So, today we check out another secret legendary weapon and it's called the Skullville. This actually fires bottles of hot sauce, how epic is that?  How's it going guys? My name's DPJ and today I bring you another Borderlands 3 video. If you do enjoy leaving a like, it really helps me out and subscribe if you want to see more. On screen now you can see my weekly giveaway along with last week's winner, to be in with a chance of winning this yourself, follow the instructions on screen now and good luck. So the Skullville is a Torg pistol rewarded for finding 5 bottles of hot sauce which are scattered all over the handsome jackpot. In a minute you will see the locations to all of these bottles so you can go here and do this yourself if you haven't already and get this weapon. Now once you have located all 5 of these hot sauce bottles you will be mailed this weapon which can come in any random variant. I got the burning Skullville and it's extremely powerful people really is. As you can see, 2552x2 damage, an accuracy of 59%, a handling of 50%, a reload time of 1.5 seconds and a fire rate of 10.16. This are through the magazine size of 8, put a little pepper on the end of it. With a plus 21% weapon fire rate and a plus 521 splash damage radius consumes 5 ammo per shot with a 1.5x weapon zoom and highly effective vs flesh. So if we check out this weapon and how it fires you can see it actually shoots bottles of hot sauce, which in my case with my variant they do extremely high damage for what this is. 40 plus thousand to that critical spot on that test dummy. Now the weapons shot shoot like a thrown grenade, having that dipping curve kind of effect but you get used to that very very easily and it isn't that bad to be honest. You can still hit enemies at a far. And within the couple of hours I did play with this thing I was in love.  So I'd give this skullville an 8 out of 10 for sure being the beast that it is. I more so than not normally expect these quest weapons to be kind of novelty items but not this one. This one is a lot different, this one is a must get in my opinion and the locations for the 5 hot sauce bottles in which you shoot to get this sent to you via the mail you guys will see on screen now. So if you haven't got this thing already people definitely go and get it. It's incredible.  Now you'd think that because it consumes what my variant consumes 5 ammo per shot it wouldn't be that effective but in reality because it's got a super quick reload time of 1.5 seconds you don't really even notice it because it one pops most enemies even enemies you would not expect it to one pop it does because it's damage is so high. Now whilst it's intended probably will it be nerfed probably but that won't happen for some time so you may as well get it people take advantage of it while you can because the weapon is an absolute animal. So you guys the locations of the 5 hot sauce bottles you can see in the background now do what you gotta do people and I hope you enjoyed the video. If you did leave me a like really helps me out if you're new around here and want to see more boardlands videos be sure to subscribe and if you never want to miss a video upload can turn notifications on by hitting that bell button but guys thanks as always for stopping by hopefully you enjoyed the video and hopefully I will see you on that next one.


New York, it's theCUBE, covering AWS Summit New York 2018. Brought to you by Amazon Web Services and it's ecosystem partners. Okay, welcome back everyone. Live here in New York, it's theCUBE's coverage of AWS Amazon Web Services Summit 2018. I'm John Furrier. Jeff Frick here, bringing all the action from the regional event of Amazon. It's like a reinventing New York City. It's Amazon Web Services. Our Scott Mullins is our next guest. He's the head of Worldwide Financial Services, business development. He's the one bringing in all the fintech startups, doing all the big banks. Really bringing cloud to the financial services industry, which is a great early adopter for everything. Yeah, absolutely. I was actually early adopter myself. So before I was at AWS, I was actually a customer. I started my journey to the cloud personally at NASDAQ and in 2012, was actually on stage at the New York Summit talking about our early use of AWS at the exchange. So it's really amazing to be here in 2018, six years later to see really how far we've come so far. Talk about the dynamics in financial services, in fintech, in general, this is a market that's highly volatile, need for real-time information, real-time, competitive advantages, speed, scale, data. I mean, financial really hits to me the crosshairs of where the action is in cloud because you got to have everything. You got to have speed, you have new software, new capabilities, whether it's blockchain, an exchange, or all these things. This is the competitive strategy. This is the advantage they're looking for. What are they doing? What are some of the things that you can talk about? Well, I think you've hit really two of the key things that people are looking for when they use the cloud. Number one, agility. I need to get to market