So now, if you want to stick around, I'll answer any questions because I've been reading a lot of things that are going on. I couldn't squeeze into here, I'll answer all that stuff and we'll go from there. But if not, take off. I appreciate it. Golfer, it's cold for you. Well, you're in Florida. How's it cold? It should be like here, right? Like Puerto Rico. Let's see. Do you think BlackRock would buy FTX? I think anything with the FTX name is bad, but it would be pretty great for customer acquisition. If you can have just absorb all those customers, but again, with those, I don't know, actually pretty as interesting actually, if you think about it, imagine BlackRock owning a centralized exchange. I don't know if that's great or bad. Rob, you got the number of your VCR apparently. You must have read my tweet. Yes. Rob, where is the pool view of the green wall? It's not as exciting. I told you this was a green screen. There is no pool. This pool in Puerto Rico and the pool in Texas, it's just all green screen. Don't trust anybody, especially me. Let's see.  I gotta tell you, I've been reading some things about the volume of the Bitcoin ETF is the highest volume over, if you put all the different ETFs of 200 in the last year combined. So the volume is great. Unfortunately, there's a lot of selling, which is, that's what volume does. And people are kind of jockeying for a position. They're getting out of grayscale. They're getting into Fidelity's ETF or Black Rocks or ARCs. So just kind of things are settling down and people are kind of figuring out where they want to be. I will tell you this, I'm glad this ETF came way before the halving because after the halving, I think we're going to like every single year, every four year cycle, start to take off. But that could be wrong, but that's where we're going from. The video, yeah. So again, this, the video that we did, we've done a couple of videos lately on Dan DeGen. One was the Farkana token, which was a pretty great web three game and it's backed by a big eSports conglomerate. And that one sold out in three hours. So I'm sorry.  It's gonna be quick. And this one is gonna launch in four days. So I got a little bit earlier.  And I talk about, if you take a look at the top Visa, Mastercard, PayPal, Stripe, it's gonna be between 2.1 and 2.4% on average. And then it's like a 30 cents per transaction fee. But if you use IvanPay, it can be as low as 0.2 to 1%. And how they do it is pretty good and all the different partnerships they have. So again, I think it's gonna do fantastic, they've partnered up with Binance. So just check out the video. But again, on this channel, like that's really risky stuff. So you'll probably lose everything. Hey, it's gambling. All right, let's see. But I was at nighttime in Puerto Rico. It is for me, because I'm old, 7.24. And yeah, this is usually, like I don't usually stream this late, but a lot of things came up, launching Flappy Bird. The game's actually up and ready to play, and we're gonna start to pit different communities against each other. Nat Meehm says, Rob, what's your thoughts on Cardano and USDC? I am with Dan Gambordello on this one, Crypto Capital Venture. He really wants to get USDC on with Cardano, and I support that. I think, I know it's expensive to do those things, but USDC, it's a pretty big player in the game. And I think if we're gonna have that on-chain with Cardano, it could help a lot of things, just to facilitate transactions. So why not? Let's do it. Let's get everything underneath the umbrella. Some people say, well, we don't like that. We'd like to use our own stablecoin. All right, but there's, I mean, you can do it, but why don't you just take a little bit easier route? It's gonna cost you, but I think it's actually good for notoriety and to get the word out. That's just my two sats. Scott will 2026 stay true to the four year cycle and drop 70%, I hope so. I can't say I hope so, because there's gonna be a lot of people that get wrecked. Not us, because we're not tourists, but I think the bet against the four year cycle is pretty tough, because it's got a pretty damn good record, 12, 13 years so far. So we'll see. And some people are saying that the blow off tops can be in 2024. I don't know. There's some indicators that I look for. There's a link in the description of all my videos. It talks about when I'm gonna sell 80% of my crypto and all the indicators I'm gonna use.  But if I get within 60, 70% of the top, I'll be super happy and hopefully we'll all be good. Because how many of us load all those gains all the way up and all the way back down? And I wanna do that again, especially crappy altcoins. Just saying. Bitcoin's a little different case, but yeah. Axis, I see them throw a rock in the one in Texas. Terrible seizure. You gotta pay five or some kid to do some CGI stuff for the pools. It's a pain in the a. Thumbs up, thank you. Red Panda Pie. Hoskinson is a stubborn man. And he has his convictions. You know what? Hoskinson is not Cardano. People will say, well, that's true. It's a decentralized platform. And if the majority of people want that to go through, then that's it. And then we make it happen. Charles has said it many times. If he goes away, Cardano still lasts. So if Charles doesn't want Cardano, I mean, doesn't want USDC as a stablecoin, that's fine. What does everybody else want? And what I hear and what I see, people want that to actually go through. So let's do this. Let's make this happen. I'll do whatever I have to do to make it happen. Eddie, thank you Eddie for being a member. Five bucks, it's pretty steep. I accept it. Let's see. Benny, if you guys don't know Benny, he's the one that protects everybody on Twitter and roots out all the scam artists. Thanks Benny. I rode Solana with leverage from 33-ish to the top and all the way down and never took any profit. Damn, never did that again. There you go. Cause you gotta remember everybody, cause like the narrative, the technology is not keeping up with the narrative. If we get mass adoption, if Bitcoin becomes a reserve currency, sure, we've got multiple countries accepting it and saying that they're gonna use that as legal tender, gotcha, right? But the narrative doesn't keep up with the tech. The narrative can just blow things out of proportion. So just be aware that it's gonna take a long time. I think Bitcoin could go to a million. I think Solana could go to 1,000. I think Cardano could go to 10. But it's all about a timeframe. And I don't know when the timeframe is. It could be till 2030. It could be 2040. I don't know. So Jeff says, I think today's hearing was addressed claim-based notion. That's exactly right. To throw out the case on base that the SEC doesn't have jurisdiction, seems unlikely that'll happen. And it would go very long discovery period. This is true. The SEC doesn't seem to care about legal costs because they're employees of the government. And Ripple did its due diligence and took them to court and won. And that's what we need. Now, if Coinbase takes them to court, which they are in court right now, and they win, then what kind of leg do they have to stand on?  And I said this a long time ago. I said this back in, what is the thing? I was like 10, almost a year ago. I said, the only way out of this is to sue the SEC. And we everybody has to stick together. It's like Benjamin Franklin said, we must hang together or we will surely hang separately. Meaning there's strength in numbers. And of course, this is what we're seeing right now. Bullies bull, bullies bully. And that's what that's what the SEC is.  Look, crack and bent the knee. And they said, okay, we're not gonna do any staking. And then the SEC was like, that's great.  And now they're going with that whole process again. Never, never back down to bullies like that. The only way to stop a bully is to punch them in the mouth. And that's the SEC. I'm not condoning punching anybody in the mouth in the SEC. I'm just saying, figuratively. There was this chart on X last time. Crown and polka dot have tons of devs and hopefully we get a nice stable on Cardano. Yeah, that'd be a lot of devs working for it. I can see that. And he says, all the crypto users should see the SEC. That's a kind of bad idea, actually. Because I'll be honest with you, if I was going short, if I was going long on Bitcoin, or no, see me, if I was going short on Bitcoin, actually you can do short and longs. You know that the SEC account got hacked for their X account.  