Well hello hello and welcome back to my channel. Today we're going to do a plan with me and we're working on a Monday August 14th through Sunday August 20th. As always let's take a look back at last week um yeah so last week was interesting. I am going on day 15 of a headache. It just keeps progressing from a regular headache into a migraine. I actually went to the emergency room on Monday. Some of you saw my Instagram post. I still have a little dot on my hand which is where the IV went. The gal that actually put my IV in was amazing because I had very minimal bruising. The person that did my blood draw however uh needed a little bit more help but uh we're almost not a week but you know six days after the fact so it's it's gone down quite a bit so anyway uh went there Monday evening didn't leave until 3 30 in the morning on Tuesday then had to go to Walmart and get a bunch of stuff uh they were it was just bad so anyway I didn't work Monday and Tuesday went to work on Wednesday didn't work on Thursday I think I pushed myself too hard on Wednesday I don't know there was just a ton of pressure behind my left eye. There still is a lot of pressure and I still have a headache but it is better um so I only worked two days last week filming on Saturday didn't happen at all I should actually pull that out so um I'm actually filming on Sunday and I did actually go to coburns which is just like a local grocery store so that was my big outing for the day yesterday but um but yeah today is Sunday the 13th. I am actually not starting my new medication yet um I'm waiting until they wanted me to wait until the headache was completely gone so I think next Sunday is when I'm gonna start the new medication that I'm on it's like a blood pressure medication that's supposed to help with people that have chronic headaches but um we'll see like I don't have a blood pressure problem but um they wanted me to wait until everything was you know done so anyway let's get in to this week um this week has a lot of fun things happening so yeah um all right so the first thing I'm gonna do is there is a lot of construction right outside well not right outside my door but basically right outside my door and um let's see I need to remember in the mornings to not take a certain road because I won't be able to get out um one of the roads is gonna be closed and I just need to take like an alternate route and I believe it's gonna be closed for at least a week or two um I'm just gonna put it in for the entire week because I just it's it's Minnesota it's road construction season guys there's like an intersection that's gonna be closed and that's the way I go to work every day so or the way to like get down to the cities because I live pretty far north and it's just like the main interstate so I gotta deal with that okay now that I've kind of gone through some stickers anyway um all right so I need to put in one of these little guys oh my gosh you guys I am like so freaking tired but I sleep like all the time but I think that's what's like helping me get better a little bit all right so I'm just gonna put my little like road closed thing up there and then let's see here a little little orange car because it's cute I've got my recycling on Wednesday which fun fact this is my last recycle day that I have stuff still from the move it was a little exciting with all of the boxes and stuff like that but um but yeah I'm kind of pumped that now everything is going to be gone which makes me very very happy all right so I just like to use this wider washi this week um this is one of the samples um I think I had a full roll of this and then I just figured it I would I gave the rest of it away um I do that because I know I'm never gonna use the full entire roll like ever so I don't know I did a like major washi purge a while back if you guys have been watching my channel for a while you would have seen it because it was quite epic and I ended up giving all of that washi away to my Minnesota planter group people and I'm actually gonna see them this weekend which I'm very excited about we have uh two paid for events uh a year and this is gonna be the paid for summer event we're gonna be meeting in still water and then also there is a like sleep over option in Wisconsin at one of the gal's homes um I am not going to be sleeping over at all but I'm not sure if I'm going over to Wisconsin I'm not sure what's actually happening a lot of people have sent me messages about the Minnesota planner group um I am not an admin I don't make the schedule I don't do anything besides actually like show up that's all I do so if you want to be a part of our group if you're locally in Minnesota or like in western Wisconsin and would want to come to one of our meetups I will put the Facebook page down below so anyway um I don't know anything about it because I don't coordinate any of it so I just attend to like a normal attendee if I can come sometimes I'm not able to come depending on you know scheduling and stuff so I don't make it to every single meetup but um but yeah and in some of the events I mean most of them are not or like a non-paid for event where we just kind of hang out or we go to the library or sometimes we like um go sit and have appetizers somewhere and just hang out and don't be self conscious and you know even if you're like super introverted like we're all a little weird and we all get along great so come and join us it's always a good time um my first meetup was actually on my birthday two years ago in January and I ended up having a blast and it was so much fun and everyone was so friendly and nice and you know we're all kind of in the same boat like we're all a little weird you know so it all ended up working out great um okay so as of last week I pulled off