Live from Boston, it's theCUBE. Covering IBM Chief Data Officer Summit. Brought to you by IBM. Welcome back everyone to theCUBE's live coverage of the IBM CDO Summit here in Boston, Massachusetts. I'm your host Rebecca Knight and I'm joined by co-host Paul Gillan. We have a guest today, John Thomas. He is the Distinguished Engineer and Director at IBM. Thank you so much for coming, returning to theCUBE.  CUBE alum. Thank you for having me on this, yep. So tell our viewers a little bit about your Distinguished Engineer. There are only 672 in all of IBM. What do you do? What is your role? Well it's a good question. Distinguished Engineer is kind of a technical executive role which is a combination of applying deep technology skills as well as helping shape IBM strategy in a technical way. Working with clients, et cetera, right? So it is a bit of a jack of all trades but also deep skills in some specific areas. And I love what I do. So we get to work with some very talented people, brilliant people in terms of shaping IBM technology and strategy, product strategy that is part of it. We also work very closely with clients in terms of how to apply that technology in the context of the client's use cases. We've heard a lot today about soft skills, the importance of organizational people skills to being a successful Chief Data Officer but there's still a technical component. How important is the technical side? What are the technical skills that the CDOs need? Oh this is a very good question Paul. So absolutely, so navigating the organizational structure is important. It's a soft skill, you're absolutely right. And being able to understand the business strategy for the company and then aligning your data strategy to the business strategy is important, right? But the underlying technical pieces need to be solid. So for example, how do you deal with large volumes of different types of data spread across the company? How do you manage that data? How do you understand the data? How do you govern that data? How do you then start leveraging the value of the data in the context of your business, right? So an understanding, deep understanding of the technology of collecting, organizing and analyzing that data is needed for you to be a successful CDO. So in terms of those skill sets that you're looking for and one of the things that Interpol said earlier in his keynote is that it's a rare individual who truly understands the idea of how to collect, store, analyze, curatize, monetize the data and then also has the soft skills of being able to navigate the organization, being able to be a change agent who is inspiring the rank and file. How do you recruit and retain talent? It seems to be a major challenge. Expertise is getting the right expertise in place and Interpol talked about it in his keynote which was the very first thing he did was bring in talent. Sometimes it's from outside of your company. Maybe you have talent that has grown up in your company. Maybe you have to go outside but you've got to bring in the right skills together, form the team that understands the technology and the business side of things and build this team. And that is essential for you to be a successful CDO. And to some extent, that's what Interpol has done. That's what the analytics CDO's office has done. Asad Darbrin, my boss, is the analytics CDO and he and the analytics CDO team actually hired people with different skills, data engineering skills, data science skills, visualization skills and then put this team together which understands the how to collect, govern, curate and analyze the data and then apply them in specific situations. A lot of talk about AI at this conference which seems to be finally happening. What do you see in the field or perhaps projects that you've worked on, examples of AI that are really having a meaningful business impact? Yeah, Paul, it's a very good question because the term AI is overused a lot as you can imagine, a lot of hype around it. But I think we are past that hype cycle and people are looking at how do I implement successful use cases and I stress the word use case, right? In my experience these, how I'm going to transform my business in one big boil, the ocean exercise does not work but if you have a very specific bounded use case that you can identify, the business tells you this is relevant, the business tells you what the metrics for success are and then you focus your attention, your efforts on that specific use case with the skills needed for that use case, then it's successful. So, examples of use cases from across the industries, right? I mean, everything that you can think of, customer-facing examples like how do I read the customer's mind? So when if I'm a business and I interact with my customers, can I anticipate what the customer is looking for? Maybe for a cross a lot of opportunity or maybe to reduce the call handling time when a customer calls into my call center or trying to segment my customer so I can do a proper promotion or a campaign for that customer. All of these are specific customer-facing examples. There are also examples of applying this internally to improve processes, capacity planning for your infrastructure. Can I predict when a system is likely to have an outage and or can I predict the traffic coming into my systems, into my infrastructure and provision capacity for that on demand? So all of these are interesting applications of AI in the enterprise. So when you're trying, I mean, one of the things we keep hearing is that we need data to tell a story, that data needs to, the data needs to be compelling enough so that the people, the data scientists get it, but then also the other kinds of business decision makers get it too. So what are sort of the best practices that have emerged from your experience in terms of being able for your data to tell the story that you wanted to tell? Yeah, well, I mean, if the pattern doesn't exist in the data, then no amount of fancy algorithms can help, you know? So, and sometimes it's like searching for a needle in a haystack, but assuming, so I guess the first step is like I said, what is your use case? Once you have a clear understanding of your use case and success metrics for that use case, do you have the data to support that use case? So for example, if it's fraud detection, do you actually have the historical data to support the fraud use case? Sometimes you may have transactional data from your transaction data from your core enterprise systems, but that may not be enough. You may need to augment it with external data, third-party data, maybe unstructured data that goes along with your transaction data. So question is, can you identify the data that is needed to support the use case? And if so, can I do, is that data clean? Is that data, do you understand the lineage of the data, who has touched and modified the data, who owns the data, so that I can then start building predictive models and machine learning deep learning models with that data? So use case, do you have the data to support the use case? Do you understand how the data reached you? Then comes the process of applying machine learning algorithms and deep learning algorithms against the data. One of the risks of machine learning and particularly deep learning, I think, is it becomes kind of a black box and people can fall into the trap of just believing what comes back, regardless of whether the algorithms are really sound or the data is sound. What is the responsibility of data scientists to sort of show their work? Yeah, Paul, this is fascinating and not completely solved area, right? So bias detection, can I explain how my model behaved? Can I ensure that the models are fair in their predictions? So there is a lot of research, a lot of innovation happening in the space. IBM is investing a lot in the space. We call trust and transparency. Being able to explain a model, it's got multiple levels to it. You need some level of AI governance itself. So just like we talked about data governance, there is the notion of AI governance, which is what version of the model was used to make a prediction? What were the inputs that went into that model? What were the features that were used to make a certain prediction? What was the prediction and how did that match up with ground truth? You need to be able to capture all that information. But beyond that, we have got actual mechanisms in place that IBM research is developing to look at bias detection. So pre-processing, during execution, post-processing, can I look for bias in how my models behave and do I have mechanisms to mitigate that? So one example is the open source Python library called AIF360 that comes from IBM's research and is contributed to the open source community. You can look at, there are mechanisms to look at bias and provide some level of bias mitigation as part of your model building exercises. And is the bias mitigation, does it have to do with, and I'm going to use an IBM term of art here, the human in the loop?  