faster. The things that I build for my customers, whether that's the things that I'm used to building, that I operate today to run financial markets or to serve my customers on the retail side, I need those things when I make changes to them to make those changes faster. On the other side, if I want to build something that new and innovative and cool, I can't take 18 months to actually bring that to market. I want to do that in three months. And so we actually have customers that are doing that today. You can look at what the DGCC is doing. I don't know if you saw the keynote address, Rob Palatnik, the chief architect there was talking about how they have transformed systems that they operate today, that power markets around the world that clear $1.4 quadrillion worth of value on an annual basis, taking those and transforming them fast for time to market or organizations like Allianz Insurance who launched a completely new pet insurance platform on us, a very established company in the insurance space in three months time as opposed to 18 months, which is what it used to take to launch something like that. And that was considered fast by the way, 18 months. Oh yeah, when I was in financial services, 18 months seemed like a very fast period of time to bring something to life. That's funny, because financial services is really almost like the bacteria of the space, because speed is so important. You guys have been, financial service companies have been software companies forever, it's numbers on the page, right? It's numbers in the database that are moving and the competitive edge gained by speed and innovation is so critically, critically important when you're really operating on this commodity thing that's transacted. So you guys are really a bit on the bleeding edge. I don't think people understand how important that is. And then also for the security, really it's a big important priority. So for financial services to be all in, leveraging public cloud is a pretty significant statement. Yeah, I agree. And I think you just said on something that's also very important to financial services customers, which is scale. You know, we talk about data and data being, you know, kind of the next frontier and the thing that's going to be the most important going forward. But in order to be able to process data and actually derive value from it, you've got to have compute power. You've got to have that horsepower and the scale to be able to actually apply analytics to it, whether it's traditional data analytics or machine learning. And so being able to access compute power at scale, is hugely important. And as you mentioned in financial services, you're probably a regulated organization. You're probably not just regulated by one entity. In the case of GTCC or some of our larger financial institutions customers, you may have hundreds of regulatory agencies and bodies that you're beholden to because you are a fiduciary. You have a responsibility to power and keep safe resilient markets. And so being able to have infrastructure that you trust, be able to scale appropriately, be able to be resilient and to hold up where you need it to, is hugely important. What's the specific business benefits? Because if you had to put your feet to the fire and someone said, I'm going to move my business to the cloud, I really want to look at this. What are the business benefits of going to the cloud? What do you say to that financial services company? I'll give you three, there are more than that, but I'll give you three equipment. Number one agility, time to market, time to market, time to market. I can actually get my product to market faster than I used to before. So making updates to what I provide today. And then also getting ahead of competitors. If I can roll something out in three months and it takes you 18 months to do that, I've got an advantage over you. I'm in the market 15 months before you ever even thought of it. So number one, the agility that's available. Number two, it's cost. Rob Palatnik, and I hate to say it, but he just got off stage, so it's fresh in my mind. He put up a slide that said, when we were going to build something in response to a regulation that came out in 2012, we thought it was going to cost us $4 million to do it. And by the way, it's a service we had to offer for free to the market. We couldn't recoup any more cost. His team came to him and said, hey, we think we can do this on the cloud with AWS for about $2,500 a month. Would you be interested in doing that? Well, of course. $48,000 a year versus $4 million in sunk costs. Yeah, the most interesting thing though is he actually showed what it cost him to run that application today. It's got more data in it. It's got more requests that go through it. And it cost him less than $1,000 a month to run the application. $903 a month to run a mission critical application. This brings up a good point. So obviously a great example. Show me, tell me more. I was like, hey, that's great numbers. So you get, that's an easy check. It's a good way to entice someone. But a lot of people are trying to figure out which services to move to the cloud. How