What he represents is patriarchy. We're here to do work as men, as patriarchs. There's nothing more natural than being a father. Welcome back to the 21 convention 2019 patriarch edition of Orlando, Florida. Our next speaker is a returning speaker to the 21 convention. He first spoke last year in Orlando at our event back in October. He is the author of The Tactical Guide to Women, How Men Can Manage Risk in Dating and Marriage. He's actually the author of several more books beyond that too, including A Few for Women. Our next speaker is also a, he's been a clinical psychologist in Denver, Colorado for a few decades. He was one of my favorite new speakers last year, and I'm really glad he's here. He's a father of at least one. I think he might even have more kids than that. A proud patriarch. Anyway, without further ado, please help me welcome to the stage Dr. Sean T. Smith. Let's come back, sir. Good to be here. Thank you. Good morning. Man, Hunter got me fired up this morning. How are you feeling? And how about George? George is the kind of guy you meet him for the first time. You feel like you're meeting an old friend. So I'm going to try to add something useful to this today. Maybe give you some skills that you can take home and try out on your little ones. And if you'll indulge me, I have to rely on my notes, cards a little bit, because I didn't prepare quite as much as I wanted to. But in my defense, I was drunk and failed to see how that's my responsibility. So I'll do the best I can here. My wife, I make her a little edgy sometimes because I'll approach her with these questions. And she knows that I'm looking for something, but she doesn't know exactly what I'm looking for. And I hear her with one the other day. I said, what is the mothering instinct? And she said, she got kind of tense because she knows I'm after something. And she said, well, I guess it's the desire to bond with your children and so that you'll keep them alive. And I said, OK, well, let's make it more specific. Let's say that if there's a mothering instinct that there must be some kind of evolved adaptations that get passed down through our DNA that lead to certain behaviors and traits that create this desire to keep your child alive. And so what might those be? And the first thing she came up with was to create a safe and nurturing environment. And I think that was spot-on. So she relaxed a little bit. And the reason I think that's spot-on is because it's what I see among mothers. And it's what I hear in the culture is that the mother's job is to create safety and nurturance. Now, how many people here think that there is a fathering instinct? I do. You don't hear much about it, really. You hear a lot about mama bear. But you don't hear much about papa bear besides that toilet paper commercial. But I think that there is a fathering instinct. And I think one part of that is the instinct to provide. And this is something that's been under attack in our culture. It's called patriarchal. It's called hegemonic that we go out and we kill things and we bring it back to the cave and we feed our families and we become sort of a leader in that regard. And that is seen somehow as a slight against women in certain quarters. But there's an interesting paper that came out just earlier this year in this handbook called the Paul Grave Handbook for Male Mental Health came out of England. It's a really good handbook. And one of the chapters in that book talks about the fact that just the act of providing, going out and killing something and bringing it back, that that creates a series of neuroendocrine responses within the body that lead to other behaviors that create bonding between father and child. So that's clearly one aspect of the fathering instinct. Another aspect that I've noticed because a little bit about me, as Anthony mentioned, I'm a clinical psychologist. I started off a long time ago just working with anxiety disorders because I like working with anxiety disorders because it's a very clear fix to them and so a high success rate when you work with anxiety disorders. But also over in my career, I got really interested in relationships, this male-female thing and what makes it work and how to fix that. So over the years, there is this certain point of tension that shows up in my office on occasion between mothers and fathers. And it is this tension between safety and risk. I think another second big part of the fathering instinct is to allow our children to experience some of the friction in the world. And that's what I want to talk a little bit about today is that innate understanding that fathers seem to have that we have to push against something to get stronger, to build character, to build resilience. It's sort of like astronauts when they go up into space and they don't experience gravity and they're not pushing against the earth. What happens to them? Well, their muscles atrophy, their bones become less dense. It's a real problem. It can last for years. It can dog them for many years after they come back to earth. And fathers seem to understand instinctually that our children need to push against something. They need to experience the world whereas mothers are generally trying to protect them from the world. And this is the tension that I see showing up. We seem to understand better than they do that pushing against the world creates character and it creates resilience and it creates courage. So I want to tell you a little story in this regard. I want to tell you about a friend of mine that I went to high school with. He and I have been buddies for 30 something years now. And this is one of my favorite stories and he tells it better than I do. I'll do my best with it. But I want to tell you a little bit about our relationship. One of the reasons we connect is because our fathers were very similar. Our fathers were older gentlemen when they had both of us and they were similar in temperament and they were very big personalities. But they were not the kind of fathers that were prone to giving a lot of guidance. You know, when you see the beginning of the old Andy Griffith show where they're walking down to the lake together father and son and he's imparting some kind of wisdom that you can't hear because somebody is whistling that that was not our fathers. They were great fathers but that was not them. And the only reason I say that is to illustrate the point that my friend and I didn't get a lot of training and so that makes this story about him all that much more poignant because clearly what he did with his children on a particular day came from instinct, came from his DNA. And here's the situation. This was about 20 years ago. He had a couple of kids ages like six and seven and so when you're six and seven, what are you doing? You're starting to go out into the world into preschool and kindergarten. There's all this new structure and all these new rules that you have to try to contend with as your little kid. And he noticed that there was a little contention developing between him and his kids. A little bit of adversarial relationship because what was happening is the morning routine was getting a little bit competitive. The way it usually worked was mom would go to work really early and then he would gather up the kids, drop them off at school, then he would go to work. He had to be at work at a certain time. And so the tension that was developing was that the kids were starting to get resistant. Like they were starting to him and Hall in the morning. They weren't getting dressed on time. They weren't brushing their teeth on time. And it was starting to encroach on his professional life because he was starting to run the risk of being late, which would threaten his ability to come home with the prize at the end of the day. And as he saw this developing, this tension, he had a wonderful intervention. And when you think about, well, let me tell you what he did first. He went to them one morning. Actually there was one evening, the evening before one morning. And he said, we got a new plan for tomorrow. The plan is that I have to be at work on time. And so what I need for you from you kids is for you to be dressed and in the car and ready to go at 7.30. Because I'm going to leave at 7.30. And I hope you're with me. But if you're not, that's okay. You can stay home. And it probably won't be a very fun day for you because I don't know what you're going to do for lunch. And your teachers aren't going to be very happy with you. But you'll get through it. And so next morning rolls around. And he had even explained. He reviewed the clock with them. Like this is what 7.30 looks like. We've got the minute hand down here. We've got the hour hand right next to it. And we even have a digital clock. It's a different kind of clock. It has a 7 and a colon and it has a 30. So he explained all of this to them. And he said about 7.25. You probably better be on the way of the truck. And he said about 7.25 rolls around. And guess who's not ready to go? The kids are not ready to go. They're testing. And when you think about the world from a kid's point of view, this makes sense. Because they're thrown into this situation called life. And it's very confusing. And they're trying to piece it all together. Like apparently you're supposed to fold your clothes and put them in the drawer. But then apparently when your friend steals your toy, you're not supposed to bite them. And the rules seem kind of arbitrary. And so it makes sense that they would test and try to find out what's solid and what isn't. So the next morning they're testing. And they're trying to find out what's solid and what isn't. And is my friend going to be solid? Well, 7.25, he notices that they're not ready. And he says, gosh, it's getting kind of late. Are you two coming with me? Oh, yeah, yeah. We'll be there. They're really not attending to the urgency of the situation. And in the morning at 8.28, they see him grabbing his backpack and walking out to the car. And he's ready to leave them. Now is he really going to leave them? No, he's got to see, he's smart. What he did was he has a neighbor around the corner. We didn't have cell phones.  