Live from Las Vegas, Nevada, it's theCUBE at IBM Interconnect 2015. Brought to you by headline sponsor IBM. Okay, welcome back everyone. We are live in Las Vegas. This is theCUBE for IBM Interconnect. Go to interconnectgo.com for the social experience.  New theme this year. Everyone is in there. All the VIP influencers that are led by Veronica Belmont. theCUBE is headlining there.  That's where all the socials actually happen. If you're watching this live stream, you want to go in and interact and engage. Go there. I'm John Furrier with SiliconANGLE. I'm joined by Dave Vellante, my co-host. Our next guest is Doug Baylock. GM, IBM Power Systems. Welcome back to theCUBE. John, it's great to be back. We'll have a chance to chat with you guys. We love chatting with you. Last time, Power Systems, Power8. All this is going on is a transformative market. Big stakes on the table for IBM. Give us a quick update on the report card. Are you happy with the results? What's happened? What's happening and where's the vector for you guys here? Yeah, great. It's been a busy 12, 18 months. In fact, you'll remember when we chatted a little over a year ago, we were sort of just at the cusp of announcing Power8. Before that, we were making promises goer, right? It was about, we're bringing Linux to the platform. We're bringing Watson to the platform. We're bringing KVM. Power8's going to be great. And then we started really bringing that to market in April of last year, right? With our scale-out servers followed by in October, our scale-up servers. But it's not just about the hardware. It's what those systems and solutions do to really help clients attack the big data problem and move into the cloud. And open power, oh my gosh. I mean, if you would have predicted a year later, we'd have 100 members of the open power foundation. So back up on that, let's just take us open power, where it was, what was the genesis of it. Just take us through quickly because the trajectory's been pretty impressive. Yeah, it has been really great. Adoption is, endorsement is, a barney deal, you see a few people hanging around. I really love each other. When you say that kind of adoption, just take us through the genesis and kind of how that's kicking up. So the genesis of open power started really back with an industry fundamental that the days of Moore's Law are gone, right? Which used to be because of technology benefits, transistors would shrink and therefore you get double the compute capacity every two years. That was the premise of Moore's Law. So really applications saw performance gains every generation of system. Laws of physics are now causing that to change. And what ourself, Google, Melanox, Tyan, a motherboard company, and then Nvidia saw about two years ago was it needed to think differently about application gains. So we got together and we said, you know what, it's going to take a community. And what does that sound like? That sounds like open source software. Why don't we open source the hardware platform for the next generation of cloud? And that's where it began the journey of the open power foundation. So over a year ago, we had five members with a vision. And now since then we've formed the open power foundation. We kind of had our coming out party in April of last year around that. And as you said, the membership has grown to over 100 members. But it's not just about membership. It's about real things happening in the industry. And what time table was that 100 members now over 100? Just a few weeks ago here at Partner World actually, we had our 100th member, a business partner sign up. So, and it's amazing, it's two and a half, two years, eight months, what was the time table? We formed the open power foundation in December, officially as a legal entity, December of 2013. And then here we are just a little over a year later with our 100 members. Industry significant names too, right? That's big. But as I was going to say, it's not just about membership. It's about what is the membership doing to innovate? So in that time period, you've seen us with NVIDIA and Melanox bring out systems to market that the Department of Energy in the United States have chosen for the next generation research labs. Things that will be deployed in 2017 to their fundamental breakthroughs in the way in which, you know, DOV, Department of Energy research will be done. So two out of the three national labs will start using the Power Roadmap with our partnerships of open power to progress forward. We've seen cloud wins in significant cloud vendors, besides the work with Google obviously that continues as chairman, with OVH in Europe, one of the largest cloud providers in Europe. And recently in December, Rackspace announced their intention as a member of the Open Power Foundation to start shifting from Intel to Power, leveraging new work around the open compute platform, bringing Power 8 into open compute. So at the end of the day all comes down to apps. It comes down to apps. What are you guys doing to sort of enlist that application ecosystem? Maybe talk about some of the changes that are going on. Yeah, so one of the fundamental decisions we made was to, as we bring Linux in a first class manner to the Power platform, to make it the same, the same, the same. So it's KVM, just like, you know, kernel virtualization across the Intel platform. It's little Indian Linux, a little bit gorepy, right? But what does little India mean? It means that applications written on Linux on Intel will now move without change to Linux on Power. And that's a huge opening up of the aperture. So my conversation with ISVs has completely changed, David, completely changed. It used to be a paid-a-port model. Now the porting's the easy part, and they're figuring out new ways to optimize around Power that gives them an advantage over their competitors. An example would be Redis Labs. Redis is very popular, you know, Key Value Store, no SQL in the cloud. They've optimized around Power 8 with Linux. They see a 24-to-1 consolidation benefit of the number of servers needed on Power 8 versus Intel Y, more memory. More memory, faster memory, faster access to data. So let's talk about that. Let's stand at business value for a minute. So I'm consolidating. That means I'm throwing, what, less cores at the same server? Less servers, less cores, less energy, less space, less people, less, less, less. Okay, and that ripples through to my software license and maintenance costs. All those things. It's huge cost savings. It really is. And again, 24-to-1 sounds like, well, you have one rack, but if you think about the cloud model, this is racks and racks of compute, racks and racks of data centers that people are deploying for these new data-rich applications. So when you can consolidate 240 to 10, 2400 to 100, that's a big savings. Well, I wanted to ask you about the apps, the workloads too.  A lot of R&D stuff going on, but there's big data too. That's right. I wonder if you could talk about what you've done with DB2 Blue and other sort of analytics-driven apps. Absolutely. And you hit it right on the head. The sweet spot for power in the marketplace is big data, whether it be delivered on-premises or in the cloud and now the software cloud. Why big data? It's the way in which the PowerA processor was designed for big data. So the kind of apps we're seeing clients look at is things like in-memory databases. DB2 Blue is a great example, which was optimized when it was designed starting three, five years ago for the power architecture, for the PowerA architecture. Ourselves in DB2 Blue had a great year last year in terms of new footprint placements, the placements or displacements of Oracle and other competitive databases. So that combination of benefit where we see 82 times performance gains, 82 times. When you can do analytics 82 times faster, it completely changes clients' business models. You know, that monthly report you used to do, you used to dread doing, you can now do it almost real time, almost daily, right? Because it's available to run that much faster. So DB2 Blue in-memory, big place for us. But also the unstructured data. When you look at, you know, MongoDB, I talked about Redis Labs, that whole sort of set of unstructured data structures run really, really well on Linux on Power. That is the sweet spot for PowerA. Well, Titch, I mean, that's a tailwind for you guys because ever since I've been in this business, people underestimated the amount of data that they're going to have to ingest and then now we're seeing the curve steepen. Steepen. I mean, it's early days still, right? Yeah, it is early days. So what's happening? I mean, it's amazing to me. People have said, I mean, even Spark, right? Spark is still going, right? People said Spark's dead, Power's dead, but now there's like a resurgence. Why? Why is that? Why are people looking for that alternative? Yeah, it comes back to, I started with this discussion around Moore's Law where, you know, Intel has been sort of on this path of, you know, they own, they believe they own the server market and they're the single innovator, right? They're the only one making GP out of the whole thing, right? But the marketplace is looking for best choices. You know, best choices as they look for how to integrate that stack around, you know, addressing the big data needs. Power's a great choice for that, right? But we had to change the way it was consumed. So you can still buy and will buy forever, right? A Power each server and the roadmap from IBM. But opening up the aperture through the OpenPower Foundation lets the ecosystem build out, right? So OpenPower is not just hardware companies. It's software companies, system companies, it's IO companies and it's clients who are sort of building out that ecosystem and star bursting the benefits of power. So that's a big business model. Big business model change, right? And really the only one out there with that business model. It's kind of similar to the ARM model, you could argue. Yeah, there you go, right. In terms of how we've sort of taken our, you know, the ARM model and said, you know, let's apply it to the enterprise space, right? Right. And so, okay, so you got that going. And now, where do you see this all going, Doug? Where do you want to take it? What's your vision? Yeah, so I think, you know, if you look at all we've done last year to transform the power business, we opened it up, we repositioned the conversation, we brought power rate solutions to the market and we did that in stages, right? We did the scale out first, one and two socket systems in April and how did that do? So in, you know, second quarter was a transition quarter, third quarter last year, we started to see single digit growth in our scale out space, fourth quarter over 20% growth. In fourth quarter then we introduced our scale up systems, our sort of large footprint entities, right? Much more of our traditional capability and that was a transition quarter and fourth quarter. So if I put it all together, I think 2015 is poised to be a great year for the power platform. We've got new trends of workload through the open play. We've got our full portfolio out there with the power rate for scale out and power rate for scale up and we're seeing, you know, wins as I described in Linux and in the open power foundation. So I couldn't be more excited where we find ourself coming into 2015. Okay, so if you had, so you got scale out systems, scale up system and the overall power platform, those are the key high level conversation. That's right. Mark, so you're saying, what's that for you right now, what is the top conversation you're having with customers? We want to try to join the conversation. That's what everyone says, join the