all my work stickers because um these are from coffee break planner they're the mat removable stickers which has served me well this week because I didn't want to waste all my work stickers so I have um the three that I didn't use sitting on my laptop right now off camera so I'm putting these guys in because of course I don't want to waste them and then here's my full oops work stickers just need two of these and hopefully I can make it into work every day this week let's fingers crossed right guys um okay so that's that I don't think I'm gonna put in Bristol this week because you know I love my NASCAR stickers don't get me wrong but I don't have regular TV anymore because I don't have a antenna like I have like a flat antenna but I need an antenna like on the top of my roof and I haven't gotten that done yet so I'm not really able to watch it and especially with all my headaches and stuff I really haven't been like TV has not been a priority okay we guys it just hasn't been a priority at all in my life so anyways um I am just gonna forgo that because Saturday starting at 3 p.m is going to be the uh still water thing the Minnesota planner thingamajig so yeah but I am gonna use one of these green thingies but I need some more stickers what do I need actually let's work on the weekend stuff in a little bit here I'll put in my like Friday night laundry stash right there um okay so Monday after work I am gonna be meeting Olivia and her mom Amanda over in Maple Grove for a little bit I've got some stuff for them so yeah just a little reminder to bring my little gifty thing at some point this week I need to run a couple of errands that I was not able to do last week at all which kind of sucked but whatever um I think I'm gonna use a yellow one here I need to go and pick up an order that I placed last week at the container store and then also I need to do a return at Nordstrom which is kind of close-ish to the container store all right so hopefully I'll be able to do that I'm hoping on Tuesday I'll be able to take care of that and that will require some driving put a little green car there because it's so cute so those are all the things that I kind of have going on in the evening slash afternoon-ish time at least so far um all right so I have my Minnesota planner attic thing starting at three but I need some more stickers because you know problems right all right so I've got my travel stickers which has like my planner things in there I feel like it's like weird how I actually like categorize things sometimes in my planner all right all right I'm gonna put a little reminder to myself to pack swag um there is going to be some fun swag at the planner meetup but um because I run my own channel and do things um I oh this is so satisfying by the way to like use an entire sheet I know people get sad about it but I get so satisfied by this um because I run my own YouTube channel and um you know promotion and whatnot I actually do some of my own swag which I will actually show you the swag maybe the day after I think I'll actually show you the day after because I don't want to like spoil it for everybody of what it is but anyway um probably next week like the next week or the week after I'll be doing a vlog of this day as well as I will do a like swag haul and shout out all the shops that donated to us I don't know who they are I honestly don't know who they are and I won't know until everybody else knows which is kind of cool so but like I said I have my own swag that I give out um I always double check with the admins or whoever is organizing the event to see if it's okay and they've always said yes not a problem you know obviously as long as I bring something for everybody of course which I always do but um but yeah so it's just kind of a way to promote and say hello if people don't you know know who I am or they want to learn more about my channel and stuff like that so it's kind of kind of a fun little thing all right so I need to put in like a when I'm leaving and stuff because I need to be in still water at three which means I need to leave here at least by two maybe one thirty just for good measure and then I will be there for the duration of the evening time it drives me nuts when they like don't give me a good cut but whatever I feel like my head is not on straight today like I just can't like get it together with all of this stuff all right so I'm putting a little note to myself to leave at 130 I live quite a distance away though so yeah most people that are you know locally in town won't have to leave as early as I have to but that's all right so like I said I want to use one of these little green guys but I know I want to use like I know what I want to use but it's just a matter of like how I want to position it all these things always take me like a moment to think about it you know it's not just like oh I'm just gonna put work in or something all right so I think I'm gonna go with this little green guy right here hmm I'm gonna put this right at the three o'clock mark because that is when it's starting I'm gonna take my Chrissy and design stickers that say planner friends make the best friends because first of all it's true and second of all these are super cute and it's going all night so just put this right down at the bottom here cute all right so that's my plan for then Sunday I'll be doing some filming but I'm not 100% sure yet on what's going on there all right also I want to remind myself to vlog so I'll bring my vlogging camera let's put that right up here cute looks good all right and then I'm going to I'm just gonna write in with one of these new meds you know like I said at the top of the video I still have that headache so I just want to make sure that it's completely gone before I take it so