And for the people who don't know Berkel and Roderijs, I guess that's everybody here, except for Jan, maybe. That's near Rotterdam in the Netherlands and the total distance that I'm going to walk is 737 kilometers. I'm going to tell you a bit about how I came to this idea and how the idea came to life and how the idea grew from a small idea to something that's hopefully going to change the lives of some people in the WordPress community. And before I'm going to do that, maybe I should turn my laptop around so we can see my presentation. No worries. I can check this out if things are going good here because it was working. One final check and if it doesn't work, I'm just going to do it without slides and without sound. Sound's gone now also. Okay, so we got no sound or image. We need to choose. It's here, right? Okay. Shall I do it without sound then? Well, this is me. That's the logo which someone from the community, Tom Hermans, designed. I wanted this to be a community-based thing. And I want to tell you a bit about myself first. Well, my name is Marcel Bozman. I own a company which is called Nostromo. And within Nostromo, I build websites. I do support and I do that in a CMS that's probably known by you which is called WordPress. And I do quite a lot. It's my own company and I do almost everything in there. And besides that, I realized that when I started about 10 years ago with my company, I realized that I was using a free piece of software that people actually donate their time into and help it make it better. And I wanted to do something back for that. And I guess a lot of people who are here right now have the feeling that they want to contribute to the WordPress as a project. So I started visiting WordCamps and met a lot of people which I still know right now. And I started to do more in contributing to WordPress. I'm not a core developer and I try to look like ways so that I could contribute to WordPress. So I started with the forum in the Netherlands which I'm now moderator. I started with translating. There's a big community in the Netherlands with people that are helping translating WordPress to Dutch. And I'm also an organizer of several WordCamps and co-organizer. I started with a team or we started as a team with WordCamp Europe in Leiden in 2013 and I was on the organizing team there. And after that I was able to join the organizing teams for WordCamp the Netherlands which is probably going to happen again sometime. Maybe if people stand up and want to organize it. And right now I am the lead developer, the lead organizer for WordCamp Rotterdam. And I want to take the opportunity to make a bit of a commercial for WordCamp Rotterdam very short. It's on the April 12th and it's going to be a 24-hour WordCamp. We have a WordCamp conference during the day, presentations and hallway tracks and you can meet people. And from 8pm in the evening we're going to start a do action hackathon and help four charities build a new website. And at 8 o'clock in the morning we're going to finish that and hopefully we have four websites to show to the charities. And we have support from SiteGround who's going to host those websites for a year and it's going to be fun. So if you don't have anything to do on April 12th this year please come to Rotterdam. There's still some tickets left a lot but you can also come. So why would you contribute to WordPress? Who of you has not ever contributed to WordPress? Okay, well that's not true because you're here. By being here you're already contributing to WordPress. So contributing can be a lot and contributing is for WordPress. It depends on the time that contributors put into the project. If everybody stops doing what they're contributing right now WordPress is not going to be as successful as it has been. So people like you help make WordPress better. I believe there was a contributing room for the whole WordCamp here.  There was a contributor day also. The room is still there I know. People are still contributing which is very good and contributing is a big part of what makes WordPress big. And what I wanted to do is how can you help or why should you contribute to WordPress? It's just for simple bullet points. You can learn new stuff. You can learn a lot. There's lots of experienced people in any subject where you would like to contribute like translating, like core contributing, like the Gutenberg project or the block editor as we need to call it right now. So there's always something you can do and if you want to learn stuff, join those teams and introduce yourself. Tell them what you can add to the team or what you want to learn and people will embrace you and help contribute to WordPress. You can also share your knowledge. If you are experienced in certain areas, you can share that knowledge to new people or people who want to learn which is also an awesome thing to do. But maybe the most important thing is the last point and that's having fun and making new friends. I see a lot of familiar faces in here. And every WordCamp where I go to, which is not a lot, but I visit a few, it's the familiar faces that make it very cool and also seeing new faces arrive. Ever since we had the little dashboard widget where announcements of WordCamps were, we see a lot of new people going to WordCamp. So who's here for the first time on a WordCamp? Okay. Well, that's good. That's good to see you here. And I'd like to dig a little deeper in how did I get the idea of going to Berlin while walking? If you want to start contributing, you can go to make.wordpress.org. There's a lot of information there. You can see what kind of teams are there and if you can contribute there or if you would like to learn, pick a team, subscribe to Slack, join those teams. Everybody knows Slack in here? Excellent. So just have fun and help contributing and make Wordpress even better. So what about the walk to Berlin? I told you in the beginning that I was going to do that and where did the idea come from? Well, the idea actually came from this. I'm someone who talks before he thinks and sometimes that's a good thing. Sometimes that's not a good thing. And I had a thought. It was June 4th of last year, which is almost a year ago. And I had the idea of, well, WordCamp Europe. It's going to be in Europe, so it's probably not going to be far away. Maybe I should walk there and don't ask me why I thought of that. I don't know. It just popped up somewhere and I thought it. And at the moment I thought it. I put it on Twitter, which is not really smart to do, but I did it. And people were liking that tweet and were asking, hey, you probably know where the next edition of WordCamp is going to be because it was before WordCamp Europe in Belgrade. And I didn't know because, well, I used to be in the organization. So people thought, well, it's going to be in Antwerp or it's going to be in Utrecht in the Netherlands. So it's going to be close. No, I didn't know that. So, well, eventually it was announced that it was going to be Berlin. And I was, I was happy, but also I realized quickly that, well, that's not so close to the Netherlands, Berlin. But okay, why am I going to do this? Because first of all, it was just a little idea. I was going to walk and I didn't think about planning. I have my own company. I can't just drop my company for a month and go walking and I need support for that. And I'm going to get some attention by this because it's an insane adventure that I'm going to do and people are going to like it or not. They're going to talk about it. And I wanted to turn that into something that was a positive thing for the WordPress community. So I decided I wanted to raise money for a good cause to do that. The other reason I'm going to do it is because I wanted to go outside of my own conference zone. I may look like a relaxed guy, but I don't easily go up to new people or people I don't know and talk to them. But I'm up here, I'm talking and I'm going to do that walk and I'm going to sleep at people's places which I don't know. I made contact with people where I can sleep who I don't know and it will all be good and we'll chat and we'll get to know each other. And maybe I end up with some friends that might even come visit me in a while or something. So those are the things that I wanted to do and I needed to go outside of my conference zone because, well, nothing really happens in your conference zone. Well, it's comfortable, of course, that is, but nothing really happens there. And Carol Olinger, who I met on WordCamp Utrecht and on other WordCamps too, she said during one of her presentations, well, everything you want is on the other side of fear because you might be nervous or anxious about something that you need to do or something that you want to do. But if you don't do it, well, you never know what it's like or how it's going to be and it might even be fun. Even walking 700 kilometers to Berlin might be fun. So this is my route and that's the long end. And there are some icons on there, which I don't know if everybody can see it, but those are beds and there's a person in there. Well, at least there's a head in there. So I hope the rest of the person is in there too. And on the other side of the map on the eastern part, there are some flags, which means I still need places to sleep in those areas. And to zoom into that area, these are the towns which are along the route. And so I was hoping there were a lot of people that are from that area right here. I guess that's not going to happen. But maybe you know people or you know people who know people or who have friends who live in that area. Well, actually people should live there because there are towns, so people live there. So it might be possible that I might gain one or two places to sleep or even, well, have you think about your surroundings and maybe you know people there. And if you do, please bring them into contact with me so I can see to get a place to sleep over there. Just a little bit more about the route. In the first part in the Netherlands, I had some troubles in getting sleeping places there too. And that was picked up on Twitter by a national radio station. And there were three places left in the Netherlands. So I was invited to join their show, Live on Radio. And I'll tell about my adventure and what I was looking for. And they said, OK, we're going to give you an hour or we're going to give our listeners an hour. And after that hour, we will come back to you and let you know if we could arrange something. And after that hour, I was called again. I was live on the radio and they told me, well, we've got three people here. They have three places for you, so you're done for the Netherlands. So that was a little cheer for me. The next part is, and the challenging part is getting places right over there. If that's not going to happen, that's not going to be a red flag for me. I'm going to go anyway because people live there. There's probably cafes or restaurants where people meet up and I can talk to people. If I don't like it, I have to talk to people and see if there are places to sleep in those areas. I'm not going to bring a tent in my luggage, so that's the only option. Other option is under a bridge, but I don't really like that. So how can you help? Share this. And I'm going to go a little bit further into the last point, which is also there's a party right here, Raid