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So thank you guys for joining us today and we only announced this roundtable literally two weeks ago. So really, again, of today's conversation. And I also want to note that within a day of announcing this topic, all six of our all star executives dedicate their time for us today, within a day. So thank you, everyone. And to help us introduce them and to guest moderate our panel. Please welcome my friend, Evan Christel, the industry's top social media influence like one of the top. We're talking top in our industry for social media influence. He drives social visibility and engagement for big brands like Intel, IBM, ATT business and kicking off today our formal partnership. We humbly add JSA and our amazing clients to his portfolio. So a friend and partner. Evan, thank you for making the time to be here today. And the floor is yours, my friend. Thank you very much, Jamie much appreciated and it's really a delight to be here and with this amazing group of folks personally and professionally. This is now my social outlet for the day so afterward we'll have to grab a virtual cocktail. So with Mike Hagen at Edge Micro. Mike for those who aren't aware Edge Micro is is one of the fundamental building blocks in the data center and the edge of the network so you're really in sort of a pole position to share. What impacts you're seeing in the network in terms of, you know, expenses network expense capital expense impacts, obviously to the human operational side. Can you share with us a little bit more about what you're seeing at the moment. Yeah, you know, it's funny. My co founder partner Greg Bateen made a great comments day on our team call, which you know we're all doing in a different ways and hopefully more frequently which is kind of a defining moment right. So we spent a fair amount of time talking to customers internally our prospects and our mentors to get our arms around this and do a lot of reading right so you know I think that the hard part of this is you know when you have a crisis, you know, there's always a chance to learn or take a new lens or we all as a group, this is world after take a different look at what we've been doing and what we should be doing. If we move into the collective solving mode. In this ecosystem, which is the edge in the entire system we learned a lot and heard a lot. So the challenges are really new. I mean we have seen some of the impacts and major cities regarding co location facilities that are massive and central located that have limited access to workers and staff. Certainly a challenge we've not experienced before.  You know, we see things that have had discussions about the what ifs the what if is as we move through this and solve for the challenges we have. What portions of our workforce will stay at work home environments and what does that do our network. What does that do to company performance and communication so with Christ has come to opportunity and challenges but you know you'll fundamentally one of the things that's been most incurring to me is how you see our industry and people come together. So my final comment is you know we've we've been chunking away at this for several years to be the platformer choice at the edge. So that is to kind of glue the ecosystem together, which includes cellular providers in minnows, the MSO cable providers, fiber folks to get everybody connected at the edge for the greater good of everyone everywhere. And we've already, we've seen how those teams and those groups have circled together to collectively work to solve for some pretty big problems. So with my glass half full approach. You know, I think it's just opportunity for all of us. And you know, rather than sharing numbers and what we've seen on backhaul those types of things. I think there's a new light on the edge in the industry in general. You know, we always talk about latency, latency, latency, but now I think everything's moving into bigger and broader discussions, you know, hub and spoke security bandwidth impacts. So, that's really been the core, and I think collectively we're all starting to solve together and look at how we change this environment so we're better prepared for the future. Great insights, great insights Mike and we'll come back to you. Thanks so much. It looks like the future has arrived a lot earlier than we had anticipated. Jason burn net sapiens, you're known as one of the leaders in deploying applications and value added services on top of the network. At the sapiens Jason, what have you seen on the application side that in terms of impact that you might be able to share. Yeah, great question. And I just follow on some of Mike's comments. So we're in the cloud communications and collaboration. Our service providers have seen a massive, massive uptick in support tickets as everybody has moved their desk phone and their networks basically back to that house. So it's been a huge shift in the industry. But the good news we're all, you know, that all the folks on this call are we're all cloud applications or cloud providers. It has become very seamless. I think it on the head Evan is that the future has come far quicker than we thought. But I do think we are very well equipped to take, you know, to really make sure this is seamless as possible. I think we've seen it, you know, so folks will call them into our customers and hey, I don't move my office to my home. And the simple answer of just plug it in. It's the cloud don't care where you are was a great answer to have for folks and then went from 300% increasing tickets to zero right once we got that message out. So it really is. It's a huge impact in the industry. I do think the industry is a quick for it. And I think we've got a lot of folks in this call that we dive into the into the back whole side of things and what they're seeing. Yeah, thanks so much. It's hard to imagine how we could even live at the moment without all of those cloud based services and applications were were using at the moment. So, so thanks for that. Rosa white DR fortress. I'd love to get your perspective on data center and colo, but but please don't share the fact that you're in Hawaii, and don't don't open your window, whatever happens but besides that any any your insights would be appreciated. Well I just wanted to let Mike know that Mike, I've always been on the edge. And our data center so I'm well with Hawaii, I think that one of the biggest and first things we started focusing on is both our employees and our customers. Both of them were scared, really the both sets so we, we know we had to immediately figure out which of our employees were, you know, non essential in the sense that they could work from home whereas our operations and facility team. Not only were we in the middle of huge projects, a ups upgrade, but we started seeing a lot more requests for remote assistance customers quickly wanting the cross connections for all the new networks. So not only did we have to deal with making sure we had the right people at the data center at the right time, but dealing with just customer demand that we just weren't expecting we actually did some analysis on tickets and visitors and they've all gone up in the past two months. So we haven't seen the stay at home for the it folks and for, you know, critical mission activities so we've had to quickly adapt for that. That's been one of the biggest challenges for us. And then of course being able to make sure that the team kind of stays intact so we've had a lot of what we had a couple of challenges in in Hawaii with the various video providers right. So it was a latency issue. Everyone is in Hawaii is limited to a certain amount of bandwidth. So we had to figure out what work best what platform work best so we had to do a lot of testing. In fact this morning I had some issues even logging into this so it's just one of those things that we've needed to stay nimble and flexible and just work with what we have and if that doesn't work quickly shift and move on to something that works so that was kind of one of our first things that we had to focus on is taking care of our employees making sure they were comfortable and then focus on our customer demand which instead of us having a ghost town of a data center. We had lots of people coming in wanting to hug their servers one last time before they were first forced to stay at home and make sure that they were being safe as they were coming into the facility so we have some as not customer friendly signs in our facility saying hey if you have a fever stay outside we will give you free remote assistance right now and just take care of what you need so we don't want you in our facility.  Thanks so much that's really helpful and fascinating to understand the psychological human side of what we're all going through and on a side note if you need any hands on technical support in the data center in Hawaii please I'm volunteering for that in the near future. Ben Edmond of connected to fiber hashtag Boston strong another Bostonian here on the call which is good to see, but you have kind of a fascinating view of the broadband landscape. Certainly the FCC has been making some unbelievably aggressive fascinating moves lately in regards to broadband and wireless so what are you seeing from your sort of perch. The broadband industry. Thanks, I've been appreciate that we're in a unique position that connected to fiber building out the industry cloud for the connectivity ecosystem. And today have over 350 million locations in the platform and one of the things that we saw is just the reality that connectivity is critical now more than ever. The shift to work for home. You know the the increased engagement online all has a pretty profound effect on our ecosystem and queries were significantly up inside of our ecosystem where the connectivity and industry and service providers trying to understand who has what where and communicate with each other. And we think it's really critical point in the in the overall industry digital transformation doesn't happen without connectivity. And it doesn't happen without the right architecture to support that connectivity like what Mike's doing out at the edge with with edge micro or what roses doing out in Hawaii. Ultimately it matters and enables not just how we work. But how we educate how we govern how we entertain ourselves in the future and I think. You know that light is being shined very brightly on our industry right now and you know what I see is the industry is responding. You know, with outstanding bigger. Thanks Ben, I look forward to more insights and go socks. I just let that in. Mark Halep of data bank. By the way, I like your background is are those actual books or is that a virtual background. No, they're actual books. Okay I stopped reading in 2017 so I just wasn't sure. But at data bank you talk about the evolution of the network but what we're really seeing is kind of a revolution I mean we're, you know this is unexpected. Impact what what are you seeing on the data center side. Well I'm seeing a couple things on the data center side so one of the things is I'm I've seen for about a month now as a people are finally getting serious about having to deal with this problem. But it's still a situation where the different markets are taking it differently. I have data centers across nine different markets in the United States and those that are on the east coast, the data