sort out. Some people just have it naturally. Other people need to work on it. It's a big work and on their diction. For now it's a big advice I can give you is read, like listen back on your videos before you put them up. And if you hear like a specific word that kind of sounds like it's running together or it's hard to make out what that word is, take that word and break it down into small pieces and then practice each piece of that word individually until you're able to say it all together consistently in a better diction. So it's more understandable. And it could take a long time to get to a point where you're more understandable because that's gonna help more people wanna watch your videos. But yeah, that's the only piece of advice I really have. And again, I'm not sure if there's extenuating circumstances going on that prevent you from doing it in a more clear tone addiction because maybe it's something that just can't be fixed. In that case, hey, just do you and don't worry about it, right? Like, I'm just a guy on the internet. You don't gotta listen to me. So Corey asked the following. He said, hey, Nintendo Prime, when will you hire Eric Moore to be a full-time content creator on the channel? And I have some typed out responses. So we'll just read this out. It says, answer. This might be a joke question, knowing you Corey, but let's address it for real. So absolutely, if it went I can, Eric would be my first hire as another full-time employee of the channel. However, I can't hire him comfortably without first being able to offer him a salary that not only matches what he gets at that time at his other job, but can also offer similar benefits like a 401K, health insurance, benefits, et cetera. And then even if I don't wanna do that, I wanna hire him as a full-time contract employee so I don't have to deal with the headache of that. I have to make sure that I'm compensating him well above what he is paid currently to then cover his own private health insurance and own private retirement fund. So let's just say if it was today that I was trying to hire him, I wouldn't be comfortable hiring him at anything less than 70K a year just to make sure we have our bases covered, okay? Like, it's not a chump change there. To give you an idea of how far away from that we are, the channel doesn't even make half of that, so pretty far away. So realistically, the channel has to first reach a point where I consider it to be comfortable, which is, you know, less than 70,000 for me. So for the channel to be comfortable for me, it needs to be making about 50 grand a year or so and that's when I would seriously consider quitting my job. But we'll get there, maybe. Then I have to make, you know, the rest of that above and beyond. So realistically, a channel would need to be clearing pretty close to 150,000 a year before I would offer him a full-time position. And obviously, I know and offer him a full-time position. I need to get certain commitments from him, like, you know, him committing to learning video editing, him committing to taking some courses on presentation, diction, and, you know, so he could fill in for me for some videos. So I don't always have to be hosting all of the time, especially if I had a lot of business meetings that day which happened, believe it or not, they've been happening more often than I realized. So yeah, that doesn't mean by the way that I don't have other people who already work for the channel. My current MCN actually hired a video editor on my behalf to help us create a channel trailer because we don't have one. And I do have someone who does image work for me that I already pay at the moment. I don't use them for all of my image work, of course, but there might be a day that we do and we are actually getting pretty close to where I might be using them for most of it, but even then, it's still part-time work. It's not a full-time person on the channel. Then there is the fact that I would like to use a video editor for some of my less time-critical pieces, like, say, a discussion video for the weekend that I might record earlier in the week, but these are all part-time. We're just not close enough to the point where I can bring someone on full-time. Even if I just told them we would stop buying equipment and doing giveaways altogether and I'll just give them all the money from the channel, it still wouldn't be enough for me to be comfortable hiring anyone. So, yeah, it's just more of a, the channel's not there yet. I think, Corey, you obviously know that and you probably knew this answer, but I wanted to address it because there's a lot of people that always ask me, hey, how can we get Eric on the channel more? And I love that you guys enjoy Eric. He's a really great guy, but it's gonna take a lot more to get him there. Plus, he's gotta have the interest. He's gotta have to wanna host videos. He's gonna have to wanna do video editing. He's gonna have to wanna learn how to work our camera in a more professional way. He's gonna have to wanna learn how to use every piece of equipment in the studio. And he's gonna have to wanna learn how to run this studio on his own if I happen to not be around. Like, if I'm on vacation or if I'm, you know, I don't know, just on a trip with my family or the family reunion. Or, you know, when my kids has an event going on, like a basketball game that I'm at, right? Like, you know, hey, he's gotta be here to take care of stuff while I'm not. He's gotta know the ropes. So, there's a lot of, I would love to have him on. And I think in the back of his mind, he would love to work here full-time too. There's less pressure on him to do this kind of work than there is at his current job, because you can kind of sort of fudge your own schedule here. But, but, we're a ways away from that. I do have room, by the way, in the studio for a second editing desk, like right here. I have a perfect spot for a second editing rig. So, he could edit video while I'm also working on video. And he could do other things as well. Because if I hire him out full-time, we are going to relaunch our website. And so, he would help manage that as well. So, there'd be a lot to work. It's just, yeah, we're not there yet. So, thank you guys, though. That's a long channel update. But again, apparently I only do these once every three years. So, since I only do them once every three years, of course, it was going to be rather long. Yeah, this is cool, guys. So, people have been wondering, by the way, where are the background music's been coming from? Because we have joined an MCM, we have access again to Epidemic Sound. So, a lot of it's just been some lo-fi music we are getting from them. It's not stuff that I can really link you to directly to download, because it's a membership-only thing. So, yeah, if you're wondering where I get it from and how I find the music, that's how I find it. Lo-fi is typically the style of music you want to put in the background of videos. There are some exceptions, of course. So, yeah, I'm Nathan and Robert Janss from Nathan and Prime, and this was a nice little channel update. Catch you guys on the next one.