Boxes. They have joined my sponsor program, which sounds really professional right now. I've set up sponsors, sponsor packages for companies that want to sponsor me and support me financially to be able to hire someone to take over my work while I'm gone. My customers need to be serviced, or at least their websites should be serviced, and I can't make it to do anything. So thanks for Raid Boxes there too. If you're going to scan that QR link, I see some mobile phones up there, you're going to be forwarded to a payment link which donates 25 euros, which of course you have to agree, it's not going to happen. That should be fun if I could have made that one. Just if you click the QR link, you're donating 25 euros. Try me. So you can donate, and there's actually two things. The sponsoring part is purely for me, sounds a bit selfish, selfish, but it isn't, I need to support my business. And the other part is the donating. And I haven't told you why I'm raising funds and what's the charity that I'm raising funds for. I'm going to raise funds for a foundation, which is started by a colleague in the Netherlands, Ines Van Essen, and she has started a foundation which is called Donate WC. And it has nothing to do with the toilets. It's a foundation that raises money for people to go to word camps when they don't have the financial means to do so. We are here in Osnabruk. There's probably a lot of people from the surroundings here. There's also people in other countries that might have something to share with the WordPress community by a talk, or they want to volunteer, or they want to help organize. And if they're from abroad and they do not have the financial means to come to that word camp, well, they can come and we're going to miss out as a community. So there are also right now multiple initiatives to support people for diversity, but also for people who just don't have the financial means to come to a word camp. And I thought, well, Donate WC is a good cause. So I've started collecting money already. And at this moment, I've almost raised 1400 euros already. So that's probably going to help one person to go to a word camp. But of course I want more, not for me, but for the foundation. I want more people to come to word camps, even if they don't have the possibilities to do so. So if you want to donate, you can donate until the start of WordCamp Europe. I will give a presentation there too, and I will show everybody how much money I've raised for Donate WC. And I hope it's going to be a multiple of the 1400 euros that I have raised right now. Sponsors are still needed. So if you have a company or you work at a company that might think, hey, this is a great initiative, there are multiple packages for sponsoring, which are on my website, walk2wc.eu. And you can see if maybe there is a fit for your company to start sponsoring me. So contributing to WordPress brought me, well, here. I heard there was a party last night. And I heard also from some people who were arriving at their hotel or at the place where they sleep at about 3 a.m., 3.30, 4 a.m. This morning at 3.45, I got out of bed to get here. I managed to take the train at 5 a.m. in Rotterdam. I went to Amsterdam from Amsterdam. I took the train here to Osnabruk. And I'm very happy to be here and being able to share this talk with you. So thanks also to Rion and Kostper for putting me on the bar camp. So thanks for that. And I wanted to give you the opportunity to ask me about contributing to WordPress about this insane idea or anything you want to talk about. You're welcome to ask. Thank you. So any questions? There's one in the back. I'll repeat the question for you. Okay. Yeah. The question was how the foundation donate WC, how they select the people that are able to get funds from the foundation and how the selection process is. I'm not at this moment aware of the precise details on the selection. I know people are being, there's been looked at, where are you from? Which area in the world are you from? Where do you want to go to? Because it's not meant to be a means of, well, I live in, well, name a country somewhere, and I want to go to the other side of the world just to see it there. You have to contribute something to the WordPress project at the basis. You have to contribute something. And well, the exact selection criteria are not known by me right now, but I certainly will know them in a few moments. And I will put them on my website also to share this with you and maybe the people who want to donate to be aware of how the selection process is going. So that answers your question. Excellent. Thank you very much. Other questions. Go ahead. Okay. Well, the question was if I want to walk alone or if people can join me in walking along the route. From the beginning, people were very enthusiastic and they were saying I want to join and I want to walk with you. And I started thinking of the practical things that that could bring and one of the issues that I've noticed that if I'm training, I walk at a certain pace at a certain speed. And if people walk different speeds, it's not going to be that cozy because there's someone walking there and there and it's not, that's not going to work. Also, if you want to sleep somewhere and you come alone, the chances are bigger that you are being entered someone in somebody's home. If you're with a group, even if it's four or five people, that's going to be a bit more difficult. So at the end, sorry, I decided I'm going to do it alone. There are some people who are joining me for a piece of the track. Kasper is one of them. He's going to join me from and walk to Potsdam, from Potsdam to Berlin. So the final stage. But if, well, you've seen the map, if you live along the route and you want to walk with me during one of those pieces, you're welcome to join me. I'm going to walk my own pace. If you can't keep up or you're fast, or even if you're faster, no problem. I think I like it. If people want to join me, that gives me, well, more opportunity to get to know each other. And of course, you're welcome to join. You need to think of your own sleeping places though. I'm not going to arrange them for you. So thank you for your question. Other questions? Go ahead. What's your plan? My way back home. The question is, what is your plan for your way back home? I haven't decided yet, but there's one option that I'm not going to do, and that's walking back. After walking 700 kilometers and being on a word camp for three days, which is going to be a lot of walking also, I don't think I have the energy and the, how do you say it, the motivation to walk back again? No, that's not going to happen. And it's going to take me another month, and I don't think my wife and kids would like that if I'm going to be gone for another month. So my wife is coming over, and we're probably going to go back by car or by train, but we have to arrange that. So thanks for your question. Other questions? Yes. Yes, I have daily goals. I will put my route here. Not all the stages are the exact length. When I started planning this, I just entered my hometown in Google Maps, and I entered the address of the venue. I checked that I wanted to go walking because otherwise I'd be walking on a highway or something, and I planned about 30 kilometers per stage, which sounds like a lot, but it's just six hours walking. Even just, yeah, I've been training. You can hear this. It sounds so easy. It's 30 kilometers. I've trained actually one time, and I've been walking for six and a half hours, and I had a break of 10 minutes. I had an app that could track it, and at the end I saw that I was not moving for 10 minutes during the whole day, and I was like, okay, so if I'm really starting this, I'm going to take more breaks to give my legs and feet a bit more rest, which I think they're going to need for 700 kilometers. So there's a bit of difference. I think the smallest stage that I have, that's after Osnabrück right there, which is about 16 kilometers. The next one there is 40. So I've got the minimum and the maximum stage right next to each other, so I hope the 16 kilometers gives me enough rest to make that next stage a success and continue with stages that are, well, between 25 and 35 kilometers. Thank you. Maya. Yes. The question was if I have planned some break days, resting days, yeah, it's going to be resting. Yes, it's going to take me 32 days from start to beginning, and I've planned six resting days in between. And the first stage is going to be an whole week, and I'm going to go from my hometown to about Bentheim, and one of my friends also from the WordPress community, he booked a hotel room there, and I booked another night there, so I'm going to stay there for another day to just relax and maybe do some work or see how my work is going while I'm gone, and then continue. And later on in the stages, I have some breaks in between just to also for rest, also for a bit of sightseeing, because, well, I'm there anyway, so better make the best of it. So thank you. Other questions about this adventure? Are there questions about WordPress contributing in general, which I'd like to answer for you? There's one. Go ahead. The question was in which teams do I contribute? I contribute mostly in the Polyglots team. I'm in the Polyglots team for the Netherlands, and we are four or five general translation editors in there, so I make sure translations for Dutch are being checked if they are according to the rules we set, according to the glossary that's set, and sometimes on contributor days I translate myself, but it's mainly checking and confirming or denying translations that are submitted by contributors. Thank you. Other question? Yes. What do I think about the leadership in WordPress? That's a very small question, which can have an answer for about a half hour or maybe more. I think the leadership in WordPress, it's very hard for me to say something about it. How do I say that? Off-record. Let's do this off-record. No. I can say something about it. We all know there is a strict leadership from across the big pond. There is a team there. They have a trajectory set for where WordPress is going, what should happen, and I think leadership is needed for a project as big as this. I also think that there should be more... or the leadership should listen more to what the community has to say about which way it goes, and that's about what I want to say about it. We can discuss this after the meeting because I'm happy to talk about it and I have some opinions about it, but I don't want to discuss this right here because I don't think a lot of people are interested in hearing that. If you want to talk to me later on, I'll be welcome to do it. I dodged that question a little right there. Thanks. Any other questions before... There's going to be an end speech, I guess. Closing remarks in room 1 in a few minutes or I don't know how late exactly, but if there are no questions left, I would like to thank you for being here, for listening to me, and if you want to donate, you've seen the address and the QR code. It's not on here, it's here. I hope to see you in Berlin, on WordCamp Europe, in June. If I don't see you there, you can follow my progress on my website or follow the hashtag on Twitter. I will be vlogging, I'll be blogging, I'll be doing a lot of spamming about this adventure to get as much attention as possible. Thank you.


