In today's video I'm going to be opening up this massive tower of mail from you guys and also a piece of mail with packs for an epic battle against watch to find out what's up guys rocks and 34 back with another epic mail video you guys saw the intro we have a tower of mail you can't see it anymore because there's not enough room we're just gonna have to take it one at a time well let's get into this mail day it's gonna be pretty insane i also teased that we're gonna be announcing a pack battle with one of the most epic you youtubers you guys will know them but we're gonna save that for later in the video let's start with the mail so okay we don't want to show anybody's address so we're gonna rip this open like this we got this and we got okay here is a note from hey there ruckson obx you yo here first of all wanted to say your channel is amazing out of all the youtubers you have the most interesting and consistent content right after we take a day off yesterday yeah every week you have an opening that is a must see speaking of that tomorrow we're doing another 2003 10 i'm pushing it ahead so we'll talk a little bit more about that later our personal favorite team the legacy and champion pack openings legacy tomorrow watching your videos inspired me to start up my own channel obx you go check them out guys i want to provide the best content possible like yourself you do thanks thank you very much you think such as seeing what people like putting the time in for well-edited videos and giving back to your audience with giveaways you've also inspired me to start doing giveaways on my instagram obx you go go follow them over there in this package i've sent you the three legendary dragon dice for your next giveaway perfect perfect the three legacy dragon dice part of this giveaway like the video be subscribed let me know your favorite mail from this video also after seeing how lucky you've been with the genzos i'm included a very rare surprise for you for yourself to keep thank you for everything you do and i would deeply appreciate if you could give me a shout out there you go shout it out we read the whole thing okay what did he send us and i kind of have an idea based on this but i'm gonna cut it open first obx you go send us a genzo figure okay what is this from okay china all right yeah genzo okay let's check them out a mini genzo this is incredible this is gonna be great i'm gonna set i'm gonna set this back you guys are not gonna be able to see it but i'm gonna set it back here like after the video for now we're obviously gonna put it in the camera view but it's gonna be up here on my setup it's gonna be pretty cool so thanks for that awesome genzo character that's really cool makes you guys go check him out on youtube or on instagram and the giveaway the dice that he sent us all right next package is from at it's yahot boy wow it's yahot boy all right so if you guys want to check him out go ahead all right this is a very small bubble miller so i don't want to cut anything including myself he sent us oh yeah check this out okay this is some crazy sleep in here shinado king of the higher plane from a dark crisis reprint pack yeah that's pretty awesome he saw he saw me trying to when was it was he trying to pull one or something a dark crisis and he said he pulled one and decided he wanted to send it to me which is super cool by the way yeah i'm gonna trigger you some of you guys put this in a penny sleeve shinado king of the higher plane so thank you wait where's the name it's yahot boy yeah instagram check him out over there that's really awesome so that's pretty cool also we get a top loader next package all right here we go let's see what we got in here we oh my goodness we have oh wow this is gonna be cool we have card sleeves that's cool we have more card sleeves i guess he heard that i ran out of card sleeves he hooked us up even though i did buy 10 000 the other day but i will still use those they will definitely be used soon so that's pretty cool this is from nom's cards check him out okay is there a social media i mean let's see nom's cards i guess find us on facebook okay referrals help okay make sure you check out nom's cards on facebook there is more to what he sent oh here we go here's the note a little birdie told me he ran out of the penny sleeves yes i did i did run out oh that's the whole note it's the attic ctc so that's the whole note okay cool and he also sent not only did he send card sleeves but he sent us some booster packs rise of destiny first edition we've got duelist paki yuki the lost millennium flames of destruction first edition cool and order of chaos so we're about to have a little pack opening here guys this is going to be pretty exciting rise of destiny is cool i really needed a koichi i need some more to court he's only have one for my goat stuff so if we could pull that'd be crazy let's go and start off with the classic duelist pack you give this was first edition that'd be kind of crazy those are actually kind of hard to find now all right here we go let's see if we can pull a dark paladin buster blade black luster soldier let's try order of chaos wait did i oh flame destruction okay order of chaos there's three all right there's three of each pack it looks like so we have 15 booster packs this is gonna be a pretty cool opening right here thank thank you the attic or nom's cards whichever one you want to be called sweet corn earth armor over capacity and zector hornet there is a super rare zector hornet from orcs and yes we do have penny sleeves so we can sleeve it up we also have 500 more which is very awesome of him and send those in ton leap okay flames of destruction we could pull the impermanence we pulled an evenly match to the day so we can pull powerful trap cards we did it the other day let's continue it make sure you guys check out that video where we opened up all the mystery box contents that was pretty cool we had some great pulls let's see if we can do the impermanence nope wait i thought it was a guaranteed super oh i passed it wind up zen maintenance okay i was getting so excited and then i just uh you know passed it ooh what do we have left rises let's save rides of destiny for the end which is hilarious because that used to be such a bad set and now i'm like excited about it the lost millennium ultimate rares can be pulled also elemental heroes here we go heat of the fire charm wait didn't he to get isn't that getting a prismatic and the next main set i think it is clay man nice area of the water look at all the charmers cryo spanks okay and win we got triple charmer and one pack triple charmer and one elemental hero that's actually a really cool pack i'm gonna pull those aside actually sweet pack rise of destiny is next next next you can pull the koichi the battle enchanted locomotive i believe is the name ultimate rare or rare either one would be good i think the rare is worth like eight bucks or something which is really good sb and ish element magician oh i think we got some harby tending ground oh no we didn't it was darker still the necklace of command and buck whichy the frightening car not the koichi but buck whichy let's try doulos pack yuki can we pull some fire dark paladin polymerization the alt art this is one of the best cards in the set actually because people really like this art i mean it's super cool yes that is awesome that's a good pull wow this is fun i love when you guys send packs it's just it's just great i love everything you guys send by the way not just packs i'm just saying i really enjoy packs it's fun obviously my whole channel revolves around opening packs yeah but you knew that dark flat top xyz burst okay no foil let's make sure trance archfiend i remember i grinded uh bakura the on the gate or whatever to get the third copy of this for some deck i don't remember i literally played him for like three four months and i couldn't get it i finally did get it i think it was torture it was awful and i didn't have a ticket to like buy it or whatever it was so bad dual links was horrible sometimes watch cat oh network trap hole that's an ultra rare that trap card being a foil really i was like what no no no impermanence permanence is like 80 bucks first edition so that would be huge or maybe even more okay what do we have we have lost millennium next last time we pulled three charmers in one pack let's see what we can do here and there is already an elemental hero spark man rockman barbant picker whose second site deswambat hero signal it's another hero demigold lost guardian and ossa the earth charmer so we're getting all kinds of charmers and heroes in these packs very cool next pack rise of destiny can we get decoy can we get an ultimate a rare either one i will be happy i will be happy with either just do it homunculus there it is there's a attack on titan spell purification ultimate insect level three prusa kazakis and harby lady one and three and bakoichi again at the end okay five more packs here until we move on to the next mail item this might be a long video because we got a few more things to open big show garden a green gadget yellow gadget okay jack's night and marshmallow so no foils in that and the doulos pack you that's all right order of chaos here we go the chaos will ensue right now vine dragon oton crusher get a guard trivial into bloody pain but yeah i give up all right long name flames of destruction impermanence last time we had three packs of whatever that says circuit break the last pack had a powerful trap can the last pack here have a trick star rodo'd all right not in there that's okay finally two packs these are old packs 2006 when lost millennium came out i believe unless it was late 2005 i think it was 2006 could be wrong though might have been late 2005 now i'm thinking about it gift of the martyr all the little bit ding elm's or clay man okay final ritual the ancients hero signal again king of the skull servants it might be okay white ninja all right cool stuff rise of destiny last pack from nom's cards thanks for sending us those that's pretty awesome it's been fun it's been fun to open the packs because i wasn't expecting to oh here we go we've got a harpy girl wait is this oh this is the uncensored one this is the uncensored one that one might be worth like 50 cents instead of 10 cents cool raging flames fright ultimate insect level three man mean creating a corner okay so that was pretty cool we got some decent stuff out of there okay focus focus focus it's still not focused here we go all right we got some cool stuff out of there some some charmers that lost millennium packs had some nice stuff in it all right let's move on to the next mail all right let's go ahead and open this thing up we have this box all right we have a blank letter here what's up ruckson been a fan sub to oh my god i open this thing sub to your channel since this