NDP is a global business. We're in 25 countries, 110 office locations within those countries at the moment which is absolutely fantastic. It's built up of three business units broadcast which is the one that you see here, live events and the media solutions business. We're currently sitting in the Andrews hub in Sydney. There are two hubs, one in Sydney and one in Melbourne. They're built on Simpty 2110. It's a pure IP environment so everything you see behind me is basically you know acquired an IP from site comes in. It's a mass centralized production facility and it was born out of how can we be more efficient with our staff, how can we be more cost-effective our clients and how can we make the product sort of better without really impacting it by centralizing the staff. Fannie P, the move from HT to UHD could have been pretty scary right? We are an IP facility so the infrastructure itself is based around 100 gig infrastructure so the move from HT to UHD in terms of networking was not huge but the move in terms of you know creating signals for monitors and stuff that you see behind me could potentially have been larger but it was made very very easy. One of the really important things is the granularity and it's something that's important to us because of course you know we have these throwdown boxes absolutely everywhere and we only populate them with what we need. We're talking one SFP that can be one in one out, two in two out, could be a quad split, can be a blank, we're just processing on it and we can put them anywhere because we're running a big network what you see behind me is basically one enormous network. We can stick these anywhere in any switch at any time because you can put network ports in here, you've basically got PTZ control as well over the same network, you can't do that with any other product. One SFP in either a cage like this, a network switch or an EMV somewhere else can give you the flexibility down to that level so you only buy what you need and in terms of scalability it's infinitely scalable because you can even add more and more of the EM6 is more and more of the SFPs into either switches, EM6 is all into the EMV which we now have quite a bit of and the EMV is indefinitely scalable. The other thing is these are modular of course we run everything Dash 7 but we don't have to so as basically you could take a 25 gig SFP out, put a 1 gig SFP in and there's your network port for your control of your camera. That level of granularity per box or per room or per revertual whatever you're doing you don't get that with any other product but we pushed this even further because we were using it for SDI encapsulation and de-encapsulation which was important because the cameras were all SDI but we also used this to create the multiviews.  The actual ecosystem and the infrastructure doesn't change we just add more of these because it's scaled so you know you can't do that with SDI routing you basically you know if you buy a 256 square SDI user that's what you have and if you buy 10 multiview outputs that's what you have in the hardware but with these you just keep on adding them and adding them and adding them and adding them. Our relationship with vendors is really important here. This has evolved into a proper partnership and you know the team there work with my team regularly we have almost weekly meetings on where we want the roadmap what's actually happening and it's not just the Australian office it's a worldwide initiative so you've basically got two really innovative businesses that are joining together and I think that some of their parts is gonna be absolutely awesome. Watch this place.


What's going on guys? It's your boy DPG now before we get into this top five video on behalf of my sponsor controller mods I have this amazing custom made Destiny themed Xbox one controller to give away But it don't end there and I can't leave all of my PlayStation brothers out So if you win the giveaway and indeed you play on PlayStation We're also giving away a 100 pound gift card to use on controller mods website Where you can create your very own custom controller to the best standard I have ever seen to take part in this giveaway It's pretty simple as the giveaway will happen on Twitter Just make sure you follow us both links to my Twitter and controller mods is Twitter are in the video description Winner will be picked and announced next weekend. So you have a full week to get following. Good luck What's going on guys? It's your boy DPG here today with another Destiny video and today I bring you top five freak out reactions of the week now Headphone users actually everybody be warned people in the video be screaming like bitches So you may just want to turn on that volume just a little bit if you enjoyed the video smash that like button I do appreciate the support submit any banners clip You've got to be email or just a link from the top of the video description and I'll catch you guys on that next one Yeah, you say hi to Jacks. Hi Jacks.  Yeah, well click on all the parts you spam on the longbow I need this shucks Then you open the package till next time It works. It works. No It works. This other guy did it and it worked and now I did it it works Okay, okay, okay No, you're an I.O Guys I have a primary exotic ingram. I am actually hoping for the last word Okay, guys before you guys say anything. I know what you're about to say. Oh my god Everybody has the last word who's a 3 3 5 and does not have a last word Well, apparently me because I actually don't have luck and I still have my 3 3 3 mighta So yeah guys today. I'm going to be Decrypting my primary exotic ingram. So if I get the mighta Not the mighta. I mean the last word a peep people have been saying that if you decrypt Decrypt a primary exotic ingram on your warlock Yeah, more chance of getting a mighta. That's what I heard So not the mighta last word. Let's go No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no No, I can get the shot, bro. Yes My logs right now. No, Lord Jesus Oh Jesus Aaron Jesus, please give me a long bow. Oh my god.  Oh my god Showcase What's up? Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh my god. I got a long bow. Oh my god So you have for me Tell me


Welcome back to the Schoolcast, it's Tim and Jacko and we are back today to talk about having fun with hanging. And all the training and performance benefits that come with it. So today we're going to look at a load of hanging variations and how we can start to manipulate our training environment and using that to have some fun with the training but get some massive performance benefits out of it as well. The thing that we get stuck in too often with our training is very simple one-dimensional movements in a sagittal plane when we're hanging we're thinking about pull-ups and we're thinking about pulling straight up and we're not exploring any other options and giving some options to the shoulder to move in some different ways. Those things are really important when it comes to human flag training on muscle ups. We need to develop end range and outer range strength and we're going to stay in that safe position we don't get the opportunity to do that. So lots of you have rigs in your gym, we've got one here, we've got a great opportunity partly because not many people really know how to use them effectively but we can start to think about different hanging variations, how we can move around the rig, have some fun with it, solve movement problems, set little challenges for ourselves but the whole time we're doing that we're starting to build strength particularly in hanging single arm movements which are going to transfer really well into your training and just build those bomb-proof shoulders that we know we can then put to use for some more fun in our more advanced calisthenics movements. So we're going to start with the basics and we're going to build it up from there and we're going to look at that active hang again but what we're going to do is as well as looking at this position of just moving up and down this shoulder has massive 360 degrees range of motion and what we're going to do is start to build up to be able to explore strength and stability and control in some of these positions outside of potentially our comfort zone