Freedom! Today we're going to talk to you about 10 ways social psychology plays into YouTube. When it comes to social psychology, this might sound kind of scary to people who aren't familiar with it. However, as somebody who pretty much helped their soon-to-be ex-wife get through their psychology classes, I did pick up a few tricks that I've used over the years and I'd like to pass those along to you. These 10 tips will deal with initial attractiveness and attractiveness in general. Now, this doesn't necessarily mean beauty, though it does mention that and it does deal with part of that. I'm talking more about people's attractiveness to you, their gravitational pull. How are people gravitating to you and why? Number one, for the first thing, let's face reality.  However, there is good news. Beauty is subjective. It's in the eye of the beholder or beer holder, depending on how you want to pronounce that. And it's also, it differs by culture, by region, and a few other factors. But what it all boils down to is people are liked more if there's an attraction. Now, again, I need to stress this. We're not talking about a sexual or girlfriend, boyfriend type attraction. We're just talking about gravitational pull at this point. Number two, second on our list are the effects of attractiveness. We like to be around attractive people because of the aesthetic pleasure that we receive from it. And because interactions with these attractive people are usually positive and pleasant. The common stereotype for attractive people is that they're kind, warm, friendly, and generally social people. The stereotype does become self-fulfilling because when someone approaches someone they need to be attractive, they do treat them differently. They're usually nicer to these people because their expectation is to have a good interaction. So pretty much if you get people to like you, they'll treat you better. Now, who cares about physical attractiveness? The importance of physical attractiveness really differs between those with high and low self-monitor personalities. And for men and women, let's be blunt and honest. Those with a high self-monitor usually are more sensitive to their environment. They also place more value in physical attractiveness than low self-monitors do. Because I'm not sure if everyone's following me, an easy way to put this would be that people who are vain tend to look for other beautiful people. But those who are not self-monitoring or those who are not constantly worried about their own appearance don't usually place as much of an emphasis on physical attractiveness. Now I hear you saying, what does this have to do with YouTube? We're getting there, we're getting there. All I ask is you keep an open mind about how this information can be used to interact better with your audience. And let's move forward. Number four. In long-term relationships, men attach more to the importance of physical attractiveness than women. From an evolutionary perspective, this is explained by the differences in parental investments for men and women. Women have a high investment, whereas men not so much. But again, Anthony, how does this help? Just stick with me. Number five. The evolutionary perspective is supported by evidence showing that women's preferences and men's change based on reproductive cycle. To bring that down a peg, it changes before, after puberty and before and after menopause, menopause along those lines. Let's not treat this as a political statement. This is just sociology. Don't shoot me. Number six. Let's talk about the mental stuff a little bit more, because this is what you, if you're like me and look like Clausimodo without the hump, this can probably help you a lot. Interaction spells liking most of the time. Now here's what that means. Interaction or interacting with others can mean that the more you do it, the better chances are you're going to like someone. I'll give you an example. In school, those people that you sat around in class, you probably liked more. If you got to choose your own seating, you probably started off with a good nudge in the right direction. However, if you didn't, your assigned seats usually ended up talking, socializing and enjoying the company of those around you. That's not just seating. It's in school in general. You form bonds, usually positive ones, with those you share space with, with those you share interactions with. Even if it's not a directly shared incident, and one way of demonstrating this or showing this is with, for instance, school gossip.  This is now a shared experience for all people involved. And of course, everyone's going to talk about it and bond over it. So those interactions pretty much help build that interaction, which is one reason why a lot of times people don't subscribe the first time they run across your channel. But a lot of times, the fourth or fifth time that they run across your channel, they may subscribe. This gives you a common core. This gives you shared experiences. And creating those and fostering those is important for a channel. Numbers. And here's why interaction increases liking. Interaction increases liking because interactions with others help us master the world. So, for instance, the information, the experiences you gain through interacting with others gives you valuable feedback, valuable tools. Humanity as a whole is greater than the sum of its individual parts because we learn from others in a social way. So interacting with others is often rewarding, especially if it's positive. And the more rewarding experiences you give people, the more rewarding content you deliver as a YouTuber, the better off you'll be. Interacting also helps us feel connected with the outside world. Or in today's world where we're all connected, it helps us feel connected with our niche communities. It helps us be long in a place where it seems like there are just too many people out there. So keep that in mind.  This is one of the reasons why news channels are news channels. Sorry, do so well here on YouTube. It's mostly gossip. It's mostly false. It's mostly made up. But it helps people feel connected because they're living the same stories all together. And interacting with others helps breed familiarity. And people tend to like that which is familiar. This is of course on the broad strokes. This is a very broad generalization, but sociologically it's true. Familiarity tends to lead to more liking and perceived similarity because familiarity and similarity also breed into liking. It's a really nice, it's like a giant circle. And keeping all of this in mind and implementing it into a channel strategy will help you more than you know. Numero ocho. But Anthony, what about negative interaction? Oh no you didn't. Actually I'm glad you did because negative interactions don't tend to give the same types of bonds. In fact it can repulse or make someone not like you. And that's kind of common sense. In fact some of this I understand a lot of people in the comments down below. Will probably say, well duh! But that's okay. Because what we're doing here isn't necessarily trying to deliver new information. It's trying to connect it in new ways. Or connect it in ways dealing with our content that you may otherwise not have. Number nine! Birds of a feather drink root beer together. They're not a sponsor I swear. Okay so to break this concept down to its simplest form. Again this might sound similar to things that you assume are common sense. But stick with it. Similarity between people leads to more attraction.  We're talking about gravitational just lacking people. Lacking people to similar others. Interaction tends to be positive with people that we have things in common with. People that we view to be similar to ourselves. Which is great. However socially it does run into some problems where people get caught in echo chambers. Kind of like when George asks if something is a good idea. And people automatically say, yes George that's a great idea. Even though sometimes it maybe isn't such a great idea. Also people who are similar because one is attracted to the other. When someone likes you or is attracted to you. Having that reasoning. Realizing that this person is attracted to you. Again not boyfriend girlfriend. Is a really good reason sociologically to like that person back. It is one of those things that really kind of helps meld people together. Just because they perceive their similarities and their mutual likeitude. And going back to what I was saying about echo chambers a few frames ago. It helps validate when you're around people who are similar to you. Helps validate your beliefs and your stances on things. Which again leads back to the echo chamber thing. So it's something to keep in mind. But it's also a great thing to keep in mind when you're building a strategy. If your channel has to do with something that has polarized viewpoints. Religion, politics, whatever.  But may also repulse others and create negative feedback. So it's one of those things you may want to use as a balancing act. And last but not least number 10. Similarity, liking and interaction all influence one another. Similarity encourages interaction. And when people interact they discover similarities. Interaction also creates liking and liking encourages interaction. Finally we see similar others we think are like we are. And we assume that similar people are like us. Again I know, I know that that sounds very similar to some of the things I've been saying. But it's not because rather than these small groupings that helps tie it all together. Just saying. So either what the heck's all this mean? It means this. If you're ugly is all sin it's okay.  People who like you will watch your content. People who watch your content will come back and watch more content. If you give them a reason to. A sociological reason. If you validate their beliefs. If you are attractive to them. And I don't mean physically attractive. I mean if you are attractive to them in a gravitational way. Are you pulling these people in?  That is important. So if you're like me. Find your channel's inner attraction. Find out what it is you can do to help attract other people. Sometimes it's in a cadence in which you speak. Other times it can be in your sign on and sign off messages. Sometimes it can just be the tone of your channel. The message that you deliver to other people. These are all very important. Finally important things. But it's also very important to realize. That you can help engineer why people like you. And I know there are going to be some people in the comments down below. Who say this is great for large channels. Who have an audience that they can do this with. No sir. Well yes sir. But this is the cornerstone for building interpersonal relationships. Which is what everyone wants to build with their audience. An interpersonal relationship. So keep all of this in mind. If you can't be mega beautiful. Be mega interesting. Be mega useful. Find other ways to attract an audience. This also means. Remember all of this stuff we were talking about interaction. That's the science behind why responding to comments works. You're building more interactions with these positive ones. Hopefully. Unless you're meeting the cards. This is why you should be interacting with people on Twitter. Building those interactions. Building that mutual like. Because if they know you like them.  It helps cement those bonds. And create fans of life. Well that's it for me today. I'm going to go ahead and turn the camera off. And read all of your horrible comments. About my background. The echo in the room. And how my toes smell like peanut butter. Don't ask. Until next time don't forget to like, subscribe. Do all those things and make us love our jobs. Also be awesome to yourself and amazing to each other.


