What's up guys we're XM34 back with the newest 2020 TENS. Yes this is going to be pretty awesome and for the giveaway let's go ahead and get into that. We'll give away these three cards with a slide for the sky dragon. All you have to do is like the video, be subscribed and let me know what you want to see come out of these TENS. So I have three TENS right here. I ordered an entire case but they're not here yet so when you got some TENS we got three. I think there's only three packs in here so it's gonna be it was gonna be a shorter video and I decided I'll throw in some other packs. So first of all classic we're gonna try to get the 10k dragon we got some of those and some first edition lord of tachyon galaxy we have 12 more of these so we're gonna have 12 packs here 12 packs battles of legend and we have three mega packs I think it's three in each of these so we're gonna go ahead and pop these open so we get the mega packs out and then we are going to start opening. Okay let's go ahead and open these by the way these things look incredible with this battle city stuff like at battle city that's where he first saw this art it was um Ashizu was talking to I think it was yeah talking to Kaiba and he saw that and then I think Yu-Gi later saw it but that was when she gave him obelisk for some crazy reason okay we have nine the lost 10 of the lost memories 10 of lost memories okay nine of those 12 of these so let's just get them fanned out here and let's see if we can pull something epic the big card from the new tin is the dragoon the red eyes dragoon I think it's called and it's to make sure dark magician and red eyes and it looks freaking awesome and apparently it's incredible it's super strong so like everybody wants it so let's see if we can pull a 10k dragon before we do that ooh nice haven't pulled this guy in a long time the trishula it's been a long time since I pulled that all right let's go with a lord of tachyon galaxy remember if you guys remember in this opening we didn't really pull any of the big cards we didn't pull the harpy channel or ultimate rare and we didn't pull the ghost rare or the ultimate rare lord of tachyon so that's pretty cool we got a tempest dragon rule of storms nice rare then we got a number 105 battle and boxer star sessus that's a decent super there's a parsec so let's go into the first pack of the newest tin I figured I could do tin and just do the tins but like I mean you guys probably have seen somebody open the tins already I'm like slightly late on him so a lot of people get them early and I don't I mean I just get them like when my locals get some usually because the ones I order get there like whenever you guys order I don't have some crazy hookup or anything so I figure we throw in some cool packs with it as well let's see what we get chariot time thief winder that's a super rare firewall dragon dart fluid striker dragon is our first prismatic secret I don't think that's too crazy fusion destiny abominations prison so they give you like two super ares that's kind of weird so there's our you give you two supers and two ultras so that's really odd they're like not all of them are foils but like half of them are foils so that's very weird okay I'll put those in there I don't really know if those are good or not I don't think they are the main cards are like apollosis in here like pot of extravagance and then that you're gonna obviously there's all kinds of stuff there's an artifact sanctum nice number f0 utopic future slash okay that's nothing crazy but it is something all right let's see if we can pull a drago sack let's see me pull a hoop cake by the way guys when I first I opened 100 packs of this and make sure you check that video out up there it was pretty crazy but uh obviously the hoop cakes are really good super rare and a lot of you guys are like why don't you do chick a lot of this and it's because I didn't know chick a lot of tastes was in there that's pretty cool oh brother of the fire fist cardinal we got a secret rare then we have a super rare or not super regular rare we got a tether wolf so we got a secret rare brother of the fire fist user usually really cheap brother of the fire fist but it is a secret rare so that's cool we got a mind drain that's cool all right let's go into our next 10 pack the dragoon I think or people were saying was one per case which wasn't too bad because I mean a case of these is only 36 packs so I mean it's not that many I mean yeah because like there's not many packs bye bye damage firewall exceed dragon cool neos fusion that's a cool um is this a new card nope I remember that card that's a cool prismatic secret rare get out I remember that as that used to be a secret rare in that's in the set with apollo so whatever that one's called the first set with prismatics or star lights what is that set called rising rampage yep that's what can get out is from I think okay what can we pull a new wrong wall it's not bad artifact ignition okay lord of tachyon galaxy can we pull something epic by the way guys like this video you guys are enjoying it don't forget to share the video to help out the content and check out my tcg player and eBay affiliate links below if you want to support the channel I always appreciate that wheel of prophecy okay not too much in that pack all right there are more of these we're gonna go with this we're gonna go a couple more battles of legend and other set whatever it's called hard earth dragon wouldn't be a battles of legend opening without a hard earth dragon lord of tachyon galaxy by the way I used to always say tacky tachyon but it's tachyon I didn't I didn't even realize that open 100 packs I didn't realize that who knows what else big whale we put a lot duck fighter super rare nice mind drain I have a lot more um zeksel era packs that I haven't opened too much zeksel and arc v era packs that haven't opened coming I think those those are gonna be fun searching for ghosts it's gonna be pretty cool unchanged soul disaster wasn't this a decent card trencher gallant granite you guys are gonna have to let me know what the super is if they're any good that is our prismatic storm dragon's return this is a this is a starlight so crusadia avermax that's why he dropped to 18 dollars because he got reprinted okay because I said in the last video in the collection video I was like this is like a 30 dollar card and then I was editing the video and it was not a 30 dollar card it's 18 dollars it's like hmm I know for a fact that used to be 30 bucks and I was like oh that's why there's a sunlight wolf darkness metal the dragon of dark steel that's a really cool that's pretty solid too it's a cool and pretty solid so we haven't pulled anything too crazy out of our 10s yet so maybe we can make that happen there's another storm dragon oh guys you know what it is thanks to you guys I knew about that also this is like a very expensive card I didn't sell my other one yet so I don't know how I'm in demand there if they're expecting a reprint or something but I mean look at those little guys look at them the chick a lot days that's epic that is epic guys chick a lot days you got a little good a good chick a lot days okay next magazine pack can we actually get something good that's the question I do have a yeah I have a case of these on the way I'll probably open them I don't know I guess I will I mean what else am I gonna do okay fantasm is a super rare near okay that's a good card I mean