Okay, welcome back everyone, we are live in Las Vegas for IBM Pulse, IBM's big cloud show. This is theCUBE, our flagship program. We go out to the events, extract the studio from the noise. This is SiliconANGLE's exclusive coverage of IBM Pulse. I'm John Furrier, the founder of SiliconANGLE. I'm joined by co-host Dave Vellante, co-founder of wikibon.org, research group here within theCUBE organization. And our next guest is Matt Kajou, CIO of Infinity Red Bull Racing. Welcome to theCUBE. Thank you. So Red Bull and Racing kind of go hand in hand. Let's talk about technology meets racing. Okay. As a CIO, everything's in your hands. Data-driven cars these days is all the rage. So tell us a little about your environment and the application, and then we can dive into some of the fun facts. Okay, yeah, no problem. So my team is responsible for the applications and underlying infrastructure that we use to design, make and race Formula One cars. So we have over 200 applications in the company and we make heavy use of simulations for things like computational fluid dynamics, for example, to design the shape of the car. We also do a lot with data analytics to make the right decisions during a race event. So our infrastructure, we have hundreds of servers. We have almost four petabytes of managed data. We have a very sophisticated network and we've established a private cloud that allows us to meet all the business demands for simulations and data analytics. And we've done that with the help of IBM platform computing. You go back three decades ago, it was the dawn of CAD software, sail boats to the America's Cup, Formula One racing, et cetera. And then you're good and hope for the best. Right now, fast forward, everything's data-driven from conception, design, build, and then even live and then post-mortem of say Formula One. So take us inside kind of the magnitude of the data and what goes on. I mean, honestly, real-time telemetry coming off the cars during the races.  Under the hood, so to speak. So the car is instrumented. It has more than 100 sensors on it. And when the car is running, we have engineers at the track looking at telemetry but we also have an MPLS connection back to an operations room at our factory in Milton Keynes, England. And we have 20 engineers that are consuming telemetry and really understanding at an in-depth level what's happening with the car, how hard we can push it to finish as high as we can on the race. So my big challenge is to make sure all of the infrastructure just works. Engineers get the data they need in a timely fashion so they can make the right decisions. Share to Anando with the fans out there about just an example where you had the real-time data, a tweak, a change, something significant, a game-changing around the product. Yeah, I think the most compelling example we had was in 2012 when Sebastian Vettel was trying to win the drivers' championship. It went down to the very last race. And on the first lap of that last race, he was in an accident, the car was damaged. And we basically had to micromanage the car for the entire length and do just well enough in order for him to finish and win the championship. So... No, he doesn't finish. He doesn't win. He doesn't finish, Alonso wins. He's second. And going second in Formula One is going nowhere. Yeah. So, yeah, with the real-time feeds, and we were able to go and look at forces in the operations room compared against the design and what the car could withstand. And we were able to go and instruct Sebastian on how he could nurse the car. And he literally did just enough, and he won over the whole season the championship by two points. So he's got very low tolerances here, right? Very, very low tolerance. You get it. That's right, that's right. So, yeah, that was the most high-profile example of data analytics and where it's made a big difference in the race outcome. So how much is that? What would he have done differently if you didn't have the instrumentation? I mean, nursing the car, what does that mean? Like, how to take a corner, speed, is it all that? And he probably wouldn't have been aware of that? So he had to change the engine mode, for example, because the exhaust had been dented. And if he pushed the car as hard as possible, the exhaust would have cracked and the car would not have finished. So we had to instruct him on how to set the control systems on the car. We had to instruct him on how hard he could actually push it accelerating. When we took a pit stop, we also had to adjust the wing angles to adjust the balance on the car. And all that was on the advice of people back in England. Simulating. Yeah, simulating, understanding what was actually happening via telemetry and recommending back to the mechanics at the track and how to fix or set up the car and adjust. So real time, you had engineers in England, guiding you guys, translating it to the driver. And there's certain things the driver can do in real time, certain things he can't do that you had to do in the pits. That's exactly right. So how far has this come in the last 10 years? I mean, maybe you could describe sort of that journey. Yeah, well, 10 years ago it was not possible. We didn't have the data networks that could get the data back to an operations room, nor did we have the analytical tools that allowed you to digest it, simulate things, and take very quick decisions. So we've now had an operations room for about seven years. We've taken lots of baby steps, adding incremental capability. And right now we can't do without it. It's a big differentiator with track performance. So 10 years ago it was gut feel? It was gut feel. It was, yeah, experience. People at the track had telemetry. So the people at the track could see the data with tools that were not as sophisticated as what we have today. And today we can now include all the brains back at the factory, get them involved. So we have more eyeballs on the car, more specialization and expertise around engineers in the car. And they can get the data real time, no matter where the race track is in the world. The data goes back to headquarters in England. How did you deal with potential conflicts and discrepancies in opinions? Right, yeah, we say they can't take the human out of the equation, humans at the last mile. So how did you deal with that? Is it the driver's call? Is it the pit crew's call? Is it your call? No, ultimately, so the pit wall at the track is the lead decision makers for race. Christian Horner, who's our team principal, number one guy on the team, ultimately takes the calls if there's a hard decision and he'll take advice and recommendations. But ultimately, somebody may have to take a hard decision. Right. But mostly it's data-driven as much as can be. So maybe talk about the tooling a little bit. You said that was a big advancement. Obviously being able to get the data to the right place is fast enough to the pipes and infrastructure. But what kind of tooling are you talking about? What kind of advancements have we seen there? So in the infrastructure, I mean. Yeah, so what we can do is with telemetry, we can do a lot of post-processing for the math channels and we have a grid computer or a few grid computers in Milton Keynes in England. So we can run a lot of sophisticated post-processing and really get an understanding of what our car is doing, recommendations on race strategy and we can also get a very good idea of what our competitors are doing, figure out what their weaknesses are, attack and exploit their weaknesses and where they have strengths, try to counterbalance the strengths. So we run Monte Carlo analysis real-time, for example, on grid computers in England and all of this provides a decision-supported advice that gets fed back to the track in real-time. So that's awesome. All right, now, we hear a lot of talk about cloud at this show. You guys have built your own private cloud for the analytic system. I wonder if you could describe that a little bit. What does that look like? Paint a picture for us. Yeah, so we have two types of supercomputers that are based on grid computing and we've worked with IBM platform computing so that the environments are all defined by software. So we use Linux clusters and use LSF as a scheduling engine and we do a lot of simulations for computational fluid dynamics to design the shape of the car and the shape of the car actually evolves for every race. We focus new parts and new updates depending on the track that we're going to. So the big LSF-based clusters run big CFD, computational fluid dynamics simulations. The other type of cluster that we set up is a symphony cluster and we're using this to do a lot of the data analytics applications that we use real-time at the track. So it can get real-time in data telemetry, for example, do post-processing and make, for example, predictions about race strategy or recommendations on race strategy. So obviously, as you say, the track, you're customizing essentially the car for every race because of the track conditions and maybe the weather conditions as well and so forth. So you've got a lot of data that you utilize. You know, we were talking earlier about gut feel. I remember in the early 2000s, the Harvard Business Review wrote a number of articles talking about how gut feel essentially trumps data. That's changed quite a bit. It's still a big component of gut feel but part of the suggestion back then was minimize the number of KPIs because it gets too complicated. So my question to you is, is that still the strategy or are you able to optimize on a wider range of indicators or does it really just come down to a few key ones, you know, tire wear or whatever? No, there's so many variables that we're managing and we still rely, not so much on gut feel, but we still very much rely on experienced engineers but we try to give them better data so that they can make even better decisions than what they would have in the past with experience and gut feel. So you still can't take the person out of the loop. Have you seen situations where it was one of these non-intuitive things? I mean, I think about instrument flight rules when you're flying a plane. You usually got to follow your instruments, especially if you're IFR only. Have you seen situations where it was so non-intuitive and you either went with the data or you went with experience and maybe had a learning as a result of that. I think if I go back to the example with Sebastian in 2012 where he had an accident in the first lap, so the first gut instinct was coming to the pits on the very next lap and let the mechanics try to deal with the damage but the reality was is the mechanics couldn't fix the damage that was done. So it was people, especially in the opposite room in England saying, guys, there's nothing we can do about it, hold fire, keep them up.  