Let's me have a packed show today, like seven different stories to get through. So, you know what? We're just gonna jump right in. We got our first story here dealing with Ubisoft. Ubisoft, look, I keep butchering their name. Forgive me, guys. I'm just not really great at pronouncing it. So, let's just establish that right now. That being said, they have a forward event that they just announced happening on literally the 10th of June. Now, that's really cool. And one thing I wanna talk about with this event is that they're live in LA. Now, this is quite fascinating because Ubisoft forwards in the past were basically all digital events. So, we think about the Ubisoft forward in 2021 and 2022. Those were definitely all digital events, sort of following the plan of Nintendo Directs. But then you get into, well, the Ubisoft forward last year where it was still a prerecorded event, but they had people on a stage. And this is the first time that they really returned to stages and they pretended they were talking to an audience that none of us could see. Now, maybe they had developers or something in the room and there just wasn't any noise, that we don't know.  Now, very awkward for us to watch but clearly setting up that Ubisoft was trying to get back to really how we deal with E3 style events. And that was live press conferences. So, the fact they're saying live in LA suggests that they're gonna be doing a live in-person event for fans, game developers and obviously media. We don't really know because the invites and stuff haven't gone out. And whenever we get that information I'll let you guys know as well. I won't be attending in-person but we will be live reacting to it. Now, when it comes to the Ubisoft forward it's really about talking, what can we expect? So, I made a few notes here and really there's kind of three things that we sort of expect to see. One of them is the sands of time remake remaster whatever we wanna call that thing. Look, we've seen it before. It kind of got some negative feedback and then we saw it again and it looked a little better. And now it's been a while. So, we gotta wait and see what they're doing with that. I know that Prince of Persia game is a lot of people excited. Another thing is that they have a mobile version of the division called Resurgence that they actually had last talked about back in 2022 in a Ubisoft forward. And in doing that, well, they haven't really talked about it since they just said it's coming out in 2024. So, I fully suspect that we'll get an update on that mobile game. Now, I know a lot of you guys aren't that interested in the phone game but there is one game you probably aren't interested in and that is Star Wars Outlaws. Now, that game has looked utterly fantastic and is slated to come out this holiday but we don't have a release date. We do need to see more of the game. And honestly, it looks like one of the best Ubisoft projects in some time and that's saying something because look, Prince of Persia, The Lost Crown was really damn good this year. Assassin's Creed Mirage was pretty solid last year. Not the best Assassin's Creed in my opinion but still solid but then you got this year where like all in bones came out and it wasn't really that great. So, they need a hit here and Star Wars Outlaws looks to be it but we need obviously further proof and evidence, maybe even a playable demo would be really nice Ubisoft if you're looking for some ideas. But I guess another big thing to note here is that this is happening on June 10th and it's gonna end up being part of the Summer Game Fest week which begins on the 7th and Ubisoft sometimes teases games at Summer Game Fest and then does it at the Ubisoft forward. So, that shows some stuff to keep in mind and honestly it's just nice to have an announcement for an event this summer. I kinda wish Nintendo would give us a sorta heads up but instead they give us like a day. So, there you go. Now, let's get into our next story because it does deal with Nintendo because fans are getting really, really excited right now about the Mario and Luigi series because Nintendo seems to be really emphasizing it in a survey that has gone out to some fans. Now, I have the entire survey here so we're just gonna show images and kinda go over this. So, the first question on the survey says, this survey is about the games from the Paper Mario series, the Mario and Luigi series and Super Mario RPG. Before answering the survey, had you already heard of any of these Mario games then it just says yes, I've already played, yes, but I've never played any of them and no, but obviously the emphasis be in for us on the Mario and Luigi because we already had Super Mario RPG released last year and the Paper Mario series never went away in general. Now, they then go on to say and which one of these is your absolute favorite and they show Super Paper Mario, Paper Mario Color Splash, Mario and Luigi Super Star of Saga, plus Bowser's Minions, Mario and Luigi Partners in Time, Mario and Luigi Bowser's Inside Story, plus Bowser's Junior's Journey and then Mario and Luigi Dream Team Bros. You can see four of those games are Mario and Luigi games. I think they're really emphasizing, hey, we hope a majority of people picked the Mario and Luigi games, not the other two. So, there is that but they weren't done. The questions kept going. It says below you see a list of features that are common to most games from the Paper Mario series, the Mario and Luigi series and Super Mario RPG. Which of these features do you like? And you can see new gear, new world dialogues, the graphic styles, a whole bunch of stuff in there, the engaging story. So, you can see that Nintendo's getting feedback on what people like most about any of these Mario style RPGs. Then they had another question that said the Paper Mario games and Mario and Luigi games and Super Mario RPG usually include a variety of characters on the one hand. Completely new ones like Gino or Malo from Super Mario RPG but also familiar ones like Peter Bowser. Do you prefer new or familiar characters? So, I find that that question is fascinating because that could have a lot to do with how they shape future Paper Mario RPG and or Mario and Luigi games. So, I find that to be really cool. Then they said when thinking of the behavior or appearance of the familiar characters, which of these statements would you agree with most? I prefer all characters to behave and appear like they do in the Mario games. I prefer the central characters to appear unique or to behave in unexpected ways. I prefer even side characters, example Toads to appear unique or behave in unexpected ways. For me, I obviously prefer the last one where all the characters are unique. But hey, that hasn't always been the case in the games. And the last thing they asked was the Paper Mario, Mario Luigi and Super Mario RPG have offered a wide range of different battle systems and mechanics. Which of these aspects do you like most? And then it goes over literally all of the different battle mechanics and stuff as you're seeing on screen. Now, naturally this has spewed a lot of fire around the mere idea that the Mario and Luigi series could return specifically as a remake or remaster and then naturally a new game after that. Again, we haven't seen the series since the Nintendo 3DS. And that's because Alpha Dream no longer exists, the main developer of it. But there's a lot of emphasis here on specifically the Mario and Luigi series, but obviously lumping in Nintendo's other Mario RPG related series. So I do forgive you guys for being excited about this. I don't know if this is gonna mean anything, but it is just notable, at least in this context, that Mario and Luigi appears to at least be being considered by Nintendo if they're not already having a remake or remaster in the works. Now, speaking of remakes or remasters, we gotta get through our next story because it deals with Paper Mario and the Thousand-Year Door because Nintendo gave us roughly 30-ish seconds, yes, I said-ish, of new footage for Paper Mario the Thousand-Year Door that mostly doesn't show off anything really like super new and exciting. It's just, again, a look at the game and how it visually compares. In fact, we're gonna go ahead and use Gamesplain's comparison video right now just so you guys can see a side-by-side. So credit to them over at Gamesplain for putting a side-by-side together so quickly. And look, while there isn't a ton of new, this has, again, spurred on some of the debates going around. The idea of this being a remake or remaster and that has been raging on for weeks and it's gotten pretty heated.  