I'm just gonna pop this in on Sunday because it's gonna depend I'm hoping I do just kind of see the light at the end of the tunnel which is honestly a really good thing right now you guys um but we'll just leave a little thing in there and then like I said Sunday I'm gonna be filming but obviously I'm gonna do my plan with me but I'm not sure if I'm gonna pre-film some stuff this week for next week or like how that's gonna work out so but this is it for the week I hope you guys enjoyed the video if you have any questions feel free to post them below all the sticker sources that are still current that I can find I will leave links for down below oh you know what I didn't do is put in my videos for the week let's do that really quickly sorry about that you guys all right so um sorry about that um all right so the plan with me is going on Monday obviously I like every Monday I am going to be filming right after this uh a few of you had asked in my last Aaron Condren Hall if I would do a walkthrough of the Aaron Condren academic planner so that's what I'm gonna do for Wednesday um also this is gonna be a little bit of a different Financial Friday video for me um I am gonna be I have had several questions about this I am gonna be talking about like canceling and cutting out my credit card I am actually waiting right now for the credit card company to send me like my form of cancellation before I like completely cut it up and like all that kind of stuff so anyway that is going to be happening on some Financial Friday but um I did a little video that might be helpful to some of you guys that are on a budget or I mean everyone's on a budget let's be honest but it's um all about dollar tree um and gifting so I thought that'd be kind of fun for Financial Friday to show you like basically I made a gift for three dollars uh that looks super cute and way more high end than it is so um so yeah but I think I might have more of those kind of thrifty type of hack videos on Fridays once in a while because I mean I would like to watch them so that's kind of what I do on my channel is I just kind of do what I would want to watch which is kind of crazy or I do things that you guys suggest as well the things that I haven't even thought of them like oh that's actually a great idea so anyway but that'll be up on Financial Friday and um like I said that credit card video will be up hopefully soon like I said I'm just waiting for that letter to come in the mail from my credit card company so I can like do that video and stuff too so now it's the close of the video I promise thank you guys so much for watching I really appreciate it if you have questions make sure to post them below if you do like these types of videos make sure to give it a good old thumbs up let me know that you like these and I can continue making them for you also if it's your first time here or you're a long time lurker I like my lurkers feel free to hit the red subscribe button I am here every Monday Wednesday and Friday with new content at 9 a.m a central standard time just so you know I will be vlogging on Saturday so there will be an upcoming vlog probably this ish week I am not 100% sure but um the vlog will come back but only for one day so just like to let you know because I know a lot of you have been missing my vlogs and I'm sorry but I will be vlogging like more fun things that are going to be happening like a plan or meet up or you know if I travel or do anything like that so anyways I am going to jet thank you guys so much for hanging out today I really appreciate it and I will talk to you guys in my next video bye guys


Ray Wang of Constellation Research. Ray, welcome back again to theCUBE. Hey, thanks a lot guys, I'm happy to be here. It's another Orca Open Roll then. Equally exciting.  You've done a lot of things over the past year. One of the things I just want to highlight and get to quick props out there is your Supernova Award. You've recently just put together a categorical list of leaders in the industry. So just one, tell us a little about that. Then I'm going to jump in and talk about the controversial Larry Allison Kino and implications to the industry. So tell us what's up with you. Let's check in with Ray Wang and tell us what's happening. Hey John, thanks for the opportunity. We have searched all over the world for some of the most innovative individuals who've gone out to lead disruptive change. They've been looking at social, mobile, cloud, analytics and some emerging technologies whether they're clean tech or they're looking at government 2.0. So you can look at our website at www.ConstellationRG.com under events, you'll see the Supernova Award winners. We will be announcing this week a contest to take them to the next level. These 29 protostars are going to be now listed as Supernova Award winners. And also we're looking at finalists who are actually going to win access to our research as well as a value of about $120,000 worth of research and activities. So San Francisco, California is where all the action is right now today in tech. Oracle Open World, 45,000 people. The second biggest show some are saying, CES, obviously the monster show. And Enterprise, Oracle, obviously a big 500 pound gorilla in the space. Tell us from your perspective, Ray, what's the vibe here? What are you seeing? What are you hearing? Let's talk about the keynote. Let's just jump right in. What's your angle on this? Well, the really two parallel universes going on. There's the keynote universe which is everybody's groaning about hard words like thanks, we heard about it, it's interesting. And then there's what's really going on in the mini sessions and the sessions that are going throughout the different buildings. Java ones on fire, people are really excited