So the first thing that we need to do when we run our SDS page is we're going to take our Biorad Reti gels, polyacrylamide gels. You want to make sure that you're gloved up for this. Polyacrylamide is not something you want to touch with your bare hands. And you're going to have to gently remove the comb that was already inserted in there for you. So we're going to remove the comb. And now we need to wash the gel or wash the wells. In the ionized water you want to wash away the rest. Anything that remains, clear them out because you're getting ready to add samples and you don't want anything to be tainted. So you're supposed to do this for about five minutes three times on a shaker. And we have done that. So now we have our nice clean gels. Now what we have to do is assemble our cassette. Assembling the cassette can be really difficult at first, but there is a shorter face and a taller face. So when you take your cassette, you're going to assemble it with a shorter face facing inward toward the other sample.  Because we're only going to be running one gel, we do need to put a dam on the other side, the buffer dam. Same principle to make our cassette. Now that we've made the cassette, we do need to put it into the chamber. This is a vertical electrophoresis, which is similar in theory to the horizontal. So now you have your assembled cassette. It should be very snug. You don't want any loose wobbling in there. We will take this and put it into the box. Then we need to add our buffer. So the first thing we're going to do is we're going to take our running buffer and we're going to fill the inside chamber. You can see how it leaks out to the outside chamber and that's exactly what we want to have happen. So you want to fill the cassette until the level is about halfway between the top and the bottom of your inner. Remember that it is going to equal out, so it feels like you're pouring a lot, but you want to reach a nice equal between the two pieces of glass. Note that the level of our buffer has been in between, halfway between the shorter glass and the taller glass. That's what we were aiming for. So that's how full your chamber should be. The next thing that we do after we have this all set up is we're going to need to load our samples. It's the same principle behind loading your samples of the DNA electrophoresis. You're going to use the same basic technique with supporting your arms that we've seen before. Remember that the samples are inside the glass. This for me is always so much easier than trying to load it into those very transparent electrophoresis for your DNA. You have a nice base in the back, the tall glass that you can actually slide the tip down into your gel. All done. We have all three samples loaded. Once again, you don't want to shake and stir this container. You do want to make sure that you keep it still and that it's close enough to your power supply. Gently put the top on, hook it up, turn the machine on, and we are going to run this at 200 volts for approximately 35 minutes. So it's been 35 minutes. What we're going to do is go ahead and disconnect our chamber from the power source. Remember you want to hit stop. After you hit stop I always like to make sure that it is off. Disconnect the electrodes. Remember when you're working with electricity it's better to be safe than sorry. And now we're going to take the top off, remove from our running buffer, and then we're going to have to remove the cassette which can be a delicate process. Remember this is in there very, very tightly. Once you're finished you're going to take the gel back off, put it into your washing solution, and give it a good wash three times, five minutes each. Just make sure you switch out your fluid each time. And then from there you're going to take the gel and place it into kamosi blue. Delicate, delicate, delicate thing. And that's going to help stain your bands, which you can then later visualize and or transfer onto western block.


It's been over a year since Cell Salvador adopted Bitcoin as its official currency. The outcome of this unprecedented initiative is still being debated. Bitcoiners have praised it as the first milestone leading to a global Bitcoin revolution. But financial institutions and mainstream media frame it as a failed gamble by the country's president Nahib Bukele. So President Bukele, I would say, is a pragmatist. He's preparing his country for the future, future-proofing it against fiat money collapse. So what are the actual results of El Salvador's Bitcoin project? And can it serve as an example for more countries to follow? We talked about it with Samsung Mao, the CEO of Gen3 and one of the main proponents of Bitcoin adoption in El Salvador. I'm Giovanni, your host. In this show, we challenge the ideas that are shaping the world of crypto. In each episode, we assess a crypto narrative, a macroeconomic outlook or a potential disruptive technology. Probably the most solid ideas will make it to the other side. I know that you have been one of the main proponents of Bitcoin adoption in El Salvador. You have been there multiple times. You have been collaborating with Bukele's government. So can you tell us what are the main achievements in terms of Bitcoin adoption in El Salvador that were achieved during this time since the Bitcoin law was adopted? So I would say the biggest achievement is that they've managed to rebrand themselves as Bitcoin country. And they've drawn a lot more attention to themselves on the international stage. This is good on a number of reasons because they're attracting more investments in the country. They're attracting a lot more tourism. I believe tourism is up 30 percent. And basically they are the epicenter of nation-state Bitcoin adoption at this time. So they're doing quite well. The media reports that El Salvador is at risk of default, but I would say they're far from that. They're growing their GDP in double digits right now. And if you look at their GDP growth and assume a marginal tax rate of 20 percent, they're probably up about half a billion in revenues this year. So that dwarfs any drop in the value of their Bitcoin holdings by far. So I would say they're doing quite well after adopting Bitcoin. Yeah, definitely. I think that a lot of people started knowing about El Salvador specifically because of Bitcoin, because of the personality of Bukele, he's a great marketer in that sense. So apparently there are certain problems with Bitcoin payment infrastructure.  Our reporter, Joe Hall, was there not long ago? He also said that, quote, Bitcoin payments in El Salvador suck. So how can you comment on that aspect? Well it depends on what you're looking at. When Chivo was first rolled out, there were a number of issues, and I believe the deployment was rushed. They were trying to hit a deadline to match the deployment of the law. But since then, they've brought on a number of companies to help with it. And I believe that the payments are much smoother now. There are still some issues with lightning, I believe, and that could be due to just general lightning channel liquidity. You're basically recreating traditional banking infrastructure in the country. So it's bound to take some time, and it's bound to have uneven deployment. But the important thing is to look at what Bitcoin enables in El Salvador right now. And it's basically giving everyone in the country access to something like PayPal or Venmo or Wwise. So they can make these digital payments, pay bills, pay other people without having to deal with an intermediary, and without having to go through a lot of overhead, such as getting a bank account and maintaining a bank account. The population of El Salvador was largely and still is unbanked. But according to a recent survey, up to around 24% of the population of El Salvador uses Bitcoin. So it seems to be not so much. But if you consider the fact that probably before Bitcoin, all those people didn't have any access to financial services, that is still a huge, huge improvement. Still a comparative little amount of people use Bitcoin in El Salvador as a form of payment, far less than the people that still want to use the dollar, for example, which is the second legal tender in El Salvador. So is that because, according to you, of the lack of sophisticated infrastructure, so infrastructure need to be improved, or is it because of a lack of education? Well, all the aspects should be improved. But I would say the lack of uptake on Bitcoin is largely because they need to still receive dollar denominated value.  So unless they're taking Bitcoin, you still need to collect payment in dollar denominated value. So this is why Chivo is useful, because it allows them zero fee conversion. So if a tourist goes to them and pays them in Bitcoin, they can get converted into dollars on the spot. So they're not at risk dealing with Bitcoin volatility. Overall, I would say if we want Bitcoin to be adopted as a form of medium of exchange, just like accepting it and pricing it in Bitcoin, we need Bitcoin to go up a lot more to the millions of dollars per coin mark, where the volatility would be a lot less pronounced. But that's going to take a long time. I think that education on how to use Bitcoin could probably have a faster effect on adoption in the country, no? Yeah, I'm not sure it will take that long. Currency collapses happen very rapidly and they're usually not anticipated. If you look at history, it just sort of happens overnight and then you're shoveling cash into a wheelbarrow. So Bitcoin could be at the million dollar mark in five, 10 years. And I think the benefit of El Salvador adopting a Bitcoin standard is that they've already onboarded their population and started to educate them in how to use Bitcoin. So as you said, El Salvador was famous for the gangs, for violence and so on. Since Bukele adopted a strong hand towards these problems, the crime rates have fallen a lot. Still, a lot of critics say that he has been using authoritarian methods to achieve these goals, like, for example, extrajudicial arrests. He's also defied the constitution in order to extend his presidential mandate. What is your personal opinion about Mr. Bukele and about these criticism that has been brought against him? So President Bukele, I would say, is a pragmatist. He does what's needed and he takes steps that will pay dividends off in the future. So the Bitcoin law is one of those things. He's preparing his country for the future, future-proofing it against fiat money