It doesn't. No, really. You may care and you can argue your reasons one way or another, but come on! You already know that you're going to buy this game, right? The quality of the title won't really be determined by arbitrary labels that often don't even make sense in an industry and get interchanged really as much as the terms leak and rumor does here on YouTube and other social media channels. Despite there being a pretty clear distinction between the two. Yes, that's a pot shot at myself. We're fully self-aware of how this platform works and what needs to be done to be successful on it. It's really a shame that such tactics are actually needed, but Paper Mario the Thousand-Year Door doesn't need to pretend to be one thing or another. It just needs to be itself because it was once a truly great game and it's back to reclaim the crown as the best Mario RPG title ever. Now this next story would deal with the boss of Tekken, the guy who runs the Tekken franchise, essentially saying that, hey, kids today prefer to play multiplayer games because when they lose, they get to blame everybody but themselves. Yes, this is actually something he went on to say we have a lot of quotes here. So let's get into what Katsuhiro Harada said the boss of the Tekken franchise when talking about how 1v1 fighting games can evolve. It seems to me the way fighting games are played has evolved over time with the generations. In Japan and probably most of the world, my generation is a big one. It makes up a good chunk of the population that made our society a competitive one. If you applied to a school or for a job, there was always a lot of competition. Because of this, people in my generation prefer definitive outcomes, a clear winner and loser. This applies to folks in and around their 50s but most young people nowadays are the opposite. They're rarely eager to engage in one-on-one showdowns plus because fighting games pit you by yourself against a single opponent. You have to accept all the responsibility if you lose. You can't blame anyone else. In team-based shooters, when players win, they consider they won because of their own contributions but when they lose, it's because they got matched by a lousy team. Some games even give out individual awards to each and every player. Now Harada does go on to say that he's been thinking about how to incorporate this cultural shift into the fighting genre to help make it appear to the younger generation of players and he did so by stating the following. I'm not saying we should suddenly turn a fighting game into a puzzle game or a real-time strategy game. I still think there's a demand for games like this, this sort of hand-to-hand fighting. Now what I find fascinating obviously about this is I feel like it's sort of a blanket statement that all kids prefer to play on teams and all of that. What I find fascinating about that sort of claim is I have children myself and they play games like Fortnite and other multiplayer style games but they're almost always playing by themselves and they're not even going on random teams. Like my daughter will just literally do solos on Fortnite. It's not that big of a deal and she totally blames herself for sucking at the game when she loses. So I don't know that this is a really blanket, true statement and I can understand my household maybe in a video game YouTuber running a channel like the Nintendo Prime and VG News might not be a typical home for a lot of children but I do think that this is sort of a too big of a blanket assumption. Like he literally said, people in their 50s, well I'm not in my 50s and I love one-on-one stuff whether it's basketball, whether it's tennis, that's sports related, whether it's video games. I love doing one-on-one stuff. I'm very competitive. I don't think that's just something for people in their 50s. And I'm actually seeing some of this actually starting to resurge with the youth. How many times are we seeing a lot of sports and people challenging people to one-on-one in their early 20s? So I honestly don't think that this is actually a blanket, true statement. I think if the idea that the problem with one-on-one fighting games and not being more popular than they are, if he thinks it's just because it's not a group fighting game like a Smash Bros. I would say that there's a little truth that those type of games are just more popular because people like to play with their friends. But I will also note that there's probably ways you can make the one-to-one fighter more popular and more appealing without considering, hey, some people prefer playing with friends. So I just want to throw it out there that he does know that there's a place for the games. I don't agree with his entire assessment. And I think it's kind of weird anytime someone assesses an entire group of, well, millions, billions of people, because it will just be honest, there's billions of children in the world and saying that they're all this way and all this stuff when there's clearly a huge chunk that aren't. So I don't know. I'm just, I kind of disagree with this statement, but I know that he's just talking about how to make tech in more popular. Now, next up we're gonna be talking about Nintendo Live because we got some news related to the event that was supposed to happen earlier this year out in Japan. But before we dive into that news, I wanna give you a little history on Nintendo Live. So Nintendo Live's been around for a while. And I just want to be honest, it really felt like we needed some sort of live Nintendo event, an in-person event for fans and media to go to, to play and experience Nintendo because E3 was on the way out. And E3 is gone today. And I would say that Nintendo Live exists because E3's gone. If it wasn't for the fact that Nintendo Live's been around since 2018 when E3 still existed. Now it was only in Japan. They had multiple Japan events in 2018 and then they did it again in 2019. And these events included mostly just video game tournaments and all of that stuff. There were some game demos, but they were mostly for games that were already out. And then the event went away in 2020 and 2021 due to the pandemic. You couldn't really do public meetups pretty much in any country. It was a worldwide crisis. So what I find fascinating about this is when they brought Nintendo Live back in 2022 they again only went to Japan. Now I'm all cool with that and them just doing something at their home base. But last year's when things got fascinating they brought Nintendo Live for the first time to Seattle and they did it during September and they paired it up with Pax West. And from all accounts it seems to be a very successful thing. I talked to several people who went they had a very good time the feedback from Nintendo employees seemed to be that it was a very worthwhile event. And it's notable because the Seattle one was one of the rare times at Nintendo Live included the ability to play a yet to be released game in Super Mario Bros. Wonder. Now turning the event not just from tournaments and cool fan things and concerts but also turning it into a way for Nintendo to let fans go hands-on with yet to be released games in the same way E3 did. So that is really cool and really fascinating to see if that's gonna happen again at a Nintendo Live in Washington or Seattle this year. Now what I do wanna note however is that there was supposed to be a Nintendo Live this year and that Nintendo Live ended up well let's just say not happening due to threats to people's lives. I can't say the actual word here on YouTube on what happened but it's one of those things where very, very disheartening to see a major Nintendo event broken up taken away, concerts split away. Can't do this in-person thing because one person wanted to cause a ruckus. Well the story today is that according to the newspaper Kyoto Shimbum via 4Gamer the suspect is a man in his 20s that they have now apprehended and a local government official in the Ibaraki Prefecture. He's suspected of interfering with Nintendo's business by sending multiple death threats via the Inca reform on the company's official website last year. The motive behind the crime is currently unknown. It's very unfortunate that this is something that happened and obviously the good news is everyone is safe but obviously even better news that they at least have a suspect that they believe was responsible for the threats and I hope that this hasn't scared Nintendo away from doing future Nintendo Lives and obviously in Japan they're not quite as used to the death threats as we are here in the US we're used to the death threats and the BOMB threats so we have a lot of protocols in place to protect and deal with that where we don't have to cancel every event over it. Japan though doesn't deal with a lot of that kind of stuff. So this is kind of like a culture shock when you're getting literal death threats coming in through submission forms on your website which to me would not really be that big of a red flag but for a company in Japan and government officials that aren't used to it I can understand why, hey you don't want to take any risk you don't want Miyamoto and others and fans in attendance being in danger. So hopefully this helps them put protocols in place to not have to shut things down like this in the future and obviously figure out who the individuals are who are responsible, faster. Now one of our final stories and we have one more after this could be a bonus story added on while I was recording previews have dropped for Hellblade II. Now Hellblade II was originally revealed all the way back in 2019 at the game awards when the Xbox Series X was available it was the game to show off the hardware and it made people really, really excited. Now this is Ninja Theory's latest offering and there's one little thing that's cropped up from interviews and the previews that has created a little bit of controversy although how big of a deal it is we'll have to wait and see but the general takeaway from all the previews is that this is an amazing game it's near perfection from a gameplay stance if you enjoy the original Hellblade you have no reason you won't love this one and there's one consistent theme from every preview this is apparently the most visually stunning game any of these journalists have ever played now that is a very, very bold statement to make but then we are talking about Ninja Theory who put together a visual stunner as an indie studio on a shoestring budget so now you take them, throw them with Microsoft and give them a AAA budget and you're gonna go damn what could Ninja Theory really do and it appears a pretty damn visual impressive feast so that's one thing also you always have to give Ninja Theory credit because this game, the titular character Senua she is actually someone with extreme mental illness that is negatively affecting her that she somehow uses as a strength to persevere and be stronger and deal with actual things happening in the world so I find it just to be a really fascinating franchise