about some of those developments there. People are getting into fusion applications. People are looking at the middleware and some of the development tools. Out in the Marriott, people are really excited about some of the development tools that are going on that are related to social and collaboration and web center. So we see different parts of the event happening. It's just that the keynote is not reflective to what's really going on on the ground here. What about Larry Ellison? What's your review of his keynote? Obviously, you've been on Twitter stream, hashtag 00W11. It's well-documented at this point. I would have to say that I thought last year was probably one of the worst keynotes I've ever seen. This year is probably slightly better because it ended on time. I think the challenge is really that he's trying to tackle a very difficult problem and he's right, right? There's this big data issue that's happening out there. And given the unstructured data, the zettabytes of information that's out there, what is happening in terms of what people are trying to do with social information, machine-to-machine information, we've got a big data problem and throughput is important. And so being an engineered system has a lot of merit. The question is, how do you tell that story to get people excited? How do you share that passion? It's not a lecture in a comp-side class. So I tweeted about a lot of zeros and ones or I said speeds and feeds when people wanted vision. What did you not hear from him? Did you hear any vision? Was there any kind of signals from Larry? Obviously, he's got another keynote coming on Wednesday. What did you not hear? What were you expecting to hear? I was hoping to hear more about the cloud and how it related to business value. I think people were trying to understand the business implications of this. This started turning into more of like a technology education session as to, hey, what's it doing for my business? Now, I'd say it may be for most of Oracle's audience that might make sense, but if you're trying to get newer customers, next-gen CIOs, that isn't the right approach. So Dave and I were just talking about how there's a real lack of mobile conversation here. Obviously, the pavilion has like six people in there. It's the nobodies of mobile except for Verizon. So it was a carrier. SAP, by contrast, was all about mobile. Bill McDermott, the showman himself, talking about the iPad. Schnabe going into the product side. Clean messaging from SAP. Different kind of vibe. Compared to contrast, Sapphire with Oracle Open World. Sapphire did a really good job talking about business value. You got the message that social was important, that mobility was a big part of their strategy. You might not got as much on the cloud side, but you could see that analytics, mobility and social were important. Here at the Oracle event, we know that analytics is important and we know that cloud's important, but we're seriously missing a gap on social and mobile. Dave, what's your angle on that? So Ray, I noticed, you know, we all have these different badges on. I've got a blogger badge on. I'm typically an analyst.  And you know, John and I have been talking about, the numbers don't lie. I mean, we can criticize Oracle all we want, but they're just throwing off $12 billion in free cash flow last year. Exadata's going through the roof. 20% growth and new licenses. Is this illusory or is this a real deal here? This is the real deal. What's happening right now is that the consolidation in the market that Oracle led and drove is also driving a consolidation in spend. And so what's happening inside an IT shop today, we've got these four personas of a CIO. You can check it out on hbr.org. But basically what happens is the chief infrastructure officer is in the midst of consolidating their footprint. And Oracle looks like a turnkey provider to them. IBM looks like a turnkey provider. Microsoft looks like a turnkey provider. And basically these big three are dominating these IT decisions. And while they're consolidating, other vendors are going by the wayside. But Oracle, IBM, Microsoft are making the money in the process. And customers are saving money. It's amazing. You hear, when you talk to Oracle customers, a lot of them complain about lock-in. They complain about Oracle pricing. And yet they are so lured into things like Exadata. Now how do you rationalize that? What's your advice to those guys? Well you got to think, there's really three types of Oracle customers. There's the Oracle Die Hard RedStack customer. These people are not leaving. They've borne Red Oracle and they're going all the way. So those customers are app dev folks. They love building on this stuff. They get excited about the Oracle technology. They faint when they see Larry Ellison. There's the Oracle customers by accident or acquisition. And they've got a different point of view. They're worried about lock-in. They've got a big portfolio. They might be doing some custom apps. They bought Best of Breed. And suddenly, Oracle bought all the companies that they bought. Too bad they didn't buy their stocks along the way. But they bought all those companies and now they're trying to figure out, hey, how do I rationalize this portfolio? And that is still happening in the marketplace. And then you've got Greenfield Oracle customers who are looking at this saying, if I got to make a decision, I'm going to choose something all open source or I'm going to bet on one or two providers and Oracle shows up in their vendor selection list. So you mentioned Java one. How about open source? I mean, is Oracle head faking open source? Is it, I mean, it's obviously putting a lot of resource into R&D and variety of different places. But what's your take on