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John Furrier here in the Palo Alto studio here with Gary Blum, the CEO of Mark Logic, former industry executive, former Oracle executive, been around the block, seen a lot of innovation cycles, seeing the ups and downs here in Silicon Valley and certainly in the tech business. Gary, welcome back. Great, happy to be here. Innovation cycles, we were talking about on our radio show this morning about, we've seen the movie before, but tech companies are different now than ever before. We're seeing more private equity, a lot of M&A, a lot of financial engineering, we're seeing HP getting broken up and there's a rumor that VMware's going to do it. Did you sell some assets to AWS? The cloud game has certainly been a hurricane force like we're seeing in Florida today. Yet the incumbents like Oracle are still holding on and others like IBM are transforming. But these guys have to change and you wrote a post about Oracle OpenWorld and going to the next generation database. What does an Oracle have to do and what do the existing legacy players, incumbents have to do to modernize?  Right, right. What do they do? Innovator die is what people say, but I mean, how do they innovate? Yeah, well, to your point, I mean, we've lived off of innovation. Yeah, we created a new generation of technology. Yeah, really for this big data world before anybody knew there was such a thing as big data and before they were calling it. And so that having that vision to start using modern technologies to build modern applications is really critical. The reason it's kind of complicated in the database world is we haven't really seen a transition in about 30 years. And that's when Oracle took over the marketplace from IBM. And if you think back to that timeframe, Oracle took it over. They were the same size company Markologic is today at that time. Roughly 100 million, roughly 500, 600 employees. And the reason they took it over is because IBM had to protect their hardware revenues and IBM had to protect their services revenues. Roll the clock forward 30 years later and what do they even come that's really... Well, IBM basically enabled Oracle to get the SQL database going and they basically gave it to Oracle. Well, yeah, I would say they created the opportunity but then they had innovators... You kind of handed it right to you. They did, but then they had innovators dilemma as to how to embrace that new generation. Oracle faces the same challenge. When we run our product, it's very agile, it's very quick. You build applications in a fraction of the period of time. So if I do all those things, and oh, by the way, I run on scale out commodity until hardware. So all of a sudden, if you're Oracle and you say, well, I'm gonna embrace the next generation so much for your sun revenues, so much for your exadata revenues, and oh, by the way, those 5,000 people you put on projects, they probably aren't needed or if they're needed, they're needed for weeks, not months, not years. Maybe some consolidation coming for Oracle. Well, I think Oracle has an interesting strategy. They've been very much on the acquisition trail of SaaS-based companies. I used to be on the board of Tileo when they came in and that was a pretty quick move by Oracle at that time. They're not afraid to make some M&A moves. Right, they've got... Up and running companies, bring them in, put them in the portfolio. Absolutely, and they have NetSuite running now. And so for their applications business, they've been very acquisitive. For their database business, they're trying to preserve their maintenance revenue stream. And they talked a lot about cloud at Open World, but they didn't really talk much about the database. And what I can tell you is simply taking an old database and moving it to a new environment does not modernize the database and it doesn't help it solve modern data problems. So their pitch of we can run Oracle on the premise and the cloud, which is, of course, it's their cloud. So it's Oracle on Oracle. Same code base, it's basically their database. That's modern for them. Well, it's modern for an old database, yes. You know, we can also... It's also licensing from lawn-prem licensed to a... Right. As you go? Right. I mean, that's a shift, that's not necessarily modern. Yeah, well, it's a modern shift, I guess. Well, it's a modern change in how you're licensing and pricing. It's not innovation on the technology. You're still trying to build applications with a technology model that was created 30 years ago. What does Oracle do in their strategy? So you're seeing them hold the line with the messaging and I was very critical at Oracle Open World on this, how Mark Hurd and Safra Katz were like, obviously just cloud, cloud, cloud. And that's, believe me, they're really good at it. They should be in a business school class on how to do analyst relations because all they do is bang the drum. Cloud, cloud, cloud. And they got a lot of other stuff going on. They have hardware, you mentioned Sun. They have Exadata, a great product. They have a lot of other products and the middleware group. So meanwhile, Kurean's got the database team. Right. Are they going to ever go out of their swim lane? How do they get, they have to go beyond the database. Oracle has to, to be successful. Well, one would think so. But we sure didn't hear any news out of Oracle Open World around that. You have simply providing a cloud infrastructure. Like I said, it doesn't change your database technology. We have a modern database technology. You can run it on-premise. You can run it in the cloud. And when you talk about Oracle's technologies could be on the Oracle cloud, we look at it and say, well, customers don't want that lock-in. They want cloud neutrality. So we run in Amazon's environment and Google Cloud. You can run in the Microsoft's cloud. We don't really care. And in fact, you can mix your workload half in the cloud and half on-premise with a MarkLogic system. So you were critical of Oracle Open World. You're not critical. You basically came out and said, we didn't hear so much, which is polite for saying, you know, they don't have any Enterprise NoSQL database modernization. What did you mean by that in that post, that whole narrative? What was your point? My real point is that Oracle is in the innovator's dilemma that IBM was 30 years ago. And they are essentially creating an environment where they're going to concede the database market to a new generation player. And right now MarkLogic's the leader in that category. You know, we're the biggest. We do the same kinds of systems, operational transactional systems, except that unlike Oracle, our projects don't take years to build. We build them in months. And unlike Oracle, it doesn't run on really expensive proprietary hardware, which was the same problem IBM had 30 years ago. Ours runs on very open Intel scale-out architecture. So you're clearly trying to go after some of their market share? Well, I wouldn't tell you we're trying to go after their market share. We've already taken market share from them. You're eating some of that. So let's try to put the progress bar on the levels of eating away. So there's the croissant crumbs at breakfast, or there's lunch, and then there's dinner. How far along are you relative to eating into Oracle? Are you eating at their lunch at this point? Are you still kind of on breakfast? Well, I think we're transitioning towards lunch. If we want to use that analogy. I'm not quite sure I follow that analogy. When you're eating someone's lunch, you're pretty much about to take their dinner.  Listen, we're one of the only next generation database technologies that's north of $100 million. We've been there for two years. Over 50% of my revenue is finishing projects that loyal Oracle customers tried to solve with Oracle first and couldn't complete the project. So I'm in the business already of finishing projects started on Oracle. And we're living a very healthy lifestyle on that. Are all your customers, most of your customers, are shared some of the percentages of customers of on-prem versus cloud? Do you have any cloud native all-cloud customers, or is it all mixed on-prem or on-cloud? I absolutely have both. And so as an example, Saturday Night Live application that NBC created for the Saturday Night Live 40th anniversary show, that was a Mark logic application built in about two months, deployed entirely on Amazon. And oh, by the way, one of the top iPhone apps for the anniversary show, delivering 40 years of content across your mobile device. So you're exhausting depending on how the customer wants to deploy. You don't really care. Completely agnostic. There's lots of reasons to keep things on-premise. There's lots of reasons to go to the cloud. And there's lots of reasons, by the way, to mix the two environments. And we allow our customers to mix the two environments as well. You can have part of it running on-premise and part of it running in the cloud. It's just a deployment platform. I was having this conversation with Dave Vellante and Peter Burns, who now heads up our research, former Forrester analyst now out of research at Wikibon. And we were saying, why wouldn't anyone want to put a new application on the cloud, except for when the specific regulatory and or specific business reasons to have an on-prem? I mean, why wouldn't you have it in the cloud? That's like saying, I want to build an app for a BlackBerry versus an iPhone. You want to be on the most advanced, more flexible, most used, most powerful system. But you hit the issue, right? Which is, today, not all data can be in the cloud, because in some cases, that won't meet the regulatory requirements. Yeah, this is some of the use cases where absolutely cannot be in the cloud. Yeah, and so. But if it can, why not? But what customers are waiting for is kind of the regulatory ready cloud, just like they want a regulatory ready database, which is something we've provided regulated industries and done very well in. And so they need security. They need high availability. They need data governance. They need to know where the data came from. They need to understand the time dimension of their data. So there's a lot of requirements and they're all experimenting. I have very few customers that aren't looking at the cloud and saying, oh, that's not for me. I'm never going to be there. In fact, you can look at JPMC as an example. Jamie Dimon for years said, my data will never be in the cloud. Well, over the last two years, a cloud-first mentality at JPMC. Some people are saying that the cloud is actually more secure than on-prem for a variety of other reasons. But I want to ask you more of an IT philosophy question. So let's put our IT buyer hat on. So imagine we're, you and I are