Live from San Francisco. Extracting the signal from the noise. It's theCUBE covering Nimble Storage, the power of predictive analytics. Now your host, Jeff Frick and Stu Miniman. Hey, welcome back everybody. Jeff Frick here with theCUBE. We are live in downtown San Francisco, one Kearney Street at the Nimble Storage predictive flash launch event. Got a whole bunch of people here ready to hear kind of how Nimble is applying predictive analytics, actually big data to really help flash a storage and storage in general do better. So, been joined in this next segment by Stu Miniman from Wikibon and from Nimble, Rod Bag, the VP of analytics and support. Welcome Rod. Thank you, good to be back. So, good event here. Yeah, it's been great so far, great time. So Rod, I think one of the interesting discussions in the storage industry has been talking about how to do more than to store data, but how to leverage data, how to get more out of data, how to serve your applications and that whole intersection with the analytics is right in your sweet spot. Something that I think Nimble's been doing since well before we were talking about it in general. I've seen some new companies come out where analytics are kind of built into their environment but you've quietly been doing that for a few years. We talked with you about it at the predictive, back when it was just a hybrid array. That's correct. So, bring us up to speed. What's been happening with InfoSight? You've expanded the software portfolio in this space. Yeah, so when we talked last two years ago or so, we had the adaptive flash array. Since then though, InfoSight has evolved. We're not only collecting sensors from the array which we've been doing literally since day one where we have thousands of sensors embedded in the Nimble OS software and we've been collecting all of that information. We now have extended that up at the stack. So now we're also collecting information from the virtual environments. So it's really interesting in that what we're seeing is when you talk about the app data gap which we've talked about in our launch here and that's when you see that little spinny thing on your webpage or whatever and you're just not getting data as fast as you want it. We're looking at issues in the environment that are more than half of the time related to something other than storage. So it was really clear that it was necessary to really collect data up the stack so you could really pinpoint where the issues are because they're not just always on storage. In fact, less than half the time there. All right, so say the virtualization layer. Can you give us what can you see? Is it just VMware? Is it, what do you get visibility into? Yeah, so right now it's VMware. So we collect essentially the same type of stats, time series data, configuration information that we get on the array but we're getting that from vCenter APIs. So we're collecting those same statistical pieces of data shipping that home like we do with the array statistics on a very frequent basis putting all of that same data now into the big analytics database that we have so we can really do the analysis across the entire stack. Yeah, and one of the things I find interesting about what you guys do is it's not just the customer's environment but it's all of your customer's environment. Right. You have some data, how much data you guys have, how many customers. I think it's, I know it's, what's it, 7,500 customers I think you have over all now but how many do you actually get to collect data from and what do we learn from the collective that I wouldn't learn from the individual? That's right, so yeah, so we have 7,500 customers out there we're collecting data from about 94% of the install base. So it's a huge percentage, what that has done for us has literally built one of the biggest data warehouses of this sort of data that we believe is at all available. So we have about 350 terabytes of data in that database. And so what that allows us to do is to when we're looking across the install base we can really segregate patterns that we see from application so we can understand across our install base how is exchange really behaving? What are the IO patterns look like? The IO sizes, you know even what kind of snapshot schedules are reasonable for that kind of an environment. And we can make those recommendations to other customers their peer groups, we can do things like sizing. So because we have that, we obviously understand the configuration of the array we understand all those IO patterns based on each of those kind of applications even in a green-filled environment before you buy an array you can tell us that we want exchange with n number of mailboxes, we want to retain that data for so long. We can actually do very accurate sizing recommendations so that you're buying an array that's going to meet those needs and actually grow with you over time. Yeah, that's great. One of the biggest complaints I hear for most storage customers is when I make that first buy, I'm only utilizing a small amount and the way I forecast it is it's a dark art, right? That's right. Sometimes it's just the budget I'm given, sometimes I'm taking some wild guesses to what they have, but plenty of customers I talk to that three years after they've installed it they're like, I'm only using a quarter of it. Right, I'm either way underestimating or way overestimating it. So how much money, I would think that it actually, do your sales guys like this because the initial sale might be a little smaller and they're not buying lots of unused stuff. So isn't that tough for the sales team? You know, that may be the case, but what we want is a happy customer that's buying the right thing. And when they see that what they bought is meeting their needs and it's not overextended or it's not undersized and so on, that's great loyalty that we build with our customers. And the fact is, is that when they send us that InfoSight data, we can project exactly when they're going to need more cash, more CPU or more capacity. And because the system scales non-disruptively in all of those dimensions, it's perfect to get them situated correctly at the beginning and advise them on how to grow that environment as they add more and more applications. Ron, I'm curious, how much do you find is stuff that you guys can fix, that you guys can tune because of the way they've got a certain configuration or the way they're running certain processes versus, I don't want to say noisy neighbor, but noisy neighbor issues that are things that are outside of your system control, but you see a recurring pattern and you know there's a chance to fix that, to make it better. And how does that work within the ecosystem? How does that work within the, we want one throat to chose kind of a mentality for the customer? It's kind of funny. Even before we had VMVision as what we call that data that we're collecting up the stack through the VM environment, even before we had that in place, we were noted as the company to go to for support. If you had a Nimble storage array but you suspected the issue, may or may not be storage, it might be in the virtual environment, they still called us just because we've built up that expertise. So now that we actually have that data, we can really extend what we're able to do. So the noisy neighbor problem is something that we actually can expose to our customers and they can see that with an info side. They don't need to call us for that anymore. So now they can literally have a nice pane of, single pane of glass across their entire estate and they can actually, we have a tree map, we call it, so of all their data stores and they actually can see which ones are doing the most work and which ones have the highest latency. When they drill down on that, they can see all the noisy neighbors around that and what might be actually impacting that data store more than other neighbors on that same data store. So they can drill down and do all of that themselves nowadays. All right, so Rod, what changes now that you have an all flash configuration to both the support and to info site for the Nimble customers? Yeah, so obviously we have the new product with the all flash array. There's a lot of new elements to how we make recommendations now because we're not just recommending a different model of a hybrid but you may want to extend into an all flash array. We can even make recommendations that say this particular volume may be more suited to put on an all flash array and because we understand that it's a latency sensitive application like Oracle for example. So we can actually make those recommendations and make that very visible to our customers as well now that we have the DFA. I wonder if they have any good stories of flash moving beyond just low latency super high value applications where people are kind of rethinking what they can do because of the performance aspects of flash in areas that here before you wouldn't have thought necessarily would qualify as kind of flash ready or flash valuable. Yeah, I'm not sure I understand exactly. Yeah, because originally what flashed about was so expensive, right? You could only use it for high latency and the trading applications is so important that you really had but now we're seeing people are using it in other ways. They're going after applications in a different space kind of bringing that capability to the forward so that just being a little bit faster. Yeah, I mean certainly VDI is a big one that's very well suited for AFA