do you advise on that? Because there's usually a sequence, something goes first. What are the key things that you want to move to the cloud if I'm a financial services? I usually recommend one of two things. Number one, if you have an immediate problem you're trying to solve, let's start there. It's always easier when you have something concrete to work from. So if you need to be able to run data analytics much more efficiently, let's try some machine learning. Let's take some data sets, let's build the data lake, let's build that right foundation, and let's run those analytics. You may have seen in Werner's commentary, he talked about Moody's, Moody's analytics running machine learning on AWS. Or if you want to get started early and you're a highly regular organization, you don't have an immediate problem to solve, let's look what you need to scale. Let's look at some workloads that aren't necessarily considered as mission critical, let's look at something that maybe doesn't involve sense of information to the firm, like PII or other types of information you might consider secret sauce, and let's look at those and move those over as a test bed and then we can rapidly scale up from there. Talk about the New York dynamic. We were here a couple of weeks ago for the Blockchain Week consensus event around Blockchain and cryptocurrency, and we were talking to a few reporters on our cube and they're like, we haven't seen New York just jazzed up on cryptocurrencies because New York's a money town, you've got Wall Street, so you're seeing a new kind of buzz going on in New York around cloud, edge computing, mobile computing, blockchain, cryptocurrencies, you know, the power of money always gets financial services excited. How has that dynamic of, say cloud and some of these new emerging technologies, whether it's AI, blockchain, energize financial services? Is that a key trend? What's your observation? You know, I think that financial services, as we mentioned before we started talking on camera, is always an early adopter of technology, specifically in capital markets, right? So if something new comes out, you're going to imagine that financial services company wants to experiment with it, they want to be ahead of the curve, they want to be on that bleeding edge, I think it's no different in the new tools that we offer today, whether that's cloud, financial services with a very early adopter of the cloud and being able to take advantage of the agility and the scalability, where you look at things like blockchain, where for the last four years, you've been actually looking at blockchain and how it's going to actually impact the financial services market, whether that's through cryptocurrencies and the exchanges that we're building on cloud, or you're looking at the way that blockchain itself and distributed ledger can actually look at replacing some of the middle and back office, financial services is always going to be on that leading edge and figuring out how we're going to make changes to the industry that incrementally provide value. I think the big differentiator though, when you look at cloud and you look at things like blockchain and really the reemergence of AI and machine learning, is that now with cloud, you actually have the ability to take advantage of some of those things. It's not just theory, you're not talking about it anymore. You can actually go out and experiment and try these things out and make them happen much more quickly. You're running BizDev for financial services sector. Really awesome, exciting market. What are some of the conversations? Take us through the day in the life. You're probably a middle-eater not on the phone, but on email and face-to-face on the phone. What is some of the conversations that you're having? Stack rank, the kinds of high-level conversations and specific things that you are dealing with day in, day out. I think if you went back two years ago, it would be what is it and why would I do it? A lot of convincing. Today it's how, how, how and how fast can I do it? How did I do this? I am a startup company. I'm a FinTech organization. This is a conversation I had literally three weeks ago. I am starting from scratch. I have a new idea that I think can revolutionize the financial services industry, but my customers are going to be other large financial institutions. How do I build something on AWS that's going to pass muster with them? We help companies do that on a daily basis. On the flip side, I'm a large financial institution. I have a legacy. I've been in business for hundreds of years. I've got, I've got siloed parts of my organization that do things differently from a technology perspective. How do I even begin to contemplate this kind of a transformational change? How do I do that? That's conversations we have on a daily basis as well. It's very fun to help organizations both transform the way that our markets work today and then also at the same time rethink how we can do that from an innovation perspective. And what are you guys doing at the organizational level? Obviously the demand is they're lining up literally virtually and literally. You got