Okay, YouTube is just calling me if I am live, so just give me a shout in the comments to let me know that I am live. If you're wondering where I have been for the last few minutes, I was just talking to myself, so I hadn't realised that I needed to press a go live button. I had it set up previously to just all happen automatically. Thanks, Dan. Have not heard from you for a while. Nice to hear. Have not heard from you again. If you're interested, Dan is the guy who set up my Discord server. So that wouldn't be there if... Thanks, Dan. Have not heard from you for a while. You fancy doing that. So there we go. Anybody that's come from Discord, that's why that exists. the guy who set up my, um, so yeah, if someone in the chat could just let me know that I can be seen and heard and that I have done this properly, that would be wicked, because I basically lost control of my PC about three weeks ago and just had to reinstall everything from scratch and still haven't looked. Yeah, software is just the way I like it, which is frustrating, but I'm getting there, so hopefully we've got the streaming stuff set up again. Because I basically lost control of my PC about three weeks ago and just had to reinstall everything. Anyway, um, so why am I streaming today? So some of you might already know, so, um, a few weeks ago, you can be seen and heard though there's a tad bit of an echo. It might just be the room to be fair, Joe. Anyway, um, so why am I streaming today? So some of you might already know, so, um, a few weeks ago, you can be seen and heard. No, I don't know, I don't know what would be causing the echo dude. It might just be the room. I don't know that.  See, this is why we should test things before we go live, innit? Alright, well, as long as I can be kind of heard, that I'll have to do. Right, so I have been sent a package from YouTube because I have now passed 100,000 subscribers, which is probably more to do with, it's gone. Oh, I fixed it. Thanks, Joe. I don't know what I did. I pulled up my earphones. I don't know why that would help, but I'll take it. I'll take it. Um, so yeah, you guys, um, there are now apparently over a hundred thousand of you, although as it stands, there are 11 of you here live with me. That's a very small percentage, um, but I'll take it. Uh, and so YouTube sent me a box via FedEx, uh, and the box has been as far as trekking it because I was very excited. Uh, it's been in three American states. It's been a transatlantic flight. Uh, it was at Thurcroft this morning and now it's with me and I'm going to open it. I'm going to show it with you guys. I've never seen like an unboxing of any of the play buttons that YouTube sent out. So I actually have got no idea what, um, how it will be packed and what it's going to look like. I'm genuinely quite excited about it. I never thought I'd actually get this many subscribers. Um, so that's, that's mad really. I kind of assumed that I would get, um, the channel banned or something for some reason before I ever got there. But, um, there we go. So if I just reach down here, what's, oh hang on. They see now we're getting issues with the, the software. Give me a sec. Let's take the background removal off. Hey, look at that. I've got a white wall painted, painted myself. Um, so this is, this is the box. Ooh. So disappointingly it's got the nice YouTube logo on it. Um, and they've put an ugly yellow sticker on it, which hurts my feelings. Um, and the driver called me today. He tried to deliver it yesterday and I wasn't in. Uh, and so he called me to say, yeah, all right mate, it's FedEx driver. I've got a package from YouTube. And I was like, does he know it's from YouTube? Has he been snooping through my mail? And of course it just says it on the box. So, um, yeah. And apparently you'll not be able to see it. So it's from a guy called, well, maybe we can line it up. Yeah. Look, just there. It's from a guy called Bill Sender. I'm sure that's not true. I probably means Bill, the person that sent it. But I thought that was a funny dead joke. Right. Shall we see if we can get it open? So let's have a little look. So you put it on my shoulder like it's a, a boom box. Got some scissors. If I can do this without cutting myself, that would be ideal. So undo the tape. Oh, isn't this exciting? Anymore others and more tape. See, should have done the tape earlier. I really want to ruin the box. I'm in. What's in the box? What's in the box? Right. So, guys, they've sent me some phone. Yes. I love phone. Oh, and it smells like phone too. It smells like American phone. Oh my God, I've got a letter. Shall I read it to you? Shall we have a little story time? So I'm not going to, um, I'm not going to go any further. I'm not going to uncover the plaque just yet. Let's see what that says. So it says, it couldn't, can you see it? So it's from YouTube and it says, do you remember your first subscriber? Your 100th? Your 1000th subscriber? Chances are you do. Unfortunately, I don't remember. In fact, I was already at 2000 subscribers before I learned what subscribers were. And we know you'll definitely remember your 100,000 subscriber. I don't know who it was, but I do remember passing. Your fans may have found you while searching YouTube, learned about you through a friend or maybe showed up as a recommended video. Now, matter how they came to your channel, fans stayed and their numbers increased because of your unique voice. I have got a very unique and annoying voice and the excitement of being part of the growing community that you established. Community. Hey, everyone. Let's commune. We are thrilled to see the development of your community and are proud to honor your impressive milestone of reaching 100,000 subscribers with the Silver Creator Award. Congratulations. And then it says congratulations with an exclamation mark, which is how you know they mean it. We know that you have many more stories to share with your community. More like tutorials and stories, I guess.  So keep creating, keep building. We can't wait to see what you'll do next. And we're here to support you along the way. And who knows when you reach your millionth subscriber, we may just write to you and ask, do you remember your 100,000th subscriber? Sincerely, Susan. Oh, no, I can't read the last name. Wajiki. I'll Google how that should be said later. Sorry, Susan. And then there's a little card. What's this? So, congratulations on your subscriber milestone. We are honored to take part in recognizing your achievement and want your experience to be exceptional. This award was inspected and packaged with great care by Rick. Rick, thanks mate. Bonus points if he's got a son called Coral. If your award was damaged during shipping, if you have any questions, please contact us. God, I hope it's not been damaged. That would be gutted. Right, so, got me a card. Thanks, Rick. Got my letter. This is printed on nice paper. You won't be able to see on the webcam, but like, it's thick paper. Look at this. It could have been picoric. Can you see? Look at this. Oh, yes. Let's see. I've got nowhere to put everything. I've only got a small desk. So, I'll take it out of the bag in a minute. Presented to, I wanted my name on it. I could have just put Game Dev Academy, but so it says Shane Whittington slash slash Game Dev Academy. For passing 100,000 subscribers, it's got YouTube at the bottom. Let's get it out of the bag. What does it smell like?  So, there you go. Can you see that? It's got a mirror on it. Oh, no, I don't want to give too much of my surroundings away. There you go. Look, I do have some sound deadening. It's not very well put up. I tried to hide it. So, there you go. Presented to Shane Whittington Game Dev Academy. What was that about? Okay, that's getting clipped. What's getting clipped? What did you do? What did I do? Hi Archie. Do it. I wish my fans were amazing at my content. Pick up Rick. Gorgeous. It is.   And some little hangy holes. So, look at that. That is hot. I want to kiss it. I'm genuinely really pleased with this. So, there it is. So, that then everyone is the YouTube Silver Creators Award.  Not much. See what we've got. So, we've got some of this silica gel stuff. I'll eat that later. And what does this say? Recognize your team. Share the recognition by allowing your team to purchase a personalized creator award. To purchase authorized copies of your creator award. Email Society Awards. So, I actually, I checked this.  So, I only need one. But if you've got a bigger team, you can purchase additional ones so that you get one each. So, that's good to know for anybody that's going to be getting this many things. I know I'm thanks. Cheers Dan. Yes. So, what I thought I would do is probably about half an hour. So, we're already 15 minutes ish in. But I thought I'd do a bit of an AMA. That's what internet people say for ask me anything. Yeah, you see, I'm down with the kids. So, if anybody's got any questions about anything to do with the channel or me or look at this jumper. You can ask me about the jumper if you want. That is one of my favorite possessions. And I wish I could stand this up somewhere. I've got nowhere to hang it. You think it should go go like there? That'd be wicked, wouldn't it? It should just be there for ever. I'd be so happy with that. They run about what it sleeps like. That part is getting cleared. What is sleep? You've lost me there. Put my box away now. That's what your mum said. There we go. Oh no, Omega Decca, you've got your comment hidden. But don't worry, I can show it. I didn't know I have to review them. Thanks Declan. So, when you're getting back to live streaming, I don't know if you've noticed. I'm doing one right now. So, yeah, well, it's all time, isn't it? So, being able to stream regularly is something that I thought I would be able to commit to. But I have not been able to commit to. It's becoming more of a regular thing. And I have got a separate channel for it. GDA live, if you want to subscribe. And I will do it intermittently. I did do a stream on Marvel Snap fairly recently. And it's just, it's about having time. Sometimes I have time. Sometimes I don't. But at the moment, I'm struggling just to get the main channel content out. Although, I have uploaded a video today, which is going to go live tomorrow. So, it is still happening.   Yeah, I think actually, Declan, you're probably the longest, one of at least one of the longest serving students I've had. Because you were with us through all the levels and did really well. I'm going to clip that comment that just says smell not sleep, which pretty much describes my nocturnal activities. Okay, sorry if I mispronounce this, but I'm going to go with Sajnavic or Sajnavic. Well deserved. You taught me my, more than my actual college professor. Help me pass my exams as well, studying graphic design. All the best to you. Here's to one million. That while it's taken me about 10 years to get to 100,000, so a million is probably wishful thinking, but I will keep creating video. I'm not very central in the frame yet now. I'll keep creating videos and we'll see how it goes.  