because of the deduplication factors. So that's one element or one application that we really see moving to AFA but still we see a lot of the database applications that are very well suited and even today we have quality of service or within our adaptive flash where you can actually have a mode which is an all flash mode and so that means that you can take a particular application and pin that into cash even on the adaptive flash. So we actually do see a fair amount of that in our environment today where customers on particular applications that they have really want that low latency guarantee that they're going to get it within all flash environment but have the hybrid array or the adaptive flash array so they can now move those things into as a few months back with our latest release where they can actually pin those in the cash. So I think you do see more and more of these applications where they just want to make sure that they've got that sort of guaranteed consistency from what an all flash array would deliver but on the hybrid. So that allows them to mix all sorts of applications within that adaptive flash environment but still be able to deliver all flash performance on some of those applications. So I'm wondering, you mentioned DDU when it comes to storage efficiency are you giving customers kind of what their peers are seeing what they're seeing on an application basis so that when they're getting ready to put together an environment that they'll understand well here's roughly what I should expect and if I'm getting it that's great maybe I'm getting better or if I'm not getting as good maybe there's something I should look into. Yeah, so we do do that. I mean from the performance perspective again we do sizing predictions and either pre-sales or even post-sales we can even tell them that they have enough headroom to add more and more applications on that array. So yeah, it's fairly comprehensive in what we can tell them what will fit what they might want to migrate off to another array or grow their existing array by scaling it and so on. Okay, so you've expanded with the VM vision to the virtualization layer. You've got the smart stack solution are you touching some of the other pieces yet? You know, what can we expect to see going forward as? Yeah, so one thing that's very interesting on the smart stack front and UCS is that when we did an analysis using InfoSight data and so on on all of the cases that we typically see from UCS environment or smart stack, excuse me, but 80% of the cases that we see there are all things that could have been avoided with proper setup. So after the fact, you know, you're seeing these issues crop up over time and literally 80% are things that we could have just avoided altogether. So we are providing a tool where it would help set up that environment. It's fairly complex thing to do from the UCS perspective. So just to get it right we're providing some setup tools that really will eliminate most all of those cases. Once it's set up, it's almost set it and forget it. The problem is just getting it set right the first time. So that's how we're addressing that in the near term. Yeah, I was speaking one of the customers of Nimble that's here and you know, saying, so how is the support? And he's like, well, the best thing I could say is, you know, it's great support because I almost never need it. Yeah.  Yeah, so about nine out of 10 cases are issues that we expect a customer is going to have. We actually detect first and we provide prescriptive analytics back to them that will tell them what they need to do to avoid that issue or to correct it if it's something that has happened and more of a proactive nature. So about nine out of 10 cases are things that we open automatically for them. The other thing that really is kind of this offshoot of InfoSight that you may not really sort of connect the dots yourself and that is that because we have all of this data and the tools to really automate a lot of things but not only that, but when we have to do a manual case, how do you get it solved fast enough? And that's, you know, with these tools and the data that we already have at our disposal. So what that allows us to do is really eliminate level one, level two support people and have just level three. So now you have these very smart people that can solve problems really fast and that's one of the things we, as I mentioned earlier, customers are now coming to us knowing full well it's not a storage problem but because we have that expertise, we're able to solve problems up the stack very effectively and quickly. Well clearly 94% of them given you access to their data to tap in for the greater good of everyone really shows a trust and a real partnership with your customers. Well Rod, congratulations, thanks for having us up. Great event. Okay, I appreciate you guys being here. Absolutely. So Rod back, I'm Jeff Frick. He's Stu Miniman. We're at the Nimble Storage Predictive Flash Launch. You're watching theCUBE. We'll be back with our next guest after this short break. Thanks for watching.


Alright, so things just keep getting worse and worse and worse and worse ladies and gentlemen welcome back to the channel My name is Jack the Buster I should know be we have episode 129 of our my hero academia watch today called the hellish total rookie family part Do oh no and the last one we saw the absolute insane prison break of both Tartarus and a many other prisons around the world seeing a lot of familiar faces in terms of villains being broken out and yeah Dude, it's just getting rough for the heroes out here if you're new to channel chop us up and hit that big wood Let's hop into it. Oh This is a little bit of hawks back story Because I am here. He always fixed the problem. So our hawks wings permanently burned off. Are they gone forever? No, got that anymore, and they have endeavor, but Elephant that elephant deserve jet burn. Oh, he's a big elephant never mind It was so easy The TV no mukonga you know you know you're not something that I don't want them once he got into the thick of it You realize they were just like him His dad's got like feathers too He just wanted to fly around a bit Oh We just lived on on the way home That's what I'm talking about. Oh my gosh Is that why this is the hellish Todoroki family it's sort of like Todoroki's but way worse just in a different way I don't know what's her eyes to wait.  Oh, they're Batmobile Oh, he's got like a Like talking through that Oh my god, dude, yeah, it's kind of ironic. They're in the car together Stress denim I do like the voice it's cool Oh My gosh Oh my gosh That's why he's been just in my ever sense God dang dude, okay, that makes a lot more sense Afraid spot. Oh just villains running rampant Glutton god, I imagine this is just really casual right now with how many broke out. Oh, brother I love how everything about best genus has to do with like jeans damn Oh my that was so efficient, but god you did not last long at all brother Due to my condition Nobody's coming anymore, bro Yeah The heroes oh my gosh, they just went up there You can see the dismay some have now it's not all bright faces for the heroes anymore It's such a cool theme though to explore that never has been exported my hero It's just really depressing Okay, where is this Oh They found her his mom. Oh, wow That's how that's how dobby found out all the lines are connecting That's how he knew He he saw himself as a it's a better thing It was like good for the both of them especially because she didn't want to be a part of his life sadly Shibarumon Nothing tying him down in terms of the safety commission. What does that mean? This is like a haunting track It's like struggling to speak It's so cursed it's like he's lost his path I Confront him about that. Oh my gosh, dude the sound design the audio design in this show is something else the way it like came in It was like surround sound basically after being all staticky and scattered areas was crazy There's just gonna be people busting in places all all around She in prison escapee and now heroes are just like in different more undercover type positions I guess one way or another. Oh my gosh wash. It has been a minute The seeds have been sewn. It's just a level of crime. You can't stop.  There's no one tying them all together anymore.  You can't just do one thing in particular to fix either. They see you that way now Like I said as bad of a person as it never was and what he's done I don't think the entire thing with Dobby.  It's fine. It's fine man.  Oh Gosh, all right. Well big big kind of a not cliffhanger. I guess loosen with Hawks I guess he's headed towards endeavor. He's gonna plan something around surrounding endeavor Probably just find out more about it. I mean he said more about his origin But what could he want out of it is the question? Maybe he does want to answer more of the question about what is a hero that twice kind of cemented because twice thought He was fighting for the right thing. He thought he was the hero You know they though his whole side was they were the heroes But dude endeavors development is just probably one of the best if not the best in the show like I know a lot of Characters have gone through a lot, but seeing someone in Pictured especially in the very beginning as sort of an antagonist someone that I thought would be a villain eventually just brought to this point Where he's in shambles in front of his family the last character you would think to ever even cry in front of someone is just a Teary mess because of everything that's happened surrounding him I think my favorite part of the show is the entire I guess just arc in terms of the de Todoroki family including Shota's character It's just it's impeccable It's why I always feel weird about MHA is because I don't really care about deku even remotely as much as I do a lot of other Characters, which is very odd for for the emcee to feel that way. I don't know am I alone in that? Let me know in the comments. It's just the way I've always sort of felt about MHA That's it for me for episode 129 if you need the channel drop us up and hit that big wood bell I'll catch you in the next one. Peace. Peace


