Hi, everyone. Good afternoon. My name is Takya, and then I think everyone knows Peter. So let me start this session by introducing quickly about what we do and then myself. We've been talking in the backstage for quite a long, and then I want to get back to the topic as soon as possible. So I'm going to keep this presentation very short. So about Quipa, Quipa was founded in December 2010 in the UK. We currently have six offices in London, Tokyo, Manila, Mexico City, Jakarta, and then Ho Chi Minh City. We have about 600 employees all around the world. And as introduced, we've been acquired by recruiting April 2015. We are an education company, and the corporate motto is distributors of wisdom. Very quickly about myself, I'm a Todai dropout. I dropped out of University of Tokyo in 2008, and I graduated from University College London in the UK. I joined Quipa as a founding member and then I've been in charge since of everything business, marketing, product management, and then everything in six countries. And now leading Indonesia's countries, sorry, Quipa Indonesia's country manager and leading a team of over 500 members. Let me quickly introduce about StudySapri and the Quipa. So StudySapri and the Quipa are pretty much the same thing, different brand in different countries. In Japan, we call it StudySapri, and then in other countries, Indonesia, Philippines, Mexico, Vietnam, we call it Quipa. It's a personalized learning tool for students, and also we are providing materials for teachers as well for efficient teaching and much more. In Japan and in other countries combined, we have over 500,000 paying customers, paying learners, and then including free services, we have about 6 million learners and used in thousands of schools worldwide. So I think we can talk about this later in the session in the dialogue with Peter, so I'm gonna skip this. We are providing services not only to students, but also to teachers. And more about StudySapri, we are currently running a new speak series on education frontiers sponsored by StudySapri. So if you're interested, please find it out. It's very interesting, and then I think it's worth the read. About Quipa Indonesia, we have about 2.5 million registered students, 200,000 registered teachers. Number of schools with Quipa users is over 10,000, and 300 million questions have been answered so far. So basically we are the biggest online education company in Indonesia. We studied operation in Indonesia in 2015, so within two years of operation, we have become the number one player in the country. So these are the happy students and teachers. Yesterday, sorry, two days ago, we had a StudySapri graduation ceremony for those students who've been using StudySapri and then passed the university entrance exams, so you can see some happy pictures of students taken with the teachers. And also from Indonesia as well, we have a lot of students using and then being happy about our service. So this is the very quick introduction of us, and then this is a roadmap for our future, and then this is something that I want to discuss with Peter in this session. So we believe that education is a very broad term, and then in our terms, education can be divided into three phases. The first phase is access. We want to bring access to basic education to billions of students who don't have it at the moment. So what we mean by this is we want to expand our countries, we want to expand our content. We are currently providing our content to high school students, and then junior high school students, we want to expand to primary schools and then university students. So this is what we mean by access. And the next step, next phase is efficiency. Currently education is not as efficient as it should be. There are so many students and teachers struggling to provide good educational efficiently. So this is something that we want to provide with our services in the next phase. We already do something now. For example, we are making learning adaptive experience for students and also we are providing a lot of online coaching services so that students can be guided by the teachers to provide higher school education. And also carry education is very, very important. So this is something that we want to provide. And next step is the future. So 21st century is very complicated, it's super complex. And then we want to equip students, prepare students to be ready for this very complicated era. And this is something that I want to discuss and then get Peter's thoughts, because he's from Finland and the Finland is very famous for having a very super future-oriented education. So I think this is pretty much the end of my very quick presentation and we can move back to the dialogue with Peter. So thank you very much. So Peter, if you could explain about what you do as an education company, I think you're already doing education. So please can you explain to us? Yeah, I mean, basically when I decided to leave the day-to-day kind of like operations at Rovia, I said that it's after Angry Birds, I want to focus on some bigger things. And of course, bigger things being education. So if you look at the world today, I think that pretty much everybody agrees that education is super important. And then it's kind of like one of these things that all of us entrepreneurs want to change the world and we want to change it for the better. And I think the best way to do that is through education. And then kind of the business opportunity if you look at education. It's the second biggest market after food. It's 6.3 trillion. So like with a T, not billions, but trillions. And what I want to do is I want to reduce the market size globally to 3 trillion. And then over the next 10 years with some of the companies that I'm now working with, some of the new startups like Light Near, which is this one, Fun Academy, a bunch of others, want to capture 10% of the global market, which means 300 billion, again with a B. So it's like a pretty big business opportunity. So making the world a better place and then making a bit of money so it doesn't get much better than that. But yeah, you mentioned Finland. So we're only five million people, but we've given the world things like Linux, MySQL, Angry Birds, Nokia, Supercell, and Slush, obviously. So it's pretty good for like only five million people. And I think that one of the reasons for that is that we really have fantastic education. We educate all five million to a very high level. And the way we do it is very different from like the Asian model. And by that I mean that we have, I mean I have two kids, they go to school maybe nine or 10 in the morning, they get home one or two in the afternoon. So we have very short school days, not a lot of homework. So after school, my kids go out, they play soccer or they go play with their friends, and they don't have like super long school days and we still deliver fantastic results. So short school days, not a lot of homework, and we still deliver the same or better results. And I think that that's what we want to bring to the world. So we want to make learning fun. We want to make learning engaging.  So when you graduate from school and the government tells you that please do a startup, you actually know what to do. And that's something that I think is very important. Can I ask a question? So basically you are teaching for only four hours, five hours a day. In Japan or in Asia countries, people study for like 10 hours a day. Yeah, I mean we have, I think on average like six hours through the whole like basic education. So super short school days, we have actually like a super short lessons, 45 minutes and then you have a 15 minute break, you go out and play rain or shine. So it's a healthy balance. And I think that that's why we also deliver some fantastic startups because again, it's built on a foundation of fantastic education. So when people then graduate from school, they go and they do a startup or they start something like Slush. How can you achieve the same level of academic excellence by studying for a short period of time? Everybody who's gone to school here or anywhere where you have long school days, you all know that it's not very efficient. And if you do something for like eight hours straight, no breaks, it's not very efficient. You should take breaks, you should play games, you should go and play with your friends. And I think that again, it's not about how long you stay at school or how long you stay at work, it's about what you deliver. Longer school days, longer work days are no guarantee for results. If you work 12 hours a day doing the wrong things, it's still the wrong things. So you don't deliver anything of value. So I think that it's the same in Finland that if you can't learn any more after spending six hours at school, why stay another three hours learning nothing? So I think that it's just about how human beings are that there's kind of like a limit to everything and you learn best if you have a healthy balance, I think. Right. And we've been talking a little bit about the teacher competence. So do you see any differences between the way that we teach in Asia and then you launch your product in Singapore and then you're trying to go to other Asian countries? So what's the biggest difference for teachers?  I think that's actually spot on what we're looking at now in the world today. I mean, the education system hasn't really evolved and what has happened is that we've created a system where we mass produce talent. And I wouldn't even call it talent, it's just like we use a lot of road learning to learn like standard skills that we're fine if you went to work at a big corporation doing standard things, creating standard products. But today, of course, we live in a world where standard products and standard, you know, like ways of doing things don't cut it. You have to do things differently. And I think that education also has to kind of evolve along those lines. So I really believe that the kind of educational system that we created in Finland is also the way forward for the rest of the world. And that's also, it would be unfair for us not to share it with the rest of the world. So I think that's something that it's very much in Finnish like culture that, you know, open source and, you know, sharing. That's why, you know, Linux and MySQL originated in Finland because the whole culture is about sharing and we also apply that in education. So I think it's very much needed everywhere. One thing on, like what we did last week in Singapore, we launched a new game by Lightnier. So this is actually Neon from the game, one of the characters. But it's very interesting. We went to schools in Singapore and then we told the kids or we actually asked that, okay, how many of you love playing games? And then all the hands went up, everybody loves playing games.  And it's actually very good for you to play more games. And then the teachers were like, oh, what have we done now? We have let these crazy Finnish people come into class and destroy our youth.  Every parent knows that it's bad. Okay, and then we let the kids play the game for 15 minutes. So it's this new game called Big Bang Legends. And they play the game for 15 minutes. And then we asked the kids, and these are typically 10 year olds, 12 year olds. Then we asked them that, okay, so you now had a 15 minute game session. But actually what you did, you had a lesson in particle physics. Then we asked the 10 year old kids, how many quarks in a proton? So how many people here actually know how many quarks in a proton? Anybody? Okay, all the kids after 15 minutes of playing the game raised their hands, say, three quarks in a proton. All of them know, 10 year olds. Then we asked them, okay, how many atoms did you collect in the game? Four, five. Okay, you collected four, can you name them? And they go, yes, hydrogen, helium, lithium, and so on. So they learn in 15 minutes particle physics, you know, the beginnings of particle physics. And then the teachers look at us and say, what just happened? The kids have never learned so much so fast and they were having fun. They were playing a game and they learn. And then we say, exactly. You can learn and you can actually learn much faster, much better when you're having fun. So what we're doing at Lightnier, we're gonna make all learning fun. We start with particle physics, then we'll do quantum physics. So we'll teach five year olds quantum physics. We're working with CERN, best, you know, like scientists on the planet. We obviously have the best game designers on the planet. We have the best pedagogues on the planet. So we're actually going to move on from particle physics, quantum physics, chemistry, biology, geography.  Right, I think that's something that we can definitely collaborate. So we've been talking in the backstage that we're gonna bring Finnish education to our country. So in terms of the reach, I think we've been reaching out to, you know, tens of thousands of schools throughout the country. We're gonna reach billions of people. I mean, that's the annual scale that we learn to do. So we're not looking at reaching a few, like 100,000 or a million, but it has to be like billions. And I think that, of course, everybody on the planet deserves fantastic education. And we're not trying to replace teachers or schools, but we are working with the teachers. We're producing teacher manuals. We're training teachers. So we're working together to educate the planet. So it's not about either or, but I think that what's really cool is that because now everybody has one of these, you know, you have a smartphone or a tablet, learning is totally out of control. We're telling the teachers that guess what? Now the kids are gonna start learning particle physics on the bus ride on their way home in their house. You know, learning has escaped the classroom. And of course, it should never have been like contained to that, but learning is now like totally out of control. Kids will know more than their teachers, which again will force a change. The teachers will need to become coaches. They can't be the snow all, you know, like experts in everything. And I think that's also very positive that teachers are human beings too. Yeah, we believe the teachers not always have to, they don't have to teach. They can be the coach or they can be the moderator. They can be the facilitator of the session. So I think the roles for teachers are going to change very dramatically in the next, you know, probably like five years or so. Exactly, exactly. We believe it probably. Yeah, so I think we share the same visions and then hopefully, you know, we can work together in a lot of countries. But I think that this is also, I mean, Slush is also a fantastic event. I mean, you learn so much here. And if you look at now, this is the third year of Slush Tokyo. Ask any of the fantastic volunteers here if they learn more at Slush or at school. And I bet you that most of them have learned more, you know, working on Slush. You know, learning things that, hey, of course you can build the best event in Japan, even if you're a young person without gray hair. It's okay, you know, young people can do stuff too. And I think that this is very important learning. And I think that exactly like we see here, we have people from Japan, from China, from Finland, from all over Europe, from all over Asia, working together. And I think that also in education, I mean, we definitely want to work together and we discussed backstage already that, hey, let's work together and bring fantastic education from Japan and Finland to Indonesia, to the Philippines, China, everywhere. So I think that exactly like we're doing, if that Slush will do this together as well. And yeah, I think it's gonna be like amazing to get there. Yeah, it's a fantastic platform for people to learn things in real life. Yeah, and you build fantastic reach now in Indonesia. So of course, by working together, we can reach, you know, the billions. Billions, yeah, definitely billions. Not millions, billions. Yeah, yeah, exactly. With a B. Yeah, with a B. All right, I think we are running out of time now. Yeah, I think we're running out of time, so the countdown here. But I think we're actually gonna be, are we going to the Slush cafe as well? So yeah, if you... And we're in overtime. Now it's like sudden death goal. You play like I sucky know that now the next goal will like decide the game. But anyway, I think that we'll probably like stop here. Yeah, all right. But hey, so come over to the Slush cafe and we can like continue the dialogue there. But yeah, we're gonna deliver fantastic education to the planet. So we agreed to do that together. So stay tuned. Thank you. Thank you very much.


