Check it, check it, check it, it's a unique house, it's your boy, E.C.O. and I'm here with the lovely, amazing official, Ms. Jamaica. What's going on? Nothing, you know my dad walk on. Man, hey man, we got special guests in here today, man. He really don't need no introduction, man. If you're watching YouTube, man, you see Country Wayne, any of these other platforms. I even seen him. It looked like he was on the news, almost, when it was at some magazine and all kind of stuff, man. Michael Anthony? Yes, sir. What's going on, man? What's up, man? What's up, family? Good to see you, man. Thank you for coming. Thanks for having me. Yeah, man. So, I know the way we usually start, we got a little way that we start, man. We own, hey, make sure you guys like and subscribe to our channel, man. We trying to blow this thing up, man. I always say like the World Trade Center, but that's really blowing, you know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? So, just tell us a little bit about yourself, man. Let's get into it, right? Yes. We want to take it way back. Not just a little bit from a year ago.  We want to know all of that. Oh, man. Ooh, we going back to Akron, Ohio, Spring Hill, West Side, Akron, Ohio, Spring Hill Projects, right by Lebron J, Same Street. Really? Yep, East Avenue, Same Street. Wow. That's cool. That's dope, dope. Did you know the family? I ain't going to say that. We wasn't like best friends, but you know, I definitely saw him, you know, I went to it. I've been to his house before, not his house, but when they stayed in the project. Okay. Yeah, I've been over there before. Always just, was just a different dude, you know. You already knew. Yeah. Yeah.   You can give $200 million to it, it ain't going to change him. Wow. Special. And that's rare. Yeah, he did that elementary school. That impressed me. You know, like when you start dealing with the kids and trying to find ways to, you know, do something that's that impactful, when you start dealing with trying to make sure that you place yourself in the midst of it, that's where it's at. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. Like everybody don't do that. Most people trying to find out something to try to push themselves up high, not to try to, you know. Jordan, Jordan. You knew I was going to do that. Jordan. I am not a Jordan fan at all. Wow, why not? I am not. I was always a Shaq and Kobe fan. Never a Jordan fan. Wow, yeah. Yeah, well, I was a Jordan fan. They ain't going to lie to y'all. I was Jordan fan too. I'm not going to play with y'all. I'm not going to lie to y'all. No, I was Jordan fan too, but you man LeBron, you know. I like the Honor Dogs.  Shouted Dre Gut and Glow. Went to the game with them. I think he was a senior. Okay. And it was like, you know, everybody was there. They had the reps sitting with her, Nike, Jordan and all them. How old was he then? He was 17. Okay, cool. High school senior. And I'm like, man, this dude watching them. I'm like, oh my God, this dude is, you know. After the game, we went back to a spot. Me, Dre, and Glow. LeBron went to eat with the reps, you know. So he came to the house. This is why I will fight somebody in the bar above LeBron. He came to the house. He came in here like a stout. You know, they poor. Yeah, yeah. All these magazines, they live in Spring Hood projects. He come home and he has a styrofoam that has shrimp and stuff. You know, all the stuff he got from the fixings from the restaurant.  He opened it up. It was full. It hadn't been touched. He went to the cabinet. He put out some oatmeal, instant oatmeal, put some water in it, heated up. He ate that. Wow. And I was like, he didn't, he ain't going to, she said he always do that. When he gets, when they really give him something, he just bring it to me. He just eat what we got. That boy doesn't stay humble, man. So from that point of, so that's why I get, I get personal. I don't Facebook. You should. I'd be like, hey, meet me at, meet me at my house. Nobody ain't meeting you, Mike. Mike, nobody's meeting you, bro. I didn't know you were this big, man. No, I ain't nobody meeting you, man. You don't have to worry about that. I'm a, I'm a, I'm a, I'm a teddy bear, man. So have you always been this big growing up? I was always taller and I was big. I was fighting boys way older than me growing up. My mom is funny. She apologized to me. She was like, baby, I'm so sorry. You know, she was having me fighting these boys that she had no idea. It was like six or seven years older than me because I was the same size as them. But it helped me because, you know, he was my age. She had you fighting them. Oh, my mom was a gangster. My mom ain't playing no game. That sound like that movie I saw where the mama took, took him back out there and be like, no, you're going to fight. Come on, we're going to fight. That's her. No, she locked the door.  She ain't trying to hear it. And if you ever lost a fight, what would she do? Oh, I lost. I was losing all of them because they was, they was so stronger than me. We just was the same size. It was older, you know, but she would sit there. She told me, she said, she said, baby, because I was like, man, mom was cold.    So you had to deal with what you had to endure. So where was daddy during all this time? He was in my life, but he was, he had moved to Ohio. They had got their divorce separated. He moved to Ohio. So she knew because she was a single mother. And how old were you when they got divorced? I was 10. 10. How did it affect you when he left? I think it affected, I think, I think divorce. Now that I look back on it as a dough, I think it does affect how we view relationships, how we deal in relationships. But he was there. I can't sit here and say, my father was definitely there.  Because he was, we was doing, we was doing bad, man. You know, it was, it was rough. But it made you into the person that you are today. Exactly. So you wouldn't trade it for nothing? I wouldn't trade it for nothing. I ain't, listen, my mom, my mom was a gangsta. And, and, but she taught me, you know, it was a balance. She was rare because, you know, she would teach love and integrity. And, and, but she just was like, you ain't even to be no punk. So, you know. You had brothers and sisters? A little sister. A little sister. So you're the only boy. I'm the only boy. Me. So it was me, two boy cousins and like 20 girls. So he was always fighting. Like, well, when I would go to Ohio, my uncle Joe, shout out to Uncle Joe. I was probably going to laugh and to see this, but he would have a list. Cause I, cause now I live in Buffalo. So when I would go to Ohio, he peeped me up from the, from the Greyhound bus station and say, all right, this boy did this to your cousin. He had a list. And I had to go fight these boys.  How far? I didn't mix martial arts. You did? How old were you when you got into that? That was 2003. I was a Scambri County, um, DT champion in Scambri County. So you didn't lose any more fights after that? Oh, I lost. When you win, you lose. See, people don't know about the mixed martial arts fighting.  How?  Yeah, cause of the injuries. Yeah, when you block a punch, see people, when you watching on TV and somebody block a punch or a kick, you're like, oh, he blocked it. But this still hurts. Yeah, it hurts you. And she is, you know. Let's go in a tub of ice after you get done. Man, listen. Oh, man. So you, when you was young like that and coming up, you said the projects. And so how the projects up there, was it like every other project? When you hear Callio or when you hear about the projects here in Dallas, you know, whether it be over there at Bond Town, 007 in the South or when you hear about stuff like when you go to Atlanta. Go to Cali and Festa. Yeah, like in Vegas, when we live, we live in Doolittle when I lived in Vegas. So how is it like for the projects where you were from? Uh, in New York, it was, you know, the buildings were high. So it was more condensed. I think that's what the violence was so different, because it was like you really couldn't get away from people.  So you got these small stairwells and elevators and, you know. Pretty bad. Pretty bad. The building I live in now, we got Concierre. Ain't no fight going on in there, but you know, security is just, you know, you had to deal with your problems. I think it made, like I said, made me who I am today, because you had to, it wasn't on running from it. You had to deal with it. You got a bully, you know, you don't see him every day on elevators.  You got to fight dirty. Yeah, yeah. I say it in Vegas. I never forget it. I used to have to fight every day a lot of times in the projects because they were going to bring it.  A lot of times you were starting it though. Oh, she was there from the beginning, y'all. Yeah. Go ahead and tell us this. You know, she was not there from the beginning. That was when she was young. I heard the stories. I know all of the stories.  