Hi, my name is Marita Finder and right now I'm here at Manikon Hospital. I had come here in the month of July with a make-over issue and which required me to do sweet and this was told by two doctors ASAP. It was an emergency basis. So Dr. Rohan Bhadray advised me to go in for gastric benoning the latest procedure to do it slowly. So it's a non-invasive procedure through endoscopy with that insert a synacone below in my stomach and in which it is from the synion water so it sits in the front of some of the stomach in and occupies about 70% of the tummy weight. So what is left is just 30% in in that way my portion is very controlled and I'm just eating 30% of what I was eating before so this procedure took about half an hour and I was in the hospital for two days. We had this lady 56 years old female having morbid obesity, gripped too and she had failed on two times on dietary regimen and even with the exercise. So we had even the option that is of a peregrine balloon blessed. This was placed in her case in June 2022 and it was removed in February 2023. Her weight reduced from 101 kg to 80 kgs. The side effect of putting this balloon was that initial period once he put the balloon the patient gets the vomiting nausea and some abdominal discomfort and that stays for around 15 days to one month but once the patient adopts or gets used to with that balloon then these symptoms goes down. Over a period of time with Dr. Sampar is who only got over that and he gave me medication and son to control the pain and the nausea but my collision control had reduced drastic T in which I'm not sweet like you can say in three months I lost about 15 kg very fast and then that was the best part of it and which really helped me a lot because they expected the liver gradation also to go down. This is a very non-invasive process so endoscopic any balloon is blessed and endoscopic any balloon is removed there is no scar no surgery involved in this and it is having very precise. I'm very grateful for this gastric ballooning procedure which was done here in Marimba under the guidance from Dr. Rohan Bhadwe and his team was also very grateful that they would care of me for the last eight and a half months the fall off and the constant touch connection with me was very very good so I felt very comfortable about it and I thank Dr. Rohan Bhadwe especially and the whole team which was very very very good to me and I'm grateful to the team and the board for this. Thank you so much


All right go take it We're bored the metal voice now right on and right that yeah to a 20 to why All right guys, I'm aboard the raven tour bus. Yeah, how's it going guys? How's the tour so far great? Wonderful. Yeah, I'm with a good band riot act Really good, you know, they're like a classic rock band and there's not that much of that around anymore So I'm kind of happy to hear it like everybody loved it Yeah, yeah around the Brooklyn area New York boys. That's good. Yeah, I mean we love those early records So it's it's great to hear those songs again. Yeah, it really is speaking of that you guys are celebrating this gem today Yeah, 40 years come out June 1982 before airplanes.  Yeah Yeah, so we need records records. Yeah, so it's been cool. We've been doing the whole record. It's like one piece in the set and You know, we want we just at first we said, oh, yeah, we can do that And then we started looking at the songs and we're like, how do you play that again? I played them in a while Yeah, so the limits of the top Bartlett's own and UX speed were never played never played until this tour Yeah, I mean and that was the first time this happened because your first album all those songs will play live at some point And then you get to your second album and you got to play some of the first album And you're gonna play the new ones and you know, that's when you get into this You know, maybe three or four off the new album and it happens quite often that some of the songs just don't get played Of course, we're in the position now where we've got some you know distance we can revisit things and it's fun It must be hard to make a set list with you guys though. I mean come on Material, you know, so that that was kind of what actually it's we view it It's kind of a holiday from our normal set because some songs we have to play we have to play like on and on or maybe it's the awful one You know break the chain some of these songs that have been in our set a long time So this is kind of a little bit of a holiday But I can't we were worried about like playing the album as a you know one piece How it would work as far as like a show, you know, not just like was playing songs and it works out pretty good It works like it has some ups and downs and a little bit more involved musically and then some kind of rock and roll parts and look Kind of like party songs if you want and some fast stuff, so it's cool It works out good and that's the fans reaction Yeah, you know, you don't know because there's a lot of listening going on as opposed to just going nuts He's a classic Like he says it's got some ebb and flow to it and it really ends strong right, you know, which is cool And you come back out and play a couple of hits and stuff Yeah, we play a few songs in the beginning and then you know, we had that was something to stop but Without telling everybody what happens, but it's really it's been a lot of fun I really enjoyed it tell you the truth and the toes going good. Yeah, so far so good Now you have a little like you have a couple more days going you're going for another week. Yeah, the end next week We end on the 7th. You haven't got next next Monday. We're following Monday. Yeah, you have a 7th We end up in Cape Coral. That's where the hurricane hit, right? We weren't sure if that gig was gonna be on but they got power and they got everything squared away And they want to do the show so we're gonna do it good and I really don't know what's gonna happen as far as a crowd because That whole area was severely hit. I live in Florida and used to these hurricanes and all this stuff. So We just hope that everybody is where the foot moist area. Yeah Everybody's getting back on their feet and rebuilding and staying strong. We can put a smile on their face So what they've went through, you know, that's what they're waiting for you and they need it Yeah, a little bit of happiness maybe I think everybody needs a good time and some fun You know after all this pandemic and all the stuff people want to kind of give back to like Like going to see a concert going to have it like making some memories some good times, you know, so Now you got a special show coming up. Yeah a week from today November 6th at the Seminole Hard Rock Cafe Casino Casino. Yeah older Daniel. We are the special. You're gonna be the special guest of Metallica. Yeah You know, we have that relationship with them going back and well they opened Yeah, we are the very first to kill them all for one, which I hope you've revisited next year. Yeah, it was crazy We all definitely yeah We're gonna be celebrating now next year with like the play of the whole thing and we start that in March in England Which is kind of you know, it's a lot of this kind of full circle We keep talking about because we had to meet with some of the Metallica people and we did an interview with James To do with them all for one in next year You know I'd do that stuff in advance and then we talked about doing some shows together and then this Florida show came up And we we said yes initially because it was just going to be an open-end slot with Metallica Which is they contacted you guys. Yeah, so that was good. We were cheeky We're pretty much asked them to sit down with James and it was just to talk about the anniversary and he was so cool You know, it was like, you know, I remember on the tour. You were pretty drunk from most of it Did you remember anything he says I never remember anything says, but I remember everything about that tour because it was the first And we were like so clued into what was going on So it was it was really good at the end of just you know, if you need an opening bar This these guys from Newcastle who are always available, you know, you know, I might just have something. Let me see So initially that was going to be just a show with Metallica, but then it kind of transformed into this It's a celebration of Johnny C and Marsha who End up being crazed management and they were the management team that brought Raven to the States for the first time And then also introduced everybody to these different bands like Anthrax Ministry Metallica and all these different bands. So we have all this history together Metallica and Raven So it was kind of it's going to be kind of a neat thing just to celebrate that That kind of union M&M and also, you know tip I had to Johnny because he did a lot for both bands. He really did Yeah, he did a lot for music really so And he was just a kind of a crazy like kind of guy He would like off the cuff just do stuff and you know, everybody'd be like wow, you can't do that He goes, oh, yeah, it was watch me and he would do like this crazy stuff. So he succeeded though Yeah, we kind of miss him, you know sad when he passed it really was so it's end of an era kind of you know Actually, he was he was in touch with me quite often I was in touch him like a week before he passed. It was shopping when he was bad. Yeah, he was such a fan Good guy, you're right to the end. Second favorite band And you would never see who the first band was but it was the Grateful Dead Grateful Dead was his good name. Everybody's like what? Look, he loved the metal city album. That was one of his favorites It's a great album though. Listen that he loved it I think your last couple right right after one right after another metal city and they did the live one Now it's a compilation came out. Correct. Was that just we just brought that out. That's uh Kind of like a part and gift with World record company. We're moving on to the new one Steve Haller or something. Yeah, yeah, SPV. There you go. This is kind of our last release with SPV Leave I'm bleeding. It's got a little live. It's got a little uh, it's got songs from the previous three albums All the extra tracks. Yeah, and it's got a live version of stay hard, which was on release Which is really cool on that And you know, they did a lyric video for rock this town, which was a japanese extra track for metal city Which is a great little rock and roll song So Nice package great photographs all kinds of cool stuff There you go Leave them bleeding All right, so since then we we signed a new deal and The new record is going to be coming out on a new label Which is is really cool. What are you excited about lining you worked on it already? It's in the can yeah, we're pretty much in in the mix and stage right now and that will come out in may 23 yeah All hell's breaking loose all hell's breaking loose. It's an exclusive.  