Live from Miami Beach, Florida, extracting the signal from the noise. It's theCUBE, covering.nextconference. Brought to you by Nutanix. Now your host, Dave Vellante and Stu Miniman. Welcome back to Miami Beach, everybody. This is Dave Vellante. Stu Miniman, D-Rush Pandey is here as the CEO of Nutanix Next Conference. First conference ever, you must be thrilled. Almost a thousand people here, congratulations. Thank you, it's exhilarating to say the least. And then being the first is always special. And Miami, the hotel, the atmosphere, the perfect demos, the vision. Monkey dance. Yeah, the monkey dance, you know, all that. I think it all just settled down well, so. We're struck when the conference got started, the keynote got started, everybody expected to see you. It was your first customers up on stage.  Who came up with that idea? It was genius. I think it was a group effort. Obviously Howard Ting, our SVP of marketing, is also a genius when it comes to really talking about messaging and either showman. Just like every good company needs one, you know? And the best part is that he's also had product management background in the past, so he knows how to weave product with marketing. Talking about the three H's. Hungry, honest, and humble. And I think it's people who know you, know you as a humble individual. Maybe you hire showman, but you yourself. Where'd that come from? What's that mean to you and your customers? Also people confuse the way we deal with competitors. That arrogance as, oh, they're not humble. And I say, you know, within the family of employees, customers, and partners, we are extremely subservient. I mean, borderline subservient, actually. With the competition, we are a bit different because at the end of the day, we don't have an overlap of interest with the competition. So we are a little bit schizophrenic, you can call that, you know, when it comes to dealing with competitors, dealing with people who really matter. And I think hunger and honesty are just, I think it's ingrained in the DNA of this company now. And I wouldn't say it's me or it's just everybody that came together and said, look, if you don't build honest products, you know, you'll actually get killed along the way. And that paranoia actually has kept us honest. You know, when we hired Stu in 2010 out of EMC, we said, Stu, pay attention to what Google and Amazon are doing and then project that onto the enterprise, because whatever they're doing, the enterprise is going to be doing in five years. You guys must have had similar conversations and actually put that into products. Can you take us sort of back to the beginning? Absolutely, I mean, if you go back 15 years, actually, not just the founding of Nutanix, but 15 years when Linux was being tested in the enterprise, was basically the web skill guys who really tested Linux to the health. When it came to IDE drives that became SATA drives eventually, it was basically the web skill guys doing it. MySQL, the web skill guys did it first. All of- Yeah, the LAMP stack. All of Hadoop and the LAMP stack actually came from the web skill guys. Flash, actually. The first mass scale use of flash was actually Google and Facebook. Yeah, Fusion.io. And then Google was using flash for auto-complete and all that stuff. So, and from there on, everything is actually seeping the enterprise. So, the architecture, CPU and the enterprise were not anything new for us. We knew it was going to happen. The big challenge was legacy applications. What do you do about them? Because you can't just throw them away. One of the luxuries of web-scale companies is that they just write applications bottom up for the first time. And they don't have to worry about carrying the legacy along. So I think the big thing that the design point we had was what do we do about legacy? And we very religiously said, look, we've got to carry the legacy along. Yeah, I wonder if I can unpack that a little bit. I think back to the early days of server virtualization. In many ways, server virtualization helped me stick with my old applications. I mean, I think back in 2002, one of the earliest use cases I knew of was, hey, Windows NT, the server's going to go end of life, end of support, I can stick that in a VM, I can leave it there forever. And I can change the underlying hardware. So server didn't matter anymore. The big air gap we have today is how do I get to more modern applications? What's going to enable it? Things like platform as a service, containerization all kind of help that. How do you guys help? As I said, there's the old, there's the new, transition stuff. What's Nutanix's role in that transition? Yeah, so obviously the architecture is the same both ways. If you look at the scale up apps or the old client server apps, and if you look at let's say MongoDB or Cassandra or any of these next generation apps, we actually have a common substrate, the distributed storage fabric, the app mobility fabric, they're all going to be able to work across both these islands. And the next generation apps actually still need the 20 years of tax that Oracle paid with resiliency, availability, disaster proofing, all that stuff. How do you do data guard? Which is Oracle's flagship disaster recovery product with Cassandra or with MongoDB? How do you do strict consistency? How do you do geographical replication, synchronous replication, backups, all those things that those taxes have to be paid. And we just pay that automatically. Basically we've paid all that stuff in the last five years. So what partnerships are most important for that? How do you kind of build an ecosystem? We kind of say, IT today is moving from point products up to a platforms with extensible APIs and you can't do it along. I've seen some of the partners you've here, but is Nutanix the platform? Is, where's the platform? Where's the ecosystem? How's that fit? You know, I personally like the word platform but I also don't like it because the notion of platform has an element of hubris built into it. The fact that now you have arrived. It's the thing that really came together for everybody. And there's a right of passage to becoming a platform company. So if I were to say we are a platform today, I'd be remiss if I said that. But I think working really closely with the application guys, having all our people, all our employees understand apps with solution architects and sales engineers and support engineers and our developers to really understand apps and that we have done a pretty good job of. When I say that we've carried legacy along with us on this new architecture, it's because of our understanding of apps and not just apps with security, better than anybody else. So we have folks who really understand Oracle Deep and Microsoft Deep and Splunk Very Deep and so on. So our best friends are actually going to be the app guys because they are also the ones who actually struggle to get time to market going when they actually go to deploy something. Splunk guys they suck wind when it comes to time to value because it takes them forever to carve out a learn from EMC and get some server capacity and then realize it's not a capacity issues, a performance issue because it's Splunk indexes won't work and so on. The exact same problem that virtual desktop guys had are the problems that Splunk guys have, the problems that Oracle Database guys have and so on. They all would like to really figure out how to embrace infrastructure that's invisible. So the gardener guy Ray Poquette talked about mode one and mode two. Stu, you mentioned IDC platform two, platform three. Are you like mode one and a half? Are you a half way house? Are you driving toward mode two? I wonder if you could sort of clarify that. I think I would look at us as mode one point five because we're trying to really take the legacy along with us, the legacy apps, although the architecture is mode two. So, and this is the only way the baton would have passed gracefully otherwise enterprises would have given up. You saw what happened to all the open stack companies. They're nowhere, Nebula, and this and that but they didn't think through legacy. Legacy was a very important part of building any large business actually. So I would say that from the app point of view, we are at one point five. The architecture point of view, we are at two and the two is dragging the one along to get to one point five. So it's like Vinod Kosil said, if sun was under pressure to become a VT 100, you know, lookalike for a deck vac. So you have that similar pressure. How do you fight it off? I think it's going to be a combination of packaging and distribution beyond just technology. And I'll tell you what I mean by that. So DevOps consumes products differently. You want to buy a commodity off the shelf and put software on top. So quite a few of these guys would actually be comfortable buying software from us. And it's going to price that scale with, you know, sort of, you know, let's talk about how many sockets we can actually buy the entitlement form, so on and so forth. As opposed to folks who want much stricter SLAs who will buy appliances from us. So we need to have the buy-mortar way of distribution as well. It's going to be appliances for legacy apps and software for next generation apps. And you don't want to over rotate to the future. You end up like Nebula. At the same time, you've got to focus on the skate to the puck, as Vinod said.  Like, you know, son was scared of X86. And they even squashed it.  