Started because there's not very many other seats there Okay, can everybody hear me okay because the microphone seems to be a bit dodgy Okay, cool So this session is about visual design principles for people who aren't designers if you have done any kind of art Qualification that you probably will recognize these things But maybe you need a reminder and it's always good to be refreshed If you have never done any design before then this is really great If you're one of those people Where's many hats in your company and you have to kind of dip in to do some front-end work or you're a one-man band and you make You mostly site build sites and you want to kind of level up a bit and do a bit of theming So firstly I want to say that you already know this You can tell the difference between a good slide and a bad slide you You can instinctively know when something is a good design and when something is a bad design Even if you don't necessarily know the rules you can feel it in your gut our brain actually Moves us to things which we find beautiful So if you make a website that is beautiful, then it will keep people on your website for longer so today we are going to learn the rules like a pro and It's basically so that we can be more mindful about what our users are going to see and If it's we're conveying the information in a clear enough format We're going to look at four core principles There's lots of different design principles out there from depending on where you get them from but These are kind of like four of the basics which I was taught at school They're obviously not strict rules because they're principles but they Are There'll be enough to get you going a little bit further with your design work We're going to start with proximity And the purpose of proximity is to arrange content into a format that is easy to read at glance Drupal is really good at Making Drupal is really good at making information architecture really good, but what it doesn't do is And which your design is for is to separate things so that they are clearly divisible from one to the other If you have two pieces of information and lately they are too close together Then they might look like one piece of information So it's kind of like So it's kind of like a cutlery drawer as well if you have a cutlery drawer, which doesn't have a divider in it These list divider the drawer is messy and there's You when you open the drawer, you can't tell where the spoons and the forks and things are and it's harder for you to get the Tool out that you need quickly It's the same if you put the divider in and you have clear defined spaces between things Then it's a lot easier for you to grab the information that you want quickly so I now need to make some apologies and I double checked and Alex Burroughs isn't in here, which is good Because I needed to pick a website, which you've all probably seen That hasn't had hundreds of design hours spent into it and that probably could do with a bit of work He knows I'm doing this So like this It is true and all Drupal camp websites Quite historically are quite bad because the people that volunteer for Drupal have to do so much And they have to volunteer in so many different ways that when it comes to Doing things you might not pick up something that's your skill set So this talk is perfect for Alex and I'll give it to him later Let's look at the site so The first thing you see when you come to this site is a very large box that says March 3rd 2015 and it's at City first University London 17 I'm in the past and And I don't know what's happening, but I'm very excited that something is happening because it's massive and There's a reason as to why it's so big because historically Drupal camp London has forgotten to put the date on the front page, so At least they've got it right this time, but it's probably not the best idea to have it where it is so we're probably gonna address that and also It's filling quite a lot of that image and there's people there at this thing I don't know what it is, but I don't know it are there no Is there like nobody where that white box is and that's why it's that big So are they just trying to make the event look bigger than it actually is and I don't really know because it's blocking all of the important information from that photograph And the other thing when we scroll down we have scheduled buy a ticket and become a sponsor And then we look down to the second section and we've got tickets so why do we have buy a ticket and tickets so That's not keeping all of the things that are the same in one place So we're gonna change it a little bit And I'm just gonna do it really fast This is exactly how I code And it's gonna get messy before it gets better obviously and we're doing this retrospectively as well So if you make these design decisions whilst you're making the site You probably end up with something very different to what this is So we're gonna remove that middle button and we're going to There we go turn it into a h2 because we don't need buy a ticket and the tickets So that looks a little bit better because it's a little bit more uniform We don't have three buttons and then two buttons and we're kind of the proximity between The things that are different and the things that are the same are is greater So we're getting that it still looks ugly If we go up to the top we've moved the When and the where over to the logo and now actually we see the Drupal camp logo Because everything's over there in almost like a business card format. You kind of your eye jumps towards that White big white block. So we know that we're going to Drupal camp is in March and it's the City University of London But obviously we're not quite there yet. It's still pretty weird. And so let's add some repetition Repetition's purpose is to create familiarity and add visual interest You see a certain HTML like it's meant to be used You if you have a language that's quite simple then use it simply And I think Tim Berners-Lee said a language which is A language which uses fewer basic elements to achieve the same power is simpler So that's here what he said for HTML Pretty much works for design too a design that uses fewer elements can be very powerful So you don't have to add all of the CSS in the world to your site because you can that's something that then makes it quite cluttered and becomes quite Visually distracting and you don't actually get the information out of What you're looking at so that's I like to call that selectoritis where you just get a bit carried away and Use all the things and there's a talk about component-driven design after this in here and that would be a good step into that So to be repetitive it's not just it's like if you had a list and you had a bullet point and then a Square and then an arrow and then the number one and then a number two You'd kind of like well, that's not are they all the same list points? So that's you know, it's a very simple Example of repetition, but it works everything between Border styles and buttons and quarter actions making all of your court actions throughout your site the same and bringing in some some familiarity to your site So here we go We are going to make the buttons look similar and what we're going to do is actually remove the corners because The heading in the top corner is square and the buttons are rounded And actually if you scroll down the website even further the images of the speakers are in a circle So it's like the website kind of blobs as it goes down the page Warb and so here we go. It takes me a little bit longer students. So we're going to This is about four hours work whilst recording and having to redo it because it didn't press record. So it's not So it's not too much It's not too much work that we've done to the site of doing these four principles So it's a it's kind of like a good a Good way to polish something that you've already got doing it retrospectively So here we go So we've made the button square so that they match the business card type area at the top and We've changed the color so that we don't have that purple because the purple's not actually used anywhere else So let's be lazy with our colors and stick to a More concise palette We scroll down a bit. We've got we can see a bit more clearly that by turning that heading into the headings that look lower Down, we've got a little bit more uniformity in the site Then the next principle is alignment and the purpose of alignment to unify and organize Basically, we align every single element with the edge of another element Align all the things It's a lot like a messy bookcase if you have or a messy house if your house is messy if everything's kind of a little cluttered up and you quickly go along and you line everything up then Instantly you feel a little bit more calm a little bit more peaceful and it just kind of sits nicer with you So that's kind of what we want to do on our websites. We don't want to be like manically trying to search for information Grid systems help here. There's lots of different varieties of grid systems bootstrap CSS wizardry grids and then CSS has also bring in our brought out grid layout, which I think is pretty much Use usable in most browsers these days. It's pretty new, but it's cool and the thing to