But only anyone wanted to care to talk about was the data log issue and that became the product and then expanded from there. Talk about the analytics space and compare that to some of the database confusion going on in the marketplace because we just had Jonathan on talking about HBase, Cassandra, Mongo, Couch. You know, a lot of young developers out there coming out really with high desire to start coding and playing with the open source community. It's just kind of the instant direction. So kind of give your take on where the Cassandra marketplace is relative to things like analytics, things like frameworks. Yeah, so it's kind of one of the interesting reasons that I joined Splunk. I've been spending the last two years evaluating a lot of different technologies and looking at what's in the space from an analytics perspective as well as what's available from a data store to a SQL store side. The company I came from is very big. Cassandra users heavily committed to that space. Tested HBase, tested Mongo, tested Couch. Very small footprints of Mongo in the space but mostly the use cases were all around Cassandra. Couple hundred nodes on DSE. But the reason for that is just looking at the space and figuring out what's out there. It's very complicated. Requires a lot of heavy developer input and developer savvy, let's say, to be able to deploy a lot of the other solutions that are out there. HBase took us about a month to even get a stable cluster. We started having some of our developers testing it. It was very challenging.  But for the fact that we had a lot of things to do and a lot of things to accomplish in the architecture team and prototyping that we did, it was really valuable to work with stuff like DSE where it was easy to deploy. We started with Cassandra at .6 in production, .5 in the lab environment. So we were kind of early to the space. Share with us your experience and give us some editorial in your own mind's eye around what's happening in the marketplace. Because there's two schools of thoughts around analytics right now. There's the old school which is business intelligence, data warehousing, fence the data, parked out way out there, pull it in, run a report. Our joke is from the movie Office Space, the TPS report, whereas those TPS reports. It's like old school BI's like, ugh, it's like you cringe, it's not near real time. Now all the sex appeal is real time, near real time, low latency, fault tolerance, high availability, distributed databases, stuff Jonathan's talking about. And then you have the new analytic world which is like again real time. But sometimes analytics goes faster, like in your case, you guys done some really good work on the front end of analytics and now you got to kind of shoehorn that back to other databases. So what is the state of the market relative to analytics and these environments like Cassandra, HBase and Mongo? Yeah, it's really interesting on the analytics side, the things that are changing every day. And so I talked to a whole bunch of BI guys, I was involved in the data warehousing side of the house back in the 90s with telcos. When it was a huge- Oh, God, sorry. Yeah, when we had 12 HPV class cubes full of drives to do nothing but store call records so they could do analytics which analytics meant SQL joins that took weeks for developers to write. So what's changed to now, it's very interesting that with the real time components of Splunk and various other tools that are out there, you take all of the pain of that out and you just make it easy to do and you make it in a UI where it doesn't matter. I mean, in my previous job, we had the CEO, the CFO of the company log in to look at a dashboard in Splunk which connected to Cassandra on the back end to pull in a lot of the transactional analytics piece. It connected to SQL data stores which are on the legacy side for booking because of asset compliance as well as, I think, so you could still go to the data warehouse if you needed to run a report over the last 18 months but that's not that interesting to 90% of the people. What happened in the last 30 days?  People fall out of their chair. Oh yeah. I mean, pretty much, right? Absolutely, and I will say that you made some profound changes in the way that the marketing teams, the SEO, SEM folks did their job just by building these dashboards where they could actually see what the investment was versus what they're actually getting in click-throughs. So Billy Botsworth and I talked at Hadoop Summit. We were at the Hortonworks head at Hadoop Summit which was a great event. We did the QBAT. Present it there. And Jonathan was just on about talking about making things easier, tooling UI and you guys play a big role in that, you know, talking about working with Cassandra. How do you make it easier? Because the new analyst, the new data scientist is not so much the PhD or the master's in computer science. The new category of data scientist is someone, there's a quant shock who knows SPSS or knows some other tool. They're not super programmers but they need to actually manipulate the data. So talk about the dynamic between that and the developer who needs to be the Cassandra guru, the computer science guy. What's the marketplace look like? Because you guys, you play in both sides. Yeah, so it's funny that part of this big data movement has made developers more and more critical to getting anything done, which is good for the developer community but when there aren't as many of them because it's a four to six year old market, there just aren't a lot of experts in six years. So it's very interesting to see how that's kind of evolving but at the same time your analysts who are looking at the data whether they're called data scientists or not depending on the company but those analysts that are looking at the data, some of them have absolutely no technical chops whatsoever, they just need to know how it works and they need to get the data from a business perspective. So kind of what was built before in my previous job and then working now with Splunk, part of what we're building is the front end to be able to go look and visualize the data and explore the data whether it's in a dupe store or Cassandra store or in the Splunk native index. So you can pull all that data together and get a view for the user in the business who really has no technical ability at all. So H-phase, Mongo, all the different approaches. It's easy to ingest data, it's hard to get it out. What's your take on that current situation because getting near real-time, getting large sets of data out and near real-time is very challenging. What best practices and solutions have you seen out there that allow a dashboard to render a lot of unstructured data? Well, obviously I'm a little bit partial to Splunk working there. Yeah, of course, yeah. Which is a very good engine for doing that no matter what the backing store is. Writing a connector to Lucid or Mongo or a couch or something else is not complicated. It could all be done in the SDKs and you could quickly pull that data in. What you have to do is know what you're actually indexing and what the real problem with a lot of the no-sequels, you have to know what you're putting in ahead of time so you know how you want to get it out. So... In a way, the whole no-sequel is kind of a weird term because there's no such thing as schema-less. Right. You always have schema. There's just less schema than the big schema. No hard and fast schema that means every column has to say exactly what it was. And the same thing with sort of column or data stores, right? The whole point in moving that direction is getting away from the hard and fast schema where every time you have an application update, you got to go do 50 SQL scripts to update your schema so everything works. Yeah. If you extend it... So the notion schema-less is really not a real word. It really means you're not reliant on schema to do stuff. Right. You have to have some schema at some level. Yeah, there is a schema of some sort and even on the Splunk side, there's a schema there too. It's just the schema's only applied at search time instead of being applied at ingest time so you don't have an overhead. Explain that. That's a really important concept. Yeah, so from Splunk's perspective, you ingest all the data. When it comes in, no metadata or anything is applied to it. It's just literally written as it streams in which lets you get the data in faster from multiple sources and do a lot of your filtering if you need to at that level. But then when you actually go in the UI and do a search, that's when the intelligence is applied to the data and it's extracted at that point and you actually apply a schema at search time. So if it's a Tomcat log and you have the app loaded for Tomcat, it's immediately going to know what every field in the Tomcat log means and how to interpret that. So when you get the visualization back in the UI, it's going to put them in