so to destroy them but what is the symbol of this kind of thing we just spoke listen from a lot in the most southern point in Israel state till Metula the north part of the Israeli state around the Mediterranean when you are coming to Gaza there is a regional of terror surrounding us well planned by Iran and we came this is emphasized the fact that we are now fighting for our future a generation here in Israel it is I think the most beside Yom Kippur war after the establishment of Israel 48 I think is the main point now that will ensure our future exist here and we have to fight for it we have the capacities and above all we have the people who believe the right in their heart in their head and we will do it it is very difficult but besides the fact of Israel this is a risk for the entities in Egypt the entities in Jordan and entities in the Gulf gentlemen we are coming to the end of this particular broadcast I want to bring it back to the issue of the hostages because that is so crucial in the equation here and of course that in terms of the human suffering almost unimaginable how could for example want to even imagine the pain of parents who have had their young children kidnapped into Gaza one of those is Mayan Zin whose two young daughters Daphna and Ella were taken from Kibbutz who was killed by Hamas terrorists who also killed their father Mayan's ex-husband Noam and Mayan made a painful visit to near Oz after the attack and we join her in this report which is adapted to I-24 News from Israel's Channel 12 I have to go inside at the gate of Kibbutz Nahal Oz, Mayan the mother of 15-year-old Daphna and 8-year-old Ella tries to enter she's trying to get an impression of what happened to them when they were kidnapped by Hamas into Gaza last week she learned that the father of her daughters, her ex-husband Noam Eliakim was found dead after he was murdered by the terrorists who broke into their home on October 7th his body was found a few hours after his wife and 17-year-old son were laid to rest side by side I was in my home in the Kibbutz I woke up from rocket alert sirens I then heard unusual gunshots which were right outside my window I immediately ran to the security room I called my mom I said to her, mom, do you also hear gunshots? it sounds really close are there terrorists? she told me, no and I said, mom, are you sure? I'm telling you, I can hear it it's outside my window they're here, we don't understand what was happening friends called me in the morning they asked me how the situation was in the Kibbutz if everything was okay 8 in the morning from that moment, I was on the phone non-stop with mom and noam and tome video calls, trying to see what was going on with them I spoke to them until half past 10 and then it was all over no one answered anymore a few hours passed and then I get a call STUV, there's a live feed from your mother's facebook live you're here what's your name in Israel I am from Israel it's called here there last hours were recorded in a video that is now part of the collective memory of the attack the horrific use of cameras and facebook live streams by the terrorists they don't want to believe us we're neighbors what do you know about them what do you know about them In an unprecedented act of cruelty, Hamas terrorists used 17-year-old Tomair to lure other families out of the security rooms and murdered them. Hello, open the door. Open the door. I just want to get the nachalos to my daughter's room. I want to see my little daughter's teddy bear, the big girl's dressing table. To see where they sat in the video, Daphna, Noam, Dikla, Ella, Tomair, I want to get there to the place from where my family was taken. They want to sleep at home and woke up in Gaza.  They were pulled out of their bed by terrorists, by the most brutal murderers, into hell, into horror. Her daughters, Daphna and Ella, are among the only victims documented alive inside Gaza. We miss them so much. It's hard for me to think that they're there. I don't know what's going on with them. If they're okay? What are they thinking? If they know anything at all? I will cross oceans to reach them. Hamas messed with the wrong mother.  On the way to Nakhaloz, we pass through the slaughter zones, the fields of death, and the place is still dangerous. We are stopped at the checkpoint. They fear fire of anti-tank missiles on the road. Even after the threat was removed, the soldiers received orders not to allow anyone through. The threat is too real. Excuse me, is there any chance you'll let me in? Who are you? I'm the mother of Daphna and Ella, who are kidnapped in Gaza. Wait a minute, please. Finally, the gate opens. But in front of the house, things get even more difficult. The soldier who assisted us wants to spare her the terrible sides and finds himself in a heartbreaking situation. I'm begging, please. You have to let me in. Mayan, I ask not. I beg of you. Don't enter. If it's hard for me, I'll turn my head. I'm a strong woman, really. If my daughter stood up to it, I will stand up to it, too. No, no, no. They did not see what I see now. Most of the members of this kibbutz, which was infiltrated by more than a hundred terrorists, are displaced from their homes and have yet to return. You want me to bring your daughter's clothes? Both Daphna's and Ella's, please. She fought to bring them to the world. Now, they are all she has left. The whole world has to see what they did here.  My mother's pain there. Just a little reporting out of our, from our senior U.S. correspondent, Mike Wagenheim, who is in the United Nations HQ right now. He says he's being told off record by the office of the Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, who was condemned by the Israeli Foreign Minister today that Guterres still intends to meet with some of the families of the Israelis who have been brought there, Israelis whose family, whose family have family members taken hostage into Gaza. So the Secretary-General is still going to meet him. That should be a quite an interesting meeting, I would say the least. No one's going to judge the families for making whatever decision they make, but I do think that not only official Israel, but large parts of unofficial Israel will not meet him. Okay, Owen Altamann, Etan Dango, thank you for joining us. We're going out, but of course our coverage will continue with a special edition of Strictly Security, I believe, coming up in a few minutes. Thank you for joining us on my 24 years. Israel is officially in a state of war. This is a very active scene, and we need to get in the car as we're talking.  Help us. We don't want to do it. We just don't know anything. Entire families, including babies and children and elderly, were butchered in their beds. Awaken the giant, and we are ready and we are strong. Everyone is showing up. This is the unity. It's a special edition of Strictly Security. We're covering the operation going on, the war here in Israel. We'll be with you for the next hour and a half with all the events in the south and the north. And obviously here in the studio, the story of the Israelis that were kidnapped to Gaza, those who were killed and the army getting ready to fight within Gaza. Our headlines for this hour on the 18th day of the war in Gaza, images of 85-year-old Yohavet Lifshitz and 80-year-old Nuit Cooper, two elderly Israeli hostages freed by Hamas, dominated the news cycle today, amplifying debate over Israel's ground operation and the question of the remaining hostages. Following last week's incident in which missiles for Yemen were fired towards Israel and intercepted by U.S. forces, we'll discuss the broader regional implications of this war and the possibility of a wider regional conflict. Any wave of Kharedi volunteers will take their place inside the Israeli defense forces. Hundreds of ultra-autodox men are asking to join the IDF ranks after years of absence from mandatory military service. And we'll catch up with our beloved IDF troops deployed, equipped and ready for the orders to drop in. Let's begin. Let's begin with what's going on in the north. We're joined by our correspondent Robert Swift. Robert put up up to date on the point of what's going on in there. Another delicate day, rockets being fired from Lebanon, Israel attacking in Lebanon. Tell us everything we need to know. So essentially, there's two major security events taking place in the north today. The most recent of these almost two hours ago was two rockets that were fired into the southern Golan Heights area. And the reason that this is significant is because these emanated from Syria, as opposed to much of the rest of the fire, which has tended to come from the Lebanese side of the border. There are fears that this ties into the concerns of a broader escalation of the conflict onto additional zones. And the IDF have responded to this rocket fire, which landed in open areas by firing back at the launch sites using artillery. Now, this was the smaller of the two events I want to talk about, with the first being an earlier event, which took place further to the west on the northern border. This was quite a heavy exchange of fire between Hezbollah forces and Israeli forces on the Israeli-Lebanese border. This contact was triggered by Hezbollah firing anti-tank weapons at an Israeli base. Hezbollah is understood to have fired up to seven, eight, nine anti-tank missiles, and to have backed this fire up with mortar fire. The Israeli military responded with heavy barrages of artillery, which lasted for 30, 40 minutes, and also used a drone of its own to fire health fire missiles onto the Hezbollah units that were firing these weapons systems. Well, but I want to ask you, you know, the common word or the common thought in Israel is that Hezbollah is not interested in fighting currently Israel in a full-scale war, but it's trying to keep Israel busy and to pay its support to what's going on in Gaza, to his Hamas brothers in Gaza, as much as we can refer to Sunnis and Shi'ites as brothers, but we live at the side currently. How do we know that those assessments are correct? Because we were surprised on October 7 in Gaza. How do we know we won't be surprised from the Lebanese border within a week or two when Israel is deeply involved or deployed in Gaza? Essentially, you know, you can never be sure with these things. That is the nasty truth behind intelligence. It's always just an assessment. But one of the main reasons that is the current thinking is because the best moment for Hezbollah to attack, if it were to have attacked, was at the same time as Hamas. The fact that they did not attack at that points to some degree to the fact that maybe Hezbollah doesn't want to be too much involved in this fight. And there are key reasons for them to attack Israel currently without going beyond a certain threshold. If they can continue skirmishes, as we've seen, even escalating these slightly, if they can do this, not only does it demonstrate their support for the Hamas cause, but it also ties in Israeli forces that could otherwise be down in the south. Well, but thanks so much for all the hard work you're doing up North and keep keep yourself safe. Thank you very much. The United States is well into preparations for a wider war in the Middle East with Washington Post's reporting officials are drawing up Doomsday plans to evacuate hundreds of thousands of Americans from both Israel and Lebanon. Senior diplomatic correspondent Owen Alterman looks at another development attacks on U.S. troops in Iraq and Syria and how those fit into the bigger picture. The contest for America's role in the Middle East may be joined here on the border between Israel and Lebanon, where each day brings the risk of wider war, a war that could bring in American fighter planes, a war that could lead to even more targeting of American