We've mentioned that too Thank you Cool, I can't wait for it. Yeah, I said you let when this came came literally two weeks ago The day I was supposed to drive to brooklyn. It's not there you this came in the mail and I was like wow Nice That's that was my driving music the brooklyn. Oh good. I had a good turn around go to old All right, so uh, I will definitely see you next year on the All for one new album Look, that's it together. We gotta figure that out and the uh, just to make it more difficult to take a service Why don't you just do one and then the other? We'll just that's it two shoes We do that You know because I'm always hanging around about four o'clock and we'll just stop for a tea break in the middle Because we're English we'll have to drink tea at all times I'll be a cup of tea break in the middle and then we'll just pick it up from it with a new record So it's pretty cool. I'm a tea to have my personalized cup here. This is raving tea. You know those we should grab Get that little Private over there in case he doesn't make it. Yeah, this was a nice thing that I went to chiller today and Met the authors of this good book. Yes, we're just checking out Our good friends frank whites photographer and Alan techie o's was in Haiti non-fiction Awesome book we would just browse in it and two new cases all right there and this book is phenomenal. It's just so detailed Frank took so many amazing photos of all the cool bands the local ones the you know the national acts the international acts all right He's a Unbelievable he's well known throughout the uh, this area. Oh, yeah, yeah, he was me money For pizza All right guys, thank you for your time. Thank you for having a great show tonight. Keep up rockin. Thank you for your time again Jimmy k you you owe me money Jimmy k Jimmy k here metal voice look at this The metal voice shirts are now on sale. Just go to a video description to find out on how you can purchase In the men's room and thing bats and I just used this journal And you are watching the metal voice Hey, it's kk metal boys man on the street today tonight I'm in the streets of clifton new jersey with rick menchora from riot act riot act Rick was a member of riot from the legendary albums from the late 70s early 80s, right? Yeah, you made uh guys barons our albums fire down under the classic You were on nerita You were on the two, uh, red forest albums, right? That's me born in america born america very good albums The live one. Yeah, and then you sort of Left in a couple years. I've been hanging out on this park So wearing clifton new jersey found me here and this is where I kind of live now Somewhere along the line though, truthfully, you might live Lou kavorius. Oh, yeah.  Yeah, he needs to call me and say, hey, let's try to play together I would I would hesitate because you never get back to on but you know, uh, you and I got along very well and um Finally after the heavy metal, uh, all the fame induction, you know, I said, all right, Lou Let's try it. That's good.  Oh, yeah, tell us a little about don. How'd you find? It's a find. I'll tell you that Long Island find though. He is yeah through a mutual friend of Lou's recommended him and Gave him a few tunes to try out and uh Came down got together in studio and it was like magic. Actually He gave up the guy stuff. Yeah, he really knocked it out of the park and Lou and I just looked at each other and had this big grin on our face and it's like, wow, this is like amazing that That just came together like this. I actually remember when Lou called me and said we got another guy Don't put those other videos out. I remember I would come by and video you guys every once in a while Don't put any of that out destroy them. He was very funny But um now I mean Lou's passing god bless him god rest his soul Um, you got to put an album out and I want to thank the band You thanked me and jinnie k and I personally want to thank you. I've never been thanked in an album before in the back And me and jinnie really appreciated the better voice Guys would be just great to us helpful and we're in your corner supporting the band and I can't thank both of you No, this is a great album. Thank you. It's two cds one of all original music, which wow, it's It's like if you're never left in the late 70s, you came right out with this. It's great. Yeah fans of We were responding quite well to it and I'll get the play for some live Yeah, how other than what's coming by, you know, it's great. They fit right in like three, right? I'm doing two Trains, you know, different things out in the set and they just Fit right in there and if they show you your fans going on Materially, you know, it fits right in there. It sounds great So we're thrilled about that. Good. Good. So now the tour is wrapping up in a couple of days, right? Yeah It's hard to read. It's been a long tour again. I'm sorry. You also have a cd with Plates together for the firstness and only time uh, so it was a blast that that's dedicated to him and uh It was a good throw. He really was So, um, the tour wraps up you guys got new music working in the can you're gonna It's gonna come after the tour.  Yeah, you know the band started gel and we're feeling each other out This is our first tour and uh, and now we're really pumped and It's gonna Sure Which you mean this album is very good. It's like like I said like closer to the flame Yeah It's Like I don't want to say this walk went in a different direction for a while Right the thunder steal and some really heavy stuff. This reminds me the guys from aranza era if I can be so frank Yeah, I mean that's Yeah, that's It's essentially uh, you know people say that ask that You know, I'm surrounded right from the beginning even for four hours with the band. So it's like in my DNA. Yeah, it's just You know, we played together for so long and that sound is just You know, it's part of me and I remember you guys as a because my sister's friends A bunch of them a friend of a friend of a friend Somebody was related the guys were out this summer. I was a man We're right on the border of brooklyn We got to see you guys a lot the last time I saw that band that lineup was the rush We got to open for rush The fire down on the tour, right? Yeah, we're giving you pictures and uh, yes Last time it stopped. Yeah But um, looking forward to supporting the music with him.  You were very good rick. You would like the voice of the tour Ah, I tried it. You did a good job Thon is the voice. Thank you for the videographer. Let's say the videographer Always pleasure talking to you. Thank you Thank you for everything and you've been watching the middle boys


I'll figure it out. All right, let's go live. Going live in three, two, one, and that's probably when it actually goes live, your life. Hello, everybody. Welcome to Digital Asset News. Take the top stories in crypto-print digital assets. A big amount of bite-sized pieces, but today we're doing something a little bit different, which we do once a week. You see once every two weeks, but because of demand, we give people what they want. It's not our job for why people want things. It's for us to give the things that people want, right? So welcome to Trendy Trading, where we try to find a great pick in a never-ending sea of crypto and digital assets that keeps expanding by using technical analysis, sentiment analysis, and fundamental analysis. Joining me as always is my good friend here, Alex Massioli, co-founder of Trade the Chain. Alex, thanks for stopping by. Thank you. Everything starts with Alex. He's gonna give us, he's gonna use Trade the Chain, find through sentiment analysis, a really solid pick, and then it has to get through. My man, Chris, our CJ Rykel, who is head of development over there at Market Rebellion, head TA guy, and he's gonna do the technicals just to make sure that we are set and ready to go. CJ, welcome. Thanks for coming in. Thanks for having me. It's a pleasure to be with you gentlemen today. Always, always a pleasure. And then me, I'm just here for a little fundamental just to tell you what's going on new or what the product's about. So without further ado, let's get into it. Alex, find us a winner. Absolutely, absolutely. First, I do wanna say that it's so important to really utilize all these different tools to come up with your investment theses or what you're gonna pick to go in. And our last trade, we didn't get confirmation on our last pick from the show and we never went in. So it doesn't always work out for us guys, but you gotta pay attention. And make sure you do the right thing. All right, let's go. So hopping in to trade the chain, it's been a lovely day in the markets as far as I'm concerned. Went through the screener today to see what type of opportunities were available. And I have picked Terraluna. So as I zoom out on the sentiment here and a couple of reasons. One is I like the velocity. I like six plus percent sentiment momentum. We do have some relative trading volume, tweed volume falling off, but I like the momentum of the sentiment. You can see here for the one hour, the 24 hour and a seven day just very nicely going up. We have that 30 day dip from the overall macro market. I think this is an opportunity to get back in. I'm looking for a week long trade here. This is the seven day sentiment outlook and you can see what's happened and now you see sentiment starting to rise. Blue is the price folks and blue is starting to slowly accumulate going into the one day. I just, I really like the steadiness of it and we're starting to get a steady increase. So Terraluna is going to be my seven day trade pick. And so I'm curious to see what CJ has to say going to the charts. Yeah, I'm just taking a look, getting the bearings real quick, but just want to remind everybody that the show, anything said today by Mark Rebellion, trade the chain or digital asset news should not be considered financial advice. We do this for trading education purposes as well as fundamental and sentiment analysis. But Alex, before we get to Theta or before we get to Luna, I do want to just recap briefly our last episode of Trinity Trading and why we decided to kind of sit this trade out. And the reason why was essentially because we had hit this TD cell nine, we had followed it up with a very bearish shooting star candle and then we're at this candle right here on June 10th and we're at a price of about 55 cents. And so that is typically kind of an interim top signal at least a signal that we're overextended and are probably likely going to go test this moving average. And so if you want to go back and watch that episode you can see kind of why we discussed that and why we decided to sit that one out. Now what I like about T Fuel is the fact that we're actually holding support at 47. So I might look for a bounce off that level for further confirmation to go back up. I'm still very long-term bullish on T Fuel, but that was just kind of the technical setup and why we decided to sit that trade out. One of the classic sayings that you'll hear for market analysts is that knowing when not to trade is half the battle and over trading is the death of many. I've done it, but we all know it. All right, let's check out Luna because this is an asset which has fallen so drastically. We had such a parabolic rise, but then when we fell in Bitcoin and got liquidated Luna felt followed suit and we had I think over a 70% correction in just a couple of weeks. And this was for a very prominent project. You have the Terra Alliance