And he had talked to her the morning before and said, hey, if I come knock at your door at 7.32 tomorrow, can you go over to my house and make sure the kids are okay and we'll work it out from there. So he had the safety net in place and he was ready to go. So they see him walking out to the car. Now suddenly it's starting to get real. Their testing is yielding a result. And the result is that dad is serious. Like he's actually going to leave us here. And it starts to register. And they start to get kind of activated and agitated. And I don't know what was said between them, but he picks up on their emotion. And he sees that they're starting to spin out of control a little bit because he thinks they think he's actually going to leave them, which he is.  And my friend says, well, here's an option. We still have two minutes. If you can gather up your clothes and run out the door, I guess you could change in the car and then he walks out. He gets in his car. He starts it up. He starts backing down the driveway. And this is the part that he tells better than I do. And what does he see in his rear view mirror? He sees these kids. He pants in one hand, lunchbox. One kid drops a shoe. He has to go back and pick it up. But they open the door and they pile in, and they change on the way to school. And it was a success. Now, let me tell you about the tone of my friend. He's a very low-key kind of guy. And the beauty of this intervention is that there was no anger. There was no lecturing. There was no shaming. He was on their side the whole time. From the night before, he was their ally. Very low level of emotion. Now, they had a high level of emotion at one point, but he was always right down here.  High level of emotion, right? Begging, bargaining, pleading, anger, frustration. And you've seen this. You've seen this in the grocery store.  And then she counts to three and nothing happens. And then she has to count to four, whatever it is. And I'm sure that somewhere there are men who do that. But of all the dozens of women, I've observed that within the grocery store, I've never once, not one time have I ever seen a man do that because we have different instincts. Now, is it because we're better parents than them? No, we're just different parents than them. We understand the value of friction. And what my friend did that day was he allowed the world to encroach on his children's life a little bit. But he did it in a very controlled fashion. Now, here's the beautiful thing about this instinct that we have to allow our children to experience friction. We very rarely need to be the source of friction. Some of our fathers were a little confused. They thought that they needed to be the source of friction. They needed to provide anger and frustration and lecturing and shame. Some of our fathers didn't. My father didn't do that. But we don't usually need to be the source of friction because there's plenty of friction coming from the outside world. Now, sometimes they bump up against us personally and we then become the source of friction. I'll give you an example of that. A few years ago, my wife made me, for my birthday, a big pile of beef jerky. And she went all out. She went to Whole Foods, got the best cut of meat. Had them sliced at thin. She marinated it all night. And then whenever I wasn't home, she was out at the smoker, cooking this up slowly. And it was a beautiful gift. This was easily like $75 worth of beef jerky. And one day I went into the refrigerator to get some of this delightful spicy beef jerky. And I noticed that the bag was pretty light. And it turns out that certain nine-year-old daughter had been getting after this stuff like a ravenous wolf.  We had a conversation about being part of the family and consideration because don't get me wrong, I would take a bullet for this kid, but there's a pecking order with the beef jerky. So we discussed it. And I shared the beef jerky with her, of course I did, because she's the light of my life. So that kind of situation aside, we don't need to be the source of friction. And the beauty of what my friend did was he provided his little kids with three things. And if you take nothing else from my little talk today, take these three words. Structure, warmth, and success. The structure that he gave his children was the clock, the car, and the clothes. That's it. Three things that they can manage. They didn't have to worry about putting gas into the car. They didn't have to buy food for their lunchboxes. They didn't have to provide their own clothes. They just had to manage those three age-appropriate things. He controlled everything else and he allowed that much structure from the world to come into their lives. He didn't invent the structure. That's the structure of the world. The warmth he gave them was being on their side from the beginning, from the night before saying, I think you kids can do this. I'm with you. I know we've been having some trouble, but I'm on your side. And even toward the end, when things were starting to melt down, he gave them the third component, which was success. When they were starting to melt down, when they thought that they were down and out, he gave them a little solution, an age-appropriate solution. You can grab your stuff and you can get into the car. So even when they thought they had failed, he allowed them to succeed. It was such a beautiful intervention. It's one of my favorite stories, and this is why, because he gave them those three elements, structure, warmth, and success. And it was such a beautiful lesson that he gave them that day because he gave them a couple of very important things. Number one, he gave them a little lesson in character that is really important, that we keep our word with people. And as I've watched his kids grow up, they're in their 20s now, they're both doing great things. One of them is off to a stellar career in the military, and I have to imagine that some of that ability to thrive in that environment goes back to that random Wednesday morning when he gave them this gift of character, a little gift that just carried on. And the second thing that he gave them, which is so important that we men give our children, is that when they thought they were down and out, they learned that they can always come back fighting. That's something that mothers can do, but not nearly as naturally as we do it. It's in our blood, it's in our DNA. So this is a lifeline process. This isn't something that you start when they're 14. That's way too late. This starts when they're making their first decisions in life, when they're deciding that they can move their body from there to there, little decisions. And as you watch fathers in these situations, they're very good at titrating reality and controlling how much reality and how much risk comes into that kid's life. If there's a set of stairs there, there's a little cliff right here. The father's going to be the one that very effectively steps in and controls these risks. But it's also the father that says, all right, you're ready for the stairs now. And usually the father says it before the mother is comfortable with it. And the reason we do these things, I'm convinced of it. I have not been able to find many studies on this because my profession is not terribly interested in fathers, very interested in mothers. But I'm convinced that the reason we do this so naturally is so that when we're challenging our little one to handle the stairs and to handle outlets and to handle all these little dangers that are in the world, that we're building in them a set of skills that carries forward so that when they are 14 and they're facing Instagram and smartphones and sex and drugs, we have this set of skills for managing the risk because they've learned how to do it from the time they were a little one. Now there are moments when we get to step in and rescue. That's the other bright side of this, is that yes, we're always making them a little uncomfortable, and not always, but we're typically making them a little uncomfortable, allowing them to sit with some risk and danger in the world. But there are times when we get to be Superman. And it only happens when we've done the first part of this job correctly. When I was about 10 years old, I had a cousin that was about 16. She lived in Kansas, and I would go out there for the summer sometimes. And she had gotten her driver's license. Of course, she was real proud of that. And we decided one night, well, they decide I'm 10. I wasn't deciding anything, but they decided one night we're all going to go to a drive-in, just the kids. She was going to drive, and all this younger cousins were going to go with her. And I don't know if you remember, old drive-ins are what they look like, there's a big parking lot and there's a big movie theater screen up there. And then in the parking lot, at intervals, there are these heavy metal poles, like galvanized steel poles. And on these poles are these big metal speakers. And you'd pull up next to a pole close to it and you'd reach out and you'd grab the speaker and you'd hang it on your window so that you could hear the audio for the movie. So the movie ends and we're pulling out and she's at the wheel, obviously. And she starts to turn and we hear this long metallic scrape right along the back of the car, the back door and the back quarter panel. And what happened, she turned too close or turned too tight and she hit that metal pole and made a really big scratch right down the, scratch end down right down the side of the car. And this was my uncle's car. And my uncle, very big, masculine man, booming voice, kind of a stern father, she was distraught. She didn't know what to do about this. So we went home, we had this pact of secrecy, nobody was going to tell my uncle like that was going to fix it somehow. Maybe he would wake up the next morning and the dent fairies will have taken care of it. I don't know what we were thinking, but he woke up the next morning and of course