How many people got wrecked because of that one tweet that was put out by an alleged hacker on X? I don't know. But I got people lost a lot of sweet money. I would be suing them left and right. A thorium. Said. Got a lot. You did catch a live stream. It's very rare on the weekdays these days. Said, falling for a month, great channel. I'm a tourist. Am I a tourist? You're not a tourist. Before the having, you're not a tourist. You're going to become educated. It's going to be great.  That's why we do these little education pieces. Jeff says, we're slow learners when it comes to taking profits. It's true. Missing all your live streams. Need to catch up for Maximus. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He says, I have a price of soul. It's about 20-ish. Oh, probably because I know what you were buying me. You were buying it like when it was towards the top. That's okay. You know, if you're buying at 100, because I think it's 102 today or something like that, if you keep buying, your cost basis goes down. That's what I did when I was dollar-cross averaging.  Today's Wednesday, right? I got a reshot to guy. Every day is a good day to DC in Hodel. It's not pretty true actually. I think he doesn't have a reserve currency. Me, you, and Beardy, that's about it. It's soccer says, is now a good time to DC or not? I don't know. I can only tell you what I'm doing. I'm spending a lot of money right now every single month. And it's about the same since 2022 actually, but I've been dumping a lot of money into Bitcoin and crypto. Bitcoin is, it was 75%. Now it's down to 70% because the other value of my altcoins have gone up. But yeah, it's every single day. It's just like, if you could see my readout of my statement on my bank for the last year plus, actually since May 2022, it's just a litany of just purchases on Coinbase. Constant, constant, constant. That's why I don't show my wife. Let's see. Thuffer says, I'm not a big fish, but got some Sol 50, very nice. That's all that matters. You're in profit. It's pretty good. Eddie says, I sold everything in November, 2021 and started buying again with Bitcoin at 20K. Proud of myself. Yeah, it's really good. November 21 is the blow off top. One of the few memes says thoughts on polygon. When does it convert over? And I assume we do not need to do anything. So far, there is polygon going for Matic. Now polygon, I think it's gonna be called Paul, P-O-L. And there's nothing that you have to do right now that I know of or have heard of. Now at some point you're going to have to switch your polygon to P-O-L. And especially those people who are staking, but as far as I know right now, nothing. And we've talked about this a couple of times, but I haven't heard anything yet. Yeah, nice work on selling. Not easy. James is trying to be ignorant. I can agree. And Charlie says, are you farming airdrops? And if so, which ones? Well, let's see. There is somebody that you should watch. You wanna know about some risky stuff and airdrops? You wanna watch Lady of Crypto. And you wanna follow her on Twitter too. And I gotta talk to her about her thumbnails. Ah, these are made better here. Okay. I don't know about the old face, but she's really knows about airdrops and some of the things that are really coming up that are pretty risky stuff. So check out Lady of Crypto, then there's links to her ex. And then, yeah, the thumbnails. And they're better than what they were, I guess. Let's see. What are your thoughts in regards to the BRC-20 hype? Are we talking about ordinals? Ordinals. Bring something up.  This is what it's for.  It's like nine pages long. It's very, very short. It's very easy to understand. Satoshi Nakamoto and peer-to-peer transactions. And it's supposed to be used as transactional sources. So like when these ordinals come in for inscriptions and you can essentially have NFTs on Bitcoin, I know they hate them, but it is a use case. And I don't know how many different blockchains are gonna be around. Like I personally believe that Bitcoin will be around for longer than most, we'll say. And some of the things I'd like to see inscribed on a platform or on a network that's not gonna go away anytime soon, that will be Bitcoin. So in this situation, I like what they're doing. Someone's a little bit goofy, but that's not for me to say. It's the market to decide. And I have no problem with it. One thing I did like about it was that tweet we were just talking about with the SEC. They deleted that tweet, the SEC did because after it got hacked, but somebody took a screenshot and inscribed that as a BRC20 and put it into the Bitcoin network. So it's preserved in the network forever. I thought it was a pretty good use case. So as we like start to censor different things, we can't censor that part because that blockchain never goes away. So I like it. And some people hate it.  Check this out. So if I was a miner, let's go six months. Look at this, the average transaction fee in December 17, 2023, when ordinals were going crazy, $37 that moved Bitcoin around is no good. And then I know people will say, what about the fees on Ethereum? That's crazy, right? Not that bad. It's only 13 bucks. Bitcoin average transaction fee was 25 at this point. Look at that. Just look at that.  So yeah, that's what it is. That's it. Oh, Said said, Rob, which subscription of IC, of, sorry. Which subscription of into the cryptoverse you recommend for the risk charts for alt coins and the charts you showed in your, when I'm selling my crypto, I don't know. What I would do is this, sign up for the free version and just kind of take a look around and then get the next level up. I'm gonna get it, because there's so much information on Ben's website. Here, I'll show you. Ben's site into the cryptoverse. Don't tell me I did this, but I'll show you the inner workings. So when you go to like the higher tier stuff, there's so much stuff in here. And it's, you can break it down by crypto, by macro. And you can, like all the stuff that people talk about, well, the GDP is this or the debt to interest ratio.  I gotta take a look and sure enough, there it is.  And you can even like make your own charts. And that's under the do-do-do-do workbench. Like if you wanna compare Bitcoin to the M2 money supply and then overlay the S&P 500 plus the different price costs for houses, you can do all that stuff over here. Now for crypto, like the free version, you can go to the DCA strategy, which I like. But there's another one I like, which is the exit strategies. And it kind of just gives you like a breakdown of like, if you're looking to get out of Bitcoin, like here's some good price points. And it's just kind of easy. And there's another one, let's see here. Where did it? That's not it, charts. Now it's not it. See, when you go to the higher tier, it gets too confusing, let's see. Tools, I'm not finding it. I'm gonna get stubborn. That's a good one, but not what I'm looking for. Ah, finally, dashboard. So I like this part because it takes a look at the risk levels and also gives you like price points, which is kind of fun just to mess around with. Like, let's see, who owns ADA here? I do. So it gives you like the risk levels and where we're at right now. Right now we're in the 0.39 level. It's only 52 cents. But if we can take a look at the different risk levels throughout time and extrapolate that to an advancement of time of what it could potentially be. When it's maxed out potentially, you're looking at a card on over $7.51. I would not sell at that point because I would sell probably down here around the $4 range because that's me because I'm pretty happy with that. And then you can go through all these things like let's take a look at Bitcoin. Key risk levels right now we're at 0.56 at 42,690. And we get to the 0.9s, looking at $92,000. I'd sell some around there, $88,000. What about Ethereum? Yeah, don't tell Ben I did this. So let's see, Ethereum, not that great actually, $5,800 to $6,300, maxed out at $8,000. Interesting, I don't know. It's just one thing to take a look at. So that's always good stuff. All right. All right, everybody, that's good. I gotta get out of here. I'm sure you're sick of hearing these frogs in the background, I don't know if you can or not. But that's it for today. So look, like this video, give a thumbs up, consider subscribing, everything you talk about is time sensitive, especially right now. But that's it for today. Also tomorrow, we might have a meetup here. I gotta talk to Steven about over at the San Juan Smokehouse if you're in Puerto Rico area, first round of beers on me. That's it for tonight. Thanks so much, everybody. I appreciate you, I do. And I'll see you on the next one. Have a great night, adios.