overall and this is one of those rare cases where a big company like Microsoft acquiring a studio may have turned out to be a blessing because Ninja Theory just didn't have the money to keep taking Hellblade to the next level then they were given that budget hopefully it gets the appropriate sales success as well to go along with it which might be difficult when the Xbox hasn't sold as much the game's also launching on PC now that's notable because the game is actually locked at 30 FPS on Xbox Series S and Series X there's no graphics modes, there's no performance modes it's just the game just runs it's an old school way of doing gaming well I'm okay with that what I find interesting is that a lot of journalists are excusing it saying well hey this is a slower pace game slower combat so the 30 FPS isn't as big of a deal as you might think and I'm sure the game is perfectly playable as at 30 FPS look I'm a Nintendo Switch guy we're a Nintendo YouTube channel I clearly play a ton of games at 30 FPS on Switch every day so I get that but this isn't the Nintendo Switch this is a current generation platform and PC now notably it will be at 60 FPS or above on PC depending on your given hardware but what I find fascinating is that the developers in an interview gave an excuse their excuse for 30 FPS on the Xbox Series S and X is it's more cinematic that's not what the term cinematic means it has to do with the visual and aesthetic quality of a viewing medium whether it's video games, movies, etc it does not have to do with frame rate so already not really the proper use although this isn't the first time we've seen game developers try to justify 30 FPS as being close to 24 FPS and thus more cinematic in fact if you think 24 FPS is cinematic why not just make it a lot 24 FPS why are we going to 30? just saying if it's more cinematic at 24 then why are we giving those extra 6 frames that doesn't make any sense you know what also doesn't make sense that even movies and TV shows aren't always you know let's just say 24 FPS you know a movie that I guess isn't cinematic or maybe it's twice as cinematic Avatar the Way of Water did you guys know that film was shot at 48 FPS and that's what it was displayed at in movie theaters and at home on streaming services and all the DVDs and Blu-rays and stuff I guess Avatar the Way of Water is either twice as cinematic as a normal video being twice the cinematic frame rate or it's cinematic just aren't based on frame rate at all that's really the bigger oh maybe the argument is that the Way of Water avatar is not cinematic at all because it's too many frames I mean that seems to be what they're insinuating if the game can run at more than 30 FPS on the Xbox Series X at least very dumb argument we have movies out there at 60 FPS right now which yeah do feel a little strange to get used to when you're so used to watching lower frame rate movies but honestly you watch enough of the 60 FPS movies you can get kind of used to it Gemini Man is one that infamously has a I don't say infamously but famously has a 4K ultra Blu-rayed version that's at 60 FPS and to me I think it looks just fine but I'm busy watching 60 FPS videos on YouTube and making them all the time so I'm kind of getting used to the whole 60 FPS thing but I just find this all funny that this is even a thing and being justified I think the game's gonna be incredible on the Xbox and even better on PC based on what they're saying here I just don't make an argument that the 30 FPS choice has to do with making something more cinematic and I gotta be honest I think it had to do with just making version parity between the SNX version why you couldn't offer like an increase in frame rates on the Xbox Series X is beyond me it is a more powerful by a decent margin than the original Xbox Series S but that's not the humor there we just have to let that go because if we didn't we could be here all day complaining about a game that I actually think is gonna be pretty good now our last story we're gonna bust out the phone because this is coming from our dear friend Paul Gale who is a maestro of news and he really keeps up on sales data and he sent me the latest Famitsu sales data which I find to be really interesting I'll show it here because Princess Peach Showtime is still number one two weeks in a row and has now sold over 100,000 units in Japan that's really cool Rise of Ronin's sitting there at number two then we see winning post 10, 2024 the Nintendo Switch version at three Mario Kart 8 Deluxe at four because that game just will not stop selling Dragon's Dogma 2 at number five Super Mario Bros Wonder at number six winning post 10 for PS5 at number seven Minecraft at number eight Animal Crossing New Horizons at nine and Splatoon 3 at 10 and then the hardware sales here are fascinating of course Nintendo Switch is the number one overall selling platform again at 57,533 PS5 at 20,864 and Xbox Series S at 1,376 now one reason why I wanted to go with Paul Gale networks break down on this isn't because we can't get this data other websites that even show combined total sales of games that he didn't fit in his tweet here what I find interesting though is what he does to compare the sales of the platforms compared to last year so last year up till now the Nintendo Switch was at 936,351 units this year in 2024 it's at 721,741 showing a clear year over year decline in sales which look it's expected we're almost to year eight of Nintendo Switch so yeah it's gonna be expected to be declining in sales this is the interesting one last year up till now the PlayStation 5 was at 858,644 units running really damn close with the Nintendo Switch but in 2024 it's dropped to 494,706 units Sony you might want to release some games people actually want to play a bit more often than once a year I'm just throwing that out there okay they released a bit more but they had a couple of duds last year so did Xbox by the way so did Nintendo so I guess everyone's just dropping duds it happens but last year up till now the Xbox Series S was at our Xbox Series System it should say it was at 36,401 and they have the smallest decline although percentage wise it's probably similar to Nintendo dropping down to 29,031 this year although we'll see if Hellblade boosts anything cause Hellblade sending with sacrifice I forgot to mention comes out May 21st so I find this to be fascinating and yes I know there was actually really good games released by these systems last year as well right we had Tears of the Kingdom and Mario Wonder, Pikmin 4 Spider-Man 2, Hello Final Fantasy 16 that people really enjoyed so yes there's been some good games out there but there's been duds let's not pretend that that didn't happen that being said I'm just really excited about where this industry is going I also find it fascinating that PlayStation has already seen declines in sales which is quite interesting to me at least I mean I guess it's normal it's like year 4 or 5 of the platform like we should be probably expecting declines in sales which is crazy cause it feels like the generation's only just getting going then again that's probably why the PlayStation 5 Pro was supposedly coming later this year so it could boost sales and for Switch well look they're supposed to be a new platform eventually I don't know when do you know when? look we thought it was gonna be 2024 now it's sounding like 2025 but maybe it's still 2024 look we don't really know Nintendo can you just tell us already seriously I mean it would certainly make these VG news episodes more exciting anyway guys thank you so much for tuning in we'll catch you tomorrow 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One of my favorite shows to watch on YouTube is The Pivot. The Pivot has Ryan Clark, former Pittsburgh Steeler, and Washington Commander, and also has Channing Crowder, former Miami Dolphin, and also Fred Taylor, former Jacksonville Jaguar, and for a brief stint he played with the Patriots too, I believe. But anyway, it has those three former NFL players and on there they'll bring on different guests, whether it be football players, whether it be music artists, whether it be whoever, and they do a great job of interviewing them. They have a very, very, very nice dynamic. Today's guest on the show was none other than Baltimore Raven's new running back, Derek Henry. He had a lot of interest and stuff to say. They had a lot of interest and stuff to say about him in the new situation, of course, with him and Lamar Jackson, him and Pat Ricard. Derek Henry talked about Zay Flowers, Mark Andrews. He talked about the team, talked about how he wouldn't want his son to play football. He talked about growing up in Florida. How's the small town? Everybody knew everybody talked about it. He talked about a lot of stuff. But I think somebody that was watching, they were sitting back here watching and they were probably thinking, man, that should have been me. Was the guy who we talking about in today's video, Mr. J.K. Dolphins. I think he probably watched that and maybe got a little jealous and said, you know what, let me send these people a reminder just in case they forgot who I am, what I can do and the fact that I am available. Called his agent, he said agent, send the text. And this is the report that we got today. It says, free agent running back J.K. Dolphins has been cleared for football activities. Dr. Neal, a trashy wrote in a letter to select teams today. I wonder who those select teams were. Anyway, it says noting, Dolphins looks outstanding. Coming off of a torn Achilles. Dolphins, who averages 5.8 yards per carry in his career is expected to take visits soon. So J.K. Dolphins, he read that and he said, okay, let's make a few edits and whatnot. Then that was the final copy. He said, oh yeah, looks good to me. Go ahead and send it. Now, with