All right, welcome, everyone. Hello, and welcome to our next EDW session called How Automated Data Lineage Accelerates BI Performance Inside Information from Our Customers. We have David Bitten here. He's the VP of Sales of Octopi. Just wanted to let everybody know, all audience members are muted during these sessions. So please submit your questions in the Q&A window on the right side of the screen. And our speaker will respond to as many questions as possible at the end of the talk. So let's begin our presentation now. Thank you, and welcome, David Bitten. Thank you, John, for that great introduction. Wow, what can I say? I'm both privileged and excited to be here today to also be able to present Octopi to you all. As many of you may know, we've been attending EDW for many years in person. This year, unfortunately, due to the pandemic, we've been forced to attend virtually. Let's hope that this will all be over and behind us by next year this time, and we'll be able to do this in person. So since, as they mentioned, there's a large audience. Their questions, please forward them to us, and I will try and address them at the very end of the presentation. So without further ado, I'll jump straight in. And a little bit about the company. So Octopi was started a number of years ago by our founders, and they actually came from the BI landscape. So they were actually living and breathing the challenges that BI people are breathing and living and dealing with on a day-to-day basis. They were actually leading different groups in different industries. So they had experience in insurance, telecom, health care, and others, where they faced a lot of the same challenges that most of our customers are facing. So to give you an idea of the types of challenges they were facing, they were getting complaints from their business users about data reliability, for example. And the reason for that was because oftentimes they would obtain reports or receive reports, and those reports would oftentimes be inaccurate or corrupt or missing data, have missing data or wrong data. And so it caused them to lose confidence in the data that they were using. And so other issues related to whenever they would touch something, whenever they would create a new business process, edit an existing ETL, change a table, or a view, it would somehow impact other things down the line, such as reports and so on. And then there were other issues just trying to get a handle on where their data was. In order to do that, they needed to dive in and discover the metadata that resided in all of the different systems that they were managing and using in order to move and manage their data. Now, unfortunately, all of this work was being done manually by them. And so these are the same types of challenges most of the customers that we deal with that most organizations are facing with. And so the entire data movement or data lineage process was very challenging for them. And that was the catalyst that led them on a quest to look for a solution for their teams, to help their teams become more efficient, to automate all of the manual work that they were delving in and dealing with on a day-to-day basis. And that would provide a system that would prove, they were looking for a system that would provide them with simple analysis, they were looking for a solution that was simple and easy to use, meaning no manual work, and that would provide fast results from all of the different systems that they were managing. Now, after doing a lot of market research, they realized there was no such thing. And this was a great opportunity that was presented to them. Thankfully, they took advantage of it and created Octopi. Now, although it sounds ambitious, this is exactly the challenges that Octopi was made to address. And as a result today, Octopi is running in many different organizations around the world. So in this slide, you can see a cross-section of our clients. This is a sampling of some of our clients today. We have hundreds of customers, thousands of users, and some of them, as you can see here, I'm sure you might recognize. Now, I wanted to share this slide with you for a couple of reasons. First and foremost is to show you the exponential growth that we've experienced in the last few years, which is simply due to the fact that our product delivers. And second, you can see that Octopi works in just about every vertical or company size. And this is because the only two criteria that Octopi requires is that you use it, or the only criteria is that you lose the technology that we support. So now, when coming to Octopi, just about all of our customers are facing or mentioning, facing the same, following similar challenges. And I'll talk about those in just a few minutes. Now, how do we do what we do? So everything sounds great. Now, with Octopi, all of that metadata that's so crucial for you to understand and so difficult for you to collect is actually collected by us, very easily and placed into a cross-platform SaaS solution. We deliver that, we discover that metadata automatically, which is a key point. I wanna make sure that everybody remembers. It's done automatically, meaning there are no manual processes, there's no documentation required, no prep work, customizations. And we're certainly not sending a bunch of highly-paid professional services in there to do it for you. So the metadata, once it's collected by us, is centralized into that one SaaS solution, a platform on the cloud, of course.  And then it's ready for your discovery so that you can easily find metadata literally in seconds by clicking the mouse. So Octopi reduces the time that would normally take to do that, as you can all imagine, it could take days, weeks, possibly longer. And then we also, we reduce that time into seconds, providing you with the best, most accurate picture of your metadata. And so not only is Octopi essentially in that initial setup, collecting cataloging analysis and analysis of your metadata, it's also essential when you move forward, meaning so whenever you need to look for metadata, lineage, for example, may it be today or tomorrow or next week, next month, next year, whenever, you'll always be looking at the most current picture of your metadata at that given point in time. So it won't be some spreadsheet that was created, of course, with all good intentions but unfortunately never updated. A couple of years ago, for example, with Octopi will always be the most current picture of your metadata at that given point in time when you log in. So I'm gonna share this slide for you