TfNN headline news update, here's Tom O'Brien. Hi everyone, Basel Chapman doing the 9am Eastern time update at TfNN. And I'm the host of the Tiger Technicians Hour at noon doing this show right now. So the down closed yesterday at 25,625 we've had quite a few days of balances and then pullbacks intraday and then it closes quite nicely. So yesterday, that's the action that happened. And you see the technicals and the daily chart on the left of the Dow still very weak. I suspect that the upside, there should be some upside here, but it's becoming limited. But at this particular point we find that the downside is also limited. So we're stuck in a range at this particular moment. The Dow futures are up just to the S&P also at a mixed session. Yesterday, oops, I just typed that in the wrong place, not a good time to do it. The S&P right now is what it closed yesterday, 28.05 and the E-Mini futures are down 75 cents. The QQQ, and this is where my focus is going to be from today into Monday. The Qs are starting to show some weakness. And many of the very best stocks are starting to show a little topiness here. So how the NX100 trading vehicle, the QQQ, acts over the coming few days is going to be very important. I'd say to close below the 176 level would be very meaningful in terms of looking at downside activity. And that makes the upside at about 170, let's say 178.01 right now. Makes 179.20-ish, should be strong resistance. IWM has been weak with just the story. Gold is down 12 at 1304. We discussed this yesterday. I'll go through it in the show that I'm doing next, which is very preservative. Just trade what you see. There is a way until tomorrow. You'll be back tomorrow. So I'm going to be doing the showing yesterday. I was discussing the gold that made this fourth highest peak and was showing signs of deterioration. Technically, should be pulling back quite sharply. And 1303 was the key level. It's at 1304 right now. And Silver's doing the same thing, but the dollar. Dollar's showing some nice strength here. It's up 19 cents at 97.10. I suspect that because of the United States economy, still the place that many countries want to invest. And they're doing it in dollars. This is my interpretation. So we're looking at that. And crude oil, as we're wrapping up here, and then we're going to go to Larry's show in a moment, crude oil is trading down 95 cents. It made a kind of a double top. Watching it closely, under 50, 750. That's a problem for crude oil, Georgia. I'll be right back in a few minutes. Thank you. And that was a chapter signing off for this couple.


Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen, colleagues, friends, it's with great pleasure and a particular sense of honour that I introduce to you Professor Nirmalia Kumar. We honour Nirmalia Kumar for his contribution to the world of art in those regions of the world to which the school has been devoted since its foundation in 1916. Dr. Nirmalia Kumar is Professor of Marketing and Co-Director of Aditya Birla India Center at the London Business School. One of the world's leading thinkers in strategy and marketing, Nirmalia Kumar has taught at Harvard Business School, IMD Switzerland, and at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. Nirmalia is an outlier among marketing professors, having accomplished the rare feat of authoring several journal articles and books on business and marketing, most recent of which include India's Global Power Houses published in 2009 and India Inside published in 2012. Not just as an academic, but as an advisor, Nirmalia has worked with more than 50 fortune 500 companies in 60 different countries and has served on several board of directors, including billion dollar plus companies and those of India's stock indices. As a commerce graduate from Calcutta University, Nirmalia went on to study for his MBA from the University of Illinois at Chicago and PhD from Kellogg Graduate School of Management. Nirmalia is a passionate supporter of the arts and it is his interest as a collector and enthusiast of modern Indian visual art that brought him to the attention of Suas and its friends. Over the years, Nirmalia has put together among the largest private collections of Germany Roy, considered by many to be the father of Indian modern art and Rabindranath Tagore paintings, the first Asian to win a Nobel Prize. Rather than simply seeing it as his personal collection, Nirmalia sees himself as a custodian to help increase the visibility of these artists and the understanding of the context in which modern Indian art emerged. Apart from the obvious aesthetic appeal, Germany's paintings, for example, were also part of India's freedom movement, both cultural and political. With the Germany collection, Nirmalia feels we are privileged to watch a perfectionist who quietly pushes himself out of intense personal necessity, a painting at a time to realize a unique vision of Indian modern art. According to Nirmalia, a Germany Roy painting never looks like anything but a Germany Roy painting. To focus on one artist, he was often warned, was not wise, but for Nirmalia, this is quite consistent with what he teaches in strategies to companies all over the world. Strategy is choice, he says, and focus is essential to be the world's best at what you do. Nirmalia's collection is open for viewing to any individual and is also used for philanthropic purposes. In 2010, Nirmalia undertook a new initiative to use the collection to raise money for charitable causes that target, in particular, South Asia. One of the charities that recently benefited from this was Padada Padadi, which runs a girl's school in a village in Uttar Pradesh, a state in Northern India. This event raised more than 20,000 pounds in a single evening. As time goes by, a great hobby is one that allows you to grow as an individual. This collection has introduced Nirmalia to many people in the world of art, connected him to his culture, helped him, his own self to develop, and more recently, helped charities that he wishes to support. More importantly, this collection has helped connect his daughter to her Indian heritage. As she reacts to these beautiful pictures, she also takes pride in being Indian. Since moving to the UK eight years ago, Nirmalia has become involved with Asia House and the Nehru Centre. He has lent his works to Asia House for their Tiger in Asian Art exhibition, to the Nehru Centre for their exhibition on Germany Roy, and to exhibitions on the emergence of modern Indian art to the former Acorn Gallery. More recently, in support of the 150th anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore in 2011, Nirmalia held an exhibition of Tagore's works at the Nehru Centre. He also continues to be a great supporter of the British Museums, Department of Asia, and its curators. As an academic at the London Business School, a role in which he has been supporting Indian business and economy, Nirmalia has brought a breath of vision, a deep reservoir of experience, and an intense commitment to enhancing innovation and strategic developments. He has been interpreting India and Indian business for companies in the West, and multinational companies have used his works widely. In 2011, the Economist's cover story, entitled New Masters of Management, featured Nirmalia as a rising superstar. While the biannual ranking of global management thinkers, entitled Thinkers 50, awarded him the Global Village Award for his contribution to business and industry in the emerging markets. Today, Mr. Chairman, we have the opportunity to honour a man who has been one of the most highly regarded in the world of art, culture, and education. It's my privilege now to present Professor Nirmalia Kumar for the award of the honorary fellowship of the school, following which he'll address the assembly. Mr. Chairman, Professor Rao, ladies and gentlemen, it's with great respect for the institution of SOAS that I'm honoured to accept the honorary fellowship bestowed on me. I feel privileged now to be part of an academic institution that has been so critical in understanding the Orient and Africa. I promise to try my best to live up to the citation read by Professor Rao and to be a lifelong supporter and friend of SOAS. I was educated in India in the 1970s and early 80s, a time when it was difficult for a teenager to be truly proud of being Indian. For many educated youth, it was a time to escape what we considered the perceived constraints of being Indian. And to go West. Gaining a scholarship to study in America, I got the powerful immigrant experience of boundless opportunities. But it was also a time for deep personal cultural conflict for me, trying to escape my Indian-ness and become American. At some stage, after realizing that it was an impossible transformation, given my obvious Indian looks and observing the substantial changes taking place in India in the early 1990s, I felt a tug back to India. But India was not yet a place for any word with ambition to be a world-class business school academic. As a compromise, I moved halfway to Switzerland. But in Switzerland, I was always a foreigner. Eight years later, whilst now having set up a permanent home in Calcutta, I made what was going to be, what will be my last move to London, the only truly global multicultural city. Here I found I could be a global citizen, a UK national and an Indian all simultaneously. It is against this personal context that my support for Indian art should be understood. It's a quest for the meaning of identity in a globalized world, something that many graduates today will face in the future. It was a very personal struggle for both Jhamni Roy and Rabindranath Tagore in their art. Pitted against the fervent belief of the British colonial forces, put forward so starkly in the official handbook of the Victorian Albert Museum in 1880s. And I quote, the monster shape of the Puranic deities, unsuitable for the highest form of artistic impressions. And this is possibly why sculpture and painting are unknown as fine arts in India, unquote. Jhamni was faced with a conundrum which all Indian artists face at some stage. How do you become modern, Indian and unique? And yet in the final part of the puzzle for Roy seems to have been a reconciliation of nationalism and individuality. Part of the freedom fight for Jhamni was searching for subjects and motifs that were truly Indian, absorbing rural arts, and then transforming them into high modern art. But Jhamni over time evolved away from the Indian-inspired subjects to painting anything that caught his fancy, provided it fit in with his vision of modern Indian art. Thus later in his career, he painted Christian themes. The subject became secondary to having his paintings look different and uniquely Jhamni. Being a global artist, global academic, or global citizen, one does not want to become a prisoner of one's national identity either. It's about being Indian and independent of it. Still in conclusion, let me just say I've been fortunate, as Professor Rao pointed out, to lecture in more than 60 countries. I've lived in four. I've held three different passports, but it has taken me 50 years to understand that you can visit many countries, you can have many passports, but you can only be one from one place, and I'm from Calcutta. My collection is an attempt to create a mini Calcutta in the middle of central London. Thank you very much.