remember with alignment and CSS is that it's like playing Tetris You have to get all the shapes to line up in a solid row and then you're winning as soon as you start to get gaps in the places, then it all starts to kind of get jumped up and messy So the problem we've got now is that the buttons at the top aren't the same width as the bottom the body to take now Buttons, so that actually kind of adds visual disruption to us scanning the page So we're going to change that and we're going to kind of at the same time Look back at the things that we've already learned because you kind of have to add as you go Here we go again I should have put some like comedy music in Yeah, it's quite a lot in this one. We're going to Remove some things Spend this up quite a lot Okay, give me a little there we go. Okay, so we've done quite a lot We've made the buttons so they are all identical to each other Which gives a bit more clarity we've made the space between them a bit bigger and by taking out the background color We've got more it more visual space to make them look like they're more separate it's still not perfect and there's still more things we can do to make it better and But take it heading by take it it looks a bit floaty and and is it really necessary anymore so let's Go back and like make a few more small Iterations on this and see what we can do to hide the floatiness because the the bike having the bike now the bike tickets centered kind of Distracts and you don't have a strong enough alignment going down Okay, so by moving those two buttons which were quite Separate items to the top They they're still important and they're still something that when you come to the site You read straight down that left-hand side so you read what it is where it when it is where it is what's going to happen and then give them some money so you're You're hitting that like the core principles of what they want you to look at but we can now really clearly see Let me move that now we can really clearly see that the ticket prices and buttons so actually I think we're We've got a much more engaging site and by moving the menu over as well. It's not floating in the middle anymore and It becomes one menu instead of a main menu and then an add-on random user menu so the last principle we're going to look at is contrast and Contrast is to create interest and to catch the eye It's all about making things super important stand out so Pretty much. This is where you get to break the rules if you Fill that something is not exactly the same as something else then change it and make it look different a really good example Is sticky items on lists? You made it sticky and you've pushed it to the top of a list because it's important So you need to make it visually look important because it might not be very clear Especially if it's say an event listing that the ones at the top are the important promoted events and that they actually aren't the most recent events So by making them look a little bit different putting different icons on them or styling them out in a different way Add some contrast and obvious and simple solution is to Use color and reversing out the color and making quarter actions the opposite of things But you don't actually have to be That dramatic when you're creating contrast and definitely only do it when it actually really matters Otherwise you then end up back to where you started with a site that's crazy all over the place So here we go So I'm going to remove that heading because it's still quite floaty. It doesn't really do anything and make the The titles bigger and I think if I would have spent more time doing this I probably would have Re-engineered that whole button. So the content so the weekend ticket and the price they were inside that button But for trying to get some quick wins in this is good enough, okay? so if we take a look then we've added a Background color to the video so that it doesn't stop right at the end And that then makes that we've got a nice strong border going across for our ticket section So that makes the ticket stand out really more. They're more important. So they need to be a little bit more bold making the Headings a little bit larger. So it's quite clear to see that and also I've broken the grid a little bit with making the logo bigger and moving it over I've still kept it within a grid, but not The dimensions that it was and that means that the logo stands out a little bit more and it's a little bit more a Little bit more eye-catching. So if we compare it to the original On our flick back and forth It's just a little bit more polished a little bit more considered and a little bit easier to read we've got Less information in the DOM structure, but we can see more as we look at what we're doing. So That's quite useful. We've made things simpler Okay So let's recap we've got proximity and proximity is to embrace the white space and photographs and To group related elements together logically and with hierarchy. Cool We've got repetition repetition are things that are the same should look the same list buttons headings elements on your page the talks in here next will help with that and Limit your styles and be consistent. So almost be lazy when it comes to repetition Alignment not just about the text and aligning things left and right We're visually aligning and having solid edges to your design to make it really stand out contrast Make elements stand out and get noticed It's not just about the color, but it's about getting things right By making the few odd bits eye-catching So always remember that contrast repetition Alignment and proximity will make your websites look better And I didn't come up with that somebody asked it But it's it's really easy to remember and it just when you're making a website of some kind It's quite easy to think does this line up right? Am I using a new style? Should I use an existing one? Is everything? far enough a way that it becomes acceptable everybody's taken a photograph big word crap right now And Yeah, if you would like to read more into this this basically comes from the book called design for non-designers so I'm responsible for non-designers by Robin Williams not the comedian but a woman from America and Yeah Okay, yeah, so a Good way of doing that would be not using every element of the grid So really narrowing it down to using a few Sections of your grid because it's so wide and they're and sticking to those but then breaking it occasionally Which is where the contrast comes in And then using full width background colors is a really good way of breaking it up Rounded quarters is a bit of a weird one like it's not the 90s anymore We don't need we don't really need those But Visual elements like putting in extra photographs because the content of a photograph is very fluid very natural and that will help break up things quite well, and there's actually a good example of a This is actually a really good photograph and it's very clever because everybody's facing Towards that and it's a really good print tip if you in books if you've got a double-page spread Then everybody on the left hand page would be looking into the spine and everybody on the right hand page We'll be looking into the spine and it's Subcontinently just dragging your eye to the left-hand side of the page. So little twins like that are quite clever And maybe that's another talk Yeah, so just think about contrast there Anyone else hi No, it's fine Um start with your information start with your content because then you can get your information Architecture right that's obviously most important and then start by going very Basically through you could probably work the other round and start with contrast So to make sure your headings are definitely a lot bigger and change the change the font from headings to body text and things but To make things look quite simple is proximity the gaps between and breaking up the content So it's quite clear and easy to read between that That's really what gets a good simple simplicity. Yeah, the proximity I would say there Hello So I work at George box and so UK agency and we don't necessarily don't always use No, we don't ever use any contraband things, but I think if you start with a good I think what's the cost Remember the name there is there's a quite there are quite a few good ones But I think when you're just flicking through if you try and see does this have Does it have crap and then and then you'll be able to make that judge call But just by looking at the screenshot, and then you can also obviously quickly go in and go right Okay, this is a really good design, but maybe it just needs a little bit more space Maybe the contrast needs to be a little bit bigger So they that's not really too much time. It's not going to eat too much into your design budget or lack of design budget Hello Yeah Yeah Yeah I Don't really want to say that but I think that's right like so using flexbox and things like that really help CSS grids is also quite useful at that So flexbox is very good to go all the longest thing in this row is this big will make all the other things that set that size And that keeps that alignment looking lovely. It keeps the space between things looking great And and that's actually I think most front-end