Hi everyone, Joe for jaspyscasebrakes.com. Happy Wednesday, happy new release day coming at you with a case of 2022 Bowman's Best Baseball. Eight box, pick your team number three from where else but jaspyscasebrakes.com. Big thanks to this group for making it happen on the eighth. Just pick your team three. Now if you have a little rooftop next to you, that means you won that in the Bowman's Best 3 and 4, pick your team 3 and 4 filler. We did that in a separate video.  You bought the last team outright before the remaining teams ended up in a filler. They say around here, legend has it that last spot mojo, that 70% of the time hits 100% of the time. That's what they say. There's two, four, six, eight boxes here. Four autos per master box, two in each mini. We got more pick your teams in the store and if you go to Instagram live at jaspysbrakes on Instagram, at jaspysbrakes, we got personal boxes of these. At jaspysbrakes on Instagram. That's at jaspysbrakes on Instagram live. Jason Jaspy is ready to rip open some Bowman's Best 4 you. Make sure I grab all the packs out of there. Bowman because we're bros, man says Jilo. All right, I'll allow it. All card ship in this, right? Yeah, all card ship. Now it's Bowman, so it's a lot of prospect hunting here, but they will mix in some, some, some current flares as well. As well as the up and coming flares. Current superstars. A little world baseball classic on in the background. Bottom of the first, Australia at Korea in Tokyo. All right, good luck everybody. There's our first auto, Yankeel Fernandez. Yankeel needs to use the entire canvas here, but an autograph nonetheless for Tristan and the Rockies won that in the team random. Got a UFO, Bryce Harper. It's kind of a cool insert. Colen Couser. I've got some, got some elements here, some air and a Julio Rodriguez orange. Is that numbered? It is. Rob picked up the Mariners straight up and gets the Julio Orange. Nine out of 25. And there's our other autograph. Two per mini box, Ricardo Cabrera. Reds. That's going to go to DY and the Reds. Got a Bobby Whit Jr. Global Impact, Luis Robert Dicut and a Mackenzie Gore. The Bobby Whit juniors are a fracter. Nice. Royals. That'll be for Joey. Joey P. We got Eddie's Leonard. That's going to be for the Dodgers. That's going to be for Raymond. Another UFO insert. I wonder if Jason Dominguez will have a UFO insert. He is the Martian after all. We've got Ricardo Cabrera to 75 for the Reds. That'll be for DY. That's to 75 once again. And we got Stephen Quan, Rookie Auto for the Guardians. Aaron. Cleveland! This is for you! Now this is a huge signing space. These guys need to use the canvas. A little bit more Julio. Holiday! Jackson Holiday to 150. Nice one for the Orioles. Henry. Another Jackson Holiday. Here's the Yeetie Cap Dye Cut. We've got Bowman Masterpieces insert. Julio Rodriguez. There you go. Nice start. Box one in the books. Yeah, I don't think that was by design. But I don't think that was intentional, Gilo. I think there's been some dating back to the pandemic. I think basically the entire production schedule has been screwy. So that's why you have a lot of like, a lot of products being released. I think they're just kind of putting it out there. As soon as they get it done and produce, I think they're just putting it out there. Usually they're a little more, schedule these things a little bit better, but the pandemic really screwed things up. I want to say, don't quote me on this, but I want to say that the boss man at the Topps Industry Conference a week or two ago, I think the Topps people, the executives were saying it'll probably be another maybe like year or two before everything kind of flips back to its sort of normal schedule. So that's kind of what we're looking at. When you think about all the basketball product that's still coming out, that's like a year behind and baseball products a little behind, too. But they say they'll catch up at some point. And when they do, I think, yeah, I don't think they would really, because Bowman's best game usually drops. Isn't that usually like a, I get December vibes from Bowman's best. Isn't Bowman's best usually December release? And fine is just probably like a summer release. All right, we have, we've got a Nico Cavadas. Avada Cavadas. Sounds like a curse in Harry Potter. That goes to Ed and the Red Sox.  Got a Wanderfranco. Got a Jackson Holiday. Ooh, look at this. Bobby Whitt Jr. rookie autograph, 96 out of 99. That's Joey Pruitt with the Royals. And there's Ellie Della Cruz, 11 out of 99. Nice one for the Reds. I think these are mini diamonds is what they call them. It'll be for DUI. Yeah, December for best, right? Yeah, and prism football. Prism football is not dropping until like another week or two. So yeah, production schedules for all the companies have been, have been goofy, but they say they're catching up. There's Curtis Mead, Raze. That's going to be for Tristan and Tampa Bay. Got a Global Impact, Vlad Guerrero Jr. Atomic, and a Henry Davis to 299. That'll be for the Pirates and it'll be for Michael. And we've got a UFO autograph. 186 out of 250. Yonkenzie Noel for the Guardians. Aaron with the Guardians. Cleveland. This is for you. We got a Henry Davis lava or ray wave, whatever we want to, whatever they call it these days to 199. I know Gilo's got the Guardians of the Night. You should have gone in this one. Alright, another box. Runners at the corn for Australia. I have some financial interest in Austria. Austria, Australia, beating South Korea. Australia was plus 450. I'm kind of doing an experiment where I'm just like betting on a or I'm just wagering on underdogs in the group stages of the world baseball classic. I might just roll that through the entire tournament. I'm two for two so far. They weren't the other two weren't as heavy underdogs. Alright, we got Anthony Gutierrez five out of 75 for the Rangers. That'll be for Adam. And the autograph is Brady House. Brady Doctor House. It's a Crohn's disease. It's arcoidosis. It's Jeff and the Nationals. This is for Adam and the Rangers. We've got Bowman Masterpieces, Julio Rodriguez, atomic refractor. There's a little weird bend in these cards. Part of the production process, I guess, but the top leaders will straighten those out. That's for Rob and the Mariners. And we got Won Bin Cho for the Cardinals. Jay Goins with the Redbirds. Is he on the the Korea World Baseball Classic roster? Is it Henry Davis purple to 250 for the Pirates? That's for Michael. Got Bobby with Junior Rookie. Goes along nicely with that autograph. Oscar Colas, atomic for the White Sox. And we got Henry Mendes for the Brew Crew, Jason. Jason Barton with the Brewers. And a redemption. Did everyone see it? Did you see the redemption? Did you see who it was? And here's an Anthony Gutierrez autograph for Adam and the Rangers. No. Oh, people didn't see it. Okay, I thought I thought I revealed it. There's a Jordan Lawler purple to 250 for the for the Diamondbacks, Darren and the Diamondbacks. Alright, say a Suzuki is gonna help us out. It's a Bowman UFO autograph of I saw what I saw who it was. It is Mike Trout. That's for Rob and the Angels.  Oh, I like that UFO parallel too. I think that looks pretty cool. The insert looks really cool. And now you got Mike Trout's autograph on it. Strong. All right, fourth box, four of eight. Oh no, Tristan at the Angels in the next case. We'll have to find you like an Otani or something like that. Or maybe another trap. UFO inserts are out of this world says Gilo. Don't forget to tip your bartenders. Your special tonight is the meat loaf. Sign your cards, Mike. This one's like I'm noticing noticing a lot of trout redemption these days. Come on Mike. Come on Michael. All right. We got who Jackson holiday holiday. See, he's using the whole canvas. He gets it. You got a big J and an H. That's for Henry and the Orioles. Nice. Peter Lanzo to 150. I like the design this year. You can kind of see some like the New York Mets lettering in the background there. That's for Paul in the Mets, right? The team logo real big in the background. Kind of like that. And we got Denzer Guzman. DG going to Robin the Angels. Denzer might need to go to Jaspy's autograph camp. Here's Jordan Lawler. Darren Mackenzie to 250. Darren with the diamond bags. And we got Tyler Whitaker. That's for Connor and the Astros. And we got a Joe Ryan to 99 for the twins. It'll be for Jeff. We got a Hiro Pomaris. Kenneth with the Giants last bottom mojo strikes again. 