conversation. What is that conversation right now that you're having with customers, with partners that is the most relevant? Yeah, so it really comes back to what we've hit on already. In fact, I'll reflect on my meetings from today and yesterday, right? Keep the quarters, come on. It really comes back to two topics which are top of mind for clients. One is they are all drowning in data. They're trying to figure out how do they get business value out of this volume of data that keeps coming at them faster and faster and do they have the right infrastructure to deliver analytics and insight around that data? That's one problem area that we are having lots and lots of conversations around and power is a great fit for. The other is the conversation related to that of do they deliver that services on premises or do they deliver that services in the cloud? And then the fact that they can now with software in addition to our other partnerships wins starts to deliver that power set of systems of engagement and systems of insight in the software cloud that sort of starts to stitch it all together from a hybrid IT. No one talks about how they collect the cash for that value that they create, but this brings up the good point. Systems of engagement, systems of record. Bob Paciano's going to come on tomorrow. He really kind of, you guys are the first ones to really nail this, decoupled, completely different. So big data, drowning in data. Data lakes are very powerful, okay? Smart people talk about the data ocean. Right, right. That's smart people in town for that. That's the cube. So we used to just because Google actually validated it on the top of the Google. So they were like, well data lakes are batch. They could be big like the big lakes, but oceans are unpredictable. You can predict some weather forecast, but you never know. You never know. Real-time in-processor analytics. So those two worlds are going on. What's your take on that? I mean, that's a big thing. How are you guys going to keep up with that for the customers? Yeah. So it comes down to, got to build out the ecosystem. You know, as funny as I've had the power strategy conversation with hundreds of clients over the last year. Honestly, I've never had a client say, you know what, Doug? I think your strategy for power is wrong. But at the end of that conversation, what they do say is, okay, I'm with you, Doug. Now let's talk about my applications. Where are my applications? Yeah, what's in there for me? How do my applications? Are they ported yet? Are they optimized yet? And the good news is we've made a lot of progress. We have over 1,200 Linux ISVs on the platform growing every day. We have hundreds of thousands of open source packages. But again, when somebody hands you a list of 1,000 ISVs, chances are right now there's still a few missing. And we're knocking them down one client at a time in terms of what's missing in that list, some from IBM, some from the industry. So the great news is we can see this building. We can see the momentum building, but it's back to the ISVs and the softwares. Without that ecosystem, you're left there with a great platform. You're in a cul-de-sac with no, you know. I've got to ask you though. So as a Patriots fan, it's good to be lucky. And it's good to be good. It's good to be good, yes. So you're good or you're lucky, it's sort of both. But so I've seen the stats. I've seen all the systems lined up. And Z is the most reliable, most available. And then power's right there next to it. And then sort of everybody else. Are the requirements changing? We talked about data, that's fortuitous, right? Or did you guys sort of deliberately, are you building things in to affect that change? I wonder if you could talk about that. Yeah, so as I sort of peel back the three systems we talked about. Systems of records, systems of insight, and systems of engagement. Underneath each of those are different system requirements from a hardware standpoint to be successful in those models, right? It's not sort of one cookie-cutter size kind of. It's the third one, systems of engagement, system of record. And systems of insight, right? Where the analytics runs, John. So if I think about each of those, there are different characteristics of how those hardware systems are built. You know, one example has been, as we've worked with these various cloud providers, they each have a standard for their data center. Each of their standards are different, by the way. Which is why it was so important for us through the OpenPower Foundation to enable this whole ODM market. So as we bring power to software, they're going to source servers just like they source x86 servers today. Not through my IBM, they're going to source it through the ODMs in Taiwan, right? But it's going to be their standard for how a software data center looks. Software data center looks. Rackspace, as I mentioned, a different standard. They have the open compute model. Google, they have their own standard, right?  That doesn't mean that standards across everybody. And I've got to be able to have power be in each of those standards. Part of that goes back to what's going to run on them. If you're going to run engagement applications in software, those are going to have different hardware attributes, different system attributes, then that system's a record that, you know, really the final version of the truth that sits on a client's floor, that they're not willing to let that data go. So I've known you for a while. You're not afraid of competition. At the same time, this industry is, it's the co-opetition question. What are those discussions like? Because it's really interesting. You're selling to cloud providers, you guys are going at it hard with software. We live in a really interesting business these days. In part, it's like a cartel, other times it's like this, you know, guerrilla war. What's going on? What are those discussions like? Yeah, so, you know, the thing they find with IBM is, I mean, we've been at this for 103-plus years, right? So, I mean, we've kind of matured our approach to how we deal with co-opetition. There's no doubt the cloud companies I'm working with, as I provide technology to them, some of them do see software as a competitor, but they're also all looking for ways in which they differentiate themselves. All of them having just a generic intel approach, that's not going to cut her for them in terms of differentiation. So, that's why having a different set of infrastructure that has more innovation through the open power community will allow them to differentiate themselves more. So, my view is, those who move with us faster will see a first mover advantage. Yeah, so put it out there and let everybody compete on the merits of their own sort of strategies, assets, relationships. Absolutely. And the more innovation I can help create through the community, the better choices that are provided to the cloud companies in terms of what markets are they going after, what clients are they targeting, and how do they take advantage of this sort of Lego approach to innovation. So, I want to have the open source discussion too. I mean, IBM obviously has a lot of credibility when it comes to open source, Linux sort of, I guess started it all, and we've seen a lot more since then. But open source and the hardware side's a little different. It is a little different. You mentioned ARM is sort of a similar model. OCP I guess is sort of an example. But so, how has that been? What have you learned? Anything surprised you about that? I think the only thing that surprises is probably what we knew already, which is, we're sort of always, well, who's going to take advantage of open source firmware? So, we've released the firmware that makes the PowerAid server run. And we said, well, who's really going to grab that? And now you say, well, all these ODMs in the Asian market who build servers are grabbing that firmware to customize it for the servers they're building for the cloud market. So, we basically validated what we knew already, although it's sort of new applied principles in the hardware spaces. Open source does win at the end of the day. Open wins, close loses. Perfect for the ODMs who don't have the development resource or the historical perspectives to really do that. Now, of course, open source, you get open source to expand your market, which is one of the benefits. The other is sort of reduction in expense, R&D expense. Well, and the other is security and confidence, right? Because it's completely transparent. There's certainly no shortage of discussions that we can all read and press headlines today about countries and companies that are worried about the IT they deploy and how secure it is. So, having an open source where it's fully transparent allows them to innovate on top of it, but also completely see what code's being deployed. So, the fact that it's not a black box, you're saying, is making certain factions more comfortable? Yeah, I mean, one of the successes we've had has been PowerAid and OpenPower in China. Right, if you think about things that have been formed there, China Power Technology Alliance, they formed a whole alliance around companies in China to leverage OpenPower because of the focus there on localized IT and security. It's a perfect fit for that market, right? So, if you think about OpenPower, really three markets. The cloud companies we've talked about, technical computing we've seen with our Department of Energy win, and other companies like that that'll be coming, and then the localized indigenous development, which we see in China is kind of leading that conversation. So, those really are kind of the three use cases around OpenPower. Cloud, technical computing, and localized IT. So, talk about the system of engagement.  I think this is a genius strategy. Insights come from all this. But they work together. Yes. What does that mean for a customer? Is it to the edge of the network? Is it internet of things? Right. Is it, what is the endpoint of engagement? Because the data's different, right? It's why we've been riffing on this whole ocean thing because it's not just the lake, there's a lot of real time stuff happening in memory. Right. It can be slow, fast. Yeah, so if you think about, and we've talked about this a lot here already at Interconnect, which is if you think about a sort of a blue mix application that's going to be kind of the framework by which you stitch together these rapid pieces, right? There's a tremendous insights into a client's existing database about their customer set. Their buying patterns, right? Their history of investments, right? All that stuff sits there, and they want to marry it with the world of social, right? They want to kind of take that history and mobile, right? All aspects of connected data, right? And so what we've announced is within that blue mix application set, you can now connect quickly to that backend through a set of blue mix connectors that rapidly expose that data, if you want, into a blue mix application that pulls from the history, that pulls from the records, a final version of the truth of the customer data with that social mobile world data that exists of sentiment analysis out in, as we struck the relationship with Twitter as an example around data. So it's a great way to kind of stitch these things together and create a whole 360 degree view of a customer. And that's a huge trend we're seeing, just bringing the transaction systems and the analytics systems together. And obviously you need a hardware platform to enable that. Well, you need a variety of hardware platforms, right? You still need the systems of record that are sitting on a client's floor today that sort of have their arms around, right? And then you need the engagement systems running in the cloud that can scale up and scale down, very rapidly, right, with full transparency to run those engagement workloads, which are different workloads. They're just connecting to the back end.  