Humans are, at least at this point in time, humans are very much in the loop. This notion of pure AI where humans are completely outside the loop is, we are not there yet. So very much something that the system, can it provide a set of recommendations? Can it provide a set of explanations? And can someone who understands the business look at it and take collective action as needed? There has been, however, to Rebecca's point, some prominent people, including Bill Gates, who have speculated that AI could ultimately be a negative for humans. What is the responsibility of companies like IBM to ensure that humans are kept in the loop? I think, at least at this point, IBM's view is humans are an essential part of AI. In fact, we don't even use the term artificial intelligence that much, we call it augmented intelligence. Where the system is presenting a set of recommendations, expert advice to the human who can then make a decision. So for example, my team worked with a prominent healthcare provider on models for predicting patient death in the case of sepsis onset. This is, we are talking literally life and death decisions being made. And this is not something that you can just automate and throw it into a magic black box and have a decision being made. So this is absolutely a place where people with deep domain knowledge are supported, are augmented with AI to make better decisions. That's where I think we are today. As to what will happen five years from now, I can't predict that yet. Well, I actually want to bring this up to both of you. The role, so you are helping doctors make these decisions, not just, this is what the computer program says about this patient's symptoms here, but this is really, so you're helping the doctor make better decisions. What about the doctor's gut and his or her intuition too? I mean, what is the role of that in the future? I think it goes away. I mean, I think the intuition really will be trumped by data in the long term, because you can't argue with the facts, much as some people do these days. But I don't know. I mean, you have to break there for some reason.  Or would you see a scenario where an AI is making decisions, customer facing decisions, that really are a life and death decision? So I think in the consumer industry, I can definitely see AI making decisions on its own. So if, let's say, a recommender system, which says, I think John Thomas Bart, these last five things online, he's likely to buy this other thing. Let's make an offer to him. I don't need a human in the loop for that. No harm, right. It's pretty straightforward. It's already happening in a big way. But when it comes to some of these- Proofing a mortgage, how about that one? That's where bias creeps in a lot, yeah. Even that, I think, can be automated. Can be automated. If the thresholds are said to be what the business is comfortable with, where it says, okay, about this probability level, I don't really need a human to look at this. But, and if it is below this level, I do want someone to look at this. That is relatively straightforward, right? But if it is a decision about life or death situations or something that affects the very fabric of the business that you are in, then you probably want a domain expert to look at it. And most enterprise use cases will fall, lean towards that category. Correct me. These are big questions. These are hard questions. These are hard questions, yes. Well John, thank you so much for coming on theCUBE. We really had a great time with you. No, thank you for having me. I'm Rebecca Knight for Paul Gillan. We will have more from theCUBE's live coverage of IBM CDO here in Boston, just after this.


Thanks for checking out this movie review video. So this is for the 1982 film Turkey Shoot and is this really horror? I mean it kind of is yes, but there are a lot of films kind of like this that just get thrown into that kind of Horror-ish realm and it's on shutter when I'm doing this review. So just know you can check it out there Now this is a Brian Trenchard Smith film and if you don't know about Brian Trenchard Smith He's actually cited as being Quentin Tarantino's favorite all-time director So if that doesn't get your interest or at least make you perk up a little bit to look into it I don't know what to tell you But he's done mainly a bunch of B movie stuff And I actually have his book that he put out not long ago that my wife graciously got me for my birthday Called Adventures in the B movie trade, which I hear is really well written He goes into detail about a lot of the films he's done. So I'm sure there's something in there about Turkey Shoot I will be reading that at some point, but it's apparently very funny as well So I've just been very interested to get into it now This was actually the second time I've watched Turkey Shoot the first experience with the film I think is always the best because you really aren't ready for the level that it kind of like ratchets up with the violence And especially the kills like the practical effects and how they pull the kills off because with the very first kill You just get this idea I'm just gonna be totally disappointed in this film because this kill looks so stupid And I think maybe the kill after that's kind of dumb too But then they just start like moving it up and it has this grand finish and that's why it's so much better Just see the first time still enjoyable on the second watching but the first definitely better So like I said, it's directed by Brian Trenchard Smith And he's done some other films such as Dead and Drive-In, which is in my stack of movies back here I need to watch it and we'll do a review on that Knight of the Demons 2, Leprechaun 3 and Leprechaun 4 in space That's just some that people will probably know him for he's done a ton of films though Written by John George who wrote scripts for The Final Terror and Don't Talk to Strangers and Neil D. Hicks who also worked on The Final Terror Don't Talk to Strangers, but additionally Dead Reckoning Haven't seen any of those. The film actually bombed in the United States and Australia, which is where it was filmed But apparently it did so well and actually set some records in the UK That it actually made up for a lot of the money that it lost in the US and in Australia, so Okay, and that's the thing about a lot of these films that it's so weird to see where they just bomb in one country and they go amazingly in another country and it just It just goes to show how important kind of international distribution really can be Because if you can't make your money here, you can potentially make it there But anyway, so the big name in this is Olivia Hussie Obviously best known by us porn nerds for her role in the original Black Christmas film, which is an amazing amazing slasher film I think it's considered the first slasher film But is an amazing film if you haven't seen the original Black Christmas, please Although I'm sure majority of you watching this have just saying so apparently she didn't have a great time with this film Apparently she was very on edge the whole time very anxious very afraid because filming in Australia She was kind of afraid of the creatures in Australia and how there are a bunch of You know poisonous things there and they were doing a lot of shooting as you can see in the film kind of out in nature Like jumping into rivers and going through the woods and going through this big cane field So you're not necessarily going to see what's right there You know stepping on a poison the snake or coming across a poison a spider or you know