because this will give you a good idea of some of the use cases that Octopi is essential for. This is what we would call a typical example of a BI infrastructure. It's very common amongst our customers and I'm sure it's very common amongst those listeners and those here present in this presentation. Now on the left hand side, what we can see here, those are the example of the many different business applications that are being used by the various organizations and also the data, actually those business applications are being used by the various users. Those users are entering data in large quantity into those systems. Now, they don't have direct access to that data. Now, it's usually the BI team or the data management team, whatever it's called, it might be called slightly different in your organization but essentially it's the BI team that's responsible for making that data available to those users and so that's why at any given point in time, the team needs to know where the data is and then understand its movement process through the various systems that we see here. So you need to know the intricacies, the dependencies and so on as well. Now, because the metadata is actually scattered throughout all of these different systems, that's actually very challenging to do and so what our customers are telling us is that their groups, those are responsible for managing and moving the data are actually spending more than 50% of their time just trying to understand where the metadata is in order to understand relationships, the connections and the data lineage and of course, we all know that is necessary in order for them to be able to provide the organization with the data that it so desperately needs. So now what we've done in order to overcome these challenges, we've actually leveraged technology with some very powerful algorithms that we've internally developed, the machine learning and the processing power that we have available to us on the cloud to create a solution that actually extracts that metadata, centralizes it into one platform analyzes it and that makes it visually available to you from those various systems. We're able to do it very simply, we extract that metadata from the different tools, that metadata that is uploaded to the cloud for analysis and then within 24 hours, you get an in-depth picture of the entire landscape and it's that simple. And so what that means, no major projects, no major timelines, no major resources, really all you need is one person in about an hour or two to configure and you're good to go. All right, so let's talk about a little bit of some use cases of our customers and how they came to occupy and how we address them. So, first one I'm gonna talk about is a large European bank and asset management conglomerate, you may have heard of them, Bank of Manualatom. So, Manualatom approached us with a database that had no design and they had daily issues with it. They also needed their reports to be trustworthy of course, for obvious reasons and in order to do that, they needed to see where the data was coming from because I can't state this enough. If you don't know where the data is coming from, you can't be certain about that data in that report. And so this was part of their daily routine and since they have many data sources being ingested as well. So they wanted a platform that would help them assess the quality of the data and build their metric. In addition, they needed our help with a migration project to the cloud and needed to redesign their procedures. So now after implementing the Octopi platform, their entire team relies on Octopi to address these processes. Another use case, this one you might be more familiar with, Farm Credit Services America is a financial cooperative with over 72 associations together with that cooperative as part of the cooperative. So FCSA came to us with a challenge they were facing. They had a vendor-driven upgrade that forced them to upgrade their legacy database and this was a recurring project that required huge amounts of manual work. All right, so let's talk a little bit about the issue. So in more detail, the project required mass-scale communications to the users and consumers to try to understand the impact any changes that were being made. So the users were confused and they were unsure of the impact if where the data elements were being used, which also drove more research and legwork to find the rightful consumers. They needed to invest time in manual research which was conducted within internal databases, investigating table references, stored procedures, SSRS reports and so on to determine usage and ownership. Now there was a lot of hunting, pecking, spreadsheets were involved, running down owners and packages and data and so on. And these discovery efforts spanned approximately four months or more and still left unanswered questions lingering in some areas. Lots of key decisions were made just in case and that created a lot of technical debt that they were actually trying to get rid of. All right, so let's talk about now after Octopi. So we offered them of course a streamlined research approach to trace usage and ownership using the discovery model, analysts some new to the association easily went from field to endpoints to quickly understand the usage and take next steps to determine deprecation and impact. Now the lineage model offered greater insight into where changes can cause consuming impacts, streamlined efforts to easily seek comments and code, et cetera and determine potential ownership of stored procedures and load processes. So Octopi reduced or reduced the research time and allowed for greater focus on the impact and solutions to redirect and to minimize and eliminate how to redirect and a solution also to minimize and eliminate a conversion gaps in the project itself. All right, here's another one that might be interesting to you guys. Maurer, it's actually a spelled Maurer but pronounced more investment management limited. There are a privately owned independent international investment firm and they manage approximately 82 billion in assets for individual and investors. So more needed to understand the data in the reports, documents and existing reports and develop new ones as well. And they also needed to design these processes they needed to, in order to design these processes they needed to invest a great amount of work to ensure that the data was not impaired. So by using Octopi they cut the time down that they needed in order to accomplish this by literally in half. All right, so in summary, what we've quickly