Good morning, John. Today, Joe Biden is probably going to sign the largest single piece of climate change legislation any country on our planet has ever enacted. But everything I have read, and I have read a lot, is frustratingly thin on detail. And as I tried to do the research myself on that, I discovered why. I've been going over nonpartisan analyses, congressional budget office reports, talking to the people who wrote those reports, talking to the administrator of the EPA, even in some cases reading the actual text of the 700-page bill. And what I have found has been a surprise, but also a bit of the delight. So let's start at the beginning. Around four billion years ago, something started to be alive on Earth, and ever since then, that life has had a profound effect on the planet. Photosynthesizers used sunlight to break up carbon dioxide, build their bodies out of the carbon, and release the oxygen. That oxygen made all kinds of interesting, weird things happen, including at one point, killing almost everything. So no, life creating atmospheric change that has a profound negative impact on life? Not actually new. Over time, life kept shoving energy into carbon-containing molecules, and then after the life died, those molecules would break down, and the energy would be re-released. But sometimes, the molecules of the dead thing would stay trapped, and they wouldn't break down, and they would get stuck in the Earth, where they'd heat up, and get squished, and become coal, or oil, or natural gas.  That energy is what has powered so much of our modern lives, but as we have released that energy to do things with, we have also released the original molecules that it was stored inside of. Those complicated carbon molecules get broken down, and carbon dioxide gets released. It is a molecule that is opaque to a lot of infrared radiation, a gas that makes our atmosphere less clear to heat. And so heat that would otherwise escape no longer is. There is more energy in the atmosphere, and it's changing weather patterns, increasing droughts, and fires, and storms, and heat waves. But unfortunately, we also really need all of that energy to prevent people from dying in heat waves, to make the food that people eat, to move it around, and to power the plane that takes me to visit my brother. We can't just turn the power plants off. People would start dying very quickly, and they wouldn't stop for a really, really long time. It's messy, and it's complex, and like those first cyanobacteria, people started to wonder if we weren't gonna just ruin it for ourselves. But we are smarter than them, and we are more capable of passing broad-based industrial policy with a focus on clean energy than they are. Barely. Just barely. And that brings us up to now. In 2005, a couple of years before this YouTube channel began, the US hit peak carbon emissions of 7 billion tons per year. At the time, that problem looked pretty insurmountable. This is Jesse Jenkins, one of the world's leading experts on modeling decarbonization efforts, talking about those dark years. At the time, if you could get a wind farm that costs less than $100 a megawatt hour, which is like triple the normal electricity rate, that was a great deal. And solar was ten times the cost of normal power from a gas plant or something. But over the last decade, due to supportive policies in the US, but also abroad in China, and Germany, and Japan, and elsewhere, We've taken these, what we used to call expensive alternative energy technologies, that at the time people were worried we couldn't get, you know, 5 or 10 or 15% of our electricity from without blowing up the grid. And now they are cheap trillion-dollar mainstream, you know, technologies that are scaling rapidly and are powering, you know, in the case of some parts of the country, the majority of our electricity on certain days. I am in what seems to be a weird situation of being more optimistic now than I was 20 years ago, because in that time I have seen a lot of change. Since this YouTube channel began, we have dropped from 7 billion tons to 5 billion tons emitted per year in the US. In the next 15 years, according to Jesse's models, which admittedly are trying to predict the future, we will probably get down to 3.5 billion tons, 50% lower than our peak. This week I was able to talk to Michael Regan, the head of the EPA, and he also talked about this optimism. Even when I talked to past EPA administrators, the role technology plays in the solutions that we're seeking, the quickness of innovation and the evolution of business models matching with technology and science and data, we can move much faster than we've ever moved before. We are aiming for net zero carbon emissions in America by 2050. And this is the first time in my life that I have felt like that might be possible. We have never undergone a shift in energy use that is anything like this. Maybe the original electrification of the country, but we're going to have to make this shift a lot faster than we made that shift. However complex you think this is, it's more complex than that. In this case, even for experts, we only ever get to see our own little corner of what's going on. This is a big problem that no one person understands all of. In this video, you're going to go from understanding more than like 80% or 90% of people to understanding this more than 99% of people. It's only going to take you like 15 minutes. So let's do this. What's this? That's an arc launcher. Okay, I like it. Percussal. This bill basically has three big goals, and I don't see them being talked about. So here's the framework with which to understand this. One, we're trying to decrease the amount of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases we emit in the atmosphere. Two, we're trying to make the impacts of climate change and pollution and also this energy shift less impactful on people, or ideally a good thing for people so that they like it. Particularly we would like to decrease the impacts on the most disadvantaged people. And third, and this is important to understand anything that's going on here, this is a bill that is trying to make the United States of America into an industrial center of the clean technology revolution. Now there are some other smaller things in the bill that don't fit into any of these categories. We'll talk about them in the future. But that's the three big things. Oh look, each one of these blocks is a billion dollars and there are 369 of them and we're going to start filling them up. First, we want to drive down the cost of installing renewable energy projects. That's wind, solar, and grid scale batteries. That's going to lower people's electricity bills and it's also going to make it so that when you plug in your electric car in the year 2027, we'll get to that, the power turning your wheels is going to produce less carbon dioxide. And wow, we have filled up a lot of our billions. All this money is here to incentivize power producers to use more wind, solar, and grid scale batteries. That's going to reduce the amount of CO2 being released into the atmosphere, but also it does the second thing. It does that by decreasing electricity bills, having minimum wage requirements and apprenticeship requirements. And it does the third thing by requiring that a lot of the stuff that is going into these projects, solar panels, batteries, wind turbines are made in America and the components are either from America or from our free trade allies. If you've ever played Tony Hawk Pro Skater, you know how like when you do like more than one trick in a row, you can get a multiplier? It's like that. If you do any of these individual things, you get some stuff, but there's multipliers every time you do more. But Hank, I hear you saying, we don't make a lot of solar panels or wind turbines or batteries in America right now. How are we going to be able to source those from America? Don't worry about that. Boom, it's the second biggest thing in the bill, the manufacturing tax credits. Not only do the people buying the thing get the tax credit, but so do the people making the things. We're building out a whole industry here. $37 billion is expected to go toward helping companies make solar panels and batteries and battery components and wind turbines and et cetera, et cetera. And they've got to be made in the U.S. and they've got to hit those wage and apprenticeship requirements. But Hank, you continue to be concerned. Solar power and wind power, they're intermittent. You can't expect them to be on all the time and those batteries, they're going to handle some of that shifting, but not all of it. That is right. We need firm power, power that you can turn on whenever you need it. And the biggest piece of cash in this bill that goes toward that goes toward existing nuclear power plants, helping them stay open and keep operating. Existing carbon free electricity with tax breaks, but only if you meet wage and apprenticeship requirements. Probably just expect that everything you hear about is going to have wage and apprenticeship requirements because this bill has to be good for people. And also there need to be people to work on these things. So you need to be training people and you need to be paying them well. Now also focused on firm power are smaller investments in potential future technologies like advanced nuclear power, advanced geothermal and advanced biofuels. We don't know which of those things is going to be the best or most impactful, but all of them could end up being important players in carbon free firm power. Alright, so now this hypothetical person who's basically constructing the bill with me is concerned that we're giving a lot of money to power plants, not a lot of money to people. How about $22 billion for you and another $14 billion after that and then $12 billion after that. The $22 billion goes to help people upgrade their appliances in their homes like water heaters, furnaces, stoves and even just their electrical boxes to handle all of that new electricity. Because guess what? You might not have noticed your house currently has an exhaust pipe. It is extremely likely that you have power coming into your house in two ways. The electricity that powers the lights and the microwave and your Microsoft zoom and then there's the gas power that powers your furnace and your water heater and maybe your stove top, possibly even your clothes dryer.  