Yeah. When you basically, when you around all of these people, you know what I'm saying? You got to keep yourself amused. Some kind of way to see me. He was a bully. We know who the bully was. Not a bully. Not a bully. Just always trying to figure out who was tripping in the neighborhood. Here's this metal song. Yeah. You know what that's like. So most of my fights, when I was younger, all of my fights about me, always because I was kind of like Chris Rock. I was saying the wrong joke. I would like mess with people. You know what I'm saying? But I didn't mean to harm. But you know, I would just mess with you. Damn, you get mad and say, you threatened me. I'm like, what's up? I got me. You got to get it. As he's talking about at Chris Rock, because I was going to event, he brought it up. So I'm going to go ahead and tackle it right now. What are your views on what happened at the Oscars with Chris Rock and Will Smith? Wait a minute. I don't want to ask him like that because I heard his views. I went on his Instagram. But I understood what he was saying and your perception of it. But I don't know what he said. I know we about to get into it, but it just was funny to me how you broke it down. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. You know what? So being an actor has taught me to be a more empathetic person. Okay. That's right. And also with my mom transitioning with the heaven, I went through this phase of life where I was kind of mad at God, because I didn't realize that death is a misunderstood reality. So I had separate... You can't separate from God, first of all. You think you can, but you can't. But I went on this... I just was like, ah, I wasn't praying, I wasn't doing nothing. And then once I got back, it came back to life. And really, I went on this spiritual journey across the world. I just became more empathetic and realized that, man, everybody has a lens they're looking through. Exactly. You know, it makes me treat my woman different, because I understand that this is a woman. And she ain't supposed to look at it like I'm looking at it. You know, I'd have bought her this watch and $14,000 watch and this room, this cabin and took us a trip to here and all this stuff. And then she said, baby, you didn't give me any flowers.   That's a Cartier watch. But... But she don't care about that. That's her lens. Right. With all that being said, I look at both guys. I am... Wayne's turning me into a comedian. I've always been a comedian, like a hood comedian. My partners thought I was funny, my family. But Wayne is cultivating me to become a real comedian where you go on stage and I'm in training. You know, he's got me into the skits as we all know and he's... I've always been funny, but he's like teaching me to put it out there and be confident and say, hey, you know what? I'm a comedian. So, even before that, I've always loved the art of comedy. Okay.   The Patrisso Nils, the Corey Hockums, the Phazon I love. The Bernie Macs. The Bernie Macs. The D.L. Hughes. Yeah. Robin Williams. Yeah, Robin Williams. You know, so that's real comedy. Comedy is... comedy is the thing that hurts. Or the thing that we don't... What do you want to say it? Because we know that... We know that lady is... I don't want to say fat. Yeah, yeah, she big. Somebody might want to come in. But we know it. Mm-hmm. Like the picture... I'm going to give the worst myth. But the picture of the lady from the Me Too movement. Y'all know who she is? I think so, yeah. You know what she look like? Me Too movement. Who started the Me Too movement? Damn. Watch his face. I'm going to show you what comedy is. The Me Too movement. You both just said these... Oh, damn. Now, y'all see that? That's comedy. Okay. Wow. She said, okay. But I'm a woman. It's different. See, different lens. Now, comedy is this. I took her picture. And I was trying to prove a point to somebody. And I posted it in my store as I said, this is the woman who started the Me Too movement. That's all I said.  You know, you better not. And don't you dare... And I said, you know what y'all just did? All I said was, this is the woman that started the Me Too movement. And because you think she's unattractive, you try to push it on me. Comedy is the truth. Right? The truth that nobody want to say. So that's my job. That's the job. My job is to say the things that we all know, but we don't want to say it. Because if I'd have posted Beyonce and said, this is the woman that started the Me Too movement, they wouldn't have said nothing. So that's what the audience is that. Yes. The audience is people that say, that's not right. You shouldn't say that. And I'm the person that says, look at this motherfucker's face. That's the comedian. It makes you a superhero, right? Yeah. So I understand, we're looking at Jada and she ball-headed. Right. It's not a big deal to be ball-headed. A lot of days it doesn't matter. But Chris Rock was just trying to be funny. Exactly. He made fun of other people, right? Made fun of people. And that's a light joke. Now, here's the thing. What if she had cancer? This is the risk about comedy. What if she had cancer? Wow. You see what I'm saying? It's a risk. That's comedy is a very... You think rapping is... Comedy is dangerous. Very dangerous. Because I got to just say it.  That could offend somebody. No, no. He's going to say it. If I got a bump right... He's going to say it. He'll say, don't have it for the skit. I'm going to say something. That's his job. That's what makes it special. That's a community. Anyway, so let's say that was the case, right? Really human being. Now, that wasn't the case. It was alopecia. Right. Here's what really happened. What really happened is, and I'm about to go deep and I went on Instagram, Will Smith already said, man, since I was a kid, I always felt weak because I watched my mama get hit and I ain't doing nothing about it. Okay.  He said that. Now, you fast forward. So that... Your woman... I can't see where you're going with it. Goes on to the red tabletop. Until late... We talking about this Will Smith. 30, 40 million dollars a movie. We looking... We like, oh, my God. So we can hide behind that a little bit. Then your woman come on and say, you know, I got this younger guy. My man don't even please me in the bed no more. So now, let's just be honest. If LeBron James... If Savannah came, I said, LeBron is six foot nine, 270 pounds, but he got to be in the sausage. I ain't calling the nigga King James no more. It's just kind of take... You know what I'm saying? Like, man, LeBron gonna look... Oh, man. Right? Right. So now, Will's back into that space again. Wow. Watching his mama, because now your wife is putting it to the world and everybody on them.   Man, this man from Philadelphia. Born and raised. Yeah. Born and raised. I spent most of my day. So it's something in there. You know what I'm saying? And he's an alpha. Because to get to that point, you got to be an alpha to get to LeBron. Michael Jordan is something in you. Yeah. So now, here I am, in front of the world, he's telling the jokes. And that's what we do. He's a celebrity. We laugh. And I look over and I see her reaction and she's hurt. My mama getting hit. What am I going to do? Because if he wouldn't slap him, we would have said, man, Will's a bitch, man.  She all sad. You laughing? Yeah. So it was like the pressure's on. I got, this is very inappropriate. I done did. I'll be the, I'll be the benign at the funeral one time. So I can't judge nobody. But this is inappropriate. But I got to go slap fire at this man. When I beat that man up at the funeral, I knew it was inappropriate. But I said, I got to lock the door. I'm outside with the booty. I got to do this. So we was put into a position. So wasn't inappropriate. And then Will Packer is my man. That's my big bro. Will Packer, the first person from TV. Will Packer, yeah, yeah, yeah. So I felt bad it happened on his day. Because he basically had produced it. Produced it. And Will's a great guy. And I was like, damn. But I understand. You can't put me in a, I don't care where we at. You know what I'm saying? And like I said, Chris Wright wasn't wrong. Yeah. He's doing his job. He's a comedian. Comedians. Who do Wayne talk about all the time? His family. His family. His self. His self. And he being real. Like, I was with Wayne one time on the road, right? And we went to, he got a new baby mama. Went to her house. The lady came in there with the child's poor thing. 4,000. I had, I was one of the people that signed and said, we here. Showed her ID.  They got to a little back and forth and this and that. And then we went to the show. And that night, he was like, hey, y'all. The reason why this is the first city, y'all, because I find I got a baby mama here. So I come here and use it when that time stops working. And everybody laughing. But I'm like, this is really, this is really happening. Right. That's comedy. But you see, when people take, when he tell a joke like that, people are looking at like, he not really see it. I think it's just a joke. It's serious. Yeah. Everything Wayne's on that stage. It's for real. But you got to understand and just, just tapping into what happened with Will again. I have a question about it. Do you think that Will should apologize? Um, he should apologize because he was wrong. But he was right. I know it sound crazy. It sound crazy. He was wrong technically. Because what he did, aiming to do it, Chris Rock. Yeah. So what I would say is, Chris, man, listen, bro, you know how this world is we live in. I've done, I've been the perfect, I've been almost Jesus all this long. Yeah. He didn't even curse in the rap. I ain't even cursing my rap. It's Chris. And everybody, my girl telling everybody, I got a little thing. Yeah. She messing with Augusta Sina.  