names that a user can actually understand rather than the generic Tomcat name of one, two, three, four equals six and I have no idea what that means. I actually will know what that value is. And it's true of a lot of the apps that live on Splunkbase. Interesting, can we dive into a little bit more you talked about visualization kind of making the tools easier for somebody who doesn't have really the technical chops. So we're seeing a lot of over the last year or two companies like Tableau getting very popular and Cliktech to some degree. So what are you guys doing in that respect and are you trying to kind of compete in some way with those kind of tools? Or what are you doing in terms of visualizations and what's your approach to making all this data that comes from Cassandra and other sources through Splunk actually usable or someone that can make sense of it who's not a trained expert? Yeah, so I mean the whole point in Splunk from the beginning was to make it very easy for anyone to use it. Originally it was only available to work on the Splunk data store, the rapid indexing because that was the easiest thing to solve when it's your own technology. Since then there's been a number of, there's a MySQL app that's out there. There was a first generation to do BAP that was released last year. The new generation that's coming out at our user conference this year in a couple weeks as well as some early work on the Cassandra integration and generic NoSQL integration longer term but Cassandra is the first focus point obviously because I care about the community a lot and have been involved in it for a while. But so those pieces where you're able to use those storage engines on the back end and visualize directly in Splunk with all the same query language, all the computational, all the nice frames and different charts and tables that you have available out there. That whole approach is making it much, much easier for people whether they store their stuff in HCFS for long term storage and they're okay with waiting minutes, days, hours, however long it takes to run that query and return it in the UI in the back end so we can populate a dashboard so someone logs in every day. They've got their Hadoop job that runs in the back and populates their month over month or year over year or whatever it happens to be from a summary data perspective. Or whether it's knowing what happened in the last few minutes and you're pulling it directly from Splunk or whether it's knowing what's happened in the last, let's say 45 to 90 days and we're pulling that out of Cassandra or whatever other data stores out there. That whole point is to be able to visualize that together and enrich the data that's coming directly from the servers into Splunk and rich it with data from transactional backing stores which is what I did at the previous company with Cassandra and DSE is restoring actual steps in the transaction process which are very large XML payloads which is not ideal for Splunk. So store it in somewhere else but then be able to marry that back. I have an error on a web server in Splunk. I want to marry that with data on the transaction what the user actually inputted on the front end that caused that error to happen and then I can then marry that to the system data for the back end application stream. Draw correlations, they really drill down to what caused the problem. Right, it gets you to the RCA process very, very quickly and the more data sources you can add obviously the better that gets and Splunk is very good at specific data types and you know, textual based temporal data and not large payloads in single key value store space. You want just normal kind of, you know the any character kind of normal log type rather than the big set. So you need something else for that and that's where the NoSQL play comes in as well as HTFS and all the other stuff. Yeah, I mean, your point is well taken. I think that when we talk about big data and analytics it's all about bringing in multiple data sources to kind of enrich what you, maybe some of the analytics you've already been doing. I think if you're not bringing in external data sources like that, you're not really doing big data analytics in my opinion. So I mean, that's the key. To the extent that you can, you can talk a little bit about what you were doing at your previous job and kind of how that came about. I know Cassandra is a fairly new approach and I'm interested to hear about how you kind of came to work with Cassandra and how you got involved in the community. Sure, yeah, so like I mentioned back in .6, so I ran an architecture team, reported the CTO at the end of my previous position. But what we were doing is evaluating various data stores for replacing our legacy RDBMS stack that was huge and costly and had to live on sand that was very expensive and getting rid of a $60 million a year sinkhole in technology that really wasn't serving at the right purpose anyway. So the point of that is let's get to the right technology for the right solution. So my team was involved in evaluating technologies, both in open source as well as commercial products, figuring out what was the right solution from a performance vector as well as a cost vector for each of those scenarios. Cassandra came into play originally, the .5 in the lab and the .6 in production, came into play for a pricing index solution. So being able to build a quick index of recent pricing so that you could keep track of what the change rate was for specific pricing for specific items. That was kind of step one and it was all about building a package deals engine so you could package multiple components in the shopping cart and price it appropriately. And that's painful because it has a lot of different systems but if you can get that in an index where it's very rapid and can return back at least your best guess early and then when a customer drills out and makes some selections it may price a little differently but at least you're close based on the most recent. So that was the first use and there really was no other solution that did that well. On top of that, they actually did a solar leucine implementation on the front end and then did some app server in the middle that handled the getting the data in. Then when we moved that solution to DSE of course it's all in one now. The apps there, the stores there, the solar's there, we got rid of a very complicated and having to have someone who knew Scala which is not easy to find by the way, to get this working we went to something that just works. So that was kind of the next generation evolution of that when we went to DSE. Another really big use case for it was holding search payload results. So like I said, those are very large data sets. If you search for a particular market with everything in that market that could be gigabytes of data returned in XML, you need a place to put that and you want to break it out. So Cassandra was the natural way to parse that XML out and put the key values in for each GUID for the inventory item and the pricing structure which was not always just one price but the pricing structures and identify those it made it much, much easier to do that in Cassandra. Interesting, so Ed, so tell me a little bit about your impressions of the community itself. We talked to Jonathan a little bit about this and I think the community is very important when it comes to an open source technology like this as it kind of starts to take that across the chasm so to speak and move into the larger enterprise. They want a more risk-averse IT departments want regular updates, they want a solid, reliable community, companies like Datastack supporting it. So what's your take on the community? How has that kind of evolved since you've gotten involved? Well, I will say I felt really on my own early on with a lot of the stuff that was going on. Nobody was really sure what was gonna happen and we were adopting it knowing that it may become something we had to support.  I mean, the number of people that are getting involved, I mean, I've been on any number of forums talking to people, we've shared code snippets back and forth on exactly what we've done and interesting ways that we've approached the problems and I mean, there was a couple of things that we were going down, prototyping that we're just never gonna work but we of course didn't know that but then I was able to communicate with some other people in the community, Netflix being one of them, who was able to quickly say, oh, no, no, you don't wanna do that. Here's why that doesn't work. Here's what we found, you might wanna look at this and then I was able to share some data back with them on what we were doing with Solar and the DSE side. So it's very nice to have that community of people who can communicate and figure out what's going on and help set the direction for what we're doing and obviously today being named in the MVP, it was really important to me and helping to continue that. I just tweeted that you're on the queue but I also noticed that you tweeted and said, honored to be named Apache Cassandra Project MVP board at the summit this morning. Right. So congratulations. Thank you very much. What does that mean? I mean, tell us what that means for you personally but also from a functional role that you're working on. So personally, I mean, it's been involved in this for a long time. It's important, I mean, a long time in this space. Anyway, it's important to be kind of recognized as this part and be nominated by peers and be able to get this kind of role. Kind of what the role entails. I mean, obviously I think that's going to continue to evolve but at least being involved with this group of people who are named to this this morning. How many MVP's are there? I don't know how many there were in the list. 15? 