So at 30,000 feet in the air, I'm clicking on my tablet, connected the Wi-Fi and the plane and paid my visa bill. I mean, that's- And of course, I can be sniffing the signal on before because I have to the Wi-Fi, but then again, that's the security, brings out security in memory. Well, but you know, you got to have that secure connection. So the way it matters- The infrastructure matters, absolutely. So as you connect to the back end, you've got to have- You've got to be smart infrastructure, Dave. There you go, there you go. That's right, exactly right. Yeah, let's talk about IoT. I think the land grab is this engagement discussion because that data is changing. In fact, there are all kinds of geodata. Jeff Jonas is always on the queue talking about geospatial. The diversity of tsunami of data coming in at the edge is ridiculous. I mean, so I think huge opportunity- And that marriage with the data that exists. I mean, it's a great marriage point right there. Yeah, so how do I get the real time, get the old data from the data lake into this real time layer? I think it's a huge opportunity. I think it's going to be a great- I think you guys are on the right track. I still, it's wide open. I mean, it's not even- It's wide open. It's the first inning, in my opinion. Okay, cool. What's the coolest thing you've seen around the power rate, open power, power systems with customers that you can share with the folks out there? Anecdotally, it could be like use case, experience. Yeah, so a couple examples from two recent meetings. And you sort of know you've sort of got the starburst in effect. So I was over in China a couple of weeks ago meeting with a variety of customers and provincial governments. To my surprise, we're sitting down one of our partners there. We didn't even know. They brought out a whole, hey, we're going to launch this family of open power servers on power rate. Didn't know it, didn't know. It was coming. It was like, great. I mean, it's just- Since you're here, we're just letting you know. Yeah, sure. Thanks for coming, right? Thanks for the fly-by. And so, you know, it was an example, John, of how when you're in this community, things happen without you having to know about it. And that's what sort of creates new innovation. Another example was that, two weeks ago, I was here at Partner World. I was meeting with one of our largest distributors, who's a member of the Open Power Foundation, and they had a sort of new senior leader in the meeting with me who was asking me questions about open power. Before I could start answering, his own team started pitching to him why it was so important for them to be in open power because they could bring differentiation through package solution options. So they're excited. Yeah, so again, my two examples are making the point of this thing is starbursting out and it's starting to build on itself without IBM having to sort of shepherd everybody around, which is clearly the major success in my mind. Well, Doug, thanks for coming on theCUBE. Really appreciate it. Spend the time. What's your plans for this event? You back to back to back briefings, so you're going to watch it. You're going to go see Aerosmith? I am absolutely going to go see Aerosmith. You know, having grown up with them, it's, I think we all have, right? I'm really looking forward to that. But yeah, it's a lot of great climate meetings. A lot of great band here for their parties. So just FYI, awesome. It's a lot of great climate meetings. I've already had some. I can't wait to have the other ones. I mean, we really are hitting that stride here with power and I can feel the momentum, John and David, as we march our way through to 2015. It will be the year we grow. I can see that. You guys have taken a lot of hitting the press on the financial, but there's a transformation. You've got somebody to take a step back to go forward, but you know, messaging is great, but then it comes down to delivery. Like you said, everything's hanging together, right? I want that suit, it's on the rack. I want it by that, that. Looking good. Looking good off the team. Middle of the fairway. Now it's taking the next level. It's time to deliver the final results, but we're well poised after a really, you know, challenging year of transformation last year, but I think we're through. I think we've got the message out there. We've got the right offerings. We've got the partners engaged and excited and we've got clients coming up with bold ideas. Well, you put the pieces together.  Open stack for management. I mean, a lot of the pieces are now there. Right? So that's got to be satisfying. I mean, you help write a lot of the plans and strategies and you see them to come to fruition. So we were talking earlier. You know, when IBM takes some time, sometimes it takes a while, but when you guys focus, you go after it hard. People march on that line. Final question just as we got a little more time here when I asked you, just kind of as an industry vet, participant, IBM executive, been there, done that through many cycles. What's your feeling of the impact of open source? I mean, IBM has been involved in open source. I think we're going back to gen one. So I'm going to argue what gen one was, but I'm going to be 50 this year. So I remember those early days, you guys were part of that with Linux, et cetera. It seems to have changed the world, all aspects with open power, again, one data point. We were just at a big data SV, our event with Hadoop world. It's everywhere. It's now mainstream tier one. How has it changed the world from a business model impact? And how do you see it continuing? Do you see it's not stopping or what's your take on that? No, I mean, open power is a great example of how it's not stopping and finding ways to bring that open source software model into the hardware business. So, you know, new business models being created around this. And that's kind of the trick. I mean, yeah, it kind of starts around a technology idea of how to get sort of pervasive community adoption and innovation around it, but it's also requires new business models. And that's what we've had to do with open power, you know, not just the technology part, but how do we create that IP licensing model, right? That allows for derivative rights and derivative manufacturing and the whole open source of the firmware I described and what do you put in and what do you put out? I think, you know, we've at IBM sort of taught ourselves time and time again, that as I mentioned earlier, open wins and close loses. And we're seeing that example. And for a multinational global company like IBM to be so driven by change by open source, you got to look at that and think, you can't help but think like, you know, the movement of the decade or the century or the century is open source.  You know, a lot of folks look at IBM and look at us and say, well, geez, you know, how come you guys can't do it all? I mean, that's just the world of IT is moving so fast right now with bold ideas under millennials, right? That are 20-some years in age. Why in the world would you want to say, no, no, I got it all, I can do it myself? Thanks for asking. You really want to open it up so that you get just this incredible swell of innovate, lift occurring, right? With economics. Well, Dave couldn't make it last week to our event because he got snowed in, but last week we made the observation, why are these new foundations working? Right. The old pure open source, like the red hats are pure as we all know that, but they admittedly sit on the cube. But that's never going to work. Some open source dogma could be, well, this is never going to work because we didn't do it before that way, J Boss or whatever it was. Right, yeah. But now they're working. So the thing that we're watching is, is the evolution of always connected mobile, social? Does that change its transparency equation? I think it causes it to move. There's no place to hide. I think it causes it to move faster. I think that's the reality check is when you have so many trends hitting you at, you know, at amazing speed, right? Data, cloud, you know, social, mobile, security, all those things coming at you. Man, if you try to do it in the troll traditional waterfall model, you're dead. You've got to experiment. You've got to move fast. You've got to do it with others. You guys, among other things, will be branded. Oh, they're trying to hijack something. But when it's done in the open, there's no place to hide. There's no place to hide. There's no place to hide. So that, and with the acceleration, no place to hide, it's truly in the open. So to me, I'm looking at that trend saying, hmm, I think open source concepts will escalate and change. So we're watching all these foundations. You've got one of them. And then you continue to build value on top of them. I mean, there's still plenty of room in this space for value creation, right? On top of open source. You see that every day on what clients do and what we do to take open source and then add that next layer of really industry oriented analytics around it, as an example. And we would always open stack, cloud foundry. Well, we didn't comment on yours, but those two in particular, when we saw it become more of a marketing program, we were like very, hey, you know, in the queue. Don't go that way. And what happened was, ship with code. Right. Technology, what you're doing, open power. That changed the game for. It's a game changer. You know, it's just changed the argument. Not the conversation. It really has. Doug, great to have you on theCUBE, as always. So this is theCUBE. We'll be right back. Doug Bailog, GM of the IBM Power Systems Division here in live in Las Vegas. I'm John Furrier, Dave Vellante. This is theCUBE in the Go Social Lounge where it's all coming together. Trending hashtags, trending stories, crowd chats, VIP influencers, and of course theCUBE. We'll be right back after this short break.