digital tools. You have obviously the cloud technologies. You got templates. How are you building out your organization to serve your customers through that channel? What's new? What's going on? Well obviously we start with the services that we offer and so you've seen some new launches of services here in addition to things like SageMaker and our machine learning tools. We continue to iterate very quickly and effectively for all of our customers, but our financial services customers do provide a lot of the feedback that we get in relation to informing that roadmap. So very important, 90% of the AWS roadmap is inbound customer requests for enhancements to our features and to our services. That's very important. So number one, we're always on the cutting edge from the standpoint of the services. Specifically for financial services though, it is a lot of how? How would I do that? I'm a large financial institution or I have to deal with regulation. How do I do that Scott? And what we're doing there is making sure that we continue to bring expertise in-house that has the experience in doing that. And so from a standpoint of- Security. Regulatory, compliance and security, builders from the industry, bringing those onto our team so that people understand you can do this. We've done it before. Here's how we do it again. What's the best sellers? SageMaker's certainly hot. I don't think, and the numbers are out, but I forecast that that reinvent that SageMaker will out be the number one selling service. I'm sure it might have already passed some of the Aurora database migration stuff going on. What if an angel service is interested? What's the top products that they're going after right now? Well as you know, Aurora is our fastest growing service in history. I think many financial services institutions are very interested in databases and how to replace their legacy databases with something new. It's a lot more scalable, a lot more cost effective. So Aurora would be one I'd point to. Data analytics is probably the number one workload in financial services today. Whether that's traditional data analytics with business intelligence on top of it, to building data lakes and using our version of Hadoop, which is an Elastic MapReduce or EMR. Organizations like FINRA who run all the market surveillance for the U.S. capital markets using exactly that setup at Data Lake and S3 and the EMR to power that. You can look at our machine learning tool. I think machine learning has really kind of overtaken blockchain in some respects in relation to hotness. I like to joke, Chris Church, if you know Chris Church into the last set, he and I found ourselves on the speaking circuit quite often going to different conferences and then we'd be speaking on the cloud and then suddenly Chris was the new hot thing because he was distributed ledger and Chris started to have the kind of the keynotes and then I joked with Chris at SIFMA a couple of weeks ago. Hey Chris, you're actually going to have to introduce the guy talking about machine learning next because that's the new hotness as well. So machine learning tools, I think with SageMaker, as you mentioned, obviously a very hot thing for investors. Well, the developer space of a blockchain, decentralized applications, not just distributed computing, but you start to see decentralized apps, DApps, they're called, start to come out, new wallets with crypto. So, you know, a lot of new stuff but the cloud's going to power. So, looks like you got a good job positioning for you for the next couple of years. You know, financial services isn't going anywhere. I think so, I'm a financial services guy. I'm just very happy to be a part of the transformation of the industry as it's happening today. Scott, thanks for coming on. Thanks for taking the time out of your busy schedule. Appreciate it.


One, two, three, shot! You know you don't have an argument, at least a biblical argument, when all you can do is rely on anecdotal evidence. When you say something that's happening and you attribute it or equate it to a move of the spirit and you can't find any scriptural backing, that is the very definition of unbiblical. It is not in the Bible. There is no biblical count of it happening. There are those that will try to say that there are biblical counts, but they're not. As a matter of fact, when you go and look at the examples that they give, you'll see that we are treading on thin ice. Now, when you get someone who's supposed to be a scholar who will say that there is, I think it's worth noting, but I want to start off by listening to, I think this is John Hage's son who talks about being slain in the spirit and notice pretty light on evidence and notices his use. He's slain in the spirit describes individuals who fall under the power of God and it actually comes from the Bible. There are multiple occasions where the presence of God appears and individuals were not able to stand because of the weight of his presence. One of the places that you find this in the Bible is that when the Sanhedrin guard came to arrest Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane and they asked, are