Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the academic convocation of the U.S. Naval War College. We are pleased to welcome a total of 525 students to include 308 in our intermediate-level college, from our armed services, civilian employees of the federal government, and military officers from around the globe. Please be seated for the academic procession led by the Marshal, Professor Charles Chadbourne, and Dr. Phil Han, Dean of Academics. Ladies and gentlemen, please rise for the arrival of the official party and remain standing for our National Anthem and the invocation. The National Anthem will be sung by musician second-class Daniel Weber from the Navy Band Northeast. Can you see what's so proud that the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the parts we watched were so ga- Commander Richard Smothers, Command Chaplain Naval Station Newport, will deliver the invocation. I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come? My help comes from the Lord who made heaven and earth. Almighty God, today we give you thanks. You have brought each student, instructor, and staff member here for a time of incredible opportunity and challenge, personally and professionally. As the demands of their studies increase, may each student receive renewed determination to learn, grant each instructor and staff member of the Naval Staff College and the College of Naval Command and Staff skill and joy in teaching. Lord, you have brought the members of Class 2022 from 60 nations and a rich variety of military and civilian services and agencies. Many are far from home and loved ones. May they experience each day your grace and peace while they are apart and bring them back together with renewed stories. Lord, bless those who will speak to us in this hour and give each of us ears to hear, eyes to see, hearts full of courage, hands and feet ready to serve and lead. This we pray in your holy and mighty name. Amen. Ladies and gentlemen, please be seated. On the stage this afternoon are Captain Christopher Rohrbach, U.S. Navy Chair Joint Military Operations Department, Dr. Kevin McCraney, Chair, Strategy and Policy Department, Dr. Derek Reverend, Chair, National Security Affairs Department, Dr. Peter Dutton, Interim Dean, Center for Naval Warfare Studies, Rear Admiral retired Michael White, Dean, College of Maritime Operational Warfare, Professor Walt Wilderman, Dean, College of Distance Education, Rear Admiral retired Dr. Margaret Klein, Dean, College of Leadership and Ethics, Professor Thomas Mangold, Dean of International Programs and Maritime Security Cooperation, Dr. Phil Han, Dean of Academics, Dr. Thomas Gibbons, Associate Provost, U.S. Naval War College, Rear Admiral Shoshana S. Chatfield, President of the U.S. Naval War College. Will the members of the Naval Staff College and College of Naval Command and Staff please rise? Commander Mark Yell, Director, Naval Staff College will present the 60 nations represented in this year's class. Albania, Algeria, Angola, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Benin, Brazil, Cameroon, Bulgaria, Colombia, Croatia, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Estonia, Gabon, India, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Madagascar, Malaysia, Maldives, Mexico, Montenegro, Morocco, the Netherlands, Nigeria, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Philippines, Poland, Romania, St. Kitsinevis, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Singapore, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United States of America, and Vietnam. They will be joined in class by members of our College of Naval Command and Staff, which includes students from the United States Air Force, Air National Guard, Army, Army National Guard, Coast Guard, Marine Corps, Navy, Space Force, and civilians representing Central Intelligence Agency, Defense Intelligence Agency, Department of the U.S. Army, National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, Naval Sea Systems Command, Naval Surface Warfare Center, U.S. Department of State, U.S. Special Operations Command. Please be seated. On October 6, 1884, Secretary of the Navy William E. Chandler signed General Order 325, which began by stating, A college is hereby established for an advanced course of professional study for naval officers to be known as the Naval War College. The principal building on Coasters Harbor Island, Newport, Rhode Island, will be assigned to its use and is hereby transferred with the surrounding structures and the grounds immediately adjacent to the custody and control of the Bureau of Navigation for that purpose. The college will be under the immediate charge of an officer of the Navy, not below the grade of commander, to be known as the president of the Naval War College. He will be assisted in the performance of his duties by a faculty. A course of instruction embracing the higher branches of professional study will be arranged by a board, consisting of all members of the faculty and including the president, who will be the presiding officer of the board. The course of instruction will be open to all officers above the grade of Naval Cadet. Commodore Stephen B. Loose has been assigned to duty as president of the college. Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, it is a great honor to speak to you today and one that I highly appreciate. If you would permit me, I would like to say something about the aims and objects of this college. Although called a college, this institution differs from all other seats of learning. A moment's consideration will show why this must be so. As its name implies, the principal object of the college is the study of the science and art of war. Now, war is a very large and comprehensive subject and it would be the height of presumption on the part of the college to undertake to teach officers of mature years, any branch, whatever of their profession, even the most elementary. All that the college can do, all that the college professes to do, is to invite officers to come to it and to offer them every facility for pursuing the study of the highest branches of their profession. All here, faculty and class alike, occupy the same plane without distinction of age, rank, or assumption of superior attainments. All are pursuing one and the same end, the advancement of their profession. We speak habitually of the science and art of war. As a science, it recognizes certain general principles which are just as applicable today as they were in the time of the great Athenian Admiral Themistocles. A strict adherence to those principles has not always ensured victory, it is true. But a violation of them, either through ignorance or neglect, has almost invariably led to defeat. Military writers have been careful to warn us that although war in its most extended sense may be called a science, it is not an exact science. As an art, war is governed by rules which vary from age to age. Art, it has been well said, may be learned, but it cannot be taught. This is particularly true of the art of war. It cannot be taught. Accepting in so far as one may teach oneself, and it is to offer every officer the opportunity of teaching himself that the college doors are open. That war is the best school of war is one of those dangerous and delusive sayings that contain just enough truth to secure currency. He who waits for war to learn his profession often acquired his knowledge at a frightful cost of human life. Change. Continual, unremitting change is the law of the universe. Stagnation means atrophy and death. It is not enough for us to keep abreast of the times. This college must be in the very front rank of the advanced guard of progress to obtain some perception, however dim of the future we must study the past. This teaches us that the civilization we now enjoy was brought about by war. The proud position that we as a nation now occupy was rendered possible only by wars and future problems in the destiny of man will be worked out through the instrumentality of the sword. There is no escaping it. Now, we are no apologists for war, heaven forbid. We simply regard it from a common sense point of view as one of the many evils. Flesh is heir to war. War is a dreadful scourge we all admit. It is a relic of barbarism. We admit everything that can be said against war, but after all has been said, no student of history, however superficial, can deny that through that same dreadful scourge ultimate good has been brought about. It has been so in the past, and as far as human discernment can go, it must be so in the future. However, war may, in certain instances, be averted, but mark this well. It may be averted in one way, and one way only. And that is to be fully prepared for it, and that, ladies and gentlemen, is the meaning of this college. It is an instrumentality for the prevention of war by being prepared for it. To be prepared for war is the role of the naval strategist. To be in the right place at the right time and with adequate force means success by checkmating your adversary in the first few moves. Campaigns have been won without firing a shot, simply by skillful, strategic movements. It is true. It is the true mission of this college to study all the various problems of war as they may affect this country. Now it is quite unnecessary to explain to such an audience as I have the honor of addressing that this college itself has no power whatsoever to act. Nor does it have authority to formulate naval policy. Its aim is simply to invite officers to meet together to discuss questions pertaining to the highest branches of their profession, and to enable each one, according to his or her, own inclinations to prepare themselves for the highest and most responsible duties that can devolve upon a naval officer. One thing must be borne in mind. At the firing of the first gun proclaiming war, the so-called inspiration of genius may be trusted only when it is the result of long and careful study and reflection. If attendance here will serve in any degree to broaden an officer's views, extend their mental horizon on national and international question, and give them a just appreciation of the great variety and extent of the requirements of their profession, this college will not have existed in vain. Thank you and good luck. Thank you Admiral Luce. Now that we've been inspired by the still relevant remarks delivered in 1903 by our founding president, it gives me great pleasure to introduce our current president, Rear Admiral Shoshana S. Chatfield. Good afternoon. Oh, it's great to hear that. I would like to start by acknowledging today the presence of our CNO Distinguished International Fellows, Admiral Guillermo Barrera, Admiral Nirmal Verma, and Rear Admiral Lars Saunas. I'd like to also acknowledge and extend a warm welcome to our gracious and engaged Naval War College Foundation, represented here today by retired Captain George Lang. To all our distinguished guests, our interim Provost, Dr. Hickey, represented here today by Associate