centers out there are taking it a different, a different sense of seriousness than let's say some of them, more west or more Midwest, there's sent there there tends to be this interesting mindset of some of the employees as well as the customers that you move to the Midwest you move more west out to Salt Lake City that area. There there since tends to be a little bit more of a mindset of don't tread on me, if you will, in regards to restricting access or putting in controls, but as the coven situation grows, for example, you know I said mentioned the east, the eastern side, as Indianapolis now has become a quote unquote hotspot or potential hotspot, according to the search in general and frankly the data that I have. I've seen our customers in Indianapolis starting to take it more seriously and even report to us. When they see other customers that are not following the, the guidelines that we put in place within the data centers so like Rosa identified, you know, we are not restricting people from coming into our data center per se but there's a list of rules a new rules for coming in and and some of those are you know if you have been sick, even if it's not coven we're asking you not to come in. We are offering the remote hands type of function and people are taking that and using that. So, probably, you know, one of the biggest things I've seen is the different mindsets across the country. And as the virus progresses, they're changing a mindset and changing thought process. I think also, there's a lot of companies that we're dealing with that are scrambling right now, as has been discussed here by the other members. I know I put our, our pandemic plan back in late December early January we took our general pandemic plan and I made a coven pandemic plan. So from that perspective we were a little bit ahead of the curve, but still getting people to accept the fact that we're moving early in February that we're moving into this type of situation was somewhat difficult but now we're kind of glad that we had that in place and we've been able to act various aspects of that so we've been able to protect our people and and and work with our people on that. You know, from from a customer perspective again, they've been thus far very appreciative of having the systems up and running and knowing that there's security in place physical as well as logical security in place so they don't have to you know, if somebody's breaking into their systems when they can't as as Rosa was talking about kind of can't give them their servers one more hug. So there's that kind of assurance that that we're working with with our customers as well. And even to the point in some cases, sharing video screenshots or other new pieces of data from physical access control lists. Things like that with our customers so they can see who, you know, from from their own employee perspective, who might be breaking their own internal rules and actually coming into the data center to work there instead of the office because it's closed and and you know that where they should be working at home. So there's various aspects that are coming into play and the mindsets are different as you move across the country right now. Thanks so much very helpful. Lee Kirby of salute mission critical. First of all, let me salute you thank you for your service. How many years. 36. Well that's that's just incredible and can't thank you enough. What are you seeing you and your team of fellow veterans and more in terms of what your customers are doing and seeing and how they managing through the crisis. It's kind of fascinating if we deal in eight countries and we deal with the US and the US currently is like dealing with 50 countries because we don't have a universal national response so the health and safety team has been issuing guidance almost on a daily basis because one of those 58 entities is issuing new guidance. Nothing's a panacea we may never get to a national plan but I think it shows in the development of plans in the future that if you're dealing with regional versus national versus a global crisis. Change is how you react to things your supply chain changes. Everything that you thought you might be able to get to in a regional crisis is different points of global crisis so our teams are on site helping our clients not have to get people on site dealing with enhanced protocols to make sure that the environment is mitigated on risk and that people can still upgrade and I think from an industry perspective this has really recognized how really critical the data center is and that we've had no problems in any of the countries we've had to be able to move resources around because they're considered an essential workforce and seeing that recognition at the state level and the country level has been reassuring that I think I've always heard the term that the mother of invention is necessity. I think also the mother of adoption is going to be necessity. You see all kinds of new work patterns coming up and the infrastructure was there to support it but it was hard to break the old mold. Now that we've had to break the old mold I think as we come out of this and start reassessing you'll have a lot of different work patterns. There would probably be less people at the data centers in the future because you can remote in and have an engineer walk a technician through a complex maneuver that has to happen in the data center and have engineers covering multiple data centers remotely rather than being at each data center. A variety of things like that but we've been very fortunate with the clients we work with. They had reaching plans in place and have been able to augment them to become global plans and execute and seeing that across the board in the industry has been reassuring that even though we've had problems we have enabled the economy, a very fragile economy right now to be able to work remotely and continue on and I think that's a testament to the industry as a whole. Yeah thanks so much for that and thanks for what you and your team do and knowing veterans they're among the most flexible and adaptable folks you will meet so much needed in this crisis. So we're back to Mike it's like Hollywood Squares here so we just keep going around the circle. So in terms of, you know data centers we often talk about maintenance and maintainability and we're always talking about that in terms of automation, but you can't automate everything out of the system or a network. So what are the human capital challenges you're seeing Mike and Edge Micro in terms of you know the current challenge. Yeah I think that you know because of the nature of our business, we've always taken a little bit different approach of the necessities of operations and maintenance because edge based has different requirements, clearly. So if you look at the past, you know there's always been in the industry a lot of talk about lights out operations and what that means and what level security or services may or may not be positively impacted so for us. Lawrence Wag who runs our operations to make this group really put a pretty nice foundation place. What was our core at the edge you're going to be lights out and there will not be staff. It's just that simple. So what do you do to make sure our customers feel safe and secure and we can respond accordingly. So we put the proper procedures and partners in place and documentation to make sure that we function in the right way at the right time. So, a we're already in the lights out mode and be you know a big, a big part of our floor is what the security look like and what are the requirements and what are the remote hands needs of our clients when they deploy. So how do you manage out of band connectivity. Right. When one of our users uses these user backdoor to install or modify equipment so I think that for us, we're kind of a lucky spot, because we were distributed and by ourselves out there we have a pretty good foundation but actually mentioned, and everybody's mentioned, everything is going to be rethought now. And again, you know some of the discussions we've had been primarily about what are the benefits of distribution, because there are pluses and minuses. What workloads did we think it only survive in a core data center that might be considered to be put somewhere else. So, together it's kind of been said. We can all talk about how to distribute for safety or performance reasons to the edge, but if we're not getting it connected, you know, who cares. Right. So, for us, finding a way to better utilize existing infrastructure fiber aggregation points etc is really key to all of us. The fact is we put a lot of stress on the system, but the system is the system so how do we utilize it more effectively. Try to keep more traffic close to the consumer, manage the backhaul challenges that current infrastructure may or may not be able to support with our standard growth, let alone post this crisis so you know these things are just sort of macro perspective. The healthiest thing that I think we can all do is react quickly to serve our customers on our families but to be diligent and broader thinking and solving these things collectively together. I mean the final comment on that whether it was lights out remote location. You know how do we use our current resources more effectively quickly, and that could be bandwidth. That's terrestrial connected. But you know interestingly we saw the MNOs get together and start sharing spectrum to meet the needs. So, there are lots of solutions but I think more than anything else. There's a pressure point that you know, our edge edge industry has been looking at in the common statement was, is our infrastructure today or internet infrastructure today. The right ones to serve the needs of the future. And I think our eyes have been open to question that even more effectively, and work harder to evaluate that and see what we can do. And I think it's important for our term and long term to make sure we all stay connected and communicating and serving our clients and our customers.  