All right, so it's working for you.  When you compensate properly, the contrast principle. Because let's imagine in America, the African-American male is hypermasculinized. This is not controversial to say that. This is the subject of a lot of gender studies, research on African-American males' perceptions or impressions of them. And it works against them when they want to go into the corporate world. But imagine a guy with tattoos and piercings, just looking badass. He's not really gonna stand out. Because if the first impression or if the stereotype is that he is that way, then he's just another African-American male, unfortunately for him. And it's the same with Asians. If we just look like we have pocket protectors and we work for IBM or something, then another guy who matches that stereotype, we don't stand out, we're just another Asian. However, with the contrast principle, if you work against your stereotype, if you're a black guy with tattoos, you wouldn't stand out, but if you're an Asian guy with tattoos, you would stand out. If the stereotype is that you don't have tattoos. You see, so the contrast principle will work for your advantage, to your advantage, if you can identify what their first impressions are that are negative, and you do the opposite of that as a first impression. Right, so that can work right away. And in addition, along the lines of the contrast principle, is the principle that, especially for Asians, that there's actually something really good about being the minority race. There's something really good about being the minority race. Because you get to be exotic. Exotic is good. Anything different is good. Because it generates intrigue and curiosity. But you don't want to be too exotic, but not too much, but not too exotic. Exotic but not too exotic is a principle. For instance, if you're dating a girl from rural America, I don't know, Montana, maybe, and there's no sushi restaurant there at all in the whole city. For your first date, you take her across county lines to eat sashimi. And you insist that she uses chopsticks and that she adds a lot of wasabi. It's probably not gonna be a great date. Probably too much for her, right? It's too exotic. But she likes the fact that you're different.  She wants to do some yoga and meditation. She's into that. And that is where you need to start. You can be relatable. You need to be approachable. But using the exotic part of you, the fact that you're different and that you come from this different world that she doesn't know anything about but is kind of curious about. You can play that up. So these are all ways of taking advantage of a seemingly limiting belief. You started off saying, as an Asian person, non-Asian girls will not like me. It's true. Actually, the research has shown that a really great online dating study by Dan Ariely and some others showed that as an Asian man, you would have to make $247,000 more a year to compete on par with the white dude on online dating.  I sure they make a little more, but that's crazy. So it's true that you're, it's a major handicap. Can you change it? You can't change your race, right? But you can reframe it. Do the research and then condition. Condition through visualizations and affirmations. In this case, you'd have to find people of your race, guys of your race who are dating beautiful women and make that replace whatever you're seeing in the representations. What was really great for me was moving to Asia. Actually, I think that's one of the problems with some of the Asian dating coaches in America is that they're just basically becoming white.  Let's just be as white as we can, right? Or like be even a little bit more where Harley-Davidson motorcycle boots everywhere. But being in Asia, what helped was, you know, when you walk around in America, you see on the billboards, everyone's white. You see on the cover of the magazines, everyone's white. You watch the Hollywood movies, everyone's white. Everything is supporting the limiting belief.  But moving to China, looked at the billboards, they were all using Chinese models. The TV was all Chinese people. You know, everything was different. So it helps reinforce my empowering belief. Now, whatever yours is, you just have to find the environment that will support the empowering belief you want to adopt. And in addition, through my research in Asian cultures and literature, I found that actually, I became very proud of my Asian heritage. That's another thing that you would do with your research. That whatever limiting belief you have, if you can't change it, become proud of it. Become proud of it, because that's part of who you are. And look for things to be proud of. That might take some more research, right?  Like they don't know anything about the Indian culture or the history or the religions. They're just Indian. And they kind of want to repudiate that whole past and become just Singaporean, which is like a 50-year-old culture. It's not as rich as what they came from. Become proud of that. I found that through my study of East Asia, that there were actually not only powerful men, emperors and kings and cons from Mongolia, but also ladies men, the equivalent of Casanova. No one told me about that when I was starting out. But I found works of literature that were over 1,000 years old, Tale of Genji, The Pillow Book, Dream of the Red Chambers, The Golden Lotus. These all showed these Chinese or Japanese men who were incredibly attractive to the ladies. And they had a specific style. And it was a courtier style. Back then, it was always the disparity between the upper and lower classes were so great that even in Europe, you would have very effeminate men who were incredibly attractive to women. Casanova, the Don Wands. They took care of their appearance. They powdered their faces. They took a lot of care over their hair and all that. So yeah, that's effeminate. Maybe that's part of the problem for the Asian guy. He's too effeminate.  Girls let the guard down. And it's great if you like the things that girls like. You don't have to be the big jock. If you like the things that girls like, girls will love you. They're gonna have you around all the time. They're gonna ask you along to their tea times and their fashion shows and all that. That's great. So if this is their view of Asian guys, work with it, man. Use it, and especially if that's what you like. If you like fashion, then make that part of your identity. It's great. But here's the one thing you can't do. You can't make that part of your personality in the sense of you can't be a weak man. So if you read the literature of these Asian seducers, they were all very powerful personalities. They were independent. They were strong. They were assertive. They were very direct when they wanted something. And they could be hot and cold very easily. They had game. They could walk away from a situation and that's often what created a chase dynamic. But their outward appearance wasn't like that the jock or the military man. They had their own way of doing things. So as an Asian guy, you don't have to sell out.   Bring that out and make that something you're proud of. Put that out front. So if you reframe it as something that can work for you and then you do this conditioning through research, then you can see how you don't need to know any specialized skills or techniques. You just need to do a little bit of research and then condition your identity, your new identity. So with all of this, it requires honesty. Most guys are not gonna be honest with their limiting beliefs. So that's the first step. You have to know what your limiting beliefs are. You make a list of those. What's holding me back? And be brutally honest with yourself, right? And then just apply reflection and reframing to the process and it's very simple. This is the decision tree here. Okay, so that's the inner part. I'm gonna move into the outer. Okay, and another term for this other than R and R is psychological archeology. Psychological archeology is what I'm gonna be doing as well when we get to the outer part. Actually, I was gonna entitle the talk that but I thought it would be too esoteric. Okay, outer. Now this is the part that most guys wanna hear because whenever I give talks on dating, the guys always wanna know what to say. But if you take care of the inner part of it, then you don't need to worry about what to say, right? Because the thoughts will already be there. You just have to say what's in your mind. So let's get you started though on how to understand how to apply the inner part into making it the outer part. So here's a formula about attractiveness.   And it's simply a cyclical process of becoming stronger and stronger and more and more attractive. Cyclical. What's the cyclical process? It's you be as strong as you can and then express yourself honestly.