gone over here today is what our customers are telling us makes us a unique and a unique platform. So we combine three main benefits into one powerful solution. Number one, as you see here on the top is that we are a cloud based solution. So very simple and easy to get up and running very simple and easy to set up literally as I mentioned an hour or two by one person and you're good to go cross platform. What does that mean? We analyze the metadata across all of your different BI systems from source to target and provide you with that lineage and discovery capabilities. And when you will see, when you come visit us for a demo you will see that Octopi is a very simple and easy to use, very intuitive. And what that means is that they're very simple to onboard. Your team can be up and running with Octopi literally in about a half an hour kickoff session. No longer is there that one guru that needs to be appeased with pizza or beer in order to get up to the top of the line in order to get anything done. Your entire team, the entire organization that can gain value by using Octopi can log in and go ahead and get what they need literally in seconds. All right, so now it gives me great pleasure to announce that Octopi introduces the Data Lineage XD, the first solution on the market to provide advanced multi-dimension views of Data Lineage. And so you guys are all asking what does Data Lineage XD mean? And I will explain it to you. So let me explain. So one type of lineage just doesn't cut it anymore. There are three types of lineage that you need. Number one, cross-system lineage provides end-to-end lineage at the system level from the entry point into the BI landscape all the way to reporting and analytics. This level provides a high level visibility into the data flow mapping where data is coming from and where it's going. Second, the inner system lineage details the column level lineage within an ETL process or report or database object, understanding the logic and data flow for each column provides visibility at the column level. So no matter how complex the process is, the report or object, you can understand it. So in end-to-end, number three is end-to-end column lineage which details column to column level lineage between systems from the entry point into the BI landscapes all the way through to the reporting and analytics. All right, so if we've piqued your interest, please reach out to me and we would be happy to introduce you to the next level in data lineage. And here you have my contact information. At this point, what I will do is allow time for some questions. So if you have any questions, I'm gonna take a look at them and see here. Let's take a look and see what we have. All right, so do we have APIs to integrate custom metadata from homegrown systems that do not have a data database, et cetera? So there are two answers to that question. Number one, we have APIs that you can extract metadata from. So it's the opposite of what you're asking for. However, if there are systems that we do not support, we do have manual links that you can actually configure one time and that should be able to address that. All right, it seems like, yeah, the other question. How long does it take to configure Octopi, et cetera? So we've covered that briefly in the presentation. It is telling us, I mentioned that it takes literally about one hour or two for one person to configure. All you're doing is pointing the Octopi thin client to your metadata sources, hit the run button, and that's all that's required. That's basically it. Any other questions? Sure, we have a user asking us how easy is it to use Octopi or to get started using Octopi. Because it's very similar to that. Literally, as I mentioned earlier to get set up and running, we'll take one person about an hour work. That metadata is uploaded to the cloud for analysis. Within 24 to 48 hours, you have a complete clarity into your entire landscape. Thank you very much, everyone. We hope to see you in our booth, our virtual booth, and we hope to be able to schedule some calls with you to introduce you to that next level of data lineage. Oh, okay, here we go. All right, do you have a looker integration? And if not, it is on your own. So currently we do not have it, but it is on our roadmap for this year. Sure, so the data, explain the data lineage, a use case would be helpful. So let's try and explain that a little bit more. All right, so we have a few more minutes. So I will try to answer that question. Let's say, for example, today, someone, Mr. or Mrs. CFO gives you a call and says that there is an issue with a report. It is, for example, the end of the quarter. That report has an error in a field or there is something wrong with that field. It doesn't really matter what the issue is. You need to trace back how the data landed on it. So you need to understand the lineage of that report. And most organizations to do that today probably requires a lot of manual work, which will involve reverse engineering that report manually to try to understand how the data landed on it. With Octopi, you can log in, type the name of the report literally within seconds. You can understand the entire end source to target lineage of that report, either from the system level, as we said earlier, from the three different levels, from the inter or from the actual column to column level as well. Hopefully that answers your questions. What data sources can you use the data lineage tool for specifically looking for AWS sources? So if you log into our website, actually, you know what? Let me see if I can share that screen. I think I can. Currently today, these are the technologies that we support. In general, this is what we would call the BI landscape. You may have many different hundreds, if not thousands of different source applications. Those are still, we can still provide you with a source to target lineage without going into those different systems to extract or analyze the metadata. The way we do it is as soon as that metadata is extracted into one of the supported systems, we can then extract the metadata that we required in order to provide you with that N10 data lineage. All right, so we have a question. How do I visit your booth to discuss this? That's a great question. I'm very new to this platform, but I understand that you can log in and you should be able to find us. I don't know unfortunately how to answer that question to you. I hope that maybe John or Louise will be able to answer that via chat. Other important questions here, how other use cases where Octopi would be