Yeah, that's fine. To be honest though, if you're watching the videos, if you click in like, if you're leaving comments, that's enough. That helps me out and that's really appreciated. That means that you know how we're all sleeves to the big YouTube algorithm in the sky. Anything you can do that helps that out. Literally just watching the videos from start to end does so much for giving a channel a boost. You know, if you really want to support any channel, not just mine. If you can see they're putting videos out, just watch them. Even if you're not really watching and press play, put your phone down or walk away from your PC and that will tell the algorithm good stuff and that will help. 10 years is okay. I'm seven years in and have a massive 32 subscribers. Yeah, it can be difficult. I know in your case you're doing, you're in a niche that isn't niche anymore. There's a lot of competition. You've kind of got to find your niche within a niche. If you're doing gaming, like I quite liked how LowSpecGamer started out or, oh god what's he called, this random guy from down south who buys like old PCs and random graphics cards and just tests gaming on them. Random gaming in HD. Like niche within a niche is the way to go I think now. Oh no, I've sent the clip to the Discord general so it lives on the eternity. Which Discord, Joe? Which one is it?  So watch the videos you made and linked us to for projects from our personal projects in between serving sausage rolls that is. That's like my ideal man, someone that can do 3D modeling and bring me a sausage roll. That is, that's what everybody wants. That's all I would want. Yeah nice, I do actually, excuse me, because anybody that's been at college with me when I talk will know that I tend to put pretty much all my lessons on YouTube so that when students have gone I hear, you know, even years down the line, I'm still using the videos I'm doing the exercise that you taught us in college. Or my favorite ones were way back at the beginning my students didn't know that was on YouTube back before I really took it seriously. I was putting videos there, using them sometimes and I'd have students that I taught looking for Maya tutorials a few years later and they would find me and I get comments like, Shane, is that you? And I'd be like, yes, yes, it's me. But now, obviously, now I'm a bit more successful, I'm happy to admit the time a YouTuber. I might even get one of those mugs. I've seen people have them, it's like the YouTube logo with ER on it, YouTube Ur. I think I've earned it 100,000. Don't channel Liam Neeson, please. Listen, if that's what I've got to do, that's what I've got to do. I have got a very particular set of skills, so don't push me and no one needs to get hurt. Cool, so has anybody else got anything else they want to know about the journey to 100,000 or anything else? Feel free to drop me a comment and I will do my best to respond to it because I've got nothing else to do. There's no real aim to this stream. I've got the thing out the box. Next, one million. It won't happen. It will keep growing, the channel will keep growing, but I don't think I'll ever hit a million. Not, maybe if I quit the day job, I could give it enough time, although I think if I did quit the day job, I'd have some very disappointed students. His skills are god level. My skills are god level, to be fair. I'm not going to deny that. It is what it is. Yes, yeah. Yeah, good, good. Can you give me some subscribers? I don't think it works like that. Can't really share them around. I think it's a lovely idea. Please don't leave the day job sharing. Well, I mean, not yet, although you won't know, Joe, that I used to work full-time and the main reason that I'm able to continue to work part-time is because I do this. So who knows? If all of a sudden it blew up and I didn't need to keep coming to the day job, would I? I could tell you that I would just leave immediately. I would at least see out the rest of the year. So you're probably safe. You'd be fine. Keep up the great work. It's been a pleasure following you since 2019. Thank you Play Club DK. Is the DK for Donkey Kong? Yeah, thanks dude. I wonder who would like my longest-serving subscribers that still kind of checks the videos out from time to time. I bet there's at least one that's from like 2013 or something. In fact, what year did I join because I'm not really sure. Let's go to my back page. YouTube.com. Because it might be longer than 10 years actually. I say 10 years which makes it sound like I didn't take all that long to get there. Oh my god, it has taken a while. So let's go to about 2012. Oh no, it is 10 years. January 2012. So almost 11 years. That's not too bad is it? Although I thought. Because I've been teaching for longer than that and I'm sure I started using YouTube like in my first couple of years. Maybe I didn't. Weird. All right, cool. This ain't Twitch mate. Do you know what? Sometimes I do simulcast to Twitch so it could be. It's not today because I couldn't be able to get that set up. That's another three accounts I've got to remember my password for. But I could do it. So if it took you 10 years 100k that means you'll reach 1 million by the year 2112. Persistence is key. Yeah, it's exponential. It actually, the Pika Squad, it's not exponential. For a lot of channels it's exponential. My Grove Curve actually went up and then came back down. It depends on how consistent you are. So I in the last year kind of since COVID really COVID ruined me. I've been less consistent with the channel and the views and the subscriber, like daily subscribers have reflected that. So it can be exponential. But that's not necessarily the case. Mine hasn't been linear. It's been like a bell curve. But up until that point it was kind of linear. So it's not always like that. Oh yeah, finally was able to put up a bit of money for an actual PC7 booted up meal yet. Oh, you should. If you've not had a good play with a meal engine 5 it just keeps getting better. I've been having so much fun with it. My next video is going to be blending the mega scans materials, which was a lot of fun. So yeah, you should definitely check it out. Okay, that's all I've got. When you make it to a meal I can brag it about to everyone after college. Well, you met a guy that's got a million subscribers. I don't think anyone will care, but fine. Interestingly, so I'm at 100,000 subscribers. Now, I think a lot of people, I suppose it depends on their, I think they call it a vertical on YouTube, kind of their topic. I think people sort of start to get like a little bit of fame from that. I can honestly say that I've been recognised once, ever, from my YouTube exploits.  But it was, I went to a gaming convention in the UK called, God, what's it called? Oh my god, I've got a complete blank. EGX, it's called EGX. So I went to EGX in London and I ended up having to run the trip, which I wasn't expecting to do. So I was a little bit more stressed than I would normally have been and as I was walking to go and get the ticket, so I was trying to be as quick as I can because I had, I don't know, like a 100-ish, 50-ish, I don't know how many students were there for you, waiting for me to come back. And as I was walking, someone just grabbed my arm and then was like looking at me in the face, like, I know you. It turns out it was a lady, I think she's called Deborah, who I had chatted to on Discord about like teaching related stuff. And she was like, I know you and like I was just frightened at the time because I wasn't expecting it. So that was, I don't think I would be built for that kind of recognition.  But it was nice. If he leaves, game students would probably fail. Nah, they'd be fine. There's a, there's a, everyone's replaceable.   But would it be as good? No. MrBeast tips on the algorithm. Yeah, oh God. I think MrBeast just got started by giving money away and filming it, didn't he? I ain't got enough to do that. Good idea though. I want to use UE5. I just don't want to start any fires either. That'd be fine. When I was using it one day, my graphics card literally fell out. My computer had a big old beeping fit about it. It took me a while to figure it out as well. I was like, oh no, what's happened? What's going wrong? But it's been fine ever since. Just got to put the graphics card in a bit more firmly. Yeah, my teacher at college made it massive on YouTube, innit? And then it left with three months at college to go and then I failed all my assignments because no one was there to mark them and I'll never forgive him.  I know you have seen me in the real world. You have seen me in the real world. Most of the people on the on the chat tonight have seen me in the real world. I'm not, I'm quite humble, you know? I'm just chained. That's all I am. I don't know, big deal. Although, Gamediver Academy equals Bugater Veyron, pretty much. I mean, it's a metaphor. I'm not actually a car, but in terms of, you know, Crème de la Crème. Yeah, yeah, that's true. Mr Beaks went from reviewing kids' outros to videos giving away thousands of pounds.  Like, how scary is that that he just did it?  I mean, he's got his own burger place now. That's like my dream. A place that serves like ground up meat on bread as like a tribute to you. I'd love that.  It's been said, it's been said, I could make a job about people riding me. I won't, but there's one there. I think I think I could make that joke if I wanted to. Um, yeah, right. Um, so nobody else got anything while we're here that they would like to discuss um before we wrap it up because we've been here for about 30 minutes um and I'm getting old now. I can't really be relied on for more than half an hour's time spent doing anything. Um, do I play any games in my spare time? I do. Um, in fact, if I'm going to be perfectly honest, one of the reasons um that I've been putting out fewer videos than I used to is that I've gotten into gaming a lot more. I spend a lot of time on rocket league these days because it's a really good game but you can just sit down and you can have five minutes or you can have an hour, have a few games and it's got the online competitive thing that I like and you can improve at it. Um, so that, that works me. It fits in with kind of my lifestyle because I can't really get into longer games you know so um you're sort of 60 plus games.  