collapse. The other things that he's doing to make the country safer, such as basically going to war against the terrorists that have been killing people. I mean, you can look at that from a nice and safe Western country and say, you know, that's not ideal, but you have to deal with the reality on the ground, which is you have sophisticated networks of gangs that are killing people. So you should go after them. It's what pragmatism would dictate you need to do to keep the country safe. Without safety, it's difficult to grow a country in terms of GDP, attracting investment and tourism. So a new bill has been introduced recently to the Parliament of El Salvador, which is the first step in order to create this Bitcoin bond, which is basically an initiative that will allow El Salvador to sell one billion worth of bonds, 10-year bonds, to investors. Half of it will be invested in Bitcoin and the other half is going to be invested in Bitcoin infrastructure and this Bitcoin city that is going to be built in El Salvador. You are one of the big proponent of this. You are also called the architect of the Bitcoin bonds. Can you tell us how is the current state of this initiative at the moment? Right. So as you mentioned, they've put forth the law to Congress and this is the first step to enabling it. So first, they'll need to approve the law. Then they'll need to, I believe, form a regulatory body that would govern these digital securities. And then they'll need to put forth a prospectus. Which would detail what the Bitcoin bonds would actually look like. So the design that we had, which was from last November, may be outdated, so they probably need to revisit that and see. But that was designed in a very different market when Bitcoin was about 47,000 and mining was profitable. Right now, hash rate difficulties at an all time high and Bitcoin prices down. So I think we need to look at the economics of the design of the bond. So we still don't know when they're going to be available, more or less? It's possible end of Q1, early Q2. It just depends on how fast everything goes and when they have the prospectus. And I guess that the cool thing about this bond is that everyone can become a bondholder, right? Just also individual retail investors can participate in this. Yeah, everyone that is able to register and access the Bitcoin securities platform will be able to access it. And the goal is that smaller retail investors, like someone in El Salvador, can actually invest in their own country because historically, bonds are not that readily accessible, but with the Bitcoin bonds, because it's being built on liquid, we can go down to about a hundred dollar coupon size. So if you have a hundred dollars, you can actually buy a piece of the bond and then take that bond and store it in your block stream green or your Gen 3 aqua wallet. So we saw that a number of countries are moving towards the example of El Salvador and trying to adopt Bitcoin as a legal tender. We saw that this year, the Central African Republic adopted Bitcoin as a legal tender. So you are involved as the CEO of Gen 3 in the basically promoting these sort of changes. I wanted to ask you what kind of lesson should these countries draw from El Salvador? Well, I would say the most important thing is that there is a grassroots movement in the country that anchors the Bitcoin adoption. The Central African Republic doesn't really have that. So they they did pass a law, but then they created their own altcoin, the Sango coin, and it seems like they're they're trying to do some metaverse and NFT things, and I don't believe that's very practical or useful. And I would say a large part of that has to do with the lack of this grassroots movement. So in El Salvador, you have Bitcoin Beach and in a number of Latin American countries, you have their own little initiatives, right? In Guatemala, you have Bitcoin Lake and there's many more examples around the world of these things, but I think without that strong community to kind of keep the government in check and accountable, they can go off on a tangent and take on some of these odd projects. So I would say a mix of top down initiative and bottom up initiative is needed to balance each other out in any country that wants to successfully adopt Bitcoin. For sure, the presence of a grassroots community is very important because Bitcoin as in its ethos, I think, has this grassroots element in it. So it's very important that it's just not like a top down initiative. Thanks a lot, Samson, for being on our show. It was a pleasure to talk to you today. Thanks Giovanni. Take care.


Hi, welcome to T-Smart. We are from Shenzhen, China and our company is many manufactured HDMI matrix switcher KVM. So this is like a KVM switch, this is a product to do with the many USB ports. What is, how does it work? This KVM, this keyboard and mouse, this USB power is for keyboard and mouse. And then it goes out to two computers? Yeah, two computers. Two monitors? Yeah, one monitor. One monitor for two computer inputs? Yeah, yeah. And you can select one computer and control this computer and then you switch to another one. How do you switch? Just press this button. Just press one time. Yeah, press this button to switch the computer. And you have different style, it's a big one like this? Yeah. How many are in here? This one is four. This one we have four input and one output. So one monitor, one keyboard and mouse with four computers? Yeah, yeah, yes. And also we have an analog audio output for headphone or small speaker. But they're getting the analog audio from the HDMI input convert to the audio? No. USB audio? No, from HDMI. From HDMI to the mini-track? Yeah. And this is a switch? This is HDMI matrix. All right. You also do Type-C? Yeah, Type-C to VGA and HDMI. But no, we didn't take the HDMI here. And this is a cable? Yeah. How does it work here? Okay, this is actually my cable with fiber optical. The fiber optical, the high-speed data goes through this. Yeah, what is in here? This is a converter? It's a 5W converter model. Converter model to get the fiber optic that means it can be very, very long cable? Yeah, yeah. And high quality? Yeah, yeah. A long, long, long can be 300, 300 meters. How much is expensive to get a 300-meter fiber optic HDMI cable? Yeah, this is on... This is very expensive, but we are going to maybe local costum... You're from Shenzhen company? Yeah. And you have 18 gigabit cables? Okay, 16 hertz. All right. And so you do premium cable, you certify everything? Sorry? All the quality is good for all the cables? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Good switches? Yeah, very good switches. And this says a lot in European and USA. I'm also clear.


Possessions come and go. Some stay longer than others. Some we would guard with our very lives, and others we would hardly at all notice if they disappeared completely. One possession in particular vanishes without our noticing because it is just as quickly replaced by an identical replica. Infinite in form, but finite in perception, this most valuable of all possible possessions is time. We all own this in different quantities, but some let what they are given slip away without even noticing. What I hope to shed light on is how we might go about making the most of this precious finite resource gifted by chance or by grace. 1.8. This number represents the amount of human beings who die each second, some on their first year and others on their hundredth. Because of this uncertainty, we must make use of the time we have, for it can be taken without notice. Often the days seem long, but the years short. When speaking to the older generations, you may hear them say that as you get older, time seems to speed up. I've often wondered why this might be. Well surely how we store memory plays an extensive role, but I believe there's something more. When we were young, all experience is new and we look to the universe with an awe that seemingly dissipates as we age, causing knowledge that was previously flavorful to go bland. This cessation of new experience makes the days blend, sort of how the eight in this picture can hardly be distinguished among the sea of bees. How might we go about combating this? Well the answer is simple. You must continue learning new information, seeing new places and experiencing new cultures. While going about this, you must also keep your mind and eyes open to learning new information. Otherwise any new information will simply overflow like water that is poured into a full glass, leaving you with nothing new, only a life of indistinguishable days. We must also take heed of the past, that of your own and that of others. As said by Seneca, he makes his life long by combining all times into one. The wonderful thing about philosophy is that the great men and women of the past have laid out their experience and knowledge so that we can apply it, if we so desire, to our own lives. I also recommend scheduling out your day. Have a set plan and routine. This way you minimize the time spent in discursiveness. Our schedule can and often does become hectic. When this happens, it is easy to become overwhelmed and get lost in procrastination, trying to find out where to even begin. This postponement, as said by Seneca, is the greatest waste of life. It deprives you of each day as it comes, it snatches from you the present, by promising something hereafter. Control your day. Don't let it control you. Begin fully appreciating the time that you do have right now, because one thing is certain, that for us finite beings, time has a beginning and an end. Most of the time we have no way of knowing when this end is to come. So in this case, just as a wild animal eats everything they are able, because the next meal is uncertain, we should use all the time that we are given to its fullest. Let me leave you with another quote from the eloquent writings of Seneca. Life will follow the path it started upon, and will neither reverse nor check its course. It will make no noise, it will not remind you of its swiftness. Silent, it will glide on. It will not prolong itself at the command of a king, or at the applause of the populace. Just as it started on its first day, so it will run. Nowhere will it turn aside, nowhere will it delay. I hope this video has given you something to think about in the new year. If you liked the video and would like to see more like it, make sure you subscribe to the channel. As always, until next time, thanks for talking philosophy with me.