Just buy time and let us try to figure out exactly what's going on here, but don't bring them in. So that was one where people in the opposite room were a step removed from the emotion, had the data and made a call that the act turned out to be the right decision.  What's your relationship with IBM? Maybe you could talk about that a little bit. Yeah, so with IBM, we've been a longtime customer and IBM is also an innovation partner for the team. So platform computing technology, we're very lead users of the technology. We work in a very collaborative manner to define our software environment or use software to define our hardware environment for simulations. So we're both a customer and we're an innovation partner with IBM. So why don't you talk about the role of the CIO, you and your colleagues, we're always talking about things like business alignment and agility and so forth. What are the pressures that you're seeing on the CIO today? How have they changed and how is your community responding to them generally and you specifically? Okay, so Formula One is a very technology based sport and so because technology touches every part of the company from design to manufacturing to analytics at the track, everybody wants to continuously improve so the car is always improved but we also have huge pressure to improve our applications and improve the capability of our infrastructure and so that's why cloud computing really helps out because as the business demands explode, it gives us an ability to also scale up our infrastructure to meet all these incremental demands. And when we talk about cloud computing, you're essentially building a private cloud that might simulate what we've come to know as the public cloud, self-service, provisioning, you know, agility, lots of services, service catalog, is that right? I mean, where are you in that whole journey? Would you say that you've got a private cloud that provides comparable capabilities to the user base as that public cloud infrastructure as we know it? Are you a little somewhat behind, somewhat ahead in certain areas? What if you could talk about that? I think we're a leader actually. We've put a lot of effort in over many years now. We've been working with IBM and Platform Computing since 2008 and the environment went from something that was quite inflexible and wasn't meeting the needs of the business to now actually meeting the needs of the business, being very proactive and having an extensible infrastructure that allows us to react to change quite quickly. I wonder if I could play devil's advocate for a second on this topic because there may be some naysayers, I'm sure there are, right? There's always disagreements in an organization. You might say, well, yeah, maybe that's true that you can sort of replicate that but from a cost standpoint, maybe it's cheaper to do in-house actually. I'll be curious as to your thoughts there but what about it from an asset utilization perspective i.e. pay by the drink on demand type of computing? Are you able to sort of simulate those benefits? So historically, we've done everything on premise and it's really been the most cost effective and I think some of the offerings in hybrid cloud or public cloud just haven't been mature enough. So we've done everything on premise historically. Now the technology's moving on and we're starting to put our toe in the water and try to understand what the opportunities are around hybrid cloud. So from that hybrid point of view, we're very much at infancy point of view but from a private cloud point of view, we're very much leaders. So you would agree then that rental is most typically more expensive than ownership, right? Yeah, in the past when we've looked at it, it definitely was and because of who we are and how high profile we are, we can also get very attractive commercial terms to allow us to do things on premise and when we in the past have looked at doing things outside, the economics didn't work but I think now with all the investment and all the different companies that are innovating, I think the dynamics of that will change and exactly when, don't know yet but we need to watch it. Final question for you, I want to ask. Just kind of going forward, given your experience, actually Formula One, great, obviously marquee sport, it kind of mirrors the internet of things. So you think about it, you're dealing with real time, sensor data, this could be running turbines, airplane telemetry, it could be mobile phones, could be cars in the future. For the folks out there trying to understand this whole cloud, real time, big data world, what advice would you give them about what you've done and will you see it come? So I think number one, it's to work with your partners and form a vision about the art of the possible and know sort of where you want to head but then Big Bang doesn't work, it's taking lots of little steps to make continuous improvements to implement things. So I think, yeah, get the vision and then start working on it. Matt here, Kaju with Red Bull Racing Team, Infinity Red Bull Racing, CIO, Dynamic Environment, this is the future, you're living the future. Literally, Formula One, we think mirrors the future, so congratulations one on a great opportunity you've done. You're certainly the result speak for itself, snatching victory from the jaws of defeat with big data, congratulations. But more importantly, this is the future, real time using big data with computing power and a team of experts making things happen, that's the future. This is theCUBE, we are the future, we're here at IBM Pulse, we'll be right back after this short break.


The other big one there was Dell. So Dell actually had one of the keynotes on Thursday, Dario Zemarian, who is the new kind of czar, general manager of the networking space. And I got to sit down with him, which was really quite interesting, because if you think from a networking standpoint, well, how does Dell really fit into that picture? And I asked him that question, and he was very kind of frank and honest in saying, I asked that same thing when I interviewed. Dell is not, you know, they have their own kind of low consumer end product line, but mostly they're doing things through partnering. So their big partners are Juniper, Brocade, and Aruba Networks on the wireless side. And he said, really, his job is to give Dell some credibility in the space, first working with their partners and eventually growing, you know, of course probably their services with their Perot acquisition and trying to get into that space a little more as they build their converged infrastructures. So we saw, well, Dell bought Equalogic, tried to buy three-part to do the high-end storage play. You just mentioned the Perot acquisition. Obviously, Dell is transforming itself. Do you see Dell actually acquiring a networking company? So I asked him that specifically. And if you look at the options that they have out there, you know, they're not going to buy Juniper. Juniper is just way too big. It's, you know, $12 to $15 billion for that acquisition.  It really doesn't make a whole lot of sense. It's also, you know, $3 to $4 billion, at least, from what Brocade's market cap is. He said that if they made an acquisition, it would probably be something on the smaller side, something on the edge. So if you look at what IBM did recently with the Blade Network's B&T acquisition, that was rumored to be somewhere between the $300 and $400 million range. Or even look at what Cisco did a few years back with buying Linksys, which was about a $500 million acquisition. So if you look at where Dell plays in the marketplace, they're not going to get a core, you know, switch supplier. They're not going to be competing with the Cisco Nexus 7000 or some of the products that Juniper makes at the core. But at the edge, which is a little more defensive, and at the line where the server and networking and virtualization all play into space, there could be an acquisition, or in the consumer space, if it made sense.