J.K. Dolphins, should the Baltimore Ravens bring back J.K. Dolphins? Because I've seen that's a conversation that a lot of Ravens fans have been having recently. We're gonna get into that very, very shortly. But before we do, make sure you subscribe to the channel. We are almost, slowly but surely, getting to 75,000 subscribers. So that's gonna be a beautiful thing when we get there. But I appreciate all y'all that have been helping us get there. So subscribe to the channel, turn your notifications on and run them likes all the way up. Like we said in the previous video, I know that your time is extremely valuable. So I appreciate the fact that y'all spend so much of your time with us on a daily basis. Literally every single day. Todos los días. I appreciate y'all a lot. So thank you, I love you. And somebody else who we got a lot of love for was J.K. Dolphins. J.K. Dolphins has some fun moments throughout his Ravens career. Will his career be over with the Baltimore Ravens? Now, we'll see. Because they obviously got a new sheriff in town at the running back position in Derrick Henry. They have a returning running back in Justice Hill. And they have another returning running back who we don't know when he's gonna return yet though. And that being Keaton Mitchell. John Harbaugh did stay the other day. He said, hey, we've been talking to J.K. Dolphins and Dalvin Cook about the possibility of those guys coming back that's one of the other bowls. We'll see. Maybe none, but we'll see. But with J.K. Dolphins, what do y'all think? Do y'all think it'll be a good idea if the Baltimore Ravens brought him back? I feel like people are, I don't feel like anybody's on the fence with this one at all. I've seen a lot of Ravens fans say either, yes, the Ravens need to bring him back.  He needs to be at Baltimore Raven this year. Let him come back for one more run. Then I've seen other people on the other side say, no, let him go. J.K. Dolphins does not need to be at Baltimore Raven in the year 2024. He's done, need to move on. And I get where both sides are coming from because the side that wants him back is like, hey, J.K. Dolphins got all the qualities of a running back one, but the only thing that's been in his way, which is a huge thing that has been in his way has been injuries. But then the people who don't want J.K. Dolphins back, they may feel the exact same way. Hey, he got all the potential of a running back one, but the only big thing that's been in his way has been injuries. And for that, they don't want him to return. The way I feel about J.K. Dolphins, I do feel like it would not be a bad thing if the Baltimore Ravens brought him back, but it would need to be one of those deals. It's not my money. And of course, this would be up to J.K. Dolphins to even accept such a thing because he doesn't have to. He could go somewhere else and they may give him more guaranteed money and whatnot. But I think if the Baltimore Ravens brought him back, it would be wise of them to give him a deal where it was he got per game roster bonuses. And what that means is that if he plays, then he gets paid. But if he didn't play, then he wouldn't get paid. And I think that would be smart because that would protect the Baltimore Ravens. It wouldn't necessarily protect a J.K. Dolphins, but he would be somewhere that he's very familiar with in a system that he knows. He didn't get to play in it too much. He played in it for a partial game, but he was learning it for an entire off season. So that would give him a shot to be behind Derrick Henry. And cause you know, Ravens do running back by committee. Now that they got Derrick Henry, I wonder if things will be a bit different because Derrick Henry in Tennessee, that was not running back by committee at all. It was Derrick Henry and that's it. He even talked about how one time in high school, he talked about this on a pivot. I know you're gonna watch it. He talked about one time in high school how he got 57 carries in a game, 57 carries in a game. Like when the last time you heard of a Ravens running back, even getting 30 carries in a game, getting 25 carries in it, that doesn't happen at all. Like for a Ravens running back to get 57 carries, that's probably like, that might be like six, seven games. Like for real, because you know Ravens running back, they might get like 10 here, maybe 12 here. Ooh, 15 if you're feeling lucky, but you ain't gonna get that much. So now I just wonder how the dynamic is gonna be now that is Derrick Henry. Are they gonna still do this running back by committee? Or is he really gonna be the focal point when it comes to the running back room? We'll see soon, but what about J.K. Dobbins? We of course, we saw that video maybe about a month ago where J.K. Dobbins was running on a treadmill, and we couldn't tell if he was 100% or not, cause he was doing these quick sprints, but they weren't like sprints down a football field, anything like that, but they was quick sprints in a room, and he did look good doing them. But now this is big for him because again, this said that he's been cleared for football activities. Now, something that was very interesting that we spoke about briefly is that they wrote in a letter to select teams. So they ain't sent this letter to everybody, but they sent this letter to select teams, letting them know like, hey, I got J.K. He's available. And I wonder if, again, we talk about timing all the time, and the timing of this is very interesting because not because of the Derrick Henry on the pivot podcast, we were just joking about that, but more seriously, the timing of the running back market, because the first big wave of free agency has passed already. So now free agency, people are still getting signed, of course, but free agency has kind of quieted down a lot, especially with the running backs. Say Kwan Barkley, he got the big money. Of course, Derrick Henry, he got signed to the Ravens, Josh Jacobs, he got the big four year, 48 million dollar deal with the Packers. DeAndre Swift, he got signed by the Bears, I believe. So all the top running backs, they are off the market, and it's quieted down, it's quieted down a lot. So I think this timing, it says a lot to me because I think it's J.K. Dobbins trying to take advantage like, all right, hey, I'm ready, I'm here, I'm available, that first wave of running backs that's done and over with now, but yeah, I'm not gonna make as much money as them, but let me get on with a team, cause I'm ready. And with this being March, they got a while still, they got a while till they start the OTA, is the organized team activities, and obviously an even longer period of time before they start training camp. So this will be a great time for him to get on, especially, again, timing. The timing of this is very, very important, and it's something that we have to pay attention to. If I'm J.K. Dobbins, I wanna sign somewhere before the draft that's coming up in a month, because with J.K. Dobbins, it's tough, man, because again, good running back, very good running back, but the injuries have absolutely destroyed his career.  Oh, they got a clean bill of health. Oh, they don't have four years in the NFL already that have been just derailed by injuries. I don't have to worry about that with this rookie coming out. So that would make all the sense in the world why J.K. Dobbins and his camp would put this out now. So he can get signed ASAP, he can get as much guaranteed money as he possibly can from whatever team is gonna be ASAP, because the longer it takes J.K. Dobbins to get signed, in my opinion, the less guaranteed money that he would get. I think it would already be hard enough for him to get a significant amount of guaranteed money with his injury history, because nobody's gonna want to shell out a bunch of guaranteed money to somebody who's missed so many games over the course of their four year career. But see, the thing that's on J.K.'s side is just his ability, what he has put on film over the past four years. And when he does play, he's good. He's really good, but he just gotta be out there. That's why I think if the Baltimore Ravens did bring him back, it would be heavy on the incentives, the per game incentives, the per game roster bonuses, if he was active on game day, that it would be heavy, heavy, heavy on that. But at the same time, even if the Ravens don't bring him back, whatever team he goes to, I think the contract will be constructed like that. I think J.K. Dobbins will get anywhere from a one to a two year deal. But I think if any guarantees at all, they'll be crazy low. And it'll be something that he really has to earn because he gotta gain a lot of people's trust back. He gotta show these teams, these franchises, like, hey, I can play, I can last a four season, I can do it. But at the same time, a lot of these teams may already have their running backs. And if they don't have their running backs, then they could be looking at the draft like, oh, we got plenty of cheap options through the draft. We ain't gotta use a first round pick. You could, but you ain't got to. You could use a second round pick, third, fourth, fifth, whatever you use, it can be a lot cheaper than signing a free agent. So it's gonna be interesting to see what happens with J.K. Dobbins, where he ends up taking those visits to, what teams ended up getting this letter. But we are rooting for J.K. Dobbins. I do want to see a workout for him. I would love to see him running healthy. And, you know, by how things have been going, by how they almost looking like the former Ravens, Avengers or something over there, I wouldn't be surprised if he ended up over there in LA with the charges with Greg Roman, with Gus Edwards, with the tight end Hayden Hurst, with Jim Harbaugh, with Bradley Bolesman, and whatever other former Ravens end up over there real soon.