Live from the Javits Center in New York City, it's theCUBE, covering Inforum 2017. Brought to you by Inforum. Where am I looking? Welcome back to theCUBE's coverage of Inforum 2017. I'm your host, Rebecca Knight, along with my co-host, Dave Vellante. We're joined by Stefan Scholl. He is the president of Infor. Thanks so much for joining us. My pleasure. For returning to theCUBE. My pleasure, yeah, three years in a row. I think we're four now, yeah. Indeed, indeed. But we skipped a year in between. That's right, three years. Yeah, anyways, good to be here. This has been a hugely successful conference. We're hearing so much about the growth and momentum of Infor. Can you unpack this a little bit for our viewers here? Yeah, I mean, you know, people always forget we only started this aggressive cloud journey literally three years ago, when we announced that in form in New Orleans that we were pivoting the company to Infor industry-based cloud suites. Everybody looked at us and said, that's an interesting pivot and, you know, why are you doing that? Well, as I said yesterday, we really saw a market dynamic that, you know, you see retail just getting crushed by what Amazon was doing. And it was obvious today, but then wasn't so obvious, but that was going to happen everywhere. And so we really got aggressive on believing we can put together a very different approach to tackling enterprise software. Everybody is so fatigued from buying from our competitors, traditional perpetual software, and then you end up modifying the hell out of it, and then you end up spending a gazillion dollars and it takes forever. And then if it does work, you're stuck on old technology already, and you never get to the next round of evolution. So we said, why don't we build cloud suites, take the last mile industry functionality that we have, put it in the cloud, make it easy for our customers to implement it, and then we'll run it for them. And then by the way, when the newest innovation comes up, we'll upgrade them automatically, right? That's what cloud's about. So that's where we saw that transformation happening. So in three years, we went from 2%, as I said, to 55% plus of our revenue. And by the way, we're not a small company, right? Nobody at our size and scale has ever done that in enterprise software. So what an accomplishment. So a lot of large companies, some that used to work for, are really slow. And you know what, a lot of times that's okay because IT tends to be really slow. As you move to the cloud and move to the situation where, okay guys, new release coming, what are your customers saying about that?  Well, they're excited.  I almost got kicked out of Germany. I mean, I said, it's not going to happen in Germany. We're engineering pedigreed. We're going to be, you know, on-premise. You don't understand the German market. You don't understand our marketplace. And we're really close friends with Andy Jassy at AWS, the CEO. The AWS guys are unbelievable. And innovative.  So they put, you know, hundreds of millions of dollars investment in built data center. What's the fastest growing data center in Europe right now for them? Frankfurt. Frankfurt, right? The German market for us, our pipeline is tenfold increase from what it was a year ago. So, you know, it's working in Germany and it's happening on a global basis. We have, I think yesterday, 75 customers from Saudi, from Dubai, from all the Middle East. I mean, cloud is a great equalizer.  The luck part is, there's fatigue out there. They're exhausted. They've spent so much money over the last 20, 30 years and never reached the promise of what they were sold then. And so now with all the digital disruption and think of the business competitive challenges that they have to deal with.  You could be in Wichita, Kansas, building up an e-commerce website and compete with a company in Saudi tomorrow, right? The barriers to entry in manufacturing, retail, public, I mean, look at government agencies. I mean, we're doing nine figure transformations in the cloud with public sector agencies. Again, two years ago, they would have said, never going to happen. Yeah, the government to spend that kind of money. That's right. Mike Rogers, CIO was saying, it was like all the technical debt that we've accumulated over the years and it just keeps getting worse and worse and worse. If we don't bite the bullet and move now, it's just going to take that much longer. That's right. That's right. And they're leapfrogging. I mean, I'm so excited. Government agencies, I mean, there's even some edicts in some places where cloud only. I mean, this whole Gold Coast opportunity with 40 plus different applications in Australia, all going into the cloud to handle all the complexities they have around the commonwealth games that they're trying to deal with. So, I mean, just huge transformations on a global basis. Yeah. At this conference, we're hearing about so many different companies and as you said, government agencies, municipalities transforming their business models, transforming their approaches. What is some of your favorite transformation stories? Oh, I mean, my favorite one that we're doing is Travis Perkins. Okay. You know, with John and Carter, maybe even interviewed him last year when he was here, CEO, old-state distribution business and taking a whole new fresh approach, undoing 40 to 50 different applications, taking his entire business, putting it online. He deals with contrast. So, they're the home depot of the UK market.  I need five windows. I need five roofs. I need five pieces of wood. Everything's just a scurry. He wants to put it on when you drive up next year. You're on an iPad. What would you like? Oh, by the way, you want to make a custom order on that window frame. You want to make green, yellow, red. You want to order different tiles of roof styling. Custom orders is the future. You, as a contractor walking into that organization, want to make a custom order. That today is very complicated for a company like that to handle. So, the future is about undoing all that, embracing the custom order process, giving you a really unique touchless buying process where it's all on an iPad. It's all automated. You know what? Telling you, here's your five new windows. Here's a new frame you want on it. And by the way, you're going to get it in five days and three hours and 21 minutes delivered to your door. Right? And by the way, these guys are huge, right? They're the biggest distribution companies in all of the United Kingdom. And so that's one of my favorite stories. Can we go over some of the metrics that you've been sharing? Oh, it's somewhat repetitive, but I'd like to get it on record. There's 55%, 84, 88, over 1100, 3X, 60%, maybe start with the 60%. I think it's bookings growth, right? That's right, yeah. I was in sales growth last year alone. And you know, I looked at, you know, my CFO always keeps me honest, but I think I can say it anyways, which is I looked at everybody else. I mean, you look at the, I want you to mention any competitor's names, but you look at the top five competitors that we have, we grew faster than they did last year on sales of Cloud Suite. Okay, so that's 60% bookings growth on Cloud. Correct. That's right. Yeah. I mean, when you think of our competitors, I saw 40s, I saw some 30s, I saw maybe 52 at the next one down. So people don't think of us that way. So we were at the enterprise scale, the fastest growing cloud company in the world. Okay, and then 3X, that's 3X, the number of customers who bought multiple products, is that correct? Correct, that's exactly right. So think about that transformation. They used to buy from us one product, feature function rich, great, but now they're buying five products, eight products from us. So 3X increase year over year already happening. Okay, and then it was 1100 plus, is go lives? Go lives? Yeah. So that's, people always ask us, you're selling stuff, are they using it? Is it working? So you got to follow up with delivery. So we're spending a ton of money on certification, training, enablement. Look at the SI community. Look at the Deloitte, Accenture, Capgemini, Grant Thornton. Four of the major SI's in the world that weren't here last year. They're all here now. They're all here this year. Platinum sponsors. So Deloitte on go lives, the SI community is embracing us, helping us. I mean, I can't do $100 million transformations on my own with these customers. I need Accenture, I need Deloitte, look at Coke. Coke's going to be a massive transformation for financials, human capital management. And so I got Accenture and Deloitte helping us taking a hundred plus billion dollar company on those two systems. And then 84, 88 is the number of live customers. Sorry, total customers that we have in the cloud. Cloud customers. Okay, not total customers. Yeah, no, no. We have 90,000 plus customers. And then 84, 8,500 of them are cloud based customers. We've got a ways to go to convert some of those guys. That's our opportunity. That's absolutely right. 