that's gotta be worth at least something gizmek yada the gleaming vanguard okay don't know about that card oh we got the dragon red eyes dark dragon guys we got it I thought it was a prismatic card so how much I've researched this set oh check it out ultra rare the dark dragon that's I mean the artwork on this they pretty much killed it guys that looks sweet I mean that looks really good I really like it so that's like at the time of recording this vision destiny it is a $38 card but this is before everyone goes you know it's like before people like me like everybody who's opened their tins goes online and sells their stuff so there's like no sellers so the price is way higher but once they get you know 500 people listing their dragoons it's gonna go down so I would say maybe like a $30 card okay power crawler so yeah for now it's 38 but I can't technically sell it on a tcg player right now because I you have to have like a pre-order you know sell early kind of thing so fortress okay reactant jewels okay so we're a little bit ahead we got to go one more of each of these battles of legend but yeah still a $30 card from a tin that's pretty good I mean that pays for like one and a half tins okay neck rolls I'm gonna get gugging me okay polar penguin rhyme size favorite card the polar penguin all right let's see if we can pull something awesome we already pulled a hootk so not much to complain about here can we pull tachyon gal it's tachyon tachyon lord of tachyon what is this there you'll recharge try fortress okay there's a wolf next mega pack can we get two can we just go crazy and get two I mean I've heard of three in a case but two out of three tins would be pretty nuts or maybe one tin you know signet mining is a super two wow this is lit I knew these were loaded but that's pretty good another striker dragon we got two of those coral anemone used to be like a $13 uh ultra rare so that's probably a good card so I don't know if striker dragon's good but pull it twice yeah these tins have a lot of really strong reprints like good good medicards I mean I don't play but I know based on the prices that they've got to be good at something there's no reason they're paying that much for specimen inspection okay okay yes we got the that's pretty awesome we got the chick a latte soup cake I mean how can you complain about that tempest dragon ruler of storms there we go we've got a large a large pile here all right we're gonna have to do two next time so we got to end on the mega pack right I mean it's the part it's the main part of the video this is like literally a deck they give you a deck and these mega packs it's crazy oh it skips right there beat raptor walking on the unchained souls world legacy monstrosity I don't know about that guard strength and unity I mean that that looks sweet is that a blue eyes ultimate yeah that oh that's a what's he called um black bluster soldier on top of the boys ultimate the fusion dragon master knight there we go yeah so that's the blue eyes ultimate have a little bit of a weird face over there but pretty cool come on 10k dragon you want to give us something fossil we're skull bone okay not not much coming out of battles the legend right now all right come on give us a galaxy eyes check yeah come on baby king of the feral imps okay all right I see how it is in the feral imps back to battles of legend we got to end on a mega tin pack so we're gonna do a little round here a little quick round fossil fusion it's not a bad card I don't even remember that guy okay here we go here we go give us something good can you give us the fire please ooh gauntlet launcher that is an ultimate rare we already got this guy we can't pull the tachyon dragon we can pull the gauntlet launcher though I think it wasn't a horrible oldie I think it was like maybe like eight bucks or something there are some that are like two dollars so that's better than that okay we basically have 110 left three packs these huge massive fat packs it's like baseball okay sign up mining can't can't go wrong with that super overburst boreal load savage dragon that's a huge reprint that is a really good pull that card was 70 dollars in ultra rare which is just insane another coral enemy I think it's a decent card so that was a pretty nice pack can't complain about that sat boreal load savage is one of the best cards in the set one of the big reprints that's been they've been waiting for for a while so i'm like wolf come here and take mega flea that's not too bad okay next pack let's go with tachyon galaxy and we pull another oldie we already pulled one oldie in a secret out of this opening so that's pretty insane big well fire formation gyaku that's a good super oh man my pile is going crazy over here fire formation gyaku nice super back to the mega pack back to the mega pack back to the mega pack let's pull some goods from the back to the mega okay i gotta stop why now i gotta stop i'm sorry pinch them home yep look at that it's telling me to halt as well sky striker ace kiani don't know about that one that was a decent card i know it's a pretty good reprint successor soul with the blue eyes that's pretty cool so not a bad little pack right there okay one pack left of each here we go can we pull the 10k dragon can we pull a kosher can we pull the dragon we've got so many options in just three packs fossil dragon skullgar i feel like i pull that every single time okay tachyon dragon here we go let's pull it mimic go go gigas and reacted okay nothing there all right mega pack 2020 here we go final pack of the video guys hit the like button for luck let's pull a dragon dragon whatever it's called f a shining star gt wish you grabbed your creation season card traco berserker of the tin ye it's like a wheel of dirt and unchanged soul of rage okay there we go so not a bad little pack not a bad little pack but not the best not the best so we did pull pretty good guys pulled pretty good from the new set we pulled pretty decent from you know what do we call it not five d's zek soul yeah we pulled some other good stuff so if you guys are excited for zek soul we've got arc v openings we've got more mega tens coming let me know what you guys want to see and of course subscribe for tournament pack two we'll be opening that up at 18 000 subs that is going to be insane the rares but like everything the comments everything's valuable in there so it's going to be awesome don't forget about 20 000 as well so once we get past 18 we've got 19 we're going to open lord of d seal 2002 10 with lob packs 20 000 we're going to be opening up insane lob first edition champion pack one if you guys haven't seen metamorphosis is six hundred dollar super rare i mean that's just nuts stuff like that retro pack two all in 20 000 so make sure you subscribe for that and i'll see you guys later thanks for watching peace