Provost Tom Gibbons, to our deans, our faculty, our families, and most of all to you, our students. Welcome to our convocation for academic year 2021-2022. I am honored to stand in front of you today as we celebrate this time-honored tradition of convocation and its ceremony to mark the beginning of your new academic chapter. Together, we are about to embark on a journey that will expand your knowledge and your understanding in a vast array of subjects, building on your various levels of expertise, experience, and previous scholarship. Our travels together will take place synchronously and asynchronously through virtual and in-person classroom experiences, through textbooks and your side reading, lectures, discussion boards, faculty feedback on papers, and more often than you would predict today through interactions with other students. This year will fortify our knowledge of history, which can prepare us to understand the context and challenges of tomorrow, and we will also consider important issues facing us in the present day and in the future. The diversity of the people in this room is one of our greatest advantages. We are all unique and represent our different services, professional backgrounds, races, ethnicities, and genders, and we all deserve to be acknowledged and appreciated for who we are and what each of us brings to this community. For each of you, the year apart from your home institution will allow you to focus on yourself, your study habits, your ability to perceive nuances in literature, policy, and doctrine, and most importantly, to understand and be informed by the perspectives of others. I'm going to ask you today to look after each other. During this year, an academic experience like this one may also be accompanied by the time and the headspace that will allow you to feel emotions that have been carefully compartmentalized for years.  The past 18 months have presented many complex situations to everyone in this room. Issues of social justice, equality, and fair treatment under the law, hatred, and extremism were brought to the forefront of our awareness in this time frame, through many examples, not the least of which was the murder of George Floyd. That has awakened our American society and societies globally to challenges faced by people and communities in their homes and in their work lives. This coming 20 year commemoration of the attacks on America and the ending of a 20 year military operation in Afghanistan has touched many of your lives. A global pandemic placing restrictions on our physical activities and perceptions of threats to individual freedoms have introduced friction into all levels of discourse.  Please do not suffer in silence. Our command master chief Joe Farney, our medical team here on the campus of HM1 Gordon and HM1 O'Brien, our dean of students, our faculty here, your course moderators are all here to support and enable you this year and to help direct you to resources should you need them. We are united together in our common goal for this academic year to expand our intellectual engagement with each other and the course material and to represent our countries, services, interagency and international partnerships. You are all peacekeepers and defenders of freedom around the world. Together, through inquisitive conversations, differing viewpoints and approaches to problem solving, you will become enlightened to new ways of thinking and you will begin and build on your enduring relationships. Your success will be measured less by what you accomplish in your time here and more by what you do when you leave here, whether it's as an action officer and advisor to a senior decision maker or an advocate for maritime peace and prosperity. The best way that we can preserve peace is by becoming experts in history, methods and execution of war. You will be reminded of this every day as you pass through the Stansfield Turner Memorial Walkway from the quarter deck. Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that defenses of peace must be constructed. This college and our talented staff and faculty is informed by the vision of the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. Our work is to facilitate your journey as each of you further develop into strategically minded operators and joint war fighters capable of thinking critically and creatively to inform national strategy, apply military power and conduct globally integrated operations under conditions of disruptive change. You are being challenged by our maritime service chiefs to act with urgency to integrate and modernize our forces as we prepare for the challenges ahead. The boldness of our actions must match the magnitude of the moment. The security of our nation depends on our ability to maintain advantage at sea. I challenge you to examine what our world class faculty offers you and to ask you to meet this academic year with determination to complete and accomplish the task at hand. It will not be easy. But your performance here sets the tone for your future of solving adaptive challenges where there are no known solutions or too many possible solutions with no clear path. I encourage you to engage in stimulating conversations with your peers to learn new ways of approaching things. Deliberately question your own assumptions. Respectfully listen to one another. Keep an open mind and do not be afraid to explore new ways of framing problems and considering others proposed solutions. Mark Twain wrote, History does not repeat itself, but it rhymes. Studying history deeply at the graduate level helps apply historical insights to current challenges. Studying and understanding the past assists in guiding our decisions in the future. Here in this academic environment, you will have that opportunity of time and space to consider what was and what might have been. You are the future commanders, future diplomats, future advisors, future managers and future lawmakers. Through a variety of modes of learning, you will grow as leaders, learning new ways to build and develop trust, instill teams with confidence and operate across joint forces. To integrate efforts from allies and partners. As you embark on this year's course of study, be mindful that today's students are tomorrow's leaders. What will your paths look like to those who follow you? What lessons will you pass on to prevent future conflict? My hope is that you will become skilled integrators that see the world through a lens of ethical leadership. I envision you as capable operators who harness wisdom from your time here and continuously integrate it with the environment around you to initiate changes that have a substantial impact on the world in which we live. Your efforts now will serve to protect people in times of war and promote a path to peace for all future generations. Nelson Mandela in a visit to Madison Park High School in Boston said education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. This is why you are here because education is a force multiplier. You, the future alumni of the United States Naval War College will be honing your abilities to think critically and creatively through global integrated operations and fight under conditions of disruptive change. And I challenge you to maximize this force multiplier and research war in all of its facets and all its many domains, paying special attention to the study of deterrence, joint war fighting, war termination, diplomacy, reconciliation, advocacy, inclusion, tolerance, and even hope. I entrust each of you at the end of your own time here with the responsibility to influence the future be it through policy strategy or operations to recognize and interpret change and to work to ensure enduring peace for all nations. We at the United States Naval War College are committed to educating and developing leaders who will go on to support your organizations and services in an era of great power competition while strengthening global maritime partnerships. Your individual roles and missions will vary, but you will all be charged the same responsibility to promote ethical leadership across the force. While the U.S. Naval War College holds a significant place in our U.S. history, it is up to each of us to carve out its relevance in our own lives. We represent many nations bound by a commitment of public service and a deep tradition of understanding the importance of free and open commerce and communication on the seas. We come from many countries with diverse backgrounds and represent a multitude of uniforms, yet we will come away from this year with shared goals and common purpose. Your achievements and marks on history will be studied by generations to come. They will celebrate your triumphs. They will learn from your mistakes, and they will follow your examples of ethical leadership. Prime Minister Winston Churchill stated success is not final. Failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts. Over the next year, you will grow in ways you may not have thought possible. You will leave this college with the courage to be bold, unafraid of change, strengthened by the knowledge of centuries of study, ready to rise to the challenges that each of you will face in the future. And you are in good hands. Our faculty hail from across the military, academia, government and private industry. They will challenge your learning style and push your intellectual capacity in order to prepare you for the future. They will provide you with cutting edge strategic and operational research, concepts, plans and technologies. They will facilitate your outreach, enhance your interoperability and enable you to foster that network of lifelong friends. I know that each of you draws strength from your dedicated family and your most trusted friends. Each of you students have families who have been there for you in your careers and now prepare with you for this chapter. Appreciate them, honor them, love them and be gracious with them. We've all had a difficult year. For those of you on this journey who are not supported by a traditional family unit, I know how hard it is sometimes to be a single sailor, a single marine, a single guardian, coast guardsman, soldier. You have found a way to make meaning of your service and you have worked hard to build supportive networks and friendships that are sometimes not acknowledged. And I want you to know that we appreciate your efforts and those networks to our spouses, significant others, children and supportive friends of our service members. I know that it is never easy to sacrifice time away from your loved one. While I am grateful for you that there will be no deployments in the coming year, I know that it will still be challenging to share your service member in the days, evenings and sometimes late nights ahead. Your efforts are so very meaningful to your loved one and to our global security and our nation. I know we hear it often, but I want to tell you with heartfelt sincerity, thank you for who you are and what you bring to this year. As the 57th President of the United States Naval War College, it is my distinct honor and it is my duty to declare the 2021-2022 academic year officially in session. Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, please rise for the benediction and the departure of the official party. Let us pray. Eternal Father, as this convocation comes to an end, we feel the anticipation of things to come. May every conversation, every assignment, every event these students and instructors share become a mighty stream of incredible learning and service to others on land, sea, in the air, in space and beyond. Keep us ever mindful of your good purposes, your presence, power, wisdom and goodness throughout this year, for we humbly and confidently ask all these blessings in your mighty name we pray. Ladies and gentlemen, this concludes our ceremony. Thank you for joining us this afternoon.