open source and Oracle's role there? That's a great question. Like any good technology vendor, basically Oracle is taking advantage of all the effort and all the R&D that's happening in open source, but not necessarily having to deal with all the other baggage around open source. So they'll take advantage of open source until they gain enough market share. And then at some point, they could have the right to close it off if they want to. So that's their purview because they may have that technology lock-in. You know, in this industry, you get into a lot of what I sometimes call urinary Olympics and they obviously see a lot of that. But one of the statements that's often made is these big companies don't innovate, but yet companies like Oracle and IBM spend tons on R&D. In your opinion, does Oracle and or a company like IBM innovate? And if so, how so? Well, there are really two ways to look at renovation, right? One way is, hey, four billion in R&D, that Oracle spending, but the other piece is trying to figure out what you're not good at in making those acquisitions work. And Oracle and IBM have both done an excellent job. If you were to think about in the history of mergers and acquisitions, that's actually a new skill set. And technology vendors who do a really good job with mergers and acquisitions really are helping their customers go forward. Oracle and IBM have done a good job. Are they the two best, in your opinion? They are the two largest and two best at it. What's your take on the database market, the database wars going on? I see Oracle's pushing that hard with performance and with mobility being a big part of it and Hanna was announced at SAP, Sapphire, and they got Exalytics. What's your take on all that mobile data, mobile, mobile database access to the edge? John, that's a great question. What's happening is the database wars are moving on to appliances and they're also moving into the cloud. And part of that is you're right. It's mobile data. How do you surface mobile information? Cloud is the information store. Mobile is the access point. And so when you get that level of efficiency, that's where mobile makes sense and that's where cloud is going to provide that information to mobile device users. What is happening though, is that when you look at where Oracle is on mobile and back to your point on the number of vendors that are there, we haven't seen a very clear story yet. And we haven't seen a vision as to what's being announced. On the SAP side, because of the side-base acquisition and side-base made that shift, probably about five years ago into mobility, they've had a much better story. They've got more products to show. You mentioned to me on Twitter that SAP's got good messaging, agree with that, but then said they got to do some work on the product side. Can you be specific and talk about what SAP's needs to do or what they're lagging behind or whether they're challenges? Could you just address that for the folks out there who are really trying to weigh the horse race between the Oracle horse and the SAP horse? I've been thinking a lot about this and I think it comes down to management style. Oracle has the traditional American benevolent dictatorship. So when Larry says something, it gets done. SAP tends to go into that consensus European model that really doesn't help when you're trying to integrate and get a lot of things built in terms of an engineering. They both have great engineering teams, but here's the problem. If you look at SAP's mobility solution on side-base, if you look at what they do with Bob Jay, what they look at some of the other acquisitions were in place, a lot of the hard engineering work required happens in the middleware side and it's even now happening on the hardware side. That's where we actually seen some of the failures occur where SAP hasn't been able to deliver that light, that tightly integrated integration that's required for a merger to be successful. Oracle has gone back and done the hard work. They put the R&D. They've actually, it's taken them six years to get Fusion apps out, but they've done the rewriting. It's taken them six years or four years to get the BI stuff out, but they've done the rewrite. And if you don't do the rewrite, you don't get the full benefits of that merger and integration. So I wonder if we could go back to cloud for a second and I wanted to ask you specifically about privacy. We had Tim O'Reilly on at Strata and we had a pretty long discussion, John, about privacy. Ray, I wanted to get your take generally on privacy and what you see is Oracle's role in that whole debate and discussion, if any. Well, privacy is becoming a problem, mostly because of Facebook and the consumer's trade-off of convenience for privacy and that data and information. So on the B2C side, I don't see much of Oracle playing that role right away, but on the enterprise side, privacy is important, especially when we're talking about public sector information, healthcare information, financial transactions. All this talk about all this free information and social graphs and the ability to mine this information is great, but I think enterprises are going to want and going to demand a greater level of privacy, especially thinking about securitization of information, compression of poor data results, the residency requirements of data. This is all enterprise class issues that have to be resolved. Who can access information in small groups? What happens in the cloud? What do I do on a mobile device? So identity management, security, digital privacy, they're all going to come back, even though the consumer might say, I'm not interested in that, every enterprise will be, because they're going to be liable for that. We're here with Ray Wang, industry analyst covering the space, Oracle SAP, like Dave Vellanta, he's in the trenches, he's talking to customers, he's talking to companies, Oracle, you name it, all the horses are on the track, and we're going to dig a little deeper. We're here on siliconangle.tv, the Cube at Oracle of the World in San Francisco, live for three days. Ray, my question is the disruption, okay? Oracle, huge company, great financial powerhouse, market power, you mentioned consolidation, consolidation among players, and acquisitions consolidation among budgets, buying power, Oracle's had a lot of leverage there. The question I have for you is a little bit on a startup growing company. Here in the pavilion, there are startups all around us in growing companies, heavily venture backed.  