where we've currently been working. So we're going to build this up from the basics right from the beginning of proper hanging technique which means you can then start to scale it as we show you the progressions but anybody can jump on board if you can hang from a bar, my little boy can hang from a bar so you can get something like that too. That's not him. I'm his big boy. Jump up Jacko so we're going to start just differentiating between an active hang and a dead hang so dead hang is when Jacko lets his body go slack we're just hanging on joint tissue some collected tissue no real muscle tension in there we've just got some traction on the joint the active position comes he's going to draw the shoulder blades down pulling the shoulders away from the ears you can see his head lifts up but elbows don't bend so it's all of it is being driven by these retractors in the shoulder we're pulling the shoulder blade back and down starting to create that upward lift. Active hang position is going to be the foundation from a lot of pulling movements now that's great and we could go into pull ups but what we really want to do is start to challenge this so we can build some more strength so the challenge now for Jacko is can he hold active hang and then can he start to then shift weight on to a single arm active hang that's our next progression you can see the first time if you're a bit unsure just let one kind of finger come off start to gently shift over and what I want him to do is better hold that active position and then transfer back onto the bar if you are training for your human flag that single arm active hang is the top arm of your human flag so it's an absolute real key movement in terms of developing that strength and competency so we can see he's doing a really nice job there hang swings across hold the active position that scapula is set down shoulders locked into the socket creating loads of tension and he's also thinking about what's happened down here the rest of the chain as well linking the shoulder with the hip starts to enable us to transfer forces through the chain really nicely and that is such an important part of calisthenics. Jacko is now going to go single arm and he's going to drop into a dead hang so we show you what that looks like so he transfers himself across into the active position and if he goes dead hang now lets the tension go you see the ear slumps down towards the shoulder the body is naturally going to want to unwind into this position the job now is can he crank that shoulder back down wind himself back up into the facing forward and then he pulls the shoulder bay back into a stable position so it can create that active shape again the whole time we're training grip strength as well which is doing a really good job for our rotator cuff and shoulder stability and we're working really nice progressive transition from different positions challenging the shoulder in different shapes. So let's look at some troubleshooting because this isn't that easy hanging on to the bar with just one arm in an active position is not necessarily that easy for people so we'll give you some options in how to train that and also looking for what we don't want to happen and how we're going to combat that because ultimately if you're going to save your life and be a hero one day you might need to hold on to the bar or rock by one arm so Tim's going to go into his active position and then as he transfers because what sometimes might happen is he starts to let that grip go and then all of a sudden loses that active position and then you see that unwind it's also going to have an effect on his grip he needs to keep that active position where he's constantly trying to pull that shoulder blade down and keep that separation between his ear and his shoulder so if we are finding that difficult one of the first things we can look at is not completely taking away the hand on the other side so rather than taking his hand completely off Tim can start to loosen a finger and maybe he can hold with three fingers two fingers or one finger so you can build up progressively the strength on the opposite side by taking off one sort of finger at a time which is nice sort of easy progressive approaches you can use straight away the other option we have is using resistance band so the band is going to take a little bit of load off of you and give you a little bit of support whilst you work on the mechanics of holding yourself and staying active on that one arm whilst the other side isn't doing anything at all so the other thing with the band that's nice is it keeps him honest in terms of his body line and shape so that ribcage down to be nice and tight bum on so he keeps that tight he's then able to hold and take that arm off and then with a little bit of support from the band he's able to work on those mechanics of holding that single arm in an active position and then what he can also do is give himself the opportunity to go out of that active position and come back into it just as we demonstrated before but with a little bit of help from the band it might mean that a rather than being able to just do it once this gives you enough capacity to build up sort of three or four transitions so you get a bit more capacity in the locker for some of these shoulder stabilizers that are holding you in that active position and those guys want to work under the higher amounts of sort of volume so having a more capacity in your training rather than making it a max strength type exercise is going to be beneficial so that's all of the science and the technical stuff out of the way now it's about time to put it into practice and start to challenge your grip in your shoulder in lots of different positions so we're going to look at like problem solving so Tim's going to start on the bar here and if you've got a rig in your gym you'll then got to like how can you get yourself over to another part of the rig where you've got no distinct like actual movement that you're going to go through you've just got to explore that and try and figure out how you're going to get to a different part changing all different ranges of motion challenging grip in different positions and having some fun whilst you do it so that's a little bit about how to have fun with hanging there is a lot of fun to be had but there's a ton of value for the shoulders as well creating stability in different positions a shoulder remember has so much range of movement it's important that we can start to generate different strengths in different positions creating stability as we challenge it in those range of movement and that's going to mean that we get a really stable shoulder and it's linked in with the kinetic chain and that means that your calisthenics train is going to accelerate purely because your system is better connected together and you can transfer forces and do it safely it's a great way for you to build up some strength in a fun and almost playful way as you're getting outside of your comfort zone challenging new different positions and then it's part of a warm-up it works beautifully to get the shoulder and grip fired up before any of your pushing sessions pulling sessions you're going to work into some different positions in calisthenics like your human flags and your muscle ups training this out of range strength like we said right at the top of this video is such an important part it's one of the the foundation parts have been able to do those more advanced movements a lot of people lack and it stumps their progression so building this into your warm-up it's just reloading sixes in one big box of putting a ton of benefit in your training so until next week class dismissed


