Hello and welcome to NewsClick. Today, we joined with Praveer Pulkarsan. We're going to be talking about the implications of the US decision to withdraw from the treaty on open skies. Now, this treaty was signed to give various countries the possibility of mounting aerial surveillance over other countries and to reduce tensions in this regard. Thank you so much, Praveer, for joining us. So first of all, could we just talk about why this treaty is important or relevant? Because it actually gives countries the possibility of mounting surveillance flights over other countries. So why is it important that the treaty even exists? Well, you know, the treaty has, of course, a hoary past. It started with Aishenhower offering open skies to both US and Russia, Soviet Union at the time. And this is in 1956, if my memory is correct. And the Soviet Union turned it down. Khrushchev was the general secretary of the party at that time. He turned it out for a very simple reason. He said, we had nothing. So the issue was not that we are hiding something, but if they really found out we had nothing, then we would be in trouble. They thought that that will invite strikes against the Soviet Union in a first strike. So that was where it started from. And if you remember, this led to the United States using its U-2 planes to fly over Russia, Soviet Union, and map Soviet Union for the next three years before the U-2 was shot down. Gary Power is the famous incident that took place. The issue is that open skies was, in some sense, an acceptance that the nuclear war cannot be fought. There is no point in trying to provide more arms, try and win the nuclear battle by doing a first strike. So it came as a part after the fall of Soviet Union. It really came as a part of accepting that we now have reached a place where there is no point in trying to win nuclear weapons or wars. Already we had the agreement on the anti-ballistic missile treaty, which was signed with Ronald Reagan. If you remember, we had the SALT II agreement. So there's been a whole bunch of things were put, and of course, the other part of it, the intermediate nuclear weapons being also the INF Treaty being also put in place. So all of this came as a part of an arrangement where overflying each other's territory was accepted. There is no big deal in it. In any case, the Americans had satellites, had satellites, and so do Russians. So there is really, in that sense, no major additional advantage it was felt. So this was accepted. OK, let them fly whatever they want. What it does is, if you want to position the satellite over a specific area, it takes time. So if you have an open skies treaty, you can say, hey, we'd like to fly over ABCD. And can you let us do it? It still has to be arranged for mutual discussion. And then, of course, they can fly over it. Now, the real issue is that, apart from Russia and the United States, there are other countries involved in it. A lot of them are the European NATO countries as well as the late NATO entrance to the game. So they actually do want to look into Russia because they don't have satellites. So for them, it's a huge loss that this is now going to be something that the United States has pulled out of. Having done that, Russia has very little interest in allowing others to overflight because US would still get the information from its allies. So effectively, it means that the countries that will be at a loss are really the US allies in Europe. So to me, it's a double strike. One, a declaration of competition that we can win the nuclear race that Marshall Billingsley has recently said. We can spend them to oblivion. So we know how to win economic war, even if we don't win a nuclear war, or we'll get overwhelming nuclear preponderance. So that's one. And the second part is its NATO allies now are, again, completely dependent of the United States providing it information over Russia. So I think it's a double strike. And it's a part of the US now deciding they are the only player in the game and everybody else should surrender. Either allies or force, it doesn't really matter. So that, I think, is the second part of this history, which you have asked in the history question, but it's really a part of the larger correlation of forces globally that led to the Open Skies Treaty, being part of a much larger set of anti-nuclear weapon steps that were taken, nuclear restrained regimes as they are called, and as well as, essentially, the oversight into other countries. Right. So Premier, just to go a bit more deeper into that point. Like you mentioned, the US walked out of the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. Under Trump, it has gone out of the IRF Treaty, which is the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty. And now we have this withdrawal. So clearly, there is a very assertive element to Trump's strategy. And clearly, there is nuclear weapons to form a very key aspect of this strategy. So right now, could you talk a bit about what is the global scenario with respect to the nuclear weapons itself, especially considering Trump's argument that China has to be brought into this whole set of treaties, and that is why these treaties are bad? Well, that is really more with respect to what's called the New Start, which expires in February 2021. So let's just put that aside for the time being addressed. The question that we have raised earlier, which is that INF Treaty, the ABM Treaty, and they are both withdrawn by, of course, Republican presidents. But nevertheless, George Bush and Trump are not exactly the same personalities. But I think it's an indication that they do believe, and this is something that we have to see what the belief is based on, that nuclear preponderance of power now is something that the US can do, and it is something that they have to now build. So it's not a declaration that they're already in a dominant position. They know they're not at the moment, that it is still the balance of power, it's still balance of terror, destruction of both sides. But it is possible to think of winning the nuclear war, and therefore not having to wage it, but asking its competition to surrender. So that seems to be the game plan there. And it comes from, if you see, the nuclear posture review, for instance, which the Trump administration drew up. Now, in releasing that, they gave a clear signal. They believed that first strike is possible by the United States. It could do it under certain conditions. It said that it thinks nuclear weapons are usable, but that's something which Ronald Reagan had said is not. So it says clearly that they think nuclear weapons are usable, and they also talked about, and Trump goes on further on this, I think in 2018 or 2019, in Pentagon, he gave a speech, but he says, yes, we are going to put laser weapons in space, and we are going to put laser weapons, not just for defense, but also for offense. So he covered both sides, that we are going to have, we'll weaponize space. Now, there's a difference between militarizing space. Space is already militarized, if you have, say, satellites in the sky which can track different places. So it's not that the militarization of space hasn't occurred, but what has happened is that you are talking of weaponizing space. Now, that's something qualitatively different, and the Trump administration is already on record saying that. I think Marshall Billingsley, he's supposed to be a peace negotiator. He's supposed to negotiate arms deals. So this so-called peace negotiator, he makes a statement saying, we know how to win the economic war. We can spend other countries to oblivion. So the threat is to spend Russia and China into oblivion. So it's a part of the larger economic war that Trump seems to want to launch or has already launched against China. So all of this is coming together to say, okay, we think that we can win the nuclear peace if we will, by spending the other side completely out of oblivion, into oblivion. Now, we know there is enough evidence now to show that's not what happened during the Reagan regime. The Reagan presidency did not lead to the Russians spending more on defense. In fact, the defense budget remained completely constant. So this whole issue of competition and driving the Soviet Union to bankruptcy is a false position. But living that out completely because that's a really another debate altogether. The point remains that if you, is it for the purpose of nuclear dominance or is it a double-edged sword that if you compete with me, you will economically lose. If you don't compete with me, I'll be able to dominate over you.  