Jason from from net sapiens. So we're going to get through this crisis at some point, although it's hard to, you know, imagine that at the moment. How do you see the cloud communications industry and, and it's emerging from this crisis I mean what are you anticipating over the next two years for example. I think one of the key things right now is, I think everyone's in this this mode of really maintaining communication and that connection, both with your co workers and your customers. You know, I think five people are finding, you know, successful remote working requires a high level of attentiveness to communicate much more so than even face to face. A lack of a face to face certainly quickly becomes a sorely missed. So, you know, along came the age of video conferencing and that's just kicked off and we've talked about some of the crazy growth that some of the numbers like zoom and some of their folks at, you know, they've really permeated every part of our, you know, it's our house our house is now where our business is from virtual classrooms in here to virtual sports training on my garage. It was certainly taken a big chunk of that. Certainly some of the, some of the other vendors as well go down that path. But really video conferencing is only, we're seeing only half of what remote working toolboxes need to be collaboration tools. I think some folks touched on it earlier is really need to have a collaboration tools as an essential part of your remote things like sharing screens, sharing applications, sharing your browser to follow sharing, really have that connectivity and across not just the visual video conference really becomes an effective part of the of your toolbox to connect with coworkers in your excuse me, your customers. And this is certainly becoming more and more like you said the future. So report recently and this was the pandemic that I think 60% of business meetings happen in person forecast was 2024 and will only be down to 25% in person, but this was pre pandemic. So we were heading this direction to your point that future is now on a suspect those numbers we far less than 25% for face to face. So we've got to arm the customers and employees with the tools that so they can achieve the same outcome, but without that face to face visit and you'll find we're finding service providers. So we sell platforms into those service providers. Those collaboration tools which we just lost collaboration tool out and onto our communications this morning. So, you know, people are starting to embrace this. We started to really use it effectively and I think over time, you know the noise or for for remote working, I think has been permanently increased before. Like I said it was perhaps, who knows 10% for remote working with even after this pandemic that noise floor for remote working will be huge compared to what was before, so might never go back. And that's a big change in the industry to change in every industry. But we're just part of that cloud collaboration platform or industry to really enable folks to do that. We're seeing a huge uptick in both in interest and sign ups and growth. So it's great to be part of that community. And I think that safe ends is lucky to be right in the middle embracing all of this change. Yeah, that's a great point at night low we say well remote work is now just work. There's no distinguishing the two. And Jason, I think you and your core team are in San Diego is that is that right. Yes, yes, and luckily we've had some blog folks stay in doors and that's a good thing between you and Rosa, I'm really, I'm really getting depressed here but Okay, so let me so so Rosa what about you and your, your team at DR fortress, you know how do you see the data center emerging from the crisis and changed. Well, as, as Mark was saying, I mean we, we, we always had a crisis management plan we were required, especially in Hawaii you have to be ready for tsunamis and hurricanes and other natural disasters so we've had multiple emergency systems put in together. And we've always had a remote work plan in place we had multiple offsite and cloud based servers for my accounting systems my CRM system we you know we use sales for so we've always been ready for any sort of crisis never imagine something as drastic as this pandemic so we had to change the plan, similar to what Mark had to do. So we had to quickly adapt to those things so that was number one. The other thing that we had to address is like equipment spares that's we were we're never going to look at that as lightly as we, we had we always had critical components for some of our critical systems. And so now we're addressing like what other critical components, do we need to keep in the facility in the event that you know manufacturing become overseas manufacturing becomes an issue. And some of our key vendors aren't able to deliver those components on a timely basis so we had to address those. We had to address. We have a third party security that contract that we use well we needed to figure out. We don't have enough trained security guards, we have SLAs. So, unlike Mike, we, we don't have a dark site, and we have customer SLAs that we need to be with 24 by seven security guards so, you know, pandemic or not, we need to make sure that we're meeting those contract obligations, making sure we're not breaching any of the SLAs. I mean we have to report those in a monthly base, some of our customers. So, we needed to make sure, hey, let's quickly get two or three more guards trained. So there were extra operating expenses that all of a sudden we're incurring and of course, this is the CFO perspective so I'm sure, you know, on the IT perspective and technical perspective there's other things to worry about but for me it was making sure that we're safeguarding our revenue streams, safeguarding, you know, testing our PNL and our liquidity to make sure that we are able to meet all the not just customer SLAs but any obligations any covenants, that type of thing. So taking a pause from everyday operations and going into safeguard mode, what things do we need to make sure that we're ready to address and ready to meet in the event, you know, something happens. So we had to kind of slow down. It was kind of scary working fast but slowing down and make sure that we go into offensive and defensive mode on some of these obligations that we have not just to our customers but to our investors to our financial institutions, you know, our audit teams. So it was a real big shift in just going for following our standard crisis mode where it's just something that, you know, lasts for two days or three days or maybe a week at most if you're dealing with a hurricane versus something that could be very, you know, it's unknown on how long we're going to be impacted. So we had to shift our crisis plan into more of here's the short term things we need to do. Let's get the proper people cross trained more security guards ready to go spare equipment on site. As we're getting a massive influx of cross connection requests, but then long term, what do we need to do, making sure that we can meet all of our long term obligations so it was kind of different it was it our new crisis plan is this long term crisis plan that we had to kind of develop on the fly. Wow, thanks so much. That's really insightful. Generally, I haven't been a huge fan of CFOs but Rosie really really brought me around. And I'm really changing my opinion on this call. So then you've been around the broadband telecom space for a long time. You've seen kind of the slow and fairly deliberate ways most telecom providers move. I think they're being forced to change what what are you seeing in terms of how they're reacting and what changes can we expect in terms of our industry over the next couple years. I think you see a number of different things happening in the industry that that ultimately I think are very positive and will strengthen the ecosystem even more than it is today. One of those things is the reality that it is an ecosystem to serve the needs of government and business and even though the work from home consumers. It requires the ecosystem to cooperate in the physical architecture, the services, the flow of information to fulfill that and we're seeing that taken to the next level because of this crisis. You know, people want to get more systematic and more transparent on the details that help them operate in a ecosystem where there's not a personnel on site at the edge where it's a challenge to get into install a new fiber connection where people don't want to send field technicians out three times to discover where the entrance facilities are, not just because of a cost savings for the CFOs role, but because they want to mitigate the risk of critical team members. And the awareness of that leads to action and we're seeing that action in the forms of systems and communication and collaboration, whether it's work that the MEF is doing on service ability to help the ecosystem interoperate the work, or work that companies like ours that connected to fiber are helping embrace, ultimately it does matter and we're seeing a recognition of that. I think we're also seeing a recognition that as well as the industry's handle the connectivity burst in demand, there is still a significant amount of physical infrastructure and architecture that needs to be deployed.  You know, things need to physically change, not just activating more capacity. And I think there's a lot of great dialogue in the industry going on between the physical network operators, the data centers, the cloud platforms, and ultimately the managed service providers that play an integral role of, you know, orchestrating across all of it. And I think that will continue for some time. Wow, great takeaway. Thanks so much. Mark from Data Bank. If we were to fast forward 18 months from now. How do you see the data center space changed from the current crisis. I think you will see more data centers I think you will see more capacity within the data centers I believe that what we're seeing right now. Is that companies are proving that work from home and that SAS applications are working and that they're actually keeping their businesses up and running. There are many businesses that three, five, 10 years ago would not be operating right now had we had they not moved to the cloud. They not move their, their enterprise data centers off to a co location type of facility so I think that you're going to see an upturn in the customers that do in fact put their data centers, their enterprise data centers or their their products into the cloud. I also think you're going to see cloud cloud and product diversity, meaning that right now we have a situation where a lot of customers are maybe they still have an enterprise data center but they put a number of pieces into the cloud or they they've replicated their enterprise data center into the co location environment. Where now they're going just to simply replicate it to multiple co location environments so I think we're going to see that uptick on my side specifically from a security perspective where we're probably going to see our customers wanting to dive deeper into our security practices and the audits are going to get more cumbersome because they're probably going to want to see now how ticketing systems can remain secure because as they're doing remote hands orders through tickets as they are putting more information if you will into the ticketing system in order for us to take action on it. They want to see that more secure. They want to see ways that phone conversations for example that they have with our support teams are not going to be intercepted or ways that they that we validate our our customers on the other side before actions are taken so you're going to see those kinds of requests coming into into the audit teams the compliance teams the security teams and we are going to have to start incorporating those processes and those controls in a more public audit if you will like actual control set in an SSA 18 whereas right now it may be lumped into other pieces of a particular control. I think you're probably going to see the same thing with physical access control as I said earlier you know we've got some companies that are validating that their employees are not coming into the data center when they're not supposed to be at work and instead they are staying at home so we're going to see different types of reports that are going to be required to come out. So I think there's a lot of things that are going to be happening and I think one of the biggest shifts doesn't it goes back to my first point is you're going to see a I believe we're going to see an exodus of people from the cities into more suburban and rural environments. There's been a it's going to reverse the trend there has been a trend of moving into