troops. We are concerned about an increase in attacks by Iranian proxies in the region, whether they be targeting U.S. interests or whether they be targeting other interests in the region. We hold Iran accountable for those attacks. Those attacks include attacks by Iranian allied militias on U.S. troops in Iraq and Syria, a warning by Iran of what could happen should the United States enter a war full scale. What we're seeing is a is the prospect of a significant escalation of attacks on our troops and our people throughout the region. U.S. interests in the Middle East, of course, go far beyond the militia attacks, as this war has taken on not only regional but global stakes of stopping radical Islam, of proving commitment to allies. And so these pictures from Norfolk, Virginia, a few days ago, sailors setting out in their aircraft carrier strike group, fulfilling the mission given by U.S. President Joe Biden in the opening days of the war. Two aircraft carrier strike groups will be positioned in the eastern Mediterranean and Iran knows making clear the real balance of power. On to the southern front and the planned ground operation by the IDF in Gaza. I'd like to bring in our guests for this evening reserve IDF colonel Doron Avital, former commander of Sayot Matkal Special Forces. And by Zoom joins us Sayakov Perry, former head of Israeli Shin Bet. Thank you gentlemen, gentlemen, both for joining us today. Perry, I'd like to start with you looking at Gaza, which you know very well from your days at the Shin Bet and ever since, serving in the Israeli government and Knesset. How difficult will be for Israel to achieve the goal that the government set to bring down Hamas both militarily and as the ruler of Gaza? Well, it's not going to be an easy walk. It's quite complicated. And that's one of the reasons we are not coming in night or the day before that night. We have to prepare the ground. And the Israeli Air Force is doing a fantastic job in order to clean as much as you can the ground by bombing a vigorous headquarters, offices, and the adults' installations. The ground force will have to fight street by street, tunnel by tunnel, and knowing that the headquarters of the forces, the Hamas forces in Gaza are hiding tunnels under the city. So it's not going to be an easy task, but we can do it and we have to win. We have to eliminate this barbarian, the organization in order to let again our people come back to their privacy and the settlements near the Gaza border. Doron Avital here with me in the studio. So you heard Perry. We have to do it. We have to use ground forces because you can't win it from the air, especially when Hamas is deep in the tunnels. We've heard one of the ladies who was released today saying that she was dragged within the tunnels for kilometers. How difficult is going to be, how complicated job is, and how doable is the mission? I think a ground offensive is a challenge that we didn't meet in the last day. I'm not sure how long. And when I go even backward to Beirut and I'm a veteran of the Lebanon War, I think the mission here is, though it's within our perimeter, very close to us. It's a very high task. We are talking of a terrible infrastructure underground. And it is going to be a big challenge. And to complicate things even farther, of course, we have the hostage dilemma. Of course, even if we go to ground offensive and they're still hostage, there would be special forces in tandem with the division and brigades trying to locate in different localities and locate those hostages. But as it is, this is one of the hardest tasks the Israeli IDF ever encountered. So I'll get back to you to Antioch of Peri in a second, but I want to join in our defense correspondent Jonathan, joining us from the south. Good evening, Jonathan. Good evening, Joao. So let's begin with the incident that took place a couple of hours ago near the Kibbutz of Zikim, terrorists coming from Gaza by sea. A fight over there. Some of them were killed. Others escaped. Give us the details, please. Yes, so first we're on the beach of Ashkelon, the Marina of Ashkelon, a beautiful Marina. At this time of the year, it should be full of people, but of course it's empty. Zikim is about five miles to the south of us, and we see flares in the air every once in a while over there in the distance. As far as we understand, at least officially, this incident is not over yet. We've heard, and there maybe you can see these are flares in the air, meaning there's still search going on. Flares, of course, meant to lead the sky, especially in the night, of course. When it's dark, we see these flares in the air. That's where Zikim is located, as we said, roughly five miles to the south of us. As far as we understood, up to nine terrorists were able to get close to the Israeli shore in Zikim. Zikim is a site of an Israeli community and a base. Also, one of the places where terrorists infiltrated in that terrible morning of October 7th. As far as we understand, up to nine terrorists tried to get close to the beach, tried to infiltrate into Israel. Some of them were killed, possibly all of them. We do not know. We do not have official confirmation at this time. But this shows that even after two and a half weeks of constant pounding of Gaza, Hamas still has abilities. There are still elite units trying to infiltrate into Israel through the sea. That's not something for amateurs. These are professionals. They knew what they were doing. Were they all killed? Were they some of them caught? We do not know. We're waiting for confirmation from the army. And at least for now, and at least officially, this incident is not over yet. Jonathan, on the bigger scale, you've been traveling. As we speak, we have another terror alert not far from you about terrorists trying to enter Israel. So keep safe and look for that. But on the bigger picture, you've been visiting the forces, how the preparedness of them, the readiness to get inside Gaza. The forces are ready. The army is ready. And they said it loud and clear, even the chief of staff, Ertzi Alevi, said today, we are ready. The army is ready. The plan is ready. Now it's time for the political leadership to give the order, which is not given yet. It's perhaps also some kind of an answer to some politicians who said maybe the army has to be better prepared. So no, according to the chief of staff and according to the forces that we've been meeting, they are ready. They're willing to go in. Now it's time for the political leadership, which at least until now has not made the decision. Maybe they're thinking that it's better to pound from the air. And we do know that it is. It is taking a certain price from Hamas. But if you want to eradicate Hamas altogether, as was promised by so many people up in the political echelon, if you want to eradicate them all together, that cannot be done from the air. Yes. And as we said, there is a new alert about possible terror attack on the kibbutz of Zikim, which you've mentioned a couple of minutes ago. So Jonathan, if you have any more details, feel free to rejoin us. Thank you very much. I come, I get back to you, Doron of Ital. You've mentioned the issue of hostages 220, which is a huge number. Hamas has been releasing a couple yesterday, a couple a weekend. It can play with us and with the West forever. Exactly. I think the Hamas plays his hand very cleverly, and we have to really acknowledge this and know how to handle it, because it seems that all that every time we were thinking of the ground offensive, there's some, we have to postpone it in some context. Yesterday, they talked about 50 hostages being released in the end. There were only two. So it's an ongoing process. And also, we have the problem within the Israeli public in terms of this dilemma. So, yeah. Yaakov Perry, I want to talk to you about that issue of the hostages. You've been in charge of that issue for the Israeli government at the end of the 90s. You know the issue. 1995 to 2000. Yes, exactly. And at the time, the main issue was vis-à-vis Chizbala, with which you've negotiated a deal. The Prime Minister was the same Prime Minister at most of the time. Benjamin Netanyahu put us behind the scenes. How do abilities to reach a deal, if at all, bearing in mind that we're in a war and the armies prepare to go fighting in Gaza? You're absolutely right, you are, because it's a complicated issue. First of all, we are not talking directly to Hamas. We're using mid-people, middlemen, and the peace case, Qatar and Egypt, and it's not an easy task not to talk directly. Secondly, we understand that Hamas is playing his tricks. As Doron mentioned, they are making all kinds of manipulation. They're releasing two hostages, and after two or three days, they are demanding more supplies or more humanitarian aid, and releasing another two. And we will not be able to wait for long. We want to make a deal, bring back all the hostages, or at least a big part of them, and Hamas will charge a high price for releasing them, a price that I suppose Israel will be ready to pay when the demand will come. But Yakov, I want to ask you on that. Why should Hamas go for such a deal, knowing that once the deal is brokered, the next thing Israel will do is attack Gaza? So it can keep the hostages as a bulletproof vest? Absolutely. Hamas wants to delay the ground attack. And by releasing small drops of the hostages, Hamas thinks that it will prevent or at least delay the ground attack. And it's a dilemma, because the hostages are trying to convince the political arena that it's not safe to go in while we have 220 hostages in Gaza. And there are other voices that are asking Israel to go in to finalize the time calling the job to eliminate the Hamas. So it's a very big dilemma. And you have to add to it that also the United States is taking a position, trying to convince Israel not to hurry, or at least even not to go for the ground operation. So the political circles have to make a very, very difficult decision. I'm sure that the decision will go in to finalize the job and eliminate the Hamas, taking into consideration the fact that we will have still hostages on the ground. Yes. I want to ask you, Doron, there is this dispute in Israel that Yaakov Peri mentioned, should Israel wait and keep on pounding Gaza from the air and try to release as many hostages as possible? Or go in using the huge support that Israel gets from within, obviously. And from without, we've heard world leaders, even Macron today saying, fight them. Don't expand the war, but fight them, kill them, we're behind you. I think it's a dilemma. And I wouldn't want to give a verdict here instead of the decision makers, because then I would have to see the maps, to see the intel, to see what we have in our hands. Because also the operation as it is, this ground offensive is a very tricky operation. So I hope, and I feel, that the idea does have the right plan, the most creative plan possible, because we have to be creative here. Gaza has a few fronts, not only land fronts, and we have to think how to do it. And whether we could, based on the intelligence we have, and we appointed Nitzan Alon, a very qualified general, maybe one of the best generals we had in Special Forces, it was the deputy of mine, to this task. And if we could do a ground offensive that does take into account the possibility of on the ground releasing hostages in those localities, then this is a fair chance, and I would go for this operation, but we have to really weigh it seriously. And I hope the decision-making opening maps and not discussing it on panel. Yes, of course. Jacob, I go back to you, you were head of the Shin Bet of the Israeli Secret Service at the times when the Oslo Accord was signed exactly 30 years ago. What happened to the Gaza Strip? What happened to the Palestinians? How come our dreams or, I don't know, our wish to go for peace with the Palestinians and to make this area of the world a safe haven became some kind of an inferno with Hamas becoming worse than ISIS? I've visited there quite a few times in the past two and a half weeks. I've seen scenes and I've heard stories that are unimaginable. What happened to them? How did they become such a monster? Went wrong. Our idea that there will come a time to be able either to speak to or to live side by side is this organization failed completely.  