Live from San Francisco, it's theCUBE, covering Informatica World 2016. Brought to you by Informatica. Now, here are your hosts, John Furrier and Peter Burris. Okay, welcome back everyone. We are here live in San Francisco for Informatica World 2016. This is SiliconANGLE Media's theCUBE. It's our flagship program. We go out to the events and extract the signal from the noise. I'm John Furrier, my co-host, Peter Burris. We're excited to have back on theCUBE Jim Davis, executive vice president, chief marketing officer for Informatica. Good to see you. Welcome back to theCUBE. This is your event. Yeah, thank you. And thank you all for being here. This is great. Appreciate the support. Obviously, yeah, yeah. As a marketing officer, this is your event. This is, it's sold out. But this is where you bring everybody in. And you have a comprehensive offering. You're from deep tech to sea level conversations. You were emceeing also the executive summit yesterday. What's going on? What's the key message that you're putting out there? What's the center of gravity for Informatica here at this show? Yeah, that's a great question. There's a lot we can talk about here. I think this is an important show for us because this is our first show under new ownership being a privately held company. So hopefully people can appreciate the fact of where we're headed. Going private is actually a very good thing in terms of being able to really look at our business and how we want to evolve. The message here is really one of disruption and data creating that disruption among business right now. So as you look at what's going on in the marketplace right now, what is it that organizations need to do to not only thrive but also survive in these particular markets? And it's not just about talking about the technology. Let's talk about why we're using the technology and what sort of business problems we're trying to solve. And as we talked about at the executive summit, we talked about the importance of disrupting your own organization before somebody else comes in and disrupts it. And you guys talk about data 3.0, which it's kind of oversimplifying it, but basically data is at the center of everything that you guys do. So from an informatic standpoint, you're not like groping into other markets. It's just clearly about data. It is about data and it's about, and I like what our CEO laid out with 1.0, 2.0, and 3.0. And it is simple, but it's a great way of looking at it. The data has reached a point where it's a strategic asset within an organization. It's something that we have to be able to leverage. We have to appreciate it and we have to respect it. You know, as an entrepreneur and founder of SiliconANGLE and the team, and we're growing, I can appreciate what Informatic has done. And what's interesting, I love to get your thoughts on this because just how hard it is to be a public company with a 90-day shot clock going on, and then going private and all that. But what you guys have done on the product side has been very interesting. And I'd like to get your thoughts and your view on how that's translating into execution now from your standpoint. You know, two years ago, 2014, I interviewed Anil when he was just a lowly chief product officer. Now he's the CEO. Very important position on my dad. Now he's the CEO, so you can see how things are turning out. We'll get to that.  But he laid out, essentially, we were talking about that time, pretty cutting-edge concepts. At that point, Amazon was clearly on the horizon. None of the analysts except for Wikibon pegged a $10 billion horizon quickly. Everyone saw this as a toy. It's a joke in the enterprise. It's clearly all wrong. And he laid out, essentially, he's talking about engagement data, and he's talking about data at a deep level. That product roadmap panned out. Yeah, it did. To this story today. How is that translating into execution? Because you have this competency, kind of scorecard or benchmark or progress. I don't know what you call it, but wait for people to understand the complexity of how the products have moved into the market, and how they've changed the deployment options. Yeah, the deployment options and the technology is extremely robust now. I think you're absolutely right in terms of what Informatica has accomplished over the last two years. Everything from dealing with a very robust MDM environment where we can help people create this customer 360 view or a product 360 view. Those things are great. And so where we are today is, all right, all the tools are there, and you have the data within your organization. But then the question becomes, what the, and we utilize this thing called the enterprise competency, the data competency model, is how ready is your organization to tackle the task of bringing data up to a level? Where is the strategic asset that everybody relies on in support of decision-making? And so we kind of introduced these five stages, with the purpose being, if you want to make progress, you've got to look in the mirror first and appreciate where you are on a foundational level. Get the entire management team to say, oh, I see where we are in this model. I see what we can do. I see what we could do if we moved up the model. And I got a feeling our competitors might be at these stages. So it gets everybody focused in on the effort of utilizing data and support of decision-making. Yeah, and the thing also, I think I may have said the comment of, you get the keys to the kingdom, because he was thinking about the horizontal data, really early on about that, and hearing it here, that's paying off, because as you get more pressures, regulatory pressures, the store stuff, having the MDM, Cloud MDM is a big deal. It is a big deal. Talk about how that's being well received. How do you message that? Because it's complicated, data's hard. How do you message that? How do you talk about it? That's a really good point, and that's where we are today. It's not just about feature functions, speed, speeds and feeds. We should be implementing these things and establishing an intelligent data platform within our organizations, but we should be doing it with business benefit in mind. We shouldn't be doing anything less so we can quantify the business benefit associated with a particular project. It's not a big bang approach. It's not about IT going out and saying I'm going to take all these pieces and parts from Informatica, and I'm going to massage my data and I'm going to put it over here so people can start using it. No, let's talk about the problems within the organization. Is it customer profitability? Is it risk? Is it fraud? What are the things that we want to accomplish in short periods of time that has a quantifiable business benefit?  How does that change your target audience? Now the TAM increases because obviously when you look at the bigger picture you're told just what market's going to be pretty big. And so you got to have to have a bigger play out so the revenue will kick in behind that and that's working from what we can see in the interviews. But the old Informatica would target, there's the data guy, we're going to target him, he's doing data warehousing, all this stuff. Now it seems to shift. As it shifted, who's the primary target audience that you guys are talking to and who's the secondary target audience? There are two audiences and you got to take them in tandem. So the IT audience does not disappear by any means, they're still doing the heavy lifting, they're making things happen. So we need to continue to be the gold standard from an IT perspective. They need to see us as somebody who is absolutely the best in class and the leader in terms of what we can do. But the budgets are shifting. The budgets are shifting to the business users.  Why all of a sudden? Well, I think people have come to the realization that data can be a differentiator within the business. So that's why things are shifting. So we have to have those discussions at a business level with not only the business unit but also the IT organization. Because whether people believe it or not, you know, there's always been this feeling that there's a separation between IT and business. It's IT and business are not as far apart as people think anymore. They are working together. Yeah, and also the SaaS apps coming from the business lines of business as well. Yeah, well, I mean, IT has certain characteristics with marketing too. It's a shared services organization that many elements within the business are laying claims on and you have to prioritize accordingly. It's not an easy thing to do. But come back to this notion of data as an asset. Yes. Big statement, not broadly understood, has an enormous impact ultimately on the tools that you built and the habits that people exist or exhibit as they think about data as a resource to be employed. Where are we really when we think about data as an asset? Well, and that is interesting. That's a great question because that gets back to this enterprise data competency model. You look at where people are in terms of their usage of data, what the potential is. And most people are stuck right now. They're using data, but they're using it at a departmental level. So the marketing department might have a particular view of a customer, but the organization doesn't understand what the customer represents to them across business units. The good news is management teams, executive teams and boards understand the importance of that effort. Are they there yet? Have they accomplished it yet? No, they haven't, but they understand the importance. We had at our executive summit yesterday, we actually had a session, which was board level issues around data. We had a private equity guy on, we had a CEO on, and we had a board member on. And we talked about how do boards look at data? And today when evaluating a company and the value of that company, they're looking at data and how the organization's using data