J-E-L-L-O. The Jell-O program coming to you from the Ritz Theater in New York City starring Jack Benny with Mary Livingston, Phil Harris, Dennis Day, and yours truly, Don Wilson. The Archer Trove is a program with Chucky. You know, friends, a lovely shimmering mold of Jell-O on the table has a wonderful way of lending luster to a meal. Just as Christmas trees and candles, Tinsel and Holly lend their own special gaiety to this merriest of merry seasons. Even the simplest family dinner takes on extra charm and attractiveness when the high point of the meal is a grand Jell-O dessert. How inviting its shining colors look and how intriguing its rich, tempting flavor tastes. No other dessert can add more to the spirit and pleasure of any occasion because no other dessert can outrival Jell-O's glistening beauty and refreshing goodness. So ladies and gentlemen, decide now to add a new note of festive delight to your meals during the holiday season. Tomorrow ask your grocer for Jell-O and any of Jell-O's six delicious flavors, strawberry, raspberry, cherry, orange, lemon, and lime. By the way, strawberry and raspberry Jell-O both have a new improved flavor obtained by using an actual flavor base artificially enhanced. And the result is the rich distinctive goodness rivaled only by the juicy ripe fruit itself. A unique flavor that cannot be duplicated in any other way. Try a grand treat made with genuine Jell-O and you'll realize right away why Jell-O is America's favorite Jell-O-Ton dessert. Made by the orchestra. And now, ladies and gentlemen, there being just two more shopping days till Christmas, we bring you that fugitive from Gimbal's basement, Jack Benny. Thank you. Jelal again. This is Jack Benny talking. And Don, speaking of Gimbal's basement, I never saw so many women shopping in my life. I got shoved around like a blintza in Lindy's. Boy, what a mob. Pretty hectic, huh? Hectic. I didn't understand my derby getting caved in, my muffler torn, and a sleeve of my coat ripped off. But how I lost my pivot tooth I'll never know. That was really an experience. Oh, I can just imagine what you must have gone through.  You have to open the door for them. They can't light their own cigarettes. They cling to your arm as you walk down the street. They're as delicate as butterflies. And then, about two weeks before Christmas, a mad glint comes into their eye. And with an umbrella for gouging and a handbag for slugging, off they go. Come on, girls, let's mangle the males. That's their battle cry. Well, Jack women are a little excitable when they're shopping around Christmas time, but I don't think they're as tough as you say. Oh, you don't, eh? Don, I was in Macy's yesterday afternoon, and a little gray-haired lady couldn't have been over five feet tall, put down her cane, and yanked a washing machine right out of my arm. I tried to get it back, and she kicked my hat off. Imagine. All right, good, Jack. You don't mean to say that a little old lady took a big washing machine away from you. Don, I wouldn't have minded that so much, but it was a demonstrator. I'll probably never get my laundry back. That is my own fault, I guess, for waiting so long to shop. Oh, hello, Mary. Hello, Don. Don? Oh, well, look who's so affectionate around Christmas, you're certainly giving out with that soft soap. Oh, no, I'm not, Jack. You're not, eh? Then why did you call me Don? Because your hair is glued on. All right, young lady, that did it. There goes that mink coat I was going to buy you for a present. You were going to buy me a mink coat? Yes, I was. Or was. I was going to buy you a mink coat. I bet it were, or was, from Rabbit. Oh, no, it wasn't. You've lost a very beautiful gift, and you know the kind I hand out.  For Christmas? What are you talking about? Let me tell you something, Mary, a girl like Hedy Lamar could make a playboy out of me. I'd buy her quarts of bubbling champagne. You'd buy cider and put an Alka Seltzer in it. All right, keep it up, keep it up. There goes Don's Christmas present, too. Hey, wait a minute, Jack, I didn't say anything. Oh, pardon me, I got a little mixed up there. Watch out, Don. He's laying for you. No, I wouldn't forget about Don's present, not after the way he laughed at the premiere last Tuesday night. How'd you like the picture, Don? Oh, I really enjoyed it, Jack. I got a big kick out of it. I laughed like anything. Sorry, Mary, the mink coat is over the dam. Anyway, Don, now that you've seen Love Thy Neighbor, what do you think of Fred Allen in it? Well, to tell you the truth, Jack...  Well, to tell you the truth, Jack, I think you're very good in the picture, and so is Allen. The honors are equally distributed. Oh. Oh, I see. Oh. Oh. Uh-oh. Mary. Then, Don, in your fat-headed opinion, you think Allen goes over as good as I do. Exactly. You both have a lot to do in the picture.  Well, we both don't pay your salary, so start leaning my way. Imagine saying we photograph equally well.  Jack looks much better than Allen. Why, certainly. And Allen, you can have. Mary, one more crack out of you, and you'll be saying, oh, my goodness, I left my baby in the automatic for Olson and Johnson. Remember that. Oh, hello, Phil. Hiya, Jackson. Well, old pal, you got nothing to worry about. I got your Christmas present bought, packed, and ready to hand over. Oh, so you've been shopping, too, eh, Phil? You said it all day yesterday, one store after another. Well, did the women kick you around much? Yeah, but I got it coming to me. You said it. You know, Phil, I've been so busy, I haven't had a chance to buy your present yet. What did you get for me? I ain't saying you'll have to wait until Christmas. Oh, come on, Phil, tell me. All right, Jackson, I'll tell you what I bought you. Remember that camel's hair overcoat we saw on the window on Fifth Avenue? The one you were so nuts about? Yeah. Well, I got you a box of nuts. Well, Phil, unless you're kidding, when Mary is in the audience, Stoogeing for Olson and Johnson, you'll be in the lobby trying to get out of a straight jacket. Catch on? The way I've been going the last few nights, a straight jacket wouldn't be bad. He's not fooling, folks. You know, Phil lives on the 18th floor of the St. Maritz Hotel, and he never uses the elevator. He just goes in and out the window. Now, Phil. Yeah?   Yeah. It's about time for a band number, so let's have it. What are you going to play? I don't know. This bunch don't speak English. Oh, fine. Well, don't worry about it, Phil. Just pick up your baton and follow him. Go ahead, Phil. Dingle Bells played by Phil Harris and his Central Park troubadours. Troubadours meaning they are traveling musicians, and Central Park meaning they ought to get a room tonight. That joke went over better the first show. Choja, we should change for the night show.  Well, music is just a sideline with these boys. I know, and I wish you'd tell the drummer to stop pestering me. I've got all the potato peelers I need. Those guys sell everything from razor blades to mink coats. Think the fiddle player has wonderful minks. I saw them. Hello, Mr. Benny. Oh, hello, Dennis. Boy, am I. Have you been shopping, too? No, I just came from Roseland. Oh, 10 cents a dance, eh? Yeah, I cleaned up. Dennis, I hear that you and Kenny Baker have been stepping out and seeing the town together. Is that right? Yeah, and you know what, Mr. Benny? What? The other night, I made him pay for everything. I stuck him for $2.45. You did? Well, now, Dennis, that's not very nice. If Kenny is kind enough to show you a good time, the least you can do is go 50-50. Or better still, pay all the expenses yourself. It's all right to save money, Dennis, but there's nothing like being a good sport. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. What's that for, Ms. Livingston? Everybody else knows. You see, Dennis, there's only one way to be popular. When you're out with a fella and he reaches for the check, you take it first. And if he should pick it up, you grab it right out of his hand. Grab it. I can't stand this. Mary, come back here. OK. What's the matter with you? Dennis is just a kid, and while he's still young, he's got to be taught how to conduct himself in public and not be a cheapskate. I don't understand you, Mr. Benny. No, you don't? I don't understand you, Mr. Benny. I don't understand. Well, look, Dennis, I'll explain it to you. Dennis, we'll go out for a bite to eat after the broadcast, and I'll show you what I mean. I'll pick up the check, and you take it away from me. See? Then I'll take it away from you, and then you take it away from me. Then what? That's all, Bob. Mary, I warned you. Got it out, kid. Hey, Jackson. Yes, Phil? My band number's over, and I still got a lot of Christmas shopping to do. Do you mind if I run along? Well, I know, Phil. In fact, I think I'll go with you. There are a lot of things I got to get myself. Don, you can take charge of the rest of the program, can't you? Oh, sure, sure. Don't worry about it, Jack. Come on with us, Mary. I want you to help me pick out a few things. OK, but don't embarrass me. I won't. You know, there's a swell store near my hotel, the Sherry Netherlands, where I can buy almost. Wait a minute. Answer the phone, Mary. OK. Hello? Oh, Miss Livingston, this is Rochester. Oh, boy, are you going to get it. Jack, it's Rochester. Rochester. Give me that phone. I'll find out right now where he's been for the past two weeks. Hello? Oh, boss, what happened to you? Where have you been? Where have I been? I've been on the phone for the last 10 days trying to reach you. I call every hotspot in Harlem that's got a telephone. At the hot ones, you can't hear rain. Rochester, I don't want any flippancies. I want the truth. Now, we arrived in New York a week ago Thursday. The 12th, they tell me. Yes, the 12th. It is now December 22nd, just three days before Christmas. Happy old time, boss. Never mind that. What I want to know is what became of the time between December 12th when we got here and December 22nd, which is today. Well? Well? Well, on Friday the 13th, I was right up to the door of your hotel, ready to go to work. Uh-huh.  I see. Well, couldn't you walk around the cat? I didn't wound up at 125th Street. Oh, well, so much for Friday. Now, what happened on Saturday and Sunday? I weekend ended up to Harlem. Upper Hudson, that is.  I know when he's on the other side of the telephone. Well, we'll get to Monday. I must be psychic. Then we'll get to Monday. After your weekend, Rochester, why didn't you call me at my hotel? I was so full of sherry, I couldn't think of Netherlands. Now, don't give me that. Look, Rochester, I haven't any more time to argue with you. Where are you calling from? What's that, boss? I said, where are you right now? Just a minute. What's the address here, sugar? 31 Lenox Avenue, honey. 