working together. We're managing a huge IT shop. And there's a $3 trillion IT budgets out there. It means massive numbers. Most of them haven't even shipped to the cloud. Maybe it's higher kickers and early adopters, what not, but still huge trillions. We're sitting here saying, Gary, we got to modernize it, we're going to be dead. We got to move this data center into the cloud. But we got all this stuff. We got VMware, we got Oracle. What do you suggest to the folks watching and potentially that are in that IT buyer or designer or CIO hot seat? Because they have to make decisions. And what specifically should they look for in a vendor to know whether their lunch is being eaten or they're dying or they're ready for the future? How do buyers and decision makers and folks in the IT enterprise or CXO or CIO decide whether a vendor is good or not? How do you talk about that? Well, one of my- So I have good revenues and loyal customers. Right. One of my primary talk tracks that I use is avoid the hype cycles. So, you know, we've talked earlier today about the whole Hadoop hype cycle. You know, and at the end of the day, people spend a lot of money on it. And now all the articles suggest, well, I didn't really get my value out of it. In other words, I put all that data in, but I can't use it. So the good news as you consolidate, the bad news is you can't access it. And we're solving that data integration challenge for our customers. And so when I think about, it's avoid the hype cycle and look at the capabilities of the technology and then look at where the companies are doing their business. In our case, as I mentioned, over 50% of our revenues finishing projects started on Oracle. So we're enterprise focused. We built the enterprise features into our product in version one back 15 years ago. It was always targeted- One thing is make sure the company that you're working with is enterprise focused. Make sure it's enterprise ready technology, certainly. You know, a lot of the open source databases, in fact, all of them in the NoSQL world, they all share a common trait. None of them have transactional consistency. So if you're willing to accept in perfect data, use those products. Or be cloud ready too, if you're enterprise cloud ready to that point too. Well, and that goes to the next thing is, is this customer, is this vendor giving you flexibility? You know, can you take that application if the cloud is a big transition? Can you run in the cloud? Can you move it to any one of the cloud vendors you want to go to? So cloud neutrality, can I bring it back on premise? So we offer our technology, you can run it on premise, you can run it virtually, you can run it physically. And a lot of our customers, by the way, have made moves to the cloud because they don't run good data centers. And they found that that's a way to get better operational excellence. Great leverage in the cloud. Okay, IOT, final point for this segment. IOT is in the hype cycle, no doubt. It's rampant right now. But it's very relevant. I mean, IOT is seeing autonomous vehicles. You're seeing your wearables, consumer devices. So you can see the, you can connect the dots and obviously the industrial side of it to the analog coming together. No one really knows how big the T is in IOT. What's your thought as someone who supplies a database and next generation solutions? Why should they deal with this tsunami of IOT? Well, I think the big challenge for IOT companies today and companies that are focused on it is do you know all the things in the future you're going to want to do with that data? And I would argue that most companies have an idea of what they want to do but we're in the early innings of the game. And so they're not really gonna know what they want to do with all that data. So an advantage of putting it in a product like MarkLogic is we're a very agile environment. And so if I put it all in there, I don't have to know all my requirements today of what I'm going to do with the data five years from now. You do the same thing in a relational database or the same thing in a lot of the open source databases. You put it in there. The only thing you're able to do with it is meet your requirements today. So we essentially are trying to say, think about future-proofing your strategy because you won't know what you want to do with it until you're ready to do it. All right, Gary Bloom here inside the studio. Thanks for joining me today. Gary Bloom here inside the studio in Palo Alto. I'm John Furrier. You're watching theCUBE. Thanks for watching.


Mission number 1, 0, 1, 4, vehicle, 2 dump trucks, 7 times, 1, 1, V, RCOs, 9, 1, 7 times, 1, 1, V, 9 RCOs, 8, M16s, 1, 8, M4s, equipment, Uh, is it giving me a medal? Right with you, brother?  Thanks. Let me get it. That's all enough. I'm tied down. Back up here. There you go. We're stopping you from right now. There you go. Keep going. Quick stop. Roger. Also the one humvee is right here. Our site is located a little bit to the left of this road. And you got UT over here. And you got the COC down over here a little bit.  You're going to hit checkpoint 16, which is right here. You're going to make that left on checkpoint 16. And you're going to drive until you hit checkpoint 13, which is gate 2 on Camp Hanson. Then after you get your load, you're going to go to ETA 1, which is located right here. This is your ETA 1. You're going to go up all the way through there, through the jungle, some tight turns. Just watch out your sides. You don't hit any guardrails or anything. Back into Kimblew. We're going to have to EFL with the COC, which is Atlas Main. Alternate routes. So these are called route teal. And then this other route right here is route black, 329. This is where it meets right here. You got other lines back to checkpoint 12. But right here, you got checkpoint 12, which is going to be combat town. Which is going to be going through this entire part here between checkpoint 10 and checkpoint 11. You're going to run into it another turn, which is checkpoint 4. And from there, you're going to keep on going into the routes that are designated for us to drive on, which is going to be checkpoint 3. And then so on, you'll hit onto route teal, which is checkpoint 9, which is located in little trees and everything like that. You got the ocean. We got to mark the ocean off of you guys, which is all around there. So that's where the first big, so the second big. That's where we're pushing off today. We're going to be at 100. So you're going to be driving the daylight, so it's not going to be as hard to see. Sunrise. Route Black. And you're going to make it right. On gate 2, which is checkpoint 13 on Camp Hanson. And then from there, you're going to head to the motor pool. Drop off and pick up gear. Make it left. Follow route Black. You're going to hit checkpoint 16, make it right in ESL, back into Kin Blue. While you guys are doing all this combo, you guys are going to make sure you guys are paying attention to the route and everything like that. Watching out for pedestrians, watching out for vehicles, because these roads are smaller and our tactical vehicles are a lot bigger than what these roads are. So you guys need to make sure you're paying attention. You guys aren't into anything going towards Camp Hanson or Route Black. But you never know. So pay attention to what you're doing. If you have any suspicious activity, radio.


Hey guys, it's Nate, AKA The Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. It is Friday and pre-season is here. Probably the last promo of FIFA 21 is here today on Friday with this pre-season promo starting today. A lot of people are expecting FIFA 22 related content that is redeemable inside of FIFA 21, right? You see here on this loading screen, we have FIFA 22 branding, but we also have these cards, right? I wanna talk about what these cards mean and why I think that they are here. Obviously, this is the second year of the pre-season promo last year we had it in FIFA 20. It was way different last year than it's gonna be this year, in my opinion, just based off of the timing. Last year we had Champions League and stuff going on. We don't have that this year, but I wanna take a closer look today at what content I think could be dropping today. Also talk about how it happened last year and how some of those similar things could still be a part of pre-season this year, even though it looks like it might be a bit different. But of course, best of batch three for footies and all of this footies content is expiring today. Now, not all of it 100%, all of it, but a lot of these upgrade packs, a lot of these player SBCs, Kante, Abame Yang, you look at guys like the player picks. So those are those packs, the footies player pick, those are going away. The 92 plus icon moments pack is going away. So the only thing that's kinda staying is like Umtiti's SBC, the 87 times 10, and I think Linguard has one day left on him. So a lot of this stuff is expiring from the SBC section today. I think also Ansu Fati is expiring, but we will still have Bellarin available after today on Friday. Yeah, Bellarin still has got five days left. So that'll be a footies card still lasting here for a while. But let's talk about what content we could see today because again, the whole point and the whole branding around this promo is that it is gonna be FIFA 22 related, right? It's the FIFA 22 pre-season. And what I think they're gonna do is they're gonna have a lot of these similar offers and rewards that they had last year in FIFA 20 in FIFA 21, right?  