And we have to study from the beginning our thoughts and to check again all the intelligence we have gathered for years. They came out that they were wrong by thinking that the Hamas is not interested in a war or and what they are going doing is all kinds of maneuvers. It happens to be that the maneuver became a reality. They slaughtered, raped, burned. They were the worst and ugliest way you can even not imagine the whole population and they have done it without interfering. The army wasn't there, the intelligence wasn't there and they were free for hours. The first forces, the Israeli army, came into the ground. So we will have to sit on that and to understand what happened. And my idea is that we had the intelligence but we did it the right way. It should have been ready. Yes, don't you agree with that? I would say this is of course a failure in a magnitude unimaginable. Everybody understands it. It's a setback intelligence-wise and in every other also tactical forces, organization, everything. But of course it has every mistake like this sits on some bigger picture. And in the bigger picture let's first understand that in the last year we were preoccupied with the West Bank, Northern Samaria. The whole attention was there. And in general in the last 15 years, I think, instead of like working out with our alliances vis-a-vis Iran and the nuclear deal, we were trying to play it on by ourselves.  So I think we have to really learn this gap between the way we consider ourselves as a single empire fighting the Iranian empire and now fighting- And furthermore, as you both touched, you and Yakov Peri, you know, we were getting prepared to fight the big empire of Iran. We were surprised deeply, hugely, by the weakest force in the area. I'm sure that Hezbollah and Iran are looking at it and they're amazed as well. I think they're in shock. I think they didn't imagine such a success and also this is one of the things that we have to gain back in the ground offensive. We have to show that the might of the Israeli army- The deterrence, the deterrence is a very tricky thing. I think not only our enemies also, our allies are in shock. The U.S. and the Europeans, they were thinking differently. We have to gain back this- And furthermore, Doron, our friends in the area. Of course. And I want you, Yakov Peri, to comment on that because the Middle East currently is being cut into two. The Iranian forces, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen and our forces, the good ones, the Gulf countries, Egypt, Jordan and others who look at what's going on. And I'm sure they speak outside in favor of the Palestinians, but they pray for Israel to win because they're next. Well, we are in another border. And we'll have to study the whole issue from the beginning. And the truth is that in order to release the hostages, you have to use Qatar, which is a multi-Islamic country, Egypt, and the other states, which are not considered to be the best friends to Israel. Because we are not talking directly to Habas. Our mediators, Italian, Egyptian, others, they understand what this radical is about. Yakov Peri, we will thank you for that. Doron Avital, thank you as well. A short break. War with Hamas continues. We bring you first-hand testimonies from the front lines, from those who survived and all the records of the atrocities by Hamas. Follow us as Israel fights terror from the south and north. Get the inside scoop on what's going on only on I-24 News. A special edition of Strictly Security coming to you live here on I-24 News. Thank you for tuning in. We'll delve into the nuts and bolts of this unfolding drama in a moment, but first I'd like to turn to Israel's northern border once again and to our correspondent, Robert Swift. Robert, an update of yours on the situation over there up north. Sure, so just to remind our viewers that the major events taking place here in the north is two security incidents. One taking place in the Golan Heights where two rockets were fired into communities to the east of the Sea of Galilee. This is a significant moment because it's fire that has come from Syria. The last time there was fire from across the Syrian border was about two weeks ago when there was mortar fire. And the Israeli military has responded to this fire with artillery strikes. Elsewhere further to the west on the northern border, a few hours earlier there was a fairly significant exchange of fire between the Israeli military and Hezbollah units. Hezbollah attacking Israeli base using anti-tank weapons and mortar fire. And the Israeli military responding with a significant barrage of artillery of its own, as well as tank fire and fire from UAV, which was targeting the squads of Hezbollah fighters on the ground who were making use of those weapons systems. Yes, and you know we hear reports of an Israeli attack in Syria and obviously attacks in Lebanon, as you've mentioned. It seems like both borders are colliding with Israel. Do you feel or understand that what's going on in Syria is connected to what's going on in Lebanon? Look, there's actors that operate within Lebanon also operate within Syria and southern Syria. Hezbollah is one of those players, so it's entirely plausible that if they're going to be firing across the Lebanese border, they'll do the same from the Syrian border. The fact that that hasn't been as frequent, that that fire is relatively rare compared to the fire emanating from Lebanon, will make some people hope that that isn't going to expand in that regard. But it's certainly something the Israeli military has to be aware of, particularly due to the fact that there's an area in the north of around the Golan Heights and around the Kirishwona, where the three borders come together quite tightly. It's an area where all three of these borders overlap almost. Yes, Robert, thank you so much for this report. We move on, even before Hamas' horrific October 7 terror attacks, there was a significant concern regarding a looming regional conflict amplified by Iran and its proxies in the region. And since those deadly attacks, the option of the fighting spreading beyond the Gaza Strip and Israel's northern border has only increased amid this correspondent, Aril Ossaran, breaks down the different regional threats and danger in Israel. Hamas' surprise attack on October 7 took an unprecedented toll from Israel's southern communities, both in terms of scope and brutality. But it also threw Israel into a rapidly escalating downward spiral on its northern border and into West Bank, with the potential of turning into a regional conflict. And then on Thursday, this happened. The crew of the guided missile destroyer USS Carney operating in the northern Red Sea earlier today shot down three land attack cruise missiles and several drones that were launched by Houthi forces in Yemen. And we cannot say for certain what these missiles and drones were targeting, but they were launched from Yemen heading north along the Red Sea, potentially towards targets in Israel. And so from ballistic missiles in Iran to drones from Gaza, rockets from Lebanon, or cruise missiles from Yemen, Israel is perhaps the most threatened country in the world. So what exactly is Israel up against from its various potential and current enemies? Let's start with the most immediate threat, Gaza. Palestinian terror groups mainly Hamas have 50 to 60,000 trained fighters, 30,000 rockets and missiles, and dozens of attack drones. To the north in Lebanon, there's Hezbollah with 50 to 60,000 trained fighters, 150,000 rockets and missiles, and 2,000 attack drones. Pro-Iranian militias in Syria have dozens of drones. While in Iraq, they hold dozens to hundreds of ballistic missiles and drones. The Houthis in Yemen, who've already thrown their towel in the fight, have hundreds of ballistic missiles and drones as well. And then there's the head of the octopus, Iran. Its national and paramilitary forces have over 3,000 ballistic missiles, some of which can reach Israel, and many thousands of attack drones. We have warned everyone that this conflict can turn into a regional battle if the aggression, brutality, killings, ongoing bloodshed, and destruction against our people in Gaza persist. So to zoom out for a wider look at the region and the main actors in this chess game, I sat down today with a senior researcher, Dr. Yolgozhansky, to get a sense of the bigger picture and the ways this local war can spread out. Here is our interview. Yolgozhansky, thanks as always for joining us. Thank you. So we're looking at a situation here in Israel, in the Middle East, from the Israeli angle most of the time. And I want to use your expertise to look at it from the Gulf angle, the way the Saudis, the Qataris, the Iranians are looking at it probably in Tehran. Everybody is very much happy of what's going on in Israel and around. I will start with the Arab world. If you ask me to summarize how the Middle East, the Arab Middle East is looking at this Israeli Hamas war, I would summarize it in one word, contradictions. There's many, many contradictions in almost every aspect. And let's begin. In one way, the Arab world, the Sunni Arab world will be called pragmatic, especially the Gulf states, have a deep interest for Israel to crush Hamas. They hide they don't say it up loud, of course, but in closed rooms they would love the IDF to fight until the last Israeli soldier and to bring Hamas to its knees. On the other hand, they don't want to be seen as collaborators of Israel. Another contradiction, as much as they want to crush Hamas, they have to show sympathy to the Palestinians and sometimes it goes hand in hand. As much as they want Israel to crush Hamas, they also want Iran and its axis not to win or not to gain achievement from this war. However, they want also to preserve their relations with Iran. So there's so much contradictions in what the Arab world is doing right now. So before we touch Iran itself, let's try to drill down. For example, let's take the Saudis of which we've spoke here a couple of months ago. The Saudis keep it very open that they want Israel to win, not because of our interests, but because of their interests probably looking at, as you say, Iran and the extreme Sunni world and the rivals even from Qatar and they want them to lose. Of course, all of the Arab Gulf States minus Qatar wants Israel to crush Hamas because Hamas represent the Muslim Brotherhood ideology of Islamic, of political Islam, which is an enemy, a threat to those country. They will not say it publicly. They will say it to me and to you in closed rooms. They want Israel to win. The problem is that what is Israel winning? How do you bring that? I think they have expectations, very high expectations. Perhaps the Israeli government also has higher expectations. I'm not sure the IDF can deliver those expectations. For Israel to do XYZ in Gaza, they sit very comfortably in their chairs. In one hand, they like Israel to crush Hamas, to bash Hamas as hard as they can. This is good for them. On the other hand, they criticize Israel publicly. So they enjoy both world. That's a problem that we might, at the end of the world, will need to figure out somehow. But Israel, looking, for example, staying with Saudi Arabia, has interest in Saudi Arabia. We've seen the efforts to bring the