designers have been waiting for something like flexbox to come along for some time and And that really solves quite a lot of problems because otherwise you'd have to use things like match height J s to get those things right and also Because we have the same problem at works. We've got a plate a Client that does a lot of publications and some of their articles are very very long and then other than other Them's like war on Syria and that doesn't even fill a full line and you're like So much going on and sometimes you have to say is this 12 line heading actually What this content is about and get them to edit their words and to have proper web manage like editing management to To kind of find the middle ground there War in Syria hello Yes, no, it's still works the same way so I don't have that to Minimize it, but it still works the same way you still have to kind of consider things When they become smaller But then does anybody have ever get like HTML emails where you've got it comes in lots of boxes There's an image a title and some text and you start throwing down and you get halfway through and you're like Oh that text looks good and you have to click the image To get read further and you've clicked the wrong image because you've forgotten the order of what whether it's Title image text text title image and then you're like, oh, I don't know which one's which and I had it happen the other day with a transport for London Email and it's just making that proximity the gaps between things Really quite clear when you've got narrow screens So if you if on a narrow screen obviously most things are normally full width of the screen So having a big gap between things but not enough not so big that you obviously you've got white space That you can't see there's anything below makes it quite a big difference That kind of answers your question if you want to talk more about like responsiveness we can go into that. It's not quite It depends really um, I normally will start mobile and work up. That's kind of bit of a Current trend, but sometimes we've got sites at work where we've had to retrospectively add mobile in and then We've had to go back to the other way And it's normally a case of find a breakpoint and make everything below that hundred percent wide and flow down below each other Hello That depends. I'll say that's not normally my call. It normally depends on the designer and the Normally the client also help has a say in that because maybe they've got quite a cutting edge site And they've got younger users. So they've got bigger monitors or maybe Yeah Yeah, hopefully you're making a responsive site. So that actually doesn't make too much difference when it gets to different sizes So it's basically say if I get to 1,400 pixels wide then we'll just have white space at the side But anything below that would should be nicely responsive But we're doing sites now where they just seem to get wider and wider and they can go on for eternity It depends. It depends. It's true. It depends on really what On what the clients is and what kind of site you've got you wouldn't want that for a heavy information site because obviously then your reading line Would be too long So, yeah, hello again. That's all right um, I Haven't used bootstrap very much actually at Torchbox. We either decide to find a new one or Don't use a grid and you don't have to use a grid It's just a nice tool to be able to if you if you've got a solid design or a designer That's capable of understanding how a grid works without needing one, then you don't necessarily need it Actually really like the CSS wizardry Grids Which is Harry Roberts his thing is quite old. Yeah, I really like that It's a really nice lightweight grid and it's not too over complicated I think if you're quite new to grid systems and stuff you can look at bootstrap and be like There's so much stuff and get bogged down in it But when you just focus on a grid system, then it's nice to have just a grid system Cool, is there anybody out there is hello That's a different story That is a different story. Um, if you start going into colors and fonts and things then There there's other like rules that you can follow and other things they kind of cover it in that book But basically don't have too many Yeah You


Yeah, we're gonna be talking about sales charts. But I gotta clear the desk first.  Oh, this, Zelda Collector's Edition Yahtzee? What, all right. These four post-sister paintings, Ocarina of Time. Okay, I don't, why are they sitting here? I don't understand. These two officially licensed Zelda sweatshirt jacket things, I don't get it. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, what is this? A Zelda Collector's Coin? Breath of the Wild from E3 2016. Now that's a collector's item right there. I don't know what that's doing here. And a charge and play clutch from HyperX? 6,000 milliamp battery power beast? I guess that's one way to expand your portable play when you don't have an outlet, all right. Cool, I don't know what this is all doing here. What is this? This is one of those new $100 Fusion Pro controllers. It doesn't have rumble, kind of a disappointment, but otherwise, I mean, it's got the best D-pad in the industry, at least for Switch. So, there's that, and hey, it's got a white faceplate.  Is this Gamer Christmas? Does someone just drop a bunch of presents into my lap? There's four in one mini charging dock. Oh, you can charge four Joy-Con off of this. So if you're someone with a bunch of Joy-Con, that's kind of useful.  All right, those are just a sample of the products we are giving away during E3 2021. $3,500 worth of stuff, new partners joining every day. We've put out a grand plus of our own money into those giveaways. We have consoles being given away, all that stuff you've seen, games, games, so many games being given away, physical copies and digital copies.  We have a lot going on. Be sure to tune into our E3 coverage starting on June 12th, starting with a two hour pre-show that begins our giveaway festivities along with a whole bunch of other stuff and special guests. It's going to be a good time. Hope to see all of you there. All right, now we're going to be talking about sales charts specifically with Amazon. Now we're focusing on Amazon US. I have looked at sales charts in other territories and for the most part the sales charts line up. Essentially the charts are close enough country to country with some slight variance that we can really just go off of one and call it good. And since I am based in the United States, obviously the sales I care about the most happen in, well, the United States. And we're going with Amazon because they are the world's largest online retailer. Supposedly that's at least what the internet tells me. Meaning that they're also going to be the largest online retailer for video games. This gives us a good idea, a good landscape look at how Switch is doing because yes, we had the NPD report where Switch was dominating, but we don't really know how the games are doing. In Japan we have a better idea where Switch not only dominates there, but the games dominate. So we're going to look at the software. We're also going to look at the hardware to get an idea of how Switch hardware is doing. This is in totality for 2021. This has nothing to do with fiscal years. This is just calendar year 2021 to date. Here are the top 10 best selling software on Amazon to date. Number one is Super Mario 3D World. At number two is Minecraft for PC. At number three is Ring Fit Adventure. At number four is New Pokemon Snap. At number five is Animal Crossing New Horizons. At number six is Just Dance 2021, the Switch edition. At number seven is Breath of the Wild. Still in the top 10.  At number eight we have Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. At number nine Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. Again, a Wii U game, just all right? At number 10, Super Mario 3D All Stars. Now notably, Super Mario 3D All Stars are likely gonna fall off. These are just physical sales. These aren't digital codes. So this is just physical sales. And yeah, Super Mario 3D All Stars are gonna fall off. They don't have any more physical copies.  