essential for of course, Octopi will be essential in many, many different use cases. Let's say you have a migration project, you need to move to the cloud. Of course you need to understand your current assets, where they are and how the changes will impact, any change will be impacting reports and so on. So Octopi will be able to give you that transparency and that lineage and discovery capability to be able to see and do that. Of course, I can demonstrate that much more easier in a demo and I invite you to join to see that. There are of course many, many other use cases providing audit trails for different rules and regulations, impact analysis, where you need to make a change. You wanna know what will be impacted. Of course, there are many, many dozens of different use cases that would be relevant for. All right. Thank you very much everyone once again for joining. I will be logging off shortly, but it will be available in our booth. So if you'd like to chat with me, we'd be happy to take this further. And of course we'd like to invite you to sign up for a demo where we can show you this live in a demo environment. All right. Thank you so much, David. Let's thank David for this great presentation and thanks to our attendees for tuning in. 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How were you guys with bloopers? Were there any particular moments that you couldn't stop laughing at? At one point they went, I'm walking down the beach with Lillio, especially very romantic before we had a kiss. They were like, oh, and maybe you could pick Lillio up. And they meant like that. And I thought, clearly, firemen's carry. So I just hoiked over my shoulder and then fell over on my face. Oh, no. Yeah, that's there somewhere. Maybe that would be in the DVD, actually. No doubt. Did you have to retake that scene a couple of times then? No, they've used that shot, but they've cut just before I hoiker over my shoulder and fall over like a pratt. Well, I had one which I wasn't actually laughing in, but it made everyone else absolutely cry because it just looked so stupid, which there's a bit in Waterloo where I had to try and disappear from behind a big sort of sheet flag thing as they put it down. I kept not doing it in time, so the thing would drop and I was just sort of falling through the air horizontal and it just looked terrible and everyone was just sort of laughing at me for quite a long time. And you didn't learn how to do it, you just kept doing it wrong. I never learned anything. I'm like a goldfish. I just said we refused to do it. Yeah, mine's a little bit obscene, actually, because there's a few of them. I know exactly what you were saying. I have to swim, Lillian, I have to swim. And I also happened to be wearing incredibly short with the swimming trunks. I was doing breaststroke, so my legs were akimba. Akimba? Who are you? After doing it a couple of times, old Parker sort of on a megaphone said we have to retake that shot because I can't repeat what he said, but basically I revealed too much of myself swimming, which was quite embarrassing, so I think we had to like tape my shorts down. This is good you're really selling the DVD now. Yeah, this is good. So what you're seeing is Mum and me, too, had some inappropriate flashing going on. It should be rated 18. Was it an empty beach or was it at the time that there were quite a lot of tourists that maybe got eyeballs? There were probably some people, it was underwater, thank God, but there were quite a few people. There's a lot of crew around, isn't there? That was very embarrassing. No, she's seen too much. I think she's seen. She was a scene, yeah, yours and, yeah, a few from us, me getting changed. Anyway, this is now we're going too much. I heard from the guys there was a scene where you got lifted in a fireman's pool and dropped, and I also heard there were very short shorts being worn and there may have been some inappropriate flashing by accident underwater. Is this true or not? I don't know what we're doing with Josh. So there's three things, actually. There was one, yes, Josh and Jeremy, we were told to sort of like have fun and be romantic and Jeremy went to pick me up and literally dropped me. It was so demoralising. I remember that. Believe it's on camera. It is on camera. Josh, yeah, he had tiny, we were swimming for oysters or something. Yeah, yeah, oyster, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And there was also a scene, Jeremy is a big prankster and he got a really legit new added scene sent to my trailer in the morning and used. Oh my gosh, right. And had created, in the bed scene where I'm lying with Harry, had created a scene where it started with Harry under the covers. It's explicit. And me going, oh, that's it. And we genuinely thought that that was a new scene that we were gonna have to do and Jeremy had just pulled you. Yeah. So he literally typed an article or put a name on it. He got the director involved. I mean, we were seconds away from actually acting out a, which is so inappropriate for a PD-13. I know. And you guys went along. Oh God. This is definitely a smarty version of Mamma Mia. Very smarty. So did you talk about it before being like, how are we gonna do this? It's a bit awkward. Yeah, we were kind of, I mean, we saw the director and he was like, absolutely not. Yeah, we sort of like, I kind of was like, this is obviously not gonna happen, but it was very weird. And then, yeah, that was Jeremy for you. You've almost been in a really smarty scene and you've been accidentally flashed as well and dropped. What was the worst of the three? You know what was the best of the three? Yeah, I mean, some of those aren't that bad. No. So are there any particular moments that you couldn't stop laughing in all the time? Oh, you know what, a lot when we did our EPK stuff, for the most part, we just had to be like, come see Mamma Mia in theaters, July 20th. We, when it was, the three of us were paired together, Alexa, who's not here, Emily and I, and we could not, we just, you get going, you get giggly, and yeah, these poor guys had to do it.  I know.  And then so-and-so is super serious, but then you just bust up laughing. Yeah, sorry about that, guys. Super Trooper was awesome and it seemed like everyone was in it. What's the reality like? Yeah, there was almost no rehearsal for that. What for? No, no, no, for us not, we kind of showed up and they said, go off and come up with a dance with your counterpart, so for me, me and Pierce, whatever, and then we sort of had 15 minutes and they came back and went, let's see it.  