you Jesus of Nazareth? He said I am and the Bible says they fell as dead men. The power of God was so heavy that the physical human being could not stand in its presence. Now, let's think about this for a second. As a matter of fact, let's go to this passage. This is in John 18.5. Then they answered him, Jesus the Nazarene, he said to them, I am he and Judas also who was betraying him was standing there. So when he said to them, I am he, they drew back and fell to the ground. A couple of things. If this is, by the way, this cannot be an example of being slain in the spirit. Why? Because one, the men didn't have the spirit. And then two, none of these men that fail were godly. But guess what? There were some other men there who were godly men, though they weren't filled with the spirit. They were there. And so if this is an account of someone being slain by the spirit, by the presence of God being there so heavily, why didn't the men of God, you know, the disciples that were there, why didn't they fall?  But they didn't fall. The power of God didn't affect the actual believers, the followers of Christ, but it affected the nonbelievers. That makes absolutely no sense. So what it is, is you've got someone that's looking for an example. And this is not an example. They weren't believers. They didn't have the spirit. They didn't, they weren't saved. And then the people that were saved, people that were followers of Christ, they didn't fall yourself. If you've ever seen anyone collapse because of grief, have you ever watched a soccer game and seen somebody miss a goal and somebody in midfield 50 yards away falls flat on their back and clutches their chest as if they're having a major cardiac event just because a ball of hot air flew over a bar? You're forgotten. Now, that makes no sense either, because whenever you, and I've been in those cases where you're in the field, you know, a battle, let's say, in the sports field or something happening, and you just kind of fall over, you just bend over what have you. Well, those you can control, you can simply walk away. And now, are there times where someone is overcome by emotion and they fall if they faint? Sure. Do we attribute that to the spirit? No, we do not.  And so let's go to one of the foremost authorities in the charismatic movement who is supposed to be the scholar. And let's listen to what he has to say about this. And you're going to notice pretty light on scripture. As a matter of fact, he's going to admit that. That hasn't changed. I know some of you have a hard time with this because it's outside your paradigm, but God is often outside our paradigm. And if it's not against, if it's not spoken against in the word, there's a difference between unbiblical, meaning it's contrary to the Bible, contrary to the word, and extra biblical, meaning it's not explicitly mentioned in the. Now, I disagree with his with his terminology, but the fact of the matter is it's not in the Bible and he's admitting that. So you want to say that people have a problem with it not being in our paradigm or goes against our paradigm. No, it goes against what the scripture says. If you're going to say this is a move of the spirit, and every time we see the move of the spirit in the Bible, we don't see this happening, then you can't tell us or make us believe or accept that this is a move of the spirit. You're supposed to be the scholar. Why aren't you looking to the scriptures scholar to tell us why this is something that we either should or should not do. The word and the idea of people being overpowered by the presence of God is certainly a common concept in the word. Plus, everyone responds and reacts differently. Now he says it's common concept in the word, but we don't see it. Let me just go over a couple of passages because they bring up certain places matter of it. Let's go to old times. Let's go to Daniel first in Daniel. Let's go 817. So he came near me, near to where I was standing. And when I when he came, I was frightened and fell on my face. But he said, son of man, understand that the vision pertains to the end time. Now a couple of things when someone wants to use this, this is not being slain in the spirit. What is this being slain the angel? But by the way, he wasn't slain. He's understanding. He's hearing. He's coherent. And he's just, this is him doing so on his own. This isn't the Holy Spirit. This isn't God. This is an angel. So that couldn't apply either, right? So that's one example that we can go ahead and mark off as an actual example. And over the years, I prayed for thousands of people and seen them fall flat on their face and others fall on their back. And I've seen them touched equally the same way. So again, it's such an odd thing to me that people would get in an uproar over this. You know, send me a video. How could you call this person a brother? Look all these people falling as he's ministering. That's supposed to mean they're not a brother. That's supposed to mean they're not saved. That's supposed to mean they're guilty of some fanaticism or emotionalism. Show me, show me just here. I'm a Bible person. I'm a Bible person. Like many of you. No, you're not a Bible person. You couldn't be because you wouldn't be advocating for this. Now a person falls out or what have you know, that doesn't mean they're not saved, but it means not being, the spirit is not moving on them because we don't see that. That's all it means. Many of you show me in the Bible where it says judge by the test of spirits.  