I will tell you that the first two years were outstanding. We had weed, we got different cover crop mixes seeded, we had these great strips, we had awesome field days with between 40 to 80 people at them. Everything was great. The first two years I was like, ah, I'm gonna get two more years of this because this is going so well. And then we got into really wet harvest. And then we got into PP on a couple of our fields. And so really by the end of this, I have some great baseline data, but I don't have a lot of long-term data from the four years. So what I'm gonna focus on though are the partnerships. And those partnerships with those original four farmers that were part of the grant are very strong. We work a lot with them, but I've met a lot of other farmers through them and through those plots and through those field days. What we've now expanded to just on-farm trials that they're doing on their farms and things that we're measuring are they've come in as cooperators on their other projects through commodity funding or through NRCS or SARE or any of those things that participate in our workshops or SARE Professional Development workshop grants as well. So this isn't gonna be directly related to the projects I have. If you go and look at the reports online, you're gonna think it's what we've done as this has, yeah, first years would be great, if it's second years, you probably go with a failure. But I think you'll see after what I put forth that it's really formed some great partnerships within North Dakota. As I was going through this, I was noticing that a lot of the farmers I was talking with are part of the soil science podcast that we have now. So I'm actually gonna walk through it in a way through their episodes and the things they're trying and the things they explain and describe so that you could go back and listen to those different episodes if you want to hear the farmers talk about what they're doing and what they're trying. But I think the essence of our podcast was this, which is exactly what the partnership grant is, is that soil health is a journey. It requires collaboration and curiosity amongst farmers, researchers, consultants, and extension. And those are the partnerships we really focused on and we have people from each of those groups talking about their experiences in soil health on this podcast, which the second series now comes out on March 1st. So here's another example of the work that we're doing. Dave Fransen is our soil fertility specialist and he's gone away from doing fertility trials on research centers and taking them out to farmer's fields because it means more. It means more to those farmers to have infield data. They've made changes based on those projects. So here's Dave Fransen who's one of the most traditional rigorous scientists that you'll find doing all these on-farm trials because it means more. And I think we can all agree with that. There also has to be trust, right? We can do all this work in the world but unless somebody trusts us in the information we're providing, they're not gonna do those things or those partnerships won't develop. And so one of the things that we work closely on is this crop consultant does, Lee Breeze is those partnerships, those relationships.  The things that they're going through on their farms and probably half of this past year I spent just trying to help farmers through that. And it wasn't always about, you know, that they were in a state of crisis or they were concerned or they had these concerns. It was more just, hey, I'm gonna be there and let's go look at some fields and let's talk about something more positive. And so that's where that trust comes in. And I guarantee any of those farmers now we have a trust that if I need anything, you're gonna help me out on a project. If they need anything, I'm gonna help them out. But here's one farmer that we work with closely, Sam Landman. He's episode five. It's kind of like a calendar of these guys. They're Mr. Gene or July or whatever. But Sam is episode five and he is Sam's young farmer. He just turned 30. He's got his first kid on the way. And he's up in northeastern North Dakota. So many of those guys are still harvesting right now. Sam was able to get most of his pentos off. He didn't have many acres of corn. He's a cooperator on a large field scale, a project we have where he's looking at no-till pentos. We'll be looking at no-till pentos, corn, soybean and wheat with a cover crop and then full-tillage, no cover crop. And he's got an on-farm trial for that. But he likes, he's getting more and more confident that he can just do, if he runs anything like vertical tillage, he's gonna do it in the spring and he's gonna keep his soils covered over the winter. And if he's gonna try to get a cover crop in, it's gonna be early. And if it's not early enough, he's gonna skip the cover crop because he thinks that his planter or his drill will do more cutting up of residue and more damage than it will if he just leaves the residue and doesn't have a cover crop because he wouldn't get enough growth. So making some really good, important decisions. But he's gotta figure out residue management. So this is one of his fields. It's got a warm up in the spring. He's got a little plant into it. So he's concerned about low temperatures. He's concerned about it being too wet. I mean, these guys have ruts everywhere in their fields this year. But the no-till guys don't have as many ruts. I'll tell you that. I've been pretty proud of that this year. The seed depth, hair pinning. He's very concerned about that with his equipment. His stand, his emergence. Seeding into this is kind of scary for Sam. So he's gotta figure out how to manage it. So his approach, he's doing cover crops with bio-striptile. So in that case, it's planting his radish. He uses a sugar beet played in his planter on 30 inch row spacing. And then he comes back in the following year and plants his pentos on that. So he's creating a space for those, for the cover crops to be very intensified in a strip where he's gonna plant his cover crop the next year, or his cash crop the next year. This gives him a little bit of relief of that wheat straw that he's concerned about. But, you know, our reward, his reward is that there's no reason to till in the fall. He's had great stands with this residue. We've seen zero, you know, minimal difference. If not, if it's zero difference between yield on his pentos whether they're planted into residue or into, into cultivated soil. And he's looking for that moisture in August. And this year they didn't need moisture in August. Unfortunately, but that's what he's gonna look for in those dry years. He's gonna see, I think he'll really see the benefits of what he's doing on his farm. Doug Tucson was a drug cooperator episode 11 of the share farm, the SARE project. Got to share farm SARE, got a lot of different acronyms. But Doug is, he's one of those farmers that five years ago, he transitioned one quarter into no-till and used cover crops and then he transitioned the whole farm the next year. So he's, his quote is, cover crops is not where to quit spending money. One year he cut back and he didn't spend money on cover crops and he said it was his biggest regret that he didn't get every acre covered on his farm. And so he'd rather have him fail than if he just didn't do it at all. And I think Doug is a man of few words. Oftentimes there are f-bombs and whatever, but that's what Doug says about his system. And so he will get his cover crops on every single acre and he will make sure that happens whether it's flowing on, seeded, however he's going to do, he's going to get it done. But this is one of the, when we were finding, you know, the cover crops after wheat was not happening because the harvest were so wet we just couldn't ask the farmer to get out there and add more to what they were doing. Plus the cover crops went aground. He switched his project to getting cover crops within sunflowers. And this one is, a lot of people are really interested in this. He was looking at it for the benefits of getting some extra roots in his high-play soils. He wanted some beneficial insects out there to be predators for some of the pest pressures on sunflowers and then he was looking to manage weeds because he just, he felt like he didn't have enough tools to manage weeds in his system. So we did replicate his strips. We had three fields for, I think now it's been three years we've had those out there, 40 feet wide, 60 feet long. He seeds his cover, his sunflowers on 30 inch row spacing and then that same day he's seeding with the drill on seven and a half inch spacing the cover crop mixes. We've gotten the mix down to 18 bucks an acre which he can spray that out if he has to but not feel bad about it and that's kind of our goal. And we're seeing no difference statistically no difference in yield or oil content of those sunflowers. There's still a 200-pound difference