Good afternoon and welcome to another episode of the Home Shopper's show today. I am standing inside a 2014 BMW M6 that was provided to us by none other than one of the best dealerships in town Prestige Marks.  Now this coupé in particular is fitted with an aftermarket from the dealer Acropovic exhaust so when you mash your foot down you get a lot of extra growl. This sports car Absolutely launches, but yet it is still a full-size sedan, but let's go through the numbers zero to a hundred 4.2 seconds 560 horsepower 500 pound-feet torque it also has an absolute Menagerie extra features now those features include lane keeping assist heated and cooled seats reverse camera Bang and Olufsen sound system that raises up from the dashboard There's no way you don't sit in this car and feel like you've made it in life It being a sports car that is still so comfortable so relaxing to drive so easy to drive such a nice groupie steering wheel very really Have a fun steering wheel this comfortable I know it's probably an odd thing to say but being yeah take this car for a test drive and you'll feel it for yourself You have different buttons for you to customize your different driving modes Maybe you want a sporty steering wheel, but comfort suspension Maybe you want sporty suspension, but a comfort steering and you know sports the engine response You can do all of that in this car The whole interior is trimmed with carbon fiber with Alcantara headliner as well as leather Above your head as well and that makes this car feel like you're driving in the back of the wheel I love it and I'm sure you will too So if you're in the market for a sports car If you're in the market for a full-sized family sedan to fit four, but you want one with some extra power with some extra What I want you to do is contact Dominique from Prestige Marks and schedule a test drive today I promise you you won't regret it and if you don't get this car guys I can't promise that I might not miss a couple of meals and buy one for myself But we're just outside at the building. We're about to film 17 million Three-bedroom three and a half bathroom penthouse So we're gonna go there and show you what high-class living really feels like stick with the home shopper show right here at private property Within the penthouse suite on the 10th floor of the Sunset Towers in Santon and this apartment as you can see is Absolutely massive and I'm not just talking about the entry hall here This apartment boasts three bedrooms three and a half bathrooms your very own pool as well as sauna and four Separate balconies, but just look at this place It is absolutely incredible and it holds a very special place in our hearts because it is currently the most expensive apartment The private property home shopper show has ever showcased at 17 million Rand or if you want to rent it out for a nice little holiday home If you're a fancy businessman, if you traveling up from Cape Town or from overseas, it's really only a measly 80,000 rain a month, but yeah, we are within the dining room area You can see how big it is because it fits this 12-seater dining room table with absolute ease above us Double volume ceilings kept off in some exposed concrete. This is definitely a minimalist apartment You'll see plenty of touches of exposed concrete as well as wood wood flooring beneath us here But moving on to the kitchen you've got more of those wood touches with a wood worktop as well as some glass Finishes on the right-hand side there by your single prep sink Which is just here in case you need to do anything while you're whipping up a nice meal tons of undercounter storage This is definitely for those budding chefs among us We've got a melee burner and this is a five burner as well as a melee oven and melee microwave Now underneath there's space for another appliance if you'd like to putting another oven Maybe if you're a big baker and if you are and you purchase this We are all the whole private property team is coming for cookies, but behind me We've got the hidden area your pantry is there with plenty of shelving as well as and follow me and I'll show you We have got a Scullery over here and this is where you'll be housing your fridge all of your undercounter appliances And you've also got another double sink so all you're washing up can be done in the back Yeah, and you don't need to tarnish your beautiful pristine and very nicely styled kitchen Pantry is behind me the entrance is right over here and behind our camera man There is an entrance to one of the four balconies and we're gonna be showing you that later But come let's go take a look at the first lounge We are coming into the first of the two lounges the supportment post now This lounge is located on the bottom floor of this two-story penthouse and this lounge makes a perfect TV area You've got your left hand side there which leads onto your wraparound balcony and the beautiful private pool and on my right Inside there's another balcony nice private cozy one, but behind me. We've got your first full bathroom Now that bathroom has a couple of really cool features We're gonna talk about and on my left hand side We've got your guest bedroom or possibly a study area and that study area comes with a very own on-suite bathroom Every bedroom in this house has an on-suite bathroom Now your first full bathroom located off your lounge area has your sink basin as well as your toilet and a beautiful shower Now this is the full body eight shower head Rainful shower with a pretty cool view of upper sands and coming out the window on the left hand side Luckily as well those windows are frosted Here we are within the first of the three bedrooms We're gonna showcase you today this bedroom has its own in-suite bathroom as I've mentioned all the bedrooms in this apartment Have their very own Central air conditioning so you can keep cool on those hot South African summers and every single window in this apartment Every single window even the ones in the bathrooms have built-in shutters So regardless of what curtains you put on at least you have the shutters for some privacy But yet they still let in just the right amount of light now this bedroom here I feel would make a brilliant guest bedroom or possibly an office even though this house Comes with a very cool and slightly hidden office that I'll show you right at the end I'd love to hear in the comments Where do you think they've put the office and how do you think you'd get there is through a bookcase either through shelving Is it hidden underneath something? Let me know in the comments. I'd love to see who gets it right, but let's go talk about this on-suite bathroom The second bathroom we showcasing now has again a toilet your vanity as well as a bath in this case But the shower being located within the living room area now this bath as well as a previous one Have heated towel racks. So you're gonna get into a really cozy towel on those winter days Located just to the right of your front door. You'll find a half bathroom They're perfect for servicing all of your guests if you don't want them to go through any of the bedrooms Now that half bathroom includes a sink as well as your toilet Now here you are within the beautiful Rapper on balcony giving you ten floor views of the whole of Brine's and if nothing makes you think this apartment is worth the price this view alone will but Maybe the view hasn't got you maybe you still skeptical Maybe you're on the wall take a look behind me There is a long pool just a little bit higher than the balcony that makes this place even more Awesome, I know it's a little bit cloudy today But can you imagine taking a dip in that beautiful stretch pool and here you go on your wooden deck You find the swimming pool. We were just speaking about a very nice length Perfectly situated with lots of space you just sit back and enjoy not only the beautiful view But I'm sure the amount of Sun you can get on this deck must be incredible and right over there a picturesque view or sands and city Yes, you'll find some really nice windows on the right-hand