70% of the time last bottom mojo hits 100% of the time. And here's a UFO Julia Rodriguez. That's what the UFO inserts look like. So Rob with the Angels. We got that Mike Trout. It should be pretty cool. If you end up redeeming Rob, maybe snap a photo of it when you get it and tag us on Twitter at Jaspy's breaks. So we can take a look at it. That's a nice Julio Rodriguez UFO for Rob as well. Mariners. There's another Julio Rodriguez. We got a Henry Mendez for Barton and the Brewers. Corey Seager Green to 99. That'll be for Adam and the Rangers. Alright, we are halfway through this break right here. Good luck everybody. Alright, hand delivered from space. Bowman's Best Mini Box is kind of a tough nut to crack here. These packs are kind of set deep into the box and it's hard to get all the packs out at once. Yeah, first half. What a first half, right? So far, so good. Let's see. Let's see how we finish it up. Maybe we'll see an out of five. A super fracker maybe. That'd be cool. We've got another Mendez. Jason with the Brew Crew. We've got a rain donkone for my Dodgers. That goes to Raymond. Ray with Ray. Peter Lanzo to 199. Paul with the Mets. That would have been a purple parallel for a second. There's a Julio Rodriguez and there's a Wander insert, right? A Wander insert. Got a Rizzo to 299, James Wood, Atomic, which are not numbered. There you go. Yeah, speak that into existence Tristan. A Wander super fractor. Alright, Yankees Rizzo. That'll be for Matt. Bowman Masterpieces Insert. Wander Franco. That'll be for the Rays. That's for Tristan and Julio Rodriguez's base card. We saw a refractor earlier but this is just normal base for Rob and the Mariners. And then we got Hyro Primaris for Kenneth and the Giants. Christian Yelich to 250. Cal Raleigh Atomic and Adiel Amador for Tristan the Rockies. Won that team in the filler. Atomic, Ricardo Cabrera. Alright, another box coming up. Still scoreless in the Australia-Korea game. That's a that is a game on FS1 if you're interested in that. And this, I don't know if anybody was watching this game but but this is one of those, is that real turf? I don't think it is. I think stadiums in Japan. It's one of those things where where the infield isn't dirt. Remember those old stadiums they used to have that were just the the bases had the dirt around it? We've got a Jase Young to 75 for the Tigers. That'll be for Adam. I think his brother Josh Young may may make the opening day roster for the Rangers. And looks like these element parallels inserts will have autos too. Earth. Marco Luciano 77 out of 99. Welcome to Earth. That's for my Ryle as the Giants. Kenneth with my Giants. Oh yeah, we uh, Jase and I were watching that game. We've got it on one of the TVs out there. Except you, instead of getting ballies, you should have gotten NBA like League Pass or something like that for a fraction of the price of the regular season price. You could have watched it that way and not have to shamefully get ballet sports which will probably go under by the summer. Here's Dustin Harris. Dust in the wind. All we are a dust in the wind. I close my eyes. Only for the moment when the wind is turning luller for Darren and the Diamondbacks. Dust in the wind goes to Adam and the Rangers. And we got Jonathan Kloss. Klossay? Kloss? I don't know Adam. Do we like Dustin Harris? Gives me an excuse to sing Dust in the Wind. That's a good, that's a good thing. Dustin Harris is a, according to MLB.com, a top 10 prospect for the Rangers organization. Just behind uh, he's a number nine prospect ahead of Cole Wynn and just behind Kumar Rocker and Luis Angel Acuna. Looks like he should, he should be, he's 23 years old, outfielder. I mean he's probably about time for him to start breaking into or maybe looking to break into a Major League roster and then trying to, and then try to stay there. Kind of, he's kind of in that, that spot. Next auto is Wes Caff. Jeremy and the White Sox. And there's Bobby with Junior. Nine out of 99. Green, mini diamond parallel. All right, two more boxes to go. Yeah, while I got this page up, Adam, Dustin Harris, 23 year old outfielder, 6'2", 185, solid size. His MLB debut ETA this, this season 2023. He's one of those that left throw right kind of guys. His scouting grades are pretty good. Hitting 55. I think that's a, what's the scale? 20 to 80. 20 to 60 maybe. Hitting 55, power 55, running 55, arm 50, fielding 50, overall 50. Sounds like a five-toolish sort of dude. According to mlb.com, Dustin Harris has since blossomed into one of the better young hitters in the minors and the Rangers are reaping the benefits after grabbing him September 2020 as the player to be named later in a trade for Mike Minor. In his first season, his new organization, he slashed 327, 401, 452. 401, 542 that is with 20 homers and 25 steals in 110 games while reaching high A. What time is immaculate? I don't know, but the schedule does. Click that schedule and it'll tell you when. If it's not on the schedule, that means I just need to go through orders and see what time it'll be. But right now, we're in the middle of some Bowman's Best, so it'll be some time after this. But check the schedule, keep an eye on that and that'll tell you all you need to know about what time breaks happen. Nightbot just dropped the schedule in the chat and I will drop the schedule in the chat as well. Keep an eye on that. It'll open up a google sheet. All right, you are welcome. You are welcome. Yeah, it'll happen soon though. We'll get there. We'll get there. There's Juan Guerrero, Tristan and the Rockies. This guy also needs to go to Jaspy's autograph camp. With keynote speaker, who should the keynote speaker? Ozzy Smith. He's got good penmanship. Keynote speaker Ozzy Smith. We've got Averson Artiaga for the Giants. That's going to be for Kenneth. Maybe the Hawk. Andre Dawson should probably like that. That's kind of a big bold signature right there. Bobby Witt Jr. We've got a Wilson Contreras to $299. George Valera to $150 for Cleveland. That'll be for Aaron. And behind Trout is Danyer Quiva. There you go. Yeah, Mariano Vera could be a keynote speaker. Absolutely. He's got good penmanship. Adam Danyer Quiva is 27th on this list according to mlb.com. Quiva will uh how well how old is this dude?  So he's got a ways to go and I mean he's sitting behind Luis Angel Acuna and Maximil Costa too. So he might have to develop and maybe develop into a different position. He's going to require some time to develop but it could become a solid hitter with average pop. Has a nice left hand swing and shows the makings of bat to bat ball skills and plate discipline. So there's that. And we've got a Nito. It's a Nito. Nito autograph. Zach Nito. For the halos that's going to be for Rob. It's Jake Berger to $199. And a Wanderfranco Refractor. Got a Julio Rodriguez base rookie card. The Wanderfranco Refractor. The Julio goes to Rob. The Wander goes to Tristan. And the Berger. The delicious Berger goes to Jeremy Anderson. Any beers will go to Darren McKenzie. Seth Beers. All right. Last box. Good luck everyone. Coming up after this. I think another break of this. I don't know. Check the schedule. Ladies and gentlemen. I need to schedule just as much as you do as well. And I might actually go through some orders after this just so we can line up you know the remainder of our evening as well. Oh yeah well hey sealed box. We're not sending a sealed case. Sealed box. But uh yeah. If you choose to open it and if there's a Julio in there definitely let us know. If you tag us on social media at Jasper's Breaks. Especially on Twitter which I look at a little bit more than Instagram then we'll be able to to retweet that for you as well. Those are everybody. If you have if you get a nice mail day from Jasper's casebreaks.com feel free to share that with us on the socials. And if it's especially on Twitter it's easy to retweet those things. Remember the atomics are not numbered. And we got a Jason Morabelle. I still have this ranger's prospect page open. Is he in the top 30? He is. He's number 15 on the list. He's a 19-year-old outfielder. Lefty lefty. Adam Kupram. You're lucky I have this page open Adam. I can give you up with all this information. Top player in the international class, the ranger's international class 2020-2021. The blue parallel is out of 50 right there. Has a quick left-handed stroke and advanced approach that will allow him to make repeated contact. Has uncanny bat to balls kills for such a young player and shows the ability to make adjustments at the plate. How about that? Could it could translate to 20 plus homer power once he adds a little weight. He's 6'2 170. Which is kind of skinny right? 