where the cover crops are 200 pounds lower the more he has no cover crops and even though it's not statistically significant to him it's enough to be concerned about it. So he would probably never take this whole field which is fine, I think he could get away with it on the borders of a field or he could do strips of the field and not have that risk of doing the whole field or the cost of doing the whole field. But he had a beautiful stand, these were some of the beautiful fields we worked in because those cover crops were blooming throughout the growing season to bring in the beneficial insects. His approach of cover crops on every acre this is what he's often dealing with in the spring. This was a late spring too. So he's got a concern as he's, you know his potential issues with getting cover crops on every acre are man hours and power. How many people do it? Does he have to get out there and do these things? To get around that he's pouring on more cover crops and having good establishment. Getting enough growth, having a mad residue of their options of cover crops what should you put out there what should you not put out there? What can you manage? The reward is he's also getting in the field with no problem and he's not had a problem on any field where he's had cover crops where he's not had cover crops like cereal rye or winter rye, he may have potential issues and that's what he loses sleep over. But you can see this field. So this is the one I was walking through in the middle of it, no issues walking through all that water on a 60% clay and then that tidal field I stepped into next to it. That was the first step I took and that was the last one I took. Didn't want him that one. His approach planting into something living so this is what he plants into in the spring and this is very different for the southeastern corner of North Dakota. I mean this is not what you typically see and he's got, you know he's up to 100 pounds of cereal rye is what he's putting on his fields because he likes a lot of green. I would recommend that for everybody but he could have too much growth when you if we have a dry spring it could rob him of moisture. He could have too much water use. Steve placed him in equipment. He's played with his equipment. He's put things on and pulled them off and tried to get it so he can get that seed in the ground in a consistent way. But the reward from this is that 9 p.m. phone call. Doug is always very respectful of my time and only calls me during work hours but one time he called me at 9 p.m. and he said you gotta see this and so that next day I was down there. And we looked at his field. This is his field that has had cover crops and no-till on it for I think at this point it was four years. They had a soybean crop on it and they went through harvest and two wheel drive in the combine. This is the neighbor's field that has had rippers, chisel plows, field cultivators, wheat, soybean, rotation on it. They used tracks to harvest this. It was the same day and you can see the ruts. And he was so excited to see that. And this is also a benefit where the guy, the aerial applicator was flying over the field at the time. Eric, going to see cover crops in somebody else's farm that was starting to use cover crops and we called up Eric and said, hey, can you swing around, take a picture? And he did and this is what we have to show for it. So this was a really, really proud day for him. This fall we went around to the same thing we drove and we looked at his fields and came up with a plan and he's left zero ruts in his fields and everybody else was sliding all around on tile ground and non tile ground and they had a really rough harvest. People were using rippers in full season cover crops they had out there that were PP. I mean, it was, there was a lot going on but he was pretty proud to get all of his crop off his field. And this is what we saw this fall. This is Doug's field.  He goes, I didn't think we were going to make it, did you? And we sat and we looked at this field and you could just see on his face how proud he is of what he's done. And then this other field is tiled right across the road and that's what it was like in that field that got ripped. So those compaction issues are going to be reflected in that crop for years. The deep compaction. This is another farmer Tony that I worked with in Jamestown. He has been no-till for 15, 20 years. He uses cover crops intensively on at least a third of his land and he farms a lot, a lot of land. So he's always out there seeding cover crops is the way he does it. And he farms a lot of sandy soils that he doesn't like seeing the soil blow away. And so for him it's erosion. He wants to keep his soils in place. This is an example of one of his sandy fields where he's, he had just taken this one over. He had a short-season crop on it because it's a sand. So he adjusted his rotation, had a short-season crop on it, followed it with an oat cover crop. He left, he just did oats because he wanted to come back in and spray over the top of it to control some weeds he had out there. So this is how his field looked going to bed for the winter. But he does have some concerns. Lack of residue, too much water used potentially on sandy soil, lack of growth. But he's been doing, he's been getting really, really nice stands. He also uses residue to his advantage. So he bought a stripper head a couple of years ago. This is how he leaves his wheat straw. Standing, a lot of bare ground underneath it. He comes over to cover crop and seeds it. People think he's gonna be a nightmare the next year. Well, when the residue and everything's standing, it's not a problem to get into it. And so that's what he's learned. And that's what he's done. He'll catch a lot of snow and he's caught a lot of snow this winter on this field. But it's even across the field so it's gonna melt evenly into the field. It's not patched up in low spots or on the edge of the field. He has that residue going around. So he has a very consistent field in the spring to plant into. And this was Tony's reward. I did a video from one of his fields that he just took over. And then one of his fields that he's been doing these practices on for 14 years. And they were just kitty corner to each other. And I picked up the soils and it's the first time he's ever seen them side by side. He's never thought to take one soil from one field to look at it next to the other. And he could see in this how dark his soil is, how much he's built up with organic matter and how much more moisture he can retain. And for him that was that he knew he always knew what he's doing is working but this told him again that what he's doing is working and he needed that confirmation. I have an episode two for this also. And I talk about the program we've done. So oftentimes whether you're two miles away or you're 200 miles away, there's something that you can take from each other's systems. And so a lot of what I do is this network approach to getting farmers to talk and getting people in extension to talk and researchers and industry and consultants to talk. So all the green dots on here are our NDSU people whether they're researchers or extension. The red ones are consultants. The blue ones are farmers and the other ones are industry. And so if you look at the idea of this is that you have all the locations where we've had programs, particularly this cafe talk program that I do which Sarah is funding this year. So you have all these talks and all these farmers show up and as they move to the center of this diagram and their doc gets bigger, that means they're sending more programs, they're potentially having more influence on people and sharing conversations. So we have the people on the inside that are sharing a lot of information and showing up to a lot of events. We have the people on the outside that we wanna get on the inside. So I can see where we're gonna go. We're gonna bring all the outside to the inside. We're gonna continue to strengthen this. We'll get more people on the outside and keep this network building. And the idea of this is that one person can step away at any time and the network won't fail. So it makes it so that one person's not important. It's how everybody interacts that's important. When we do this, we do another social network analysis where we have farmers list names of the three people they talk to from like research perspective and then three people they talk to in general about solar health. And in that one, the more somebody's name is listed as somebody talks to, the larger their doc gets. And so there are farmers that we can pick out that are very influential in their areas because people have listed them as somebody who's a resource and they're talking to them all the time. And so that helps us with our program. We say, wow, I'm gonna make sure that that farmer has the information they need, the tools they need, whatever they need to make sure that the information they're sharing is science-based, that it's practical applications, that we can keep solar health a science and not just an observation-type program. And then here's one of the farmers that I rely on, heavily Joe Brecker, who's been 40 some years, no till.  