Monster Hunter Rise is actually at number 11. Likely gonna bump Super Mario 3D All Stars off this list along with all the additional Switch games coming up. But that's nine of the top 10 best selling games in 2021 so far. At least according to Amazon are Switch games. And then the only one that's not is Minecraft. You know, the game that just keeps on selling. That is, wow, can we just stop for a moment and appreciate the evergreen-ness of Nintendo's titles? I mean, there's titles on here from 2017. We still have a fitness title and Ring Fit adventure still blowing up. Super Mario 3D World just, that's gonna continue to do numbers. It's a Mario game. And Bowser's Fury mode, I'm sorry, might be the best mode in gaming. And did you know we have Mario Golf coming out? They dropped a Mario Golf trailer today that I'm not gonna do an individual video on but tune in tonight to a live stream that I'll have going on around 8, 8.30 central time tonight. We will live react to that trailer. I've already watched it. And I don't think there's enough information in it to do a dedicated video to it, but doing a live reaction and talking about some of the stuff I'm most excited for, because I'm really looking forward to Mario Golf. Also, Meetomo comes out on Meetopia. Meetopia comes out. Meetomo and Meetopia. The me, me, me, this, whatever. That comes out later this week. I'm not as excited for that, although the me maker and it's crazy. Go download the demo. If you just wanna see the most coolest me maker ever. But yeah, software's killing it. And like, yeah, Returnal came out and it looks like Returnal on PlayStation 5. The sales aren't actually doing very well. Of course, some people will counter while who really owns on PlayStation 5. Okay, fine. But yeah, Returnal doesn't appear to be doing too hot so far. And really, if it's not a Nintendo game and it's not Minecraft, gaming in general, no, no, like we're selling hardware, but software is not really selling. Of course, I guess Ratchet and Clank, Rift Apart, that might be the first big one this year that's not for Nintendo. I don't know. Well, we'll have to wait and see. It's been kind of a slow start to the year if it's not Nintendo.  Although, not something to rise. I mean, come on, let's just be honest. That is a banger. And that's not even in the top 10. That's how crazy Switch games are selling right now. All right, let's get into the hardware because, of course, Switch dominates, but it's interesting to see where individual hardware skews rank. And obviously, you'll notice a trend here on Switch is massively selling collectively everything. And it's not really even close. So at the number one hardware spot right now is the Red Box Switch with the Neon Joy-Con, you know, the Neon Red and Blue Joy-Cons. At number two is the Standard Edition PlayStation 5. At number three is the Animal Crossing Switch. At number four is the Red Box Switch with Gray Joy-Cons. At number five is the Gray Switch Lite. At number six is the Xbox Series S, not X. At number seven is the Switch Lite Turquoise. At number eight is the PlayStation 5 All-Digital Edition. And then at number nine is Switch Lite Coral. Unfortunately, the chart doesn't go big enough for me to get a top 10. Notice the Xbox Series X is not on here. The S is outselling the X. I think this is just because Microsoft is making more S units than X's. And I'm not really sure why the X, to me, would seem to be a more high demand system, but then also it's a Packer's Dream. A emulator's dream is the S, you know? So maybe that's why it's also cheap, costs as much as a standard Switch. But yeah, you'll notice that that's, you know, what, seven of the top nine hardware spots are Switch. And the number one spot is Switch. Collectively, Switch is obviously crushing whatever number PlayStation 5 is doing, which PlayStation 5 is at a record launch pace. So it's kind of interesting to see PlayStation 5 is on a record launch pace for a console. Meanwhile, Switch is just casually spitting out more units than anything. It's starting to come back in stock at a lot of places and Switch just continues to outsell the competition. Yeah, I've never seen, this is the interesting part. We are in the heyday of Switch, right? The Switch is peaking in sales right now, and yet a new generation of hardware launched in the middle of Switch peaking, and it doesn't seem to have like, even put a dent into what Switch is doing. That's what's insane. The PlayStation 5 is on this chart. It's doing record numbers, and yet it can't touch the Switch. It can't even come close to touching the Switch. I mean, the cheaper PlayStation, all digital edition, is way down the list behind Switch lights. I mean, it's crazy to me to see how well Switch is doing. It just blows my mind, because we're headed into E3, which is poised to be one of the biggest E3s maybe ever, especially if you're into Nintendo or into Microsoft. If you're into Sony stuff, obviously there will be some Sony games there. I'm presuming we'll see the Final Fantasy game from Square, maybe some Final Fantasy 7 remake stuff. We're going to see games going to PlayStation factually at this show from third parties, Ubisoft, Square Enix, Sega, et cetera, but Sony themselves is not there. So seeing a lot of their exclusive Sony made games, probably not gonna happen there. Well, probably happen at an event, maybe a little bit later after at one of their digital events or maybe they'll wait all the way up for PSX. I don't know. And what's interesting here is that Microsoft obviously bought out what, they have 30 plus studios under their wing now after the Xenomax purchase was approved. So they're gonna have so much stuff to show. And I've seen some things out there from even popular PlayStation podcasts where they kinda are worried a little bit about Sony. Yeah, Sony announced that they have 25 exclusives in the work, 12 of them are new IPs.  The thing is that was always the one thing they could tout over Microsoft was, hey, forget the services, forget this. You come to us for exclusive games. But now if Microsoft with Game Pass has 30 plus studios releasing a bunch of bangers over the next five years, that could put a dent into things, especially since it's much cheaper to get these games because of Game Pass on an Xbox or on a PC or heck on your phones. It's kinda crazy Microsoft strategy. And then you gotta consider Switch. We've obviously been killing it with the rumor reports and the leaks and all that. And it just looks like somehow year four and year five of Switch might be bigger than all the prior years combined. We have an open world Pokemon game coming. Think about this, open world Pokemon. Sequel to the best selling Zelda game of all time. Donkey Kong getting re-imagined. Metroid Prime 4 coming back likely next year, right? Think about just those games right there. And that's before considering we probably have a new 3D Mario coming. Maybe it's Mario Odyssey 2. Maybe it's something else entirely different but there's going to probably be a new Mario Kirby. They're looking to make the greatest Kirby game to ever exist, right? We're still getting the Pokemon remakes. You know, maybe not as hyped as they once were but we're still getting Pokemon remakes this year. You know, we have Monster Hunter stories too. We just had Monster Hunter Rise which is doing the kind of numbers the world was doing on multiple platforms but just on Switch. And this is just the stuff we know about. Shin Megami Tensei 5 is in the works. Sure, there's a new Dragon Quest in the works as well because Dragon Quest 11 killed it on all platforms especially on Switch. Like things are happening in this industry that are so exciting.  Point is things are opening back up, right? And as we come out and as we try to give back to the community during E3 coming out of this to put some smiles on people's faces even if the game you wanna announce isn't announced at E3 because all this stuff we're hearing doesn't mean it's all happening at E3, right? So yeah, this is all exciting stuff but where it looks like combined in totality this could be the greatest E3 ever and it's a digital event.  Like this is not your average E3 we didn't have E3 last year. This is a two year build up to this gamer Christmas. Two years. And as Nintendo fans we know we've been waiting. They sprinkled announcements on social media. We had one Nintendo directed in the last year and a half. One. And it was pretty good. We got Splatoon 3 dropped at the end. Out of nowhere. Nobody thought there was a chance we've been getting a new Splatoon this generation and we got that. I didn't even bring that up earlier. It's crazy. Mario Golf Super Rush looks incredible. The RPG mode looks better and better the more we see of it. Everything is lining up. Heck even at my channel we're growing at not a record pace but at a very quick pace from now heading into E3. We're even getting big podcast guests coming up on Wednesday at 8 p.m. CT to 9 30 p.m. CT. We have our podcast being streamed live to the world and we have Jeff Grubb coming on from Venture Beat. You know, the Jeff Grubb of the game mess of the actual industry inside or the actual reporter, a video game journalist coming on our show he wants to be on. This is in addition to great people like Andre's Restart and Game Over Jesse and HMK and all the rest that we throw on misclick gaming, right? We always have the content creators but now we have an actual journalist coming on our podcast. Who's next? Shigurumi Yamamoto? I'm just pointing out that things aren't going in a positive momentum not just for us but for gamers. And this is so exciting. I am more hyped for this E3 than I have been for even the very first E3 I attended in person, which while it was a special E3 went as media to cover Breath of the Wild in 2016. Talk about a special E3. And I'm more hyped for this one and I'm not even going to it. There's no in-person event. Yeah, here we are covering E3 and making a bigger deal out of it than I think has ever been done before because you know what?  If you tune in to us, you're gonna have a good time. Gaming competitions, giveaways, great conversations. All the things you love about the channel and more. So I'm hyped, I hope you're hyped, I hope these sales show why Nintendo fans should be incredibly excited. We'll catch you in the next video.