6'2 170. Might have to add a little more bulk to that frame. Here's MJ Melendez to 50. And here's an Anthony Gutierrez. He's number 12 on the list. Another outfielding prospect Adam. I think he'll be in rookie ball or maybe maybe single A. 6'3 180 and could develop into a more athletic version of of Jimenez. Which Jimenez are they talking about? Oh Eloi Jimenez. He moved to the Dominican Republic to train at the Amaris Nina Academy which previously produced Rafael Devers and Eloi Jimenez. And mlb.com is suggesting he could be a more athletic Eloi Jimenez. All right. Here's some masterpieces right here. Julio Rodriguez. The MJ Melendez Gold goes to Joey P. out of 50. Got another Julio and a Colton Couser. Henry with the Orioles. George Kirby Atomic. Another Julio base card. Ran out of top loaders. I was going to make it to the end of the case. Got a Jake Berger to 299. Jeremy in the White Sox. And then Jet Williams. Jet. And that will be Paul with the Metropolitan's. Remember that wing song Jet? 3 out of 99. Jake Berger to 199. I think with the with the lines that are around the lettering and then with this lava parallel doesn't almost look like a uh what do they call those a topography map where you see the different elevations. Makes for a cool look. And that is that boys and girls. That was Bowman's best baseball. Eight box. Pick your team three. Thanks everyone for making it happen. Here's a quick little recap. Nice break for the Rangers. Got some Bobby Wittes. Got some earth insert autographs. Got some Julio Rodriguez. Rodriguez's. All right. Got a Jackson Holiday. Got a Mike Trout UFO autograph. Some Wanderers in the mix. And nice good mix of Bobby Wittes Jr. autograph to 99. Bobby Wittes Jr. Fractor. The Julio Rodriguez Orange. Nice break. There you go ladies and gentlemen. I'm Joe for jaspyscasebrakes.com. That was uh pick your team three. I'll see you next time for the next one. Bye bye.


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Alright guys, this is the Sony HTS40R. It's a home theater system. I managed to grab a deal on Amazon Prime Day. This initially was 350 pounds. I got it for 280 pounds. So I saved 70 pounds and I'm going to set it up with my TV here behind me. Just a side disclaimer, this doesn't necessarily have to be set with just Sony TVs. You can set it with pretty much any other TV like my Samsung AU8000 that I have right behind me. This is a 5.1 channel speaker, so it has three channels on the soundbar itself and then it also has two channels for some rare speakers that I'm going to set up behind the sofa opposite my TV at the under end of this living room. I'm pretty excited to try this out and give you guys a showcase of how it sounds and I will give you a comparison between the audio coming directly from the TV and then the audio directly coming from this home theater system. Just remember how you guys will hear it. It will be slightly different to how I hear it in person. So make sure if you are watching this video to try and listen to it with some headphones to get the most ideal realistic view of how this actually performs. So let's go ahead and unbox this and see how it works. Okay so this is everything in the box. Let me just quickly show you what comes with it. This is a 600 watt speaker system and it comes with this very large subwoofer and I'm going to be testing how the bass sounds on this. I'll run through some of the specs of the subwoofer in a second. Then you have the rear two speakers. This is the left and the right. These connect to the pre amp and the amplifier is what connects to the soundbar and subwoofer and this is what allows it to do it wirelessly. It also comes with a remote control. You can see pretty much the standard buttons as you would expect for a soundbar remote. It's got some options there to change some of the modes the volume and all of the other bits that you expect to control with the audio. Also has a startup user manual. Then it comes with the optical cable. It doesn't have any HDMI cable in the box so you'll have to supply your own high quality cable which I'm going to do. I always prefer using HDMI going into the eARC HDMI port on my TV just so that I can use that to control the audio from the TV and the soundbar at the exact same time. This is the soundbar itself. You can see it's split into these three different mesh sections each for the left center and right speakers. One thing that differentiates this soundbar to traditional soundbars is it doesn't have the digital display right there in the center of the soundbar. This actually happens on the subwoofer itself so the soundbar is completely minimal. Now you'll notice here at the back of the soundbar there isn't any ports. There's some holes here if you wanted to fix this to a wall so you have the wall mounting screw holes there on the left and the right of the soundbar and then the only thing you have are these cables to connect to the subwoofer. So you've got color coded here let's move to the back of the subwoofer so just at the top you have your analog input the HDMI out for the TV arc which I'm going to be using then you have the optical port there as well. These are the ports for the soundbar to connect to like I showed you the color coding ones front center and left then you have your power port there at the bottom and then on the top of the subwoofer you actually have touch controls you have the power button there you have the menu button to change the modes the bluetooth button then you have the plus and minus buttons to change the volume this is great because you can control everything even if you do lose the remote control directly from the subwoofer itself you also have a USB port just at the front of the subwoofer here this is if you wanted to play music directly from a USB drive but personally for me I don't think anyone is doing that nowadays and I don't see the point of that anymore so apart from that I don't think you can use this for anything else so for me personally the USB port is pretty pointless okay everything is now connected I've got the subwoofer just there next to my TV stand there's the soundbar it sits flush right in the middle of the TV you just see there looks perfect very clean and very minimal design now let's go ahead and turn on the subwoofer and show you where the digital display is because right now you won't be able to see it it's actually hidden okay let's go ahead and turn this on you get the blue LED indicator and there is the digital display it hides behind an invisible screen so once it turns on you'll see TV that is the input that's connected if you did want to change the input you can press the input button just there at the top but essentially this is where you'll be able to see all of the controls so if I change the volume it goes up pretty high as well and it does sound pretty great so this is where everything is displayed now let's take a look at the rear speakers so this is the sofa at the back of my living room and you'll see I've wall mounted the rear left and right speakers so let's go and take a closer look and the great thing about these is they paired out of the box I've got the preamp here next to the left hand speaker and I didn't need to do any connections I didn't need to press any of the pairing buttons or anything like that the green light indicator showcases that it has connected directly to the subwoofer and soundbar and pretty much I was instantly hearing audio coming directly from this so it's very easy to wall mount and it sounds absolutely great and I've got the right one just over here as well just aside disclaimer the rear speakers do not provide continuous sound if that's something that you were expecting