Could you just give us your horses that you see out there? There are a lot of companies. Let's take the mobile space, for example. There's companies like New Kona, there's companies like Skytech. What they're doing is making it a lot easier to take mobile information on the enterprise and put it on any mobile device. That actually disrupts Oracle, because of Oracle's lack or inability to deliver a mobile application in that space. Doesn't mean Oracle won't go back and acquire those guys once there's enough traction. Take social space, we've got a lot of players in that space, a drive, a lithium, a Yammer, a social cast, a social text. What they're doing is improving collaboration. We're going to see some advancements from WebCenter, hopefully on Wednesday, that they'll be talking about, that are going to drive Oracle into the social realm. But the question is, will they have the same traction? Will it be as easy to use? Is it going to be as simple? Is it going to be as secure? Is it going to be as sexy? In terms of things that are exciting to do from that part. Cloud, same thing, right? If you look at the advancements on the cloud side, a lot of these cloud vendors are really displacing the need for a stack. So why should I go out and buy all the software and hardware from Oracle when I can just go provision it? So we've launched with Alex Williams, the Cyclet Services Angle. We're covering the services business, which spans service providers and the enterprise as consumerization of IT becomes more reality, which it is with mobile, et cetera, and cloud. The question I have for you is, you've been covering the Enterprise 2.0 space. God, that's going back now. I'd say 2005, it kicked up in 2006. You start to see events out there, Enterprise 2.0, kind of playing off the whole web 2.0. Well, Web 2.0 kind of played out its path. Where's Enterprise 2.0 from then, say 2006, 2007 to today? What's changed and what's the forecast for you? The big thing is that we've gone from systems of transaction or transactional applications to systems of engagement or engagement applications. We're in the midst of that trend where actually communications are two-way. I actually believe we're going to go even further in the next three to five years. I don't want to call it Enterprise 3.0, I don't want to give it another dot number, but what I can say is we are moving to systems of experience and systems of fulfillment, and those are transition points that are going to happen over the next three to five years. What I mean by experience, basically the ability to actually create personalized experiences, whether it's at a B2B, a B2C or individual level, that then transcends. So how do you interact with an application? How do you enact with a device? How do you interact with information? That systems of experience is going to happen, and the systems of fulfillment are going to make sure that those are delivered, and that's some of the concepts. For example, if you guys know Doc Searles is talking about with things like Project VRM over at Harvard. Yeah, so how about the system? Okay, I like that systems play.  So what's nailed down the solid and what's really the land grab right now? Well, the land grab is going to be on areas that touch on interface and systems that actually figure out context. Those are really important areas, and location-based. Location-based provides context, information that are predictive analytics or algorithms around sentiment. All those are kind of sensing tools that help you sense, and then there's a whole set of category of tools that are about response. How do I serve up an action and workflow? How do I make a suggestion? Those kind of applications are out there. So take a company like Baynote, that's a very interesting company that would make sense when you're looking at commerce, when you're looking at taking an action and bringing it to the next level, which is, hey, what were you thinking about? I think most likely you might be enjoying or you might want to have a suggestion from this application. Ray, amazing insights. Really appreciate you coming on theCUBE. Constellation Research is www.constellationrg.com. Great site, tremendous resources on there. You got a growing community. Congratulations on the launch of the company and you're attracting some great people and contributors. So we're birds of a feather. We're watching you and really excited for you. Love working with you, great stuff. Hey, thanks a lot. I mean, this is really what the new analysis and the new media is going to be. I'm happy that we're actually creating disruptions here against the legacy analyst firms, the legacy media. We're entering a new era, so happy to be here with you guys. Great stuff. Ray Wang, impeccable reputation, great analysts. Great to have you, great to see you on the Twitter stream. It brings a whole another level of the tweet stream when we have real solid players on there adding value, creating content. So great to work with you. Thanks for coming by theCUBE. Hey.