and they are putting a premium on an organization if they are valuing data as an asset. But today that's goodwill. And it's got to be a little bit more, it's got to be a little bit more specific than that. Don't you think? It does. And one of our board members, senior board members that was on the panel, said that his expectation today is that people have to use data. He doesn't want anybody coming to him or the rest of the board and say, I think we ought to do this. He wants to see the data. So show me the data in support of why you think we need to move in a particular direction. So that begins to filter down. So is it the board's responsibility to make sure data's an asset? No, it has to come at it from all angles. Well, the board has to set the overall stage for how the corporation needs to look at data as an asset. But it's not going to put a price on everything individually. That's what that would take forever. But for example, so you're in marketing, you're a CMO, you look at your customer lists which have a very specific context within marketing for perhaps doing an email campaign. And so that list, that data has a specific value in the context of an email campaign. But that same data can be applied to a dozen or hundreds of other applications, all of which have different profiles, different value profiles. How is Informatica helping not just putting the tools in place to think about that, but actually getting the business to think way beyond specific applications and start to look at more broadly how you go about valuing your data. Yeah, and that's part of the educational process, right? Because it's possible to do these things with technology, but we also need to talk about what's possible. And to your example of, I've been marketing and I want to do an email campaign to an individual. I don't want to do it just based on a list I bought or my install-based list. I also want to look at the demographic of that individual and I want to look at the experience that they've had with Informatica over time. So I want to look, what have they been doing from a call center standpoint, a tech support standpoint? What about a finance standpoint? Are they a customer in good standing? Data which is in finance or service or somebody else in the world. Got to bring it together. And this is where things like master data management come together and these are very powerful technologies that are within the IT organization. That can do that work for the CMO. Can do that work for the finance officer. Can do that work for somebody in tech support. To really understand what's the total value of this individual to the company. And most people aren't there yet. And but it's interesting at this conference, everybody's talking about it. They know that that will give them that edge that they're looking for to better serve their customers. Because today it is all about customer experience. Talk about the valuation thing. Peter and I were talking about how hard it is to try to put a value on it. And he had a phrase yesterday that we talked about which was data with purpose, data in context. And the purpose of the data is really where this data lake thing comes in. We had some of the informatic folks talking about like you can data swamp but it can be great when you get to write data out of it. It's no longer a swamp. It's actually good data. So the whole data quality thing is nuanced but the point is it's how you use the data. It is. How do you value that? Like how do you put on the balance sheet? We had someone say, hey, how does that? No, Jim and Jerry Held said CFOs know where all the numbers are. They can put it back on the napkin. They can provide reports where the assets are. But a chief data officer might be like scratching their heads like, well, I really can't value. Hasn't a hard time valuing data. How does that fit into your view of things? Yeah, if I look at it and I say, number one, if I'm looking at an organization and kind of grading them on scale in terms of how well they're using data, you can kind of feel it from a cultural perspective. You can talk to people and you can say, how are you making decisions? Up and down the organization. Not just at certain levels. You want to see, is it truly ingrained into the culture in terms of how people make decisions? The other thing that a chief data officer, you brought the CDO into play here, what they can do is help people understand there's lots of data in the organization. What data sources do you trust? And what data sources do you say, I might explore here, but I'm not going to make a significant business decision based on that data. And I think that's important. And if you see in organizations that's doing that, saying this is grade A data, this is grade C data, you know that they're headed in the right direction and they're getting into the data governance and data quality. You can kind of get a feel for who's got the data mindset and employee. Yeah, you can. At MIT, we did the chief data officer event in Cambridge last year. One of the things that came out, I want to ask this question specifically around this, around the chief data officer, is the conflict between compliance and holding down the fork and organic innovation. Because really your message here at Informatica World, the kind of the theme that's coming out of all the different releases and conversations is innovation. The innovation opportunity and the strategies that your customers is to use the data to create innovation value. Yes. Get that. That's very clear. But now that might be in direct conflict with the guy who's like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, we'll get the keys of the kingdom, lock them down, let's not make the data too free, freely available, but yet you also want to make the data freely available. So how do you see that evolving? And what have you seen working in the marketplace where you want to kind of have some security and compliance, but yet foster a bottoms up innovation? That's a great question. I've been thinking a lot about this. And if you think about the Chief Data Officer, the CDO, one of the things you can check out immediately when you walk into an organization is where does the CDO report? And I've seen it report in one of the three places. So is the CDO reporting to the Chief Finance Officer, the CFO, I've seen that. So they're looking at exposure, they're looking at risk, they're looking at things like that. Does the CDO report to IT? No, that could be a control issue or maybe not. Does the CDO report to the Chief Operating Officer? Okay, chances are if it does, then maybe that they're looking at data as an asset and looking at what they can do to use data to help to support the business. But there has to be more in place too. I always ask people, and I may have talked about this before, is ask yourself, do you have a help desk for data in your organization? You have a help desk for logging onto your computer in the morning, if your internet fails, if you need to understand a function in Excel, what value is that? Well, it just kind of keeps people going. But how are you containing and retaining the institutional knowledge associated with how data is used across the enterprise? Somebody new comes to work and you give them a task. Do you want them to run around the building for three months trying to figure out who really knows what they're talking about and what data can I use? Why not go to this help desk and say, hey, what's been done before? What tools work? What data is of value? And who can I talk to and help me? So as we move. That's interesting. Shree from Potonini, GTO of JLL, big real estate guy, was just on the Cube, and he was saying the millennials in the younger generation, they're self-discovering. They love self-service. So that seems to be kind of like if there's a help desk kind of concept, that means there's some sort of facility out there or operationalized portal or app. And combine that with, so you've got the help desk and say you have a data lake capability. So you get pointed in the right direction, you've got a data lake that you can use for discovery purposes. And you're going to say, hey, I might have something going on here. And then you can take stuff from that data lake and start to do something that's very specific and focused. Innovation usually requires, at some point in time, some human-human interaction. It does, discovery. And data's hard. And so while someone who perhaps is very familiar with the concept of data and the use of data, and very familiar with the structures in place and the terminology and the concepts that are used, you might be able to do that self-service. But that's not everybody in the organization. And we're not building these enormous data assets so that 87 business analysts out of a population of 20,000 employees can do their jobs better. We're building these assets so 20,000 employees can say, what is it that I do? How do I, and when do I do with customers? And how can I do my job better? And is there data that can help me do my job better? And so the entire goal is to get this flowing within the business more broadly and we're going to need people to grease those wheels. And so I think it's a great idea, the notion of a data help desk, if we're really serious about these assets and in reality as we move to cloud, as we get BYO, bring your own devices and whatnot, it means that the perspective needs to move up into what's really generating value in the business, even if it's not properly accounted for, which is the data. Yeah. And you bring up an interesting point. If you want 20,000 people to use it as opposed to 100 people using it, you have to understand that you've got to surface the data with the usage and access patterns of a particular user community in mind. So one size does not fit all. And that's something that we understand at Informatica is that as we work with organizations, what the data analysts might need or a modeler