31 Lenox Avenue, honey. Rochester, who are you talking to? Susan Brown, the sweetest gal in town. Oh, yeah. I spoke to her last week and left a message for you. Did you get it? Just a minute. Honey, did you give me a message from Mr. Benny? Well, Rochester, you know I did. She forgot to give it to me, boss. Oh, she forgot to give it to you, eh? Yeah, she's as dizzy as a blonde, but it can't happen here. I want you to go over to my hotel right away. That made up for the one you must. I want you to go over to my hotel right away. There's a lot of work to do, and it's got to be done before tomorrow. Yes, sir. Now, how soon can you get over there? Just a minute, boss. Say sugar, I don't think I'll be able to take you to the Savoy ballroom tonight. Oh, that's all right, honey. I'll get somebody else. You better not get somebody else. I ain't going up there alone, Rochester. I want somebody to snuggle up to. You get somebody to snuggle up to, and it'll be your last snuggle. Rochester. I do mean last. You threatened me shorty, and I'll cut them $9 out of your hip pocket. Rochester, answer me. I want you to come right over to my hotel. Leaving right away, boss, so long. Goodbye. Now, listen, sugar, don't make any date. I'll run over to see Mr. Benny, put on the old personality, and be back in a half hour. Rochester, you forgot to hang up. Uh-oh. Oh, Rochester. Yes, boss. I heard your conversation. Don't you believe it? It's the same trouble that guy every time I come to New York. Come on, Mary. Let's go shopping while I'm mad. Yeah, that'll hold you down. Let's go, Phil. Right way, dear Jackson. All right, Dennis, let's have your song. It didn't be. Phil, you too, Mary. I don't want you to get lost. OK. Are you going to take us to see Santa Claus Daddy? Type down, both of you. Got to have some system here. Now, let's see my Christmas list. I got to buy a compact or something for my Aunt Molly, a lawnmower for Dennis, a Mickey for my writer, a deck of cards for Simney. Let's see. What else here? Look at that crowd of women at the bargain counter. Where? Oh, boy, what a mob. See you later, Jackson. I'm going over to Mingle. See you later. Gosh, I wish I knew what to get for Aunt Molly. Mary, I wonder if she could use a lipstick. And she got lip. What do you think? She got lips. Here's a counter. Yes, sir. What can I do for you? I'd like a lipstick, please. Oh, come now. Look, it's not for me. I'm buying it for my Aunt Molly. I see. A lipstick for your Aunt Molly. That's who it's for. She lives in Chicago on LaSalle Street. What number? I don't know the number. Oh, you don't know the number. And yet you want to send a lipstick to your Aunt Molly. I'm not going to send it. I'm going to take it to her. I'm going to stop off in Chicago. I'm going to wait at California. Oh, I suppose you're the only one that ever went to California. What are you talking about? I live in California. I got a home there. Well, I've got a home here, but I don't brag about it. I wasn't bragging. Now, look, mister, all I want is a lipstick. Am I going to get it or not? Sorry, I've decided against you. This guy isn't screwy, then I don't know why. No trouble over a lipstick. Mary, I ought to go over to the grocery department and get Don a case of jello. He'll love it for Christmas. And why don't you get two cases so you can sell a stocking? I'll get all the six flavors. That'll do it. And Mary, while we're in the store, I think I'll buy a collar button. I need one. Yeah, your Adam's apple ain't practical. It's just an emergency. I lost the button. There's the men's department over there. Pardon me. Could you tell me where I can buy an evening gown so I should look like Lena Turner? Miss, that's Lana Turner. Lee? Well, I'm sorry, Miss. I'm Jack Benny. I'm not a floor walker. I saw your picture. She looks like Babe Marks. Come on, Mary, let's get that collar button. I haven't got much time. You'd have funnier times if you stopped flirting with that girl. Who was flirting? She thought I was a floor walker, didn't she? Well, you didn't have to roll your big blue eyes at her. Mary, just because my eyes happen to be large and devil may carry, won't have to accuse me of flirting. Here we are. Good evening, sir. What can I do for you? I'd like to buy a collar button. A collar button? Yes, sir. Now, here's a nice one for $85. $85 for a collar button? Yes, that includes dress shirt, tie, socks, patent leather shoes, and a double-breasted tuxedo. Well, that's a good buy all right, but all I want is a collar button. Sorry, we never break up a set.  You know, Mr. I've shopped in every city in the United States, but I've never been in a store like this. I tried to buy some lipstick a few minutes ago. Lipstick? Oh, come on. And the salesman of that counter insulted me. Oh, Jack, look. What is it? Look who's over there at that counter. Where? Right there. Isn't that Kenny Baker buying a camera? Well, sure enough, it is Kenny. Let's go over and say hello. Gee, miss, this camera looks swell. I think I'll take it. How much is it? $3. $3? Gee, Dennis would like it all right, but haven't you got something for $0.55? Well, yes, but I thought you wanted to spend $3. I do, but he's already hooked me for $2.45. Oh, Kenny. Hello. I'll be dog gone. Hello, Jack. How are you, Mary? Gee, I'm glad to see you. I haven't seen you in a long time. Gee, you're getting to be a big boy now. I sure am. You want a cigar, Jack? Oh, my goodness. Look, Mary, he's got a whole pocket full of cigars. Yeah, I had him left over from Wilkie. Fine. Save old telly. How about a little kiss, Mary? OK. Hmm. Big boy, all right. Gars and everything. All right, kids. Break it up. Come on. Wow, he has grown up. Say, that was a real kiss, huh? Personally, I'm a wreck. Well, put yourself together. Come on with us, Kenny. You can buy your camera later. I want to talk to you. OK. I'll see you later. I've got to buy some hoes. All right, so long, Mary. Say, Kenny, how do you like your new job? See, that Fred Allen is pretty tough to work for, isn't he? No, he's swell. We get along great together. Oh. But I'll bet you don't have as much fun as you used to have on the old Jell-O show. See, you remember all the laughs and good times and everything? Yeah. But I'm having a wonderful time with Fred. Gee, talk about last. Say, he's a riot. That's so. Yeah. And you know what, Jack? Mr. Allen pays me every week. Pays you every week? Yeah, none of that see me later, kid stuff. Well, you must have a pretty short memory, Kenny. I used to have that envelope for you every week, too. Yeah, but with Mr. Allen, I don't have to play treasure hunt. Oh, well, good clean sport. Never hurt anybody. Say, Kenny. Yes, please? Oh, fine. 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warning. I've tried to do this twice. The internet has been a little iffy. If I lose you here on the live stream on YouTube, on above life channel, I will go to Instagram. Bridget inspired on Instagram. Got it?  It's because something's weird with YouTube and the internet here at my hotel. So I will go to Instagram. Bridget inspired. Got it? Good. So let's start from the top again. Here we go. Hey, it's Bridget. Welcome to above life channel. The purpose here is to inspire your spirit and to fill you with hope. Good morning. It is Monday morning, June 6th.  So I am here on the heels of, for Prince fans, celebration. They call this a, it's almost like a conference for Prince. That's kind of exactly what it is. A conference for people who love Prince and people come into Chanhasse in Minnesota, which is about 20 minutes from Minneapolis and to Paisley Park. That's Paisley Park Studios, where Prince, that Prince built here in Chanhasse. And there's this opportunity for, for all these Prince fans to come together and Prince fam to come together and to connect and to talk to people who have been part of Prince's life from costume designers and wardrobe people to, to personal friends, to musical artists, to other creative types that have worked with him over the course of many, many, many, many years. And so there's a lot of, of love and connection around that creative community. So I did something really awesome yesterday. And if you are one of the people I met, hey, nice to see you. Thanks for saying hello. I went to, for the first time ever, invited by some really good friends of mine. I went to a belly dancing class. What does belly dancing have to do with Prince? Hmm? That might be what you're saying. I'm gonna tell you a little story, a little story time first, then we'll have some connection with Prince as we're talking, which by the way, is easy in just casual conversation. I'll probably start interjecting any minute. In fact, I was thinking he might have been the one that was like messing with the internet a little because I couldn't quite get connected. And it's like, well, why? And it's like starting to get to be kind of nice out. And maybe I should get good coffee and maybe I should just relax while I'm in the hotel. I don't know. But so I'm like, okay, hon, it's all right. I got it. I got it. Let's talk to your people. So what does belly dancing have to do with Prince, you might say? If you are a casual of Prince fan, you might not actually know that. Why? Like, okay, so for mega Prince fan people, don't dig on the people who don't really know what they don't know. It's okay. We had a welcome new people, right? I'm a new person into that that Prince in energy, right? You know that if you've been watching me. But look, oh, it's so cool. My belly dancing scarf. It's like my new favorite thing. I think I'm just going to wear it to the mall and the grocery store and target. It's rainbow colors for Pride. Happy Pride Month. And belly dancing is connected to Maite, who was Prince's first wife. And she was a belly dancer also trained in classical ballet. Did you know that? I read her book. Is it called The Most Beautiful? I read her book a couple of years ago. It was really good. And she comes into town and does offer belly dancing classes and such. And from time to time connected kind of with Prince and stuff. She does stuff online too in Zoom. You could look her up. Maite Garcia. But anyway, I never, I've never belly danced until yesterday. And I've not met Maite and I got the pleasure to meet her. Sorry, guys. I am actually not that sore, which is great. My low back is a little bit buggy, but it's been buggy anyway. So it's been, it's totally fine. There's nothing out of the norm. It was awesome. Belly dancing was fun with her. And I just, I really enjoyed it. And the people I met were amazing. There were so many just loving, really open, fun people. And some of you, if you're watching us, you watch Above Life Channel. So thank you. And you told me you watch Above Life Channel. That's so sweet. I'm like, oh my gosh. Oh, I'm a fan. Like people like Melinda and John. And I want to say Elena. Was it Elena? And just, just there were some really just lovely people. I can't remember everybody's names. I'm sorry. But it was, it was a really cool experience. I really, really enjoyed myself. That was my first class with her. Because let me just tell you, I will totally do that again. It was so much fun. It was so much fun. So much fun. I, because I was like thinking it was going to be hardcore, like intense exercise. And I'm like, oh my God, I'm so out of shape. What's going to happen? You know, nope. It was great. Awesome. It does affect your knees more than I thought it would, I have to say. All right. So let's, sorry. Guys, give me a break. I'm in a hotel room. I've been here for two days and the air is very dry in a hotel. I mean, you know that right? Let's have a conversation with Prince. Let's bring him in if we can. Yeah, I am going to go, I'm going to go to Lake Minnetonka today. And with a friend of mine, I actually got us a little tour on the lake. She's the one that is a super good friend of mine who I met because of Prince. She's like one of my best friends now. And so I, since she's the one that was like, come on, do you want to go to belly dancing? They didn't, she and my other friend, they didn't think I would maybe go. And I'm like, oh yeah, I'll go. Sure. So super glad they invited me. But so then I purchased a little cruise on the, like a public cruise on the lake. So I'm going to take her there before she has to go to the airport and leave and go home. So that's going to happen this morning. Yes, I'm going to Lake Minnetonka. That would be great. So can you come