And finally, by the time they came around to really embracing X86, they chose AMD as a partner as opposed to Intel as a partner. So it was too little, too late to really get opt around to run Solaris, I think. We understand that early enough to know that consumption models are things that we can't take sides on. Appliance is not the only way in which people consume our technology. And as long as we have that, we'll actually be able to, which is why Amazon, we don't have an appliance in Amazon. We don't have an appliance in Azure. Form factors are one thing that we have to be extremely flexible on. And that's the way we actually straddle both the world. Because the problems of consistency, availability, reliability, disaster-proofing, network partitioning, all those problems are similar. Whether you look at the old world or the new world. I mean, a lot of people start feeling a little excited about, oh, it's all going to end up in the app. The app is going to have all this value. I'm like, how many .NET developers and Java developers even understand the cap theorem, which is this trade-off between consistency, availability, and network partitioning? How many of these, most often, they actually want to go the other direction. Having less detail, abstract, and abstract, and abstract, and you know, I want to write a single line of code that instantiates a shopping cart. That's what they want to think about. As opposed to, hey, can I really? So the layers below have to really go and do that, as opposed to the application itself. All right, so yesterday when you talked to the analysts and the press and everything, you said, our goal is to abstract infrastructure, deliver invisible infrastructure, and elevate IT. The challenge is if you truly make it invisible, how do you prove that you're valuable? How do you just say, oh, that's stuff in the corner, and oh wait, there's four other companies that also said, hey, I'm going to be invisible. We've heard SolidFire, EMC, lots of others say, oh, we understand that storage especially has been hard. So how do you make the people that buy and people that use your products heroes and know that you guys are very important? Yeah, I think the way we're making them heroes of the future, I mean, take a step back. If Kodak engineers had seen digital photography coming, they would actually have embraced that sooner. They just were too much in denial of digital photography. I think we have to let storage engineers realize, and even a virtualization engineers realize that, keeping the lights on is not good enough, because the public cloud is a real enemy. If you were to look at jobs, that's it, because Amazon might not actually employ you. So if you want to really make your job successful, then you need to make the private cloud as efficient as the public itself. So don't worry about the fact that you have to give up on some of the legacy architecture. Worry about where the line of business is pulling you, and the line of business has a lot of people who are rebels. You know, VP of sales rebelled and said, we're going to use Salesforce.com. VP is a marketing rebel, and they said they're going to use Marketo and Eloqua. VP of engineering are using Atlassian and so on. So the trend is there, and I think for all the custom stuff they're doing, it's going to be infrastructure to service, unless they really go and make the private cloud as efficient. I love one of the quotes from one of your customers during the keynote was, the days of managing raid groups are gone.  Does storage, you know, knowledge go away? But we don't think that storage is critically important. You're just kind of elevating them, allowing them to focus on the business even more. Yeah, I mean, look, cobalt engineers who actually were able to re-skill themselves still have great jobs. Well, that's the key though.  You better find some other things to do. You know, and that's why we have a great education department that's actually talking about re-skilling a lot of IT as well. We're not just talking about technology. You're saying, let's figure out through Udacity and through our own programs, how people can re-skill themselves to learning the next generation technology as well. So a lot of talk about IPO at this event, I know there's not too much you can say, but it's clearly something that you've put out there. You're one of your VCs Ravi was talking about the doom loop. I love that doom loop concept, which what he's talking about is, I call it the vortex of incremental investment. When you go public, if you go public, there's that pressure to get sucked into the quarterly doom loop, the 90 day shot clock. Now others have avoided it. I mean, you certainly see the folks at ServiceNow and Splunk and Tableau continue to innovate. Do you think about that? And how do you think about that? Yeah, I think we've laid the right foundation of things like remedy recognition and things like that, where we're not trying to borrow from the future. You know, there's a word that people use for companies that absolutely must sell a lot to meet a quarterly number. And then the others who just have deferred so much that the waterfall from previous quarters is enough to meet the numbers. And many appliance companies were on the former path where they kept borrowing from the future, not giving enough to deferred revenue but recognizing everything upfront. They have to sell a lot of boxes every quarter, every quarter. And people even call that crystal meth. Once you're in crystal meth, you can't get off of it. But if you have laid the right foundation of deferred revenue, where you're actually giving more to the future than actually borrowing from the future, then you do set the right foundation where by the time your quarter begins, you're enough coming from previous quarters, the waterfall from previous quarters coming in. And we've been a pretty disciplined company with that. As and when our books become public, you'll see that discipline from the mechanics aspect. So, Dheeraj, one of the challenges in the valley is there's always that kind of next thing. You've got now 1100, what you call the Newtons out there. How do you keep hiring? There's still enough good people to move what you're doing. And how do you build a company to last, not just to kind of hit the next thing?  At the end of the day, we have to think on behalf of the employee. And if we basically just said, what are they trying to achieve? Will they are asserting themselves for a promotion or a career advancement or a compensation? At the end of the day, we just have to think from their point of view. And the moment we do that, it disarms everything. It just disarms the whole relationship. They're like, oh yeah, I think we know where they're coming from. And some of these people actually need coaching because they might not know that they're not as good enough and yet their others were really, really, really good. That might be underpaid. So, we have to really look at both sides of the coin. And obviously, we have to look beyond Silicon Valley, which is a company we have done. Laid the foundation for Seattle and Durham and Amsterdam and Bangalore as places where we'll actually hire talent as well because these are the places where, once the brand is built, the talent actually says I'm willing to work for this company. That's what happened in Durham. We're getting a lot of really good people from NetApp and other places. Amsterdam is great support engineers being hired from all around the best valley companies. And Bangalore is another place where we're actually hiring as well. So, I think in the spirit of distributed systems, building a distributed system, which is not a single point of failure in the valley itself. And within the valley, we have to figure out how to really take care of our folks and make them realize that they have a career because once they know that this is not just the end of all things Nutanix and it's only the beginning, look at the most iconic companies, what they went public at and what they are today, they are 100x bigger. And obviously people are like, well, I want to make sure that I'm also relevant when there's so many more people. And we are constantly thinking about those things and it's not an easy problem. I can't say that we have a solution, but if you look at culture at 1100, we're actually, and you can go and take a look at Glassdoor, for example, it tells you about culture of the company. We're actually doing better than many companies were smaller than us. Now that being said, I'm a very paranoid person so I know that the 1200 guy can actually save the opposite of that. So we need to constantly monitor, measure, understand with surveys and make it local. Culture is never global. We have to know that the culture of China is different than culture from Singapore. Employee culture is different. The top-down mentality in some of these countries is different than the bottoms-up grassroots strength that we provide here in the valley. We put all that stuff together. So last year at VMworld, we had you on and it was coincided with the EVO rail announcement and you responded, hey, welcome to the party. It's confirmation of what we're doing.  Particularly, you guys decided not to OEM vSphere and VMware is kind of using that in their blog sort of to attack you. Can you clarify sort of that decision? Why not OEM vSphere? And what does that mean for your customers? Yeah, I think it's pretty clear to us that we don't want to be a reseller of a technology and simply because we didn't want to compete with the channel and the channel already makes, let's say 10 to 15 points selling vSphere and other such VMware software. And if we were to become yet another middleman, either we would have to bypass the channel or it would become more expensive for the end customer. So we were pretty firm about it. We didn't really want to go and do something that cannibalized the channel.  And the one thing that we obviously didn't want to do was to become the enemy of our biggest friend from the channel itself. So it's pretty crystal clear in that.  And this Oracle runs on top of you and Microsoft runs on top of you. We don't force them to actually ship an OEM your product. Why should we as an app? I mean, that's what we keep telling people. Storage is just an app. I mean, why treat it any differently actually? So I think logically also it didn't make any sense if Oracle were not OEMing it, Microsoft were not OEMing it, and Splunk was not OEMing it, why shouldn't that be OEMing? Right, really didn't see any way to add value there. So why make it your core to your business model? Yeah, talk a little bit about Microsoft. So some interesting things. If I look at Acropolis, it can help customers get over to it. Of course, if you talk about from an application standpoint, Microsoft apps are one of the major workloads in a virtualized environment. How important is Microsoft to your plans? I look at the post Satya Microsoft as a Microsoft that's really thinking clearly on multiple fronts. As an example, they frown upon the strategy tax of the platform. They're like, look, no more we look at ourselves as a platform company and the office app has to work on Windows only and will never ship an iOS and so on. They've completely obliterated all that. And they have a clear thinking like startups do actually, where it's a hungry mentality and a humble mentality about the fact that there's no such thing as a platform. It's all about apps and it's all about customer delight. They also are a company that really has an inside out sort of understanding of the private cloud and the public cloud. But Azure is a pretty decent public cloud that's working at scale. So we as a company, look at them as curationally. They have a pretty good foothold in the private cloud at least with respect to the app itself. But they also have a pretty good foothold in the public cloud with Office 365 and other such things are doing there as well. So it's great to learn from them and actually enable this notion of hybrid cloud computing using Azure as an example. Now this is not to say that VMware software and the VMware stack cannot use Azure. We will make that work actually. VMware stack in the private cloud working with Azure in the public cloud. VMware software in the private cloud working with Amazon in the public cloud. All those are possibilities that we are constantly thinking about and making work as well. Yeah, well, we've said at the top, we see VMware slowing down certain initiatives.  Paying attention to the customers. D Raj, really thanks very much for coming on theCUBE. Congratulations. Thanks for having us here. Great event to be at covering. All right, this is theCUBE. We'll be back right after this word.