It's so embarrassing, because the girls were amazing in this. They paired off within a minute and a half amazing choreography, like beautiful, really just so good.  Definition of dad dancing. So who takes charge? Do you guys teach the older dance or do they teach you? Josh really took the lead with Stellan and in fact, when they came back after devising, Stellan was very sad and quiet and he's such a confident man, normally, and Josh obviously was, you know, his leg warm and his shorts, counting out the beat. I know the potential. Stellan was just dancing behind going, I'm sorry, Josh. And I'm sure I can remember Colin Firth doing a bit of this or something, feeling very, he just looked like he didn't want to be doing it. Well, he decided in the supertrooper bit, when we all got paired off to go and do it, he was like, I just don't think we should dance. I think we should just look at each other and be like, oh my God, it's me, but it's a different age. And then we tried to do it on the day all the directors were shouting, no, no, no, you're just going to have to dance at him. Yeah, that was very degrading, you know? Very degrading. It was awesome in reality as well as in actuality. Yeah, it was surreal, but when we rehearsed it, I remember we'd just gotten back from Croatia. I think it was like two days after we got back from Croatia that weekend, we had rehearsal with the legacy cast of the government and share their, no, share how they arrived at. No, share doesn't go to your house. Yeah, that's right. No, yeah, she wasn't there yet. And it was, we were learning the dance. We knew it was going to be something special. And I think when the day came and we all had the costumes on and the lights and the pyrotechnics and the glitter. And then our kind of share and just is like everything you want. Everything you want. The queen of everything. Everyone came to watch it.  And it was like a full circle of seeing them up there.  And the dads had their name embroidered on the back of their pants and spandex, which I don't know if they can catch it in the movie in the Supertrip, but they have like Bill and Harry. And also they were like, just improvise with your counterpart because we all danced together. And I was like, yeah, well I can't dance improvise unless I'm drunk in a club, and secondly with Merrill Street. Yeah. Can you tell me what your favourite deleted scene might be in the extras? I'm excited to see, I wonder, which was it was cut from the beginning of the film when we're sending Donna off on her big adventure. It's a number. It's a song that we... Packing up her stuff, taking it through the Oxford streets at the airport, now to montage, which you see. So that'll be fun to watch that and see, and remember, you know, remember bits and pieces from when we shot that. And I'm actually excited to see if there's anything from the Legend cast it that we can get to see. The Legend cast. Is that what you call them? The Legacy cast. They're not the Legacy cast, but they basically are the Legend cast. They are the Legacy cast. There's a song that Lily does that's I think on the DVD, isn't it? Is it, I wonder, is that back up? It's one of my favourite songs, actually. Who's she doing it for? I'd love to sing it for you, but I will be doing Lily James, a severe injustice. Please, the floor is yours. Don't you dare. And it's a beautiful song, all about, she leaves universities and she goes off to Paris. If we really set the scene with it, encourage you to sing it. No, I'm not doing it. So she's packing her bags. She's packing her bags. Are you guys up for Mamma Mia 3, a sequel? 3 to 9. Yeah, yeah, I would to go... I'll do 3 to 9. I think I'll probably call her that at 10. I'll do 10, but you guys don't have to. We're still negotiating it, yeah. What do you see happening next? I'd like the goat to have a spin-off. I thought the goat in this movie was, it's a really quite extraordinary, actually. A beautiful, nuanced, detailed performance that I think we can all admire. And I'd like to see him get a sequel. So it could be Mamma Mia 3, here we go to again. Oh, very good, snap. Fantastic. Holy smokes. Yeah. MTV, coin the phrase. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Absolutely, why not? Keep the party going. Christine said that when she had about Mamma Mia 2, she didn't even read the script. She just said, yeah. That's right, just signed on. I was talking to the guys, and they wanted to bring the goat back. I said, Mamma Mia, here we go to again. Oh, my God, that's so good. Would you be up for a sequel with the goat? Yes! Absolutely, I know, I agree. Shares in it, for example. If you could pick any celebrity, who would you like to go into another sequel? Probably not some of the contestants from Love Island. Yeah, yeah. I love to, yeah. Please, can we get Meg in this sequel? Something like that. We're big Love Island fans, so Meg, is there anyone else that, someone, a love interest, are we going with Wes or... I don't know, there was a big rumour going round, our premier, that E.L. was there, and I think my little brother was more excited to try and down E.L. that he was by the side... No, he's always I, I went hunting for E.L. He couldn't find him anywhere. It culminates in Richard Curtis standing on a chair and shouting at the top of his voice. E.L. It genuinely did. It's actually not a lie, man! There's no young Cher yet, so maybe one of the Love Island cast can play the younger Cher. Which one? We'll just chuck a wib on you. I'd love to do that. I'd be too old by the time they make that, though. Meg! I remember so doing E.L. Impressions, remember? Yeah, I've never met you, I'm sorry, if this is deeply offensive, but... Sorry, E.L. And was there any bonding karaoke or rap battles, because you guys are all singers? We did a lot of group chanting. Group chanting. And sort of humming. Humming, I mean, we're all, yeah. I kind of pride myself on my rapping skills, to be honest. Can you do a bit now, or some chanting? No, because I actually don't take it as a joke. I take it very seriously. I'll lay down a bit, if you want to speak. Jeremy's got a single. I've told you it's not something I'd take as a joke. I take it very seriously. This is actually something I would like to make career out of. I'm sorry, Jeremy. I don't want to take a piss out of it in an interview, all right? I'm sorry. All right, mate. You're amazing, I love you. Well, I'll take some chanting. You guys have done chanting. Is this my, like, Abba Fiend chanting, or what? Sometimes. That's just humming, mate. That's it, that's that one. We're