Income tax 2021-2022, business income part number eight. Get ready to get refunds to the max. Dive in to income tax 2021-2022. Most of this information can be found in Publication 3-3-4 Tax Guide for Small Business Tax Year 2021 income tax formula looking at line one income, which would be supplemented by another scheduled basically an income statement. Income and expenses included, basically being deductions to net then rolling in to line one income of the income tax formula and page one of the form 1040. We see here on the tax return with the tax return, we would have the schedule C, the schedule C then rolling into the schedule one, the schedule one then rolling into the first page of the form 1040 line number eight, which would be the other income. We've got the schedule C here, basically an income statement. We're still focused on the income lines. So we have the accounting for income. Accounting for your income for income tax purposes differs at times from accounting for financial purposes. So this can be a little bit confusing because remember we talked about the methods of accounting, which could be most people think of as an accrual basis method, cash basis method, but oftentimes we might have some kind of hybrid between the two methods. And no matter what method we choose, we might have some other kind of rules that we have to take into consideration with regards to the tax code, as compared to with regards to our business taxes. So if you were to basically list this stuff out, when it gets more complex, what is nice to do is to take your financial information from your bookkeeping system and then kind of log in your adjusting entries for taxes. So you can kind of see exactly what those differences are where the tax code deviates from the bookkeeping. If you were looking at like publicly traded companies, they often in the United States put their books together in accordance with what we call generally accepted accounting principles which are basically best practice accrual principles in general. And when we look at the tax code, we're obviously putting this together in accordance with the tax code, which might mirror to some extent the accrual accounting principles or cash accounting principles, but then could of course deviate from some of those things and we have to account for those differences. So this section discussing some of the more common differences that may affect business transactions. So figure your business income on the basis of a tax year and according to your regular method of accounting. So the regular method of accounting, whether we use an accrual or cash or some hybrid is what we want to be using in general for the tax code, but still may have deviations from that method for tax law versus our accounting method. If the sale of product is an income producing factor in your business, you usually have to use the inventories to clearly show your income, details in real estate are not allowed. So I'm sorry, dealers in real estate are not allowed to use inventories. So for more information on inventories, you can see a chapter two. So if you have inventory, that's usually on a cruel kind of thing because normally we have to put it on the books as an asset instead of expensing it at the point in time that we purchase it. That's normal accounting for accrual accounting and you're kind of forced to do accrual accounting usually if you have a significant amount of inventory. Income paid to third party, all income you earn is taxable to you. You cannot avoid tax by having the income paid to a third party. So if you had income that is gonna be due to you, you've constructively basically received it even if you have the income paid to someone else basically on your behalf because of course, if you can get that income at any time, then you have in essence constructively received it. So an example, you rent out your property and the rental agreement directs the leases to pay the rent to your son. So it's like, yeah, it's not my income, they're paying it to my son. So instead of me getting the money and then giving it to my son, for example. So the amount paid to your son is gross income to you because it's your property. And obviously when you give it to your son anytime there's just like related party transaction, that's another sign that something funny might be going on or it's another area where the IRS is gonna be skeptical because that's when you don't have market transactions happening the way you think market transactions would if you had non-related individuals. So cash discounts, these are amounts to seller permits you to deduct from the invoice price for prompt payment for income tax purposes, you can use either of the following two methods to account for cash discounts. So basically, if you're getting a cash discount and you're paying for something, then normally the cash discounts usually a fairly small kind of item where the people, they're charging a discount because they wanna get paid sooner, they're trying to increase their cash flow. So if you pay them in a shorter amount of time then you get the lower price. So one, deduct the cash discount from purchases so you could see line 36 purchases less cost of items withdrawn for personal use in chapter six. We'll talk about that later cost of goods sold calculation two, to create the cash discount to a discount income account. So now when you get the discount you could put it directly into basically the income account which could make it a little bit easier depending on how you're calculating the inventory items that you're purchasing because when you purchase the inventory it gets a little confusing. When you put the inventory on the books at the point in time of the purchase and then if you pay within the discount period and you get the discount then do you make the adjustment basically to the inventory item or possibly can you put the discount somewhere else possibly recording it as income? So you must use the chosen method every year for all your purchase discounts. So once you choose a method then that consistency thing is something that the tax code is going to want generally in counting in general wants consistency. If you use the second method the credit balance in the account at the end of your tax year is business income under this method you do not reduce the cost of goods sold by the cash discount you received. When valuing your closing inventory you cannot reduce the invoice price of merchandise on hand at the cost of the tax year by the average or estimated discount received on the merchandise. Then we have trade discounts. These are reductions from a list or catalog prices and are usually not written into the invoice or charged to the customer. Do not enter these discounts on your books of account instead use only the net amount as the cost of the merchandise purchased. So for more information on, you could see the trade discounts you could take a look at chapter six of this publication there. Payment placed in escrow. If the buyer of your property places part or all of the purchase price in escrow because that's gonna be facilitating or holding until the completion of the process has been done. You do not include any part in it. You do not include any part of it in gross sales until you actually or constructively receive it. However, upon completion of the terms of the contract and the escrow agreement, you will have taxable income even if you do not accept the money until the next year. So you've got this escrow thing where basically you don't really have constructive receipt of it possibly at that point in time, but when you do have constructive receipt of it, then you have to claim it as income. And so again, this is another area where you can imagine people trying to use this kind of tool where they have constructive receipt, but they're trying to just delay it over the cutoff date so they don't have to record the income in the current year, which is what the IRS is gonna be concerned about and trying to stop from happening. Sales returns and allowances credits you, credits you allow customers for return merchandise and any other allowances you make on sales are deductions from gross sales and figuring net sales. So you've got the returns that are going to happen. So obviously if you have the return, they've returned the merchandise, then you have a sale that kind of didn't really happen. So right, you got to reverse the sale that they basically happened. So you might have sales deduction, which could be like a contra asset account or a contra income account reducing the sales item. Let's read it one more time. Credits you allow customers for returned merchandise and any other allowances you make on sales are deductions from gross sales and figuring net sales. So on a bookkeeping standpoint, you might see it as like a contra sales item which acts kind of like an expense, but it's really kind of reversing a sales, sales returns and allowances, for example, advanced payments. So special rules dealing with an accrual method of accounting for payments received in advance are discussed in chapter two. So if you're on an accrual method of accounting and someone gives you an advanced payment, meaning they give you the payment before you actually do the work, then you wouldn't normally record that in income even though you got the money because you haven't done the work and that would be in unearned revenue. But the IRS might make an exception here because if you have the money and you can constructively use it and there's no obstacle to it, then the IRS wants their share so they deviate from an accrual method in that case. The advanced payments is not something you see in every industry because usually you get paid after you do the work or at the same time you do the work, but many industries you get paid in advance, for example, any kind of application service, for example, where it's a subscription model, you might get paid basically in advance before you do the work giving the subscription, the access to whatever you're giving like software or magazines or newspapers. So insurance proceeds. If you receive insurance or another type of reimbursement for a casualty or theft loss, you must subtract it from the loss when you figure your deduction. You cannot deduct the reimbursement part of a casualty or theft loss for more information on that. You can see publication 547.