So again, just like last year, things I would expect to see available through objectives and SBCs. I think those are the two mediums. Again, as it says here, complete select objectives and squad building challenges in FIFA 20 to unlock the following for 21. So roll that forward, FIFA 21, complete these things, get it in foot 22. Coin boosts, icon kit, future stars kit, chemistry style and engine chemistry style. There's probably gonna be a lot of stuff that you really don't wanna go out and grind. I mean, to be completely honest, I feel like the highest quality thing that they would give away as a reward would be like an 80 plus player pick and 81 plus player pick or maybe a draft token, right? They might give you away a draft token for the start of the game. That'd be actually pretty sick if they did that. But I mean, with this promo being so much later than it was last year. Last year it started in July. We're at the end of August when this is starting. This promo lasted for a while. There was a lot of packs, but kind of Footies overtook that this year, right? Footies was our upgrade packs. It was our insane cards they were putting out. They had best of items and packs. I do think that best of pack content is gonna be happening again. That's why I think we have the Tots cards team of the years and the future stars on the loading screen. You might be asking me like, yo, Nate, why are they gonna put Tots cards and team of the years back into packs when we just had summer stars and Path of Glory and some team of the seasons? Well, I think what they might do is, of course, they can't just take everything all out of packs after they've had all this stuff that is in packs. But Footies has just been different batches, right? As you see here on the little info screen, scan to see the 200 players in Footies batch three. It's not all Tots cards. It's not all team of the years. It's not all future stars or whatever. I think what they might do with the way that that loading screen looks and to kind of feel like it's still a step forward and something more hype is put all team of the seasons, all team of the years and all future stars back into packs along with other special cards. There's probably gonna be even more special cards available, just not as many top tier ones, right? So in some sense, it might feel like a step back from having 99 Messy because now you're gonna have 98 Messy in packs. From 99 Ronaldo to 98 Ronaldo, from 99 Neymar to 96 Neymar. I totally understand how some people are not very excited about that. Myself included, right? For myself right now, I'm spending my last bit of coins like today before the content drop to do my last few 88 plus player picks and 82 plus player picks because if there's Tots cards coming back into packs, like those are lower level than these future stars in Path of Glory. So that to me isn't where the hype is with this promo, right? I think the hype with this promo is again, with these objectives that we will get related to FIFA 22 because yeah, you know what, if you're playing FIFA right now, you're a grinder, right? You're putting in the extra effort to see the game out because you love football or whatever your reasoning may be, right?  So this will be a great opportunity for you to even if you're starting to get excited about FIFA 22, get on FIFA 21 a little bit, get an objective done, get a chemistry style, right? An engine chemistry style, anchor chemistry style, maybe a couple of small packs and just kinda help your club, you know, as you start into the game in FIFA 22, right? But just don't expect big rewards. Like you're not gonna be getting icon packs, you're not gonna be getting like 85 plus packs, player picks that are like 86 plus, like they don't give that stuff out early on. Like again, seriously, I don't imagine anything over like a 15K valued draft token or maybe like a 7.5 pack, maybe a 15K jumbo premium gold pack as like the highest level reward for an early game FIFA 22 reward that we could be getting today. But the other part of this problem that I think will be involved that wasn't involved last year was transfer content, right? We haven't seen too many transfer SBCs or even cards released into this game, right? We've had Messi, we've had DePie. Now we already have guys like Wyaldum who's got his gold card that has been changed over. I think Hakimi has got a gold card that's been changed over. Konate is an item that now he has his Liverpool item alongside of his Leipzig item. So I think what they're gonna do with this promo is they're gonna be releasing some transfer SBCs. The way they did that last year, I'm gonna show you a few examples if you remember any of these cards, they did the premium SBC card design type. They didn't have a new card design, they just basically used this premium SBC one.  Now one thing we also saw last year was they released gold cards of the transferred cards too. So I think one thing we'll be looking for in the coming days is basically like a gold PSG Messi or as more transfers, you know, Cristiano Ronaldo to Manchester City or Mbappe to Real Madrid, if those do happen, if those are processed and they do end up happening then those are the items that you might see as a part of this pre-season promo. So I think the two biggest things in terms of hype are gonna be the top transfer content, right? Basically how we had footies transfers like the transfer SBCs like for Messi and for De Pye. With something along those lines but with probably this card design unless EA had a new card design but related to transfer content and then the FIFA 22 objectives because this year in FIFA 22 we don't have Champions League going on right now and we just had to draw yesterday. All of this stuff was related to 2020 and with the leagues and the Europa League and Champions League coming back from the pause that was on while COVID was happening, right? In the spring last year in 2020 these were paused and then they returned in that July August timeframe and that's why I wrote to the final Champions League showdowns and all this stuff was involved last year during pre-season promo. Obviously that's not going on this year so you probably won't see any of that sort of stuff in this game. But again, I do think the number one thing you can think to see today maybe is the transfer content. I hope that they drop the transfer content often, early and often but the one thing we need to see is cards actually added to this game and as of right now a lot of these items they're not even added at their new teams, right? Mr. Sancho, he does not have a GGMU gold card. As far as I'm concerned he still only has the Barusha Dortmund gold card 87 rated so before I think they can give him specials which I guess that's not entirely true because they gave Messi a PSG at SBC before they made a messy PSG card in the market. But usually what you see is the card added to the game code with that new league and with that new club before they actually release items of them in the game. So maybe that's something they're not going to do just yet but I would expect to see some transfer content today and I hope EA make it hype, right? Footies has been a really, really hype promo and if they kind of pull back and make this not very hype which I think there is potential with that if they're only gonna have Tott's team of the year and stuff on the loading screen in terms of the packs, cards that are in packs that might be a little bit not as hype I guess you could say but hopefully they go all out with it. Hopefully they release some good upgrade packs some good player pick SBCs. Maybe this is the time where they will actually up their game a little bit with icon upgrade packs, right? If you think about the icon, the 92 plus icon pack that we have had for a while it's been the same thing they've been dropping for like the past month. This 92 plus icon moments player pick. One of the things they might actually do during this preseason promo is drop some of the packs that were in this last set of swaps like maybe the 94 plus again icon moments attacker mid-pack, 93 moments attacker player pick. These sorts of SBCs might actually come out as normal content as SBCs not inside of swaps in the next couple of weeks during this preseason promo as well. That's a way where EA could take this part of content to the next level. So again, I think it really depends upon those SBCs the transfer content they released the players that they released, right? There's plenty of options for cards that are transferred and players who have moved clubs for them to put out some really neat special cards in FIFA 21. And then also the objectives and SBCs and the rewards that they give you in FIFA 22, right? Maybe get the coin boost one if it's easy. Like again, you kind of have to use your common sense that they're asking you to play 15 games of FIFA to get a five game coin boost. Like is that really worth it? If they're asking you to turn it in the 84 rated squad for a kit from FIFA 20 is that really worth it? You know, I don't think that's really worth it. So just again, make sure that the stuff that they're releasing if you want to get involved in it make sure that it's not too much of a grind and it's just not worth it. Especially at this point in this game that would be my advice to you. But that's the content that's what we're looking forward to today on Friday. Again, preview packs. I mean, I don't know what is going on with preview packs right now, man. They released a pack today that said 85 to 91 preview pack. But of course it was non-previewable even though it said preview pack in the title. I think preview packs are done. Either they took a week off or they're gonna come back today and it just feels like they're done, man. So I'm really confused at what was going on. Also keep an eye on this Nani card because I do believe this guy is gonna get upgraded and it should be pretty soon because the game happened about 24 hours ago. Last night actually when I was recording the video Nani and the MLS All-Star team actually scored the goal and scored the penalty, the winning penalty to win the game. So this card should be getting upgraded maybe today on Friday, hopefully like tonight especially if you wanna use it in the weekend league. I am giving weekend league one last hurrah. This is gonna be the squad. I think this is basically about the best squad that I can get. Militau is definitely better than Voron. So I'm gonna slide him in there. We got the full team on 10, Cam and we're gonna be ready and rocking. And I'm excited to use this team in the weekend league, man. A lot of five-star skillers, a lot of great players. So one last run around in the weekend league. That's one other thing they could change today. They might change rewards. I believe actually if you go in here and look at the schedule, the rewards, yeah the rewards kinda stop after this week. So I'm kind of interested to see if they update rewards and if there's any pack code added, they might be adding maybe summer stars, maybe Path to Glories to Reds. That would actually be pretty hype. And that'd be pretty interesting. So we'll keep an eye on Twitter maybe for that. See if there's any pack code that is released. But of course right now, there is nothing. So that's what we're looking forward to today. Again, these cards should be back in packs team and season, team of the years. Might make them drop a little bit, but who's saving packs as promo? Nobody. If there's supply coming on in the market today for these cards, it's because EA dropped preview packs and preview packs only. So that's what I'm expecting today. Hopefully there's great FIFA 22 related content released inside of FIFA 21 today. And hopefully it is hype. So EA Sports, it's all up to you, right? Give it something cool today as a part of this pre-season promo. But that's the video from me today, boys. If you did enjoy, smash the thumbs up, comment down below if you have any questions and subscribe if you do. It's been Nathan Ford Accountant. I'll catch you guys later. Peace out.