he found it. And he didn't know what happened, but he know who did it. And so he went to my cousin and she's distraught. She's in tears. She hasn't slept all night. She has no idea what to do with this situation. And my uncle, this stern man, what do you think he did? Put his arm around her. Sorry, it's just a car. And I don't know why he responded that way because I've never asked him about it. But I have to imagine that he saw two things, the kind of things that I see in my daughter sometimes. Number one, she was at such an emotional level that there was nothing he could possibly add. Anything he added would have just added to the sense of misery and failure that was overcoming her. She felt horrible. I didn't want to add to that. There's no value in adding to that. And the second thing is that she really had no way to solve this problem. She's 16. She's making 3 bucks at the Tasty Freeze or whatever. And she would have had to work for weeks, maybe months to come up with enough money to do this body work. And it's really not an option for her to do that. So my uncle in his wisdom I think he saw this high level of emotion and I think he saw that the problem was beyond her solution and so her ability to solve it and so he gets to step in and be the hero. And it was kind of a nice moment for them. I think it was a moment that kind of shaped their relationship. It was one of those turning point moments where she was going from a kid to an adult and she's learning that no matter what, the old man is going to be here and I can depend on him. Now my daughter right now is 12 and in my imagination my 12 year old daughter has a tachometer right here on her forehead and it's an emotional tachometer and I can see how emotional she is based on where the needle is and she's a girl so she tends to idle a little fast and she's emotionally. She tends to be pretty ambivalent and happy, ever-vescent, loud but she can very quickly turn to upset, concern, anxious. She tends to be a little high strung and me being the father I'm okay with letting her emotional tachometer start to rev over to like 7, 8, 9,000 because I know that even if she's getting emotional she can still usually solve problems. I've lived with her for 12 years and I've got a sense of where her line is. I don't like it when she redlines she starts getting up to 12,000 RPM emotionally because I know that when that hits she's immobilized. She can't solve problems at that point so I have learned when she's approaching that red line that's when I need to be attentive and I need to start maybe offering solutions and rescuing and helping her through that and the mom, my wife beautiful woman, I've noticed that I don't know if she sees the same tachometer that I do but I've noticed that she doesn't want to intervene at around 3,000 RPM much lower level because she has that wonderful mothering instinct to create a safe and comfortable and nurturing environment so this at times has been a little point of contention between us but not really because we talk about it and these are conversations that you don't want to have when little Timmy is on the top row of bars because it's a high tense high stakes situation. They're conversations that you want to have over dinner when things are calm, when nobody's in danger and she and I have this little metaphor that's mostly me, it's in my head it might be like the imaginary tachometer but I'm the sales department of the company and she and I'm the boss and she's the accounting department so sales department is out in the world killing things, bringing them back and the accounting department is a little more risk averse a little more conservative she's not too risk averse she's actually pretty tolerant to me letting the kid struggle a little bit but we have these two forces we have the risk takers and we have the safety oriented people so we have risk and safety and they're wonderful together because either one, too much of either one is not a great thing because you have too much of the risk and too much of the willingness to just let your kid beat up get beat up by the world and overwhelmed by the world, what you end up with is one kind of helplessness it's called learned helplessness where a kid learns that no matter what I try I'm gonna fail, I'm gonna get beat up and so they become immobilized by that and they stop trying then on the other end, the conservative end you have a different kind of helplessness and this is the helplessness of over protection this is the person who never learns how to take a risk because they've always been protected and that's an entirely different kind of helplessness and it's very dangerous because they go out into the world and they get their ass kicked in a really unpleasant way they wind up knocked up or on drugs or they succumb to these challenges that they were never prepared to handle and so when you have the sales department and the accounting department working together it's a beautiful thing and I'm always of the mindset that if the accounting department is saying those guys are a bunch of idiots all they do is they just want to have fun and they have no attenuation to risk management they're sinking the ship if the accounting department is saying that about the sales department more often than not that's a failure on behalf of the sales department because they never articulated the mission now sometimes the sales department articulates the mission and the accounting department doesn't listen then that's a problem on behalf of the sales department but when they're working together what you have is this wonderful balance what your children need from you is to trust this instinct and to refine it because she's not going to get it she's not predisposed to get it any more than I can understand why my wife wants to intervene when my daughter's revving at 3000 rpm let her solve the problem like it's beyond me why she wants to intervene that I love that nurturing nature she doesn't get it why I want to let my daughter struggle as much as I do and I'm never going to let her get hurt I'm always going to be the safety net but she doesn't get that about me and worse than that we live in this culture where there are organized forces telling you that this instinctual thing that you bring that what you are that your male DNA is toxic by nature do you hear a member of the American Psychological Association I'm not I don't see any hands so I think that makes zero in this room the American Psychological Association wrote this report a set of guidelines earlier in the year I'll talk about them in a minute but that's one set of forces working against us and working against our masculinity anybody here have a closet full of delightful Gillette products I don't I used to I'm not boycotting them they're boycotting us and so that's fine because it turns out there's a lot of great alternatives out there let me talk about this APA thing for a minute I've been very vocal some of you have mentioned that you've seen my videos about the American Psychological Association I don't like the report or their set of guidelines for working with men and boys because essentially what they have done is they've said that masculine traits and masculine instincts are toxic to a mental health disorder and in their guidelines they actually had a couple of good and useful things like one of the useful things they did was they gave a nod to fatherhood and they cited some of the data out there that says that children who have involved and attached fathers do better in life from beginning to end they do better in math classes they do better with avoiding drugs and they do better with their families and they do better in school they just do better they excel everywhere when the father is present but then the same organization turns around and says the traits that create those outcomes are bad and why do they do that well part of it is because they're shameless ideologues but another part is that I don't think they understand I don't think they understand what we are I don't think they understand what we bring to our children I think they look at outcomes and they say well that's nice but they're not really piecing together what it is about us I'll give you an example of something they don't understand lady came into my office a few several years ago and she asked me this question and she wasn't really upset about it but she was very curious about it she noticed that her husband had this habit of getting her children revved up before bed and then expecting them to go to bed and I was gone a few minutes ago I think that George talked a little bit about this but she was really curious about what this behavior is like why does a man get children revved up with lots of horseplay and lots of activity and then expect them to calm down and so she started asking her friends and their husbands did it too and they started to get stymied about it and she came to me with this question and said why do you people do this and I said I don't know but let me go check it out I'll see if I can find an answer so I looked and I looked and I looked and it turned out that there had actually been a study on this and the reason men do this the thinking is that we're teaching emotional regulation this isn't just some destructive thing that we're doing to our children when we get them revved up and expect them to change gears when we take them from high energy to low energy and we walk them through that process we're teaching them how to manage their emotions out there in the world and this is a very important lesson and clearly it's not a lesson that mothers are as predisposed to give them, they give them wonderful other things but they don't give them this and right now I guarantee you there's some guy in India getting his children all revved up before bed and aggravating his wife and then expecting them to calm down because he understands at a molecular level how to be a father your children need you to refine this instinct and to trust this instinct and by the way when I'll be doing a workshop later Kin is a therapist in