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We have a really exciting conversation today. I'm thrilled to have our guest on Eric Asher and I will be sharing, well, here it is, making content more accessible. And that is exactly what our friend Eric Asher, which is the communications associate with respect ability joining us today to dive deeper into this conversation and as we move into how do we consider and how do we move forward to implement some of these strategies to truly make our content more accessible. So more soon from Eric, so glad to have you with us today. And of course we start every episode by saying thank you, thank you, thank you from the bottom of our hearts to all of our presenting sponsors. Julie and I both have been so extremely grateful for your partnership, your investment, not only here with a nonprofit show but genuinely with the sector at large. So thank you to our presenting sponsors. Please do find them, check them out online because they really exist to help you do more good. Julia Patrick, CEO of the American Nonprofit Academy of course is here today. I'm Jarrett Ransom, also known as your nonprofit nerd, CEO of the Raven Group. And again, I shared briefly who Eric is, how he's coming on to us today as a guest. And again, Eric Asher, thank you. Thanks for joining us this morning or afternoon. Thank you very much, it's fantastic to be here. So yeah, I'm very excited to talk about how to make your events more accessible on your website and your social media. Well, you know, we should start with what respectability does because I can witness to everybody already. We, Jarrett and I wanna learn from you, Eric to make the nonprofit show more inclusive and more functional for the different types of viewers that we have. So we're gonna have you kind of give us some consulting I think as we motor through our morning. So talk to us about respectability and the amazing work that your overall organization is doing.  I think we were founded in like 2015. And our mission statement is that we fight stigmas and advance opportunities so people with disabilities can fully participate in all aspects of community. And really there's like free buckets to our work. Basically there's the fighting stigmas part which is our work in Hollywood with entertainment professionals, news media, journalists to ensure that their representations to people with disabilities are both positive and accurate. Advancing opportunities, we have a big policy shop basically and we create some a testimony work with governors across the country and politicians to ensure that people with disabilities have policies working for them. And we also have a talent pipeline portion of our work and inclusive leadership. I actually started with respectability as one of our fellows back in 2018. And so our fellowship program is we train young leaders with disabilities and try to help them find work. So it's a combination of things. We do lots of different things but all of it's very exciting and I'm really excited they got to come to work every morning and make a difference for people with disabilities like myself. You know, it's interesting because if you look on the website the fellows that you have listed for now they're incredibly diverse from different parts of the country, just really amazing talents and backgrounds. And I just enjoyed reading about that. I didn't know you were a fellow. I was, my first couple of months here, yeah. Yeah, that's really, really, I love seeing that. Talk to us now. You're gonna walk us through some strategies and they're gonna cover a lot of different things. And I wanna begin by saying even just for this programming we have never done this for the nonprofit show don't know how to do it and really shamefully haven't even thought about why we should be doing it. So talking about the captioning part, let's start there. Sure. So the reason that, I'll start with the why. So 20% of people in the US are ever deaf or hard of hearing which is about 48 million Americans. And so captions help them understand what's happening. They also help people who have learning disabilities, people whose first language is in English and basically everyone, if you don't want, for a lot of people who are watching videos in a place where they don't want people to know if they're watching the videos. And so captions help with that too. And the good news about this is that YouTube makes it very, very easy to do it. If your video has decent enough audio quality, YouTube will automatically generate captions for it for free. Now granted, they won't be perfect. Speakers won't be identified. There will be several words that will be wrong. There will be no punctuation of any kind. And some people will call them like craptions as a result of these errors. I love that. But I know, I enjoyed that the first time I heard it too. But the good news is it's free to edit the craptions and turn them into fully accurate captions. And there's a great support document on YouTube's website that walks you through it. And auto-generated captions are expanding. Zoom has them now for free for all accounts. And you can just turn them on and automatically get captions on your Zoom videos, on your Zoom webinars and meetings, so. Because you're gonna help us do. Yes, so for those of you watching this live, we do not have the caption. Those of you watching the recording, I hope you are enjoying the caption because Eric has helped us do just that. We are going to add once the recording is done, the captions to this, and we will learn that for future use. And just so adore and appreciate you teaching us and really using this as a platform to help not only inform us, but so many other viewers around our nation to know how we can be more inclusive with our communication elements. And the great thing, as I said, as long as you know how to do it, it doesn't take a lot of time and it makes a huge difference, so yeah. Cool. Well, I love it. And I think you're starting off by that statistic about the impact and the number of Americans that actually are gonna benefit from this little bit of help. It's huge. 20% and I know you had mentioned, Eric, a lot of people like to watch videos with the caption on so they're not known that they're watching a video. And I remember seeing a very phenomenal statistic which I cannot say right now because it didn't log in my memory, but about how many people actually watch videos with the captions on, you know? And that regardless of having auditory issues, do you know it? Are you saying like, yes, I'm saying that I have that one written down because it was a video. Okay, good. So, actually good. I thought I had it, but I don't. I have a similar one which is that 80% of video, 80% of viewers react negatively to videos auto-playing with sound which is why so many of the social media websites don't have the sound on my default. So a lot of people just won't watch the video without the captions, so. Yes, I would agree.  How do I turn, you know, panicking? How do I turn that off? So video captions are really important. Well, moving into further into the strategies because I think you have five of them for us today. So moving into the next strategy that we have here is tell us about imaging, right? And how there is this need for alternative text or descriptions, where do we find it? What is it? How do we best utilize the strategy? So this one's important for more than one million people in the US who are blind and more than 12 million who have low vision. And those people use technology. So screen readers basically do what the name implies. They read what's on the screen so that people who can't see the screen can still understand what's happening on it. Screen readers aren't magic though, at least they're not yet. They can't figure out what's in an image unless you program it in. And that's what alternative text is all about. When you add alternative text to an image it will tell the screen reader basically what to say to a person using it when they select the image. And so the best practice for writing on text that it should be short and should describe the purpose of the image. And when you're writing it, basically think about what someone who can't see the image would need to know. Like for example, I got the slides at a time. So for image on the left of the slide, for example, I would describe it as four people working at a table and together in a group office setting. So basically a short, simple summary of what's happening on the slide or image. That is so helpful. And just to hear you say four people, I'm gonna be honest, I miss the person at the computer. I see the computer, right? But I miss those hands being there as well. So four people sitting in an office setting, strategizing or working on a project together. And that is very brief yet extremely descriptive. Would you say that to use like the emotion, four people looking concerned, four people looking joyful? If you think it adds to the, if you think it's important for a person to know, yes, if not, no.  