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Live from the Oracle Conference Center in Redwood Shores, California. It's theCUBE at the Next Generation Engineered Systems launch event. Brought to you by headline-sponsored, Oracle. Okay, welcome back everyone. We are here live in Silicon Valley. This is theCUBE, our flagship program. We go out to the events and they strike the ceiling with noise. I'm John Furrier with Dave Vellante, my co-host, our next guest, Mike Workman, Senior Vice President of Oracle Storage. Welcome back to theCUBE. We really appreciate seeing you here. Larry's going to be talking about engineering systems on stage at one o'clock here. Storage is a big part of that. Yes it is. But in a platform, it's not a pure play, storage kind of approach. It's got to be integrated. What's the big thing today for you guys? What are you guys announcing? We're announcing a lot of different, in fact it's a pretty extensive content rich announcement. There's a lot of different products in there I won't go over all of them. But the FS1 is a critical piece of the puzzle there. There's a core of the data center. There's sort of your compute and your storage platform. FS1 is that. You'll see Larry doing some announcements around that area. And then you'll see a weeding in of the various engineered systems, database appliance, et cetera. And I don't want to steal Larry's thunder, but as if anyone could, right? I don't worry about that. But seriously, there's a very wide range of products the FS1 plays into it because at the core of the data center is compute and store. So everybody talks about NextGen, NextGenNist, 2.0. What is NextGen today?  You're talking about integrated systems or engineered systems. What makes something NextGen these days? That's a good question. And I think it's a part of what keeps us all alive is figuring that out, right? And it's like either trying to anticipate it or trying to get ahead of it, you know? Today for me, there's a transition going on. Building a flash storage system, what we're finding today with customers is fascinating. They buy an old flash array from Oracle and they put it in the data center and their infrastructure doesn't hold up. So the infrastructure and data centers was designed around HDD centric storage systems. It really was. So in some sense, the industry is trying to catch up with the capabilities and the technologies that vendors can supply. And it's a normal game, right? That pretty soon they'll get complacent with it and they'll complain it's not fast enough. Right, it's more data, more complex apps. This is the way it works, right? I mean, one day the 10 megabytes was a lot on a PC and then we have a gigabyte and all of a sudden it's not enough because or it's too much for a while until the apps catch up and start using it and demanding more. And this is sort of the stair step that we take in this industry. And so next gen, you know, the cheaper storage gets and the more CPU horsepower that you have and the faster the networks, people come up with applications that challenge all of that. So then we go the next step and provide better infrastructure, people outfit it and et cetera. And it's just a stair step. I think I see it all the time. It's pretty amazing industry, isn't it? We double capacity every 18 months. We cut cost in half. And it's never enough. And it's not good enough. So we have a question from the crowd. Any news on the Solaris zones or containers but then I was asked about storage containers and then the comment says Oracle Database 12C is all about containers. What about the storage domains in the flash storage system? Are those important? As data isolations and security concerns increases, is containerization with flash storage becoming critical? Is that what that C stands for? I thought it was cloud. It's containers, right? Containers are all the rage. We have an engagement container, Docker's got cloud containers. Container is essentially not a new concept, but it's all the rage. But talk about that specific point with the flash system. Okay, John. You asked, there's a lot of stuff in that. I'll try to make it brief. Yes. It isn't yet. Yes, it's good though. Next question. Next question, yeah. So seriously, the idea is that with containers or data centers the way they are today, that people want to have control over what I would call storage domains. They want to be able to see their objects show up in different areas, like in some ways, different machines. The problem with different machines and islands of storage is that nobody wants to manage that, right? Nobody wants to have six storage products in order to do the job. What we've tried to do with the FS1 is to build storage domains, which allow users to essentially, customers to encapsulate storage tiers within a domain and to essentially build a storage machine within a machine. So if you take virtualized storage today, in a sense, in my opinion, we've gone a little too far. We've in most virtualized storage systems, which most are today, they completely remove any knowledge of the physical locality of data within that system. And that means that if you have forensics to do or the accounting department wants their own set of assets, it's really hard to do. Black box. Yeah. And it's sort of like, well it goes in and it comes out and it all intermingles. And what we decided was we can take it just a step backwards just a little bit and allow physical domains to exist, up to 64 of them in an FS1, allow those physical domains to exist such that different applications can build different resources around their needs. So there's disparate needs, there's archival needs, there's transaction processing, OLTP kind of environments, and you can see those as different machines within the FS1. And so that plays into this whole way that our database and its ADO and the various features and functions that we use, big data, for example, needing archive, needing metadata on Flash, the various tiers, the structure of the FS1 is built in order to solve disparate problems at the same time on one platform. So performance and management is the key things you've just seen. Yeah, yeah, it's to be able to get some control over all of this stuff without having six different products or 11 in EMC's case. So that brings the notion of quality of service then. That's something that when you were, Peller, you guys really were focused on that. Talking about quality of service, a lot of people talking about quality of service in the industry, it ties into the whole software defined meme. How should we be thinking about quality of service and how does it relate to the container discussion? I have to laugh a little bit, I apologize. But when we introduced quality of service into the industry in 2005, everybody, everybody pretty much just panned it, said, oh, that's ridiculous, who would want that? And now everybody claims they have it. In fact, there's even people who claim that others have false quality of service, others like the people who invented it. I honestly, I mean, that's funny. So our quality of service is critical because it's very sensible because when you get up in the morning and your plan was to rake some leaves maybe before the sprinklers turned on, that may have been a good idea until as you were walking out of the house, you noticed that there was a broken water pipe. And when there's a broken water pipe, you probably have something more important to do. So when your business is like that, right? First things first, you might want to do web store where the revenue comes in before you do test and dev. You might want to prioritize that way. And that's what we do. We make sense out of business priorities and align them with the way that the storage system performs. So it's execution, it's prioritization of its cues, they all align with the business priorities that you set for it. The noisy neighbor problem in virtualized environments, everybody knows that one. And that comes from the fact that in most systems, there's no way to control some guy who's making a lot of requests and generating a lot of business for a storage system. But he's not the most important guy. You can make a commercial out of that. Everyone knows that. 15% of the performance. The noisy neighbor. Everyone knows that. Did you know? Not nosy neighbor. Noisy neighbor. The nosy neighbor is another problem. Yeah, that was another issue. That's around security. That's a management issue. So anyway, QoS allows you to essentially align the way you want the storage system to align its execution and its resources against the way your business is structured. And I do that through software. You do it through a software management system. You set priorities. You say, I don't care, this guy's making all the noise. This guy's paying the bills. So I'm going to pay attention to him when he