He's a very wise farmer. And he says, every situation's unique. He never pushes what he says on anybody else. Every situation's neat, but he thinks that everybody has the opportunity to make these steps on their farms. It's just what steps they're gonna use and how they're gonna make it work. And so he helps, he helps quite a bit. A lot of these farmers I call and I say, could you come to this event with me? Because I think that you could talk with this person or they would benefit from hearing your message or hey, could you just be there? And if somebody has a question, then you can help them answer it. And these farmers will do that now because of this network we've built and because of the relationships we've built. So I'm very grateful for that. And then one last thing I wanna show you is so are we seeing changes? We do pretty extensive evaluations. Every three years is what we've been kinda doing. And so this is from our program and these are the topics. You know, establishing cover crop and standing soybean, using multiple species, diversifying crop rotation for inclusion of cover crops, establishing cover crop and corn, growing cover crop for seed, establishing after harvest using cereal rye. And the green part on this, and this is a draft. This is literally, I was like, I show it or not, but this is, I wanna show it. So it may change a little bit as we continue to clean up the data. But this is, and the green is what people are doing as a result of attending one of our programs called the Cafe Talks. So they are using these practices of cover crops now because they learned about them at one of our programs. This black area is where we see the most potential because they're considering it. And so these are the practices we are gonna make sure that we show work. Establishing something and standing soybean, establishing a cover crop, that's where I'm gonna focus a lot of efforts because 51% of people are thinking about it and they need more information to pull the trigger and make that decision. Same with the multi-species cover crop mix. Let's help them find five species that really are gonna work for them that they can control. Again, with establishing a cover crop and standing corn, let's find out if you fly it on or if you seed it or how you're gonna get that cover crop out there, how are you gonna modify equipment to get that done and what fixes should you use. And then also that inclusion of diversifying a crop rotation, which we know diversifying a crop rotation is like the number one tool we have. And so if we can get away from two crops or soybean, not soybean or corn on corn, we're gonna benefit the system from a whole system perspective. And then the other things like growing cover crop for seed, 44% people aren't thinking of doing that so we're not gonna do that product. It's not gonna be something, I'm gonna make sure they don't break any laws when they sell seed to make sure it's not protected or whatever if they're gonna start selling things or that they use certified seed or aspects like that but I'm gonna keep them out of trouble but I'm not gonna focus on it because they're not really interested in it. And then this is another reward. This podcast has been played over 11,000 times since we released it in August 1st. So when I see this, this keeps me going. This is one of those things that I need to see that I know that what I'm doing is working. And if I didn't see this, it was only like 10 dots then I'd be like, probably not the right tool. So let's find something else and ask the farmers what do they want and what do they need. So I'll take any questions. You can build solar gas matter with some amount of tillage. So have you seen any of that, good examples about how to be closer to one another? You know, I'm not familiar with that study that they're talking about. But my thought, okay, when you think about tillage, right, you're incorporating plant material from the surface into the soil and then you collect that soil sample and you send it off for analysis. So timing could be everything on that. Did they collect it after they chisel plowed it or tilled it and then send it off and I'd get big chunks of residue that have a lot of carbon in it that are inflating that organic matter to say, yeah, this is working or is it in season and they're capturing the roots from the, you know. And that's why I think that test is very difficult because it depends on timing, it depends on how the sample is collected, it depends on, like I think a lot of people when they transition from a full tillage to no-till situation, you know, they sample the whole tillage where, you know, they don't have any of that residue on the surface and they could have sampled it whenever in the season and then they come back in and that consultants is in their pickup and they drop the auger down to sample, they don't brush away the residue on the surface. So then that inflates that organic matter never that comes back because it's determining litter as part of that organic matter pool, but is it? You know, I mean, that's, it all depends on what you think is part of organic matter and if I can identify it, I don't think it's organic matter. If I can say that's a piece of corn trash, then to me that's not soil organic matter. That's residue, yeah. That's residue, yeah. Organic matter is something you can't identify. You look at it and you say, well, I don't know what that was, but I bet it could have been a root, could have been a piece of residue, it could have been something you could pose. So that wasn't the core part of the question, that has to do with sampling and assuming that the room of the people did it right, the question had to do with, I wouldn't disagree with you, no-till you'll have less disruption, but I guess the question is, have you seen examples where there's a limited amount of tillage where you're still building organic matter or you just don't think that'll work? I haven't looked for examples for that, but because the process is flawed, I can't even make an assumption on whether that could happen or not, because some, I don't know, I've seen a lot of really inflated numbers in no-till systems too, but it's it. But yeah, so actually I don't think, I guess I just don't really look at that number. So I don't know if it's possible. This has been a reason you used, here to me you mentioned on your deciding which kind of copyright-related needs you mentioned nitrogen mixing or looms, it's the reason you didn't use a loom is because of chances of high nitrogen levels could cause a lot of issues like that with your olfactory covers. So I did use a mixture of annual rye grass and Dutch white clover. Okay. So I think my concern was if I did a pure standard clover, it's a little slower to establish, and so that we would get some more weed growth that would be coming up through that. So that was my goal, to have something that would kind of grow quickly, can't be over relatively quickly. So yeah, I think the mixture is good. I would certainly consider doing a pure stand, but I think having some kind of grass in there is kind of a good balance. So with your non-plastic culture or the cover compost right next to the root systems of the peppers and things like that, you didn't see any high spikes in nitrogen that might have caused bossam in our army issues like that? Oh, spikes in nitrogen from having a legume in there? Yeah. No, no. And in fact, we saw probably a little bit of a nitrogen detriment to the crop. It takes a little while for clover to get going, right? So it's not doing a whole lot of nitrogen fixing until probably realistically probably the next year, you know, I would guess. Is your operation all organic? Yes, we're certified organic, yeah. And then after you had your plastic out and you had some established cover, you didn't see a need to go in and just broadcast whatever was left to put more cover there? So I mean, you could do that. I'd like to avoid it. Part of the issue is that I didn't think we were getting much benefit when we were putting down winter eye in late October and then we were getting snow the first week of November. So certainly you could go, I don't really have an easy way to just like band it on those areas.  So certainly you could do that. And if you had a crop that came out a little earlier and you thought you could actually get some good growth, then it might be worth doing. We did partly because it was coming out like the 20th of October. That was kind of part of the purpose of this. Well, we have 40 or 50% of our field with these strips. You can do a pretty good job given you can deal with just the constraints of the crop and the production system.