the cities I think that's going to go back out as people personally. I'll look at the risk that they have of being in high density situations and so you're going to have bedroom communities like the community that I live in who have bandwidth challenges now have more bandwidth challenges. As a result because you know population of 15,000 is all of a sudden maybe going to be a 20,000 or even greater type of solution or situation and the solution to that is we're going to have to bring in more fiber and we're going to bring in more more bandwidth to those facilities. All of that of course coming back to you know the edge data centers like Mike is talking about like like what we have at data bank is is the the edge type of solution I think 5G is already been on an uptrend and I think 5G is going to be one of those solutions. That people use for connectivity as they move more into a rural type of environment and of course that impacts the data centers as well having to deploy you know customers having to deploy their products closer to that 5G edge. It's going to be more and more and more important so as a result we're going to see more pop up and smaller data centers right now you know data bank has some data centers there are 150,000 square feet. I think we're going to see start seeing you know 2000 and even maybe even smaller square feet type of data centers in smaller communities like mine. So they can really be at the edge and then pump it up to more of a core data center or more of a larger tier three type of data center as as we move forward so there's a lot of factors involved. You know security is a big piece of that you know how do you secure those 2000 square foot data centers in in a lights out type of situation that satisfies the customer. How do you satisfy the customer it with the ticketing system when you have some of your folks working from remote do we now have to start dealing with be a BYOD the bring your own device type of situation more more so or do we simply deploy some of our security tools that we've paid for that are on our enterprise or our local work stations off to personal work stations and if so how do we control that licensing and how do we control the updates. And a personal machine versus a corporate machine so lots of things are going to be changing I think in the next next 18 to 24 months and even beyond this as people as people disperse as people rethink their their situations. Yeah great great insights mark. And if I could jump in here and then we have some great questions coming out on the board I know we're since the time now. So I just want to get to at least one it's a combination of iron Horowitz's and Ben Clarks. They're both looking looking to understand the impact that you may see on your staff during these times. Are you responding as people leaders to engage with this change. Or Lee Kirby maybe your man on the front line there from getting your vets to text. Sorry I was saying with the mute button and from the staffing side at the onsite we're seeing we've been espousing since the beginning that you need generalists on site engineers can be offside and we were fortunate we implemented our global command center this year. And that's been a panacea force because we've been able to have people remote and help the technicians out on site to be able to do complex tasks but in the meantime they can do all the general tasks and reduce the number of people on site. I think that's a trend you're going to see is there will be less people on site because you can have people who in security as an additional function to facilities and move that change around and reads. And people are going to think about how they staff those sites just from a human capital that may have a consequence of helping with the personnel shortage it can give a little more structure to what we see on site and off site. So I think there's some good value in looking at what you're doing onsite today and what you can do on site after this crisis. And thank you guys thank you so much especially today for joining us and providing your insights on the impacts of COVID-19 on data centers and technology. 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🎵 Jumpin' off the porch like mom's not home 🎵 🎵 It takes so long 🎵 What's up guys, it's Josh from We're Back here with another video. This video's gonna be a little bit different. So I've always found it very helpful in my life to reflect back on specific moments or events and try to extract a lesson or something that I can carry with me in the future. And this was definitely the case when it came to the whole situation in Paris. I had all of my gears stolen. Everything that I've used to make YouTube videos over the past year just gone in an instant, including hours of unbacked up photos that I will never be able to get back again. This was no small problem. In fact, it was a pretty big deal, something that I still haven't recovered from yet. I knew my study abroad experience in Paris would be something that I would remember for the rest of my life, but I didn't want this to be the reason that was true. Seriously though, when I'm like 40, reflecting on all the crazy moments from college, this is definitely gonna be one of those highlights, but not in a good way. So I had all of my gear stolen. I was left pretty helpless.  I really had no motivation to pick up a camera again. And honestly, I felt like I was back to square one. I wasn't just going to sit there and not do anything about it though.  I remember distinctly sitting in my room in Paris after it happened and having no idea what to do. I felt like the whole world was just crumbling in on me and there was nothing that I could do about it. You guys don't really know this, but over the past year, YouTube has kind of become a fixture of my life. I've put out somewhere around 140, 150 videos over the past year, and that's wild. That's pretty much like a video every three days for an entire year. It takes a lot of work and it's not easy, but I loved it. And in this moment, I felt like that entire part of my life was just ripped away. So obviously things got better. With the success of the GoFundMe, I was able to repurchase some of my gear and at least get the ball rolling again on the whole YouTube thing. But the important thing is to kind of draw some lessons from this little hiccup. So I won't make similar mistakes in the future. The first of which is if you ever find yourself in Paris, don't choose to film a YouTube video right in front of the Eiffel Tower, one of the most touristy parts of Paris. No, but like seriously, Paris is known for its pickpockets. And I knew that going in and I tried to prevent that. But the thing is, if you're not vigilant every single minute of the day, something is going to happen. Like I tried to take every single precaution I could, but that wasn't enough. They're smart and they're going to do anything they can to get your stuff. My backpack was out of view right next to me in my peripherals. It should have honestly, it should have been, I should have taken the strap. I should have wrapped it around my leg and it should have been sitting in front of me the entire time. In Paris, having something within arms reach is just not enough. It's not enough. It should have been in contact with me at all times. Also, I was thinking about it. I probably shouldn't have had all my expensive gear in a single bag, but as I mentioned in another video, all that stuff was in the bag for a specific reason. Although it was unfortunate, I don't think I could have changed that specific outcome. The main lesson I've learned was something that was entirely under my own control, and now that I can kind of call myself a legit YouTuber, something that I should have already been doing anyways. Backing up my footage. Now I knew that I should have been backing up my footage and I was doing it, but it was, it was something that was very long-term. Everything that I had filmed since like March was not backed up at all. Every time I would bump up against the storage constraint of the SSD on my computer, I would load all of my old videos and clips onto my Yale Google Drive, which has like unlimited storage on the cloud. But at the time that I left for Paris, I was doing good on storage, so I, it was all on my laptop. I had been thinking about investing in an external hard drive before I left for Paris, but I was like, I didn't want to buy one right before I left and have to haul it all the way to Paris and then just carry it around with me. That's not something that I wanted to do. So I made the decision to just wait till after Paris, which was not the right decision at all. Fortunately, I should have pulled the trigger on the drive a little earlier because yeah, all the, all the footage has gone down. But here's my plan going forward. I just bought and it was just delivered this four terabyte rugged hard drive that is going to be with me at all times. Here's my plan from now on. I'm going to load my footage onto the SSD on my computer. I'm going to edit that footage. I'm going to export that footage. As soon as I have my file with all my video clips and everything done, it's going to be copied to my hard drive, my external hard drive, and it's going to be copied to the cloud. That way I'll have something local. I'll have something in backup and I'll have something on the cloud. So, so there's no reason I should ever lose footage like that again. And that's going to happen immediately after I finish. Every video is going to be backed up. This way I will never have to worry about running out of memory on my computer. I will never have to worry about losing files. And all all of my videos and any clips and stuff associated with my videos will be backed up on a external drive and on the cloud. With all these precautions, I'm going to hope that I never run into a problem like this again. Another thing that I've had people tell me is I have, I work on a PC. I do not work on a Mac. Currently I'm using a Dell XPS 15. It's a phenomenal laptop. I highly recommend it to any of you guys. I love it.  And it runs, I can run Premiere, Photoshop, and be watching YouTube videos at the same time. It is just, it handles all of it perfectly. I'm getting off track. It's a great laptop, but definitely look into it. But this also means I don't have the like built-in tracker that Mac has, right? So, something that I didn't account for was I, since I don't have the Mac tracker, I'm going to have to invest in some sort of tracker on my own. Probably I will put like a tile or something to my backpack. I've used those before. I just didn't happen to have one in my backpack at the time. Very unfortunate. It's something that I use during the school year, but it's going to be with me at all times now. I'm going to take a tile, keep it in my backpack at all times. So that way it will always be able to be tracked if this ever happens again. Hopefully it won't. Like this is, this is one of those once in a lifetime experiences that hits you really hard. You learn a lot of lessons from it as I've said, and hopefully it never happens again.  Back up your footage.  