55% of revenue came from the cloud, obviously driven by the cloud bookings grill. That's right. Exactly. So I mean, just the acceleration. I mean, as I said, when we started this thing in New Orleans, two, three percent. Now, tipping point, revenue. I mean, it's one thing to sell software, but to actually turn it into revenue. Nobody at enterprise scale has done the 2%, the 55% at our size. Lots of companies in the $100 million range, small companies, but if we were a standalone cloud company, we'd be one of the largest cloud companies in the world. So the narrative from Oracle, I wonder if you can comment on this, is that the core of enterprise apps has not moved to the cloud. And we, Oracle, are the guys to move it there because we are the only ones with that end-to-end cloud on-prem to cloud strategy. And most companies can't put core apps, enterprise apps, in the cloud, especially on Amazon. So what do you say to that? Well, it's because they don't have the applications to do that. You know, Oracle doesn't have the application horsepower. They don't have industry based application suites. If you think of what Fusion is, it's a mishmash of all the applications that they bought, there's no industry capability. So it's horizontal. It's horizontal. You can't, I mean, Oracle's fighting the battle against Amazon. I mean, they declared war against AWS. I'm glad they're doing that. Go ahead. I mean, I don't know how you're going to do that, but they want to fight the infrastructure game. For us, infrastructure is commoditized. We're fighting the business applications layer game. And so when you look at SAP or Oracle or anybody else, they have never done what we've done in our heritage, which is take key critical mission functionality for aerospace and defense or automotive. We have the last mile functionality. I mean, I have companies like Ferrari, one of the most complicated companies. We've talked with those guys for years. No modifications. BAE over in the UK, building the F-35 fighter jets and the Typhoon warplanes. It doesn't get any more complicated than building an F-35 fighter jet. No modifications in their software that they have with us. You can only build cloud based solutions if you don't modify the software. Oracle doesn't have that. Never had it. They're not a manufacturing pedigree organization. SAP is probably more analogous to that. But even for SAP, they only have one complete, big product set covering retail, distribution, finance.  We don't do that, right? That's been our core forever. So your dogma is no custom mods because you're basically saying you can't succeed in the cloud with custom mods. I mean, we have an extensibility platform to do some neat things if you need to do that. But generally speaking, otherwise it's just lipstick on the pig if you're running modified applications. That's called hosting. That's what these guys are largely. A lot of people count hosting as cloud. They all do it. That's the game they're playing. They throw everything in the cloud kitchen sink. That's right. Okay. And as we thought with you before, we spent billions at the, we all are R&Ds at the application layer. We do some work in the integration layer and so on, but most of our money is spent in the last mile, which Oracle and SAP, they don't want to waste it. They're all focused on HANA and infrastructure and system speed and performance and all the stuff that we view as absolutely being commoditized. But that's really attractive to the SIs, the fact that they don't go that last mile. So why is it that the SIs are suddenly sort of coming to infor? Well, you know what? Because they finally see there is a lot of revenue still on the line in terms of change management, business process, re-engineering. You take a company like Travis Perkins, change their entire model of doing business. There isn't just modification revenue or integration revenue. There is huge dollars to be had on change management, taking the company, the CEO, John Carter by the hand, and saying, here's how you're going to transform your entire business process. That more than makes up in many cases, high value dollars then, focused on changing a widget from green to yellow. And it's right in the wheelhouse of these big consultancies. And they're making good money on digital transformation. So what are the digital use cases? So that's where they're, look at Accenture, they did a great job. I think 20 plus percent of their business now is all coming from digital. That didn't exist three, four years ago. Well, you have a lot of historical experience from your Oracle days of working with those large SIs. They were critical, but they were doing different type of work then. And is it your premise that a lot of that's going away and it's shifting toward? Listen, the voice of the customer is everything. And it may take time. You can snow a customer once, right? Which we've already done in this industry of software. We told them, buy generic based software, Oracle or SAP, modify it with an SI, take five years, implement it for a hundred million dollars, get stuck on this platform. And then if you're lucky, maybe upgrade in 10 years. Whoever does that today as a playbook, as a customer? And if an SI can sell that, I'm not buying that. You think any customers I know today are buying that vision? I don't think so. Right there with the outsourcing business. Yeah, that's right. Another thing that's come out of this conference is attention to the Brooklyn Nets deal. Can you talk a little bit about it? It's very cool. I love those guys. We're from Boston. We love the Brooklyn Nets, too. Yeah, we do. And you know I love... We can play us anytime. Every day, every day. Thank you. For those graphics. Bread and those guys. You know what it is, and Sean, the GM, the energy. You know what it is, I use that a lot with my own guys. Brooklyn Grid. And they're willing to look and upturn every aspect of the game to be more competitive. And so we're in there with our technology and looking at every facet. What are they eating? What's the EQ stuff, emotional quotient? How's that team collaboration coming together? And then mapping it to they have the best 3D cameras on the court. So, foot positioning, and how are they aligning to each other? Who's doing the front guard in terms of holding the next person back so they can have enough room to do a three point shot? Where should the three point shot come from? So, taking all the EQ stuff, the IQ stuff, the performance, the teamwork, putting it all into a recipe for success.  These guys are going to, you know, they're going to rock it next couple of years as a team. So. But it's not just what goes on in the court too. It's also about fan engagement too. All that. Well, fair enough. I get all excited about, you know, just making them a much better team. But the whole fan experience, walking into a place, knowing that if I get up now, the washroom line isn't 15 miles long, and that the cash line for a beer isn't going to take me 20 minutes. That on my app, you actually have all the, you know, information and sensors in place to know that, hey, right now is a great time. You know, aisle number four, queue number three is a one minute wait for a beer. Go. Or have runners. You know, everything's on your phone. You know, they don't do enough service. So there's a huge revenue opportunity, along with it, from a business point of view. But I would also say, it's a customer service element. How many times have we sat in a game and go, I'm not getting up there? That's not going to do it. Unless you're sitting in the VIP area. Well, there's revenue to be had all over the place. They're missing out on our beer money. It's ways for stadium services, which are essentially a liquor distribution system. That's right. But to do that, you got to connect point of sale systems. You got to connect a lot of components, sensors in the bathroom. I mean, you got to do a lot of work. So we're going to create, you know, the fan experience of the future with them and preferences. The fact that they know that when you walk in past the door with your app, and if you have the Brooklyn Nets app, that we know who your favorite player is, and you get a little text that says, hey, you know what? 10% discount on the next shirt from your favorite player, right? Things like that, making a personal connection with you about what you like is going to change the game. And that's happening everywhere. In retail, everybody wants to have a one-to-one relationship. You want to order your Nike shoes online with a green lace and a red lace on the right. Nike allows you to do that, right? You want to order a shirt that they'll make for you with a different emblems on it and different, you know, kind of technology to it. Those are things they're doing too, right? So a very one-to-one relationship. Well, it's data, it's more than data, it's insights. And you guys are, everybody's