And if you can't do that, not only are you just releasing a lot of carbon dioxide, also you're reliant on a single source of fuel for your heat and your hot water and that fuel price can fluctuate a lot while electricity costs don't fluctuate as much.  So this $22 billion goes toward helping people buy and in some cases outright covering the entire cost of appliances that electrify these previously gas powered things. Heat pumps to heat and cool homes using electricity, heat pump water heaters, electric or induction stove tops. Just buying one of these appliances saves people money in the long term already. But folks usually can't afford the upfront costs of that, especially doing all of these things at the same time. Well, no longer. The next $14 billion are to help people and property owners make their buildings more efficient. And these last $12 billion are for, you guessed it, electric vehicle tax credits that you probably can't use. I know what you're thinking. All that sounded so great until that last part. Why can't I not use my electric vehicle tax credits? Because of the third thing, these cars also have manufacturing requirements. And when this bill goes into effect, the number of cars that will qualify for that is quite small and they will all be sold very quickly. Now, there were already tax credits on electric vehicles, but those credits only apply for the first 200,000 vehicles from each manufacturer. And many manufacturers, GM, Tesla, et cetera, have already burned through all those. This extends those indefinitely for the next 10 years, but only if they meet the requirements. Because again, the bill is about all three things. Other countries have had this kind of industrial policy for decades, and that has allowed them to build up their industries producing these things. And the people who crafted this bill, for better or worse, want the US to have that kind of industrial policy. It now looks like we are more than halfway through the things that this bill does, but we are not. Down here, things start to get much more dense, and then you realize that there are actually hundreds of ways that this bill spends money, and each one of them does a different thing for different people in different places. Like, Hank, what about the carbon impact of forest fires? Yeah, that is in there. How about decarbonizing airplane fuels? Yeah, early stages in trying to get that done, that's in there. Converting garbage trucks and city buses to electric, it definitely does that. Tax incentives for existing power plants to capture their emissions. Yeah, $3 billion for that. Electrifying most of the postal service fleet, another $3 billion for that. Reconnecting communities that were divided by the interstate highway system, yes, $3 billion for that too. Helping farmers figure out systems for sequestering carbon in their fields, sure. Cleaning up an electrifying port infrastructure, definitely that. Early market creation for low carbon building materials also in there. New transmission lines because all of this electrification is going to require a more robust grid. Yeah, that too. Trudging stations for EVs, got that as well. Grants for tribes to invest in clean energy, got that too. Buying debt from rural power co-ops if they promise to shut down their carbon emitting power plants and giving them money to build new infrastructure, that's in there too. There's a lot of things that are trying to do really specific individual things, but there's also big hunks in here that aren't prescriptive. It's money for communities to do things that they want to do to decrease their impact. Here's EPA Administrator Michael Regan again talking about that. Lots of these grant dollars that are in the ag, we're able to give those to community groups who are partnering with universities and incubation centers. The matching dollars and the low interest loans are available to people who have never been at the table. If we get these universities and these young adults, these incubation centers, really tackling these issues with community groups on the ground, these solutions can look a thousand and one different ways. And we have to feed all of these solutions to see which ones work for each individual community. We don't have to accept the notion that there's a one size fit all. It can look a thousand and one different ways. But Hank, this hypothetical person who is walking me through this entire bill is now asking me, why are we doing all of these individual things? Instead of just doing the one thing, if you did one thing, it would do everything. And that's just to make fossil fuels more expensive. Gretchen, stop trying to make fetch happen. It's not going to happen. A few years ago, an ex-lobbyist from ExxonMobil was caught on video saying this. Nobody is going to propose a tax on all Americans. And the cynical side of me says, yeah, we kind of know that, but it gives us a talking point that we can say, well, what is ExxonMobil for? Well, we're for a carbon tax. Here's the thing. We passed this bill staring down the highest inflation rate in decades and $5 per gallon gas. There are two ways to incentivize the move toward clean energy. We can make clean energy cheaper and we can make fossil fuels more expensive. And with people already having a hard time getting their butts to work, nobody in Congress was going to keep their jobs if they intentionally made fuel costs go up. This bill is very nearly all carrots for clean energy and just a few sticks for fossil fuels. But I will talk about those sticks now because one of them I love very much. Methane is the most simple carbon-containing molecule and it is even better at trapping heat than carbon dioxide. Over the short term, it's 80 times better at trapping heat. And as we've moved away from coal and toward natural gas, which is basically just methane, that has been good because methane is a more efficient fuel. You get more heat per carbon dioxide molecule that you release. Except that at every step of the way, methane can leak into the atmosphere, at the wellhead, at the pipeline, at the compressor, at the infrastructure that delivers it to your house and the facilities that use it. The Methane Emissions Reduction Program provides incentives to fix leaks and acquire more advanced systems for keeping methane from being released. And it also pays for teams to check and see if there are methane leaks and charge increasingly hefty fines to the companies that are releasing this entirely usable, potent greenhouse gas into the atmosphere. Those fines go up and up and up until they generate a fairly significant amount of revenue as it forces these companies to clean up their act. The other sticks against fossil fuels are fairly minor. They reinstate the superfund tax, which is basically a big pool of money that polluters pay into, and that money is then used to rehabilitate the damage that they do to the environment. It is a superfund. When I was a kid, I thought it was the superfund program. It's not that. There's also an increase in the percentage of money that the government gets back from oil companies when they take oil and gas off of federal lands. And finally, there's an increase in the cost of holding a lease without developing it, just having it sit there and not using it. There's an increase in that cost. Both of those are basically ways to disincentivize companies from using federal lands to produce oil and gas. So there are a couple of things to keep fossil fuels a little more under control, but mostly we want their cost to remain steady or even go down as demand for them decreases because the alternatives are just better. But also, weirdly, there's a couple of carrots for fossil fuels. Since we are obsessed with anything and everything that makes us feel bad, if you've heard anything about this bill, you have heard that Joe Manchin, moderate Democrat, forced the inclusion of a few very weird provisions. First and most frustratingly, he took a few oil and gas leases in Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico that Trump had authorized and then Biden had paused and people have been fighting against for years and was like, you want my name on this? You make those leases happen. It's super weird. It's super frustrating. It's outside of the normal process. No one likes this, except for, of course, the oil and gas companies in Joe Manchin. Another thing was basically a way to prevent any president or lawmakers in the next 10 years from banning fossil fuel leases on federal land. And it does this by tying the ability to put clean energy projects on federal land to a requirement to offer leases for oil and gas drilling on other separate federal land. Now an offered lease is not a sold lease, and a sold lease is not an oil well, but it is still disappointing, kind of gets stuck in your throat, even if modelers show that the overall carbon effectiveness of the bill only goes down by about 2% because of these provisions. But