Hi everybody, Joe for Jasper's casewrakes.com coming at you with 2021 Panini Immaculate Baseball 4 box. Pick your team, number 26. Second half of that case that we popped open yesterday and at the end of the break, little wax party giveaway too. So just my camera angle here on the fly. Big thanks to, I've got the list printed out here. Wait for it. Here's the boxes. Remember I marked those 26 so we all know they're from the same case.  Big thanks to Dusty once again for knocking out a big chunk of teams. Thanks to everyone else as well for filling up this break. I appreciate it, thank you. I feel like the first half was pretty solid. Let's hope the trend continues in this second half, ladies and gentlemen. So thanks for getting into it. Didn't we see that patch yesterday? Is that the other half of it? No, I think it's a different player. All right, we're gonna lead off with Jumbo sleeve patch one out of two, this time Cabrion Hayes. That's awesome. Piece of the pirate. And that'll be for Pittsburgh, Dusty with the pirates. Dusty, we're starting off with a little train whistle today. Remember, out of fives and under. Out of fives and under, get the train whistle. So, all aboard the Big Head Express. Woo-hoo! Nice, good start. Next, Jumbo jerseys, Eloy Jimenez. Little more simple on this one, 34 out of 49. Dusty with the white socks as well. Nice RPA coming up, three-color patch and autograph Bobby Dalbeck, 96 out of 99. Dusty with the red socks. 15 out of 50, Brent Rooker. Nice color in that patch. Rook going to the twins, Nicholas L. Nick L. with that one. 24 out of 99, Adonis Medina. Mike, I don't know what you're saying. We'll never get this all done. What are you talking about? What is this? You gotta be a little more specific. Dusty with the fillies. And a nice rookie auto, 46 out of 99, Dylan Carlson. Well, that's enough of you, Mike. Some people just don't get it. Sometimes I'm far too patient, but when you start criticizing the operations here, without all the facts, without the experience, let me just refund that order that he had to. It's not tolerated here. No, not at all, not even worth that. We just ban and move on. All right, sorry about that interruption, ladies and gentlemen, onwards. All right, so second box, pick your team 26. Good luck, everybody. Actually use this blank card right here to hide some of the hits a little bit. You got Tristan Mackenzie, 41 out of 49. That's for Mark and the Guardians. And we've got a piece of Anthony Arizzo's lumber, five out of 15. And that'll be Cubs Edition going to Dusty. We've got some green here that's hats off. Davy Garcia, one out of five. Maybe a knit hat, it seems like. Maybe a winter hat, a little wrinkly on the top loader on the penny sleeve there, but I think I can spread that out a little bit. There we go. That's for the Yankees. That's gonna go to Dusty with the Yankees. All aboard the Big Hit Express. Woo-hoo. Yeah, Dusty's Yankees. Nice. Let's hope he does well. We've got three out of six. Andy Young, right on the button. Three out of six, silver ink on the eye black sticker, which I think looks really cool. That's for the Diamondbacks, Mark with Arizona. We've got Miguel Tejada, remember him? Five out of 15. Shadowbox autographed Miguel Tejada for Dusty and the A's. And a one of one. You were right, Dusty. Dusty was like big one on the bottom, it looks like. You're absolutely right. A one of one. Looks like Nike swoosh, not a patch, but maybe from a tag or something like that. Swoosh and Otto, Casey Meis. A one of one for the former number one overall pick. Got him on my fantasy baseball team. I think he kinda had a slow start to the season. Let me just look it up really quick. Yeah, he took a loss, but went five innings, couple strikeouts. I think a lot of pitchers maybe have to work through that short spring. That's a very nice one for the Tigers. And that's for Dusty, Dusty. All aboard the Big Hit Express. No, I don't think he quite got the no hitter, Chris, but he was improving with each start, Tristan McKenzie was. And I think he went like eight no hit innings or something like that. Something like that. But yeah, he's someone to kinda look out for as well. We have a plate in the middle. You can kinda see that rounded corner right there. All right, we got Jumbo jerseys, Joey Bart, 17 out of 49 for the Giants, Dusty with the Giants. My rivals. Got Jose Abreu, three out of 15, piece of his jersey going to Dusty and the White Sox. Oh, we got a redemption here. We got Keegan Aiken, rookie patch autographs black. What's the black parallel number two? Is that a low number? I don't think it's a one of one.  I'm just checking the parallel for you. Cause I think platinum is the one of one. And black is still a low number. According to the checklist, it's numbered to 10. Nice. And there you go. And a free top loader too. The plate is autographed. Nice and on-plate auto, those look really sharp. Nice patch, nice auto, that's Ryan Weathers. I think that's another Dusty, right? Yeah, nice Dusty. He's got a lot of teams. He's gonna get a lot of hits. Thanks, man. That's great patch. Between you and me, I don't mind sticker autos all that much but I do mind when they're on-plate. So I always appreciate a nice on-plate autograph. There you go, Dusty. All aboard! Woo-hoo! All right, let's keep going. We got Dane Dunning, 15 out of 25, silver ink autograph right on the eye black. That is for Nick and the Rangers. The last one here is Christian Pache, 10 out of 25. Thought he would have worked out in Atlanta but I think he's, is he with the A's now? Was he part of that Matt Olsen deal? I hope he gets some playing time. He's got a, yeah, he's got a 10 at bats already. A few hits and a run score. That's for Atlanta, that's for Dusty. TJ, what's going on, man? We were just talking the other day, the other week. Where's TJ? We haven't seen him for a little bit.  Good to see you, sir. Hope all is well. I did not put a DraftKings lineup in tonight. Yeah, the pitching is hard to gauge so I did not. No, no, no, it's all good, it's all good. We just, we just missed your presence in the chat. Good to see you, sir. There's Andrew Benintendi, 23 out of 25. Royals, that'll be for Brandon. We got for the Giants, Evan Longoria, Longo, five out of 49 for Dusty and the Giants. Another redemption here. We've got Immaculate's Material Autographs, Luis Gonzalez. What addition of Luis Gonzalez is that? Do I still have that checklist up? Card number three, what is that? Immaculate Material Autographs, card number three, Luis Gonzalez, Chicago White Sox on the checklist. And that'll be for Dusty and the White Sox. Nice, TJ, that inception, classic. Looks good this year. All right, few more here in the break than the Wax Party randomizer, Jared Oliva, 36 out of 49, Jersey and Silver Ink Autograph. Dusty with the Pirates, couple more here. Triple Relican Autograph, 19 out of 49, Braxton Garrett. That one's for the fish, that goes to Nick L. And last but not least, what do we got here? Ooh, that's a nice one. 57 out of 99, Ronald Acunha Jr. And that's for Dusty and the Atlanta Braves. Nice. All right, very nice break everybody. Thank you. This is a Wax Party break. So let's give away that Wax Party spot. Let's flip back to the list here. Let's grab everyone from there to there. And name on top after 11. We'll get into the Wax Party. Six and a five, 11 times. One, two, three, four, five. A lot, Joe P. Six, seven, eight, nine, 10, and 11 in final time. After 11, the odds are with Dusty, so let's see if he gets it. There he is in the two spot. Thanks everybody for giving this a shot. Appreciate it. Name on top though, Stephen Flatt. Wow, beating the odds. So okay, congrats to you. Sorry, Dusty, we'll get him next time. But Stephen Flatt, congrats to you. Thank you very much. Let's copy your name into the Wax Party. Wax Party break. Copy your name into the Wax, our first Wax Party break of the day. You got a chance to win a case of a not immaculate basketball, but national treasures basketball. All right, so there you go gang. Thanks for watching. Thanks for breaking with us. I'm Joe. I'll see you next time for the next break. Bye bye.