two countries together until a few weeks ago. But furthermore, we've seen the Houthis trying to hit Israel with some weaponry being blocked by the Americans and some other aides in the area and the Saudis play a role, play a role in that. They played a role according to the American officials. Some of the missiles were intercepted from Saudi territory. I think Hamas main, one of it, one of Hamas main interests in this October 7 attack on Israel was to block, to stop the normalization process between Israel and Saudi Arabia. Did he succeed in that? Or it's too close, too early to tell? First of all, it's too early to say. They stopped it, of course. There's war. One cannot negotiate doing war. I think Israel main goal is how to bring it back after the war with Hamas. So the biggest achievement or one of the biggest achievement that Israel can bring against Hamas is actually to trigger or to bring back the negotiation process with the Saudis. That will be a blow to Hamas and to Iran. And we need to do it. The problem is it will be in different terms on a different time frame, perhaps. So we need to look ahead. It depends also how long this campaign will last. If it's many months, it will be hard to restart the negotiation under the Biden administration with entering a campaign. You've spoken with four of Qatar, the Islamic Brotherhood. What do they want? Hamas, I'm sorry, Qatar, sleep of a tongue. Qatar is a big challenge for Israel. It's not a new challenge. The Israeli establishment, let's say, and I know I was a part of it, thinks of what to do with Qatar for many, many years. The Qatari dilemma, as I phrase it, I call it, will stay here after the war. Because as I see it right now, as we said early, that although other Arab countries want us to crush Hamas, they don't have an appetite to really be involved the day after in Gaza to perhaps give a substitute or another alternative to Hamas. So far, unfortunately, and I say it unfortunately, but it's a fact, Qatar is the only player that is willing and able to provide for the Palestinian in Gaza. It also means that it provides for Hamas. One cannot differentiate between the two right now. Unfortunately, the only thing that Israel can do, or the main thing that Israel can do, besides trying to pressure Hamas mainly through the U.S., is just to crush Hamas. Just to crush Hamas, if we want to change the equation, the way that Qatar is involved in Gaza, the way that we don't like it and we don't want it, the only way that we can really change reality is really to crush Hamas. If not the same reality that we saw before the war, we'll see after the war. If Hamas stays in power, perhaps weakened, but will stay in Gaza, Qatar will continue to try and play a role in providing Hamas and the citizens of Gaza with money. But before we reach the endgame, currently Hamas, Qatar is maybe the only efficient, effective go between Israel and Hamas when we have more than 200 hostages in Gaza. Absolutely, this is exactly the Qatar dilemma. Qatar in one hand serves many interests of Israel, but drill and hurt other interests of Israel. This is the Qatar dilemma that's not an easy dilemma. Perhaps a way out of it would be to use Qatar now during the war, release all the hostages and the kidnapped Israelis, but after the war and after we crush Hamas to deal differently with Qatar as we should. They have history of dealing, of doing such deals, of releasing hostages. They've been doing it in Africa, in the Middle East, and furthermore, how successful can they be in our case, which is very delicate, taking into consideration the hostility between Israel and Hamas, the current situation of war, and the amount of hostages, including 30 children, elderly women, pregnant women, et cetera, et cetera. And many Israelis holding dual citizenship, Europeans, Americans, and others. Unfortunately, Qatar is perhaps the most strong actor, external actors. I don't see other actors in the international community, in the regional community, that is more able than Qatar to do, because it has very good connections with all the sides, with Hamas, with Israel, with the US, with Egypt. Qatar is the only player that can do that and have the legitimacy of Hamas. It hosts its representatives in Doha. And the trust, it hosted before Taliban, it hosts everyone. This is Qatar. One of the, the other problem that that holds is Qatar enjoy very good relations with the US. You cannot really do anything against Qatar because then, how do you explain that to the Americans? Who holds their biggest air force base in the region, in Qatar? It's a very complicated dilemma, and I suggest to all of those Israelis who call, let's bring the war to Qatar, and let's call Qatar an enemy, and let's do this and that, to hold their horses, and let's think about that. This is much more complicated than we think. So if Israel thinks of, for example, a killing, targeted killing, Hamas leaders in Doha, that's out of order currently, or totally misplaced. I don't want to get into this. So let's speak about Iran. Each role, obviously Iran is very happy. It has been trying to hit Israel from each and every possible angle, and Hamas has achieved it bigger than anyone else, bigger than ever. They've invested so much in Hezbollah, and Hamas has done million times more. In one hand, if you sit in Israel in Riyadh or in Abu Dhabi, you see, you have an image of Iran, hegemonic inspiration in the region. This is exactly what myself and others, yourself and others talked about in the last few years, that Iran has proxies and can simultaneously get them to work against Israel, or attack Israel, from Yemen, from Iraq, from Syria, from Lebanon, and of course from Gaza, and perhaps in other places as well. And from Iran itself. And from Iran itself, what I think they didn't expect is what the U.S. is doing in the region to counterbalance Iran's effort. Also, and because of that, you see also Iran's limitation in the region. You saw the Houthis trying to do something, and then being intercepted by the U.S. and other forces. So you see also the emergence of regional architecture that is trying to block Iran. This is, it becomes, you have, a regional war. It started already to be a regional war. This is not just Gaza, Hamas, and Israel. This is regional. And perhaps it will take longer, and perhaps it will involve other players. And we need to take this into consideration. One of the first effects of that is the different pace that Israel is working and the U.S. is working. And the U.S. says to Israel, okay, please slowly. We need to take our time. We need to bring more forces. We need to build a regional architecture now because of this regional dimension to counter Iran. So it has negative effects, but also positive effects. I asked you, how do the Iranians see it? What's their endgame? Apart from wishing Israel will not exist, but what do they want to want? For example, do they want Hezbollah to get involved or not? Do they want their militias from Iraq to get involved to come to Syria and practically get involved? Do they want to see the Houthis firing at Israel every day?  They have the connections. They have the influence. What do they want? We need to differentiate between Hezbollah and the other proxies. Hezbollah is the major thing, the major proxy that Iran has built for 40 years. I don't think Iran wants to throw Hezbollah into the conflict because it might mean losing Hezbollah. War with Hezbollah would be different, you know, better than everyone to the Israeli, to the civilian front, to the Israeli citizens. It's not Hamas. It's something 10 times bigger than Hamas. We need to take this into consideration. And I think Iran built Hamas for another reason. To serve as a deterrent might his Iran nuclear infrastructure would be hit by Israel or the U.S. So I don't think Iran has an interest right now to bring the entire capability of Hezbollah into the conflict because it also might mean U.S. and Israeli retaliation against Iran itself. I don't think Iran really wants right now a regional war. I don't think Iran is there. What it wants is a war of attrition against Israel to slowly and gradually weaker Israel, weakened Israel. This is what the Iranians want. And I think there are achieving this day by day. And Hamas, what Hamas did on October 7, huge surprise for Iran. Huge surprise for Iran. They didn't believe that Hamas can do that. And I think for now it's enough for them to irritate Israel from the south, from the north, from the east, from the west, perhaps. I don't think Iran wants to throw Hezbollah. But misunderstanding and miscommunication can happen any time. And things can happen. Even if the two sides, Israel and Hezbollah, doesn't want a full-scale war, it can happen. And if we go to that direction, should Israel stay in its immediate fronts currently the south, but it might be the north? Or should Israel go to practically the octopus's body and say, all links go to Iran? And Iran should pay a price not by its proxies, but practically in Iran? If it can happen, of course. I don't think Israel can really, and this is the truth. It's perhaps the sad truth. I don't think Israel can wage war in two, three fronts. I mean, Hezbollah and Hamas is more than enough for Israel. Hezbollah is a different story. I repeat that. I don't think Israel can. And of course, if Israel can, it doesn't have to be now. It can be later on. Iran should pay the price. Absolutely. I am in favor of this model or perception or that Iran should pay. Absolutely. Iran should pay, not necessarily now, maybe in the day after. So if we go a little bit further with that way of thinking, with that model, and you've mentioned the possibility of a regional war and not a limited war between Israel and Hamas, maybe it's in Israel's interests. Once we've paid such a huge price of 30 or 1,400 casualties and 200 hostages and such a huge damage and half of the country has been recruited for reserve. And the US is here and the UK is here and the world supporting. Maybe it's time for Israel to pay a heavy price in the north as well. But to get rid of all of its enemies, including Iran, to attack Iran wherever and however we can, maybe that should be the case despite of that reaching a very high level of original war and maybe a world war taking into consideration that the Russians are here as well. Theoretically, I might support that. Theoretically. Under certain circumstances, under those circumstances that we are right now, regionally, globally, and even internally in Israel, if you look at the Israeli politics, the fact that this government doesn't have any support from the Israeli public and rightly so, the fact that the US is here and actually stopping Israel from opening this front, the fact that the IDF has limitation on its war operation. It wants to focus on the south right now and not do other things. There's limitation on that alternative as much as I and perhaps others would like to see that. So if we sum all that up, if you were to advise to the Israeli government what would be the best under the very bad circumstances that our cards that are being given to us on the table, what's the best scenario looking from the Israeli angle for an end game? I'm not in any position to give advice, not to the military, not to the Israeli government. So where should we aim to beating Hamas, eliminating Hamas? I think that should be our goal, that Hamas will not exist as a ruler in Gaza. It's hard to listen. I hear all the talk from the government and higher political echelon from the military, they will crush them, will devastate them. I'm afraid that this is perhaps unachievable, not because the IDF cannot do that. Of course the IDF can do that, but the price of the economy, the society, will pay is not something that Israel, sadly, I'm saying this sadly, can bear right now.