That's what I've drawn away from the situation. Also, I want to make sure that as I grow into adulthood to always ensure my stuff, because I am going to get some assistance, I think, for my laptop through my parents' insurance. So at least that will help out with some of the costs along with the go funding. It's not going to cover everything, but it's going to at least get me close. So yeah, as I grow up into adulthood, ensuring my equipment, ensuring everything, because sometimes you can't avoid crap like this and insurance will always be there to help you out. So I definitely, definitely will continue to invest in insurance as I grow into adulthood. And yeah, this was a rough situation. We're still recovering from it, but I've taken away a lot of important life lessons from this and hopefully something like this will never happen again. So thank you guys for all your support. Thank you for the go fund me. And with that, if you enjoyed this video, drop a like down below. It helps me in supporting the channel a lot more than you think. If you have any questions, comments, concerns, leave them in the comment section below. Or if you have any future video ideas, I have some time right now to pump out some more content. So if you guys have any ideas, especially as the school year begins to start, definitely leave them below. 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What is up everyone? Happy Wednesday halfway through the week and start of a new month November 1st 2023 And we've got a little bit of green coming in. It's just here in the last hour we've had a spike up in the futures and So we got futures rising ahead of the Fed decision and sounds like There's virtually no chance policy makers will make a move either way on interest rates When the Fed concludes its two-day meeting To which is we'll conclude today. I think drone pal speaks later today but Just doing a little Reading here before I got on it says what investors will watch instead are the signals that come from chair drone pal and the rest of the FOMC committee there that you know where they're leaning towards in the future, so Don't expect any rate changes and we do have some earnings today Morning rookie trader Paypal announces after the market closes Yum, I don't trade yum, but could affect the market to had earnings before market open today and it's down two and three quarters Airbnb after market closes and the biggest one that we trade is Roku Down to fifty nine dollars was up. Oh, when was that? You know, I see October 9th, they were up to seventy two seventy three bucks, so End of July Roku was at ninety seven dollars. So it's coming out quite a bit There is the bell Today we're trading the two days to expiration option chain That opens up plus 33 NASDAQ up 45 and S&P up eight roughly Tesla coming down Other stocks pushing up AMD pushing up had earnings after the market closed yesterday Vicks down one and three-quarter percent down to seventeen dollars and eighty three cents It's on pushing up S&P is up seven So I was looking at okay, so zero DTE I've done some read I went through the reverse iron condor course and then and says One of the criteria is a gap up of more than point two five percent overnight or Before market open and it didn't quite have that so I think I'll be putting on another Zero DTE iron condor like my paper trading account here is up about 19 grand I Was testing some other things in October or so, but definitely had very profitable zero DTE iron condors Figured out exact, but I'm guessing probably 15k or something in paper trading I think it said I'm Experimenting with a few other things was so my account paper trading guys in just Zero DTE iron condors, so that's what Things in there, so should be getting a second red or second bar here We mumble B Looking for some volume here now with this second bar Seeing any volume coming in yet Not seeing really any Volume bars that look like they're gonna no MU and you's got getting a pretty big bar here So that's a potential upside volume runner. Oh uber is already there. I'm gonna watch uber It's kind of it could flip red real easily here where it's at. I'll trade uber a ton Again to DTE. Yes, the uber just flipped red so Pass on that I mean you definitely gonna get there MU I would trade the 68 calls Built at a dollar four So it was kind of aggressive to get in there. Can you just never know if you need to? We're getting down to the last it was in starting the last minute of this bar So I wanted you know, so it looked definitely look like I was gonna finish green So I just jumped in hopefully that pays off Microsoft pushing up. I'll get out a half my MU at a dollar 15. Let me check Microsoft I don't think it got there No, did not So MU the only one really any other signals, so Bumblebee yeah, so I Need to go I started keeping track of like my exact fills and exact profits about halfway through October My account is my paper trading account is up like 19k for October, but there were other trades in there Just on some other things I was just practicing So but I would if I had to guess probably up like 15k and that's doing like four contracts for my zero DTE So whatever buying power that is, you know, and that may or may not be what I do when I live trade I may start off with two contracts Yeah, so SPX. I just been paper trading for Contracts and so I should probably pay more attention as to exactly how much buying power that is but I Think I looked the first time I started and I was like, yeah, I just do for but like I'll look at it again and maybe I Don't know. Maybe I'll start with two. Let's see. I So I still want to go another month at least I told myself three months You know in case you have a down month and I've also for November I started tracking the The zero DTE on a trade tracker. So for example, Steve has this trade tracker that looks like this so It's got tabs and it's like you and you can you can enter in your fills And so these are my fills for my zero DTE. I also put like what time I got filled which I need to do for this one and So I didn't start doing that until About halfway through October. So I'm gonna I'll be able to be more precise on my P&L in November Filled in MU at $1.15 Yep, my boy Trader Jim. So let's look for some mighty 90s Nothing there Nothing there Nothing there are a lot of stair stepping down in volume Had that yesterday. I do coming down Yeah, I will I will for sure That's what came down now trying to rebound here AMD pushing up and I do really coming down Let me take a look at by you or potential mighty 90. Let me look at toss real quick. It's that volume Yeah, it does have a potential mighty 90 Boeing coming down through Lowe's Square potential mighty 90, but it's balanced By the potential mighty 90 I'll close another MU at $1.25 Filled to the $1.25 It's like so they hit send it filled the mess of Maybe could have got more for that, I guess Hey, so by you if it pushes down one more time. I might look at getting long My little mighty 90 see if MU can get through that pivot there by you I would oh wow, they're kind of wide. I do strikes are kind of wide. It is pushing down They would trade the 103 calls build it at $1.89 in by you on the 103 calls and I would close half at 210. Let me trying to get through the pivot there So not a very good fill and by you just and the strikes were wide So that's probably why I don't always like to trade when the strikes were as wide as what they were there But close another MU at $1.35 built at $1.35 to close another MU So that volume runner really Working out at the moment nice Jim. Nice.  It's a pretty tight range though So for some reason I'm not getting paid like I thought I should thought I would close another MU here Wow Build it at $1.55 So by you popped up and so if it gives me two green bars, I can get out of it I should have gotten out of two more MU's instead of one, but it really popped up for me, which is good Got filled at $1.35. I've been going every 10 cents because that's 10% So I'm gonna go and get out of another MU just because it's gone up 20 cents from a dollar 35 got out of want another one a dollar 55 And again, I have another one at a buck 60 Little buck 59 to shed another so I got six left Anything else shaken?  Oh Netflix 420 put try to get filled at Six bucks filled at 610. That's the 420 put So nice signal here nice volume pop pushed up a little bit more.  Oh, man, and you got another big volume bar. I just noticed that If we're two consecutive red bars Missed out Garnet remember it always if you don't get filled to just adjust it by a tick or two Do that? Yeah, you don't have to get my exact fills because I mean honestly a lot of times people get better fills than I do It's probably 50 50, you know, this is price moves can move so quickly at you know, this time of the day It's so by you looks like it's gonna get Second green bar and Netflix it may be may push back up for you too. It's done that before where Pushes up and you can get even a better fill sometimes. I have to add to it When people are getting in for the first time MU with another big volume bar Wow, I have no idea why I've not gotten filled on half my by-do but I'm gonna go ahead and Close my by-do Because I've gotten two green bars now Breakers are wide strikes. I'll see now. It's now. It's come down. That's the one thing. I don't like about You know the wide strikes is because sometimes like you're chasing fills because There I got filled to oh filled it to 208 and by you to close Sometimes it's like your chasing puts. I also got filled at 670 and Netflix to close half But it could be frustrating when it goes against you You know Something goes against you and you can't get out so you like look look at by-do coming down now like I'm glad I finally got out of that because you know, I got my two green bars It's decent winner, but it could have been a lot bigger if I could have got out quicker That's like coming down to loads of day That's correct bumblebee So I look at like meta so meta had this little mighty 90 and now it's getting a second red bar because of these 90 90 green bars, so I you know, you get the exit Amazon to look at Amazon if you count this as a mighty 90 I don't think that bars as big as the first, but I did it in Netflix instead So now I'm waiting for two red bars in Netflix and MU as long as it holds there I'll continue to hold but it comes down much more. I'll just close it out. I got five MUs left started with 20 20 and a dollar four a little over $2,000 of buying power. I have been going a little bit bigger than that, but It's all the bigger that I went On that one so Microsoft pushing up pausing here, you know, it's maybe setting up for an upside continuation runner So I might look into that Stays above this pivot. Let me see here 342.5 calls See if they'll get filled at 375 and you holding Get out of another Netflix at 730 didn't get filled. I thought I was gonna get filled in my Netflix there Ducks did not get filled on my Netflix. It's like a one red bar in Netflix I definitely want to see it come down One more time because I don't want it to be like a continuation upward. No fill on Microsoft Just that Microsoft to 380 and you is holding So I'm holding Build it 377 that 370 and Microsoft. Yes Build it 370 and Microsoft on the 342.5 call So I would close half of that 410 What's the thesis for Microsoft upside continuation runner? So had this push up It's just consolidating not pulling back at all and then want to see it continue higher So emu, you know if I wouldn't be an emu you could play this as an upside volume runner Or maybe it's consolidating as well before it continues to push up Or continuation runner it does have these big volume bars. So I Considered it a I'll see a Microsoft go there. It's just what I was wanting to see Now if it can just fill me and an order at 410 to get filled but it has not filled yet That's cray-cray. There we go filled it.  