All right, Madam City Clerk, can we ready to call the roll? We are. Good morning, everyone. Council Member Tibbetts, Council Member Schwedhelm. Here. Council Member Sawyer. Here. Council Member Fleming. Council Member Alvarez. Present. Vice Mayor Rogers. Present. Mayor Rogers. Here. Council Member Tibbetts, have you joined us? Council Member Fleming, have you joined us? Okay, let the record show that all council members are present with the exception of Council Member Fleming and Council Member Tibbetts. Great. We will go ahead and go back into our closed session. We'll recess into closed session and report out later. Thank you. Come on, quorum. I just promoted. I just promoted Council Member Alvarez, so he should be popping on for your, your quorum. All right, I recognize the quorum. Madam City Clerk, can you call the roll? Yes. Council Member Tibbetts, Council Member Schwedhelm. Here. Council Member Sawyer. Here. Council Member Fleming. Council Member Alvarez. Present. Vice Mayor Rogers. Mayor Rogers. Here. Okay, let the record show that all council members are present with the exception of Vice Mayor Rogers, Council Member Fleming and Council Member Tibbetts. All right, thank you so much. We just wanted to do a quick report out from our closed session item, report that we gave direction to staff on our interim city manager position and more information will be forthcoming on Tuesday, hopefully. And with that, is there anything else, Madam City Attorney? No, that is it for the day. Great, then we are adjourned. Thanks, everybody. Thank you.


Hey everyone, today we're going to be talking about some Breath of the Wild 2 rumors now. I wasn't going to make a video on this, but I love talking about Zelda. I don't know if you guys are aware of how big of a deal Zelda is to my life, how it's my favorite IP, my favorite franchise, and yeah Breath of the Wild is my favorite Zelda games, so having the ability to talk about anything regarding future Zelda games is always exciting to me. However, I don't like to bring up things that I just don't think there is a reasonable chance of them being true. Just because at the end of the day, while we talk about a lot of rumors and a lot of speculation on this channel, I tend to try to make sure I steer towards things that have at least a possibility of being true, either because the source has been correct in the past, that's usually a big indicator as well, you know when we talk about things from Bloomberg or when we talk about things from Jeff Grubb, but also when we talk about things from like Nate the Hate, Emily Rogers, and people like that, we tend to try to steer towards things that at least have a history from that source, and technically where I'm giving these from has a history, but he talked about these things in a way where, you know what, it all could be bullshit, but we're going to talk about it anyways because if some of this stuff is true, it's really really cool, we have like five major things here to talk about including release dates, title names, story details, some really cool stuff, but before I get into it, hey if you enjoy this rumor video, if you enjoy videos like this, be sure to drop a like on the video, and subscribe to the channel, we also have a giveaway going on as well, head down to the pinned comment or the description to find out how to enter that, alright so this is pretty simple at the beginning here, so for starters, all of these rumors come from my good pal Game Over Jesse, Game Over Jesse is a Zelda based YouTuber, he does talk about other things time to time, but he has a Zelda podcast, Hylian Gamescast, so he talks a lot about Zelda stuff, and I've known him for a long time, he has been correct on some of the rumors he's reported on in the past, but also been incorrect as well, not like he's some 100% spotty track record here, but he is more up to date on Zelda rumors than I am, and that's what it is, he claims that all of these rumors came from different people, so none of these rumors can be attributed to the same person, so if any one of these individual rumors ends up being true, the person he got it from obviously then has some backing and some verification behind them, so even though the other ones could be untrue, one of them being true is you know kind of a thing where you follow the breadcrumbs, alright so one of these rumors was technically already true, we talked about this, and the first one we're gonna bring up is that something Zelda is happening in April, though we talked about this before, how there could have been a potential 35th anniversary, you know, direct this month, that was like a rumor video we put out, and it was based on some stuff from Game Over Jesse, well it turns out here his original source said that the way that he worded that something would happen in April made it kind of seem like we're talking about some sort of Age of Calamity trailer, maybe a Breath of the Wild 2 trailer, but when the source doubled down that hey something Zelda is going to happen and I'm not gonna tell you what, it actually was true, this was actually something that did happen, now whether something's gonna happen beyond this, I don't know, that's where Breath of the Wild 2 comes in, but technically we did get Breath of the Wild Champion statues announced by first four figures with Ravalli being the first one shown off, so technically this part of the rumor came true, it's just is there more to it than just these PVC statues this month, because again the source just said something Zelda related is coming in April, well we got something Zelda related, is there more, we'll have to wait and see, now that's you know that's all fine, that's all dandy, that just kind of starts us off with something that we already know to be true, already know is believable, let's move into some of the more wild things happening, Breath of the Wild get it, we have a title, so the title for the game according to one of his sources is Hope of the Wild, now look it's a very interesting name, we're not gonna say Nintendo has never reused parts of names before, we've had a link to the past, a link between worlds, so like Nintendo has done this before where they've had very similar naming, and obviously if you're trying to capture the Breath of the Wild crowd having a similar name to you know calling it the Legend of Zelda Hope of the Wild versus the Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild could invoke some of the same fanbase to pick up Hope of the Wild, also my personal take is that I would rather have Breath of the Wild 2 versus Hope of the Wild, I think Breath of the Wild 2 kind of conveys that it's a sequel better and would get parents and everyone else to understand this is the next game to buy after Breath of the Wild but that's just a personal thing and by the way it's funny because when I say that a link to the past and a link between worlds was also called Triforce of the Gods and Triforce of the Gods 2 in Japan so they kind of did both naming conventions with the same game, who knows maybe they do that this time, maybe it's Breath of the Wild 2 in Japan but it's Hope of the Wild everywhere else, I think Hope of the Wild is a very interesting name, I haven't seen this name thrown around anywhere else on the internet so this would be the originating source for that name, I don't like the name I think it's kind of dumb, Hope of the Wild, okay but then again you know I don't always understand Nintendo's naming conventions for Zelda games until I play them, you know like Majora's Mask was pretty literal, Ocarina of Time was pretty literal but then like a link to the past little that we know it was literal but it didn't really make sense when we were first just playing the game you know it didn't really you know make a lot of sense until then so it's one of those situations where the names don't always line up with things until you play the game so Hope of the Wild it is what it is I think it's probably just a made-up fan name but you know it is what it is that's what one of your sources is saying another one another completely different source talks about the world below so you see it in the trailer behind me where you know they're walking down in these cavernous areas and they come upon who we presume to be Ganondorf could be demise could be other things don't know but right now the massive running theory based on the garb and the jewel and all this is that it's Ganondorf so this is clearly take a place in a cave-like area right you see water dripping it's very cave-like in nature a very underground esque style trailers what we seem so there's going to be more to this underground world I guess that's probably not too surprising so the underground area will actually be kind of like a second world now we've seen