Hi everyone, Joe for jaspyscasebreaks.com. We did it. We knocked out 2021 Panini Rookies and Stars Football, 7 box, half case, random team, break number 1, all card ship. Big thanks to this group for getting into the action. We ended up selling out a lot of spots straight up, so I appreciate that. And we only had to do one filler pack. All teams are in right here, and let's roll it and randomize it one and a two three times for names and teams, one, two, and three, easy. There you go, after three times, we got Craig down to Jesse, one and two, three times for the teams, one, two, and three. We got Houston down to New Orleans. All right, Craig with the Texans, Adam with the Steelers, Chris with the Titans, Jesse with Washington, Thomas with Buffalo, Evan with Chicago, Adam with Carolina, Brian with the Niners, Gale with the Vikings, Kevin with the Buccaneers, Ryan with the Cardinals, Gale with the Falcons, Craig with the Lions, Bangles and Rams, Steve with the Jaguars, Martin with the Dolphins, Charles with the Jets, Jesse with the Chargers, Charlie with the Ravens, Jesse with the Eagles, Chris with the Seahawks, Nick with the Chiefs, Craig with my Raiders, Charles with the Colts, Adam with the Packers, Simon with the Broncos, Simon with the Cowboys, Steve with the Broncos, Jonathan with the Giants, Adam with the Browns, Steve with the Patriots, and Jesse with the New Orleans Saints. Let's alphabetize by team here. And I'm going to flip back to the screen in just a second. So while you're considering trade, let's see which box, which half we're going to do right here. There it is. Rookies and Stars 2021. All right, so there's seven boxes right here on top. So we'll go one, two, three on the dice roll for the top row and four, five, six for the dice roll for the bottom row here. We're going to select that blue die, a little more room here. And it's six, one, two, three, four, five, six. So we're going to be doing the bottom row. The top row we will save for next time. I'm making a mess here, but mark those with X's so we know they're from the same case. And we'll flip back here. We're going to pause the video when we come back. We're going to see if there's any trades. Then we'll have the break. Stick around. Be right back. All right. Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. No deals done in rookies and stars, seven box, random team, number one. Thanks everybody for making this happen. I appreciate it. When's the last time we, I don't remember doing too much of this. Two autographs and two memorabilia cards per box on average. Let's see what we got. Ship situation here. All cards shipped. All right. First box, we've got a Zach Wilson dual relic. Sorry, hit the mic there. A 110 out of 199 for the Jets. Charles got randomized the Jets in this one. We've got Benjamin St. used to 35 set that Justin Fields aside there. We've got Najee Harris 94 out of 99 draft a card and a Trevor Lawrence rookies and stars, rookies and stars airborne insert. Pretty cool. Those Jets there. Are those, those F 18s who knows their fighter jets? That goes to Steve and the Jawars and got Greg Newsom autographed to 25. It's for Adam Cleveland. This is for you as Tannehill to 49. We'll have our shipping team sleeve and top load those before they're sorted and shipped out. We're just just in the interest of time. There's Ian book. Book it. I don't know if Ian books going to be the starting quarterback. For the Saints this year. What do you think ends up with the Saints? James Winston's a free agent too. Did they bring him back? It'll be interesting to see that Ian book though. We'll go to Jesse. There's Trey Lance rookies and stars to 99. Trey Lance is should be taking over that starting job in San Francisco. There's Jalen waddle to 199. Daniel Jones to 99. There's Mack Jones. Just quit. He paid a 35 and kid reporter. All right. Next box. So I feel like in this off season, especially after the leak, whenever the leak calendar ends and every three agency or whatever all opens up, whatever that date is sometime in March, what's going to happen? What does everyone think? Cardinals that especially with the quarterbacks. I feel like there's a lot of quarterback like movement that could potentially have what's happening with the Cardinals. What's happening with Tyler Murray? Does he stay? Does he force a trade? Does he go? I feel like I feel like I've heard rumors about does Matt Ryan get moved around Carolina needs a quarterback. Just going down the list here. Denver has always been connected with quarterbacks. You know, what is Detroit? I guess Detroit has got for another year or two. Yeah, Simon's asking. Did you see the Rogers Instagram post tonight? It was kind of a it's kind of like a post that you would make Simon. If you were, if you were resigning from your workplace, right? If you're retiring or resigning, that's what it sounded like, like a big thank you tour. There's a Rashad Bateman. It's a pretty fast 40 yard dash time. This is Kelsey, the 35. So what does that mean? I think he he has to he has to be traded. There's Ronnie Perkins, 99. Right. And Simon's a Packers fan left you very confused. Seems like a retirement or a possible trade. What could you what could you really get? I mean, for Aaron Rodgers, who's an incredible quarterback, but not getting any younger, what would it take? There's Cornell Powell, but Simon's also saying he's been a big spiritual hippie trend lately. So maybe he is just saying thanks. Who knows? I don't know. Patrick Mahomes touched on club to 25. Devonta Smith to 49. I guess one of the things I always wondered was like, what is what does Aaron Rodgers want? Kind of feel like, I feel like there he is right here. What do you want, Aaron? There's Michael Gallup, Jersey and autograph, great American signatures, 73 out of 99. That's pretty cool. I feel like the Ryan Gosling character in the notebook, asking Rachel McAdams, what do you want? A standing ovation? I mean, you get that.  What do you want, Aaron? I'm confused too. All right. Let's see what we got here. Stellar rookie signatures. J. A. Mar, Jamar Chase. Nice. He was pretty stellar. That is for Cincinnati. Craig Thomas. Nice. Pretty great season. Hollywood lagging behind a little bit, a little late with the redemption guests. Make sure you're watching live. Another redemption. All right, so we've got some cards left. You can make some guesses for bragging rights. There's big time Jersey 108 out of 199. Najee Harris Steelers can go to Adam. There's Jamar Chase right here. Great season for him. And there's a three out of five quitty pay. Yeah, I'm sure you were. Charles with the blue horseshoes. Three out of five and all aboard the big hit Express. Got a two right here. What's happening with two up? Maybe they keep them now. I don't know. There's Terrace Marshall Jr. Dual Relic to 139. To 199 that is. That's for Carolina. That is for Adam. Kenneth Gainwell to 35. Rookie Rush Devonta Smith to 99. Star studded Trey Lance. Not number, but Justin Fields there too. You got a Devon White, Jersey and autograph. Great American signatures. 99 out of 99. Tampa Bay. That's for Kevin and the Buccaneers. Clyde Edwards-Elaire. There's the number right there to 49. And again, our shipping team will sleeve and top all top load all of those before they are sorted and shipped out. Rookie signatures. N. A. J. Najee, Najee Harris. Nice rookie signatures. Najee Harris for Adam and the Steelers. There you go, Adam. He had a solid season. Do Steeler, Pittsburgh needs a quarterback. Who's going to go there? You're like, there's just. There's just quarterbacking situations everywhere that need to be that need to be addressed. Like I said, Arizona, Carolina. Denver, Green Bay potentially. What does Houston do? I feel like the Colts were talking about moving on from Carson Wentz. Is that right for Deshaun Watson? Right. What about the Dolphins, where they do their quarterback? Teddy's a Dolphins fan. Because I feel like Brian Flores wanted to trade to him. And they were like, and they were like, no. So now does new coach like Flores or new coach like Flores is such a like discipline, such a like, you know, guy with integrity. I would have thought he wouldn't want what's his face from Houston. But apparently he did. Interesting. He wanted Watson. He definitely didn't like to what he didn't want to. Who's the new coach? I forgot his name. Does he want to?  Zach Wilson, Elijah Moore, dual rally. So Dolphins got to figure it out. Vikings, the Vikings want to move on from Kurt. I'm sure the Vikings would love to go on Kurt Cousins. So Kurt Cousins go there, go somewhere. There's Van Jefferson who's incredible. Jalen Waddle is pretty solid too. I'm just going down the list here. Saints need a quarterback. You know, and Giants this might be the last year that Daniel Jones really gets the good look or good chance. It's Antonio Gibson. Trevor Lawrence's potential finally may get unlocked though. Here's Tillon Wallace to 25. Rookies and Stars autograph for Charlie and the Ravens. Right, yeah, Simon's saying, Simon's like, hey, I don't know if Rodgers would even get three first rounders. He's got like four MVPs in the last 10 years. Steve Herrick and Trevor Lawrence to 149. So Giants may have to be figuring something out. I think the Eagles have talked about maybe moving off of Jalen Hurts, so there's that. His Steelers, Big Ben retired. Niners have Trey Lant, I think might stick with him unless Rodgers somehow falls into their lap or Tom Brady maybe, and I feel like those rumors are gaining a little more steam. There's Amon Ross St. Brown, 75 out of 99. Jersey and autograph for the Lions, that'll be for Craig. Seahawks, what does Russell Wilson wanna do? Is he in, is he out? Buck and Earsie to find a quarterback. Brady didn't wanna be there anymore. There's Kyle Pitts at 35. Really? So what does that mean? I don't think Wilson's a free agent.  Then you say, hey, we got Devonte Adams in a young Jalen Waddle. I think he's got some more than that. Maybe Derek Carr, his old college quarterback throwing to him, will wanna Devonte Adams. Do the Titans wanna move on for Ryan Tannehill? I'm sure the Washington commanders would wanna see a new quarterback there. There's, who knows what's gonna happen?  