I feel like a lot of comedians in our time don't do that though and our generation they come on social media And they want to get paid off the right. I don't know. They don't know what stand-up is Distracting them though. Oh, yeah, man, a lot of motherfuckers just be on there so much.  You know became a character.  This is what it is But watch me grow though. All right, but now I know that y'all watching y'all gonna learn with me You see what I'm saying?  Not everybody got a sense of humor.     Uh-huh Rose.    I mean, you know, that's really just the same thing. We're here, bro It's like I remember both Y'all motherfucking starting from the bottom word. You know I'm saying like you gotta remember this my little brother right here, so 2015 2016 I'm in LA.  You know, I'm saying he put me on the old page. He put me on the old page. He like This world.  No, I mean this word. That's where life going and it's just like For us to all be here just in one Moment that's it.   I get to watch a certain things And I get to hear in the conversation within the culture and it spark it spark ideas for me to come up with something To talk about within the music, you know, I mean, so it's a blessing to be here I feel like y'all motherfuckers is just so so smart Y'all put this together because he was on the way here. I'm like, damn we really on the 85 So it's a blessing to be here bro, I love bro But you know what we like to tell people I love this foundation so much that is literally You believe in in your your brothers your peers your sisters like it can happen with anything in life If me you what to say man, I got you you got idea and I back you up like that Whatever you need for me to do not only whatever you need for me I'm gonna learn how to bring whatever gifts I got to the table Yeah, and I think that what a lot of us got to learn to do. I swear we can formulate Anything and we can have an infrastructure to win I Was your presidential campaign I'm running off.  Yeah, Lou is really from the baby Feel appreciated you work.   Go by the name of Simba You can follow me on all platforms at the real simba. That's T. H. E. R. E. A. L. S. Y. N. B. A Rapper songwriter recently became an actor No, that's something I'm proud of on business owner, you know You know lots for two you be talking that talk now. I'm uh, I'm uh, I'm somebody that's very um I like to pay attention to details, you know what I mean? I feel like some some of us grow up as black men we grow up without the information You know what I mean? So as we get older we start developing the information to give us answers to the questions We always had and um, that's just something that I'm really like Adam and about like knowing shit that I wanted to know when I was young and how do I fix these problems for my community? And how do I be someone that could help my community and shit? It's very hard because I was even when he was just talking about what you were saying as far as bringing certain people in Shit get tough Shit get tough because it's like you want to involve everybody like if I asked you what my dream looked like ten years ago It ain't look like this, you know, I imagined all my homies over there You know what?  That's what I thought I was you can't take all your friends the work this work You can't take everybody to work One thing I realized because I'm a firm believer and I read the Bible you dig what I'm saying You can't take everybody with you which will hurt, but you can't give up on that Don't mean that you gonna. I'm gonna be around and help you all the time But when I just know it gonna be a possibility that I may come back around That's not gonna be as fast as you think You ain't hungry yet you only care about what you really started for real and knowing that they they know they purpose People be just fumbling opportunities and you'll be backtracking trying to have a motherfucker to just don't understand This is I'm opera. I'm sure you gotta keep in mind, too Though it's just rare that people get to certain places and actually want to share that type of shit with anybody It's a lot of a lot of people in the industry is very selfish, right, but without that selfishness You take that out of them.     Yeah, nigga didn't came so far We didn't done so much. We used to ride around the hills just like wishing like We could do this, you know, I mean, it's like he in movies.  We have limited their sales already. Yeah, that's it I invite me really ain't bad because we still be gone. Yeah, I pull up. Let me go. No nigga motivation I'm gonna give you the game. I'm out of cook though, but I'm gonna show you I'm gonna tell you how to cook the other than the marketing dope I'm gonna tell you everything. I know bro cuz I don't want you to know I'm gonna tell you that it's that it's a possible is possibility you stay prayed or a key God for you can do it They go from the same screen. I want the same screen everything you saying it's pretty much.  I repeat we are still adding dates But right now go ahead and get your tickets if you don't see your city Don't worry. So make sure y'all go to www.poorminds.com and get y'all VIP meet and greets.   So we weren't supposed to figure it out this fast Well, we figured it out, but they figured it out in 10 years. That's what brother ridzler said but the part the part we didn't Get yet is like Communicating with us. Yes, like understanding us as they're relegated at exactly Relegated. No, we got to change.  Yeah, so this Constitution that we live by is a slave mentality Constitution anyway, but we have more freedom So niggas have to stop thinking that that the mental is still in slavery Because like you said in the hood is only three three jobs.  What freedom freedom come on come on pop this what does that mean? freedom mean The freedom not I want to use the Ability to achieve whatever you want to attain freedom means it's free to be dumb. Yeah, it is you go nine out of ten niggas agree on that It's free to be done the OG said it best niggas the word is freedom if you want some for free you must be dumb To really end up being done you'll be a finesse so bad and you'll be done for real niggas That's basically saying that nothing was done. You know what's going on all of us. That's what I'm saying No, it ain't it ain't opinionated. It's a it's what you could prove.  No, definitely Because that's what I'm saying The motivation of knowing that we have came a certain like think about what Martin Luther King needs again spray water hose We're still happens today.    It wasn't just the money It was the drugs like crack decimated What little progress was made when you could talk about Martin Luther King nigga We living in a real-life civil rights movement right now You could turn the TV on see some shit that happened to a nigga today. That's gruesome And they gonna show you his name.  It was all of a sudden involved shooting. Yeah For what?     You don't know why niggas feel that they got it You don't know what make a nigga could be perfectly normal like we have in this conversation right now and snap And do some shit that's not my nigga Week though It ain't just the phone bro. It's conditioning. Yes, you know, it's conditioning.  I'm nice.     This might be the way Maybe if it's cocaine on all the money, right?   I'd be like, yeah I Let's talk about Because as a rapper, I'm a real comedy fan. And the reason I am a comedy fan is because, as a way that I write my raps, I relate to a lot of ways that comedians write their jokes, right? So it's certain patience, timing, punch lines, like all type of things, right?  Yeah, it's great, it's good. He like it, cause he show the motherfucker that can't do it and can't do it.   That one thing you realize, it don't matter if a motherfucker do it. If you great, you great.  The cartel don't care about competition.  Cause they know their product is more pure. You see what I'm saying? It's more raw. It's gonna sell. It's blue magic. It's gonna sell. You ain't got to do nothing to it. All right, make 20 of Louisville, Kentucky. Man, to the who? The KFC Yum Center. We ain't got no KFC, yeah. But it's gonna be at the Yum Center. It's a Louisville, a Louisville. It's Louisville. Louisville. Louisville. No KFC. It's Louisville. Louisville. I need KFC to bring us some chicken, bro. Is that close to the Kentucky derby? It's in Kentucky. I mean, but is it close to the day that we gonna be there?  Bring me some blue grass. For real. Hey, Bubba Johnson gonna be there? Bubba Johnson? Yeah. That nigga. Bubba Johnson ride horses. He the NASCAR. Kentucky, I thought that was a car. No, nigga, that's not a car.  Hey, man, come to the show. Come to the show a little bit. Where's your horse?   You know what I mean? That's the NASCAR, dude. Yeah. I thought I could take a derby with a car. No, that's not a car.  That's the dates on the 500. That's the derby. Ain't nobody told me.  Hey, man. Get your tickets. May 20 at KFC Yum Center. Shit, take me to the horses, then. You got that, y'all. You got that. I always thought I could take a derby with a horse. I meant with a car. Javonte fighting this week. Him and who we fighting that? Ryan Garcia. Man, a lot of people are trying to make this closer than what it is. Javonte Tank Davis is going to beat the hell out of that man. Moving right along. Anthony Edwards. He gonna have a bounce back game. I love the fact that Anthony Edwards from Atlanta. He got real people in Atlanta. They done called the boy.  I know you ain't going out like that. He's gonna drop 35. That's my prize pick of the week.  Thanks. Because, you know, part of the game is mental. Mm-hmm.  So I say like... Ohio. Columbus, Ohio. And Palisades. Columbus. It's Columbus. What was it? Yeah. Popeyes Theater. Oh, Palisades. Oh, Palisades. I thought it was Palisades and the Popeyes Theater. We going to the Palisades Theater. Yup. May 21st. Not planned. Ohio. You know what I'm saying? Come on. Bauer gonna beat up. Yeah. And we going to shopping at Eastland Mall. Okay. I'm going. A little Bauer. He just don't know when you're gonna start that. I got the flow. I'm gonna make... Okay. I'm not doing this bad work. You know what I'm saying? Bauer gonna pull up for me. You too. And he gonna pull up for me. All the way. Get your tickets now. May 21st. No doubt. Ohio. Palisades. You remember that Nick did this in the camera? Game is the game.  