the raw eggs it'll yeah I have in the past yeah we'll try some smoothies yeah I'm not afraid of it I am yeah my immune system is pretty good Bruce says we should be taping this as episode number two of Anthony Anderson right yeah we'll cover these topics again I mean these are all very important things yeah Dominic says I've heard that frozen food is not healthy any thoughts about that I think it's kind of BS I really do I mean they can freeze sperm and sperm is come comes back to life and you know you can make a baby from it so I just think the freezing thing okay sure that's why I was saying that which Ellie says some bacteria are freeze resistant you got to be careful yeah okay but you know I mean when you freeze stuff it's gonna break the cell wall you know the water inside the cell is gonna bust that cell wall open that's right so that might even be good so you can get the nutrients otherwise you know you might not get them but I don't think that there's that much degradation with the food I really don't and maybe even more because sometimes when they pick that stuff like blueberries raspberries they freeze them right away because they know that it's gonna be a frozen product instead of it sitting on the shelf that whole foods for a week or something you know so there's a different I think it might even be better sometimes and what I see sometimes in labels it says flash freezing what is that it's just like a very low temperature oh like right into some like major frozen area or something yeah and you know what's what's funny about that is people will dog the frozen stuff but then they're eating powders you know like you know goji berry powder or mock-up powder I mean how I feel like that's really degraded because it's been powdered up so much and then it just sits there and it could go rancid or whatever how about the algae is though because that's how I eat my algae that now I'm getting him in almost have to in capsule forms which actually I love those that now yeah I mean I do a lot of Clarella I do a lot of spirulina but I don't expect it to be I mean I think that's kind of different because it is an algae but I don't think it would be better than us going to directly to the pond and you know eating a slurpee out of it you know I think that would be really cool but it's the best option available commercially unless someone starts selling algae juice and a can you know or a bottle it's like right I think it's the best thing but I'm not too worried about frozen food yeah it's amazing to me how people just spend a lot of money on this healthy stuff I mean right around the corner here you go there's like a whole grocery aisle of just any kind of drink you want from kombucha to you know organic anything but what's amazing to me is like $5 for this yeah I mean you read the ingredients and yeah there's not that much sugar in it it's one of the last ingredients so you are getting something there but you know I'm always like I can make this at home and make 20 of them for that price yeah you can make a gallon of kombucha for 25 cents probably you know you need about a cup of sugar and then you need your about five or six bags of green tea or black tea and then that's it and just pour a little starter in or put a little scoby in there and then in two weeks you've got a gallon of kombucha it's just the convenience of it I think yeah and they have it dialed down where they know how to make it really nice and fizzy and all that but it's so expensive which will make you buy more and buy it again and it says get New Zealand oysters saves all the problems you're worrying about yeah there's a there's a company kind of called moxor and yeah yeah they do like the I think the natural news guy yes but it's isn't that a network marketing thing it might be I think it is yeah yeah it might be but it seemed like a great product yeah it seems like yeah and this one lady that was on Patrick's show for feeding dogs and cats like health like healthy pet food she was really into that stuff she I mean she's a part of it though you know she's one of the members obviously of the MLM but but yeah yeah that was the only thing that I was turned off by just because I know we're all turned off by a lot of that stuff you know I recently joined one called Amazon herbs and the the main reason well there's two reasons I really trust the guy that referred me and along with his friend Mia and then also they use the profits the whole business model is around supporting the indigenous farmers down in the Amazon to pull products from the food forests like cacao other herbs and that gives it everyone a financial incentive to keep that intact instead of plowing it over and you know they put money back into it so I felt like that was a good one and yeah it's an MLM and that I wasn't so crazy about that at first and they only do certain herbs or they have a whole they're really into like the Camo Camo berries Maka so a lot of the South American it's all South American yeah Pate Arco Chuchu Hwasi a lot of that cacao so a lot of yeah a lot of Amazonian herbs and I just really like the business model so I'm gonna start with them really soon and we'll see where that goes cool yeah I know you turn me on a long time I go to Rose Mountain Rose yes Mountain Rose herbs which I still I love them they're the best price yeah I want to get them as a sponsor actually and this would be the good show to get them for I just Dr. Frugo approved I mean big time that's like the best out there I think once you find Mountain Rose it's hard to go anywhere else because anywhere else is probably shopping at Mountain Rose and then just repackaging it that's right I mean I buy my bee pollen Clarella everything all the goji berries any kind of superfood any kind of salt herb a gallon of coconut oil for $37 a gallon of organic coconut oil I mean people are buying jars for 20 so Dr. Frugal Mountain Rose the only thing I wish they sold was the blue-green algae but no they never got it hopefully they'll get into that I think it's only a matter of time I mean they're an Oregon company and that stuff comes from Klamath Lake yeah in Oregon so it's got to be just a matter of time before they start sourcing that they have chaga there chaga tea oh yeah I know it's like 20% of what other people are charging their chaga chunks crazy and the other thing that it's fairly new which I think it worked great for me when I was feeling a little down was and where I get the pine pollen what's the name of it raw forest foods raw forest foods with one are for something like that raw forest foods yeah yeah it's one hour as opposed to two hours or something yeah for forest yeah anyway they are selling this shilajit yes which is you know what that is it's it's from the Himalayas like right I don't know it's a compacted organic material from thousands of years ago when it gets hot in the Himalayas it seeps out of the bottom of the mountains whoa kind of like you know something that's been sitting there for so long and it gets baked and then it starts to come out yeah well that's what that is and what it the idea is that it contains every single mineral you know on earth or at least most of them that we need and it's not that great tasting oh no it's bitter yeah it's just kind of like a remedy so it's a real remedy and but no I I took it once and I just I didn't have to worry about it anymore like I was feeling like immune like you know I was ready to pull out the colostrum and let me take some of this instead and and it was like work like a charm the next day I woke up no problems and I think that a lot of these things that we encounter our immune system is always encountering things no matter what it's just a matter of the balance of the different nutrients and minerals yeah in your body at that moment in time yeah and I think that Shilajit is great at restoring that balance mainly of minerals I'm thinking yeah which I think is a great it's called Shilajit yeah sh i la j i t that's right and we ever tried it I have I have I got a pack from Ultimate Superfoods a while back and when I was in California last week I was at Arawan and the tonic bar they're all about combining Shilajit with raw milk those two things they say are supposed to be amazing yeah so they would always blend them together or you know make a smoothie out of it with something maybe something else in there but they said the milk and the Shilajit mmm something about it wow keep that in mind I don't know it's like a brown milk yeah maybe a little a couple stevia drops yeah what else are they saying here I'm not kidding can you can't you don't want it alive if it's a wild pig I don't know Kenneth was saying that I missed the first part of that a wild pig could it would eat you and everyone you ever loved yeah I know they're scary we had javelinas in in Phoenix and they would just rip up the garden and then and one time some relatives were walking their dogs like their golden retrievers and the the dogs ran up to the javelinas a hundred stitches in the dogs javelinas just tear them up those wild pigs could kill them easily yeah so they'll totally kill a person well they've got all those teeth yeah the tusks and they're so ferocious and they stink and it's not they're not cute cuddly little fuzzy piggies no Ellie says Anthony you need to be careful some parasites resist long-term freezing yeah Dominic says probably Jolene says why are we talking about pigs yeah and it says we hunt wild pigs with a hunting knife here oh wow where's here Kenneth Ellie says eat raw meat like a real man yeah Jolene hey what would try to find is good for depression it is and you know the real sources of tryptophan are in animal products yes like there's some you know there's some but you if you're looking for the real therapeutic benefits you really got to go to the animal products that's the one thing you can't get from the animal from the planking them they say you know they say pumpkin seeds and durian is known for that but I think the real the good stuff is really in the other and the other stuff the animals as far as the the freezing the two-week thing I've heard that from the Weston a price foundation they kind of give a two-week thing for going for raw meat mm-hmm so who knows who knows I'm just passing that along not in my experience I've never even frozen it I would just go to whole foods and buy a raw lamb and just chunk it up with garlic and egg yolks and spices and onions and then just eat it you know or ground bison it's kind of like curing it in a way kind of but I mean it was super fresh mm-hmm but I think a really important thing would be to maybe have a little yogurt before a little kombucha before make sure you've got the good probiotics right so if there is some kind of bacteria thing going on there's really no room at the table for that bacteria to sit down grab hold yeah frozen fruits are better at the better to eat fresh while it's still warm sure of course I like buying frozen berries because they are picked right but where the stuff gets right during transport away from the sun that's the key yeah flash freezing avoids damage to the cell membrane also the flash