might need might be very different than the casual line manager who just wants to know what's going on. And a lot of times people overlook that. So if you want to get this thing going within the organization where data is this amazing asset that people can't live without, make sure you give them the tools that where they can look at the data, the way they need to look at the data. In their context and the work that they're doing. So the flip side of providing, and John touched upon this, the flip side of providing greater access is also making sure that you put in place the appropriate IP protection. Yes. Because digital businesses are, if nothing else, discovering that their core asset is their data. It's very difficult to talk about digital without talking about data. I mean, people do it all the time and it's kind of folly. So how... Contents data too. I mean, everything's data. Yeah, exactly. Well, code is data. At the end of the, if Turing were here, you would tell us that data and code are all data. How is Informatica communicating the need to start raising intellectual property up beyond just patents and beyond just copyrights and trademarks, but to actually think about this holistically? Yeah. And that gets back to the enterprise data competency model where we look at an organization's usage of data. And as you hit this sort of critical point in the organization, this tipping point in the model, where data is recognized as an asset, you better secure it. Number one, it's a wonderful thing when you hit that point because data not only supports the existing business, but it then represents an asset that could act, you can actually monetize for as a new business. So, what Informatica does in this particular case is offer some security, very good security. We assume, unfortunately, that there will be, somebody will break into your network. So, we're not doing it at the hardware level. We are securing data at the data itself. So, data is truly the center of the universe within the organization as a success. So, you're not doing it at the hardware level, the programmer level, you're doing it at the data level. We're doing it at the data level. We're assuming that people are going to get in, whether it's through the air conditioning, the thermostat, or wherever it is, they're going to get an IP address and they're going to start pinging that network. So, we need to accept that, maybe use some tools from other vendors that deal at the hardware level to reduce that risk, but let's look at how we can mask the data such that if people get to it, it doesn't make any sense to them. And there's no, it's of no value. So, John, I had a great conversation. Unfortunately, I couldn't be here, but a great conversation with the Senior Vice President looking at partnerships. And clearly, this role of the data is going to play an increasingly specialized role because partnerships which had historically been associated, well, we have this contract, this segment, this geography, increasingly the partnership's going to be defined in terms of the data that we share in pursuit of whatever commercial activities. How are you taking the experience that Informatica is having as they think about partnerships differently and applying that to your customers and helping them understand the crucial role the data's going to play as they conceive partnerships differently? Yeah, I think that's a good point. Again, it's helping them understand what's the value that they have there? So, if you look at a bank and the credit card data that they have, what does that credit card data represent? It's transactional data that historically has been used to build a customer and hopefully gain some interest from them as well. But there's also all sorts of information that you could provide that you can get out of that in terms of spending habits by demographics. You know, if you stay at this hotel, are you also shopping in these particular places and eating this kind of food? Well, this could be very valuable for somebody. And I think that's where people really need to think about their businesses differently. You know, they've got this asset. Don't think about it simply as supporting your existing business model. Think about what you could do with it and what value it might be to somebody else creating new business opportunity. I guarantee that if you're a financial services institution and you've got that credit card data I'm talking about, if you can anonymize it in some fashion so you're not dealing with any privacy issues, that could be very valuable. And you can find that in every single industry. Well, in many respects, as John and I have talked about with other guests, it starts to erode the very concept of industry in certain respects. Historically, industry has been defined in terms of the, we have common arrangement of assets. So a bottler had a common arrangement of assets with another bottler, a financial services firm and a common arrangement of assets within a financial services firm. As we bring data into the equation and reduce the specialization of those assets, then a business that's currently financial services might find itself being able to move into tangential but proximate industries and the whole notion of industry starts to shift around a little bit, doesn't it? And that's a good thing, right? Because you think about it, it's all about the consumer, it's all about the customer. And what does the customer want to do? Does the customer want to deal with their life in silos? Well, we've all got these devices now, we're connected. I saw a stat that said that by 2020 there are going to be more connected devices on this planet than there are people. That's astonishing. What does that mean? That means when I pull that phone out, I don't want to have to have an app for a bank and an app for a grocery store and an app for a retailer. I would like my experience to start coming together. So the expectation is there. So if these traditional institutions don't see that and don't get it, there are a lot of frictionless models out there where people are coming in, they're disrupting. They'll be displaced. They'll be displaced and we're seeing it in some industries, right? Well, the cloud's a horizontal disruptor and I think that's why I think you guys got the product right years ago when you saw that horizontal sharing across apps as a winning formula. Jim, I know we got a wrap. I want to get your thoughts on your objectives for the year. Obviously, it's so clear you guys have a good product strategy, it's winning. Messaging, getting there, you got the sea level, but you got to balance the audiences, which is going to be a challenge for you. What's your objectives for the year? How are you going to tackle this year? Can you bring the product to market? You got to manage both those important groups of people, IT and the sea level. What's your plans? What are you going to do as a more education, more focus on the partner ecosystem? Is it more product development, all of the above? Yeah, the reality is we want people to understand that while we have this gold standard in IT, we'll continue to nurture that and continue to advance that, not abandon that by any means. Well, it's core to our business. We want folks to understand what that means in business terms. How do you quantify the benefit? Impact of that. Yeah, the impact. How do you quantify the benefit? And also because we own this particular space, it opens up a tremendous opportunity for partners who have a very specific domain expertise and point solutions around various industries. They need us, we need them. Let's come together, let's solve industry problems and just keep moving. Final question, how early are we? Jerry Held basically said, we're so early.  He's like, hey, people are overhyping it. It's still early as heck. How early is it relative to the, I mean, we're talking about things that are evolving in real time. Yeah, I think it is. You guys pegged this, I mean. No, I do see it as early on a number of fronts. Are these industries ready for it? No. Do they want to go out and buy some big giant data platform? No. So the way we continue to move forward is we tackle individual business problems. We look at business issues that we can solve in a few weeks, not a year or two years. Show the value and try to help organizations kind of build this momentum so that data becomes more and more important to them. Great. Jim Davis, EVP Chief Mars, thanks for your support with theCUBE here. Thanks for inviting us to cover your event. Extracting all the data. Of course, ton of data here at Informatica World. We're sharing that with you in real time, live on theCUBE. I'm John Furrier, Peter Burris. We'll be right back with more after this short break. Hi, this is Chris DeVanny from D-