march around the time the crush card virus was in full effect yeah rough times i randomly found your channel by looking up vintage yugioh box openings where stumbled upon your shadows infinity hobby box opening yeah that video got really big when the lob video got really big because it was around that time and it and it got a lot of views ever since then i've been hooked i just wanted to show my appreciation and congratulate you on your progress twenty zero one slash k subs yeah i don't know what we're at we're almost at 24 000 this one which is insane we're about to have the 25k special already keep up the good work and don't sniff packs okay then we have what is this rush duel okay i've never opened a rush duel pack that's exciting oh yeah oh no mystery pack we have more arm again if we pull like a 10k out of this i'm gonna feel kind of bad almost i'm like nervous about this to be honest we're gonna start opening and then we're gonna open up his mystery here so first let's open the mystery the mystery pack see what it is oh we got something cool we got invasion of chaos here we go they can also come with a binary sorceress so there's that all right invasion of chaos we're gonna have to oops that was not in the blister all right we're gonna have to save that one for after the battle selection let's go and crack up in these blisters real quick i'll do this and then i'll skip all right we have the five battles of legend packs let's see if we're gonna pull something crazy i mean even if we pull like a chaos emperor dragon out of this it'd be pretty crazy it's only five packs oh it's on the front i'm used to the euro packs all right skull bone there's an o lion but uh yeah he got banned so rip so okay first pack all right we gotta remember to flip around that card in the back all right here we go let's see what we can get here get something crazy armored white bear all right all right i've seen a few armored white bears in my day by the way i open like 32 boxes of the set if you guys didn't know that if you're new to the channel we opened a lot of the set dark spell regeneration alonzo did you send us fire i kind of would feel bad if you sent us fire i would i would be happy i'm not gonna lie but i would be like oh my goodness skull king i thought we had a knight okay we got a new maraud wall that's not too bad it's a decent card all right final battles of legend we also have the invasion of chaos and the rush dual packs but i'm really excited about that rush dual pack here we go oh and jelly okay pretty good pretty good card i will take that alonzo hooking us up all right let's go invasion of chaos before we do rush dual i think rush dual is going to be pretty cool here we go special collapse lord poison oh man chop man the desperate outlaw come on give us something good berserk gorilla multiplication man it's angel lizard all right nothing other invasion chaos that's okay we have rush dual this will save us oh we have two rush dual packs two rush dual packs also we get to test our ability to open these ocg packs or is right it is ocg isn't it yeah yeah this is ocg this is not korean somebody told me yeah korean is has a loopy writing look like zeros are like oh isn't it like big circles yeah wow japanese does not that's how they told me to tell the difference it actually kind of works oh check these cards out these don't even look like you yo cards this is cool what in the world am i looking at oh look we got the heartbeat girl again that's crazy we pulled that earlier that looks like luke on hoff and we got a rare we got a uh what's this guy called the insect something parrot i can't remember all right first pack we got a rare next pack can we have luck i don't know what you can pull out of here can you pull blue eyes out of here that that sweet blue eyes the new one that would be pretty crazy pull that out of two packs we have a fish we have mystical is that mystical elf what happened to you mystical elf i don't know what that is that guy's on a thing wait do we get something here i don't think so i think it's just a rare okay cool well that's cool that's cool i don't know what the foils look like so i would be interested to see one but alonzo that was clutch all right finally let's get into his special cards what could they be i'm assuming they're special i mean they're in their own top order could they be powerful could they be legendary cards that is the question what could be inside put your guesses in the comments if you have a guess about what these cards are uh oh i see effect monster you know what i think when i see effect monster okay wait let's do it like this oh man the worst card in existence yellow dustin putrid putting body buddies creepy goni why do you torture me like this but that guy's like even creepier than creepy goni oh this is the trolliest thing i've ever seen updraft kunai with chain what is this what is this the legendary cards have been sent madolce chicolates oh this one's first edition pecano moss unlimited so i think the madolce chicolates might take the uh take the cake here let me know in the comments are you team pecano moth or team chicolates because obviously i'm chicolates i think but i think pecano moth needs its own song i don't know i might have to be brainstorming that because then it might pull it even with the chicolates we have a clutch song so thank you alonzo for these epic cards and the evil pack at the end with the creepy kony hash never want to see that again okay let's move on to the next thing all right this is extremely heavy what is this sell give away to viewers most unlimited hollows our original print hope you can sell most of it to buy more epic packs to open all of them non-played best regards eric congrats on 20k thank you open for fan mail okay this is fan mail we're in the right place everybody we're here we're on fan mail okay he sent us stuff to sell or give away and then he said sell it to make more money for packs so i don't really know if i'm supposed to sell it or give it away but we're gonna look we're gonna look and see let's see what eric sent us oh my goodness this is why this is so heavy eric sent us a tin of old school goodies wow talk about awesome okay eric hooked us up whoa whoa left on oh my goodness whoa this is a lot of stuff first edition bro did you really just send a blackluster soldier are you kidding me is that a reprint this might be a 2010 reprint i think it is a 2010 not not a 10 like the 10 he sent it in but oh my goodness we opened invasion chaos today and we also got a blackluster soldier in the mail wow blackluster soldier oh my goodness this is crazy this is not what i thought this was all right then let's let's keep going through all this good stuff oh magic cylinder secret rare dude eric this is like a lot of stuff this is like a lot of stuff like this is a crazy amount of stuff okay that is a lot of tp5 commons mrl invader of darkness that's a reprint secret rare that's cool phenomenon the beauty of poisonous snakes dude this card is awesome oh my wow this is like are you sure you want to give all this way eric you actually want me to get this stuff like this is like actually like worth a decent amount i mean that phenomenon like 50 60 70 bucks i think maybe even more cosmo darker clips i don't think i've ever seen that card looks like there's a bunch of cards in there spear creating that's some mrl cards it's cool crush card huh shonen jump he said it if i would literally pass out if there was a shonen jump crush card in here he's like yeah i used to play uh one tournament one time it's like what okay there's a bunch of commons in there that's cool wow got more commons tp5 oh cool a chaos emperor dragon that's a 20th anniversary pack oh tryhorn secret rare tryhorn from legendary flesh and yugi another tryhorn that's is it a reverse that's a reverse foil oh my goodness you gotta be kidding me i can actually freaking recognize reverse i used to what two rarest two rarest cards i have an idea of what these are gonna be i knew i knew it we got a play set plus one of the legendary pakenio moth english version you know it's not not quite the pakenio but it is petite so that's pretty cool we've got the legendary pakenio moth i knew i saw this two rarest cards what that was going to be okay we still have a lot of cards left to go through here oh my goodness a lure of darkness serpent knight dragon are you kidding me backup soldier magical hats honest that's cool oh that's a ferro servant euro i was like this car looks weird what's going on with this another euro gallant attack force okay cool there's some newer stuff we got zero the man here's some more commons you'll be nice as if there was a decoy chain here i do not have enough decoy jeez i'm just saying that you're not trying to say you guys should send me decoy jeez but i definitely only have one the only reason i have one is because it got returned to me i didn't have one before here he was zen rou i used to have so much trouble saying that pro okay prohibition is actually like a super valuable card like three dollars okay super valuable three dollars i know i know but it's worth something you know three bucks is a good amount wait is this euro two yeah that's a euro card so i don't know if that one would be as valuable here in the united states you toss it the zapper pretty cool pretty cool this might be a long video going through all this stuff genzo lord deep cd but that used to be worth a lot more until the reprint and ots 14 yeah this is gonna be a long video pot of zires nice card wow this is like it's like a collection purchase but the but y'all just send it to me eric just sent me this just for nothing he's like yeah i just go ahead and sell all of it or whatever i assume what do you mind if i kept the block while there's older i don't know he can let me know in the comments eric i'm allowed to uh allow me to keep that either way i appreciate it either i mean if i sell it you know that's very helpful to the channel obviously okay utopia oh dark hole gold that's actually cool i haven't seen that megamorph cool there's a lot of original stuff i remember him messaging me and saying he was gonna do this and i like kind of forgot about because you know a lot of people will say they're gonna send you something and it's like really epic and just kind of like eh will they you know and then once it gets there like okay some people it never gets there and then people like eric it gets there and you're like wow this dude was legit he sent some really cool stuff okay here's some more uh some more stuff some more comments actually those are superheroes oh we've got um top loaders here oh gosh you gotta be careful with the sound here oh first edition mrl cool seven tools of the bandit magic jammer creature swap dark necro fear oh that's cool pure order nice that's how that card's so powerful in dcr format oh an ultimate