And everybody clowning me. And you came at the wrong time, bro. I'm sorry. Is that how he's supposed to apologize right there? Bro. That's like all of them apologize. Because it's like, it's not Chris Rock. No, it's not. It's not. All that, all that stuff I talked about, that was dead. Because that's what a comedian is supposed to do. Yeah. And when I heard the, when I heard the joke, it wasn't this day's fault because at the same time, he might not have known that she had alopecia. He didn't know. Right. So you couldn't really just blame him for something like that. Well, at the end of the day it happened. Like, how do we pay, how are we going to move on? And Will was laughing. Will smirked when he walked away. Well, he laughed. The smirk was No, when he walked away, he slapped him. I seen that. But the smirk was I beat the man up to hit my mama. That's what it was. I did it. It was like, I'm a man. Because we have been tearing Will's masculinity down as a society. All the black folk out there that's saying he was wrong, we have been tearing Will down. Yeah. We've been tearing him down. But we know he slapped a dude one time. You know, when he was trying to get back. Yeah, but he said I should have went on whooped his nigga. He slapped the pebbles out of Chris Rodman. Niggas say a lot of stuff when he ain't around. I wonder how he didn't end up on the ground though. It wasn't that hard to say. But I said he should have been on the ground, bro. He should have been. He said, See, if he'd have popped them on the hook, see, you got to pop them inside of his head. He knows, see. You can tell him he's playing. Yeah, when you want to take them all the way out, you got to hit them on the side. Because that temple and that impact. He kept his head.  It's a lie. It's just a pop. It's a warning. It's just a pop. Because it sounded really loud. It was not. It didn't hurt him. It's a shock. When you hit somebody like this with this. You hit him with these hair. That's just a little I'm going to let you know I really don't respect you. Yeah. When you hit him with all this. Yeah. See them calluses. Yeah. Put them calluses across that nigga. And nigga, you're going to have to talk no more. When you knock your head off his neck, the body will fall. Amen. How many times did you because everybody did it? I watched it over and over again. How many times did you pause? I was like, yeah, I've seen Chris kind of lean into it. All of that. Because people were wondering was the stage, was it fake, was it real? It was beautiful. I'm sorry. The form. The form was beautiful. The form was beautiful because we'll see as a fighter. When he popped in, see most people, they just throw this. Will had the hand up. If you watch it, watch it. Oh. He popped it. I didn't realize that. I said, oh, Will could fight. Chris lucky he didn't try to fight back.  Yeah, well, that bring up another son. Let me say this. That bring up another son. You're going to say exactly what I said. That boy Shannon Sharpe said that if he, listen, Shannon Sharpe said it couldn't have been him. No. Because he said if he came up there and he'd hit him, he said, oh, we'd have told that place up. Everybody. Everybody. Then he said, if he came, it'll be on site. But some of the different type of dude, that's Shannon Sharpe.  And you got good sense. He's ready. He is a country boy.  I'm a country boy. I'll be honest with you. I'll get to you. You got to. Yeah, yeah. It's going to happen. If I see you, I can get to you. Everybody said that would fight everybody who's seen it.  I wouldn't have let him least rock paint behind the front. Life. You even slapped T.K. Kirkland. Yeah, T.K. Kirkland going to come over with it.  You did not put to slap Corey Hokel. Dean Cole. You said they won't. Dean Cole on the tub. He put Chicago. You didn't slap with Dean Cole.  Mike Emps like that.  But it's over, right? But he does do a lot of talking like he really about that, you know, like he just, yeah, he don't mind. He don't talk, he don't talk like he was somebody else. It really be the white crowd he trying to appeal to.  Yeah, yeah. Chris Rock is like Dave Chappelle.   Damn. Dave Chappelle ain't gonna fight, but they are, their strength is in what they're saying. They're brave. Like to me, Chris Rock is still, I still look at him, you know, who is hard? Anybody else I don't know if I would still respect him. I do respect Chris Rock because I know who he is. Yeah. But what about, what does this career go from here? Cause I heard them teases in Dublin. I heard they up to 400 now. I heard they went from $70 to $400. Of course, because they know he gonna talk about it. We wanna hear him talk about it. Chris Rock is a real comedian. He even talk about it. He not gonna get on stage and talk about everything but that he gonna be like, he gonna make it funny. Cause that's who we do. And he not gonna put it on social media or nothing. You gonna pay to come see it. He gonna be like, and that's the good thing about comedy. Comedians don't stand the dog house long like rappers do.  I used to be a rapper. Yeah, we're gonna get into that. I love this life so much better. It's way better. It's better. Cause I can just express, comedians are expressive. I don't gotta wear sunglasses in the club in the dark.  You know what I'm saying? We can really talk about our real feelings.  Like I said earlier, it's true. He ain't gonna just tell everybody else it's true. He talked about him cheating on his wife. Yeah, yeah, and he did. That's what comedy is. You know what I'm saying? So that's crazy. He'll be all right. Let me ask you about the rap. You brought it up a little bit. So let's get into it. I seen you, man. I seen you. Not only a rapper, it seemed almost R&B. Yeah, R&B. You know what I'm saying? R&B gangsta. Yeah, R&B gangsta. I said, damn, he going in. Cause at first I looked at it and I seen gunplay on them. I'm like, I need for to go in. Then when I listened to it, we started listening. I just let it play in cause it kept going after you bit it on the plane. He's always about the ladies. Yeah, so what, how did you end up linking with gunplay? I was trying to figure it out. You was hanging with Rick Rawls and gunplay and then I'm down there some kind of way? Nah, I was like the Nate Dogg of Florida. Okay. So I was a street dude, but I sang. So all the hooks, Iceberg and Briscoe and, you know what I mean? Anybody had something coming out, Time G, all the different Florida rappers, Papa Duck.  Yeah, yeah, yeah. And yeah, did you, how long did you do that though? Cause when I looked it was like in 2010 or something like that. So how long did you stay in there? I got signed in 2010 to Slippin' Slide Records. But before that, I was on the, yeah, Ted Lucas shot to my big one, Ted Lucas and Julian and Milk, all them guys down there. But yeah, that was my family. I signed with them in 2010. But I had been doing the, cause I was hustling before that. And I had got a name in the state and they came up to Mobile, you know what I'm saying? From Miami and I drove from Pensacola and performed in front of them in front of the crowd. And it was like, oh yeah, fly down to Miami tomorrow, I flew down to Miami. But the contract, at the time I was, you know, getting street money. And they was trying to give me this contract. And I'm like, pfft, a lot of much. As contractual.  You did that on the skits. I was like, yeah, I just ain't gonna work. So I didn't sign, but then, you know, man, on my mom transition, I just like lost myself. And how old were you when she transitioned? 29. Yeah, I was about 23. 29, my place got, both my business got reposed, my townhouse got, I got evicted. I had like my credit score. Everything went, God stop living. You know what I'm saying? I was homeless before I knew it. And then when I called, I was trying to get back on my feet, trying to get back, moving again, once, you know, after about a year or two. And then the guy I called, the DJ I called, he was like, yo, DJ Smalls. Okay, yeah, DJ Smalls. Shout out DJ Smalls. Shout out DJ Smalls. He don't even know, but that conversation we had, he was like, he changed my life. Cause he was like, man, I said, I'm ready, I'm ready to get it going. I'm out, yo, I'm broke. I'm living in the 97, 20, Corolla.  I'm like, what's up, y'all? They like, broke in. Mike, Mike, come in. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Eddie Cainan. That's it. I thought I was killing him. I think, they don't know. They knew. And he was like, man, Mike, I was trying to give him to do a mixtape for me for freaking I had no money. I said, bro, I need you hosting mixtape for me. I'm gonna jump back out of there. He's like, Mike, and I told him my real situation. He's like, bro, you ain't got the money to push this mixtape. If I do it for you, you can't be out here selling CDs by yourself, that's not. It's not like. It ain't gonna work. He was like, you need to cost them a slide and see if they still want to sign you and take the deal. So that's what I did. Roy Jones Jr., I had a case. Shout out Roy Jones Jr. Roy Jones, that's my bro, man. That's one of my first mentors in the entertainment industry. How'd you know me? Man, when I got to Florida. Did I skip something we shipped for the go into that I needed to go into? No, I want to hear about Roy Jones, man. I'm a big Roy Jones fan. At his just pinnacle of where he was at, man, I'd have put him up against anybody in his weight class and I was gonna ride with him. Here, dawg. Roy is a different human being. I thought I was a tough admins. Wasn't Roy Jones like Jamaican apart, Jamaican or something? Oh, here we go. Let me do this, man. In every episode. I wouldn't be surprised if he ever had one. He'd put a rooster. So he'd be hanging with the jigs here. What's that? I got some stories about Roy, man. Roy ain't no punk. How'd you meet him? I met Roy. How did I meet them? I started coming around when I moved to Florida, coming around in their labor.  I just want to be a part of it. And Roy, he took to my honesty. You know what I'm saying? Same thing with Wayne.  And I told Roy something one time that I ain't gonna share, but something that I disagree with that happened. And I wasn't like trying to check him or nothing because I was a little bro. But he peeped at it. You know what I'm saying? And I remember, he just took to me. You know what I'm saying? He liked me and I learned so much from him. He was a good dude, man. Took me in a role with him. Yeah, real good dude. So he was at a lot of those fights? I didn't go to a lot of the fights. I was at a lot of the fights.  Yeah, I was on the videos. Wow, I gotta go back, man. I gotta go back. Now I'm way in the back. I'm like, do you want to see me? I'm in the back. I'm in the back, man. I'm in the back. I'm in the shadows. I'm already in the back. Now I go in the back. So like, when you, how did you meet country Wayne? I gotta get into that too. And hold on, what did you wanna do as a kid growing up? Is this, because you went from martial arts to boxing, to rapping, to like, what is it that you wanted to do? Entertainer. Just entertainer. Just entertainer. I'm like, Sammy Davis drink. So you always wanted to do that? Mm-hmm. Cause I was a kid. I just wanted to be a famous singer. I just wanted to be an actor. I just wanted to entertain. Because it was different back in the days than it is now. Like back in the days, people only wanted to be like an actor or a singer or this. Now it's like, you have to be an artist which is everything all in one now. That's it. So it's different. Yep. So the, can I get into the country Wayne question? But let me say this. That's why when I went and saw Ted, he told me, he said, Mike, when I signed you, I knew you was a star. Wow. I just didn't know what to do with you because you did too much. You did too much. I got a guy like that. I love him.  He's like, I knew you was a star, but he said, bro, I didn't know what to do with you. Damn.  This is in your industry of what it is. Man, it is new. The thing I, when I first seen you was really like my first time seeing you. I'm being real. And when I seen you, I was like, man, what is he doing on here now? But you didn't look as big on there for some reason. I don't know what the hell, the camera's tripping. So like you look bigger in person than you do on there, but- But they always say you're supposed to look bigger on camera than you do on camera. No, this is backwards. So, but as you all, Yeah, I promise it is, but when you- It's the angles. Yeah. When you and country won't admit, or how did y'all, how did you even make it to meet him? Like, so Chase, his brother doing a bridge. Shout out to Chase Walker. Chase Walker. Chase Walker is the, first of all, let me give him his flowers. The camera, you know how, that's all the iPhone. That's dope. One iPhone. I have that whole filming. Can't nobody do what he do with that. That's Chase. I've always heard that you can do really great skits with an iPhone. But you can't, can't up like- Everybody can't do it. Can't nobody, can't nobody- I had a camera guy like that. Remember, Tyler's like that. Jay Tyler's like that. There's no cutting. There's not no like, hold on. There's one camera, and he's catching the reactions and the- He's serious about it. He's using a tripod too. He's using a little- Yeah, yeah, that's for you. Yeah, gimbal. Right. Can't, listen, can't nobody do that like he do. I told Wayne, I told Wayne the other day, I was like Wayne, bro. And Wayne was like, him and Wayne together, they just- Make magic. They make magic. And they've taught me that they brought me in and they kind of cultivated me to show me a different, it's a different form. I'm a trained actor, but this is a different form because it's not, usually how we do one take- And then you cut- A wide- Right. We're gonna go medium, boom. Okay, we're gonna get your close up, bro. Yeah, yeah. You know, we can every, so that you're catching everything. But what this is like- It makes it so much easier too. No, it's harder. It's harder like this. It's way harder. Y'all don't, y'all have to do over and over. I mean- No, no. You do one take. But editing is easier. Editing is easier. Right. One take, I thought it would be easier than all these- It's like a live show. Ain't no cut. Ain't no cut. It's like a live show. It's live. If somebody messes on one thing, it could be perfect.  But how many times do y'all feel that? It makes you good. It makes you better. How can you do that, though? For us, our chemistry, probably once or twice. Yes, okay. But because, you know, like Ro, she been doing it for a while with them, you know. So the chemistry, it don't take us long. But how did you come into that? It was the camera guy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We don't get it. We don't get it. So it was the camera guy that brought you in. Did he call you? Or how did that happen? Were you in Atlanta? Or were you in Florida? Where were you at? I don't know how the hell they found me. I was in Atlanta. But Chase hit me up like, yo- And he known you how long before that? Well, I'm known in Atlanta as an actor. Like in the acting world. No, but Chase knew knew you. No, we didn't know each other like that. So I was actor of the year, AAC, Greenlit. Was that the magazine? I keep thinking about that, yeah. So I'm known in the acting community of Atlanta very well, though. So he knew who I was, you know, but we weren't like friends or anything like that. He was like, are we doing this skit? And in my mind, I'm like, I'm an actor. I don't know if I should do this skit. That's right. That actor voice, you know. I'm gonna act right up this year. I'm gonna be dumbing myself down for this thing. Some people probably would think that skits are below that. No, no, no, no. They know some people. Most people. Most people. Yeah, because they was like, Mike, what are you doing? Like, bro, you work so hard. And I was just like, I'm just, you know, me, honestly, I'm being rude, John. I told Wayne this. I said, bro, when I came on, I had no idea. Like Faizan. Oh, we gonna be like- I had no idea. Cause you're wearing this huge. Yeah. Were you watching him before? You actually- I had seen him before. But we didn't think nothing about it. I was like, oh, he doing the internet stuff. Internet stuff.  Faizan, we asked that question. When I asked Faizan, I basically was big up in the fact that comedy has taken so many different avenues.  But I didn't know. But that's why I asked him the dinosaur. Hey, how do planes making money? You talking about the big old metal things behind the sky?  So I understand, my mind was like, ah, it skits. And I told Wayne, I'ma do it to get some followers.  And at that time, how many followers did you have? I had 111,000. Okay. When I met Wayne. So I do the first skit with him. I was supposed to come and be Blake's daddy. Okay. I was supposed to do part three or four and be gone. Yeah. Okay. I remember that episode when you came and Blake, I was like, oh, I was in and out. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Man, me and, man, not just Wayne, but because his team is his family, his brothers, Harvey and Tay, his kids, and then Ro, it's a family. And I just fit right in. I just fit and I felt like, like I knew these people forever. You know what I'm saying? Wayne, I don't meet dudes and be like, man, this is like my brother, man. I really love that dude. Yeah. Like he's a, he is a, let me tell you something. That genuine spirit, that's what it is. You ain't gonna meet no celebrity at that. And this is the thing. This is why people don't think he's so big, like Faizan. Cause of how he care yourself. Yeah. He ain't walking around with 1100 chains on the net. He taking care of 700 people. Wow. Why he take care of his whole family? And he's still living like a king. When I went to that nigga house, I say, nigga, what else you do? I thought nigga was still selling dope. And that wasn't a new house that he just bought. No, he just got a new house. Right. He got a million dollars in furniture. I bought that new house.  