going to open up and do it. We've respected your rap, Jeremy. Jeremy, we're trying to hum and chant. We just, you know, should be creative, but less than slow, but I feel like we're blocking it. It's useless. The guys said Love Island Cast, and they went to bring E out. Of course they did. Yeah, of course they did. I'd love any of the Love Island Cast. Do you know who I would love to see in Mamma Mia? Goldie Horne. Oh! To have a death become a criminal. I'm so cool. Gethris Wilson ball. Yes! And the goat. I'm so just going to do Death Becomes Her 2 slash Mamma Mia 3. Oh, yeah, we're all dead. We come back as ghosts. We're all dead. We're all dead. No, I know. All of us from all the different, like, ages come together in an alternate reality, where the goat is God, and we just all kind of... Mamma Mia, here we go again. And the guys said there's about chanting and humming that they do, so maybe there could be some chanting around the goat. Did they chant and hum for you? Yeah, a little bit. Oh, good lord. Did they sing to you, what shall we do with the Drunken Sailor and the three boat harmony? The favorite song in the world.


Hi, I'm Dick Simmons from the popular web series Red vs. Blue. And I'm Doc from the same show. It's no secret that money can be complicated and scary, especially if you don't know a lot about finances. I know I have people asking me all the time what they should do with their money. Wait, people actually ask you that? Griff does? Constantly. Yeah, but you keep saying to put it in a 401k. Whatever that means, it sounds like a cereal. You might sometimes hear scary words thrown around like, recession, inflation, and stock market crash. So we thought we'd help you out with a handy guide. It can be easy to be intimidated by finances and investing, but once you understand the ins and outs, it's really not so bad. For instance, the root word of recession is recess, which we all know is really fun and it's a great time for social and emotional development. Huh, that's weird. I always associate recess with bullying and now I spend lots of money on therapy. Some would call that an investment. See, we're learning things already. There are lots of different ways to invest your money. First up, the stock market. That's right, the age-old way of investing. Actually, it's fairly recent. The U.S. Stock Exchange only started in the late 18th century. Oh, well it may be young, but it's super reliable. As the old adage goes, stonks only go up. Sort of, you know, except when they don't. It's crashed like four different times and a lot of people lost everything. Okay, well four times in a couple of hundred years isn't like the worst odds. Actually, all of those happened in the last 100 years. Huh, so what's good about owning stocks? Well, the stock market allows you to buy shares in a company. If the value of the company goes up, your share becomes worth more. If it drops, the shares also drop in value. Ever wanted to own super tiny pieces of your least favorite pharmaceutical plastic manufacturer? Heck yeah, I own lots of Pharma Platco. Question, what decides whether a company is worth more or less? Uh, well, lots of factors. How much profit they're making or like how much people think they could be making. Or sometimes reddit posts. Sometimes it's just reddit posts. A lot of that sounds made up. Kind of? The trick is to find something that gains a lot of value and then get out while the getting's good. So, if I create a company that a lot of people really believe in. Uh huh. And then they give it a large valuation. Doing great so far. I could sell my shares and make a whole lot of money. Yup. So the trick is.  To invent a time machine. Uh huh.  And create a time machine company. Okay, you took a left turn there. And then come back to now when the company will be worth way more money. I guess that'd be a way to do it. I'll be right back. If all that sounds way too foolproof for you, there's a much more foolish way to invest your money. Throwing it into the digital slot machine known as cryptocurrency. Okay, cryptocurrency has had a bad rap in recent internet history. It's different from owning stock which gives you shares of an actual company whose dollar amount is determined by the number of shares and the valuation of the company. But let's try this pitch out. Have you ever wanted to own something that wasn't real but still had value? I mean, theoretical value. Cryptocurrencies are digital assets that are incredibly volatile. However, that volatility could potentially make you rich if you buy the right cryptocurrency. So, how do you know which one is the right one? Well, you can't. It's basically a digital free-for-all filled with scams and meme dollars and maybe some viable options for digital currency for the future if a lot of people decide to adopt it around the world. That sounds pretty sad. The unadopted cryptocurrencies must be lonely. They are. Which is why you can sponsor or adopt a cryptocurrency right now. Every night, millions of innocent cryptocurrencies around the world go to bed without having robbed any one of their life savings. Is that really the future you want for them? This month, we're featuring these starving RVB NFTs for a low monthly price of two Simmons bucks. Simmons bucks? I'm telling you, they're the future, man. Look it up. But what if the only currency I carry is the balloons and the dental records of my slain enemies? The dental records? Well, I don't carry around their teeth. That would be weird. Sarge brings up a good point. There are some physical assets out there like gold or the balloons, I guess, that retain value over time, which is another potential investment.  Well, thank you for noticing. Do you have any tips for how to invest money? And who now? You know, investing money. I mean, surely you've got some kind of retirement. Oh yeah, all that went to ammo. Oh, you mean you invested in an ammunition company? No, I mean all my retirement money went to buy ammo for the military. They can always use more of that. Guilty as charged. You give away your retirement fund to the army? Duh, Doc McStuffins. What else was I gonna do with it? I don't know, retire? But I'm in my best fruitin', tootin', and shootin' years. OK, well, here's the next step of our guide. Don't give away all of your retirement to the military. Ah, I didn't give it all away. What did you do with the rest of it? I hid it for safekeeping. Honestly, it's not the worst idea. Have you guys seen the market? Except for some company called My Time Travel Company Rules Co. It's really popping off. Uh, gentlemen.