and talk to us? I've already had people that after I post pictures of myself with my day, I've made quite a few, I've gotten quite a few comments about that. When do you think about that, Prince? He says you should have asked her more about me. There was a question and answer period and I asked if she had been to a medium, if she'd spoken to a psychic or medium. And full disclosure, I told her, I said, I'm Brigid. I am a psychic medium. This is the first time I've met you. It's nice to meet you. And then I said that you and Prince had obviously a very impactful or deep spiritual connection in the human life. And my question is, have you connected through of a psychic or medium to him in the afterlife? And she said, no. She said, no. And she said, but I feel him with me. I feel him with me. And then she told the story to, and one of the questions to about Paisley Park after that, about Paisley Park and about walking in and then the music is playing a certain song and is playing. And she's like, Oh, really? Of course, you would have this song playing. It's like so random. Of course, you would do that. Like so she kind of articulated how she feels connected to him in the afterlife, which is just beautiful because that I think encourages everyone to recognize that you don't have to be intending to be a psychic or medium in order to connect with your loved ones in the afterlife to like that's a whole point of a life channel is so that I can share with you what I do so you can feel the energy and know that you can do that too. It's not that complicated. You just have to kind of get out of your own way. And you don't have to be a big psychic and do it for other people. You can just receive for yourself in your heart and that's how it works, right? He's like, I don't know how it works. You tell them how it works. I don't know. Do you think I know? Do you think I know how it works? I'm like, yes, I know how it works. Will you not be just sassy? He's a little sassy. Are you mad at me? Is there anger?  He's like, I'm a spirit. I'm just owing and he's like literally sitting like on this and that's like Buddha like positionless, lotus position, just like I'm a spirit. I'm just Zen and for Zen, I'm like, yeah, okay. He says the spirituality part. He says when you ask for that. He says it caught her off guard a bit. But he says, you're right, you know, it's personal. It is deeply personal. And I did say that. I said, you don't have to answer this. It's personal. You don't have to you don't have to respond. If you're not comfortable, totally, totally fine. And he said you caught her off guard a bit. And he said it's deeply personal. He said spirituality. It's such a personal. He's not saying thing. What are you saying? It's just really personal. So it's really deep and personal. And it's interesting. Okay, he says people kind of get a little and I'm gonna use word paranoid or anxious about it. I want to use the word anxious because I felt that yesterday, yesterday. So I go into the dance studio and it's a small space anyway. And I was in there for a little bit. I got to meet my Tay.  I just I'm this is the first time I've ever met you is first time I've ever belly danced. And I just told her that I appreciate her energy and for all that she's been through.  Oh, I just saw sorry. And her energy is just really genuine. And so it's like super gentle. It like kind of mellows you a little bit. It's almost a little intoxicating if I'm super honest about it.  He says yes, Bridget. Yes. Thank you for for saying that. He's like, yes, Bridget. Yes. That is exactly how she was intoxicating. Now you see he says now do you understand why he says that woman makes me crazy. She makes me crazy.  And I'm gonna use my words. That's what channeling is. That's what connection to spirit is. So if it doesn't sound exactly like him word for word, that's because I'm Bridget and I don't talk like him. Is that was that a good description of that? It's like, now who's a sassy one? Like now who's spiced? He's like, he's like Bridget, Minnesota, nice. You're wrecking our reputation. Thank you. Excuse me. Me wrecking the reputation. They were playful. He shows me he's saying they're playful. And he says now you understand how he says a connection or bond like that is hard to put into words he says and I know that many people in their lifetime will never experience that kind of a draw and he shows me an elephant which to me is extremely like Ganesh Ganesha Hindu god goddess aspect of abundance and just this really deep energy. There's fertility energy that comes through. It's like he says it's as though when they were together there was their own world like there wasn't the he's sharing like he could be himself so he could be funny and silly and kind of like dry humor really dry humor you guys sarcastic. That's a Minnesota thing. Don't you think? Don't you think that's a Minnesota thing? Well, yeah, Midwest. Yes. This is as he says, well, we know that he says born and raised, right? He says we know that Bridget. Other people don't get that really. Maybe some of those people from Ohio, Indiana, they might get that but we get that. They don't get that.   Kind of, you know.  So, I go into this dance studio. There's a lot of people there and there's a lot of love. People feel they feel kind of sweet. The energy feels sweet. Like like like almost like that's going to sound weird. Like the smell of fruit or something like tangerine and oranges and just kind of fresh and like it just there's just this essence and and then when I got close during the meet and greet and I got to meet her and I was just like, whoa, like it literally is intoxicating to meet her. I was like, oh my god, I totally get what he's been trying to tell me before. Like, I get it. I get it and I was in there and I was there for a little bit and I was going to like support her and buy like some merch or something from her and I couldn't stay in there. I could not. Oh, I gave her a gift, you guys. I gave her a gift. I gave her, I'm trying to look and see if I have another set here, but I gave her a set of the elements of sacred geometry shapes of the five elements. So earth, air, fire, water, universe, or what I like to say light. So earth, air, fire, water, universe, light. I actually have it. I should go grab it. I have one that I'm going to grab one and I'll show it to you. I have a purple one, a purple set that's amethyst, but I gave her a clear quartz crystal set. It was really cool and I said, okay, so I know that energy is a thing and I said, I know that you'll get you understand this and I said, this is a gift for you and and if it's and you can use it for grids in your house or whatever you want to do with it. I said, or you can share it, split it up, give some to Gia, whatever you want to do with it. Just a minute, let me go grab it, you guys. I'll grab one on my suitcase just a minute. I brought an extra one because I wasn't sure if I was going to give her the purple because I have a purple amethyst set or I have a clear quartz crystal. I gave her the clear quartz crystal. Just a minute. I started to pack my stuff up because I'm going to be out of here in a couple hours here in an hour and a half or so. Okay. Pillow for the knees. All right, so this is what I brought to give her. Can you see it? See how each one of these is a sacred shape, sacred geometry. It's great for gritting and if you don't know what that is, you can check out my fairy grasshopper, fairy grasshopper YouTube channel. And so basically, here's the gist. Sacred geometry. Shapes like this actually is earth. This is a, obviously I said, these are not the clear quartz ones that I gave to her. These are amethyst, which is also my birthstone, which some of you may or may not know that, which is also a very princy thing. So this represents the earth. This one that's the triangle represents the fire element. This is the air. This is one of my elements. Air is becoming more and more my element. This is a great element for this month for June. It's diamond, which is double air. And then the isohedron, which is kind of looks like a macabre, if you're familiar with that. A little bit of metatronic tube action going on there. If you're interested, if you know about sacred geometry, right? Water, water's connected with the heart. And then the dodecahedron. This is one of my favorites. A sacred soccer ball. Little five sided shapes. Little stop signs like all over. Sacred soccer ball. That's what I call this actually. You can actually pop, this represents the universe or for me in my work, this represents the fifth element, which for me is light. Connection to God, Source Universe, Creator, Cosmic Creator, Cosmic Consciousness Energy. So this you guys can use to protect your energy field. Just imagine a beautiful, imagine this all open. So it's not like solid. Imagine it open with just little beautiful lines of light creating the space and then just make it really big and step inside. Put it over you like just this little ball of light. Just kind of walk around with that. And then energy can move and flow and just let it help give you kind of a structure of protection and loving energy for you. Not for the people necessarily, not to keep people away, but it does that. It's just your special space. So this is what I gave her. Do you think she'd liked that? I felt like she did. It felt very genuine that she was like, oh wow, you know. And I'm like, well yeah, it's cool. And he says, yes, yes. I think she liked it very much. He says, yes, very much. He said, good move for the clear quartz crystal. He says, Bridget, tell them about manifesting. Okay, thanks Prince. We will talk about manifesting. I'm trying to tell the story about being at the dance studio and you want to tell me to talk about manifesting. Well, you can use things like clear quartz crystals or MFS or whatever crystals, rocks or stones you like or grids. You want a grid would be like one of those shapes as just the foundation. And then you put like little rocks or crystals on it or you could put other things like things you collect in nature like seeds or acorns or leaves or sticks or whatever. You can totally do that too. And it represents energy and connection of all things and it amplifies whatever intention you have for that grid that you set.  You could print something out.  