15? So it's not 100. You're not like a number. Yeah, I'm not one of the 850 or whatever attendees here. It's a real on. Yeah, it absolutely is. And to be someone who's tested some pretty extreme use cases for Cassandra and then be able to do this and kind of help set future direction and some other, you know, both Cassandra and the team. Well, Jonathan was being polite when I asked him what the personality was of the community.  It's pretty well known in the back channels.  Not known for their marketing. I mean, obviously, Hadoop is out marketing Cassandra and others are getting a little bit more marketing. But I think that's going to change given what data stacks is doing. But I want to ask you something that Jonathan mentioned.  And one of the things he did say, among other things, was multiple data centers.  We've seen a shift on movement.document.silkenangel.com and Wikibon, converged infrastructures actually happening, storage networking and servers. With Moore's Law, servers have always been getting faster.  Storages have been the last kind of area where spinning disk is still kind of hanging around. But with SSD, Jonathan's quote was, it's the closest silver bullet you're going to find. And we've seen that really change the conversion infrastructure space. So given that you've lived in those old days of, you know, the latency and the huge, you know, server farms and disk farms, with SSD it's pretty game changing the economics. How is that changing the cloud, mobile, social data center? And how does that change some of the things like databases where the future is obviously dashboard driven? You're going to see, you know, real-time management of data as a table stakes. It's pretty obvious, you know, people will fall down their chairs and we talk to SAP and they're running stuff with SSDs now from five minutes to five seconds. So that's near real-time, five seconds is acceptable. We've got a, you know, major batch job. So it's a game changer, no doubt. How is that changing implementations and deployments of Cassandra and other environments where data-centric information is part of business? Well yeah, as a customer using TSE, it's kind of, it was an interesting use case when you go ask for money, right? And you got to say, I've now prototyped it. We want to implement this in production and you got to build a business case for it. And you say, well, here's our business case. We were going to buy two new SAN arrays next year. Instead we're going to buy one. And we're going to move, a lot of the data warehouse load that's on the SAN array, we're going to move to HDFS and a lot of the active database loads that have to be on there because of clustering and you have no other way for clustering to work in SQL but a SAN, really. We don't need those. We're going to put that stuff all on the 200 nodes of TSE that are going to be deployed in production. So let's just not buy a SAN. And it got a very interesting reaction. And they're like, wait a minute, can we use that money? No, no, no, no, you can't use that money somewhere else. Well it's very interesting because you basically take a two and a half million dollar investment in another EMC VMAX, right? And you say, I don't need that. What I need is a million bucks to go build out all these DAZ boxes with distributed file systems that don't need any of this. And yes, we're going to need SSDs in some portion of that because we have some data that needs to be live in memory all the time. But that's a small portion of what we're buying. So it's not like we're buying a bunch of expensive disks. In the HDFS perspective, everything is sitting on terabyte or two terabyte, cheap drives. It costs almost nothing. So obviously this is disruptive. Absolutely. So basically I'll translate. Folks, that means it's disruptive. So again, that validates some of the things we've been seeing around the economics and performance as our address with SSD. Now you have a whole new pallet, if you will, to draw from from a developer to solve the problems. You can now do more things. So as the EMC's threatened, they bought a company recently around SSDs. And you see Fusion IO and violin memory systems right down the street. You've got violin here, killing it. I mean, they're basically crushing it. But what that means is now new raw materials for developers. What does that change for the developer? Like you just essentially, did you like make that up? I mean, how did you get to that conclusion?  I mean, it's something that wasn't available before. Well, it's very interesting that, I mean, even developers have the ability to build and prototype so quickly now. Because you can do, literally when you're doing real-time builds and from our DevOps perspective of the teams that I worked with a lot on these solutions, they're able to do real-time builds four or five times a day because they have Fusion IO cards and the Ant servers and they have SSDs sitting in the Perforce servers to be able to serve up the content very quickly and then be able to do the builds live. You can do four builds a day when it used to take an entire day just to do a single build. So for velocity of release, for velocity of development, it's huge the difference that it's making. Yeah, I mean, what you just said about that use case with the sand is totally seeing. We've seen sands, sands are, spinning disk is going to be gone. We had the CEO of Scott Denson from Pure Storage. He believes that spinning disk will be a thing of the past. I think it's going to be more backup. I don't think it's going to go away. I think it's just going to be more like a but that's why I think Pat Gelsinger going to VM wears a big deal. Yeah, I agree.  You know where the future's going. They know.  And I think what you just talked about is the next wave. So with that, my final question is to you is DevOps. We have a new site called devopsangle.com so I'm going to pimp that out right there. It doesn't get a lot of traffic because it's a small community, but DevOps is really about the future development. Absolutely. Where dev and operations are intertwined. You know, whether it's ops dev or devops, it doesn't matter, they're merging together. What's your view about DevOps and what's your forecast of the future, the relevance of that kind of global description? Yes, really funny because I think devops came to pass because of socks. So developers wanted access to production. They had to be part of ops in order to get that, which was a funny way that it started, but now it's become key because you really need the developers to understand how their stuff's running in production, especially with these new solutions that rely so heavily on code to be deployed to even work. They have to be intimately involved in that. And I think it's going to do nothing but get more prevalent and more and more companies are going to have to move in that direction just to be able to keep up with the velocity of release that you have to have the expectations of a customer to get a six millisecond response. They're not okay with a second. They need milliseconds and under 10 milliseconds. You can't get that without having your developers intimately involved in operations and understanding how customers are using their code. We're at Eddie Satterley, who's from Splunk, seasoned veteran, a lot of knowledge, a lot of experience. And again, a lot of that experience comes from a lot of scar tissue from the dates of his experience. Cutting edge work with devops, congratulations in Splunk. And with Cassandra and Nominated to be an MVP, congratulations. I suggest for the younger folks out there, the younger developers should follow Eddie on Quora, heavily active and not even knowing who's going to be on theCUBE today. I favored one of his Quora posts, I thought was pretty epic, very active on Quora. Congratulations, you're a great resource and thanks for coming on theCUBE, appreciate it. Thank you very much. We'll be right back with our next guest after this break, silkenangle.com is theCUBE. We go out for the events to extract a segment from the noise and we'll be right back.