things like that So she was very on edge apparently for the entire film for that reason and it was a terrible Experience for her another one of the things is the nude scene for her in the shower like the communal shower at the reeducation camp she It was a body double obviously which usually you can really tell in films if it's a body double doing new nude scene because they cut The head off obviously if they're showing the head and the body it's obviously that person if they're cutting the head off It is most likely a body double So she really didn't want to do the nude scene so they got her a body double now apparently in some memoirs that she Wrote later on in life She actually Lamented that she should have just done the nude scene because she feels strongly that the body double they chose had not as Attractive a body as her so apparently she now looks back and says man I really wish I would have done that nude scene in turkey shoot because my body looked a lot better than what people were Thinking my body was watching that film. So just kind of an interesting thing. You don't really hear that all that often The nude scenes by the way that kind of like communal shower scene where is that there are a bunch of nude people in the shower that was actually filmed at a local communal hip Sorry local hippie commune In Australia and so yeah, none of those people. I don't think we're actually in the film other than just that scene Because of budget issues the shooting schedule for this film was moved from 44 days to 30 days Additionally, they ended up having to cut the first 15 pages of the script out And they cut out a helicopter chase scene that was originally in the film And I think that was about like seven hundred thousand dollars that ended up getting dropped Almost right before they're about to start filming because one of the investors apparently got cold feet pulled out last minute So they were like, uh, we have a lot less of a budget got to cut some stuff The opening montage of this actually gives you a really good idea about there being kind of authoritarian rule throughout the world Because they give you shots of all these different countries kind of giving you the idea of either it's maybe Individual authoritarian rule in all these places or it's one global authoritarian rule Which would make sense for what the camp the reeducation camp kind of feels like and the fact that it's on an island that you might find out much later but um I think they did a good job by throwing that by showing that kind of unrest in the streets that you know the world is Is going to hell basically and there's a there authoritarian rule and that sets it up for You just falling into this premise of this reeducation camp and just being like, okay I understand I get it, you know, they kind of go hand in hand Uh, the the reeducation camp is for behavior modification to make people conform through force It's something that you get up front pretty early. So you know that it's not going to be a very pleasant time Uh, and I like how the guy at the camp can't stop cracking his whip when they first get there the initial three people Paul chris and I forget the blond's name She lives pretty long a lot longer than I actually assumed she was going to end up living But uh, she's the one who gets it in the end with all the stabs of the arrow from The female rich person who's on the turkey shoot Um, which I wish they would have had that on camera because they did a lot of other good stuff So I don't know But anyway So the guy when they first get there who just keeps cracking is the whip It's just like we have this bull whip. We really want to use it as much as possible in this film So he just keeps like cracking the whip.  This is actually something that's really Ben I don't want to say played to death but played a lot in film because I think it always works really The rich versus everyone else basically and this sets it up really well with that intro of the guys, you know Sipping on their, you know bourbon or cognac or scotch or whatever they're sipping on While they're playing this large game of chess and then talking about competition And then checking the monitors with these prisoners and talking about the upcoming turkey shoot and who they're gonna pick basically to Go out and hunt So, uh, it sets it up very well They are clearly the villains because nobody likes the rich especially not when they act like that And it's pretty timeless actually to have them as the villains because There's always rich people and they're always doing bad things They set up the idea that paul is a formidable opponent Uh to the establishment because he's escaped from a bunch of reeducation camps before That's kind of a bit of dialogue that gets said in the beginning when he's uh welcomed by Welcomed by thatcher the guy who runs the reeducation camp He kind of makes comment about how he's slipped his way out of other reeducation camps So it gives you this idea that he's supposed to be this badass That if and when he gets out that he's gonna be a formidable opponent and they'll have the opportunity To fight back basically Which is what happens So ridder the very large guard in this film Uh almost punching the woman that's kind of like his big introduction to the film like Doing psychological terror to the woman. I guess is what he's doing Where she's standing there like trying to recite things and he's like almost punching her I just think that's a really funny scene Until it gets to the point where he's just like slapping the crap out of her and picking her up and throwing her down And then it just gets to be like, oh, wow, this is that Escalated very fast But it gives you the idea of how brutal how terrible this camp is not sure they really needed to go there But you know, it was the 80s They were doing that The cage with the weight that you have to hold up is an interesting Torture device that they show in this and I think it goes to show, you know, kind of that next level as well of not only how uh, how um brutal things are there, but also how Uh, inventive these people are and because they're getting inventive at coming up with things like this It shows a level of enjoyment in causing the pain and torment of these people there that obviously it's not actually For re-educating people, you know, modifying their behavior.  Um, he's pretty nuts as a character You feel like you kind of never really know what he's going to do because he's obviously Uninged with the way that he acts I love the moment of them, you know, kind of gutting fish and he just like eats some of the guts right out of the fish I think that's a particularly funny moment, but I just love his character They try to push chris and paul together romantically a little bit in the beginning It seemed like and that seemed really forced So i'm actually glad that they didn't seem to really stick with that as much as the film progresses It feels like they kind of backed away from it But for a little bit there, it seemed like they were kind of trying to push them together And it just didn't feel right. It didn't feel natural. It was dumb. So i'm glad it kind of didn't really go there in the end During the gasoline ball game They make sure to show the satisfaction on the faces of the rich people who are watching The one where the guy who had escaped and then was brought back had those balls of gasoline and they Eventually light them on fire Yeah, they make a very big point of the rich people the people in power They're showing their satisfaction with what's going on just again kind of showing the level of how sadistic They are and how much enjoyment they get out of these horrible things What's with the wolf man? It's a very left field thing. I think his name was alf is what he was called by the one hunt turkey shoot hunter guy um Just like a hairy dude with fangs Like a man beast basically He reminded me of the island of dr. Moreau basically like I feel like he was just like plucked out of that piece of Literature and thrown into this but it's it's a very left field thing. It's weird But that's part of the charm of this film like there's some left field weird stuff, but it's fun The score is crazy 80 synth and I really dig it I love that type of score for this time period and it goes there and it goes Beyond in my opinion, but I like it Alf ripping off dodge's toe and eating it Funny, I love that moment. I think that's one of the funniest scenes in my opinion Where they were kind of like, oh, we're gonna break his ankle.  