Ahoy, hoy. Today would normally be a dank memes video, and I know I said last week that I would get back on schedule, but I forgot about another video I wanted to do specifically today, which if you've watched the video on the day it's supposed to come out, you probably figured out why. Today, I want to talk to you about the importance of voting on the SCP Wiki. So, first of all, if you want to affect change on the SCP Wiki, and I've talked about this before, the most important thing you can do is not to talk about it to your friends or complain on social media or spam or any of the long list of things that have no real tangible effect but make you feel better. It's to go out and go to the Wiki itself, register properly, and then vote on the article as up or down, if you vote up for liking it or down for not liking it. This is the easiest way for you to shape the actual content of the Wiki. Do you want the content of the Wiki to go in a particular direction? Fucking vote for it that way. You can't actually change anything if you don't affect change, and you can't affect anything if you don't vote. This is incredibly important to the way the Wiki functions. Now, critique is great. Critique is the fun part, I guess. Well, that's not fun for a lot of people. It's a lot of work, actually. But critique can be the fun part for some people, especially if you get a little overly harsh about it. But it doesn't actually shape the Wiki the way you think. If you were able to critique literally every article that came out, then you could shape the Wiki's direction, but you can't. That's impossible. There's like 10 maybe articles a day out? A lot of those are failures. Even failures help shape a direction. DJ Cactus is one of the most influential authors on the SCP Wiki. And even the changes that he has pushed forward, like the containment and threat level, the threat class, disruption class, and containment class changes that he's pushed, or the new theme, which is something that I've helped push through by putting it on all of my articles, even with those changes being put into the SCP Wiki by like one individual, it's very limited what you can accomplish on your own, much less what you can accomplish if you're not writing anything at all, or you're not like him or I writing 100 or somewhere between 100 and 200 articles each. Even those people have more influence as voters than they do as writers, and those are, and you know, I say those people, we, they, whatever terminology you want to use, some of the most influential writers on the SCP Wiki for various reasons and for various types of influence. But as I said, if we don't vote, then literally anything goes. Now registering for the Wiki is not easy, obviously. And I think to be fair and to be completely fair and honest with you, I feel like the administration of the SCP Wiki probably are okay with that. Like the difficulty is frustrating on a like core level, but at the same time, like that level of frustration means that the people who really aren't committed to change or committed to putting in the work of maybe improving themselves as authors or maybe improving themselves as people, who knows. But those people don't get an opportunity to shape the Wiki's direction. And like I said, the administration's probably okay with that. So the real question you have to ask yourself is like, do you want to be important? Do you want to matter? Maybe you don't. Maybe you would, maybe you're happy being completely insignificant part of the fandom. But I don't think that that is fair to you or the fandom. Like we do this thing where we differentiate between offsite and onsite fans. When I say that, I mean me, I mean any community that rises up around the SCP Wiki and it becomes a very us versus them sort of thing. Like we have to uphold standards, despite the fact that the this is the prevailing notion that the we have to uphold our high standards to keep and keep out the riffraff or we have to uphold our high standards against the tide of the unwashed masses, which is elitist. It's exclusionary and in ways it's also gatekeeping. Like you're not a real fan because you're not on the SCP Wiki itself, which on the one hand is absolutely and totally incorrect. But there's an easy way to solve that problem. And that's to get yourself onto the SCP Wiki. Take the time, do the research. I've done two videos at this point on this topic. Take the time and do the research. Find out how to register. If you run into problems, ask around, find people who will help you. Maybe. You know what, I'm going to give this consideration. You guys can let me know in the comments down below if this might not be the worst idea ever. But I might create a channel on my server specifically devoted to trying to help people register for the Wiki.  And maybe this will be a good idea. This is something I literally thought of as I was filming here. So this is something I'm going to give some consideration to before I actually do it. But it sounds like an idea that could have some merit.  