Now, if you see the hypersonic missiles that the US is talking about, if we talk the laser weapons, which they have done just a demonstration, which is really the Reagan Star Wars scenario again. So all of that seems to indicate that now the position is that we will, we can do a first strike and then we can defend ourselves against the reduced strike. And towards that end, as you know, in the Baltics, which is what the Russians have been protesting about, they have put up missile shields, but they've also put in over there batteries, which can also launch Tomahawk missiles, which means they can launch nuclear-tipped warheads from the same batteries, which is what the Russians had said is a violation of the INF Treaty. And strangely enough, the Americans seem to have accepted yes it was because they have recently tested the land-based Tomahawk missile with exactly the same kind of properties that the Russians have said is existing with the missile batteries that have been put in the Baltic states. So this is the picture that we still see. And if you add the hypersonic weapons to that, it will seem to indicate that you hit the opponent, Russia or China, with overwhelming force. And if you do that, then you can shoot down the whatever is going to come your way with your anti-missile shields as well with the Star Wars scenario, laser weapons you might have positioned in space. So this seems to be the scenario they're building too. Of course, the Russians and the Chinese are not going to citadel. They have taken measures. Russia, as you know, last year unveiled a set of missiles, which they showed that would be able to hit the United States, the MAX6 plus missiles, which are the hypersonic, what have been called the hypersonic missiles. They showed Avangard hypersonic glider missiles. So they have seen to unveiled a set of six weapon systems, which they think they can counter United States. You know, the biggest problem with all of this is we are back to this head trigger alert and sort of doomsnake clock being set at 12. We are, I think now it's set at two minutes to 12. I think we are inching towards it becoming zero. So that is where it is. It has been recognized by the ability of atomic scientists as the most dangerous moment in our history. So this is where we are at the moment. Coming back to the question that you asked, this will be China. You know, China has about 300 odd nuclear warheads. Against 6,000 plus of the United States and the Russians. If you take these figures, if you take these figures at face value, then it seems that if you get China to the table, that you will like to come down from 6,000 to war, 3,000. And is China supposed to then go off from 300 to 3,000? Or is it supposed to also cut from 300 to 150? Now that asking a party which has 300 nuclear weapons to cut when other sides have 6,000 each seems to be absurd. So it doesn't seem to have any purpose of asking China to join the INF or the nuclear warhead start, new start as it is called, is renewal discussion, except purely as a ploy not to have the treaty and abandoned, which would be the new start is the last nuclear restrained treaty that exists. So that would also then be abandoned and there would be none. And I'll come to the only other treaty that still exists at the moment, which also Trump is talking about leaving. So essentially the China issue is just a ploy. And France has as many warheads as China has, but Britain has 250. So the fact that Britain and France were NATO allies are not being asked to join, but China is. Also shows the bad faith that the United States has on this count. But the last treaty, and that's the most dangerous one at the moment, is the fact that they want to do nuclear testing again. So Trump is on record and his people are in record saying we're reconsidering resumption of nuclear testing. Now resumption of nuclear testing is extremely provocative because then the whole range of other countries can say, hey, we need to test too. And that includes India. India's nuclear establishment has never been happy that they were not allowed to test again, mainly because the hydrogen bomb, as you know, they didn't really give a very successful demonstration. So according to people who know, they said it's a phase. That means it behave more like an enhanced atom bomb. At all, that is the basically the nuclear trigger that exploded that it acted in the hydrogen casing active to enrich that explosion. So it didn't really become a full blown hydrogen bomb. Unlike what, for instance, the North Koreans have demonstrated. So it became more like an enriched nuclear bomb. So this part of it, the nuclear establishment in India has been raring to test again. So if you start by allowing one country, of course, the global hegemon to test, how do you stop others from testing again? So this is the other part of the danger that we see. So honestly speaking, my problem is not that we have somebody who's mad as a president of the United States as many people would like to believe, but the fact that there's a continuity of what they're doing, starting from the George Bush regime to now, and the fact that a lot of these issues have come up even earlier. So there seems to be a continuity and the fact that the United States not only wants to withdraw from all these nuclear restrained regimes, but they have also withdrawn from the North Korean agreement that they had earlier. They have not successfully reached any agreement with North Korea. And of course, they've withdrawn from the Iran agreement. So if you see US record, the US record is one of complete duplicity, if you will.  If we leave that out for all other countries, we are not going to get into the internal politics of the United States. Well, we are concerned that US is not pretty capable, has shown that it cannot be trusted to keep any agreement that it signs. And this is not about climate change alone, but in the whole range of strategic issues and is looking for global dominance in an era where people have nuclear weapons. This is a path of complete destruction. And as I said, my complaint is not about Trump in the United States. My complaint is really that A, other countries seem to believe that they have to just choose sides. They have no other room. So therefore they don't want to protest.  The global peace movement is also completely at the moment either demoralized or incapable of mounting a protest. And I think the time has come that the people have to now become a player if they want to retain the globe as a place where humanity has a future. Otherwise, with this kind of trajectory which United States is now on, I don't think the human race, human civilization will lead to wait for another pandemic. We would be there in the pandemic. Thank you so much, Rabir, for talking to us. That's all we have time for today. Keep watching NewsClick.


What's up guys? My name is Rick, go by Rectastic. I am 32 years old, currently living in San Diego. I'm an aspiring entrepreneur, focusing on writing, do little coaching, sales, and meal prep for different organizations and companies. I first heard about Art of Charm through the podcast back then, it was 2008, 2009. Listening to the podcast, I felt like the guys, AJ and Jordan, were very relatable. They just seemed like chill dudes that it would be fun to hang out with and have a conversation with. I started listening to the podcast because I had broken up with my ex-girlfriend after like four and a half years and I wanted to learn how to be social.  So when I broke up with her and I only had a year and a half left of college, I'm like, oh man, how do I make the best of this? How do I go out and start meeting people? How do I make friends? I didn't know anybody at this school and listening to AJ and Johnny and everybody talk about developing confidence, developing social skills, I started to play around with it and go out more and have fun with it, really get into the whole self-development thing and try and push myself to grow as much as possible. So I went through the program back in 2010 for the first time and met a really good friend of mine through the program who also lived in San Diego. So after the program, we went back to San Diego and we were just going out all the time, constantly pushing each other, coming up with fun games to play that would constantly push each other out of our comfort zones. I think the two biggest growth points that I got out of the program and then the after effect, you call it, was this idea of what confidence means and what it means to continuously push the comfort zone, push the battery of the comfort zone. Because over the past year or over the past eight years, I've gone through a number of evolutions, changes, leaving jobs, trying new fields of work, leaving work altogether to travel the world. It's completely blown my mind as to what is possible in life. I feel like I was stuck in this idea of always needing a 95, always needing some kind of income to succeed in life. And when I just let go of all of that, I started to realize how much is actually possible.