So you wanna keep it short, but obviously you don't want it to be too short so people are missing things. Right, very interesting. Well, I really have seen that. I've seen that choice, but I've never fully appreciated what it led to and what it meant. So I appreciate you totally sharing that and giving us some guidance on that. The strategy number three in the nonprofit sector is really important right now when everybody's starting to go back to event planning, in real life events. So I feel like this is such a great thing to talk about because this could be a time for us to reimagine how we're doing the pro forma of sending out invitations. And you say, ask guests what they need in order to really participate and be fully present. Yep, and I will say this is not just for in-person events. This matters for all types of events, virtual, in-person, hybrid, if some of those events are happening. So the most important thing is on the sign up form for every event, ask registrants if they need any accommodations to effectively participate in the event. And make sure that you provide the contact information for a real person with an email address and a phone number if they can get in touch with if they have any questions. And it's important to note that by inviting people to request accommodations doesn't mean they require you to provide them if they are unreasonable. And you can set a deadline of like 48 hours before the event. And so make sure that it's just a best practice and also make sure that people know that the event is accessible when you're advertising it. Because if they don't, they won't show up. I will add one more thing, which is that ensure that the invitation of this digital one is screen reader accessible, but we discussed this for all texts and images. Make sure right if it's a video or captions on it, et cetera. So it all ties together. Does respectability offer any kind of samples of this? Any kind of language templating or anything like that? We do. And I wanted to share it, but so yeah, basically it's, we can find it all on our website. I'll send it at the end, I'll save the link at the end. So it's in our resource section, we have a virtual event toolkit, which has great draft language that you can use. So. So and I had shared as we were preparing for today's episode, how often times, my clients when I'm speaking at event, maybe a smaller event, be it a board meeting or a team meeting, something where they'll say, do you need any audio visuals? Do we need a microphone? Or sometimes they'll say, we are not going to have this because of budgetary issues. And while I'm a very loud speaker and certainly can project, I have become extremely mindful of individuals with auditory challenges. And as you shared that statistic earlier, all the more reason why microphones really need to be included in every event to really make that auditory sound and the hearing of all of your individuals be so much more received. And that little thing, again, I know for many nonprofits it may be something that you want to cut from your budget, but I think this is a great opportunity to really consider if that cutting of your budget is making your event a little bit inaccessible to some. And again, there are enough people with disabilities in society that you want to include them because if they can feel included, they can contribute. So. Yes, exactly. And asking them, you know, what in what ways could we make this event more inclusive for you to play a participating role? So I know I'm going to be checking out RespectAbilities Resources page. So thank you for that, Eric. It's a great thing to know we can access that because one of the things that you talked about, Eric, which I thought was so interesting is start back up. Start this at the beginning when you're planning because it's so much easier to understand these things before you're like day of or, you know, you're trying to get other things accomplished and you've totally forgotten or left the script behind. That's a tough way to try and make a correction. I sort of put this as sort of a catch-all for lots of the other tips I wanted to give. Good. But yeah, basically think of accessibility from a start because as you've said, it's much easier to make changes at the start of planning than last minute when you then start starting an hour basically. So for a couple of things to keep in mind, if you're booking captions or ASL interpreters, book them early. Two weeks notice is ideal. 48 hours is generally the minimum. In first slide, the best practice is to distribute those in advance and sort of those are accessible. And the best part about that is that PowerPoint literally walks you through how to make your slides accessible and software. There's a button you press in the software and it says, check accessibility and it guides you through making everything accessible. It is the easiest thing in the world to do and it takes about five minutes on average. And for in-person events obviously ensure that your location is accessible and really double-check that because I remember one time we were trying to have an event in New York City and there was a story about we were trying to find a restaurant to house for you then and we called the restaurant and asked them, like, are you accessible? And they said, yeah, we're accessible.  And they said, yeah, there's just two stairs to get done in the bathroom. And I'm like, so you're not accessible, then are you? And so basically it's, you should really double-check that your locations are accessible, that you're thinking about these types of things in advance before you, when you start, basically, so. When I hear you tell that, share that story, it makes me realize that we hear the word accessible but we don't know what it means. You know, we're not fully educated on what that means and that the myriad of options that we need to be looking at. You know, even in the nonprofit space where we think we're so, you know, much more aware of things, I think that we're not. I think it's getting better, but I think there is in general a lack of awareness among many organizations, yes. And so, but awareness is the first step and the good news is, as I've been trying to emphasize here, I hope I've been doing it effectively, most of these accommodations and things you can do are cheap, easy and free. Cheap or easy and or easy. So it's not like it's difficult to do it. You just have to know what you're supposed to do. And so. And I'm sorry, go ahead, Julia. I would just say it's like a mindset, just to start out to your point. I'm sorry, Jerick, go ahead. Well, I was gonna share when I started my career in fundraising, right? I was working for an organization with developmental disabilities. And even when it comes to event seeding, right? And the hallways, the pathways to get to their table, to get to the seat, all of that is taken into consideration. And I really wanna say because of that, it really created a formative pattern in my brain that now every event, regardless of whether the constituency base was a higher disability constituency base, I always thought of that, right? Like where are the bathrooms? How might these individuals get to the tables? And I think for many of us in the nonprofit space, especially as you continue your stewardship with your donors, knowing what they need at an event, especially many of you, and I'm talking now physical disabilities, but our challenge is maybe I should say, you know like- Oh, no, disability is what we actually put. Disabilities, and getting, thank you, and getting to that event, are knowing like if there's not seating for the event, and that's not what you've planned, you might wanna plan some seating alternatives for those individuals that actually do need to sit. And so there's so many different things, but as Eric said, many of them are, you know, free and easy. Yeah, and things like making sure that the buffet tables are low enough for someone who uses a wheelchair to get to it, to be able to get their food. Things like making sure that if you're having a hybrid event, making sure that the ASL interpreter and or left captioning is visible on the video stream and making sure that the captioner and ASL interpreter is next to the person speaking so that it's easier for someone to use that. Lots of little things that you can, we have all of this information in our toolkit, but. Now, I know we have a fifth and final strategy and as we move to that, I'm going to ask a curiosity question that just popped into my head is, when you do a post-event survey, I have never included anything about how accessible was this event for you and your needs. Is that another resource that Respectability offers? Is that post-event survey in regard to accessibility? We haven't thought of that, honestly, because we've been, but it's a good idea. We've been thinking, I mean, I think it's good to think about that after a fact. I think it's, again, more important that events are accessible in the planning stage, but yes, that could definitely be something to consider. I love that idea, Jared, because I think we're trying to, as a sector, do more of that and you follow up and ask, because we've just, for so many decades, done the exact same thing at all these events, all these events and so to be doing this query and asking your guests, I think is brilliant and I appreciate that you brought that up. Strategy five, and it's that accessibility helps everyone, dig a little deeper on that with us, Eric. So basically, my point of this one is that even if including people with disabilities isn't enough of a reason to be accessible for you, which it should be because we're 20% of the population and a $1 trillion market and so many people know someone with a disability or have a disability themselves. Many of the accessibility tips we've covered over the past 20 minutes help everyone else too. Captions, like I said, help everyone.  