Um idea for a burger a bevel burger a square bevel burger extrusion eggs extrusion eggs why so a 3d art themed burger restaurant can't see it doing ever so well yeah maybe I don't know if that would translate it would be a very specific kind of geek that would want to go and eat there so I might not I'm not going to invest in that right now unsubscribe for that sucks you don't even know if you were to play fortnight with me you would have a hell of a time um and I um fortnight zero build is all right I would agree I defy anybody to play fortnight with a group of friends and not have fun um it doesn't I don't know what that it doesn't refers to badly UV fries yeah I mean to be fair you wouldn't really have to UV fries would you pretty basic just kind of yellow I like the way we're talking about the deep stuff tonight you know what what puns can we come up with for fast food um maybe you could do and do something with pizza I don't know what but I'm sure there's something you could do UV map to meatballs yeah I'm not feeling it I'm not feeling it automatic UV fries yeah yeah that works a bit better yeah yeah I play rocket with you when you're actually online yeah you know we've played and you've you've seen my talent you know how good I am so yeah I actually I have I have improved I am now diamond two now those of you that are good at rocket league will realize that that's not amazing but compared to where I was I'm quite positive I can aerial sometimes now and I don't always let the ball go straight past me ah polygon there's something we could do with pizza and triangles isn't there or you'd have like some kind of theme so maybe you'd refer to your calories as triangles so you know anything that was low fat you'd have it as like low low poly like you want the low poly dressing with that and they'd be like yeah I'm just watching I'm watching my waist like that's a smart choice because you're fat so that would be pretty good and platinum two platinum two you got to pump those numbers up although that is a big improvement from where you were um I got stuck up platinum two for ages moving from platinum to diamond was really difficult because that yeah kind of have to start aerailing so yeah although it does take me ages to get good at games because I just have no natural talent anybody that's ever played a shoot with me will know if anybody starts shooting at me so if I'm playing like Call of Duty or Halo if you start shooting at me you'll notice my character start sprinting forward and then shooting into the air because what I kind of do is just press forward and everything and just hit all the all the triggers and just completely lose my core so it's still the waistline have I played Minecraft I haven't my kids play Minecraft I don't get it I don't understand what the attraction is of it I think I'm too old or just not creative enough um it looks very square so yeah I'm sure I'm thinking if you want to build stuff then that's something but I just it's not something that I've ever understood I appreciate it as a massive game and I've you know I've done lots of reading around it and I quite like seeing that Notch has gone mental since he sold it to Microsoft which is interesting in itself but nah it's not a game that I have been able to play but yeah you gotta remember I'm an old man now you know all this new fangled stuff's a bit over my head all the gaming talent we went to me talent that's how we put people down cool um yeah right well I think what I'm going to do then team is I'm going to wrap it up I think what we'll do though is I'll just give you one more look at the good stuff oh oh look at that sexy little ooh ooh oh it's cold on my face that's amazing I don't know I'm going to put it I have no idea where this is going to go um can I oh look you got two me's hi um so yeah this is this is the award um it is because I'm amazing YouTube recognized my genius and thought that guy needs himself a creator award and they sent it to me and I got it so that's what the the stream is all about makes me happy and I want the gold one I'm not going to get it but god I would like a gold one it would it would make me so happy so yeah that's that's the good stuff that's what we're all there for I'll try I have got some shelves over there I might be able to in future videos angle the camera I mean this is a this is what we call in the UK a box room and like you can see like I've got my desk in front of me right up against the wall like I'm touching the wall there and I'm touching the wall there like I can't even stretch my arms that it's a small room so like this is the studio um so angle in it so that you can see where I would put the award and not showing just how terrible this room is would be a hell of a camera angle to find but I'll give it a go um kiss it this this is not my only fans page I might set that up I think there might be some money in it an only fans page of a a guy doing stuff to a youtube award I'd pay for that so have you played eldering I haven't played eldering I've looked at it I think it looks cool it's going to take too many hours so I just haven't started it also you've got to get good ain't yet and that wouldn't suit me um I can't play Minecraft for too long before I get bored to be honest yeah I like Minecraft but I get bored after an hour someone got burned nice fridge because it was cold um kiss it well you have immediate thing for show and tell yeah oh god yeah any chance here to whip it out now I'll definitely be doing that don't you worry my wife's going to take it into she's a teacher she's going to take it into her class because she's told them all that her husband's got a youtube award now they're like oh my god can we see it I want to touch it they actually said can we touch it and I don't want them too because kids have got sticky hands I might have to kill some kids which I promise I wouldn't do anymore so yeah that's it right I think we're gonna call it then guys thanks for joining me in this celebration and getting the uh the thing out of the box it's been real so here's to you know another 900 000 um subscribers and then we'll maybe we'll do this again I mean I will probably just be a head in a jar at that point but you know I still look good um cool so uh thanks for watching there's a video dropping tomorrow so if you wanting to learn some on-meal engine material stuff then check that out thanks for subscribing please don't unsubscribe that'll really knacker up the whole 100k thing I've got going on and I hope to see you in a future video and I've just got to find where we click on the end stream it's there I'm gonna click the button right bye everyone your stream will stop immediately all right I'll do it


It's been an amazing day, very enriching and insightful to really see the large body of marketing work that's happening in the country today, both the width and depth of it. I think it was quite fascinating. Also as jury, we had some wonderful deliberations to really debate based on the criteria as to which campaign is really worthy of winning, but it was really fascinating to see the quality of work and the quality of jury discussions.


Hello everyone, friends, followers, people who don't like me. Thank you for tuning in to another one of my videos and I'm very very exhausted. I've been working very hard on multiple different projects. One of the main projects that I've been working hard on with the team is the campaign I'm about to release tomorrow night at 7 p.m. I'm making this video first because when you put a lot of work into something and make a lot of sacrifice and it makes you extremely exhausted, you really want it to have the effect that it needs to which is for the public to see it and that's why I'm making this video for those who follow my work, support my work, who are vegans, who are animal people who are just people who aren't vegan but agree with what I do but don't want to go vegan. You can jump in the comments section of the video and add some engagement. If you don't like what you see, jump in the comments section too. All of that helps the engagement of the video and brings it up to be recommended. If you leave a like and if you view the video that would also help as well and share it with those people who need to see it. And I really would hope to see you all tuning in because, you know, me and our team here have been working very hard and yeah, I'm very excited to, you know, bring this campaign to you. I'm not telling you what the campaign is yet because that's what the premiere is for, but you kind of probably got an idea. You know, I've seen some comments people kind of getting it. Ooh, do they? Do they really know? But you'll have to wait tomorrow and see. This is going to be a systematic campaign. It's going to last a number of weeks, potentially months, and it won't be the last of what you see from me in this regard because I really believe that, you know, secrecy shouldn't exist in the depths that it does for something like an industry like this. This knowledge really should be accessible to the public, but, you know, the industry never really likes to show the public the truth. It's always activists, advocates. And I don't think that's going to change any time soon. But if we want things to change, then we have to campaign and bring what's done in the dark out to the light. And you guys who are my supporters, followers, people who agree with animal rights, I need your help to help me get this message out there. I can only do so much. My team can only do so much. We really rely on you guys to help us share it and, you know, get in there, watch a comment. And, you know, that's the other half of the work is my supporters, which is why I'm making this video to you. And that goes for any piece of content that I've made that you think people need to see and that will help the animals. Please help us out here. You know, I've got so much content on my channel, but this campaign here, we really stepped it up a notch again. You know, I don't know how much more I can keep stepping it up before I fall off the edge of the stairway. And but yeah, we keep trying and I hope it's valuable and I hope to see you all in the premiere tomorrow night, Friday night at 7pm for the release of my new campaign. Thank you very much and I'll see you in the next video, which is tomorrow at 7pm Friday. Did I say Friday? I said Friday. Oh, did I mention it's UK time Friday? I think I did. No, I didn't. If I didn't, then it's UK time 7pm Friday. Okay. Peace.


Stevenson with a 6-3 win over Chatham here tonight. Christian Taylor with Zach Egber after this one tonight. First and foremost, crazy start to this game. Chatham came on back, but how was this team able to prevail tonight? Yeah, I thought it was a great start for us. Obviously, real good first 40 minutes for us. And the third, you know, we knew they were going to make a push. And I thought, you know, we battle through it mentally, which has really been huge for us this year. And we came out on top at the end. That's all you could ask for. Come on to the next one now. Your goal. I don't know how that went in. Do you know how that one went in? Honestly, I don't know. I got on my stick, spun it back towards the net, and saw it went in, and that was that.  Tell me just how important was it just to move on in this tournament and, you know, hopefully punch your ticket to the postseason. Yeah, this is huge for us. Obviously, last year in the first round, you know, getting knocked out early. So to get through that hurdle this year and, you know, on to the next one, this is a good Nazteam. We got to be ready to go. So we're going to keep the season going. Zach, thank you very much. Congrats on the win. That's Zach Egber. I'm Christian Taylor. Go MustangSports.com.