Cause he was like, yo, we gonna, yo, we want to bring you on full time. And I was like, all right, cool. I'll do it, I'll do it for a time. Cause I, first of all, it was just the chemistry with them and I was, it was fun. You know, I went to that nigga house. I was like, okay, what else do you do? Wow. So as we, as I got closer to him, he started, cause you know, yeah, cause he want everybody to win. He like, bro, you got 270,000 followers. You ain't making no money.  I'm like, I can make money. He showed you. He showed me. And when I tell you, Phazon on the wood the hill he talking about. There are so many different avenues nowadays compared to what it was. Now Phazon spoke on the residuals that he make. Let me tell you something about residuals. He's Phazon say he got residuals. I'm telling you. Didn't he say that? Cause he's been doing work. Ever since, ever since Friday. Okay, let's talk about residuals. Let's talk about residuals. Compared to what you're doing now.  Unless it's friends. Y'all know, I get residuals. I'm a professional actor. So yeah, okay, I get, I made, I did Raising Deion. I did about 125,000 off of that, something like that. As when the residuals come in, they get smaller. Yeah. It's time to go longer. That's the reality. As any actor, it go all the way down. You get a check for six cents. I've got a check for six cents before.  That's a waste of people.   I'm an actor. We a lot of people tell them that cause we don't want to let people know. That I'm a comedian. I'm gonna keep it real. But he says, but he says, his friends on the Ford list to do comedy. Okay, let's talk about numbers. We ain't got to talk about Googling before. Let's talk numbers. Okay. The skits. Let's say you got, let's say you got a hair business and you got a clothing business, right? Okay. And y'all, how do TV, how do you make money on TV? How does TV show to make money? Is it because of the people that's picked up and the network paid? Ads. Ads. Ads, yeah. Commercials and ads and how you make money. I get it. Okay, boom. You got your hair. You got your clothing. We a, we gonna make a move. We got to invest in some ads. Snowfall is the number one show on FX. Right now. Great show. Five million views a week. Five, that's a lot. Right. Right? They got 10 episodes. Let's get the calculator out. So five million. Times 10. Times 10. It's 50 million views. Now, hold on. Y'all ain't made our decision yet. Y'all still shopping around. Now Country Wayne does a million views a day. So that's seven million views a week. But the difference is he ain't got 10 episodes. He got 52 weeks. So times 52. That's 364 million views. Now let me ask you with your hair business. Who you gonna put your money?   Exactly. So that's what I'm saying. So times is different. Times and times. So what happens is when you, and I understand what Phaselons come from because Phaselons are alpha male. Right. You know what I'm saying? When you talk about, when you talk about basketball somebody from the LeBron era, we wanna make sure our era stand strong. Man, Jordan, Jordan. Jordan's 66, 196 pounds. For show. LeBron is 69270 and jumped the same height. Evolution is a motherfucker. You talking about David Robinson. Kevin direct the same size as David Robinson. Shooting from half court. It's evolution. But you know, we as men, we got this thing called ego.  Man, I know this, I know that. We ain't done though. We ain't done. So basically he getting paid from Facebook, Instagram and YouTube, right? He's making. He don't get paid from TikTok or any of those avenues yet? Cause it's not long enough. He do three minutes. So he's making $450,000 a month from the social media. I seen it.  You live it. Yeah, we live it. I'm getting, listen, this is 55. I live it. He live it. He live this. I'm getting some of that money too. So just so y'all know. This is an AP bust down. This is 90, I mean, I'm not trying to brag. I'm just saying. I know, I get it. This is social media money. Now, I got money like Wayne. But anyway, so. And there should be motivation for any of y'all who try to come up. Everybody who's trying to get old. It's motivation. Right. Because I want, my thing is I'm not, I'm not saying I'm not trying to attack phase on. Right. I'm not trying to brag.  Exactly. And that's the good thing about this episode is that people will be able to look at it and say, I need to investigate how I can get me educated about platforms. Some people know how, but it's too scary to get up off there behind to tackle it. That's really what it is. You need to get off your behind. Because it's on your phone. I can do it wherever you at. This is TV. Everybody. This is the new TV. Let me ask you a question. I hear Gary Vaynerchuk say that a lot. I said it all the time. Let me ask you a question. Now you say, forget the views. How many times, how much time you sit down and watch TV in the day? When I eat, that's it. That's it. How many times you put this thing up? I force myself to do it too. How many times you pick this thing right here? All day long. That's why everybody got a podcast. That's because it's evolution people.  I'm getting on a plane. What's this nigga talking about? Exactly. Let me tell you something. We ain't done. So that's 450,000 a month. So 450,000. And Wayne didn't want me to do this because Wayne would be like. I already know it. Let me tell you how Wayne is. Wayne, he's like. We ain't got to explain this to him. There's so many people hating on Wayne right now and I'd be like, bro, he'd be like. Well, why didn't he hit on him because he seemed like, Why'd I hit on him, Brian? Because you had to top. You had to top. You got to get, yeah.  That's 5.4 million from Institutional Media. Okay.  Oh, what you got to do? Do stand-up comedy, right? That's right. Let's talk about that. Matter of fact, I'll come to the show this weekend. We're on the 30th to be accused of, I can't talk to tickets. Oh, my tickets, we're coming. Awesome. You got it. You want to come to it? We got every ticket. We're coming, we're coming. So now that's 5.4 million, right? We are on a 30 city tour with Live Nation. Wayne is just Wayne. And I ain't gonna say no other comedians names cause some of these other comedians are some of my favorite comedians. They're doing packet shows. If you look on right now, I want you to find one comedian. Find one black comedian right now that's doing shows by itself. You ain't gonna find it. Wayne does clean comedy cause he's a hustler. And Wayne, when you go to Wayne's show, you have people in their 20s who love drip all the way to their 60s from church cause he don't curse. That's right.  He just chilling.  When Wayne come out, I'm talking about these is he's selling out theaters. They paying this man $75,000 a night. We got 30 guaranteed. Let's do the math on that. We ain't done it. So that's $75,000. That's a lot. Yeah. Times 30. And how often does he does shows? We doing 30, we doing weekend. So that's, so that's 2.2 plus 4.5 million. Sorry, Wayne, telling you to bend it. So now we at, we had about $7 million. Right? Wow. Now we ain't gonna talk about the investments. So Wayne this year- First you gotta pay everybody. Now I'm talking about the investments he's invested. So now we looking at them, the endorsements. Then we ain't talking about the money for every time he do a video. Like we was in, for instance, we see him do a video with, and he, a rapper or somebody he featuring, they paid for that spot, 15,000. When we ate the lot, we was eating the shrimp and all that stuff when we was in Louisville. He paid Wayne 15,000 for that skit to tag him. We ain't talking about that money. Wayne is going to, is at $10 million this year. Just this year. Wayne is 34. When Kevin Hart was 34, he was at 7.5 million. What is these niggas talking about? A man. What is these niggas, we talking about for? That's the same I'm saying. So Forbes list you gotta start somewhere. At 34 years old, 10 million, and the biggest comedian right now, Kevin Hart was at 7.5. And Wayne didn't even put a movie out yet. What? He didn't even put a movie out yet. When I tell you that Hollywood is, they knocking at the door, not like this. They banging at the door. They knocking like the feds. Trying to get that boy in there. Because if I can make 10 million dollars and I don't even got to leave my cell phone, you know what they thinking, ooh. Wow. We'll put up a hundred million in them. Yeah, but the way how y'all move, I can see him doing his own movie. We already shot it. Oh. So you know better. Okay, but we already shot it. Right, rather than going through them, just do everything yourself. To convince, to convince everybody, you know like, you know that this is the route to go. Because everybody can't do this though, first of all. Let me back up a little bit. Everybody can't do this, bro. And it looks simple because I see it, but I understand because of the world that I've built around me. And I know that people look at the finishing of what one does and think it's easy. I'm telling you. It's a gift, but you know what? Everybody does have a gift that can be shown to me money off of.