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Well, hello friends and welcome back to my channel! I'm doing a plan with me! I cannot remember the last time I did one. It's been well over a year, I'm assuming. I don't really know. If you guys want to watch more plan with me's, I'm going to link a plan with me playlist up in a card wherever the heck it goes. And to be honest, the reason I haven't done one, I've been pretty transparent about this on my channel. But if you're new here, be good to get a little backstory. I used to do plan with me's every single week. What I was noticing in a couple of instances that weren't so great is that, you know, I would share my plans with you for like, say for instance, Monday is June 29th. And I would let you know where I'm going to be this weekend. And I would get sometimes some pretty creepy messages about how they're going to be there too. And, you know, like it just, it didn't feel right. I'll just put it that way. So, moving forward, what I want to do is I'm going to plan my week for with you guys today. So it's going to be just a regular old plan with me. And then next week, so next Monday, I will upload this content. So then you know kind of what I did this week, and then that's it. So, moving forward, so I'm going to do a regular plan with me. And then once I have, once this is all done, then I'll do this plan with me. And then once I upload this one, which will go up on this Monday, which will be right here, I'll do like a little flip to the completed week. So this week is going to be a little bit different just because I don't have another completed week to show you. But yeah, so I just wanted to like, let you know, I'm just going to kind of do my regular like skeleton bare bones, put anything that I know of in here, and go with it that way. So yeah, and I know um, back in the disay long time ago, I'm going to start planning. So yay. So I've got my little washi cutter. I got this online. It's called Slice. And um, it's, it's very, very sharp. And it cuts washi really, really well. So I might, I might need to use this as well. So anyways, um, I used to back in the disay do plan with me is that I didn't even talk in because I'm like, Oh, this is boring. Like, who's going to want to watch this? You know, well, turns out a lot of you. So, so that being said, I used to actually speed up my content and not talk during, you know, what we're, what we're doing right here. So, um, yeah, then I started talking in it and people are like, Oh my gosh, tell me more, like tell you more what anyways. Um, so yeah, so I'm laying down some washi right now because I'm still going to be filming balloon for the last couple of days. And this washi, so this is a washi I got a while ago. I feel like this is going to be a really chatty one. So just like get a snack. Um, this is a washi I got a while ago, but it does not like it's not like regular washi since it's like this glitter. So because it's like kind of this glitter, but the glitter doesn't come off, which I love, by the way, it's quite thin. So it doesn't really bulk up your planner too much. It doesn't rip like a normal washi. Like I can't just rip it. So that's why I have this little doodad and any washi that you have trouble with, um, cutting. This is just a really nice option, like a nice little alternative. But you always have to remember not to push too hard because there has been many times, which maybe I'm doing it now. I don't know. Um, if you push too hard, then you slice the paper as well. So, um, yeah, hopefully I did not do that. We will see. Anyway, but it gets you a pretty clean edge. I kind of messed it up, but whatever. I don't, you know what? It's my planner. It's okay. So anyway, so yeah, but I have that in there. And then, um, this week we are working a four day week due to the holiday. Um, I'm in the United States for anybody that is curious. Our independence day is on Saturday, July 4th, which means that on the third is going to be our no work day. So any who, um, let's put the washi in for that. So I got this washi last year from Simply Gilded and it is, I believe this is their five millimeter and it's got silver stars and there's a red, a white, and a blue, which is like our flag. So I thought this would be appropriate to, you know, do for the holiday since it's all patriotic and such. And normally I don't get that excited about the washi, but I just thought that this would be kind of fun, you know, to put this in. And normally what I end up doing is, here we go, I don't usually work until five. Usually I work like a about a seven to three or something like that. To be honest, what I normally like to do is just put it in for a little bit longer because then once I'm planning throughout the week, because basically this is like a kind of a skeleton setup is like what I would call it. Then I can kind of adjust the washi as is, like you could always take washi off, you can't really add more to it. I mean, I guess you could in theory, but it just won't be, you know, super consistent. So anywhere, but yeah, I'm just gonna do this until Thursday because Friday is our paid holiday, which will be fabulous. So we've got our red down. And also this is the first week of planning in the hourly planner that now has half hours.  So I think there was kind of no pleasing anyone. I actually do really like just the hours if I'm being totally honest, but because my life doesn't stop at, you know, seven or eight PM. But yeah, I mean, either way, I'm totally fine with it. But yeah, I don't know, just something, something can differ. Yeah. So now this has the half hours back. You know, I think this would be really good if you're, you know, really diligent about the times. A lot of the time, I am not super diligent about the specific times. It's kind of more of a generalization for me. So even though like say I'm covering up six AM and that's where I'm going to be putting in like my little work stickers and stuff, doesn't mean I'm working at six. Just means that that's like the beginning and start of my day is there. So and if there's something that I need to do afterwards or something that I need to, you know, like deal with or whatever, in the morning, I feel like this is a significant enough space for me to write those things in. So yeah. And if you're interested in any of the washi, like this washi, it's from Simply Gilded. I think I said that already. I don't know.  I don't know. That's maybe a wrong word, but I didn't. And after seeing all of her stuff in person, I'm like, oh my God. And of course, I went down the Simply Gilded rabbit hole. I have a ton of her stuff now. And yeah, I'm just, I'm really liking it. But the funny thing is, she's very known for her bows. Let me show you one real quick. Here is a bow washi. Let's see if I can get it to focus properly. Probably not, because it doesn't want to do that. Here we go. Here we go. See, there's like bows and stuff. That's kind of her like signature, like what she started with. And I will tell you, I am team no bow. That is not my jam. I don't like bows. But I love the stardust pattern. Just makes me excited. And then I also really love, you know, the stars, the stardust, the simple line, basically almost anything without the bow. That's kind of my, kind of my jam. So yeah. So I'm going to take some of these scalloped event boxes from Coffee Break Planner. I do have a coupon code for her shop down below if you are interested in checking it out. Yeah. So I am just kind of going to alternate red and blue for my little headers here. And on the inside, I'm going to put, you know, worky things. I also have this little book that I got on Amazon. I'm going to put a link for it below, if I can remember. And this is just like extra stickers that maybe I didn't want the full sheet or the sheet was really small. Or you know how you get samplers and stuff and you're like, man, I really love this like two out of the seven little sampler sheet or stickers.  