rare dark city thought ruler archery in the first edition of version of this is crazy fiber jar first ed mischief of the yokai that's pretty cool as well man this this is a loaded loaded that's by the way i haven't even announced the uh the battle that's coming up it's the that's the last thing after this oh my goodness and the final stack from eric hooked us up big time this is awesome wow okay wow infinite cards okay that's cool edition of faith cool saying again nice much mrd so that was awesome eric you're the man that was sweet that was so much stuff by the way if you decide you want those back just let me know because this was kind of a lot of cards and i you know if you still want them or something you have givers or more so you decide you want it back just let me know and i can send you these back but thanks again these are incredible dude they're incredible okay final item for this video i'm going to be opening up in a future video let's just let's just grab some of these rise of destiny we're gonna get that to koichi all my first edition legacy of darkness one two three three first edition legacy of darkness one two three four five unlimited then we have unlimited one two three four five oh come on it's stuck together six oh these are stuck together all we have to care for six seven eight nine ten tactical evolution packs that's one stack the other stack has ferro servant one two three four five unlimited one two three four five unlimited labyrinth of nightmare then we have one two three four five magic ruler and one two three four five pharaonic guardian an insane pack opening this is all going to be in one video by the way i believe november ninth we will be battling team samurai x1 with all of these packs he got the same packs i think so november ninth we're going to be opening up all these packs on my channel all of the same packs on his channel so make sure you guys get hyped for that it's going to be crazy i'm sure he's going to be sniffing some packs so it's going to be awesome i'm super excited about it i can't wait to do that video i think this opening is going to be extremely exciting so all these packs will be open yes you guys see all these packs crazy ferro servant rise of destiny you know all this stuff it's going to be good so i hope you guys enjoyed this video all the crazy viewer mail thanks to everyone who sent something this was awesome we got so much cool stuff so i appreciate all you guys watching and i'll see you guys tomorrow for another 2003 tin to be revealed i'm not going to tell you which one it's going to be but it's going to be awesome so thank you guys for watching see you guys later peace


Everything's great man, just came from the dentist and my teeth are they can be wider, but they're I don't have any cavities That's important thing and you know no mouth cancer yet. So good good news Good news. Good hygiene is good news, especially when you're on the road, you know You have a dentist, you know, you have tooth pains on the road.  I can't play my head is throbbing and he literally got into the Operating room or in the chair and they're about to do this extraction of a tooth And they The dentist came in and said, what are you doing? You can't no you can't take these guys to that. It's all infected but you could kill it he had to like We had I don't know what they did, but they they couldn't have pulled the tooth out there They were they almost antibiotics antibiotics Antibiotics were like a week and then by the time we go home from that tour Then you had to go in and see a real dentist and probably pay out the nose for it. So Anyway, yeah, keep your floss every day kids There you go. Um, all right big tour coming up in april with a gorgera, right? Going right through uh, north america two legs from what I remember Um, what's you've toured with these guys in the past. So what's what's the difference? Or what between the two bands that you've noticed like musically or even, you know on stage Um, well, yeah, we've been friends with gojiro the the gojiro's for a long long time Uh, joe jira. He's a good friend You know, I just think there's some camaraderie with those guys.  Please just ask me because i'm not I'm not like the french who oh, you're not seeing it right Like I will teach you whatever you want, man And we that's how we kind of bonded on the first tour and we've just always Had a really good time with those guys and now they they're like speak better english than I do Which is which is incredible But anyway, uh, no those guys the difference between, you know, they're a very mechanical band. They are very almost, dare I say industrial To a to a certain point, you know what I mean? um Meaning like compared to master now, I feel like we're a little more organic Three spirited type of band, you know, we definitely have our mechanical moments, but uh, I think we've both influenced each other's writing and playing and And just kind of like the things we do As as a band on tour and You know video wise and the actual Essence of the show and visual wise just looking at like what's going on.  I was like, this is very gojiro. It's very It's very robotic. It's very machine-like Very percussive and it's I was like, this is cool.  And he's like I I don't and I know that you pour all your money into the stage show and the flashbox The fire and you know the coordination of Of everything that's happening. So I know basically that they they pour their heart and soul into all that stuff Yeah, so it's a great package, right? It's a great package between you two guys on this tour Yeah, I feel like we're family. You know what I mean? I just feel like we're very we're brethren We're just like we're we're almost cut from the same cloth You know we're all I'm from a small town in upstate new york and it's just like they're from a small town in france and Now we're you know now we're out there touring the world together or touring, you know North america, hopefully the world. Hopefully we'll do smart touring with this package is great. I love it I do it all day long Your latest album. I can't even believe it's 2021 hushed and grim. Can you believe that 2021? It's 2023 now. Yeah 2023 now. All right. So okay, you have your double album. Whoops the other way around um How much of that? Is there pink floyd and like rush injected into it From from a from a musical riff guy You know, it's all peppered in there honestly You know the pink floyd I've always liked i've always loved, you know, uh classic rock. I mean i'm 52 this year. So I grew up on zeppelin the beetles Pink floyd king crimson, especially rush rush was definitely one of the early One of the bands that I could actually play some of their riffs when I first got a guitar at 15 years old So, you know 1986 I was like, uh, cool. What's this band rush all about and Alex lifeson was kind of like my first guitar hero. So this guy's really cool. I like his I couldn't play his solos But I'd like the songwriting, you know just the fact that they They didn't do stuff the same every single time if you listen to any of their songs It's like oh the here comes that here comes the chorus again. Are they gonna change instead of three? They do five or they do four and a half for something weird. Why'd they do that? Oh, I don't know just to be proggy. I guess I guess that's what it was. So Once in a while we like to uh throw something like that in the mix and just get a little I mean we're not masters of it like like rush are but All that like psychedelics, uh, you know We like we definitely did our share of lsd and hot and whatnot and in our days. So like We know what people going to a concert are trying to experience, you know, they're uh It might be on some drugs. They might be uh, just wanting to have a good time and hear some crazy weird keyboards and delays and uh guitar solos and Have some cool lights and video and we're always trying to make our show better as well You know, like I said, we kind of learned from gojira those guys You know that you expect to see something really wild when you go to one of our shows now it's like you know, this is uh Yeah, step it up. So have you met have you met the guys in rush? I've never met them. No, I never even got to see rush. That's the really wow. I'm very bummed about that Yeah, I never got to see them like every time they'd come through Atlanta We were on tour remember they came through here before obviously before neil died So god rush is coming.   That is in canada. Maybe yeah It's part of your heritage Yeah, you know Danny carries but he did a couple guest appearances with those guys and you know Speaking of rush, I you know a couple years ago. I did a I kind of orchestrated With the guys in the two minutes to late or two minutes to two minutes to late night.  Yeah, let's um Let's do that. Uh, and I was like, well, wait a minute. Who's gonna play the drums first of all And who's gonna play the bass because it's got to be like Really really good players and then I just automatically thought like Well, danny carry would be the bad Former I could imagine to play that I'm like, and I know danny I could call danny and then I was like, you know what less glaple would be my First pick at a bass player and I know less too. I don't know if he'll do it, but I'll just tell him danny's doing it until danny less is doing it and then we're gonna do it That's kind of how it worked out And man was that came out really really cool way better than I thought, you know I'm not really a solo guitar player, but I I pulled off a decent solo in that song. It felt like it was fun Cool. Cool. What have you learned the right way? Absolutely. Absolutely. I mean, they're a type of band if you don't do it the right way knives out, right? Um, yeah What have you learned? Okay, it's been 2019 since your last album Is this do you guys write on the road you think of stuff on the road for the next? I mean, it's been two years now. So I kind of would think things are percolating in the brain, right?  It just is always happening and You know, I'm always writing. I'm always I'm always, uh, you know 75 of my day. I'm usually playing guitar And I'm always writing stuff That's got lots of ideas Uh, we actually think we're trying to be ambitious enough to write a song before we leave for this next Gojira tour and have it come out at some point, you know during the tour before the tour in between the two legs who knows So All right Yeah Do you I mean I would think that now's the time you're going to start thinking about okay after the tour We're going to write a new album. I I is that sort of in In the works Absolutely.  