Good afternoon and welcome and welcome to our speaker today, Professor Sean Kaye. Hasn't been spoken here twice before in the past, but not for about seven or eight years, I think. And things have been some change in American politics and foreign affairs since that time. Sean is the Robertson Professor of Politics and Government at Ohio Wesleyan University and Merchant Associate at the Merchant Centre for International Security Studies at neighbouring Ohio State University. He's done a range of things in his career and has also advised the Obama campaign on security and defence issues in 2008 and the Bernie Sanders campaign in 2016. He's going to talk to us about many of the aspects of American politics and how it affects all our lives. Sean, welcome. Great, cheers. Well, it's very, very nice to be here. I've always had an incredible respect for the role that this institute plays here in Dublin and in Europe and we listen very, very closely in the States, especially when we hear from Dan O'Brien. So I'm very, very happy to be here. It's a privilege to see you again. What I'll do today is try to pontificate about something we have no idea about what's going to happen. So that's the first thing I should tell you. Your guess is as good as mine. But I tell that to my students as well. I have a PhD in these things and I've no idea what's going on. So who am I and why am I here? What I'm going to try to do is give you some trim lines that at least I think help understand why the Trump phenomenon has come about and what that has meant electorally. I'll talk a little bit about the conditions or circumstances in which foreign policy is important in American political campaigns, both in primaries and general election, and try to give you a little bit of the current play of what's going on now and then conclude with some implications for Europe and Ireland as well. And I should tell you at the outset I am an informal adviser on defense issues for the campaign of Mayor Pete Buttigieg, but I speak only for myself here and anything you hear from me should not in any way be associated with that. So this is just purely academic stuff. So how did it happen in 2016 that we all woke up and thought, my gosh, what happened? What went on? How did Donald Trump get there in the first place? Well, I think some of these trends actually go back pretty far in American history. I mean, if you look at George Washington, he warned about entangling alliances. He warned about long-term commitments. He said you should engage with other countries but not make judgments about them politically and whatnot. Now, I'm not drawing direct parallels between George Washington and Donald Trump, but I am drawing parallels between these notions and these ideas. They're actually deeply rooted in the American historical and political culture, right? So that's one key part. You have presidents like Don Quincy Adams, too, who said that America should not go out searching for monsters to destroy and things like that, that we should stay at home. And as you know me, this long tradition of isolation is, you know, especially from Europe in particular, right? So that passion has been there for some time. But also in the run-up to 2016, you really saw at least in foreign policy a culmination of decades of kind of loose consensus, I refer to it, of liberal interventionists and neo-conservative Republicans, which culminates in the Iraq war and the Afghanistan war and endless wars, which are still going on now, right? And so you also had even things like, you know, arguments about burden sharing. One talk I gave here some time ago, I mentioned, I was up NATO and burden sharing and I did say that if we can't get this balance right, somebody's going to come along and demagogue this issue politically, that the Europeans should pay more and do more and that they're just basically freeloading on the American public, right? Which is not accurate by any means, but politically resonates to a degree. So there's a long tradition in America, if you look at public opinion polls, that people favor restraint. They favor not isolationism now, but they do have a preference for staying out of war, as if possible, and engaging adversaries. I mean, there's been polling way before Donald Trump, like 70% of the American public said, yes, we should talk with North Korea, for example, right? So everyone criticized Donald Trump. We've did the thing with the Kurds on Syria recently. I think that's not an unpopular move, actually, among much of the American public. It's not popular though in Washington circles, where you hear these, the foreign policy circles, but good reason, because who would now trust America after we betrayed the Kurds on the ground, right? I mean, that's a serious problem in terms of future policymaking. But some other things were a little weirder, like the realignment of the Republican Party into a position of unquestioning approaches towards Vladimir Putin of Russia. That's a new thing. This was, of course, the party of anti-communism and anti-Soviet and wanted to enlarge NATO because we keep the Russians down and things like that. And now that's totally inverted, and that's odd. None of us really can understand that, that looked at this. Now, but also Donald Trump won by succeeding in places, interesting enough where Barack Obama had succeeded. We were just talking about this earlier, but Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, right? This was the key to the whole thing. And he won in key counties in Wisconsin that had twice voted for Barack Obama. So it's kind of hard. I mean, racism was out there. There was a whole lot of sexism and other things. But in these counties, it was trade policy. It wasn't even, it was more the sense of dislocation that people had had, that trade had left them behind, these communities that were, and I see them. I live around them in Ohio and other places. You know, it's true. It's a real thing. And this is also why Bernie Sanders was very popular in 2016. He also resonated, rightly or wrongly, on the substance, but resonated with this notion of trade as a serious problem. All right, so what you end up with is a sense of sort of cultural dislocation. But what's ironic is that for the die-hard Trump voters, they're the ones he's actually lied to the most. And so it's a little bit tricky to understand why they're so unquestionably with him on things. But they are, right? And he's got a problem now because he can't afford to lose them. So when he goes to these rallies, he's got to fire them up. And they do get a lot of data on who's the voters and whatnot. But if there's one reason why there was a big surprise, and it shouldn't have been, we saw polling in the summer of 2015 that showed that in those states that I just mentioned, Hillary Clinton had honest and trustworthy ratings of about 30%, right, which is not a good number going in. And people had made that judgment call already. And she was relying very heavily on women and suburbs to turn on Trump, which has happened, actually, but it didn't happen in her election because party affiliation turned out to be stronger, actually. I remember there was a survey out of Philadelphia Inquirer that asked, when did you decide of a woman, a Republican, and they interviewed her after the survey in Philadelphia's suburb? And she said, when did you decide you didn't want to vote for Hillary Clinton? She said 1989. And also, then finally, you had one of the most anti-establishment elections in a period of time when Democrats ran the most establishment candidate you could probably find. So there was a backlash to that. But what's problematic here is that he does have that base in these rallies, right? And he can't lose them. If he loses them, he's got nothing going into this election. And so, you know, that's a real problem politically because it prevents him, even if he wanted, which I don't think he does, but if he wanted to move towards the middle and reach out and expand his base, right? But he hasn't expanded his base. Okay, he's narrowed it even more. And so, you know, I think that there's any scenario here where Donald Trump could get re-elected to which a ham sandwich could defeat Donald Trump. Maybe a toasted ham sandwich. You know, but somewhere in between is what we're going to find out, right? So then the question is, what are the variables in between now and then that can lead to that? And some of them are international. Impeachment obviously is something we can talk about that during the Q&A I'm happy to. But there's some other issues. Brexit, you know, trade, the trade tariffs and whatnot could lead to some economic dynamics that could be problematic for them, right? If we even just in a normal cycle into recession again, right? These kind of things. Could either get his base even more riled up or it could get some people to turn on him a bit too. The other issues like NATO and things like that, right? These are policy problems, but they're coming under threat and challenge and, you know, fundamental institutions of foreign policy could come back and have an impact as well. But I think some of these things just go so much deeper. You know, we're talking about wherever anyone sits politically. We're talking about an administration that took children at the border from their parents and put them in cages. Now I'm here as an American on Thanksgiving to tell you how appalling I find that, you know? And I think a lot of Americans privately, even if they're for Trump, also would find that deeply appalling. But they also like tax cuts and they also like, you know, A, B, C or D, judges, Supreme Court especially, right? And so he's found a way to tap into that quite successfully. The reputational costs are huge, but my sense is that the world is kind of waiting us out and to see, you know, what comes next. And the challenge for the Democrats will be, will they reconcile the kind of dilemmas that led into leading up to the Trump phenomenon? Or will they just think, oh well, now we're back, everything's grand, right? And my guess is it won't be. And I think that they're going to have to figure out some different approaches to a whole range of issues. But in a normal circumstance, no wars, or no new wars, I suppose, and economic prosperity at home, right? Typically those would be pretty grand design for a overwhelming re-election for any incumbent president, right? So that alone you got to start with as a potential strong point that could get him across the finish line, you know? It's even possible that he could get re-elected and lose the popular vote by many millions more. He lost by three million last time. He could lose the popular vote by many millions more votes, but still win the electoral college because of, you know, our system is set up as he did last time. But there's also some demographic trends that are going on and every election, including in places like Kansas and Alabama and just recently in Louisiana and right next door to me in Kentucky, every chance since then that there's been a vote. People in very red conservative states have been voting for the Democrat. And so that also suggests a trend line that's coming. And the key trend has been shifts in the suburbs. And it's women voters in particular and they're concerned about gun control, they're concerned about healthcare, and they're concerned about the environment. And the Republican Party is not talking about any of those issues. They're not resonating with them. You could have lots of disagreements on the issues, but they're not even acknowledging these things as policy concerns. You know, health, well, you know, Obamacare, they want to get rid of it, right? That kind of thing. Which would hurt actually Donald Trump supporters probably the most, which is, again, ironic. All right, so, but I would posit that there are scenarios here where Donald Trump can be reelected. Okay. And a lot of that has to do with what goes on with the Democrats. So that's where I'll turn to next. Foreign policy, which is kind of at the root of my work anyway, is not a huge thing in primaries. It's you want to show that you could be commander in chief, that kind of thing. Sorry. You'd want to show that you can, you know, that you have good judgment. A lot of times experience has like, like with Hillary Clinton versus Barack Obama did not win out over judgment, the argument of judgment on the war in Iraq in particular, right? That Obama was opposed to it. Now, who knows? He was a state senator at the time. He'd actually been in the Senate. He might have actually, we don't know, you know, but it worked for his advantage. Hillary Clinton refused to quote, unquote, apologize for her vote on Iraq. Joe Biden voted for the war in Iraq, but it's kind of been vetted since then. He has recognized in his view it was a mistake to do it. And so forth. That's just not a huge issue anymore. And so mainly we do see these things manifest. Hillary Clinton ran campaigns against Barack Obama where there's a, it's the middle of the night. It's 3 a.m. The phone rings. You know, who's going to pick up that phone, right? Do you want, you know, a junior guy from Illinois that no one's heard of?  