Oh Roku right now could be a mighty 90. Yes But if it gets as big as the first here this volume bar, then it would be a Downside volume runner. So I've been careful on that one Build it 720 and Netflix.  Disney getting a big volume bar could be a mighty 90 Although that's getting pretty close to as big as the first I'm gonna close my Netflix filled at 750 So good mighty 90 there Was my last contract after two bars Yeah, so Roku. Let me check toss looks like it's setting up to be a downside volume runner They don't think I'm gonna play it though. Just because it has earnings today all us and Yeah, I'm gonna pass on it. I mean it's real close. It's not as big as the first in toss, but it's close So I'm just gonna pass on Roku So mighty 90 here in Roblox you can see but the but it's not going anywhere Yeah, Disney was I saw Disney I'll actually let me check Disney and think or swim. It's pretty close like Roku Now that bar is as big as the first so I would say Disney's a downside volume runner I'm gonna pass on it though. If emu comes below this pivot. I Will bail on it. Yeah, good. She got a little mighty 90 here. Check out goog in toss toss toss had this second bar as a green bar But yeah, I see that as a mighty 90s. So How about the 126 calls filled at $1.36 for couple green bars there Microsoft not going anywhere All right, Microsoft pushes below this pivot. I will bounce Definitely get a better fill than I got and goog That's what I was talking about. Sometimes you get better Sometimes I get better So emu still staying green here in terms of above this pivot But I'm down to two days to expiration. So you you will start to see a little theta decay And Microsoft coming down. I don't like that. I'll add to my goog if it gets down to like $1.20 Zero DTE iron condor doing Still sitting pretty good Intel pushing JPM has a mighty 90 a little tight range though So stay away from that Goog really coming down It's pretty tight range though Builded a buck 22 to add to goog. So I added to it here had this nice mighty 91 more push down And now I want to see two green bars Tesla Yeah, nothing really nothing really in tesla that I see Disney. Oh man Yeah, disney turned a green bar here. So that's kind of odd That is a big volume bar. Sometimes those big volume bars don't always work out When it's abnormally big So emu Like to see it continue higher here and for goog I would get out a half at a buck 34 My last still is a buck 22 10% is 12 cents So that would be a buck 34 to close half my position I've got a lot of contracts on in goog right now Because of it was a dollar 36 Microsoft Don't do anything in disney though Tight range pretty tight range. You can see that But will be if a volume just the big volume bar that is bigger than the first volume bar need to be this Uh, right out of the gates. Yes, but it that could change like Throughout the morning. So let's just say like um disney for example So it was red. Let's just say it has a couple big green bars Then that would be upside volume. So like uh emu. Let's just say let's say emu's first one was red But then if you know, the market starts getting strong and it gets a couple big green ones Then I would play it as an upside volume runner, but right out of the gates. Yes That makes sense So kind of kind of depends on what the market's doing and if it had a had a you know If it's is it the second big another big green bar a couple consecutive ones And goog's not really pushing up like with the rest of these right now It's kind of hoping it would be Get out of another emu here And a buck 80 Microsoft pushed right back up That's pretty weird how it's just flat lined right there Who getting a big red bar now? I'm sorry big green bar now No, I closed out netflix Builded a buck 34 to get out of half my goog Uh, I got out of netflix because it gave me it was a mighty 90 and it gave me two red bars So if you recall That was a mighty 90 and it gave two red bars. So Bailed on it builded a buck 70 To get out of another emu so just shed another one there It pushed right back up the highs of day So if it looks like it's just gonna get pushed right back down I might just bail on it because it's got Like three contracts left four contracts left Goog so it gives me a second green bar. I will get out of it Microsoft I would get out of another Microsoft at 475 I'm looking meta push up Just gonna close my emu Builded a dollar 58 To close emu so great trade there It has not gone anywhere for a while As you can see I'll test it coming down So I'm in goog I'm in Microsoft both long Get out of some more goog here and I'm gonna get out of two contracts So I don't know you can call it a quarter, but it's not one. It's two because I Added to it and have a lot of contracts on see how much time we got left I was gonna get out of some more but Now let's come back down So I'll wait here because I might just end up closing it out after two green bars Microsoft trying to get through highs of day You see why I got out of the emu it's coming right back down. So it's just flat line right there I mean at some point it might push through highs of day here, but you know that could be Next bar it could be in an hour So Not dealing with the faded decay Especially after it's already got a nice profit and goog May not give me two green bars here Just flipped red Now it's a flip black green So I think I'm gonna get out of goog Regardless here Unless it just starts blowing up here and gets super strong in the last minute But it has struggled a little bit here to push up Meta getting a mighty 90 short if you want to jump in that It'll do the buck 34 to close goog So I guess right where I got rid of half So I just it mean it looks like it wants to roll over. I don't know it may not but I'm just playing the rules on that one just by the looks of the price action I got an order in it To get out of another microsoft at 475 They just got filled at 475 man Futures are really pumping up there. I might yeah, my zero dte iron condor isn't doing the greatest but still holding on Ah, look at goog. You little rat should have gave it one more minute. I'm just following the rules 485. All right. Nice Yeah, it's got it's mighty 90 short. So it looks like it's pushing up So um You could you could add to it Depending on how you position sized up here at the top or wherever this stops pushing But uh, it's pretty good looking mighty 90 especially with this push up. So like Right at the top of this would be time to add to it or get in for the first time Sometimes I like to let these mighty 90s see if they push up one more time For whatever reason it's things are getting looks like they're getting strong We'll get out of another microsoft at 515 Wow, man. Goog really shot up. That's a bummer MU as well shot right back up. Yeah, three microsoft's left That's all I got left S&P up 30 now. Wow Yeah, so meta would be a good spot to get in probably right here at the top of this With this mighty 90 as long as this bar doesn't get as big as the first Build at 515 Get out of another microsoft So you can see that continuation runner on there. It's how microsoft was Pushed up and then it was consolidating Ugh amazon with a mighty 90 short as well I mean, I always hold because I position size to hold But I would you know, I would be position sizing to add to it right here where it's at And then it gives me two red bars and I get out But again, I I don't know if somebody Said something or Kind of shot up there a lot of these stocks Man if I would have held goog on that mighty 90. Whoa, that would have been awesome So I don't know like it's If you position size correctly you should be able to weather it and wait for two red bars, but Especially if you got in right up here at the top for an ad So microsoft actually has a little mighty 90 short as well So I think I'm gonna bounce on my microsoft Build at 535 to close microsoft. I only had two contracts left So But I can tell you this meta is looking good for a mighty 90 short here. I know Yeah, bum will be you got in here and unfortunately it's pushed up against you, but I would think it would give you two red bars I mean, it's gonna give you two red bars at some point See what else is going on here getting close to getting stopped out of my zero dte trade Well, I think I'll take my nice green day and call it a day. It's 9 30 central almost so You I'll be back on friday. So you get steve tomorrow Hope everybody has a great day. Talk to you later peace


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Hey everybody, welcome back to my StarWest channel and this is how I modified my Black Series Kylo Ren helmet. We would be honored if you would join us. Okay, so we're looking at a helmet mod. I have my Black Series helmet and originally I wasn't going to do this but I think I've changed my mind and I have my brother to thank for that. I was like I don't think I can do this and he's like oh yeah you can do it. So you can see the seam that's on the helmet. This section or these two sections they just pull apart. Like if you just use a little bit of force you can pull apart. And then there's the inside battery housing and all the electronics up here. That looks like this. Okay, that looks like this and it just comes out with like six screws. Okay, you can see all the screw holes right there. You can just send your screwdriver down into the belly of it and you can pull this big fatty thing out. And I just ripped it all out. I just ripped all these guts out and really this creates a lot more space in the helmet especially with an adult size head. You really want that out. There's also a little speaker in the front. Pulled that out as well. And I'll keep going. I don't have everything out yet but I wanted to show you the basics. The battery housing at the top and saving that because we are going to put that back in. We're going to bondo that. This is all some of the other stuff that took out. And of course this is the stuff I'm getting rid of. I'm going to hold off on throwing anything away until I'm done with the mod. I'm going to save it just in case. I don't want to lose anything just in case I might need it. I don't know if I'm going to need the head strap. I probably won't go back through it but I've ordered all my parts. I'm going to need off of Amazon and so get ready kids. We're going to make us a Kylo Ren helmet. Here's a real quick shot of what it looks like in the inside. Notice I've left the chrome part in there and the visor and the nose piece. I'll be taking that out a little later but just for now until I'm ready to start modding I've left some of the important pieces inside just so I can sit on my shelf for a little bit longer. Okay so all my arts and crafts materials are coming today from Amazon. I wanted to show you what was left of the mask after taking it apart and showing you the parts that I'm obviously keeping and what it looks like when it's all apart. So the rear here, this is the back half of the helmet. And as you can see there's really nothing on the inside. The front half of the helmet looks like that. It's really gutted when you take the faceplate out. I want to show you the back side because I'm keeping this piece right here.  