side letting in so much natural light the stairs themselves Absolutely beautiful with the exposed concrete and wood finishes But yeah, you are within the second of the two lounge areas You'll find in this apartment this year could be anything you want it to be really if you're dropping the money You are on this house far be it for me to tell you what to do with your lounge areas But this would make a perfect pajama lounge or another TV room and off of this you'll find the second Bedroom as well as the master suite now We're gonna go into the second bedroom first And we're gonna leave the master suite for last because they are really really cool things in that master suite I don't want to show you just gonna take a look And here we are within the second of the three bedrooms located in this apartment now this bedroom very spacious Beautiful big glass window there looking out to Santa and you can see the ultra ultra comfortable living in this house But it has also got a very cool bathroom slash walking cupboard situation. Let's go take a look Now this ensuit bathroom houses Both a bathtub as well as a walk-in shower with beautiful shower head Then you've got your vanity as well as toilet But it also doubles as your walk-in closet with plenty of quality closet space on the right-hand side as well If shelving so all of that is kept out of the master suite saving you so much more space And here we are lost but never least the master suite now This master suite has not one but two Balkanese one of them being a private balcony that links your master suite to your ensuite bathroom But let's go take a look because this master suite has an absolutely Enormous walking closet that we're in right now take a look at this glass Siding on all of the shelving. There's a full length mirror on my right inside these plenty of cabinetry Yeah, there's so much space every single one of your outfits and behind me We have a bathroom that really does complement this master suite But leaving that bathroom and going out onto that balcony is very very cool. So let's take a look Your main bedrooms ensuite bathroom has a double vanity as well as a floating bathtub with a rainfall Walk-in shower then just off to the left. You'll also have your toilet as well as a very fancy bidet but The coolest feature of this bathroom Definitely is the fact that it's got a walk-in sauna talk about working up a sweat during business hours So at the beginning of this video, I said there's a very interesting way to get to the study in the support So who's guest it if you haven't yet write it down in the comments I'm gonna give you a hint there's something to do for the sliding door right here, but It's not time to reveal it So we open the sliding door up and we take a walk along this wraparound balcony the fourth of the four Balkanese the Supportment has it's gonna lead us right to that very special study. So come along. Let's take a look So after you've taken your walk along your wraparound balcony You'll find a door and that door opens up to a study area located just above the kitchen space Looking over all of your dining room area as well as your entry hall and that there is your very secret Kind of hidden but probably very hard to reach if you've got children. You don't need to worry about being disturbed That is your study area I think it's a super cool touch and it's a really neat feature you very really find in apartments of this caliber Ladies and gentlemen, if you like the car contact the team at Prestige Marks You're so gratefully supplied it to us if you like the house contact the team at Naseema con properties they can arrange a viewing at any time and The most important is do not forget to catch us again Same time same place on another episode of the private property home shopper show So for myself Chad the team at private property. We love you and goodbye


points hike, Bank of Canada 75 basis point hike, you know, Reserve Bank of Australia 25 hike in July and 15 August, Swiss National Bank 25 hike. You know what I mean? They've got numbers and you're thinking to yourself, well, they're all hiking, right? Where is the where is the divergence? Where, what else can we look towards? The underlying, I guess one of the divergences that you could look for is how much they're hiking by and how long they're going to be hiking. Yeah. And, you know, when those hikes are potentially looking to tail off, right? So, for example, as an example, you know, the Bank of England, it says narrowly expected 50 basis point hike in August followed by a 25 basis point hike in September, right? So, if you're looking at that from a, from a perspective of maybe some sort of a curve, it's like, okay, we're doing expecting a, oh, sorry, one second, red, we're expecting maybe a big hike and then it's starting to tail off. Whereas you're seeing something like the Reserve Bank of Australia are looking to maybe hike a little at the beginning and then a bigger one, you know, in August, right? So, when one starts to trail off and one starts to actually increase, yeah, that's known as a bit of a convergence trade. So, you want to be buying the Australian dollar and selling the pound, right? That's pretty much what that is. There's that type of divergence or convergence, but also you're looking at this economically, right? So, recession talk, right? Everyone's focusing and the narrative is like the U.S. are going into recession, the U.S. are going into recession, which it's anything as possible, but I still think, and I've discussed this, you know, week in, week out, but I do think that the U.S. is still the best of the worst, especially when it comes to, you know, Europe, right? And the UK, yeah? So, that as far as the GDP and the economy is something that you must be aware of, right? You must, must, must, must, must be aware of. And that is going to be, I think, the edge, yeah? Between, you know, buying and selling or going long or going short on a currency. The U.S. at the moment is the currency or the economy that is, I think, best placed to weather the storm and potentially avoid the recession, whereas, you know, the UK and Europe, I think are likely to go into some sort of recession, whether they do or don't, I don't know, but remember, we're buying the rumor, right? So, that's why, you know, I've been, you know, my bias has been to short pound dollar and short euro dollar, and it's been like that for, you know, a few months, right? Also remember that although central banks are hiking and this again ties back into different economic differentials, who is hiking into weakness or unsupported hikes? So unsupported hikes is pretty much in order for you, in order for the currency to really appreciate, yeah? You really have to have economic growth, right? So you have to have, you know, GDP growing to support rate hikes. And I do advise you to watch maybe last week or the week before the group call, if you haven't watched those already, you should be really watching all the videos in the channel, don't skip any videos because there's so much information in those channels, you know, when I kind of go over this, but you want to have, you know, interest rates be supported by GDP and GDP growth, right? Because obviously high inflation above that 2% target. Now, if you have, and we currently do have a situation where GDP is potentially doing this, yeah, is contracting and potentially heading into a recession, but they're still hiking interest