freezing doesn't bust the outer I didn't know that cell layer I think that I've read that as well okay sugar is the narcotic of our times oh my god are you kidding me that's yeah my biggest the the the aristocrat the aristocrats like in France and England back in the 1700s and 1600s they would eat sugar to get high yeah at least as it's the opium of the masses it really is it really is yeah and I actually I was at my grandparents house for father's day a little while back and they had red velvet cake and junkie ice cream like corn syrup ice cream and you know I don't I had a very little amount just to be nice and I could feel my head feeling kind of fuzzy kind of weird almost like I can't do that like a drink oh it's disgusting comes out red yeah food how is in that red well it's like it's all food coloring it's food coloring I was like rude of God I wish I asked her and she's like no I put a whole can I hope put a whole thing of red food coloring in this cake and that shit is that stuff is just toxic I know it does not agree with me yeah red velvet cakes a joke yeah you're very sensitive to those things right yeah yeah yeah and yeah the other opium is it's the well sugars in our car over our times it's the opening of the masses and kind of says caffeine is the narcotic of offices yeah God knows around here yeah we've been drinking a lot of coffee lately it's tricky with coffee because it'll stress the adrenals so later on in the day a person might feel a little more fatigued and then that'll lead to more coffee use yes even just like a little like some apple or some green juice is kind of a nice buffer but yeah I mean I'm not a I'm not against coffee but just kind of realize that there are some adrenal issues and try and you know support your adrenals as you enjoy your coffee as well and go with organic and make sure that you're supporting fair trade absolutely that's really key and I've been because I've been drinking more caffeine lately it's because I've been you know burning the candle at both ends I've been switching trying to switch off of it to like green tea and yeah because I don't I don't drink tea with sugar which is helps because I can't do the caffeine without sugar and then well I love the heavy cream on my coffee that's like oh my god I'm addicted to that heavy cream from the from the farm I know I wish I would have put that order in for that stuff they haven't had any for the last two weeks I'm like having withdrawals I honestly don't know how they make it so thick because even when I buy a gallon of whole milk like you know and you'll get this top layer but you know it's pretty liquidy yeah it's not like it's their stuff is like goop yeah it's like you really have to dig the spoon in there yeah chunk it out I don't know I mean it's a really good value it is I mean I know it's more expensive than whatever else but it's so dense oh man and I remember like I ate one of those things in like a week I would just I know you eat it right from the spoon yeah it's so good your hardcore it's so good at least says I bought cat organic cat food in in her cat hissed at her no different food yeah right cats don't like change you should try to come Domic says you should try to convince him Kenneth can't get more organic than a bird yeah and he says it was pissed off and wouldn't touch it mm-hmm Brenda Rex Mia and Jason Rotman no Mia Andres of organic Avenue yeah I know I admit her oh yeah yeah sweetheart Kenneth says I'm not surprised the cat was pissed off what was it made out of yeah and Bruce says I'm so hungry I think one of the best things for animals is really getting into the raw meat and you can flavor it with some stuff that they might like but really like look it's just like humans you know if you were to put an animal in a zoo you would want to find the most appropriate food that it was eating before that time and if we think of this I get this from Daniel by Talas but he says think of civilization as a zoo you know we're all in this zoo and we need to look at the past and see what our ancestors were eating and then it kind of ties into the primal diet and right which is the name of a book yeah it's a great book I forget the guy that wrote that but yeah there's another good one called primal body primal mind oh that's the one that yeah Nora that's when you you recommend it right yeah yeah she's really good yeah that's an awesome book yeah and Bruce wants me to talk about cat butts coffee you know anything about that no we'll talk about that another you can Google it guys yeah you ever see mystic kitty or mystic cat on YouTube it's like a talking cat that they you know I'll show you on YouTube no you ever see the honey badger honey badger on YouTube well we'll watch it after this the cat food was liver and greens and he says Bruce when I don't probably no joke Alice it's probably liver chili shit yeah that's not how you spell it Ali but close sh il a JIT right it's a Azure Ayurvedic I would think so news in like Indian cultures for thousands of years or something nice vegan feed maybe have a couple of bread rolls so you don't get carb hunger in New Zealand the wild pig hunting is very dangerous I'm sure yeah and for those of you that don't know New Zealand New Zealand has very strict standards on farming right yes yes one of the best in the world really when it comes to organic and and it's super clean down there you know right they're eating grass clean water clean air that's really important yeah Ali says there should be an Anthony Anderson burrito at mezzigrew all natural and healthy cool it's a joke because I think one of the news outlets said that they sell burritos at mezzigrew oh yeah yeah yeah so it's a big joke red can it says red food coloring is actually an agricultural pesticide oh yeah like red lake I think it's a petroleum product I must from what I understand it's the nasty I don't even know how that's legal to even sell yeah green tea is good I also like red bush yeah red bush Roy Bose they and yeah it might be red bush and Anthony thoughts on coffee or espresso I'm a fan I don't drink it all that much but I'm definitely a fan of it and I like to enjoy it more in moderation here and there I feel like when I had it's like a drug you know for me where if I have it all the time I really don't feel it as much but I like a little bit with maybe a little cannabis or something nice if you're in a state where that's legal right it's kind of a nice balance mm-hmm the coffee can it says I only turned up at the end but this has gotten into onto topics that interest me cool that's part to the show are the audience interaction Bruce is why you need to call in show yeah yeah that would be cool too yeah we plan on having that ability we just you know all these things that we're implementing are things that we've thought of before is that they're rolling out as we progress in the network at least weekly maybe daily maybe yeah right Bruce says Ed and I should do a show like this is right now where Ed reads the chat room out loud and we both discuss what you all say that's cool and Bruce says we are thinking of a daily show called the Bruce and Ed live from New York that's cool what what says resurrecting bread yeah exactly oh for anybody that's a fan of bread look for the Ezekiel bread because that's sprouted and that's the real big key where if you're eating bread from grains that aren't sprouted it still has the phytic acid and other anti-nutrients in that bread in that grain so when you sprout it when you soak it in water it that all that stuff degrades and you have like a really actually a healthy product so I really if I eat bread now I just usually either go for sourdough bread or the Ezekiel bread Ezekiel yeah and at one point you're recommending what was that one that we used to buy that was frozen or something I mean it's a lot of bread mona bread mona bread no there was another one I can't remember now I remember yeah when we were over on 42nd Street you'd make those eggs in a eggs in a hole or something eggs in a nest yeah I forget anyway I forget the name now in yeah I don't know I don't know I forget whatever it was like I should have been using grog grog grog oh it's like that sunflower bread yeah it's like a German thick stuff yes like a big rectangle yes that's good too yeah that's pretty good the name of it anyway yeah Bruce says what is cannabis what yeah kind of your daily bread yeah they're joking because you know bread is BRED oh yes yes yes but they're doing double puns there how's that Anthony makes bread into Ezekiel bread well I would just buy it actually I mean you can make it yourself and sprout it and bake it if you're down for that but I feel like they've really got it dialed down and it's a it's a it's four dollars for a loaf and a whole loaf might last me two weeks probably and this is a green right is that yeah they have different I mean they've got different blends you know so they may have like eight varieties and the reason it's it's better is because it's it's not highly commercialized so you can get a product that's virtually organic yeah it is organic farmed organically is it no way no yeah because they would have to be farmed organic but the real difference with them is that it's sprouted so the grains have been awakened the phytoic acid is gone and that's you know like the big part of the game and otherwise you're never gonna find that anywhere else they're not soaking their grains and sprouting them then grinding them down they just grind them down right so even if you're at home and you want to make pinto beans or you want to make rice or whatever let it soak in water overnight and then make it because that's gonna expand it's gonna pull out that junk drain it out and then make it lentils you know right anything like that quinoa oh my god I'm getting really I know it's a club I don't think I've eaten today like you haven't eaten no I don't think I ate can it's a sorry I have to go I have to get a couple hours of yoga in before I head out well thank you for yeah thanks Ken and I was a Ken Ressinger Kenneth Crawford oh Ken Crawford right on in yeah okay enjoy yoga buddy yeah enjoy the yoga that's get back into that yeah right I know I haven't done my yoga in a while either so yeah I'm hungry too we should get something to eat yeah let's do it yeah he's got the vibrams going here change your life everybody get some of these they look goofy as heck but you know once you start wearing them you're not gonna want to wear regular shoes again or you'll have to buy wider shoes because your feet are gonna naturally spread up spread apart spread more it was same if you were flip flops to yeah that's we didn't talk about it but one of the other things that Anthony's really into is ground what is it ground the grounding technology ground in technology so being connected to the the the electrical current of the earth and whether that's walking barefoot or having a grounding pad that's connected into the outlet or you know there's a lot of other things you can do the best is really to be in the ocean or a lake with the water and then it's just full of free electrons that we're gonna just pull out the