Well, hello my community. It's been a while. I haven't talked to you Keep kind of seven days away. We have an incredible amount of co-located events. I'm so psyched for it I can't wait to say all your beautiful faces live Virtual however you all do it today. We're spot lighting two of these co-located events. There's cloud native security comp And also supply chain security con. We have Andres Vega Emily Fox and Dan Lawrence So spotlight starts now How's that for production value you all? Huh? That's amazing. Well, they're talents besides coming into the tag security meetings and just like joking around So before we get going you mind if I do the code of conduct for everyone. Is that cool? Absolutely. Go ahead This is an official live stream of the CNCF and such is a subject to the CNCF code of conduct Please do not add anything to the chat or questions that would be in violation of that code of conduct Basically, be respectful of all our fellow participants and presenters so Let's talk you all we've you know, we as a group in tech security we put together You know as the event leads of this we put together this event with all these amazing program committee I want to talk to like people watching this. They're like, okay. Well, what you know, what are they in store for? I know it's what we're in store for like as a part of the committee But I really want to know what we're doing like what makes you all pumped and let's talk about the impetus of it That's a lot. I'll let you start Yeah, where to start is the question as Dan said Emily myself and him have been Working behind the scenes pulling together a dedicated space is dedicated arena for security petitioners and aspiring security petitioners to come together For as long as we've had QtCon there have been people who have been enlightened with security and No security very well. However, we haven't had necessarily a space for Focus on security on the on the ecosystem not just Kubernetes security So here we are leading up to the first cloud native security con which builds on a series of previous cloud native security days that have happened globally have happened Twice a year for the past couple years Yeah, it's funny that you mentioned that I Spend some time looking at a repo today and realized that the first cloud native security day event was actually in 2019 it was an idea first introduced from Michael Ducey to provide the community with a security focus space That was vendor neutral because like you said cloud native is more than just kubernetes security It's about cloud native security and there's a lot of other existing tooling within the ecosystem You don't necessarily have to be a kubernetes adapter to be able to take advantage of all the benefits that cloud native can actually provide you So this is it's been so many years. We've done North America and we've done Europe and we're back in North America again This is my first time going to an in-person cloud native security day and con so that'll be exciting Yeah, it's again if you look at the you know the meetings that we have in tech security I think it's I think this is like kind of the culmination of like people publicly kind of showing like all of these technologies working together But also not so much of the people working together You have this spirit like almost competing technologies to a certain degree working together for the common good for best practices We think about white papers We think about like you know this policy that you know document that would just came out like again That is to me is the joy that I enjoy so much about tech security But also the in the day everybody's celebrating all the great technologies out there So people are aware of them and can use them in their stacks not just specific to kubernetes, but cloud native in general So looks like we have some folks joining. Thanks so much for forage for joining everyone So a couple of kudos here some hello from Zewoo Zoo is that how we say this in the in the biz Looks like we have a hi guys from ashish ashish, and then we have A most amazing people here that must be referring to you both because I don't know Oh john's including you in that Oh Okay, appreciate that All right, so I mean let's talk about the schedule you all I mean in terms of is there You know, obviously we love all of our children, but you know over dearly, right? But let's let me is there anything you all excited this to check out By the way everybody this is on october 12th. This is when this is Yeah, it's october 12th The program committee had a ton of submissions I think this is probably some of the most amount of submissions that we've ever received for cloud native security con or cloud native security day So like we had a hard enough time But we did decide that because of the quality of the submissions that we received that we were going to open up the afternoon To dual tracks, which was the first time we've done this and we're very thrilled to do it Andres, what is one of the talks that you're looking forward to the most? It's hard to pick just one as you said we had great submissions Close to over a hundred talks total that were submitted we had Many different judges come through the schedule. It was very hard call that we have a lot of representation and variety of content which All together is what excites me the most cloud native security is often an intimidating subject So depending on The track you decide to break out to It will equip you to help decipher this often intimidating ecosystem So there's plenty. We have great sponsors. We have also the largest number number of sponsors to date so If I were to pick one Let me let me sit on that one for a while During the call. Maybe maybe we'll see what about you? Um, so I had a hard time picking as well And I don't think I have a favorite but I have some that are very topical and important And I think that's also reflected in the two different kinds of tracks that we have Supply chain security as you know is super important. Um, dan larenk Dan larenk is also doing supply chain security Day con joining us joining us later later in the show you all. Yeah Um, so it's wonderful to be able to get that cross presentation from him about supply chain security And as you know our group released a supply chain security paper We have a working group that's currently working in this space on a reference architecture. So that's exciting Um, but we also have some folks that are going to be talking about data security Which I don't think gets enough airtime generally because a lot of the community isn't Thinking about data centric security or data centric modeling and as machine learning and AI are continuing to grow in that space We should start seeing more security focused talks around that subject area Another one is the long and windy road that leads to cloud native security That a lot of folks don't realize that cloud native ecosystem adoption is very complex And it's a hard topic for a lot of folks and when you add security as a layer in addition to that starting from scratch It can be very tricky and it's a it's not an insignificant burden for a lot of organizations to adopt And that's something that the security tag is trying to break down I think um in general too. I mean, there's a lot of end user talks I mean, you know, also I like that there's also some of the lexicon is being discussed as well Which is really cool because we we get so much jargon throwing at us all the time Right, there's so much of that and to be able to kind of define Those things to me are pretty pretty awesome. But like, you know, you got like folks that get invidia trend micro firebolt analytics There's all types of it's not just, you know, it's the practice. It's not just, you know You know folks at vendors or or you know, there's end users that are part of this kind of giving their kind of path And to me that's always it's always good to see when somebody you can walk a mile in somebody shoes And what they're what they're doing from a security perspective Yeah, that's a great point and Also representation of the state of things a lot of these end user talks are not an end user dabbling Initially with one of the projects A lot of it is end users far along the journey of not just one project but combining multiple solutions into a more cohesive system Which we go Back in time to the first editions of top native security day A lot of the talks were to introduce security tooling and security projects And as the space has matured, we see a whole lot more of Deep integrations of this system one and the other. So we're going to see talks that use of runtime security with palco and Open policy agent, we're going to see talks with open policy agent and spire We're going to be seeing Different integrations of different levels of kubernetes. So yeah manifestation of where we come along I think people are seeing Things in the in the landscape and working putting them together like things on like in toto inspire And in all of those types of things and again, that's why I like and I love the tag security group Because it's an amalgamation of all those things we find the best tools possible Right and put them together in ways that like will address a certain security issue, right? And so and in these things what's great is it's it's it's ever it's evolving, right? There's new technologies being so every year. There's no folks coming in and presenting. Oh, it's cool. We're seeing kai verno