rates, the currency is not going to be as, appreciate as much if at all, because the market is probably trying to maybe factor in the price in the fact that hiking interest rates, when you don't have a growing economy could actually push you into a recession quicker, yeah? So that's where the market is actually, what the market is thinking about, rather than just it's being simply, well, you know, they're hiking interest rates and everyone knows their interest rates, you know, appreciates the currency. There's a difference between, you know, what they're not saying, yeah, is that GDP has to support that, then that's great for a currency, right? Brilliant, fantastic, because they can support the interest rates, it's not going to cause them to go into a recession, but if the economy is already struggling and they're hiking interest rates and inflation is, you know, 10% for example, yeah? That is actually not, and what is known as a dovish hike, I think, I think maybe that's what would be called a dovish hike, but it's a hike that isn't as strong as, you know, would be if the economy was growing, yeah? So it's a hike and it's a weak hike, which means that maybe in the short term, you might see some sort of short-term boost, but remember the market's already priced that hike in by the time they do hike and is looking forward to see if, well, what's going on with what the economy, right? Is that going to push, is that hike right now going to push that currency into a recession? So that's why you might find, and you probably are likely to find that, although Europe are hiking rates in the pound and Bank of England are hiking rates, it's not really having the effect of appreciating that currency, yeah?  It might do, I don't know, but it's unlikely to simply because the pair that it's up against the UK, we're against the, you know, the pound, I'm sorry, the UK against the pound, the UK against the dollar and the US, the US, you know, is the stronger out of the two. Why would you want to be buying the pound and potentially going into a recession? And recessions typically last on average, they say two years, right? Historically, not saying it will, you might have a double dip recession where it goes in, then goes out, and then goes in, then goes out, again, who knows? But the point is, is that that is what the theme is going forward, right? And that's, you know, keep that in mind when making your trading decisions.


Hey everybody. This is Christian Buckley doing another MVP buzz chat and I'm talking today with Armando. Hello. Hey there. Hello. How are you, Chris? It's great to have you. And as we were kind of talking before we got started, it's like you're down for the part of the world, like where I was born and raised down from, you're on the outskirts of the Bay Area. But I still consider that area, Fairfield Cordelia, as kind of the far eastern reaches of the San Francisco Bay Area. Yeah, people around here, they say it depends what's convenient. We call ourselves a North Bay sometimes just in the Sacramento area, depends the convenience. Yeah, it's just beautiful area. I was just down there like a month ago and driving all around and we went and saw like the Muir Woods and went up to the peninsula across down in San Francisco. And, you know, but of course out in the valley and visited family, state of the family out in Folsom and, you know, so still, it's great knowing where everything is. But, you know, having been gone, moved away from California in 2004, it's hard going back and seeing everything so developed. It's super developed. This area here, just this past Christmas, this house where I'm living, it's about I think 25 years old. And this Christmas I was going out for jogging and this family just stopped by and said, I used to live in this house and there was just like a half dozen houses around here. And down in concrete on the parkways and they got this kids, you know, hand impression, it was his. Oh, wow. That was my hands. I love that. But, you know, so Cordelia for those that don't know it's right at the junction of highway 80 so which goes coast to coast in the US and 680 which goes down through Walnut Creek and, and so it's a major. And it goes down through Benisha and across to the bridge and stuff. So it's, I mean, I remember as a kid driving past and going to the nut tree and going to, you know, Fairfield and Vacaville and up into Sacramento. There were three gas stations, it was that was it it was a trucking stop. There was nothing else there. And now it's just built in every direction around that but, but anyway, hey it's great to have you here and so why don't you tell us a bit about yourself who are you where and you talked about where you are. Yeah. So yeah, well, I'm, again, my mother was sort of and I was born in Brazil it came to us back in 2001. We work with Microsoft technologies for, you know, since forever. And when I got here was certified trainer, and there was a huge demand back then before the dot com bubble burst for trainers. And that's how I got my, my first job here in US and we always working on the data side of things start as a developer, long ago, like three lives ago, and then work when may frames and got into the database size of set of things and mainframes. And then we got to the next project was Oracle, and back then SQL server was like SQL server six, six, five was not really, really a big tool, a usable tool for data warehousing was okay for LTP but not for data warehousing. And then Microsoft came along with SQL server seven oh and they went around Brazil they were like you know we need people to evangelize this thing in here so we are promoting the product would like to join the team. And as a trainer, and I got seduced by the dark side of the force, I joined the SQL server team down there and never look back so we work with SQL services then. Yeah. How far did they follow the deal for about 10 years and then we'll be here to California. It's funny. I've commented a few times that so I like it in the in the 90s work in data warehousing and I had a number of projects I joined the phone company, formerly known as Pacific Bell in California. And it was based there in in in San Ramon and then pleasant in for for several years. One of them was the first one of my big projects was this data center consolidation so we actually consolidated if you knew that the phone company had a massive data center right next to the jelly belly factory in there. Yeah, yeah, so it's literally they share a parking lot with the the our data warehouse or buildings there. And so I did a consolidation of three different data centers out of Rancher Cordova Sacramento area, one down in I think Irvine, and then one in Hayward to the Fairfield facility. But we didn't touch much Microsoft technology I mean we were using office and other tools and stuff. But on the enterprise side, there was no Microsoft technology. We were on old SGI servers and and we upgraded HP servers we were dealing with, you know, a number of systems, none of which were Microsoft but yeah that was back in the I did like some Unix training, which well that's what about to say the things that running our cell phones today were used to use to run those servers back then. I always remarked is that I did one massive marketing database and we were, it was, it was huge and when we were getting ready to migrate it and update it with some GIS data, and it was going to be 1.2 terabytes in 1995. Right. Yeah, it