We've just been Even even though we've had this time this downtime. I've still been busy doing other things, you know, life doesn't revolve around Mastodon for me. It's like Got two kids and a wife that I you know need to be there for and my two dogs There's a lot of stuff going on but You know I'm definitely eager and really ready to get started writing the next record and uh You know, I don't I don't there's no shortage of riffage or ideas or anything, you know, we're uh We still get a lot of creativity left in our band and as you know as for different individual guys and we're all 100 committed to our band so You know as soon as we get home from this touring cycle, which you know We'll uh probably write a few ideas on the road and you know I'm well I'm ready to show the guys some of the stuff I got and get a jump start So when we get home from the tour, it's like all right, we got We got some ideas and uh You know, I own a recording studio and that's where we did our last record. So It was it's real easy just to book some time there and and just go down and When we feel beat like being creative we can And uh, you know, it's it's just different now that we have our own Or our hands on our own studio, you know, instead of having to book time and then you're on a schedule and it's like You're always looking at the clock I feel like now we just we can be more creative and take our time Like we did with the last record When you toured with ghosts, which was a big, you know, it's a big deal, you know ghosts They're really big this right now, especially in the metal world Did you find maybe they're rubbing off on you in terms of more simplistic straightforward songs or Because bands influence influence each other like you said before like gorgias, you know, there's there's there's you know Every if you're hanging around with someone long enough, you're bound to be influenced in some way or another Do you think they may have rubbed off for the next album I don't know maybe Maybe You know, I mean watching them You know, it's it's they they're they're doing their thing and they do it really well And to me listening to when I listen to the music, I'm like wow, this is almost like pop metal it's like A lot of the stuff sounds like Things I've already heard in the past but done In done now And you know, it's a lot of it I mean, I'm not saying this as a disc but it does a little bit of it sounds like rehashed like other stuff, but Done done in their own way. It's it's very cool And it's uh Again, you know, I did I would watch them and see try to take notes of like, how can we become a bigger band? How can we What are they doing that we're not how can we be more engaged with the crowd, you know? They do different things backstage. They have different merchandise options they have a different pedigree for touring and You know, they want to be the biggest band in the world and they They're not afraid to tour Not eight months out of the year or whatever it is, you know, I I try to take all that stuff into consideration. I mean I'm only one of Four guys in in our business in our band, you know, so it's not like I make all the decisions, but I definitely Make notes of all these things and bring it up like hey, well, you know ghost does this and go jurid You know, I know what's one thing that you learned from ghosts that you said, you know what we should adopt that business wise or music wise or whatever the case is Stage maker, of course We got to start wearing some you know, we got to get a shtick here We maybe get like, you know some big stars and some cat whiskers and stuff like that I don't know.  What can we you know? What's the next level? There's always Stepping stones to get to the next level, you know, I I never want to Just be adamant with where we are and be like, yeah, this is it. This is this is as big as you can get It's like no, let's just keep on striving for the next tier and What would you like to go musically that you haven't gone in the past? Um, I covered a lot of ground you've covered a lot of ground. I mean I don't know. I mean, we've talked about doing like a punk rock album where it's like much quicker faster straight to the you know Just straight to the punch kind of really fast Faster music and and I don't know we've talked about doing that. We've talked about rock operas. We've talked about soundscapes There's still a lot of stuff that we have to explore and there's a lot of places in the planet We haven't been to yet either, you know, and there's a lot a lot, you know We're not thrown into towel by any means we got a lot of stuff on the horizon and things that we need to check off the list So All right. Here's the last question What did the metallica tour the death magnetic tour mean for mastodon back in the day? I think it was like 2009 Oh man That's kind of when I thought like wow, we've really made it We've we've we're touring with metallica who are like, you know we're my idols as a 16 17 year Old kid learning to play guitar buying it a white explorer And changing my whole sound, you know, just to be like wow, I want to be like this band These guys are great. They look like normal dudes.  Not really much of a sound check Uh, I don't think we had a proper monitor person on that tour or we had fired somebody or somebody felt through and I think we were just trying out in-ear monitors and we're we're in the round The big circular stage which we had no idea what to do.  It's the big round stage. We're used to facing one way And every night before the uh, every night we'd get out there on the stage We weren't we didn't know which where people were going to sit So we did we set up facing one direction And just hope that everybody sat in front of us to watch us So it was uh, there's a lot of learning curves thrown at us for that tour You know, I mean, we're much more equipped nowadays to go back out on tour with metallica. So that would be cool Yeah, you know, you don't really think of these things on a being on a round sort of Stage, right? Like where are you gonna look? Where are you gonna look at? I mean, and how do you run around?  I have to sing right here I there's only one, you know So I'm running around in circles like an idiot and Brent's running the other way And we probably ran into each other once or twice on the other side, but We just uh, we just did the best we could and just tried to have a good time Which which was great I was it I was in heaven because I'm like, hey, or we're all over south america with My favorite band of the world Metallica. So this is just killing. I'm not complaining at all. Whatever we got We play half an hour and we're done Yeah, yeah, here's the last question actually. How do you guys keep it together? Like there's so many bands. There's so much drama there's What's the secret to keeping the band together all these years, you know intact And and from the outside it looks like you guys get along musically and personally Uh What's the secret sauce a lot of bands, you know, I interview bands all the time and I got to tell you the drama You know this guy's suing that guy and Rick, you know Well, we've been really fortunate. I mean when we first started this band it was my idea because We started the band and then we had to get like lawyers and You know create an LLC create a business and my owner the lawyer asking me like What shared goes to everybody like how do you how are you gonna split up all your profits in this business? Because now it's become a business because the band was big enough where you have to have an entity have to have a name You have to have an ID number all this crap and I said I said, you know divide everything equally because if even if Brent was writing all the songs even if I were writing all the songs or brawn was writing all the songs or Troy was writing all the songs. It's different almost every album. There's different people are doing different things and it to me it was like In the early days, Troy didn't write a lot of the Songs but he did other things, you know what I mean like he everybody always takes it down to like Well, this this guy writes all the music So like like for instance like weezer or something like that's usually Probably 99 rivers Cuomo like it's his smashing pumpkins bashing pumpkins. Like I didn't want to be a band like that because once Once he starts saying well if I write more songs I get more money Then the band starts turning this evil direction that I don't I didn't want to see that coming I didn't want to fight about that kind of stuff.  It's just we don't it's not an ego thing you have to keep the egos out of it because You know once you get to that point where you you know, well, you're gonna get paid more if you write and you sing Okay, well, I'm gonna write more and sing and then then it's you're just writing and singing for the sake of the money And it's not about the money, you know, I'm not in a band to make money. I mean the money When I started the band I was like, this is just fun. We weren't we didn't make any money for the first Six seven years, you know, I was like I just enjoy jumping in a van and playing loud guitar In all these little clubs and bars all over the country. This is really fun. I get to travel and do all the neat stuff and You know the thing is money always complicates everything So when the band starts getting bigger and there's bonuses, you know, like signing bonus or whatever and everything's You know split evenly between everyone and I think that's a big part of it Uh, we've kept the same four guys and you know, we're not without our drama and our problems but we try to keep that stuff like to ourselves, you know, it's more personal and uh It's not really for public consumption like that. I don't want to be Looked at like that, you know, I mean I we're we're just four normal guys that uh You know write music together and tour and hopefully we can just Keep that image, you know, we we do get along and we haven't we're all we all have the eye on the prize Which is doing what we love for a living and being able to maintain that All right on that note well said um The last their latest album hushed and grim you could still pick it up. It's out there Waiting for the next album and of course the tour starts in portland in april 18th in the us And rolling into canada as well on a second leg. I believe Yeah, all the way to september. Jeez. That's a that's that's extensive Well, congratulations. Yeah, it's really only three and a half weeks each to each leg. So it's not that much but I would prefer While it's going april may and then yes, you're right Then there's a break and then it starts into august again to september Yeah, but it's gonna be awesome. I'm really looking forward to it And I wish we had more days in canada, but uh, we'll take what we can and it's great talking to you Thanks for the interview