you have a lot of really prominent players who are backing Luna. So I'm still very fundamentally bullish on that one but as for the technicals the way or I guess the rule in which I like to trade Bollinger Bands is very simple and it has to do with the Outer Bands. So you look at the direction of them you see if they begin to turn up if price breaks that top pink band and closes above it while the band is accelerating upward that is an entry signal to get me into a trade. And so we're not there quite yet. I would wait maybe 10 more cents to get a close but we're pretty, pretty close. So then where would we get out of the trade? And I'm not talking about say a long-term investment I'm just talking about kind of a shorter-term trade. Well, we could use this top Bollinger Band as a trailing stop. And let's say we have our next candle which continues to go up as does that top Bollinger Band but once we get a close below that top band that is essentially the trailing stop which tells you, okay, it's been a nice run but we're probably gonna go down and at least test the middle or lower band at said point. So I really like Luna. I also like the collective Bitcoin cryptocurrency market right now as a whole. I think we're seeing some really good bullish momentum. And so that is kind of my outlook on Luna. Makes sense. Yeah, so we're waiting for, let me see. And it's interesting CJ, you threw down a lot of good nuggets of knowledge on that chart and man, it was very elegant. The same, for me, I'm kind of playing behind the field on this one really. So Luna is one of those assets where lately we have trailing sentiment indicators. So I'm gonna look at price. I'm gonna look at tick down. I'm gonna look at sentiment tick down as well. Unfortunately with Luna, it's been trailing for the last couple of weeks. So my, I will probably not hit a top if there was a top to exit the trade.  Profit's a profit. Okay, so let me take over. So fundamentally, sorry, I was trying to do a bunch of things as we were talking. So CJ, just to make sure, what price point are we looking at for an entry point? Cause we're at, are we at $6.67 or $6.82? $6.70 by 7 p.m. central tonight or 6 p.m. central tonight. So I'd want. So tell me what, so the price right now is what? We're about $0.10 below that. I think we're at $6.65. Yeah, I got $6.69 coming in. Okay, I mean, we're pretty much at the trigger at this point. So being panicked away, let's just say that, let's just get in. Let's just get in. Okay. Now what I will say to Rob is there is some lack of dragging price action with this. I think that there is a chance that before my seven day outlook on this, and folks remember this is, it's a seven day outlook. So two weeks from now, and if somebody decided to move on our entertainment, that isn't financial advice. And two weeks from now, you're still holding it. My outlook is seven days to don't badmouth me. But with that being said, I think there's a chance that we can still see some compression in price before uplifting to exit point. But it all looks good. I mean, the prices have gone down. It looks like we're in the right place. Even CJ, because last week, I just want to remind everybody, this Trinity of Trading spreadsheet is in the link in the description. And I put at the very top so you can see it. Every single call that we do, we put it in here. We've had some pretty great calls, make a reserve, synthetic, loop ring, orchid, big Bitcoin, Harmony was a big one, Starbucks, one of the biggest ones though, and see there's like, so for a blank space, this loop ring, we call it on May 11th, it was at 60 cents. And then on May 12th, which is just less than 24 hours later at eight o'clock a.m., it was up to 85 cents, which was a 40% increase. I need to actually put it in. I think I sold that one. But these two, I did not sell because I let everything slip. And it actually didn't work out in my favor, but the rest of them did. So CJ had a great point about when to take profits. And he talked about it for like five minutes. I took that snippet and I will put it into Dan Teacher's Crypto and also on my YouTube channel. So when we talk about entry points, CJ even talks about exit points today and in that video to make it very simple. So for this one, Luna, what's the, is the symbol just L-U-N, that's it? It's Luna, ticker's L-U-N-A and it's Terra for the company. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. And there's a message in chat that says, they have the best name for their community, the lunatics. That is good. That is pretty good. And one thing I like, we talked about this one before, one thing I like about this, it's a reserve currency of the platform, three core functions, mine it, stake it, sure price to build, price stability as far as the validators go. It's a proof of stake blockchains, that's great. And this is the big thing. So it's like a stable coin, essentially. Not really, but I mean, it is on their network, but this is the big thing. What companies use the Terra payment? These ones, some people don't know, like I don't know about these things because these are like in Southeast Asia type of places or away from the United States. So T-Mon, what is that? QoC-10, Tiki, well Ebates we have. Hospitality, Ya, Minsega, Eidus, Carousel, Althea, all these different sites use Terra. So I'm like, okay. But then we got to think about, well, why is all this action happening now? Because what Alex was talking about was the sentiment. There's a lot of different tweets, a lot of different shatter going on. So we always try to look at Twitter. If you're gonna find anything new or breaking, it's usually on Twitter, because it's a lot easier just to send a tweet than to make a whole announcement or a video about it. So let's see, this was pinned, I don't care about that. This was an hour ago, recently Terra Mon introduced their fifth protocol, Pylon protocol, deposit money. So it's just an upgrade to their system looks like. And this one was interesting, learn how to build Terra DApps with blah, blah, blah, the zero to DApp is zero Terra Workshop. What else we got? 11 hours ago, it looks like Terra, there's a mirror test not going live. And more of the protocol stuff. So okay, so it looks good. Now the big question is, where the hell can I buy this? So we're gonna go to trade the chain. I'm gonna click on Terra. Where to trade? Actually, that's the way to do it. We can get it on Uniswap, but can't we get it on Voyager? We can get it on Voyager as well. I saw in the chat, someone said Kucoin, I'm not sure if it's on Kucoin. Let's see. One of the limitations of Voyager is that you cannot withdraw, but I'm not 100% sure, but I would just be careful to check that if you're looking to take your Luna and stake it somewhere. Well, actually, I think I had Luna before. One second, I'll tell you the answer. Yeah, you're right, you can't, if you get it on Voyager, it's on Voyager. You can't remove it. Yeah. So with Uniswap, you can put anywhere. So I'm gonna buy 100 bucks at Luna. Excuse me, excuse me, as I do this, but I'm gonna get on a Voyager because I'm super lazy. That's it. All right, so let me put this in. So let's see. So we call it at $6.68, 12.50 my time. In all honesty, let's change that to 6.70 because I mean, we called an entry like two minutes ago and it's already at 6.72. I mean, this thing's moving, it's got a lot of buyers coming in. I also do wanna talk a little bit about a potential target exit price if you don't mind in a little bit as well. I don't mind, I know everybody else doesn't mind. Let's hear about it. And then as you're pulling it up, let me break away to the chat, see if we missed anything. Apex the obstinator, welcome to level one. Thanks for signing up, appreciate it. Apex has been around. He's been in the Market Rebellion community. He or she, anonymous, right? So been a very loyal follower though, we love Apex. Bite me, says Apex, BYTE. Josh Devino, I am Rob. We're all Rob, I'm Rob, we're all Rob. Shout out to George. Why is Alex not at the beach? That's a good question. I know he's going after that. This is a good question. Gina says, is it risky to hold some long-term and also dabbled in trading? I'll let CJ answer that one. Well, I mean risk all depends on your personal financial situation, but like I do hold Luna for the long-term and I probably will participate in this trade as well. It kinda depends on the allocation percentage that you wanna allocate, like me personally, and this does not go up for everybody, but my longer-term holdings are gonna be a greater allocation than just a short-term trade. Typically, my trades are never more than 10% of my overall account value because I can lose five, 10 trades in a row. It happens to the best of us. And so if you can cut losses very, very quickly and make your winners like 3X the amount of your losers, then you can end up very good. But in terms of that risk, it really all depends on you as a person and how you wanna allocate that capital. Yeah, it's a good one. I always think, do a little bit. Like, I think Nick answered this too.  But me personally, I'm scared. So I do like 95% investing, 5% trading. So CJ, show us, or Alex, you got anything on that one? Sorry. I'm sorry, say that again. Which one? No, I was gonna say. Alex is thinking about the beat. I was reading through the comments and I zoned out. I apologize. No, no, don't worry about it. CJ, show us the exit points that you were gonna talk about. And then we can wrap it up because we're coming up on like a 20 minute timeframe already. Okay. So just a bit of market rebellion education here and something that you may find in the education center is the concept of this 20 smooth moving average. This is a moving average of price. And not only can it be used to identify the trend, but it also acts like a magnet for price. When you get a large divergence from the moving average, price almost always comes back and wants to touch it at some particular point. Same thing with what we saw recently. So how does that relate to Luna or Tara or what we've been talking about? Well, as you can see, and like we mentioned with that massive 70% drop, price is kinda now acting like a magnet towards the moving average. And so at what price level is that moving average going to line up that? Well, it's probably gonna hit $8.50 before we see any type of small rejection before kind of a climb higher. So that's pretty much the first critical level of resistance that comes in is that 8.50 level. So maybe we might see a little bit of a decrease if the bulls are able to get us up there, but I just wanted to really emphasize that concept of the us MMA acting as like a magnet for price. Perfect, okay. So that's it. So that's our pick for today everybody, Tara Luna. I've always thought it was a pretty good project. Let's just see how it all runs in the next, you know, three to seven days like Alex says. And that's it. So thanks. If you liked the video, give it a thumbs up. Also consider subscribing, watch these guys as well. You can find Alex over at Alex Masioli show. He is in my link of recommendations and CJ can always follow Michael Rebellion and on the show, trade the chain and that is it. Gentlemen, thanks, I appreciate it. Thanks.