was like it was like whoa. And now I have a six terabyte external drive that I only have music on. I remember back then, early 90s down there in Brazil, there were housing was like 1020 gigabytes. Yeah, and a SQL server was not able to handle those things on the Oracle back then set seven something. That was the brother could handle that massive amount of data when SQL server seven came around it was like oh we can handle like three terabytes of data. Yeah. Wow, I know. It's fun to go back and look at that some of that stuff. I still have a lot I've got a box in the garage is one of those things where my wife is like, Why don't you throw this out and a lot of Microsoft people have that where I have disks from releases of products that no longer exist. I mean, I have a drawer that I've got four or five zooms in, you know, but it's fun to go back and hang on to some of that stuff. One of the I used to run, you know, help run like SharePoint Saturday events on Microsoft campus and one of my favorite things to do was to get Microsoft people to donate things to give away and what in the offices there in Redmond used to be that people would go and dump off like old computer books and things in the kitchen areas on each floor. And so I would go through and get access to those areas and find a these people throwing out these books, and we would give away these ancient books of again technology that was really grossly outdated. It was a lot of fun to do that. But yeah, I remember like three years before COVID they think I was down there in Microsoft for some conference and back then they were doing a reorg and the DX department division there was going away. Yep. But you just remind me that down here in Mountainville they have the computer museum. And sometimes I take my my daughters there and I show them look I started on this little tier s 108 here for the Sinclair computer super small. They have it there. I love it. It's fun to go back and look at that stuff I learned basic programming on a little amber screen pet computer and in six and seventh grade so yeah, as an MVP we do a lot of talking and sometimes we have to kind of reflect a little about what topics we want to present. The other day I was putting together top one spark. And I was like okay spark let's do some comparisons and compute separate from storage whatever you do with memory. And it suddenly came to me it was pretty much like how I started back in the 80s you know you have the cassette tape. You load into memory you do your stuff and then you write back to the test. So kind of the same idea computers to computer same way. Well, so what was kind of your what was your path to becoming an MVP. Oh, well, hey what's funny, I don't know what happened to you but a lot of my friends they cross me and they're like, you're not going to be yet. I can find depressed you know what expect I don't have any handle on that one. I hold tons of certifications news I can you know it's under my control but MVP think depends on you'll be noticing people evaluate your work. So, I think I was being evaluated for about three years I think. And finally, I'm at Christian at the sequel Saturday in Portland. And he was there and he saw one of my presentations there in bed with my my entire list of submissions. And then he was like you're going to submit your name to the team and we'll see if you get it if you get approved. And I did get the award that year was was 99 was just the year before COVID. That's always it's it's a difficult thing where where a lot of people that are especially technical people that are kind of heads down doing the work they're involved and even those that are in the community. And where it almost seems like I have to kind of self promote I have to like do something and you have to do it in a way that you're not like, look at me, you know, you know, right. But you need to do in a way that that is a little bit more humility in that but kind of give back. One of the things that I hear from MVPs and I say this again and again is that look, even if I didn't have the MVP award I'd be doing the same things I'd be writing I'd be blogging I'd be speaking for a couple years. I was speaking at conferences hadn't really thought much about the MVP it was aware of the program and same just like you I was at a conference in Boston, and I had two or three MVPs that were there. I don't know how long have you been an MVP I'm like yeah I'm not MVP they're like. Like you're presenting at all these conferences you're writing all this content like you're doing all this stuff how are you not MVP I'm like. See, I'm wicked that front I don't write much be having a blog has been on my bucket list for like 10 years or so, but never put it once again I really like to present it. Like I said I'm a certified trainer we're doing Microsoft training for 26 years. I think one of the things that rendered me from getting the MVP before is because you have to do voluntary contributions right you're not supposed to be paid for those things and I love presenting and because a lot of present people like to hire me to teach them classes but so those doesn't count. Right. Those right. So, yeah, when I stopped. Yeah, it was about three or four years ago when I decreased my, you know, I switch my hats a little started with more consulting got fun more time to present your user groups and conferences. So when I got more noticed. Yeah, that's a great thing that for folks that don't know to like your great point that the things that you're doing for your job the things that you're being paid to go and do. Those aren't contributions that you can submit as part of like if you're being considered for that. It's, it's about the things that you're doing for the community above and beyond what your regular job is. I remember as I was chief evangelist for a couple is fees and people be critical oh your company is paying for your time I said look I true that I had the benefit of a company that supported the community activities would pay for my flights and hotels to go all over the week with I said but the things that I was doing for the community. Like I gave up. I think one year. I'm trying to remember if it was like 2013 2014. I spoke at 18 SharePoint Saturdays in a year. So that's 18 weekends that I gave up plus all the travel time plus all of that. Plus I did have my day job and things to go and do throughout that you know they were my sessions they were my time they were neutral topics. I wasn't a you know pitching for my company and writing and doing the other thing so it's like like now I mean I blog I present on and it's I'm writing on weekends on week and evenings outside of my day job to do those community things so those are the things that considered that I have a list of other things that I'm doing which if I weren't being paid as part of my job to do it, you know, great content would be, you know, fit right in with the rest of what I do but it's part of my job so I don't submit those things. Yeah, we're not supposed to. Well, I think I'm going to get close to your number this second half of the year. There are so many conferences coming up specially on the data platform, you know, side of things. I think the next one is Denver. Actually, no Denver is September 17 sequel Saturday endeavor before that will be Chicago for that week so I'm going to fight from Chicago to Denver. There is Orlando, there is Dallas that is there's somebody that doesn't have