speaks. Does he pay the bills? Some of them. Absolutely. We like to spend. The West Coast bills. So Matt East was on. Matt East from IDC was on. He was saying, I'll see Moore's Law, doubling performance, but the data growth has been significant. So on the FS1, what is the big data piece of that? And can you, is anything new there? And give us an update on what's going on with the big data piece of it. Yeah, okay. Big data is an interesting beast because it's a little bit like the cloud in the sense that no matter who you talk to, they kind of give you a different definition for what it is. And that's okay. Because there's a lot of different paradigms and environments where it applies or doesn't apply or means something to one person, not another. Here's one of the salient attributes, low cost, because you're not storing petabytes of stuff at the price of flash, right? So what you'll see in the industry is in general, if somebody has an all flash array, they're not talking about big data. Because you don't think, you know, an all flash array does not support two petabytes or three petabytes in the case of FS1, two node system alone. And tape maybe. Right? Yeah, tape. So, but the FS1, unlike our competitor's all flash arrays, gives you the performance of flash, it supports that fourth tier that gives you the dollars for terabyte that you need for big data. This is why I called it a chameleon when I first saw it. Yeah, and I love that actually. I'm not sure everyone understands that. It could be a bad thing in politics. Well, but yeah, yeah, yeah, right. We're not in politics though, thankfully. Yeah. Yeah. But the point is you can make that system whatever you need it to be, right? And keep it deep or high performance. But when you think about it, all the metadata in these systems, it all needs to be stored on something very quick. You need a fast access to index. And on petabytes of containers, those have big, there's a large amount of index data, right? And so what a better solution could you have than to have SSD on one side, flash performance on one side and have the giant, low-cost capacity containers on the other. Perfect. Will we ever have more metadata than data? Like, is that day going to happen?  It is metadata. It's good news. Yeah. 200 words to describe one. I wonder if we could talk about the competition a little bit. So you guys did a little smackdown at Oracle Open World. You took direct aim at EMC and Extreme I.O. What was that all about?  You put sports, some I.O.P.s, figures. I was asking about latency. I was asking about all flash array. Where are we at in that whole urinary Olympics? Well, look, it's real simple. I mean, we weren't doing it to just make noise. It's important that if you have an all flash array, you call it a flash storage system. It might be a valuable thing to not go out and compete against yesteryear's HDD-centered design. I mean, if that's what you do, everyone's going to go, and this is your flash array, right? Well, obviously that wasn't the target. The target is to go out and compete head to head, which we do with all flash arrays. EMC went and bought a solution. IBM went and bought a solution, right? HP went and bought a solution. People went out and bought solutions that were their performance solutions, right? So we compared ourselves against Extreme I.O. What happened was, is that immediately EMC took all the data offline and said, oh, that's old data. It had only been up for three weeks. It's old. You're talking about the data that you were attacking in the station. Comparing it, yeah. And people complained, oh, there's fine print on the chart. Well, the fine print was a link to that data, which then when you went and went to it, you got a 404 error. Anyway, that was just hours after Larry gave the pitch and did that comparison. The point is we compared against people's most performance solutions. That's what we went and do. But the EMC guys said, well, that's not fair. They actually said that. So they did respond. That's not a fair comparison because you have HDD. Well, but for performance, we'll compare against your best. For HDD, we'll compare against your best. So if you want a petabyte solution, VNX 8000 or whatever, we'll compare against that. It's a flash array. We're going to compare performance. We're happy to compare against any metric that people want to look at. So FS1, block-based stores. Where are you competing with the EMC? Is it VMAX? Is it VNX? Is it Extreme I.O.? All of the above. What are your thoughts on VNX? I mean, maybe we can talk about that. Yeah, thanks for that question. Because the answer is, is that for people who are buying all flash arrays, they look at the FS1. We compete there. For people who are buying general purpose arrays that need a little bit of flash and some disk, we can be with the FS1. We don't have six products or 11 products. We don't need them because we have a new architecture that allows you to express performance of flash, the economics of disk on one platform under one management umbrella. We compete against archive storage with just giant two petabytes of relatively slow disk. It's an economical solution for customers and it has the same management interface, the same look. VNX2, it's VNX2.  It's still got two operating systems. It's still got windows in it and Dart from Solera. It's still all these different things to do different solutions kind of bolted together. That's what we're trying to get away with. So you guys are going to basically have a block platform and a file platform and extend those lines. You don't see having, I mean, Joe Tucci says it's better to have overlaps than gaps. That's kind of how he answers that stovepipe question. But you feel as though you can address that market and we've seen NetApp having to diverge from its single OS strategy.  I think so and considering that both are unified. In other words, you can do NAS with the FS1 and SAN with the ZS system. And what we view is that you've got a platform that does one as principal use in the data center. Our core SAN offering is the FS1. Our core NAS offering is the ZS system. The reason is the architectures are different. They have different fundamental topologies and architectures to support the different requirements of file versus block. And I think that that's a good choice. That's not to say you can't do NAS with the FS1. You can, it has its own filing system. It's not ZS inside. It's built in natively on top of the structure of the software that makes up the FS1. The same is true with ZS. It can do SAN. It has different kind of attributes and characteristics than the FS1 which don't make it quite as well suited for SAN as the FS1. But it can do it. So if you have a little bit of SAN in a NAS environment, you can do that. What do you think of the Flash? There's no gap. Okay, all right. Fair enough. What do you think about the Flash startups? You're out here in Silicon Valley, John. You are as well. You've seen crazy valuations. But sometimes crazy valuations turn into big exits. But David Scott said in the Cube to us, he doesn't feel as though the Flash startups will be able to get escape velocity because IBM's made a choice. You guys haven't had to buy, HP's got the three-par, et cetera, et cetera. EMC with Extreme I.O. That the startups won't be able to get escape velocity. You buy that? I mean, I know Pure doesn't buy that. What do you think? Well, he wouldn't expect them to buy that. Scott Deeson's not going to agree with that statement. No, and I have to agree with him. I mean, frankly, the problem is, is that everybody, look, you're either going to go public or you're going to get bought. There's no one to buy you now. I mean, everybody's sort of made their play, right? So they've done that and now you have to go public. The problem with going public with an all-Flash array that isn't a mainstream solution is that everybody else covers that in one way or another and has no gaps and can do everything with their solution meet you head on for performance.  It's tough, Mark. We got a break there. Larry Ellison's about to come on stage. We're getting the hook. This is theCUBE live here. It's looking at Mike Workman, Senior Vice President in Oracle Storage. I'm John Furrier, but Dave O'Lothi. We'll be right back. Thank you.