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Yn iawn y dyanbwyodol fydd yn meddwl sy'r Department Ofon ddylai ar gyf Sailor, sydd y bydd ei cherdyn ymar ychydig yw ei schoeth ei guriad drwy'r newydd. Fy gydodd y peddwl llo i'n dwi'n meddwl eisiau soio schoeddawkol dimol chi i ei transyglo buddurau. is doing in this case, is actually modelling the language acting as a model. For our final example, whilst an activity is going on, the teacher may write a note to himself, Joan Lecker up to number nine in this particular activity. So what the teacher is doing at this point in time is to act as a monitor for the class. So assessor, prompter, participant, tutor, facilitator, model and monitor are some of the roles that the teacher will play. Which role that you have at any particular time in a lesson just depends entirely what is going on. So moving on from teachers to learners, we need to bear in mind that our learners will bring different things to the classroom in terms of their experience, in terms of their motivation to actually be there and in terms of their behaviour once they're actually there. So we're going to draw out a table of those different factors depending upon the student's age. We're going to split up our age groups into firstly what we'll call the young learners section and secondly the adults. Within the section of young learners we need to break those down further into some subgroups depending upon their age. So whilst different people may have different classifications for what they consider to be young learners, we'll take it anywhere between the ages of two and eighteen and we'll split them down into those subsections. Two to seven years and eight to thirteen years and then finally fourteen to eighteen years. Within each of those age groups then what are the different motivations that these students bring to the classroom? What different experiences do they bring to the classroom and what types of behavioural differences are there? We'll try to give two examples for each of these. If we run through the two to seven years for each of those three factors thinking about motivation, well in terms of motivation the two to seven year olds, one of the main motivators for them while at school is to actually please their teachers. The other motivating factor that they bring with them and that particularly young age is the fact that they are keen. What experiences do they bring? Limited in terms of life experiences and indeed at this very young age they may not even have mastered their own native language. Take that native language we call that L1, the language of their learning L2. What types of behavioural conditions do they bring to the classroom? Well obviously at that very young age they have a short attention span but they do have a great sense of fun and they do like to play. Let's run through now for the eight to thirteen year olds and what type of motivations do they bring to the classroom. At this particular age friends are becoming more important and this brings with it some positive and negative factors. Another thing about this particular age group is they can become self-absorbed. It's not unusual to see a five year old playing with a toy for hour after hour on an end without thinking about anything else. Moving on to their experiences that they've had, obviously they will have gained some knowledge by the age of thirteen of their own native language. In fact they'll be pretty along the way to everything they're ever going to know about it. Quite possibly they will have some second language knowledge through their teaching. What sort of behaviours do they have? Well between the ages of thirteen in general they tend to be receptive to their teaching. They tend to be a little less worried about making mistakes in their language learning at this age. Moving on to the fourteen to eighteen year olds, so the adolescents, their motivating factors tend to move away from themselves and more to their peers. So peer pressure tends to become a bit of an issue and also we have the fact that they have to be there. Quite often at this age they don't have any choice about actually being there and that can create its own problems. Here they will have a good knowledge of L1 and most likely they'll already had some learning of some form or other in L2. What about their behaviours? Well this can be a very difficult time for teenagers. They tend to be self-conscious first of all and unlike these students at the younger age they tend to be less likely to take risks in front of their peers for fear of ashamed themselves. Then moving on to the adults, obviously in terms of motivation with an adult class they don't always have to be there. They've often made the choice to be there although this is not always the case and secondly quite often this decision to actually be there is an economic one. In other words by learning English they can greatly increase the income that they can produce. More often than not obviously they will bring a lot of experience to the classroom and they'll probably have had quite a lot of language learning experience. In terms of their behaviour because of their previous experiences they will either have had positive or negative previous experience. In other words they may have certain behaviours that they're expecting to occur in these particular classes and secondly because they have been through lots of language learning before they will come with certain fixed expectations. One final consideration for the categorisation of your language learners is actually their language level so what language level are the students at? Assuming that your class is not a mixed ability class and more about that later then your students will have had some form of level test to put them into one type of category and typically there are five different levels of grouping some common names that are given to these particular levels level one the most basic level is called the starter group. Moving on from that elementary the next level will be on that level three the pre-intermediates and then on to full the intermediates and the top level the upper intermediates. What we can put here is some general characteristics of those learners. Within the starter level there are actually two categories and whether they be true starters whether they have no experience at all if you can think of a language that you have absolutely no experience in and can't say a single word of then you are a starter in that particular class. There's another category within this one though which we call the false beginner and the false beginner has actually had some exposure to the language being through tv radio perhaps they've met tourists in a particular destination or so on and so forth or indeed perhaps they've been taught this language a long time ago and have not used it for a long time but they're still in the starter level. The next level up in the elementary they will have a basic knowledge of things like subjects and verbs and a fairly limited vocabulary that will allow them to talk about a limited range of subjects. Moving on to the next level at the pre-intermediate they should be able to discuss a number of topics but within those discussions they will still make some basic errors in both language and vocabulary. Moving on to the level four or the intermediate students they should be able to discuss a large range of topics but there will still be some issues in terms of both their fluency and their accuracy and finally into the upper intermediate they should be able to discuss virtually anything that you can come up with and they should have a fair deal of fluency although there still will be some problems with accuracy.


Live from San Francisco, it's theCUBE. Covering Google Cloud Next 2018. Brought to you by Google Cloud and its ecosystem partners. Hey, welcome back everyone. It's theCUBE live in San Francisco. Live coverage of Google's annual conference for Google Cloud called Next 2018. I'm John Furrier, the host of theCUBE. I'm here with Susie Wee, CUBE alumni vice president and CTO at Cisco DevNet. And among other things, a lot of great stuff you're working on, welcome back. Thank you, nice to be here. So we've just interviewed you at Cisco Live in Orlando and before that other shows, you're known for being the, kind of the inspiration behind DevNet's developer program which has now gone into a whole nother solar system in terms of capabilities, results, performance with Cisco as well as DevNet Create, which is, you've been passionate about, which is the cloud native part of Cisco. Yes. It's been good visionary part on you, but now it's reality. This is the exciting story, I think that's important here that I'd love to get your take on.  Absolutely. What's the important story for Cisco here? What's your take? It's fantastic. So basically we've been building out for Cisco, kind of the developer community and the fact that Cisco's been building out a programmable infrastructure and why would you make your infrastructure programmable? Well, you want to actually allow the whole world of cloud applications, hybrid cloud applications, bringing cloud native back into the enterprise, taking private cloud, public cloud, bringing it all together. And it's really fantastic for us to be here together with Google to really show how we're partnering with Google cloud technologies, Cisco's cloud technologies to bring public cloud, private cloud, hybrid cloud, make all of that a reality. You know, I look at Cisco and I love the company. I've been one of those things where, you know, as an internet native myself, going back when I was in my 20s and early 30s with the information super highway that became the web, the internet, et cetera, Cisco's had a great run, really made a critical part of the infrastructure, bought a bunch of companies, been part of the internet revolution, and then, you know, the network's been so important. And then incomes, web 2.0 and cloud, and now you see application and DevOps really taking center stage with the cloud. So it felt like Cisco was like, where are we and we're still important and what's happened is the power of the network is now moving up the stack, where application developers are going to be taking an image of all the goodness of networking, but more importantly, network assets are now more important than ever. With this DO shipping 1.0 and with Kubernetes being doubled down on by Google, service oriented architectures are state of the art now. More important than network. Explain why the network value is so more important now in context of this new abstraction layer around Istio and Kubernetes. Well, we had this whole world of cloud, cloud development, and it seemed like it was so exciting and that's where all the innovation was and all the excitement was and all the money was, but what happens is now we've gotten a lot out of that and the next kind of chapter of innovation comes from how you have your cloud opportunities for public cloud, but how do you bring that back and use private cloud? How do you use enterprise data, enterprise applications? How do you bring it to the edge and have IoT and digitized