the funds to go on to the locations like I, I prefer the in person events over the online makes the two of us. And but I know that there are some that like can't or prefer just to do the virtual. There are now so many other virtual events. I'll just say this hey the we call it the Microsoft user group Utah or mug it, which is an ugly acronym but it works. I like it. We're always looking for speakers it's more collaboration topics. So SharePoint teams and the like, but you know that there there are user groups everywhere. So if you want to break into the space, or if you're even an MVP currently, like, you can do more. You don't have to get up from the couch. Yep. Just yesterday, I was presenting for the local group here in the Bay Area with Martin of all. And he announced that the next meeting might happen on a physical location down there in San Francisco. And if it does, it's going to be hybrid. So there will be people in the room and it will be open for and whoever doesn't want to commute there. We're doing the same thing. We're hybrid. I was on there in LA Francisco Saturday last weekend. And Steve told me that they don't plan to come in person anymore because driving around the lead is always horrible and now that they are all comfortable doing remote. It's going to be remote. They don't plan to be in person anymore. Yeah, again, for for us that prefer the in person I like the relationship building the connections that you make the conversations I mean it's I don't think you can replace it by doing the virtual it's it's great when when you're not able to be there but yeah it's it's so important to to make those physical connections to to to meet people and yeah it's yeah anyway. Yeah, I don't think you got to but gotta be on promising any person again, but don't only it does make sense to do the user groups remote. Yeah, anytime you open the map and to see the traffic there is all red rubbish red. Right. Well, and I just I see a future of personal jet packs that will solve all of the problems. I heard that there was somebody testing that by the airport couple months ago down there nearly have to see the news. No, there was this pilot talking to the towers and there's a guy with the jet pack flying around here. I bet the fine for that. If they caught him was pretty hefty to the probably yeah they didn't get a guy. So within the data platform like so what what's your kind of your core focus what's happening in that space what's of interest. Yeah, I mean my focus has always been SQL server. I've been a SQL server guy for 20 years and help companies, you know, doing things faster in SQL optimizing the platform, getting things to run better to run faster. Sometimes unlocking them if you actually two years ago there was this guy using Azure SQL in the clouds. You know the company was dead and all of a sudden the whole thing came to a crop. And was, you know, some settings on parallelism. So, sometimes you get into those things. But if the and SQL server, it seems it's going to be around for very long time there was this, you know, this fear that the DBA role will die that the SQL server will go away because the clouds chip and all of that. I think everybody's at peace now Microsoft has been showing that from all their products SQL service the one that still have growing adoption on premise. And the cloud. So, you know, futures looks looks right for SQL, but what's really really hot nowadays is on the data engineering site data transformation and data cleansing for especially for AI. Clouds cloud scalability and Microsoft does have a product for that in Azure Synapse.  But the one that's come really strong really promising I mean it's already promises not the right word because it's been around for a while but it's getting more and more adoption is on the spark site. So, on that side you have data bricks that's been was the first one, the first big one, and you do have a similar engine inside Synapse, which is this part pool. And the thing with that one that some people are having a hard time to move into is because that was developed that was developed for developers. So you do coding there. When you are in the SQL side of things and you do data transformation and you are familiar with integration service more likely and integration services all visual is all graph use interface drag and drop parameters drag arrows and things like that. So when you're going to spark, it's all codes and probably the language that you have not dealt with yet like scholar are or if you're lucky can go into Python that's usually more is more similar to other traditional languages. But, but that's what is shining there. And on top of that, you also have the, the Delta Delta technology with Delta Lake and Delta tables addressing the problem of immutable files but you need to do transactions. So what do you do Delta addresses that what's interesting you brought up to us but with data transformation and just clean up and management of data is there there's always good. Well, with all of the growth of AI and automation that's out there where you have the power platform and and you have these people going and building these small applications and everybody's learning this skill set to go and build for themselves. There's a greater and greater need for, you know, clean data and be sorted through organizations it's like I look I'm not a AI guy I'm not I don't work in that world anymore, you know, to that degree. And so I'm kind of out of touch with the latest capabilities there. But what I do understand is for the people within my organization that are really talented with like Power BI and kind of the presentation layer of these things is that they make it look so easy. But there's so much work that has to happen to get the data ready and usable that they can go and do the presentation layer to make these usable dashboards and graphs and things. And so there is a tremendous need for people that still that that know the data and manage and massage that data so that it's usable by, you know, the front office with these other applications like Power BI. Yeah, definitely. So, you know, back in the days we have just SQL and was on premise, we have the clear division between transactional processing and analytical processing. So it's like you can get SQL server you got two boxes one for each purpose. And you, you know, capture your data on the transactional processing and you copy that data over to the analytical processing accumulative over there, in order to report with the cloud scale and the amount of transactions we have today that this two things are not so close anymore now they're very apart and right in the middle is where you find the data engineering and the AI elements are just mentioned, grabbing the data that's being produced by the transactional system ingesting to the transformations, creating those two artifacts and better polished data, and also the statistical models to work with predictions on top of those data, in order to be able to report the different and that you mentioned. So it's funny, they created this, which is the amount of data you have to process, and the scale of building on that one in order to deliver your your analyticals. It's, it's so so many things that are that are different. I mean, I spent a lot of my time as a technical project manager, back in the telecom year so the, the early to mid 90s. And it was, you know, customer internal customers would come and say, Hey, we