But if you got a superior product. Right. And no spiritually gas. Whether any storm. With the chipping on the humanized form of how they do things. Yes. Because social media really is a marketing tool. Yeah. I'm spiritually gifted too. It's marketing. Yeah. It's whatever you market. I know. It's how you market yourself.  That's what you gonna get. That's a lot of information.  It's your first time seeing it.   You gonna see them commercial start to die. Yep. I'm spiritual too. You see what I'm saying? You gotta have both. You gotta have both. They sell candy in the front. What? I feel the same way about music. But they sell steak in the back. I feel the same way about music. Like, we go through the same thing with music. It's like we put so much care into the music. I just to make sure it's like something there for when people get tired of the tree. Yes. You know what I mean? So we always creating something that's there for when it's like people is tired of their radio record. They tired of certain things. It's something near that they want to digest. See, that's what it is in comparison. You gotta know that you're shooting at two different whole markets. Right. You gotta... It's an equal market. Like, don't worry about that side. That's why I feel about what you asked. That's my response to it. It's like, can't worry about who doing what. Who knew or who got a hit. Cause this just like the rap game.  I have a hot year. Hot year. Never hit the stage. What happened to buddy? Nigga, they do it every the end of the year. It be the end of the year and you don't remember the nigga who had you laughing the whole month of Jane Ware. Right. The show. Right. The year was long. One skit wonders, nigga. One skit wonders. One skit wonders. One skit wonders. One skit wonders. One skit wonders. One skit wonders. I ain't never heard of it. You was a wonders skit. One skit wonders. That's hilarious. But that don't mean that them niggas ain't valuable to the game either. Yeah. Talking now. So it's like, I said this before. How we gonna compare the niggas who do the skits to the niggas who do stand up.  And it's fine if you wanna do stand up. But nigga, know what you good at. Right.   Right. That's one night more that you gotta go. Yeah.  In six months, they're not the same people who loved you. Right. You gotta start all over, nigga. Your fight got wet. Right. Facts.  Right. Nope.  You be the legends in the city.  But guess what? They can't leave inside 285. Yeah. This ain't me hating. These are facts. Facts, nigga. I done been invited on the road with niggas who are funny in Atlanta.   We at the fucking, this is the little comedy club.   They're gonna tell you. When you walk in the club and they see them little people who catch you at the bathroom. You see, your boy was up here.  You funny.  Niggas ain't funny for real. Yeah. We ain't coming. They're coming. Especially the people that work there. The people that work there really let you know. You gotta continue. But see, nigga, don't understand. I come from theater, right? So, I love... Wait, wait, wait. I didn't know that. We can't just skip past that. Oh, that's you about to get good. I come from theater. I didn't know that.  Break that down. I mean, any type of play, any type of theater, I come from that.  Let's do one of them joint. Let's do like a ghetto Tyler Perry joint. Ghetto version of Tyler Perry. This is when I knew... This is when I knew...  And this is when I knew to always better myself with my backs against the wall.  I was in ninth grade, we had to say two monologues. You know, monologue here, right? Yeah, yeah. Cool. We had to recite two monologues.    So I remember one of them, it was cool. So I did the one, I do the one I remember in class. It was cool. And she was like, all right, John, where's your second one? I don't have a second one, Summer. I say, in my head, I say, nigga, make some up on this spot. I make some up on the nigga. When I went, I knew I couldn't get out of her. I started. I just started. And it was really about a black boy who got hit in the head with a rock. My white kid.  I grew up with old people, nigga. I want to feel appreciated. I do the whole monologue, right? And when I couldn't think of nothing else, I just ended, nigga, and just bow. My whole class was like this. My teacher was like, where can I find that monologue? I'm like, bitch, you can't. Oh, man. I've got a 95 on it. You told him you made it up? No. I tell him, like, man, I don't know where that monologue I was looking at. I threw the paper away. I got a 95 on that monologue. And the one I remember, I got a 70 on it.  I'm gonna get myself out of there. Yeah, yo.  They gonna believe me. I got that, you gonna believe me, nigga. And that's the thing. Was it good? That's the thing about us. That's the thing about us.  There's black people, bro. That's the thing about us is, like, we ain't gonna never give up on us.  I was talking to my homie.    I was talking to my homie, right?  Right? And I was like, bro, this motherfucker's like, Elon Musk, who got people believing like he finna colonize Morris. Right. You know what I'm saying? Right. Whether he do it or not, like, he didn't convince people that's what I'm doing. So even if he fall short, he gonna land somewhere where it makes sense. Yeah. Hell, yeah. You can do the bare minimum. Yeah, but you can't sell nigga Mars instead of for the moon, nigga.  You still on the moon. Right, right, right. You just hiding what the plane normally going. He going to the black part. But you still on the moon. Exactly. You still on the moon. You still on the moon. You still on the moon. You still on the moon. That could be the original plan anyway. Nigga play you don't believe me. Like, then we got to go to the moon. You think niggas came back from the moon? How many niggas then came back from the moon? I don't know a nigga that came back. No, we can't go to the moon. You heard Ash and Thatch? I don't know.   We ain't got to go all the way up there, but I see it. I'll take a picture and let a nigga go like, all right, cat. We go to the moon, y'all. We go to the moon. You think niggas ain't going to go to the moon?   And when them rap niggas, biggest rapper go out there, niggas start going to the moon. Do you know how long it takes you to go to that little rocket? Shit. That rocket is a facade. Kanye had niggas walk around like office people. But that's my point. That's an illusion.  Somebody go go. One of the little white kids going to the moon. Right. It's like, it's like, niggas can make people enough to where it's like, we can get up there. You can. You know what I'm saying? Now, really, we can or we can't. Right? It ain't that far. Especially when it's big. That's what they say.  If you go when it's big, it's like a two-hour drive. Listen, that motherfucker huge on Earth.  Yeah, that's hella far. You can see that motherfucker on Earth. Like, what? They go to the moon. But what about the moon? What's happening, though? It's niggas up there saying, man, that thing, we ain't real.   We may be a colorful moon. And I look at the little colorful moon. What do you know when we get to these places? We don't.   Hey, man, that motherfucker nice. We ain't been here before. He said it. That thing he said. Hey, that motherfucker nice.  We playing, babe. I don't know about that one.  It's a green screen. And then you're gonna be sitting there. This, you gotta keep in mind, these are intelligence. That's a green screen.   What? Like, if you really go to the moon, bro, right, and you got to interact. With the intelligence and motherfuckers. With the intelligence and motherfuckers. We're like, where y'all from? And we're just like, it's a motherfucker that wants Earth. Like, Earth. Got the little booty thing. Like, where is Earth? It's like, what?   They gave me from Earth, now I'm from the back.  They give me a colorful moon, nigga. You want to get money?  I'm talking about this. It's almost the most important question of them all. Say it again.  These are wasting their time.  You didn't tell me where y'all from.  Man. Oh, we was going to get y'all. How you going to start it off first off? I'm from the back. Right. And what you think you're going to hit a button and it's going to switch to y'all and I mean. Y'all and I mean. Y'all and I mean. That's what I'm saying.  They saying water up there.  Nigga went to the moon to jump in the pool. See? That's what I'm talking about. That's exactly what I'm talking about. You want that to go swimming? No, they got to store water in Juneau.  What they call it?  They don't drink water. You may never know.  They ain't going to stop. They ain't going to stop. June 10th. What we going on? Chesapeake Employers Insurance Arena. Man, Nigga must have just bought that. That said it sound like a DFAT building, man. Hell yeah. Baltimore and that's it. Baltimore too. That's on the avenue. Insurance. Chesapeake Insurance. What else is it? Arena. Arena. Chesapeake Insurance. I left the word out. They got three benches in one building. Buy one ticket. Buy two tickets. What about how many? Cheese. They ain't going to be sure why you ate it. Y'all know they got the life insurance. Get a few tickets. A few tickets. And we going to be selling hotducks. That's how they say it. Hotducks. Hotducks. Hotducks on the avenue. What you buy a few tickets? Uh-huh. You going to get some? Hotducks. Answer me insurance. Answer me insurance. Chesapeake Insurance. Arena. Baltimore. Yes, sir. I can't believe it. Baltimore. Audrey and Nicole. 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We filming. Hey, nigga.  Hey, homie.   Oh, homie.  Yeah. Real player. Real player. Let's do this. Hold up, my nigga. You being hella boozy right now.  Oh, you already know what it is. Nigga, you want more?   If you find my peace, you'll want to be.  I might be there and might not. Yeah, it's enough. Show him yo cookies you brought with you. Nigga, look at this. Cookies, da man. Cookies, da man. Cookies, da man. Cookies, da man. Cooies, da man. Cooies, da man. Cooies, da man. Cooies, da man. Cooies, da man. Cooies, da man. Cooies, da man. You ain't got shake in the bottom, you ain't never had no chocolate chip shake nigga. What day are we going on? Oh mama's nigga, June 4th.  Oakland Arena nigga. Yeah nigga. June 4th, three headed monster tour on Seathus.  Hella niggas nigga. Out there. Hella niggas already got their niggas.  Hella bitches. Hella bitches nigga. Not few, but a hella. Hella. I ain't never seen hella. Nigga on the town. It's gonna be hella bitches. Hella bitches. On my mama nigga. On my mama. On my Seathus nigga. On my mama. No cap. And two is not hella.  