What is going on everyone? Welcome to a brand new 4k revisiting and review courtesy of sandwich on films and universal pictures for sending me a copy of Halloween 2018. I got established 2018 because I don't know why they just didn't say Halloween 2 or something like that because since they retconned the whole franchise. And when it comes out January 15th which is tomorrow and I'm really excited about to talk about this movie because I had a blast watching this in theaters and personally I haven't seen it since the theaters. So getting to sit down with my family make them watch this film with me and kind of have my own revisiting and review with the 4k and the Blu-ray version both coming in this feature. And I gotta say I love the slip cover on here. I love just the mask and the detail and just it looks beautiful under here too. But it's more gorgeous on the slip cover and if you haven't seen the steelbook for Best Buy that thing even looks cool too. But I am gonna stick with this because I like the slip cover a little bit more but again we're talking about Halloween. This is my revisiting. Does it hold up from that theater experience which I have to say yes and no. I gave the film like an A minus. I had a blast with the film in theaters. I thought it was ton of fun and I still think it is a ton of fun. It's still that slasher type of horror film. I've never been scared of these but I still think it holds the same tone as the original one does and carries it over perfectly. I think David Gordon Green, Danny McBride made a very solid script that had one too many funny moments that took away from the tension but were still essential and kept with that horror vibe that John Carpenter perfectly contained and had directed into the original Halloween. I think that still is established within this version of the movie. What I can say for sure is my family is not the biggest horror fans and maybe that's like the wrong people I watched it with but in the theaters everyone was screaming, everyone was laughing, everyone was oohing and always the theater experience is going to be the main way to watch a movie. That is how I've always thought of it. If you want to see a film you have to see it in theaters because it's going to be very different than watching it at home and that's why I wish a lot more of Netflix films were in theaters but that's a different discussion, a different video for a different time. I'm talking about Halloween on 4K and I think it still is worth picking up on 4K because the visual quality, the audio, it's all great. It's all there. The score is great. If you have a nice sound system in your house, which my dad does have downstairs, it sounds great when the score starts going through. It gets you on that, oh god, where is this going to go? And that one take shot that you saw earlier in the trailers that if you haven't seen the film yet, that one take shot is great and the subtle score that Carpenter pertained into this film was excellent. But again, the theater experience was definitely the better way to watch this film because watching it at home, the last weren't all there. I still chuckled and had fun with it. My family necessarily didn't laugh as much. They had fun with it. They thought it was fine and okay, but for me, I still had a blast with it and if I were to give the film a grade now coming off that A-, I'll be bumping down to a B- because some of the comedic moments don't actually work for me. Sitting at home with people who didn't and usually when I'm in an audience, I will laugh more because the audience is laughing more and one of the scenes in particular here is the peanut butter and jelly scene. If you've seen the film, you know what I'm talking about, but it didn't need to be in there at all. And there's a couple scenes in particular that you could have snipped out and made the runtime a little bit more smoother in fact. And watching it on a second repeat, I can definitely see that again. I'd still get this film like a B-plus. This is a solid, fun slasher flick that unites the Halloween franchise into what I wanted it to be. All these many years, so many damn sequels, so many reboots that have never hit that pinnacle of what I wanted Halloween to be. It has great visuals again, a great audio, it looks beautiful on 4K, and it really is just a great film to kind of go inside with the original Halloween. So now you have a great double feature right there. For special features though, for my special features junkies, there's not that much. In honesty, none of them really grabbed my attention like how some special features. Sometimes I'm like, oh, there's that one now in here. There's really not that one. A lot of these feels like YouTube clips that you can just look up and enjoy. If you're new here before I get to my final thoughts, make sure to hit that like and subscribe button. And again, please check out Samhashan Films also down below for plays and advanced movie screenings. Halloween on 4K, it's definitely worth picking out. If you're a fan of the Halloween franchise, this is your cup of tea. If you're a fan of slashers and thrillers, this is your cup of tea. And again, if you're just a fan of the horror genre, this is your cup of tea.   That is my revisiting and review of Halloween on 4K. Let me know what your guys' thoughts are on this film. Did you guys like it? Did you hate it? Let's talk about it down below in the comments. Again, hit up Samhashan Films, hit that like and subscribe button, and I'll see you guys soon. Stay classy.