I left it in because where that hits my nose is actually perfect and so I'm not going to just add foam back in when I've got a perfectly good molded piece right there. So I'm going to leave that in but there was a wire right on the top and what I did was I cut the wire and then I smushed it into the housing with a thin paper clip. So wire is gone. The silver mask plate in the front is actually two pieces. So most of this is silver except for those four black stripes at the top. All the black that's at the bottom comes from this piece here. So we'll leave this piece black. We won't touch it. We won't do anything to it. And this one we will try to put some sculpey in those holes and fill those speaker holes at the top so that it's one solid unit. And then this is the visor and we'll do our best to make it a little darker because right now it's really easy to see through. And then these are our three extra pieces, the battery housing and the two side buttons. So the first step is going to be gluing this together along with these three things making a solid unit helmet and then we'll start filling in all the cracks. Alright so this is with one coat of resin and as you can see I only did the back half but that seam really disappeared and I think it's going to look even better once we put a coat of paint on it. And as you can see the resin kind of made this drippy like stipple texture effect which I think is great because Kylo's helmet is not smooth. His helmet is very rough and well not rough to the touch but it's very like bumpy and homemade looking. And so this is like I said what it looks like after the resin is applied and now I'm going to start putting the black matte on the inside and the outside. So this is the mask fully painted and with all the holes filled notice I filled the air holes that were on the sides there. Some like breathe holes for little kids and then completely sanded it. It's got the black primer on the inside and the outside and the inside is so that the foam pads I bought will stick to it but other than the silver detailing I think I am done with this outside helmet. Okay the big day is finally here. My mask is done and I'm wearing my cowl. I look silly. I look ridiculous but it's part of the process of covering up and it's not as cool to see the mask without seeing the neck covered up too just so that you got to get a big picture. So over here sitting on the shelf and just as a really quick recap the seam here is gone on both sides right and the battery compartment has been covered up as well and then certain pieces of battle damage have been repainted. All the guts were taken out of the inside including electronics and you can kind of see some of the padding that I put in place just to kind of keep it on there. Speaker holes were covered in so they're all covered up and then repainted black. A little bit of shoe polish weathering over the front. Visor now has fabric in front of it and then these little holes here also have fabric. So I'll show you what it looks like with it on my head but I never get to see what it looks like because I always have to take my glasses off which is kind of lame. I can never see what I look like so just make sure my pads are in there. All right so this is what it looks like from the front and notice that I can turn my head like quickly right sometimes when your mask is too loose and you turn your head fast the mask kind of delays and moves slower but with the padding inside I can get a good movement and this is what it looks like from my profile this is what my other profile looks like so this is why you want to cover up make sure it's all blacked out this is what the backside looks like so really impressed really happy with it but it sounds even better with the voice changer All right and so that is the end and I realize I didn't film every single step right but you got the overview and I'm happy to answer any questions so if you post a question down below I'll see it and I'll help out or answer as best I can Thanks for watching guys, thanks for being a part of this journey May the Force be with you I'll see you next time, bye


You two team keep it clean. What's going on? It's engraving here with another video another episode of NFL questions from subscribers The series where you can ask me any NFL question you want to and we answer it in a video just like this now If you want to be part of it, you can send me an email to team keep it clean at gmail.com or for the patrons You can send it directly on Patreon shout out to all the team keep it clean patrons appreciate y'all team keep it clean We have some very very very special guests in the building for this episode So let me go ahead and let them introduce themselves and keep it clean We've got two special guests in the building from be more beat down And we got Ravens for dummies aka Spence and we also have Jake Locke So fellas go ahead and introduce yourself to everybody. Thanks for having us on my name is Jake Luke I am a writer a podcaster for Baltimore beatdown.com and this is my co-host Spencer Spenny Yeah, I likewise Work with Baltimore beatdown of SB Nation. We both write articles We both host the podcast Jake has handled a lot more of the production side And I previously worked with a company called Sports Info solutions I spent a little time with PFF as well So dive into the analytics world dive into the you know the team keep it clean smile in world and all that good stuff And Jake and I Jake and I keep our own dirty, but we're hashtag team keep it clean today Yeah for one day only So how did y'all get started we're doing exactly what you were doing everything that you do Yeah, thanks, so I started blogging for Baltimore beatdown in probably like 2016 I was still in college at the time and I'd always like had the idea that I wanted to like do journalism or something like that sports journalism specifically then I started taking some journalism classes and I realized I wanted nothing to do with like the The minutiae that goes into like being a journalist and like kind of all that stuff So kind of realized that you know, I was doing the whole blogging thing on the side anyway So I'm just gonna kind of go go full force into that And so I've since graduated been out of school for a couple years kind of stuck with it over that time and You know after doing the blogging for a while there came an opportunity to start up a podcast Or at least just an opening to do so so I approached Kyle Barber who's our editor asked if I could do it and this this man to my Right on my screen here just joined had just joined the website a couple months prior and I had just kind of a little inkling That he might be good on a pod so I invited him to start hopping on with us and pretty much since then That's that's sort of been the the rest is history situation with us to do in the pod But he's he's got a good story in his own right. I believe Yeah, I know, you know, I just played football growing up my whole life and You know, I was no no D1 athlete and my arms aren't very long I ran I think I ran a four eight forty at the Maryland State Combine at about a hundred ninety five pounds I don't think that's gonna cut it. I tried real hard You know did what I did but I didn't want to go play for me D3 football and stuff like that I was just didn't seem fun and I had a fun college experience. So Ravens fan my whole life my mom very blessed bought season tickets in 1996 when the Ravens came to town or back to town or whatever you want to call it and She's you know provided since so Those were actually for my brother for babysitting me they grew up and moved out I was a little bit younger and so I started going to games and I just Took to it and it got to the point, you know where in college and in high school I'd be writing, you know, Facebook posts that were like four paragraphs long about Joe flacco and Terrence West and stupid stuff and sounding like a like a dummy and Ultimately, I ended up going back to school at Towson University I studied some electronic media and film and that got me into writing I took some screenwriting classes and things like that and I saw on Twitter that Kyle Barber wanted to hire some writers. So I jumped into Baltimore beatdown. I had some social media professional experience I said I could help there too and boys been interested by the draft. So that was was all good stuff and Was a fun time starting up and like Jake said he asked me after a couple months We started it. I think the first-ever podcast we recorded. I actually recorded on my cell phone an ocean city in a room We just were throwing some some audio together and a couple young buck young bucks figuring it out starting and playing around If you go back to our very first episode, it probably sounds like ridiculous now I need to do that soon, but I think we're doing okay now. I'd give us like a six out of ten now We're pretty decent. Yeah, but we're six out of ten now We're like a one out of ten and like that was me on the producing end So I literally can't even go back and listen to those anymore Nails on a chalkboard. We all got a star somewhere though Yeah, and look where you are now now speaking of looking where you are now Where can they look to find you now? Where we can everybody find you it do it? Yeah, so you know what to do yep You can find me on Twitter at Jake Luke that is LOU QUE is how you spell my last name Spencer is at Ravens for dummies That's the number four in the middle and you can follow our podcast account We're tweeting out all sorts of content means funny stuff whatever strikes are fancy at podcast beatdown You can also find it at Baltimore underscore beatdown underscore podcast on Instagram And it's just Baltimore beatdown podcast if you want to listen on RSS feeds and YouTube Okay, perfect and my apologies because I said luck when I look at it I think luck on this goes them on in my head Honestly of the like the variations that I get on it That is like not even close to the most offensive or like wrong So I honestly the fact that you got that close is good enough for me All right, I appreciate it. So we got some great questions as we always do so without further ado Let's get into these questions from subscribers first question came from my guy Martin M He said a engraving been watching the channel since February of March. I don't remember I know we got off to a rocky start, but just wanted to let you know I really enjoyed the content You put out for many years always thought the Ravens fan base as the worst fan base in the NFL They always saying fire hardball fire flak oh fire this guy fire that guy Whoever even going as far as threatening kids because they didn't get who they wanted That's a shame for any Ravens fans that would do that Oh, but anyway, you said I just wanted to thank you for all the positivity That you've been showing and it's nice to know that they are still positive Ravens fans these days Anyway, my question for you is since I'm newer to the channel What are some of your favorite plays other than the flak oh hell Mary the one for me is Tori Smith's game winning touchdown versus Pittsburgh in 2011 2012 I don't remember Somewhere in that area. I have trouble remembering the whole games and what year they were sorry for another long question slash comment so What are you some of your favorite Ravens moments from over the years minds? Just to start off. It would be that same exact one. I believe that was from the 2011-12 season On Sunday night football with Tori Smith caught that game winning touchdown because that's the year that we swept Pittsburgh Because I think week one we played