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Dear students, I welcome you in the course of leadership, emotional intelligence, and decision making. This is module number 240 and the discussion topic is valuing. When we talk about human mind functions, we have analysis, synthesis and valuing. Analysis may we break down, synthesis may we make up or valuing may we assign value, we calculate, we evaluate. We find out that what is the value for us, what is the success criteria for it, what is the best perspective for it and we try to judge it with an evaluation. Now to elaborate valuing, there are different things that we need to focus upon. For example, valuing involves mental activities as establishing success criteria, evaluating appraising performance and judging people, what value you assigned to a person or a place. So therefore remember that criticism from the Greek word for a judge is a form of valuing. At the same time, we have to remember in all valuing there is an objective, outside yourself element and a subjective one, which we are actually assigning value to and we often have comparison points. Therefore, remember that we are all born with the capacity to value. We have this capability inherent, we have this capability built in that we can assign things, things, processes value, we can do good and bad. For us, this is an incorporated factor that we can understand the right and wrong expectations and how we can understand them when we can assign a value to them to which things are better and which things are less. So the human capability of valuing is very important because in many calculations, in many perspectives, in relationships, in relationships, in every place, the factor of valuing, this function of the mind is very important and very critical. Now, your author is suggesting a small exercise to find values at the work. This exercise says that make a list of all the values apart from financial values, we are not talking about profits, we are not talking about return on investment, which might influence any business to see in over the coming 10 years. Now you have to see in the next 10 years which value system, which perspectives, which associations you want other than the financial perspectives, which can ensure your survival, co-sustainability, co-development, and you can do it positively and reinforce it. After this, the second step is check to see whether the organization you work for has issued a statement of its corporate values or not. Then you see that on the official website of the organization, in its annual reports, the top management elaborated on which values. And what were those values? Because many a times it is said in management sciences that top management's personal values are going to be the organization's cultural values. Now you have two sets of information. One, you have established a value system that which values should be followed up to develop in the next 10 years. The second, you have seen that your corporate values, your business value system are set by the top management. The third step of this exercise is how far do your organization's values overlap your own philosophy of life. Now you have to see that the values you have determined and the values the organization is determining for yourself, what disconnects are there, what overlapping is there, what is the relationship, what is the difference. Because from here you will have an idea that your sense of giving and assigning value to the organization for the next 10 years and the top management's perspective. In these, where is the balance, where is the clash and where is the synchronization and patronization? That is present. It is very important for us that we value in the right way, neither overestimate, nor underestimate. Because the value given from our side will be the outcome of our analysis and synthesis through which we will be able to understand what is around us. Dear students, human mind functions are three. Valuing, analyzing and synthesizing. We should try to use these three functions of mind better so that our decision making, our creativity, our innovation can be demonstrated and we can get sustainable outcomes. Thank you.


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Senegalese President Maquis Sal said to address the nation amid speculations that he's planning to run for a third term, which the opposition has said would be on constitutional accusations and uncertainty over the president's intentions have filled unrest and sometimes violent protests over the past year, which have threatened the long-standing image of stability associated with the West African nation. Sal came to power in 2012 and won a re-election in 2019. Senegal's previous and current constitutions limit president to serving just two terms. If he decides to run again, it will be a repeat of history.


News and analysis from Big Data SV 2014 is brought to you by headline sponsors, Actian, accelerating Big Data 2.0. And WAN Disco, we make Hadoop invincible. Okay, welcome back everyone to Big Data SV, Big Data Silicon Valley, that's the hashtag Big Data SV. Go to crowdchat.net slash Big Data SV to join the conversation. This is theCUBE, we're live in Silicon Valley covering all the trends and Big Data, all the news at the Stratoconference behind us across the street at the Santa Clara Convention Center. We're live at the Hilton in Santa Clara, this is theCUBE, our flagship program. We go out to the events, extract the signal from the noise. I'm John Furrier, the founder of SiliconANGLE and founder of CrowdChat. I'm joined by co-host Dave Vellante, co-founder of wikibon.org. And we're going to go in and dive into all the news and analysis here at Stratoconference and also here at Big Data SV. We have Jeff Kelly as well joining us and we'll be drilling down. So Dave, I want to get in touch with your thoughts here because one of the things that's interesting is all the Big Data trends. So I think John, as we talked about yesterday, we're definitely seeing a lot of focus on partnerships. People trying to expand the market, people trying to essentially broaden their channel of distribution and hone their go-to-market strategies. We're not seeing as much as we have in previous Big Data events around technology innovations. Although, of course, we haven't had a Roon Murthy on yet. If and when he comes on, we'll talk about geeking out. Other than that, having said that, the one exception is WinDisco. We see WinDisco bringing its active, active nonstop capability to HBase. So that's a good example. And there are others, but generally speaking, this is a show about partnerships, distribution, and I think it underscores where we are in Big Data. The thing that we were talking about yesterday, Dave, the segmentation of the market, we heard from Cloudera with their positioning, Alan laying out the positioning. And Cloudera's on the straight and narrow with the positioning, Enterprise Data Hubs, classic product positioning, entry-level mid-range flagship products, trying to simplify it, clearly moving away from Hortonworks's model of button-down straight, open-source support. Cloudera's more going the Oracle model, big enterprise competing with IBM, big pond efficient, a lot of competition, and you have kind of MapR charging the license fee. So again, courses for courses, or swim lanes, as they say. So you're seeing the competition, Jeff, what do you think about those moves? Well, yeah, they're pretty, they're different approaches to this market. And when you look at all three, what they haven't come in is the, I think the end goal is similar amongst the three the Duke players that is providing a full-fledged big data platform. The difference is of course in the execution, whereas you said Cloudera is taking more of the Oracle approach, where they want to build the enterprise data hub, as they call it, with the spokes emanating from that. And all of that focused on their products and solutions. Hortonworks, by contrast, open-source, focused strictly on the Duke layer and partnering with companies like Teradata, Microsoft, and others to provide kind of the other capabilities you need to build a true big data platform. MapR, they've got a similar approach, I would say, probably to more similar to Cloudera, but a little bit more open. They've got, they'll actually let you run Impala, which is a Cloudera's product on top of MapR's distribution. So they're not quite as dogmatic about that, but ultimately the end goal is of course to make the Duke really a foundational technology in a big data platform and enable multiple types of applications on the platform. Let's get to some of the news and some of the analysis. So when Disco, we talked about non-stop age space, we already covered that yesterday. Vertica and MapR strike the strategic partnership. That's interesting, you're seeing MapR and Vertica aligning. We talked, I talked to the CEO, John Schroeder last night, over cocktails at their party. Great news, he presented the Goldman Sachs and investment