that this band in my head and yours is pretty silent until you attempt something that gets their attention. So if the band in your head is getting louder and louder at the moment, must be because you have agreed to do something. You have agreed to post something. You have agreed to write something. You have agreed to say something. You have agreed that speaking engagement.  But it's a compliment really.  Maybe that's a good thing. Yeah, it is. But it doesn't make it any easier.


Okay, so archery is all very well, but let's think about an actual experimental situation. Imagine an experimenter has to repeatedly measure out 200 mls of water during an experiment, and she needs to make sure that each sample is as close to 200 mls as she can get it. Pause the video and read the four scenarios here, and think about potential random and systematic errors for each one. Decide whether the accuracy will be high or low in each case, and whether the precision will be high or low. Okay, so let's go through them. In the first situation, she uses a 1 liter beaker to measure her 200 mls, and it's a cheap, poorly calibrated one at that. Measuring 200 mls in a 1 liter beaker is difficult because the gradations are far apart, and the beaker is so wide that small differences in the height of the water translate to a large difference in the volume. Sometimes the volumes will be a bit above the 200 mil mark, and sometimes they'll be below. So that means a large random error, and hence the precision is going to be low. In addition, however, we're told that the beaker is poorly calibrated. The manufacturer has perhaps not checked the gradations on the side. Perhaps where the 200 mil mark is, is actually 250 mls. So this would lead to a systematic error, and hence to low accuracy. This is the worst possible situation. In the second situation, things have improved a bit. She's using at least a good quality piece of glassware, so we hope that it's well calibrated, and it's closer to the volume that she wants to measure. This makes it more likely that the 200 mil mark actually represents 200 mils. However, it's still a beaker. As before, the large diameter of the container means that very small differences in the height of the water mean large changes in the volume, which means that the measurements will still have a large random error. If she measures out many, many samples, these variations should average out, but it's not an ideal situation. In the third situation, she's changed glassware. She's now using a measuring cylinder. This piece of equipment is designed for measuring volumes of liquid precisely. A measuring cylinder has much more finely spaced gradations than a beaker, and it's narrower, so you can more easily make small adjustments to the volume of the liquid. So in this situation, the random error is low. She will be precise. However, there's a problem. She's measuring hot water. Now, as you know, matter expands when it heats up and it contracts when it cools down, so it's volume changes with temperature, and water is no exception. Every time she measures out 200 mils of hot water and then lets it cool down, she'll actually have a smaller volume than she thought, and this will cause a systematic error. All of her volumes will be smaller than she had thought, so her accuracy will be low. It's worth noting here that volumetric glassware like measuring cylinders and burettes and volumetric flasks are calibrated to be used at room temperature, usually 20 or 25 degrees C, for precisely this reason. And in fact, most measuring instruments will have a temperature range in which they are most accurate because of the expansion and contraction of matter with temperature. Okay, in our final situation, she's finally got it right. She's using the right kind of glassware, so her random error is reduced, and she has eliminated the systematic error caused by using hot water. So her accuracy should be good. In this situation, her volumes will cluster closely around 200 mils.


Welcome to get in real with Grady Jarrett with me and my co-host Kelsey Conway, talk about things football, everything in between, whatever you can think of, we're going to try to cover on this show. Today, we are visiting with someone very, very special to me, two-time national championship coach, Davos Swinney of the Clemson Tigers, on the Clemson South Carolina, my alma mater. We got a good conversation lined up and I'm excited to hear what he got to say. So here's our conversation with the Davos Swinney. All right, coach. So when I talked to you earlier this year about Grady, you shared a story that I want every listener to know about. And it was the recruiting story of Grady Jarrett. He and his mom came up for a summer camp, Grady, you can let us in on how many summer camps you did that year, but Grady Jarrett wasn't necessarily on your radar. Is that right, coach? And then after a couple of days, he completely changed your mind. So can you tell us a little bit about how you found Grady Jarrett at that summer camp and basically how your relationship with him started? Yeah. Well, I mean, we knew of him down at Rockledge and all that. It's not like he was some bad player. I mean, how much he knew he called a Rockledge, Rockdale, man. Come on, coach. I mean Rockdale. I'm thinking of Rockledge, Florida, Rockdale. So we knew of him, you know, he led the state in sacks and, you know, but he wasn't really on our radar because he was undersized and, you know, we were looking for a bigger guy. Grady had another guy committed already named Deshaun Williams, who is already, he's still in the pros as well. Deshaun was with Denver this past year and he was already committed.  And, you know, he comes up to camp and Dan Brooks was our detackle coach. And Dan was, you know, he kind of whispered in my ear. And if I remember correctly, were you there just for a day? Yeah, I came for just that time. I came just for a day. He came just for a day and he did the morning practice and the afternoon practice, like went to lunch, then came back afternoon practice. And after that morning practice, Dan Brooks came over to me and Dan was like, you know, great improvement. Oh, coach. Oh, look at him. He's on the side, you know, he was, he was a little undersized and basically he was saying, look, there's this kid over there and look, he's undersized and, you know, but you ought to at least look at him.  He's like, I know we probably don't. He goes, I know we probably don't have a spot for him. And our, the coordinator at the time, you know, we were, we definitely, we were looking for just a different body type and, and, and I, but I remember coming over there and I think he had just a white t-shirt on, you know, and he just had just an old t-shirt and I start watching him. So we're doing when we got to the OLDO and, and he was, he was undersized, but I'm just telling you, I sat there and even to this day, I hadn't seen anybody at our camp like that. And I watched him the whole session and I mean, absolutely dominate and destroy. I mean, I felt sorry for them kids that was out there. And, and, and not only would he win his rep, he wouldn't go wait in line, you know, because sometimes guys are bashful in those situations. And that's one of the things I always look at, you know, you kind of see like, you know, sometimes in guys, they'll start, they'll start counting the line. Like, yeah, man, you go in and they, they want to go against the right guy, you know, Grady didn't care. Yeah. Grady would get back, he'd just go cut right back in line because he was maximizing his time and he, and he, he knew we hadn't limited time. And I mean, he just went, he just kept going and kept going.  And so I watched this whole thing. And when it's over, I went over to Dan Brooks and I said, good Lord. I was like, tell me a little bit more about this guy.  I literally watched her a couple of times during the reps and his mom was like, you know, she's just like, it's like going through the drill with it.   And, uh, she told him before we, he said, that's our last time coming up to Clemson and like, and like, I remember taking that ride there.  But, um, I was just like, man, I don't care. I'm just going to let do my best and let the rest take, let the rest take care of herself. And, um, that's what I did. But yeah, she, she said, look, that's the last time we're coming up here to Clemson, you go out here and do what you got to do. And, uh, we let, let the rest take, let the rest take care of herself. Yeah. So, so Dan comes up to me after I'm like, Oh my gosh. And I said, you know what? I said, Dan, and I don't know.  I knew it was going to probably upset the coaches, you know, and, uh, but I told Dan, I said, Hey, I was like, man, we taking this kid. I said, I don't know if we're going to get him. I said, I'm going to offer him. And he didn't have a million offers or anything like that. You know, we didn't go, we didn't, they weren't lined up to get him. And I was like, but I said, I told Dan, I said, Hey, you tell him, I want to see him and his mom at my office.   And he was like, coach, we, I'm begging you, please don't do this. We do not need another undersized player in this program. We have got to go and, you know, here's what we need. You know, blah, blah, blah. And I said, well, I said, here's what we're going to do. I listened for a little while and then I said, all right, here's what we're going to do. We're taking this guy and I said, he's on me. He's a, nobody's fault of mine. I'm not going to hold anybody accountable for this kid. If he ain't good enough, there's nobody's fault of mine. I'm not going to hold anybody accountable for it, you know, but we're taking this guy. And I mean, so there was a little pouting and you'll miss that. And then I walked right in, I'm like, Hey, great. And good to see you, this mom, you know, and so they had no idea, uh, the discussion that just went on. Yeah, he comes into office and I was able to offer him a scholarship and that was a super cool moment for him and his mom. You know, but he, he, he made it happen and he earned it. His mentality, his mindset, his, his grind, his vision, uh, his belief in himself, no matter what. And, and again, I start, I start what happens. I came in, I watched the tape real quick. I came back before I was like, man, I want to see this guy. I watched him. He dominated.  He's a, he, he's a state wrestling champion. I mean, this guy, he just had a drive to him that's unique for a young person. So I didn't know how I was going to turn out, but I knew I wanted him on my team and I wanted that. What he had, I wanted on our team and not only did he come in, he came in with a great group, but Grady separated himself. And if you go back to that 2014 defense, we led the world. I mean, we were number one in everything you can think of. And I mean, you're talking about Grady, DJ reader, Carlos Watkins, Deshaun, Josh Watson.  