negative stuff out of your body and how do you do that like in New York well you would plug it you would have a grounding pad and just plug it into the wall and then when you're at your computer you have your feet on it they've got a mouse yeah because it's actually being around this stuff so many computers yeah because we can phone we can get a leader yeah we can get an emf meter and just hold it next to stuff and the numbers jump up when you get close to something or if you like turn on the microwave it goes up real high or even next to the light bulb in the refrigerator like really high up there so you're just kind of protecting yourself from that it's almost like putting a helmet on before right going for a bike ride or so yeah and I one of the recommendations to is also to never use your cell phone when it's plugged to the wall yeah and even the computer to or an iPad you know like when it the well the tower the keyboard protects you but like a laptop maybe not so much I wouldn't think so I mean they've done the test David Wolf had that one iPad versus Kindle video oh really and they have the meters they can test it all and as soon as he touches the thing it drops down and then he tested it where the iPad was plugged in and it was giving 24 volts of electricity like to his body 24 volts so crazy that's why you get drained like yeah despite being plugged in and on an all spaced out and think like little kids are sitting in their bed with a plugged in iPad on their stomach you know or or right next to their head as they're reading it or so the key really is to have that connection or he unplugged it and it was putting out six volts just by unplugging it so that was a big difference and then you can get it down lower with grounding I mean if you were to sit on a rock outside it would be zero you know because it's just automatically pulling it off of you yeah yeah well that's why I'd love to learn more about that actually yeah yeah especially with all this stuff around it's good to kind of yeah and then more and more people are talking about it and doing these kind of experiments you know real life experiments that's cool all right well I think I'm gonna head out dinnertime yeah thanks everybody guys and thanks for all the great questions yeah really awesome we look forward to a lot more and and I'm gonna look into this Eric Braver man mm-hmm and thanks for the suggestions peace everybody peace later bye bye oh so yeah turn it off just you gotta open it here open there oh nice and then just turn it off cool no I think you muted it you gotta keep your finger on it


Wow, it is the 300th episode of the nonprofit show. Here's the fireworks. Oh my gosh. So I think it's amazing. I was telling my husband last night, he said, wow, Julia, 300 episodes.  And I told him, I said, you know, I think the thing that's very fascinating in that it's quite fascinating is that I'm still fascinated by our guests. I'm still learning something new every day. I'm still like so curious. I think there's so many topics that we have yet to cover. I'm not like sitting in my office going, oh no, we've talked it all out. Right. Right. It's, it's pretty, pretty amazing. And along this journey, we have been very, very blessed with some amazing, amazing presenting sponsors. They have stepped up, they have come forward and many cases they have been, they've called the office and said, Julia, I want to write a check of which I've been like, I'm sorry, what did you say? You know, I mean, this has really been one of those things that's been so fabulous and so exciting for us to have. And so we really want to call out Bloomerang, Steven Warnick, Katie from Staffing Boutique, Katie Warnick. I mean, those two individuals really put Jared and I on a trajectory that has been amazing. And then these other amazing funders and supporters of ours have moved us through. Again, I'm Julia Patrick, CEO of the American nonprofit Academy. And I am joined by the nonprofit nerd herself, Jared Ransom, CEO of the Raven Group. And I do need to get some tape. I should have put tape right here. Just for my day. These are so dirty, but yes, they still work. It's because I've got like fingerprints all over. Well, Jared, it has been an amazing journey for those of you who don't know, you know, Jared and I have a 20 year age difference, which I know, grass, beer, pearls. And so it, what it does is it really, I think brings an interesting level of thought and attention to the whole process of where we are with our careers and with our, our sensibilities. And so it makes it very, very interesting. I think every day to share the stage with one of the great minds in the nonprofit sector here in the country. Jared, you are truly an amazing talent and one truly, I believe one of the great thinkers in our nation about the nonprofit sector. So it's always a joy to be able to work with you and to hear what you have to say. Fireworks do go off at times. We don't always agree.  And I know she thinks that about me.  I think that's really good. Right. Like it just goes to show that there's different perspectives. There's different ways to, you know, different approaches, different way of thinking and, you know, collaboration is key, but so is communication. Yeah, it is. Well, and that's what makes the world go around. We're, we see that in the nonprofit sector. When we have different voices. I think we are better. And we don't all have to agree. That's the beautiful thing. We don't all have to agree, but we have to have respect and we have to have. An ability to share perspective or to understand somebody's viewpoint. Part of that is going forward and looking up. And we wanted to spend this special day. Our 300th episode. We've had more than 250 guests, which is stunning. And we wanted to kind of use. This time to celebrate this big achievement for us, but also to be able to, to be able to, you know, To celebrate this big achievement for us, but also to be looking up and forward towards the recovery. You know, the story, if you've been watching us, you know, we started this as a reaction to the, to the COVID crisis. Very, very quickly. We thought of it. You pretty much on a Thursday, Friday, we launched it on the next Monday and it's moved from there. Yeah. Our first episodes were all reactionary. Weren't they Jerry? Very much so. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.  And so when you reached out to me, it was, let's just kind of open the, the digital doors as we have now coined them. Let's show up to be of service and in conversation. And we, we were navigating. Uncertainties right alongside all of you. Yeah. Absolutely. Real time. I mean, I would say that for the first month, there wasn't a show where we didn't end. I didn't leave my studio. I'm not going to do that. And I'm going to do that. I'm going to do that. And pretty much cry for the next hour or so, because I was so devastated that I couldn't figure out the technology. I didn't know where we were going. I mean, it was really, really stressful. And so now we're moving forward in a way that has is just been crazy. And I think part of this discussion that we want to include. And we are now in a recovery. It doesn't mean that everything is solved and it's all clear. But what do you think, Jarrett, when we talk about a redefined workplace, what are the things that you're seeing? Because I can guarantee you we wouldn't have been having this discussion. Well, ironically, and since March of last year, I've been so honored. Privileged and just entrusted by so many individuals, many of you that are watchers or viewers of the show reached out to me to say, you know, I'm looking at changing fields, careers, job opportunities, like just, you know, kind of all of it, really the entire conversation. But what I thought was interesting just this week, I received a call from an individual C-suite and he was telling me that, you know, he's been back in his office and he goes at least once or twice a week. But he's just doing it to like test it out, right, to try it on. And he said, I don't think I will ever be back in an office full time Monday through Friday, nine to five. First of all, why would we want to race with the rush hour traffic? Right. So he was saying that he is much more productive, much, much more efficient. Now that he's working from home starting at even seven in the morning, eight in the morning, working a chunk or a block of time, then driving into the office at maybe 10 o'clock, right? Leaving at maybe two to 30, getting back and then finishing up from his home office. That is going to be something that I think we were all going to consider. I joked back and I said, well, if you're doing this and other people are doing this, does this now make our rush hour 10 and two? Yeah. It's true. No, I think it's true. I think that's an excellent comment. I really, really do.  And he's an old man. So that's many years. But he told me, he's like, Julia, $5,000 an employee. That's the number that it costs when you are looking at office space.  That's what your costs are going to be. And as nonprofits, look at this and say five grand, you mean I could cut pieces of my budget and have a happier workforce and more productive. And you know, it's going to, it's going to factor in. I think there's also a lot of like space sharing. There was an ad agency that I was talking to. They have this really cool, swanky office and no one's using it. Right. So they have actually reached out to some of their clients, some of their nonprofit clients offered the board room, offered cubicles. So really looking at innovative shared space, I think is also really going to be a trend. I think so too. And before we go on to our next looking up and looking forward. I think that we're going to see more and we'll talk about this a little bit more. But we're going to see the confluence of digital work environments and procedures into the physical. And I think we were in such a race to just figure out. Remote email and things from Slack to base camp, you know, productivity software. But now we're going to be like, okay, this isn't a crisis. They're a band aid. This is the way we work. What does it look like? This is the way of life because now we. We're in a digital race. Digital nomads and you've experienced that Julia. Yeah, yeah, I have. And for those of you who, you know, we didn't really want to say. Until we were done, but, but we broadcast. From Mexico. Two weeks ago and we really were pretty successful and we. So every day that was my challenge. I needed to wear a bathing suit under my outfit to see how I could do it. And it was just a hoot, but we did, we went both. Yeah, it worked and we learned, we can do some things better. But long story short, you know, we were still productive and we still delivered on the things that we needed to deliver on. And so we're defined, redefined workplace is critical. This is something that I think that this is where we have that 20 year age difference come into play. And you've been a lot more progressive on the health of our profession, everything from compassion fatigue to the demographic side of the labor supply. And you see