meetings. The Wall Street loves MapR's model. Good old licensed revenue, nothing wrong with that. Very good predicted business model. Open source support. Will there be a red hat for Hadoop as Pat Gelsinger was speculating? We'll see, so that's interesting. So what's your take on the Vertica MapR news? I think it was a good move for both companies. As I said, MapR is taking the approach where they're a little bit more, they're not as dogmatic when you talk about a little bit above the Hadoop stack when it comes to the sequel on Hadoop. They've got their own, well they've thrown their backing behind Apache drill, but they'll also support Impala. They'll support something like Presto, which came out of Facebook. Now they've got Vertica involved in the, or you can just deploy Vertica in the same cluster, makes it a little bit easier to manage. And it gives them an opening into that user base. And the other interesting thing is they can leverage Vertica's developer contacts to kind of help build out some more applications on MapR. And obviously the strategic news, obviously one of the big news of the show was Horton works with Red Hat, deepening their relationship and their relationship with Microsoft as on the cube yesterday, evident with the GM of Sequel Division. I mean, come on, Horton works got two big players there. Are they locking up that one? Well, I mean, there's two big operating systems, Linux and Windows, and they've got both of them on board. So, great move, makes a lot of sense. I mean, Red Hat is really one of the unsung beneficiaries of the big data movement. So you're seeing the swim lanes develop for these so-called swim lanes. You got Horton works trying to be underlying the HDP platform. You got Linux and you got Microsoft with OS vendors. Cloudera going in to have outcome-based conversations very much like IBM and MapR doing their thing. What I like about Cloudera, first of all, I think is a great move to simplify the pricing. And the three basic layers, small, medium, and large, anytime you can reduce confusion in this market, that's good for customers. So that's a good move. And having talked to Alan about their approach and some of the feedback they're getting, when you can up-level the conversation from the technology to the business outcome, that's when this market's really gonna start to take off, and that's what this enables them to do. So it's hard to pick a winner, as you've said before, John. There's a lot of beachhead here, so there doesn't have to be just one winner and two losers. I mean, there's a lot of room in this market as we've sized it, it's gonna be a pretty big market, 50 billion by 2017. Some other news. Obviously, Trisada, a friend of the Cube, Abhimata's company has some discovery capability on Spark, real-time networking, the data factories. Those guys doing some amazing work. And DataStacks announcing a network partner program with Accenture, Google Cloud Platform, and others. Let's start with Trisada, and let's then talk about DataStacks. Well, Trisada, we've been following for years now with Abhimata, one of the Cube rock stars coming on, always some great thought leadership from Abhimata. And what I like about them is they're focused on the application. They're focused on solutions, not necessarily the underlying guts of the platform. And they're benefiting from all the work that's been put into Hadoop as a platform leading up to this. So now they can go into big banks and big retailers who have a Hadoop cluster or two already deployed, you know, talking about how are we gonna really make use of all this data? Abhimata and his team can come in and say, well, we've got these applications we've built out. And they tell a great story about monetizing data. So good for them, looking for big things for them. DataStacks, obviously without a CMO right now, it's a company, it's obviously a great company. We know them and follow them. You know, Billy Bossworth, great CEO. It comes from a great pedigree background, understands the business. Cassandra, quietly mopping up the high end of the market. Certainly they got traction. I know they just hired a new PR comms person, Lisa Green, who came from HP. They've also added some other talent. They're hiring some great people. I know they just hired a great general counsel, friend of mine, but no CMO, big, big hole to fill there. They gotta get that marketing up. I mean, what's your take on DataStacks as a company and obviously the challenge of having no marketing person? Well, they had a good year last year. They really, their revenue started to really pick up. They started to gain some traction. Of course, they're competing with companies like MongoDB, who's kind of the darling of the developer set, but Cassandra and DataStacks have a good reputation. I like the partnership moves. As we talked about a little bit today, in 2014, I expected to see a lot more partnership and integration announcements rather than technology features and new products. And so the key really is for a lot of these startups to start expanding. And how do you do that? You do that through partnerships with SIs and Vars. This is really the year where we're gonna see some real revenue take off, and that's one way to go about doing it. So good moves from DataStacks. Interesting, so continue on the news. We've got some time left here. One surprising company that I was kind of pleasantly surprised with, new on my radar in terms of looking under the hood is Splice Machine. Raised 15 million dollars on a Series B, real-time data applications. We had Montagion here in theCUBE yesterday. Very impressive entrepreneur. They're doing some interesting things, and that is really, I like this startup. I like him. I like what they're doing. I know some folks that have gone to work there. They're just quietly kind of silent running, doing their business, staying to their knitting. 15 million dollars, not a lot of money on a Series B. I like his philosophy as an entrepreneur, very capital efficient on the front end, not taking over a lot of much cash. I like his style. I like the opportunity. What do you think? He's an impressive guy. Monty's got some interesting opinions, but I like the company. I like the approach.  So they're going in when applications, new applications, I can't scale on Oracle or MySQL, and they're going in and mopping up some of those accounts. I said last night, it is a little bit of a challenge to build a business on what could be called just a feature SQL on Duke. That said, if you're solving business problems, there's always room in the market for a company like that. People need to learn how to ride a bicycle in the new world, and if they can make those SQL guys do it, that's a good deal. All right, quickly, Alpine data labs. Obviously Bruno, a lot of flair, great guy, friend of the cube. If you put all that flair aside, they have some interesting stuff. X screen plumb, your take on Alpine. Well, I noticed they released a product called Chorus a couple of days ago, which kind of rang a bell and I realized that's from doing a little research. That's actually the green plum product Chorus that was released a few, about a year ago. So that's an interesting play. We'll have them on tomorrow. It'll be interesting to learn more. They're doing some interesting things with kind of the data transformation and the advanced analytics, so we'll see. So let's talk about revolution analytics. They have a revolution now, a service on AWS Marketplace, which brings two questions, one, that announcement, but also the role of Amazon. We haven't heard a lot about it. We've heard of InfiniDB, had a little Amazon action going on there, so the little cloud, two questions, that deal and other news around that. And Amazon, what's going on with Amazon's show here? Well, I haven't heard a lot about Amazon at this show and I think the reality is it's still very early for big data in the cloud, whether it's Amazon or Savus, now CenturyLink or whatever the case might be. Those are ramping up. So a lot of the big data workloads that we do see on AWS right now are kind of those test and dev situations where people will kind of start tinkering with new applications they might be building on Hadoop or some of the other big data capabilities that AWS offers and then the next step is, well, what do they do? Do they move to production workloads? Do they bring that back in-house or do they expand that in AWS? And that remains to be seen, which way that's gonna go. As for revolution, R very popular, obviously with the data science crowd, the challenge with R is it wasn't designed really as a big data solution, it's not as scalable, so revolution's done a lot of work to make R scalable, being able to deploy that in Hadoop environments. So it'll be interesting to talk to hopefully some end users at the show and other places to hear if that's really working. It's getting some credibility in the marketplace. Overall, your take on Stratoconference, what we might take is, well, Riley does a great job