I can't remember Grady separated himself and, and he was, he was an undersized guy, but he set the tone for everybody on that defense. He set the tone for that D line.  He came in here, he finished in 14. So he was here 11, 12, 13, 14. We won the league for the first time in 20 years and he became a starter that year as a, as a, as a rookie, as a freshman, and we led the league. We, we won the league first time in 20 years, 110 games for the first time in 20 years. And I don't think it's a coincidence that, that all that stuff that he brought, he brought in our program. And, and I've told people this many times and I mean it. If I could start over, my first team was in 09 all the way to this team of last of right now, and they said, okay, you can start your program over again and you get to draft from your players that you've had, Grady Jarrett being my top three picks, you know, to, to start the program all over again. And that's who he was and about his business and just handled everything. Grinder in the weight room. And I told, I told Dan Quinn and the GM, the same thing as when they were drafting Vic and, and got Grady in the fifth round, I said, you know what? I said, Grady's, y'all gonna love, y'all gonna love Vic. Vic's gonna, he's dynamic. He's explosive. He can go get that quarterback. He's got some unique talent. I said, but Grady's gonna change your community. Grady's gonna make y'all better as men. He's gonna, he's gonna be something you can build something around. And so it's been fun to watch him, you know, just be who he is, do the same thing that he's done. He did in high school, he did it in college, and now he's been done it as a pro. And, and his best is still out there. So it's good that people are starting to get a chance to know who Grady Jared is. I had a little fun the other day with Dexter Lawrence and Grady. Dexter is like three times the size of Grady. And Dexter was standing here and I said, and I looked at Dexter, I said, Dexter, when you grow up one day, you might have a chance to be like Grady. It was funny, man. Good, good. But yeah, I've made some wrong decisions as along the way, but that was a, that was a right one right there. Yeah, it's so good. And I don't want to add some to that. I don't know if you remember, you brought us into the office at the camp and so we in there and you, you offers a scholarship and you like ours will offer you a scholarship. And my mom, she's sitting there.  Don't you know what I'm saying? And I was like, and I, in my head, you know, I didn't want to be like, you know, what people say, like, too thirsty now. You know what I'm saying? I was like, I was like, all right, we're going to think about it. And we got back in the, I was like, I'm going to think about it. Blah, blah, blah, we finished the meeting.  So I ended up calling like a day or two later, like committing this stuff. But that was, that's so funny. She, she tell that story and be like, that's why you should always be your mama, even to this day. Well, that's, that's what I was going to ask you coach in that meeting when you asked to see him and his mom. Who was more impressive? Oh, his mom, no question. There's no doubt about that. His mom is, she is, she is unbelievable. I mean, she's, I mean, I just wish I'd vote for her for president, to be honest with you, because she, she whips some things in shape quick. She is so smart. It's just such a, she has such a great heart and such a great communicator, but she's tough.   Yeah, especially when it comes to to Grady and her kids.   She's not one of these mamas that, you know, everything's always great. No. I mean, I used to feel sorry for greater something, greater sometimes. She, she literally would come. So Wednesday nights, we do family night and on week, I mean, every Wednesday, his whole career, she would drive from Atlanta and she would watch practice every week and she did every week.  So she knows what inside drill is. She knows what one on one pass rush is. She knows those things. She understands team, good on good, competitive stuff. And I mean, there'd be some days I'd walk over and I'd say, hey, Lisa, how you doing? And we're talking. And, and, and I'd be like, how about my man Gray? They had a good day. No, Coach. No, he, no, he's on the ground too much today. I didn't like that. He's on the ground too much today.  You know, there was no, you don't have to worry about no, no coddling with her. She's about her business, but that, that drive, you know, that she instilled in him. And, you know, I think a lot of his passion comes from her. She's, she, she, she wanted, wanted it for him as much as, as he wanted it. But I think she saw the work that he put in every day. And, and she didn't want him to be discounted because he was short. He was this and that, you know, and you could cut Grady open and see his heart. He's six foot five. He's three 30. And that's, that's what's beautiful about the game of football. You know, football players come in all shapes and sizes. You know, I got, I've got a guy named Hunter Renfrow that showed up here, five, 10, 155 pounds. And he benched 135 one time. And now he's a starter for the Raiders, you know, and, and it's a, but it's, it's about become it's the best version of you and believe it in yourself and, and, and having a drive, you know, that's, that, that separates you from other people. And that's what, that's what Grady has. Coach, on that note. Sorry, Kelsey. You used to tell a quote to us and it always stuck with me.  So when I cannot, I will not wish I would have when I could have. And to me, that always resonated like have no regrets. But I want you to go deeper into that. So because that's just something so powerful to me. And it'd be days where I'd be like down, not feel like doing something and, or whatever it may be. But that just always kind of get me over the hump or whatever it may be. Bad day or training camp or, you know, early morning workout, whatever it is. Just go in on that for me a little bit, Coach. Yeah, I'll give you an example. You want to look at. You know, you see that? Yep. What is that? So time, the time's right. That's a little hourglass right there. Yeah. All right. And listen. We don't want to wait when the sand is gone, right? No, sir. What's that? And I don't know. I don't know who the who the person is. I can't remember who it was, what president or general, whatever they said. The time, the time to fix the leak in the roof is when the sun is shining, right? And it's too late once it starts pouring. And, you know, we don't want we don't want to get serious when the sand is out of the glass. Yeah. You know, you get one time to go to college. You get one time to be a professional football player. We get one life from the bigger picture of things. You know what? It's a no dress rehearsal, right? Yep. You get one time to be in your 20s. One time. And so I will do what I can while I can so that when I can out, I will not wish it. I would have when I could have, you know, how many times have you heard me say, listen, I it's great and I hear you. But you know, I care more about the 30 year old version of Grady Jarrett and I do this 19 year old version. Yes, right. And that 30 year old version of you is counting on me, right, to in this moment. And he's also counting on you. You know, I'm in the middle of exit meetings right now. I'm going through the whole team.   And and everybody's, you know, looking ahead and I'm like, listen, we got it. We got to do. Here's what we got to do right now.  I can't tell you how many guys I've coached over the years that all of a sudden, man, their senior year and they're ready to be great now. Or it's seniors over now. It's like, all right, they, what do they do? They go train. They get elite with their nutrition. They get to train. Man, they go on. They go, they and they go spend their money to do that when they've had this here all along. So they want to go and I mean, I'm going to really train now. I'm going to really this. I'm like, well, what do you mean? You know, don't wait till then. It's too late then. Do what you can now.  It's too late. And the same thing in our life, man, don't wait till you on your death bed, death bed to appreciate your family. Yeah, all right. Don't wait till you on your death bed to say, I'm sorry or to show some, some kindness.  All right. You know, don't wait. Do what you can while you can, all right, because you don't get that time back. And and that's how you have no regrets. And that's just kind of how I try to live my life. That's what I've tried to teach, as you know, every single day. Hey, listen, you get one chance to be a freshman. Yes, sir. You can't come back and be a freshman again. All right. So here's what you need to do, because when you get to be a senior, don't have any regrets about how you handled yourself in that power hour, you know, everything matters and you should be building upon year after year, moment after moment, doing what you can, you know, while you can, because there will come a time when you cannot. All right. And it's the same thing for you. I tell you the same thing now. This older version of you now. How old are you now? Twenty eight this month. Twenty eight.  Right now is when you need to be having a good financial plan. Right now is when you need to be, you know, maximizing the opportunity that you have as a professional athlete, the platform that you have, the podcast, speaking truth to people, serving people, you know, this is a platform that's a blessing. Don't wait till it's over to say, man, we should have done this this month. Take advantage of the opportunity you can right now while you can, you know, because right now the sun is shining. This is what makes it leak in the roof, right? Yeah, play pro football forever.  