talking to the gentleman from Tidal. It is a CBD company that really focuses in on the athletes and the athlete performers who really need that extra boost. Joining me is the CEO Badal Shah and John Salley, four-time NBA champ. He is now the new company's business development guy. So, Badal, let's talk about Tidal because it really is unique in that the company is really zeroed in on the athlete and that particular subset of people using CBD products. I mean, CBD is known to have anti-inflammatory properties, which is of course very appealing to someone that really depends on their body to make a living, correct? That's correct. We're very much focused on the recovery aspect of the athlete and making sure that we can support the continuous training every day by reducing the inflammation and the pain. One thing that's unique about Tidal is the cryotherapy. So, that's something I don't always see when I'm talking about a CBD company. You know, you hear a lot about the hemp and the cannabinoids, but not this other added feature of the cryotherapy. Can you explain how that fits in with the CBD? Yeah, sure. So, you know, we've done a lot of research in the space to understand how fitness enthusiasts, and anywhere from novice fitness enthusiasts all the way to high-performance athletes, how they train, how they prefer to use recovery products, and we have a lot of competencies in the house around some novel product formulations. And so, as we study cryotherapy and we studied CBD, we thought blending those together would give really the ultimate experience in combining pain relief and the anti-inflammation. So, the cryo aspect of it gives that local pain relief, that cold recovery aspect, and then the anti-inflammation allows one to train more often, recover quicker. And, Mr. Sally, you obviously probably looked at a lot of different CBD companies. You've decided to choose this one to join as their business development person. What made you choose this company in particular? Well, Badala is definitely one of the best pitch guys I've ever met in my life, and he's a great CEO. And the whole group, when I went in, I met with my friend Raj and Sean before I met Badala, when they were like, okay, this is the, when you, when I was talking about being involved with him, I think two or three years ago, it might be two years now. And then when it became Anthos, and he took it to the next level, I was like, wow, now I'm a health coach, and I know a lot about being an athlete and how my body works. I know a lot about CBD, hemp oil, better put, that's what we're going to say right now for this. Hemp oil, we know as much as we need to know about hemp oil. And then I used to get in a cryo machine when they first came out. And the fact that these guys had a sexy looking product, a product that worked, that was the most important thing that you're going to tell somebody, you're going to spray this on, it's going to be cold, it's going to literally, as they would tell you, put ice on, they would tell you to put ice on after something, which really after 10 minutes turns to heat, this right automatically tells your body, oh, it's cooling, it's calming it down. And then the hemp oil, you can get straight to work. So I just like the combination. I also like the combination they have with their other products. So it won't be just a one trick pony, it'll be the next thing and the next thing and the next thing. So we can be number one inside of that space. You know, and it isn't even just the professional athlete that depends on their body to make a living. It's also the weekend warrior. It's the person who really just wants to be more active outdoors that still needs to function.  So you do need some kind of product to keep the machine going. Yeah, I wouldn't have worried it that way. Because I live in a house for the women, I got like seven women in the house, my wife, my daughters and my nieces. And, and I need titles, just dealing with the things that they beat me up with every day. But the truth is, this is a product not just for professional athletes, but it is literally, I would say, studied by professional athletes. And you know, when they're paying somebody 30, 40, 50 million dollars a year to perform a game that we do for fun, we don't have time to care if you're hurt. I remember Jim Lee Butler got hurt from the Miami Heat. They asked him, how was his ankle? He said, no one cares. He became one of my favorite players, because no one does care. We only came to see you perform. We're not here to wonder if you're doing okay. We're not here. This is an entertainment. You don't ask actors, are they okay? Are they fine? You expect them just to do their job. So when people go out there and they rock climb and, and they, and they skateboard and they roll a blade, everything we're seeing when I live in when I live in California, those things will put wear and tear on your body. And it's not the age of go get a cream that doesn't work, that really is bad for your eyes, that made with all fight a chem for and all these different things that aren't good for yourself and put something that is. We know that the human body has cannabinoid system. We understand that if we have the highest form of hemp oil, grown the right way, manufactured the right way, and put into a form where we can use it and your body is bio available to your body. This is the best product. I've dealt with a lot of products. I'm not going to name them because they don't deserve to be recognized, but I dealt since 2011 with these different products trying to find it. I met Badal. I already knew Raj and Shawn. I saw the rest of the team and I asked to join. That was the difference. It wasn't like they came to me and said, we weren't you involved. I was like, how do I get down? And, and that's why I'm in. And Mr. Shaw, so these products right now in title are topical. Are there plans to expand that line into ingestibles or other types of products? Yeah, absolutely. We're doing so, you know, we have a team with a product formulation team that does a lot of work. They get a lot of insight from people like John who know the industry very well. As you can tell, John's very passionate, has a great understanding of not only the science, but also the market. So our team comes together and we look at what is the market, what is the need? We always lead with efficacy though, quality first and making sure that we can build products that people will use and benefit in quality of life from. So the answer is yes, absolutely. There's quite a few products on the horizon. And you source your hemp from Oregon, correct? We actually, we actually cultivate our own hemp. It isn't Oregon, but we have our own farms where we do our own cultivation. And that's I think really a nice feature as well, because some companies just buy some oil off the market and who knows where it comes from and who knows if it's really been properly tested or grown or what kind of chemicals are put into it. So at least that way you're able to control the process and really know what you're putting into your product. Yeah, another big thing about that is when we do start sourcing, we have already found out where the best hemp is grown. Like in California, there's only one place that sells organic hemp. And we know that I'm already made sure we made that contact because I believe that we're going to get so big that we're just going to keep, you know, our farmers going to get bigger and bigger and bigger in different places. Because we have to have the distribution. We have to have the idea of what you're saying, control them from seed to sell. And that's not just ego. That is literally because I use the product, but I'll use the product.  I eat a plant-based lifestyle because of that. I just translate on say this is the most perfect team to be involved with. I know about being on good teams. That's one thing that I'm good at is picking what good team to be on. I do not like winning championships. And this team has it to the point where when the announcement came that they made me in charge of business development, I had some of the strongest people in the digital world reach out to me because they know how I was always trying to push one-time cannabis with my daughter's brand. This is 22 and how I was pushing my plant-based mentality. But when I realized that these guys had the same mentality and I met without, this is funny. I'm going to tell the story. The day I came in and met them in Gardena at our warehouse, he was playing it off. Hey, how you doing? It sat back and he didn't know I knew that he was watching me. He was watching to see if I was going to walk in there with my head like I couldn't carry it in. And I was like, nah, I wanted to see what it was, how the packaging was, who was who. And I liked it from that day on. I got in the car when I was driving back from Manhattan Beach and called my wife and said, I'm getting down with this company. I'm going to put them in a position where they can't do nothing but keep me. And so that's how serious I was about being on this squad. All right. Well, now we know the title has the John Sally seal of approval. That's right. And with that said, thank you, Bedal Shah and John Sally for joining us at the Green Market Report. And we will keep our eyes out for title CBD products. Title hemp oil products. Thank you, Bedal hemp oil product. Thank you so much, Deborah.


blood will be shed today blood will be shed oh the winner of otk elevated with a grand prize of 50 thousand dollars hello episode 10 the finale so today it is the finale and we will determine who will win the entire show and who will walk home with 50 000 buckaroos but i'm joined by three lovely guest judges first we have our lovely judge tectone hey Emily really excited to be here and uh really excited to be here and uh tecton what are you doing i'm really excited to be here are you okay yeah no it's uh no i'm good uh i'm good i'm just i'm really excited to be here tecky what what does he even say we are also joined by our lovely guest judge sear very excited to be here on the final episode of elevated here in los vegas vegas vegas blood will be shed today blood will be shed oh wow and lastly we of course have spand hello uh absolutely thank you thank you for having me uh look listen i plan on eliminating five people today yeah i plan on there's six people and and if i have it my way there will be five of them eliminated i want everybody in this facility to cry i want i want the contestants crying i want you guys crying will you be crying production crying we already do that when we're around you i know but i want to see it on camera today so you may be wondering what is elevated so elevated is otk's new show where we help elevate smaller streamers and give them the exposure they deserve so we've seen just from the past nine episodes uh i feel like the follower count has grown and even you chat has found like a new content creator to watch and let us meet our finalists today so we have six finalists for our finale episode and the first one up is mayor that ladies and gentlemen so much emotion survivor of 10 episodes fifth of his name man of Ohio legion of the north hello mayor contestant to start from round one and be here in the finale one episode away from perhaps winning it all i feel absolutely wonderful i have proven myself every single episode and i think i'm going to prove myself again today you've done an absolutely incredible job thank you week to week uh adapting to the challenges yes uh there's obviously like the the whole purpose of this show was to uh take each episode and kind of do something in that episode that related to the streamers channel that it was hosted on yeah and uh to go from channel to channel from stream to stream event to event and to be able to pass all of them uh is i think an advantage i mean obviously it's incredibly impressive but it's also an advantage i think coming into this finale because the finale is supposed to be kind of like a culmination of everything yes so uh i think there's a there's a lot of eyes on you today yes there's a lot of expectation yes do you feel the pressure at all or i think i think i would be lying if i said i didn't feel the pressure i feel like everyone on here today is going to feel that in some kind of capacity that's just the reality of things so but that's a good thing to have your eyes have eyes on you at all times like that next we will introduce mr fimple ladies and gentlemen mr fimple not mrs fimple not just fimple don't get it wrong not dr fimple hey mr