infrastructures? So cloud applications don't have to only be cloud, but they can actually come back and touch a physical infrastructure. And when you really want to make that work well, the network matters. So you actually want to use the network to provide security. You want to use the network to have policies that bring things together, but then you say, how do I take those cloud applications and make them work well with all of the things that the network infrastructure needs to do? And then tools like Istio becomes important because you have Istio, you have a service mesh. It's not like you want all the app and cloud developers to really worry about what's going on underneath there, but by kind of providing these layers and the technology stacks from the infrastructure side, from the network side, and bringing them up to the app and cloud developers, we're just getting this really exciting time in the industry where it's all coming together. And it's also very fast paced. And I think Diane Greene was just on the cube earlier talking about the speed of pace and scale that they're experiencing. And I love the theory of this conversation, but the best part about covering tech and being part of the industry is when it actually happens, it's not just talk, it's reality. And I think you're starting to see proof points starting to come into visibility. And today on stage, they gave a demo where they were running multi-cloud on the cloud and on premise note. Okay, so I got a note on the network. It wasn't like anything other than it was like magic. Wait a minute, that's just one interface. So you're starting to see this notion of abstraction layer that makes it very easy for the buyer or the person deploying technology to use it. This is under the covers, a lot of magic's happening. There is, there is a lot on there. What's going on under there? Well, basically, so when you're in a cloud environment, we have all this excitement with Kubernetes. I can write apps with containers and everything like that. And then the question is, how do you bring that on premise, right? And so when you're dealing with an on premise infrastructure, you have private cloud, you have data that needs to stay in a private cloud, or you have kind of data sovereignty issues and you have data that needs to stay within a country and not go elsewhere. How do you use the cloud services and safe in this way? And so what happens is now you can have this on-prem infrastructure that understands containers, that understands cloud native and still pull from the best public cloud services. And we have Cisco Container Platform, what cloud container platform, which will actually help us to run Kubernetes containers and then provide the coupling with Istio, with the service mesh to make all of this work. So what happens is you're just kind of spreading your infrastructure to be able to work on-prem, as well as in the cloud, and making all that work together. And it should be kind of seamless to a developer who doesn't need to know about the infrastructure, but it need to do all of the security, set all of the policies, all the networking to get the performance you need and everything. So Lynn, who I interviewed earlier, and she's a product manager in Istio, she has all the APIs in the service management side of it. She had a great analogy. She's like, hey, you know what? I mean, I brought up the horse and buggy days in car. And she took the car analogy one step forward. First of all, horse and buggy, that's like the old world, you know, old IT. Horse, buggy, which carriages too. Now we're living in cars. Now they see in power windows. But she's like, I want to drive the car. I just want to get to my destination in a very easy, elegant way. But also, I'm a mechanic. I need to have an ease of, I need to service the engine of the car. So this is kind of what's interesting about the operator side of the business and networking in particular. You want to have an easy to service the engines and the services, but at the same time, the target audience that just wants to do something needs to do it fast and simply. Yes, and kind of like we look at that as there's the world of kind of application developers, but then the world of infrastructure developers and they each need to do their thing to make this all work together. But you don't want too much coupling. You want just the right amount of coupling. So the abstraction layers are coming out just right. And so what Jennifer, what Diane, really what we're all bringing together with Cisco and Google is to create those right abstractions to take the best of public cloud, the best of on-prem private cloud and make those work. Yeah, I want to get your thoughts on something that I thought would be a big story here at the show. It turned out it wasn't a little bit. Maybe it was earlier. I was off a little bit, but I still see something developing. I want to get your thoughts on. In DevOps, the developer, obviously we know what the role they play with Agile, all those great things. Goodbye, waterfall development. Hello, Agile. On the internal side of operations, the operators of networks and operators of infrastructure is a whole persona that's still important. So the world of operators and developers are now are coming together in a confluence of tech bridging it. So you see this world where obviously we need application developers from, I just want to code abstract away the complexities of infrastructure and network. Creative, I'm doing some things to, I'm an operator, I need five nines, I need bulletproof security. So you have two personas that are super important, not mutually exclusive. Yes.  There are. Deploying, what's your thoughts? There are. Well, I think that's why this partnership is fantastic because as we know, like on the Cisco side, all those IT professionals, right, who are running those mission critical infrastructures and everything, they are our customers. They are learning the newest technologies, they're running these- They're operating things. Mission critical, high-skill, high reliability. Yeah, they're operating things. And so, and they need to adopt and provide the infrastructure that's carrying the containers, that's carrying the newest cloud apps that's coupling into the public cloud. So they need to do their job right and learn these new technologies become, you know, kind of facile with it so that the app developers and cloud developers can come in and make this stuff work. And, you know, there's this kind of concept of self-service ops, right? So self-service ops where they are still using the programmable infrastructure. They have things ready to go. The developers can come in and get the right kind of developer and cloud environments that they want with the right policies, configurations, performance going. And I think that's really key for how these audiences come in and work together. They each have their domains of expertise that they work in and they understand what the other side is like. It's not a lot of conflict either. I think DevOps has kind of leveled the playing field that there's really no real conflict. It's symbionic and it's together. Yeah, and I think the key is that the infrastructure has become programmable. So if it was kind of the old infrastructure where we had to manually configure stuff, you know, kind of get things in order, it, that infrastructure would not have been able to handle what you want to do with cloud, hybrid cloud applications and everything there. But now that that has become programmable, you know, with our networking portfolio becoming programmable, all of a sudden these two worlds can interact more seamlessly and they have the tools to help each other more. So I think that's why we're in this new chapter. And there's some great open-source projects going on, obviously. Istio, you got Kubeflow. We talked about NetFlow earlier with about StealthWatch, a really compelling, you know, indication of where the world's going. Yes, and that's, I think that's where, you know, by taking innovations at all layers, then what you can do is like help an app developer get security down from the network infrastructure, make sure that the network and compute infrastructure is providing the services, as well as kind of the agileness that the app developers need. You know, we talked on camera and also off camera at Cisco Live in Orlando, Suzy. And, you know, I saw Chuck Robbins on stage and saw Diane Green come out. I'm like, hmm, something's going on there, guys. I need to, you know, you kind of kept things on the down low. But you guys have had a relationship with Cisco. You guys have been co-developing and today the partnership of Google and Cisco, where you guys are GCP Google Cloud Platform certified with this new cloud service. You essentially have a co-developed product. We do. And Google's got Google on Google stuff going on, but there's Google Cisco also leading over into the Google side. So this is really interesting nested relationship with Google that you guys have. Yes, we do. That's going to bring benefits to both Cisco and Google. Absolutely. I think what's interesting is you take kind of Google's cloud business and just their whole frame of thinking around what they enable cloud developers to do and all of the services that they can build out. And then you take kind of Cisco's understanding of the on-prem environments, of the private cloud, what enterprises need, and you start to bring those perspectives together. Then you have really interesting offerings that come out. So then they kind of come in from the Google cloud technologies with the Cisco cloud technologies bringing them together. And then we also have something that we're announcing here, which is the Cisco and Google cloud challenge. And so what we're doing is we actually just opened this up yesterday where what we're doing is inviting people to write hybrid cloud applications and to write hybrid cloud solutions using the Cisco and Google technologies together. And so that's something that we just opened up. So just to give a commercial to that, Cisco and Google cloud challenge, two clouds, infinite possibilities. The URL is developer.sysco.com slash Google challenge. And this is something that your team is putting on, Google proper, what's- We're doing it together. So it's Cisco DevNet together with Google technology partners. And we've gotten together to basically create the challenge. And what we're doing is inviting the world to kind of invite in and develop hybrid cloud solutions using our new technologies. We're really excited to see what the community develops and what they submit. We're going to have industry experts be the judges of the solutions. And then we're going to announce 10 finalists at KubeCon in December. And then the two winners at Cisco Live Europe in January.  