So that kind of, that can play. The Democrats have a bigger problem actually, which is that all these, remember I mentioned before, the Republican neo-conservatives, these are like the pro-war pro, you know, really engagement stuff, they're going to prop, many of them are never, never Trumpers, right? And so they will support probably the Democrat. And what kind of expectations in return will they be looking for? Jobs, you know, positions, influence, outcomes, right? So that's an interesting problem because this is the team that brought us into Iraq and has kept us in Afghanistan and other places as well. So the Democrats are having a little bit of a debate, not a lot, but a little bit about Afghanistan, but they're all in a race to get out as fast as possible, which is a contradiction because they're also saying, oh, we should have stayed in Syria, right? And so the Democrats have to kind of figure out their approach to wars and foreign policy. They're going to have to, there's internal conflicts that they have on climate change, even though they all agree on the substance of the problem. You've got plans that vary from Bernie Sanders that would cost as much as, I think, $30 trillion or something like that. Now maybe not, excuse me, 16. 16 was the number. That's the healthcare plan is $32 trillion. That's a lot of money, right? Where is it going to come from? Where are you going to get the votes for that, right? And the answer is, well, there'll be a revolution. Okay, but a lot of people want problems fixed right now. They don't want to wait for that, right? As Barack Obama said just a couple of weeks ago about climate, Americans generally, in his view, and he's got experience, tend to look at these issues as evolutionary, not revolutionary. And so Democrats have some conflicts. But they are having a discussion about these things, but they say things like, we have to advance human rights, but without regime change, okay, well how? How are you going to do it? What's the plan? What are you going to do? We're going to restore alliances, right? Rebuild NATO, that kind of thing. How? What exactly are you going to do? What trade-offs are you going to do? Are you going to allow European industry to take up, in terms of military and whatnot, instead of American, always insisting it be an American platform and so forth, right? So, you know, what are we willing to trade to make these alliances strong again? And what are you even going to do? You know, Mayor Pete Buttigieg was asked a couple of weeks ago on CNN, should Turkey be expelled from NATO, right? Because of what's been going on there. And the problem is, there's no clause that allows you, even if you want to, expel someone from NATO. You know, I think, frankly, on a political case, about Turkey, Hungary, these are countries you might take a look at if you had that kind of architecture, just me speaking personally. But there is no such architecture, and in fact, there is a rule that says you have to have consensus to even make the change, and you can't get consensus to even talk about it, right? So, it's not going to happen. But somebody needs to come up with some creative, innovative ideas about how we're going to rebuild these transatlantic relations in particular. So, the implications of this, well, also, very quickly, a couple of other issues in the Democratic Party, just for your information. There are some cleavages for sure. Right now, we see the sort of, if you will, the socialist leaning, you know, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, sort of to his, a little bit to his right, right? And they're occupying a pretty sizable, national percentage. And if one of them dropped out and took the others, they would leap pretty far forward. Pete Buttigieg has moved significantly forward in the state of Iowa. You know, people are getting to see him and whatnot. He's doing well there. But he has a very low support polling of African-Americans in South Carolina, where Joe Biden has had a consistently strong base. And they are the group, especially African-American women, that vote most consistently in Democratic primaries. Joe Biden's had a real lock on that. And his numbers have been steady, you know, throughout. Even every time he's been challenged and he's faltered, he continues to be a very strong national candidate, but not as strong in the states now that are coming first, right? So that could also tip that a little bit, as has happened before. But also, Joe Biden doesn't have much registering support among people under the age of about 25. And so that's an issue that he would have to figure out, right? So implications here for Europe and Ireland and then we'll conclude, because I just want to lay out some parameters here and then I'd much rather talk more directly with you all. So first of all, I think there's an interesting political dilemma here. The Democrat, whoever it is, probably is going to be attacked as some European-style socialist who wants to take over your healthcare and all that kind of thing. And so it's kind of a weird thing. Attack European-style, right? But Putin is from Europe, last I checked, right? I mean, Orban is from Europe, last I checked. You know, there's other things happening in Europe right now. And maybe the existential question of our time is what is going to be the plan to try to effectively and positively in a constructive way roll back to the liberal trends we're seeing that are coming out of extra-constitutional outcomes of some of the elections that we've had or even without, like in Turkey and so forth. How do you do that? I don't have the answer to that. But Donald Trump has been very skillful. If you look at his UN speech from September, he says the globalists will not take over, right? The socialists will never govern America. And he a couple of times throws in communists too, right? I mean, this is classic McCarthy-type stuff that we're trying to do to appeal to a fear of the outside. Ironically, if you follow the impeachment issues, I mean, what's more globalist and hidden than a president of the United States coordinating a campaign illegally, apparently, overseas with foreign governments to interfere in our election? I mean, he is the thing he says that we shouldn't have. And that's a tricky thing to get his supporters to go in. But it really is astonishing, and he's a senator who I have a lot of respect for. His name is Rob Portman. He's Republican. He has a strong record on foreign policy. He was the U.S. trade representative. And this president stands for everything that this guy's built against his entire career, and yet he supports them continuously. And it's mind-boggling to understand that. There seems to be some fear of taking him on among the Republicans. My theory on that, and it's purely a theory, is that it's because they did determine, after Obama won twice, that the demographics in America are changing so much that they really, this is maybe the only way they can hold power right now. Because if you look at some states, like even Texas has predicted with population changes, maybe sooner.  Texas could change Arizona. New Mexico, Colorado already have. Florida would be up for play. Where I live, Ohio, a lot of the people have moved out of Ohio and moved to Georgia and to Arizona. And that's actually changing. So Georgia just had a governor's race where African American women being very close to defeating the very pro-Trump Republican. But the fact that it's so close in a traditionally very conservative red state tells us, I think, a little bit about the trends. So more broadly, I think, if a Democrat wins the election, you can expect on day one, America returns to the Paris Climate Accords and things like that. But whether America itself will take its own heavy steps on climate, that remains to be seen. But we would certainly see a lot of plans restored that were at least under works under Obama and so forth. But the one I think that you really need to watch out for here in Ireland, in particular is the trade policy issues. Now, if you get Joe Biden in one of those middle lane Amy Klobuchar, that kind of thing, then you might have good hope for kind of a return to normal. But the Bernie Sanders Elizabeth Warren view would be not particularly friendly in my assessment to foreign direct investment here in Ireland. And I think this is something you need to be aware of and factoring for. It would be hard to do, but there are certain kinds of levers with taxes and whatnot that they could do to help Trump try it a little bit with our own corporate tax rate, but it's certainly not competitive enough even at the lower level. But I could see some more. I don't think you'd see a major shift on the trade issues. The Democrats are likely to affect a lot of the appeal that Trump has from some Democratic voters is on these trade concerns. And then I worry about the sequencing of foreign direct investment, the Brexit and the tariffs that are going on worldwide, and even just the potential for normal secular recession, right? But there is a potential, frankly, here for Ireland of a perfect storm, economically. I'm very pleased to be back here and see things going well again. And I can't imagine a scenario would ever go as bad as it did before. But the winds are out there, and the seas are rising. So now to conclude here, I'd like to say a little bit more about Ireland as an example. I've watched Ireland over the years. I wrote a book on it after the collapse of the Celtic Tiger and all that. And one of the things that really came out to my mind here was the embrace here of multiculturalism. The referendum on marriage equality was the way they did it. Wherever you sat on it, the way they did it was, I interviewed the people that ran the campaign and I brought them out to give speeches in Ohio. And they did it in a way that allowed people the space they needed to come to the issue in a comfortable way and to get talking to people, average people, not hitting a like on a Facebook, but people really talking face to face and listening, listening more even than talking. I believe, and Dan was there visiting when this happened, that Hillary Clinton lost that election when she referred to Donald Trump voters early September of 2016 as a basket full of deplorables. These are my friends' parents. These are people I know. They're not deplorable people. They're Republicans. They have their views. But they're not bad people, right? And if you go out and attack the voter, you can't really expect a lot to get in return. Also help if you actually campaigned in Wisconsin, in Michigan, and Pennsylvania as well. So I think that Ireland offers some lessons there in particular. To conclude here, just with these general remarks, some of the concerns I have about what's happening in America that resonate internationally, clearly attacks on journalism, attacks on press, despots are watching us, despots are learning how to get away with these things. Despots are learning how to remove an ambassador if you don't like what they're saying to you. That's one of the most serious consequences actually for foreign policy or the impeachment dynamics going on. And also clearly, America's greatness did rise from its soft power appeal. The appeal that it had of sort of the idea of America and whatnot. And again, that idea, at least in my book, does not include separating children from their parents and locking them in cages. You know, this is just one of the most appalling things. I never thought I'd see this in my life. And I'm sorry about it. And just again to move to conclude here, the big winners of this four years are one of the biggest winners here. The big winners of this four years are Russia and China. They're the winners. They're the ones being made great again here. And I mean, I don't mean that just in terms of politically, but for China, they're really getting a lot of opportunities now to move into places. And Russia too on the ground, for example, in Syria and so forth. So anywhere between Donald Trump is reelected or even a ham sandwich could win, right? We just don't really know. But against him. He hasn't brought him to his base of appeal. So there's, you know, the first scenario, and frankly, honestly, I would predict and I'm willing to do that here. We'll have to check back and see. But I do think that the Democrat, I mean, I think it would be good money to put down Democrat for the next president