the rear channels are only used for background audio that comes from that direction specifically so vocals and music they come from the soundbar the bass comes from the subwoofer and things like a car passing by or some background chatter from you know people in a restaurant or something that will come from the wrist because only and that's what actually will give you the most immersive cinematic audio experience because it feels like you're in the middle of the action okay let's do an audio test currently the subwoofer and the soundbar they are completely off so the sound you're going to be hearing is coming directly from the tv and the volume will be set to 20 this is the average volume that I have when I watch anything and I want to give you guys a side-by-side comparison on how big of a difference the audio makes when I switch on the sony s40r make sure to have your headphones in because it will be quite hard to distinguish just from hearing it from a youtube video but this will give you an idea of the clarity of audio when you do have a speaker system like this even though you may not hear the surround sound speakers from the rear speakers behind the camera okay you guys can pretty much hear that it's not great and the speakers on the tv itself are not that great what I'm going to do is play this back from the start and turn on the soundbar and showcase to you guys the difference it makes so let's take a look and finally I am standing in the middle of the room so I'm trying to give you as much clarity on the surround sound as much as I can this is one final video that I wanted to showcase to you that does perform the surround sound very well and hopefully you guys can hear the clarity in this demo okay so hopefully you found that audio demo really useful and it gave you clarity on how great this sounds probably for me it's one of the best soundbars I've ever had and one thing to note is what is that if you really wanted to utilize the rear speakers you first have to make sure that the content you're watching supports 5.1 audio here's an example on Netflix you know for example if you're browsing all of your on-demand apps you should see the 5.1 logo here and that should give you indication that whatever movie or tv show you're going to watch supports speaker setups that have five channels like this one does so nowadays I think most of the things that you are watching do support 5.1 personally I think the room-filling sound with this home speaker system is great and it does a much better job than some of the cheaper soundbar subwoofer sets that cost less than 100 pounds and there's plenty of them on amazon if you do take a look so is this worth the price for me personally I would say yes absolutely now I also wanted to talk a little bit about the downsides of this home theater system one of the things I've noticed with the subwoofer itself with the touch capacity buttons on the top they were quite fiddly and if I wanted to change the volumes for example it took a few taps to actually register and use that to control the volume if you hold it down the volume does go up and down you know very fast consecutively but it wasn't something smooth and I didn't really enjoy it I would have preferred maybe having physical buttons I had to you know tap a few times to also turn it off which wasn't great but I'm probably never going to use that and I'm just going to stick to the remote control and the second downside that I would say is that this soundbar speaker system doesn't have any Dolby Atmos support don't be fooled by the logos saying Dolby Audio because that is slightly different thing Dolby Atmos works on a 3d spectrum whereas Dolby Audio works on a 2d spectrum so if you did have Dolby Atmos for example what that would do is give you a immersive audio experience by sending the 3d sound virtually with the side and height channels so it makes you really feel like you're getting sounded from pretty much all over the room rather than from the front and the back whereas Dolby Audio on the other hand is 2d audio which comes from the three channels on the front and two channels on the back but let's say for example what that is very good for is balancing the audio so that when you have very quick cuts between scenes in your movies then it doesn't go from extreme lows to extreme highs it gives you a very good balanced audio so you feel like you're just listening to one entire movie at pretty much the same level and what that does it essentially gives you much clearer dialogue as well so have you ever had the scenario where you're watching a scene but you can't hear the person because there's a lot of background music coming from that scene this one doesn't do that with 2d audio and Dolby Audio it will make it clearer as well and if you wanted to enhance the clarity on dialogue then you actually have the option on the remote control as well to make it go into dialogue mode so you hear the audio and vocals of someone speaking a lot clearer than more of the bass and the punchiness of your movies and you know when i'm searching for soundbars there's not a lot on the market that do have risk because that work as good as these if you look on the Sony website i think you know these are the last set of home theater systems they do that have risk because everything that's more higher price than this are just the soundbars and subwoofers themselves however if you are looking to get a soundbar by sony that has Dolby Atmos support so more enhanced clarity 3d immersive audio then there is a couple of options on their sites which i can probably recommend for example the sony zf9 that comes in around 599 pounds and that will be my recommendation but if you really wanted to get the best out of all of them and budget was not an issue with you then i would suggest you go for the spatial audio s-force pro which is the a7000 model but it's a whopping 1300 pounds and that costs more than a lot of TVs themselves nowadays but that's the topic for another day hopefully you found the review of the s40r and it gave you guys a good indication if it is actually worth buying for the price 100 yes i think is definitely a great system it enhances so much better the audio coming from my samsung tv if you guys have any other questions about this soundbar drop a comment down below and i'll get back to you as soon as i can and if you did like 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I'm talking today with Greg. Hello. Hey, Christian. How are you? It's great to have you on. And I should say that, uh, so, uh, Greg is also, uh, he's an MVP as well as a fellow, uh, regional director. So a handful of RDS who have been in the program. But so Greg, for folks that don't know you, who are you, where are you and what do you do? All right. So, uh, so yeah, a long-term data platform MVP actually, uh, so based out of Melbourne, Australia, um, grew up in Brisbane actually in a different state. And so most of the time was there in, uh, in a completely different state, but I married someone from Melbourne. So I ended up in Melbourne, uh, lived in the other parts of the country and things along the way. But, uh, yeah, look, I love being in the, uh, the, uh, I basic background, I suppose I did work as a developer, uh, for, for a long time. Uh, I actually got into the industry so far back that I was working on initially learned coding on mainframes and, uh, uh, was doing, uh, and then I worked for HP actually doing maintenance on, uh, minis and, uh, things for a long time. And, uh, the thing I love, you know, like I don't reminisce about too many of the things about that time, but, uh, the, the industry is very tame nowadays, uh, but by comparison, right? Uh, one of, one of the things I used to say is I, I had a major respect for equipment that could physically harm you. Right.  And, uh, yeah, it was, it was kind of spectacular.  They hit these sorts of things. It was just remarkable times, you know, by, by comparison. So yeah, no doubt that was, uh, so fun. But yeah, then, then ended up running a software house for a long time and, uh, learned a lot more about development and, and, uh, about creating products that, uh, were supportable in the market. That was a pretty key thing, you know, months there.  