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Thank you for staying with us. You're still on to the breakfast on plus TV Africa and right now We're going to be looking at the paper review joining us to review these papers is Chris Kennedy Wander He's a member of the Chattered Institute of Appetrators in the UK, but joining us here in Lagos City was in Côte d'Ivoire Yes for the afghan that is currently happening And if you did not know Nigeria won their last game and so we are now in the quarterfinals But yes, Mr. Kennedy has come back without the trophy, but he might go back when When we you know get to the finals, but yes, how did you feel? Mr. Kennedy Mr. Wando when you heard that a prophet had prophesied that Nigeria was going to be eliminated from the rounds of 16 with whooping three goals You know Um Was just trying to catch It was just trying to catch cruise as we say again attention Yes, and second necessary attention And uh, but we knew that it was just don't forget in the past to go to two years now to go to three years Cameroon has never defeated Nigeria. Yeah, there used to be our greatest rival just like We know that the current It goes that way have Our beat us although there are slow starters as it were but Just like wine they were proven with every match and we look forward to that We need to see the stadium that way We took our eyes off the so-called fake prophet and you can see what he has said after that after the defeat He came out to give another analysis of why they played at the Cameroon Cameroonian players is not listening to what he said this and that but you know them They're everywhere and We're moving on we're moving on our focus is now on angola That we're going to meet and we know that we surely beat angola anytime anytime the name angola is Mentioned I remember one of my favorite players Samuel of Paragic made so recent Yeah Anyways, but are you are you confident that we might get to the finals and bring home that trophy? Anything can happen in football. You know, most people already wrote off a country like Cote d'Ivoire, you know, they qualify as the one of me Best losers Best losers as it were but yesterday they needed the defending champion before that match the Serega was only needed to have won all their three matches at afghan, but For quality matches It's moving and then the one if We do the penalty shooter so I believe that this correct problem of Supply who I visited a camp and I saw them. I saw their training Have so much confidence and then you can bet what we shouldn't do is underrating anything Yeah No matter how small they are look at keep that whoever beat that keep that 45 water finance When countries like Algeria, Ghana and Egypt are nearly needed so actually we can win But we're very optimistic that these singles can go on the way to the finals All right, okay enough of Let's go to the papers. We're going to start with a guardian this morning and there's quite There's quite one here that sounds funny. It says Nigeria Garn. I'm not starting with a major headline yet I'm since we're talking about african countries. So it says mind your garner lead west african's identity Cases, what do you think about that? Well That you know that garner and they are practically Have the same culture English-speaking countries they are also They are also colonized by the British They are members of the commonwealths I don't know apart from Gambia I don't know that west african Has six English like and but so the issue of the this identity issue has always been An issue over the years But let me don't bring it to you know, the problem we always had is that we've always said that should be that there should be a convergence of all this our identity Procedures and situate situation where in Nigeria we carry passport Carry another good go for pro-safety and another A metrics you want to do your people and you do another That's in a Back and can't you are at And the We have always said that I should be And so that we can have that if you look at this most of these Advanced countries you see an average american That's what it's called a national identity which card with the normally carry Anywhere I'm sure you must have seen that before. Yes. It's just like I don't know the national that identity that national identity That is what it should be In fact, when you hide that you have a green card as an american is that identity so you have a green card Does it have That identity is an identity card that you carry around and I can be the and I believe that it's the same thing Which we want to do in Nigeria and you know support Annoying part of it is that remember that recently As far back as about a year We have we are just we are asked to Get a name A name number and with that mean that so many things will be traced and they will produce the level of the security approach That has not worked. You can see on Italy these people are being kidnapped. I'm probably going to get in the shop and be I'm killing And our security assistance can still not be able to trace these numbers and you ask yourself What is the sense of that? problem that went through That's even a bank account People are lining up at a name and name offices Even if you even if you have to renew your passport as well For almost everything If you have to do even if you want to renew your passport, you have to go through the process all over again I see I can see a new Passport and not to miss an end problem Because you already have my maverick's you already have my fingerprints Why do I need to come to your office again to To do a maverick's of my finger and the rest of them and go through that process and stay another two three months Just before I can get the parcel. There's a lot of problem here and there which I think that These are challenges that if you go to some countries now, I just came back from video If you that should just leave in the airport or you need to collect your passport from I put it on a scanning and ask you to look straight into a camera once that camera recognizes you you are off You are off. The first time I saw that was in Dubai You just look at the camera the camera will look at the same move your glass You move your glass just put into the camera the camera automatically More like a face ID thing That is all face ID that is good if you are good if you are here a small country But the idea that you go through custom will do this immigration will do that and the rest of them It doesn't help us out Sometimes I wonder why we're gathering all of this data and we're not even using them For the former minister is even doing a crowdfunding for for kidnappers, you know Even another story was sourcing for money to be ransom. Yeah talking about kidnappers another story here says 2423 people killed 1872 people kidnapped kidnapped in eight months under precedent to new boom The figure is far more than that You know that that I believe that that is what has been reported In general is in that's what we call reported cases For that reported cases. I've tell you that over it is For every one case that is reported against I can tell you that over 30 or 50 were not reported So we're having more than that. There are so many cases that were not being reported There's so many that the president The families are just contacting the kidnappers But you know when they kidnap you the first thing they tell you is that you know report to police or else we We kill your brother.   So people get afraid They don't report to the so this one is the one that are documented But the one that are not documented as so many that you'll be so shocked by the number of kidnappings And we thought that this was a 18 of the past the government came out with so much promises that the level of insecurity is overmade whether it is This government's where and something needs to be done immediately just three days ago a prominent politician Chairman of PDB in Lagos that was kidnapped along the Lagos in Padre's press where although he hasn't been released But some of his colleagues were died in that process You go to Abuja So the five since Ladies that were kidnapped one family one was killed then have been all sorts of kidnapping Kidnapping was something that we never heard of in Lagos apart from the days of was that precious kidnapper Advanced advanced yes advanced But after it was captured and that in relation to back now in Lagos, it's very very unsafe to move around certain areas in Lagos expressway Especially And a lot of ransom is being taken not as if for 500,000 As if for 20 million 13 million How can an average Nigerian that is finding difficult to feed himself able to afford so our secret agencies need to strategize and make sure that they put their boots on the ground and in the same Outlet is getting so serious and nobody will say anywhere in those days Someday a month and years back We look at some states as safe safe weapons for Nigerians where he can comfortably stay and bet No place is safe again. No place is safe and I would have depressed that who is currently in France