Accessible venues are easier for people to attend with kids and strollers. All sorts of things that means that basically, including people with disabilities is not just the right thing to do, it helps everybody and it's good, good for society. So that's the graph I'd like to look at. I love that and I think too, as we deal with in the nonprofit sector, an aging donor population, we disengage from that constituency like that if we're not accessible in some very basic ways, very basic ways, you know. And I think for one, I'm definitely going to start advocating for the post-event surveys to include how accessible was this. I think that will really help my clients that I'm currently working with look towards the future to really begin their event planning with that accessibility in mind, but going back to the audience and asking how accessible, like if you could think about the last gala that you attended are the last, and again, as you said, Eric, it's not just in person, it's virtual and it's hybrid as well. What do you remember from that event? How accessible was it? So as we continue to move forward and plan for our future events, we have that data and that information to make better informed decisions. Julia, I'm going to do a quick plug here, although I know you have it later, I'm sure in the slide is the fundraising events TV. So that's a completely separate channel under the American Nonprofit Academy, kind of a separate show to the nonprofit show, which is all things events. And I think that is really a great opportunity to again plug the inclusivity of variety of accessibility for your audiences. Absolutely, and thank you. Yeah, in fact, I have an editorial meeting with that team in just a little bit. So definitely we're going to be bringing that up.  But I got to ask, if you are looking at your event, and let's say it's an in-person event, and you're trying to determine what limited resources you have, what's the most or like say the top most important things that you really should be doing to make that event accessible? Well, well, say is that I'd say the biggest thing is to ask people what accommodations they need. Okay. Because ASL interpreters and live captioners cost money. Yeah. But if no one requests it, you don't need to have it. Yeah. But if someone requests it, you should be able to make it work. So I'd say giving people the chance to request things can save you money, and it can also tell you things to do that you wouldn't have known to do otherwise. So that's just the best practice for that. Yeah. That's wise. That's great advice, Eric. It goes back to the very beginning. If you don't ask, you don't know which direction to take, and yeah, you can be a lot more successful if you know what you're dealing with. And you can be responsive and honorable in the whole process. So yeah. Yeah, absolutely. Phenomenal. And I know we have Julia Mayfield put up Eric's slide again, so everyone will know where to access these resources that have been mentioned throughout today's episode. So grateful to have you on Eric Asher Communications Associate with Respectability. And is that respectability.org? Is that the web address? Yep. And our resources page is linked to or from the top or respectability.org slash resources. And plenty of things in there. One of my jobs is actually maintaining that resources page, so I know that it's very, very, very busy. And lots of stuff that you can find to help you out. We again are just so grateful. And for those of you that have watched us live, I know we have many of you here online. This sounds like I need some more coffee this morning. So grateful to have you joining us. Now, you did not experience the captions during this live episode, but all of you that are watching the recording and our archive database, you will be seeing the captions. So Eric has been so generous to help us learn how to include captions for this recording.  Appreciate all that respectability is doing. Again, if you want to check out that resource page or overall respectability, respectability.org is where you can find Eric, all of his great work, as well as their organization's work throughout the nation. So thank you so much, Eric. Great to be here. Thank you. It's been wonderful. I'm Julia Patrick, CEO of the American Nonprofit Academy. I've been joined by Jared Ransom, the nonprofit nerd herself, CEO of Raven Group. We want to make sure that we do thank our sponsors who allow us to have these amazing discussions. Every day is different. Every day we learn something. And that is changing, too, as we move well beyond a year of broadcasting. What we were talking about when we first started is completely different with what we're talking about now. And our presenting sponsors have been part of that journey. Hey, as Jared mentioned, we do have a new show called Fundraising Events TV. And it's all a drill down on how to have events. And we talk about fundraising in barns, in ballrooms, golf events, to black tie gallows. So we talk about a lot of different things. And so check out fundraisingevents.tv. Wow, I really, really love that we started off this week. It's a short week for us because of the holiday on Monday. But some great information, Eric. Thank you so much. Again, my pleasure to be here. Thank you for having me. It's been great. Hey, Jared, I know you are broadcasting from a different location. You will be back in your home city. So travel safe, my friend. And you've got how many hours ahead of you? 11, an 11-hour drive. Yes, I happen to be in Utah. I've been visiting the Park City community, Salt Lake City community here in Utah, which we've had many guests and many attendees on the show, the nonprofit show. Rob Harder was on. And again, just any time I travel, I make sure to infuse myself and activities into the community. And many times, oftentimes, that is the nonprofit sector. So I've been playing in the Utah space. And it's been a lot of fun. But yes, heading back to my Arizona roots here shortly. So thank you so much. And to all of our guests, many of us are working remotely. And sometimes that does not mean in your home office or your home studio. So it's been a lot of fun and just so grateful for this wonderful life. So thank you. Well, I can't wait to hear what you learned about what's going on in Utah. We really had some interesting guests in the beginning talk about the perilous nature of nonprofits in Utah. And I would say one of our more emotional episodes was with an executive director who kind of broke down and said she didn't know who was going to survive the pandemic and how that was going to impact the entire state and really the region. And so it's going to be powerful to hear from you, Jared, about what you learned and what you're seeing. So thank you. And I remember that episode. And 23%, I believe, is what she said. She was, you know, they had done a survey of the sector across the state. And 23% of the organizations were saying that they did not know or think that they would make it through post-COVID. So it's been interesting. It has been. Well, we are grateful for your time. We're grateful for all of you viewers that are with us. We've learned so much today, Eric. And we are so appreciative. I think we're going to have more questions for you as we march forward. And we are wishing everybody a great start of your week as we end every show. We'd like to remind everyone and ourselves, I think. Stay well so you can do well. Thanks, everybody. Have a great day.


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Yeah, I know I listen every Friday Well tonight the Equitable Society has an announcement that is going to interest you personally The Equitable Society has just issued a new and enlarged edition of its famous fact-finding chart for fathers and mothers Don't miss the middle commercial Find out how to get your copy of the Equitable Society's fact-finding chart for fathers and mothers Tonight's FBI file the happy honeymooners in the United States today is at an all-time high and The figures gathered by your FBI and by other law enforcement agencies are enough to shock even the most complacent into a Realization that the time to fight the crime wave is now There is an average of more than 2,000 thefts committed in this country every day or more than one every minute around the clock That fact is serious enough But even more serious is the companion truth that crime like any disease spreads quickly when it remains unchecked We are all about to enter a new year If we all do our part to help fight that crime wave it can be a year to be remembered with pride If we fail to do our part and the same crimes we suffered this year will be repeated With one difference There will be more of them Next file opens on a remote country lane in one of our Midwestern states It is early afternoon and the young boy and girl are riding along the river road in a brand-new convertible Isn't this nice, honey Happy very oh look at