Manchin, I guess, got what he wanted out of it, which is everyone talking more about how he loves fossil fuels in there, his pretty little baby, than the entire rest of the bill. And also he got to be like one of the title names on the bill, despite being one of its biggest opponents. So, ah! So now the right question to ask is, is all of this going to work? And luckily I have prepared for you more squares. Each one of these is roughly 5 million fewer tons of CO2, and by 2030 there are 200 of them. So that's roughly a billion fewer tons of carbon dioxide per year. Here's where we'll be. Decreased CO2 in transportation saves us 280 million tons per year. Cleaner power generation saves us 360 million tons. Cleaner industry saves us 130 million. Cleaner buildings save us around 70 million tons. Same for the equivalent carbon dioxide effects of mostly methane, but also other greenhouse gases produced by cars like nitric oxides. And finally, carbon sequestration in agricultural and forest lands gets us a final 80 million tons. And of course we do not pause there. The effects of these changes are projected to get us down another 500 million tons by 2035. I'm aware that there are going to be people who are going to be mad at me for being pretty unapologetically excited about this bill. Like I'm mad that we lost the civilian climate core, which would have been thousands of young people working on the ground on these problems. I am frustrated that we lost a lot of due process on these oil leases and they weren't even something that I was actively working on, so I can't imagine what it must be like for the people who've been fighting those battles. Look, I don't know if it's that I'm old now or that I'm privileged in like a thousand ways or that I've been through a number of climate fights that went very badly. Well maybe I'm just thinking practically about the fact that this might be our last chance to get something substantial done for years, like many years maybe. Especially because there was every likelihood that this could have just not happened. Like many other parts of the original build back better didn't happen. In fact, four measly weeks ago it seemed like it wouldn't happen. I got to talk to Jesse Jenkins about that. I was on vacation with my family or leaving for vacation and I got the call from Senator Schumer's staff that the bill was dead. Same phases of grief, right? Shock, loss, anger. And some people stopped at anger and they just got mad at Joe Manchin on the internet and yelled at, you know, got cynical like you were talking about. And some of us, including some members of, you know, a few handful of members of the Senate, again said, no. This is not how it's going to end. I refuse to accept that. So this is also bargaining, right? That's one of the phases of grief. And we went back to work and we bargained. And it, against all odds, it worked. I had pretty well given up hope that it was going to succeed at that point, given that this is the second time the rug was pulled out from under us. You know, I wanted to be able to tell my kids that we fought to the very end. And it worked. And I am so grateful, I'm going to cheer up a little, for all the people really that did that because it was very, very close to failure. I don't harbor any illusions that I live in a perfect world or a perfect country or the perfect legislation exists. There are 330 million of us. The fact that we get anything done at all is a little impressive. And over the last 10 years, we have made tremendous strides in cutting carbon emissions and that has been in large part because of government investment in the U.S. and elsewhere. Between 2009 and 2017, America spent around $20 billion per year fighting climate change. Over the next 10 years, we will spend $80 billion per year. There are a lot of super powerful people who have been working really hard this whole time to slow this down as much as they can. At first, they say it doesn't exist. Then they say it's not caused by people. Then they say it's caused by people, but it's not that big of a deal. Then they say it's that big of a deal, but the costs to take it on are too great. We have hit them with reality at every step in that process. And we are going to hit them with reality at this step of the process too. They will tell us that the costs are too great. And after we prove to them that it's not, they will tell us that it's too late. Nothing gets done if you don't believe it can't be done. And I, for the first time in decades of this, have started to believe that it can be done. And it's happening, I think, for two reasons. One, because of the very hard work of a lot of people from policy to science to communication and outreach. And two, because it is getting hard to ignore the very real effects of all of this extra energy in our atmosphere and in our oceans. We might be in a very narrow window here. A moment when the effects are too present for anyone to ignore anymore, but not so present that they will hold us back from implementing solutions. I don't know how long that window is going to be open. And I was not sure that it was open until somebody did something and said something and they kept working and they kept pushing and they kept making the case that this needed to be done until it got done. But now it feels like the window is open. It does not feel like we are done. One big step does not get you over the mountain pass. There is much more to do. But as I've been saying, I am more optimistic now that this is a challenge that we can actually take on than I have been maybe in my entire career. John, I'll see you on Tuesday. Heads up, my full interviews with Jesse Jenkins and Administrator Regan are up over on Hank's channel. I learned a ton from both of them. They are fascinating conversations. There are links in the description. And also just a general thank you to everyone. And there are thousands of you who worked in some way on this bill, either advocating or writing or doing policy analysis. Like, it's a big thing. Both on my behalf, but also on behalf of like my son, who's going to be around for more of this future. And I want his future to be one that I can believe in. One where the fair rides that he loves so much are powered by clean energy. And you're helping with that. So thanks.


There's one movie where one of the characters says, are you happy? And the other character goes, you can't ask that. That's not like a question. That's not a question that's allowed. You can't say, are you happy? When actually, that would be a very important question. If we were created by God to be in perfect happiness, are you happy? I would say it's a very pertinent question. And we're not talking necessarily about happy about outcomes because I got the promotion. I got a bigger salary. I got a bigger car. What's that? When we were here last time, it was the Stinson family. We started to learn a little bit about that. 2.5 children, Volvo in the garage, dog house, and a summer house. You must have a summer house. So you were telling us, I was learning about the Stinson family here, and I'm going. So this is like, we have phrased the American dream. This is great. This is the Swedish dream, unconsciously being exposed to me in the car. So we had a great ride talking about how there can be a lot of people pleasing to protect the Stinson family. Because that's the accepted norm. And the desire is to be it. We have a movie called The Stemford Wives, which was an extreme version of wanting women, in particular, to behave in certain ways for their male partners and so forth, behave very robotically. Don't rock the boat. Be this way. Be sweet. Be serving. And da, da, da, da, da. But it's the ego, we'll say, that's underneath. That's behind all of this control. It wants you to have an ideal in the world to think that you can achieve it and be happy. Because remember, this world was made as a substitute reality. It was made this whole cosmos, this whole linear cosmos, was like a cosmic fig leaf. We use the fig leaf analogy from the Garden of Eden, where the fig leaves, they saw that they were naked. They grabbed the fig leaf to cover the private parts. Who would say that certain parts of the body are private? More private than other things, you know? Why aren't the ears private parts? Why isn't the hair private parts, you know? I'm embarrassed. Oh, I'm so embarrassed. She says, we're eyes, we're nose, oh, I'm so embarrassed. It does, if you have no people pleasing, no private thoughts, then you start to realize that you're going to have to get over the guilt and shame of private parts even. And all the guilt around the body, around sexuality, it's just conditioned private thoughts that are projected out onto a world. And so certain topics are taboo. You can't talk about that. And you can't do this. You can't show this. You can't show that. It's really a world of specialness. And the ego is underneath it. The ego is driving this whole world. It's the only one that makes preferences. It makes private thoughts, private parts. It's the only one that's set these artificial standards. And the American dream or the Spenson family is just an accepted, seemingly accepted version of, this is the goal you should be going for. Like, I've got a good job. But is it good enough to have a career? Do you have enough money to come in to have the 2.5 children? A new Volvo. Let's have a new Volvo in the garage and a nice, solid house and a summer house that you can go to. It's almost like showing off. Like, how well have you succeeded in the world? Well, I've got a really good Spenson family. And I keep it updated. It's got all the modern technology and everything with it.