Now he's not going to look at the scriptures. As a matter of fact, what he's going to do to try to prove his point, he's going to ask for their testimonies. Biggest thing, you look at doctrine. If doctrine is not the issue, if Jesus is being preached to Jesus of the Bible, if he's being preached, then you look at the effect it has on someone's life. So if Jesus is preached, then you can do anything. You can, I don't know, slap someone. You can go and have an affair with someone because at the service Jesus was preached. No, there is an order to what we're doing. There's a reason for what we're doing and no one yet has addressed why are these people falling out if they're slain by the spirit? What's the benefit for the body? Very simple. For a number of years, I was skeptical and I had all my reasons, but I actually couldn't quote scripture to that effect. I couldn't quote the Bible to that effect. And then over the years, I prayed. I've seen the power of God come in dramatic ways and ways. You have to understand. You have to understand. I've been in needings where someone's getting prayer, right? So I'm walking down an aisle to leave a building. So I am walking behind people in the aisle. So they're standing there, eyes closed, being prayed for. I'm walking behind them. Someone's been praying for them for a few minutes, hand on their forehead, quietly praying. They don't know I'm behind them. They don't hear I'm behind them. I'm not saying anything, but I just have to get by. I barely put my hand on their back. Boom. And they fall over. How did that happen? Why did that happen? Well, it's psychosomatic. I've been in places where just the mere touch of someone can move someone because they're looking for something. They want something to happen. As Paul says, you're zealous, you're desirous of the move of the spirit. And so when someone touches you removal, anything can happen. It's just like when you're a football game or a basketball game. Why is someone who's normally calm, Bob and accounting, he's normally calm and quiet. But at the football game, the basketball game, he is acting like a maniac. Is that his normal demeanor? No, because he's in an environment. If this is of God, if it's just the spirit, why does only happen in certain environments? Why do people don't just fall out? I don't know, at court or when they are when they are applying for a job, when they're in an interview in front of the police. We don't see that happening. We don't see these things happening in other places except in places where they know it's acceptable. I prayed for people that didn't believe it that were skeptics. I'm just going to shake their hand and the power of God's hit them and they fell to the ground and got up changed. How did that happen? Where's the power of suggestion? You don't know what they were. For someone who said, well, this person has never been involved in this. They've never been associated. They've never seen it. Well, I'm not too sure. So again, you don't know that. And so I won't address that because I don't have to. All we've got to do is instead of trying to judge what they're doing, let's try to look at the scriptures. Don't judge what they're doing based on the fact that we don't know where it's possible. Let's judge it based on the scriptures. As you said, test and see with how? How? With the scriptures. I've been in circles where no one had ever seen it. And I wasn't expecting anything. I didn't say a word about falling, began to pray for leaders on the platform.  And people were shocked. They'd never seen it. I want you to hear some testimonies. And I want to ask you the question, who did this? Who was responsible for this? What policy is this? Dr. Brown, you pointed at me from about seven feet away at the altar at Brown. Yeah, you pointed at me. Again, looking for someone's testimony to the scriptures, you pointed at me and I ended the lady fell over. Do we see that in scripture? What it sounds is more like Benny Hinnish Brownsville. I fell to the floor on my stomach. Oh, she fell on her face. I thought, oh no, I'm going to get stepped on or I need to get up. I could not. There was a huge hand on my back. Was it the devil who did that and gave her this love for Jesus and love for the lost? Or was it the Holy Spirit? So the question is, what causes that? Well, how about just your thoughts, your wanting, your desire? But do we see that in scriptures? And there are other passes that they may turn to. They may turn to John in Revelation, where John in Revelation problem is in John in Revelation. He's conscious. He is bowed over. Same thing with Saul. Saul is coherent. He's understanding what's happening. And so you can't point to that there is no passage.  Well, then we are to do what we are to we are to reject it. Amen.