Don't wait till it's over to enjoy it. Enjoy it now. Enjoy camp now. Enjoy the training now. You know, enjoy the discipline that you have to apply to your nutrition now. You know, enjoy it. It's all part of it. And that's just a mentality that I think you got to have because it goes quick. Yeah. Coach, do you think you could give Grady Jared and I a recording of that to wake up to every day? Because you got me all fired up inside. But you can tell you can tell that all the players that come out of your program truly embody that. And I wanted to switch to more looking back at all that you have accomplished at Clemson. And you talked about how if you could, you know, redo your program and start over how Grady would be in your top three. There have been 49 players since 2012 that have been drafted in the NFL out of Clemson. And I know you're obviously looking forward always, but how much did having players like Grady reach the level that they have in the NFL? And, you know, a couple of the other Clemson stars in the NFL, how much has that helped you from a recruiting standpoint of building what you have now and how much of a role do people like Grady coming back or being on the field of the national championship games play a role in what you're building at Clemson? And do you ever just look around and you're like, yeah, I'm doing all right. We got NFLU over here. Yeah, well, you know, one of my favorite things to do every year is when we have pro day, I love giving a presentation to all the owners or GMs and the coaches that come. I love doing that. I put a presentation together because I want them to know they're coming from a unique place. You know, this is not a, this is an uncommon place. It's not the norm here. And I want to, and I have a moment to really kind of, you know, I can say that, but how do I quantify that? And so we talk about the things that quantify that. So you mentioned one little step. So since 2009, that was my first year. We've actually had, I think it's 108, 108 players either drafted or signed as a free agent. Okay, so since I've been the head coach 12 years, I'm second in draft picks and I'm second in first round picks. All right, so that's number one, but we've had 108 guys that have either been drafted or signed as a free agent and 80% of them have made the roster, 80%. Okay, and that's, now what does that mean? Well, first of all, 1.7% of college players play in the NFL, but 80% of the guys who've gotten a shot from our program over 12 years have made it. All right, and I'm talking about, we've had some phenomenal free agents like Deshaun Williams, they were talking about. Adam Humphries makes $9 million a year. He was a tryout, Geron Brown played eight, nine years.  He's going on year eight for the Jacksonville Jaguars and the offensive line.  So it's not just the drafted guys. And then we've had some guys, fifth rounders, like Grady that a lot of people passed up on. And we've had the first rounders. So we've been a developmental program. So in 12 years, I've not gone through the transfer market. I've not signed junior college players. We've signed high school kids and we've developed them. And so I've never had the number one recruiting class in 12 years, ever. Alabama in the past 12 years has had the number one recruiting class 11 out of 12 years. We've never had the number of my average recruiting ranking since I've been the head coach over 12 years. We're probably around nine or 10. So we've been good, but yet we've beaten Alabama in two out of three national championships. Okay, so it's not just about. It's not just about. How to let them know. How to let them know. And well, I mean, we won two years ago. We won 44 to 16. And guess what? They had Jaylen Hertz, Tua, Mack Jones, Devonte. Well, they had them all, coach. They had them all. Josh Jacobs, Dave. So it's not just about players. You got to have players, but it's more than that. And so we've won doing it in an uncommon way. And so the second winningest team in the country the last 10 years has been Clemson. Alabama's been first. They've been unbelievable. So, but us in Alabama been the two winningest programs on the field. But off the field, nine out of the last 10 years we've been top 10 academically. Clemson, Duke and Northwestern. So there's one program that's doing it at that level on and off the field the last decade. And that's Clemson. So we're unique. We're uncommon. And then, oh, by the way, second in draft picks, second in first rounder, since I've been a head coach in the country. So yes, it's important because they're young people and they all have dreams, right? They all want to go play in the NFL. That's great. That's great. And so you want to have a track record that you can say, hey, look, we've produced a lot of great players. But you know what? I love more than anything, a track record of producing great men, right? And I think that we've done, there's no perfect people and you deal with many young people you're always going to have some that don't turn out the way you want. But we've produced a lot of great men and that's what our program's all about. We want to win a bunch of games, but we want to have fun doing it and we want to equip men to go be great husbands, great fathers, great citizens for life through this game. And that's what we've done. We've kept the main thing the main thing for 12 years. I'm starting my 13th year as the head coach, my 19th year, and so consistency. That's what we want. We want to win the national championship every year, it'd be great. We just want to be consistent. We want to be one of those teams that's always got a shot and when we started this program in 09, we had not won 10 games in 20 years. We had not won a league championship. Now we've won, we're 10 plus win seasons in a row, which is the third best in the history of college football. All right, we had third winning this decade in the history of college football and Grady was a big reason for that, but you win with people. All right, you win with people. Too many people put too much focus on all the measurables. What I've learned in my career is how to evaluate the immeasurables. And at the end of the day, if you can get that right, you got a chance to be special. Awesome, awesome. Well, coaching all that time in my time, I don't know if you can remember back, is there any one particular play or game that I had like during my time at Clinton that you just kind of could remember or if you want to cut something on for the guys to let them see a little bit of G.J. go to work, what you're cutting on, Coach? Oh, I've put some Grady Jarrett clips on for the fellas along the way, man.  I remember the Russell Athletic Bowl, you know, we weren't supposed to win, remember that? We were supposed to get blown out, we won 40 to six. I remember that performance by you, but you know what I remember more than anything, my favorite Grady Jarrett moment ever is right over here in my office.  Yeah, that might have been in South Carolina. I don't know, seeing you, we got to go back in June. 2014, you know, we had lost to South Carolina, we had a bad run. Yeah. And we had all those great seasons, but we just, we had not beaten those guys. Yeah. 2014, man, we got it done. And I remember just, remember, I came in there and I told y'all before and I was like, hey man, it's the freaky, y'all want to change it? Then go do something about it. And I mean, y'all's been touting that game, we dominated the game, but I remember that moment and man, you were coming off the field and it was just like, you know, that was a big deal to win that state championship. And I just jumped up, man, Grady had me like, Kelsey, I'm gonna get you that picture too. Yeah, I need to see this picture. Yeah, man, it's awesome. Grab that picture right there, it's right there. It's a great one.  He had me all jacked up. So there it is right there, look at that. Oh, that is amazing. That's awesome, that's awesome. You will know one moment, that was that moment right there because, you know, that's two grinders that, you know, he believed in me, I believed in him.  It was pretty awesome. And, you know, again, Grady didn't get to win a national championship, but he's been a captain, because we don't win a national championship if it wasn't for the Grady Jarrett's of this program. Man, seeing y'all win them netties, man, he's been one of the most powerful things, you know, being a former tagger, man. So I just, I'm just a part of it. He ain't going away. He ain't going away. Yes, sir. I love it. We keep going, keep going. We keep starting over every year. Keep starting over every year. You know, resetting the tone, learning, growing, getting better, we don't ever arrive, man. Gotta keep starting, gotta prove it every year, right? Like you, your job is to prove that you deserve to be the starting de-tackle for the Falcons. You shouldn't, you ain't entitled to that. You gotta go prove that. And if you ever lose that mindset, you get passed by. Yep. It don't matter what you did. Well, we talk, we talk about what? Windshield mentality, right? Yep. Who cares what happened? Nobody cares. Scratch that. Right? Nobody cares. We beat Alabama 44, 16, two years ago. Guess what? Nobody cares. Yep. It's all about what's next. They people forget that real quick. All right? Y'all was in the Super Bowl. Guess what? How'd that work out the next year? Nobody cares. Yep. All right? You gotta start over.  All the stacks you had, they don't carry over. Guess what? Them bad plays you had don't carry over either. Yep. You know? You get a chance to go learn and grow every single time. And that's just a mentality. You know, to me, that's what drives a Tom Brady. Yeah. You know? Like just falling in love with the journey, you know? And just what it takes. You know, that's what you gotta love. Absolutely. And then the games are great. And those are moments. But it's what it took to get there. That's what we're built for. We're built for the climb. That's what we're built for. Yes, sir. And you gotta love that. I love it.  But we just wanted to say. Look what else I got in my office. This is the coach. Oh, we just got it. This is a Clemson Falcons combined helmet. Tigerpaw Falcons. Look at that. Look at that. 5097. Let's go him in my office right here. Oh, yeah. How cool is this? Yeah, that's sweet. That's sweet. We just brought that up to him this past weekend. Oh, yeah. Is that not awesome? Grady, AJ, yeah. We got some good Clemson Tigers here. Well, coach, we appreciate you. AJ's pretty good, isn't he? Don't like AJ? He doing, they ain't good for it. He gonna be real good for it. Let me say it. I told Grady, I said, you know, I told Demetroff, he actually called me like a couple of days before, like I knew they were gonna take him if he was here.  I said, he's like you, he's about his business.  He wants to win. He don't like to lose. He's about his business. Yeah. Yes, sir. Yeah, we know he's got a good person to follow after and Grady. Well, coach, thank you so much for joining us on the Getting Real with Grady Jarrett podcast. We definitely got to learn a little bit more about Grady with what this podcast is all about. So best of luck to you as you guys continue to be on that climb. We'll be cheering for you and the rest of the Tigers. Hey, well, y'all, listen, y'all have me back on sometime. Yes, sir, we'll do. Absolutely. Thanks so much, coach. Thank you, love you, man. Thanks for helping us. Love you, man. I'll see y'all soon. Yes, sir. Well, like I asked Dabo, I kind of wish that I had my phone recorder out so I could have recorded about half of what he said to set it as like my alarm clock every morning to wake me up because, holy cow, how do you not want to like run through a brick wall when that guy talks? I mean, obviously I've heard many interviews with Dabo. I've gotten a chance to interview him, but listening to him talk to you in the way that he did as, you know, actually a coach in the words of wisdom, I totally get it. And I mean, if I am kids and they play football, I'd want them to go play for Dabo Sweeney. Yeah, absolutely.  