When sodium reacts with chlorine, we get sodium chloride or NaCl. But how are things happening at an atomic level? Well, that's exactly what we are going to find out in this video. We will learn how metals react with non-metals and what are ionic bonds and how are they formed. Well, before we start learning about these, we will have to remember a few things. First, how are electrons arranged in an atom? What is the electronic configuration of an atom? And second, what's so special about noble gases? Now you might be wondering, Ram, why noble gases? So see, noble gases are inert in nature. They do not take part in any chemical reaction. So we want to understand what makes them so special. Maybe from there we can understand why other elements want to react. So let's begin. So here I have taken neon, which is a noble gas. Its atomic number is 10. This means that neon will have 10 protons in its nucleus. And since this is a neutral atom of neon, it will also have 10 electrons going around the nucleus. Now see, these electrons, they will not be going around the nucleus in a random fashion. Instead, they will be going around in fixed regions called shell. Now there could be many shells, 1, 2, 3, 4. And we saw that these shells are given special names, KLMN. And if you are wondering why these weird names, then don't worry about them right now. There is some historical reason and we will talk about them in a future video. Let's now see how 10 electrons go around in these shells. So the first shell, the one that is the closest to the nucleus, also called the K shell. It has a maximum capacity of 2 electrons. That means only 2 electrons can be over here. Okay? So out of the 10 electrons, 2 occupy the K shell. Meaning 10 minus 2, we have 8 electrons remaining. Now the second shell or the L shell, it has a maximum capacity of 8 electrons. That means all the 8 electrons, they will occupy the L shell. So here we have 2 electrons in the K shell and 8 electrons in the L shell. And this is how the 10 electrons of neon go around its nucleus. So one thing to notice over here is that the outermost shell of neon, or the valence shell, outermost shell is also called as valence shell, has 8 electrons in it. Okay? Now with this, let's look at example of one more noble gas. Argan. Its atomic number is 18. Now this means that there will be 18 protons in the nucleus of argon. And since we have taken a neutral atom of argon, we will have 18 electrons going around the nucleus. Now let's see how these electrons go around in shells. So in the first shell or the K shell, we can have a maximum of 2 electrons. So there you go. In the second shell, you can have a maximum of 8 electrons. So so far we have 2 plus 8, 10 electrons, 18 minus 10 that leaves us with 8 electrons. Okay? So in the third shell, all our 8 electrons will be accommodated. And over here you can notice that even in argon's outermost shell or the valence shell, we have 8 electrons. In fact, all noble gases except helium have 8 electrons in their outermost shell. Now this made us think, is it because of this special arrangement of electrons that our noble gases are inert in nature? And yes, this came out to be somewhat true. We noticed that other elements were participating in reactions. They were losing, gaining or sharing electrons just to be able to attain 8 electrons in their valence shell or outermost shell. Now seeing this, we gave this phenomena a name. We call this octate rule. Now this states that generally elements will participate in reaction to attain 8 valence electrons. Now let's look at some examples of this. So here I have sodium and its atomic number is 11. That means sodium will have 11 protons in its nucleus and 11 electrons going around it. Now let's see how these electrons go around in shells. So in the first shell or the K shell, there can be a maximum of only 2 electrons. Now in the next shell, we can have maximum of 8 electrons. So so far we have 2 plus 8, 10 electrons but sodium has 11. That means one more electron is pending. This electron will go to the next shell. Here this is our 11th electron. So over here you can notice that sodium's outermost shell or the valence shell has only one electron. That means its octate is not complete. Now how can sodium complete its octate? Now one option is that sodium gains 7 more electrons. So 7 plus 1, 8 that means sodium's octate will be complete. Let's see this is not possible because see electrons go around the nucleus because they are attracted by the protons in the nucleus. But if you increase the number of electrons by a lot compared to the protons, they will not feel equal amount of attraction and that's why they will fly off. So that's why this is not a good option. What can happen is that sodium will lose the one electron in the valence shell. And now sodium's outermost shell will be this, the second shell, the L shell. And you can notice that this already has 8 electrons. So by losing one electron, sodium gets a complete octate. So when sodium participates in a reaction, it prefers to give away this extra electron to complete its octate. So sodium prefers to give one electron. Now let's look at chlorine. So chlorine's atomic number is 17, meaning it has 17 protons and 17 electrons going around it. Now let's see in which shell how many electrons are there. In the first shell, there could be a maximum of 2 electrons. In the second, we can have a maximum of 8. So we have 2 plus 8, 10 electrons, 17 minus 10, meaning 7 are remaining. So 7 electrons, they will occupy the outermost shell over here. So here also, chlorine's octate is not complete. Because in the outermost shell or in the valence shell, we have only 7 electrons. We need one more electron for chlorine's octate to be complete. So chlorine will need one electron, chlorine will accept one electron. So sodium and chlorine, they seem to be made for each other. Sodium wants to get rid of one electron and have a complete octate, whereas chlorine wants to accept one electron and have a complete octate. And that's exactly how they react. But see, there are a few more things that happen. Over here, sodium was a neutral atom in the starting. It had 11 protons and 11 electrons, equal number of positive and negative charges. But when sodium loses one electron, now sodium has 11 protons, but it has only 10 electrons left. That means sodium has one extra proton, meaning one extra positive charge. So over here, we now get sodium plus iron. Now since over here chlorine is getting an extra electron, chlorine will become chlorine minus iron. Chlorine will get a negative charge. And we also know that opposite charges, they attract each other. And that's why there will be a strong electrostatic attraction between Na plus and Cl minus ions. And because of this, both the ions stick together. And that's how we get NaCl. Now one last thing. The compounds that are formed in such a way are called ionic compounds. Due to the transfer of electrons between a metal and a non-metal, ions are getting formed. Positively charged ions and negatively charged ions. And these ions attract each other. And that's when the compound gets formed. So that's why these compounds are called ionic compounds. Now let's summarize the video. In this video, we saw that elements react to get a complete octate, meaning 8 electrons in their outer most shell, in their valence shell. Now when metals and non-metals react by transferring electron. One will lose electron and get positive charge. The other, without gains electron, will get negative charge. Now these oppositely charged ions, they will attract each other. And the compound that gets formed is called an ionic compound.


Welcome back everyone to theCUBE's coverage here in Seattle, Washington for AWS's Marketplace Seller Conference. It's the big news within the Amazon partner network combining with Marketplace, forming the Amazon partner organization, part of a big reorg, as they grow to the next level, next-gen cloud, mid-game, on the chessboard. CUBE's got to cover. I'm John Furrier, hosting CUBE. A great guest here from Databricks, both CUBE alumni's, Jack Anderson, GM of the, and VP of the Databricks partnership team for AWS, you handle that relationship, and Joe Minick, vice president of product and partner marketing. You guys have the keys to the kingdom with Databricks and AWS. Thanks for joining me, thanks for good to see you again. Thanks for having us back. John, great to be here. So I feel like we're at re-invent 2013, small event, no stage, but there's a real shift happening with procurement. Obviously it's a no-brainer on the macro. People should be buying online, self-service, cloud-scale, but Amazon's got billions being sold through their Marketplace. They've reorganized their partner network. You can see kind of what's going on. They've kind of figured it out. Like let's put everything together and simplify and make it less of a website marketplace. Merge our partners to have more synergy and frictionless experiences so everyone can make more money and customers can be happier. Yeah, that's right. I mean, you're running a relationship. You're in the middle of it. Well, Amazon's mental model here is that they want the world's best ISVs to operate on AWS so that we can collaborate and co-architect on behalf of customers. And that's exactly what the APO and Marketplace allow us to do is to work with Amazon on these really unique use cases. You know, I interviewed Ali many times over the years. I remember many years ago, I think six, maybe six, seven years ago, we were talking, he's like, we're all in on AWS. Obviously now the success of Databricks, you've got multiple clouds to see that. Customers will have choice. But I remember the strategy early on. It was like, we're going to be deep. So this speaks volumes to the relationship you have years. Jack, take us through the relationship that Databricks has with AWS from a partner perspective, Joel, and from a product perspective, because it's not like you guys at Johnny come lately, new to the scene. You've been there, almost president creation of this wave. What's the relationship and how does it relate to what's going on today? So most people may not know that Databricks was born on AWS. We actually did our first $100 million of revenue on Amazon. And today we're obviously available on multiple clouds. But we're very fond of our Amazon relationship. And when you look at what the APN allows us to do, we're able to expand our reach and co-sell with Amazon and marketplace broadens our reach. And so we think of marketplace in three different aspects. We've got the marketplace private offer business, which we've been doing for a number of years. Matter of fact, we were driving well over 100% year-over-year growth in private offers. And we have a nine figure business. So it's a very significant business. And when a customer uses a private offer, that private offer counts against their private pricing agreement with AWS. So they get pricing power against their private pricing. So it's really important. It goes on their Amazon bill.  