a data company, but you're really becoming a data and an insight-oriented company. Do you kind of stumble into that, or is this part of the grand plan six years ago, or how'd you get here? Listen, this whole, I mean, to do cloud-based solutions by industry is not just to solve for applications, going from infrastructure on-premise to off-premise. What does it allow you to do? Well, if you're in AWS, I can run 10,000 core product. I can run a report in 10 minutes with AWS that would take you a week around sales information, customer information. You know, look at all the Netflix content. You log in on Netflix, suggestions for you. It's actually pretty accurate, isn't it? It's fairly accurate sometimes, yeah. It's pretty smart, what goes into the algorithm that looks at your past. Unfortunately, I'll log into my kids' section and I have my name on it and I get all these wonderful recommendations for kids. But that's the kind of stuff that we're talking about. Customers need that. It's about real time. It's not looking backwards anymore. It's about real time decisioning and analytics and artificial intelligence AI is the future, for sure. So more, more on the future. I mean, this is really fun listening to you talk because you are the president and you have a great view of what's going on. What will we be talking about next year at this time? Well, it won't be quite this time. It'll be September. But what do you think? I think what you're going to see is massive global organizations up on stage, like the ones I mentioned, Travis Perkins, a Safeway, a Gold Coast, a Hertz. Hertz is under attack as a company. The entry point into the rental car business was very, very hard. Who's going to go buy 800,000 cars and get into the rental business? Open 10,000 centers. You don't need to do that anymore today. Software. It's called software, application business. So there are business models under attack. We're feverishly working with their CEO and their executive team and their board on redefining the future of Hertz. So you're going to see here next year the conversation with a company like Hertz rebounding and growing and being successful and the best defense is a good offense. So they're on the offensive. They're going to use their size, their scale. You look at the retailers, and I love the TAL story. I mean, they make one out of every six shirts. Amazon puts the same shirt online that they sell for $39.99. TAL's trying to sell for $8.999. They're saying, enough of that. They built these beautiful analyzers, sensors, where you walk into this little room and they do a sensor about 100 different parts of your body. So they're going to give the perfect shirt for you. So it's an experience center.  You walk in, it's all automatic. You come out of there, they know all the components of your body, which is a good thing and a bad thing sometimes, right? But they'll know it all.  Do you want a different color? So everything is moving to custom. And you'll pay more for that. Wouldn't you pay more for a customized shirt that fits your body perfectly rather than an off the rack kind of shirt at $8.999? That's how you compete with the generic based e-commerce plays that are out there. That use case of TAL is going to happen in every facet. DSW, at this point, these experience centers, the shoeless aisles, you know, that whole experience, but you know, you walking in as a, with, I mean, the most loyal women shoppers are DSW with your application, right? And how many times have you tried to shoe on that doesn't fit properly or it's not the one you want or they don't have your size or you want to make some configurations to it. Actually came by and gave me this. There you go. I love DSW.  One of the biggest shoe companies in the world, not standing still, and Ashley is transforming, they went live on financials in like 90 days in the cloud, which for them, that kind of innovation happening that fast is unbelievable. So next year, the whole customer experience side is going to be revolutionary for these kinds of exciting organizations. So they're rather than cowering from this whole digital transformation, they're embracing it. We're going to be the engine of digital transformation for them. So I get so excited, have major corporations completely disrupting themselves to change their market for themselves moving forward. What is the Coke investment meant to you guys? Can you talk about that a little bit?  I mean, forget all the money stuff for a minute. Just the fact that we're part of a company that is, went from 40 million when Charles Coke started taking over from his family and went to 100 plus billion. Think about that innovation. Think about the horsepower, the culture, the aggressiveness, the tenacity, the will to win. We already had that. To combine that with their sheer size and scale is something that is exciting for me. One, two is they view technology as the next big chapter for them. I mean, again, not resting on your laurels. I'm already 100 billion. They want to grow to 150, 200 billion and they see technology as the route to getting there. Automating their plants, connecting all their components of their employees getting the right employees to the right place. So workforce management, all the HR stuff that we're doing on transformation. The financials, getting a global consolidated view across a $100 billion business on our systems. That's transformation. That's big, big business for us. And what a great reference to have. A guy like Steve Feldmayer up yesterday. He'll be up here next year talking about how he's using us to transform their business. There's not many $100 billion companies around, right? So what a great reference point for us to have them as a customer and as a proof point of success. So we'll look forward to that in September and seeing you back here next year too. Look forward to it. Stefan, thanks so much for joining us. Thanks, appreciate it, thank you. I'm Rebecca Knight for Dave Vellante. That is it for us and theCUBE at Inforum 2017. See you next time.


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Hi, my name is Felayna Murray. This is my first time actually doing lanterns and this lantern is a lamp. It signifies the light that Taiwan-China has shown on St. Lucia for diplomatic relations and which has resulted, for example, as you see here in her graduation hat she's graduating from one of the scholarship opportunities from Taiwan-China.


Hey guys, we are here for another episode of the Artsy Trio and I have a variety of things on my desk because of course I'm working on more than one project at once, but I will try to focus, I promise. This month, I created the mood board and although the mood board is for September, it airs at the end of August. August is my birth month. I was born in 1960s and so of course I just dept off that cliff and used that for inspiration. So I created this mood board with a 1960s inspired imagery and color palette. So we are going to go with that to create something I think fairly abstract. That's where I'm thinking I'm going to go with this. I've seen a number of different abstract art journaling techniques on Instagram lately by a few different artists, not anyone in particular that I can point out more than the other. I'm going to see where I can go with this. I've got some distressed crayons, some neocolor crayons, some pencils, some paints. As I have been doing in recently previous artsy trios, I am going to focus on using some of those supplies I don't use too much, i.e. the crayons. So we are going to see where we go with this. I have no idea how this is going to turn out but we're going to find out together. Let's get into the process. I'm going to speed through it. It's going to be pretty self-explanatory so I don't think I need to stop and talk you through it and leave you any instructions but I could change my mind. We'll see. I'll be back. Okay, I take it back. I am going to talk through it. So not unlike some other abstract techniques and art therapy techniques like what is it called? Neurographic Art? Yeah, when I did this one. So the first thing I did as you saw is I went with the pencil and I barely looked at the paper and just went with how I felt as far as marks. Now I'm going to go back and pick some of those marks and fill them in with paint colors appropriate to our color palette. So let me do that. I'm not really thinking about it too much. I'm just focusing on how things feel. My security doorbell camera thing. So sorry. So I'm going to keep doing that and I'll be right back. Before it's going I know what I wanted to say.  