Denver top notch clinician and he's going to be talking a little bit about how to refine this instinct and how to listen to this instinct particularly if you didn't have the greatest role models to teach you how to do this and I'll talk a little bit about managing the anxiety that shows up in your household because whether you like it or not you are the managers of anxiety and emotion in your household and you guide the conversation but if you want to come to the workshop that's what we'll be discussing she's going to question you the culture is going to question you APA is going to question you Gillette is going to question you but we need you to follow your children need you to follow this instinct one last quick story here some of you know because you've mentioned it to me that I co-hosted a little call in show and couple weeks ago this is to help guys manage risk and avoid making wrecks of their lives couple weeks ago a lady called in with a cautionary tale and she was a mother and the situation was that her 19 year old son had gotten engaged to a 28 year old woman and the concern that this mother had being a protective nurturing mother doing a wonderful job and wanting to warn the rest of the world about this is that she noticed that um this woman who had gotten her hooks into her son didn't have any interest in being a wife didn't have any interest in having a husband and she probably liked the idea of it but that wasn't what she was after she wanted a wedding day and she wanted children and her son had fallen into this almost fall into this trap turned out that he saw the you know he saw the warning signs to get out but as the conversation unfolded the question came up what is your son's father think about this situation and she said well his father says he'll figure it out and I wanted to track this guy down and say you big stupid dummy your kid 19 his brain has not grown in yet he's about to get thrown to the wolves completely disengaged gosh I wonder how this happened your kids need you to stay engaged with them they need you to stay engaged with this process of guiding them through the dangers of the world because they're everywhere and they need you to have fun with it too because this is another beautiful aspect of this is that it's a wonderful experience it's a lot of fun and I tell you the folks at the APA and the made the Gillette commercial and all those nannies and all those gender studies professors if there's one thing they can't stand is to see men like us having fun it's the best revenge so I think that um that wraps it up for me and hope to see some of you after lunch and thank you for the time what he represents is patriarchy we're here to do work as men there's nothing more natural than being a father


Hello everyone and welcome to an episode of Jurassic World the game that is quite we've had two videos on this game in the same week What is this 2015 again? I hope it's today because then it'll be a quick one it is the Tournament or a start four hours ago the tournament for the Lambiosaurus so this is I mean I was hoping that maybe it would be a VIP creature, you know something that's It's just a little bit different then You know oh another VIP creature. It's a bit like the formula for Jurassic Park builder where it was DNA dinosaurs wasn't it? It was like oh we have to do a tournament to get the new creature and then they went on to oh you have to buy it and Packs and stuff like that. Oh, I don't know. I think they were all obtainable by DNA But then they switched them to packs it to buy Which I think they learned from the mistake because they kind of did it with VIP But they also made VIP accessible if you you know, you didn't even pay for VIP You can get them normally, but you can get them faster and a lot more of them if you do like a subscription sort of thing But we are here to participate in that I actually just want to do a couple of things in the park before we jump into What will be the rest of the video which is you know do a battle to battle to battles? So we have a t-rex finally. That's right. He would be proud Well, he is proud because there you go mission completed. We've got more coin Have we made contact with the raptor retrieval team since their last call? I don't even know what I don't even know What is going on in the campaign anymore? I don't actually know Oh, God, sorry nothing since the last call if they keep heading along the network of old security stations We should hear from them in an hour assuming the next booth is still operational Assuming they haven't already made contact with the raptors one way or another Well, that's very dark. I'm as Ronnie. We got another one The hour has passed clear we have to assume that Barry no one are not going to call They're both highly trained professionals at the peak of their dangerous profession So it's premature to determine that they've reached a bad end. I'm sure they're fine clay But I can't rely on the hopes of optimistic or optimism before act and I must act You know that the red line and protocols require me to notify the military if a dinosaur breach lasts more than 24 hours We need to get those raptors back before this happens. Is that law? Is that cannon? Did they talk to Colin Trevaux about a red line? If I ever meet him and be like so, do you know What's the red line protocol in Jurassic World franchise to be like? What? 100% bet you he doesn't even know If I may miss him as Ronnie you need it in you need intelligence Concrete information eyes on the ground. It's the only way I have a plan and his plan to rescue You know, I think if I remember right Owen and Barry went off to save the kids and then they haven't heard from them now Vic Hoskins has come to Mizrani with an amazing idea that means you have to do You have to make five John Hammond's memorial statues and collect two thousand two million coins and dinosaurs What what is this? Oh At least I got some DNA for doing it. We also got news. Okay, nothing in the news, but here it is the lambio Oh, sorry sin sato. I thought it was lambiosaurus. I swear just the way that the crest looked But I guess I was wrong anything in the I don't think I think I did it just before I came out. Okay Well, that's that so let's do my favorite content to do on the channel at least it was the longest time Which was a complete Tournament where I basically go from hatchling all the way to dominate a legal domination. I think it's dominated in one video and Normally when the tournaments first start You can get there a lot quick also a bumpy is bumpy a dinosaur on this guy I don't think bumpy is a dinosaur in this game and oh my god. I just noticed what I'm facing At hatchling this should not be what I'm facing. Is it averaging to what I've got? It might it might actually be doing that I Think my dino dino cameras is actually better. Oh Lord, I don't think it is What's the attack on the super a super a source? One two Oh, wow Please tell me on yours too. I think your nearest to so what I'll do is I'll switch out to lemma lemma lemma Go for two reserves. I think we're good I'm hoping so fingers crossed. I'm hoping Right. Well, I would have like I would have preferred if he didn't But I'm gonna now switch. I think it's the only thing I can do really and then go for two reserves because he'll have three and you'll Hopefully go for three to kill me and then I'll have six go for two to attack him and then Depending on what how much damage that hybrid does I Might only need to go for what a three block Oh, yeah, okay, so one two kills it one two three because I can take a shot I can take a hit and survive it and one reserve there we go This was way harder than I thought it would be for the first battle But normally when this happens and you get a battle that's tough from the start from the get-go You need a lot less battles. So I'm hoping that's the case this tournament it's been the first for a while the Lydia or Jam City, I should say Have done a tournament like this. It's normally been the same for months But I can't remember the last time it was like this. It has been but not for a long time Okay, so hopefully we got low like 40 cups for that because that was really tough 20 bugger off 20 That's rubbish. Okay, so we we completely passed hatching we completely passed The other one and we're into bronze in one battle. So that's not too bad. So we'll see what we get come on Give me bucks. Give me. Oh, give me the Sinsado pack.  Yeah Sell and VIP points, which you know what five bucks. That's actually not too bad I will just quickly do the code 19 on a T-rex gen 2. Do you think might be level 20? Could be level 10 So we got 30. Oh, so how much are we gonna get for this? I did yesterday a code 19 for the Scorpius Rex actually go very lucky Getting that but he didn't give me as much DNA as some other dinosaur that wasn't as good as Scorpius Rex So it does feel like sometimes it's random What the code 19s give you to pet like normally? You know the dinosaur if it's a really good dinosaur you'll get 10 super DNA But then the actual DNA you win by doing this seems to seems to fluctuate. So I got about like 300 or maybe like 400 and regular DNA for doing the Scorpius Rex, right, which isn't that much And I'll probably get more Okay, never mind. I was gonna say I might get more doing this I wouldn't if I'd got it. But yeah, that's a T-rex gen 2 and it's giving me the same DNA as a Scorpius Rex Oh, look at that open six card packs. Yeah. Hey, right. Okay. So that was that took me by surprise that one I was not expecting that so now I'm a bit worried about putting something in that might be underpowered So I'm gonna I'm pretty sure I didn't click advert there, but Domino's guys don't wanna can we get it? Oh Domino's dominoes It's not even the edible ones. Excuse me. I can hear the battle Can I can I please? Excuse me. I need a click. I need a click Apparently I didn't get a click. I can't do anything No, I don't want it Kind of Lydia get your rack together. What are you doing?   What was that?  I Mean I put five.  