And anyways, so I got these sticker books.  I think they're like 20 bucks. I got the one with the extra sheets, just to let you know. I think they started like 14.99 and they go up to 9.99. So anyways. But yeah, I got them and I really, really, really like them.  So it's like, well, I keep the whole sheet, just put a couple things in here. And this is my book of like icons, like that's kind of, I have three separate books. One's functional. So it's just like half boxes and like little, I don't know, I'll show you in a minute. And then I've got this one, which is all icons. And then, or like decorative. And then I have one that is like all things that say something. So like all word things. So yeah, that's kind of how I separate it for me. I mean, everyone's different, clearly. But I'm trying to find a couple little things in here. Sorry, I'm not totally in frame. But the other fun thing about this is I don't really know what I have. I mean, I do kind of have an idea of what I have. But then also I'm like, wait a second. Do I really know what I have in here? Also, what's really nice about these books is I like look through them first to see if there's anything that I want to use. So what's happening now is that I'm actually using what I have.  And I can kind of look through, see if there's something that I want to use.  I mean, not that it really makes a big difference. I mean, I'm going to use what I'm going to use, but I don't know, makes it feel better. So right now I'm just pulling out things that I definitely want to use. And I think that there was a, oh gosh, where was it? I feel like there was a blue, here we go. This like blue American flag I want to use, because I'm kind of going like red, blue, red, blue, red, blue, red. And so blue kind of lands on Independence Day, as we have it right here. So before I do anything else, let's put in some of this. So the first of the month, I always have the same couple of things I got to do. So change the air filter, which is right here. I'll put this right down below. Oh, I'm so sorry. You cannot see anything I'm doing. Awesome. I am clearly a professional, you guys. So change the air filter. And then I also change my toothbrush head, because it's the beginning of the month, y'all. And then I give Doyle his medication. So Doyle has his own little thing here. And I have a couple of different things. So I have this from Lulu's and Daisy's. It just says flea medicine. And then I have these from my little chickadee co and it says pet meds. So I think I'm going to use this month. I'm going to use the one that says pet meds. And just put this right up here. I'm going to cover up Wednesday, but it still says July 1. So it's kind of like at the beginning of the day, I will do this. It's just, you know, one of those things you gotta remember to do. You gotta take care of your little puppies and your little kiddies and your animals and stuff. All right, so it is also time to put in some trash, which I put trash out on Wednesday when I pick up Thursday morning. And I know that this isn't like red, which is kind of what I'm going with that day. I'm going to put in something blue. I know shock, shock, horror. Anyways, I need to find like those little, I have like these little like recycle things somewhere. So it's every other week I get recycling picked up. That's just how my city does it. And I always remember that because it's my payday. So if it lands on a payday, like the week lands on a payday, then that is recycle pickup. So let's see if I can find my little recycle jobbers. Where are you recycle things? I should have pulled it out when I was messing with this. But clearly I didn't because you know, I already told you guys I'm a professional, so yay. Ah, here it is. So I have these, which are like little recycle doodads. And I'm going to pull out the blue bin just because it coordinates a little bit better than the green for this week. Put this right down on the bottom again. So just reminds myself to do the right thing and recycle things. So now I have this other book. They're the same. These are the same book. This one is full of the decorative things. This has more of the functional things. What I'm currently looking for is a arrow or something like that in red because I need to put in some vloggy things. So also if they have, if there's like a blue something, maybe a half box in here. I don't know. Sometimes I know exactly what I'm looking for. And other times I'm like, sometimes just kind of look at everything, you know what I mean? And then you forget what you have and you're like, oh wait, that would be perfect there. Why don't I use that? So yeah, a lot of this is super functional. There's quite a bit like this whole page is from Aaron Condren. You know, like there's a lot of good things in here that I really, really like and I use often enough. But yeah, lots of good stuff. All right, I just feel like I'm not finding what I'm looking for. I do need this little guy. So yay, found one thing I, one thing I want. So when it's payday on Sundays, well really it doesn't matter what day it is to be honest. I pay bills. So I'll just put that right there and just list those suckers out. I didn't find what I'm looking for. That's okay. I'm gonna, I'm gonna figure it out y'all.  And I have no red arrows. Ah, okay, what do I have? Ah, this could work. That would work. Let's use that. That's fine.  And you're like, oh wait, no, I can't because I don't have that. What else? And I got a little red camera that I found. This was definitely on a sampler somewhere. I don't want to put in loon. Like I knew I wanted some sort of flag, you know, some sort of flag for something. All right, so I'm gonna put this right here. Oh, cool. This doesn't stick. Awesome. Thought it would. It does not. All right, let's do some of this at least on the paper then. That kind of sticks. Okay, better when you put it on the paper. You guys can see. I'm sorry. I'm sorry I never put things in frames. Again, utmost professional here, utmost professional. All right, and I've got these new stickers, well like new to me, from plan to plan sticker co. And I'm gonna be using this little jobber here for my laundry time because I always tend to do laundry on Saturdays.  So just for me, really easy to get up in the morning and, you know, throw the first load in. Sometimes I do more than one load, you know, I'm single and live alone, so it's just my stuff. But this week, I have bedding laundry to do, which means that like every blanket, every, you know, comforter duvet, whatever I got going on, those get washed as well.  