Let's see if I can manage this. I'm going to at least start with a black Stabilo pencil. And by the way that's what these pencils are that I am using are Stabilo All pencils. I know as mixed media artists we tend to use just the black one but they do come in colors. The colors can be challenging to find. It's not the world's most perfect circle by any stretch of anyone's imagination. The water soluble pencil so I can just go in with a little water. Paintbrush is kind of dirty so it's got some of the yellow and green. Stamp you saw me using that sort of brick pattern in the background is one of my new art foamy stamps. At the time of this filming it is not out yet but it will be shortly and I will put the art link to the art foamy's website down below. There are a lot of great designers over there including myself so check it out weekly videos on how to use their stamps over in their Facebook group and stuff on their YouTube channel. It's a great company to work for a little USA made mom and pop. Yeah I kind of like that so let's see where's the black paint because I think we need to we need to make that darker. I like it. Okay so let's use the flat brush at least to start. I generally don't do this. I'm the artist that likes to do my background first and then not have to retouch it later but sometimes you got to do what you got to do. So this is the time where I usually advise turn on some music. Go slow. Don't be in a hurry. It's only paint so if you mess it up you can always go over it and these are matte acrylics which is usually what I journal with so they will dry pretty quickly plus my heat tools never too far away. I didn't have a plan as I stated earlier. I just went with what I you know I was feeling by looking at the mood board. So for me that's how most of my art is. It's really about how I feel and you know if your art's not about that maybe you should give it a try. I do it not only for the love of art but for therapy. You can tell I'm concentrating because I've gotten quiet. Before anybody asks this is a Princeton select flat wash brush. It's a half inch flat and I haven't messed up the brush yet. The bristles in the brush yet which I'm pretty good at doing. I'm really tough on my brushes so this one's still in pretty good condition. Okay I'm going to switch to a smaller brush. By the way is anybody getting um ancient Egyptian boat vibes from this very abstract painting? I don't know that's why where my brain went when looking at this but that is definitely where my brain went. Yeah I like that. I don't know why I like that but I like that. Do I want to do another? Yeah I think I do. Let's see if I can do this without sticking my hand in something wet as I say that I stick my hand in something wet. I probably should have done this with one of the pens or pencils rather than paint would be easier. Okay yeah I like I like where that went. All right let's a couple touch up colors. We'll start with this olivey green. A couple places. Okay I think we need to do this also in a couple places. Which isn't too bad because I expected to like really mess this up. There we go. I don't know what there is about that that I like because it's kind of a hot mess but all right so we're going to glue our go with the flow. So I would love for you to try this month use the mood board for inspirations for shapes and color and design and just sort of go with the flow and don't have a plan. Maybe close your eyes when you make that first initial round of marks on your page and see what happens and experiment and play. I am going to make some notes over here and I'll be right back. There you go again I don't know why I like that but it's just abstracted marks and craziness but I love the way I love where it went so anyway I would love to see what your craziness looks like this month. If you want to download the mood board and or share what you've done inspired by the mood board, join our Facebook group the RT Trio Facebook group and the link is for that is in the video description. The link for my partners my partners in this project is also in the video description Mike Deacon and Bea Grob. I would love for you to go watch their videos like share and subscribe if you do join the Facebook group and you post something that you create make sure to tag one or all of us teachers in the post so that we don't miss it and I'd love to see what you do don't forget to just have fun make marks have some play time and experiment go out stay safe stay healthy stay creative do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you in the next video bye guys


The Iowa State Cyclones have announced some throwback uniforms they'll wear this weekend in honor of the 1923 uniform and specifically Jack Trice. Now Jack Trice is a legend in Ames, Iowa. He was the first African-American to play there. He's the namesake behind their stadium and unfortunately Jack passed away from injury sustained during playing a game on October 8th, 1923. These jerseys are A, a great way to honor him and B, I think they look pretty cool. I mean they're meant to look 100 years old which they do. They've also got a cool Ames script there on the helmet, nice retro look. Overall it's a good looking throwback for a good reason and I'm excited to see him on the field Saturday. What do you guys think?


We will be back to TIPLA TV. Thank you for joining the Average Golfer and Four Golf Chester. It is still cold here in the UK, but there's a bit of sunshine there. I can't promise Monday morning I am hitting golf balls. Anyway, what's today's video all about? Lots of comments over the past year, I would say, about how ions have changed their loffs, strengthen their loffs. perhaps even describing some cases cheating the system a little bit so you've got strong lofty dines, so for example what we're going to do today is this the strongest loftyd seven iron on the market was released in recent weeks I didn't cover it in a video it was the Rogue X from Callaway. Believe it or not this seven iron is loftyd at 27 degrees. That's pretty damn strong, if If you take for example my Mizuno MP5 irons which I played with for a few years, seven iron was lofted I think at 34 degrees. So there's a huge difference. So arguably, you can understand there's going to be yardage gains but also what kind of losses are you going to make in terms of... Well there's lots of questions that come about and we'll answer them at the end. Let's get into straight what we're going to put up against it. I've been waiting for a while to get an identical match and I've dug out my MP5 but it's my five iron. My five iron is lofted at, you guessed it, 27 degrees. So this is an absolutely perfect head-to-head example of what the difference is between the two. Are the numbers going to be exactly the same? Arguably a lot of people would suggest 27 degrees, 27 degrees. Once there's five, once there's seven but the results out there into the range on dry ball data are going to be identical. I'm not convinced that will be the case but I'm going to find out very soon. I have got identical shaft in these so I always add my clubs were shafted with a sea taper 120 stiff shaft and I've put the exact same shaft into the rogex. So this is the first time for me that I've done a test where the conditions are absolutely identical. We're going to use premium TaylorMade TP5 balls. Let's see if we can get 10 balls of each again. So we've got a bit of a broader spectrum of shots to analyse. And let's go and find out what the differences are because I'm as interested in this one as hopefully you are. So move camera, hit golf balls and then have a look at what this comes out with. This should be interesting. Now then before I start to hit some golf balls I think I should just clarify these two clubs are totally different in terms of person they're aimed at. The whole profile is hugely different. This is by no means a head-to-head. We would no way pitch an MP5 up against a rogex. This is all about modern strongly lofted clubs versus traditionally lofted clubs. That's the thing here. So don't get mixed up. I mean if I was going to look at the actual size of these two clubs is unbelievably different. The top line on the rogex is about, I don't know, about a centimetre wide and it's literally half that on the MP5. So totally different club like I said. But I've got a feeling some people might just mention in the comments that this was unfair in terms of a head-to-head. That's not what this is. This is about loft v loft traditional versus modern. That's it. Now I'll hit some golf balls.  