kai verno is doing some great things, right? And so Shout out to jim and in the in the group over there But like This is what we need to see we need to we need to have those paths for somebody that's coming in Like they develop that doesn't understand a lot of these security paradigms and seeing them in the context of it You know actual real-time use is is really cool So I kind of want to ask this question in general What are you looking forward to just in kube kind in general beyond just you know The cloud just the you know our cloud native security conference I think that's a really hard question to ask Um for me, there's two different portions of it one of the things that I loved about going to conferences in person Is the hallway tracks and the people that you meet and the conversations that you can have they're a candid they're not prepared they're not like Nobody's gotten into their own heads about them yet. So you're just hearing everything that's raw From the community their passions the things that are driving them and moving them forward So that probably for me is one of the things I'm looking forward to the most is being able to reconnect with folks To talk about security to talk about their problem space as well as their solutions that they're working on How about you same question andres Yeah, I I look year round to keep con is the one place where All the community leadership is pressing and there's a chance to catch up on Well, we've all been busy, but let me pay attention to what everyone else has been up to What have they learned? It is a great knowledge knowledge exchange It is a great opportunity to extrapolate from The lessons of others share our own with with the community There is there's a lot around open source ethos and practice Which is the cornerstone of what cube con is all about so also great to calibrate and modulate to like The spiritual source of everything cloud native So I'm gonna change gears for a second, but go back to save the best for last I think it's the best It's one of my favorite parts of it is let's talk a little bit about the ctf because again, we have these two tracks Right, we for the first time we're doing the two tracks, but also simultaneously, right? There is going to be a ctf a capture the flag you all for the layman who don't understand whoever doesn't know What the capture flag is I don't know but um a shout out to magno uh in the team there, but I mean we have We have some guests. We have some hosts. We have some amazing stuff Who wants to take a little like a snippet of this just get everybody hungry for this one? See if they can by the way if you haven't registered by the way, I'm going to throw it back on the screen register now, please Who wants to take this one? So This is what like our second time doing the ctf maybe third or fourth. I keep losing track We're so busy whenever we do these events third. Oh my gosh. It's been so long Um control plane has been a really great partner and the volunteers that we have to help running run and execute the ctf And we learn every year that we we run this event We're excited because in addition to the regular ctf challenges that we have I think we have five maybe six They're hollywood themed, but we also have The live stream going on twice so one's at 12 15 pacific and the other one is at 3 p.m. Pacific I think I got this time sorry live on what cloud native tv you all That's right. Yeah So we've got some fabulous Co-hosts this time. They're not just from The security tab. We've got some folks from the community that are going to be co-hosting And we have a lot of really great special guests that i'm really looking forward to talking about the ctf talking about how they got into Capture the flag kind of challenges or just generally what their cloud native security journeys have looked like We like I can't say enough how much of doing security is community related and being able to talk to folks and Understand their methodologies and the way that they think about approaching some of these security problems So having that streamed for the cloud native tv audience is going to be super fantastic And hopefully we'll help up a lot of first timers and their ctf break out of their first container You know and with all the talks that take place It's it's often hard to find the Quietness to well, how do how do I put this to practice or let me let me rehearse this Then we go back to work and we we get super busy It is set that knowing and not doing is the same as not knowing So it is a great opportunity for cams on practical skills As emily pointed out we have a great crew of Red teamers blue teamers I don't know if we talk about capture the flag, but I don't know everyone knows what capture the flag is So there are flags to go after and in a system and you need to find your way through these challenges To capture the flag so great opportunity to put all the tooling in practice some of the methodologies And a lot not just just talk but be able to retain a lot of the things that get discussed and exercise I'm looking forward to it. I'm going to I'm going to be trying to do it throughout the event In addition to emceeing It's going to be it's going to be wild. Like I said, it's and and again just to so everyone knows is Myself and race Are going to be emceeing this It's going to be exciting Like I said, it's if you've all been to need the tag security meetings. We we have fun together. So it's going to be exciting Let's let's let's go home here. Let's talk to call it the action everybody Like how tell me how does people, you know, obviously we know how to register is anything we can You know, I can do to kind of just get people to come and what are the what are some other kind of like Give some more snippets out there like hey, we're excited for that people should come and check that out Nice raccoon by the way That's our raccoon. That's the mascot if you've ever seen the security tag logo You'll see our raccoon in it and they will be making an appearance at cloud native security con as well as throughout cube con So see if you can find them boom any uh any other Andres before we we let you go anything else you got Come with an open mind Come come to have fun learn Share what you've been up to each other's How you've been thinking about security what have you been doing around security? And yeah, hopefully through those exchanges we can all collectively safeguard our systems and our infrastructure Totally great.  I'm gonna I'm on tears right now Look pop is sappy.  So I'm so proud of you Thanks so much. It was it was very unexpected and completely thrilling to be considered let alone be have the opportunity and Work in an environment that allows me to pursue some of these opportunities So I I'm hoping that I can represent security and all of the cube cons to come as well as security tag and the security community With making sure that we are Well, well discussed and we are present and accounted for Awesome. Well, I'm gonna let you go. I got to bring in another person that uh, we uh, we all know We mentioned him earlier.  All right, so we uh, so we're gonna have a we talked a little bit about software supply chain as part of You know the cloud name security comp, but let me uh, let you all go have a great day. Emily and andres and I'll We'll talk to Dan about that that show Thank you All right, my man, you're back. I'm back. We're back on the two downs here So let me let me ask you a question here. Well, hold hold on I gotta I gotta get something All right, all right, you ready do you feel comfortable now you feel like you could talk I think you've got a you've got to grow out the wig a little bit. My hair's been growing and yours hasn't Well, that's life, buddy. You know, I gotta I gotta get it when you get old. Is that it? All right, well, I have the I have a quick one. I can kick you off. All right So listen, I want to know let's talk about this in in general since you know We had like the saw the the key signing ceremony for six store And and you know software supply chain pretty much is blown blown up I mean because of the executive order and stuff that's going on here I want to know like hey, we wanted to start this conference. Tell me about the beginnings of this So everybody understands like what it is and also why you know, this is important Yeah, so this is the first ever software supply chain focused, uh, you know, cognitive supply chain security con This year, um, it's the day negative one event. So it is monday of next week. So monday of kubakon And yeah, why are we doing it this year? It's because supply chain security has become a you know, pretty important topic rapidly throughout 2021 Supply chain attacks started to pick up 2019 2020 and you know, they're ramping up like crazy this year Someone type just did a report a couple weeks ago. It said, uh, there's been a 650 increase in software supply chain attacks this year The european union the you just put out a report predicting another 400 increase next year Right, and this is just a case of attackers finding an area in software We can always do where we are under invested and uh, we as an industry have to come together to figure out how to pivot And get on top of this, uh, and you know, increase the cost of attacks. So attackers go somewhere else So let's talk about software supply chain security conf. I mean like what i'm first again, it's a first year conf Why would I go to this? Yeah, uh, why would you go to