that view you can see ten miles up the river Gee, I wish we could sometimes settle down in a place like this. I hate to keep traveling all the time Well, I don't like it too much myself dear, but I know business comes first. That's right Well, this is where we get out What do you mean? Look through those trees. You see that cabin. Uh-huh. It's ours What I read it it this morning. Oh You didn't I've got the keys right here. Come on I hope do you think so Yes, I've always dreamed about honest honest it's perfect. I just wish now that You wish what honey? Well, I don't want to have to leave this. Oh, you don't You mean we're going to settle down in one place. Yeah But what about work? Oh, well, we'll keep working. In fact, we got a job tonight. We're sticking up a jewelry store Go ahead honey ring the bell Yeah Oh, yeah, I checked Yes, good evening. Mr. Mitchell. Good evening. I'm sorry to trouble you about my car broke down outside your door I was wondering whether I might use your phone to call a garage. Good evening right in A young couple their car broke down and they want to use the phone Well Howard has to take off their coats. They must be great. I'll keep mine on Mrs. Mitchell I'm going right out again. In fact, your husband's coming with me What how would he's got a gun? What is this don't get excited? Oh, this is a hold up. It is. He's wasting his time. We have nothing of value here We know that Mr. Then what I want you to take him down to your jewelry store Then if you don't mind, he'd like to have you open your safe.  He's right All right, Mary I'll go with him. Oh, what happens to my wife? Oh, my bride won't mind staying here with her. Will you Lucy? Of course not. I just love to visit. She'll stay here till I get the jewelry. Oh, by the way, Mrs. Mitchell Yeah, she has a gun too. Well, come on, sir. We better get going very well Such a nasty night out honey asked mr. Mitchell if he'd mind bringing an umbrella That same evening in the local FBI field office special agent Jim Taylor is seated at his desk just finishing a report on his last case Busy Jim. Oh, hello, Doug. What are you doing around the office this late? Oh, the boss called me at home and asked me to come in. Oh, something special come up. Maybe yes, maybe no Will you wait one second? Will I sign this report in the Fulton case and I'll be all finishing? Yeah, I'm certainly glad that file is closed. Oh my I don't want any more of those tough cases I'd like to work on a simple one for a change. We don't get any simple one. I guess not Well, what have you got Doug? We're all about two weeks to go two youngsters stuck up a jeweler in Memphis and we just got word from the Memphis office about it Memphis thinks they're headed this way. That's it The switchboard is working now covering every hotel in town. I doubt that it'll do any good. Oh, why not? Well, the descriptions aren't good enough to general but all we know is that one is a girl and Both the girl and boy are blond Anything unusual about the robbery? Yes They went to the home of the jeweler at night forced them to ride back to the store and open the safe No, that's a no wrinkle You know, I wish people had paid more attention to robbers when they're held up That's one and twenty can give you any kind of a description at all this jeweler in Memphis claims. He was so scared He forgot everything Hey, how'd they get into the jeweler's house? Oh funny story about the car breaking down outside the door. I see What do you think we ought to do first Jim? Oh, let's see. It's Seven o'clock now. I guess all the jewelry stores are closed by now. I think well, I'm edging so well We'd better get a list of the home phone numbers of every jeweler in town You know, I think I know where I can lay my hands on that kind of a list Jim fine get the list and we'll split it up and make the cause ourselves Doug how long I'm gonna take it to get the numbers. Oh about 15 minutes at most good I'll wait right here for you when you get back will go to work Gee mrs. Mitchell, I wish you'd stop that crying Everything's gonna be all right. I know it is Look Worrying isn't gonna do you a bit of good. I know from experience When I first started dating Eddie used to do jobs all by himself and I used to just worry myself sick about him But he always came home safe and sound I'm only trying to be sociable I'm only trying to point out that you shouldn't be so unhappy In fact, if I was you I'd be glad my guys. You've got a beautiful home here. You don't have to travel You've got lots to be thankful for mrs. Mitchell. Why did you have to pick on us? Huh? There are other jewelers in the city. Why did you pick on my husband? Well, you know, that's a funny thing We went window shopping one day and we passed your husband's store and I saw a ring in the window that I was just Nuts about the right thing in there. I said it Wait, mrs. Mitchell before you answer it I'll have to ask if you don't let on that anything's wrong and make the conversation very short very well Hello, oh, hello, mrs. Mitchell may I speak to my wife, please? It's for you. Thank you Hello, honey, everything's fine down here. Mr. Mitchell was very cooperative. Oh good Yeah, I'll be leaving here in a few minutes. I'll see you back at the cabin. How you gonna get there? Mr. Mitchell's car, that's nice of them. All right, dear. I'll meet you in about half an hour. All right. I Love you honey. I love you, baby. Bye. Bye I'm sorry mrs.  How about you? I just finished I'll be tougher than to pull that same stunt on any jewel around here and think so. Hey, uh, any numbers on your list that didn't answer Yes, too Hey, um, how about the newspaper? I've already called them. They'll use this story tomorrow Special agent Taylor speaking Yes, I just got a call from a mrs. Howard Mitchell in Springtown Young couple came into our house tonight made her husband go down to his store and open the safe Sergeant is mr. Mitchell a jewel by any chance We've been looking for that couple sergeant. Have you got any descriptions on them not very much This was too excited to tell me more than just the bare facts You say this mr. Mitchell was brought into the city from Springtown. That's right. That's across the state line, mr. Taylor That's why I called you that makes it a kidnapping case. Oh Sergeant, what's mrs. Mitchell's address? 169 Bedford Street Springtown 169 Bedford and the address of a Huntsman store 1218 1218 5th. Thanks very much sergeant. We'll get on it right away Doug we've got some work to do. What's that Jim? Our young couple has already pulled a job I gather a local jeweler was taken from his home to his store. Here's the address of the store Doug. You check there I'm going out to the man's home Was there oh Just a second. Oh Baby your soul. Oh, gee, why didn't you blow the horn or something? I would have come out with mr.  He is Here take a look at this stuff Real nice, huh? And look here honey remember this it's a ring. I like them Uh-huh. I had mr. Mitchell make our special effort to put that in Eddie What made you bring mr. Mitchell home with you? Oh, I had a reason we only have one bedroom Well, he can sleep where he is tonight What was your reason? Well, I figured he could afford to give us a little more money Well, I called his wife and told her we were gonna keep mr. Mitchell until she gave us $20,000 We will return in just a moment to tonight's file which shows how your FBI promotes security for the nation Now let's bring this question of security closer to home Mac, you're a father. Did you ever see a chart like this before? Hmm a fact-finding chart for fathers and mothers What's it all about anyway this fact-finding chart for fathers and mothers has just been published by the equitable Society to perform a very useful service for a man like you go on. I'm listening mr. 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Mitchell Well, Jim, I see you got soaked too. Yeah, the skin. I don't think I ever saw it rain this way They hope your trip was more productive than mine. Nothing at the store at all Huh? Not a thing. The police had already arrived when I got there and they went over everything How about the safe? Who is wide open and empty? No fingerprints? None at all Imagine the Mitchell must have opened the safe himself, but if he did he was wearing gloves How about mrs. Mitchell or she was all right until she got a phone call from the man the girl called Eddie Eddie said he was holding mr. Mitchell for $20,000 ransom Didn't kidnap the jeweler in Memphis. No, no, they just robbed him. This is something new. How is Mrs. Mitchell going to contact or she's not when Eddie called she said that she didn't have $20,000 So he said he'd give her a little while to dig it up But he'd call her back any call out the spring town is a long distance called Jim I know the foreign company is going to trace any call made to the Mitchell's number We'd better sit right here until they call. Yeah, that's what all we can do But mrs. Mitchell described the couple don't make very poorly. She was practically an hysterics Special agent say them Yes, I did How long ago operator trace it Thanks sergeant we'll get on it right away That was our call Doug Mitchell is being held at the house for the phone number senator late for two Let's check that number and get out there as fast as we can We just listen into the most wonderful program on the radio all about a woman who forgets her name And she can't remember where she lives look look dear. I'm trying to make a rough estimate on these jewels Tell me