There's a fair few shots. I think for some odd reason I've got a feeling I end up with nine shots with each club. But I think like I said I want to take just a broader picture of how I performed with both irons. But like I said, it takes a little bit of reading. I'm going to throw both sets of numbers and then perhaps you might want to hit the pause but have a little bit of an analyse on those yourself. And then we'll have a look in the overall comparisons when we look at the averages. I think before I start into the numbers I think as well I'm going to view it from how I perceive the numbers. But I think they can be read in a number of different ways. And I think from a number of different perspectives. And that's what's important to me with this video. I don't think there's a right or wrong way to view these figures. I think it very much depends perhaps where you sit in the game, what your handicap is and what you're looking for from golf clubs in general. Don't forget this is very much traditional loft versus new loft. It's not a head-to-head in the club types. Anyway, traditional MP5, like I said, is the numbers. Club I've played for quite some time. 27 degrees worth of loft. You see with those shots of things straight away you see with this type of iron as well and this type of iron. I'm not going to refer to the MP5 with this type of iron. Lot of consistency. Obviously it's nice in terms of feel but in terms of carry distance and spin all where I'd expect them to be. With a 5 iron for me to spin it at 4'1 on average or 4'1, 8, 3, nearly 4'2. That's a good enough number for me in terms of spin. I say I don't spin the ball highly. A low spinning is what I always produce. 170 carry. 15.7 in terms of launch angle and peak height, 78 feet. That's all where I would expect that club to be. Hit the ball nice, great feel, like I said, forged clubs and more than happy with the way I perform with that. Now we go into this Callaway X. Rogue X iron. 27 degrees and this is a 7 iron. And again, I don't really get on up that much with all this strongly lofted stuff. It's just, you know, the number on the bottom of the club is irrelevant to me. It's literally what suits your game and how you're able to best perform with it in your hands and what you need from a golf club. There is, in my opinion, no right or wrong. I don't feel as though there's any cheating going on with this. And I think in these numbers, let's have a look. So ball speed 118, interesting. Faster ball speeds off the 7 iron. Spinning 4698. So arguably for a 7 iron, you'd think that the spin number is low, but this is a 27 degree 7 iron. So if you put them head to head versus the 5 iron, it's actually spinning higher than what the 5 iron was doing. Okay, so that's the first point. 170 carry as opposed to 171. No differences there, virtually identical. I think again, they're fairly consistent in terms of its performance. The interesting difference is for me are at the other end really. 16.8 in terms of launch angle and peak height at 87. And then there are some considerable differences. 10 feet higher in peak height and one degree difference in launch angle. And I think yet again, when you go to these type of strong lofted game improvement irons, wherever you want to call them or class them as, they talk about them being low spinning. Well, low spinning, yes, but coming down from a much higher peak height, steeper descent angle, which again, add that into the spin rate and I still think the ball is stopping perfectly fine. And you know my opinions on that. I'll throw before, because it's the final figure really, I'll throw up a little dispersion of the shots. Again, everything took down the left-hand side, which I tend to do, but it was all fairly tightly grouped, not a lot going on there. I wouldn't say one club performed any better than the other. The one thing I will say, the offset in the likes of the rogex did not help me one bit. And yeah, like I said, it wouldn't be a club I would choose to gain. And interesting enough for me, and I'm going to throw up the averages now so we can do a direct comparison on averages. The interesting thing for me, I was quite surprised in some ways that the rogex 27 degrees loft 79 didn't go further than it did. It was quite strange and I've not done the review on the rogex at all. I hit a few and I want not. I'm overly impressed by this range of golf clubs. And interestingly, I think that taking something like the Ping G 700 into this equation, I think the yardage difference might have been considerably different in terms of carry in favour of the stronger lofted 79, oddly enough. So performance wise, this wasn't one of those strongly lofted, but certainly not bashing it out there. I've hit longer seven irons with weaker lofts. So that was a bit of a strange one. The idea with the Callaway X was that for the first time I had an identical loft v loft situation 27 degrees versus 27 degrees. But I think you've still got to consider. There are perhaps, for me, better performing game improver irons or stronger lofted irons out there that would have made this test a little bit different again. But like I said, we are where we are. So comparisons interesting to me, ball speed again. And this is about, you know, the faster face on these bulkier clubs, bit more assistance across the face because as you know with the MP5, I will probably be finding a few places other than the centre of the golf club. So that ball speed just drops off a little bit. Spin number, like I said, highest spinning on the seven iron than on the five iron. And some of you might say, well, that number is just too low. But again, for me, I look at all things considered peak height, launch angle, descent angle, coupled in with the spin, I've got no issue with that. In fact, like I said, it's suggesting if you looked at carry and total yardage, then the seven iron is coming to a stop at a sooner race. And there's a differences in the launch angle, 16.8 versus 15.7. Like I keep saying, there's no right or wrong, but I just don't think we should be dismissive of strong lofted irons. I don't think, I think there's a lot of golfers that taking a game improvement iron, strong lofted can help them enjoy the game more. I'm not saying it will make you a better player. No golf clubs make you a better player. It's lessons, technique, whatever you want to cut, make you a better player. I'm here to analyse clubs, and like I said, for some people, those strong lofted clubs will help them enjoy the game more. And they will perform better for them than obviously the likes of MP5s would. And I know it's very much an obvious statement, but it's where this thing comes in about, there's such a bashing that strong lofted clubs get. And I just think it's perhaps a little bit uncalled for. It's not. It's horses for courses, as I would say. They, a club I would gain, but I don't have an issue with them by the same time. I don't have an issue that the lofted at 27 degrees because I think like I said, they can certainly help people and then flip it all round and we come to the MP5. And that MP5, again, is also suited to a group of players, far better suited to a group of players where they've got the forge feeling, they've got maybe the more consistent numbers. They want to be able to control the ball like they want to hit different shape shots. But that's not the average golfer. The average golfer needs that little bit of assistance and maybe strong lofted clubs. I definitely think I said it in a video and I wish I could find it over nine, 10 months ago where 30 degrees, 29, 30 degrees, seven irons will become the norm. And I said that a year ago. And again, this year going forward, I think the more clubs that you see released coming from the big manufacturers, a seven iron will be in and around 29, 30 degrees without any shadow of a doubt. It's something that we will have to get used to. And hopefully the players irons, as they call them, keep on at traditional lofts and that way you've got the best of both worlds. The players irons that want traditional lofts go to the likes of that club and somebody who needs a little bit of assistance maybe some slower swing speeds and they need a bit of help with launch angle and all those other things. And a bit more distance out of a seven iron than they would normally get. Then the option is there for them. But it's a real, like I said, read the figures, have a look at them, see what you think of them. Really interested to know the general sense of opinion because as I say, that is purely, that is mine and mine alone. So as ever, it's a good one for debate. So comments down below. One thing I should say, by the way, I did note that another channel Michael Newton-Golf had posted this video literally yesterday and I couldn't believe it when I first got back because I filmed this this morning, came back, caught the fact that he'd done the exact same video. But I think the interesting thing for me is that because I almost didn't post it, I thought the video has been done. But what I will say, Michael Newton is a pro. He hits the ball far better than I do. Maybe there's two different perspectives there and you can perhaps catch that video as well and see what you think of that one. And the numbers that were produced, I'll have to have a look and see how much similarity there is to mine. It'd be far better ball strike and no doubt. Anyway, as ever, thanks for watching. Comments down below. Thumbs up if you like the video. All them things help massively in the promotion of this channel. And a quick thank you because we're flying along at the moment. We're trying to get to 8,000 subscribers, which is absolutely unbelievable. So as ever, your support is greatly appreciated and I'll see you very, very soon.