But I have a very furry dog that's old and he is gross. I'll just put it that way. He a nasty boy sometimes. So, you know, I kind of have to do it. And sometimes, to be honest, the majority of the time, I do it more than once a month, if I'm being completely honest here. And I'm going to use one of these little doodads from Lulu's Daisies and Companies. It's been like one of my favorite shops that I have found over the last, I don't know, maybe six, seven months or so. I am just kind of obsessed with her stuff. I love that the majority of her things, not everything. I'm going to link all these places I'm talking about in the show notes. So, they all have a saying and then they all have an icon. So it's like one stop shop. You don't have to layer things. And it's just really cute. And they come in, like this is the colorful sheet. And then she also does like a neutral sheet. So it's just black and white. So I don't know. I just really appreciate it. I like it. I think it's like nice and easy and simple. But definitely, definitely my style faux show. And then since I have these out, I'm going to bust into these from Adriana Piper. I have this little like washing machine. This might be a little overkill, but you know what? Like sometimes I just like to be extra, y'all. All right. And then I've got these cute little payday stickers, like this little girl with money coming out. She's got a little red top. So I thought that'd be kind of cute for what we're doing today. And this is from Libby and Lou with Sticker Co. And we're going to cover up Friday. Ta-da! But we still have July 3rd sticking out. So I think that works. I think that looks real cute. I need to put in my toothbrush situation. Y'all, I don't want to have stank teeth. All right. So here's my little change toothbrush head. And this is something I'm going to do on the first. I get questions all the time as to where I got these every time I post something that's like on the first. People are like, what? Who is that? This is a shop that unfortunately is no longer in business. So yeah, but if, if you want to do some research, you can probably find something really similar to this on like Etsy or the Google, the Google machine. You know, the Google machine's got a lot of good stuff going on. So yeah, I'm just going to put this right down here. And again, this is something I'm just like a task I'm doing. So it doesn't necessarily have to be at seven. Like I could probably do it on like Tuesday if I really wanted to. But it's just a reminder, just a reminder. All right. So now I'm going to open up this little book here and see what I have for like anything else, I guess, I don't know. So I've got a bunch of air and condor and stuff. Let's see here. I am planning on posting on the first my monthly budget. So I'm going to pull this out and it's red. So my goodness. So nice when things just work out that way. I'm looking for like a thing that says like day off or something, something like that. Maybe I'll find that. Maybe I won't. I don't really know. Like here's some more of those pet med stickers. Okay. Well, that didn't have what I was looking for. That's okay. Let me put in some other things that I know are happening this day. So we've got, well, hold on. Let's make sure this is all hard. Okay. So I finally found what I was looking for here. So I've got this. We're gonna put this right here. So it's a monthly budget. And then I've got these little YouTube icon things. We're gonna put that right here.  So I'm gonna just put this kind of, I don't know, towards the top of the day just because it's, it's gonna be already like pre filmed and scheduled and all that stuff. I just, that's just the way I roll, y'all. It just makes my life so much easier, I will say. And then on Sunday, I'm kind of going everywhere you guys. I'm sorry. So I will take some of these like little flat lay planter flat lays. This one's from Blue Scooter Press. I'm gonna kind of put this at the end of my day. I actually put it all the way to the bottom here.  But I will be filming, you know, my new, my new plan with me. So I'm just gonna denote some time for planner time. And then these little planner time scripty words are from planner Kate on Etsy. And then I've got this little cute black camera. It actually looks exactly like my camera that I'm filming with currently. And these are from Adriana Piper. I especially ordered these a long time ago, but she does have these in like a like a rainbow colorway on her site. So yeah, so that's, that's hella cute. All right. So we've got this little job where I want to put in as well. I'm not big on sports, like I don't sport. Y'all know this about me. But I do enjoy a good nice car race. So what I know is weird, considering like, I don't know, it's just weird, just weird guys. But I do have these stickers from a coffee break planner, which I love. Oh, these are well, hold on, hold on. There's like football coming out. There's Olympics coming out. Oh, Jeepers Criminie. But now these are all from coffee break planner. Oh my gosh, more footballs. Get out of here football. We don't know you. Okay, so I like that they're pre-printed with the raceway on there. And then also you can get ones that are just blank as well. So if you want to write in something or I don't know, whatever. So this race is going to be at 230 and it's the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. So let's find that one. Ha ha, found it right here. So Indianapolis. I'm going to put this in and it is on Sunday, July 5th. So I'm just going to put this in. Usually, like to be honest, what I usually do is just have it on like it doesn't like I don't just sit there and watch the whole thing. You know what I mean? Like it can get, I understand like they're going left. You know, I get the argument because I understand it can be kind of boring sometimes, but I really like it. I think it's very entertaining for me personally. But it's just one of those things I just have on the TV. Like, you know, while I'm doing other things or if I'm like cleaning or laundry or like, you know, whatever I kind of got going on for the day. So yeah. And now I'm just looking for like a little like event box or something I can trim down that's red so I can write in um the time, like the start time. Would this work? Oh, it's going to be too small. Hold on, that's not going to work. They ain't going to work for me. They isn't going to work for me. What's going to work for me? I don't know. I don't know. Okay, I think I'm going to take one of these. I feel like these are never big enough. Like I just want them like just a little, just a smidge bigger. But um yeah, so let's put her right there. Oh, I have a feeling this is already going to be like messed up. So you know what I'm going to do? Hold on. We're going to, going to get weird. Come on up. Here we go. Here we go. All right. I'm going to put it. I don't know if you guys can see this. I'm going to put it on the table and then write on it. All right, I'm writing 2 p.m. because the race starts at 2 but there's always like the pre-race thang, you know? And I do actually really enjoy watching that. Oh, see? Okay, hold on. We're going to, this is like watch Emily mess up. Okay, we're going to do another one. I'm going to put it on the table again and we're going to get a little closer to the edge. Ooh, I'm close to the edge. Yeah. Okay, that looks better already. Come here. Come here. Okay, I'm going to put this right here. I know it's already at 2 p.m. and it says it in the planner but I like to kind of just know what the hell's going on, you know what I'm saying. Also, I'm going to use these. These are super freaking cute. These little work stagows. These are from that Willow's and Daisy's Co. again because I love, love her stuff. And then these are actually pink. I know they might be coming off kind of red on camera but they are in fact pink. So I'm going to take this one right there. They're all different colors even though sometimes they look really, really similar. They are in fact all different. So put that right there. And I think that is going to finish up everything for now. I don't really have, you know, anything else going on that I know of just yet.  So yeah, that is a look at my week and I hope you guys enjoyed the video and a look into how I kind of set up my skeleton week. And if you have any questions feel free to put them down below. I'm going to try to link as my name of the sticker shops as I can find down below for you guys. And yeah, tune in next week for a look at the completed week of this plus the next week as well. So I hope you guys are having a wonderful day and staying safe. Thank you guys so much for watching and I will see you on the next video. Bye guys. Well folks, it's time to kick it old school.