Live from Atlanta, Georgia, it's theCUBE, covering Citrix Synergy Atlanta 2019. Brought to you by Citrix. Hey, welcome back to theCUBE. Lisa Martin with Keith Townsend, live from Atlanta, Georgia. We're at Citrix Synergy 2019. The first time theCUBE has been back here in eight years and I've geeked out even more, yes, I know it's early. Tim Minahan, CMO and EVP of Strategy at Citrix, Tim. It's great to have you back on theCUBE. Well, thanks for joining us here. The keynote was awesome this morning. Keith and I were both tweeting like crazy and like, wow, we're going to have a great couple of days. You can hear all of the networking and the innovation and the conversations going on behind us here in the Solutions Expo. I think record number of people attending live as well as watching the live stream today. There was at least one round of applause standing here only. Citrix, lot of transformation in the last year alone. Really talking about the employee experience as a critical enabler of digital business transformation. Talk to us about that. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, with all the technology and the technology choices we've had with cloud and SaaS and mobile, we've created a lot of opportunity but we've also created a lot of complexity, both for IT and especially for the employee who now needs to navigate across all of this different environment to try to get a bit of information or to get their key work done. So Citrix and our customers are saying, hey look, employee experience has become a C level and a board level imperative. So what we've done is we've unveiled and continue to extend upon our digital workspace, not just a place where we've unified access to everything an employee needs to be productive, all their SaaS apps, web apps, mobile apps and content, wrapper that in the layer of security so that IT and the company are confident that applications or information are more secure in the workspace than out but now we're infusing intelligence into the workspace. Machine learning and simplified workflows in order to guide an employee through their day. So they don't need to spend all their time navigating multiple apps but the task and insights that they need to get done are presented to them very quickly. They can move on and get to perform their best work. So Tim, you're literally preaching to the choir. Me and Lisa, we get it, we understand it and then even at the keynote, David was preaching to all the major announcements, big claps, thousands of people clapping, the innovation, the ideal of extending the workspace to the intelligent experience. I think the Citrix faithful today got that but a seven trillion dollar problem that you guys are addressing, you just mentioned that now we're talking about talking to the CEO, the CIO, the CMO, the COO. Talk about expanding the message beyond the faithful into the C-Suite. How is that impacting your job and how are you getting that message out? Yeah, that's a great question, you're absolutely right. Employee experience is something that is shared. In fact, we've just done a considerable amount of research into that with the economists on a global basis. We're finding is IT and HR sharing this problem together. They're rethinking not just the digital environment of how they're delivering technology to the employee, but the physical space and the culture and how it all weaves together and how we're engaging within Citrix at a much higher level with not just the CIO but the chief human resources officer, the CEO, the CFO is because employee experience and how well an employee feels they have access to the information and tools they need to get their job done is directly related to the business outcomes that the company is trying to achieve. It's proven to deliver greater customer satisfaction, increased revenues, greater profitability, all the metrics that really move a business. And this is pervasive across any industry in every role in every organization. I mean, the cool video that David showed this morning showed this example of a senior marketing manager who wants to deliver Rockstar campaigns for her company but she's got before Citrix Workspace Intelligent and her experience, all these different apps and all of this distraction, every a couple of minutes, distraction, you think about how that impacts that marketing manager's role even all the way to like a call center and how a call center employee who's on the front lines with a customer, whether it's your ISP or something who has so much choice, if that call center person doesn't have access to all the apps and the information that they need, not only are you affecting the employee experience and potentially causing attrition, but the end user customer of that service might say, forget it, I'm going to go somewhere else. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, if you think about it, we all have that experience where you call a call center and they might not have the answer for you or in some cases the connection might be poor and so really what we're trying to do with the digital workspace is eliminate that. When we talk about experience, it's not just unifying and infusing intelligence into it but we also leverage our networking portfolio to ensure reliable connectivity so that employee has access to the applications they need. They can reliably access the information they need and any kind of their telephony or voice over IP is consistent. So you or I think they're on a landline in a big call center and they might be working from home but still have access to everything they need through the Citrix workspace. So just a couple of weeks ago I was at SAP Sapphire and we're talking about customer experience, employee experience, kind of the X data versus the O data, operational data and Citrix in the past has been about operational data. You guys shared stuff in your wheelhouse about improving analytics so administrators and engineers can deliver applications and experiences better. Let's talk about the user experience in this new or the employee experience in this new world, this future of work. I have this SAP green screen and man would my job be so much easier if I could just push a button and get that data into Salesforce but I have to engage IT for that. I have to open a ticket, we have to kick up a project. Six months later we abandoned it because the industry has moved on. How is Citrix going to make that faster for the employee and improving my employee experience? Yeah, great.  However, the rest of us were hired for a specific purpose, whether it's the example we gave on stage today about Maria, the senior marketing director, or whether it's an engineer who wants to spend their time building product, we weren't hired to spend our day navigating expense reporting apps or performance review apps or other types of applications that we're all exposed to. They're not our primary application, we have to learn a new interface, we have to manage different authentication and what the workspace does, is in the words of one of our customers, is by unifying it all and being able to reach into those applications and extract out the information and tasks that are very personal to you. One customer says to their employees, you may never need to log into an enterprise application again, but you'll still get all the utility, all the value, because you have the insights you need and you can get them quickly without needing to navigate or search across multiple applications. You can get that task, improve that expense report like that without needing to go through four screens to do it and take you away from your core job. And so really what this is all about is removing the noise from an employee's day so they can perform it their very best. So critical because, sorry Keith, one of the stats also I think David shared this morning was that enterprise software is designed for power users, which is 1% of the population. So for those folks who just need to get their job done as effectively as possible so that they're delivering what they need to and that the end user customer's experience is what it should be. That's, to be able to say, you don't ever have to log into an enterprise application again and making that experience personalized game changers. Absolutely, I mean we think about the frustration that employees have today. I know David shared the findings today from the Gallup study but 85% of employees are disengaged at work. The number one reason happens to be around their level of their manager, but the number two one is they don't feel they have access to the right information and tools to do their job, right? They want to get that noise out of their day so that they can do what they were hired to do and what they're passionate about. So we talked a lot today about the consumerization of enterprise tech. We love these things. We don't love these things because the hardware is great. We love these things because we're able to do our jobs. So whether I'm downloading an app or Angry Birds or whatever experience that I'm having on this, I get instant gratification from this device. Talk to us about the overall potential of speed to value in a repeatable process that enterprises can enjoy around digital transformation based on Citrix versus, you know, I've heard similar things from ISVs. They can come in and write a customization from enterprise app into another solution, simplify a specific job, but if I have to do that for every application, one, I don't have the money, bandwidth, time, and the industry will pass me up. How are you guys bringing this consumerized experience to the future for it? Yeah, that's a great illustration is our mobile devices. We live on our mobile devices. A lot of enterprise application providers have created really good mobile applications, you know, concur from SAP where I came from. That's a great experience, very quick to go in. Salesforce, while an awesome tool, their mobile experience is different than their regular experience. So you have to relearn and navigate it. And