We saw it now.  So part of me thinks that they intentionally made dodge's death really stupid Because they planned on Gradually ramping things up with the other deaths until they get to the really awesome deaths at the very end So I think they were going for that kind of surprise wow factor as things kept building And I like that especially for like I said my first viewing of the film The spiked log trap is unexpected and a really cool moment And that's the moment that you know Paul legitimately has a chance Like I said, it was teased that he had gotten out before now with the log trap thing You see that he has survival skills and that he's very Crafty and innovative and he can rig things up like that So he's obviously got more than a little bit of a chance more of a chance than anyone else who was out there Alf getting cut in half is funny and the practical effects actually look good When they cut back and they show just like the bottom half of his body kind of drop down Really cool good gore to that one Love that scene. Uh, that's where it starts to get good with the kills I was just like that's the that's the first one that really surprised me. I was like, oh, okay And then you got more and more and I felt like they kept one upping themselves They definitely cover a lot of ground during turkey shoot as far as like actually adventuring across a lot of land and water And I think that's cool. I like that aspect of it. It makes it seem more adventurous It makes you feel like the film's really going places Legitimately covering a lot of ground and it's fun Um, it's just supposed to be a big reveal when Chris and Paul find out they're on an island That's a big that's supposed to be a big moment It doesn't really feel like a big moment because I think that most people watching the film would just kind of assume that um They're not going to make it anywhere really anyway like With the very beginning intro like you get the idea like I was saying that it's authoritarian rules So like even if they were to actually get away, how long could they be outside of one of these re-education camps? I mean Paul himself has proven to be a very formidable opponent Yet he's been caught many many times because how else would he he have broken out of all these other re-education camps? so how far are they actually going to get so The island reveal is supposed to be this like oh no moment But it's really not because they set enough up for people to just assume that things aren't going to go well Even if they get away The hand chop is wonderful Especially with the touch of the twitching finger holding the gun that nice little touch is just that twitching finger Well, it's severed and the fact that they show both the hands severed from the body I really like that now apparently when they were shooting that scene uh, the uh trenchord smith had actually yelled cut at one point and uh, Olivia hussy apparently Construed what he meant and she thought he meant cut isn't like swing and she actually almost cut Uh, the actor's hand off the guy who plays ridder apparently. That's what I read. I don't know. That's what I've heard so wow Because it was a real Machete and you can tell that if you're watching the automated gun turrets That they have at the re-education camp those things suck.  I don't know The exploding arrow stabbing with the head uh head blowing up is pretty great I love that scene obviously when chris Uh gives that woman a taste of her own medicine and rams it into her face and boom exploding head That's another one of those great kills really enjoy that one The chaos at the end is shot and directed pretty well actually keeps you very engaged And that's what I was talking about. It's like this big grandiose finish It feels awesome and just get you hyped up It gets you excited like the scale of this kind of fighting that's going on back and forth Is it feels grand and it works really well. I feel And the best part of the film when thatcher's head gets blown up by the high caliber machine gun Bullets that paul is shooting Wow, I mean I did not see that coming especially practical effects to that degree even though there were some other good ones in it But that was the piece de resistance Awesome awesome way to kind of end things with that film really love it And they really went big Like I said, they really went big in the end and I think it makes The slowness in the beginning kind of all worth it at that point Because I feel like they spent a little bit too much time just kind of like hanging out at the reeducation camp not a ton You know not too too much but a little bit too much so But overall it was a good time Uh, this film is basically a take on the 1924 short story the most dangerous game by richard connell Which actually has been used many times Uh with other, you know other pieces of literature movies You name it, uh tons and tons of stuff So it's just kind of their own take the writer's own take on the most dangerous game Which is just basically about hunting people Yeah Freedom is obedience obedience is work work is life That's what i'm going to leave it with because that is the quote of this reeducation camp Which is set a few times so it kind of like really gets ingrained in your head Which I assume is what they're doing with the prisoners there So I just found that to be a good quote for a very dystopian situation So anyway out of five stars with half stars in play for this film Um, I'm gonna give it three and a half stars. I was between three and three and a half But I'm bumping it up to three and a half because of how It ratchets things up with the kills and the practical effects in the end And then how it just has that grand finish. I really enjoy this film. I think it's very underrated I think a lot of people don't even know about it So do your part and tell your friends to watch turkey shoot because it's been on shutter for a while And it's still on shutter at least when i'm putting this review up So yeah, but I would love to hear your opinions on turkey shoot. Go ahead and put it in the comments Let's talk about it And do me a quick favor hit the subscribe button if you have not already It really helps to motivate me to keep doing these reviews because you know sometimes it feels like Oh man, I'm doing another one. I'm doing another one because it it does take it a good amount of time So if you could you know throw me a bone hit that subscribe button I really legitimately am motivated by that when I get the email saying new subscriber and it shows me who it is I look at it and I'm like that's awesome Thank you because it lets me know that you know people are actually enjoying what I'm doing It's worth my time in that case. So Also hit the notification bell button because then you'll know when I'm putting up new videos So you can see them sooner if you want to But regardless, I really thank you for taking your time to check this out and until next time keep it brutal