Governors in their final tenure might be facing the tricky question of who succeeds them. And the United States mission launches a fund for cultural preservation in that area. We'll be having the public affairs officer with the consulate in Lagos joining us later on the show. This is Plus Politics, I am Mary Anacor. As the 2023 general elections draw near, a number of states are also gearing up to elect their next governors. In 2022, the people of Ekiti State will be going to the polls to select their next governor. Other states who will select new governors are Aqaibom, Cross River, Eboi, Inugu, Kaduna State, Kanu, Katzina, Rivers and Taraba states. In the just recently concluded a number of state elections, the preferred candidate of Governor William Biano not only won the APCA ticket but also went on to win the election. Is it now safe to say that the governors of these states, which would be going to the polls, would also want to exercise power over who the next leader would be? Well, joining us to discuss this and answer the question is Achike Tudde and Biodeshomi boss political analyst. Thank you very much gentlemen for joining us. Thank you very much. Great. I'm going to start what you showed me. It's interesting that Ekiti State is where everybody's looking at and I think you and I had a conversation recently about the politics around the next elections. But we also see something very interesting happening in Ekiti, not just the men throwing their hats into the ring but we're seeing a lot more women who are also putting their best foot forward to run for governorship. But in Ekiti State we have Governor Faiyame who is of the APC. And then we know that in Ekiti we have the APC and the PDP fighting tooth and nail to make sure that they emerge as the party for 2022. But let's start by looking at the election electoral process. We see that sometimes the governors always want the person they think can take over from them and do a better job. Sometimes maybe for the wrong reasons, sometimes for the right reasons but the governors always want to exercise that power. But we also see sometimes the hand of ESO in states where you have Godfathers who decide who the next person would be. But in Ekiti State we have seen Faiyame hold a national appointment before he came back to become governor. With all the people who have put their foot forward to run for governorship, do you think it's going to be an easy task to pick somebody to succeed him? Yes, when you look at Ekiti, Ekiti is one single ethnic state. You don't have two different ethnicities. There are all Ekiti people and that's all. And therefore we are likely going to have what I would call a repost challenge without the void of ethnic politics in the selection of who will be the next humanitarian candidate for the state. Now, when you go into the issues, there are three major issues why people existing governors want to meet why if they need new governor. And the first one is the issue of the continuity of programs. We live in a country where there is a lot of abandonment. So many governors genuinely think that they should be in a position to ensure that their vision of development should continue when they are out of power. That is one factor. The second factor also is you may have governors who are troubled by the way they govern the state or maybe due to my presence or face severe allegations and also interested in showing that they can get one of their cronies to who will be most supported to be in power. Then you have a third factor which is the issue of the party. When it comes to go for that, every governor wants to control the politics of the state. They are used to it when they are in office, when they lead up the party. And when they are out of party, the state wants to be in a position to dictate who gets work within the state. So those are the three major factors. Now back to the state, it's not a straightforward issue when it comes to that because there are a number of other factors that contribute. The state has a good sense of social justice in the sense that they tend to look at the performance and now it has impacted on the well-being of the people and of the state. That is one major issue if it's a people. The second issue is also, there's also the issue of the stomacic pastoral which is quite very important because when you look at the state, it's quite very very close with virtually no industries. Apart from one big industry which I know of, I don't know of any other industry. You said you want to talk about the spring water, which is when you talk about industry, you don't really need to factor those. It is also very peculiar in the sense that it is the only state in Nigeria where the majority of the people voting are actually 45 upwards. Those are the majority, unlike in many states where you have the minority of the voters being the young people. The simple reason is because you don't have the industries, there are no jobs or employment apart from civil service. So what you then add is all the youth graduating tend to migrate to other cities in search of greener pastoral. So consequently, if it's in voters tend to be civil servants, teachers and older people. So that is the uniqueness of the state itself. So on succeeding itself, if you look at the pattern, far as she was in power, she would speak out of power due to alleged corruption only to be replaced by the election of the governor of Caldy, Fahemi. Fahemi was in power, he was considered as not being too distant from the grass roots. Again, he was kicked out. We had a short briefing on each economy in power. Fahemi came back, was Minister of Mines and Parrot, and he came back. Minister of Mines, then he came back to become the governor. So you have said now, I'm going to say that look, there's a tradition as a person of equity. People wanting people to complete their time. It depends on who he never completed anytime because he was kicked out by the courts. So in this situation, he tends to enjoy a lot of sympathy. I know that he's not in the same episode of the Caldy family, Fahemi. He actually led to go to PDB to slug it out with the Trauma Lepticum, the original for the ticket of the party. But what be that as it may, my guess feeling is that we're likely going to see Chagrouni imagine for PDB because there are also other parties. Even in the midst of all the women that the PDB, I mean, because I think if I'm not mistaken, about eight women have thrown their hat into the ring, meaning that we have more women than usual running for the post of a governor. So amidst all of these women, you're telling me that one person is going to emerge and that might be a man and not a woman. Yes, it is due to the way the PDB thinks. I know the place very well. I have people with the people, sufficient people to know that. Apart from being chauvinistic, you know, there's a male chauvinistic tendency, just like in other parts of Europe, it's not just the party. It's the same situation in other parts of the country. But you have a situation where the recurring decimal in the kitty, if you have to go by the two precedents, is once a governor has been elected and kicked out, they tend to have some sympathy, get the person to come back. In the case of Uni, Uni did well. In the short term, he was thrown out by the courts. At least that's the view of the people. He enjoys a lot of sympathy across the board. He has been in the APC, he has been in PDB. So he has some major support across the two political parties, unlike the female candidate. Not that he's not a pushover, he's quite very popular within the state. He's from Ifaqi. He's also quite very, very popular from a substantial voting population area. So when you look at the situation, if it is likely he might be not likely going to go for a female, but they might choose a female as a deputy or not. But they are still likely going to. Go for a male. Well, that remains to be seen. But let me quickly go to Achike. Who picks the preferred candidate? Because this has been a conversation that we've had over and over again. It's one thing to say you want a good candidate to be flying the