Is a on top of this game. He has spoken to security chiefs. They say they're going to do something about It seems that it's getting worse by the day It's interesting to even know that Most of the papers today the major headlines are about Yeah, security The punch says kidnapping kidnapping a pandemic over 17,000 Nigerians abducted under Buhari and Tinibu And then there's a rider that says Buhari 90% Tinibu 10% obviously President Tinibu Just came into office a few months ago And then he also talks about how abductors killed two akt monacs Also, when you look at the nation, it says security men raise bar in battle against kidnappers It's sad that this is the story of the day and this is what we keep talking about almost Almost every time we're here. There's always a security story and talking about, you know, kidnapping But I hope that something is being done to curb this and so that we're just we're safe in our own land We're safe in in Nigeria because one thing you don't want is not to feel safe in your own home And that's the reason why a lot of people are doing this whole jackpot thing Everybody's leaving because they tell you oh, Nigeria is a hot spot and I can't leave there But we're hoping something is something is being done. Yeah Yeah, let me just Okay, I just came back I was shocked that I was walking on the streets of Kodewa at 12 o'clock 1 a.m And most of the houses There was a gate we're open at 12 1 a.m when we're walking around Because at the point after the match inside to just trek and it was a long distance We say oh, we have some They say no, no, no. Don't worry. Just go off problem So many of the houses Where their gates you seek apart the gates were open at 12 midnight No single harassment And they say it's not as good as because of the But they say no, that is always been like that Of shoes and I was just my mind just crossed back to Nigeria leave your beach open at 7 Oh, leave your car You would not find your side mirrors. You would not find your gearbox My goodness That is dangerous It's like one time when someone was watching television with the family with a generator and the next thing he heard The teams came with the car put the generator while it was still working and then just moved That's when the light was disconnected. They came out Okay, well Most times we like to concentrate on what is happening in Nigeria on the papers, but there's also a security issue And a diplomatic issue here that would like you to address Mali Burkina Faso, Niger exit may weaken Two hundred and twenty seven seven billion Dollar Ekoas Street that's according to a report. We've seen that these countries are exiting from Ekoas and It's reducing the number of the Ekoas countries and now they're talking about how much of this effect it will have on The trade of Ekoas. What do you think? Yes, um, my personal opinion, I think the Ekoas government leaders dropped the ball They could have engaged these three countries better and More robust and the more strategic in order to bring them within the four years. They went out of their way to have For the coups to To happen in those three countries and which is against Ekoas put up a bet even that when you have a child You have the 12 15 children and since three of them is baby.  Don't come back to this house What you try to do is try to win them back win their love try to Pet them as it were and they're going to get it best out of their bet The Ekoas Government we are not strategic enough and they throw away the child with the bad What and that is what is happening now The implications are very especially for a country like my collection on the back is three countries DJ for instance It's you want to get to the DJ but I don't know the difference between Nigeria and DJ It's just you just walking and a lot of A lot of insecurity Insurgents coming to that DJ Republic assets and and go out and that is a big problem for us. So we need to be very very careful The second one is also the step of us. I want to show this Back open by make these countries have been embraced by Russia And you can see that Russia mercenaries are now embedded in these countries and is a big threat to Nigeria. So if We are last Russia to be Take a strong within these three countries equal to be a problem as well third one for me is that, you know by the Ekoas but the true movement of goods and services I travel to Kodewa. I didn't even turn it a pizza to put Kodewa or Ghana or any West African country But with this now, we are going to go to Mali and any of these three countries from what is going to happen If they say that they run themselves, they need a passport and probably their cities So it's a very very big problem Which I think that the echo has held up state being led by our president should be able to handle this moment shortly more diplomatically And be able to but the other side to it is that there have been instances in the past Where one of the countries also hesitated after some year came back And I think Mauritania was one of the some part of one point they wanted to Is it the Ekoas but after about four five came back But there's also been a country One of the North African countries, I don't know which one I'm not trying to So they want to be members of the Ekoas because they think that they do that then And the big influence of goods and services to improve into West Africa and it's going to be But I think that this issue can be Properly and diplomatically handled we can engage them We can engage the countries that we know that there are some circumstances Every country has a pillar well in as much as we are planning to Cool it that but also find out that the politicians that were there before the people were they doing what they want to do politics democracy is government of the people by the people and what if you see most of our African countries The way our leaders Behave they get to office the next thing they want to do is to change constitution so that they can run forever The president want to be a lifetime president He doesn't want to engage if he doesn't want to restrict himself to two terms or one term or whatever them that is That is why I commend somebody like The judge up on we are the president of Liberia who has just Uh, just lost his city to arrive at you can see the way our manna with which he went about that When he was he lost he graciously embraced the new president gave him what the necessary Corporation and left the stage that is what is supposed to be that in in Africa is never the Zombie rule for 30 50 years and they want to hand over to the adjudge. Is that democracy? Well, um, sorry, I was just going to add to what you said If we look at the daily trust echo us crisis Nigeria at the receiving end and the riders are citizens will require visas to travel across exiting countries Just like you said Terrorists might up their game. So they're saying people might start to stir up troubles. Um, and then we will be poor as says Um dawn, so we're hoping that's you know, the negotiations Come good for them not to actually exit echo us But yeah, you were going to say something. Yeah, well, I was just doing just going to uh another story Still on the punch not daily trust lawmakers accuse Fubara of unlawful conduct governor wants pro-wiki appointees the drama in River state is not ending. I don't know episode what we've entered right now episode 523 What's your take what is happening in river state? That is at once in seven I say something last time, I think it was on the start club program that I said it at In as much as a lot of people might just think that but I guess I know that the guy is not living on the expectation Maybe shock that this guy was playing some kind of game that he wanted to get his mandates for the supreme court Don't forget that the federal government's atmosphere And the ruling party If they decide to swing it as a possibility that they can swing it that happens to several and several times again I remember what's up in my state of being He doesn't want to come in and election was petrified in the governor of the state And so anything can happen. So he is just starting. He just is time to pressure that He's a little solidified Like supreme court, which has cut it now that if you listen to him yesterday, he said that He warned the so-called Commissioners that we are also not to give him problem and not to give his government problem. What is he saying? He's saying that for whatever reason There's anything that happens as a possibility that you might just Bite and you know, he has been backing that bite. So that is one second. He also realized that So it's depending in the state just yesterday. He has gone out the Um Pete I'll swan in or whatever appointed the former the s Were a passionate speaker As his chief of staff the former chief of staff that was appointed by me as people. So that Passionate speaker that had the force because Followed me because good team have not been appointed the substantial chief of staff And you know the role of chief of staff most people use the chief of staff is