fimple mr fimple look at that shirt you like it yeah it's a hawaiian it's from walmart i had i literally have that same shirt from walmart it's upstairs in my in my hotel room yeah there was the last i had a uh a nicer shirt there was a last second thing we did have to borrow your shirt i spent i hope that's okay how did we had is that real i have an extra key same size it's a little bit big on me but i think it works so i appreciate it that's been thank you i mean that's fine i guess but why didn't you i didn't want to ask because i thought you were gonna say no it was really a last second thing this morning so i had to do it so i apologize okay i mean that's fine yeah i just hope it doesn't affect my score today i can already tell to know from him dog all right so our next contest contestant to uh introduce is foreign you can just hear that enthusiasm from ladies and gentlemen 25th of his kind from the northern alliance we introduced to you you're here uh where was it one of your first episode again episode uh it was the gang beast one on us at us the gaming one right so what do you think you've learned from the past few episodes i mean honestly there's definitely a lot more that goes into streaming you know production wise um you know with the improv bits and whatnot you know there's a lot more than just just going live you know there's a lot of planning that you can do behind the scenes and stuff and i think that's cool i love the back end type of stuff next i want to say something about you for that i really admire and that's your ability to kind of like let stress wall off of you you're a very positive figure at least that's the impression that i have of you you don't seem to let anything fester or you know stress you out so just want to say that's a really good skill to have is extremely hot i that's something that i hope to have one day as well man i really respect hey i mean you you got it baby just do it you know what i'm saying yeah i agree but for and you were quoted here yesterday uh at the casino seeing it's very easy to farm techie for compliments the guy is so weak willed and weak minded oh how do you feel about that you know trial by combat so for that's gonna be a no from me dog hey we'll talk after the show alright okay you know maybe maybe a couple tears will come out well that's what i'm hoping for i'm hoping for lots of tears from everybody uh i'm hoping to uh both make dreams and crush dreams to i mean there was definitely uh tears after that green screen episode that's for sure what's your what's your nerve level right now um couldn't really tell you honestly you know i'm just letting them just get your head flow you know what i'm saying the next contested to announce is new dory badass dude that clip brings like a tear to my eye oh my a lot of emotion into the announcement hello hey all right dory is here looking swagalicious thank you thank you great stuff how to wrap the merch you know amazing smart hello new dory welcome to the stage how are you i'm feeling good i'm ready to do this man i'm ready to run it back you know i got that victory yesterday hoping to get back to back oh you got that you got that new pc the star forge yep excited for it creator relief of course yep more excited to break my old one because that thing needs to die but uh yeah i'm i'm excited you know maybe i get some 50k extra you know new dory when i first met you did not like you understandable okay man thought you were trying to take my place absolutely i tried to you came back i think you're a genuinely good dude i really appreciate there's no people like you in this world man absolute thong you make me crap man new dory i don't like you understandable yeah no okay cool yep good cop back cop let's go all right so those were the four contestants that made it to episode eight but we do we did have two lifelines go out and let us introduce miss skill shot excited to dress up for today oh special occasion i've never worn this dress and it was a gift to me a gift looks great very nice i wanted to ask you remember i mean you were kicked off right we had two lifelines we had two lifelines you were the first one uh who uh who's brought back for today's episode uh we flew you out here from korea um i i want you to to think about that right like whenever whenever you got kicked off and and that that did not feel very good right you could see it it hurt but then on the flip side of things whenever you came back how good that felt you got a second chance chat voted you back in and there's a lot of people that really really believed in you you know and that's why they voted you back in so i i do want to say that you've done a great job here so far you did a great job yesterday and i think a lot of people are gonna be really excited to see what you put together today for your show i hope so i'm bringing my a game let us introduce our last contestant the second lifeline who came back from the dead amazing navies look at that we have we have security oh we are just confirming that hello is that your uh outfit like the uniform that you have oh to the trip looks great amazing yeah i i saw you with a couple people last night what happened to them they're fine okay well can you take your hands out of your pockets for me okay great jokes aside it's like it feels like i'm watching the office every single time i look at like your deadpan is so i don't know if that's intentional or not you might just be you might just be crazy i think you're so funny i think you might just be crazy yeah uh i'm gonna say this navies um uh oh there uh and tecton mentioned this a little bit earlier right again a chance to hang out with some of you guys uh a lot of what you know the viewers at home see and uh i mean this isn't this isn't really something we even talked about with you guys but a lot of what the viewers at home see is uh what's on the show and whatever it comes down to this evaluation uh a lot of that evaluation happens off stream you know and uh the reason why we didn't really want to bring this up is obviously because we just wanted you guys to be natural act natural and uh think that it is a situation where it's hey it's whatever's on the show is on the show and that's how that's how everything goes but uh i've been watching very very closely you and everyone else who's a contestant here today a finalist here today i'll just say uh uh keep it up i'm i'm excited to see what you do today cool cool cool what would you guys do with $50,000 uh i'll do a giveaway oh wow a casino giveaway yep whoa it's a really good question yeah what would you do sir that's a really good question uh i would donate it all to charity it's awesome yeah beautiful i i just love the world and i love the people and i i love to just give back whenever i make something that's beautiful that's so that's so generous thank you guys it's just my in my nature so yeah i'd buy like five cameras oh and i wouldn't use them okay so we are going to begin a reminder chat 10 minute shows around 10 minutes from each contestant uh everything is them so they worked on it all so let's begin with our first show mayor work well i'm good to see everyone again from about 10 15 minutes ago this is a song about my favorite food in the entire world i'm sure you're gonna figure it out quite quickly what that's going to be black shirt red shorts with the football yeah that was good that was like humbling i was like oh god what have i done well i've never been humbled but let us move on to the next show presented by i'm pretty excited different twitchy mo probably kek w oh okay okay so you like that one more than lol w i don't like omega lol i actually banned that in my chat what yeah i made it say that i'm stupid because people usually do that for kek w so i just kind of like switch it around on i'm gonna do me a favor when your act starts let me know because with you i cannot tell i didn't know if i started right away so this is fine for me so i've planned a a couple different things to show you guys today and it's a it's a little bit out of my comfort zone i don't usually do this sort of thing i'm gonna be singing a song i only sing in my car basically by myself and i feel like if there was ever a time to do something that nobody expects at all this would this would be the time so uh i'm gonna be singing i dream to dream from le miserab okay okay are you guys ready yeah yes wow no i'm not i'm not gonna sing anything i'm not gonna sing a song no i do sing in my car though can you do a little teaser that was it that okay okay i do sorry i do have a couple things here um are you nervous techie i know a lot of people have been asking me are you bringing the sticky notes oh did you bring the sticky notes and uh yes i did yes and i am going to be covering this entire stage with the remainder of my time in sticky notes okay so get ready that does qualify as content yeah amazing all right what would you prefer to do it in absolute silence does that help you place them it it's kind of nice because it helps me like wind them up properly okay um so do we got a timer for him yeah where's is there a timer um do you want any help or no this is i actually i actually do have a couple other things i had planned that was just a joke oh i believed you i you know is is it crazy that like i don't think any of us doubted that you would actually do that yeah i do have a couple tricks up up my sleeve oh it's fine it's fine i have another one so i actually need you guys to do something for me okay okay magic i need you guys to think of a card all together like you all discuss amongst yourself i'm gonna turn around i'm gonna plug my ears let me know when you have one okay okay do we also just let me just let me know uh we're ready anytime we're ready we're ready okay okay wait do we have the same card you have to pick one card like you're all taking the same card you have to agree on it oh like can you uh can you uh turn around again yeah take it okay okay okay take your time it's a seven of dilemma it's a seven of dilemma okay do not hope right this one that one oh all right all good navious okay okay okay what was the card um that we picked yeah what was seven diamonds seven of diamonds that's the exact card that i was thinking of too okay yes that's holy wow that's i'm going to get you guys to write your names on these sticky notes with this pen okay just rip it off pass it down so i just wanted you guys autographs so i'm gonna go no no i actually have a trick i actually have a a tricks plan for this i'm going to mix these up in a completely random order and i'm going to tell who wrote who's without even looking at them okay okay okay so i'm gonna mix them up your eyes closed my eyes are closed it's hard to shuffle sticky notes it is quite difficult i didn't actually practice this part very much at all sears wow this is good as fans oh my god very good very good very good yeah very good you can get a residency out here in vegas oh my god extra emily that's mom it's magic i can't tell you so that was navious's performance and now we go on to performance number three by miss skill shots interesting massive figures there special forces they said we can hire people because we have to do everything ourselves so i hired myself some stage hands to help me spruce up i'm a theater kid i love it it's helping me spruce it up what is my talent that is a question i've been asking myself for a long time because i've tried many different things you know like parkour