And in five short months, we have well over a thousand subscribers. And what this does is it really reduces the barriers to entries, low friction. So anybody in an enterprise or startup or public sector company can start to use Databricks on AWS and pay a consumption based model and have it go against their monthly bill. And so we see customers, you know, doing rapid experimentation, pilots, POCs. They're really learning the value of that first use case. And then we see rapid use case expansion. And the third aspect is the consulting partner private offer CPPO. Super important in how we involve our partner ecosystem of our consulting partners and our resellers that are able to work with Databricks on behalf of customers. So you get the big contracts with the private offer. You got the product market fit, kind of people iterating with data, coming in with the buy as you go. And also the integration piece all fitting in there. Okay, so those are the offers. That's the current and what's in marketplace today. Is that the products? What are people buying? I mean, I guess, what's the, Joel, what are people buying in the marketplace? And what does it mean for them? So fundamentally what they're buying is the ability to take silos out of their organization. And that's, that is the problem that Databricks is out there to solve, which is when you look across your data landscape today, you've got unstructured data, you've got structured data, you've got real-time streaming data. And your teams are trying to use all of this data to solve really complicated problems. And as Databricks, as the Lakehouse company, what we're helping customers do is how do they get into the new world? How do they move to a place where they can use all of that data across all of their teams? And so we allow them to begin to find through the marketplace those rapid adoption use cases where they can get rid of these data warehousing, data lake silos they've had in the past, get their unstructured and structured data onto one data platform, an open data platform that is no longer adherent to any proprietary formats and standards, something they can very easily integrate into the rest of their data environment. Apply one common data governance layer on top of that so that from the time they ingest that data to the time they use that data to the time they share that data inside and outside of their organization, they know exactly how it's flowing. They know where it came from, they know who's using it, they know who has access to it, they know how it's changing. And then with that common data platform, with that common governance solution, they'd being able to bring all of those use cases together across their real-time streaming, their data engineering, their BI, their AI, all of their teams working on one set of data. And that lets them move really, really fast, and it also lets them solve challenges they just couldn't solve before. A good example of this, one of the world's now largest data streaming platforms runs on Databricks with AWS. And if you think about what does it take to set that up? Well, they've got all this customer data that was historically inside of data warehouses, that they have to understand who their customers are. They have all this unstructured data, they've built their data science models, they can do the right kinds of recommendation engines and forecasting around. And then they've got all this streaming data going back and forth between clickstream data from what the customers are doing with their platform and the recommendations they want to push back out. And if those teams were all working in individual silos, building these kinds of platforms would be extraordinarily slow and complex. But by building it on Databricks, they were able to release it in record time and have grown at record pace to not be the number one platform. That's impacting product development. Absolutely. I mean, this is like, the difference between lagging months of product development to like days, pretty much what you just got getting at this. So total agility, I got that. Okay, now I'm a customer, I want to buy in the marketplace, but I also, you've got direct sales force out there. So how do you guys look at this? Is there channel conflict? Are there comp programs? Because one of the things I heard today on the stage from AWS's leadership, Chris was up there speaking and Mona, I was, hey, he's the CRO Conference Chief Revenue Officer Conversation, which means someone's getting compensated. So if I'm the sales rep at Databricks, what's my motion to the customer? Do I get paid? Does Amazon sell it? Take us through that. Is there channel conflict? Is there, or not a inlet? Well, I'd add what Joel just talked about with what the solution, the value of the solution. Our entire offering is available on AWS Marketplace. So it's not a subset, it's an entire Databricks offering. And- The flagship, all the top, everything. The flagship, the complete offering. So it's not segmented, it's not a sub-segment, it's, you know, you can use all of our different offerings. Now, when it comes to seller compensation, we view this two different ways, right? One is that AWS is also incented, right? Versus selling a native service to recommend Databricks for the right situation. Same thing with Databricks, our sales force wants to do the right thing for the customer, if the customer wants to use Marketplace as their procurement vehicle. And that really helps customers because if you get Databricks and five other ISVs together, and let's say each ISV is spending, you're spending a million dollars, you have five million dollars of spend, you put that spend through the flywheel with AWS Marketplace, and then you can use that in your negotiations with AWS to get better pricing overall. So that's how we do it. So customers are driving this, sounds like. For sure. So they're looking at this and saying, hey, I'm going to just get purchasing power with all my relationships because it's a solution architectural market, right? Yeah, it makes sense because if most customers will have a primary and secondary cloud provider, if they can consolidate multiple ISVs spend through that same primary provider, you get pricing power. Okay, Joe, we're going to date ourselves, at least I will. So back in the old days, it used to be do a Barney deal with someone, hey, let's go to market together, you got to get paper, you do a BizDev deal, and then you got to say, okay, now let's coordinate our sales teams. A lot of moving parts that we're getting at here is that the alternative for Databricks or any company is to go find those partners and do deals versus now Amazon, it's a center point for the customer. So that you can still do those joint deals, but this seems to be flipping the script a little bit. Well, it is, but we still have VARs and consulting partners that are doing implementation work, very valuable work, advisory work that can actually work with Marketplace through the CPPO offering. So the Marketplace allows multiple ways to procure your solution. So it doesn't change your business structure, it just makes it more efficient? That's correct. That's a great way to say it. That's great. So that's it, so that just makes it more efficient. So you guys are actually incented to point customers to the Marketplace? Yes, absolutely. Economically. Economically, it's the right thing to do for the customer, it's the right thing to do for our relationship with Amazon, especially when it comes back to co-selling, right? Because Amazon now is leaning in with ISVs and making recommendations for an ISV solution. And our teams are working backwards from those use cases to collaborate and land them. Yeah, I want to get that out there. Go ahead, Joel. So one of the other things I might add to that too, and why this is advantageous for companies like Databricks to work through the Marketplace, is it makes it so much easier for customers to deploy a solution. It's very literally one click through the Marketplace to get Databricks set up inside of your environment. And so if you're looking at how do I help customers most rapidly adopt these solutions in the AWS cloud, the Marketplace is a fantastic accelerator to that. You know, it's interesting, I want to bring this up and get your reaction to it because to me, I think this is the future of procurement. So from a procurement standpoint, I mean, again, dating myself, EDI back in the old days, all that craziness. Now this is all the internet, basically through the console. I get the infrastructure side, spin up and provision some servers, all been good. You guys have played well there in the Marketplace. Now as you get into more of what I call the business apps, and they brought this up on stage, a little nuance. Most enterprises aren't yet there of integrating tech on the business apps into the stack. This is where I think you guys are a use case of success where you guys have been successful with data integration. It's an integrator's dilemma, not an innovator's dilemma. So like, I want to integrate. So now I have integration points, Databricks. But I want to put an app in there. I want to provision an application, but it has to be built. It's not, you don't buy it, you've got to build stuff. And this is the nuance. What's your reaction to that? Am I getting this right or am I off? Because no one's going to be buying software like they used to. They buy software to integrate it in. Yeah, no, I think everything's integrated. I think AWS has done a great job at creating a partner ecosystem to give customers the right tools for the right jobs. And those might be with third parties. Databricks is doing the same thing with our Partner Connect program, right? We've got customer partners like FiveTran and DVT that augment and enhance our platform. And so you're looking at multi-ISV architectures and all of that can be procured through the AWS marketplace. Yeah, it's almost like bundling and unbundling. I was talking about this with Dave Vellante about SuperCloud, which is why wouldn't a customer want the best solution in their architecture, period? In its class. If someone's got API security or an API gateway, well, you know, I don't want to be forced to buy something because it's part of a suite. And that's where you see things get suboptimized where someone dominates the category and they have, oh, you got to buy my version of this. Yeah, Joel and I were talking, we were actually saying what's really important about Databricks is that customers control the data. Right, you want to comment on that? Yeah, let's say what you're pushing on there, we think is extraordinarily, you know, the way the market is going to go is that customers want a lot of control over how they build their data stack. And everyone's unique in what tools are the right ones for them. And so one of the, you know, philosophically, I think really strong places Databricks and AWS have lined up is we both take an approach that you should be able to have maximum flexibility on the platform. And as we think about the Lakehouse, one thing we've always been extremely committed to as a company is building the data platform on an open foundation. And we do that primarily through Delta Lake and making sure that to Jack's point with Databricks, the data is always in your control. And then it's always stored in a completely open format. And that is one of the things that's allowed Databricks to have the breadth of integrations that it has with all the other data tools out there because you're not tied into any proprietary format. But instead are able to take advantage of all the innovation that's happening out there in the open source ecosystem. When you see other solutions out there that aren't as open as you got, you guys are very open. By the way, we love that too. We think that's a great strategy. But what's the, what am I foreclosing if I go with something else? That's not as open. What's the customer's