Whatever works for you. It's a tangible thing for your brain to visualize what energy is and it helps to amplify the energy that you're trying to attract or make bigger in your life like for manifestation. You already have an intention, a seed that you want to open up and let it bloom, right? And then attract more that energy that will support nutrients, sunlight, whatever that might be to connect and build that or create that for you. With you, it's a co-creative universe. That's why it works like that, right? We all really have support. We have support. We have support. We just have to be able to begin to tap into the ways that we can resource our support. Was that good? Yes. He looks like a professor now. Oh my god. He has circular glasses. Those John Lennon glasses kill me. When you put those on it's just so it's like you're trying to be super like chilling at peace. It says what makes you think I wasn't chilling at peace? I think you were. I think you had moods. Prince, you had moods. Some moods of peacefulness. Yes, like when you're like deep and philosophical, which is how I see him right now. He's like doing the John Lennon glasses thing. And he's really reflective. He says, Maite knows this part of me. He said that's why he says that's why I shared with you that spirituality is personal. It is. It's not private. He didn't say it's private. He said it's personal. He said because that was a state that he moved through an understanding and and his own ascension process as a human. So why did you stop that? Oh my god. I don't really want to talk about this. Sorry. Wow, Bridget has no poker face. He says when my son died. Oh, Maite's daughter was there. He said, yeah, isn't that great? Really happy for her. He said she deserves happiness. He said she deserves that. And he's saying it was hard to let her go. And he says I knew I wasn't right for her. I knew it. And he says it looks like he's trying to show me and he's not trying to validate this. You guys are justified. But he says I know he said I know what it looks like on the outside. I know. I know what it looks like. He's like I look like the dog, you know, and he says, yeah, could I have been a better person? Yeah. He says, do I know better now? Yeah. Yes. And he says, and oh my god, she said this yesterday, you guys in the meet and greet, she talked about she forgives easy forgiveness. That is a true gift. That is a superpower. And I'm like, can you teach me how to do that, Maite? Because I don't really, I'm not personally Bridget. No, I'm so good at that. And he says, well, he says, me neither. Princess, me neither. He's like, I don't forgive either. He says, I don't, I don't forgive. And then then kind of a little bit of paranoid energy and anxiousness energy comes in and he says, unpredictable is what he says. I like to call it unpredictable energy. I says, I like to call it moodiness, which is a kind of a nice way to say he had a lot of different sides to him, just like we do you and I do that, you and I do that.   So he looks very zen and he says, in spirituality context, he said, yeah, I worked with mindfulness with Maite and he said, but he says, you got to understand, you got, you know, he wants us to understand that there is he doesn't need to be understood. Let me just be really clear. When I say that he just corrects me right away. I don't need to be understood. He said, what we're sharing, he says, is giving people the opportunity to understand how humans go through life and how spirit enters in whatever connection you have to your soul or to a God or to a universe or consciousness or how energy, whatever you want to call that. And he says, that it happens at different times and in different ways in your life experience. Okay, so so like the Jehovah's witness thing was different. He says it was more structured. He said it made I need something when you he says when you go through tragedy like that, he's like giving me this understanding of when you go through something so deep like that, you need to rely on some structure.  And he like he looks at her and is like, I knew she would be okay. He's like, I knew he's like, this is not an excuse. Like he's not trying to get us to excuse or understand his actions, but he's just sharing so that we understand not to be so hard on ourselves. Okay, so he's sharing that emotionally he knew that she would be okay. She has a great support structure. He's talking about her parents, her family. She has a great support. He's like, I know and I know that she will be okay. He says, she is a strong woman and she's determined. He says, you cannot tell her what to do. She is so stubborn. She's so stubborn.  But she's also extremely playful. And he says, she's a lot of fun. She brings a lot of light to my life. And I will never be able to thank her enough for that. He says, but she knows what she meant to me. She knows. She knows the way things unfolded you guys like though he's showing me the way things unfolded and stuff. It's just it's like not our business. It's not our business. And I'm not trying to justify it either because I think it's a dog sometimes. I'm like, dude, that is not cool. That was not cool. And she is so sweet and nice. And he's like, oh, she can it's kind of he's giving me the impression that she could throw down. And I said that I did a video and posted it from sitting outside this dance studio because energy was like super kind of sweet and intoxicating. And then it was like everybody like lots of people in a small space and it does not feel that good. And so I had to get outside. I just want to be outside away from people. So I did.  I just sat there for a bit. And then one of my friends came on and said, hey, how's it going? And just talked to me a little bit. And then I got a text from my other two friends who were in the class and they saved me a spot for the meet and greet. And I'm like, oh, that's so sweet. I just was out there for like maybe 15 minutes and just away from everybody. Maybe longer than that. It might have been like a half hour. It was a while. It was really chill and mellow. And then I went back in and it was meeting great time and it was perfect. And then I asked my question. It was nice. They were, like I said, they were just a really a lot of lovely people. People that have such big hearts, you know? So I know you guys. I know there's going to be some of you that are going to be like, why didn't you say to her? Why didn't you give her a message? Why didn't you? That was not the place. That's not the place for that. You don't just walk up to strangers in the grocery store and say, hey, I see your grandma. I see your auntie. I see, you know, you don't do that. That is so, to me, that is very rude. They're not asking for you to all of a sudden get in their business and get into their grief spot and their pain and start wrapping it around you like a shawl. People don't do that. Like you should not be doing that. That only happens on reality television, which isn't real. It's staged. So, of course I would never disrespect her, but they're like, oh, I have a message for you and all these people can listen. No, that's what above life too is for to have conversation in the afterlife that has a purpose. It's meaningful. Again, the purpose of all of these channeling sessions are to encourage you to have conversations with these people that inspire you so that you can be creative, co-creative, take a step forward in your life so you can live a positive, hopeful, and healthy life. That's the point. We learn from these people who have lived their lives that are now in the spirit form and they encourage us to live the best life we can with some of their wisdom and their guidance. So, we don't make the same mistakes they did and so that we can use some new tools that are available to us that they didn't know about. But Prince knew about meditation and mindfulness. And Maite mentioned yesterday about meditation. She talked about that a little bit and the way that when she's in her dancing state, which I haven't watched her dance except for in the class when she was teaching us, but somebody else referred to this in one of their questions to her about how she kind of gets in the state when she's dancing and Prince was like, right away, it's like, yes! Yes! He's like, it's not all just hot and sensual. Okay, you guys, that's what Prince is like super clear. It's not all hot and sensual. He said, yes, it's very attractive. But it's not like that. Like, that's not the primary thing. That's just the brain and the body working together and that kind of animalistic kind of mammal-like wave vibe. But there's an energetic surrounding.  That's what she said. Actually, she technically, you know what she said. She's like, okay, imagine you have a really tight shirt on and has buttons. And I had to start laughing because one of my friends, that's a private joke from our experience on Saturday night dinner. She was talking about that. It's so funny. Anyway, so like, she's like, okay, imagine you have a really tight shirt on and you have buttons on it and you need to just rip open your shirt. Like, excuse me, what? That's funny. She's like, everybody knew. So they're like, oh yeah, go like this. Like, we all do that every day like superheroes, right? Like, yeah.  I'm like, oh my god, it was so cool.    So I'm like, oh, this is a chakra thing. I loved it. I actually could feel that state when we started to do the dancing stuff. Your body just knows what to do, the next movement, so how to move if you let it. And it's an energetic thing. It was such a sweet energy. I'm like, wow, this is like meditative and but fun, joyful meditation. And I just, that connection was so awesome. And she has it. That's what I was feeling when I met her. That's what was in that room. And that's what everybody else knew about. They're like, oh, just like with channeling, I can help you connect to the afterlife and then you can do it for yourself, for your animals, for your family, for prince, for whoever you need advice or guidance from or want to feel connected to. And you can do that too just like how she can teach people how to dance and how to do the movements and give them the opportunity for the experience of that. And then now we go home and we do that. We can do it on Zoom with her or we can do it ourselves or we can find a studio to go to whatever it works. And so it's like that. It's the same thing. I'm like, oh my god, we are not that different. We are not that different. I thought that was the coolest thing. He's like, thank you. Yes. How do you feel about us meeting? He says, I told you she was great. He said, I told you she was something special. She was something special. And he's giving me definitely not just the soulmate vibe but the twin flame vibe where it's like they come together. It's like, oh, it's like fiery. It's like passionate. It's fun. It's intense. There's a lot of like back and forth because some of their energies, the headbutting happens and then like my taint just was like, okay, you know, this is the prince. So like I can't I'm not going to like tame him or change him or she had no desire to do that. She was just there and present for him until he was in a state where he couldn't be present for her. And it was obvious and it got worse when they when she was pregnant and then they had the baby and there was all that tragedy and pain around that and very isolating, he says, and he says, I could not be there for her.  Okay, he did feel a lot of blame for that like it was his fault. But he, I don't think he articulated that in the human form at all. I don't know that he did and he's saying I couldn't be there for her. I didn't know what to do. I couldn't be there for her. So he turned to something else that provided a structure for him that just made sense that he could just follow a routine or a regimen that would give him safety in the structure of understanding. That's what he's showing me. Yeah, it was hard. Again, not just defying or validating it. That's not what he's trying to do at all. He's just sharing. People go through grief in a totally different ways and your life changes from it. Like, look at COVID, you guys. Look at COVID. That's collective grief, collective trauma we moved through and we've been still moving through because some people lost people. Okay, let's not be flippant about that. Two years. It's only been two years since some people lost people. People died from that. Okay, so it's not like just this, oh, it was no big deal and now we look back and go, oh, there's no problem. Um, yeah, it was a huge problem. People were home, marriages ended, people lost their homes, people lost their jobs, people lost their loved ones. There was a lot of loss, so there's a lot of grief there. So we, as people, humans, can relate to grief. Whether you choose to actually identify it as that or not, it's about loss, which is connected to lack, which is connected to abundance and manifesting and the desire to change your life. Well, guess what? We're on the threshold of that change energy. So use the grid energy to help manifest whatever it is that you want. Manifesting isn't just about winning the lottery or making some money or bringing some lover into your life.  