of the United States. But I also, for anyone who doesn't like Donald Trump, I wouldn't want you to take that as wishful thinking. Because clearly, again, they could drive up the popular vote, but still lose the election. But Donald Trump could run an inside straight again on some key states. They're trying to expand into New Mexico and New Hampshire to make up if they lost Michigan. That kind of thing. But he doesn't have a lot of room for maneuver. That's the thing. So that's why I think structurally it would be favorable to any real serious opponent at this stage. But there's so many scenarios, and any time you hear anyone say, well, the conventional wisdom would suggest that's immediately, or I would say, let's recess that. And so I could imagine scenarios all the way up to and including that Donald Trump is an even president by April. And not by impeachment necessarily, but by his own, perhaps, resignation and deciding he doesn't want to do this anymore and just declare victory. America's great again. Go home. Ironically, if he did that and they were to have somebody like Nikki Haley, who was the former ambassador to the United Nations, former governor of South Carolina, if you ran her against Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders, she'd probably win that election in a landslide. So the Republicans have some choices of their own to make going ahead. They could actually have a more likely re-elected election possibility without Donald Trump. And if they make that calculus, they may make the turn against him. I could also imagine scenarios where you could have an electoral college tie and it goes into the House of Representatives to decide the election. These kind of things. I mean, anything is possible here. But the key thing probably for the Democrats to decide is there are a few issues. The question is, do they want to run in the middle lane, make an argument for a return to normalcy and appeal to people that we're going to have a calm time and you can trust the government again and you just don't, we don't have to hear about it every night in the news or tweets, that kind of thing. But there are some issues, some key issues I think, and this will be my last point, that Donald Trump could seize on. One would be the issue of Medicare for All. The concept is perfectly fine. We're here in Europe. We understand the benefits of public health care. But this is an issue that he could run on and say, I'm here to defend your freedom. And by the way, Medicare for All, if you get into the weeds is a problem for many unions because they actually negotiated lower wages in return for better benefits. And so now the socialists would come in and actually take away the benefit and they'd lose the wage too. So that has not helped them actually in some of these debates. Second key issue that could favor Trump in the election would be guns. Personally speaking, I'm not a fan, although I do support people's right, of course, to hunt and things like that. But this could be a big issue. And when you heard Beto O'Rourke who dropped out of the race and he was very understandably upset, rightly so after El Paso shooting, right? But he did say, yes, we're coming into your, I think, effectively, into your basement to get your guns. And that is just a trigger warning. That's a wrong phrase. That's a warning sign for many people who would be very opposed to that, including many Democrats. Right around where I live in Ohio, rural Ohio, they really appreciate their arms. I personally don't. But that's a choice they make. And the third issue is a little minor minutiae, but they are advocating Bernie Sanders and a couple others for decriminalizing illegal border crossings. And that would be in Donald Trump's wheelhouse in terms of immigration issues. So basically there's a whole range of scenarios all the way up to a landslide defeat of Donald Trump. And I don't want to project or offer wishful thinking here, but the way these elections have been going in the suburbs, and that's why that more moderate kind of middle path may be the pathway to victory as opposed to, oh, we'll have a revolution and bring benefits to everybody. That's been the evidence so far that these elections have been winning in the suburbs and that requires probably a more moderate approach. So the question is, will the Democrats end up with a candidate that can fill that lane? Or if they don't, will it be sufficient that it's just not Donald Trump? And that's what we're going to find out over the months ahead. An interesting 12 months course. Thank you.


From around the globe, it's theCUBE, presenting Enterprise Digital Resilience on Hybrid and Multicloud, brought to you by IOTAHO. Okay, now we're going to go into the demo and we want to get a better understanding of how you can leverage OpenShift and IOTAHO to facilitate faster application deployment. Let me pass the mic to Sabita. Take it away. Thanks Dave, I'm happy to be here again. Guys, as Dave mentioned, my name's Sabita Davis. I'm the Enterprise Accounting Executive here at IOTAHO. So today we just want to give you guys a general overview of how we're using OpenShift. Yeah, hey, I'm Noah, IOTAHO's Data Operations Engineer working with OpenShift. And I've been learning the ins and outs of OpenShift for like the past few months and I'm here to share what I've learned. Okay, so before we begin, I'm sure everybody wants to know, Noah, what are the benefits of using OpenShift? Well, there's five that I can think of, faster time to operation, simplicity, automation, control, and digital resilience. Okay, so that's really interesting because there's an exact same benefits that we at IOTAHO deliver to our customers. But let's start with faster time to operation. By running IOTAHO on OpenShift, is it faster than let's say using Kubernetes and other platforms? Our objective at IOTAHO is to be accessible across multiple cloud platforms, right? And so by hosting our application in containers, we're able to achieve this. So to answer your question, it's faster to create end user application images using container tools like Kubernetes with OpenShift as compared to like Kubernetes with Docker, Cryo, or container D. Okay, so we got a bit technical there. Can you explain that in a bit more detail? Yeah, there's a bit of vocabulary involved. So basically containers are used in developing things like databases, web servers, or applications such as IOTAHO. What's great about containers is that they split the workloads. So developers can select their libraries without breaking anything and sys admins can update the host without interrupting the programmers. Now OpenShift works hand in hand with Kubernetes to provide a way to build those containers for applications. Okay, got it. So basically containers make life easier for developers and system admins. So how does OpenShift differ from other platforms? Well, this kind of leads into the second benefit I want to talk about, which is simplicity. Basically, there's a lot of steps involved with when using Kubernetes with Docker, but OpenShift simplifies this with their source to image process that takes the source code and turns it into a container image. But that's not all. OpenShift has a lot of automation and features that simplify working with containers, an important one being its web console. Here, I've set up a light version of OpenShift called CodeReadyContainers, and I was able to set up our application right from the web console. And I was able to set up this entire thing in Windows, Mac, and Linux. So it's environment agnostic in that sense. Okay, so I think I've seen the top left that this is a developer's view. What would a system's admin view look like? That's a good question. So here's the administrator view and this kind of ties into the benefit of control. This view gives insights into each one of the applications and containers that are running and you can make changes without affecting deployment. And you can also, within this view, set up each layer of security and there's multiple that you can prop up, but I haven't fully messed around with it because with my look, I'd probably lock myself out. So that seems pretty secure. Is there a single point security such as you use a login or are there multiple layers of security? Yeah, there are multiple layers of security. There's your user login, security groups, and general role-based access controls. But there's also a ton of layers of security surrounding like the containers themselves, but for the sake of time, I won't get too far into it. Okay, so you mentioned simplicity and time to operation as being two of the benefits. You also briefly mentioned automation. And as you know, automation is the backbone of our platform here at Idaho. So that certainly grabbed my attention. Can you go a bit more in depth in terms of automation? OpenShift provides extensive automation that speeds up that timed operation, right? So the latest versions of OpenShift come with a built-in cryo container engine, which basically means that you get to skip that container engine installation step and you don't have to like log into each individual container host and configure networking, configure registry servers, storage, et cetera. So I'd say it automates the more boring, kind of tedious processes. Okay, so I see the Idaho template there. What does it allow me to do? In terms of automation and application development, so we've created an OpenShift template which contains our application. This allows developers to instantly like set up our product within that template. So Noah, last question. Speaking of vocabulary you mentioned earlier, digital resilience is a term we're hearing, especially in the banking and finance world. It seems from what you described, industries like banking and finance would be more resilient using OpenShift, correct? Yeah, in terms of digital resilience, OpenShift will give you better control over the consumption of resources each container is using. In addition, the benefit of containers is that, like I mentioned earlier, sys admins can troubleshoot the servers without like bringing down the application. And if the application does go down, it's easy to bring it back up using templates and like the other automation features that OpenShift provides. Okay, so thanks so much, Noah. So any final thoughts you wanna share? Yeah, I just wanna give a quick recap of like the five benefits that you gain by using OpenShift. The five are time to operation, automation, control, security and simplicity. You can deploy applications faster. You can simplify the workload. You can automate a lot of the otherwise tedious processes. You can maintain full control over your workflow and you can assert digital resilience within your environment. So guys, thanks for that. Appreciate the demo. I wonder, you guys have been talking about the combination of IoTaho and Red Hat. Can you tie that in, Sabita, to digital resilience specifically? Yeah, sure, Dave. So why don't we speak to the benefits of security and control in terms of digital resilience. At IoTaho, we automate detection and apply controls at the data level. So this would provide for more enhanced security. Okay, so if you were to try to do all these things manually, I mean, what does that do? How much time can I compress? What's the time to value? So with our latest versions of IoTaho, we're taking advantage of faster deployment time associated with containerization and Kubernetes. So this kind of speeds up the time it takes for customers to start using our software as they be able to quickly spin up IoTaho in their own on-premise environment or otherwise in their own cloud environment like including AWS, Azure, Oracle GCP and IBM Cloud. Our quick start templates allow flexibility deployed into multi-cloud environments all just using like a few clicks. Okay, so now I'll just quickly add. So what we've done in IoTaho here is we've really moved our customers away from the whole idea of needing a team of engineers to apply controls to data as compared to other manually driven workflows. So with templates, automation, pre-built policies and data controls, one person can be fully operational within a few hours and achieve results straight out of the box on any cloud. Yeah, we've been talking about this theme of abstracting the complexity that's really what we're seeing as a major trend in this coming decade. Okay, great. Thanks, Sabita, Noah. How can people get more information or if they have any follow-up questions, where should they go? Yeah, sure, Dave. I mean, if you guys are interested in learning more, you know, reach out to us at info at iotaho.com to speak with one of our sales engineers.  So book a meeting as soon as you can. All right, thanks guys. Keep it right there for more cube content with IoTaho.