You have a lot of demos at DevNet at your events. This is a little, it's got like an eSports vibe to it. We can televising these soon, like these hackathons, like team A winning, you know. What we know is like we're creating together with Google, but as well as we're creating just a sandbox of like cool tools, right? To enable this entire new world of hybrid cloud applications. And we want to see what people create. They're going to create things that we can't even think about. Well, Sue, you know what I love about you and I love about your team and what you're doing at Cisco and Pioneering is that. And you know, it's obviously our ethos as well. It's an open source ethos. Co-creation is a beautiful thing because it's not so much you're jamming Cisco down people's throats. You're creating a collaborative open environment where co-creation, collaboration. This is the future of work. This is what's going on. This is a really. And we've been together on this mission, right? So both the mission for cloud native, for kind of applications meeting infrastructure, the changing boundaries. Like we've been on this together for the last few years. It's like we're surfing the wave together. What's the wave look like to you? I'm asking, we were sitting here hanging 10 on our tech surfboards. You got tons of open source coming on. Exactly. You have partnerships that are open, but yet got some guardrails with people that do business and some commercialization, which is fine. It's like an upstream project. There's a lot going on. Istio really to me is just, I'm blown away by how fast that evolved. I mean, Luke Tucker and I have had many conversations with Istio, he's hardcore on it. Google stepped up big time. Definitely, definitely. And it's going to be in like, you know, as we had Cisco and Google step up to create these technologies because we had the vision of them coming together. And now the technologies are real enough that we can invite people to innovate on top of it. And so as we, you know, kind of embrace the open source tools, as well as, you know, the hardened tools that are in these different areas, just bring these all together, then it'll be interesting what the community develops. And what, when we bring together the DevNet community together with the Google developer community, like before I thought they were kind of like separate. Would they talk to each other? But what we saw it create is they're mixing well and just they see more possibilities when they start to work together. It's kind of like a sports team or whatever metaphor you want to use. You have, they're not really a lot of conflict because you have, again, operate operators and developers. They, the other guy doesn't want to do it. The other guy or gal. Exactly, exactly. And they need what the other does. So it's actually quite symbiotic. And again, programmable is the key because you say, who's problem is it? Oh, it's their problem. Finger pointing, we've seen that in the enterprise where people buy IT. Finger pointing, who's going to support it? Here in a collaborative environment, the developers are happy to pass on the engine building to the engine builders and the engine builders don't want to write the apps. I think it's that whole apps meet infrastructure thing. And now that it's programmable, they can like count on each other more and do, you know, have the other take care of what they don't want and provide value. It's great to have the reality comes. It's great to have you on the queue. I'll ask you one final question, the spirit of co-creation. You know, Diane Greene said on the keynote, this is an amazing time. She went on and some great anecdotes about, you know, Soundbyte's number one pain point in security, number one opportunities AI, all that great stuff. But I think I want to ask you that she said, this is an opportunity for people to re-engineer their business.  If you were in charge of re-engineering a business, knowing what you know, cloud native, and maybe I got some legacy stuff behind it, how would you go out and how would you be that change and how would you architect the engineering of a business today, knowing what you know?  If you were starting a net new service, you know, a net new cloud service, you had a set of things that you could do. But now you can actually bring those together and kind of think unbounded, like how could I take the best cloud services, how can I still respect the privacy of data, customer data, different service, and bring all of this together, is you don't have to restrict yourself to that. So now you can actually think about new business models that involve the ecosystem. You have to be very aware of the ecosystem. Don't try to do it all yourself, but how do you bring in the ecosystem for the right parts? Get your business model going and really use all these technologies underneath. So it's really a great time to really be able to disrupt your own business with the new possibilities. A services-centric user view, user view. Absolutely. It's interesting and now doable. And you don't have to stay pure cloud. You can actually still touch to the physical environment. You can work with enterprise applications and use what's in the cloud, use the newest artificial intelligence, everything there. It's limitless. Susie, thanks for coming on. Great to see you. Congratulations again on all your success. Cisco's, I think it's a great partnership. Obviously operators and developers working together. DevNet's been a great smash in success. DevNet create for cloud native. Cisco operating the networks, bringing that magic, making it programmable and enabling more sets of services and abstractions. This is changing the business models. We're seeing it in real time. This is theCUBE bringing you all the action in real time live from Moscone in San Francisco. I'm John Furrier. 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Who exactly is the angel of the Lord? Well, it should come as no surprise to many that he is God. When you look throughout scriptures, you're gonna see this term, this person, the angel of the Lord mentioned. As a matter of fact, if we look through the scriptures, if we start off in Genesis 16, seven, it's the first time that we see this term, the angel of the Lord mentioned. If we scroll through, we'll see the term, the angel of the Lord mentioned also in Genesis 22. We'll see in Genesis 22 again, in Exodus 32, in Exodus three, in Numbers 22. Throughout the Old Testament, we'll see this term, this person mentioned, the angel of the Lord. Now, who is the angel of the Lord? Now, if we look in these passages that I scrolled through, you'll see in Genesis 16, this is the encounter with Hagar, we'll cover that just a little bit. Also, you'll see the encounter with Moses. You'll see this encounter with Abraham. You'll see the angel of the Lord even encounter Blam. And what's interesting about the angel of the Lord in these encounters is he's always called God. I mentioned Genesis 16, so let's go there and let's see this in an interaction with Hagar. In Genesis 16, seven says, Now the angel of the Lord found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, by the spring on the way to Sherr. And he said, Hagar, Sarai's made, where have you come from and where are you going? And she said, I'm clean the presence of my mistress. Then the angel of the Lord said to her, return to your mistress and submit yourself to her authority. Moreover, the angel of the Lord said to her, and notice this phrase that he says, he says, I will greatly multiply your descendants so that they will be too many to count. Well, that seems interesting if that were just an angel, but no, this is not any angel. This is a messenger who happens to be God himself. We're gonna see this in a little bit, but he says that I will multiply it. That's something that only God could do or wouldn't even say.  Now, does he say so because he's saying that he is the Lord and he has heard your affliction? Well, I think that's the case, let's continue reading. In verse 13, then she says, she called the name of the Lord who spoke with her. Now, interestingly enough about this, it says that she calls and then the name of the Lord, she didn't say the name of the Lord, the person who's telling us a story. Well, who's telling us a story? Moses is telling us a story of Hagar. And so Moses writes in that she calls the name of the Lord. Well, how does she know? How does Moses know since he wasn't there that this is the Lord? Because God is the one telling him the story. God is giving him the story. Moses recounting or writing the story down for us. And the reason why I make this point about the Lord, you'll see exactly who the Lord is. But before we get there, let's finish reading and see what Hagar says. She calls the name of the Lord who spoke to her.  Have I even remained alive after seeing him?  Not saying any old God, but a God, meaning the God and you see and hear and are attentive to my pain and my plight and my afflictions, as he says. So she herself calls him God. In the case of her, she believes that he's God. Again, why is that important? She could be wrong, someone might say, but no, this is not her giving the story. This is Moses writing the story down. Do we now no longer trust Moses' account? And by the way, who's telling Moses this story? God is telling the story. Also, before we go to this issue of the Lord, you'll also see this term in the Bible just like the Angel of the Lord. You'll see the Angel of God. In Genesis 21, 17 is the first time we see the term, Bank of God. And notice who he's speaking to. The Angel of God had called Hagar from heaven and said to her, what is the matter with you? So we see this term, we see it in Genesis 31, Exodus 14, Judges and so forth. So we see this term throughout the scriptures. And the reason why I bring this up here is because the Angel of the Lord who was speaking to Hagar is also referred to the Angel of God who was also speaking to Hagar. Now, I also mentioned about how Moses calls him the Lord. So before we go any further, let's also see who is the Lord. In Deuteronomy 435, he says, to you it was shown that you might know that the Lord he is God, there is no other beside him. So clearly Moses is trying to tell us that in Deuteronomy that the Lord is God and there is no other beside him, no other Lord, no other God. He also reiterates this is a few verses later in verse 39. He says, no therefore today and take it to your heart that the Lord he is God in heaven above and on the earth below, there is no other. So it should be clear abundantly clear, the Lord is God. That part is clear just by the plain reading. And then we also have seen the find that seems though that the Angel of the Lord also is God. How we can make this even and clear is if we go to Exodus three, we see Moses, you know the story when he encounters the burning bush and let's see some of the names that are brought up here. In Exodus three says, now Moses was pasturing the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian and he led the flock to the west, west of the wilderness and came to Orib, the mountain of God. The angel of the Lord appeared to him in a blazing fire from the midst of a bush. So here we see the angel of the Lord showing up and the angel of the Lord is who the Bible says that in this case, Moses was there. And so he didn't need him to tell him the story. He's writing, recounting the story. And he says, this is the angel of the Lord that appeared in the midst of the burning bush. So we understand who's in the middle of the burning bush, the angel of the Lord. Now, if we go down to verse three, he says that Moses said, I must turn aside now and see this marvelous sight, why this bush is not burned up. Now, when the Lord saw that he had turned aside to look, God called to him from the midst of the bush and said, Moses, Moses, and he said, here I am. So now, remember, it originally said that the angel of the Lord was in the midst of the bush. Now it's saying the Lord called to him from the midst of the bush, God called to him. And so we see who is in the midst of the bush. Well, Moses says it's the angel of the Lord. He says it's also God. He says it's also the Lord.  