or like dancing or singing as you can tell i never stuck to anything long enough to get good at it or like showcase a talent honestly thinking about it also for like what i was doing growing up i had no idea like maybe did i want to be an astronaut houston we got a problem i don't know or maybe like a firefighter that's a cool one you know you can get it like dress up and stuff there's just so many things and i could be anything that i wanted to be but uh that was a problem i wanted to be all of these things i wanted to be in space fighting fires and doing parkour to chase down the villain i have no idea they're it's limitless and i why don't i do all of these things that's when i decided that i am gonna be an actor you could be anyone any place any time anything but that was i just wasn't i it's i'm just not very comfortable in front of the camera so i had to find something to help me like i discovered twitch and twitch was somewhere where i could go online and be like crazy and goofy and i could stream to people who had no idea who i was and i could get some practice you know like get the groove on and i started like after a couple years i started getting into the groove but the thing was i started getting very comfortable in front of the camera maybe uh too comfortable looking full time and i was just treating streaming like a hobby just go on be a little goofy i just sit on my computer and play like rainbow six seeder league and covid hit and i was like oh my god i uh should just just give it some test and i discovered a new passion it was like streaming is just like serving which is what i was doing except you get to be your own boss and you get to be creative and you have the freedom to do whatever you want and that was sorry otk is hosting a streamer competition sponsored by progressive still shots and i'm ready to get elevated i submitted right away and the crazy thing was i actually got in and everything was happening so fast and there's like all these new things and challenges and i was like comfort zone and on my very first episode i was announced someone's rival so uh oofy who do you who do you think is your biggest competition ooh see i haven't seen anything anything from miss skill shots but she's really cute and she looks like she's got some good content so i think she might be my my competition rival oh challenge it was a youtube video and i had spent all contacting people and like doing like the little script thing i was very happy with my work and i was insane like the production was phenomenal production going light well now i saw my film yeah he saw the trailer pumped about that yeah actually oh you do ballet right have you seen like any of the bellies here yeah yeah you should come to Vegas a lot for ballet oh so you want to show us a few moves you know get it going really crazy month i was on elevated then skill shots invited me to Vegas baby and i'm going to acon this weekend where i will hopefully see tectone next weekend so yeah that's amazing oh my god oh wait sorry what was that oh they're ready for us yeah yeah of course okay sorry sorry oh my gosh okay okay uh ballet like zion or cosplay like ufi what is my talent you may ask with the power of friendship yep my talent is i am a streamer and i'm here to entertain oh thank you so much process for that one it's the ending that hits it was so cute like you know before and like you had great state presence and expansion i have a whole bunch of unless you guys want to go first but i can go well i mean i just want to say i mean just one thing one of the things that really stuck out to me is using the less fortunate for content is a key i gotta elevate them we are on elevated yeah so that was really that was really good but yeah take them go ahead yes how long y'all been in Vegas but that's good because then we would have it was just really sweet um it's something that really isn't shown a lot for at least uh any of the streams that i see but it was very wholesome and heartfelt which i love so we did not the ground perfect and we are ready for our next show presented by new don't we just had so many amazing acts we still have more to come everybody's been so incredible i'm so excited for this everybody's used their budget so amazingly we still have to see so many more of course i'm doing stand-up comedy so i had to be a little bit more creative with my thousand dollar budget don't know if y'all could see that but uh it's a thousand dollar chip right there uh let that be a lesson to you kids uh work smarter not harder that's what i say all right you put that back in there thank you very much but this is absolutely uh a highlight of my of my life certainly a highlight of the decade considering uh this decade's gone about as well as the hindenburg's maiden voyage uh this decade's been so bad you know it's bad when it starts off with australia on fire and that doesn't even crack the top five of bad things that's happened in the beginning of the decade one of the seven continents of the world was a fireball about the people the koalas for some reason more than the people because i guess they're priority now and then of course the reason we don't talk about it is because corona chan is an attention whore and when she wants views she gets it oh my god i didn't take corona seriously at first though i didn't i didn't think it was that bad i did change my mind however i changed my mind when the nba canceled itself mid-season not for any medical or sports related reasons do you have any idea how threatening how serious something has to be to make billionaire white guys give up on ticket sales that screw any scientist the news doesn't matter that's my doomstay clock if i when you see billionaire white guys going forget the merch forget the tickets pack it up we gotta go like man maybe i should make a bug out bag i don't know what's going on man it was really weird of course after that lockdown happened and it was a really worth time for me because i was in between jobs so i was doing streaming full time and i was living in pennsylvania with a roommate and my roommate had decided that instead of staying with us they would stay with their significant other for the entire lockdown they were three hours away they're okay i'm gonna go be with my boo don't burn the house down it will be good to go and i was fine with it because that meant for two and a half months i wore no pants that is right yeah i no pant season i broke my record that was the longest time i effectively call the no pant season or heaven for short it was wonderful being as free as i could it was wonderful and i stayed home the whole time obviously and the other reason it was great is because the greatest invention of all time got made contactless delivery oh my god the best thing ever you might be thinking dory why is contactless delivery so great it's not that big of a deal yes it is because it eliminates the exchange why is the exchange so bad the exchange is bad if you have one of two things number one crippling social anxiety i have that number two a lack of portion control i have that as well i have both of those things because when i look at a menu i do not go i'll take a grilled chicken and maybe like a Caesar salad and i'll be good no when i look at a menu i go you know technically onions are a vegetable so if i get this platter of onion rings that counts towards my five a day so i'll put that over there and i should really get some dairy in there so these mozzarella sticks will do nicely and uh you know any protein i'm a growing young man and uh this family-sized fried chicken meal is looking really good so we'll just add that to cart and buy and in the old days the guy gets in his car he drives to my house walks up the stairs knocks on the door i'll open it and i'm not wearing pants because he's not breaking my record and he looks at me and i look at him and he knows he knows there's no one else in that house he knows he's holding a family-sized fried chicken meal there is no family family is me i am family and he hands it over and he closed the door he gets in his car and dries off presumably to the psychiatric ward through the trauma he's just experienced meanwhile i'm hate-fisting onion rings in my mouth they're quite frankly an alarming rate while crying going you fat bastard you could have just ordered a salad but we caught a delivery that doesn't happen that he could drop it off he's around the block i swing open the door that big dick confidence and walk out it's wonderful and where i lived there were trees that blocked the neighbors or at least i hope so because i'm not paying for their medical bills it was great i take my food in i eat like a god damn champion and i did it every day for two and a half months but eventually lockdown ended and i had to go get my roommate which meant i had to go put on pants and i don't know if you guys notice but when you live a very sedentary lifestyle and don't move around much and uh and you have contact as delivery and no portion control and then you don't wear pants or two and a half months and then you got to put on pants again look i'm going to say as life comes at you fast man y'all ever hit the stretch limit of gray sweatpants i'm not talking about like the nice designer ones that make your legs good make your ass pop no i'm talking like eight dollar walmart sweatpants with the extra stretch like you get a size medium and one leg fit the challenger space shuttle like those i'm putting them on i'm here and snapping and creaking it sounds like a suspension bridge is going out so i'm doing it sand friends like kek the golden gate bridge what's going on oh it's okay it's the fat guy putting on pants i finally get these on after i finally get these on after it's vocal objection i go and get my i go and get my roommate i bring them back i take off my pants i throw them on the bed it looks like a scene out of csi man because they won't stretch back down they're a max stretch i go oh god i've gone too far i've given sweatpants ptsd oh they're laying there on the bed looking like a shell shocked victim from world war one going you don't know what i had to do to hold that line the things i saw the things i dealt with i can never go back i can never go back to the way things were thank you so much thank you for letting me live my dream thank you so i uh i i do grew up seara stand-up comedy doesn't really uh seem to go well on twitch i think that's a uh i think that's usually because of not not because of what it is i think it's because a lot of people can't do it i think i think a lot i think there there is a uh uh talent there in stand-up comedy that a lot of streamers don't have there's like twitch funny and then there's real funny yeah and there there are two different things uh also uh well i was also gonna say a lot of a lot of that is um what goes into stand-up comedy is the stage presence i think you have that thank you i think your voice is not annoying which is which is actually a pro i mean because if you have an annoying voice people things that you say will automatically be less funny uh i would know so there's there's that uh i don't think um i don't think you were too loud which is good which is surprising considering you were kind of you're kind of like i think i think if you get too loud and i do think you were close i think things become less funny i think i think you did a pretty good job at not going overboard i tried my best um i also think that a lot of