I am going to be basically getting a phone call from my ex. Whatever happens next is on her because she's going to freak out. Hey! Hey, what's up? Uh-uh. That was the last thing. Yeah. Who was that? No one, dude. It was a girlfriend that I had. Call me with her then. You're talking. Call me back. Alright guys, really quick before I start this intro, I'm at the dentist right now and I'm about to get three cavities filled so this is my face before I get all numbed up and all my cavities fixed and this is my face after. Alright, so I lied to you guys, there's only two fillings I guess but as you can see my left side of my mouth is like numbed up right now. They filled two cavities today. I know your boy is getting cleaned up guys, don't worry. The dentist literally said that I am doing so well that my teeth are looking great because I have been flossing and brushing every single night because if you did not see our one video that we did, I literally had ten cavities so I only have two left so I did eight in total so far. It's freaking crazy but besides that, that's not why you're clicking this video.  Whatever happens next is on her because she's going to freak out when she hears this phone call. I'm just gonna play you a little portion of it. God, it's weird. I can't even say pee. Pasta. Guys, I look so bad. Oh my God. Okay, if you see this side of my face, this is how I normally look talking so just focus on that. So I'm just gonna play you a quick clip right now. This is what it sounds like. And look, it literally looks like I'm on FaceTime with someone right now. This video is just 20 minutes straight of a random girl talking.  When Mariah does confront me because trust me, she will, I'm gonna say that was my ex-girlfriend, one that you haven't really met and she just wanted to talk to me. You already know what's gonna happen next.  Like if she's not throwing hands by the end of this video, well she'll probably be throwing hands with me after I tell her to prank.  Make sure to stay tuned. Watch this video all the way through because you do not want to miss me calling her up.  Mariah might even leave. Like I don't even know what's gonna happen but don't worry, team bill's in the house today. I want to see your team bill comments down below. Like this video off for me because I'm gonna get beat up for this. Like shout out for Charles and Alyssa for giving me this video idea because oh my god this is gonna be a good one. This is like the A plus content that I want on this channel.  I am so nervous. Let's go, guys. Wish me luck. Oh my. Why are you in a towel? Why are you in a towel? I literally just showed. Mariah is straight up in a towel. I was gonna come in and say hi to you. Hi. Okay. I didn't know. This is a surprise for me. What's good? Alright, hold on.  But I only had two left. You had three cabbies left? Two. You don't even look like you're really numb. Oh, trust me. I look numb. Half of my mouth is like... Not really. Okay, anyways, besides the fact, Mariah, why are you walking around in a towel? When the windows are open, the neighbors can see any creeper right now. Listen, I'm about to go to my clothes aisle. Here, let me just show you guys how far I'm going to go. I'm going to show you guys how far I'm going to go. I'm going to show you guys how far I'm going to go. I'm going to show you guys how far I'm going to go. Alright, let me just show you guys how beautiful she looks today. Thank you. You're looking gorgeous. Look at your hair. This is my makeup look that I think I want to do for tomorrow because we have something special happening. We flew someone down tomorrow that you might already have seen some other creators with him. Yeah. Maybe. But anyways, he's going to come and do something for us. So stay tuned for that. That's going to be our next YouTube video actually. Maybe dress so we can get dressed. Yeah, go get dressed so we can start vlogging. This is probably the latest we filmed. Okay, no. Only because we did not think we were going to film YouTube today, but since we are having this guy come down tomorrow, we want to be able to focus just on that video. Oh, that's just that video. But what he's doing, we're filming along the journey but what he's doing for that video. Anyways, Ryan, go get dressed and get ready because we don't want to see, at least some of them don't want to see you in a towel. Alright, so I'm going to do it in this room. Someone set the camera. We're going to get going. I did not expect Mariah at all to be in the towel, but we're going to wait for her to get done getting dressed before I play the sound because I don't want her to run in here and her towel will fall off and that would just, you know, yeah. So anyways, I'm going to get this set up. Get my video ready to go. So by the time that she gets done getting dressed, it should go time, baby. I could barely talk. I'm sorry if I'm slurring my words. I could barely talk, guys, but you understand. Alright, let's go. Alright, guys, I'm setting up this second camera. I'm going to turn off the sound and start talking and see what she does. Hey, what's up? Yeah, what's up? It's only, like, four o'clock. Oh my god, that's a little late. Not that late. I'm going to compare to you, yeah, because you're, like, out of Cali. That was me last night. Yeah, I know. No, I know me neither. Huh? So did we, actually. Our neighbors just moved in. Hold on. Hold on. I'll call you back. I'll call you back. Who the f*** was that? What? Who was that? No one, babe. Hold on. Why are you eavesdropping? Babe, I literally was about to come out and I hear you on the phone with someone. I'm like, who's he on the phone with? Why were you eavesdropping on me? That was no one. It was just an old friend, but she was just asking me a question. The one that I don't like? No, you don't know her. Why are you answering the phone? She just wanted to ask me a question. What question does she want to ask? What question does she want to ask? It's funny. She just wanted to ask me a question.  I'm insecure? Do you not trust me? I trust you, but you're doing all that. I can't trust you when you do all that. No, let me talk. If I was in your shoes right now and I was on the phone with one of my exes, would you be okay with that? She just wanted to ask me a question. What question do you want to ask? She was going to ask me something. What? You can't even tell me what she was asking you. She was asking me how I was doing. Why are you yelling at me? Oh, so that's the question. When it comes to your ex-girlfriend, if you want to ask her how she's doing with her then. Because no ex-girlfriend wants to see how you were doing. How do you think that's cool? She just broke up with her boyfriend. She needed support. That is even important. I'm sorry. I'm sorry, chill. I'm not going to chill. Because you know what, these are my feelings. You aren't here. I would love to say some words to her. Call her back. Because. Clearly you're embarrassed of me and clearly don't want to be with me anymore. Since you're answering a phone for somebody who doesn't. You aren't going crazy. Chill. You know I'm friends with one of your exes and I love her. But I haven't met any of the other exes and I don't give a s*** to me. Calm down. I'm scaring you. Because you know what? It's not a big deal. We're done. Why are you going to break up with me? She called me. That is so wrong.  Think about it. I don't want to talk to her. I'm looking at somebody that I don't even know. You know me. You don't know her but you know me. Hold on. No. Chill. This is not funny. Hold on. Can you walk away? No I'm not going to walk away. I'll tell her never to call me again if you walk away. No. Let's see what she said. I'm not going to walk her out. I'm going to sit right here.  Thank you. I have never seen you. I just want to tell you guys that that did not hurt me at all. Mariah's punches are like a fly hitting into a horse's butt. It's really soft. Either way it was a little sharp. Come here. Come here. Can I just tell you something? This might be the best prank of 2021 right here. Mariah literally did more than I expected. You almost lost me as a girl because any other person in a relationship is not okay. That's why my ex called me the other day. That's why I got this video idea. Because my ex called me the other day guys. I'm not calling for that. My ex broke up with her boyfriend and she called me the other day. That's why I thought of this video idea. Why didn't you tell me she called you the other day? Why didn't you tell me she called you the other day? Because it was only like an hour conversation. It wasn't even that long. Anyways guys I got Mariah so good. I'm not being serious. You're joking. Why? How's any of this funny? I just wanted to get you a little more because the reaction was so good. I gotta fuel off that guys. I am so high fried. Look at her stance. Arms crossed. Legs in a crooked position. You can't be mad at me. Look at how cute I am. I got a haircut today. Look at my She's already trying to chase the subject. I'm trying to show a little positive light because this was real life. You would not be here. Before Mariah leaves. Do you have any words for them right now watching this video? Except Team Mariah.  No. Any words to say? He got me guys. I'm sorry to let you guys down. Bill is the hottest and most dopest prankster ever. Anything along those lines. Nothing along those lines. Mariah. What do you have to say about? I have nothing to say. Because what's coming? I can't even put into words. She can't even put into words because she doesn't know what's coming. Yes I do. You better get ready. Thank you so much for watching this video. I know this was a quick little banger but it was literally a banger if anything because I have not gotten Mariah this good. I know all my pranks are good but this one just tops them all off. You literally... Can we do a quick replay on that? Thank you. Did you see that? She was like... Please put a squishy sound effect or something on that. I'm not in that situation. Trust me we did not put our hands on each other. That was just me being like what the f**k are you doing? I honestly did not expect anything less. If you did something less I would have been like... I should have snapped him in the face. Because I think I need some reality check. No I just got my teeth done. That would have been terrible. I hope this was an A plus video for you. Thank you so much for watching. I really hope you enjoyed it. Make sure to give this a thumbs up for Team Bill because I'm coming at it. I literally got my teeth fixed.  Honestly you should just retire. That's it for today's video. Because even if you didn't Team Mariah will be coming back. Those are my words of the video. Because you know what? No one wants to see your face. Everyone wants to see Team Mariah because Team Mariah is the best team. That's not true. Anyways what is true is we love you guys. Thank you so much for watching this video. We will see you in the next video. But also guys comment down below what you guys think we're doing. Comments down below. Tomorrow yeah. So you'll see this sometime next week. Alright we love you guys. Peace.