Live from Las Vegas, Nevada, it's theCUBE. Covering AWS re-invent 2016. Brought to you by AWS and it's ecosystem partners. Now here's your host, John Furrier. Welcome back everyone, we are here live in Las Vegas for Amazon re-invent 2016. This is SiliconANGLE, it's theCUBE, our flagship program where we go out to the events that expect the signal from the noise. I'm John Furrier, the founder of SiliconANGLE. Our next guest is a partnership between SnapLogic and Snowflake Computing. We have Ravi Darnacota, who's the head of Enterprise Architecture with SnapLogic. Welcome to theCUBE and Matt Glickman, Vice President of Product at Snowflake Computing. Guys, welcome to theCUBE. Thank you. Appreciate you coming on. Thank you. So talk about the partnership, take a minute to describe what you guys are doing together and the focus here at AWS re-invent. Then I want to get into the conversation of that everyone's trying to figure out right now. I got to start thinking of a holistic architecture to move to the cloud in a way that's not going to foreclose the benefits I want to get downstream. So let's talk about the partnership you guys are doing and then we'll dive in. Sure, I think the Snowflake and SnapLogic stories are so aligned from being cloud native, from bringing the cell service to data integration and getting to quick insights. That's why we have this great partnership now where we've aligned the products and SnapLogic has just announced a native connector to Snap to Snowflake, where you can do bulk uploads and do crowd operations in Snowflake. We help ingesting the data within Snowflake and of course deliver it to any of the BI tools. And the key thing that makes the partnership great is being built for the cloud natively and architectures that are built that way just can perform better than architectures that were ported from on-prem and moved into the cloud. Snowflake in particular, we basically took a completely different approach, separating compute, storage and metadata that allows you to basically only use the compute you need and be able to put all your users at the same data and then bring all the data with partners like SnapLogic into one place and then do analysis on it. So your premise then, Matt, is not to move the data around. Too much data in motion causes problems. It's the thing that everyone underestimates, just the complexity of doing it and the achieving consistency and making decisions on consistent data is the thing that at some point people gave up on because they didn't think it was possible to get the scalability and the concurrence you needed. At Snowflake, we basically, and this is one thing I saw when I maybe joined the company was that it was just fundamentally different. It allowed you to get all of your users on all of your data and maintain that consistency on those answers. So this weekend before I reinvent started, I asked a question to my Facebook friends. I said, well, I'm looking for some of my smart friends. They're like, yeah, you had two camps. Obviously the pro-Amazon camp, everything's great. Then you had the other camp. Well, no, they're going to screw you here. It's where it's going to be locked in. They're going to spend more money. It's not always that cheap. And so the debate will always rage on. My premise is that Amazon has a great architecture. So I'm very pro-Amazon or pro-Cloud in general. I love the building blocks approach. I think services and having things available through APIs and whatnot, winning formula, no doubt. But I think people don't pay attention is when they get in trouble. So the question, Matt, for you is, folks going to the cloud, where and specifically Amazon or others, what's the tripwires? Where's the hotspots? Where are the landmines? That they should look out for? It's a great question, John. And I think it really comes down to this notion of concurrency. People think about the cloud enabling all this compute that you can have and all these problems you can solve. But they underestimate what has to happen and be able to handle that concurrency. And the cloud allows you to scale up and scale down. But if you have to scale up to a very big architecture to handle the load you need, it could actually be expensive. If you actually can architect using what the cloud can offer and separate to only, you can dial up and dial down more importantly, then you get the concurrency and you actually get in a very cost-effective way. And that's the thing that a lot of questions- So that's the preferred outlook? Yes. So what's the architecture for that? What does that look like? And the key part of that architecture is being able to separate compute from storage, from metadata about that storage so that allows you to, when you dial up, you can basically dial up and be hot. You don't have to keep something big running all the time. I think that separation of the... People talk about the dial up, it's the dial down. We have lots of customers who literally dial down the system and literally only pay for storage when they're not using it. And storage is, as I know, that's three. It continues to drive down the price. And Snowflake is actually, we pegged our storage pricing to S3 pricing. So we have no spread on storage. It's all about compute. You passed that straight through. Passed that straight through.  You want to go up and down fast, but you don't want to crash on takeoff or landing. And that's really kind of what you're getting at. Exactly, but you need an architecture that you need architectures that were built for the cloud to do this. Like, you know, I mean, maybe talk a little bit. And sure, yeah, I'd like to comment on the architecture for integration and how to bring that data into Snowflake, for example. So the way we're architected is by separating the design and the execution plane. So you're designing the cloud through a multi-tenant application that's hosted on Amazon's web services. But the execution is a lazy, late-time execution where you can either decide to execute this in the cloud, in the public cloud, or in your private cloud. And this actually helps you integrate on-prem data as well as the cloud data, bring it together, and then push it into Snowflake. The complexity around the different data formats, the different velocities that they're flowing, all handled by one platform, which is easy to use. Okay, so guys, take a minute to explain to the folks watching the relationship of the partnership, what you guys do, and what Snowflake does, and then a use case of a customer example so people can kind of visualize and understand when they might want to call you guys up or get involved. We'll start with SnapLogic. What do you guys do in the relationship? Who does what, and a use case? Sure, yeah, we can bring up the use case of the craft group. They're a media entertainment and event management company who run the Gillette Stadium and own the... Patriots, Patriots. Patriots, Patriots, Patriots. I'll need some tickets, too, by the way. This too, at least, is a season ticket holder, so. So yeah, so they bring in data from different data sources, like Tetheredata, MySQL, Salesforce, et cetera, and then use SnapLogic to bring all of that data