then there's others that have never really created a mobile experience. So we're all doing this on our phone and trying to get that done. And even if every, to your point, even if every individual enterprise app had a great mobile experience, that still means we need to navigate a whole bunch of different interfaces. What we're doing with, by unifying this into a single digital workspace, by curating and personalizing your work day and creating a work stream very similar to what Facebook or others have done for our personal stream and how we get information through that feed, how we get news through that feed. We're doing the same for work. So on a mobile device, that experience is so much richer than we've seen since almost the invention of the smartphone. So as we talk about the consumerization of tech, big announcements with Azure and Google, how does that impact that new audience? When you go talk to another CMO at a big car manufacturer, why should they get excited about Azure or Google compute? They really don't see that. Yeah, there is no doubt that the world is moving to the cloud, but everyone's moving at their own pace. Companies has invested decades in some cases of infrastructure and on premise, and they're not going to move that to the cloud overnight, but they are beginning to move certain workloads, certain styles, and by the way, they want to have the choice of multiple clouds, which is why Citrix has invested to partner with all of the major cloud providers to allow our customers to have that choice. So if they want to leverage some aspects of Azure, and they want to move some of the Citrix workloads there, they can do that. If they want to virtualize, as you heard today, the announcement with Google, if they want to take some of their Citrix virtualization, virtual apps or virtual desktops and move that to Google Cloud, that's available to them, including now as we announced today with automated provisioning. So IT can quickly set up a desktop, maybe it's for a new hire, maybe it's for a contractor to come in, give them the tools they need to be productive. So companies want choice across those clouds, they don't want to have lock-in and they're going to move at their own pace, as we heard today from Partners Healthcare, for example. Security first, cloud considered. They're considering aspects to move to the cloud when it makes sense, and they want to have that flexibility to allow them to move at their own pace and make it seamless with their on-premise infrastructure, and that's what we provide. That flexibility is key, and as you brought up, every business today lives in a hybrid multi-cloud world. So employees, that employee experience needs to deliver access to SaaS apps, mobile apps, web apps, to deliver that great employee experience. But I want to turn the tides a little bit and take a look at what you guys are doing within marketing, and on the business strategy side, it suggests to help deliver that outstanding employee experience to your customers by way of your CSM team, when you even have a relatively new adoption marketing team, I'd love to know how that ladder fits into your business strategy. So I'll come to the adoption marketing team in a moment, but the first thing we're doing, as illustrated here earlier, is that this discussion around employee experience, as it becomes a C-level and a board-level imperative, it's become a company-wide initiative, and so from a marketing perspective, we have not only got a higher up in the organization, having a much more strategic discussion around how we can drive the business outcomes that the companies want to achieve, but also making sure we're putting it in the language of these other roles, right? HR wants to talk about employee engagement and how, and we can demonstrate through the workspace of how we're doing that. IT wants to talk about adoption of their technologies and the like. So getting to the customer adoption component. So within, as you move to the cloud, it's no longer, I'll sell you a product, good luck, when you engage with the customer, once you get that agreement, that's when the real work starts, right? You're in a long-time service agreement, and the value they extract from your application, the adoption they get, is going to determine their level of success and their level to renew with you at the end of the term, and so we've put a lot of investment as a company into what we call our customer success team, folks that view them as the coach at the gym. It's the difference between you buy a treadmill at home, you might use it for a while and then it becomes a towel rack, or you join the gym and your trainers there telling you how to get the best performance. That's what our customer success team does, but to do that at scale and to engage in a real-time basis, we've paralleled that with the customer adoption marketing team, and really we're providing both auto product and in-product marketing cues to the customer, to the user, on how best to take advantage of the product that they've already subscribed to. That's exciting, Tim. Speaking of customer success, last question as we wrap here, you guys kind of have the American Idol of Customer Awards, the Innovation Awards, there are down to three finalists, we will get to speak with all three of them over the next two days, but something that I mentioned to you that really piqued my interest is, this is an awards opportunity for other folks to vote on, and then the winner, Ryan Seacrest, probably going to be here to announce it on Thursday, tell us a little bit about the innovation awards and how these customers are really articulating the value prop of Citrix. Yeah, the Citrix Customer Innovation Awards one of my favorite times of the year, the program's been around for a number of years, and it's really grown a cult following within the Citrix community as customers get nominated to based on their deployment and the business outcomes they're driving. We have initially an individual panel that winners all those nominations down, and so that panel consists of former winners as well as analysts and other influencers in the community, and then to your point, the three finalists that we have right now, we expose their stories to the world, to everyone here at Synergy and beyond, and they get to vote, and so the votes are going to be tallied, I believe the voting polls close on Wednesday night, and then we'll announce the winner on Thursday, and the customers love it, not only to get the recognition, but the other customers love it because I have those same problems, I want to be able to solve it, and I want to understand how Citrix can help me. And that is, as a marketer, I know I'm preaching to the choir when I think there's no better brand validation than the voice of your customer articulating how their business is benefiting significantly and giving them the opportunity to talk to peers in any industry. Absolutely, that's why we're in it for the customer success. Well, we'll be anxiously awaiting to hear the results on Thursday, and Tim, I'm already excited for next year, so thank you so much for having theCUBE, Keith and me at Synergy 2019. Thank you for being here, thank you for having me. Our pleasure. For Keith Townsend, I'm Lisa Martin, live from Citrix Synergy 2019 from Atlanta. Thanks for watching.


A cohort of primary school students received a unique learning experience as they embarked on an agricultural field trip to the Roso Valley area, organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization, FAO, in collaboration with the Agriculture Ministry. The excursion gave students a glimpse into the intricate workings of local farming systems and operations, allowing them to witness the various stages of farming as they engaged with local farmers to gain insight into the production of the foods served in their schools. Principal of the Ancillary Primary School, Flavian Isembert, emphasized the importance of such initiatives for the students, stating that it gave them an opportunity to learn about the origin of their food and develop an appreciation for local agriculture. He explains that students were also educated on viewing agriculture as a potential career field that not only boosts food and nutrition security, but also contributes to the overall development of the country. They were of the view that farmers have to, you know, clean the land. That is quite true, but with the use of machines, it can make it much faster. And at the end of it all, many of them said, okay, if I can use machines to prepare my land and to operate my farm, then it is less work. And the good thing about it is that they were motivated that after they would have left school, that this is something that they can go into. The field trip ties in with the current initiative being implemented by the FAO in six schools around the island, in which school garden demonstration plots are being developed to support the feeding program. National Project Coordinator for the FAO's School Feeding Program, Cherry Ann Smith, explained that the agricultural field trip is part of the organization's efforts to provide school children with nutritious meals that are locally produced. The FAO hopes that initiatives like this will encourage more students to take an interest in eating local foods. We're hoping that whatever the children plant, they will be able to eat. So their supplies will go directly to the school's kitchen and they in turn can, so they won't have to buy as much local produce because just last year, we updated the menus to include at least 80% of local produce. So school by school, we're trying to achieve that through our own gardens, our own kitchen gardens in the schools. By cultivating an appreciation for local agriculture and encouraging healthier eating habits among students, the agriculture ministry hopes to not only improve the well being of school children, but also contribute to the overall food security of the country. From the Communications Unit of the Ministry of Agriculture, I am Anicia Antoine reporting.