this? Um, you should go if you want to learn more about how to protect your software supply chain Everybody in the cloud native ecosystem is producing or consuming some kind of software Um, and because we're doing this on the open we're building all these awesome open source projects and we're using them together We are all part of each other's supply chains This is not something anyone company can come and uh prevent or fix completely by themselves At the community here the community of the cncf has shown that you know, we're all in this together And we all need to take a holistic look at software supply chain security and come together really to fix it together So i'm looking at this schedule here I mean there's again the creme de la creme from a cscd perspective creme de la creme of like software There's n users. I mean we got like lf public health Google booze alan hamilton. I mean Talk me through this schedule man because I know you painstakingly put through this Right. I mean talk to me like about some stuff that you're excited about Yeah, I mean we are starting out strong. So we've got an awesome keynote to start off here from The solar winds supply chain security team. So if you've heard of supply chain attacks this year, you've probably heard of solar winds Um, they were victim to a really really bad attack which pivoted and ended up affecting a lot of their customers So we've got trevor rosen from solar winds who's going to do a deep dive on the attack exactly what happened To the orion product the sunburst attack How solar winds then you know came together worked with the cncf worked with a cdf With all these awesome open source technologies to correct this to build the most secure supply chain they possibly could So that's the one i'm most excited about we get an end user report We get some details on an actual attack. We get some real world implementation And we get to tie it back together to you know the projects that we're all here collaborating on We've got some other awesome ones too, but yeah, you want to talk about that one a little bit first I mean dude at the end of the day, this is your spotlight. You tell me exactly what you want to see on pitch Yeah, that that one's amazing. We've got some more end user reports, right? We've got uh people Rolling out supply chain security on behalf of the entire communities, right? Um, so every company here, you know, we're not building in vacuums But we are depending on a whole bunch of shared infrastructure usually and in a lot of cases this shared community infrastructure Is not always that well looked after Um, and so we've got Dustin Ingram from the python software foundation. He's going to be talking about some of the awesome work Pi Pi Uh py pi the python package index has been doing to improve the security of that critical component of infrastructure One of the scary parts of supply chain attacks is that there's always two parts, right? You attack a supply chain and then you pivot down to all the consumers of that spot in the chain And so when you look around from an ecosystem perspective, there's all these really critical like super nodes things like pi pi Things like docker hub, you know, these single points that are trusted and used by everybody across the industry So it's great to see them taking it so seriously and you know working on it Um as a foundation We've got some other pretty exciting ones. Um, we've got a uh couple lightning talks Uh practitioners. This is a field that people might not always be Thinking about but it's putting security in 5g, you know in the networking space in the telecom and the carrier grade space From erikson Fatih's going to talk about how seriously they worry about supply chain and how they're working to protect it For everybody using 5g across the world today Let me let me ask you this because I say, you know, a lot of this again If you look at this, this is literally like the creme de la creme of software supply chain, but like Like i'm again, i'm a lay developer and i'm coming to this.  Yeah, I think if it really is just kind of a way to learn the current state of the art The challenges people are facing you and uh some takeaways about what you need to do. Um anybody this developer should Like know about uh this whole area. It's it sounds all fancy, but it's really not right It's really about taking a lot of the concepts a lot of the normal, you know Coordinated security concepts that we're going to cover in the next day just applying them to build systems forever We've been fine as a development community as an ecosystem with Locking down our production instances All these awesome runtime security features and policies about who can access nodes But then the build machine is still sitting under somebody's desk and so If you're not doing any of these security features of the runtime security or anything like that on your build machine And that's how these attacks can happen a lot of it's just reminders and Showing you what other companies and other communities have done in this space Do I see we got some questions in chat? There's I asked for some questions in chat, but there's somebody it's just it looks like uh john Notice that there's operation salsa. All right. Yeah, I've heard about that a little bit Yeah, so salsa stands for uh, I can never remember the acronym um supply chain levels for Software artifacts something like that. It's also a really awesome type of dip And to help spread awareness about this framework It's kind of a set of guidelines a set of levels that you can look at to make improving your supply chain more approachable and digestible We put together a pretty fun video series called operation salsa I posted some teasers on twitter. We can uh Retreat another one of those I've during this the the short version of it But we are going to be airing some more footage live A coupon of operation salsa So stay tuned. There's uh plot twists. There's danger. There's intrigue There's explosions. There's explosions. There's puns even better, so There's a lot of iowa. All right, so moving on So, um, let's talk about this in terms of when is the event? Yeah, so the event is all day monday. Um, i'm going to get the date wrong So i'm just gonna double check October 11 monday october 11th So it is the day negative one as I call it the first day zero event In la and remote all the stuff will be live streaming.  What are we doing and I asked the same question before as well But like what are we doing just to make sure the experience is just as good for the virtual as well as the in person Yeah, so almost half of the talks have been pre recorded actually And so everybody's going to be able to watch them all live It's going to be questions and answer question and answer after each session All the stuff is going to be up recorded at the end um And what else am I missing? Well, I mean dude Let me ask you this. I mean again, there's there's the there The tool that's being used for the for kubecon general. There's a moderator so you can interact with the folks that are in there So um, again, a lot of the speakers can interact as they're as they're doing the talks is whatever So people should feel like they're part of you know, this whole experience in kubecon in general So go ahead Yeah, yeah, it's really it's one conference both in person and remote. You're gonna get an awesome experience either way So so dan let's let's switch gears for a sec guys as we finish out here. Um, what are you excited about in kubecon in general? Uh In general, I'm excited to get back together with this community, right? It's been so long. I am going to be there in person Um, I'm excited for for that to kick off again Um, I'm excited Yeah, for the day zero events both of these uh day negative one and day zero May have may have many words. All right. So lastly, this is the go home here So this is the call to action here. How does one like, uh, you know People can register. How would they register? Tell me about that like, you know Yeah, we've got links here, uh, go on and register. Um, you can register either in person or remote Um, it is early in the conference. So if you're not going to be there yet You can always watch that remote before you arrive. So don't let that be an excuse to not participate Um, really there's going to be some awesome sessions here. So pay attention. You might see this wig live Just letting you all know this wig might be live at that session I've instructed security to not let dan in Well, Dan, we did it buddy. Listen, let this this is it. Is there any parting words you have before I let you go? No, I think we covered it all here. It's going to be fun. Uh, there is going to be operation salsa There might be a wig if Dan can sync by Yeah, come join us It's going to be a lot of fun y'all. All right See you later bud All right, so again, we had a couple of amazing events we talked about today. You all I mean again these these The co-located events are always fun, right? We get to we get to see like different aspects of you know, the normal talks that we see at kubecon I'm excited for it. I'm also excited that uh, we're next week. We're we're going to be doing some Talks from we're going to be doing recaps all next week from the floor of of kubecon So we're as kube cloud native tv will have a booth All next week, we're going to be doing recaps. So some of your favorites a host like cat cosgrove Chris short's going to make an appearance next week as well. I'm really excited to have chris back Um, I'm going to be doing day one with my a legend.  It's uh stew minimum used to be on the cube He's going to be doing he's going to be on with me and lackey and we're going to have uh, sig honk on We're going to prionka. We're going to have steven and gustus. It's just it's an action pack next week I'm so excited to see you all Please if you haven't registered thus far for for kubecon, you know what it is here I'll throw this on the screen as well. I'm so excited to see you all so so we're going to be so happy But also look, uh, I'm going to be jumping in the hallway track as much as possible I want to interact with you all as well, but there's so many talks. There's so many amazing things happening There's so many keynotes if you haven't registered for kubecon, please do so really looking forward to seeing everyone Thank you so much for joining us for uh, uh for spotlight live We're going to have one more show this week. It's going to be prionka. It's the go home show We're going to talk about what's going on with kubecon. Um, it's going to be great So thank you so much for joining and we'll see you next time and if uh, I just wanted to let you know Uh that everyone that the spotlight is on you