So I'm gonna go for three because I think he had one block and even then like This is way easier to him. It's better than the team. I just fought but I Thought my team I should have got 40 cups for that, but if I got the bear minimum 20 What's the point? Oh a four. Oh, that's a that's a hefty chunk of damage Not that it matters though because you died one hit by super Kool-Aid Remember when he used to put the Super Saiyan effect in for a day Remember that? That was good time. Oh Dna prediction. Oh, oh and I get 38 for that. Oh now I get 38 I Was way better. Oh my team was way better than the last team. What? Did it just mess up like is it using? I don't know man. I don't know all I know is I've got a collect from the DNA building Yes More give me more and I need no none of that. Okay. Okay fair enough, right? So we're halfway up this now That should have done a mission for me. Thank you Thank you Right, let's use you to morphodon and click the box this time although saying that I didn't spend books Did I because it was an advert? So but still This game is seven years old and gets frequent updates That shouldn't be an issue. Hey look I can go for Luckily the way that I play this game Means that it doesn't matter what I do for the first round the enemy will always go for two attacks because if I reserve for one they kill me in two if I block for one they kill me in two and Even if I don't have anything for whatever reason They still go for two like they know that I haven't used anything or least they don't they must Because they always go for the bare minimum. So that's that's that's a beastie So I'll go for one here knowing that I can kill him in one Okay We got a gorgas suit just I think I'll go sorry gorgasaurus now gorgasaurus has 800 attack It's the health that I'm worried about with the Dilophosaurus Gen 2 That's dangerous. Okay. Okay. Maybe I've got like four five five. Yes. So one two kills them and then go for I could probably take I could probably think What I got two hits so I might not have had to go for two reserve two blocks I could have went for one block to reserve like switches, but oh I you know if I'd done that it would be in the guaranteed victory, but now it's possibly up in the air. Oh No, never mind. It's not because if he blocked for Four and I would have had five. I'm I'm you know, I'm not guaranteed to kill So it doesn't matter Gorgasaurus does Okay, now, I don't even know what score I'm gonna get for that. I think it should be high I think it should be like 38 again. Oh, it's 40. Yes There you have it look at that into Hunter League halfway through who's gonna be a quick video guys a Thing is though. I don't know whether it's worth You know, I mean for instance if you do it this way as soon as it clocks over and you get Dominate a league quick You'll you know, you get the instant gratification of all of the super DNA that you get but at the same time Then you're gonna have to keep on using your best dinosaurs constantly because you're gonna have to stay up there, right? so What if you leave it for ages and then you do it all at once you have to use lower level creatures Although saying that look at this. I don't think you will with this tournament. So that doesn't really make too much sense Yeah, don't know where it's going with that, but here we are Sometimes I like to just ramble. It's fun. I like it Right, okay, so I mean this will be today's video so it's Friday So be this will go up tonight because I mean this takes two seconds really to edit But I actually record another one. I'm excited to edit that I don't probably up tomorrow now and I was gonna edit that video now But then when I saw this I was like, oh we might as well do this then So I'll just go for sort it so that I'm gonna go for three reserves because I know we can't do it Worst case scenario I'm gonna swap in limo limo limo and they just fodder that off We'll see what happens here though Yes, I'll fodder it off. It's it's not worth it It really isn't I'll just go for four reserves and one block So we at least has to go for two to kill me. He's got five Worst case scenario go for two that would be nasty nasty Was it gonna go for oh perfect?  We both excuse me now. It just looked like I was a rude Right. What's its attack 800? So? I'll go for that I'm not too worried Gigaca giga lockers off a good good luck a lot. Okay. What was it called? giga giga giga Gilocephalus giga gilocephalus good lord. Yeah, that thing that was that's tricky Oh, and this is actually quite good because I think that was Did he have four? He had boys who's got one block. So one two kills a factor in the one block Factor in the one block factor in the one block. There we go And now I can go for like two block and I think I'm fine. Yeah, there it is wait Yes Pulls on a bit of to do it. Yeah. Yeah. We did it sweet Four four Come on man. Just do something scared. Oh, right. We should get 40 for this. This again is a pretty tough team And I think the first the first battle must have been a fluke it must have been it must have been working off The original formula and then as soon as that was done it clocked over to the new formula Which is why every battle has given me the you know the points I should have got was the first battle didn't Yeah, so that yeah 40. That's nice. I like that. Oh, there we go into gold We're gonna get And we get more spins if you want to I said, yeah I suppose if you get it dominated quicker, then you get better rewards at least then you're not wasting your books on terrible rewards I don't know why you keep asking me this. I don't want to do a survey Wait, what's this keep a lookout for a maintenance break coming of the 11th. Okay, right?  Hey, so Ikea Stega shark fin head Deepest bluest my head is like a shark's fin I used to say that all the time in school all the other kids thought I was crazy All right, let's go that's him not me. I would never say that Never Here we go right. Oh wow that was tough for a legendary creature to get 50 DNA Okay, this is 10 and it's a capersuit is which is a super and it's 31 excuse me it's This is this this creature is worse than an Ikea Stega yet. I Basically already got the same amount of DNA. It doesn't make sense It honestly sometimes does feel like it's random capersuit. This is a super right. It's not a VIP. I think it's a super rare I'm so sure it was a super rare How much DNA we're gonna get for this 60 Good Lord. I Was so focused Well, there you have it didn't get as much. Oh, we would have got loads for that. Why? Well another 10 and now it's our moxadona, whatever it is, which is another set like the Capricutius That was close. That was close at 20. 20 is good.  And then the diamond shape. Oh, it's not Why is it not the diamond shape? Give me the diamond shape. Okay, let's switch those two around Diamond shape. Yes one two three four five six. Oh We did it look at all that DNA. That's how much we would have gone for the Capricut just 770 that is nuts. That's crazy. Oh, look. Yes all of this stuff and more buckaroos. Yes Right, let's continue where we left off Go for this. It really doesn't seem like I need Dinosaur is like if I got 40 for using it you'd a moffadon Although the dinosaurs maybe are a little bit tougher now. Maybe they've redone the tournaments. Oh That's that's not nice. Oh I don't like that. No No, no no no no no Why why? Two really good flyers Two really good flyers. I'm a full team of amphibians game.  Why did you do this? Right, I can't kill him. So I Guess I'll do that worst case scenario hits with one and then I could probably kill him and Then survive the Sino and then use Lama Lama Lama to be a meat shield That's probably the tactic I'm gonna go for here. I'd say yeah, okay perfect. Perfect. Let's see So I'll have five I think yep five so I kill him in four and then Sino has three certain block for one. So one two three.  I'll go for One block because worst case scenario hits me with two and two doesn't kill me So what I'll do now is I'll survive no matter what switch out Get as much reserves off as possible before limo dies Switch must have done so I was back in because it'll be dead Um, and then just sweep I think and that that'll do it You only need one really good creature in your team really.  Oh, that's annoying I could if I wanted to try and take him, but I'm not going to I'm not going to I'm just going to go for four reserves here I'm gonna play it safe. Um, I thought he was probably going to go for a block I would have factored that in anyway Which meant there would have gone for three Out of my five And then if I'd blocked for two and then the flyer had five that would have been three attacks through and that would have killed me So he went for all out, which is brilliant and it's disappeared. Oh, it's back again Ah brilliant So I think it went for all but just in case it didn't I'll go for that I think it did. I've been distracted by Telling the strat also by a magically disappearing silent seroton And here we go. So yeah, like two hits Will almost kill me.  Okay Uh, this scary. So one two three. So if you block some more than three I'm dead I think I just did that I did everything I could everything I could to survive that one Uh, yeah, I deserve that 40. Give me the 40. Okay, here we go creep it up.  Please don't be any flies. Come on that. Oh, yes Yes Oh Oh, that's so easy. Oh, that is that's beautiful. I like that more of that place I have to go through if the way for the bot to make its decision It takes about like 10 seconds to do I just sit here idly And on 10 10 seconds and still nothing Okay, basically it took 10 seconds though to do the thing it would always do which is too I love that they try and frame these as real people although saying that they're not using people's pictures anymore Or at least not for me.  