And if you don't know what that is, you don't have to commit to it long-term, but just show up and be present and feel yourself and honor your feelings. Honor the information that's coming through you, uniquely for you, where there it comes through a prince, through a song, through a memory of a loved one, through a picture, a photograph that you happen to find when you're cleaning out your shoes in the closet and you're like, oh my gosh, there's a shoebox here with pictures like that. All that stuff is synchronistic. All of that stuff is the universe speaking to you. All that stuff is energy. We are all connected and that is the truth. Is that good? Yeah, I think we're about done. So I am Bridget. I think that our Internet has lasted. That is great. I'm actually doing this on a live stream, so maybe. And I did it on a live stream because I can directly then have it on YouTube, on above-life channel, on YouTube, where I, every week on Mondays, I channel After Life Celebrity Guests to inspire your spirit and fill you with hope to encourage you to live your life. And on Sundays, I do podcasts also here on above-life channel. Now, if you're looking to connect with me, like on a daily basis or want additional information about intuition, spirituality, psychic, awareness and connection and energy, how to be a good human basically, by honoring your spirit. Check out Bridget inspired on Instagram. That's my Instagram page and I also have another YouTube channel that's a little more casual, that has a backlog of intuitive talk topic information, a variety of topics. And a vlog. I have a vlog there about my real psychic life. And that's fairy grasshopper on YouTube. All right, so let's just take a look and say hello. Sorry, I didn't bring my tripods. So I have to see if I can check out the chat. Oh, I don't see them. I think they're disappearing. Why are my chats disappearing here? I can't see you guys' names. Everything's tiny. Oh, is that Melinda from Michigan? I think so. Sorry guys, I gotta get really close. Maria, M.M. I think that's Melinda. Thank you all. Thank you too. That's so sweet. Anybody here right now from the belly dance class yesterday? Anybody here? You might not be live because you might be recovering. You might be, you might be taking some ad bill from that. It was great though. Wow, it's great. Okay, let's just see. Is there any more? I know that some of you were sending me messages and I really don't know how to access these. Oh, there we go. Oh, good, good, good. Sorry, I'm gonna get really close to the camera. Super awkward. Sorry, I'm trying to look down. How about that? Yes, R.C. Perry to answer your questions. Yes, Lady Diana. Yes, I'll channel her again. Yes, my dear, I will do that. Yeah, it is incredible but I'm not heard your dang right. It was, it was awesome. See you. Hey, happy early birthday, Seal. Seal's turning a big milestone birthday in October. Happy birthday. Have a great day. Oh, thank you so much. Oh, thanks. Yeah, going on a cruise unlike the Tanca. Thank you. Lorraine, I think, is what it says. It's such a welcome message. Oh, thank you, honey. That's great. All right, you guys. All right, thanks so much for being here on this live stream. Like I said, I wasn't intending to. Well, I channeling live is easy when I know that if I don't do it right now and I try to do it later. Number one, I'm gonna be tired. Number two, I'm gonna like not be in the zone of Chanhassen. I'm in Chanhassen right now. I am like down the road. Paisley Park is over here. Just like right over here. Like boom, two blocks away. So, there's definitely good energy. Oh, I just saw a couple more in just a minute. Let's say hi. There's a couple more that popped in. Hi, guys. So, I had to do it like this and then if I did it on a regular video it would take me forever to upload it.  Okay, thank you so much for being here. This is Bridget at Above Live Channel. I'm a psychic medium and intuitive life coach. There's links in the description below if you want to get access to me. Remember, I don't do private session work. I don't channel celebrities. I don't do that. Do you know why? Unless you're a family member or a close friend or like business partner with them, I don't channel celebrities because they were real people. They were human beings just like you and I and although they were famous and well known, iconic, there is a level of their energy that we connect to from the afterlife that I believe should just be shared. Just like their music was shared or their performances were shared and while in some cases you may have a value exchange for that service, you might purchase that and sometimes I do, I'll do small groups where I do, where I will channel celebrities in a small group and then we'll have some interaction and that would be a service that I would provide. But otherwise I think the more people that have access to understand and get inspired by their favorite celebrities or actors or influential people like world leaders and such and psychics and teachers in the afterlife, I think the better we're going to be as a humanity especially right now, I think there's a lot of opportunity for support and growth and I think that personal growth comes from the partnership within ourselves. I work on a very basic model of body, mind, heart and soul and so the spirit part of you, that intuition part of you is probably the least most accessible or understood by people, I think and so the energetics of situations and circumstances, I think, can help us a lot and I think when we do channeling like this you feel the energy, you can feel it, you're an empath, you feel that energy in your heart space and it can change everything for you, it can inspire you. So if I, from my perspective, sharing the afterlife celebrity channeling information reflective on their current life or where they're giving us higher consciousness information, either way I think it benefits everybody as a whole so that's why above life channel exists but in my private session work I will do mediumship with afterlife loved ones if you recommend or request that but the whole goal is to support you on your healing journey, is to support you in your life now to help connect to that momentum and that energy within you and to support you in working with your your energetics, your intuition, your inner wisdom and knowing and moving forward with that energetic of spiritual support, just an extra layer of support, we all could use that right now so I hope you've enjoyed this channeling session with prince in the afterlife, I look forward to connecting with you again in the future and with him again in the future as well and I look forward to meeting my Tay again that will be awesome, oh my gosh I'm so gonna belly dance you guys, I'm so gonna do it, it's so much fun, I highly recommend it, it's so much fun all right have a great day you guys


Back at live at VMworld 2012, this is SiliconANGLE.TV's The Cube, this is our final wrap-up day three. Continuous exclusive coverage of VMworld 2012, boy what a set of interviews. I'm John Furrier and I'm joined by my co-host Dave Vellante and Stu Miniman. I'm Wiggy Bond, the analyst, doing all the research, getting all the data, making all the opinions, making moves. Dave, what do you think? Well, first thing I want to say, John, is having done this now three years in a row from VMworld. VMworld 2010 was our first real breakout show. Our first show together was EMC World in 2010. And I just want to say, John, I'm just so thrilled at the way that SiliconANGLE and The Cube is changing the media business. You know, democratizing media, bringing this great content to the masses. I mean, we're sitting here watching The Cube, Pat Gelsinger is on the big screen here, and there are VMwares running the rerun of Pat on The Cube. You know, I'm very proud and pleased to be part of it, so thank you for including us. Well, I would also say that, you know, seeing you at AT&T Park on the ground with all the execs at the NetApp event, getting all that B-roll, we are the agile media company. And then someone came up to me and said, what you guys are doing is kind of like what VMwares doing in the cloud and data center.  I'm like, you know what? I'm going to use that. So, you know... So, big pat on the back for us, and high five, John, I'm really impressed. Now, the second thing I want to say is, in 2010, you and I talked about, on The Cube, the VMware economy in the enterprise. And we made the prediction at that point in time that VMware slash EMC, VMware, EMC owns VMware, will be the next $100 billion company in the enterprise. Now, SAP is still a bit ahead of them, at about a $70 billion market. When I say $100 billion, I mean market value. We stand by that prediction, it's clear that this is the main enterprise event, the VMworld, the VMugs. The VMware economy is in full swing. The train is in full motion, the NYSERA acquisition, driving networking. VMware is in the driver's seat, John, just as we had predicted, and I think it's just going to be expanding even faster. You know, I think one of the things that we really drilled on in 2010 was, one, we were very excited by the math that Paul Moritz put out. We said this is an operating system. That's ratified now three years later, two years later, with the messaging of Abstract, Pool, Automate. But really, Dave, it was the ecosystem. We talked about the ecosystem play, was their key to success. Todd Nielsen at the time was talking about that. That's definitely happening, and with Pat Gelsinger at the helm, and with acquisitions like NYSERA, the talent acquisitions and the technology acquisitions that VMware is putting together is quite an impressive set of activities and quite a run. Yeah, I think what's happening here is that VMware, VMware be extremely aggressive. I think that frankly, again, EMC is driving VMware in that direction. They are getting really aggressive about essentially owning that entire stack. I mean, just even the notion of dynamic ops being able to manage multi-vendor hypervisor. Yeah, Dave, if we look back, EMC many years ago moved above storage to really become more relevant to CIOs in general and across the entire infrastructure, what they're doing in big data, what they're doing in software and what they're doing in services really kind of grew EMC. And we're seeing VMware, as you know, much more than just a hypervisor company. We talked about how the acquisition of dynamic ops, Wanova, Cetus and NYSERA are all getting beyond just VMware vSphere environments, physical multi-hypervisor environments. Distributed computing is where VMware now has a lot of talent and they can really help transform a greater part of the IT environment. Yeah, well, sometimes these things are a bit fuzzy, but I think it's clear that the vision that VMware is putting forth is quite compelling. A lot of that, you know, you've got to give credit to guys like Paul Moritz and Steve Herrod who have really driven that vision. And so I think it's clear that the practitioners are lining up behind that vision and adopting, despite the fact that, hey, I mean, look at Windows Server 2012, looks good by all accounts. No question from a functionality standpoint that Microsoft is closing the gap, but in some respects, you know, this, John, it really doesn't matter. I mean, VMware's got such momentum and it's putting forth a vision and it's so compelling for people. In the near term, I think it's impenetrable, unless they too quickly show up.  