School insists absent boy must get doctor's note. Dad ends the demand. When his sick son missed several days of school, a father was told that he'd need to provide a doctor's note for his son's unexcused absences. Instead, the dad sent his child to school with his own note that ensured the school would think twice before ever contacting him again. Jack Cody Brown School insists absent boy must get doctor note dad letter squashes their demand. After a school demanded a doctor's note for his son's unexcused absence, Jack Cody Brown right fired back with a blunt response. Tattoo artist Jack Cody Brown made sure to keep his son, Aden, home from school while the boy sick with a stomach bug. Understandably, Brown wanted to avoid spreading the illness to Aden's classmates. Unfortunately, this sensible decision was about to open a big can of worms. Almost any parent who's put a child through the public education system has had a complaint or two concerning school policy.  Jack Cody Brown School insists absent boy must get doctor note dad letter squashes their demand. Tattoo artist Jack Cody Brown, left, says that his son, Aden, right, had racked up four unexcused absences after the bus began arriving 20 minutes early unannounced. In a Facebook post that has since gone viral, Brown first vents that his son's school bus has unexpectedly begun arriving earlier than scheduled, causing his child to miss class four times. While in the process of dealing with the issue with school officials, his son came down with a virus, prompting the caring father to keep him home, earning the child his fifth unexcused absence. So, Aden's school decided to send a note home saying he has to have a doctor's note, because he's missed this many days, a parent note is not acceptable, Brown explained. His bus driver randomly decides to come 20 minutes early on a relatively regular basis, he has five unexcused absences, and four are because of that. The school insisted that the dad provided doctor's note or else his son would be penalized for his fifth absence. Fed up that the school wasn't more understanding of his son's unavoidable circumstances, Brown decided to get the administration's attention. After the school demanded a doctor's note to excuse his son's fifth absence, the fed up dad penned a letter of his own. Instead of providing officials with a doctor's note, Brown wrote a note of his own. In the handwritten message, the indignant dad bluntly explains that, unless the school is going to pay for the unnecessary visit to the clinic to get a doctor's note, his own fatherly recommendation will suffice. To whom it may concern, the letter begins, my son was running a fever and feeling sick, so I kept him home from school. I know he has a 24 hour bug, because I myself had it two days ago. I recently received a letter saying he needs a doctor's note because of how many days he's missed, even though four of those days were missed because the bus came ridiculously early. I am happy to oblige as soon as the school shows up with the $150 for the appointment and a ride to and from, so the DR can say, he has a 24 hour bug. Until that happens, this note from his father will suffice. Brown then ended his letter by showing off his artistic skills with a hand-drawn portrait of a satirical meme. At the bottom of the page, he included a depiction of the popular children's cartoon character Spongebob Squarepants posing sarcastically with the caption, he needs a doctor's note. For any questions regarding the letter or the meme, feel free to call, the letter concludes. Jack Cody Brown told the school that, unless they were going to pay for the doctor's visit, a note from him would suffice. While Brown admits that he was fuming when he penned the now viral letter, he hoped that it would help the school see his side of the situation. Much to his delight, the note was just the ticket to resolve the escalating issue. The bus has been consistent, his teacher has been sending him home with more challenging material, and we have gotten nothing but pleasantries and respect from his school since, he wrote. Addressing those who thought that his response was too harsh, Brown explained that he initially tried to play nice. He claims that he called and called, and sent numerous cordial letters before resorting to something more attention-grabbing. I am the first to admit, I could have been more mature about it, Brown wrote. But if I hadn't made my snarky comments and drawn a meme at the bottom, I really don't think it would have gotten their attention like it did. You have to understand, I called and called, and sent note after note, before I got to the point where I had to send this. Even posting it online, I didn't expect anything close to that many people to see it. I just wanted something that would get the attention of the people in charge. Jack Cody Brown, right, says that the school has resolved the issue since he sent them his letter. Brown says that the situation with the unexcused absences is resolved. He even added that his son's teacher is much nicer and has been giving his boy the education that he requires. While Brown's method probably won't work for every frustrated parent, his son is finally receiving the assistance he needs. Hopefully, the pair won't feel the need to write another note to the school anytime soon.