Like you you in order for companies to use your image and stuff you have to give permission or something like that. So I bet they don't do that anymore. Oh Just then they got sued Like for using people's images without their permission Just because it was linked to like Facebook Oh, that would be interesting that would be interesting Because I don't think I've seen a tournament for me do but like live battles and have a face in a long time Or at least I haven't noticed I'll have to check that Somebody you're watching this right now. Go look at other tournament videos I've done like completed it and see if you know like Just take a source tournament for completed And see when they took that out when they took people's faces out because I feel like it was a while ago I just haven't noticed I don't even think they use people's names anymore either. It's just like Jurassic World Isn't it? Let's have a look. So that's another 40 take me to 218. Yeah, look at that They don't even use but although on the on the animation of the swirling. They still have that I kind of want to look I want to look I bet they don't do that Well, we've cracked that code Yeah, look nothing now used to be a case of this would come up if you were like offline or if you had bad connection, but Yeah, I don't think they do that anymore. So we need 253 So we're gonna have to do at least two more battles at least two more battles and then more But honestly, it's not that let's use let's use Scorpius Rex. Scorpius Rex is awesome I finally got that to level 40 and I haven't used it It's just barely out top five dinosaurs just barely and even then It would probably be top seven because I don't have Indoraptor gen two max stuff And I'm assuming that would be higher than it So this this is going to be a super easy team to beat I'm pretty sure Scorpius Rex has more than 2,500 attack. I feel like it's got 3,000 But this is a pretty tricky team though. Let's have a look to through. Oh, it's almost 4,000. Oh gorgeous All right, so one and then two reserves because I've got like 10,000 Oh, it's a bite.  Oh What are you gonna do son? What are you gonna do?  It's because he's kind of got like the t-rex animation, but like modified I think oh no, yes or so. I think it has a zone. Yeah I think it has yeah I It kind of does and it kind of doesn't because it's its animations look like they're kind of working kind of But not really Right the spino with the thing on its head. Yeah. Yes. We don't talk about that The chrome chroma spino chroma Chroma spinus Wow, okay Well, at least it's not like parasaurus. I know And I like how in camp cretaceous the the baby's sinus aerosolp spinosaurus hybrid is I think it was in one of the books It's actually called sinus spino and that's what I called it like when I watched the series like yep sinus spino That sounds cool And it's legit. It's got what that was in 26. What? rubbish Why was that so low? Still only only one mobile and we're in dominator league. Come on dominator. Come on dominator Got this we got this And the last what's the last battle paper? It has to be good. I want a 40. What do we have down here? Pterodactyl this is good. Yeah, let's use pterodactyl Rage And rage. Yeah, I guess there's 1,700 extra health, but 200 less attack. Yeah. Oh Oh, and it's it's way better than I did it this way because these are flyer And he's against two amphibians. So yes I can quickly kill praetrodon level 40 surely. I think I got like 2,000 attack like 1,900, right? I just read it. I think I can kill praetrodon in one hit and then the rest is a A walk in the park you could say. Oh, yeah. Thank you. Thank you. Yes. Yes So funny So one and then I'm just gonna go for two. It's gonna go for two to reserve. I don't need to worry about this They're not that great and they're also half attack Yeah, the less attack than a praetrodon would be. Oh, say that it's it's not too bad. It'd be like 900 attack without the nerve Yeah, oh and what's that guy? Protagrinus protagranus or whatever it's called also pretty decent um Like yeah, there we go 425 so one You know what I'm gonna go for that. I'm gonna go for that. Yeah. I could have went for more I could have went for I'd had it gone for two more Then I didn't want to risk him going for some reserves like that. Yeah, didn't want to risk that Because even though I've got two dinosaurs I really don't have one the other ones are meat shield like a reserve farmer and at this point Kind of tempted. Yeah, even though I've definitely won this one I it's still within losing range because my health is quite low Because if they went for like five attack that probably would kill me So eight So what six five even okay, so three block three block Yep three block So I'm gonna have to go for five I'm gonna have to go for five And I mean even then there's a chance he doesn't go for any so one two kills him one two three and then I might as well just go for three block because I don't know what its health is but I feel like I can kill it in two I can kill it in one Yeah, I was fine. I couldn't run for two block one reserve to be fair and guaranteed it But I'm I'm pretty sure at this point. I've got it. I'm pretty sure Come on. Just make up your mind and die. It's always 10 freaking seconds Look, it doesn't matter what happens here.  Are we a dominator within half an hour? I think and we're in Dominator league. Oh, yeah, we've got to be right. We've got to be Yeah, yeah With more bots Oh rare rogues. Oh, not bad I don't think we can get any books from it. But you know what? For some something the harvest for dna and more vip points I'll happily take it. So what's the highest we needed to get to finish at number one? 600 So what's 410 battles? So I'm on Yeah, it's like eight six seven battles probably six seven battles and I'd be number one But you know what? I'm okay. We did it. We got to dominator league. Let's collect all our prizes Hey, yeah More I need more. Yes Almost five thousand for that And yeah, I mean, that's the best thing you still need to win Uh in order to get something I think Or maybe not. Maybe you don't No, if you just get up to it you get your super dna. So that's not so bad and Yeah, well guys, we're gonna wrap it up here. Good luck in the tournament I'm sure it's going to be used for you know, if you unlock it it's going to be used for a hybrid and then I'm just going to keep playing every day try to get my books up and hopefully get it like level 40, but I don't think that's going to happen really is it but at least we'll get to unlock it We'll enjoy this video guys. Leave a like and until next time. I'll see you cuties later. Oh, bye-bye


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Our first question is from Adam Hayes fit. What are your top three exercises for blasting belly fat? I love blasting things Okay, so I believe this is a trick question.   It just doesn't it's gotta get it from everywhere It doesn't work now that being said we can pick three exercises that we'd like for your abs, right? These aren't these aren't the the would he say blast your belly fat. Yeah, that's like straight off an infomercial Just imagining like, you know those graphics where it just shows like this This gun and like lasers like And they're gone just like that. So I I love A perfect sit-up. So I love to teach that Serene did a video not long ago on that. Uh, so if you're not on our mind pump tv on youtube Make sure you check that video out I also like a just a standard reverse crunch and then full ever so if i'm picking three that are my favorite Those are three of my favorites. Yeah now doing great ab exercises aren't going to burn more body fat from your midsection I mean you burn it from everywhere, but Having more developed abs will can contribute to the illusion Of looking being leaner in the midsection because as the abs develop They show up more at higher body fat percentages This happened to me when I really first learned how to really train my abs properly So my body fat didn't go down, but I looked leaner in my abs because my abs stuck out more I love long lever physio ball crunches my favorite exercise for midsection I love active planks If you do active planks properly That really builds the muscles of the midsection that really got my abs to pop out as well And then my third exercise would be Reverse crunches love reverse crunches Yeah, I like decline decline Crunches and sit-ups and I like rotational moves Mainly because of the functional aspect to those and I think that we just don't get enough rotation in general in our workouts And so this is a great place to do that is any kind of trunk rotation Whether or not you're keeping your ab or your hips From rotating with you or you're trying to keep them Anchored down so you're anti rotating across Either way you're going to get that transverse abdominals. You can get your obliques So i'm really a big fan of those And uh any kind of isometric like you mentioned planks or things like that but also just you know carries For me we're great in terms of stabilizing weight and really activating the abs isometrically