In the Highlander universe, immortals participate in what is referred to as the game. The game is when one immortal challenges another immortal. Immortals participate in the game in order to obtain the prize by way of a quickening. The rules of the game are as follows, engaging in combat on holy ground is forbidden. Once a battle has begun, interference is not allowed. Combat is limited to one-on-one. Only bladed weapons can be used. And in the end, there can be only one. In the Highlander universe, a quickening is when one immortal receives the power and essence of another immortal. There's a number of ways for immortals to receive a quickening, and in this video we're going to explore and explain those different types of quickenings. In the film Highlander the Final Dimension, which was the third film in the franchise, the quickening is shown to more directly transfer knowledge and skill as opposed to the vague transfer seen elsewhere. In Highlander 2, the quickening deages Connor, who has grown old as an immortal after winning the game in the first Highlander film, and makes him immortal once again. However, this is considered non-canonical.  However, since Highlander 2 revealed the non-canonical origins of immortals as being from another planet, once other immortals began showing up on Earth again, Connor was forced back into the game. The first type of quickening is the main type. This quickening occurs when one immortal takes the head of another immortal during participation in the game. Adrian Paul, who played Duncan McLeod in the Highlander TV series, and the Final 2 films explained, the quickening is the receiving of all the power and knowledge another immortal has obtained throughout his or her life. It is like the receiving of a sacrament, or a massive orgasm. The producers described it as, the power of the quickening is the equivalent to a major electrical storm hitting, windows explode, lights short circuit, it is almost as if the victorious immortal is in the center of a lightning storm. The second type of quickening is an indirect quickening. This type of quickening occurs when an immortal is decapitated by something other than the sword of another immortal. As long as an immortal is present, the surviving immortal gets the quickening. However, if an immortal is beheaded and there is no immortal nearby to receive the quickening, such as if the killer is mortal, or the immortal is decapitated in an accident, then the quickening dissipates. The third type of quickening was introduced in the animated series which followed Quentin McLeod. The quickening of the main character Quentin McLeod were transferred by both he and the immortal Jettiter making the transfer by gripping his or her sword together, which means that an immortal can give up his or her own quickening to another at will, while still able to be taken by beheading an opponent. This type of quickening leaves the immortal who gave up his quickening immortal and able to grow old and die, however it is unknown if this type is considered canonical or not. The first type of quickening, which is the most common, has a few subtypes as well. The first of which is a double quickening. From the 5th season episode Revelation 6-8, the only known example of a double quickening came as Duncan and Mithos battled the remaining horsemen in their lair. Duncan battled Kronos while Mithos turned against his former brothers and battled Silas. As Duncan and Mithos won their respective battles at the same time, the quickenings merged and split between the two in an unusual display of a spiraled lightning effect. The second subtype of quickening number one is that of a dark quickening. A dark quickening is when a buildup of quickenings from evil immortals can overwhelm even the best of immortals and lead to a dark quickening. The dark quickening draws out the darker elements of an immortal psyche as well as forces the receiving immortal to take on the personalities of the dark immortals they had killed until they are evil themselves. Only one immortal has been known to come back from a dark quickening and that was Duncan McLeod with the help of Mithos, the oldest living immortal. The third subtype of quickening number one is that of a light quickening. So far there has only been one known case of a light quickening. That of the immortal monk Darius.  So much so that the evil within them is all but destroyed. In the first season of Highlander the TV series, the immortal monk Darius was introduced as an ancient goth warlord who led an army across Europe. When he reached the gates of Paris, Darius encountered an immortal holy man who tried to protect the city. When Darius beheaded the holy man, his pure essence overwhelmed Darius and caused him to disband his army and spend the next thousand years living in peace on holy ground. There is ultimately a fourth subtype of quickening number one that is more rare than a dark or light quickening and that is a holy ground beheading. In Highlander 3 this type of quickening is only hinted at when Connor's sword which shatters into the thousand fragments after he and Cain engage in a duel on the location of a former Buddhist shrine. The two immortals wisely chose to postpone their battle. According to Joe Dawson, there is a watch or legend about two immortals going at it in a temple of Apollo in AD 79 in Pompeii, which may have led to the eruption of Phasuvius. However, he admitted that this was only a rumor and no one knows if it's true or not. It's not clear though if this type of quickening ultimately destroys the winning immortal or not. The fifth subtype of quickening number one is that of a multiple quickening. This type of quickening occurs when one immortal beheads multiple others at a single time either by those immortals willingly giving up their quickenings or by one immortal side stepping the rules and beheading immortals who have taken sanctuary from the game. Immortals in sanctuary according to Highlander Endgame is when an immortal grows tired of the game and chooses to retire. They lay down their sword and enter into hiding. They are placed into a style of solitary confinement via tombs by watchers, restrained with their eyes and ears covered and watched over in secret on mostly holy ground by the watchers. So there you have it guys, in this episode of Highlander, quickenings explained. I hope you enjoyed the video and if so make sure and give it a thumbs up, hit that subscribe button and share it on social media because it would really help the channel out. Until next time my friends, I'm Shannon for Come Again TV. In the end, there can be only one.


Okay, welcome back everyone, live coverage here with theCUBE. At Red Hat Summit in Boston, Massachusetts, 2023, also AnsibleFest folded in as well. It's open source, it's cloud native, it's Edge, it's Compute, we've got two great guests here. I'm John Furrier with theCUBE, Rob Stretch of the Analyst, breaking it all down. We've got Greg Ernst, corporate vice president, sales and marketing group, general manager for America's reason, for Intel, and top of phone, president of strategic partnerships. Gentlemen, thanks for joining theCUBE. Good to see you again. Thank you for having us, good to see you again. Got a CUBE alumni here, good first time CUBE alumni. Now you're in this distinguished alumni's family. There you go, I'm gonna get the techs, you like this. We're here at Red Hat Summit, Dell, Intel, Red Hat, working together, what's the relationship? You guys had big news here, so the appliance with Red Hat, that's a big wave. More compute, more servers, a lot more action. For people who want performance faster, faster, faster. What's the relationship, Dell, Intel, and Red Hat? Yeah, so as you said, Intel, we're the computing company, and continue to innovate, drive more compute, so that every company in the world can extract value from it, create products, services that help everyone. But we realized early in our history, a semiconductor by itself is, you can't extract the value. And so early in Intel's history, we made a decision, open source, open community, and partner ecosystem. And in our history, Dell, they're our largest customer, they're our largest technology partner, and Red Hat, everything we do, we start and drive with Red Hat as well. In order, first with Rail, now with OpenShift, first with private data centers, now public cloud, private cloud, hybrid cloud. So Dell and Red Hat are key partners of ours. Yeah, well go ahead.  