like this data set. This is fantastic, but we want to go and, you know, modify the data add this these other things in there and be able to go and do the analysis. And it would sort of take us weeks to go in there and to integrate that in and, you know, chop that up slice and dice it feed it back through and we own the front end tools like business objects and data strategy and SAS modules for them to go in and do their analytics on that but all of the work that was involved took weeks and weeks and weeks to get all that prep just so that they could then go in and in a reasonable amount of time put in a query get a result back and actually show you create reports of things on that. And now you got the scale of the cloud I mean I just opened up it changed so much of that world. What is amazing how how storage has made so cheap by the cloud and it's so much cheaper to to to keep data that people usually just skip, you know, why throw the data away it's so cheap to keep it them. So let's just keep them and end up creating this thing I don't know if you haven't heard of it there is this kind of informal concept called the dark data. And the concept comes from physics and you know the astronomers analyzing the universe. So they say they're like 7075% of the mass of the universe is not really detectable you can see, but you can see the effects on everything else you can see. And they dark, they call that the dark matter. Here we follow the dark data because it's this amount of data that companies to decide to keep because they're, they represent something they're having that data is not information yet but can become information at some point. So they just keep it there because it's so cheap to keep right well with the skin ability. So you don't want to be I mean we ran to this arrow to where we were trying to build like, like a performance system. So we would remove data that we thought hey not really critical to what you're trying to do and, and that was one of the pains is that that we we've removed something and somebody would ask, put in request for something we're like, Oh, well, yeah to be able to identify that we need to go and add that data back in and sort through it but. But now that I mean, to your point, I mean the cost of storage drop down so dramatically, but also I think another thing that that helped explode this space is, you know, that is is the scalability of the cloud. So to have things out in place you're not as worried about the storage but being able to also it's the compute capability on those massive amounts of data so these are. The way that spending time when when I started to see other vendors that we're like oh yeah we're a big data platform provider I'm like, yeah, every company is in the big data space, every data problem is a big data problem, because we're not throwing anything away because we don't know what might be useful somewhere in the future what might correlate into some query that our customers are internal customers need around this. So why get rid of it let's just store it and so our data scientists can go back into it you know years from now and oh yeah hey we have we have this data. Exactly. Yeah, we are that each, like I said in the past to use to transform the data we have received and not keeping the original sometimes, because it was just raw information, not much meaning there. But at that stage where I know we just keep everything so if you needed to do it again we can go back to the original and see how it looked like at the beginning. Well as a collector I collect music and a few other things is the few artists, but I have thousands of CDs thousands of vinyl records. I'm digital, you know all of that. I'm in a constant battle with my wife that to to to to justify myself as not being a hoarder in general, but yeah we are hoarders of information, and there's a very low cost, you know barrier to data. It causes an explosion. And if not well governed. It can become a hassle you know because you start looking is like the formal thing you know the fear of missing out. Yep, you look at all those fires you know if you delete this thing what I'm going to throw away you're going to miss something, but it can become a problem but but definitely always better keep if it's not affecting the budget. Yeah, we'll worry about performance later. Yeah. They think about performance in like you said in a compute and like we discussed in the beginning right now with see when you when you're looking to SQL server and or going any other relational database there, they have their proprietary file format. So when you store data, it's only for that data engine with the data lake and the approach for open standards for compressed data and immutable data like pocket files. It's for any engine. So, like when you look at your synapse in Azure. So, the same repository can serve both this part pool, the server last SQL pool. And if you want you can share with Databricks as well. And any other engine that can read either parquet by itself or in the data language. So we have, you know, a plethora of options in terms of compute and each one of them is scalable into multiple modes with multiple capabilities per note of computing capabilities per note. So this could the separation between storage and compute and memory processing on those things. Kind of is a throwback to the 70s and the 80s but the revolution has the future of the design of data engineering. You could have a longer conversation and nerd out I could tell you stories about I was involved in a global grid forum as part of the marketing awareness council for for several years and and work with clients like cadence design systems and building technology to manage compute farms and it's a fascinating era. It just seems so long ago. It was long time ago. Plus years ago. But, yeah, fascinating space. Well, Armando really appreciate your time today for folks that want to find out more about you are getting contact. What are the best ways to reach you. Oh, best way is with the link in connect with me and links and it's perfect. I'm, like I said, I'm trying to get a log up so I'm moving my space to another URL with another name so that will be it will come up later and I'm definitely going to post that on each in. So it's as of today is the preferred place to get connected and follow along. I also, whatever I do and reflect so I was out in Twitter so we're going to follow my Twitter that's fine too. Awesome. Well, thanks so much for your time and you enjoy the the warm weather out there and in central California. Thank you Christian for having me once again thank you it's great to be here with you and I gotta tell you in Sacramento today is going to be one of four but early this morning it was raining here in my neighborhood. That's that's this has been like we've been here in Utah for six years. This is the wettest summer. I don't think it's impacting our drought like all the Western us is experiencing serious drought major drought. And I don't think this is hit because it, we need snowpack to impact ours. And it was a very dry winter. Yeah, the monsoon rains has been fantastic because I go out for to walk the dog in the morning and instead of being, you know, at 11am instead of being 95 it's like 78 big difference that's a nice walk in 78. Nice. Yeah, we're looking forward for the pineapple express in a few months, and hopefully we bring more water. Yes. Well, we'll talk to you soon. Thank you very much.