more of text Deputy governor of the state. So he might be trying to is trying to consolidate that the war is not over and But I know that it's going to be very very tough between him and members of the legislative and majority of which are awareness of Weakie. Let's hear this panzer and see How this works, but he has to assert himself as a governor is no longer a But He is the governor of a previous state. Weakie is no longer a problem. Weakie is the minister of the fc and he should restrict himself to the fc There are lots of things happening in the fc. That should be of concern to the minister kidnapping and killing in fc He has never been this far since 1999. I think that should be me of me concerned to him. Although he has started blaming politicians and um And the best that should be of my concern to him if anything happens Abuja, then he'll be held responsible And why are talking of the security to come to us? Oh, no, that's the seat of power He made most of the all all the embassies are in Abuja So the safety of life and properties of Nigerians and non-migrants Is within the privilege of the fc minister as well as the federal government And if we're not able to arrest it, it gives very very terrible signals to the national committee who we are trying to To come and invest in Nigeria I can only come to the government of an individual as I come and invest in the country that we have I had level of insecurity As of this morning we had is now $1,500 to a dollar and Power is collapsing on it. There is a lot of problems facing this government and I hope that It's no longer time for talk. It is not time to work the talk. It's close to eight months now This government must keep the ground running because Nigerians are already running out of patience with it Yeah, all right. Um, so there's another one here on the punch. It says federal government us sign MOU to train police special squad commands commanders So we've heard that the police have said the tracking device shortage is hindering them from probing into cases, especially with this whole kidnapping epidemic that's going on in the country But is this really a good thing? I'm sure it's a good thing But what is the impact that this would have with the federal government and the us signing an MOU to train the police special squad commanders This is a good sign. It's a good team We need all the necessary assistance that we can get Both locally and foreign But locally That's the problem we have part of the problem is trust what I call the trust between the citizens and the security agencies Nigerians are not willing to Show to the security just individually for that when it's done, then it will trace back with them then used to call to them You see in the past few months all sorts of Um videos going on going on on session. We can go up into Nigeria police How they have harassing Nigeria Try to stop Nigeria's latest one. You know, you saw the one that happened in there just a few days ago Where an officer and a SP was insisting that somebody must transfer 100,000 or whatever to his account and first time So the police first and foremost have to make sure he reaches his force Of illegal elements and undesirable elements. Who seems to have found themselves into the Nigeria police? They will take it from they also realize that from because some of the security agents and the security agents are also getting involved That security agents, okay, I can I can you can see me now. Yes, we can we can hear you You know, some of the security agencies also go as far even renting out their rifles to criminals That is So back to the question in that This is a good thing. What about a system we can get from foreign countries in terms of trading equipment mapping out the equipment tracking the equipment that can assist us in In making sure that we have to track this thing has to be a Very important to Nigeria and that these are people that have done it and done it all the way But it's not just having the necessary equipment to have any But we must also invest so much on intelligence most security Most security now and need in the board which be more proactive Not reactive. It's not when they kidnap people. That's around around that's time for this. How do we prevent this with this?  Let us get that right. There is no country from the united state but the fact is that Even if it happens How often or how quick do you have to do you apprehend? Those that were involved and how quick do you also make sure that they're prosecuted? So a lot of things why the police are doing that? We also look at the judiciary because if the judge you pick them up I can't detect them to God and they cannot be prosecuted and sent there That's because a lot of them because they put them because they know that not this will happen Nothing happened. Yeah, that is not the way to go. Um, but I I love the corporation between the united states and I hope that other international countries also help us start Present problem. We are having a cost in my interior when it comes to show of insecurity All right, um, even though personally, I don't like the picture of the person who Was supposed to be the trainer of us court commanders. You know, there's something a picture says and Anyway, it may just be the person we need, but I just don't like the look Okay, it should be a fit person That's going to train our court commanders. You know, you know, there's always that thing where they say Our police officers you expect them to be fit and but then you're seeing people with like bare bellies You're seeing people that look like they don't They never went into their camps where they do their whole rigorous straight because I remember when I when I went for my Youth service you have to you know, do all of this drilling and stuff and that kind of like makes you fit So when you look at the average policeman, you're like Did you go through it? Anyway, so I'm still on the point but moving to the um, What do they call it daily trust? We start with the naira falls to all-time low at official market sells at 1348 naira per dollar and in daily trust we have that naira plunges to 1500 naira at the parallel market. So it's getting worse and worse and worse The pressure is getting worse So just to add on the nation. Um, it also says the cbn injects 500 million Dollars into forex market. So so just talk to us Yes, the The naira is thinking It is a crisis for Since 1960 that we got This is how it has never seen the history of Nigeria We had the naira is going for about 1,100 and I Brings my heart Because I continue to compete Nigeria I will never return to similar countries the It is about 600 or 600 which is 600 and 660 say for two a dollar That is what has changed at the currency 660 Now when you look at naira that we're having a 1,512 dollar you can do demand almost three times As the Niger currency used to be far far far higher and that that is safer in the past Then you say what is happening? Yes, cbn is suggesting 500 million Well, you can also you also understand that we're told some few weeks back That then the pc got about is it three billion dollars From certain source to be able to push the effect of this naira on it as I said What happened to that money? How come that we have not had effect? Just last week the former The presidential candidate of the qidi I think we have we can raise that Allah must say the government collected Two dollars and they were collecting about three billion dollars from certain Country to be pushing the effect. What has happened? I think we jetted the system We are not having any effect. So a lot of problem What I know is that a lot of spegration is spegration is going on separation is going on the economy To some people have some so-called rich people are buying up this dollar and I've taken that for free They're buying it keeping it and weighing it There has to be a special using naira to buy a lot of dollars going to millions and keeping it somebody An economic is ever said that but it's more important to be impartial means that It's consuming mission and also to continue to do that. They were not going to have it Onto me to start producing exporting Prodots and services and any more dollars. It's going to be a problem The refinery we spent practically we bought practically close to 90 percent of our Our refined orders from abroad and we pay for it in dollars Which is why some of us say that it's good that the refineries are working Let it get to them Then put the refineries also start working so that we have depend less on importation and return most of this money in Nigeria Well, that has to change the price of petroleum We will have to also look at other critical areas like agriculture Mining and other critical areas where we can also export a sport produce and end others But as it is it is not looking at that if you don't take our time The next in the next two three months will be hitting $2,000 Naira to enter that. What that means is that if you had about 10 million Naira in your camp as of January last year That's a million must have come to the valley must have come to make a five six Even four million now that is terrible. That is not the way to go $2,000 to do that. That is quite a scare, but it's very close.  