in and push it into Snowflake through our native integration into Snowflake. So you do all the data analysis, data wrangling. The wrangling, the wrangling is the... Data ingestion, the wrangling, the transformations. Got ETL, that you're on the ETL side. But more ELT, so I think the difference is is that the data gets loaded and then you have this massive compute that you can spin up to do the transforms that get orchestrated by SnapLogic. But it's interesting, so there's use cases like that, the BI kind of use cases that just now scale. What we're finding is our customers want to basically now that they've aggregated this data in one place, they want to run their actual business on that same data. And that's the unique, that allows the data to actually be valid because you're actually using it every day as well as doing BI on it. And we have customers like Localytics, also out of Boston, who have massive trillion-row tables that they can actually do live queries on while they're actually doing data science other things on that same data set and allowing that to really scale. I mean the scale on the data is ridiculous. You heard the guy on stage today, trillions of rows, all this is going to happen. The question that you're bringing up really goes down to what Peter Burris has been talking about at Wikibon is putting data to work. That putting that data to work is about the value creation once you get it all organized. So what you're saying, Matt, is you got to kind of get it all kind of, I don't want to say data leaks, that implies it's just not doing anything, set up an addressable, and then putting it to work in the applications. And that's exactly what they were trying to do was within their stadiums, they were trying to extract data from their fans and optimize their experience within that stadium and how to interact with them, give them promotions and so on and so forth. So extracting data from their CRM systems from live interactions that are happening around the kiosks in the stadium and then do some analytics and behavioral decisions. An analytics is like three things. What happened in the past, what's happening now, what's going to happen in the future. So here's my question for both of you guys. Given this great conversation, by the way, I love it. Now let's take it to the next level. IoT and real-time are really hot.  So some are saying is David Floyd, Wikibon, it's a big proponent of, you move compute to where the data is. A lot of people think that's the way to go, so I don't. So real-time's another one. How do you get stuff in memory? That's the combination of metadata. Thoughts on this is because this is a real area because people want to know what's happening now. If you're at Chilette Stadium, I want to change the prices of braiders. He's just won his 200th game. John, the funny thing about integration is that when you go in an enterprise, you have one of everything and so you have to retrofit that into whatever is already existing. So we provide the flexibility to do either a batch type, look back and then do analytics on that, or real-time by connecting to some of the real-time streaming engines or do predictive analysis. But we're the plumbers. So we bring in data in any one of those types of data that you want to move data in. And the interesting thing then on top of that is when you get those real-time streams in the machine-generated data, it's typically semi-structured data. In Snowflake, we can ingest that semi-structured data without transforming it and query it because we literally transform it behind the scenes into columnar form, so you don't have to transform that IoT data. You just stream it in. You're doing that on the fly. We're doing it on the fly. While it's streaming. So no separate process. And less copies of the data, again. But that is the key. Consistency, concurrency, and minimizing data movement. So what's on the product roadmap is Snowflake because a lot of customers kind of want to see that trajectory of kind of anticipating the headroom of what's next, it's like a car. They start with wheels and a motor, then you get windshield wipers, then you get power windows, air conditioning. We're in the early days still. Where are we now on that? You touched on one of them. I mean, streaming is making streams be something that can be, today you have to be thinking about having a compute cluster to receive that stream. Tomorrow you won't, right? We'll just hook up to the Kinesis Kafka Streams. Data comes in and we'll figure out the right interval to pull that data in and allow you to transform on the way in with orchestration on what you want to do with that data. Just have it come in in massive streams. So what you're saying basically if I read you correctly is in the future the scarce resource will not be compute. I'm sorry, in the future compute will be so small and addressable, small in terms of form factor, but everywhere it's going to be the data that's the problem. It has to be. Because data is going to be the constrained area that you've got to be optimized for. That's right, for all the different data formats, the different ways it comes through and integrate that with whatever is existing that becomes a challenge. And all right, so where does this partnership go next? What's next?  Yeah, I mean, getting more customers, more data sources, having data move less. You know, one of the things that's also on our roadmap is minimizing data movement between organizations. Like one of the things that still is a pain point is that if you provide data to your partners, you have to export it and reload it, right? That's one thing that the cloud enables where you literally you can basically say this data set, you know, and a snap logic could know by this data set and basically provide it as a virtual copy. Again, minimizing movement as data grows, you want to find ways to minimize data movement. And Ravi, quick, final comment, snap logic, any guiding principles or advice you'd want to share with folks, big picture, what they should be thinking about? Yeah, one of my colleagues here just gave a great analogy. When people are thinking about modernizing, they're not just picking out the small pieces and changing that. They usually think about it from a larger standpoint. You cannot just change your applications and not think about the plumbing that goes along with it. And that's what snap logic provides in a flexible, easy to use interface. So when you're thinking about going to the cloud and putting on all these different cloud applications, you got to think about the plumbing that supports that as well. Great, great for coming on theCUBE. Guys, great conversation. Again, I think it's very early on, but I think architecturally, this is one of those big decisions people got to make is how do you look holistically at your resources, minimize the complexity, decouple things, make them highly cohesive? Sounds like a good plan to me. And get to the insights quickly. Congratulations. Yes, thank you. Snap logic, snowflake computing here inside theCUBE. I'm John Furrier, back with more live coverage after this short break, day two of Amazon web services. Three days of coverage. I'm John Furrier.