And here I am. I don't know, Raiders are gonna figure out what to do with him. Are they gonna pay him or are they gonna keep him on a one year deal, which would be kind of criminal? Who knows? This is why, even in the off season, the NFL's exciting. A lot of drama, a lot of player movement. Some guys one out, some guys one in. That's like half the league, over half the league with like an unsettled quarterback situation, right? I mean, really only the Bills with Josh Allen is, Bills with Josh Allen, he's settled. Joe Burrow's not going anywhere for Cincinnati. I guess Dak Prescott's probably not going anywhere for Dallas. Yeah, Chiefs, Chargers are set. And I think that's about it. Everyone else is like, oh yeah, Ravens, Lamar Jackson's not going anywhere. Who doesn't deserve big money, Jay? I don't know, the market changes every year, man. Contracts rise all the time and with leverage, with the kind of leverage Derek Carr has, this might be the best year for him to be signing or asking for an extension. There's a Trevor Lawrence relic for the Jaguars and another Trevor Lawrence card to 49. So, not about what he deserves, but what the market bears. Whatever someone's willing to pay, whether it matches up with your evaluations of pay or not. Yeah, I guess Justin Fields is kind of locked into Chicago, right? But he's probably not going anywhere, but he's also not, he's also a young quarterback. So there's still question marks there at him and Trey Lance. Well, the leash is probably longer for those guys. I don't think they're going to be getting rid of those guys any time soon, even with a bad season or two. It was Christian Barmore at 249 because of the upside, obviously. Same with Mac Jones and the Patriots. There's Jabril Peppers to 99. Sorry, the 35 that is, where'd I get 99? Subrex just voted for best national pizza chain. Who's winning? Well, currently, we've had this poll up for four hours and we've got 73 votes. Pizza Hut is in the lead with 33% of the vote. Domino's in second place with 30% of the vote. Papa John's with 25% of the vote and Little Caesar's with 12% of the vote. So if you want to vote in our pizza poll, ladies and gentlemen, if you're watching live and want to join our pizza poll, check the chat. I think at the top of the chat, there should be like a blue bar next to the, or underneath the break schedule, I'll let you vote. No one's protesting the results, Hollywood. Chuck E. Cheese was intentionally not included. I don't think I've seen a commercial for Chuck E. Cheese, a national commercial for Chuck E. Cheese in like years. So the criteria has major national pizza chains that regularly run national commercials. Not garbage like Chuck E. Cheese. There's 147 out of 199. Almanra St. Brown, Deandre Swift, Duel Relic. Chuck E. Cheese.  There's Matt Ryan to 99. Chuck E. Cheese's so big they don't eat commercials. Yeah, I think they're so big they think they filed for bankruptcy like a few years ago. Didn't they file for bankruptcy recently? Or are going to? Najee Harris to 25. Zach Wilson to 75. All right, two more boxes left. Rookies and stars. Next box got Pitts and Ridley. I feel like the Falcons at some point will be looking for a new quarterback. New Matt Ryan. He's not getting any younger. There's Najee Harris to 99. Fields out there too. Ramondri Stevenson to 35. Got Trevor Lawrence, airborne insert 62 out of 99.  To 199, 137 out of 199. You know what pizza I should do? Offer their bread and cheese sticks with pepperoni or sausage toppings. You're saying you don't like their normal crust, but you do like their breadstick crust, whatever the breadsticks. There's Kyle Pitts to 49. There's AJ Brown to 149. I feel a lot of people seem to like Pizza Hut, but I don't know, it just doesn't do it for me. There's Rookies and Stars four out of 10. Talanoa, Hufanga for the Niners. Not a Pizza Hut guy. I would lean Papa John's and then Domino's. It's out of 99, Tara McLauren. The one thing I like about Pizza Hut over the rest is you actually get pasta, anything other than pizza from a pizza place. You can find chicken Alfredo pasta elsewhere, Rex, I'm sure. I'm not ordering non-pizza items, maybe wings, but other than that, I'm not ordering non-pizza items. There's Zach Wilson to 75. All right, Hollywood Quitty Pay? Third time? Third time's a charm? No, no mention in the chat from Hollywood. We got Crusade signatures. I like that insert set. N, maybe another Najee Harris. AJ, yep, Najee Harris. Pittsburgh. Rex, you're saying some diner in town doesn't have a good Alfredo pasta? What's that? Rex lives in the middle of nowhere. Teddy, he lives near... Wait, Rex, what's the biggest city next year? Yeah, he's in Indiana. I think he may be close to Fort Wayne, but he's in a smaller town. Oh, is he really? Yeah. I freaking guessed it. What, did you say Fort Wayne? Oh, I guessed Indiana. Oh, Indiana, yeah, you're right.  Fourth time's a charm, Hollywood. Quitty pay in this box. Now, I feel like there's an emerging market in Rex's small town. I need to start like a... an Italian food truck or something like that. There's Justin Fields Relic to 199. Yeah, that would be my name in Italian, I think, right? Giuseppe's? Giuseppe? I'm fairly certain it would be. Tara Hope is about a four-hour drive southwest of Rex, Teddy. He had a flat tire there. On a cross-country trip, what were you doing? Oh, when you were coming out here for the first time. Wow. So there you go, on Teddy's drive to cross-country drive many moons ago to come to Southern California. A flat tire. The old Honda HRV? The old Honda HRV. That was a good car, that was a good car. RIP. That's a 249, Greg Newsom. How many miles did you put on that? Here's Matt Jones to 10. Steve Wright with the Patriots. You should have. That's not good. That's not good.  He'll clean that ride out. There's Chuba Hubbard to 99, Carolina. That's for Adam.  Rex is saying Tara Hope is where the state prison is and they still do executions there. What if like you were changing your tire and this gentleman appears out of the wheat fields and says, hey, I can help you out if you give me a ride to the next town. Rex, are there signs out there that says do not pick up passengers? Do not pick up hitchhikers? I've been, I've driven by some, some prisons, state prisons in California and way up in Northern California, 89 out of 99, Davis Mills, Nico Collins, Texans, Craig, that I've had those signs out there. Do not pick up hitchhikers. There's Rogers, Blue to 49, Heinz Ward to 149. And that, my friends, is that. Appreciate everybody watching and breaking with us. That was Rookies and Starr, 7 Box, Random Team Break number one. Quick little recap, hey, thanks everybody for the late night rally. I really appreciate that. It takes a group, it takes a team to make these group breaks happen and I appreciate everybody acting in concert to make this break happen. There may be individuals that don't want things to happen that are negative, that are down. But ignore those people. Just do your thing. Buy spots, get into breaks and we'll eventually get everything going. I'm Joe for jaskiescasebreaks.com. Thanks for watching. Thanks for breaking with us. That was Rookies and Starr's one, next seven boxes are in the store right now as well. Check it out, jaskiescasebreaks.com. I'll see you next time for the next break. Bye-bye.


Bow! What's up everybody once again it's brand man Sean and today we're going over the legendary mystery of Prince. And you really gotta say it that way because Prince's mystery is a legend in itself beyond the legend that is the musician. This is only part two and I promise by the time this one is over you will think about mystery and how to create it for yourself if you want to in a completely different way. Prince's number one device for creating mystery is his behavioral interactions and you can go back to the first video on mystery to get a little bit of idea what that means but Prince is the best example of it. He creates mystery not just when he's away or through aesthetic or anything like that but when he's around you he's creating mystery in those moments which is very very rare to be able to do in the way he does. One thing he really uses for this is actually number two character. Prince isn't just an artist. Prince is this superhero. Prince is this mystical being. Prince had this entire world that he would paint from his clothes designs the way he would move. He even had that iconic stare that he was known for. So throughout this you'll see how his behavioral interactions and the character that he used to deliver those interactions created Prince's mystery. Number three unique pairings. If you have not watched a unique pairing video yet please watch it because it explains in depth so much what I mean but once again it is the contradictory traits that you don't expect to be in one individual. What are some of Prince's contradictory traits? He was known for being pretty nasty in his music and then he was a super religious dude. Very contradictory and then of course his greatest greatest unique pairing was the fact that he had this extreme feminine energy that he would put off but he was inherently masculine. On the low he was one of the biggest ladies man of his time and I'm talking about some beautiful girl. Of course he had that high voice that he would do. But at the same time he would get in the interview and he would talk like this with a silky smooth type voice. Which made things extremely interesting because he was a charming character but he was mysterious. You don't get that for most mysterious characters. That's what made the interviews. He did so powerful right. If you see somebody who doesn't do many interviews and then they do interviews like the weekend or many other ones they aren't necessarily charming right. They just it's just a regular interview. Prince someone who has that energy that can command crowds actually doesn't spend time trying to command crowds which strengthens his mystery even more. And number four when it comes to Prince this is the hugest part of his mystery. It's when all that stuff he has going for him comes together.  He has an overarching mysterious image but he creates smaller moments of mystery for people. You'll see what I'm talking about. As a matter of fact I'll let other people tell you. I'm looking for this guy. I get the ball and I go and he's gone. He's committed to being a superhero. Yes. So I go yeah I understand. Prince turns around floats away. Now Prince was at least six to eight inches off the ground levitating as he floated away.  I don't care if you believe me or not. I'm telling you.   Watch this. Watch this. I take my phone even though Prince says don't take a picture. As he's floating I'm like I take the picture. Yeah. Right.    Bro you see everything. Right. Yeah. After a minute I show them. I show my producer Q. We all come to the consistency. My phone is really floating. After a minute the picture that was in my phone that would a picture was turned black. So why would you even just make that story up. I didn't make it up. The picture in my phone turned black. So of course both of those stories are incredibly interesting. But even more interesting this story that Charlemagne of Gods told I actually heard somebody else tell a very similar story. They were in an audience and people were taking pictures and then everybody's phones went black whenever taking pictures. So I don't know if he has some kind of interruption device. I wouldn't be surprised because people don't really realize that Prince and kind of Michael Jackson were very invested in technology and then it also wouldn't be surprising if Prince had some of those sketches with the rolling shoes so he could just look like he was floating. Where Prince leverages right here is something stronger than any other type of thing you can do with mystery. The sheer power of something called testimonials. Nothing is as powerful as someone else saying that you're mysterious. You heard how Genie and Charlemagne were both excited to tell those stories and even kind of in all as they told those stories. I mean that just goes from anything you're doing. You're more likely to try something or believe something that your friend tells you than what you hear from some random place or what somebody tells you about themselves. I'm going to do SIA in the weekend for sure next and probably some other things around it. Other than that you know what to do. Go ahead and hit that subscribe but click my face.