And, you know, I watch you at practice every day and I see the way you attack those position drills. And I just wondered, were you always that way in terms of just like a relentless motor and just like, I am gonna outwork you? Or was it like, this is my one shot to impress Dabo so I better go all out here? Or is that just like, that's who you are? That's really who I am. And to be honest, I didn't even realize that I was doing that until he brought it to my attention. I just was so locked in on the zone and I didn't know who was watching me. He came after the fact, you know, we had already started one-on-one drills and stuff like that. Obviously the coaches are there, but you know, I'm really at a spot where I was just kind of controlled by control.  Like guys are lined up, they just ain't stand a chance. They really didn't stand a chance. I knew who was the ones that was committed to Clemson already. I knew who like was some, you know, top ranked guy. I'm talking about, I wanted them all. Like, I knew at the end of the day that I was gonna put my best foot forward. And like, even if I got stopped, kind of stopped me a little bit, tried to, I was gonna finish that thing, push it all the way to the end.  This is all my, like gonna be my last time coming up here.   So it was kind of like, they, they, they, they keep you close, but, you know, not really committing to you. And it was just like, you know what, I'm gonna just do what I gotta do. Let the rest take care of it still. And so yeah, you know, but in, when I'm in that moment, in that mode, like, I just, I just was just locked in, you know, it wasn't even a thing. To be honest, it wasn't even a thing. Like, let me see if he looking to go to, no, it was just me focusing on who was in front of me at that moment and beating him and beating him. And, you know, it's just nobody's to the chance, nobody's to the chance. Well, you know, for anyone that's listening, that's a current athlete, you know, trying to make it in the league or, you know, at the college level, obviously my, my experience is different. Right? I didn't play football, but I did play lacrosse in college. And I remember I used to hate the teammates that would, when we would do like a walkthrough and coaches because of they can only be with you for a certain amount of hours, right? We would do a throw around just for extra work.  Like their level of play when the coach was there was so much better. It just used to irk me to my core. So to listen to you just kind of say like, you didn't even know if someone was watching. Like, I think people don't realize when you're an athlete and you're trying to impress your coaches, like they see you all the time. Even when you think that they're not watching. And they gonna know the difference. Like the work you put in with nobody watching, it's gonna show us up when it's time to go on game day.  It's gonna take you putting in that work with nobody looking.  Like, but you gotta put that work in, especially when nobody looking. And all, you know, you could ask anybody about you, right?    But when you are on the football field, you don't do a lot of talking and you know, you mean business. So is there a switch that goes on in your head when you take the field for practice or a game or just kind of let us in on a little bit of what Grady Jarrett's mindset is like when he takes the football field? Yeah, like it really is a switching. And I tell, you know, I tell people close to me all the time.  I know how to interact with people very well. I like to do, you know, regular things, you know, chill, hang out, have a good time. Like you say, you see me cooking, traveling, whatever it may be. And I always try to have a good time, you know, and I like to have fun, you know, but we know when it comes to, you know, me putting in work and especially doing what I got to do to take care of my family and playing football, something that I love and wanting to compete and be the best, be the best at what I do, period. It takes me going to that place, you know, going to that place of extreme focus, like competitive, like you, like my, my sisters and brother, they teach me all the time. So you're like, if I got to move something around the house, it just feels so heavy or like bump my toe on the wall. It's just, I put me on the ground. But it's like, man, how you do all this on the field, but you can't even do, but man, man, I get on that field. I feel like, like, even like, you know, whether it's playing through injuries, getting bumped here and there, I'm like, I just, it's like a, it's like a mode where you just don't, not even don't feel nothing, but it's just like, it's just, it's like super strange. Like everything that you train for is built for this moment. So I have a good way of channeling when it's time to go and saving that for, for when it's time to go. And for them, you know, for them four quarters who have a longer take for the, to finish the, to finish the game, you know, I mean, I'm locked in. I'm locked in. And to be honest, to be sometimes, I don't even know how I do certain things or go through certain, but it all comes through my preparation, whether it's in the weight room, film room, you know, just getting the body back healthy doing rehab or for doing a little surgery at the season or something. Like just that all, it all leads to, to, to that, you know, and so I've been, I think I have a good balance of knowing like when to turn it off. So I can be present, you know, with, with my family and friends as close to me and be able to interact with people on a personal level.   I love that. I love, I love the whole attitude that, you know, you have been, you know, listening to Coach Sweeney talk about why that's important and why that can separate players was really enlightening to hear and I thought it was, I thought it was just an incredible interview that we had with Coach Sweeney. But before I let you go, I gotta ask you something since we're on the topic of it. Okay. We're getting real here. That's the name of the podcast. Does, does, do you feel like you're still underrated a little bit in the NFL? No, without a doubt, without a doubt goes what I'm saying.  But the thing about it is I never needed anybody, you know, validation or something like that.  I know people around me respect me, but as far as being whatever underrated over, whatever it is, I notice, I know where I am. I'll say that. That's all that matters. And I'm only gonna continue to get better and increase in every, every way, you know, as a player and get better on the field, off the field, you know, whatever it may be. And I know what I am, my team, whether it's representatives, family, whatever it is, they know who we are. And the thing about me, I never settle for anything in my life and I won't.  And so I'm excited for what the future holds. I'll say that. I kind of feel like I should just disable this mic because that is the definition of a mic drop. All right, move. All right, Grady. Well, this was another great episode of the Getting Real with Grady Jarrett podcast. We had on Clemson head coach, Dabo Sweeney, got to learn a little bit more about how he recruited Grady and what makes Grady the great person and player he is. So appreciate y'all tuning in.


This video is part of a series be sure to check out the description the video for the full playlist in the last video We looked at some quick ways to see information about your memory today We're going to look at a few quick options about your CPU about your processors now I've as I mentioned the previous video a great little tool is top gives you a little bit of CPU information there Q2 Quit out of that an H top gives you a much better visual as you can see I have eight cores on my processor here So you can see each one broken down on how they're working So it gives you a little bit more information there and a visual of how they're being used both H top and top Are readily available, but not necessarily installed on your system by fault default So you may have to install them just use your repositories through your software Your package manager app to get aptitude or wherever package manager you use on your system Next command you can try is LS CPU is usually available And that will give you some CPU information for some reason that doesn't work You can get similar information by saying cat forward slash proc forward slash CPU info and we'll hit enter you can see that gives the same information but broken down for each each core and you can also look at the man file for Lcpu and it will tell you more information how to break down that information and Last but not least we're gonna look at a program called m stat or sorry mp stat Which is most likely not installed on your system by default. It is part of a package called Sistat so use your package manager whether it be aptitude app get or whatever the package is probably called Sistat has a number of programs in there one of which is m stat And you're gonna want to use sudo for this sudo and hit enter and it will give you some cpu information here and if we do cpu one you'll notice that it continually goes on And on and what's doing it has an interval of one second because we use one if I do the same command with two There'll be a two-second delay in between each output And of course on up I can say like five seconds So there's gonna be five seconds in between each update depending on how quickly you want to see information come up on the screen And if we quickly use man for mp stat We can see all the different commands here the switches the arguments that you can pass to it And you can see interval counts That's what we were doing and then there's also the dash a command which actually incorporates a few of the different commands here So let's go ahead and give that try sudo mp stat dash capital a remember things are case sensitive We'll hit enter and we get a lot of information here that you can look through this part isn't too well Formatted but we come up to the top you can see each core broken down here and It just gives you a little more information Just read through the man file for more information on that again I think the quickest and easiest way is h top gives you a nice quick visual And the other commands are are good if you want to log stuff to a file You can grep through the output of the other commands But if you just want to get a quick visual h top is great for that I thank you for watching as always. Please visit my website films by Chris comm. That's Chris the K There should be a link in the description If you enjoy this video be sure to like subscribe share and comment as always I hope that you have a great day