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Man we're live. Hi. We haven't warned anyone ever. No we haven't. No heads up. This is our gratitude for everybody that was part of our wedding. The whole process and everything in between. So yeah, we have a long list of people and you do. Yeah. I've there's some if we if we miss out anybody please forgive us. It's been a whirlwind and we've been trying to write down as we go, haven't we? But it's we're just so grateful and really are grateful. Yeah. It's made this so magical and we just wanted to do this video to say how we feel. Yeah. Yeah. So I hope you guys got to see some of the wedding. Because I know that it got taken down. Oh yeah. Yeah. That's one thing I wanted to point out too. I've been uploading it trying to upload it to Bitshoot because in America apparently there's so many copyright violations. How many were there? Now I got this hair sticking out like this. Thanks. Very nice job. Like 81 copyright violations for all the music that was in the background on on YouTube. So I'm trying to upload it to Bitshoot, but it's like a six hour video. So I'm trying and so far I haven't gotten it to fully upload yet. But it will be there once it uploads. And what I'm doing also is I'm cutting down just the ceremony itself will be on look at that. See something shiny and sparkly there. Cutting it down just so we can have the ceremony on there as well for for our wedding. So that should be on YouTube sometime today which we're filming this on the 8th of November. So we got married three days ago. Yeah. Yeah. Mrs. Prescott. My husband. My wife. I'm so excited. Me too. Actually there's two places on Monday. It's fine. Thanks to you. Hey shout out to everyone that we didn't arrange a plan. You know coming on and telling anyone about this. We just came on. And so to anyone that's popping in. Thanks for showing up. We see up three and Dennis, Tammy, Nesa, Von Craig. Yeah. That's Nesa. Oh, is it? Yes. And Rita. Yeah. So thanks for joining us here. Yeah. It was a mixture of we wanted kind of it to be laid back but also with some traditions in it. Yeah. But they weren't kind of what everybody else would do I suppose but we enjoyed it. The vows are. The vows were the main thing. Yeah. We wanted to do our own vows. And they came on great. It was difficult to get them out to say them. Both of us were both emotional. Yeah. Yeah. And when you was well enough that I don't know how I got through that. That was. I don't know how I did because yeah I started getting emotional crying a little when I was reading my vows to Ally. I was getting emotional walking down the aisle as well. It's a good though. Yeah. Amazing. It's good happiness. Not like oh my god what am I doing No, you guys understand. Yeah. But yeah. And that's the thing you'll see in the video as soon as they started playing the music and play the music for Ally and her brother who walked Ally down the aisle to me. I started crying at that point and you'll see me wiping the tears from the corner of my eyes just watching you come in and seeing your brother and feeling her father there as well. Yeah. Yeah. My brother did well. My dad was there definitely. I really feel that. Yeah. I had a little talk with Ally's dad the night before after Ally left me here all by myself. I wanted to get ready without him seeing me. Yeah. It's all bright out. They will understand that. It's like no matter how close you are. I didn't mind the night before we was together the night before, but it's the the day of the getting ready. You don't want them to see you. Yeah. So anyway, I got some thinking to do and some gratitude to dish out. Yeah. Okay. So in no particular order, we're doing this. Okay. So yeah, there is one person is definitely going to be first. My daughter always knows that I don't pick her first always. So I'm going to say this Megan, Megan, Megan, Megan, thank you for getting the getting your little girls in their dresses, getting their outfits ready, making sure that they had everything matching, making sure you had to amend Hallie's dress. And they looked absolutely amazing. Logan with his I thought he would complain about wearing the tie dye shirt and tie, but he didn't. And you wanted to keep it and take it to school with him. Yeah. So that's that's great. So yeah, the tie dye tie idea came from Nicola, which was a brilliant idea. My brother's wife, my sister in law. So that was great. I think that kind of tied it in. We also bought some siesta key sand and shells and put it in the candle, candelabra things and scattered that about. That was lovely. Yeah. So we had that siesta key energy there. We did. Because we wanted to and, you know, somehow we'll have to incorporate kind of England into when we get married, hopefully in Florida. Yeah. Yeah. This whole pantomime finishes. We'll invite the queen. Yeah, no, we won't. She's not invited. No, definitely not. And Megan, thank you for the photography. Thank you for the videoing, even though you had to video a lot of slush and and, you know, your Megan's best photography is done when no one's watching, when no one is looking at the camera. She likes getting those kind of images, like the children playing and the, yeah, those, those things. And she's excellent at it. So, yeah, she did. I taught Megan a new sound, too, because she was putting together the children's tent. And you'll see this lit up children's tent. It was absolutely beautiful. But as she was putting it, it was almost all together when she realized it wasn't put together properly. And she had to take it apart. And I introduced her to a new sound. I call it the sound of disgust. And it goes like this. It's like, if you could make the sound of disgust into one sound. All the air leaving your system. She got it down. She did an amazing job. We're so great. And again, the kids are amazing. And that's the way that Hallie, when Hallie can't see, she likes, her hearing is so acute that she likes, it doesn't make any difference being in the tent, but it makes her feel secure.  She has to concentrate. Whereas we can see if someone's talking to us, she can't. So she's always constantly having to listen for her name, just to me. So this way she could be in the tent. She could kind of chill out. She could see the neon lights. So we got some of those for her. So yeah, I think that works out really well. She fell asleep in the tent at one point. Yeah. You went in and had tea with Ayla. I had tea with Ayla and I made it into a Facebook post, a little video on Facebook. He was teaching the kids to do burning faces as well. Yeah, lots of them. So the kids did that. That was great. Yeah. So the kids just looked amazing. Rhea, the preparation, the hall, the cooking, doing my makeup beforehand and giving me some ideas of what I could do on the day. You know, things like that. She's just been amazing, hasn't she? Very supportive. Both of the girls have been amazing, you know, along with everybody else. But yeah, Logan, blessing with his rings, he did well with that. He didn't drop them and we put them in a shelf from CS2K as well. We put them in there. So that was another kind of added thing, wasn't it? Yeah, he did a great job, Bob.  Yeah, definitely. I probably would have done the same thing. And we had moments like that where the children, Esme, started in the ceremony. You guys couldn't hear us laughing and Sue laughing on the video, unfortunately, but... Esme is how old? Six months. Right. And she's making some sounds. She's doing... Yeah, well, it's a riot. That's her first thing that she's learned. Is that... Yeah. Yes, yes and no. She's done that. And she likes to get your eye contact and then do these raspberries, which is just funny. She likes the reaction. And you've got Olivia saying, oh, they're grapes in the bouquet thing in a little posy. So she said to mum, she wanted to eat the grapes. It's like they're not grapes, darling. So, you know, there's things like that, which I think are lovely. Really nice. Even during the ceremony, because that's what makes it my thing. Yeah. Esme even had a little bridesmaid dress on. She was all made up. So, yeah, Olivia, Isla, Hallie and Esme looked amazing. Logan looked very smart in his tie. He's the outfit and he did an amazing job. You'll see Olivia and Esme out there dancing. Oh, during our first dance, they were dancing, weren't they? And Olivia was trying to mimic your knees, what you were doing with your knees, kind of walking around and things. She was trying to do that with her. That was very cute. Yeah, the children looked amazing and they were so well behaved. Along with Sam's little girl, Erica. So, Erica, thank you. We opened your card and you've got lots of drawings in it. That was wonderful. And we love the Himalayan hearts. They're just wonderful. We could do a whole video on the gifts that we got, but they were lovely, really, really lovely. So, I'm going to put a shelf up behind here and then we're going to put some... You are? Well, you are. Usually, she says we, but she means me. He's going to do that. Sorry, I should have said we, also. You know what you'll get. Yeah, so, yeah, so we can put some of the gifts up there. I'm holding his hands now. And it's not because she just wants to hold my hand. I get put off very easily and yeah, try this sparkly, but other things as well. Halle, Halle, Halle, Halle, and her singing. And her singing was superb. Her nerves got in the way a little bit, but she pulled it off amazingly, didn't she? She was amazing. And she's got a wonderful voice. And she was in the... I can't remember what year, a couple of years ago, the X Factor Celebrity X Factor song, Christmas song. So, she's right at the end singing. So, if you want to have a look at that, she was there. Yeah, yeah. And it's on... Well, it's on the video. You can actually watch it on the psychic Halle, one-to-one video page because you don't have copyrights, but it's far away. Right, so I could put that in there then. Yeah, but the thing is, what I'm going to be doing is I'm going to be cropping all the video angles that we're getting and into one video. Yes. At the moment, mine hasn't got any listings as anything naughty. I haven't got any of those. No copyright strikes. No. But like, for example, when Halle was singing, I was getting you filming her with the handheld camera at that point. That was hard because it was delayed. Right. So, if you're wondering why the angles are so bad, it's because I was trying to move it up and then I had to wait to see if that was the right angle. Yeah, so I was trying to tilt it back and forth. That was hard. But I've got you with Halle singing and then Ian in the background playing the music. And I pan over to the left and I get Megan. Because she was looking at her daughter with so much pride and it was just, it was blessed. We were all feeling very blessed with that. Right. So thank you Halle for singing. It meant a lot. It's beautiful. It meant a lot. Absolutely. Yeah. Sue Goodrum, if anybody would like a celebrant, please, we will hopefully, if I can, leave her details in the comments that I do there. Yeah, sure. So if anybody does want to celebrate her and she does do a few more as well and other things, Christmas I think she does. So you can contact her and she was amazing and I just can't, she got it right. There's one thing she did in D. Yeah, in D. Instead of in 5D. But I think that's even 5D. I felt badly for her. She left relatively early. She had to come back because she forgot her glasses. We did invite them because I know Sue. She used to be a guiding angel and so did her partner David. He's a palmist. So yeah. Yes. Stop it. Continue on. Carry on. We have a schedule to attend. Her mum says, she did say, I said don't you, she said it kind of not thinking about it. And I said, mum, don't say that in front of Greg, for God's sake, because he keeps saying that everybody says schedule. Right on schedule. We don't say that. And then my mum went and did it. I know. Schedule. Right on schedule. She had to come back with her glasses. They did get invited, but David hasn't been well. So they would try to be careful with crowds and things. Only her glasses got the invitation. Only her glasses, yeah. Her glasses came. To my mum.  And probably not some other things in between. And you kept my nerves down. We had very little time to get ready. I think we put the flowers in my hair. We literally were ramming in them into my hair. Because we literally had no time left. We were doing the haul too late, really. But we were there since nine. But Greg's got sciatic pain. I've got knee pain and I can't walk about and things. And Megan and Rhea were there. And lovely Michelle, as well. Michelle, she came and did the extra bit at the end, didn't she, that brought it all together, I think, with the bows and everything. But Megan was busy doing the kids' corner and helping out. Rhea was doing, we were doing this balloon arch. That takes some doing. We both had balloon pumps. I remember all three of us were doing balloon pumps and you was a natural for some reason. Then usually we are a natural at the balloon pump thing. I'm not going to say any more about that. I think you did equally as good. Anyway. Yeah. Anyway, to mum, thank you for all that you have done. Yes, definitely. We love you, sorry that you had to leave a little earlier than you anticipated. She wasn't feeling well. No. And she's been really laid up for a couple of days as well. So she's been very poorly. She hung out as long as she could. And she was a true friend. We love her. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you, mama. And she contributed also, along with a lot of other people, for our mystery, which we didn't know about, our mystery hotel night, a couple of nights. Because we wouldn't have made the most of the one night. No. So we got there late anyway. Yes. Surprise we could even check in as late as we got in. Yeah. And they want to check out at like 10 a.m. Yeah. Right. So we kind of like said, can we pay for an extra night? And my mum said no. And she did it. So I know that there was lots of people contributed to that. We don't know everybody who contributed. I don't think. So I'm going to say thank you to everybody. I do know I'm going to not know any. I'm just holding her hand. I'm a gentleman. Can you see the halo in my head? Yeah. Who was it? Who else? So Ruth. Yeah, there was a Ruth, Nicky's mum Ruth, and we checked in. Nicky and Jake, my brother and sister-in-law, amazing. There was my mum. There was him. Anne and thank you and her husband, Dave and Dave. I'm so sorry if I haven't remembered. We haven't had time to catch up with everybody to find out exactly who did, but I'm just grateful. Yeah. We both are. Very grateful. Thank you.  It's just being there and all too. Anyway, yeah, the hotel wasn't it lovely, but it was 400 years old. This is Broom Park Hotel we stayed. And there was no, there's no if or anything. So it's up loads of flights upstairs. You go up and then around, then up and then across the hallway, and then back down to the flight. Yeah, it was fun. It was funny considering we were, but we may even made that funny as well. But the porter helped with the suitcase and everything. So, but once we got in the room, we thought we are crashing. We're crashing. And we just wanted to spend time together, didn't we? And room service. Stop it. No, no, I'm thinking about the blinds in the bathroom that has shut until the next day. And we're walking around. Oh, yeah. Yes, walking around. And we didn't realize how exposed exactly was. Yeah. And also the mic. We made some X-rated videos out there. Yeah, there could be. Yeah, that was funny. I think Allie's wedding behind the scenes. Oh, no. Oh, no, that's funny. Oh, yeah. It all makes up for it, doesn't it? And when we got into the hotel room, Nikki and Jake. Oh, yeah. They went, they went above and beyond. They had, they stocked up the refrigerator with wine. Well, actually water and juice. And there was wine that was given to us. Because we were just worried about it. We thought we've not prepared. There's nowhere around. Just sort of mean like that when we've got no car. So we can't go and get provisions like water and food, something to drink and things like that. We have nothing. So they thought of everything. Yeah. Balloons and, yeah. Got some lovely balloons there. Yeah, we did. And. Show the balloons there. Love the balloons. Yeah. So that was, that was lovely. Come here, mister. All right, there. Yeah. So, and I've got to say this tapestry that Nikki made. Maybe cry. Oh, so emotional. Is it in time to reach it on? Don't get it. Yeah. Don't get it. Yeah. She's got the flags. Yeah. Well, we'll show you. But I've always said, you know, the best gifts are gifts that you are homemade, that you make yourself. And cards too. Homemade cards. Absolutely. The best cards that you can have. The wait until you see this, all that. We were told that it took her 40 hours, but I think she was underestimating the time it took to do this. It's absolutely beautiful. Here comes Hollywood. So yeah, check this out. So yeah, we got the, let me, now this picture, you'll see. These two images might look familiar, right? You guys have seen those pictures of twin flames. This is my brother's speech. Yes, that he did. And that's where she got the idea for this. You know, and you can see the British flag and the American flag and the butterflies and all the everything, all the details that went into this. Yeah, just make it so special. Thank you, Nikki. That made us very emotional. And just even the twin flames, how long do you think it took to make that? Well, I don't know, but she only got it finished 11.30 the night before the wedding. So. Yeah, stunning. So we appreciate that so much. Very, very, very beautiful, handmade from the heart. The best gift that you can get. Ian did an amazing job with DJ. Oh, yeah. If ever you need to DJ, Ian Robb asked me and I'll send you the details. So yeah, I had, I would go back and forth to the YouTube video and I'd check in. We created a game, name that tune. I asked everybody, okay, let's make a game out of this. Name the performer, the artist, and name the song. Let's see who can do that first. So it was fun. Now we had, I don't know, it was over 200 people watching live. But still. Yeah, like six hours later, there were still like 60 or some other people watching. Dancing, yeah. It starts in the living room. Yeah, chair dancing, dancing in the living rooms. Yeah, crying and yeah, still people just watching and joining in with us. And we're just so flattered and grateful for that as well. But yeah, they had a good time playing, name that tune. Ian did an amazing job. There was a lot of comments. We had given him kind of, we'd got as many people as possible to say what kind of music they wanted. And we'd given him that beforehand, hadn't we? The one thing though, I do regret it. I should have told him, asked him or requested, you are so beautiful to me. That Joe Cocker song, because I would have loved to have danced with you to that one scene. Yeah, that would have been. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe in the siesta key wedding. Yeah, the same that was for that. Yeah. Yeah, sounds good. Yeah. And we still have to do this. Yes. As far as we're concerned, we're married. We have our rings. We are married. And if it wasn't for any legal matters, that we would need to travel. And things like that. I would be absolutely 100% happy with this. To do a celebration with your guys on the beach. That would be perfect. The legal stuff doesn't. Right. We don't really resonate with that. We're rebels. We're only having to do it for the flying back and forth. So we was determined. We wanted to do this. We didn't know if we could actually do it legally or not. There was a plava with it. Trying to get information for it. And then we ran out of time. So, but it couldn't have gone any better. No. No. I don't think it was amazing. It was definitely perfect. Yeah. Wow, you perv. There you are. The people who cook the food. Because we kind of catered for ourselves. Because what happens was this. Oh, yeah. Didn't we say you could say. I was a little distracted by it. I know you was. That's why I'm trying to work it back on you.  And we're so grateful to everyone that donated to it. I did have to use some of that though. With Alex permission for my surgeries that came up. The initial surgery I had no insurance for. And so, you know, in order to get bills paid off for that, we had to use some of that. But we also use the remainder for our wedding as well. So. That wasn't as posh as we would have liked it. But we. That my good guess. It was amazing. Yeah. I think we did. For this preparation. And this is with the help me for weeks. We pulled this off for weeks. That was it wasn't it. Yeah. And that was. Allie did a lot of work because I was still in the States. Who am I going to contact or call her. So, you know, Allie did a ton of work. Being an events organizer helps a lot. Yeah, it does help. But that was with Megan. That was with Megan and Rhea and Chloe came round for the preparation as well. Chloe did an amazing job with the photography. She did Polaroid. And I think this should be a business. So if anybody wants it. If anybody wants to have this. That was that wife look you just saw them. It's like, you know. Pack it in. Did I lose my halo? Oh no, darling. Oh, it's there. It couldn't be any happier. Anyway, Chloe did an amazing job. Chloe did an amazing job with the Polaroid camera. What she did. And I don't know whether this was her idea or not. But I think everybody should have this in there where I think it's amazing. So she'd basically take us a Polaroid shot of a group of people. And then she would glue stick it into a guest book. And in that they could then right next to it. So you got the photograph of them kind of. It was just what a lovely gift. So great. And she went round. Didn't she and did all that? She could easily charge a hundred pounds away. Because that takes a lot of time to get everybody's picture. Yes. Put it in there and get them to write something. Or to the bride and groom. Yeah. You know, anyone that's out there that's looking for, you know, a great way to make an extra income. Again, contact me and I will give you Chloe's details. Because I think she was one of you. Think about doing it wasn't she? I think so. Yeah. And it's nice to get invited to all these different weddings as well, wouldn't it? Yeah. And do that. So my brother's speech. Wasn't it lovely? He's so happy for us. And those two are brothers. Yeah, he's the brother I never had. They're crazy when they get together. So and with Mickey. So no, it's my brother's got a very unique personality. I can tell you that. But you. Yeah. He and I just gel. We are like, well that would be a success. He couldn't be the brother. No, no, no. Of course not. But you know what you mean. Yeah. Yeah. Brother in law, he is. Brother in law, same. Brother in law. Yeah. Perfect. It's as if he was my brother though. Yeah. Yeah.  So wrong. Oh my goodness. And one of us would be me obviously. Yeah. So the, what else, what else do we want to say? Oh, Brune Park, when we went to Brune Park Hotel, they made us very welcome. They were, they were so wonderful, weren't they? They were. And they carried the suitcase. Chandler. Up. Yeah, you did just look like Chandler. Chandler from France. Yeah. Well, he would say we're here. Where in the morning he did look like. He did look like that. He hates friends though. So he must have heard this lots of times. So when we got in there when there was a younger guy and he took the suitcase upstairs, that took some period, didn't it? So because we didn't know what we were packing for. And we had a long day anyway. There's no way. We didn't know.  Yeah. Because we had to bring some stuff from the hallway. With a lot there. But yeah. But man, there's no way.  And Ali, with her knees in the back. And me and Jessica. And yeah. We somehow got there. But yeah. Yeah. But they did it. And so once we were in the room, we were happy with room service. We just kept ordering room service, didn't we? So it was only a little bit extra. So yeah. And then because we had breakfast as well, didn't we? Yes. Oh my God. Yeah. He said, what's that round kind of black thing on the side of that fried breakfast? I said, I'll tell you, after time. Don't need it. But I'll tell you, I don't know. Anyway, after it finishes, I just said, it's called black pudding. And he said, what's that pudding? I didn't need it. It's black. It's like, it's an English thing. I can't stand it. I just know I'd never tried it. Never want to. But it is. Yeah. It looks like a black English muffin. That's what it looks like.  