second world in Zelda all the time I'm a link between worlds literally had two worlds look to the past did Ocarina of time had two different worlds based on how old you were you know the time travel also those two world concept isn't new to Zelda so having that a second world is pretty I'd say that's pretty believable but what's interesting is that the tunnels that are part of this underground world so it's not really it's a separate world from the above ground world but it's still kind of all part of the whole same area and remember we do have underground areas in Breath of the Wild that we just don't really talk that much about the shrines all the shrines go down when most of the shrines some of the shrines happen on the surface all most of the shrines go down to underground so there is an underground something going on so it's interesting is the underground area is actually a lot like a second world and it has tunnels that connect to parts of Hyrule so different parts of Hyrule you will be able to enter and exit through these tunnels and also this is where things get really exciting if this part is true it says parts of old dungeons are going to be discoverable under there that have either been abandoned or are cursed so is this where we get traditional dungeons back do we revisit old dungeons from old games like this is the crazy part here what the hell is going on underground besides just discovered like you think oh we're just going down there because you know Hyrule Castle sank in or flew up and we're just like what is this stuff going on down here what the hell is it if like we find dungeons underneath that makes sense to be abandoned or makes sense to be cursed or something like that hence why we haven't been to them in a long time won't that be really really neat they have like these discoverable dungeons under the underground that we can actually visit and go through I don't know I think that's just a really neat idea maybe I'm gonna get my hopes up and hoping that it's real but I think it's a really really cool idea all right this next one is pretty simple we'll release in 2021 we've actually heard this ourselves from other people this isn't a new rumor per se but it is from a new source for him so 2021 release date I'm guessing holidays that I don't think is too shocking too surprising I think right now the running the running theory is we're either getting to this holiday or getting it early 2022 we'll see we know we're getting to see the game the one thing we know definitively definitively from Aegean Omo is we will see Breath of the Wild 2 this year like we'll see a trailer or something but we'll see if you know if 2021 ends up being Nintendo's chosen target date and the last one this is a neat idea kind of borrowing from what Zelda's done before but doing it in a different way and that is time travel and or time control so they are suggesting that new abilities similar to the ones that Link had with the rune abilities in the original Breath of the Wild will let them slow down or speed up time so kind of you know like with stasis does stasis like stops things so imagining that it's a an advanced stasis ability I guess would be one way to think about it but more than that there will be time travel but it's not going to be like time travel like we've seen it in Zelda games the past week you're jumping seven years all that jazz and having all this playable stuff instead what it's going to be is time travel where that were this device this this mechanism allows you to revisit actual playable memories you know we had memories in Breath of the Wild memories are back but these memories go way back now to when the Divine Beast and the Guardians were first created and you'll be able to play parts of these memories because of this new ability device so I think that's really really cool having this idea that you could go back to when these things were made to a prior version of Link by the way you're playing a prior hero essentially and I think it's really interesting to see why these things were made because we still don't know like we have ideas about why these things were created but we don't really fundamentally know what happened we know what happened when they were rediscovered but we don't know what happened to like what made the Sheikah and everyone else originally create these things what were they fighting what was going on we don't know and why were they buried and lost the time and why were the Divine Beast left out not buried and lost them like why what is happening we don't actually know so it is gonna be really cool to potentially revisit that and be playable so I don't know I think these rumors are very interesting I love talking about Breath of the Wild too I don't know if any of these are true I am not the source on any of this but I find it interesting to talk about hey and remember you folks told me to cover these you folks told me I asked you and you said hey yeah cover them so there you go some people do want me to mark them as like you know most believable the least believable 2021 release day it's probably most believable out of this whole batch but yeah I again I don't know these aren't my sources so I'm just sending the information your way you guys do with it what you like hopefully you enjoyed this video if you enjoy videos like this and want more let me know down in the comments below because I'm I love talking Zelda obviously I would prefer to talk about something real something tangible but until the Nintendo gives us something real and tangible now this is what we got to work with when we want to talk about Breath of the Wild too so thank you guys so much for tuning in I am Nathan RoboJax from The Center Prime and I will catch you in the next video


Let's find the derivative of the function y equals 4x times e to the x plus five Race of the fifth power. So if we're going to calculate the derivative of this thing We have to of course to take the derivative of 4x times 3x plus five to the fifth power For which you'll notice there's a couple things going on here But the first thing to note here is that this is a product of two different functions. We have 4x times 3x plus five to the fifth power and so before We can do anything else the first thing we have to do here is apply the product rule for which as we know about the product Well, we're gonna take the derivative of 4x and then times that by 3x plus five to the fifth power And then we add to that 4x times the derivative of 3x plus five To the fifth power so we're gonna calculate that derivative the derivative of 4x is simple enough The derivative with respect to x is just gonna be a four so we get four times 3x plus five to the fifth power Copy down the 4x here then the next part is where it might be the trickiest here You have 3x plus five to the fifth power Which derivative rule are we gonna use in this case? It's gonna be the chain rule because you'll notice you have this inner function 3x plus five We also have this outer function. That is the fifth power. It's a power function there So by the chain rule we take the outer derivative first by the power rule The outer derivative is gonna be five times 3x plus five to the fourth power the power goes down by one Then we have to take the derivative of the inner function the derivative of 3x plus five Which the inner derivative there is gonna be a three It's perhaps the most common mistake for students to forget that inner derivative you want to watch out for that thing So what do we have here? We have four times three x plus five to the fifth plus 4x times five times three x plus five to the fourth times three This is the derivative of the function now I should mention in terms of calculus we're now done, but oftentimes we have to solve For the derivative equal to zero which really we want it to be factored then situation So let's see what would happen if we try to factor this thing some things to note is there is a common factor of four But there's also a common factor of three x plus five The first product has one and the second product has one you cannot take more than the least holder here That is since one is the fifth power once the fourth power You can't take away more than what the least product has which is gonna be the fourth power So we're gonna factor out a four. We're gonna factor out a three x plus five to the fourth power Three x plus five to the fourth power What's been left behind with the first product we took away the four We took away four of the three x plus five so at least behind a three x plus five For the second group. Let's see we took away the four. We left behind an x We didn't take the five, but we took away all the three x plus fives. We're left behind with a three So that's then in the brackets is what we need to combine together to try to simplify For the first one we just dropped the parentheses three x plus five for the next one We're gonna end up with a 15 x which is just five times three right there. And so combining together the like terms in those brackets we end up with a 18 x plus five which is our derivative Which we had a derivative earlier, right? I mean the derivative was calculated here No more calculus was necessary at that point like I said It's to our benefit to get in the practice of facting our derivatives So this is the final form that we want to record as our final answer