flag of your party, but then who does the picking? Because we see this issue of governors always wanting a predecessor to be that person that's either anointed or picked up or, you know, picked by a godfather of sorts, depending on the state. But most times we see governors bringing their own crones, just like Mr. Shoomi has said. But where do we come in here to make sure that whoever comes or whoever the party throws up at the end of the day can carry on the legacies of the governor that just left? I'll give you an instance. For example, you have a crossover state which has had a Donald Duke amazing governor and you also had the next person who was a former senator. He was a former minister for power. He was a former minister for education, then became governor. But then you don't have a Ben Ayadeh who's taken the state back 10 years. This obviously calls for concern and it's not just that. He's now moved to the opposition. How does this play into picking a predecessor? Because that seems to be, it's going to be a war between the APC and the PDP. Come 2023. Well, I think our democratic culture, our democracy has not gotten to a level where you can say that at every level of selection or election of political leaders, that is from what level to look at government level depending on the kind of election they are running, that you would always have very best of candidates. It's not going to happen at least for now because process of choosing candidates to run elections, even at the councilorship election or later government election, not to talk of even the higher offices, state offices or federal level, is such that it is only people that have very serious connections with the powers that be within the political parties, the structure of those political parties that can actually be in a position to choose the person they want. And so once such people are picked, the next thing is to present them to the members of the party and to the public for election. And that the people actually really have no choice because we have not gotten to a level where party ideology or the ideology drives the voters to the polling units, drives them to into making or casting their ballots on the basis of the things that they believe. So people vote for candidates just because the candidates represent political parties and they represent other interests, not because they represent any strong ideological compass. And so that is the issue. And then because the reality is that most of these political parties actually belong, even if I may be an exaggeration, of course, if I use the word, but to a very large extent, at least on the basis of the influence that certain people have within these political parties, you could say to a very large extent that certain people have larger than life image within those political parties. They determine what happens in the political parties. We found this conversation, Mary Ann, with you on this particular program. So ultimately at the end of the day, the people are actually disempowered. If you all write through the voting, the selection process of candidates. So what you see ultimately at the end of the day is that people must go out to vote candidates. And in most cases, they might not vote. Well, isn't that a choice between a lesser evil? Isn't that a choice? Because I think that's what it boils down to, is that becomes a choice between a bigger devil and a lesser devil, like what happened to us in 2015. I'm asking this question because in Anambra, it seemed that maybe except one person, the candidates that were presented seemed better. And there were options, there were good options, but then of course the best man in quote, one. So why can't we have that in every other state? Why can't we have that replicated? Yeah, let's put it this way, in spite of the deficits that we have within our democratic process, the reality, if you look at the kind of candidates that emerge nowadays, you will find that there is an improvement actually, at least at the level, and I'm not talking about the moral imperities of each of these people, I'm not talking about their ethical orientation, at least in terms of the presentation of candidates, in terms of the level of education that some of them have, you find that there is actually an improvement in the qualification of some of these people, for public office. So we saw that in Anambra state, and we saw the debate, the governorship debate, we saw how articulate most of the people that participated were. You know, so at that level, yes, we are beginning to have an upgrade, in terms of the qualification of these people for public office. But at the moral level, and that is actually where the ban of politics is, because the people who ultimately emerge as political leaders, are people who do not even act in conformity with the hopes and aspiration of the people, people who get there for the purpose of personal organisement, and so you see the corruption that is going on, you see the perversion of public office, and the disobedience or the respect, even for the rule of law, even in their states, and also at the federal level. But in spite of that, perhaps people will say, maybe the excuse we can provide is the fact that we have about 60 years of independence, and out of the 50 years, we have perhaps about 30 something years of democracy or democratic practice. While some other countries that were emitting have had about 200, 250 years, perhaps to some extent, we can provide some excuses for us, that it is still a process in the works. But does that excuse hold water? Because do we really necessarily have to wait 200 years to have a strong democracy? I mean, if we're copying, can't we copy well? Just saying. Sorry, I didn't hear you. I'm saying I do not necessarily think that that excuse holds water. If we're having to wait like the US to attain 200 years of democracy, then it means that we're not necessarily copying well. You see, you see, we already have the templates. That's why that argument might not hold for too long because for some of the countries that we are talking about, there was a process. Society is evolutionary. And so there was a process that lasted hundreds of years before they got where they are.  Of course, we all know where that process was abridged as a result of colonialism and the rest. And so they give us a template that we are operating. We have not, you know, as a result of our evolution as a country, we have not gotten to where we should get to and at the time that we should get there. This has already been given to us. So we have a template that we're already working with. So if we consider that, I mean, from that perspective, we can say that there is no way we can be talking about waiting for another 200 or 250 years. We have everything that it takes. We have the advantage of education and the fact that we have so many other tools in the modern world that we used to at least have an idea of where to get to and all of that. But the issue again, like I keep on saying, is the moral imperative. We seem to be lacking it, you know, over the years. And that's why we are where we are today. Okay, let me come back to you, Beardu. Let's talk about the issue of governors now making the Senate, you know, a retirement home of sorts for the want of a better way to explain it. We've seen that happen over the years now. We've seen governors retire from governorship and become senators. And I'm trying to understand, is there a written rule somewhere? Who came up with the idea that governors can just, you know, when they end their tenure, just go to the Senate because we see a lot of governors angling for that. Is it something that somebody came up with or it was just a convenient way to run away from something? Well, I think this is a good note of our first experience when President Obasio was in power. When the FCC was settled and so many of the governors were concerned, you know, about what the future holds in stock of them. When we, Beardu, was charged with this. Of course, we had all the argument who is one-sided, is not one-sided, one is partisan investigation of the other. So there were