Hi, welcome back to why in the morning, and if it's Tuesday, it's entrepreneurship Tuesday at Y244 channel, is where you can find us across all our social media handles. At Michelle, she raised where you can find me across all my social, in this particular section you dive into an interview that looks at tour, travel, and fitness management. And in studio, I'm joined with Agnes Njiro. She's the founder of Safari Year 2 Adventures, and she does a lot of couple of other things. Hi Agnes. Hi Michelle. Hi you. I love your skin. What's your skincare routine? Let's start there. Oh my God. I just say it's just so normal, so natural, I think just washing my face with soap. Yes, she doesn't have makeup on, none, flawless. So Agnes, so tell us a little bit about yourself, we understand from what I've mentioned that you're the founder of Safari Year 2 Adventures. Tell us a little bit of other things, because I know you do a couple of other things apart from tour and travel. Yes. Thank you Michelle. I'm so directed to be in the Kenya's number one youth channel this morning. So my name is Agnes Njiro, 25 years old, I already don't say they're eight, but yeah. I am a reader, I'm a passionate mentor. I actually work closely with an NGO called Bifedo that really tries to motivate high school students, so far I've been into 17 counties in the country. I'm a fitness trainer by profession, working closely with families and corporates. I'm directed to have worked with so many dignitaries in the country, thank you all. I'm also founder of Team Builders Kenya, these are the people who work closely with corporates to ensure productivities in your industries and most of all, I'm the founder of Safari Year 2 Adventures, that is where my passion lies and that is a tour and travel company based in Kenya. It was founded in 2019, a while back in campus, so we deal with a lot of things that I'll be telling you as you go by. Gav Boss, you're doing a couple of so many other things, so what did you study in school? I studied Recreation and Sports Management from Kenyatta University, these are courses that has many revolts from a diploma, degree, master's and PhD. It's a course that you feel very free and flexible. In the current world, people are now trying to appreciate the fact that lifestyle diseases are catching up with us and it is important that we keep fit. So with this course, we are able to manage your fitness and also congratulations to Team Kenya. You did just proud in Tokyo and in Nairobi, where you all emerged winners, thank you to all your coaches, trainers, nutritionists, you could do us to them. All right. I mean, when we started, you mentioned that you got to work with a couple of dignitaries. Probably you could mention a few. Oh, well. If it's allowed or if it's allowed. I would say I would like to mention the names, but I've worked with the families of the dignitaries. I've worked with Olympia and Onaki Prager, with the team runner spots and working cross-lead Central Bank of Kenya. All right. Now, let's go back to what exactly do you do when it comes to fitness management? What sort of programs do you run? Do you run? When it comes to fitness, I do programs for the individuals, families and corporates. I have fast to get your background information in terms of health, so that if you have any underlying condition, it is possible for me now to draft what really works for you. I'm very flexible in terms of where you are available. Now we have to appreciate the fact that we have technology and we can use some of those applications to reach wherever you are. Okay. All right. And for someone who is watching this, you know, us talking, right? And of course, you went to school for this. What does it take for one to be a fitness trainer? Do you really need to go to school? Yeah, you really need to go to school, Michelle, because dealing with people requires a lot of, you know, knowledge and a lot of grace. Yeah, first of all, there's knowledge because of their people have conditions and you cannot just assume they are fit because of how they look. You cannot scan a person by how they look. You need to listen to them, have documents from their doctor if they are familial personal doctors, then draft programs according to their conditions. So it is important for one to go to school, go to school, run so that now you can be able to deliver professionally. It's not just passion where I just wake up and I decide, by the way, I love dancing, so I'm going to be a zumba dance trainer, something of this sort. And I understand from where you're coming from because I also know that it goes with the different body types when it comes to probably losing and also gaining weight, right? Yes, sure, sure, sure. Actually we have three types of body and it is important to also understand who are you dealing with, what are their types of bodies, if there are endomorphs. Endomorphs are these people who don't gain weight very fast and it's good to run. If there are endomorphs, know how to draft their program. If there are mesomorphs, mesomorphs are these medium body size that they gain weight moderately and their metabolism is also moderate and they also don't lose weight very fast. And also if you're dealing with ectomorphs, ectomorphs are these people who, they gain weight but losing is a problem. So understanding the type of bodies and what they are expected to do is really important and it gives you an easy time and for the client to be able to manage their wellness and fitness. Oh, I agree, you are in a business show, how do you monetize from this? Oh, well, so... What is your system of monetization from being a fitness trainer? Being a fitness trainer I would say it's patch time because fitness is maybe 30 to 45 minutes and at most an hour. So it's easier for me to work through, like for in a week I can be having like three sessions with different people all four. So it's easier to schedule my time and be able to make money out of that. So it depends on the number of people and other logistics like your location and you know how I will be able to access you. Yep, so... So your paid per hour? Yeah, per hour. Okay, alright, alright, I get it. Let's talk about, let's shift, let's change hearts now to tour and travel. So let's talk about safari-e to adventures, yeah. When did it start and why safari-e to adventures? Oh, thank you, Michelle. I love talking about safari-e to adventures. One, it's a tour and travel company based in Kenya. It started in 2019, registered and started operating in 2019. Why the name safari-e to adventures? Those are two Sahiri words, safari-e to, and then adventures. Some means that is our journey, safari-e to adventures. And our motto is experiencing life together. So you can get like those two words are somehow related to being around people. Basically I'm a people's person, I like being around people. That's where area is, well, how can I get to be around people, I can be able to experience life with others. This is through safari-e to adventures where I get to interact with all people, reading from kids, youths to adults and senior adults. And our motto, sorry, and our vision, it's to be the world's most trusted and reliable travel company and to be able to bridge you to your dream and to overall corporate achievements. Okay, Agnes. Well, no, I have friends who are into train travel and I've also encountered a situation whereby they tell me, you just have to like, you know, put up a poster. Like we are going to, let's say, Malindi on Diani.  So there's always an aspect of, that it's an easy, it's an easy thing to do. You know, like everyone can do a tour and travel sort of a kind of a business because people assume it's just, you know, get a poster and tell people that you're going this place and this is a certain amount of money that you need for this particular occasion. Is it as simple as that? Actually, people think so, but it's not that simple. For you to be able to operate or learn at work company, it is something you need to first understand who is your target client, who are you targeting, are you targeting kids? Are you targeting youths or are you targeting the differently able children? Are you targeting the aged? So knowing your target client makes it easier to draft programs. Also you're able to know, like, which are their favorite destinations. So first of all, don't just do posters if you're out there and listening to me. Be able to know, like, if I'm dealing with this type of people, what am I supposed to do? What do they like? Again, where I'm going to take them, how much am I being charged? Yeah, get those details. Those finer, finer details are very important.  It can be a shock on you, seeing images and then when you go there, it's totally different. So please do a discussion, go there, see what is there so that when you're telling your clients, like, you know, guys, this is what you're offering. You have confidence in it. You know what you're really saying, you're not just seeing it from, seeing it from social media. You go there, yeah, reach there. How do you keep the, you know, the novelty? Because as you mentioned, don't take your client to a place where you haven't been.  Because I also get the aspect of clients going to see these posters where they are taken to the same place. Let's go to Naivasha. Let's go to Mombasa. These are the places that we have already been there. So how do you ensure that you scout for, how do you scout actually for new places? First of all, I have a program for every year. And with Safari 8 Adventures, we don't repeat destinations. So when you see our post out there, you know, that destination, we're doing it once and for all. But they are a finer, finer, like, destination that we repeat, but not most of them. So I would say, like, for example, our calendar this year was very fully packed. And I'll just mention what is happening between now and December. We'll be having Nacho Caves on 26th, that is on Sunday. In October, we're having Diani. In November, we'll be going to Samburu. In December, we have a trip to five countries, that is from Kenya, Tanzania, Zimbambu, Zambia, all the way to Botswana and Bac. Then we also have a trip to Rwanda for our Christmas. So how I scout for destination is by first of all, analyzing what my clients love. My clients love luxury, my clients love good stuff. So yeah. All right. Speak about your client. What is your target market? Well, my target market is youth between 21 years and 34 years. These are young people who are in business, who have young families and who are ready to explore. I don't mean others are not ready to explore, but this age is very, very out there to see life. That's the best responsibility. Yeah, they have the best responsibility. So how we talk about, let's look at the financial aspect of it. How affordable these particular destinations and how do you come up with the prices, considering there is competition out here, there are so many people who do twin travels. So I first, beside where I'm going, if I'm doing a trip within Nairobi, if I'm doing a trip outside Nairobi, the prices may vary. But how I draft my prices is by one, considering few factors such as distance, transport, the number of people I'm expecting, because I just don't draft a poster brandy, I'll direct this trip, I'm expecting just 30 people. So if you're among the 30, you're lucky. If I'm targeting 20 people, you're lucky. So knowing the number of people helps you to make a good, a good, a good price. And then the inclusives are also very important. What are these people going to find there? So if they press, for example, let me say a destination like Garendare in Nanyuki, they find that it has blue springs, it has the highest canopy work in East Africa. So when you go there, you'll be like, these people, I'm expecting them to go to the canopy, I'm expecting them to go swim, the blue springs, yeah, that's just like two activities and maybe hike. So let's say posters and prices depends highly on the inclusives. What are the clients going to expect? And take us through what it takes when it comes to marketing and branding, a toy and travel kind of a business. Well, I'll say, yeah, it's something, marketing is something. And for anybody having a business out there and it's not on social media, I'd say having a business, please try and be visible on social media. So it took me to even go to study a digital marketing course so that I can be able to reach out to my client. So marketing, yeah, I do a lot of posting. It depends, for example, of various social media platforms. You have to understand what application requires, I mean, what you expect it to do in all the application. For example, in YouTube, you need the videos. On Instagram, you need to do very nice photos. On TikTok, which is among the reading application, you need to do just short videos and be very creative. On Facebook, images, they can serve both with Instagram. So, yeah. And on Twitter, you have to be on the trends. What's happening? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Then you also have to involve people like their, what do you call them? Influences? Yes, yes, yes, yes. Influences, you need to influence. All right, let's look at what resources are key to running like a trend travel, like these particular trips. What are the kind of resources that are really, really important when getting into this sort of kind of a business? First of all, you need the reliable transport people. You need graphic designers because, yeah, tours is very visual. People need to see a good post out there. They will be like, yeah, these post are within the first five seconds, they should be like, I'm going to this trip or not. So, you also need to have marketers. You can choose to have their inferences. You can also do it yourself. You can do promotions. Every application is providing insights where you can do, where you can promote your ads. You can also do newspapers. So, you really need to have it. In summary, you need to have a transport, reliable transport, graphic designers, marketers. All right, okay, we looked at, when you did fitness, when you looked into fitness, we got to see how you make the tombs, the money. Let's look at your money-making model when it comes to trend travel at top three because I know there are different spaces where you can actually make money. Yeah, sure, sure, sure. Yeah, so when it comes to tourism, how I'll make money is by getting the profit margin, college profit margin. For instance, you will be able to tell, in a certain trip, a person may be getting a thousand bob or 500 or 200 or, yeah, depends. So, at the end of the day, you'll be able to see if I'm having 30 clients and every client maybe I'm getting a thousand bob, at the end of the day, I'm making 30,000. That is minus all the costs, yeah. All right. Top two disadvantages that you've faced or challenges that you've faced while in operation in trend travel? Oh, well, so one of the disadvantage of the challenge is COVID, yes, I'll say COVID, COVID has really hit us hard in tour and yeah, people are not booking travels now, but guys, if you're watching me, no start traveling, please, please start traveling. Yes, yes, and sometimes, sometimes, what else? Sometimes, let me say just COVID for now because everything else is something that is manageable, but COVID was somehow beyond us. All right, a couple of financial lessons that you've learned along the way. Why do you have to be very smart with your finances? Because everything, I mean, money is a tool, yeah.  If you have money, please manage it well. To work with people, work with people, you can never do something alone. You need to work closely with everybody else. Not everybody, but the specific people that you've chosen to be close to you. Number three, always learn. You can never be, know it all. Always ask questions. Learn from your colleagues, yeah. All right, okay, as you wind up, tell us how people can reach out to you. Do you want to keep up this conversation and if you want to take up your next destination as well. So tell us more about, if there's another coming destination that people should be on the lookout and social media handles. If I got that, I'll let you to know what we do. It's a great adventure. So well, when we have corporate events, corporate, yeah, corporate, we put corporate first. We have conferences, destination, team building destinations. Then we have day trips. We have campings. We have road trips. We have car hires. We also have tickets. Ticket that is for the Frights and the SGL. You can check it out on our social media platforms, which are on Facebook, we are Safari2Adventures. On Instagram, we are Safari2AdventuresKE. On Twitter, we are at AdventureZ2. On TikTok, we are Safari2Adventures. Yes, you can also reach us on WhatsApp and calls and messages too. Okay, there you have it guys. Agnes will be taking you to your next destination and making your flight booking quite easy and affordable. Yes? Yes. Oh, I think very much Agnes for creating time to be with us. Talking about, you know, to and travel, fitness management. And of course, I think we should, you know, talk after here. Because we need to travel, right? Yeah, yeah. So guys, back at home, make sure you keep in touch with Safari2Adventures if you are on the lookout of your next, you know, destination you want to travel. This is the place to be at that is Safari2Adventures. Remember, you can follow us across all our social media handles. That is at Y254Channel at Michelleashiraizuya. You can find me across all my social. So make sure you stay tuned so much coming your way right here on Interpretation Tuesday on why in the morning we'll be having KSU coming over. So stay tuned as we look forward to having the health conversation. Remember to Y254Channel at Michelleashiraizuncarakayasu is where you can find us across almost all our socials. We'll be right back.