We can really turn that up to our talk on Enlightenment that Henry David Thoreau said most men, most people, live lives of quiet desperation. And we really have to take a look at those moments of quiet desperation. We have to take a look at those moments of both at boredom, of dullness. If you are not, right now, living a life that is consistently supremely happy, I would say that there's some compromise going on in your mind. Because God's will for us is perfect happiness, so it's not supremely happiness. I mean like ecstatic. You should have not just an occasional ecstasy, that should be your daily mind. How's your day? Ecstasy! Absolutely in bliss. Soaring in bliss. If you're not having exuding joy, shooting out from you, radiating out from you, then I would say you've got some compromise going on. And the sneakiest thing about compromise is you don't know that you're compromising. You've told yourself that you're not compromising. I'm doing good. I'm doing good. I'm better than that guy over there, better than her. Or even sneakier, I've got it better off here in my life than most people on the planet. Talk about getting into this kind of false sense of littleness, where you think you're little, but you've gotten a lot better than the others, who are littler than you. It's a very subtle form of a superiority complex. You know, even when you can sit down and write your gratitude list, and your gratitude list has all the things that you're grateful for, and if a lot of them are material things on your gratitude list, then I think you really probably should write another list and start to look at what are the qualities in your state of mind that you're grateful for. And if you're having trouble finding that, if you're having trouble making that list, then it's like, it's time to sober up and go, maybe I'm living a life of compromise. Every decision we make is either coming from our spiritual self, it's either inspired in the spirit, or it's coming from the ego. And, you know, there's no, you don't get any brownie points for coming close to heaven. You know, you don't make it through this life and go, well, I think I did pretty good. At least I can count more better good experiences than bad experiences. It's 50.2%. Okay, do I get in? You know, where do I have to do this reincarnation thing and keep improving the percentage? 60 some, 70 some, 80, 90, 99, 99.2, 99.4. And then you get closer, it gets more difficult they say. No, it has to be that if there's any time that you're not supremely happy and joyful, there's some compromise going on in the mind. That's what we're here to discover. We're just not here to just go, la, la, la, la, love, love, love, love, love, you know, and do all that. We're here to expose the compromise and end the compromise. In fact, the Course in Miracles is teaching us that salvation is no compromise of any kind. There's no way that you're going to get it, or we could say more and know it, or even better, experience it as long as you've got compromise going on. There's another line that says this Course will be believed entirely or not at all. This is not like jarts or horseshoes or something. Oh, you knocked it off there, I hit it. You knocked it on there.  You know, when you have the experience of who you are of divine love, you know, it's not a matter of coming close or losing it.  So that really kind of opens up our topic for our Shatakva to compromise because if you don't even know what it is, you know there's something fishy going on that you're not 100% joyful and happy, but you're not sure what that is. That's a golden opportunity to look at. Maybe I have set it up where I think that there's some false benefits that I can find on planet Earth, temporary as they may be because everything here is very temporary, but that while you're experiencing them, you start to get lulled into, oh, I've got it pretty good. I've got it pretty, pretty good, better than most, and that is the ego that's luring you. That is not the spirit that's telling you you've got it pretty good.  That's what I hear you saying, your heart just started opening up. You went from being closed in and afraid to taking on your function. It does seem like it's a walk of trust and trusting the intuitive prompts will take the place of all of this learning and conditioning that we put our faith in. We've learned stuff from people out of books seemingly and now we're on a path where we're learning to trust our divine guidance, our intuition and really go for that and we may seem to have our setbacks or times where we don't hear something and that takes patience there and that continuing trust is what's going to lift us and carry us. It's just like a whole new way of living and that's the most enjoyable thing for me as I've traveled around the world is just hearing inspirational stories of trust. It's like we're all in this together so it grows stronger and stronger. Instead of a virus or a plague, it's a miracle to spreading and growing stronger in our awareness and like a wildfire really. Non-compromising decision making is the sense that no matter where you perceive yourself in time and space, no matter how far you've seemingly wound into the dream and have identified with the dream figure as a person living in the world with this circumstance and that circumstance, you have some people call it almost like a silver cord that goes with you even in near-death experiences where I call them near-life experiences. They're always talking about the silver cord that's always there. You can't get away from it. It's almost like you're conduit back to source and if you thought of it this way you can think of it almost like it's a pipeline of guidance to help you while you believe in duality, while you believe in the maze of time and space and you've forgotten your true identity and you have to be stepped back towards your source and that source, that cord, that silver lining, that silver cord is always there. It's very, very practical. So there's nothing too small, nothing insignificant in terms of this unwinding and really it's learning to let go of concepts that are part of this make-believe self-concept and come to a point of leaping off back into an experience of your divine self. So for me, that's where guidance comes in and guidance is just one word for it. You could call it intuition, you could call it a lot of things but at every single step, at every single seeming turn it is there for you. There's no point when there isn't a divine guidance and the compromise comes in is when you try to keep that guidance at bay. When the fear level climbs up and you get into this kind of a tight note, I want to keep it the way things are. It's like you're more interested in preserving the status quo than you are opening to where you could be taken when you go through that. So compromise comes up seemingly in the context of relationships comes up in the context of jobs, of careers. You'll even hear stories nowadays of people who have one career and then all of a sudden to a series of circumstances they're lifted and transported to a whole other career that they couldn't even have conceived of but they're happy and they think that's a miracle. I don't even know how I got from here to here I spent my whole life trying to build this career and suddenly I was lifted up and transported over there for people who have get fired from a job and then all kinds of windows of opportunity open up for them after they're fired or somebody who goes through an illness or a terminal illness and they come out just shooting out the other side of it with more pizazz and passion than they ever had before almost like they're thrilled to have the opportunity to take a walk down the street after they've gone through this experience and they come out there like a rocket. So I would say that everything comes down to guidance and when you're not compromising is when you're in the flow with this guidance it could be what to say, what to do, what to wear what to eat, what to not eat if you're to fast, if you're to meditate if you're to call somebody, contact someone it's all in the alignment of that guidance and when you have an awareness of that guidance and you go, I don't think I want to do that I really don't want to do that the guidance is still there for you but when you turn away from the guidance that's a compromise and that's why I say people can live lives of compromise because there's all this glorious guidance that's in there perfectly available for you to live a supremely happy, joyful day and when we turn away and we hold on to past learning, we hold on to images that we've held of ourselves and others from the past we don't let the glory of that light pour through into our mind it's like we're clinging in the darkness and we're holding on, clutching it and that's a compromise but the more deeply you go on the spiritual journey the more you find it's difficult to compromise and it becomes extremely difficult to compromise the more you become into alignment with this guidance so to me that's where it's at that's why it's so important I don't think there's any more important topic really on the planet how do you bring the heart into it do you feel that the heart is where the guidance comes from and the vessel toward and how to balance that that's where it started for me at the beginning I wasn't hearing any voices or prompts or anything I just feel a little tickle like right at the core of my being right in the heart chamber it wouldn't matter whether I was listening to a song or reading a poetry or looking in someone's eyes and all of a sudden the little feather was tickling in the heart chamber so to me it starts and it ends with the heart the heart is the core of our being it's like it's calling us back to live there, to live in the heart and radiate that love so it started there and it ended there for me and everything else was just those symbols along the way to help me do that the heart is a great symbol because it's one heart it's all about unification and feeling that union and unification so it's been a journey of letting go of concepts and going into experiences and really seeing that there really isn't any pleasure in accumulating concepts for even what the world might call better concepts in the end it's letting go and just letting the love pour through your heart and radiate that's what I love about life that's all that's left