them and it was like 35 to 7 and the Steelers They've had like as many turnovers as points and that get that week one game But so those two will probably be two of my favorite moments. What about y'all? I'd say for me one of my favorite that I think is a one that gets lost in translation a little bit would be 2003 I want to say it was late November Ravens Seahawks at home Mr. Anthony Wright was the quarterback the Ravens trailed by I want to say 24 at one point in that game and Ultimately ended up winning the game 44 to 41 on a 55 yard Matt Stover field goal Man, the Ravens really have been blessed with kickers, but that was a really fun game. I believe Anthony Wright connected with Marcus Robinson Three times in the fourth quarter if I'm not mistaken Ed Reed blocked a punt and took it back 16 yards The Ravens threw a touchdown with a minute and 12 and it drew Baltimore the way back to 41 38 something along those lines The Seahawks it got to the point where the Seahawks it was fourth down I remember and it was really crazy because the entire stadium had left already There was maybe 10 20,000 fans left Ravens are getting blown out You know Anthony Wright was playing he was a backup and all the fans came storming back in in the fourth quarter I think it was one of the loudest I've loudest occasions I've ever heard it there and Matt Hasselback tried to do a quarterback sneak with like a minute left which would have sealed the game and I think Ray Lewis kind of came up and popped him and a couple linemen got back there and popped him and That that gave them the chance to go tied and then like I said they hit that game winning field goals So that was really cool for me. I think I was about 10 years old at the time So that was one younger memory for me that really stuck out And I think that if you've never watched that game or looked up the highlights that game you should it was it was incredible So that was that was definitely one for me. How about you Jake?  So I definitely remember looking into that a little bit That's a good pick for me I think a lot about and this isn't like totally out of left field but 2018 week 17 against the Browns I That was That was a big one for me because I kind of just graduated college and as like a I want to say a Christmas gift to my brother and my dad I bought them their first-ever tickets to Raven's games and like they had grown up my dad taking me You know with my brother, obviously He would buy the tickets and they would they would kind of take me and they sort of got me into tailgating culture and really got Me into the Ravens. So kind of buying them tickets, you know for Christmas that year was a lot of fun Nosebleeds, but you know who's who's counting that, you know, what does that matter as long as the other thought is there? so we Yeah, we get there and we actually got in a little late Jimmy Smith like snags an interception while we're walking to our seats So like we hear that going on. It's it's pandemonium throughout the stadium. It winds up being awesome awesome game Lamar Jackson just running up and down through that that Cleveland defense and It's sort of funny because it mirrored in a lot of ways What had happened the prior year with the same team in the same stadium the same week same stakes trying to make The playoffs with the wind and obviously you're playing a different team with the Bengals and the Browns But right kind of you're fearing the exact same thing is going to happen again, and I will never forget the feelings sitting those seats When Baker Mayfield takes the field and it's like oh god It's it's gonna happen again, and I promised I wasn't gonna square here But you know there were some things going through my mind about what was gonna happen on that field when Baker ran out there But CJ Moseley forces to pick and that was probably Spencer put out there recently What's the loudest you've heard the stadium in the past five years? I think Question that's gotta be that game That's exactly what I was getting ready to say too as soon as I heard you talk about that game that that is the loudest Ravens game I've ever been to because the stadium like it was literally literally shaking Um, I remember putting my camera in the cup holder and the camera It just kept falling because the stadium was so loud and it was just shaking like crazy So yeah, that that 2018 game was crazy. Um, I got to go back and rewatch that 2003 game From the ravens and the seahawks. I was just actually watching the uh 2003 playoff game With the ravens and the titans, um a couple days ago So yeah, that reminded me of what you were just talking about the next question came from my guy Lee pee He said blessings to you and your family what i'm about to say will not be a popular take but So be it. I believe pro shade james pro shade jp will not only make the squad, but Should be considered for the wide receiver three position Behind walkins and hollywood brown Yes ahead of rookie rachard bateman NFL players have always said they can tell if a player is good based off practice Well, pro shade is killing it in practice so far most improved player by far Could he be that diamond in the rough that this passing game needed all along? What are your thoughts? Spencer, I'll let you start with this one because I know you've been getting that bird's eye view to a training camp recently So you've been getting to see him up close and personal definitely um to me james pro shade is a type of player that He at his best, you know if he if his career was to turn out to be As best as he possibly could have it go I see him like a and you know, he's not a great guy off the field right now But I see him like kind of like a cold beasley type player who is just a you know one of the better or Most effective slot receivers in the game Uh pro shade might be able to do a little bit more damage on the outside than cold beasley can do But ultimately you want him running some option routes some slants some choice routes some quick hitters I think he has the best hands on the team by far when you're at practice And receivers are running through drills or if you hear marlin humphrey try or make an interception You know marlin humphrey's hands hit the ball you hear James pro shade catches the ball you hear Nothing because his hands are so soft. I like to say the man could win Uh egg toss competition out to 50 yards you could bomb him You know a nice organic free range cage free Dr. Magic or a farmer brown egg from the zero all the way to the 50 and you you know He would just cup that thing perfectly. I think that he has the best hands on the team. I think he's a tough Tight window contested catch receiver in terms of generating separation, you know, I don't See him being an antonio brown type or anything like that But I think he could make a nice career for himself as a slot receiver And as things stand if he continues to do 80 percent of what he's done in the First couple practices here. I guess we're about eight nine practices in Then you're gonna see a player who in this offense that you know take it into consideration They don't throw the ball all that much. Let's say they you know throw another 50 60 passes this year Is kind of what I'm starting to project not a ton more but a good bit I think you could be a 25 30 35 Maybe even 40 catch guy depending on you know injuries and other situations and be a reliable target over the middle So james crochet, I think is going to carve out a nice career for himself as a slot receiver and is a starting caliber slot Now do you think that um because lee's other question was do you think he should leap frog reshaw bateman? and because I Me that's a no, but do you think he should leap frog reshaw bateman as far as playing time? There's a lot of different takes on you know who what when and when you're out at practice You see devon duvernay the ravens are basically using in two ways right now They're using him as a flanker Which is going to be a very Far perimeter towards the boundary receiver that is off the line of scrimmage Usually you want faster guys that can threaten the defense vertically draw safeties out into space to open things up underneath It's also guys who maybe aren't the best with dealing with press that's going to be you know your bateman's your walk ins So that's going to be the other side of the field the guys who are on the line of scrimmage So I think that you know seeing them use duvernay as someone who's going to come in motion a lot Someone who's going to get some screens some handoffs some manufactured touches underneath versus james crochet Who's probably going to be you know on the line of scrimmage or off the line of scrimmage closer to the formation and working between the numbers So you know hollywood brown Probably going to get a lot of time in the slot too mark andrews plays a ton in the slot Josh oliver looks like he's going to play in the slot sammy walkins and rishad bateman both Rip bateman in college and walkins and you know his previous tenures with the chiefs and the bills As well as the rams is used in the slot too. So crochet definitely is on the pecking order But where he stands is is tbd, but he's definitely playing himself into playing time Yeah, I like to I like james a lot when they made that pick probably more so than a lot of people Um, it's kind of gone. I wouldn't say I haven't You know gone back on that in the last couple months But uh, I think it was always framed as like him versus myles boykin to make the roster And I think just kind of looking at it rationally like myles boykin size speed combo his Blocking ability some of his production too to be fair He scored a decent amount of touchdowns in the last couple years I just thought that boykin was for sure going to have the upper hand but at the last couple you know Days week and a half whatever of practice have shown anything. I think I said this on the show the other day that It seems like james Crochet is like more than the sum of his parts. You know, he's kind of a smaller guy But he makes it work and myles boykin unfortunately Kind of has shown himself to be less than the sum of his athletic parts at times And uh, I think that's unfortunate because I I think myles is a good dude with a ton of potential But as of right now, I think james is uh, I don't know about like the third receiver but I definitely think he has a spot on this roster and um The way that he's developed already from like a six-round pick who basically didn't do Much of anything as a receiver as a rookie to what he's doing in training camp right now I don't see why he couldn't continue to develop and crack into the rotation. Maybe at some point this year Okay, and um something that you touched on uh as far as what he's doing in training camp this year It does make a big difference because they actually have a training camp this year because him and duvin They they didn't get to have that last year And now with them adding sammy walkins bateman Wireless and then of course hollywood and boykin being back as well Uh that that competition in training camp is that much better So we're gonna see soon who ends up making it got what about a month left and then they got to trim that roster down to 53 So ravens, uh, hopefully um, they have some tough decisions to make and the decisions aren't made based off of Who's available health wise. Hopefully that's not what makes the decisions Hopefully the decisions are made as hard as possible And all those boys just