So I'm thinking about maybe I'll do that. Maybe I'll create a channel. Maybe I'll create a role for people to help. And just, you know, because it's a lot of work. It's not easy. I'd be asking people to put in a lot of work. But I think there's plenty of people who would volunteer to do it. I'm going to give this some thought. If you're, if you're like, you know me and you happen to watch each channel and you'd like to help with that, you have to watch my Discord anyway. You're on my Discord and you know me. Feel free to contact me and talk to me about it. Not random people, please. Um, yeah, yeah. This is an idea that just popped in my head and I'm like, I should do that. Anyway, vote on the Wiki if you want to make a actual change.  I'm not giving you any vote for this guy or vote for that guy. Just vote your opinions, your thoughts, how both sides are the same. So it doesn't matter. That doesn't matter unless you actually choose a side.  But if you're in America and you want to affect change, vote for somebody. Even if you throw away your vote on a third-party candidate and make it so that it essentially means nothing because you affect no real change with it. At least you're putting it out there. At least you're working towards the day when that third-party candidate can be useful. Man, I really want to recommend. I have very strong political opinions and I very much want to recommend something, but I'm not. This is going to be non-partisan. Vote. See it in my eyes. Feel it. If you pay any attention to my Twitter, you know exactly, I'm not non-partisan over there.  Participate in the American process or else you don't matter to the politicians. That's it. Thank you very much for watching. If you enjoyed the video, vote. Go down, hit the like button. You vote again. Subscribe, which is its own form of voting, and then hit the notification bell so you're notified when I upload new videos. And then head on over to patreon.com forward slash decimarian and pledge at any level, like everybody here on the screen already has, including Dr. Jay Redacted, Sinjeriki and Morgan. Dr. Jay Redacted and Sinjeriki have both pledged $100 and Morgan has pledged $40. I was noticing, this has been last month, I didn't upload as much. So it was obvious that things were going to go a little south. My advertising revenue went down. My Patreon numbers went down a little bit. But I was surprised to see, because I was up to 540 at one point, that my Patreon numbers have dipped just a skosh below 400 as of making this video. So I very much appreciate any support you guys can give. It's nice to know that I'm not alone out here, and I will see you all again on Thursday for the actual dank memes video.


What's going on everyone? Sam here with late in sports cards ripping one box of 21 nini chronicles football H2 for Monty M. So good luck Monty. See what we got buddy Let's get some nice numbered stuff. Maybe an auto question mark Niko Collins terrace Marshall jr. Prism black Pat Friar muth And kellen mawn on your each two exclusives Screeeeage Kaderis Tony Pat Friar muth Love that screege is in this Smart Chase Kyle Pitts silver flux Tomorrow Chase H2 Kyle Trask numbered to 99 Jalen waddle rookie Khalil Herbert and odafe oe Suha Javonsa Rashad Bateman flux Got davis mills and Kenneth gainwell to 199 H2 There's Tony Niko Collins and Rashad Bateman rookie again. What's up, Mike? Mike D Devonta smith score update Got Michael Carter and Rashad Bateman h2s Zach Wilson rookie Jamonte Williams and Jalen waddle Shreya Lance up card kids Terry McLauren scary Terry to 399. What up? Xiaomi Brown to 399 Patrick Sartan and Devonta smith rookie And last one here for you. Monty. Good luck John, I would go um, I would go inception. I would go inception Shreya Lance rookie Devonta smith Micah Parsons nice one there Kyle Trask That's Kenan Wong Wum Shreya Lance rookie and Kyle Pitts rookie That'll do it for your break there Monty. Congrats getting on all the cards my friend get those right out to you buddy appreciate it as always


Manchester United have just beaten Chelsea in the 2008 Champions League final. I'm here with Ronan Toten who scored the deciding PK for his team's first title since 1999. Ronan, tell me how it felt taking that shot. Oh you know I just tried to do what we do in practice you know just kind of stick to the fundamentals I was just really in a flow state I wasn't even thinking wow what an amazing turn of events. Now Ronan I would like to take this opportunity to explain to our viewers at home that when you say flow state what you really mean is Ultra Instinct the technique originally used by Goku to defeat Jiren in the Tournament of Power and it was initially demonstrated to he and Vegeta by Whis, Angel of Universe 7. Yeah that's exactly correct this technique allows the the user to automatically adapt to any threat allowing them to attack and defend simultaneously in battle. Wow Impressive. Yeah this technique is notoriously too difficult to master even among the gods. So through all of this do you think that's what made the difference in this historic match? Yes also I found the 7 Dragon Balls and wished to win so I think that helped out a bit.