What's going on guys? It's your boy DPC here today with another Destiny video and today I'm going to show you this Warlock South Res Glitch. But before we get into the video, if you guys want to be in with a chance of winning this one off Resurrectionist emblem, simply drop a like and tell me in that comment section what is your favourite super from the game and why. I will pick the Winnevere YouTube Direct Message in a few days so keep an eye on your YouTube inbox. Ok, so in my opinion the Warlock South Res is a piece of shit, a super which is completely pointless in so many instances. For the simple fact you can be killed out of it in an instant and this happens more often than not while you're in that damn animation. The fact that you get destroyed in this animation with either a sniper if people still use them or an OP shotgun which are all over the place in PvP at the moment.   It's why I ain't used it in a month and I stay clear of that Sunsinger subclass for the Warlock. But today I will be showing you this epic glitch. Is it game breaking? Well one asks can you break a game that is already broke? And in my opinion this super needs a buff of some sort anyway. Maybe this will probably mean to do something about it. Okay so basically the glitch is as follows. It takes away the animation of the super so you appear where you died but with absolutely no animation at all you do have to lose your super and the benefits of it like the overshoot and the grenade spamming options but at least you stand a fighting chance when someone is watching over your ghost knowing you're about to self raise. So this is how you do it you need the memory of foul winter in your inventory. So on your Sunsinger Warlock subclass when your super is built and you are dead and you know you can self raise simply go into your inventory and switch from whatever artifact you are using to the memory of foul winter. When you've done that back out of the menu and hit that self raise super button and you will appear where you died in an instant with your weapon ready to fire. As you can see on screen now you can instantly shoot and kill anyone watching over your ghost for that self raise. You can also move away as well not giving snipers the opportunity to kill you from afar during the animation.  But yes guys that is it the warlock self raise glitch hope you guys enjoyed the video thanks for stopping by as always and I will catch you guys on that next one


The next question is from the Reed Strieva, were there ever times during your personal training career where you struggled with confidence? That's a funny question. I've definitely worked with a lot of trainers who had issues with confidence. They either felt insecure about talking to potential clients on the workout floor, that was a big one. Or they just didn't feel the confidence to train people of a certain caliber. Like, you know, oh, it's this client I'm getting as a doctor. I don't know how I'm going to train them or this person's worked out before they have an injury or whatever. Okay. So now personally, I've never really personally had an issue with confidence. I probably had the opposite where I thought I was better than I was. I definitely I could walk up to people talk to them, whatever. But here's one thing that I always knew about myself. And here's what I communicate to the trainers that worked with me who struggled with this 99% of the clients that are going to come hire you no way less than you do about fitness. Even if you're brand new, even if you're brand new, and you don't know a ton, you still know way more than they do. And here's the other piece. Here's the other side of that is I would always tell my client, my trainers, just stay in your lane.  There's no need for you to go do crazy stability exercises or it's okay to say you don't know something you'll find out for them. Totally. That's actually a great move on your part. Yes, stay in your lane. Like, okay. I know how to do rows and presses really well and squats and lunges really well, but I don't know like mobility exercises. I don't know all this correctional stuff. That's okay. Don't do it. Focus on the stuff you know, they're going to get a ton of value and then continue because here's the thing. This is the truth now. The best knowledge you'll get or the best learning you'll ever do from personal training is just going to be from experience anyway. Yeah, I wouldn't say that I struggled with confidence, but I definitely put a lot of pressure on myself. And so that was like, I knew I was going to deliver to my clients because I cared a lot about doing a good job. And I think that, you know, you can get into that like psychology of I don't really know this that well enough. And so it kind of affects you in terms of like, maybe sometimes how you're delivering the information, but like putting that extra pressure helped me get better. Like it helped me to go research more, it helped me to go learn my craft more and to really try to put that type of pressure to deliver. I want to deliver to these people. And then it keeps building every time you go and you learn something and you apply to your client, you see success, you see results, this increases that confidence.  Absolutely. I wish I had like a really good story to share about myself in regards to this. And I'm sure there's had to been somewhere where I struggled with confidence and something, but with personal training. But I really feel like that I got these lessons early in life. And so this is the blessing of like what I think I went through as a kid being a kid who didn't have much. I had crooked teeth. You know, I was skinny, like, so I got, I got picked on, I got all that stuff really early in my life. And it built a lot of character in me early. I quickly found out that the more I fought that, or I tried to pretend or try to be someone different when I was younger, the more, the more stressed, the more anxiety, the more, more of a challenge it was in my life. And the more that I just became myself and authentic and who I was and comfortable in my own skin and owned that all my flaws, the more I realized that I was even more accepted. And I think in high school, that has to be like one of the hardest times to do that as a kid when kids are probably the toughest. And so when I, when I learned those lessons, then I just carried over into adulthood for me.  Like I was 20. I was 20. I was just going through my first national certification. Everybody was older than me. Everybody was more experienced than me. Like I was like, I wanted to learn. I asked lots of questions.  If they asked me something, I didn't know the answer. I was very comfortable practice saying things like, I don't know. You know, I didn't, I don't know. I don't know that answer, but I tell you what, like I'll look it up or I'll find it or my other, the advanced trainer who's been here for three years, he's really smart. I'll ask him and then I'll get back to you. It's amazing how much people will respect that in you. Then if you're somebody who, who tries to fake it, like I always think of the analogy. I used to give this analogy to, to trainers when I would be coaching my staff on this exact type of question is have you ever been to a restaurant and you are, you know, you, the server comes over and they go to take your order and they forget your order. They don't come over to the lot.  One thing after another after another. And you, and like in, you know, like an entitled customer, we start to get irritated or we don't give them a very good tip and we're pissed off. And then he comes to find out at the end of the night, you find out, Oh, it was like, it was her first night. You know, she's just learning. And then, then a little bit of empathy sets in. And so I would tell my trainers like, don't be that waiter or waitress that tries to pretend like you've been working there forever and you know the menu and fake it till you make it. Come right out with it. I always used to respect that waiter or waitress that walked up and says, Hey, today's my first day, like right out the gates, because all of a sudden I give you all this, like a lot more leeway, way more leeway, like, because right away, I know it's their first day, they're learning. I know they're probably trying to figure it. So as a, as a trainer, I, I pieced that together early on. And so I wouldn't try and pretend like I knew everything. I came in with a, you know, I only know a little bit. I'm excited to teach you the little bit that I do know. I know this, which to Sal's point is a little bit more than probably what they did. So I would teach what I knew. And if they ever asked questions around things that I didn't know, I wasn't afraid to say, I don't know. Yeah. I think that, I think the two big root causes of this type of, you know, lack of confidence or fear is that I, I need to know everything, which you're not going to. So be okay with saying, I don't know. I'm not knowing everything and be real. And then the second fear is the fear of, of people saying no to you. Like I'm going to go talk to someone on the workout floor about personal training. They're going to say no. So what? I never bothered me. I never, it never bothered me. I'd walk on the workout floor and I talked to them. They say, I don't want any personal training. Okay, cool. Next person in. It just didn't phase me because I didn't take it personal. It's not a personal thing.  Who cares?   Maybe we're used to it. We've been getting rejection our whole life. So it's no big deal. I'm used to being told though. Look, I do have a story around this actually. When I first became a fitness manager, this was four months into my personal training career. So I'm still 18 years old. I'm still a kid. Now I'm managing trainers in one of the bigger gyms in the area and I was like, cool. Thank you for this. This is great. So we had personal training and back then we sold a nutrition program called apex. I don't know if you guys remember apex and my club was number one in personal training and number one in apex and I knew nothing about apex. I, all I knew was it was nutrition and I remember my district manager coming down and celebrating with the, the, how great we were doing and wow, you guys are breaking records and everything's going great. Sal, I'd like for you to come teach all the other fitness managers of the area. How you're like, instead of food, eat this, how you sold so many apex programs. And I said, I'd love to, I'd absolutely love to do it. And I said, wait, and who's about to walk out. I said, hold on a second. His name is Sean. So hold on a second. I said, I need to learn more about apex. And he goes, what do you mean? I said, I really don't know what it is. And he's like, how are you, how are you selling so many of them? And I said, I'm just honest. I just tell people, Hey, you, you're going to need help with nutrition. You should do apex. And then they'd ask me, well, what is apex? Well, I know it's a nutrition program. I don't know much more about it, but you do need help with it. And they would get it. I just, it was honest.  So there you go.