you have been in the forefront of so many political conversations as a journalist and as someone who is a thought leader in your own right, but who reports and investigates. And I'm curious from your vantage point as you're watching how people go to their corners on this particular issue, are there thoughts that you have in terms of covering the subject that we can learn from or efforts that you see underway that have been successful that we can emulate? I'd just love to get your thoughts in terms of covering this horrible subject and how we can open up the lines of communication better in this country. I would love to say yes, I have an answer and yes, I'm optimistic, but I'm frankly not especially optimistic and it really goes, guns are certainly a clear and present danger and one of the great concerns and like all of you to turn on the news at night and see that there's been another mass shooting, whether it's at a school or a college or a workplace or just on the street. And the shocking thing is that it's not shocking and that we kind of expected. When I first came to Washington as a reporter for NBC News in 1978, my first job was I covered the House of Representatives and one of the things that very much impressed me and look, there were Republicans, there were Democrats, there was political disagreement. One of the things that impressed me was the ability of the parties to get together then and it was particularly true during the Reagan years in the 80s and I covered the Reagan White House for six years that things got done, problems got addressed. There was a crisis with Social Security in 1982 and Ronald Reagan appointed a commission and it included everybody from Tip O'Neill, the very liberal speaker of the House from Massachusetts to Allen Greenspan to some people on the conservative side and they ended up passing a measure that ended up saving Social Security ensuring its financial stability for another 20 or 30 years. Now we got a problem again. I remember later in the 80s they passed an immigration reform bill that included amnesty for people who were in the country illegally but that cracked down on future illegal crossings. There was a major tax reform bill. The point is things got done. People, and Reagan used to say this, I'd much rather get 75% of a loaf than nothing at all and so people made compromises. It has seemed to me, and we can talk about why governor, to be kind of this steady decline in the ability of our national leaders and frankly the whole national discourse to try to settle problems rather than to go to your corners and surround yourself with your tribe and like-minded people. And so, you know, is there an agreement? Is there a deal to be made on entitlement reform? Is there a deal to be made on immigration? Is there a deal to be made? Not necessarily that would satisfy everybody or on guns but yes there are deals to be made sensible, common sense. You know, what is the percentage of people that support universal background checks? I think it's 98% and you can't even get that through Congress but it just seems that our politics has become so tribal, so polarized, so involved in people wanting to score points rather than achieve victories that I'm not especially optimistic about it.


Welcome to the Argos Toy Unboxing. Today we're looking at the Shopkins Scoops Ice Cream Playset. Are you excited? We have this cool, colourful truck to drive around in. Okay, so now the ice cream truck has stopped and is almost ready for business. Inside the truck are these two exclusive characters that you can only get with this playset. Let's pop our treat board open so that our customers can see what we have today. Just check we have those in the freezer. Yep, wash your hands guys. I think we're all set. Oh right, I forgot the board. Now we're all ready. Here comes our first customer. What would you like? The ice cream sandwich? Good choice. Please feel free to sit in our seating area. Here your Shopkins can enjoy their tasty treats in the shade with their friends. And even go for a spin. Also included in the set are these two exclusive cooler bags. Giving you even more places to hide your Shopkins. If you hover over the video and click on the information button on the right hand corner of this video, you can find out more. And at the end of a long day, you can pack everything into your truck, storing more Shopkins in the freezer and drive along to your next adventure. Toot toot. We hope you've loved this Argos unboxing with Shopkins Scoops Ice Cream Playset. They're desperate for you to play with them.


Alright, it's now time for Interactive. Remember, you can download the Sportsmax app from the Google Play or the App Store and watch a variety of live sporting action. And for viewers in Jamaica, here's the chance to win a trip for two to the Champions League final courtesy of Joss Betts and Sportsmax. Make a bet of 1500 Jamaican Dollars or more on any game from March 1 to April 28 and you can be one of our lucky winners. And as usual, you can send us your voice notes via WhatsApp and check out our clips on X, Instagram and YouTube. So Leon Bailey has been left out of Jamaica squad for the nation's league finals for disciplinary reasons. Let's get some reactions after the 23-man squad was announced earlier on Thursday. Okay, so we have this one from Tyler. He says, No, Leon Bailey. Your man don't want to win anything. Tukul says, The Marey Graham makes the squad, but no, Leon Bailey. Jay says, Not calling up your best player, Jokes. At least he won't get injured. Eric Hedgie. No, Leon Bailey. No, Pinnock. No, Amarey Bell. What is this squad? TD says, Confusion. Full stop. Mashiro. No, Pinnock. Or Bell. And Amarey H called up. This coach already conceded the final. Ryan says, No, Bailey. Are you joking? Alright, so the coach has given the explanation as to why Leon Bailey has been excluded, of course, because of disciplinary reasons. Apparently, there's this rule. I think it's the only rule, according to a coach, that you're not supposed to leave the hotel after a particular time. And I think that's what happened, and Leon Bailey and another player. Trevante Stewart. Yeah, has been. Well, I just wonder if some of the reactions that we got, they were ignorant to the reasons. No, most times people don't listen to the press conference. Yeah, because the coach explained himself, and he said the players apologized and accepted responsibility for their actions, so he's trying to set some standards that he wants the team to follow, re-guidelines and discipline. So I'm not too sure I agree with a lot of the reactions that we got there. But I also will lean to the fact that they have not heard the press conferences and maybe a couple of news outlets can keep pushing the explanation, and not just that he's locked up. And a couple of Amarebella, Neetha and Pinnock, they're injured as well. So a couple of queries from those ex-posts. There were some injury issues as well. So some of the players that they were questioning their absence. Oh, injuries. The coach explained how groups, explained that they were injured. So I think the coach explained himself. But that's one of the things he said in his interview with me, that whenever he makes the decision, he wants to give the public the reason behind it. So that it clears up the confusion. Because one of the things that we always talk about is miscommunication, leading to confusion. And he said that's something he wanted to work on. One of the ex-posts just said confusion, full stop. And that's exactly what the coach is trying to avoid. So I'm not sure. But you can't please anyone. So I'm not surprised about some of the reactions. Because Yon Bailey is a star player, and people want to see him play. And they think that the Jamaica team is stronger without him. And their next assignment is against the USA, which is the best team in Conquer Cap. So I think the fan reaction is really illustrating that people would like to see the best Jamaica team out there playing. And without Yon Bailey, the team isn't as strong. So I think it's a disappointment of that. Yeah, for sure. On that note, we wish you goodbye. Have a beautiful evening. And it's Friday tomorrow. We'll see you tomorrow. Bye.