What other ways can we, you know, export things in order to drop down? You know the the price of the dollar to the Naira Because I know one other way I was even thinking about yesterday was why are we not really doing anything about tourism? because tourism is a good export for Countries like Dubai, countries, places like Maldives and all of that But I know that our security challenges is one of the major Facts of why we're not having tourists, you know, coming to Naira. So what are the ways we can start to export tourism? security like I mentioned the Maintenance of all of these facilities the other day I saw a video about the leaky conservation center of which the legacy government said they had fixed the the What's it called the long bridge? I've gotten the walkway something walk. Yes, the canopy walk, right So they fixed it now, but all of these things the maintenance the security challenges. How do we start to You know, put all of that in place to ensure that we can start to have tourism as one of our biggest exports Yeah I know but I want to get your thoughts on it as well Yeah Yes, yes Let me tell you for free. One of the best stories is And there is called the Yankari game reserve is in Fauci I've been there once You need to see the game reserve Betz Now nobody goes there You can't even try to go there because Banks can't pass, it will be now You can't find your way there. That is it. That's insecure Josh used to be one of the best most people most in our country to to Nigeria When I was growing up we had of just just just and when I went to just our shop Josh used to have one of the best weather in this tree that it is almost the same weather with euro most foreigners come to Nigeria to stay to good job In the past few weeks, I must have seen the number of killings in just and glad to stay That is a tourism center They used to show what donatou did with Across across the country. What's that equality with the game? Tinapa and over the ranks results I think napa or something Yes, tinapa That was supposed to be a world-class tourism center and Crossed its time competing with most west african countries and even african countries when it came to tourism Immokie came in Keep on bad on it and starting facing something else. So that is what Just used to be a very long place I would let me still believe that it let me still say it is a long place You go to bar beach We are surrounded.  We had a boat ride for about 45 minutes on the On the high sea in the It is just a water surrounding the airport or the year surrounding the airport Very beautiful people go there and relax people come from outside So that is one of the greatest revenue that kia gets on this one tourism I know you have heard about The tourism in kia and a lot of people go to go for safari what they call safari in kia So we can build on all this. So it's not just about just exporting or exporting or There's very many other areas we can look at If you go to fair Wonderful tourism area go to our show go to your state Go to can so many areas Nobody will come to a country knowing fully whether traveling from even from abuja to katuna that you can be key I I you see that the advisory Um information news being given by various embassies or the On the TV pieces do not come to Nigeria and if you come to Nigeria that is 30 of 36 they should you should not visit Then what is the story what are we going to go about tourism? So on to be able to handle the issue that's why we say that everything is hint on security If you can be able to handle our security as it were Then everything we we we rise up there was to look at area of power Power the sms are practically died. We are not producing anything. Nobody's producing anything right now Because because of diesel the cost of petroleum is so expensive that even the ordinary barber the ordinary Symmetry the guy that don't organize them both of them Just ask yourself how much we are using to to retire I want to just ask yourself how much is it for you to come a single time is about 500 Yeah, it used to be 59 in those days. It moves to 100 In fact, someone insisted that we must pay one thousand to just pump and patch one time That is how bad the situation has become. So It's a problem. It's a holistic Yes, tourism is good. Nigeria is South Africa makes so much money from tourism. A lot of people go to south africa Even Nigeria The flight Well, I hope that we start to take out our focus from oil from crude rather and start to look at other things like agricultural tourism In fact, I was asking myself currently the african is happening in Cote d'Ivoire Can Nigeria host the afghan anytime soon or even the world cup that is that is a very big thought question But anyways, this is what we're going to drop it off here on this segment We'll be reviewing the papers with um, chris king day one. Do thank you so much sir for coming here and Given your valuable contributions as always. Thank you so much. Yes. Thank you very much I stand off which is what you just said about asco If you know the number of people that came into Cote d'Ivoire and the money they brought dollars It was dollars, not in their local people We are bringing dollars in cities where people line up at the effort to exchange dollars for the local currency That is we did economy. That's a They're making so much money from that. So who's going to come here for any Anyway, have a wonderful day and I'm back. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much All right, we've been speaking to chris king day one Do he's a member of the chattered institutes of arbitrators in the uk and he was joining us from here Is been joining us here in lego states. We'll go on a quick break and when we return we'll be talking about The fact that the police has said that they cannot, you know Really probe into matters because of the lack of tracking devices, but yes, just stay with us. We'll be right back


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And also I'm gonna be live streaming tonight and giving even more away. And if you do end up buying some and using my code beatemups, you'll get free shipping. So buy some too if you wanna get more than the free. Also, I wanna add that gamer subs is keto friendly which means it has zero calories, zero sugars. It's organic caffeine. They also have caffeine free options which means you can get electrolytes. It's lead free and also it all comes down to about 32 cents a serving. So this is definitely the way to go. Let me show you the game room. We'll start back over here because this area is still gonna take some imagination like it did initially. It hasn't really changed that much other than putting up some fun pictures here. They put up the Splatoon picture here. Oh yeah, honestly it looks, you need to get like a little light for it because it looks very high end. I know, I actually was kind of impressed with it at the end of the day. I was like, you know what? Hanging on the wall, it looks really cool. You just need one of those little lights. Oh, you know what?  Name the painting. Oh God. So I've got all my camera stuff here now and my plan is to get rid of this and also get rid of this. Put like fake brick in here.  I have no idea what's happening in this room yet. I really have no clue. But obviously I've put all my glass cases here but the lighting for these glass cases cost like $80 and I tried to very rig this one myself which costs like 40 bucks and it just looks horrible. You can see all the wires in it. It's gross. I do like this. There's just something really empty about it. Or doing the fake grass wall.  A giant pipe behind here. It's piled up. It's almost time for a fan mail video. But this is almost finished. There's just some blank walls that I wanna try and put some things on. I built a set here. I haven't really utilized it in videos much yet but I definitely utilize it while I stream. So I stream standing or sitting here with the camera pointed back and it makes a really nice set. That's actually kind of cute. It's actually kind of sick. Oh God. All right, okay, all right. I'm not trying. No. I feel like standing in front of that would be a cool. Yeah, I'm just too tall. So I'm trying to convince the cats and Kim to like actually sit here with me. And these are really cool. I think I've showed that before. Kim and I design, you can design the shape yourself. Right now I've set it to full colors but you can set it to any color you want. You can have it like white. And then you can also do things cool like this and then it reacts to my voice. Oh, that's cool. Which is pretty cool. Oh my God, look at him in the sun patch. Hey, buddy. Getting all hopped up on sunshine, pal. He's so cute. All right, my little gaming setup. I do have to get a new couch. This is the couch they left and it's very ugly and very brown. It just doesn't go with- No, it's hideous.  