Hey everyone, welcome to theCUBE's AWS startup showcase. This is season two of the startup showcase, episode one on your host, Lisa Martin. Pleased to be welcoming back one of our alumni, Alexis Richardson, the founder and CEO of WeWorks. Alexis, welcome back to the program. Thank you so much Lisa, really happy to be here. Good to see you again. Likewise, so it's been a while since we've had WeWorks on the program. Give the audience an overview of WeWorks. We were founded in 2014, pioneering GitOps, automating Kubernetes across all industries, but help us understand and pack that a bit. Sure, so my previous role was a pivotal where I was head of application platform and I was responsible for spring and V fabric and some pieces of cloud foundry. And you may remember back in those days, everybody wanted to build like a Heroku, but for the enterprise. And so they were asking, how can we build more cloud services? And my team was involved in building out cloud services, but we were running into trouble with the technology that we had. And then when containers appeared, we thought this is the technology for us to roll out cloud services. So with some of my team, we decided to start a new company, WeWorks, really intending to focus on developers because these new containers were pretty cool, but they were really complex, operational centric tools and enterprise developers need simplicity. That's what we'd learned from things like spring.  So WeWorks mission is to make applications easy for developers with the containers. Talk to me about how you've accomplished that over the last seven years and some of the things that you're doing to facilitate DevOps practice within organizations across any industry. Yeah, well, our story is pretty interesting because of course in 2014, all of this was incredibly new. You couldn't even take two containers and put them together into a single application. So forget about enterprise. What we did was we build a network which gave the company its name, Weave, but then we spent several years building out more and more pieces of the stack. We decided that we should go to market commercially because we're an open source company with a commercial SaaS. And we thought we would be like New Relic, that there'll be lots of customers in the cloud and therefore they would be monitoring and management. And we started writing a SaaS based on Kubernetes which was what we chose as our platform back in the day. Very, very, very early. We were one of the very first companies to start running Kubernetes in production other than Google. And so what we learned was customers didn't want to have management and monitoring for applications in the cloud based on Kubernetes because they were all still struggling to get Docker working, to get basic Kubernetes clusters set up. And they kept saying to us, this is great, we love your tool, but we really need simpler things right now. So what we had done was we'd learned how to operate Kubernetes. And we discovered that we were doing it in this specific way, a way that meant that we could be reliable, we could set things up remotely, we could move things between zones. And so we called this approach GitOps. So we named the practice of GitOps, which is really DevOps for Kubernetes. We decided that it was exciting after we had an outage and made a very quick recovery, told people about it, and they said, well, we can't even get Kubernetes started, let alone you never recover it from a crash. So we started evangelizing GitOps and saying to people that we knew how to set up and run Kubernetes as operators for developers of apps based on this experience. And people said, well, why don't you help us do that? So we pivoted the company away from a SaaS business doing management and straight back into enterprise software, providing a solution for people to run Kubernetes stacks, deploy applications, detect drifts and operate them at scale. And we've never looked back and since then we've built very successfully a big business out of telco customers, banks, car companies, really global 2000s, starting from that open source base, continuing to respect that, but always keeping in mind helping developers build applications at scale. So in terms of that pivot that you made, it sounds like you made that in conjunction with developers across industries to really understand what the right direction is here, what's the approach, what's their appetite. Talk to me about a customer example or two that really you think articulate the value and the right decision that that pivot was and how you're helping customers to really further their DevOps practice. Well, one of our first customers was actually Fidelity in this new world. Fidelity has a very advanced technology organization, a very forward-thinking CTO who I seem to recall is CEO who I think is female, really is into technology as a source of velocity and business strength. And we were brought to Fidelity by our partner, Amazon. And they said, look, Fidelity have been using your open source tools. They want to run on Kubernetes, the early EKS service on AWS, but they need help because what they want is a shared application platform that people can use across Fidelity to deploy and manage apps. So the idea Fidelity had was they were going to split their IT into a platform team that was going to provide this platform and a bunch of app teams that were going to write business apps like risk management, other financial processing, a pass basically. And we came into help Fidelity and what we did was help Fidelity roll out using GitOps, a Amazon-wide application platform. We also helped them to build. This is very early days for us in the poster pivot. We really helped them to build an add-on layer. So you could take any Kubernetes cluster and add other components to it and then you'd have your platform right there. And the whole stack would be managed by GitOps which nobody had done before. Nobody had come up with a way of managing the whole stack. So you could start and stop stacks wherever you wanted at will correctly. I mean, if you talk to people about what's hard in IT and I'll tell you shutting down Kubernetes is hard because I know I never going to know how it started again. So being able to start and stop things, move them around was really crucial. What Fidelity also wanted, which made I think the whole thing even more exciting was to duplicate this environment on Azure and actually also on-premise later on. So where Fidelity are today is the whole Fidelity platform runs on Microsoft and on Amazon and on-premise using three different implementations of Kubernetes but using this platform technology and GitOps that we helped Fidelity roll out. And if you want to know a bit about the story, type Fidex F-I-D-E-K-S into Google and you'll find a video of me three or four years ago on stage at KubeCon talking with the Fidelity Chief Architect about the story. It's pretty exciting. And those are early days for these new Kubernetes platforms. Early days, but so transformative and I can't imagine the events of the last two years without having this capability and this technology to facilitate such pivots and transformation where we would all be. Well, I'm going to kind of dig into some use cases because one of the things that you just mentioned with the Fidelity example got me thinking use case of hybrid, multi-cloud but also continuous app development. Talk to me about some of the key use cases that you work with customers on. Well, you just named two, these are so hybrid and multi-cloud is absolutely critical. And also sovereign, which is when you're actually offline and you only update your cloud periodically. That's one of the major use cases for us. And what customers, what bear is they want consistency. They want a single operating model across all of these different locations so that all of their teams can get trained on one set of technologies and then move from place to place. They're not looking for magic where apps move with the sun or any of that stuff. They just want to know they can base everything on a single homogeneous skillset and have scale across their teams, maybe tens of thousands of developers all who know how to do the same thing. That's a really important use case. You also mentioned continuous delivery. That's probably the second really critical use case for us. People say, I've got Kubernetes set up now and I have Jenkins, a JPMorgan, I think they once told me they had 40,000 Jenkins servers or something like that. Jenkins at scale and they're like, okay how do I push changes from Jenkins into the cloud? So GitOps provides a bridge between the world of CI and the runtime of Kubernetes. So one group of our customers is help me to put in that middle piece of CD that gets you CI CD to Kubernetes. That's a classic. And then what they're looking for is an increase in velocity. And what we typically see is people go from deploying once every six months to deploying once a week to deploying once a day to deploying several times a day. And then they split things up into teams and suddenly, wow, that vision of microservices has come and everybody's excited because the IT velocity has gone up by two acts. Another really, sorry, carry on. Go ahead, I was just going to say in terms of IT velocity, it sounds like that's a major business outcome that you're enabling for whether it's telco financial services or whatnot that velocity is as you just described is rapidly accelerating. Yeah, if you go to our website you'll find a bunch of these use cases and one that I really like is NatWest Metal, which is another financial example. They're not all financial, by the way, but there's some metrics in there, getting people up to two X productivity, which at scale is huge and really makes a difference. Also mean time to recovery. And if you know the metric space, you'll know these are all Dora metrics and Dora, which was acquired by Google a couple of years ago is a really fantastic analyst in the space that came up with a bunch of ways of thinking about how to measure your performance as a business and IT organization, you know, recovery time and things like this that you really need to focus on if you're in this world. Well, from an IT velocity perspective, if I translate that to business outcomes, especially given the dynamics in the market over the last two years, this is transformative and probably helped a lot of organizations to pivot multiple times during the last couple of years to get to that survival mode and then to that thriving mode enabling organizations to meet customer demand that was changing faster, et cetera. That's a really big imperative that this technology can deliver to the business. Yeah, I mean, that's been huge for us. So when the pandemic first began, obviously we had some road bumps and there were some challenges. But what we found out very quickly was that people were moving into digital much faster. And we've been mostly enabling them, not just in finance, as I said, but also car companies, utilities, et cetera. The other one, of course, is modern operations. So everyone's excited about the potential for automation. If I have thousands and thousands of developers and thousands of applications, do I need thousands of operations staff? And the answer is with Kubernetes in this new era, you can reduce your operational load so that actually very few people are needed to keep