Okay, very good morning to you final briefing of the week Friday 21st of August. So hope you are doing well First thing don't forget to subscribe to the channel if you're watching this on YouTube because Milan deep from our tech team It's going to be releasing a new video about algorithmic versus discretionary trading the pros and cons of both So that's going to drop on Saturday And then we've got Sam's regular weekly trade setup video as well coming out on Sunday My macro menu will be available as well my fundamental look ahead for the week the short three-minute read Will be on my Twitter account. So if you just follow me, you'll see a pin tweet on Sunday afternoon But yeah, let's get straight into it And what are we talking about then for the session ahead and I was going to start with the heat map a heat map of the Close of yesterday and as you can see once again You probably read now the Nasdaq 100 another record high and actually I'll come back to the heat map in a second If you actually look then at these charts Nasdaq reversing and some the entire sell-off that was seen following the FMC minutes The S&P is recovered and we are now scratch flat from that FMC minutes sell-off And in the currency markets cables fully reversed as the dollar has now continued to pair some of those inspired gains in that post-minute period so If you're listening to the briefing yesterday This was kind of our outlook of how we thought things would play out in that the reaction to the minutes was a little bit overcooked as by product of market positioning more than anything And that we would return to trend and it's kind of what we're seeing at the moment So equities back on the ascent again This comes despite that slight wobble in the jobless claims we had yesterday moving back north of a million So it was higher than expected But again, that was the kind of one of the main things that holds that view that look the Fed are not going to be in any shape or form looking to Change policy in a more hawkish way any time soon We're talking multiple years of low interest rates in my opinion And also setting us up then for the Jackson Hole symposium ended the month the Fed meeting Middle of September will be key And the expectation is is that they're going to continue to roll out probably on completion of their review some new of these policy tools So all in all markets, I've kind of reverted back to The overall trend that's been materializing of late which is generally supportive of fixed income futures equities with dollar weakness Gold has formed a relative range. I would say over the course of the last 48 hours defined by 1930 to 1960 We are though getting a little bit drawn to the upside of that range So interested to see how it fits in the near term. You've got the pivot level Which is about 49 which provided a little bit of support overnight the asia pacific session And then around that 1960 upside to keep an eye on in the more of a tighter $10 range But yeah, let's let's have a look at things so The mega cap tech names as you can see here the biggest blocks on the screen Larger block defining then the bigger the market cap This is looking at the s and p 500 by a sector breakdown So microsoft apple google facebook all all putting in a 2 plus type performance amazon 1.1 If a big outperformer again yesterday tesla Ever since they announced their stock split and obviously there's this Expectation of its inclusion in the s and p 500 their shares have just continued to rally They were up about 7% yesterday and their market cap is now 373 billion us dollars and in fact Tesla is now bigger than walmart Quite unbelievable the stats keep rolling in I think it's now a comparative terms by market cap within the top 10 largest companies now And obviously yesterday apple putting in another solid performance Although it's hit it before we did actually close the session Above now what would be a $2 trillion valuation for apple The other thing that a few people have been looking at Yesterday as well is the vaccine situation Just to update you with that Vaccine news has also helped to a certain degree to another element to help support things Pfizer and by the end tech said their coronavirus inoculation is on track for regulatory approvals early as october assuming clinical Success some analysts in this article on bloomberg suggesting then that potentially they could expect a vaccine to be approved by november And obviously that timing very sensitive because we've got the u.s. election happening in the beginning of that month and It would be particularly beneficial. I would say for the likes of donald trump if he can get that through Um, I guess what I was looking for in this article, which I couldn't find So I don't have definitive details, but having It gone through its various clinical assessments And having it got approval is not Implementation and distribution And that latter part is very complicated given the global scale of this pandemic. So it's not like a Silver bullet. That's it come november. That's the eradication of covet 19 far from it But obviously this would be at the short end of the timeline of expectations being a very quick turnaround in what would normally I was Listening to a couple of podcasts last weekend and A lot of these medical professors have been very surprised actually But I guess it's a reflection in the amount of money that governments have put forward into fast tracking these things But what would normally take several years in fact is actually taken several months even to get to where they've got to At the moment. So definitely a global response has been of the order Given the situation one thing though a caveat perhaps The telegraph have like a rolling coronavirus live updating feed and I did pick up something this morning Where I've highlighted it here in blue People who caught coronavirus in march may already have lost all of their protective antibodies This is according to a uk senior government advisor Who predicted seasonal vaccines for the virus? so basically this chap's part of the University of oxford he said in the latest research indicates antibodies which may protect against reinfection Deplete by about 10 to 30 percent each month so Yeah, I thought it was that was quite interesting. I mean obviously um, although I mean, I'm not in any shape or form probably qualified to to comment with real accuracy about Uh a pathogen or a virus but All I do know is that as much as you can base medical science on testing and knowledge accumulated from past Previous types of viruses in the end The evolution of it as we go further forward through time Is an unknown thing and so It's definitely something that I'd keep on my radar. Not that I think this is going to move anything but uh How this antibody and also the performance of these these drug trials vaccines and therapies perform And in the timeline distribution, I think and the kind of key things i'm kind of watching albeit at the moment I'd say covet generally is lower down the order of Driving forces that are moving markets intraday On a covet 19 front. Um, there has been a few things again a little bit of a Disparity of the current focus between mainland europe and the uk and then elsewhere when I say elsewhere I'm focusing predominantly uh in in australia where at the moment in australia things actually have started to improve Australia's headed for its lowest daily increase in coronavirus infections in five weeks And obviously that is welcome news for that region. Uh, given how quickly the reproductive rate Um was moving higher after that outbreak in melbourne So that's good news. Uh, and then in the us as we discussed yesterday We've seen generally declining rates across the board declining hospitalizations and so on in europe though things are getting a little bit more apprehensive I would say To give you a couple of stats. France recorded just shy of 5 000 new cases in the last 24 hours That's a level not seen since mid april. If you think about where we were in mid april In both the uk mainland europe, that was the peak of the kind of lockdown at that point in time italy's had its most cases since the middle of may And the situation has also been worsening in the uk cases in england search by more than a quarter in the week through uh to august 12th, so Yeah, definitely warrants monitoring and what happened yesterday basically was uh these two Uh the double act of europe mercola macron they they met In person as european authorities are weighing imposing restrictions To try and get hold of this new fresh wave of infections that are being seen What they don't want to do is cut off travel between these different nations That just impedes then the ability for the the eurozone economy to recover So they were discussing about how means and ways to try and counteract that and obviously what we've seen adopted in other countries Is more Localized lockdowns to get hold and control of of things rather than the national level which has the most severe negative Economic implications. So yeah, COVID-19. There's a couple things here. I don't think any of this news Intraday would form. I would say A decision-making or a key component for for being negative or positive I just think it's something to to be aware of in terms of the current state of play Something which is probably a little bit more Relevant for the open right now is talking about us and china because Guess what? Um china have confirmed that they plan to talk to us officials soon to review progress on their preliminary deal No date's been set as yet, but they're going to speak apparently in the