Get your tickets nigga. June 4th nigga. Yeah. Town business. What it is? Three headed monster tour. Show them the cookies. Cookies nigga. Oh mama. What about mama's baby? Yeah. Yeah nigga. Hey man, it's Nabrin from Broken Plain. If you're not hip to channel 85 out, I don't know what to tell you. But I got some good news for you. If you're not on it, right now if you sign up and use the keyword Broken Plain, I don't even know I'm able to do this, we're gonna take 20% off the first year. I don't know if I'm able to do this, but if you put in Broken Plain, it's gonna do that. So look, type that in and you won't just see Broken Plain for like, you know, you gonna get early access to the show. You gonna see the full show, but you also get to see 85 South Live shows. You get to see Poor Mind Live shows. You get to see Jake Thriller's show. You get to see everything that the app has to offer. 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If they gonna drop you back on earth, immediately.  What you got down real though?  What you got down real though? Everybody out.   They did some stuff on me. He committed treason. Nigga 14.  That's gonna be one of their laws. That's the thing about up there. Once you do it, it's out. It don't go away. It's out. Drop the app as dear! We have to live here. The whole species is man. We have to live in this shit, man. Who brought this nigga! Who brought this nigga from the bay, man. And he keeps it. And he keeps it. I got kids here!  Shit!   That's hilarious. Outta tavern they go with that wheat gas. Oh, man. You said, what?  Stop it, stop it. I think black people ready to go up there. I think we more than ready to go up there. We ready to skydive.  That's why they been keeping us from up there. You better go to space, man. That's why they been keeping us from up there.  What you think they gonna do? Black people up there already. It's all right. I'm not saying it's not. That's why they don't want us to go. We fully equipped to be there up there. You think it's all right? So when we get there and we see them, they're gonna be like, nigga, it's about time y'all figured that.  They put a force field and we couldn't come get y'all. If black people went to the moon, I think everybody would go to the moon.  Nigga, go up there. They got hook on the moon.  That's all right, nigga, we all right. I'm going to the moon. Nigga's gonna be scrolling at pictures. Nigga's going. And that's the only way you can download the music. Nigga's gonna be scrolling. You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? All right. I see the moon.  Look at that. I'm just gonna be like, it's gonna be like a rock-nation run. You know what I'm saying? But everybody ain't going. Because fake rich niggas go to the club and niggas follow them. So imagine it. Right. Come on. We got to see some pretty people.  Nigga, you got the paper of you, too. But what if the 80s got up? Nigga's right, man.   But what if the 80s...  That's what I'm saying. What if I got a fatty?   That motherfucker up there. Why do you want me to have you? Why do you want me to have you? This ain't nothing. I need somebody to feel me. He said, it ain't been touched. Come on. Give me some.  Right. This is what I'm talking about.   You don't think they got pussy on the moon? It's not like we know it. Where does baby aliens come from?  Everything on earth that reproduced got coochies. Baby aliens on the moon? She's not got a coochie. Baby aliens on the moon? That's optimistic. That's optimistic. Cause it's not like... It is not. Pussy you gonna want, it might be like, what if it's just like... It's got tentacles. What if it's like dolphin pussy? That's as close as they can get. That's as close as they can get. That's it. That's as close as they can get. But you did. I'm pulling you to bed. That's real, though. I was... And that's not even really painful. Seriously, it really breaks my day. That's anal. That's anal. You're sweating with the dog? I swear, you know approximations...   Yeah, they ain't humping, too, but I'm sweating.  You like me? Have a good Mediterranean day for the time. Dogless going crazy. P 제품. There ya go. We didn't kick this. I want theload too low. I want new gears in Hawaii. I swam with the doffers. You swam with the doffers? Yeah, like they were sleeping. We were down there. How they sleep? No, they been sleeping. They do? Yeah, nigga. How you think you sleep, nigga?  Yeah, they do. So you tell them they could be floating in the water. No. No. No. No. No. Nigga, the whales, stand up. The whales. You know what? Humans can't breathe underwater. They can't. I know what I'm saying, though. You ain't never seen no fish just go to sleep. I've seen a fish sleep? Yeah. No, they keep swimming.  The fish that sleep. And how you know it sleep? You look at them like, man, watch out, man. Together, I don't have a fish.  How you know it when you sleep? Because every time I got up, that motherfucker would move it.  Every time I look at him, he moving. It's all right.   That ain't crazy. What's wrong with that nigga, man?  They ain't go to sleep. If you shoot, you think, look. I know something. All right. I know who go to sleep. The alligator go to sleep. Every one, right? Man, I don't know how to get to that zoo. I ain't real.  Nobody's been in the same spot for 22 years.  They tell me the dolphins. It's a dolphin that been there for 51 years. Damn. That dolphin been dead. Like how they say, they're making you believe. Look at this dolphin. 51 years. You're 30. I forgot to buy another one. You are 30.  Now, that nigga, look.  That nigga done been through a couple fights. Yeah. Oh, this nigga been here. What y'all do knows that animals in captivity, they behavior changes because they're... They ain't supposed to live that long. I know. That's like jail.  Like showing a nigga off in jail right now. You ever seen these in captivity? Look. Right.  You know who have fun in them captivity?  That's what I mean.  It's just like food walking by all day. I've been feeling that same way. Like imagine them niggas like we just be digging in the water just picking fish, throwing them on the grill.  They'd probably be like...  Niggas be telling them like, man, stop swimming at the top, man.  Don't miss them. Don't miss them. Hands. They like stop swimming at the top.    It's a mix. It's a mix.     Bro, when fish show up, I'm gonna eat it. When fish show up, other fish show up. There's another fish that got caught.  Uh-uh. I'm with this nigga Jermaine, right? Right. We sweet. Look, man, we just chilling. Right. Look at this nigga.  And you're like, yeah.  On my mother, nigga. I seen it, bro. Right.    It's a wrap. Help me!  Shit in the swim.  He traumatized. He isn't traumatized. That's all I'm gonna do. I can't even get a shot. But I'm fine. They be slipping through slowest fucking. They don't really know. They ain't traumatized.  He traumatized. He ain't against the fish. They got a little hook on my mama, nigga. A little hook.   It's a show. It's a show. It came back three times, man.  Tell him I stay from the top, nigga. I've got my top. I've got my top. From the top, top, nigga. I've been to... Popped off on three white bags. Popped off on three crackers.    He got me on both sides. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, the other one hit me in my gear. Nigga, what's up? Nigga tried to play here. The doctor said that she was two inches from my heart. If I wouldn't have swam, if I wouldn't have used my left side, I would have drowned. A little hook. A little hook. My one of hook. Nigga, the top boy is like, man. Hey, be on the lookout for my fish tape, though. Fish tape. She ain't funny, is he? My fish tape. My fish tape. That's hilarious. That's a hell of a funny. Oh, my God. That's hilarious. Fish tape. That's hilarious. Fish tape. Fish tape. Nigga said he came in this way. He ain't not right here. He got me on both sides. A little hook. A little hook. A little hook. A little hook. Okay. Hey, Cracky, right here. Pretty fish, too. Uh-huh.  That's a good-ass little movie. That's a good-ass little movie. That's a good-ass little movie. That's a good-ass little movie. That's a good-ass little movie. That was his first single.  What's it? Got a hook. Oh. Three strikes and not out.  I got the hook. From the deep. I got the hook. Oh. I got the hook. From the deep end? Yeah, I did. I did a hook. I did a hook. I did a whole fish tape. No hooks. No hook. No hooks. All cards. That was one minute. All cards. No hooks. No hooks. No hook. I did a hook. I did a hook. I did a hook. I did a hook. I did a hook. I did a hook. I did a hook. I did a hook. I did a hook. I did a hook. I did a hook. I did a hook. I did a hook. I did a hook. I did a hook. I did a hook. I did a hook. I did a hook. I did a hook. I did a hook. I did a hook. I did a hook. I did a hook. I did a hook. I did a hook. I did a hook. I did a hook. I did a hook. I got a little salmon bitch from Hawaii right there.  Take a little boat, take a catfish hose. Take a little boat, take a catfish hose. I need a big shrimp. Big shrimp! Big shrimp! I need a big shrimp. No doubt. Oh man, come on. You need a straight to lappie.  You need a straight to lappie. You need a straight to lappie. Ah!    When I see dude, I see food. Catch me on the top of the water in a sea dude.  I'm in the sea too.  I been chilling under the water.  Because what I see, I ain't really the little sea. But when we see, you know me. Little hook out that light.  Came in on this side. Came out on this side. Pull the rest out with your knife. G-D-O-G. When I swim through, fuck, you talk stuff. You talk in the middle, like the matter happens. Slow it down. I said, dropped out of school.  Coral reefs. Flipping green. By myself. Mr. Crab. SpongeBob. Patrick near my neighbor. Burst nigga in the sea. With underground cable. Shit.    A Chilean sea bass. No! Talking about burst nigga. That don't matter nigga.  I said they put me on the bench. Knowing I'm a star to nigga. I'm a fish that love it on land. Cause I made it out the water. Had nigga's car. Y'all talking about going out of space to get pussy. But what if it's only close to a dog? We gotta bring it back. We let it fly. We let the sparks meet. Nigga, I got a hook in my neck that's bigger than a sharpie.   No cap. It's all going on the fish tape. Fish tape. I'm on the way to live, fish tape. Fish tape on the way, 2023. Come on man. We got a call, you got a fish tape? Shout out to my nigga Lil Trout. He got an album coming out. We got an album coming out, fish gear. Fish gear. You got the other nigga. You got the other nigga. I'm coming out. Wait and see. A bubble got me. A bubble got me. Ain't no soup.  I love what y'all got going on here bro.  Yeah man. And what y'all got going on. Me and bro be always talking about it. My nigga reason over there. We be always talking about it. Shout out to reason.  Just about us getting together and coming together as a conglomerate.   Yeah man. Thank you. We appreciate that. Niggas do you see eating this food like it's going somewhere tomorrow? It is. In the toilet. He got life going on. He got life going on. He got legend. I got three kids over there. Do what you got coming up man.  