systems up, to do basic monitoring, to do redeployments and so on, which are all boring infrastructure tasks that no developer wants to do. If we can automate all of that, we can modernize the whole IT space. And that's what I think the promise of Kubernetes that we're also seeing as well. So applications, speed first and then operational competence second. So you guys had a launch, here we are in early calendar year 2022. You guys had a launch just about six or eight weeks ago in November of 2021, where you were launching, announcing the GA of Weave GitOps Enterprise, which is a licensed product building on the free open source Weave GitOps core. Talk to me about that and what the significance of that is. Well, this is an enterprise solution that helps customers build these critical use cases like shared service platform, or secure DevOps or multi-cloud using GitOps, which gives them higher security, lower cost of management and better operations, higher velocity. And all of it is taking all the best practices that we've learned, starting from those days of running our own Kubernetes stack, and then through those early customers like Fidelity into the modern era where we have an at scale platform for these people. And the crucial properties are, it provides you with a platform, it provides you with trusted delivery and it provides you with what we call release orchestration, which is when you deploy things at scale into production, using tools like Canaries and other modern practices. So all of it is enabling what we call the cloud native enterprise, application delivery, modern operations. So what's the upgrade path for customers that are using the free open source tier to the enterprise package? What does that look like? The good news is it's an add-on. So I have been in the industry a while and I strongly believe it's really important that if you have an open source product, you shouldn't ask people to delete it or uninstall it to install your enterprise product unless you really, really, really have to. And I'm not trying to be picky here. Maybe there are cases where it's important, but actually in our case, it's very simple. If you're already using one of our upstream tools like Flux for example, then going from Flux to we've getups enterprise is an add-on installation. So you don't have to change or take out what you're doing. You might be using Flux without knowing it. You may not be aware of this, but it's also inside Azure AKS and Arc. It's inside the Amazon AKS anywhere bundle. It's available in Alibaba. VMware have used it in cartographer and Tanzu application platform. And even Red Hat use it too in some cases. So you may be using it already from one of the big vendors who are partners of ours as a precursor to buying we've getups enterprise. So don't be scared, get in touch is what I would say to people. Get in touch. And of course folks can go to weave.works to learn more about that. And also we want to watch the weave.works space because you have some news coming out relatively soon. That sounds pretty exciting Alexis. Well, I mentioned trusted delivery. And I think one of the things we've learned is no CIO wants to go faster unless they also have the safety wheels on. Let's face it. And the big question we get asked is I love this getup stuff, but how can I bring my team with me? How can I introduce change? Can I have all of these approvals mechanisms in place? Can I move those into the world of getups? And the answer is yes, yes you can because we now support policy engines as baked into our enterprise product. Now if you don't know what policy is it's really a way of applying rules to what you're seeing in IT. And you can detect whether something passes or fails conditions, which means that we can detect if something bad is about to happen in a deployment and stop it from happening. This is really critical. It also goes hand in hand with things like supply chain and security, which I'm sure we read about in the news far too much. Yeah, pretty much daily supply chain and security is one of those things that we're all and every generation is concerned about. Well Alexis, it's been a pleasure having you back on the program talking to us about what's new at WeWorks, the direction that you're going, how you're helping organizations across industries really advance their DevOps practice. And we will check We.Works in the next couple of weeks for more on that news that you started to break a little bit with us today. We appreciate your time, Alexis. Thank you very much indeed, take care. Likewise, for Alexis Richardson, I'm Lisa Martin. Keep it right here on theCUBE, your leader in hybrid tech event coverage.


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Hey y'all, I'm Tammy and this is Collard Valley Cooks. Today we're making one of my favorites, a good old coffee cake. Nothing's better than a cup of coffee and a fresh coffee cake. Today we're going to make a cherry one. Okay, we're going to start by opening our cherry filling, can of cherry filling. Going to need a white cake mix, some all-purpose flour for this and you'll also need some warm water and a pack of yeast, pack of yeast. And then for the topping you're going to need some sugar, some butter, and you're going to use part of your cake mix. I'm just going to reserve a half cup. Now if you get a white cake mix, you get more cake mix, but the Pillsbury does. It has more ounces in it, so if you can, buy the one that has 15.25 ounces in it and that way you'll get a little bit more cake batter. If not, it's fine. Just put in a half cup. Now after you reserve that, you're just going to put your cake mix in the bowl, open a pack of yeast, put in a cup of all-purpose flour. This is not a cake, it's a bread, so that's what gives it that bread texture and you're just going to, I'm going to whisk that together a little bit first. It's going to be good. Super simple, y'all. Now we're just going to put in two eggs, two-third cups of water. We're going to mix it up. Now you can use a blender if you want to. I'm just going to use this whisk. Let me get out my dough whisk. Probably be a good time to use it. Yeah, that's much better because it's more like a bread dough. Now what you're going to do is get the batter off your fingers and spray the pan. So we're going to spray the pan with some baker's joy. You can graze and flour it if you want to. This is a 13 by 9 by 2 standard baking pan and now what we're going to do is put our batter in here and spread it out evenly. Make sure I get it all. We're just going to spread it in here good. Remember this is a coffee cake, so not going to be quite as sweet as a cake because of the cup of flour that we put in there, but boy it's going to be delicious. It's even going to have that yeast in there so it'll just taste so good. So just do your best at spreading it in there evenly. The oven needs to be preheated to 375 degrees. All right, so now we're going to take our cherry filling and we're going to dollop it on the top and I know a lot of y'all are going to want to know, can I add cream cheese? Well, of course you can. So if you love coffee cake like I do, oh my gosh, it's my weakness.  So this is going to be a fun recipe for you. It's easy and it's going to be absolutely delicious and much fresher than what you would get if you went in a store and got it. If you're wanting to know how to add the cream cheese, I'm going to go ahead and tell you that it's super sweet with all that cherry filling on the top. I personally would just cut it up in little squares and drop them on top of the coffee cake and let it bake in there with it. That's what I would do. But now if you want to, you can mix it up just a little bit of sugar and then dollop it on the top. All right, if you want to know how much, eight ounces, with about a quarter cup of sugar, mix it with your mixer and dollop it on the top. So I'm going to set this right here and now what we're going to do is take that cake mix that we reserved. We're going to put in five tablespoons of butter. Let's just put a half a stick in there. It's a quarter cut. I think that'd suffice plenty. And now we're just going to use a blending fork and blend this in with our cake mix until it's crumbly. It's a lot of butter. So a half a cup of cake mix, I'll do it. Just use the rest of the cake mix in your batter. Now I'm going to take two tablespoons of sugar and sprinkle in here and just try to beat it up a little bit. That's for streusel. We're going to take this and sprinkle it on there. Don't that look good? Looks amazing. Now whether you dollop the cherries on there or make little rows like I did, it'll be good. That's all there is to it. Let's get it all in there. Then we're going to slide it in the oven and bake it. And it should bake in about 30 minutes. Our coffee cake is ready. And boy, it is starving me. It smells so good. I had my oven on convection. So it got really brown because you bake it at 375. We're going to make some glaze and put on it and cut us a piece where it's going to be so good. So I'm going to bring y'all up close so y'all can watch me make the glaze. All right. For the glaze, a tablespoon of water. This is a cup of powdered sugar and they're telling us to use a tablespoon of corn. I'm just going to pour it in there. I'm going to mix this up for our glaze and the glaze is optional. I'm going to put in some more water. It's another tablespoon of water. So we'll make it two tablespoons. We're just going to mix this up really good. Try to get it smooth. It said if it's lumpy, you can set it, but I didn't want to.  So the next time I'll make sure it turned down the temp 25 degrees. Okay. Now we're going to get us a bite. Good. That is absolutely delicious.  So put some on there. All right. This is the first time I made this recipe. And so I do think I would add a little cream cheese on the top. If you don't like cream cheese, then of course, leave it off. We just thank you so much for watching Collar Valley Cooks where we cook like our momma's dad. Y'all come back and see us down here in Georgia. Love you. Bye.