allegations. But the fact of the matter is, many of the 10 governors were so petrified about life after being governors for eight years and decided that, look, it might be more convenient to go to Senate where you can still hold some major influence. And we've seen those influence being deployed at different points in time to leverage, you know, on alleged crimes committed or the way they are under-created or granted by the state. So we've seen all these in action because at the end of the day, if they're in Senate, they have oversight functions, also part to make those over those agencies that would investigate or prosecute them. So I think that is the major factor in why many of the governors are going to go to Senate. So you're saying that the governors are afraid or they're evading investigation as to corruption or monies that are missing in the coffers. You're saying that this is the best way to run away from, you know, the EFCC. No, no, no, no. I'm saying that it is, for them, the way they build it is, and the civilian, at least, when you are in the Senate, you enjoy a major protection being a senator of the federal government. And therefore, you are in a position to carry out oversight functions, you know, to leverage on your membership of the Senate, you know, on those agencies who, in any case, should be having oversight functions over who are supposed to speak. That is just one angle to it. There's the other angle, which is the angle of them, and God forbid that is it. Many of them think when the new government is in there, they're likely not going to dance to their Windsor Caprices. And therefore, going into the Senate affords them the opportunity to hold on to the top of the constituency, you know, in the state and still make themselves politically relevant, you know, within that state. And they're in a position to pose trouble for the government. We have seen that quite a couple of examples of where you have seen it us, you know, not even, you know, not piling with the government. And they're so powerful that the governments at times are worried about whether they will be able to get a second time ticket or not. So these are the major factors which you can say are responsible for governments wanting to go to the Senate as a political base, you know, after the being of this article. It's not just about the father that wants to have a left, but they still want to be politically reputable. You can look at some of those former governments who never went to Senate, particularly in the South West. Many of them are today no longer relevant in the politics of their different states. So I think these are the issues which are motivating one thing to go to the Senate. Okay. Back to you, Achike, you obviously work with civil societies, and I always wonder what the conversations should be in terms of the fact that when the average Nigerian is listening to these kinds of conversations, they hear and understand what the, you know, workings of political parties are. What's stopping the average Nigerian from joining political parties and being part of these decisions that are made at whatever level, no matter how low the levels are. Number two, we're also seeing that states who were predominantly, let's say, PDP, and have now had their governor's crossovers in the opposition are having a lot of infighting as we speak. The likes of, we have the crossover state government, we have Zamfara state. We also still know that the deputy governor of Zamfara is still with the PDP. We also have a governor Mahi of a boy who also, you know, cross-capitated, and we're seeing a lot of infighting within these parties. What's 2023 going to look like already? Party conventions are still yet to be conveyed for some people, for some political parties. We know that Congresses have had parallel Congresses in certain states because of, you know, this infighting. For cross-capitated, it was a big drama where the state PDP secretaries was converted overnight to an APC secretariat. So we have issues like that. What does 2023 look like for those states, especially the three states that we have mentioned? Yeah, well, obviously, we all know that what we're just seeing now is a tip of the iceberg that the political elites in the country, unfortunately, is not a very responsible elite. They are not motivated by the desire to serve the public. It is all about personal and graduate to a very large extent. So what we see in terms of, you know, provision or, you know, of certain public essentials, if I use the expression, is just mere tokenism. At least if you look at the quantum of what is available to some of these politicians or governors, you realize that they are absolutely pulling, you know, punching below their weight. And that's why we have seen all kinds of a crisis. And like I said, these are political parties that are not governed by any strong ideological compass. So, and where you have that kind of a situation, anything goes, anything can be justified.  And if we look at what has happened in the country, especially in the Second Republic, we had a situation where political parties were accidentally very strong. And where the state chairman, either the state chairman of the parties or the national chairman of the parties were very, very strong that today, you talk about a governor being the leader of the party in the state or the president being the leader of the party at the national level. But during the Second Republic, where we had their dissent at King Louis and the rest, you found that, you know, some of the governors and the president, Sewu Shagari, you know, were beholding on the party chairman because they were powerful, they determined the direction that the political party was going to go. But that has changed. And so some of the crisis or most of the crisis that you are seeing is simply because you have governors that have taken upon themselves the toga of absolute wisdom and knowledge over what happens within their domain. And where you have that concentration, where you do not allow polarity or cross-criminalization of ideas between the members of the party, where it was the one person that would have a say, the tendency is for overtime to sow seeds of rebellion. And this is what you're announcing. That's what is responsible for some of the disparities. So for 20 to the 30, it is not unless they can get their acts together. Of course, we have seen the bickering. We have seen, especially at the level of the APC as a political party, we have seen even their inability to even have a proper Congress. And we saw what happened in Lagos state and not just the APC, even the PDP too. So that does not pretend well for, you know, 2023 simply because the people who should be driving the politics of 2023 are themselves locked in all kinds of crisis. And if they don't resolve this crisis, you are going to see some of these these playouts before 2020. Well, I'm wondering why the average Nigerian cannot be part of the political process. And we keep calling it a desiccate. But unfortunately, that's all the time we have. Be able to show me at Chiquiture. Thank you very much for being part of this conversation. We appreciate it. Thank you. All right. Pleasure. Thank you all for staying with us. Coming up on Plus Politics, the United States mission in Nigeria tells us how it hopes to ensure cultural preservation in the country. We'll take a short break now. When we return, we'll have a good decision.


Now to stories and other parts of Africa, the presidential election in Cape Verde began on Sunday with polling stations opening at 7am local time. According to the National Election Commission, a total of 398,864 voters, including 342,777 registered on the national territory and 56,087 abroad, were invited to go to the 1,294 polling stations throughout the country and abroad. Candidates stand out, including Carlos Viega and Jose Maria Neves. Among the seven seeking a five-year term as president of the Cape Verdean Republic, Jose Maria Neves, who served as the prime minister from 2001 to 2016, was the first to present his candidacy supported by the African Independence Party of Cape Verde.