There's no way it's as hard as a hockey puck. I knew he wouldn't have eaten. I knew he wouldn't have eaten it. And there's no, I don't know. So yeah, he didn't. He didn't get to know that. Yeah. So that's lovely. Well, Patricia's saying, yum. Oh, you like it, Patricia. Do you? We haven't said hello to anybody on here. It's been a while. I did it. Can we have a look? Yeah. I noticed Stephanie. Hi, Stephanie. I could see that you were dancing around your living room and you had your in 5D, your tie-dye t-shirts on. Yeah, it's funny. There's so many people wearing tie-dye t-shirts. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So here we go. So Aaron, Tummy T. Denise, creating my reality. Yeah. You said that's Vanessa. Yeah. Gabby. Gabby. Hi, Gabby. Allison. Elaine. Elaine. We've got to say something to Elaine. Yes. Coconut. Yeah. Coconut water. Yeah. That was Sam, I thought. No. Elaine gave it to Sam to bring here. Oh, that's right. So she must have sent it or got Sam to get it. I don't know. Yeah.  I was drinking honeyjack all night. We didn't. We told everyone else to buy because it was a cash bar. Yeah. We told everyone else to bring cash but we didn't have any. So we was like, I mean, gratefully lots of people did buy us drinks. Yeah. But there was one point where it was like, he needs something to give us some water. Yeah, because we specifically said water. Yeah. And then in comes Sam with this coconut water. Yes. That's exactly that time. Yeah. Yeah. So you'll see me drinking it on camera. But I don't think you might, you may not have been listening, but yeah, it's from Elaine. I didn't. Yeah. I didn't hear that. Yeah. So thank you, Elaine. I greatly appreciate it. So some of the best water you can have, too. Sorry. Sorry to do this, let's hand it, but continue. Carry on. I was reading. Okay. Sure you can. So Rachel, who else? Miss A? What are you doing? Miss A? Thorpe. Miss Ann Thorpe. Thorpe. Thorpe. Jody. Dana. Dana. Dana, sorry. Michelle. Dalsey. Get Dalsey before. Dalsey, no. Jake. Bridget. Bridget, yeah. Jenna. Car domain. Bogey pepper. Bogey pepper. Bogey pepper. Bogey pepper. That's nice. Car domain. I remember seeing car domain on there. Yes. Yeah. Really? Yeah. We had a great time. So we have a celebration with you on the live. Elizabeth Badger was there, I think the entire time, weren't you? So was Stephanie. Yeah. Yeah. I saw this. Yeah. Yeah. Steven Starr. L.A. LaViguerre. L.A. LaViguerre. She was there. Yeah. Patricia. So who's tried Black Pudding then? Seticus. Seticus. It was that one. Pyridine. Pyridine shift. Northern California. Oh yeah, it's early there. It's like 320 here. You guys just set your clocks back. So it's about 11, 20, 10, 20 Eastern. And 720 Pacific AM. Wow. Yeah. Yeah. Let's see. Who do we have? Christine. And well, Tanya. And I think we can pick them up. Tanya, thank you for running those codes for us. I don't know if you got them, but she did, what are they called? The frequency things. That machine. Oh. I can't think of them. Pyridine. Pyridines. So she did some of those on us. So you could see the amount of stress. I was, she did one. It was like, yeah, that's about right. I'll probably in the taxi at that point. Going, I feel sick. I feel sick.  It's like, yeah, hidden nugget. I love that. That's funny. Hidden nugget. I think it's everybody, isn't it? Are we up to? It was a hard day. It was a hard day that day. We were spending that time with you guys. Laughing and crying. Oh, well, we're hoping that it kind of helped you. If you're having a bad day, it gave you some some way of thinking other things. A lot of tears of joy and happiness and probably some guys crying because you're not available anymore. Yeah. Yeah, no. Yep. She's officially off the boards. Oh, yeah. All mine. Happily. Yes. I'll tell you. Oh, yeah. That was in my vows. You are mine and I am yours. What did you choose to do then? Um, yeah, Prosecco. There's a bottle of Prosecco. Also in the room as well with chocolates. But the Prosecco was from Antonia. My brother and Nikki's student. So that was lovely. Okay. Oh, Cliff. Cliff did some videoing. Thank you. I think he got all the ceremony in and I think, you know, a lot of it, the cake and things. So thank you, Cliff. That was amazing. So it was lovely. And lovely seeing a photograph of you and Halle dancing. That was really very heartwarming. Because it's like Clifford is a family friend, but he's also Halle's very close friend. They talk every day on the phone, sometimes two, three times a day for hours. Halle gets in her own little world and she likes to go to Halle land. And Halle land, anything is possible. It's magical. And Clifford goes on with that imagination thing. So it's a very special bond. So that was lovely to see. So thank you, Cliff, for that. Thank you. Yeah, the YouTube, it was wonderful keep watching the YouTube, what was going on there. Wasn't that lovely? Yeah, checking in, making sure that everything's still going well with you guys. And wanting to let you know that you are and we're a part of our marriage ceremony the whole day. And you've done lots of people have given to the GoFundMe. We was aware of that as well. And that's how we got this done. So I want to give a special shout out to the people that gave us donations on YouTube throughout the day. You guys, wow, I can't express how much gratitude we feel for that and how you wanted our day to be even that much more special and helping us out that way. Yeah. So these are, I just want to read out the names of people who donated on that day. And just say a sincere thank you to each one of you. So starting out with Debbie Rose, Aaron Martinez, Phil Christopher's, Elise Lott, Uninsurable, Sharon and Evo of Vega. Great name, isn't it? Yeah. Co-creating happiness, I believe that that name is. Yeah. And Gracie Wendt. She's just here. Oh, wonderful. Hi, Gracie. Thank you for that. How's that for timing? Timing. Exactly. It's a big, Gracie Wendt. There she is. Yep. Yeah. Kate Herb, Elizabeth, JB, 2020, Julie. Thank you. Valerie Albert, Tanya Weston, Seeking New Direction, Donna Light, Eblos Bethpether, L.A. Love a Girl, Denise Stewart, UFO Mark, and Valerie Mahon. Mehan, Mehan, I am. M-A-H-O-M, Mahon. Anyway, thank you so much. Thank you. We're so grateful. Love you. Thank you so much. We love you. And everybody that just was the comments were just so wonderful, and they kept us in that hot vibration. Yeah. I think not that we had any problem being in it. The comments all throughout, it's great. And I understand that in America, you're having a hard time watching the video because of copyright issues. But I'm working it out where I'm trying to remove the music so you can at least read the comments. But it's ending up being, I guess, all the music that we have to read. Yeah, yeah, there was loads of them, wasn't there? Yeah, unfortunately. Except for the song Halley's song. I don't think I have to remove that one. No. No. No. Thousand. It's going to take a while because just one song on a six-hour video to edit that, it takes like the whole freaking day. So it's going to be a while before that gets. Anyway, I'm going to redo all the video all the video and cameras and angles into my video. If anybody hasn't seen, especially the cake cutting, that's on my. Yes, it's right in front of the camera. Right in front of the camera there. So you've got a different angle going on with my computer.  Probably a little while. Just while we were getting ready to get on the cake. Yeah. It's not. Yeah. Anyway. Jim and mum amended Greg's tuxedo as well in his jacket. I had to go as well. So we all kind of like just, we've made it happen basically. It looks fantastic and thank you everyone. Four weeks, that's all we had. And a lot of things we had ordered only when Greg was here. It wasn't straight away that we decided our kind of number. Anyway. I ordered a jacket before that. It was way too small. That's right. So we had to order it. That's what happened. Yeah. Yeah. So in, we didn't have long. The cake, Jody was, isn't that amazing? That cake was just superb. And I'm going to make a wedding pyramid. That's what I'm going to attempt to make. So with all of the little bits and pieces in there, we're going to do that dried flowers. That would be awesome. And with the rest of the flowers, I'm going to create some love cells. Put my ring in there. I've been wanting you to wear that ring. I love it. Coming off. Mine's not coming off. Oh, my goodness. So Jody, the cake was beautiful. It tasted divine and it looks superb. So it was absolutely perfect to what we would have wanted, isn't it? Yes. Because we kind of had a black and gold kind of theme going on. So. I like chocolate too. And at least more of a vanilla. So we had best of both. Yeah, we did. So, yeah. Perfect. Jill as well. Jill, you gave us the guest book. So we both, you wrote in it. It was lovely. A really nice comment that you wrote just, it was five minutes before we were going to get married. And that's, that was the start of it. And he wrote a lovely message in there. So I wrote something as well. So at least things will cherish forever. I was thinking of taking that guest book out to Florida. Oh, yeah. With this. I think that's a great idea. What do you think? Yeah. So we can get some comments from over there. Chloe, yeah, for organising the Polaroid cameras. Michelle for bringing in some of, she brought in some of her Christmas decorations to do the haul. Because we've kind of got some bits, but she made it that bit kind of more, more glammed up, didn't she? Yes. And when we got in, I was like, yeah, so that was lovely. And the chislet collerie haul in Hurston. That was, that was great.  60. It's huge. 60. Included a cash bar. Cash bar. And they went out and specifically got the honeyjack for me. And pineapples just for you. Pineapples for my Malibu. Yeah. So they actually went out and did that. So thank you, Diane. And thank you to everybody there. So there was an old friend there that I'd, I used to work with when I was at Fordwich. I used to work with Fordwich Arms in Cardiff's Dury. Oh, you know, so she was there. That was lovely to see. And there was another family member from Craig's family was, was at, will be on the bar as well. So at one point, Ria's baby got handed over the bar. So I think Esme must have been in there. Everybody's on. That's the baby. Yeah. And she loved it. She absolutely loved it. So she was passed around to everybody. I brought her in front of the YouTube land. Yeah. So that's little Esme. My youngest granddaughter. She's just adorable. She's very sweet. Yeah. So yeah, for people clearing up, people clearing up, we could not stay. No, we wanted to. We wanted to stay and we wanted to clear up and do everything. But my brother was like, no, you have to get to the venue. We didn't know what was going on. You just remember. We knew we were staying out. It wasn't right around the corner. It was a drive. No. So we had to leave at a certain point. And, and it's like, but everything is still, the part is still going on, the food, everything. What are we going to do? So they took over. My brother took over, Rhea took over, Megan. I think Lee as well. And if there's anybody else, we weren't, I can't really say anymore that because we got whisked off. So, you know, but it was, so thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And thank you for the whole letting us store our stuff in the kitchen. They store it in the kitchen and then they came back and got it in the state. So, and thank you to my mom. She came out on a ill bed to pick them up as well, to people that are along with Rhea because there wasn't enough time. So, you know, we did feel bad, but we're so grateful. And then even the taxi ride over there was a family friend, not seen him for years. His sister was my childhood best friend as well. And I feel terrible that I just didn't. We have four weeks to try and remember everybody. And there was people that I probably haven't really. How rude. And it's not me being, I, what was I like? I was like, yeah, everybody. That's what marriages are. I was like, it's like, it wasn't just like, you're invited and you're invited, but don't invite them. I was like, say, bring your friends, like my brother. You know, I was, it was no opening fight, wasn't it? So, we didn't deliberately miss out on anybody deliberately. If anybody think, honestly, we didn't. So I was paranoid about it. Well, throughout the video too, on YouTube, you see people running up holding up signs to the, to the camera. Yeah. I am a come down, come down. Yeah. Because it was an open invite. It was like a huge hall. It was enough for everybody. Yeah. We just wanted everybody to send a bite in it, didn't we? Yeah. So people, we didn't know, you know, it's fine. But only friends or friends. Friends or friends, yeah. Yeah, not just anybody. Yeah. Um, yeah. So the whole well worth, anybody wants to book out hall, I would, I really would. And they were lovely people. Um, yeah. The 5D family, I think. Yeah. You know, my donations.  