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Hello and welcome to another IndiePixel tutorial. My name is Kenny Lambers, and I'll be your instructor throughout this course. What we're gonna do in this course is talk about how to make a top-down camera script, all right? So it's actually not too difficult. You'll find that it's actually pretty simple to achieve. Even though I do remember the first time I was, you know, trying to figure this out back in the day with Unity, I definitely over complicated it. So I just wanted to show you how you could really build up a nice solid top-down camera, complete with a custom editor inspector and some cool SceneView UI to allow you to edit it in the SceneView directly. So that's what we're gonna do in this course. We're gonna first stub in our C-sharp scripts. Then we're gonna code up the actual meat of the camera functionality, and then we're gonna go and create a small editor tool. All right, and this will allow us to take advantage of the SceneView GUI drawing inside of Unity. It's really cool. I always love to add those particular aspects to most of my components, so designers or other people can use the script really easily or the component itself. And then finally, we're gonna create a menu function for our camera just to make it really easy to set up, right? So people don't have to go and find the top-down camera script and drag it onto the empty game object and so on and so forth. It would be great if we could just select an object in the Scene that we want to be our target, and then we go up to a menu option and say create top-down camera. And then it just sets everything up for us kind of deal. All right, so without further ado, let's get going. All right, so here we are inside of Unity. You can see I already have a scene set up here. These are the assets from the Low Poly Style Desert Pack. If I were gonna go over here, it's a Low Poly Style Desert Pack from CH Assets. It's a pretty good little pack. I like the content. It's really great for these tutorials, these types of tutorials, because it doesn't over-complicate the scene, and I wanna focus on what we're trying to learn instead of a pretty scene or anything like that. So let me play just so we can see what we're gonna be doing here. All right, so we have the top-down camera right here.  And it basically just allows you to change the distance and the height of the particular camera. So we're gonna walk through how to do all that stuff. So let me hit play. All right, so now when we drive this tank around like so, you can see that we have this really cool top-down camera type effect. I like it, it's not super complicated at this point, but it's a cool little effect and I love these top-down type of games. So while I develop this little tiny game here, this tank game further, I'm gonna be posting more videos on YouTube about each of these different components like the tank controller and the targeting and firing of the weapons and enemy AI, all that cool jazz, all right? So that's what we're gonna do.  All right, so I'm gonna hit save. So what we're gonna do is I am actually going to just remove this particular component from the tank here or from the camera, sorry. And what I wanna do is start over basically. So you guys can see how I set all this stuff up. So I'm gonna hit new folder and we're gonna call this cameras, all right? And inside of this folder, I'm gonna create another folder called code and then two more folders, one called scripts and the other called editor. All right, so if you've done any editor scripting, you'll know why. So all editor scripts and if you don't know why, all editor scripts need to go into a folder called editor and the reason why I'm setting up this folder structure this way is because it makes it easy to export out as an a unity package basically, right? So I'm gonna really used to setting up my folder structures as though I am actually making an asset like for the asset store or I try to keep them all componentized, right? Or modular so I can export out certain folders of code and reuse them in other projects basically. So I don't like to have all of my scripts basically underneath one scripts folder. You know, like you see a lot when you're working on one specific type of unity project. I like to keep it all componentized basically. That's the gist of all that. All right, so we're gonna need a couple scripts here. All right, so what I wanna do is create the actual camera script. So what we're gonna do is we're gonna call this new script, I'm gonna call this IP, we'll call this top down, oops, top down camera. And what we could do. And I do like to name my scripts this way because I like to give it a prefix. And then in this case, I'm just using indie pixel, right? Cause it's an indie pixel script. And then top down is basically a description of what the script does. And then the last part is the type. So this is a camera type of script. So I usually follow that convention. I don't stick to it every single time, but that's why I named it as such. All right, and then inside of the editor folder, I need to make another script. And you don't have to do this right off the bat, but I always like to kind of step things in as I go, you know? And we're gonna do the top down camera editor. And again, that's just another one of my naming conventions that I use while I develop. All right, so to get things underway, what we wanna do is just kind of get things stubbed in over here. So I'm gonna select the camera, go back to my scripts folder and drag that onto the main camera there. All right, I don't know why I'm looking at the tank. We should be looking at the camera. It's just cause it's cool. All right, there we go. Now we're back up onto the camera. So let's actually pop this guy open and get a few things set up before we really dive into the math, if you will, of the script or the meat of it also. I'm gonna kill these other scripts that I had open already. All right, so first things first, I always love to put my scripts underneath a namespace. So in this case, what I'm gonna do is put it under a namespace I actually already have in here right now but called IndiePixel.cameras. All right, and the reason why I do this, if you don't do this, I don't see a lot of people do this in their tutorials at least, but I haven't seen people do it obviously for production projects at work and stuff like that. It's a great idea to do this because it basically encapsulates your code into a namespace and it protects it from clashing class names or variables or method names from like asset packs that you download from the asset store. By doing this, you're insured that you will never get one of those errors that says, oh, this class already exists or this method already exists because you imported some asset from the asset store or you imported your buddy's Unity package and you guys decided to use the same names for something, it happens. So the next thing that we wanna do here is I always like to set up my regions. So you don't have to do this, but I'm just so used to doing this now that I should actually just make a template for this instead of auto develop. I do like to think about what I'm gonna be doing while I'm setting this up, but there we go. And one thing that I like to do, I put all my other custom methods in a region called helper methods. Just helps me keep my code nice and clean and organized. It's really the only reason why I'm doing this. All right, so what are the things that we are going to need for this? Well, we're first gonna need a target. So I know I need a target, right? So I'm gonna say public transform and target because we want this camera to follow something. And we want it to look at something, right? So we need a target for that. We need to transform so that we can access the position variable of the transform, all right? And then we're gonna wanna set up a height, right? So we want a public float M height. And I like to use the M underscore, so the camel casing, right? Or the, sorry, excuse me, the Hungarian casing, whatever they call it. I like to use that because then I know anything with the M underscore belongs to the script and it's a member, basically that's what it stands for. It means it's a member of this particular component. I mean, there's so much discussion about naming conventions out there. This is just one thing that I do, right? I've gotten used to. So I wanted to explain myself a little bit there. And I should actually initialize these with some values that I found to work well when you first add this script to a game object. We don't wanna flow, watt or whatever that is. All right, and then we want the angle because I wanna be able to set this at like a 45 degree angle to my object that I'm looking at, my target. All right, so there we go. Perfect, that is pretty much all the setup. All right, so basically what's gonna happen here is we're gonna roll into the start method and the update method and we're gonna update the camera itself. So I like to move all that stuff into a virtual method because I might wanna override it with some other custom functionality. So I might write another class that just extends this particular class itself. All right, so this would be considered the base class and I could use a protected virtual void handle camera type of method. And inside of here will be the meat of the camera. And then what we could do is we can just say on the base class we're just gonna update or we're just gonna handle the camera, right? And that way I never, in all the scripts that I write afterwards that extend this particular class, I won't ever have to write the starter update function again. I just literally have a class with this functionality that overrides this particular method. Now, if you're not familiar with virtual methods and inheritance that might seem a little confusing to you at first, but I'll do my best to explain it as I get more videos out on YouTube and walk you guys through the way that I like to code up my components inside of Unity, all right? So that's pretty good for this video. I think in the next video we are gonna go through and actually type out the meat of the code that actually moves the camera into position and follows, in this case, the tank. So let's actually update and make sure we didn't get any errors. And if we're all good to go, which we are, then let's actually call it good. I'm gonna assign the tank just so I don't forget, right? And that's another reason why I wanna set up a menu, a custom menu up here. So that way when you have a tank or anything selected, you could say I wanna add a top-down camera script to that and it'll auto-populate the target field right there. All right, so now that we got our script all stubbed in, let's move on to the next step and get this puppy actually following the tank. Thanks so much.


Did I get tattoos and piercing? Well I got tattoos. Didn't need piercings. But what about you? How do you decide? You want to spice up your life and make a bold statement. There's no better way than getting a tattoo or a piercing. I mean, who needs to worry about future job prospects?  Or a nose piercing that won't heal. And don't get me started on the pain. It's like a ride of passage. Am I right? But seriously, getting a tattoo or piercing is a great way to express yourself and showcase your unique style. Just make sure you do your research. Find a reputable artist or piercer and take care of your new ink or hardware.  So go forth and be your beautiful unique tattooed pierced selves.