Why do you do it? The way did you illegally? Sorry, Mr. Sanchez. There's some campaign finance concerns and questions about your fine. Really? Can you answer that you got you find a little space a little personal space a little personal space? You seem to be dodging questions about your finances and about your background. What about those new accusations? On my time. As you just saw, George Santos is still refusing to answer any questions from reporters and He is planning to address it on his own time But as the reporter pointed out there, this is a public servant key word Servant you represent your constituents and they deserve answers after you literally deceive them about every single aspect of Your life to get elected. So it's not a matter of well, you know, I'll address it when I'm good Well and ready. No, you work for them Not the other way around but these politicians they think that they can do whatever they want that they are above the law above Accountability and the reason why they think that is because effectively They are they can do what they want and they're never held accountable. He didn't resign. He was sworn into Congress He's now officially a member of Congress. And as you see there, he is just casually throwing up the white power sign I'm sure it's nothing more than a coincidence.  I'm sure it's a coincidence. I'm being facetious for those who can't detect it But this is an individual who should not be a member of Congress. He should resign and even other Republicans Should force him to resign because if you care about the overall perception of your party Not that they do because they're all crazy But if you do at least a little bit you think that somebody lying to get elected to Congress and lying about every single aspect of their lives Might make all of you look bad But no, they're kind of getting buddy buddy with George Santos as Marjorie Taylor-Green is but I don't necessarily care too much About what the rank-and-file Republicans are doing.  Well, Steve Scalise was asked about this and He basically brushed aside the reporters concerns here. Let's watch We saw him seated last week there were no challenges to that this is something that's being handled internally obviously there were concerns about What we had heard and so we're gonna have to sit down and talk to him about it And that's something that we're gonna deal with just like there's a lot of other things. We're gonna deal with we're gonna deal with it Okay, how are you going to deal with it because it seems like you're not gonna do anything This man lied about every single aspect of his life his race his heritage his career His education his own mother's death perhaps his sexual orientation he lied about everything He created a fictional character and ran for Congress on that fictional character and you're just fine with this You're not worried about how this makes the Republican Party look if he's a PR nightmare for the Republican Party No, and I'll tell you how he's gonna handle it by not just doing nothing, which is what I expected But by rewarding George Santos by making sure that The ethics committee can't do what they need to do to investigate him insider reports The House of Representatives Monday passed a new set of rules to govern the chamber that will severely weaken the ability of the office of Congressional ethics to investigate members of Congress over suspicion of wrongdoing quote I think it's fantastic Republican representative George Santos of New York said of the rules package Of course, which they passed by a 220 to 213 margin in a brief interview with insider Monday at the Capitol The changes came just days after Santos who was reported by multiple news outlets to have a lied about much of his background is Under investigation in multiple countries and faces at least two office of Congressional ethics complaints related to his financial Disclosures was sworn into Congress their proposed rules package Severely curtailed the ability of OCE to do the job It exists to do a constellation of good government groups wrote in a letter published January 4th So that's how the GOP leadership is dealing with this issue They're gutting the office of Congressional ethics so that way it can properly investigate individuals like George Santos And of course he thinks it's fantastic I think it's evident to most reasonable people that this is a member of Congress who should not be there He should be forced to resign, but there's no pressure at all on GOP leadership So he's gonna be there and I can't say that I'm surprised I can't say that I expect accountability at all, but I will say that he'll fit right in with the Republican thugs and clowns who continue to make a mockery of our entire political system Which is already a joke to begin with like our entire Government is one big clown show, but Republicans they really put the cherry on top of the shit Sunday with their ongoing extremism and unhinged behavior So I'm not gonna pretend like I'm surprised that nothing will be done about George Santos Lying to his constituents because politicians lie. I mean he just took lies to the next level by the way Nothing's gonna be done I expect him to serve his full term and maybe even get reelected because this is the United States of America and We reward politicians when they should be punished. We reward bad behavior And there's this thing called failing up that has proven to be a real phenomenon time and time again So, you know, I don't think anything's gonna get done if it does I'll be shocked But either way George Santos is a member of Congress and he's just walking around as if he didn't just deceive everyone Still refusing to talk to reporters.


It's flog Thursday. Hi, and we got stuff So I'll kick it off with prop time. It's prop time. So One our grand opening went great. Oh fantastic that part was really fun We enjoyed the grand opening a lot lots of people showed up only one hot dog hit the floor great only dropping one wieners pretty good Call it a success. Yeah, one wiener drop. We're good only a little bit of ketchup on it. It cleaned it right up It's thanks for the good carpet good industrial Burberry. It's it's rare that a wiener hits the floor anyway So yeah, it is that in mind and it is a week later But my mouth is still slightly on fire from the fire burgers that Steve made.  They were delicious. They were delicious warm. They were a little warm So the fire burgers the other props here are things that we are going to be reviewing We got a steam link because they esteem sale if you're not familiar with steam is the gaming site This is a steam link that allows you to stream your games from your PC to your TV and then plug in lots of controllers There's a pile of controllers right over there and so that is That's been kind of fun. So we can sit here at the table if you've seen the studio. There's a TV at the end of it and we can play all the games on there And then I'm gonna bring one home because we decided after buying one and testing it we bought three more Well, they're having a sale having a sale they run sale I wouldn't $15 us so that is yeah, there it is There it is We'll do we're gonna do a video review on these Because we tried a lot of configurations and we were curious about how they worked and there wasn't any The documentation was a little bit sparse We're gonna do a video on the steam link and play some games and fuck like that I don't know if it'll lead to a gaming channel But you know it might because never know that I can get my kids involved because that's what they like to do the other props here are Design considerations that we've been talking about for the server bill. They keep teasing and joking I really want to finish the proxmox box. I love saying it to box box box box box box Something I can say fast anyways and and somewhat articulate Well, and it kind of sounds like Pac-Man 2 which we were decorating the out the other room Yes, Pac-Man stuff on the wall So we will do the Pac-Man Pac-Man video and it's done. We got we just got a bunch of Pac-Man stickers We're putting them around everything. It's kind of cool Yeah, so the power supply consideration is because we decided we care about electricity and energy in the planet and He laughs as we have lots of servers and lights in 500 These are fluorescent. I mean I mean LED not fluorescent Yes, we did put all LED lights in the building So that's using less energy. It does use less energy So we got a kilowatt and we started saying how many watts is all these things use and one of the things you'd realize is the proxmox server bill used a 120 watts of waste compared to using a More standard power supply. So we're working on a method by which we can use a standard power supply to power The proxmox box and a much more efficient way actually we're gonna go for what they refer to as a semi modular power supply system so That's one of the design things the other bigger issue or just as big of an issue is when you have a hundred watts of Waste, that's a hundred watts generally pushes to heat. The other problem is these are obnoxious These are really loud. Ah, yes, and we don't really want to have we custom-built all of our servers and They're they're not loud at all but these things are decibels of loudness which is delaying the project so we've decided that we're going to replace the power supplies in it So now we don't have the decibels of loudness. That's Because we