And we've, again, we've had Todd Nielsen on theCUBE, Mark Risen-Hobbgens. You know, we are talking about all the footage we have going back to 2010. We have so much footage from VMware. Go to YouTube.com slash SiliconANGLE and go check out all the footage. And I've had guys come up to me and say, hey, can I play with some of that old footage and put together some trailers and stories? You may see more of that. But we heard about the developer focus on Todd Nielsen two years ago and I thought what was strikingly about this one is that they are leveraging Cloud Foundry as a stalking horse to start pushing that platform as a service to make the productivity for developers really easy. At the same time, they're going down deep with the total alpha geeks at the low level with Nasirah, Dave. So that was one bright spot. The other bright spot is Dynamic Ops and VDI. Having that equation, if they can put that together, I'm going to, I say we're going to look back and say, it was Dynamic Ops and VDI really made a difference at the top of the stack. And Stu, I'd like to get your perspective on what you think about that. Yeah, great point. So when we kind of kicked off the coverage for this year, we talked about data infrastructure and the data that I've seen at the show is that VDI actually surprised me. Every storage company that I talked to was talking about significant percentages of deployments with VDI. I put an article up last week, is VDI the killer app for converged infrastructure? Because you saw somewhere between 25 and 75% of all converged stack deployments have VDI in them. And even a lot of the Flash guys are in the 30 to 50% deployments being four VDIs. So while 2013's not the year of VDI, there's still some strong momentum in rolling out those VDI deployments. Well, Stu, that's a great point. First of all, great post, by the way. And again, Wikibon continues to lead the way in the research side. I mean, you guys just lead it. And of course, SiliconANGLE does it. It's all a real-time action. You guys are doing a great job. But Ping Li, when he was on here, Ping Li being one of the leading venture capitalists in big data. He works for Excel Partners. He said that VDI surprised him. He's seeing a lot of entrepreneurs coming in with startups built around the VDI concept. And although it's changed a lot, it's really finding a nice home. Yeah, and John, in the VC, you've been talking about where there's frothiness and where things are a little bit overvalued. Talk about what is hot. VDI pales in comparison to Flash. There are so many Flash vendors here. We had two panels. I think three-quarters of the day on Monday was some Flash engagement. So something that we are watching very closely, helping to segment the market, understand the differentiation and who's going to succeed, who probably is going to be acquired, and where the real value in the marketplace is. Dave and Stu, I want to get your perspective on something. When we started VMworld this year, I put out the notion of data infrastructure. Actually, we talk about it internally. You guys kind of filled in the blanks. Dave, I want to get your take and Stu as well. One, what do you think about data infrastructure? Now post VMworld, as this show ends down today and tomorrow, about the notion of data infrastructure and the interplay with big data. Data-driven infrastructure, data-led infrastructure, data infrastructure as an extension of conversion networking. Dave, are we good call? Soso, Home Run, what's your angle on that? Well, I think it's a very good call. I think it's the right framework for understanding how the data center is going, and infrastructure is going to evolve over the next five to seven years. Having said that, I think we've got a long way to go. Steve Herrod, I think, summed it up very well. We've got an A on the servers, maybe a B, B plus on the storage, and C, maybe C plus on networking. And that's clearly where all the effort's going in right now. But to me, John and Stu, the evolution of Flash is going to really drive and accelerate the need to fix the networking piece. What's still missing, I think, is the bringing together of those big data analytics applications feeding real-time transactional applications and driving new business value. That's where there's a long way to go. So, we've got to start somewhere. Stu, what do you think? Starting with the network and the infrastructure is absolutely right on. Yeah, so I think, echoing what Dave said, that the infrastructure piece needs to be able to complement, really serve the application and the data. So, what David Fleuer says, the IO-centric model of the future needs to help, you know, eliminate the bottlenecks, serve things up, and help IT get their job done better. And big data is a tool that's filling into many environments now. You know, one of the kind of, really, you talk about the alpha geeks that are here, Cloud Physics is a company that came out of stealth. We actually did an appearance site with them the week before the conference. Mendel was there. A lot of the original developers from VMware and, you know, they are helping to take configuration information and use analytics to make that actionable so that we can really, you know, get much better utilization out of our infrastructure and simplify and automate things. So, soon we'll be able to put out a new product that we preview here, Dave. I wanted to share with you, Dave, our vFinder preview. We previewed a lot of new tools, SiliconANG will be born, powered by VDP Finder. And just right now on our, quote, top conversations algorithm that we put together for the VMware ecosystem, obviously, VMware is number one in VMware, the topics. Cloud computing, virtualization, and horizon top the list right now. So, cloud computing being defined as private, public, and hybrid. SAS, vCloud, Azure, vSphere, private cloud, and cloud apps. So, it's a cloud friendly crowd. Yeah, John, what about mobile? You know, horizon and what they were talking about. You know, what's your take on the whole mobile side of what was at the show? First of all, great messaging. I think they're right on the money relative to the trajectory of their strategy. Multiple devices and managing that directly with a service fabric like dynamic ops is absolutely the way to go, I think. So, that's good. But we talked with Chris Hoff on the security side, too. There's some real issues that need to be resolved on the security side, multiple endpoints. We also had Simon Crosby on, who's an entrepreneur and the co-founder. He might have another founder, Abromium, who's just taking a unique approach to solving some of these problems.  So, I think, you know, yes, it's the right way to go. I think the theme of rewriting applications, the more core apps it has to happen. So, yes, I totally think mobility is driving that. And I think what really no one connected the dots on yet is the big data aspect. I know they did the project, what's it, Serengeti? Yeah, Serengeti. Serengeti, did a little demo. It was just a demo. But ultimately, the big data was one part of the show that I didn't see a lot. So, to me, if you're not talking big data, mobile's nothing. Yeah, well, Serengeti handles the infrastructure component of big data, not so much the analytic side. But that didn't really come across loud and clear. Yeah.  I mean, come on, Stu, what's your take on it? Yeah, no, it seemed to be kind of marketing fluff. Yeah, well, so what VMware's looking to do is we're 60% virtualized today. And if we want to get to this, Pat laid out the audacious goal of over 90% virtualized. The concern is, does big data become a silo? You know, John, I mean, you've been at the start of all the Hadoop action. And they said, I don't want legacy storage. I don't want sand environments. And VMware comes in and says, we want to take your big data environment, virtualize it. And therefore, I can put it on infrastructure, much of which today is more of that legacy environment.  I mean, obviously, things that I see in the show that popped out that were like the obvious, you know, shiny pebble that pops out of the show was one, storage validates our original thesis. I mean, not to pump ourselves up anymore, but storage, yes, is at the center of the value proposition. We made that right call. But the other one is, is that when we had Martinon from Nassirah, he basically said some really cool things that apply to what's happening at VMware. They're disrupting. They want to change the game and use virtualization as that lever, that real enabling technology that's going to be the lever for all this. So, you know, doing it at the network layer, network, I mean, networking side, then the low levels is fantastic all the way up to the top. So to me, I think the mobile equation with big data, the virtualization gives them a lot of flexibility. And then they had conversations like stateless applications. This is the future. So, you know, VMware's got the messaging down, old way, new way. And I think the new experiences is just right spot on messaging. Now reality, how fast they get there, probably a subject of their execution. Yeah. Okay. So that's going to be a wrap. Unless, Dave, you want to say anything else? Well, again, John, it's just really a pleasure working with you. I think that the things that we're going to look for here are really the execution of that software defined data center. Number one, number two, the ability of the ecosystem to plug into that vision. All the marketing is there. We heard from everybody who came by, yes, we're software defined data center. Yes, we're software defined storage. Yes, we're software defined data center. Everybody's hopping on that bandwagon. Everybody's claiming leadership position there. So we're going to have to, over the next 12 months, sift out the pretenders from the contenders. And we'll be doing that here on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE, Wikibon, and just really look forward to sharing that with our community. Well, that's a wrap here. I want to thank Markers and Hopkins and Keyin for holding down the fort and the folks from Moscone helping us out there, the extra hands. Stu Miniman out there getting the pound of the pavement, getting all the scoops, doing the analysis, setting up briefings. Hey, guys. Hey, guys. Lattimore's been blogging and the whole team. Yeah. Scott Lowe, Jeff Kelly back in the home front, working on the schedule. And guys, do you know how many people have come to me and said, I don't know how you two do it? So when I put this schedule together, I said, you know, let's mix up the hosts and everything. And you guys said, no, we've got such good guests. You guys are going to go do it. You plow through it. Phenomenal guests. Great conversations. Big buzz across the show. So, you know, awesome job, guys. Great job with the team. Kristin Nicole with our Skype remote's in. We're going to do that as a matter of all of our events now. You're going to see a lot of Skype calling in. Go to siliconangle.com for the reference point of tech innovation. All free content there. Go to wikibond.org where you get all the free research. We do not have a paywall. There's no charging, all free content. We want to provide the data, the data infrastructure and the big data world. All free. Use it. We'd like to serve that that way. And this is theCUBE. SiliconANGLE.tv. That's a wrap from VMworld 2012. I'm John Furrier with Dave Vellante Institute of Management. And we'll see you at the next show.