I'm from Texas, and I've been here for about 16 years, or here in Prague, just in Prague. I've lived here for 16 years or so, and one of my best friends, he's from Oklahoma, and he's also lived here. He's lived here longer than me, and so he was thinking about buying a house outside of Prague. He came to me and said, Joel, I've found this great piece of land. It's about 45 minutes out of Prague, and there's just this land. I'm going to buy it. I'm going to build a house with my family. It's going to be amazing. What do you think? I was thinking two things. Number one, I was thinking, I don't want him to do it because I'll lose my friend. He'll be here, but he won't be here. But I told him the first thing that came into my mind, and that was, I wouldn't do it. He said, why? I said, because I didn't move to the Czech Republic. I moved to Prague. This amazing city, Prague. To be honest, if you want to go build a house on a beautiful piece of land, you can do that in Oklahoma. I can do that in Texas, but neither one of us can live in Oklahoma or Texas and basically have the experience of being in Prague. So in the end, he didn't buy the house. He didn't buy the land. He's living in Prague. I like to think I have something to do with that. And in fact, over the years, he's mentioned a couple of times this conversation and how it did affect him, affected the way he thought. And it got me to thinking about how we influence other people and how people influence us, and especially me as a teacher here at Prague College. I teach, I focus in marketing. And at the beginning of every class, at the beginning of every semester, people come in and I have a few different types of students. One, quite often, they don't know anything about marketing. Another type of student, they don't care. They haven't ever thought about it. And another type of student always, every single year, there's always at least one student who comes in and says, Joel, I have to take this class, but I don't like marketing. I don't really want to be here. And so it's my job to take all these different views of marketing and try to teach them the fundamental aspect that marketing is a tool. And it's something that can be used for the greater good, for good, but it can also be used badly. And in the end, what it is, it's just a way, it's a great way for businesses to get more customers and to become more successful. But at the same time, it's a great way for people, for everybody, to find out about stuff that they want, or about things that they need, or things they want to do, things that's going to help them with their lives. And so from that point of view, I've found that I'm able to influence students, but my students are always influencing me as well. I feel that I'm much younger than I would be if I wasn't in a university setting, just mentally younger. And also, I find what I'm having to do is I'm constantly updating myself based on feedback from students and based on how students are influencing me. And I think Prague College is a multicultural university, which really, really helps the students get ready for the multicultural world that they're going to be working in and living in. And understanding how people influence you and how you influence them in everyday life, it's a really key thing to know, I feel.


Hey guys, it's Julia and welcome back to my channel and for today's video we're wearing a hat. We're going to be talking about The Godfather by Mario Puzo. Basically the first bit of this video is going to be spoiler free and then I'm going to do like a short spoilery section at the end so feel free to leave for the spoilery section or just watch the spoilers whatever you want. So we're going to be talking about this book today. This is an adult crime kind of book. It's really hard for me to explain but it's about the mafia, the Italian mafia. It's about this family, mainly follow one family in particular but then there is all five families who meet and they all have like their own dawn which is kind of like the leader. Basically this is full of crime.  There's definitely trigger warnings for abuse within this book and just general violence so keep that in mind. Basically I did not know what to expect going into this at all with books like this where the movie is such a classic. I worry about the book because like with Hannibal and like Red Dragon and stuff the movie is incredible like and that adaptations are so clever and well thought out but the book was just average in my opinion. Like the writing was not the greatest but the story was still good. That's the only thing. That's how I felt about those books. I was worried that it was going to be the same with The Godfather and I had not seen the movie so I'm hoping to do that soon but I didn't want to watch it before this and then you know compare it. I was actually really pleasantly surprised with this. I can't believe nobody talks about this. Like I was reading this and I was like how come no one talks about this? Like on booktube in person? Nothing. Like I hear no one talk about this. Like I've never seen a wrap up where someone's mentioned this book and if you're a lover of just like crime books or just powerful men and things like that and you know men who love power and or other people who bow down a certain person things like that. I think you'd definitely like this. So the writing was spot-on. I would 10 out of 10 recommend the writing. It was really good. It was really thorough. Like I don't know if it was just me but I felt like I was reading this forever. I think it's because the font is like kind of small. Like it's like a it's smaller than like most books I think in my opinion and then there's like no spacing. Like there's no like spacing or anything. So it did take me a while but it's only about 430 pages so it's not too bad but I felt like the descriptions were just so well done and again I was reading and I was like how come no one talks about this? Are you kidding me? I was really impressed by the writing and honestly it's split up into like book number one, book number two and it goes on from there. And I didn't know this but it's a series which I think I'm good with the first book right now but maybe one day I'll pick up the others. It definitely leaves on a point where I think you would be satisfied with the story so if you're worried to get into a new series or whatever I don't think that's the case. Yeah but again it just felt like I was reading it for a long time but it was really thorough and I can't believe all like the development. Like I felt like in 430 pages there was a lot of like character development. There was a lot of just like I can't even explain it. Like the writing was just so fantastic and talking about the characters I don't want to say. Well I mean okay we have the Dawn who is the head of the- how do you pronounce this? The core- core- I'm gonna put it on here because I'm not able to say this. Um it's probably the easiest pronunciation I'm just screwing up but this family was like the main family of the book so the Dawn I loved hearing about him. I thought he was so interesting just how everyone had so much respect for him. Like it's not even that they were terrified of him they just respected him so much and then there were some people who were like fearful of him but when he did something for you he in in return you- if he ever needed something he would cash it in which it reminds me a lot of- this is weird. Um a show that I watch it's a- it's a soap opera like your mom's probably watch it like you- like if you're a mom you watch it no I'm kidding but um or your grandparents watch it etc maybe you watch it but the Young and the Restless it reminded me a lot of like Victor Newman and his power and I don't know it just really reminded me of that and how you really like he doesn't directly threaten you all the time but it's like sometimes it's just like underlying or like you got to read between the lines like he will net- Victor actually does openly threaten sometimes but the Dawn never really openly threatened anybody um sometimes it was really implied though just saying but he also reminded me of like Rumpel Stillskin from Once Upon a Time like the version that they did of him in that show because he was making deals and he was um you know if you did something for me um like if I did something for you you'd have to do something for me in return it's kind of what that was all about but yeah the characters I love the Dawn was really interesting but my favorites throughout the book were Sunny I think he was absolutely just so interesting to me he was one of the ones that had like a really big temper that's kind of how he's described throughout the book is that he's very temperamental he's the Dawn's one of the Dawn's sons and I just love Sunny like that's not his actual like like they all have like their Italian names and then their shortened names um I thought Michael was really interesting as well um he was kind of like the what like how do I explain it Michael was just really interesting like I didn't think of him much at the beginning like I was kind of like oh yeah like he's fine like I like I preferred Sunny and like the Dawn and things like that but I don't know Michael kind of grew on me definitely say that so there's some important elements of this book and I won't get into spoilers right now but um there is some deaths and I'm not gonna say anything else but yeah there is some people who died that I didn't really care about so yeah but there was some other characters there was Johnny Fontaine he was like a singer who lost his voice so he went to the dawn for help and he was kind of like you know I can't sing man blah blah blah okay so we kind of get hit story as well um the only thing that I didn't like which I kind of I can't couldn't like I can't even excuse how they talk about women in this book like it's not like every woman but like the guys who are like a part of the mafia a lot of them are like hiring like prostitutes and they call them their whores and one of the characters abuses his wife a lot and that was really hard to read so keep that in mind it's a lot at times yeah so the characters were really good they were all fleshed out like they all had their own stories and there's just so much to say about each character but Sunny was my favorite I also liked Selozo as a villain if you know what I mean I was like I like you but like as a villain you know um there was some scenes I really love which I'll talk