also care about noise pollution noise pollution is a big deal You know, we have sound dining foam in here, but the server room in the back I mean we generally like don't mind keeping the doors open because it's also the storage area server room But we also don't need a you know low I don't know how many decibel hum going on there. Yeah, and the fan noise is kind of particularly annoying so Truth truth So I have been working on and I at least got one client to agree because they don't always agree to this and We're always polite about it is to film at their location for some of the installs We're going to document some of the more installed videos and get more detail of how we do wiring cabling There's not as much I can document on the firewall I always have to do that in demo because any time I document the firewall to be showing you all their public IP addresses and everything I keep it all private How we set that up just out of you know, the wiring cabling is physical layers So not a big deal you know every company has a server room And we generally don't give you the address not that it would be rocket science to figure it out who our clients are But you in you already know they have a server room So we're always looking at things not to give people an edge to potentially hack it Which is why we're always careful about what we put on video as far as clients and some companies are not My because we care we care. I think one of the more infamous ones were a post your server room thread that was going on on Facebook Someone had some bad security practices and they had all the credentials in the background taped to the side of the server Horrible idea to do that. Don't do that Don't put all the credentials on there Don't post yourself for the selfie on there or the vengeance of the internet will come in and go as far as they allegedly contacted The place that he worked and let him know that all their passwords were posted on the wall and Was posted on Facebook and before it was taken down was almost two or three hours There was enough for enough people to see it and yeah, that's bad. Don't do that. Don't yeah, it was mass password change that day I hope Yeah, I know because it was all it was all the admin credentials and everything so don't that's also generally a bad idea If your company saves all the passwords taped to the side of the server. Yeah, that's a horrible idea Don't do that. Yeah, I guess so kind of like be taping your keys to the door of your car Yeah, don't do that. Um, I also did a review of last past 2017 because I've added so many features The video is longer than the previous video because there's well that much to cover There's also multiple versions of last pass and I only covered the essentially home and Professional wait premium home and premium version almost free premium is $12 a year and adds just a few more features Which is pretty cool. I've been a I don't know three or four year user of it Hmm and I thought about doing a more advanced class because some people have a misunderstanding of last pass one They don't understand the vetting process last pass had gone through so they're like I'm surprised you trust it No, I mean that's a that's a fair assessment because I didn't really cover this in a video last pass doesn't know the password But you can verify that by using tools like wire shark and actually watching the feed the data that goes back and forth They're only passing the encrypted blob. It's been well Disassembled by security researchers to understand that last pass does not have your master password They're not saying they don't have it. They really don't have It's just a difference, of course, right, which means don't forget your master password Yes, you're not gonna get it back and some of that a good point of storing router passwords or any storing passwords in last pass Because there is no Reset button for it. There's no way to recover your master password If you configured a local device with it and you only had last pass save the password for it And that local device does not have a recovery method and then somehow you lost your last pass password to it That's definitely could be a problem Because there's no recovery. I like if I if last pass misplaced my Facebook password for you some tragic accident I could just do a password reset on Facebook or any other of the different tools out there majority of the Websites support a password reset and a registered to my email address. No big deal So I guess it is a concern But because last pass and someone said what if their servers go offline or the company goes out of business Well, the product won't sink anymore without their servers But the passwords are locally stored in each browser that you're logged into So if last pass servers go offline you still have all your passwords I probably should have noted that in a video But I might do a follow-up video on that because that's not a concern to the general public Yeah, it's more of a concern to some of our techie audience that are looking more in-depth on that Put that in the extra features of the video. I thought about doing a last-pass 2017 review advanced mode and Covering there's there's a director's cut called directors directors cut Who's the director's cut? So that's that's one of those little details that's going in there I plan to do some more videos because I switched over to the KDN Linux desktop stuff. So I plan to do some more videos on that We've been rocking out a pretty good stream of videos. It's been a lot of time With more coming with more coming steam review of this So that's always fun and people who say that I'm wrong about things Can you do me a favor because someone likes to comment that I'm wrong or I'm doing something on that and that's fine I understand that Tom is never wrong. Oh, no, I'm you're never as wrong as when you're wrong on the Internet Yes, and I admit that I'm wrong and maybe I misunderstand something But one of those things is if you say you're doing that wrong. Can you please also include How to do it right or the way you think is right? Maybe you're not right? Maybe you are right, but if you don't exploit if you just say you're wrong and you can't back that up I just want some more detail. Yeah, otherwise. You're just a guy standing there going wrong wrong wrong. That doesn't Just kind of let me know. Yeah, that's all there is to it Offer constructive criticism constructive criticism not just wrong Yeah, that's not constructive. Oh no in the least it's amusing. I Was kind of sometimes just give those a thumbs up and it hopes that they see it so they can go Oh, I should probably tell him why he's wrong. I mean, that's fine. Maybe I am wrong. Maybe I'm doing something horribly wrong I should really blip you you should let me know if I'm doing something horribly wrong Maybe they just don't know and they're just like, you know, I'm just gonna say I'm just gonna say wrong and see what happens Yeah, I'll bet he's wrong. So wrong wrong. The other thing is the throwing butt saga. Ah, yes So it's we're gonna take a slightly different approach, but it's actually it seems to and we could be wrong Fading out it could be just those people have these off and we're referring to is people who fling cigarette butts all over our parking lot So there's a place Medical place cross street if you don't know the story and they come over here to smoke because you can't smoke in medical Facilities or even on the grounds of the medical facility. So we actually had someone Who who's completely on our side who works at the medical facility? He came over here and let us know that apparently even like management on our side because these people Seem to be angry at us giving their butts back to him as they fling around the parking lot Oh, but they're not as angry as we are about them flinging their butts on the park into the parking lot Yeah, one of them says what do you guys own the place? I'm like matter of fact as we do We're all wearing shirts that happen to have the same thing written on the building So yeah, we do and someone has to sweep this up And we actually had three of them at the time because sometimes groups of them come over to smoke and they smoke like two or three Cigarettes each so three people and three cigarettes is nine cigarette butts on