near term. So again, this is exactly Kind of what I was I thought would be the case. I mean underlying this The trade secretary has been talking up and the treasury secretary the same in the u.s About how actually china have been picking things up and they're now purchasing higher volumes and they have done the deering to the deal so despite all the The bluff and bluster from trump as I said before He has to do that. That's just his political narrative He's got a spin in order to frame the situation on china, but all in all Things are going okay. So they're going to meet they're going to talk china are buying The fact that they've we've moved back to this kind of phase of perhaps renewed open dialogue While then one thing that's happened is the chinese yuan overnight Advanced beyond quite a key level If we just go to this chart here This is a look at the onshore yuan spot as you can see here This would be indicative them of the chinese currency strengthening which would be indicative then of I guess a couple of things one A lesser degree of threats from the trade war impeding the chinese economy and trade And then secondly more stabilization and improvements generally in mainland china, which we've been obviously monitoring and tracking post post the initial impact of the march Kind of april data that we had so here then if you look The yuan's trading is strongest point having hit that kind of symbolic 6.9 since where we were right back in Jan so this is when obviously some of the outbreak was starting to happen in mainland china But we're in a better situation than where we were at the peak of the global intensity on that big march volatile selloff that we had So for the moment, you know this trade war As much hot air there is flying around on the subject between these two nations again on a kind of political level Actually markets feel feel and reflect in price Relative comfort and I think that goes somewhere as well that explaining why equities have continued to hold up To a certain degree because this isn't a big tail risk. Of course for for risk The other thing of course when it comes to china and what generally helps this situation is the amount of liquidity That the central bank is providing to the system Chinese equities whether mainland or hong kong and heng seng will up overnight Underpinned again amid the continued efforts from the central bank to add liquidity They injected 150 billion yuan through seven day reverse repos and about 15 billion in 14 day reverse repos overnight This is the first occasion the central bank has utilized the latter Instrument in around two months. So they just continue To make the system a flush of liquidity which is being received positively in their local market And if their local market performs well china being such a key component on the global stage And generally for risk appetite on that level then that helps overall sentiment Um, the one thing someone was asking me about yesterday actually talking of china and these these kind of positive things We're hearing about china Uh was copper and so copper is not something I would normally look at minute by minute, but I was looking at copper last night and we're at quite an interesting level actually here right now Uh, which encapsulates a couple of key areas if I just put a Rectangle you've got these areas here. I mean, this is a multi-year chart We're looking at the last two years of price activity, but going back to 2018 An area which is basically three dollars, which has provided a good degree of support during May of 2018 when we broke through around that area It did create Directionally a decent push to the downside that area again providing an area of resistance through the early part of 2019 And we're right back up there here again at the moment and that level coinciding with around a trend line Going back to 2019 in the summer Where we were just prior to really the epidemic before it took pandemic status and in the retest we've had in mid july So you'll be interested to see keeping an eye on copper obviously copper Very highly correlated to the performance and appetite and people's forward looking at expectations of economic growth Out of china just given their mammoth kind of infrastructure and demand for these base metals like iron ore and copper for example In order to prop up their market in these times of I guess pressing economic situations So yeah a breakout here around these levels. It's not looking too likely today We've had a bit of a pullback But that three is something I'd be keeping an eye on going forward in the kind of period ahead not just today But in the weeks ahead any breakout there you can see there's not a great deal of Real clear near resistance Until we get right up higher Considerably higher really and if you look at the way copper has moved obviously A really strong in tandem with the equity recovery Um As as it's reacted overall to people's perception that due to the balance stimulus where the central bank or government spending that we're going to resume a fairly powerful bounce in growth globally going into 2021 Okay, a few other stories just to quickly wrap things up brexit Yeah, uh the least surprising news of the morning that I can bring to you here we've had seventh round of talks take place this week between the EU and the UK and Absolutely no progress the main sticking points the the fishing rights or access to fishing waters And then this kind of flat level competition um idea still the two main speed bumps and yeah, I just think that From a negotiation tactical point of view, there's no way you're going to be cutting deals this far out when it's october Basically is when the final All the tentative final negotiating round is to be held And with that in mind then that's in time for the agreement to be implemented In place in time for the end of the post brexit transition period, which is the end of the year, of course so What does this mean for sterling? Well, it means absolutely zero as far as today is concerned So, you know, I point it out because it's something you're going to read in the newspapers this morning Because they can't get enough a little bit of the brexit action, but from a market's perspective, this isn't going to bump Sterling at all because it's in completely in line with expectations The interesting thing here looking at cable. Obviously the the currency pairs got hit Your major dollar pairs your own sterling yesterday on the back of the dollar strength But look, this is the recovery that we were looking for the idea then that The the dollar would resume its trend and we're right back up there again in terms of cable Looking on the on the week having broken out and above Then that key area of technical resistance around at 132 level here looking at the futures We continue to remain fairly elevated overall certainly on the week We have had some uk data out this morning. Let me just show you quickly something UK retail sales month-to-month for july came in at 3.6 percent. I was actually above the expected 2% quite interesting here. I was just looking at The breakdown of the change in retail sale volume And if you can see here kind of still a reflection the sign of the times Even though lockdown has eased one thing is clothing and footwear in general high street footfall still remains very Low but online purchasing still Very high comparatively to give you a stat online retail sales did actually fall 7% in the month of july in the uk when compared with june But the strong gross experience over the pandemic has meant that sales are still 50 4% higher than February's pre-pandemic levels. So online retail sales have come down a little bit as People I guess go back to the high street slowly cautiously But we're still massively up in terms of the behavioral pattern is still there people are purchasing Online and not in person. So it does reflect to me still a little bit of apprehension and just the reality of The kind of protracted nature of getting this economy back on track again And that's with covid cases going up right now. If anything, so yeah, the retail sales number Hasn't had a really that too big an impact to be honest Just wanted to point it out and break down some of the data Looking at the session going forward then Definitely a couple of key data points coming out this morning for sure. So be vigilant. You've got the manufacturing and service flash PMIs for august coming out France 815 germ the 830 eurozone 9 and then the uk at 9 30 us afternoon CAD retail sales no 130 is coming out from the states us data comes in the form of the respective manufacturing service flash PMIs for market at 245s to 845 chicago And then you've got european consumer confidence flash reading at 3 p.m. This afternoon and Also, you do have options expires across the major Equity indices as well just to be aware of That is it. So Hopefully that was useful any questions at all Feel free to just drop me a message on the video and have a good day a good session And a fantastic weekend. Thanks very much guys


Hello everybody early this morning. I had the opportunity to catch up with Tamara down in Australia. Of course as with all my conversations with Tamara, they're usually pretty potent. So for the full interview, please follow the rumble link down in the description box below. Also, if you would like to book a reading with Tamara, her website is down in this description box. When you go to book the reading with her, please go to the menu and then go to the second entry down on the menu and then log into readings. Alright guys join us over on rumble for the full interview.