But everything. Yes Timmy. Talk to him. Yeah man. They can catch us in the theater. It's fly. We talking about house party movie. Yes Timmy. You know what I'm saying. You said you were about to have a party. You know what I'm saying. Let's talk about it. Let's talk about the house party. Yeah man. Great play man. What's up mama.  The premier.  Tell me some of your childhood stories. So DC man. Bro the family out man. You know what I mean.  We got a family on the whole JIT magazine. Yeah yeah yeah. You know what I'm saying. You know what I'm saying. You know what I'm saying. You know what I'm saying. You know what I'm saying. You know what I'm saying.  Yeah man. Let's talk about it. JIT magazine. Come on man. Every D&C. Every one. Every barbershop. Every doctor. Every wow.  I told Timmy about 5C copy. I need one. I need mine. I need my new face for the archive. No cow. Got to put it in the museum. Ain't happening a new face. He was there when you said it. No cow. But you know the house party was lit man. You know what I'm saying. Shot the cow. Shot the house. Shot the house. Shot the house. Shot the house. Shot the house. I know everybody was trying to like say don't touch the classic and all that, but we knew that this movie was monumental back in the day. And to the volume. It added to it, but it was like, we had to understand what House Party was first before we touched on it. It was monumental to back then, to our culture back then, because it was a bridge of a gap of cinematography and hip hop. Let me ask you this, for all the, out of all the House Parties before this one, what's some of your favorite scenes from the House Party movies? I mean, really the first one, the one that I wasn't even born, I wasn't born when the first one came out, or the second one. Cause I know you watched all of them. I watched all of them. Cause you know, after the third one, it's like, it's like FOMO and, That's the one with Emma Chil in it. Niggas don't even know, they gave House Party to the white folks.   Y'all don't even know that. It's the white niggas don't know what the House Party like.  I gentrified the House. This one brought the culture back. I bought the House Party. No more Parties. No more Parties. Come on, Marva. Recipe's Ted and Reg, man. Recipe's Ted and Reg. Niggas. Do you need that? Now we start with the man part. Niggas. Can we start with the man part? Do you need that? You know what though? You know what?  They be having a little bag, right?  Niggas got burners.   Niggas. Niggas, a soldier boy had a, Do you need a purple gun? Yeah. A purple gun. It was like purple or pink, he said it was a purple. Hold on. Niggas. Thank you. Dude, you need that.  I remember that.   So think about yourself, think about the choices you made in life. Your ancestors made them same type of choices. If you was a lion-ass nigga, if you got baby mama drama today, niggas was a nigga on the plantation, were like, eight baby mamas couldn't figure it out. All the kids look like him, nigga. All of them. I'd have been lazy. I'd have been the nigga that found all the work by shade. No, I'ma just handle all of this. I'ma, I'ma just re-move it.  Woke up this morning. Yeah. Twist me apart. Made me some brunch. Cause I woke up right around one.  I wake up, yeah, then I soak, yeah, call my mama, yeah, tell her what's up. Yeah. Niggas kept asking me questions. Right. What's up with Trump? What's up with Michelle? What's up with Barack?  Yeah. I don't care, show them the logo. Rest in peace, too, man. Back, man. Rest in peace. I'll be watching his service. Yeah, yeah, come on, man. That's the best way to remember that nigga, bro. Cause that's him and his rawest form.  Yeah. No, and Teddy was like a good nigga. Yeah. Like a real good nigga. I felt like his future. He was just about to get that success that he been working so hard for.   But Teddy Ray a legend, man. I made Teddy through Luke.  But Teddy was like a real good dude, bro. He was a real good dude. Yeah, very good. Come on, man. Yeah, for real. Yeah, for real. Last of the dime breed, man. Somebody that should never be forgotten because it's like he was a real genuine person and a comedy culture. So it's like any given time we all hear the name Teddy Ray makes the noise. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. You be happy to see him in LA, bro. Yeah.   When he was hosting some spot. It was like in the hood? Yeah, with the old club. Yeah, a family room, I believe.  That's where they had all the RVs parked out there. Yeah. I don't know.  I said, what? I thought RV? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. He was at camp out in the way of camp out. I said, damn.  Hell yeah, for sure. You know, respect of his people. So that was good that he was in the film, you know what I'm saying? It was a lot of people that was in the film that, you know, deserved. They did their thing, too. Yeah, put some light on them, you know what I'm saying? We had a couple of the OG producers that was on it. You dig what I'm saying? And Kyle, he did his thing. You dig what I'm saying?  Hey, man, congratulations for just being, you know, one of the ones that get to carry the torch. Yeah.   Nigga, I hope they make 12 more. They already talking about a sequel already.  That can be our Star Wars, where we can make that motherfucker 40, 50 times. Like, us as Black people ain't going to never give up on it.  This little, the fish movie got some potential.   We need a Black Star Wars, though.   That's a ringtone. What's going on, baby? And they're dancing on the blue shirt, nigga.  It's going to come together. When it's like, it's really a platform for our next up-and-coming. So if House Party worked in the last generation, why can't it work for this generation? Because it took me up, pinated people to say, don't touch that and don't do that. Then it'd be like, OK, well, what's the solution for these group of actors that want to make a movie? They're like, well, just make another one. Would you support it? Nope. I don't know. But it's like, listen. This is culture. Exactly. We got to go to the old head to even. Not only that, we got to go to the old head to be like, listen, how can we tell the history to the new, to the young generation?   They be like, why don't y'all make something, you know? OK, you give them something new. Well, we can't do nothing with this because they nobody going for it. So it's almost like if it don't have it, it's all they doing that Hollywood is making remakes. Right? That's across the board. Everything. It's the same thing in the music industry. In fact, that's what I said. That's what I told them. We just re-making songs that already work. I said, we took a sample from the original and just recreated our own new songs. She was like, instead of us looking at this as like, oh, they took this or they did it, like, how about we look at this as, nah, these platforms that was created for our future people to shine, you know what I'm saying? I cost way more Hall of Famer than any other culture. We just pick and choose to say when they're Hall of Famer.  Because you know what? He made, it was an energy that shifted the culture. But check this out. We're the only culture that throw away our one hit wonders, though. We're the only culture that throw away our one hit wonders. We got, that's what I'm saying.  What if they put everything they had into that? One got them hit. This song gonna live forever.  They was listening. We weren't. We weren't. It's on the app. It's on the app. The rest of this, listen. The rest of the audience was on the app. Whenever you get your subscription. No, it's not. It's just available. Directly where they sell apps. Boy, they don't sell apps on Apple TV? It's weird.  Here on Rollcoop. It is on there. Put it on Rollcoop.    Oh, we do. I have full of Rollcoops. Oh. Yeah. So subscribe to the app. It's only $8.99 a month or $85 a year. So you get a whole year for $85. Did you know that? It's $8.50, and then you got to pay tax. Yeah. So, you know, it's $8. You know, we give them all type of content. You know what? We not even going to tell them who you got your glasses from until they get it on the app. I mean, hey, you got to watch the app. The app is available. All of these people that say we should keep putting this on YouTube for free. What about the years of freedom that we've already provided upon you? We gave this away for free for years. Let's move together $85 a year. Why would you let somebody come and invest in the show and put it on another network? And you're buying their subscription.  So don't ask us. We saw what you said in the comments. We saw it. We saw it in the back. The good, the bad.  And the ugly. So you know what? We're folding under this pressure. We hear you. We hear you. We win indeed.  Just for an hour, though. That's all you get is an hour. So don't you can't complain. We're the rest of it. I think they should get 37 minutes. I don't see. We got to hurry up. We should put a whole bunch of ads in between. Like long way in there. Like five minute ads. Hey, how you doing? How you doing? Slow motion ads. Slowest doing now. Waste a motherfucking time. Yeah. Let's just go ahead and make sure. Channel85.com. I want to make sure I read what they wrote.  These niggas don't know how to spell or type proper sentences. But they trying to get us to get y'all to buy the app. What? You think we want to read this shit? Channel85, man. So we can talk that shit, man. Ladies, don't you like it? That's right. On the app, uncensored, unfiltered, and edited. Can you believe that? I'm talking about with actual production in it.   That's on the app. We got sports shows, guitar shows, documentaries. Chico got a head writing class that he teach. Real production. Nobody passed it.  But we're working on it. And you can see it on the app. They didn't even tell them about the tax course that we had uploaded on there. They don't even know that we got a whole show about Wall Street. And a $5,000 on the app. And we got the arts in the end until the color purple up there. Oh, man. We got the raw dishes, all the uncut, all the bloopers. We got all that. Right, it's on the app.  I'm leaving though. Channel 85.com, go get the app. You got an hour for free. We gave you what you wanted. Now give us some subscriptions to the app. $85 a year. Channel 85.com, $85 sound show. Get the app. Well, see, this is what they don't know. 