I say, look, it's great. I mean, we've obviously been partners a long time as I shared with everyone this morning. I mean, we've been a partner with Red Hat for 20 plus years, but we really feel like we've doubled down on the partnership over the last year or so, and that was a big announcement this morning, right? And so when we talk about double down, we talk about co-engineering and innovating new offers and solutions, and today we had a big announcement with our Apex Cloud for OpenShift, and we're really excited about that. Enabling our 30, 40,000 global sellers around the world to take this to our customers, our hundreds of partners. So yeah, I mean, with Intel, powered by Intel, with Red Hat, with Dell, there's three unbelievable brands and they're trusted, and we think we really have a good impact. Yeah, and with the big AI wave coming, you can just see more and more needs for having more faster servers. It was a time, you know, it was theCUBE's 13th season, doing CUBE interviews over the years. It was an era where the cloud was growing. Don't talk about speeds and fees. It's not about the hardware. I'm like, I'm a hardware guy. I love hardware. Come on. And then, oh, software is really the hardware. We're now in, we're past that now. You're seeing people acknowledge that the physics at getting now the lower physical layer with software, with silicon, with advanced compute, that's gonna really, that empowered the AI movement. Now with AI having all the horsepower, software and hardware at that level is a big deal. People care about it. Yeah. Oh, I didn't, so we love it. We're geeks, spin the propeller nonstop without hardware. But just one example right now, we launched our fourth generation Xeon a few months ago and it's got built-in accelerators for matrix math. I think the world's learning that AI performs really well on matrix math. We saw that a few years ago. We integrated those accelerators in and now that's one of the reasons why we work closely with Red Hat because well, Red Hat, what you're able to do is almost take a straw straight down in the CPU and make those accelerators accessible for all the applications that run on top. You and I were talking before we turned on the cameras around natural language processing. The accelerators that we're just talking about. 12x improvement for natural language processing in the Xeon. It's integrated in PyTorch. It's integrated in TensorFlow and that's why we love working with Red Hat because you all create that straw, like I said, and make those accelerators accessible. Great, that's a great call out, Todd. This brings up the point of the innovation up and down the stack again. Reminds me of the old OSI model that we're dating ourselves now, but physical to application layer. AI and capabilities will be embedded in every layer. You're seeing that obviously now, but it creates a partnership. You're seeing more partnerships, more integrations. You run strategic partnerships for Dell. What are some of the things that you see coming that are challenges and opportunities that you're going to help solve for customers as they realize, I have to have a hard and secure solution that performs great and enables this next wave. Yeah, look, I mean, as the world's gotten more complex and technology's moving so fast, it's clear that you need partnerships in order to be successful. And if you can go take the work as partners by integrating and innovating together, you're removing the work that our customers would have to do on their own. And that is the key, right? So as I shared earlier, the challenge that all of our customers have is that they are the key to the business succeeding or failing. And that means if they can't spend the majority of their time and energy and budget on maintenance, they got to work on strategic initiatives. And if we can offload that work by giving them an integrated turnkey offer and solution where they don't have to worry about it just works, it accelerates their time to market, it does it in a resilient, safe way, that enables them to spend time on the things that are important and strategic to them. And again, I'm going to bring this up as more of a tell sign as well. I think it's indicated how the future is going to go, especially with the edge and the intelligent edge. Your announcement with Red Hat, with the appliance, take a minute to explain that because I think this is a significant announcement here. It kind of gets lost in the AI hype, but it's blocking and tackling. It's an edge device, it's server, powerful.  Yeah, basically we built a fully turnkey platform based on Red Hat OpenShift, fully integrated into Dell, software-defined storage. And the beauty of it is there's a lot of engineering that we have built between the Dell infrastructure and OpenShift, engineering that typically customers would have to go do. So what this allows customers to go do, they can rapidly deploy and start building out applications day one. They don't have to go build out that infrastructure themselves, they don't have to deploy OpenShift, it's all done for them. And then if they have issues with that, they just go to one company for support and it's seamless, it's resilient, it's compliant, it's all the things that you expect, but the reason why that's so important is all about trying to build apps much faster and do things much faster than you would traditionally done and hopefully that's the goal of what we're trying to deliver. So we're super excited about it. The partnership has been a great one, but we really doubled down on the partnership and obviously the long-standing partnership with Intel makes this to me super important. And back to your earlier question, ecosystem partnerships are the way of the future. You can't do things on your own and if you can do them with a strategic partner and you can bring that to our customers jointly, that to me is where you really differentiate yourself. Yeah, and I think that's a great point. The question I would have for you guys is, plus I agree by the way, if you believe that then the next question is, how do you make sure that they're enabled to be either sustainable or disruptive? I mean, that's classic, right? So I'm going to continue to innovate or I'm a new entrant, I want to build on top of it. Yeah, yeah. What would you say to that? From an actual enterprise. Enablement, okay, you got, I got a lot of players and a lot of ecosystem partners. Supports one, obviously one, but like. Well, what I love with what Delle and Rad had have done with us, the few challenges I hear from CIOs, IT all the time. One, there's a lot of value for them to have a single company manage this, service it, deploy it. And that alone, that Delle delivering that. The other thing I hear a lot of is despite everything that Red Hat does to build out the number of open shift developers, rail, administrators, there's still a shortage. And the skill set is rare. There's a lot of them, but there's not enough. And that's the second thing that I love that Delle's doing here. This is a great point, I mean, to interrupt you, but I just left a customer right before he came here and they were telling us their biggest issue is they don't have the right skills. And if we can help them go deliver a solution where they don't require as many skills, they can go change their skill sets and apply them to the things that are strategic important. And that, I mean, that's the key takeaway, right? Is again, allowing them to go focus on the things that are strategic and helping them retool and repurpose those skill sets. So I think you hit on a great point. I freeze them up to invest elsewhere. Yeah. Well, I want to ask Greg, this is your killer point with then you got, okay, security. You guys invested a ton in security, the fiscal layer. You tie that in with Red Hat security, software supply chain.  You're going to have a hard top. You can then enable to bring their own foundation models in to the application workload. So you kind of decoupled that piece. And especially as it moves to the edge. And as we said earlier, multiple clouds, there's unintentional vulnerabilities that could be created by the users. And that's what Intel's worked with Red Hat and Dell. So how did it all come about? I mean, I just love this appliance idea of Red Hat. I could see deployment, you got built-in security from Intel, all the benefits that comes with those years of relationships. But as an app developer, it's out there and not a lot of configurations in the net. There's a note in the network, it's secure. I'm going to care about my app. It's going fast. How did it all come together? Just one day you guys drew it up on the board and said, let's do it. Yeah, that's it. You go deep into the cut. Go to the post. Run the edge up. You'll appreciate this. So many years ago, when I first joined EMC, which obviously is now Dell, I went on a sales call with Dick Egan, which is the EMC.  