In my last studio space, which was literally just a room, I didn't have any windows. And as we're getting blasted by light, you can probably tell there's double window walkouts right here, which has been really nice to actually get some sun in the day. I kind of want to do a Nintendo Switch collection video. Oh boy. So I guess we won't go into everything I have right now. This is the game wall, which a lot of people say it looks like a video game store. I have my 3DS collection up here, my Vita collection over here. I always forget how many Vita games I have. My PS3 collection, which is mostly just exclusive games. My Wii U and Wii collections. My 360 collection, which is one of my favorite collections. I've got quite a few of those, and I've actually played all of these. This was the era that I started collecting games. So I started holding onto my actual games. Also, Kana PlayStation 4 stuff, which I've played a lot of.  The Xbox One, PlayStation 2, and then actually quite a bit of GameCube. And it's a mix- Man, that's a lot. Yeah, this is all the PAL GameCube, the GameCube logo at the top. And then this is the American GameCube with the GameCube logo at the bottom, which has always frustrated me, but...  So fun. I got a little here. Where does the Switch section end right there? The red. So four shelves of just Switch. Yeah, so when we moved in here, the plan wasn't to have a whole wall like this. I initially only ordered enough shelves up to here, and I was going to put everything in here. By the time I actually got it all localized onto the shelves, I realized there was literally no room for anything other than Switch. Then I had to buy the rest for everything else. And it's still not enough. Yeah, so all the Switch games through here, down there, we have all the consoles are like here and over here on my special editions, which I have most of them at this point. I know I'm missing the Fortnite one, for example. The only one you're missing? There's a couple. I do have the rarest Nintendo Switch. We've talked about that. The Disney one, thanks to Steven. And then some really cool collectible stuff. I love the Bayonetta and Astral Chain collector editions. I like that they look the same. Look really cool. They look really cool. Then I have some, a ton of limited run stuff. For a while, I was collecting every limited run thing I could. And then I just stopped because it got kind of ridiculous. And then as well as limited run, I also have every super rare game. I don't know if you guys remember, but initially when Super Rare as a company started, I worked with them to announce all of the games they were making. So I think I announced the first like 20 or 30 of their games. And since then, they've been nice enough to keep sending me the malls. I will do an actual collection video at some point. The whole thing. And maybe I just won't get into it at the second. Some people said when I put this up, like, what are you gonna do once you get more Switch games? Well, because you think I can't find room, I can't. They're like, they're everywhere. I've got Switch games piling up back here. You've got an entire case of them there that you told me to put so you'd remember to play them. Yeah, these. So these are the ones I want to play. So when I buy a game with the intention of playing it, but then don't get around to it, I don't want to throw it in the collection because I'll forget. I'll literally forget that I have it and that I bought it. So this bin is just a bin full of games that either I wanted to play or I wanted to review for some reason. Actually, some of these could go on the shelf. Like dragon, I finally finished that one. There's also like Japanese games here that I bought recently. These obviously, some people think it's really cringe to hang up your play buttons, but I really do take pride in the achievement and everything we've accomplished as a community. I would like to stop the stigma of being proud of yourself. I know, people like- I'm so sorry. I really sent me this. I'm hanging it up. We own that, everybody. I don't know, I like it. Also, I've never got to get another one. The next one's at what, like 10 million? Yeah, so I just- That's it, that's all I'm getting. But yeah, I think that's really the studio right now. I mean, if you guys can recommend anything for the walls, anything cool, because like I have a lot of blank space up here and around these corners, I wouldn't mind filling with art or some cool lights or something. I don't want to keep saying the name, but that whole thing we talked about was very stressful and a bit of a nightmare, but it all worked out for the best. And you know what, that kind of symbolizes this whole move. We moved here and we were really excited. And then both Kim and I went through a lot of change anxiety and we're still dealing with it a lot. It was hard to make videos for a while. It was hard to do anything for a while. We got anxious just trying to leave the house. Everything is so great here and everything that we wanted. It was almost overwhelming. It sounds so stupid to be like, it's so good that we got scared to experience it, but that's what we've been experiencing. And it's only been lately that we're starting to feel settled and more like we belong here. Simey. Simey just loves it. Simey belongs here. He's having a great time. You like your new house and your sun patch? Yeah, Jesus. Oh, no. Ah, no. Oh, hello.  You guys wanted a little tour of the studio. I hope you liked it. Where are you going? We had a really cool shot. Look at him. Take me. Anyway, as I was saying, thank you all for joining Kim and I on this journey. Please click that link down below and support and game us up. And they've been so freaking cool. They've made so many assets and brand kits for me to use. Giving away that free stuff too is really awesome. Thank you guys. And don't forget, I'll be live on Twitch tonight, giving away not only a ton of gamer subs, but also a ton of eShop codes and credit and games and codes for games on the Switch, a ton of stuff. We're going to be playing games on Twitch. I'm going to be giving away games on Twitch tonight. All right. Bye.


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This is TFNN, The Tiger, Financial News Network. News update. Good morning, folks. This is Steve Rhodes, coming to you live from the shores of sunny, very sunny Delray Beach, Florida. This is your 9 a.m. update out here. And currently we have US equity futures trading the upside. The Dow futures up 124 points. The Nasdaq up 143. That's a little over 1% right now. The ESMini's up 30. The Russell's up 13 points. If you look across the globe last night, it was green arrows in Asia and Australia. You had the Shanghai or Hangsang actually finished up nearly 3% to the upside. The DAX up 1% right now. The FTCH is up 3.10%. So everything is set up here. As you can see, like last Friday when we were together, and the Friday before, the handoff from international markets to the US should allow US indices to continue to trade higher. And I expect with that spot volatility, trading below its 50-day expenditure moving average, that in fact that is likely to happen out there. Now, levels to be watching during the day out here. If you take a look at just simply the index ETFs, the spies, the cues, the diamonds, the IWM. The levels that you're looking for are their prior swing points. In the case of the spy, it's 408.57. You get a close above that. That tells you that we have a change in trend and a further rally, a rally that should last for the next week or two out here. In the case of the cues, the level you're looking for is 306.56. That's its prior swing. You get a close above that price and you go target its next resistance level. That's at 316.69. The Dow Diamonds level you're looking at is 327.10. It's already above that I can tell you in the pre-market because it in essence closed just below that yesterday. So close above this suggests a further rally inside of the Dow. The Russell 2000, 182.64. It actually closed at 182.72 yesterday. So the real resistance level for it is the top of its profile and that's at 183.92. Closes above those levels here today folks are going to suggest that we have a further rally. Now that doesn't mean we don't see a retracement. In fact, we should see some kind of retracement. That begins, maybe it's that, maybe it begins on Tuesday. We come back, maybe it's a Tuesday or Wednesday, but we should begin to see some type of retracement out there. If you take a look at the cash indices, the levels you're looking at for here in the Dow is a close above 32654. That says we had higher. 4090, 4091 basically in the S&P says we had higher. 12564 for the NASDAQ 100. 1840 and the Russell 2000. 3071 in the semis and the New York Stock Exchange has already said we're going to have higher out there. It's already taken out its prior swing point. Folks, stay tuned for Tommy O'Brien the morning market kickoff and have a fantastic holiday weekend, a fantastic Friday and I'll see you Tuesday morning at 8 o'clock. Take care.