later, huh, but Eddie the announcer broke into their middle of it. Oh, what do you say? He said that the river was rising He said it'll flood the whole valley that everyone will be marooned here after the night. Hey, that's not so good What do we do honey? We're practically next to the river. I think maybe we'd better get out of here Oh, look if we're marooned here, we'll get picked up for everything What do we do with mr. Mitchell? We just have to leave him here. How about the $20,000 for Mrs. Mitchell? I think we better settle for the jewels. Are your bags still packed? Well, you better get them and we better get going. Can't we wait about 10 more minutes? What for? I want to hear how that program comes out Look at that river Jim. Yeah, it's really roaring. I don't think I've ever seen it that high It's flood stage. All right, I think the bridge will still be open all we can do is hope Close we don't get across. I know Look Jim, huh? There's a man with a lantern in the road Yeah, yeah, I see Coming around on my side. I'll roll my window down Doug Sorry, sir, the bridges closed We're both special agents of the FBI You're my credentials There any chance of us getting across? Oh, I wouldn't suggest it, huh? How bad is it? There's no telling but you can gamble if you want to Doug any way you want it, Jim Let's take a chance Okay with me. We're gonna try it. Well, good luck. Sure. Hope you make it. Thanks Left a little Jim. Okay Hold it Railing is down Close that means anything. Let's find out. Oh, that's pretty deep up ahead. The wires drive Okay, now this is the end of the bridge Look there's Mitchell tied up over there in the corner. Oh, is it Jim breathing, but he's unconscious. Come on Sometime get him to a doctor and then come back here About what honey about how nice it must be to live like Mr. Nick is Mitchell What do you mean? You know with a nice home pictures on the wall and a place where you can have your friends over for dinner Hey, it's not so you married me. Are you honey already? No, I'm not I Wish you weren't a traveling man. Oh, but you knew what business I was him when we got married. I know dear. I'm not complaining on it What are you stopping for on? Well, there's a fork in the road Take a look at the map and see which way we go, huh? Oh, Eddie. I forgot it. I left it in the cabin. Oh Well, I'll take a chance on this right turn the Chicago and sell a jewelry and then on to New York Come on dog. I want to see where this door leads to What's there Jim the shed attached to the cabin. It's been used as a garage Mitchell's cars here Map Root marks on it. Yeah, that's the road between here in Chicago still doesn't help much We don't know what kind of a car. They were driving. I don't know what they look like Aside from that everything's under control that much point and setting up a roadblock if we haven't got it this way minute Doug Well, okay, this can give us one lead on that young couple. Come on. Let's get to the phone I know about five more miles to go. Uh-huh He spoke to Mitchell's wife. Yes, I called him in the doctor's home. I told her he'd be okay I hope that roadblock has been set up. I just hope it was set up in time I'm a car's up ahead Jim. That's the beginning of the road block I was hoping there wouldn't be that many We're all doing out in weather like this. I'm probably trying to get into the city before both bridges go out Do we start at the head of the line? No, Doug Park it here and walk up Well, we can't get any wetter. That's one consolation. That's true Now, let's take a look at this convertible. Okay I'd yeah shine your flashlight closer. Will you? How's that? Yeah, that's fine. I think we may have something here I'm gonna keep us waiting here or a man said it'd be only a couple of minutes. He said they were fixing the road Well, this is certainly a silly time to be fixing a road. That's all I can say Well, maybe the storm wash some of the gravel away Oh, what is it Maybe their car got stuck Maybe they're cops better get out of here. That's what we're gonna do What do you want? You want you for armed robbery and kidnapping? Well, you must be mistaken Oh, no Your car left its signature in the dirt floor of the garage by your cabin Huh? You left rear tire at a deep gash and it's diamond shaped thread. That's all we had to look for but it was Enough mr. Can you close the door? I'm getting so I don't worry about that lady Both of you are going to a place where you'll be dry for a long long time The wanton young couple was sentenced to 25 years and 15 years Respectively for kidnapping and violation of the National Stolen Property Act And thus by careful investigation and hard work your FBI Forded the get rich quick scheme of another pair of criminals a pair who proved they would stop at nothing a Fair who though young and innocent in the parents were as completely criminal as any murderers on record That their well-laid plans came to nothing is a tribute to the thoroughness with which two special agents followed every clue and Kept following them until they achieved the two goals of your FBI in every kidnapping case The safe return of the victim and the capture of the criminals We will tell you about next week's exciting case from the official files of your FBI Now back to the news. 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The film is called Toilet. Perfect, I gotta go.  Wow. Back to where Stupidity Reacts is due. It's on Corbin. This is Rick. And here. That's it. Yep. Ah, please follow us on Instagram! And ring the bell! Oh, I did it! So fast! I know. The power. It runs in my veins.  So, uh, we'll be reacting to a trailer called Toilet. Toilet. Yes. Actually, we know him. Yeah, we know him. Yes. From something that I recognize the name. This was recommended by one of our patreons. Thank you so much. At a certain tier, you can recommend us to stuff and we will do it. It will take priority sometime. So, uh, if you'd like to support us on Patreon, please, the link is down below. See that? Right there? See it? Uh, so, let's just get into it. I don't know what this is about. This is about the toilet. He needs a toilet. He wants a toilet. Who? He wants a toilet. He wants a toilet. He wants a toilet. He wants a toilet. Can you see? What?  No! I asked for this. Who will deliver it?  I'll cut it. What? Talk to me directly. Don't say anything. Don't say anything, please. Hey, Mr. Bungal. It's 8 o'clock now. You'll do it. You'll do it right away. Or you'll hit me. Savitri is waiting for your welcome card at the Lota party. He's coming to the hotel. Why are you so angry for a search? If I had known earlier, I wouldn't have done it. They must have written down my fate in the kitchen. And they even added a plus to it. So, make it at home too. The place where you put the tulsi. Let's start searching there. I'll get the sandals in this village. Rade, rade. If you eat the money of the poor, where do you get it? If you change nothing, nothing will change. I made Taj Mahal for Asik. We can't make a sandal. I love, I love the Owen toilet. It's a toilet seat that goes crumbling. You know what else I love? I love that so many times we see trailers and I'm running along thinking, woo-hoo, fun rom-com. I'm ready for this one and then bam! In your face, man. You're going to get punched in the gut with some emotion. Yeah. So I'm guessing it's about a town or... Look at the runtime. No, that's not the right film. Oh. I'm guessing it's about a village where that didn't have a bathroom. Yeah, it's got obviously a big cultural change. I don't know what year it was in. Right. Well, IMDb it. Yeah. But then obviously the women were like, why do we have to go all the way out here and go to the restroom? Which is a great question. Which reminded me of the scene in the hidden figures. When she has to walk to the other building to go to the bathroom all the time. So my suspicion is it's got that kind of punch to it. It's got that kind of social... And on true incidents. So probably a true story. Yeah. Yeah. Interesting. So here's this synopsis. A woman threatens to leave her husband unless he installs a toilet in their home to in back to love and respect. He heads out on a journey to fight against the backward society. Yeah.  That's the number one cause of a divorce in America. Did you know that? So I'm guessing it's a true story though. I don't know what year it was supposed to take in though. I know it came out in 2017 but I wonder what year... Well it looks it's kind of a bent... It looks relatively current based on the way I mean they're depicting it unless they contemporized it. Yeah. Interesting story. Is it any good? Please let us know if it's any good. I mean unless... The trailer looks really interesting if it's like a historical thing. I think this... We'd love to learn about it and all that kind of stuff. So it looks really cool but please let us know if it's worth a watch. Yeah cause this is one of those trailers if I saw it I would immediately kind of see what happened to it on Rotten Tomatoes and Critics and stuff. Yeah. I wouldn't be immediately diving in just from the trailer. Yeah. I didn't dislike the trailer. Yeah. But it didn't make me jump up and down like some trailers we've seen. Yeah. I immediately thought I gotta go see that right now. Yeah. This one if you say it's great we'll see it. Yeah. We might even review it if you think it's magnificent. Maybe. Maybe. And we should do it while on the toilet. Yes the whole review. The whole review. Sitting on the toilet. Sitting on the toilet. Doing a...