Public officials visited a food bank for a service day of action to see the collaborative efforts taking place to end hunger. Haiti Clotter shows us how Second Harvest North Central Food Bank wants to provide hunger relief. Politicians and the public packed potatoes and pinto beans to help take action against hunger. It all went down at the Second Harvest North Central Food Bank in Grand Rapids for its public service day of action. Delivating hunger helps people concentrate on what comes next. So getting to work, getting to school, getting an education and moving forward with your life. Second Harvest serves seven counties in North Central Minnesota, including Agon, Cass and Crow Wing County. The food bank provides food to about 115 non-profits, including food shelves and soup kitchens. It's really important that we bring in people who are elected to set policies about in our community to think about the people who are hungry and how can we work together to make a difference for people in need. For Representative Sandy Layman, hearing the stories of children going to bed hungry and seniors having to choose between medication or food tugs at your heartstrings. I really welcome the opportunity to come, to tour and understand how this system works. According to Feed in America, Itasca County has a food insecurity rate of 11 percent. Earlier guests shared the impact hunger can have. As part of a statewide sharing program, Second Harvest distributes more food to all. People in international falls get the same benefit as those in St. Paul. I think that's really reassuring for us to know that we have a system already in place that if we can support people that are hungry actually have access to food at no cost. Donating food, funds and time volunteering are a few of the ways the community can get involved in hunger relief. In Grand Rapids, Haiti Clutter, Lakeland News. In 2016, Second Harvest provided almost three million meals in seven counties. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.


Sometimes it's the little things that make the difference. Hell, everyone, Dylan Schumacher, Citadel Defense. I really do believe that one of the most helpful things to come from consistently training, and I don't, I mean that different from working out, you know, not necessarily just movement, but like working towards some goal, whether that's adding weight to the bar, or whether that's, you know, running 15 miles, or whatever, reducing your run time, or whatever. Some kind of like consistent, goal-oriented, physical activity. I think one of the biggest benefits to come from that is mental toughness. I remember when I was a kid, I was obsessed with the Navy SEALs, right? I just thought they were like the coolest thing ever. And so I did lots of research about, you know, buds and their training and all that kind of stuff. And I remember coming across some quote somewhere where they said, you know, we want buds to be 90% mental and 10% physical. And that sounds cool, but if you've ever reviewed the, you know, physical training requirements for buds, it's no joke, right?  And like at one point, I think there's like a 16 mile run involved. And they're running all the time. They're swimming in the ocean all the time. Like it's physically exhausting and demanding stuff. And so you can read that quote and then you can look at the training and you can be like, oh, wait a second here. Well, this doesn't match up, right? But I think whoever designed that really understood something, which is that when you are exerting yourself physically, you reach a point where you want to quit. And at that point, you can decide to go on or not. It's really that simple. It's not easy, but it's really that simple. And when you are consistently physically pushing yourself either to lift more weight or to do one more pull up or whatever, you are building that mental toughness. And so for that reason alone, I would encourage you to do some kind of strenuous physical activity on a regular basis. Again, whether that's, you know, trying to get down to a six mile run or whatever, or whether that's trying to get up to a 500 pound deadlift or whatever, along that path, there is a lot more value in building that mental toughness and building that mental endurance than there is, I would argue, from the physical benefits. And don't get me wrong, being able to deadlift 500 pounds or run a six minute mile or whatever are really nice and are only ever gonna help you. However, I think the mental toughness is even of more value. Because as you probably know, right? That transfers over to other things.  How do I know I'm not just gonna fold under the pressure? I think this is one small way that you can contribute to that. Are there other ways? Yes, but if you are consistently pushing yourself, you're consistently refusing to say no and you're consistently going beyond that, well, when the going gets tough, what do you think you're gonna do? Nobody suddenly does anything, right? You do what you've been training yourself to do.  If you've been training yourself to not push yourself and you've been training yourself to just be like, I'll do it tomorrow, forget it, I quit, it's too hard, whatever, well then when difficulties arise, guess what you're gonna do, right? There's this thing where we tend to think like, you know, in the moment comes, I'll dig deep and I'll reach down and I'll have it and it'll be there and I'll just go on. Well, again, if you're not storing up that stockpile now when you reach down to grab something, nothing's gonna be there. This whole thing came up because I was doing deadlifts a couple days ago and I finished three reps, I went to pull my fourth rep and I had like some kind of like hiccup that was like stuck somewhere in my throat and it felt like my throat was gonna like explode. It was just really weird, really weird feeling. And I got down there and I started to pull my fourth and I couldn't get it. And I said, I said out loud, which was really weird. I was in a room by myself, so it wasn't too weird. But I said, no, like I'm not, I'm not gonna quit here. And I gutted it, I pulled up the fourth and the fifth and I completed my set, right? And there's, again, there's a mental toughness that's being built there by refusing to quit when everything I wanna do is just quit. So if you haven't worked in your mental toughness, if you're not doing something to continually push yourself physically beyond what you think you can do, then I would encourage you to start doing that because we're gonna need that mental toughness. Trust me. Do brave deeds and endure.