There were some people that I haven't seen on the 5D channel. Yeah. In years. And they popped in and, And they enjoyed the music and everything as well. And all the regulars, many of the regulars were there. I was just so happy to see all you guys and, you know, try to acknowledge as many as we could when we could. But yeah. Yeah. We still had to mingle. And the thing is, I, Greg bless him, didn't know as many people. So he got introduced to loads. But I also had to go around and catch up with people as well. Mm-hmm. So we did it together a lot, didn't we? Yeah, we did. You kept popping into the YouTubers. Yes. Nothing like going to. Yeah. Yeah. That was good. Yeah. So thanks again for everybody. Yeah. It was online, sharing our wonderful day. Definitely. But our honeymoon, basically along with other things, we chilled out with our room service in bed. And we read every comment. Every single comment we read. Yep. Didn't we? We did. And Six hours worth of comments. We went through every one. Let's keep pausing it and then come back to it later. Yeah. Yeah. So, but we did. Yeah. We read it all. So, bless. And loved it all too. Just the interaction of the N5G family and probably some people that were visiting for the first time to that channel. Yeah. Some people. But yeah, it was awesome. I loved all the interaction. Yeah. And all the emotion that you guys were displaying. Yes. It was beautiful. Yeah, it was. It was lovely. The floor, so just want to give a shout out to the florist and the little flower shop in Hurnbay for doing the flowers. Last minute, again, I think we only give a week notice. It was synchronistic that we even found that place. Yeah. We drove past the original one that Allie wanted to get because there wasn't any parking available. And as we were driving down the street, I looked over and I go, is that a florist over there? And there's a couple of parking spots open in front of it. She's like, yeah. So I drove right there and I bet we came back. Yeah. And it was lovely because it was a family business. And as it turned out, she's been to your shop. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know if I've done a reading for her, but she's definitely been in the shop. Yeah. So it was synchronistic. It was supposed to be that way. Yes. Yeah. Yeah, definitely. No, no. She was lovely. And her dad was there and her sisters were there. It was like, and there was kids running around upstairs. The whole thing, I mean, we just love that. Yeah. Kind of. Yeah. It's all to do with energy, isn't it? Yes. Yeah, you handled the reception so well. Considering he's an introvert, he didn't know many people. I think he did amazing. Didn't you? I did all right. Yeah. Not just all right. Everybody loved him. Everybody loved him. I just want to thank you for supporting me every step of the way because it's like, before we knew it, it was like a wedding, and then it was going to be a wedding. Just, I mean, it kind of went up a few years, didn't it? But you've poked with it so well. Oh, I'm the lucky one. You've been there for me right the way through. And the things that I can't do, you've been doing, you did the cooking. The food was amazing. Some of the food didn't get put out, did it? Unfortunately, some of the lovely things that you've cooked, unfortunately. But it was gorgeous. The food, he's cooking it all from fresh as well. The chicken, chicken parmesan? Yeah. Yeah. So what else did you cook? Well, the parmesan, garlic parmesan meatballs, the one, one meatball never got made it out. But one, the Swedish meatballs never made it out. Not to say no. They're supposed to get heated up and they didn't have... Oh, there's a microwave. No microwave and we didn't have to bring a pot to heat them up in. And so... No, unfortunately. But it is what it is, isn't it? So, and you help me with the wedding favors, like put them all together and things. So I put the stuff in and put the bones in. I do anything for you. You know that. I know. You prove it to me every day. You do every day. So, yeah, I think the cards in the presents, we got back, didn't we? We opened all those. And we're just loving all of them. Yeah. This is kind of... This is cute. Grab the other one there. So check this out. Look at the date on this and look at the date on that. There's two stones. But one has the date in the way we write dates in America, 11, 5, 21. And the other one has 5, 11, 21, where they write the date in Europe. So that was from Sam and her daughter. Sam and Erica. So. Yeah. So thank you. We're going to cherish those. Very, very cool. Well, once again, like I said, homemade gifts. You can't beat them. Well, we didn't love everything else. I mean, the... What do you call the infuser? Yeah. What do you call it? What do you call it? Infusers. I just can't name everything. It's like... The slate picture. Oh, the slate picture, Tracy. They had a slate. Because it's up there. The candle that they gave us. The candle that was the Greek candle. Unfortunately, we need to prepare that. We can't name anything. Lots, lots of stuff. Yeah, I wouldn't want to name anything. Do a service. I don't leave anybody out. So we won't do that just in case. Because I have written everything down. That could... I've got a reading in 15 minutes. I've got to go. But if anybody's watching, I won't be doing the psychic development. I'll put it in the... I'll put it in our chat, our classes chat. So, yeah, I'm very happy that all of you... We have like 40 people watching right now. Wow. 20 of them. One costume as well. I know, without any heads up. Just so you know, check back tomorrow. We'll be coming on tomorrow night. Yes, state night. State night. Our last day night. Oh my God, I'm going to be in a bad state when he goes back this time. His last time... I knew that I was... I thought I was flying back out there in a month. And this time, we don't know when he's coming back. So a week from Tuesday, next week, next Tuesday, you'll probably see her with a party hat on, balloons and everything. He's finally gone.  You know it's good. You know it'd be hard, very difficult for me. Yeah, me too. But we've got to live in this practical existence. We knew this from the beginning. Under any illusions, are we? Yeah, it costs way too much to come back out next month for Christmas. So we're looking at maybe February, Valentine's Day. I'll tell you what, guys. This is one of the reasons why I left New York. The weather out here is killing me. Yeah, you know, my throat's a little sore right now. I feel good. It's not. I don't have the COVID. He'll get used to it then.  And if you look geographically, where you are and where I was raised in upstate New York are about the same location. And even one day, we looked at the weather in upstate New York. It was they had the exact same high temperature and low temperature where I'm from, as we did on the same exact day here in Herndon Bay. Very, very similar. And when you put the east coast of the United States up against the west coast, the west coast of Europe, you'd to lock them together like a puzzle that's called Pangea. You can see how this was one massive continent before continental drift occurred. So you can see how that certain climates in one geographical area may be the same to others. Anyway, who knows? Maybe there'll be a pulse shift and England will become Florida. I don't know. Maybe, you know, we're just going to move back and forth. Oh yeah, that's another thing. We were just hypothetically talking about this. Maybe we'll talk more about it on date night. But check out the article on N5D about the med vets that are coming out. And we'll talk more about it tomorrow night. Yeah. So anything else you want to finish up on? I think we've done so many thanks. But they're from the heart, absolutely. I mean, I was emotional, really emotional yesterday. But it wasn't sadness. It was just overwhelming. Yeah. The whole thing has been so overwhelming. Yeah. And such kindness and love. And people are sharing our love as well. And that's what we wanted. It's not about, oh, look at ours. It's about this can happen to anyone. This can happen. Despite distance, an ocean between you, a couple oceans, doesn't matter. When it's going to happen, it's going to happen. Yeah. Distance and dimensions couldn't keep us apart. So travel, if you're single, travel out there into different dimensions when you're dreaming and find yours. Oh, Gabby, you're right. Nasal spray, saline. Thank you. That's a wonderful idea. Yeah. I got to go get that. So I'm going to go out shopping. Got to go out shopping anyway. I got to get more orange juice. And we're going out for dinner tonight. Going for a date. Where are we going? We're going to the oyster bed. In Herm Bay. Yeah. So we're going there. They have rotisserie chicken and all sorts of stuff there. Yeah. And southern, like southern cooking, U.S. cooking, smoked stuff. I don't know. It sounds really good. Can't wait. Yeah. So I'm going to get a nap in while at least doing a reading. So thank you once again for joining us. Watching our gratitude, wedding gratitude. There's so much to be thankful for. And I mean, obviously finding each other, being with each other, but sharing this and being able to share everything with you and then receiving from you as well. It's just an amazing love circle. I felt that love come back. We're sending it to you. You're sending it to us. You send it to everybody else in the chat. It was just everybody. Yeah. So we'll be back tomorrow night. Are we coming on at 8 p.m. Eastern or are we going to do a little earlier? I say a little earlier. You? Yeah. Because I get it, people that live here in the U.K. 8 p.m. Eastern and 1 p.m. U.K. or 1 a.m. U.K. Man, that's tough. So I'm thinking maybe 5 p.m. Eastern, which would be 10 p.m. here. What about people who work here? Well, it may be a bit, maybe an hour later than it. 5 p.m. Eastern. Okay. He's a boss. Yeah. Yeah. 5 p.m. Eastern. Okay, love. There we go. I use six. Sign in. Orega. Orega. Orega. It's a herbal nose spray. Oh, thanks a name. Okay. Yeah. We got to check that out. Can I find that on, like, Amazon? Amazon. Yeah. See? Yes, please, so I can join in the U.K. Yeah. Yeah. 5 p.m. Eastern it is. We're doing date night 5 p.m. tomorrow. A special early date night tomorrow night 5 p.m. Eastern. So I'll make a post on my Facebook page and all my social networks. You have a reading to do. So thank you everyone for joining us. So until tomorrow night, we love you all. Take care. Bye.