times uh when you when people are like funny because fat yeah too much i think it wears thin but i think your delivery was actually really good so much so that i'll say that's my like it went against my opinion that i've had for years and years and years all right here comes forin here we go forin welcome welcome look at all that stuff i don't yeah i have no idea what that is dude are we gonna be able to tear up oh he's he's wiggling some gongs all right sounds good okay uh so forin uh how long have you prepared your show today um this is also something i've been doing for about a decade now since i was like 13 wow um i've been making music for 10 years before twitch and how old are you now i'm uh turning 23 good next week happy early birthday thank you so the one thing is people come into my chat and they're like they check my socials and they're like you make music and i'm like yeah so what i'm gonna be showing you guys today is a 10 minute mini mix of things that i've made all right oh just a second what's here said i think that's a lot of what happens with uh with music is uh stuff's gonna be polarizing right people are people are gonna like certain things they're not like certain things uh i think the music itself was uh i think i think your music was good uh i i um i don't know i i would i would have liked to see a little bit i thought this to myself i would have liked to see a little bit more a little bit more energy uh i thought you did good there's only really so much you can do because you're actually dj'ing right like you're actually working the not so there's only so much you can do so i was like is that really fair i don't know but i thought it was good yeah i mean uh i think that's the important like details like it's all original music that i've made like you know in the past couple years and stuff like that because i mean like you said it's just dj'ing but i think the detail in it is yeah yeah but let's give it up for mr fimple fimple here we go mr fimple dude espad has the same shirt and he's all in front of you this is his shirt this is it so what i have planned for you guys today may be a little insane you might be taking a back a little bit but i'll tell you one thing you're gonna like it okay i'm gonna turn around this board and once again if you freak out i understand ladies and gentlemen today wow i will be popping six balloons using only darts wow good i know you're probably thinking there's no way he can do it i don't think he got it six balloons with darts we've never seen something like this before it's enough stalling i say we get into it six balloons one board i'll leave a handful of darts here i will take one throw at a time let's start out with our first throw first throw the night mistakes happen we still got more darts time for the second throw of the night here we go three two one you make it all the way to vegas and you come up with the boringest idea possible who is that what my god it's me your thoughts this is embarrassing man balloons really if you're gonna throw this hard you might as well bring out the sticky notes but fine fine fine i know it's the idea we came up with so we have a second board of balloons wait really yeah really oh my god hi wait thank you so much judges we are all good we got a second board of balloons here ladies and gentlemen the show continues i'm really excited about this let's well it seems like none of the balloons have been blown up okay well yeah i kind of forgot about that not gonna lie you know what i'll blow them up myself it's not a big deal these only take up three or four minutes judges it'll be fine we got this this is really how you want to finish off your time on elevated this is even went and got the seafood platter from red lobster before yikes maybe tech tom was right you really are mr i lost vegas i'm all alone got the balloons because i'm going home tonight i let you out and i'm sorry it's even more depressing good idea blows but really a sad song you made it to vegas lost vegas yeah thousands of people at home came to see a show you're right give them a show move that body do a little dance you're right that's what i'm talking about oh yeah this is what they want to see move those hips skinny man uh-huh oh yeah they're gonna like this hey kelly kelly you watching from home kelly oh that's 50k is yours baby whoo oh yeah hey whoo that's your proof of tech tone raw wake up wake up wake up wake up oh my god i just had the weirdest dream i was on otk elevated i was doing this weird fever dream finale what i became azmin gold i covered myself in gasoline in him he was living on my attic and and you broke up with me yeah no yeah it was very weird but hey at least i still got you kelly kelly she is the worst isn't she uh she might still i mean if she is watching i don't know what camera if she is still watching i miss you and i think we could work things out i'll be i have my oculus in the hotel room so kelly please let me know you came in you're making jokes about things that happen today good callbacks uh i like that style of humor i think that's a good callback is always good um you did that not only today off the cuff you also did that pre-planned within the show and then on top of that you tied the whole thing together bringing a full circle i the kelly thing actually like made me i owe mega lul didn't realize that was actually fun uh because if you chat if you guys have been watching for throughout the entire day elevated a lot of you guys have the the kelly has been like a running joke from from even the first episode i think so yes um super impressive being able to keep up with the pacing of the audio leading into the video um obviously a lot of preparation went into this because you you have to have your timing right to keep up with the track uh super good super super good uh really good also i wrote theater kid so you're right let's get uh let's get all of our contestants on stage right now but yes we shall great yes um okay look at that bunch of uh finalist contestants how do you guys think you did did you guys uh what are you guys watching each other's performances yeah yeah do you guys have any favorites among yourselves that you i think christ i honestly like everyone's i i i can't be yeah i think he had me banging my head the whole time we really didn't know about the bring back though on skill shots that was a shot yeah that was crazy i'll say i think everyone did a fantastic job like everyone brought their absolute a game today it was their talent today yeah absolutely so so um do you guys have any questions for for specific people for any individual people any individual oh yeah uh two questions ma'am how was it going first um everything too and everything yeah uh so it's it's a great thing because i get it done immediately uh but it's bad because then everyone gets to see and make little notes it's like that i'm like i've i've seen you guys all do it they're like this this jerk right here's doing this i'm going to do this way better so i didn't change anything oh i of course you did yeah everything completely different i also understand yeah whole new state a whole new 10 minutes changed all everything uh pimple how was it going last yeah it was uh it was definitely pressure because you know i didn't know how people are going to do today but everyone knocked it out of the park so much that it was crazy yes see you um i have a question so yes sir you going last in the one in in all of these uh do you feel like you do you would you make changes or adjustments based on things that you had watched happen before you yeah today i definitely did as far as like the beginning of the act and whatnot on the other episodes i've been going second so it's a little bit harder but i mean yeah if i have time to utilize like stuff that's happened previous in the episode i think it's it makes fun for chat um yeah i think uh i i think one of the big things i saw and this is more of a comment right one of the big things i think a lot of people are we've talked about this you know privately like whenever we're hanging out and all that um today is absolutely like you know it's it the 50k is that's a lot of money to whoever wins the 50k is a lot of money but i think all you guys already feel this way this whole entire experience has been a big deal for a lot of you guys you know getting a chance to get that exposure and get the opportunity to have some growth get some following and all that so i think regardless of who wins today i think you guys are all going to have the opportunity to take what happened throughout the show and do something with it and i would hope i would hope that you guys really seize that opportunity and uh keep putting out really good content and do your best just like you guys have been doing for the last month or so yeah piggy piggy backing off the s-fan same thing 100 percent just be ready to go live again and uh you guys need anything from me hit me up anytime yeah for real i think it's important for you guys to be aware of the fact that a lot of people applied to be on the show a lot of people were on the show it's not a coincidence that you're here and uh you've transcended a lot of challenges you guys have done an amazing job all of you are extraordinarily talented i believe that if you all keep doing whatever you do you will achieve what you want to achieve uh i i know me and us we will always be happy to work with you and have you a part of our some of the creative stuff that we do sweet i'm so proud of all you guys you guys work so hard today and it's been like it's been like really fun also like hanging out outside of the show like or in Vegas you know or like going crazy yeah that's what makes it really hard yeah exactly i tried very hard to take time to get to know all of you guys yeah and then i hope like i i feel nauseous i feel like i'm gonna throw up like like and and navious work cool right but yeah exactly what i said this was a great opportunity really showcase your personalities your talents and uh great job i i tried standing up right now my legs are shaking really do it do it i'm good i'm good like a little go that's crazy the pressure's crazy i hope you guys know we're we're right there with y'all we're right there with y'all no pressure because you all are great people no no big deal on off stream y'all all are great people and i'm glad i got to the opportunity to know all you guys during this time thank you again you guys all have an opportunity to to make it and streaming all of you yeah 100 so um i'm thinking as far as any other questions we uh they're doing the scoring right now um and then production's gonna bring down a a card for us with the uh i believe with the scoring soon you guys are also very strong to be doing what you're doing if i was in your situation i don't think i would have a made it to this point b would be able to handle even standing on that stage right now uh i i probably would have blacked out i just realized that during all your performances there was no there like no hiccups like it was amazing yeah like what you guys remembered your lines you guys remembered like everything it was correct yeah i'll tell you um when it comes to streaming there's a lot a lot of different types of skills that people have in order to to put their streams together to put their content together and all that stuff and there are people that are really big streamers that are just not good at certain things and that is fine there