downside as you think about what's around the corner in the industry? Because if you believe it's going to be open, open source, which I think open source software is the software industry. And integration is a big deal because software's going to be plentiful. I mean, let's face it, it's a good time to be in the software business. But cloud's booming. So what's the downside from your Databricks perspective? You see a buyer clicking on Databricks versus that alternative, what's potentially is, should they be a nervous about down the road if they go with a more proprietary or locked in approach? Well, I think the challenge with proprietary ecosystems is you become beholden to the ability of that provider to both build relationships and convince other vendors that they should invest in that format. But you're also then beholden to the pace which that provider is able to innovate. And I think we've seen lots of times over history where a proprietary format may run ahead for a while on a lot of innovation. But as that market control begins to solidify, that desire to innovate begins to degrade. Whereas in the open formats- So abstract rents versus innovation. Exactly, exactly. I'll say it. In the open world, you have to continue to innovate. And the open source world is always innovative. If you look at the last 10 to 15 years, I challenge you to find an example where the innovation in the data and AI world is not coming from open source. And so by investing in open ecosystems, that means you are always going to be at the forefront of what is the latest. Again, not to date myself again, but you look back at the 80s and 90s, the protocol stacked for proprietary. SNA.IBM, DECNET was digital, the rest of it. And then TCPIP was part of the open systems interconnect. Revolutionary, obviously Cal had a big part of that as well as my school did. And so like, you know, that was, but it didn't standardize the whole stack and stopped that IP and TCP. But that helped interoperate. That created a nice de facto. So this is a big part of this mid game.   And we're not there at the end game yet in cloud. There's always some form of lock-in, right? Andy Jassy will address it, you know, when making a decision. But if you're going to make a decision, you want to reduce, you don't want to be limited, right? So I would advise a customer that there could be limitations with the proprietary architecture. And if you look at what every customer is trying to become right now is an AI driven business, right? And so it has to do with, can you get that data out of silos? Can you organize it and secure it? And then can you work with data scientists to feed those models in a very consistent manner? And so the tools of tomorrow to Joel's point will be open and we want interoperability with those tools now. And choice is a matter too. I would say that the argument for why I think Amazon is not as locked in as maybe some other clouds is that they have to compete directly too. Redshift competes directly with a lot of other stuff but they can't play the bundling game because the customers are getting savvy to the fact that if you try to bundle an inferior product with something else, it may not work great at all and they're going to be, they're onto it. This is the- This is the- Amazon's credit, by having these solutions that may compete with native services in marketplace, they are providing customers with choice, low price, selection convenience. And access to the core value, which is the hardware, which is their platform. Okay, so I want to get you guys thought on something else I see emerging. This is again kind of cube rumination moment. So on stage, Chris unpacked a lot of stuff. I mean, this marketplace, they're touching a lot of hot buttons here. You know, price and compensation, workflows, services behind the curtain. And one of the things he mentioned was they talked about resellers or channel partners. Depending on what you talk about, we believe, Dave and I believe on a cube, that the entire indirect sales channel of the industry is going to be disrupted radically because those players were selling hardware in the old days in software. That game is going to change. So you mentioned you guys have a program. I want to get your thoughts on this. We believe that once this gets set up, they can play in this game and bring their services in, which means that the old reseller channels are going to be rewritten. They're going to be refactored with this new kind of access. Because you've got scale, you've got money, and you've got product. And you've got customers coming into the marketplace.  You've got to be here. How are you guys working with those partners? Because you say you have a product in your marketplace there. How do I make money if I'm a reseller with Databricks with eight Amazon? Take me through that use case. Well, I'll let Jill comment, but I think it's pretty straightforward, right? Customers need expertise. They need know-how. When we're seeing customers who mass migrations to the cloud or Hadoop specific migrations or data transformation implementations, they need expertise from consulting and SI partners. If those consulting and SI partners happen to resell the solution as well, well, that's another aspect of their business, but I really think it is the expertise that partners bring to help customers get outcomes. Jill, channel big opportunity for Amazon to reimagine this. For sure. And I think, to your comment about how to resellers take advantage of that, I think what Jack was pushing on the spot on, which is it's becoming more and more about the expertise you bring to the table. And not just transacting the software, but now actually helping customers make the right choices. And we're seeing, you know, both SI's begin to be able to resell solutions and finding a lot of opportunity in that. And I think we're seeing traditional resellers begin to move into that SI model as well. And that's going to be the evolution that this goes. At the end of the day, it's about services, right? For sure. Yeah, for sure. If you got a great service, you're going to have high gross profits. The managed service provider business is alive and well, right, because there are a number of customers that want that type of a service. I think that's going to be a really hot, hot button for you guys. I think being the way you guys are open, this channel, partner services model coming in to the fold really kind of makes for that super cloud-like experience where you guys now have an ecosystem, and that's my next question. You guys have an ecosystem going on within Databricks. For sure. On top of this ecosystem, how does that work? This is kind of like, hasn't been written up in business school and case studies yet. This isn't new. What is this? I think, you know, what it comes down to is you're seeing ecosystems begin to evolve around the data platforms, and that's going to be one of the big kind of new horizons for us as we think about what drives ecosystems. It's going to be around, well, what is the, what's the data platform that I'm using? And then all the tools that have to encircle that to get my business done. And so I think there's, you know, absolutely ecosystems inside of the AWS business on all of AWS's services across data analytics and AI. And then to your point, you are seeing ecosystems now arise around Databricks and its lake house platform as well as customers are looking at, well, if I'm standing these lake houses up and I'm beginning to invest in this, then I need a whole set of tools that help me get that done as well. I mean, you think about ecosystem theory, we're living a whole nother dream. And I'm not kidding, it hasn't yet been written up in business school case studies is that we're now in a whole nother connective tissue ecology thing happening where you have dependencies and value proposition, economics, connectedness. So you have relationships in these ecosystems. And I think one of the great things about relationships of these ecosystems is that there's a high degree of overlap. So you're seeing that, you know, the way that the cloud business is evolving, the ecosystem partners of Databricks are the same ecosystem partners of AWS. And so as you build these platforms out into the cloud, you're able to really take advantage of Best of Breed, the broadest set of solutions out there for you. Joel, Jack, I love it because you know what it means? The best ecosystem will win if you keep it open. You can see everything. If you're going to do it in the dark, you know, you don't know the outcome. I mean, this is really kind of what we're talking about. And John, can I just add that when I was at Amazon, we had a theory that there's buyers and builders, right? There's very innovative companies that want to build things themselves. We're seeing now that builders want to buy a platform, right? And so there's a platform decision being made and that ecosystem is going to evolve around the platform. It's great. I totally agree. And the word innovation kicks around. That's why, you know, when we had our super cloud panel, it was called the Innovator's Dilemma, with a slash through it called the Integrator's Dilemma. Innovation is the digital transformation. So that becomes cliche in a way, but it really becomes more of are you open? Are you integrating? If APIs are now connective tissue, what's automation? What's the service measures look like? I mean, a whole nother set of kind of thinking goes on in these new ecosystems and these new products. And that thinking has been born in Delta sharing, right? So the idea that you can have a multi-cloud implementation of data breaks and actually share data between those two different clouds. That is the next layer on top of the native cloud solution. Well, Databricks has done a good job of building on top of the goodness of, and the cap X gift from AWS. But you guys have done a great job of taking that building differentiation to the product. You guys have great customer base, great growing ecosystem. And again, I think in a shining example of what every enterprise is going to do, build on top of something, operating model, get that operating model, driving revenue. Whether you're Goldman Sachs or Capital One or XYZ Corporation. S&P Global, NASDAQ, right? We've got these, the biggest verticals in the world are solving tough problems with Databricks. I think we'd be remiss, because if Ali was here, he would really want to thank Amazon for all of the investments across all of the different functions, whether it's the relationship we have with our engineering and service teams, our marketing teams, product development. And we're going to be at re-invent, the big presence of re-invent. We're looking forward to seeing you there again. We'll see you guys there. Yeah, again, good ecosystem. I love the ecosystem, evolution's happening. This next gen cloud is here. We're seeing this evolve. Kind of new economics, new value proposition is kind of scaling up, producing more. So you guys are doing a great job. Thanks for coming on theCUBE and taking time to see you. Thanks for having us, John. Okay, CUBE Coverage here. The world's changing as APN comes to give the marketplace for a new partner organization at Amazon Web Services. CUBE's got it covered. This should be a very big growing ecosystem as this continues. Billions of being sold through the marketplace. Of course, the buyers are happy as well. So we've got it all covered. I'm John Furrier, your host of theCUBE. Thanks for watching.