with these conferences, they try to make a geeky conference kind of a festival, but they cannot escape the fact that, a lot more sponsors, a lot more startups, they're making a lot of money, no doubt about it, God bless them, but the reality is, can they handle the tsunami of business interests? Because normally the Stratoconference has been designed for their core community of developers, machine learning, they have a lot of great talks, but the demand and the interest guys on business value, this is going absolutely mainstream, more suits than hoodies, as we heard yesterday, what's your take? Well, it's a challenge, you know, the hoodies don't always take kindly to the, to the suits kind of invading what was their territory at a show like Stratoconference, and the challenge for Riley, of course, is to make the show relevant for both communities. You know, that's a challenge, it's gonna continue to become even more challenging over the next few years, this really goes mainstream. So, you know, from what I heard, you know, there's so-so marks on the data science track yesterday at Riley, we'll see, I mean, it's a challenge, there's a lot of room in this market though, you know, who knows, maybe they break it out due to a couple of different conferences. Dave and I were talking this morning about valuations, obviously the market's high, looking at the growth opportunities, significant big data marketplace, your report, right on track to that $50 billion market, a lot of growth potential, this thing is busting out at the seams, day evaluations are obviously high, expectations are high, I think you're going to start to see people drop out, tap out, you're going to start to see when the valuation and the expectation is high, and the customers are voting with their wallet now, with budget, you're going to start seeing separation. Well, the big question I have is, I mean, you saw what Acti and did, putting together, you know, companies like Pervasive and others and taking columnar database technology and bringing it together to build a platform. My question is, what are some of these large companies going to do? Is IBM's portfolio built out? I mean, IBM's got all the piece parts, you know, but still very services driven. What about Oracle?  Who's going to buy Hortonworks? Are these guys acquisition proof? That to me is the big question. Unlike as we were talking about earlier, John, unlike the social media space where it was really pure plays, new companies, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, et cetera, you've got in Jeff's report, you're seeing the whales predominant. I think the first Jeff five or six companies in your market share leader are big giant multi-billion dollar firms. So what do you think? Do you think they will acquire and these pure plays will disappear or will one or two of them or maybe three or four or five emerge as large, well-funded, maybe, you know, billion dollar companies with multi-billion dollar IPOs? Not unlike what we've seen with Splunk and Tableau and ServiceNow and Workday and Cloud. I think you'll see a couple to three or four of these companies that are these pure plays that are in the Hadoop market and the kind of the adjacent analytics market will survive and thrive, I think, as independent companies. But you're gonna see a lot of acquisitions and you're gonna see a lot of, unfortunately, for some of these startups, a lot are gonna go out of business. So- Really, I mean, take a look at the Hadoop distro companies. The big three. Big three. Cloud Era, Hortonworks and MapR. What would it take? I mean, Cloud Era is working toward an IPO. So, I mean, you gotta have at least a billion dollar valuation, John, right, to do an IPO.  We've seen that in the past. You know, I think the IPO is kind of an end game. I think the liquidity equation for the VCs are driving it, but ultimately, you're seeing that the fact is these companies are valued very, very high. I personally am surprised by the M&A market not being as frothy. We talked about that yesterday. The M&A market should be on fire. I'm expecting to see huge kind of mid-range acquisitions where the guys who are out of touch on the valuation side, like a Cloud Era, like a Hortonworks, they're literally untouchable unless you're talking in the Bs, right? So, significant numbers. You might see someone kind of tuck up there. So I think the 300 to $700 million range is a beautiful number of what we're seeing in the data and what we're hearing on the street, Dave. I think that's the action. If you're a startup and you don't think you're gonna make it, start getting dressed up for that market, because I think it's gonna be hot. So who should buy whom, Jeff Kelly? You said you're predicting some acquisitions will happen and they're rich for short revenue. I mean, not buying them for revenue, right? Obviously, buying them for strategic advantage. Who should buy whom? Well, when you look at what I think you'll probably see more likely than an acquisition of maybe a Cloud Era, a Hortonworks, or a MapRs. You might see some of the larger vendors pick up some of the more strategic, I should say some of the more tactical plays in something like SQL on a dupe or some of the companies that are focused more on a feature rather than a platform where these companies can fill in some gaps in their portfolio. IBM probably actually not one of the companies likely to make a big acquisition because as you said, they've got all the pieces. Their struggle is to kind of integrate it together. But I look at a company like Actian as kind of the model. They pulled together in a very deliberate way, pervasive in Park Cell and some other companies before that to build out their platform play. So I think we'll see some more acquisitions. I wouldn't be shocked if we saw maybe somebody like Pivotal make a couple of Tuckin acquisitions. I think Oracle may make, probably needs to make a few acquisitions in this space to really, if nothing else try to buy some credibility in the big data space. So we'll see. It's gonna be interesting as this plays out because John, as you said, the valuations are so high in some cases that it makes it a challenge for these companies to be acquired. Okay, that's the news break here. We try to knock down some news. A lot of other news going on in the world. Obviously, Cloud Mobile and Social at the top of the heap, you're talking about Google, you're talking about the big players, Microsoft. Huge, huge shifts happening, tectonic shifts. The sea change is happening, the transformation, whatever you wanna call it. Big data will be part of the fabric of change, enabling new applications, powering some of the new engines under the hood. This is super exciting. We love this as the cube. It's our fifth season here at Silicon Valley and East Coast in the Boston area, Silicon Angle, Wikibon. And we're excited to be here covering Stratoconference and big data in Silicon Valley. Hashtag is big data SV. Go to the hashtag big data SV. Go to crowdchat.net slash big data SV and be part of the conversation and check out our new CrowdChat application. We'll be right back with our next guest after the short break.


Still on the Electoral Act, the coalition of United Political Party, CUPP, led by the PDP, has commanded President Mohamed Bahari for assainting the Electoral Act passed by the National Assembly. Speaking in a way with the capital of Emo State, the spokesperson of the CUPP, Oguchi Niere Emo, said opposition parties received with joy the signing of the amended Electoral Act. The opposition parties said with the signing, the president has returned the power to the people to elect who governs them. The president by this singular act has done what is dismally, has done what is patriotic, have done what is needful, have also by this action defended his oath of office in a way that he has never done before. I know how difficult it might be for him going by pressures from party men who feels the law will not give them a few days to return us back to the days of election rigging. But while in commanding the president, we must also, even though this action is belated, but it is also commendable. And also the opposition comments members of the parliament, both at the House of Rep and the Senate, for also listening to the cries of Nigeria, and especially when the president will tell the first assent to rework the bill, remove the contextual issues, and then sign it in law. What the president has done has wide positive implications for our electoral system. Why do I say that? For once, we're going to have an opportunity to have electronic accreditation of election. You saw what non-legalization of that provision happens to election litigations at the tribuna in 2015 and 2019. Those clauses there now allow that if there is a dispute, you just go back for printout of what was the electronically accredited number of voters. This has date and stamp written on it. It's going to be difficult for you to forge. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.