are people that are not big streamers that are good are good at a lot of things or good at almost everything and that is just the reality of how it works that is that is life that is just how it is um but man let me tell you i think uh i'll say i'll say for one this is something we've talked about you know private i mean we've probably talked about it not privately but privately we're having this conversation about like uh prepared content versus just on the spot being able to like improvise and turn something you know just turn something in there is nothing into something excuse me yeah turn nothing into nothing so yeah but uh that's like one of those things that i feel like i'm better at i'm better at not preparing and being ready to go i'm the same way but yeah since you're the same way but like when it comes to preparing stuff sometimes like you have like a metal block and it's really hard to take something prepare something and uh make it good just make the time to hey we're gonna build this thing out this is gonna be the show and uh that's something that for me is is very difficult so that's something i i've been very impressed by throughout the entirety of the show from a lot of you guys so and and even people that haven't been on there that aren't here today that have been on the show in the past uh it doesn't stop here chat with these six guys i mean this is uh there's been tons of tons of people that have been on the show who uh they've they have grown from the show and they've had an opportunity to get a new audience which has been really cool to see yeah another thing just quick shout out uh everybody behind the scenes like in production y'all have been incredible y'all are incredible this was so smooth everybody was so kind thank everybody behind the scenes yeah everyone here at the studio has been amazing thank you thank y'all do not get enough credit thank y'all so much awesome so the question is what happens next uh i'm i'm actually getting the uh i'm actually getting it they're gonna your pc are you getting intel right i'm getting intel good yeah the fbi is sending me intel oh good uh so guys can you guys talk about um your favorite thing that you did in elevated this part not gonna lie i actually really did enjoy playing you uh playing what playing you uh i'm not gonna lie like when i when i found out i was like no way but like it was like ain't no way i'm gonna do that but it was a it was a lot of fun yay of course by the end of the show my voice was cracking but yeah i had so much fun playing you i have a fun question for navius and miss skill shots uh was or was there any episode after y'all got eliminated that you wish you were a part of like was there any no pretty much all of them except yours with the youtube video oh i really didn't like that because i think i would have got kicked out on that one too youtube's hard the other ones were a lot of improv and if you guys know i'm very good at that favorite part of this just like reigniting my love of improv like i loved i loved s fans one like episode eight and it's so much fun just getting to do that i still have people i have people after uh yesterday saying so when we get in the hamburger phone mark uh i i just love improv i love like doing it i just love hanging out with these guys because there's so much fun i've said it off stream i'll say it on stream like navius is one of the most act is the freaking most accidentally hilarious person i've ever met in my life i love you you're the most effortlessly funniest person in my life you're the you're so sweet it like gives me cavities i'm right here you are so chill and you my friend are my favorite person i haven't suplexed you yet but it will happen i just got a favorite person he didn't say anything about you're so chill though like i can hang out with you for hours and i'd be good by the way uh at some are we reading our scores to them uh the average no just the average okay yeah just the average and i do have the uh i do have the order okay wait and are the graphic prepared uh are we are we ready to go production we're ready to go i'm not ready yeah are you guys ready are you guys ready yeah kneel i can't go on my knees i'm not i'm too this is like i'm wired okay so chat pause champ before uh before we go into this i want to explain a little bit how the scoring works so the score that was given today is an aggregate score from the entirety of everything that you've shown right from elevated your stream all that right everything that you've shown us so far over the course of the last month there's been a lot of eyes a lot of eyes on you guys right whether it's been through twitch chat whether it's been the judges on this episode and on the other episodes a whole lot of people right even your your fellow contestants so today's score was an average of all the judges voting plus chat and i have the order of how you guys were placed i don't even know what it is yeah actually yeah i i just got in my arm the only one who got in my year so in sixth place real hey just one more big shout out to progressive star fort systems for providing us with all the all the new pc so all right insane in sixth place and i don't have all the numbers i was told it was very very close across the board in sixth place we have foreign in fifth place we have navious in fourth place we have new dory i want to go up on stage with him for the final three or no do you want to do that or no let's do that we can go on stage yeah i feel like i need to move yeah let's go on stage we're on stage it was pretty close it was pretty close i know i had a try okay i like how this happened aboard just another progressive spot in there yeah while we're moving up here guys we're progressing on to the stage okay you guys have all done a phenomenal job like seriously okay i'm also heavily regretting saying that i would be willing to really regret saying i would do this okay maybe we should stand on that side yeah maybe i should stand like all other guys are here so we have our uh we have four five and six and we have our remaining top three the top two we'll receive prizing of course it's the $50,000 grand prize and then the person in second place is going to be receiving a star forge voyager creator elite again star forge in third place we have miss skill shots so can both of you have step forward yes okay we have mayor words and we have mr fimpel everybody both of these guys have done an absolutely phenomenal job just like the rest of our contestants from the moment they've been on the show they've done an incredible job mr fimpel has been on since episode three i believe and has blown out of the water every single episode mayor words has been on since episode one and has blown it out of the water every single episode every single thing that we've seen from these guys is is just as impressive if not more as the last thing that they've done they've done a phenomenal job over the course of the last month absolutely unbelievable so before i give the winner before i give who's first i want to hear from you guys i want to hear from you guys mayor words actually from just from both of you guys obviously why do you think the other person might win mayor words you go first that's a big question oh boy um i think mr fimpel has a great opportunity to win because he has proven himself every episode you've done phenomenal you as well man you're so fucking funny that's it you as well oh i'm sorry i mean mayor has been here since episode one i will tell you i've only been on i don't know how many episodes now i believe seven or eight it is not an easy show it is very hard every single week is stressful and you've pulled through every single episode and i think every single time you're if not the i mean you're like you're the most memorable you always bring a show and chat always loves it and uh yeah if you and i will be absolutely stoked for you absolutely you've killed it thank you absolutely killed it all season incredible job but i think it's time for a winner i do think it's time for a winner ladies and gentlemen the winner of otk elevated season one of otk elevated with a grand prize of 50 thousand dollars is mayor words nominal job all season man you have killed it the effort is there you're funny you're creative you you know what to do on the spot and you've proved it week after week episode after episode and i couldn't be prouder of you absolutely this was not easy not for any single one of the judges not for chat because it was so close mr fimpel second place gets a starboard voyager creator elite and you did an amazing job mr fimpel you've done an absolutely amazing job all season just like you have and and i couldn't be prouder of you guys you guys especially not by myself absolutely deserved man it's not easy and that that's the thing that people gotta know man that's the thing that people gotta know it's it's absolutely not easy not to do the show streaming coming up with content day after day week after week coming in there high energy coming in here in front of nearly 40 000 people coming in the stage presence you're you're putting your music on display you're coming you're getting everybody else involved high again like i said high high energy you light up the room you did an absolutely unbelievable job man thank you yeah do you have any words that you can't say i know you're the lost dude but i am gonna buy a billboard oh that's what i want to do okay i'm gonna buy a billboard in my town my face is gonna be on it can't wait to see that it's gonna be so dumb i love it let's go awesome awesome unbelievable man you're gonna bet it all on black man that's later we don't talk about that now that's later that's on the stream they don't need to know about that congratulations mayor thank you thank you so much awesome and congrats to all the contestants as well again guys make sure to go follow everybody who's been on the show so far make sure to go follow everybody who's been on the show today everybody's been on the show so far our judges of course as well make sure to go follow everybody and uh there is one more thing that that you're gonna win today actually there's one more thing that you're winning today uh after the stream we're gonna end and then we are actually going to raid mayor works and we'll be doing a little irole on his channel yeah i mean we have a drink up time it'll be okay all right all right so again huge thank you to allied esports a huge thank you to progressive for helping us put on this show huge thank you to extra emily seer tecton for coming in vegas to our contestants our finalists our contestants all season thank you to everybody here in the allied arena our production team the staff we even had a special guest we had zion as zion and uh movie comeback cool miss skill shots bringing them huge thank you to everybody involved huge thank you to you guys chat and uh i'm so sad it's over it's actually kind of crazy that it's over now we can rest yes now we can everybody can take a nap now finally you guys can you have about an hour you have about an hour and then you can nap so you can give it an hour and then we'll call it a deal all right all right it's yesterday you didn't yell at me one time yesterday you were doing amazing thank you straight to the gambling category there we go hello awesome thank you guys so much for watching thank you again that's been great great reveal we are going to raid into mayor works channel and thank you so much for