Hey friends in happy Memorial Day. We are hanging out at the Magic Kingdom We're gonna be meeting up with some friends and riding some rides And then I want to see about going to rent a pontoon boat to drive it around 7 C's Lagoon because I feel like that's a very Memorial Day thing to do and Capping off the night to head over to Epcot and enjoy a little extended hours I feel like today is gonna be a beautiful Memorial Day in Disney any hoos. Let's go do this It is such a beautiful Memorial Day today. Look at this the temperature is perfect out There's a little wind and I'm just excited to enjoy the day I've been having a wonderful Memorial Day weekend in general the other day We went to H2O glow nights at Typhoon Lagoon and that was amazing and we're just gonna continue on having fun Another fun thing that I'm gonna be doing today is testing out one of these cool fancy neck fans I've never worn them in the park like for you know a whole entire day So it's fun to see you know how it works if it keeps me cool or not It is very hot out today and Memorial Day is like the perfect test day So I'll let you guys know how it works This is the type of fan that I got and it kind of just blows the air up right there But I feel like it being hot outside all it is is blowing hot air But I'm gonna give it a go wear it for a little bit and if it fits it works Like I said in the beginning I really want to see if I can rent out a pontoon boat and drive it around seven seas lagoon That's one of my favorite things to do with the resort that a lot of people don't know about and because me and my friends Have a deluxe resort we get the extended evening hours at Epcot tonight So I think the park was at nine and we get it from nine to eleven and I'm intrigued to see if guardians of the Galaxy is included in that I don't know but we're gonna find out I Think we're gonna make our way towards tomorrow land and hop on the people mover But look at those crystal blue skies like this is a beautiful day at Magic Kingdom today Wow, it doesn't look like there's anybody waiting for the people mover. How lucky are we? Honestly, I'm kind of shocked because I thought it was gonna be super busy on Memorial Day Look, but look at this. There's not even a single person waiting in line to get on the people mover You just walk right on that is crazy Any holidays tend to be busy like, you know, we may not well Disney World and Memorial Day has always been like a busy day here So I'm kind of shocked at the first ride. We've come upon it has basically a walk on. Oh We got the front seat of the people mover fancy I'm hanging out with my friends ready to do a little Little people moving on Memorial Day You know There you go, I Love doing the front seat because you get this kind of beautiful view as you're going through look at that It's the best time right here And of course you always got to get that beautiful castle shop look at that isn't she a beaut Clark You guys are really trying to get away Really trying to get away. Hello.  We're gonna get it right here. Yep. These are our friends. These are our fellow people movers Hi friends Hello one way there we go Look at all the yacht club carpets down there That's so funny. I mean they're getting ready. This is basically I mean they're getting the railroad back together We're getting the railroad back together, but it was so funny that they're using yacht club carpets Looks like we're coming to an end here Coming in slow actually though. It's so funny because usually we're coming in hot But nice and slow is the way I like it. I Do have to say riding the people mover with this little fan when you went into space mountain all it was doing was pushing AC up and that felt amazing like that felt so good Well, it actually looks like this might be my shortest trip to Magic Kingdom yet so we're gonna actually make our way over to the contemporary and See about a boat. I Was just reading about the pontoon boats themselves and I noticed that they stopped selling out They stopped renting them out at five o'clock So I was just like oh wow we better head over there now because I want to make sure we have plenty of time to enjoy it And it is a really fun thing to do for Memorial Day, and I'll go over the details But we're gonna walk over to the contemporary resort now, and that's what we're gonna rent the boat out of And joining up with us now is Serena ray. Oh look at that That was very fancy. You're gonna come with us on the boat, right? We're gonna go boating I really hope we get over there. They let us out because we're cutting time a little little close, but Five o'clock it ends. We'll make it. It's like 3 30, right? I mean I only want to go off for like a half an hour, and I think it's $45 per half an hour So it's gonna be fun. Oh, yeah, not gonna stay cool Also, I do want to point out earlier. I was talking about the extra magic hours for Epcot later on tonight That's for deluxe resort guests only and I didn't know if Guardians of the Galaxy was included in it or not And I just found out that they have a separate voting group for those special hours, and it goes off at 6 p.m So technically and like like you could ride Guardians three times in one day if you wanted to you can wake up at 7 a.m Buy a lightning lane, then you can join the one o'clock voting group And I think you get that extra six o'clock voting group if you have the extra magic hours But I'm not too sure about that, but that would be kind of crazy You know what I mean? So we're gonna try to join the six o'clock voting group so that we can ride later on tonight On the way out we get to say goodbye to some friends though. Look at this look at Minnie It is a great day Hi, you found look at Jenna Lars. They love them and they have the best 50th anniversary outfit on right now Look at that. Look at her dress It should only take us like I'm maybe two minutes to get over to the The boat rental spot here at the contemporary and it's a nice little walk, especially when you got a fan like that. Oh I see I like it do it again Like I Think we might be in luck We might have made it just in time and it's gonna be fun to drive a boat right up to Cinderella Castle and over to Discovery Island you guys I've done videos in the past about this But it's still one of my favorite things and like I said if it's perfect for Memorial Day And here it is. This is where you want to come and get your boat at at the boat nook And here's all the prices. It's $45 per 30 minutes and then also the firework cruise Starting at 399, but that's something a little bit special. I've done it before with Garrett actually and Yeah, we're just gonna rent it go out and explore a little bit and it's up to 10 people too. So that's really amazing All right, it's time to head out to our boat. We had to sign a little contract We got ourselves. Well, you don't have to sign a contract. You just have to sign an agreement.  There's our boats the Sun trackers the pontoons Isn't so cool to be out here though. I love it We're all gonna try to drive a little bit so I'll go over the driving details But I think I'm gonna start and back it out. So I'm taking the captain seat here Holy moly don't sit on the hot seat though Here is a look at the captain's seat got a little map over here that tells you all the places that you can go the places You can't go the no wig zone the restricted zone It's really cool because over here Cinderella Castle and Fort Wilderness resort comes a little Bluetooth stereo And you have to put your little bracelet on and it's really easy to drive You don't need a special license or anything. Anybody can do it. Anybody can be a pilot There is some age restrictions though, and I'm excited. We're ready I'm gonna start you guys up for 35. Okay. Thank you. Bye Look at that view right there though. Look at the contemporary Bay Lake. It's so nice Look at the monorail going by right now. Look at that. It's so amazing I love doing this and now we're coming up on a slow no wake area. So we're gonna use idle speed double monorail And there it is Cinderella Castle the Magic Kingdom. You can see the train station. I Love it, and this is the ferry boat area right here They have the right-of-way so when you're out on the lake here all of the Transportation has a right-of-way you have to move and yield to them But I love it. You can just stop and hang out here and just stare at the castle all you want We switched out look at new captain. We got a new captain in the seat It's just like driving a car right Yeah, look at that up there. She's relaxing We're coming up on what used to be river country now It's all demolished like you see these trees right here, but right on the other side of those trees It's basically just flat land. You can see it actually you can see construction because that's gonna be well What was gonna be the new DVC resort?  They throw their shoes in the tree I always want to point it out Yeah, it does look like a new pair up there All right, we're switching seats again Captain change You did a good job you did a good job But wow look at that you you put us in a such a great spot. I do it. I can't well. I love it All right, it's time to head back in and it's gonna be my favorite part because I like to try to park it Without bumping the side, so I try to make it perfect. So we're gonna see if we can do it kind of like operation One last look though at Bay Lake Tower. It's so cool seeing it this way, but you know what I mean? It's just such a unique perspective What do you guys think wasn't that so fun? Yeah, it's great nice little Memorial Day activity there and it only cost us probably $40 for all of us like that's it Everybody all day. It's up to 10 people. So 40 bucks well spent Now that we got the boating business taking care of a quick stop in the steakhouse 71 to grab a bite I think we're just gonna go right up to the lounge area and see what they have on the menu and just relax before We eventually make our way over to the boardwalk and into Epcot. I Think I'm gonna get myself the stack burger a lot of people say this is the best burger on property I've had it before it's pretty good comes a little portfolio on there And I think Serena is actually gonna get a load of mac and cheese. So I'm excited to see what she thinks of that I'm not the biggest fan of the mac and cheese. I think you guys know that already. Oh you but she loves it, but Not so much Here is our food. Here's the mac and cheese. That looks really good Then looks like they top it with like some breadcrumbs.  