this, Jared, and you've spoken about this. I think it's fascinating, because we are not only in recovery, but we are in a phenomenal time of change with our labor supply. Absolutely, and I was, I'm pretty active on Instagram. So if you don't follow me there, you certainly can. It's a nonprofit nerd, big surprise, surprise, surprise. There's an organization I would love to have them on and it's called NAP Ministry. They are a nonprofit and they talk about self-care, right? They talk about compassion fatigue. They talk about how are we taking care of our profession and our labor supply. There's so many organizations, Bordable is one of them, they're hiring, and they provide unlimited vacation days, unlimited PTO. That to me is like really focusing on the health of the profession. And I think we would be remiss if we didn't share that this month, May is Mental Health Awareness Month. So as we continue to move forward in this recovery, let's also continue to focus on the health of our profession and overall labor supply. It's time, I think, right? That we really need to look at what are the expectations of our labor? What are the expectations of our employees even when it comes down to communication? Are we expecting them to return something within 24 hours? Are we expecting something to be returned instantaneously? One of our great guests, and I love following him, Miko Whitlock with a mindful techie. He talks about knowing your Zoom number minus three. I might exceed that today, but really looking at how are we staying healthy and how are we continuing to care for our employees? I think this is a big thing because we have a confluence of two really interesting aspects. We have an aging demographic that's been in the traditional leadership C-suite. And those are the baby boomers that are leaving, they're retiring. Many of them kicking and screaming and they don't want to be, but they are. And then we have people that we are just burning out. And then we have this other issue where we do not have enough trained or educated nonprofit leaders coming in. Really it's until the last 10 years in our country that we've had educational paths and higher education for nonprofit management, which is great, but hello, it's not enough. And so we don't have enough educated leaders coming into our sector as we should for the 1.8 million nonprofits that are registered in this country. So good news, bad news, we have a labor supply. I think this is a critical issue. I think the good news is that if you're somebody that's young starting out, you have a faster path to get on that track to upper management than you would in maybe some other sectors. I agree and YNPN is great for that. It's a national organization, young nonprofit professional network. And they say, they're lenient on the Y. They're lenient on the young. That's hilarious. They're really sharp. I love them. They're throughout this country. If you have one in your community, great. But even if you don't have one in your community, you can go to their website and take a look at the different things that they have. I mean, they've really advanced onto the digital communication and conversation. And so yeah, I think they're amazing. Well, that's a huge topic that we've been able to see. And that kind of leads us into the next thing that I think both of us have been very, very aware of and very interested in. And that's the overall digital impact. So again, looking up and forward during this recovery, Jared, the digital impact that's been really a blessing but a challenge. Oh yeah. What do you think about that? Well, the first thing I think about is, you know, virtual or hybrid events and having that digital impact, stay and remain in some way, shape or form. Just last night, I launched a scholarship presentation for my client and it was all digital, right? Everything was prerecorded. We invited everyone into a Zoom webinar in which we had a host, not me because my voice sounds like this. But then we had someone, you know, start the show and then we press play. And it was very seamless, really easy. So many people now are very comfortable and familiar with this platform. So I do think in the aspect of events, this digital impact is here to stay. I think that one of the things that's been so interesting, I mean, you know, we are pitched all the time for people that want to get onto the nonprofit show and talk about their products or their, you know, their books, whatever. But the number of tech companies that have reached out to us that have developed new products, everything from mobile online bidding to, you know, raffles to all different manner of fundraising, assistance and giving in the digital world has been remarkable. And that is not going away, you know? And I think that the thing that I've noticed, Jared, is that there's been this sense that your older patrons will not navigate to a digital donation experience. And that is just not true. No, they are not true, absolutely. Yeah, yeah. I think it's going to be even stronger. And I appreciate what you said about the digital nature of our fundraising events and our galas. That had started already to really create a venue or an opportunity for a digital interface because of auctions. Absolutely. Yeah, that was already. And engagement. How many, do you remember conferences you'd go to and you could tweet or text or something and there would be like a big screen on the walls and then you would have that message pull up or that question pull up. Look how far we've come. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. And I think it's going to only really move forward with more natural use of technology, more confidence. And I think if you're a nonprofit and you're not looking at these things, you're going to be missing out. I really, really do. Okay, now this is one of the biggest and most intriguing pieces for me, Jared. Is the change to donors. Not only who the donors are, how they're reacting, what they're interested in. And I think about this in terms of pre-COVID or no COVID. Meaning how would some of these donor profiles in reactions to things have changed or not changed if we didn't have these pandemics? That's right. It's not just one pandemic. No, and I do say plural, right? So obviously the global virus, social unrest and the political divide. There's also environmental crisis. So that's probably the fourth, right? We're really looking at changes to donors and the demographics, their passion, their alignment to supporting causes, their ability, capacity to give, their willingness to give. It may not be several zeros behind a number, but they're still making an impact. And they want to know the impact of their dollar and how it's changing for the cause in which they're supporting. Right, I think the thing that it's really important and this is like one of my big soapboxes is this largest transference of wealth in America in the history of our country. Second only really to about civil war times, but the bottom line is the wealth transference from the baby boomers to these ensuing generations is phenomenal. Some financial organizations will estimate as high as $93 trillion in the next 30 years with which we are in about five, year five of that. So it's going on now. But to Jared's point, these donors who are going to control a lot of money because at the same time we've had a birth death, they don't have as many siblings to share or decide on where the trajectory of this funding goes, they don't have the same interests as their parents. They want to know impact. They're less charitable in the traditional sense and they're more investment oriented. How am I solving a problem? I'm not gonna give just cause it's the right thing to do. Right, and there's statistics that show, excuse me, men typically give to one, to maybe three organizations, women tend to scatter their wealth and their charitable giving amongst several organizations. Exactly, yeah. I think it's just a new dawn. I mean, you know, Tony Bell from fundraising academy, he's been one of the people that has been talking about this, about how we work with donors, riveting series that we've been running, cause selling in the campaign wheel that that organization, National University has created, really gives you some insight into how and why our donors are changing. And again, I think looking up and forward, if we're not looking at that internally, we're gonna be missing out because there's so many ways to donate and to be charitable or to be philanthropic, I should say is a better word in our nation. You know, there's a lot of talent and treasure, right?  Yeah, absolutely. I mean, it's remarkable. And I think too, what's really interesting is that, you know, we have a lot more people that are looking at their donor behavior and making it multi-generational, making it business, like what does your organization donate to? What did the staff, how did the staffs get involved? It's not just a personal thing at home that you as a family sit around your dinner table and decide what you're gonna do. We're seeing businesses do this and it's factoring into labor retention. It is, and it's going back to the previous slide of our workforce. So many of these new hires or as they're looking for new opportunities, they are asking that question, right? How do you serve in your community? Whom are you involved with, right? What does my give back look like and how do we do that as a team? Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Well, and you know, I think that it's, for me when I think about this, I think that's like a really positive social directive. You know, that's, I think great when you have employees that come to the table and say, we're gonna get behind this or we want to know what leadership is getting behind. That's somewhat something new in American society because, you know, philanthropy has always been very private. You know, it was something that we did at home or with a faith-based organization and we didn't always tie it to our organization or to our schools even. So I think as a society, we used to be very private, right? And now we have everything public. We're taking photos of what we're eating. We're taking photos of where we walk. We're taking, you know, photos of so many private everyday activities that to me, it's no surprise that now our charitable giving, our charitable, I don't know, interactions are now also public. Right, and there've been a lot of studies that are amplifying that concept, saying that, you know, when you're looking to cultivate new donors, they're gonna look at their social network and decide, you know, if their cohort and family, friends, neighborhood, you know, connections, if they're engaged in something, they are more likely to jump on with that. But if they look at what's going on and they take, to use your word, you know, they look across the landscape and they're not seeing their cohort involved in that. Right, may not be as interested. Not at all, that's why it's so important for us as nonprofit leaders to empower all of our stakeholders to be public advocates or at least an advocate, right? And if they're not comfortable doing it publicly, how are they comfortable and how can we best support them in serving in that capacity? Right, amazing. Well, you know, again, it's hard to believe that we're almost out of time. Thank you so much for joining us. Jared, thank you for giving your wisdom on this very August day or 300 episode and celebration of that. We did really want to focus on looking up, looking forward, looking at the positive to really amplify the idea that we are in a recovery. That doesn't mean things are like perfect and all good to go, but we can be looking forward and looking up and being more proactive in how we serve and manage our nonprofits. So it has been really an important thing. Okay, this is like a big swing for the field. Back bleachers, as they say. What has been your biggest, like ah-ha during these 300 episodes?  