No, there's one person there who was identified as God, who was identified as the Lord, who was identified as the angel of the Lord. Well, the Lord is not a big issue since we already know that the Lord is God, according to Moses. And also the angel of the Lord is God, according to Hagar, according to Gideon, according to Abraham, according to Balaam, according to Jacob. So this angel of the Lord is also God. That part should be understood. Now, why is that important? The angel of the Lord is God. The Lord is God. Well, it's very important and vital to our salvation. Why is that? Well, if we go to Romans chapter 10, starting in verse nine, we see what is necessary for salvation.  And this is not a confession that he is a Lord, but the Lord. How do I know? Well, let's keep reading. Going to verse 11, he says, for the scripture says whoever believes in him, that Jesus will not be disappointed for there is no distinction between Jew and Greek for the same Lord is Lord of all, abounding in riches for all who call upon him for whoever calls upon the name of the Lord will be saved. So it's definite that this is the Lord. Jesus is the Lord, but he's also the angel of the Lord. The Lord is God. Jesus is the Lord. The angel of the Lord is also God. So who is the angel of the Lord? That's none other than Jesus, the pre and current Christ in the Old Testament, who also is God. So my friends, I hope this has been helpful for you. Hope this gives a little bit of clarification understanding who the angel of the Lord is. Every time that he is interacted with mankind, this is God coming in a veiled form, hit the pre and current Christ to interact with man. And this is why they make the statement that they have literally seen God. Amen.


People in their 70s and 80s are often so quick to reveal their biggest regrets. They tell these things with the hope that the younger generation will avoid them. However, everyone makes a mistake and we will all have our story to share someday. Except, you only want to exist. In this video, I will share with you the 19 most common regrets people have in their 70s. 1. Not traveling enough After interviewing several old people, Carr Plymer, a gerontologist at Cornell University asserted that when your traveling days are done, you'll still wish you had taken just one more trip. Most times, people often put off taking vacations until after retirement. However, it turns out that during that period of their life is when they find their health failing. So, they cannot journey anymore. The few ones who had the chance to travel a bit still regret not going to all the countries of the world. 2. Not paying attention to your children Many parents try to meet up with the financial commitments of their kids that they overlook physical presence and emotional connection. They are always so busy that they barely have time to spare. Even when some parents attend their child's game or price-giving ceremony, they are usually so distracted with phone calls that they fail to share in those big moments that matter to their kids. 3. Not having a legacy We cannot know or be sure of the things we'll say when we die. But living your life without living behind a legacy is one thing most people will regret. Be it your kids themselves or leaving the business for your children to carry on, it is great to live behind a legacy. 4. Letting go of friends It is quite the hassle to keep up with friends or find the time to socialize in between going to work, spending time with family and getting enough rest. Also, it's no surprise that with ageing comes less socializing. But you should put in your best to keep individual relationships alive because friends are vital parts of our lives turn celebrations and when you are down. And at old age, there's regret when you look around and find that you have none. 5. Dropping out of school Although going to school doesn't interest most as it has to do with work and taking exams, personality and social psychology bulletin once reported that education was the number one regret among older people. It is a regret most live with as they miss most opportunities in life due to the lack of educational certification. 6. Not telling the ones you love how you feel If you want to live a life free of regrets, never miss the opportunity to tell people how much you love them. Be it a friend, a romantic partner, your children or other family members. Your inability to tell people how much they mean to you is something most people regret in their 70s. 7. Not staying healthy Good health is one that very rarely can be gutting back when lost. While young, we tend to not pay attention to staying healthy, this may be a huge regret later on. Many people in their 70s regret skipping their routine checkups, not eating healthy, not exercising and getting involved in jobs that affect their health. Generally they regret not putting much effort in maintaining good well-being. 8. Not showing care to a spouse Not spending time with their significant other or showing that person how special they are to them is a regret most people in their 70s have. Showing care may seem little and of no importance but you may also lose your spouse if they lack the assurance that you care of that they matter to you. Take every chance you get to show them that they matter to you or you'd regret it. 9. Staying in a toxic relationship Marriage therapist Elizabeth Goldberg says that among her patients, staying in a bad marriage is the number one regret of people over 50. Though it is of importance that we fight for those we love and put in our best to save our relationship, we must be able to identify a toxic relationship and leave while we can because in the long run, you will live a life filled with regrets. 10. Missing investment opportunities Colorado Bay psychologist and live transitions expert Lyssa Robin, PhD once said people often regret a chance not taken. As people age, they tend to regret not taking hold of some financial opportunities that came their way and not accumulating enough assets while they had a chance and resources. The regret is worse if they knew someone who took the opportunity and made a fortune of it. 11. Trying to live up to your parents' expectations It's a beautiful thing to have a healthy relationship with your parents. However, trying to live up to their expectations at the expense of your dreams and aspirations is a regret that a lot of people have in their 70s. According to the Alliance study, a shock in 35% of respondents admitted they wish they had pursued more of the things they wanted to do, not just the ones expected of them. 12. Missing the little important moments with family You may not understand how much little moments with a family matters until you are grey. Many people in their 70s have on the top of their regret list those extra times they spent in the office instead of attending with their partners and days they missed out on the family dinner or film show because they went out drinking with friends. 13. Not forgiven We tend to bring up our walls and hold on to grudges instead of letting go and forgiving the wrongs that other people have done to us. Have you ever refused forgiving someone and later on get the news that the person died? Well, it is not a nice feeling. It lingers in your memory and springs regrets even after decades have passed. Only very few people go to their graves feeling happy that they did not forgive someone. Life is short. Forgive. 14.   If you are not conscious and careful enough, you might make your children feel that same way. Even in your sick bed, the chances are high that you will regret making your children feel that way. 15. Not speaking up for yourself A lot of people in their 70s regret their inability to fight for their harmless desires when they were young. Not being bold enough to speak up for yourself is one thing that you may find yourself regretting in your 70s. Be confident enough to voice your opinion and believe in yourself while still being assertive. At old age, you will be glad you did. 16. Getting a divorce Research by AVO in 2016 showed that 27% of women admitted to regretting their decision to divorce. Likewise 29% of men. At some point, especially when people are still young, they assume that divorce is the best option. However, later in life, they realize they made the decision hastily and wish they had put more effort to make the relationship work. 17.  Often time responsibilities tend to cripple passion that couples share and often this leads to regret in old age. Research at Not-Western Kellogg School of Management reported that 18.1% of their old study subjects cited romantic relationships as the most significant source of regret. 18. Letting your dreams die Allian's survey data once showed that 39% of older adults admitted that they regretted not following their passion later in life. Although not everyone can make a living from the things they love doing, however, allowing those passions to die is one gateway to regrets when you are old. Even if your passion does not put food on your table, keep the fire burning and engage in it as a hobby. 19. Not having fun What is living without fun? Life can get tough and serious but it is essential to catch a break and find some time for fun. Get some relaxation. Go for a vacation with your family or go out with friends. Else, you'll have regrets. According to America Guarantologist Carl Plyma, if you get to the end of your life with no regrets at all, you probably haven't lived that interest in a life. Don't be overly careful that you miss out on the fun of living.