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So in this video, I want to share with you the low budget testing strategy I've been running now for the past couple of weeks. So to kick the video off, we will be jumping into my ad account. I'll be showing you the results from the past seven days or so date today. So you can see the current results it's been able to produce. And then we'll jump into the strategy itself. I'll go through it step by step, explain everything there is to know. If you do want to get this strategy in a PDF format for free, you can do so. If you go into the video description, so just below this video, it'll be the first link. Click that, it'll take you to a landing page and then you can get your own copy for free.  If you find this video helpful and it's the sort of thing that you think you're going to use, let me know, please do hit that like button. Please do make sure you subscribe as well if you're enjoying my content. And finally, I read every single comment in every single video. So if there's a question you want to ask me, something you're not sure on or a video suggestion, whatever it is, simply comment it down below. I will see it and I will respond to you as well. And with that being said then guys, thanks for tuning in and let's jump straight into it. So on screen now is April the third, 2020. So almost two weeks ago now. And just to kind of give you an introduction into how this strategy works or the couple of ad sets I want to show you then, for example, these two here, the top one is a retargeting ad, the second one is a cold interest ad. So it's going out to people who have never seen my product, my brand or my Facebook ad before. Both of them are on a two pound per day budget, which you can see here. And the first kind of interesting piece of data I want to show you is this cold interest one has a relevant score of 10. Relevant scores are super important. If your ads aren't producing the kind of results you want them to, then the relevant score typically is the first thing you should be looking at because it's like a direct signal of how relevant your product or your ad is to your audience. And the higher the better and the higher it is, the more it kind of translates into cheaper CPMs, cheaper clicks, et cetera. So the CPMs I've been able to produce two pounds, 11, four pounds, 52 with an average of two pound, 91. Now these are website conversion campaigns and they are purchase ad sets too. As we get into the strategy, it will become clear how I'm able to get these CPMs so cheap. Cosmolink clicks on average is five pence, which even for my kind of standards on average is actually really cheap as well. So I was quite surprised by that myself. And in terms of the actual amount of purchases them, I believe it was only one purchase for 19 pounds, 99, which left me with a 4.83 ROAS. So nothing special, but not too bad. As you'll see as we go on, if we have a look at April 4th, for example, the results were much better. I was able to get three purchases with a one, two pound ad set, which was about 35 pounds per order, 110 pounds total conversion value, which with a ROAS of 53.91, which is obviously pretty crazy. One of the huge advantages of running these micro-budget strategies is that if you have a day like this, for example, because the profit margins are so high, then it kind of pays for the next week or perhaps even two weeks of ad budgets as long as you keep running them at two pounds per day. If we move on to April 5th, so the Sunday typically weekends are like better for me. I'm not sure what you guys get, but typically it's like evening times during the week and then weekends. However, due to the current climate, then everything's pretty random actually, to be honest, recently. So on the Sunday, April 5th, I only got one purchase for the same product, for the same amount, which gave me a ROAS of 10.25 or 5.21 on average, because this retagging ad at the beginning didn't get me any results for this particular day. If we move on to April 6th, I got absolutely nothing on this day. And this is kind of like, I was gonna say it's a downfall to the strategy, but it's not really. When you're spending two pounds per day per ad set, then you're gonna have like really inconsistent results. Everybody knows that Facebook works on bigger budgets because the more data it has, the more consistent it can be. So that is kind of like one of the things to keep in mind is that if you don't get sales for a couple of days, so if we take a look at April 7th, I've got nothing this day as well, then don't worry about it. Because you are spending such small amounts, then you will see these inconsistencies. One thing to point out is the relevant score for this particular ad set has been pretty high and consistent all the way through, which is obviously a really good thing. And then if I just put this to live time, have a look at the results over the course, since I started running these ad sets, I've had 23 purchases, two pounds 70 per purchase on average, which is crazy, crazy cheap even for me. However, during these current times, if you get the right products and these kind of results are achievable, both the relevant scores for both of these ad sets are pretty high, which is absolutely a really good sign, which leaves me with a 14.32 ROS on average. I can refresh this page as well so you can see indeed that these results are real and are achievable for you too.  Now that being said then, how does the actual strategy itself work? So to start it off, the objective being a testing strategy is to identify the best performing audiences and then scale the winning ones. When it comes to running Facebook ads, you should be doing one of two things. Number one is testing or number two is scaling and your budget changes depending on what your objective is. So if you're on a low budget, for example, the best thing to do is use a really small budget to test to find which audiences are performing the best and then kind of split your budget up and spend the majority of it on scaling because the more budget you put to an ad set, then the more data can go through it the faster it can optimize, the more consistent and more profitable the results can be. Put ad set then, the only thing that's gonna change is the detailed targeting section. We're gonna target one interest and we're going to narrow this with engaged shoppers. By selecting engaged shoppers, what this does is it makes sure is that we target those people who are clicking the shop now button recently within the past seven days basically. So it increases your chances of finding those people who buy things using Facebook ads. Next up, we're gonna use auto placements. Now, typically I've always stayed away from auto placements to be honest, I've always stuck to kind of like desktop news feeds on Facebook, mobile news feeds on Instagram and Facebook, but because things have got so much more competitive over the years. So when I first started advertising four years ago now there were three million advertisers on the platform and I think it was reported this year or last year there was over eight million people advertising. So there's twice the amount of people advertising and there isn't twice the amount of users. So essentially there's more people competing for each space. So I'll start testing with auto placements about six months ago maybe, probably halfway through 2019. And the results have been really good so far because those other spaces are less competitive, essentially they're cheaper, you get a further reach and essentially this lowers your CPM and that's why I've been able to achieve those low CPMs which I showed you. In terms of conversion day window, I'm always gonna go for seven days with low budgets. The longer the better with smaller budgets and currently seven days is the longest that Facebook gives us. So just make sure you click the more options and then make sure you've got seven days selected. To kind of summarize this strategy then and why it works, number one is two pound budgets allow for slow but cost effective testing. You can go three or four days without seeing a single purchase but because there's such small budgets then it's not a big outlays, not a lot of money to lose. And what this also means as well point two is that one purchase equals your Facebook budget paid for the next three to 10 days. Obviously it depends on what your profit margins are. So for example, if you sell a product and each order gets you 20 pound profit for that particular ad set spending two pounds per day it pays for the next 10 days worth of advertising on Facebook before you're in a loss. So one purchase can mean a lot. Point number three by using engaged shoppers I've already mentioned this is you ensure you're targeting people that are currently shopping are still shopping because by selecting that essentially it includes everybody who has hit the shop now button on other people's Facebook ads in the past seven days. And then the last point auto placements by selecting this you open up those cheaper places those less competitive places to advertise which in turn increases your reach for the same budget and makes your CPMs cheaper. Now if you're thinking those places such as audience networks, et cetera are cheaper because they're low quality and you don't get the conversions you may be right which is absolutely fine at this point because we haven't spent a lot of money and we're simply testing. This is where scaling and the next steps come in which is so start with the best performers when you've ran these three ad sets for at least five days. I'm a really big believer by the way of I would much rather split my budget over the course of say a week versus one or two days. So once you've ran these for at least five days if not seven, start with the best performers look through the breakdowns and then narrow and increase the budget slash duplicate by 10 days. So if you do like this micro budget strategy what you could do is you could duplicate the ad set and time to essentially you're spending $20 per day. You can see the individual results per ad set and then you can just kill the ones which aren't profitable and continue to scale and increase the ones that are. So when I say look through the breakdowns essentially what we do if we come on to here and use these two as an example if we select this breakdown tab here on the right we can go by delivery and then if we go by gender it's gonna tell us where the purchases are coming from. So essentially across these two ad sets it seems pretty kind of similar actually three for female, two for male, one for un-categorized but then that's interesting in fact for the cold interest tag team we've got 15 purchases for males, two for females. So essentially that would be where you would narrow and then start to scale on the males and then if we move to let's go for placement and once this loads up then we can see where all the data has come from. So there's been six purchases in total for this retargeting ad and every single one which is quite interesting has come from the Facebook news feed on a mobile device. If we have a look at the cold interest tag team we can see that one has come from Instagram stories but the majority have come from the Facebook news feed on a mobile device as well. So even though none have come from other places what would we do now is essentially narrow this ad set to mobile news feed only, male only, let it run for a few more days and then increase the budgets and duplicate up to 10 times if we so choose to. And with that being said then guys that pretty much covers absolutely everything I wanted to in this video hopefully found informative and quite interesting. If you do go out and test this make sure you come back. Let me know, I'd love to hear the kind of results you guys are able to achieve. Please do make sure you hit the like button if you enjoyed the video. 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