Well, hello and welcome to Vlund day 25. You don't need to adjust your screens. I'm wearing the same thing as yesterday, but I did wash it and I did shower, so it's exciting. Today, I'm actually gonna get up on there and start painting. I really am today, I promise you. I just underestimated the time it would take to do all the things yesterday. Anyway, I'm gonna get going with that. I will give you guys some updates and yeah, we're just gonna keep it going. Doesn't it look nice back there? All the white looks so pretty. That stuff needs at least one more coat and I'm gonna get started up there today. So we'll get this done. So it's been about an hour or so and I painted the rails up there. Or not the rails, but like the bottom part and then I kind of touched up the rails a little bit. Painted that little section and then this is my mom's idea, but somehow I'm doing it for right now, but we'll figure this out. But anyway, my mom wanted to paint these. So I taped up everything, which was kind of a pain in the butt, by the way. And then I killed it once. So yeah, now we just have to wait for it to dry. So I think I might actually go grab some lunch and then come back with some lunchage because right now I'm kind of at a standstill waiting for stuff to dry. This stuff might be dry up here, but I don't know. I'd rather wait because with paint, you want to make sure that all the layers are dry before you start the next layer. So anyway, let's see what mom's been up to. Well, I put a glassy coat on handrail and a handrail over there. So that's setting up. Sweet. Put another coat on the headboard here. Yeah, it looks better. Probably need another one, but it looks so nice. This was like dark chocolate brown before you guys. If you haven't seen what it looked like before, I'll leave a link to my vlog playlist or like the Vlun playlist down below if you guys want to check it out. Because yeah, it was pretty epically really, really dark, almost black, but it was a dark, dark chocolate brown. So I love the way that this has turned out. I think it looks really nice. All right, another update. We've had lunch. It was delicious. I went to Culver's and I have done the second coat on the exterior as much as I possibly can. It's hard to see, but I couldn't get all the way to the top because this ladder is tall, but it isn't that tall. And there's like a little bit of a fear factor situation because I'm like pretty much afraid of heights. I did as good as I could, but I think what I'm going to do is I'm going to come up there and help DeMama out and then kind of hang my head over and do that because she doesn't want to do that. Let me show you the progress. Oh, and while I was at lunch grabbing stuff, Mom did a second coat on here, as well as did the shiny on the banister. So it looks good. All right, we're going to go upstairs because there was lots of wet paint happening. Don't touch anything. Yeah, yeah, don't touch anything. So I just painted this. It's very, very high-gloss shine. You can see it is still wet. It's not going to stay high-gloss shine. It'll go into an eggshell, but this is the good first coat of the permanent paint. Got anything good to report, Mother? I'm getting paint on me again today, but it's going to wash off this time. Yeah, and I've got paint and lots of other paints.  Oh, you can still see I have some paint here. It like splashed back and got like directly in my eye. That was interesting, burned really bad, and it was kills. It wasn't even like the regular paint. It was kills, so don't recommend it. I don't recommend it. All right, well, I am going to come back upstairs and help out Da Mama, and we'll check in soon. We'll do some stuff. So I figured now would be a good check-in time. We're kind of at a little bit of a standstill, but you know, we're finding more things to do. Everything is now second coated. That's all the railings, that little landing thing, the railings over here, all of this stuff. Actually, the headboard is third coated. I just painted this again. So we'll see once it dries, if it needs a fourth coat, it might, because like I said, it was just so dark. So it might need a fourth coat, and that's okay if it does. But anyway, let's go check on mom, see what she's up to. Dun, dun, dun, dun. Whatcha doing, mom? I'm painting these door frames so that they don't stick out with a sore thumb. This is what she wanted to do so bad. And I killed it before I left for lunch, and then now this is the first coat of all of the good Benjamin Moore paint. Uh-oh, all gone. Where'd all the paint go? It's all gone. I have a question for all the YouTube viewers out there. So I am having a real challenge. So this, if you're on the outside, literally looks right in to here. So I'm having a challenge with like the privacy of it. Do you guys have a suggestion on like a window treatment or something? Like I don't want to put something like right in front of it because let me give you like a weird layout. So I am now completely standing at my access for the garage. So you walk in here, but there is no light switch on either side. You have to go over there to get the light switch, which is like electrically stupid, all right? So my issue is I don't want to put like a coat rack or something in there because I have like all these things. And this is six and a quarter inches across. Okay. So six and a quarter inch of total across for the window. But there is a little bit of space, but it's metal. That's the issue. I tried looking for, no, no, this is metal. Oh, yeah. Yeah, don't touch it. Don't touch it. It's like, don't touch the thing. So the issue is I looked for metal things at the hardware store, but the only one I could find was like 12 inches or larger. It's just too big. So I don't know if you guys have suggestions. Let me know in the comments. I'd really appreciate it. Or if you guys have like a funny window like this, let me know.  I don't, it's just weird. So I don't know what to do about it. Let me know if you guys have any comments. Like I said, I don't want to put something in front of it because again, I need to have access to the light switches like on a daily basis. So I don't know. Let me know what you guys think. I would really appreciate it. And then also if you want to just link stuff if you want, like obviously like from Amazon or I don't know, wherever, just link stuff that maybe you guys would suggest or maybe you guys have in your home too. So anyway, I don't know what to do. Favorite mama is up there painting still, but we are on the third coat. You can tell by the colors of my hands. All right. So I wanted to show you guys. I'm not going to get up on the ladder with the camera because I'm a little afraid, but let me zoom you guys in. All right. So we're on the third coat and to the left is third coated and to the right is only second coated. So I'm hoping that comes off on camera. It's looking really, really nice and really, really clean. So I'm excited. There are a little bit of touch ups that I have to take care of because obviously I was up there looking at it and all that, but that's okay. Well, we're going to take care of some of these touch ups that need to happen over the next couple of days. But anyway, I'm loving the way it's turning out. This is all done except for the top handle rail. That is going to get done in a glossy finish because the painter that I worked with before said that that actually wears a little bit better than just the regular egg shell. So that is what I'm using for that. But my mom is actually going to paint that I think tomorrow because she has the handrail that I removed. Another coat of the glossy on that. Sorry, the lighting's just like crazy. It's like six o'clock or no, five o'clock right now. So anyway, just wanted to show you the progress, but once we're done with this third coat, then we are done for Z-Day. Okay, so we're heading home now or to my parents home, I should say, but the white railings, all the white railings is pretty much done. We're like 80% of the way there. So tomorrow mom is getting in the car right now. She is going to do the glossy coat on the handrails and pull most of the tape. There's some of the tape that I need to get because it's like up really high in the kitchen there. And then I need to get on top of that like landing thing. It was still a little bit tacky, so I wanted to give it some more time to dry. And I will do that on Tuesday because tomorrow we are going to see my favorite burler. And are you excited about seeing the favorite brother? Yeah, it'll be good to see him. I saw him a few weeks ago, but it'll be good to see him again. Very true, very true. But anyway, I think I'm going to end out the vlog here. We can, oh no, I can't end the vlog here because freaking Doyle Challenge. Okay, hold on, we're going to go home, see the dog and then I'll end it out. Doyle Challenge has been had. Hey Doyle, get back over here. Come on, the people want to see you.  They probably like you more than me sometimes.  I just let him out of his kennel, so he's like really amped up, really excited about life. But anyway, I'm going to end out the vlog here. We are going to have something for dinner. I don't know what. Honestly, I'd be fine with like a little bit of popcorn and like done, you know what I'm saying? But I filmed my plan with me this morning. I got the footage in my computer, but I haven't started editing. So I need to do that before I go to bed. And it's like really late. It's like seven something, like almost eight. So it's just been intense. There was a lot of progress made, which I'm very excited about. Hopefully, I posted this on Instagram today. Hopefully next weekend I will be moving. But right now I'm really at the mercy of the flooring company and they will be out on Wednesday. And then Wednesday night I'll pop over there. And they'll be able to tell me what day they'll be done. Because I don't know. They wanted to schedule five total days. I think I've said this like a couple of times in the vlog. They wanted to schedule five total working days. So, but they thought they could get it done in three. So once they have their first day in there, they'll know. So hopefully it should be fairly easy install. And we should be good to go. But anyways, I'm in a jet for now. Thank you guys so much for watching. I will put the Vlun playlist down below. Do you guys like my painting hands? I can be a hand model too, look. But I'll put that playlist down below for you guys. Hope you guys are having a wonderful day. And I will see you for tomorrow's Vlun. So make sure to subscribe, like, comment, share, do all those things those YouTubers tell you to do. But I will see you tomorrow. Bye guys.