In the past few decades, martial arts schools have exploded and spread across the world. However, it also remains one of the hardest businesses to keep open. Many schools have to make business decisions and tactics to keep the doors open while still providing students with martial arts skills. So what is a McDowjoe? A McDowjoe is a derogatory term used to describe a school who so focuses on the quantity of students and making money rather than the quality of what they're teaching. They are often franchised and offer little in the way of actual meaningful training. So in this video, we're going to give you some several things to look for so that you too can tell the difference between a McDowjoe and a legitimate school. I want to preface this following list by saying that just because a school has some of these items and a couple of these traits on the list does not automatically make them a McDowjoe. A school is still a business and it has to employ ways to stay open so if you notice some of these on your school, don't panic because there are going to be some good reasons. However, if you find yourself identifying and checking off all or most of the things on this list, then you might want to take some time to re-evaluate whether or not you're in the right school. First and foremost, one of the big tell-tale signs of a McDowjoe or at least something that all McDowjoes seem to do is long-term contracts and upfront payments. Just because your school has a contract doesn't mean anything, but if you find that the school is trying to make you pay a large sum of money unless you pay everything all upfront or they want to commit you to a one-year, two-year, three-year, a lot of people kind of shy away from that. Again, it doesn't mean it's a McDowjoe, but that's definitely something you'll find at just about all of them. Also, check their lineage. Their instructor is not clear about their background or their training or the lineage and there could be something there. I mean, most schools will have a head instructor and assistant instructors, but you can usually find information on their background, who they trained under, what they teach, where they trained, their history, because you want to know who you're learning from. So if you're talking to a school or if you have a school who's got an instructor who's kind of shady or vague about their background, it's a little bit of a red flag. Also, you might want to watch some classes. If this is a school that you haven't joined yet, observe. What are the class sizes? You know, do you have a handful of students per instructor, 10, 20, or do you see like 30, 40, 50 kids or 50 students in one class with a couple instructors? Remember, McDougos focus on quantity of students. So if the room is packed and full, then you can kind of deduct that there might not be as much attention dedicated to each student as there should be. Also, take a look at the class. If a student's doing something wrong, if they're not standing properly, straight lay, they're not paying attention, the instructors correct them. Again, going back to the class size, if you've got 50 kids in the class, it's really hard unless you've got a whole bunch of instructors working with them. It's kind of hard to correct each kid and make sure each person is doing the proper form. So pay attention to see what is being corrected, what isn't. Merchandise is another one. It's okay to have a school that's got branding patches and all that, but if it's required that you buy patch XYZ and you've got your uniform, but before you can promote, you have to join the Blackout Club and that's X amount more per month and you get this uniform that you have to pay for. And then you've got the elite club that's this uniform. And if you find that they're constantly making you pay for stuff in order to advance or they're requiring a whole series of patches and garments and shirts and all that, that's kind of a red flag as well because that's where they make a lot of their money by pushing their merchandise. It's okay if your school has merchandise and it's even normal to pay for things like sparring gear, your initial uniform, even school shirts. Because some schools will, especially during summers in some of the warmer states, their kids will let them wear T-shirts instead of the Geetops, but it's usually school shirts. That's nothing to really be worried about, but if they're constantly making you buy this, buy this, buy this, buy this, it's a little bit of a red flag. Now here's another thing mainly for adult classes. You have your instructor. Does the instructor engage in class, especially in a school like a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu school or a heavy competitive school? Do they roll with their students? They spar with the students. They actually interact and engage with their students. An instructor who just bought their black belt won't do that. They'll keep their distance. They'll be like, oh no, they'll either act like it's beneath them or they'll find a reason not to do it. A good instructor will want to get hands on with his students. I've been fortunate enough that the structures I've trained under love sparring us and it actually helps students learn. So if you have an instructor going back to their lineage, if they're vague about what their background is and they don't take any part in class and they refuse to roll, especially in the competitive school, that's something to look at right there. That could be another warning sign. Watch the belt test. In the McDojo, nobody fails because it's all about promotion. It's all about making them pay for their new belts, their new levels.  Does anybody ever get held back on a test? At the very beginning of my training, I was part of McDojo or at least partially and nobody failed tests. Even kids who could barely do the material always got promoted. Fortunately, that changed later. But at the beginning, you know, it's kind of a warning sign.  He didn't. He's just standing there. There's no half his techniques. Why is he promoting? So kind of keep a look at that. In a McDojo, they're all about quantity of students pushing them through the system, more belt fees, more testing fees. So if nobody ever fails, that's kind of suspicious because, you know, not everybody is going to get their best at every test. Another warning sign of McDojo is if they discourage cross-training. You know, you have a lot of schools out there that they are the elite. They are the exclusive. You join us. You have to learn our system. Leave everything else out the door. That's not really the way it should be. You know, by training in the martial arts, you're trying to better yourself. So a lot of schools will encourage cross-training because it only makes you stronger. So if you have an instructor who is absolutely forbidding cross-training, won't let you look at other schools, won't even acknowledge anything you've learned before and is telling you to leave it all outside the door. That's kind of suspect as well because why? You know, it's only to your own benefit as a student to learn as much as you can. The only real reason they would try to discourage that is if they're trying to keep you from finding something better. So if you have an instructor who is too tries to forbid cross-training, keep that as a warning sign. Also, are students getting black belts in like a year or two years? You do have every once in a while a prodigy or somebody who spends hours and hours and hours a day working on an art. Yeah, someone like that could possibly get a black belt in a year or two, but that's not the norm. So look at the schools. Are they promoting super fast? Does the kid join in like three months from that? They're like two or three belts above where they started from? That's kind of suspect. Again, that's part of pushing the students through the system more belt fees, more testing fees. Is the head instructor of the school a grandmaster, but only like 30 years old? Lots of grandmasters out there, lots of arts. People put in the time and effort. But to become a grandmaster or a 10th degree black belt or whatever the highest rank is, usually takes a lifetime to achieve. If you have someone who barely looks like they're out of college, claim to be a grandmaster, big red flag. Put a big check mark on that one because that is a warning sign. You cannot master an art that quickly, not to that degree. Look at the class. You have a lot of child black belts. Now, disclosure, I'm not considering junior black belts here. A lot of schools have a junior black belt system, which is kind of a partial rank, part of a children's curriculum. But if you have a school who's got a 10 year old and they've got a second, third, fourth degree adult black belt, again, big warning sign. We've seen it before. That's just way too early. And even at that point, that kid hasn't even been alive long enough to achieve a rank of that stature. So something to consider if there's a lot of black belts in the class that are young children and they're claimed to be adult black belts. Does the instructor date students? This in itself does not point to a McDojo, but it's kind of a line that really shouldn't be crossed because that only can raise questions and cause other problems. So an instructor, going back to things to look at the instructor, how engaged are they in class? How much do they participate? What is their attitude towards your training? What is their attitude and behavior towards other students? Okay, do they exert themselves in an overly dominant manner to say female students or do they behave inappropriately? Big warning sign, watch out for that. Marketing is a normal part of a dojo. It's natural, especially if it's your business, you want to mark it. But there's also a line there you don't want to cross. You know, a McDojo, again, all about pushing students through the system. Quantity, quantity.  They make you go door to door. Do they do nothing but advertise? Do they spend commercial, commercial, commercial and make you buy branding, branding, branding? There's marketing and then there's overdoing it where you can tell, all right, what's the actual product here? Is the product what you're teaching or is the product of students coming in? Check out a school. Usually you know kind of what you want to train, at least an idea of the type of art. Does the school actually tell you in art?  Now, a lot of them out there are mixtures and hybrids. That's cool, that's fine. They'll usually tell you what they're a mix of. But they're just some weird name that you've never heard of and you can't find any information of or it's named after themselves and they won't actually tell you the style of the art, the name of the art that is a big warning sign. At least know what the school teaches. And playing off of that, do they let you watch a class? If they do not let you watch any classes, leave. You know that they kick you out when they're going to start? Don't even come back because why? You want to be able to do your research. You want to check a school out, see how they interact, see what the material is like. If they tell you you can't watch and you can't check it out before signing up, it's not even worth joining them. Here's another one. And this seems to be a hot topic on the internet right now, but the whole throwing the Chi energy, no touch knockouts. If you come across a school that teaches students how to knock each other out by throwing their Chi across the room, again, find a door. That is not a legitimate school. And there's a big push right now to expose a lot of these martial artists who do that.  Overall, basically if you ask questions or if you try to get information and everything is a vague answer, they won't answer you directly or they divert your question. You need to question that in itself, because again, you want to know what you're training. You want to know who you're training with. You want to understand the background. If they won't answer anything, then how can you know you're actually getting the education you want? These are just some of the main things to look for to tell if a school is a McDowjo. And again, just because you might find some of these traits on the list of the school doesn't mean they're a McDowjo. They could still be completely legitimate. It's really when you start checking off most of all of the items that you really should start to question whether or not it's a legitimate school. So what are some other signs that you should look for? Do you have experience with a McDowjo? Tell us about it in the comment section and please share this video and subscribe and be sure to buy all of our merchandise that we offer. Just kidding, thanks for watching.