the ground where they were standing And they do this during their breaks and it's a 24-hour facility. This is going on at night This is going on today We can get like a snow shovel occasionally just sweep up all those spots and they're not realizing how much work This is for us. It's not like one or two where I'm like, whatever. It's literally a pile of butts Literally literally literally. I love fun. See literally. Yes So we've got everything from putting on my envelopes But by our next approach because Steve loves just handing them back to them and sometimes they get really angry about this So we're gonna get them directly on video if they keep doing it, especially one lady is particularly Unhappy with the fact that we tell her to clean up She says she just refuses to and right after she we hand her one back She flicked another one out the window just despite us like you have to stay in there And then she also speeds off in the parking lot whenever she does that which is yeah She keeps trying like there's other parking lots around us. I don't know why we're the lucky ones I have no idea. There's a lot of parking spot. Matter of fact Lowe's has this giant parking lot I have no idea why they don't use it for that. There's a place just like two like Doors down I guess whatever you want to say that there's nobody there during the day. Yeah It's a I mean, there's I'm not saying go litter and somebody else's parking lot, but I don't know Well, I mean like I'm just like why would you why would like there's there's seriously no cars in that park There's other place because the place doesn't open to like for yeah, you could do there's another place You could throw your butts. Yeah, so that being said my next approach is we're gonna start interviewing the people And I'm gonna let Steve be the cameraman and I'll go out there and interview people We just have the camera at the ready.  That's all just want to know and see what they say well And we found out that that not only is there the place a few doors down from us They have a designated smoking area at their facility. Yes They have workers just don't like to use it. Yeah. Well, no a group of them do in this particular group That's over here. That's not that's what I mean.  Just don't clean up your butt.  It's not that hard.  We've got we've got a lot more camera systems going in yes Really good at putting those in yeah, and I have a video I shot We're trying to put together for a client for those films. I'll get that one. Hopefully maybe I'm post that today I'll see what my timing is like. I got some more social media things I gotta go talk about with Goldman Sachs. I think that's tomorrow. I don't know go tomorrow I'll go tomorrow.  Do you see them over there photoshopping spears in my hand? No, but now I'm going to look for it. It's on my Facebook. Yes So I thought maybe maybe I should say like it had context like I was giving a talk and I was making faces and I'm purpose and I was getting people laugh at me or with me. I don't know I was happy either way. They seemed entertained Laugh at her with it's the same it's the same end game everybody laughs. So whatever game whatever works Yeah, so I got I got to do more of that. So That's I think that's all I got for this week because it's been a short week. We had the holiday I didn't get a lot done other than riding my bicycle I came up here for a little while to fix a couple little things The last past video I shot it twice and the third time was a charm So first time just lots of interruptions and issues people calling okay Whatever and I had to get back to work Which could be disruptive the other thing that ended up happening though the second time was The microphone was on mute. I didn't check I just rip right into the video I did the whole video and I had forgotten I put the microphone on mute These things happen. Yeah, no, you know You just casually make a horrific mistake and record an entire video put all the detail work in it I just never looked at the mic levels on it I never looked at the little thing if you see it was moving turns out it wasn't moving details details details These things will all be on the blooper reel. Oh, yeah, should make it. Well, yeah, there's a there's 30 minutes of me in silence So there's that. Oh, hey. Oh, we did reprogram our phones. Yeah, and somehow that didn't work So that's the end of vlog Thursday take care have fun and see you next week like and subscribe and yeah key things You


We all want to eat the kinds of foods that make us feel better and live longer, but there's so much conflicting information out there, so many nutrition opinions. Welcome to the Nutrition Facts podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Michael Greger. It's my job to give you the information you need to make the healthiest choices possible. In the beginning, there was angiogenesis, the creation of blood vessels. Tumors use it to keep growing, and as it turns out, our fatty tissue also needs it to expand. So might an anti-angiogenic approach work for weight loss too? Many of our modern frontline therapies against cancer incorporate anti-angiogenesis strategies from the Greek words angio, meaning vessel, and genesis, meaning creation. So anti-angiogenesis is opposing the creation of blood vessels. In other words, fighting cancer by cutting off tumor supply lines. Some cancers are only able to grow to about the size of the tip of a ballpoint pen without a blood supply. Tumor growth then stalls. Autopsy studies show that virtually everyone has these tiny tumors in them by age 70. Cancer without disease can therefore be considered the normal state during aging. To commentate our blood supply, tumors diabolically release angiogenic factors, chemicals that cause new blood vessels to sprout towards the cancer. Once a blood vessel reaches the tumor and attaches, it's off to the races. The tumor can then take off exponentially. By starving cancer of its blood supply, chemotherapy that blocks this process can sometimes cause tumors to shrink. But ideally, we wouldn't have to wait until such a late stage to nip them in the bud. That's where our diet can come in. Many of the phytonutrients we know and love in tea, spices, berries, broccoli, and beans have anti-angiogenic properties. Given the power of plants, the foundation of an anti-angiogenic approach to cancer has been considered a whole food plant-based diet. But the title of this video is Targeting Angiogenesis to Lose Weight. What does this have to do with obesity? Well, think about it. Tumors aren't the only tissue in the body with expanding volume. The average tumor picked up by mammograms is only about the size of a marble, and it can take breast cancer decades to grow, whereas over-feed people and you can easily add an entire pound of fatty tissue in a matter of days. And body fat is highly vascularized.  In large liposuction operations, a third of what's vacuumed out is straight blood. Throughout adulthood, our fatty tissue is constantly remodeling, expanding, and shrinking based on our day-to-day energy demands. This requires the development and retreat of extensive networks of new blood vessels. The human body already contains 60,000 miles of blood vessels. Imagine how many more miles have to be constructed when we gain weight without angiogenesis, without the sprouting of all these new blood vessels. We wouldn't be able to add all that fat. Now, do you see where this is all going? To expand, fat cells release the same kinds of chemicals that tumors do to swell its blood supply. Fatty tissue is so angiogenic, open-heart surgeons have even tried grafting fatty tissue directly on the heart after a heart attack in hopes it would foster the growth of arteries to bypass the blockages. You can take fat samples from obese individuals during bariatric surgery, place them on living membranes of fertile chicken eggs, and within a week, the fat is literally engulfed in blood vessels. That may help explain why excess body fat can accelerate cancer growth. Obesity increases the risk of more than a dozen different cancers, increasing the overall risk of getting and then dying from cancer by about 20%. All those angiogenic factors released from our increasing body fat may spill out into our bloodstream, resulting in higher blood levels among overweight individuals, which can then drop back down when we lose weight. So maybe we can get the best of both worlds if we treated obesity like a tumor, using anti-angiogenic strategies to prevent the expansion of our fat mass in the first place. There are anti-angiogenic drugs as well as anti-angiogenic foods. We'll explore both next. The body fat is probably the most highly vascularized tissue in the body, meaning it has the most blood vessels.  