I, I think I was, uh, externally at a uni or part-time or at unis for about 21 years or something like that, you know, along the way. So it was like a, an endless thing that, that I was doing various courses and things. But, um, once you got to sort of research type degrees and so on, the work, working at a university was a good place to be if you're studying at a university. So for sure. That's why a lot of, uh, doctoral programs, uh, will require you as part of your doctoral program, uh, some schools. So I was going to pursue my doctor, I should say that, you know, Greg also has a PhD as well. Well, I'll come back to ask you a question about that. I was looking at one of the, uh, or a number of the programs that I looked at said, no, you cannot work like you have to be full-time. You actually have to teach another thing that requires them in the programs, which, uh, it's a success criteria, right? So if, if you look at, uh, when I, when I started the, uh, the completion rate for PhDs in general was about 6%. Hmm. And so it's so small, right? And, uh, people don't realize, you know, it's so many people start with great intentions and, and life intervenes and then they just drop out.  No, no, no, at the time, actually at the time, people already had those to get into the program in the first place. So it wasn't like an alternate exit point or something like that. But the completion rate for part time PhDs was about two or three percent. And so, uh, I remember when I started, uh, the dean of the faculty said, look, these, these don't work, you know, and, and I said, no, no, no, I'll, I'll, I'll finish it. And, uh, and in fact, I think I had many times I nearly stopped and the only thing I think kept me going is I, I remember just wanting to prove to the dean that when I said I completed, I really would complete it. Right. And, uh, but, but the other problem with something part time is that it takes you so much longer. And if you think about, um, in the case of PhD programs, you're trying to come up with something that are things that are an original contribution to knowledge. And if you think about things in this industry, uh, a lot changes in say, five or six or seven years, uh, while you'd be doing that sort of program, it's, it's not just that. It's also, I mean, what we understand through research that multitasking is pretty much a lie, um, that you can't divide yourself. It's like, look, you know, a man cannot serve two masters if you want to get religious about it. Um, but, you know, it, it, there is something to say about focusing on, on something and being dedicated to it. Totally. So I completely, I, I completely get that. And the more you spread that out, it actually takes additional time to unplug from one thing, re-plug into another thing. And, and so having that focus time on that one area, like I look, I, if I won the lottery, I would go back and get, I would stop working and go get my PhD. I would love to go and pursue that and do research and write and talk to people and just do nothing but interview and research and that kind of stuff. I would love that life fiscally. It was interesting. The, the, the other thing that used to happen is that people would start, they'd be doing their own research topic and then there was very little educational involvement really.  But the, again, another success criteria is really that you're associated with a project where you have other people who are doing similar work or research work at the same time. So you're much more likely to be successful if you're doing one part of a project that other people are doing other parts of that same project because you'll tend to drag each other along rather than the original whole thing where people just kind of, you know, joined up and then went dark for a, for a long period of time. And so I was actually doing work in them. We had done programming languages lab and information security research standard, which was actually kind of early for, for that sort of thing at the time I was doing that. But I was sort of jointly in, in both of those. And so we're actually involved in a project where we're looking at building secure execution modules for Windows NT actually at the time early on. And so, because if you look at the problem with a general purpose operating system is that there's a lot of clients who don't want a general purpose operating system. So they don't want an operating system that will just run a program that anybody wrote.  And so, and that's actually a really good thing, of course, in terms of viruses and so on and so on. So there are still needs for various types of operating systems and NT was designed to have multiple execution things inside. So it had a Windows 3.1 execution environment that it had the NT one, it had a POSIX environment ahead. And so you can actually add additional ones in there and have and disable other ones and so on. So you can actually kind of turn it into a different operating system or a much more restricted type of operating system. And so, anyway, yeah, so it was a sort of project and around that sort of thing. And no, it was enjoyable. Actually, it was good. But yeah, it took a long time. Yeah, you know, well, so I had actually paused my entry. I lost my placement. I would have to go back and reapply. But I was going to study the, funny enough, the given where the world has evolved into technology has into social informatics, specifically studying the impact of collaboration technology on working teams, teams of people. There's so many of these areas. It would have, I mean, just it was such a fascinating topic and would have been so relevant to what we're doing. You know, again, a SharePoint guy in this bit, the collaboration space. But one of the things I like now is I have a little more leeway to be able to do things like I like to stay in touch with some of the units and things like this, right? So, so for example, there's Charles to uni in Wagga, actually out in the middle of the country here. But I did some study out of their Baptist campus years ago. But anyway, so I stayed in touch with the uni quite a bit. Actually, I got to do the speech at their one of the graduation ceremonies a couple of years ago. Actually, that was fun. But the if I look at they have a lot of people going through programs now and sort of doctoral equivalents or professional doctorate type programs. And so I like staying as in the industry supervisor as a volunteer associated with those sort of programs. And so the and you know, like for every every year, they'll have a research symposium and I'll go along and spend a couple of days listening in. And years ago, when I used to go along, was almost quite depressing the the level of what was going on in the research and stuff. But if I if I look at what I've seen in recent years, that's some completely fascinating work that people are doing. You know, it's just completely changed thinking in a number of areas. Like to give you an example, there was a guy who worked out how to take his mobile phone. And he could modify the modulate the Wi Fi signal coming out of his phone to detect breathing and heart beats at a distance from the phone. So he could literally take a phone, walk up to a door and tell you if there's somebody on the other side of the door or, you know, or things like that or in an earthquake, which is topical this week and so on. Now, often the only thing they have are the phones. And he could find people under the rubble with a phone. Wow. You know, stuff like that. No, they just go like that. That's so cool. Right. I mean, yeah. And of course, being able then you say, well, hang on, if you get a number of phones, can you then form an array and right, you know, do a better job of finding people on triangulated. Yeah, yeah. So like this sort of stuff just goes on and on. And so I look at these things and it's completely and utterly fascinating. Now, some of the projects that are going on. And the other thing I get involved with still is also mentoring people going through these sort of programs. And so for example, I've got a mentee at the moment who's a bio med student, right? And but again, the thing that's fascinating there is more in the case of what he's doing, like, I mean, I don't understand the bio med stuff that he's doing, but it's more helping him just get through the process, you know, of what he has to do to get to the other end. Yeah. Anyway, so I still have an involvement with that. It's just in the background. But yeah, I kind of love the fact that's all happening. Yeah, it's so and what was your guess we kind of skip past the two is that, you know, you've been in MVP for over 20 years. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So I mean, what I don't even know how big the program was back then.  Like how how do you how does it compare to what people go through today to become an MVP? Look, I think still very similar in a lot of ways.  That's the important thing with the MVP programs. It's an award for what you previously did. And I think that's something that people often don't understand the difference between that and the RD program where the RD program had forward commitments about what you would do. The MVP program doesn't have that. So it's like you did all this stuff.  It lasts for a year. You don't have to do anything, right? If you don't do anything, we won't award you again next time. But but there's nothing you actually have to do right in that period. Whereas and at the time that I first became part of that, I was actually appointed into ADO.net actually curiously, which was the an interesting sideline there. And then eventually and then the following year moved across into the SQL server side of things. And then somewhere along the way they they turned that into a data platform thing. And as the technologies have evolved and spread out over the years. But the RD program, I think the thing that's important there is it is more cross technology and business oriented. So if you look at most of the people in the RD program, they tend to be business owners or these sorts of people or they're involved in boards of corporations or government things or they have run on government boards or companies and things. And so they usually have a pretty strong understanding of of the business related aspects. And they usually have a very broad technology focus. And many will be MVPs. So they also have a depth area that they work in. But but yeah, they they tend to have a much more of a breadth. And it's it's I don't know. It's an interesting program. I think it's changed significantly over the years. Sorry, the when I first joined, it was it was the most amazing thing that I was involved with, right? Every day, there was an absolute torrent of email and stuff coming on the distribution list, right? I mean, you were talking significant volumes of things in amongst that. And it it was the most inspiring thing that I would read every day. And it was funny as well, like the the jokes between the people on the on the list and so on. It was just spectacular, right? I missed that. Yeah. You know, if I if I look at the list nowadays, there's a few, a few things maybe every day, about one or two things used to be 100 things, you know, more a day, right? And and the other thing I find with those sort of distribution lists is that what tends to happen over time is that you get people who want to listen in on those lists because it's so inspiring. But then they end up modifying the discussion on the list to make those people who are listening happy.  Right. And the big mistake I see on a lot of the distribution lists right now is that I know they're doing it with good intent where they're intending to try and cut down the email volumes and things like that. But what will happen is somebody will start a discussion and then immediately somebody from the product group or something will join into the discussion, but take the discussion offline somewhere else, right? Yep. And the thing I look at the note to is like the one it was described to me when I joined, so I've been in for this all like five years because they kind of with the pandemic it got weird. It's supposed to be a two year position, but is that the other conversations were like a fast track to like the top 300 leaders across Microsoft. So you could ask a question to say, hey, I have this issue or I have this concern about this or I saw this new messaging and you'd have a president or vice president inside Microsoft responding and then pulling in like directly to the thread and pulling in other people and taking action around that. But like you said, I see more of now in the DLs and there's different distribution lists for different discussion types. I actually prefer the one that it's the direct where it's just the RDS. I think you still find some of the humor and some of the discussion. That's a really good example. Something I don't really want to talk too much about, but the thing is the you get to the point that the real discussion moves to somewhere else rather than on the thing where it was in the first place. The sort of problem they've run into, it's the same in the MVP list is that I think they think they're doing the right thing when somebody from product group comes in and moves the discussion off somewhere else. But what they're missing is that all they're assuming that no one else on that list is interested in that discussion. And that's not true. There's a lot of work and there's a lot of sidebar conversations based off of that discussion. And I look, I just, as I mentioned, I supposed to be traveling to go to an RD meetup event next week. And a fellow RD and I were Sharon Weaver and I were chatting about something about a conversation that we saw on there. And we had like something entirely both of us talked about, well, we both need to get back on and comment and add it in added to that discussion. But it becomes the point of discussion, both business owners, both of us. And so we're talking about the impact of that, of that topic.  Yeah. Yeah. And so on. Right. So the thing is, and that's the difference between someone who's embedded or just is so into the technology, they will thrive even just watching and hearing somebody else getting to a resolution. The idea of having the discussion start disappear and then maybe come back with a bit of an answer. That's, that's a completely different thing. You know, great. It's one of the reasons you just defined why for over 11 years. So we're in our 12th year now, I've been running monthly tweet jams on various topics. I started it because I wanted to get outside of my company's echo chamber on important topics. I wanted to hear from public anybody out there in the open. And it's a one hour event where there are seven questions that are asked. But what I love about it is that and some people that are frustrated that don't do a lot on Twitter. And so they it's very fast paced. And so if you're following is like, I find it really difficult to follow along. I said, yeah, but you know, it's Twitter, it'll like, you can go search from 12 years ago and find the Twitter conversations. It's all there. So afterwards, you can go back and follow the threads around the hashtag. For those that aren't familiar with that, it's the collab talk tweet jam. The next one is it's the it the end towards the end of every month, you can search for it on Twitter in the collab talk, collab talk hashtag, you'll find all the discussions. But it is it's following along those things and and it sometimes spurs on. There are people that do blog posts off of one side conversation that all happened in the public sphere around the discussion. It's and what I tell people, I said, if you're a content creator, or you're a product owner, independent consultant, like I, I validate ideas from these kinds of conversations, I get ideas like I never thought of that perspective. And I will then I'll find people that I'll reach out to and I've done this through the RD conversations. I'll reach out to those people and say, Hey, that sounds like something my company is working on. Can we work together? Can we do these other things? Or have you thought about this? And so it's been, as you started out saying, it's very inspiring, a lot of those conversations. To give an example as well, like I used to I got involved in user groups really early on, right? And and if I look at that, we had a really good group in Brisbane. Let's let's say like even the beginning of the dotnet groups and things like that, right? I would attend every one of those, right? I mean, regardless. And what was sort of interesting with that is it didn't matter what the topic was. I would go, right? And so like I mean, I remember vividly someone discussing say a MIDI interface for audio, right?  