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From the SiliconANGLE Media office in Boston, Massachusetts, it's theCUBE. Now, here's your host, Stu Miniman. I'm Stu Miniman and you're watching theCUBE's Boston Area Studio. We're talking about storage and SDI essentials and of course, storage and infrastructure really are there for the data and the applications to help me dig into this. Rob Coventry and Steve Kenison, thank you so much gentlemen. Thanks Stu. Thanks Stu. All right, so yeah, when we talk about one of the only constant in the industry, Steve, you said one or other interviews is change. The role of all of this infrastructure stuff is to run your applications and of course the applications, the really critical piece of everything we're doing is the data. So Rob, maybe talk to us a little bit about your viewpoint, what you're hearing from customers and help set up this conversation. Well, one of the biggest changes that's going on these days is the move towards cloud. And I often kind of want to reset the definition of what we mean with when we say cloud because it means so many different things to so many different people. To me, cloud is all about not a place, not somewhere where you're running computing while it may have started out that way when Amazon launched AWS back in, what it was it, 02 or 03 or salesforce.com and when they were running everything in the cloud. But it's really evolved more to a style of computing, distinct and different from your traditional computing. It has certain attributes. Those attributes are what distinguish cloud computing from traditional computing, more than anything. And so basically now storage has got to evolve and support that just as like we did with virtualization. Yeah, absolutely, in the industry we spend so much time arguing over definitions and wait, hybrid, public, multi, composable, composite, everything like that. Well, when I talk to customers, most of them do have a cloud strategy, but number one is the ink's still drying on what that strategy is and the pieces that make up that strategy are definitely changing over time as they grow and mature. But they absolutely know that no matter where it is their data is one of the biggest assets that they have outside of people. And therefore how can they leverage how they can get more out of data. The whole wave of big data that we were well into in the next wave of like AI is all data at the center of it. Yeah, I think I like the way Rob kind of positioned this. We've talked about, you hear a lot of folks talk about cloud and a big part of what we're trying to do is have our sellers as well as the community understand that cloud isn't a place, right? It's a thing and you've kind of alluded to what I want to do, specific types of either development or programming or provide assets to the world whether it be data or whether it be things like websites or that sort of thing. It's got to live somewhere and where that lives is becoming more cloudy. Now whether that place is on prem or it's in a cloud or it's in a remote data center someplace at the end of the day the functions, right? That you want to be able to deliver on are behave in a cloud like behavior. And I think that's becoming more the trend of what people want. And really it's the consumption model of where it lives and how you pay for it is really the bigger part of how things evolve. Applications are changing a lot. I mean, you used to say, the era of shrinkwrap software is mostly over now. It's talking a lot about microservices now and when I'm building things, you mentioned functions which gets into functions of service and serverless whole new area that's changing. What's needed for this world to look at? Most customers have hundreds if not thousands of applications. Most of those aren't ready for that brave new world of cloud native. There's usually some stuff. So maybe Rob, give us a little bit of that spectrum and where are your customers and what are they doing. So look, I think we recognize that people have the vast majority of their infrastructures running or applications are running on traditional infrastructure, right? And so they've got a couple different choices. They've either got to modernize what they've got. And the modernization is, I was sharing with Steve last week, we're modernizing our house because we built the house back in 01, it was gold and oak. It was gold handles everywhere. And so now we're getting rid of all the gold. We're getting rid of painting all the gold and oak and repainting the whole house, right? So that's a modernization. It's not a complete refurbish remodel. That's what we would refer as refactoring, right? That's a much bigger heavy duty thing. And so businesses are going to have to look at those traditional applications and decide which of them should be just simply modernized and then adapted or modernized to work with and orchestrated with that bigger cloud-like environment and which of them need to be refactored to operate with the underlying cloud infrastructure, which by the way, expectation is it's completely virtualized, it's automated, it's policy driven, it's orchestrated, it's got all those types of cloudy like pay-on-demand types of characteristics that people learned and love from AWS and from Google, but now they're getting on-prem as well. Yeah, let me poke at one thing, because even you said virtualized, I think you don't mean just a hypervisor, but things like containerization, bare metals back, it's so funny what's old is new again. I remember it was like, we're going to go 100% virtual except for containers and everything else now. So now we've got lots of flexibility into how it's deployed and there's that modernizing the platform and modernizing the applications and sometimes you do one before the other. Great point. How are you doing it? Not everybody understands the distinction between containers and VMs, but the way I look at it, containers, one of the first things that they were really trying to attack is a more efficient way to do virtualization than what we had with VMs in the past, right? And one of the things that they learned is if they break those applications into smaller functional microservices, then they get another benefit and that is continuous development. That's critical to the flexibility and agility that the business needs to be able to constantly evolve those applications. And the third factor is what I call asynchronous scale. So each little function can consume however much memory, storage and compute that it needs independent of all the other functions in there. Whereas when it was operating as a monolithic application, the traditional approach, well, you kind of were stuck with however much the largest footprint was required. Now you get a lot more efficiency out of it. You get a lot more availability and you get continuous development. That's what you get out of containerization. And if you bring that up even one more step now, right? And I like to use this analogy when I'm presenting to clients and maybe this is helpful is if you look at our two, just take two of our product, we take Spectrum Protect, you take Spectrum Protect Plus, right? Spectrum Protect, 25 years in the industry, number two in the world, everything, right? Millions of lines of code, might even be tens of millions of lines of code. Anytime you have to do anything to that code like I want it to support X, all 10 million lines of code need to kind of make sure it's adaptable to that thing and needs to be able to lift and shift and you talked to, we were talking about agile development, which we do now, but you were also talking about the release trains and all that stuff, right? And what ends up going in and out versus look at Spectrum Protect Plus, built on an agile development, built on microservices. I want to put it in a service, I want to plug, I can just grab that service and plug it in pretty easily. I don't have to kind of drag all that code kicking and screaming so to speak along with it. But now I want to ask you a question, Stu, because I tend to think the analysts as well as kind of the thought leaders in any company that are trying to think about helping sellers sell and that sort of thing, we're about 12 to 18 months ahead of the customer. We have to be because we got to kind of see what's out there. What are you hearing around this containerization, refactoring, I think we have an opinion, it'd be interesting to hear an outside view of what you think is happening. Sure, Steve, and in the last few years I spent a lot of time going to the cloud shows, I go to KubeCon, going to my second year of doing serverless comps. So look, serverless functions as a service, we're still in the early adopter phase. Some cool startups out there. I'm excited, you've talked to real customers that are doing some cool things. But even I asked Andy Jassy of the CEO of AWS, he had made some comment, if we had said a couple of years ago, if Amazon was built today, it would be built on AWS and he had made this, if Amazon was built today, it would be built on like Lambda and serverless. And I was like, come on, really? He's like, well, no, I mean, what I mean is that's the direction we're going, but no, we're not there yet because we can't run one of the biggest global companies in the world on this yet. So look, we understand what can be done today and when we talk serverless containers, containers are doing phenomenal. We're now, containers have been around over a decade. Google's been talking for many years how many billions of containers they spin up and down, but I've talked to much smaller companies than the Googles and Yahoo's of the world that like containers are moving in that environment. I'm not sure we've completely crossed the chasm to the majority, but most people have heard of Docker. They're starting to play with these things. Companies like IBM and everyone else have lots of offerings that leverage and use containers because a lot of these things, it just gets baked in under the hood. When you talk to, you brought up virtualization. It's like, oh, it's, we watched this wave from the last 15 years of virtualization, it's just pervasive. We don't even think about, sure there's environments that aren't virtualized for certain reason if it's containers, but when you see Microsoft get up on stage and talk about how they've embraced Linux and a lot of the reason that they've embraced Linux is to do more with containers, that's there. So containerization is going strong, but when you talk to the spectrum of applications, yeah, we're still early because the long pole in the tent, at least customers like to, it's those applications. If I've been running a company for 20 years and I have my database that keeps everything running, making a change is really hard. If I'm a brand new application, oh, I'm doing some cool, no SQL, my SQL, cool applications. So it's a spectrum as you've said, as we've been talking about, Steve, but yeah, the progress is definitely happening faster than it ever has, but you take those applications, there's a lot of them that I need to either start with a lift and shift and then talk about refactoring things because making change in the application stuff. APIs we haven't talked about yet though. There's a critical piece into this is worry about, okay, we're just going to have API sprawl just like we have with every other thing in IT. I definitely want to get to API. One more, just one more piece of color. When you're at these conferences and the users are there listening to the folks, the one more piece of color is, do they have applications run the business? But it has to sit on top of something, so there's the infrastructure piece. What are the questions