And since the formation of these blood vessels appears to play a critical role in fatty tissue growth and reduction, the regulation of angiogenesis, the blood vessel formation process, may contribute to weight gain and weight loss. So researchers tried injecting anti-angiogenic drugs into overfed lab animals, and were able to induce profound weight loss in mice as well as in non-human primates, which is how scientists often refer to monkeys. The problem is that anti-angiogenic drugs can cause a variety of rare but fatal side effects. We may be willing to accept those risks in the context of cancer treatment, but when it comes to cancer prevention or obesity, anti-angiogenic diets would seem a safer bet. Not to mention cheaper, anti-angiogenic drugs can cost $6,000 per dose. So which foods are the most anti-angiogenic? It's interesting how they figured out that dietary components could be anti-angiogenic at all, realizing that those eating plant-based diets were protected from diseases of excess angiogenesis like cancer, diabetic vision loss. Researchers took a group of plant-based eaters and started pitting various components of their urine against the growth of human blood vessel cells harvested from discarded umbilical cords. The concentration of phytonutrients in the urine of vegetarians can be 30 times higher than that of the general population using this method. They identified a number of natural anti-angiogenic compounds in our diet. The question then became, could the levels required to block angiogenesis in a petri dish be reached in the bloodstream after eating a meal? The answer, researchers soon realized, is yes. Anti-angiogenic concentrations of broccoli compounds can be reached in the bloodstream within an hour eating less than three-quarters of a cup of broccoli soup. So these are totally doable kinds of quantities. You'll note most of these compounds may be cleared from our body within six hours, though, and fall back to nearly zero within 24 hours. So we should strive to eat cruciferous vegetables at least once a day. Anti-angiogenic concentrations of beta-cryptoxanthin can be reached within hours of eating two cups of red flesh papaya. One and a quarter cup of boiled onions may get you an anti-angiogenic dose of quercetin circulating in your blood in less than an hour. The level of protective soybean compounds that may be necessary has been found in the bloodstream of those eating ordinary Japanese diets. Now, I'm not dreaming up some sort of broccoli, papaya, onion, tofu, casserole. These are just examples showing anti-angiogenic concentrations can be achieved within your bloodstream after eating reasonable serving sizes. In general, the most concentrated dietary sources of polyphenols that classify the nutrients containing many of the anti-angiogenic compounds discovered to date are herbs and spices. The only others to place in the top 10 out of more than 450 foods tested were berries, cocoa powder, and ground flax seeds. On a per serving basis, most of the top contenders are berries with artichokes leading the vegetables and whole grain rye leading the grains. Ironically, yogurt is a leading source in the United States but only because most are fruit flavored with many containing berries as ingredients, whereas even plain soy yogurt makes it into the top 25. For cancer prevention, researchers suggest the constant consumption of anti-angiogenic foods. Do we have evidence that it's having an effect? Well, based on the analysis of more than a thousand tumors from one of Harvard's studies on male health professionals, men eating the most tomato products had significantly less angiogenesis within their tumor, which then appeared to translate into a reduced risk of fatal disease. Yeah, but would the same anti-angiogenic potential of fruits and vegetables also help keep our bellies from growing? There's only one way to find out. A meta-analysis of more than a dozen randomized controlled trials of fruits and vegetable interventions for overweight individuals found six extra pounds of weight loss, but that could be from a whole variety of factors like decreased calorie density from the fiber and water content, but maybe angiogenesis inhibition is playing a role. We would love it if you could share with us your stories about reinventing your health through evidence-based nutrition. Go to nutritionfacts.org slash testimonials, we may be able to share it on social media to help inspire others. If you'd like to see any graphs, charts, graphics, images, or studies mentioned here, go to the Nutrition Facts podcast landing base where you'll find all the detailed information you need, plus links to all the sources we cite for each of these topics. My last two books were A Heart of Survivor Pandemic and My How Not to Diet Cookbook. Get ready this year for the launch of How Not to Age, and of course all the proceeds for the sales of all my books goes directly to charity. NutritionFacts.org is a nonprofit science-based public service where you can sign up for free daily updates on the latest new nutrition research with bite-sized videos and articles uploaded nearly every day. Everything on the website is free, there are no ads, no corporate sponsorships, no kickbacks, it's strictly non-commercial, not selling anything. I just put it up as a public service as a labor of love as a tribute to my grandmother, whose own life was saved with evidence-based nutrition.


What's going on guys got Kyle here with Layton sports cards, and we are ripping one box of 2023 Chronicles draft picks football This one is for Mario D. Good luck Mario. Let's see what we got here Chronicles draft picks. Let's see a flawless insert auto man. Those are sweet. Maybe just some low-numbered QBs here. We'll levis college ticket to start us off This one is a Baker silver out of XR and auto this one is going to be Roshan Johnson out of Texas They're the 199 origins auto And Peyton Manning on the mojo number to 49 out of Tennessee on the spectra insert. That's Manning Joey Porter Jr. and Quentin Johnston Chargers rookie receiver Andre Carter and green this is going to be John Ridgeway sensational signatures not numbered Racer backs there of Arkansas John Ridgeway, and this one is to 149 Chronicles Anthony Richardson QB for the Colts Will levis optic rated rookie and Peyton Manning appreciate you Carl grabbing a spot in a In a national break for next week And guys if you haven't heard yet, we have a big promo going for the national next week Every spot purchase in our national break section. We'll be going from Tuesday to Sunday Every break next week will be included our national break promo So every spot you get you'll get one entry into the promo. It is some really good prizes on that promo as well Guys can check that out on our website. Check out the exact details Jackson Smith silver rookie. We've got auto to 199. It's going to be Tyjay Spears out of the green wave to Lane Impeccable rookie out of there to 49 we got Jamar Chase Jalen Carter and Mike Meyer Joey Porter junior silver. We've got orange not numbered Sean Tucker and Blue this one is Quinton Johnston classics Chargers a receiver to 99 and a hollow college ticket Jackson Smith here in for Donnie Sweden or South, uh, South Africa Like it got points Is 250 points Chris Carter silver and a to a out of a specter there Specter silver not numbered last pack here good luck Mario. Say flowers This is Dan Jones on the Jersey Moxie Jersey at a dupe. They're the Giants QB and Jones Got a orange clear vision not numbered Jalen Hertz got a silver of Jalen Hertz And this one is Jameer Gibbs number 299 on the Chronicles base Lions new QB or no new running back Justin Fields on the back Alright, alright, that'll do it for you Mario on your one box of Chronicles draft picks football. We'll get those cars right out to you, sir Thank you. Thank you