So I mean, the the whole you know, audio side of things, that's faintly of interest, but the MIDI stuff never particularly interested me. However, watching the the thing that he showed us was the user interface that he had built looked me completely amazed. And I got so many ideas out of out of that unrelated to what he was talking about. And see, this is this is the thing people often don't get about science and research and things like that as well to come round to that same topic is that almost everything that is substantial, that has ever happened research wise comes out of left field. It doesn't come out of where people are researching in the first place. And so you get like people say, like, why do we put money into, I don't know, astronomy or something like that? I was talking about like NASA, all the billions of dollars that the US spends for NASA. And people say it's like, why do we care about sending somebody to Mars or to the to the walk on the moon is because of the thousands of products and other ideas that came out of because of those investments in that unrelated area. It gave us, you know, a knowledge of different plastics, for example, a lot of great example is say things like MRIs, right? The real origins are most of that came out of an astronomer, you know, noticing an effect while looking at galaxy stuff, you know what I mean? And there was, you know, US Navy stuff in around that too.  But there was a real spark occurred there through somebody noticing something in a totally different field of science. You just you can't pick it and it's a mistake that governments make all the time is that they always assume that if you get the best people in a particular area and you keep putting money into that same thing and focusing on that, you'll get the best outcome, but you won't, right? It's a bit like, if I look at medical research, you have all these people who largely come from the same background who are educated the same way, and they're all trying to solve these intractable problems, right? And I really, really wish they would pick up a bunch of civil engineers and people from totally different areas who might just look at that problem in a way that you were not thinking about, right? That's one of the most important, my first company that I started during my master's program with two fellow classmates and that we created a company and we were creating a product. And one of our advisors, we were stuck at a certain point, and one of our advisors to this, because we were doing it for the schoolwork for, you know, initially it was, you know, theoretical, we're talking about this. And we said, we have an actual idea. Let's go do this. But about a year into it, you know, one of the one of the professors was one of our advisors said, are you in business to create that thing?   We took that learning and we went from a hardware to a software solution, and two and a half years later sold the company. You know, we created some knowledge. In the software house that I was running in Brisbane in the late all through the 90s, basically late 80s and 90s. I had a guy who was fellow director, but he was doing more the sales and marketing side of things, right? But the thing I loved about him is that if I had a technical problem that I was struggling to solve, he would not know what to do with the technical problem. But he was the best person I've ever struck in terms of asking me questions that led me to the answer.  And but even a bit like, I look at, say, things like troubleshooting. And when I first started at HP, one of the things they did is they shipped us off to the US. And one of the courses we did at the time was a Kepner Trigo one or something. It was like a logical troubleshooting. But what I noticed at the end of that course is that still really the people who could troubleshoot at the beginning of the course were the same people who could troubleshoot at the end of the course. And I think that is really not saying you can't teach someone to troubleshoot, but you're diving back further where you need to teach them to think logically. And that's a tough, tough call. You know, that's not something you can, you know, I look at, say, something like the popularity of the Da Vinci Code, the book, right?  So, well, A must have been true. And you go, no, there's an enormous number of other reasons why B might have been true, right? And yet it's like one after the other, the entire book.  But, you know, I see people who just think that all the time.   And, you know, if that's true, well, that must be true. No, no, that isn't how it works.  And, yeah, so it's a painful thing to watch in real time, some of the discussion. But it's important, as I said, like troubleshooting to be able to at least even apply a sort of a binary division, you know, the whole way along, you know, like, you know, let's establish it's one of these two things, you know, then we get, then we cut it down to this and then we know one of the others and things and then we cut it down to the next thing and we just keep going till we get to the small pool of things that could possibly be the answer. But, but I see people who do troubleshooting and they're just all over the place. Right. And, and it's because they're not applying a sort of a logical breakdown to the evidence they're seeing in front of them. Yeah. Well, that's actually a favorite line I had from an old engineer that I learned a lot from when I started HP. I loved his line. He used to say the more smoke and flames the better. Right. And, and, and it was right because smoke and flames, you know, where the problem is, right? Hey, I have to ask, so when you traveled over, did you, were you in Palo Alto or that you visited? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I've, I actually met both Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard. Oh, wow. Years ago. Yes. It's so strange actually over the years. I've met a lot of these people. When did you, when did you leave HP? I left in 86. Okay. Thanks a lot. And I was, yeah, I started in 81 and first trip I did to the U.S. I was here there for, oh, I think probably about three and a half months or four months or something. And, yeah. And, and so the first couple of weeks we're at the Palo Alto headquarters and I was living down in San Jose and doing most of the work in Cupertino area and I was born and raised in Cupertino area. I was born and raised there, but I worked for HP for, in 2003, 2004, so no overlap there, but out of headquarters there and right off of Page Mill Road. Look, back in the day, both Bill and Dave were still around, right, at the time, but they were, they weren't involved day to day, you know, at that point. So John Young had taken, they put him in place as the company president at the time. And, but I happened to be in a couple of spots like I was in Palo Alto when they had a shareholders meeting, right. And one of the, I don't know if you're in HP in those days, the color of your name tag was actually really, really important because that determined a lot of things, right. So being an Australian, we had a green name tag with yellow writing, the U.S. ones, you know, different colors and so on. And like I had, you know, Japanese friends with red ones and so on and all this. But it was sort of interesting, like we're in Palo Alto and all these dudes come in who had gold name tags and you go, huh, okay. Then you suddenly realize like, because they were there for a shareholders meeting. And like, these are all the people you've read about in HP Magazine. They were all the people that were there for the shareholders meeting and stuff. And yeah, it was completely fascinating. And Dave Packard came around and, yeah, made a point of meeting our group and stuff and talking to us for, it was completely fascinating. And the, and of course he gravitated immediately to people with different colored name tags. So, you know, we get to spend more time with him. And, but the other one was Bill Hewlett.  