about in the spoilers but if you haven't read The Godfather I'd highly recommend it I think the writing is spot on I think the characters are great it has the right amount of crime again if you're sensitive to things like abuse and reading about that please be aware that it's in here um it was like the first page someone like someone's beating the shit out of someone else so just be aware of that the mafia works was really interesting and I've never read a book like this and you know a lot of the characters were Sicilian and Italian and it was just it was really interesting to read I really do want to see the movie and this was just overall like a like I was pleasantly surprised and I'm giving this about a four out of five stars I think it was really good and I would recommend it to people so let's get into spoilers so we can be here all day talking about stuff but I think I'm going to just look at my tabs I didn't have too much but I tabbed like a fair bit of stuff so basically I tabbed Sunny saying Selozo has done me I don't care what it costs I don't care if we have to fight all the five families in New York the tata galley family is going to be wiped out I don't I don't care if we all go down together so Selozo that scene was so cool like I don't know why that was so interesting to me but that scene when they were like he went to the bathroom and he took the gun behind the toilet and they hit it there and he went and he um shot Selozo and that cop at the dinner table who were like totally like assholes and just did a lot of that shit so he shot them and then he had to go away because like he was accused so he kind of had to leave all right so after the murder of Selozo and captain McCluskey look the police captain and lieutenants in every station house in New York City sent out the word there would be no more gambling no more prostitution no more deals of any kind until the murder of captain McCluskey was found okay so that says at the end the five families war of 1946 has begun which I didn't talk about this in the Nossbury section but I found it really interesting how this tied into like world war one and world war two um they also mentioned the black hand which was a terrorist organization um in I forget if it was world war one or world war two I'm a little bit fuzzy on my history but I remember landing about them in history class so I found that really interesting that they like talked about them and then I just have like descriptions of the dawn like are they just 12 short dark slender living in a strange moorish-looking village of Corleone Sicily in Sicily he had been born a veto and a andolini and one strange man came to kill the son of the man they had murdered his mother sent the young boy to America to stay with friends which it's funny because I'm Italian too and I can't like I don't know oh look I don't know I'm more nervous on camera to pronounce things but um I also have what followed this was sickening Sonny began beating the tower in Corleau with his fist cursing him okay so this was interesting so Connie is the dawn's daughter and this guy Carlo was her husband he's the one who was beating her throughout the book which was horrifying to read by the way but Sonny the older brother who has like a temper and he's pretty temperamental he literally like he wouldn't Connie's injured he gets really pissed so this was like Sonny beating the beating him cursing in a thick rage choked voice carl despite his tremendous physique offered no resistance gave no cry for marcia protests so basically he was beating the shit out of him and yeah but I really liked Sonny like I know he did a lot about things like everyone in this book does bad things so don't even like hate on me for liking Sonny but the thing with Sonny was that he really cared about his family and even with this whole book like they cared about their immediate family um and they had so much respect for the dawn which was really interesting but Sonny was just you can tell he was upset because it was his sister and later in the book he goes to um go see um his sister and to try to kill Carlo probably and he gets killed along the way and then it's a discussion of if Carlo knew that Connie called him and if Carlo sent people to kill him and stuff like that Sonny dies from that attack that Carlo could have caused so someone else killed Carlo and not Sonny's wife but the wife of the person who killed Carlo I think it was Michael who killed Carlo I forget but like they're trying to explain to her that like they're they're condoning it because I don't think it's right but they're condoning it because Carlo basically killed Sonny um or it's assumed that he did and that he was beating Connie and like she was getting really badly injured too so it was just horrifying to read that so this might have so much respect for Sonny because he was going to help his sister before he died and he was mad yeah he probably would have killed him when he got if he got there but I don't know I just had a lot of respect for Sonny so his death would make me really sad um yeah I was really upset by Sonny's death so Michael's like the innocent one throughout the book like he's the one that no one really thinks much of um in the dawn family like that's why they send him to kill um Selozo and the captain they send him because he is the less intimidating out of the family like they said Sonny probably would have done a better job but um they would know they would have been more threatened by Sonny than of Michael so they sent Michael to do it so that was interesting especially because Michael later becomes the dawn and we need to talk about how the dawn got shot because I was like speechless like I didn't expect this to happen and it happened pretty early if I remember um so I was like what the hell the dawn got shot and you know through the book throughout the edit like the second half he's making his recovery but he sells their oil business the lawyer Tom Hagan who is also his like right hand man just gets appointed to being his lawyer Michael takes over and he Tom is now Michael's lawyer and yeah Sonny's gone he was really interesting and this is what I really ended up liking about Michael near the end is he said his children um he was saying basically he would follow his father he would care for his children his family his world but his children will go up in a different world they would be doctors artists scientists governors presidents anything at all so I loved that like that he didn't want them to get involved in this world of crime and drugs and money and power and wealth and all the stuff that he was involved in that he grew up in and he wanted his kids to have kind of like a normal family and he would follow his father's example in a way but he didn't want to raise them the way he was raised exactly then basically we have Michael and his wife Kaye who um are now married and stuff obviously I said wife um but sorry that was a blanket um so Connie's pissed when she hears that you know her husband died because of Michael and I think he was really seeking out vengeance for Sonny and I don't know Karlo bothered me so much I didn't really care but it was just Connie gets so pissed off which it was not surprising but I was a little bit I don't know like he treated her so horribly and I get they were married but the way that he treated her was just horrible and so she's yelling and then Kaye defends him and says you know all the stuff like how do you know that the death of your brother wasn't because of Karlo or he was going to like going to see Karlo and how did you know that Karlo didn't know you were talking on the phone and he didn't plan this or whatever so that was really interesting let me know down below if you guys think Karlo did kill Sonny or was Karlo's people let me know what you think yeah so it even says here what if Karlo had been paid to help get Sonny killed them what the don a great man couldn't bring himself to do what he had to do a vengeance since death by killing his daughter's husband what if that finally was too much for him and he made Michael his successor knowing that Michael would take that load off his shoulders would that take guilt would that take the guilt yeah so and at the end it just says then with a profound and deeply will desire to believe to be heard and she had done every day since the murder of Karlo Reezy she said the necessary is first for the soul of Michael Corley okay so that ends with basically Michael's wife Kay saying she was always disturbed that he wouldn't tell her stuff he's not going to tell her about all the deaths he has to go like that all the people he's killed or all the people who attacked his family like they read about in the newspapers like people are dying and stuff but she tries to ask him questions and he says don't ask me about business don't do that he tries to keep the life separated from her which I guess if she did now she would be in danger as well so I kind of get why but at the same time I'm like it's sad that they cannot have a normal marriage and it was sad that he couldn't confide in her about things but near the end she says when she found out about Karlo's death and that her husband killed him first for for a bit again she was defending him and stuff but I think she came to the conclusion at the end that like what I really got from that last line was she was worried every day for a bit she actually leaves him after discovering um she leaves him after discovering what happened with Karlo and I think it was so she leaves him after finding out what happened with Karlo and for a little bit and then they go they find their way back to each other and she says them with a profound and deeply will desire to believe to be heard as she had done every day since the murder of Karlo she had the necessary prayers for the soul of Michael so that was the end of the godfather of a Moria Puzo um please let me know what you thought in the comments down below I would love to hear your thoughts on this book no I haven't watched the movie I will but I wanted to get my thoughts on the book straight first so then I'm not altering my opinions and stuff but I really enjoyed this book definitely suggest it and I hope you guys liked it as well so thank you guys so much for watching today's video if you are new here be sure to click the subscribe button and click the notification bell to be updated for when I post new videos and all that sort of stuff and I'll see you all very soon with a new video bye