At the park, at the park. I know, I know. So one of my biggest ah-has I'm gonna say is the resiliency. I love witnessing the resiliency of others. And you know, when we first started these episodes, Julia, we heard so many individuals pushing that pause button. I could not say it louder. Do not push the pause button, right? So many people sitting on the sidelines waiting for the pandemic or pandemics to kind of blow over. Right. They didn't, they're not, they're here, right? So many people waiting to like for everything to get back in air quotes to normal. They're not, it's not, that's not what's happening. And so to see these individuals that didn't press the pause button, didn't sit on the sidelines, right? And they were so resilient.  It was truly amazing because just like you and I, Julia, these individuals showed up every single day, have no idea what they were being faced with, challenges that we had never prepared for, right? And we've all navigated some gracefully than others, but the point is our nonprofit sector has never been, like we have always been risk adverse. We have never been risk takers. And we have all been by default forced to take these risks. And I really love to see the resilience and now the positive of taking these risks, you know? You know, I think you're right. And I think that is something that I would have never guessed would have happened to your point because we thought that this was just something we could pause. Yeah. It was going to be a short-term thing. And some people did. And they're not okay. They're not okay. Many have failed and haven't been able to move forward. Some paused for a period of time and then they've spent a big chunk of their time trying to catch up. So yes, I think that's been really important. I think my biggest shock has been the amount of wealth that has stepped up and come forward and plugging dollars unrestricted funds. Yes. And I think that's been very interesting unrestricted funds that organizations have all of a sudden seen from, you know, likely suspects, wealth, the wealth of our nation to unlikely folks that have said, you know what, this is something that we got to work on and we got to get money to or we got to put resources in. I think that was really on full display with the background story of the vaccine, the COVID-19 vaccine and learning more and more about the different people that stepped up with big time money from people like Dolly Parton, you know, and working with Vanderbilt University. Absolutely. You know, just very, very interesting. And I think that for me portends great things.  It's been cool to see that. To say, okay, yeah, we, for me personally, yeah, we can get past this dreadful discord. So really interesting. Wow, okay. Well, everybody, thank you for joining us and thank you for letting us share, you know, our views and really I think developed over these 300 episodes. You've been a part of this. We have a lot of exciting things planned as we move forward. Really interesting guests, really interesting partnerships that are continuing to flourish. Some new partnerships coming down the line, which we're very, very excited about. Jared Ransom, CEO of the nonprofit, I mean, of the Raven Group, the nonprofit nerd, my nonprofit nerd, your nonprofit nerd, have a wonderful restful time next week. Thank you. I'm excited and I am so thrilled to be here even under the weather for the 300th episode. I just wanna remind all of you, we are so grateful because without you, without our viewers, we wouldn't have a platform to continue. You can access all every single one of our previous recorded episodes. So if there's a subject, if there's a guest, if there's a topic that you specifically want to go back to, draw upon, please make sure that you access that.  So please do access those. We have archived them for infinity. For you to access, these are free, free resources. Thanks for our amazing sponsors. Absolutely. Again, we wanna thank our sponsors. Without you, we would not have this format and this dialogue. And as we sign out, Jared and I wanna give a special shout out to the person that you never get to see but who is with us every single day, Kevin Pace, our executive director. Call him, we tease him the VOG because sometimes he'll come on before we start the show. And as we end the show, we never get to see him but he's here with us guiding us and putting this all together. So it's a major role. And for those that may not know VOG, that's Voice of God. Voice of God, that's right. Hey, join us for a new show. We're launching Fundraising Events TV that will launch the first part of July. We're very, very excited. Lots of new and exciting things going on there. And as we're launching in June. What did I say? July? July. Oh my God, that's just wishful thinking. No, it is June. Thank you for keeping me honest here. No, which is basically next week. So we will see you for that. And as we end every episode, we want to remind you to stay well, so you can do well. Thank you very much, everybody. Thank you, Jared. Thank you. Bye-bye. Bye.


Wagner chief blames Russian government for not defending Belgorod. Wagner group leader Yevgeny Prigozin blamed the Kremlin for failing to defend the region of Belgorod from incursions by Russian fighters serving in the Ukrainian armed forces. Prigozin was referring to the freedom of Russian legion formed weeks after Russia's invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022 and the Russian volunteer corps who crossed into Russia's Belgorod region located near the Ukrainian border and claimed to have seized the village of Kozinka and the small town of Gravoron. There is a lack of management and public funding has been slashed. Prigozin, whose mercenaries have been heavily involved in the ongoing war in Ukraine, said in an audio message on the Telegram channel belonging to his company Concord. Some government officials are playing the fool, he said, according to Newsweek. There is no governance, no desire and no individuals who are ready to defend their country. I spoke about this many times in both the Belgorod and Kursk regions, said Prigozin. The main intelligence directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine confirmed that the two groups had entered the Belgorod region. It said they were carrying out an operation to create a security zone to protect civilian Ukrainians.


Hey guys welcome back to come again pop reviews This is not your typical pop review today because today we're gonna be taking a look at the metals die cast Marvel Spider-Man Classic Spider-Man. I'm your host Shannon and stay tuned So hey guys welcome to come again if you're new make sure you hit the subscribe button to share with your friends All right guys welcome back as I said before this is not your typical pop review It's not even a Funko review. This is the metals die cast Marvel Spider-Man classic Spider-Man From GameStop. I'm filming this the Saturday before Easter just a few days ago We were at Walmart GameStop is right next door. I decided to go in there and browse only I wasn't planning on buying any But immediately I saw one that's been on my list forever They only had one left of them had to have them that was Space Ghost So I went ahead and let my kids pick out their Easter gifts They aren't getting them until Easter morning though So that gives me a chance to review them beforehand So Duke picked out the morphing exclusive Blue Ranger Ali picked out bubbles from the Powerpuff Girls and Marissa picked out this Marvel Spider-Man So let's go ahead and take a look. You got Spider-Man here on the front Marvel Spider-Man classic Spider-Man Metals die cast it was $12.99 at GameStop Get 20 points per dollar spent Metal figure got Spider-Man on the side classic Spider-Man metal die cast Marvel This is from Jada toys Collect them all You got M252 four-inch Miles Morales Spider-Man M253 four-inch black suit Spider-Man M254 four-inch Venom M255 four-inch Spider-Gwen M250 classic Spider-Man M256 six inch ultimate Spider-Man So let's go ahead and open this guy up and take a look inside and I thank for this I will invite my daughter Marissa in here to help me review this since Spider-Man is her favorite superhero All right guys, so if you're not familiar with the metals die cast it does come taped on three sides So I did go ahead and cut the tape. Let's open this guy up a Little bit different than a Funko Man, they really got it in there tight Jebus Let's go ahead. Thank you. There we go.   No There we go. There we go Pretty heavy figure too.   What do you think Marissa? He's awesome Very shiny Marissa's not being too talkative today His head looks kind of like an egg Uh, you got on the bottom you got the CE you got, you know all his information marvel made in china Spider-man I'm not really a whole lot to say about him and got typical. There is a little bit of paint bleeding along here Um, but it appears that all the uh lines Are actually molded into them Every bit of the spider web line is part of the mold it's not just paint um Very nice job on the hands like I said you can kind of Wiggle the arm a little bit, but that's probably Just a uh Defect or whatever and there's a little um circle in the back of his head Yeah, kind of looks like you push it, but I don't think it really does anything. No It's just a statue type deal um, but really not bad. You got him in his superhero landing pose As Deadpool would say Um, what do you like about spider-man? What do you like about this spider-man? I like that. He's like in his combat mode. Like he's ready to fight And he he's a very heavy figure. Um probably about Same weight as maybe four Funkos Because he's made out of very Very solid metal. He's not No part of him is really, um, he's not hollow at all. It's a solid mold Um, it looks like they molded his face separately And then attached it to the rest of the head You see a seam right there And then they attach they attached it to the head and then they attached The head to the body attached the arms to the body It does appear that the body and legs are one solid mold um There is The paint job here Doesn't look that great, but the rest of it looks pretty good Nice solid nice bright solid colors Very nice Once again, that was the metals die cast marvel spider-man classic spider-man M 254 inch die cast metal figure from Jada toys