The, they're very down to earth guys, you know, like, that's the thing that impressed me a lot with them. The, yeah, I found them just completely fascinating guys, but the, yeah, it was a sort of an interesting time in the company back then because it was a heyday of the industry. And in the Bay Area, for example, Suga for company prior to Seagate, right? For example, we're running ads on TV at night, every night, trying to get people to come and work for them.  And HP had a block booking on about 150 of the apartments, right? And several nights while we were staying there, we had recruiters just come cold calling at night, just knocking on the door, just saying, do you want a job? You know, like, it was like the most remarkable time in the industry. It was, it really was quite strange. Yeah. Well, yeah, again, having, you know, growing up in the Bay Area, and so a lot of my friends, their parents worked down in Silicon Valley, and I grew up in the east, over the East Bay, but I worked there for years, moved back, moved away to Sacramento, moved back down to the Bay Area and community down there. But the HP culture was fantastic. In fact, they, I was invited to stay to continue, I was consulting there. And, but we left then the state, we wanted out of California altogether. But otherwise, I would, you know, who knows, still be with HP today. I really liked the culture. Yeah, I loved, I loved the corporate culture. It was almost, at the early stage there, it was so, it was almost overwhelmingly, almost smothering, actually, a bit in some ways. But I, yeah, the, the culture of the place was extraordinary. I, in later years, I did, I watched the change of leadership and things and stuff and, yeah, I was there when Carly Fiorina came in. Yeah. Look, I think she got kind of a, you know, harsh story. There was some of the change that had to happen and with the board and everything around that. But it was, so I'm a collaboration technology guy. I was there helping build out and deploy a collaboration platform. The Keychain Initiative was my project that I was on. And, and, you know, that aspect of it, the daily, you know, the voices over the intercom of that, the team, the way that people worked, it was just very, again, very collaborative. It was very much a, we're a team going and doing these things. Our objectives are these shared objectives. And we, I had a clear idea of what I was working on individually, how that fit into a team and went. Anyway, I mean, okay, we can have a longer conversation about that, but it's a, hopefully. Look, the thing I loved with the company at the stage I started in 81, they were, they made all these things themselves too, right? Yeah. One of the big things that changes by, just start to change by the time I left actually in mid 80s is they had started to just buy equipment from other people and re-badge it right and so on. The engineering that went into the products prior to that was nothing like I've ever seen anywhere in the industry ever, you know, before or since, you know, they simply did the best engineering in the industry. And to give you, you're talking about PhD programs, we had, I remember the 7935 disk drive appeared and there was, there was something like four or five guys doing PhDs on bits of things in that drive. You know, I mean, there was one who did it on the plastics design. It was so advanced, you know, like, I mean, who does that, you know, on the plastics design of a disk drive, right? The level of engineering that went into the products in those days, nothing, I've never seen anything like that since, you know, in anything. Well, my first tech job, 91, 92 was with, we actually ran Hewlett Packard's reclamation site. So we staffed it and we did it and we resold all the used globally for HP. So like, if you bought a monitor and there was a scratch in it and took it back, they would ship it back to Rockland, California, which is just outside of Sacramento. Another Rockland division.  It was way out there in the middle of nowhere. It's now an ocean of homes all around the HP Hewlett. I met at one of the Friday beer busts that every division pretty much, like there was always somebody having one around that area the every week, actually, I met a woman from the terminals division. And she's always struck me as someone who'd worked in the one job, probably a little too long, right?  Yeah, which internally was firmware controlled and stuff like that. And she could just start typing on the keyboard and open up things that would download instructions into the terminal, dumb terminal. And then she could just buy from rote memory type in enough code to start playing a car game on the screen of the dumb terminal.  Something to be said about liking your job and the machine language required for inside a green screen terminal is just getting pretty esoteric. Well, Greg, hey, I really appreciate your time and getting to chat. And now that events are starting to open up again, maybe we'll see each other at a future MVP. Yeah. Yeah. So Greg, for folks that want to find you, what are the best ways to reach you to find you online? Greg at sequeldownunder.com. Most basic or just go to sequeldownunder.com. Reach out. Awesome. Well, thanks so much. We've also now got Cosmos down under.com as well, which is all focused on Cosmos DB. So you've got that. Is that within your MVP profile as well, that link? Yep. All right, I'll grab it. It will be. It will be if it's not there already. Excellent. Well, thanks a lot for your time, Greg. And thanks for sharing part of your Saturday. 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Financial News Network News Update. Good morning folks. This is Steve Rhodes coming to you live from the shores of what looks like cloudy Delray Beach, Florida. This year 9 a.m. update and currently have U.S. equity futures traded the upside. Dow is up 244.7 percent. A little over 1 percent for the Nasdaq 100. That's 126. About 1 percent for the S&P. That's 37 points and 1 and two tenths percent for the Russell 2000. That's about 22 points to the upside. Over an age last night it was a sea of red but all those Asian markets still have, well I should say, the Shanghai and the Nikkei. Shanghai and the Hangsang have A to B equal CD up patterns and the Nikkei does have a topping signal out there. In Germany you've got European markets up. The DAX up 175 points. The FTSE is up 64. If you caught the Trader Zed Show that we did at between 8 and 9 I gave you the levels that price needed to close above to suggest that they would negate their topping patterns. Gold has a TD9 count top. That's off 60 cents right now. Silver is up 9 pennies. In fact, let's go take a look at that 9-panel market update chart. This will give you a better overview of what the markets are doing. Inside the ES mini, you're consolidated with inside its daily profile. That's between the range of 39 and a quarter to 40-19. Spotball of today X is trading below its 50-day experience moving average. It always puts the wind at the sales of the S&P 500. The NQ, it is consolidated with inside its daily profile. It has a strong resistance at 119.86 and 119.81 on top of the weekly and then daily profiles out there. The US dollar index. It has formed a buy the D point pattern, a TD9 count. It did that on the trading session of November 15th. That means that 105.15 is the most key level of support. If the markets, the U.S. equity foods are going to rally, price will have to close below 105.15. Otherwise price has also formed a new bullish structured profile. That says the U.S. dollar index should rise to 102. If in fact it does that, we'll see the U.S. equity futures give up their gains at some point in time. Your goal has got a TD9 count on top. That suggests it may want to go target the 1741 level. Silver has got a TD9 count on top. That suggests it may want to go target 2031. Lightsweed crude is headed after its bottom of its weekly profile. That's at the price point of 76.88. Big old consolidation inside of natural gas. Strong resistance at $6.83. And a 30-year treasury is trading above profile resistance. That suggests it may continue to move higher. Folks, stay tuned. Tommy O'Brien with the Morning Market Kickoff is up next. Have a fantastic Friday. Thanks much for joining us here at TFNN. I'll look forward to seeing you on Monday. Take care.