Okay, what we're going to look at next is using image files as the color rather than just a flat color Which is the sort of texturing that you see in most games and films, etc. So these are the textures that look really high-ended and much better Before you can do that though You'll actually need to download the texture files that we'll be using for this exercise So the link can be found underneath the video and you need to make sure that you download each of the images and that You put them in the source images folder of your project because that's where Maya expects your textures to be So I've already downloaded them So you can see here there they are So that's all the images there and what I need to do is just copy them into the source images folder of my project There we go So now Maya will know where to look for these Okay, so we're going to create a new material for the crates now it's a wooden crate and would Generally doesn't reflect so we're going to create a Lambert for this Before I do that. I'm obviously going to clear my work area I'm going to create a new Lambert and it's going to be called crate M Create and Lovely and again for the color instead of just choosing a color. I'm going to connect a new render node and This time I'm going to scroll back up to the top. I'm going to choose file Awesome, and it'll take you through to the properties for the file You don't really need to change anything But the one thing that you must change is the image name and that is where you tell it which image you're going to use So I'm going to click on that and you'll see that it takes me straight into my source images folder because that's where Maya expects your texture files to be and The one we're going to use is called create diffuse and diffuse maps are what the The pros call the color texture maps really so it's create diffuse And then you can see on your shader ball You've got a preview of how that would look if it was applied to a shape that wasn't really suitable for it But you now have got a crate material So again as we've done in previous steps, you can assign this crate material to each of the crates Like so and at that stage Things will start to look much much sexier Which is of course all we want so on to three Nice


Holy grail of gouache paints, I guess, because this is the large version of H.I.M.I. Himi paints which, if you remember, started off the whole jelly gouache craze. I know I have a problem if you've been here on my channel, I've probably reviewed every single jelly gouache paint that you could probably ever review, but I got sent these ones, so it's kind of different. Let's open up these by voice. I love this handle as well. Very sturdy. Ooh, look at all the colors. Oh my god, actually quite a lot in here. Why did I think this was less than this? I don't know. Okay, so you get the names of the colors on here and also guys, I believe there is some metallics in here, which is absolutely nuts. I haven't seen metallic gouache before, I think. But guys, you know what this means. It's time for an opening montage. Wish me luck. Here are all the jelly colors and metallics. We also have a row of like neon colors too, which is a vicious kiss because that's pretty exciting. Yeah, these were quite tightly packed, so they were a little bit difficult to get out. As you can see during that montage, I had to use tweezers because my fingers were hurting, but the tweezers worked really nice and really quick, so I highly recommend them if you get a set of these and you're having trouble opening them. But yeah, these look pretty good. You can tell there's a little bit of oil on the top or whatever it may be. So yeah, I'm just gonna mix them up and get to painting. I'm slowly realizing that I really enjoy painting if it wasn't clear from the beginning. I don't know why, but I love doing loads of different stuff. I love my job, my graphic design job and you know, doing stickers, digital art and drawing, but just painting. There's something about painting that's so therapeutic where you can just sit and chill and just kind of your mind just melts a little bit. It's a little bit like meditation in a way. Look at the way that this glittery metallic paint shimmers as well. I really thought it was beautiful. I always struggle to use metallics a little bit within my work, but this time I just thought I'm gonna have fun with it. I'm gonna add some sparkles to this picture and I'm gonna make it quite subtle because over the topness of sparkles kind of is strange sometimes, but I think it looks really pretty and I enjoyed using them. I just chilled out and I had fun with this drawing painting. I always say drawing when it's painting. I'm really getting better I think as well. Like I compare this painting to the first ever jelly painting that I did years ago now, a couple years ago now and I really feel like there's a definite style to this and the forms are clearer and I'm really liking brush strokes and certain textures and things. If you can see within like the mountains and the grassy hill, I really like the way that you just have like a sudden brush stroke or like a strange shape within the paint. I don't know if I'm explaining that very well, but I really like the way the textures work in this piece and I'm really getting good at it I think if that's fair to say and I think it's something that I really enjoy doing. So I probably said this a few times before but I think it really works out and I think of just having fun with painting which is really odd because I've always always tried to have fun with painting but there's always a little bit of stress there because you're like oh I'm going to show this to people and I want it to be good and I think we're getting to that level now where I'm just like I'm enjoying it. So yeah there we go. Is this painting perfect? Of course not. I will always say no. I don't think anything I ever do is perfect. Hence the average artist. But I really like it. I think it's pretty and I enjoyed making it. I would love to know what you guys are working on currently because I feel like we've gotten a little bit out of touch with what this relationship is because I've always thought like I like to do YouTube to chat with people and see what they're working on and share ideas and things like that and I feel like no one's telling me what they're working on recently so I'd like to know what are you doing? What's up? What's up with you? But yeah I love these jelly paints and I used the neon paints which I thought I was not going to touch because you know when you're trying to do kind of a guess classical I don't know that's the right terminology of painting and then using the neons in it. It's a bit odd but I did. I used neons to make the light and these um the wheaty fields I guess they are like yellow wheat fields and I wanted to make them so bright and vivid that just to show like the sunniness of the day but then also have like the moodiness of the mountains and the backgrounds and I hope you conveyed like an emotion of just like peaceful yet stormyness. I don't know I really like it and well let me know what you guys think and again let me know what you're working on I'm just gonna let you sit and chill for the rest of this paintover but yeah really like these paints used metallic in this paint didn't think I would use neon in this paint didn't think I would and they worked out. I also have the links down below I get a little bit of money if you buy from those links so please enjoy and buy a little bit of money I mean like 0.01p or something um crazy but I did get sent these paints by this by shop on amazon and yeah the links for them are down below like I said so thank you to that shop it was very nice of them to send me this and yeah they do they have sponsored this video but I love jelly gouache and you guys know that so like honestly H.I.M.I are probably one of the best ones out there and the fact that it has metallics and eons in it it's pretty sweet deal so yeah if you are considering buying them go for it it's pretty cool but yeah this is the image and I've nearly finished it so what do you guys think I really enjoyed this painting and I hope that you guys enjoyed watching it just a few little details left within the image and then it's done so I'm just gonna leave you till the end see you in a mo that's the final image what do you guys think I really like this um as usual love jelly gouache just think it's really nice to use and just really enjoy using it I used a little bit of the metallics in here um which I quite like you can see it's shimmer give me a thumbs up and all that annoying stuff if you want and see you next time hopefully bye


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