Live from Las Vegas, it's theCUBE covering Dell EMC World 2017. Brought to you by Dell EMC. Okay, welcome back everyone. We're here live in Las Vegas for the wrap up on day three of three days of wall-to-wall coverage with theCUBE coverage at Dell EMC World, our eighth year covering EMC World now, first year covering Dell EMC World. It's part of the big story of Dell and EMC combining entities, forming Dell technologies, all those brands. I'm John Florey with SiliconANGLE, my co-host this week, Paul Gillum, and Keith Townsend, CTO advisor. Guys, great week. I thought I'd be wrecked at this point, but I mean, a lot of energy here, but we heard every story. We heard all the commentary. We heard the EMC people trotting in about their customer references. We hear the executives on message. Bottom line, let's translate it for everybody. All the messaging, pretty tight. All singing the same song, she might take away real quickly on messaging. They want to portray that this is all good. Everything's fine, no icebergs ahead. We're going to help customers, trying to move from speeds to feeds to a bigger message. Not getting there yet, still speeds and feeds. 14X fast, 14G, that's kind of the high level of thoughts. This company wants to dominate. I mean, what we heard again and again these last few days is number one, number one. They want to own the top market share in every market in which they play, and they have a broad array of products to do that. They have a huge mix of products, maybe too many products, but with some overlap, that's okay. But they clearly are trying to blanket or carpet bomb those markets where they think they can win. Interestingly, there are some markets like Big Data, like software or cloud infrastructure where they're not, they're choosing not to be a big player, and that's okay too, it means that they're focused. Keith, your thoughts. So again, I agree with you, tight marketing. They wanted to get out this message. I think that the analysts, the press and analysts get together at the beginning, they emphasize 310 analysts from analysts and press, from all over the world, they get out the message, they got these guys and guys and gals in here to cover that message that Dell Technologies, Dell EMC, is the leader in this space. You know what, when big mergers like this happen, I can't think of one that happened well. They're usually rocky to begin with. We haven't seen those rocks at the beginning, we haven't seen that at the show. It seems like the messaging has been consistent, the customers more or less get it, and that we can't detect the chinks in the armor. So I think they did a great job of getting that out there and portraying the strength of the brand and throughout the show, it was a great show for it. They have a good story, their story better together. I was seeing that's the whole theme. My impression is in weaving through all the messaging is generally, authentically, the people are pretty happy with it. I think EMC people have been trying to break out of this more storage company, you know. And I won't say they had a little bit of VMware envy because the VMworld events were always different than EMC worlds, so those culture classes weren't necessarily too divergent, but different. You had storage guys, you had VMware developers, right? So I think EMC was always trying to break out and be bigger and just couldn't get there. Dell wanted to be more enterprise, right? So I think the two together actually is better, in my opinion. Now, will it work? I still think your post is still open. I still, they merged for the right reasons, but look at it, they're not done. They got a boatload of work to do. Well, I think they're aware, you know, to Keith's point, they're aware that history is against them. The mega-merchers don't work, never have worked in this industry, and so that creates a lot of pressure to make this one work. And the good thing about that for both companies is that they're aware of what went wrong in the past. I mean, we had Howard Elias on the show the first day. Howard Elias went through two of the worst tech mega-merchers in history with Compact Digital and HP Compact, knows where a lot of those landmines are. So they seemed hyper aware of getting everyone on message, getting everyone talking positively about synergy, and as you said, John, the language was consistent from the start. I want to ask you guys a pointed question on that point, because this kind of brings out the next question. Management team, do they have the chops? Because to your point, history's against them, okay? We set out with Michael Dell, founder-led entrepreneur, still at the helm, he's a billionaire. They're private, so no shot clock on the public markets. Marius Haas, he's a pro. Howard Elias, a pro. Goulden, he does this thing. On and on and on. I think they got a pretty deep bench. I mean, your thoughts, guys. So, let's think about that. How many bad mergers has EMC gone through? Data domain. Home run. Incredible. Home run. Home run. DSSD. DSD, well, not so much, but that wasn't really that big of a merger. They kind of cleaned that up pretty quickly. Yeah, they did. Just what doesn't work, they get it out quick. So, great management team understands the complexities of mergers. VMware merger, or acquisition, probably one of the best in the history of tech. So, the management team has the chops to understand where the value is added, extract that value, and expand it. I think they- That's a great point. And that's forced too. They know when to leave stuff alone, too. Yeah, they're engineering led, but they're also, because we heard Jeff Pedro on talking about the storage challenges. He's like, we know what to do. We took the lumps trying to late to the game on Flash. We're not going to be the late to the game on these other areas. And he's very hyper focused. But the other thing that we need to talk about is that EMC has just been an impeccably credible sales organization. They know how to sell. They know how to motivate sales people. They know how to tell the enterprise sales motion, which is the biggest challenge in today's industry. Every company I talk to, start up to a growing IPO, as we need better enterprise sales. Look at Google. Look what they're doing in the cloud. They are struggling. Because they have great tech and a horrid sales people. They're hiring young people doing phone work. Enterprise sales is a tricky game. Arguably the best enterprise sales force on the planet is EMC's. I mean, these are the guys who we get on a plane at midnight, we charter a plane at midnight to get to the customer's site to fix a problem. I know why the company does it like that. And Dell has a lot to learn from that. If Dell can really take that knowledge and that culture and absorb it into their own enterprise sales force, they're going to have huge opportunity when they serve it. I want to take a minute to just thank our sponsors for the awesome CUBE coverage. You guys did great. Dell, EMC, Toshiba, Virtustream, Cisco, Datos, Nutanix, Druva, and VMware. Thanks to your support, we had two CUBEs covering VMworld. 20 plus videos a day for three straight days. All that's on youtube.com slash SiliconANGLE. Of course, SiliconANGLE.com for all the journalism and reporting. Wikibon.com for all the great research. And also a shout out to Keith at CTO Advisor. Check him out on Twitter. He's always part of the conversation. Super influential. Guys, great job this week. Just high level marks, my takeaway. Hyperconverged, big time focus of these guys. VMware is the glue. Hybrid cloud. And they're defensively using Pivotal to hold the line on Amazon. So, thoughts on that point.  