And the bank said to Dick, how do you come up with your great innovation ideas? And he said, I never get in the way of a customer. Customer always comes back and say, I wish you could go do this. And we listen, we innovate, we iterate. And that's how we've always invented all of our new solutions. It's the same thing here. So we heard loud and clear from customers that they were looking for a way to accelerate the OpenShift platform powered by Dell and Intel technology. And so when you hear that, you're like, all right, how can we go do that? And that gets the ball rolling. And then you get the engineering teams together. You get alignment. You work as if you're actually one integrated engineering team. And then you put the power of the go-to-market behind it. And then it's not lost on the trust of the brands behind it. Because when you brought up AI, it's moving so fast. But to me, trust is going to be so important in this AI landscape. And when you have three brands like Intel, Red Hat, and Dell supporting these solutions, customers trust those brands because we've been here a long time and we're not going anywhere. I think what's also interesting about Apex and what Dell announced and the whole Apex line is being cloud adjacent and being near. I think with sovereignty and especially with AI and where you actually train your models, where is your data? You have France and others that are really clamping down on Austria. Is that a really a key component to this as well? So my opinion, compliance is a critical component to this. Compliance and security, data integrity, how you manage that, how you provide transparency to that are absolutely critical. And if you're big banks or big financial institutions, just as an example, you need to have that or you can't make those investments. So I completely agree with you. That is certainly important. And again, I think we're lucky because of the companies we have and the investments we've made in those areas, that what we build takes advantage of that. Well, I think the edge too, sorry. Oh, I was going to say one of the things that makes Dell unique that power edge server lineup but also the Dell EMC storage. And as you said that when it comes to data sovereignty, the location of the data and the storage and building the stuff and some of the blueprints that Dell brought to the solution, that's one of the things that it's complex for customers and they're going to see what the work Dell is done here with Apex with Red Hat. It's going to make their life easier. Yeah, and I think one of the other points to the Apex and the equation is cost. And not that I'm a repatriate fan, I'm not a repatriate. And I love the New England Patriots, look at me wrong. Yeah, you are embossed. Repatriation means cloud is going to still be there but now you got on-premise and edge and you look at cost of ownership. Would you guys are masters at it? I know that for a fact we're covering it. But when you add in like over provisioning concepts, you can look at certain use cases and say, I could rather have stack servers at the edge than cloud from a GPU or AI perspective because you kind of know what you need, right? And people are getting more out of hardware that's not in the cloud for certain use cases. That's not repatriation, that's just refactoring for cloud operation. So there's a whole trend going on now where people are starting to see, okay, I want a box, I want to have it stacked, I want to be at the edge or whatever for a use case. This is huge.  This is as long as you get it when you want it at the cost of willing to pay for it.  So you're almost a broker of these workloads, right? We're based on security, based on risk and cost, availability. And then you figure out this edge on premise, your data center, cloud, and then you have all that flexibility to decide where it goes. So if you can enable CIOs to make those trade-offs of where these workloads go based upon those requirements, but then the business can get what they want when they want it, then it works. And I think part of the whole solution is also the flexibility from a cost perspective, right? Because there is the pay-as-you-go component to it as well as that it is hardware and software and all of that performance. Is that, has that been a big key with the extended ecosystem? So outside of the hyperscalers and when you get to some of those other MSPs and things that are partnering with you on this? I think, yeah, it's a proven way that companies are managing the balance sheet these days. And so kudos to Dell to figure out the financial balance sheet ability to bring that on-prem mod or that same model to a hybrid motion as a pure cloud. Yeah, I think you have to have that flexibility. You got to give that flexibility of choice and funding and how you're making those financial decisions. And so yeah, I mean, that's the beauty of our APEX line. It provides that choice and flexibility. And I think that's just part of how you have to deliver any of your services or solutions today. Now on the Intel side, just processor-wise, is 4th Gen Xeon? I believe 4th. That's the 4th Gen. We didn't even confirm. Yes, 4th was the... What's under the hood? What's the big Intel piece here? That's the power. Is it the power and the solution? Well, it'll be, it'll start with our 4th Gen and then we'll expand it to our full portfolio Xeon products. One of the things that we've done unique, as I mentioned earlier with this generation, we've built in a lot of different accelerators. I talked to the Matrix Acceleration for AL. We've also done a lot with what we call QAT. So it allows compression, decompression, encryption. Dell takes advantage of that line as well. That's a huge benefit is you're moving data from one cloud to another cloud. You can imagine that the encryption of the data really saves cost on core count. Todd, when are we going to see this in markets? Are timeframe... So yeah, by second half of the year you'll see it in market as a timetable. So not too far off, right? And then there's certainly some things that we could do as a precursor in steps to take with customers today. So if they want to adopt now, there's some things we can share with customers today also. What was the big feedback you got from the announcement? That people, wait a minute, were they surprised? I mean, I was totally surprised. I was like, that's huge. Yeah, no, we've got an awesome feedback because it's funny as we're running Red Hat Summit here in Boston, we've got Dell Tech World in Vegas. So I'm keep going back and forth with my peers there. The feedback from customers, partners, analysts, everybody has been tremendous. Because back to the point, this is customers are looking for these types of solutions today when you take world leaders in innovation companies like Intel, Dell and Red Hat and you bring them together in a turnkey offer and you can deliver that and you can help them accelerate their time to market. That's what customers are looking for. So now the excitement's been great. And I saw Michael's interview Dave Vellante. I had foam oil because I wasn't there. Normally I do the interviews a little bit.  Greg, you're going to appreciate this. When I interviewed Pat Gelson the last time I talked to him before he joined Intel, he was right on hybrid cloud from day one. I remember talking to him early on. He always said it's an architectural play. Certain industry inflection points. It's an architectural play. And I think when you start looking at the edge and how this is all going to come together, it's essentially a distributed computing paradigm. So we're kind of in this architectural game right now where, okay, we get how cloud works. We've got on premise with hybrid, check. Now you've got another multicloud slash edge kind of dynamic happening. I mean, this is going to be a compute. It's going to be a data game. All of that is right in you guys wheelhouse. What's your reaction to that? What's your view? Well, it's why we've been excited for the maturation that just incredible maturation of containers. Because containers and Kubernetes and an open shift, it's what really makes this all to your point, all possible and gives IT organizations a chance at actually fulfilling this hybrid cloud concept. It's why for our product line, we design first four hybrid cloud features, the capabilities that we put in there enable it. I mean, to Pat's early point, it's, and it takes a few years to design and produce a semiconductor. So when Pat was all in on hybrid cloud early, I guess no shock then he came back to Intel and said, all right, let's make sure the semiconductor product line supports it. We had some great conversations. I won't go into it, it's all in a meme already on the web. Kyle, to give you the last word, what's on your agenda, strategic partnerships, ecosystems as the future? What's your strategy? What do you got going on? Yeah, look, I think anything you're going to see us continue to go evolve our strategic partnerships where it's about trying to simplify what is a pretty darn complex world for our customers. And we talked a lot about the Dell tech world from ground to cloud, cloud to ground, anything you can do to make that seamless. So back to that example I gave where the business doesn't care, but how do we enable CIOs to go deliver a transformational infrastructure where they can manage workloads, regardless of their edge on-prem or in the cloud and make that completely seamless. You're going to see us invest in those areas with those partners to make that seamless. And the exciting thing AI is going to change the game. It's going to change it. It's going to make things go faster. Yeah, again. Yeah, again. Morris Law, they know what fast is. You guys know what fast is. Yeah. Greg, thanks for coming on. Morris Law's doing well, thank you. Greg, Todd, thanks for coming on. Thank you, I appreciate it. Okay, CUBE live coverage here, Red Hat Summit with Ansible Fest Folded. I'm John Furrier, Rob Stretcher. We'll be right back with our next segment after this short break.