around refactoring and containerization that happen around infrastructures? I'm trying to think about how to get from A to B. What do I think about the underlying infrastructure or is that even a conversation? Because a lot of this stuff is cloud native, right? I mean, well, it can be cloud native. Yeah, and the nice thing about containers is it just lives on top of Linux, so if I've got skill set and I understand that, it's relatively easy to move up that way. Yeah, for a lot of the developers, when they say the nice thing, if I do containers, if I do Kubernetes, I really don't care, the answer is yes. Am I going to have stuff in my data center? Yeah, of course. Am I going to do stuff in the public cloud? Yes, and that's if I can have the same Linux image. We've been talking for years about how much of the stack do I need to make sure is the same both places to make it work, because that was always the last mile of okay, it's tested, my vendor said it's good, but I get it, okay, what about my application and my configuration and what I did? You know, when I use Salesforce, I don't need to worry about it. I can pull up on any device, well, the mobile's a little bit different than the browser, but for the most part, I'm anywhere in the world or I work for any company, it's relatively the same look and feel. So a little bit long answer on this, but when it comes to containers, what we've been trying to do and what I found really interesting is the Nirvana has always been, I don't want to worry about what's underneath the stack. And when I said, I mentioned the cool new thing, serverless. The reason for that is the business with containers gets that continuous development and continuous availability and scalability all in that infrastructure. The infrastructure enables that, right? So in my mind, the reason people want to do it is they know the speed of change in their business is never going to get any slower. And this platform enables that speed of change. So the one thing, those of us that live through the virtualization way. Virtualization, great. I don't need to worry about what server or how many servers or anything. Yeah, but the storage and networking stuff, oh, wait, that kind of all broke? And we spent a decade fixing that. And trust me, when containerization first went, I like three years ago went to a conference, somebody, it's like, it's so much faster than virtualization. It's this and this and this. And I got up, I'm like, hey, we've all got the wounds and, you know, you know, less hair now that we've gone through a decade fixing all of these issues. What about this? So, you know, Docker did a great service in the industry, helped make containers available broadly and have done a lot. I'd say networking is a little bit further along than storages. Most of the things, you know, we talk serverless, it's mostly stateless today when we talk containers. Okay, where's my repository on the side that I do things so, you know, state is still something we need to worry about. So, you know, yeah. That said, you know, we've made a big investment in our ability for our block storage and by the way, all of our file storage offerings to be able to work with both Kubernetes and OpenShift. So, you know, those are two of the predominant prevalent container-based systems out there. So I think that at least it gives kind of that ability to attach anything that needs persistence to our store. So what I'd love to get your perspective on because we talk about, boy, these changes that are happening on the infrastructure side. For a while it used to be, okay, business needs a new application. Let's go build a temple for it. So the business people says app and then infrastructure comes, team said in, okay, I got the building specs, give me a million bucks in 18 months and now I'll build it. Well today, you don't have as much money, you don't have as much time, but that relationship between infrastructure and application, they've got to be working so much closer. So how do they, you know, when I'm building this, who is that that builds it and how do they work even closer? We can talk about the infrastructure developer, I guess, too, because really this is the role that kind of is an evolution from what maybe was in the past, a storage administrator, right? It's somebody who is setting up a set of policies and templates and classes of storage that abstracts the physical from the logical so that the application developer who is going into Kubernetes or into OpenShift says, I need a class B usage for storage that has backed up and maybe replicated. Or I need a class C that is backup replicated and highly available. And the storage administrator in that case is setting up those templates and just simply making sure that he's monitoring all this so that when the additional demand comes, he just plugs it in and starts to continue to add more. Okay, so I've talked a lot to developers, I haven't went across infrastructure developer before as a term, so where do they come from? What's their skill set? Maybe help flesh that out a little bit. Go ahead. I was just saying, I think in a number of customer presentations I've given over the course of this last year, it's come up a number of times. So I think, granted in the larger companies, and it typically comes across in a chart that shows not the number of people are changing, but the skill set and the different organizations I have are changing. So today where I spend a lot of time doing administration, five years from now, I'm not going to be doing that much administration. So what I want are capabilities, well, first of all, I need to program the infrastructure so that it's programmatic to either the application, connect through APIs. So maybe I have a chef or puppet doing DevOps. But when I make that call as a developer in the company to chef or puppet because I want this, to Rob's point, everything underneath that. It's orchestrated underneath it. There's a set of policies that are set that says, this is how much compute, how much network, what kind of storage you're going to get. That's the infrastructure developer who set using APIs that are in the infrastructure and at the higher level platforms like Kubernetes and OpenShift that basically allow that developer that just says, I need some of that, I need some of that. The experience is not a lot different than what they get with Amazon Web Services or Google App Server. It's a similar kind of experience, but you can do this on-premises now. Yeah, and yeah, it's very similar, as you said, and it makes a lot of sense to me because for sure, chef, puppet, Ansible been hearing lots of people talking. That's the people. It's like, you're not configuring LUNs anymore. I don't need to do all the old masking and all the configurations. The network people, it's like, no, you've got a different job and it shifted. That whole vision of infrastructure as code is starting to come to fruition. And we talk a lot, or at least I do, right around IT and technology and infrastructure is made up of three things. People, process, and technology. And the people are evolving just as fast as the infrastructure needs to evolve, right? So tomorrow, I want to be building a programmatic infrastructure today so that my people can be focused on, like you said, where is the future? I don't know, but I constantly need to be thinking like the analysts think. I need to be 12 to 18 months ahead of the company so that I can continuously evolve that infrastructure and help them get there. But I don't disrupt the flow of the people that need access to the data or the applications or that sort of thing, right? It's got to be constant, right? And that's how that skill set is changing. Okay, so what's that infrastructure developer's role in helping with the app modernization? How do I figure out, what do I just build new? What do I move over? How do I start pulling things apart? Yeah, I think it definitely starts by looking at the different applications that they have. I think you made a good example where, okay, so now I want to modernize as much as I can and now I want to start drilling into by taking a break, gaining some knowledge and some insights about containerization and APIs and that sort of thing and figuring out which applications in my stack today I can refactor, which makes sense to build out of microservices, refactor into microservices and that sort of thing. Start doing that, get that done and then start looking at ahead of that, what's next, right? So getting that infrastructure programmed and plumbed ready so that anyone who needs to access it can, so it's more hands off. Think of the younger generation coming into technology today, right? I want to use my iPhone, I want to do this. I want that piece of storage. I want it to be a click of a button. I, as an infrastructure developer, need to help set that up and make that happen so that as we move forward, I'm doing other net new things. Would you agree? Absolutely, absolutely. So at the end of the day, those guys are basically taking advantage of those large pool of services, whether it be storage, networking or computing, creating APIs or leveraging APIs in that infrastructure and wiring it up so that the end user developers can go and access them at will without waiting. Yeah, last thing I want to ask in this segment is, you know, change is tough and when you look at my application portfolio, it could be a little bit daunting. So what sort of things that they be doing to make sure that they're ready for the modernization, the transformation, to get along that journey a little bit faster? Well, the first thing is, is that you've got to have a software-defined infrastructure to be able to do any of this. And basically what that software-defined infrastructure has is has a number of attributes, the first of which is an actual separation between the physical and the software. It has policies. It has the ability to APIs that allow you to control that, that you're either through command line interfaces or rest interfaces such that it can be orchestrated and then you take advantage of all those policies such that you can automate it, monitor it and manage it centrally. That is the base definition of software-defined infrastructure and we've had it with CPUs for a long time. We've had it with networking. People have been doing network separation of software and hardware and it's really IBM that is unique in this business that has a set of software-defined capabilities that I think is different than the rest of the marketplace. Yeah, I mentioned earlier, but I think I'll close on it too, is lots of customers has got to modernize the platform and that really sets you up to be able to modernize the applications on top. That's right. All right. Rob and Steve, thanks so much for joining us. Thank you. So helping us walk through the data and the applications. Thanks, Stu. All right, thank you so much. I'm Stu Miniman and appreciate you watching theCUBE.


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