I just got out with James Water, the SVP within that business unit. Pivotal is a key part of this. You know, Michael has stretched on the CUBE, on Twitter, how important Pivotal is to their long-term success. One of Dell's challenges. Dell EMC's. And this is not just Dell EMC. It's infrastructure companies throughout the landscape. It's getting out of that conversation with the VP of infrastructure. Getting into the offices of the CIO, COCMO, and having these business conversations. And it's going to take a Pivotal type of solution to get that done. I thought Michael made a very great point that that white glove services, that's basically, their service organization is basically the older EMC services organization that's used to getting on the flight, solving the problem, whatever the original statement of work was. They're willing to tear that up, and get down, and get dirty, and get that done. They need to translate that. The question for you then is this. Without Pivotal, they have no play for the app developers. Amazon would wipe, mop that up, and they'd have no position. So I would say it's certainly a placeholder, a good one, I'm not going to deny that. The question is, how big is that market for them? Can they get there? Can they hold a line on Pivotal and bring in some resources and cavalry to keep that going? This is where VMware comes into play. VMware has the relationship with the software layer, at least, and they have a great story to tell. They need to get into the front of the right people and tell that story. That cross-cloud story, I've been able to develop using CF, and then move that to any cloud using NSX. Great story, but John, to your point, they have to get into the right rooms, they have the right conversations, and that's a tough one to do. I also got to give them some time. I mean, this merger happened eight months ago. I think it's pretty remarkable what they've pulled off here in such a short time. And to think about, developers are probably not their first priority. All right, so we're going to do the metadata segment of our wrap-up, which I just made up since it's such a good name, metadata, and the spirit of surveillance. What metadata can you pull out of your interviews, guys, that's a tea leaf that we could read? And just nuanced points, I'll start. Pat Gelsinger talked about Pivotal, Sharon in between the conversations weaved in. Yeah, we had to spin out Pivotal, but I could almost see it in his eyes. He didn't say it specifically, but it's like, we shouldn't have sold it, right? It's because they had to, because he said he had to work on the foundational stuff, get NSX done, get that right. But you almost see that now, it's like, I like to bring that back in, although a separate company. To me, I find that a very interesting data point that that actually makes a lot of sense to your point about VMware. That might be an interesting combination. Why take Pivotal public? Roll it into VMware. Yeah, I think that is going to be an interesting space to watch over the next few months. VMware and Pivotal have started to, once again, come back together with solutions. This NSX cross-cloud talk makes it very compelling. It's hard to predict Dale EMC being relevant long-term. They understand the value short-term. They have a short rope to take advantage of this cross-selling between the Dale and EMC customer. They can grow this business, get revenue short-term, but there will be a cliff where they need to make that transition. Cisco is trying to make that transition into a services company, a software company, and it's hard to turn now one knob and turn the law one up. We'll see if Pat, Michael Dell and the team have the chops to get it done. Cisco has to endure the public markets while they're doing that, which is one advantage Dell has. Data points that you can extract that you take away from this. Synergy, synergy. Two companies this big come together. You're looking at a lot of product line overlap. I came out of this though thinking that there really isn't that much product line overlap. You've got a company that's strong in the mid-market, small companies, companies that's strong in the enterprise, storage, servers, not a lot of overlap there. The big question for me, so I think the synergy question is, this merger makes sense from that perspective, the big question is software. What are they going to do with those software assets? And to your point, the future is going to be software to find everything. And that's not a story they're telling yet. Keith, extracted insight that you observed that was notable that you kind of picked out of the pile of the interviews. Is there anything notable to you? Oh. Something obscure that made you go, wow, I didn't know that. Oh, that's a good piece of the puzzle to put together. You know what? I didn't, just the scale of, you look at the merger, $57 billion, and you're on paper, you're like, okay, that's interesting. But a lot of the numbers coming out, we talked to the senior VP of marketing, and he said, you know what? My guys are making bank. And actually, that's a paraphrase of him. You said that, John, that they're making bank. And one of the things that I worried about was the culture, the sales culture between Dell and EMC. Dell, sales culture, very web based, very, I had a Dell rep, and there was not an awful lot of value add. EMC, you know, the value add, and those guys earned their money. And bringing those two together, and making sure that customers don't miss a beat, and still get that EMC value, but Dell is able to maintain that same cost structure. I thought that was a really complicated thing to do. It seems like they're executing really well on that. And I thought, from a customer's perspective, you want your supplier to make money, and you want it to not be too disruptive, but you want to see some value. It's a great point. I was one of my things of my highlights of my takeaways. Marius has this interview around sales and comp and structure, and there used to a lot of bank those sales guys, and now it's like, hey, we're going to give you a haircut. What? How about making a million dollars in commissions this year? This merger will not work unless the sales organization is in sync. Other notables for me, just that jumped out at me, that kind of made me go, that amplifies the point, that's memorable, is Michael Dell's interview, hits home the point of entrepreneur, founder led guy, okay? And there's only three left in the industry, Allison, Dell, and Bezos, in my mind that are billionaires that are actively, not mailing it in, they're actively driving their business, have a great ethos and culture that is creating durability. I find that the key point for me, that was a moment, I think he does self-divide a little bit too much, which gives me a red flag, like, why is he pushing pivotal so much? What is he hiding? Oh, that's a different story. Michael Dell, founder.  That was a meeting story. Personal and business, almost got fired, remember last year? Pat Gelsinger fired.  And finally, the little nuance in this merger is the alliance opportunity. Dell has the Intel-Wintel-Microsoft relationships from day one. That history, Intel is on stage. EMC's had it, but not at the deep level that Dell did. So I see the alliance teams really grooving here, so that's going to impact channel marketing, SIs, I think you're going to see a massive power base to your scale point around alliances in the industry, the ecosystem.  Either way, it's high octane power, it is a big bet. It's a big bet. Those are my points. Anything that jumped out at you? Final thoughts, interviews? Jeff Townsend threw off an interesting statistic. 70% of the traffic on the internet will be video by 2020. I had never heard that one before, but that has some pretty interesting implications for how infrastructure has to manage it. Yeah, it's great for our business. We're doing video right now. Keith, anything that jumped out at you? Anything else? No, the scale of this show compared to, I've been a Dell role. I've been to EMC world. The energy is different here. I can say that for sure from the EMC worlds and the Dell worlds that I've been at. Customers, I think, are wide-eyed. I've been to plenty of VM worlds. This doesn't quite have the flavor of a VM world, but I think customers are starting to understand the scale of Dell EMC, the entire portfolio. You walk the show floor, you're like, wow, I didn't know that- The relevance has increased. Little bits of this larger Dell technologies that customers are picking up on that they're keying on that there's value there. They have the 800-pound gorilla, the very relevant impact people are taking notice of. If you're a one-product Dell customer, a one-product EMC customer, you're coming to this show for the first time.  All right, guys, great job, Keith. Great to have you, host of theCUBE. Great job, as always. Really appreciate you bringing the commentary to theCUBE. Great stuff. Always a great being here. Great editorial, great insight, great questions. Great to work with you guys. Great to the team. Thanks to our sponsors.  Check out all the videos in the playlist. More coverage, great. Thanks for watching our coverage, special coverage of Dell EMC World 2017. See you next time.


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