So we're gonna dive in. I mean, we're gonna enjoy How's the mac and cheese good? It's good. Yeah That's the way Really Oh has jalapenos in it. Yeah, I didn't notice that before Now I want to try the onion rings. I don't think I've ever had the onion rings here before so I'm excited to give them a go The onion rings have a really amazing breading very crispy and very flaky Definitely unique because sometimes I don't like getting on your rings because I feel like they're all the same On top of the onion rings to give you french fries little waffle. Well, they're Parmesan waffle fries That come as a side with the burger and these are so amazing. I love these. These are so good And I kind of like they cost everyone. I like that they have two separate menus So they have a lounge menu and then they have a dinner menu and I found out when you sit in the little room here You can have them both you can order dinner out here. They said and I thought that was cool So I can have a prime rib if I want it Also, I don't know if you can hear it, but it has an amazing soundtrack over here Like it's just so cool and the furniture and everything Now it's time for the burger business and I'm so excited like I said, I love this burger.  The bun is phenomenal I just like come in and eating here at Steakhouse 71 though But sometimes a little hard to eat in this room and this like little table like look at how you have it right there, right? It's like but it's kind of cool because it's like you're eating in the living room We have successfully made it through the stack burger and we're moving on to the Steakhouse 71 cake and look at this precious beauty. Isn't this amazing? It's got 15 layers because each layer is supposed to represent a level on the contemporary And it is such a beautiful cake. I'm gonna try to pick it up without dropping it. Look at that. Are you excited? Look at that picture. Oh, yeah All right, we're gonna cut right down like this We're gonna ruin it. Oh, it's like it cuts so easy though. Whoo. We lost the top three layers Here we go, I can't wait to dive into I got a little bit of that raspberry sauce in there Oh, I lost a layer. I lost the level, but we're going in That is good cake No word yet when the top of the world lounge is gonna open up here at the Bay Lake Tower So this is the closest you're gonna get to the cake that was up there and it's good like it's a really really good cake I'm afraid I'm gonna lose it one day. It's just gonna topple over though So I'm trying to shave it from the side. My favorite thing is just mixing it with this jam down here this raspberry That is such a great combination Well steakhouse 71 was exceptional like always and now it's time to make our way over to Epcot And it is so beautiful out like this is like a wonderful memorial day. I have to say Since we have a room here at the boardwalk. I parked underneath the skyliner and look at this Isn't it so fancy and we're gonna be able to walk into Epcot And that's how we were able to get the guardians of the galaxy boarding group because they have that special boarding group And we were successful at joining it and it wasn't hard at all It didn't go away like the normal ones But it only pops up and appears with people that are had like people that have a deluxe resort reservation So that was really interesting And the boarding groups like the way that you join it was the same exact way that you would join any other boarding groups Except for it pops up and gives you the option to join it when you have that deluxe reservation on your my Disney experience app And it's kind of crazy like I'm pretty sure now I didn't join any other boarding groups today So I don't know for sure But I'm pretty sure if you wanted to ride guardians three times you can do it by basically spending a lot of money Like I mean there's always you know I mean there's always that free option But it's not a guarantee But it seems to be if you're staying at a resort then you're almost guaranteed that you're gonna be able to ride guardians Whether it be by a $17 lightning lane or be able to join a six o'clock boarding group for extended hour evening hours So I mean it's good to know that there is an option, but I feel like it should be something free for all You know I mean everyone should be able to do it and I feel bad that a lot of families Don't get the opportunity to do it like rise of the resistance wise, but this is just for the opening like phase I feel like the guardians boarding groups and the virtual queue will eventually disappear like all the other ones This has been such an eventful memorial day for me already First Magic Kingdom then driving boats on Bay Lake a little lunch at steakhouse 71 And now the boardwalk and then the Epcot like wow, I'm very happy. This has been great Before we make our way over to Epcot I wanted to show you something cool because we have a club level room here at the boardwalk So I thought about swinging up there a club level to show you guys what it's like and maybe grab a beverage You know you mean they're free so much. We'll grab one there to enjoy it, then you know pay for it in the park And this is the entrance for the Innkeepers Club And it's so cool because it's got like a little door there So you have to actually scan your your room key for it to open. Whoo. Look at that Isn't that so cool very nifty. Oh Wow, this is really nice. Look at this. I've never seen this up here before This is so cool and nifty. Hi, how are you?   Not too shabby, huh? One of my favorite things is the Mickey shaped sugars. Look at this They are they make me so happy Look at that. I love getting to refill them And what's this brown sugar ones right maybe even like brown sugar little Mickey's They're gonna put a couple of those in my purse. I Grabbed myself a Michelob ultra. I thought about grabbing the good old Bud light You know because I fancy it but I wanted to be a little little fancier You know the club level and it's so nice. They're setting up for the desserts right now They just got done having dinner and they said this is all included in the price of your room when you say club level and Inside the for the entrees. They had salmon chicken bow buns chicken Alfredo a lot of amazing items They can just come and grab and they have breakfast and snack time and now it's dessert time So we're gonna check those out once they get done setting up, but now I just want to kind of enjoy the view here Sit my Michelob ultra Here is a look at the desserts that they have for tonight. They have French style macarons They have chocolate mousse raspberry tarts a berry mini yogurt trice a 50th anniversary lemon meringue pie Some seasonal Mickey fruits and then of course the corduorals the corduorals Grand Marnay Bailey's Frangelica Kahlua all the good stuff Now that we checked out the club level we have to get moving to Epcot and it's a beautiful night for the boardwalk Look at this. We got some boardwalk performances happening at the moment and it's just so beautiful out right now Seriously, look at we're gonna have an amazing sunset Also, I don't know if I mentioned the amazing Captain America Roosevelt shirt that I'm wearing check this out. Look at that I thought it was the perfect shirt to wear for Memorial Day But it's also a perfect shirt to wear for the 4th of July and I love it and also right now It's like golden hour. So picture taking is a must But here we are we made it to Epcot I love coming in the international gateway side because it's so beautiful over here Between the skyliner and then the Eiffel Tower. I just it's gorgeous and the sunset happening right now. I Just spoke to somebody that's also here for the extra evening hours And they said that they got their boarding group at six o'clock They forgot about it and they went in at 6 o'clock 603 so three minutes after the six o'clock start and they were still able to obtain a boarding group That means that there are plenty of them available Especially for anyone that's staying at the deluxe resorts, but like like I said in the beginning I feel like if you come to a park you should be guaranteed to get on the ride You know what I mean?  I mean unless they don't like waiting in line But I would rather just wait it out knowing the fact that I can ride it I'm glad that rise of the resistance is back to a standby line and guardians It's just gonna be like this temporarily until the crowd die down And I think maybe we'll see the end of it in general like maybe it will all be gone. No more virtual cues Oh my lord as I'm making my way in the UK Pavilion I hear a band in the back here where like Mary Poppins used to meet at the gazebo and British Revolution used to be here. I think that's the name of the band. So that's so cool. They brought live music back Oh, I'm so pumped Be good music on Memorial Day and a trip to the United Kingdom is incomplete unless we're going over to the Rosencrown Thank you. I love you too Definitely looks like a packed house though, but it's still cool that you get to just walk in and I'm pretty sure you can Stand in here again. So you don't have to just grab and go again. Oh Yeah, you can just sit in here and just chill out in the AC And I think a good little Memorial Day drink is gonna be the Welsh dragon Look at this fancy thing comes with peach, schnapps, melon, liqueur, creme de ment, orange juice and pineapple juice Not too shabby. I May have just gotten this drink just because of its greenish colors And I kind of felt like it was like a good Memorial Day drink and it's really good I've had it before but I don't remember it being this good like it's refreshing It looks like Harmonious is about to go off and the park is gonna close at nine o'clock and We just got our boarding group called to actually go ride Guardians of the Galaxy. How crazy is that? Oh, yeah It's 855 so the park is gonna close in five minutes Everyone's gonna be watching the fireworks and I think we're gonna be on Guardians We're probably not gonna have time to watch the whole show, but at least we can catch the go the distance part Which is my favorite Only do we get to do Guardians, but we're gonna be able to go ride all the other rides here with almost no wait So it's really cool to do these extra evening hours and their boarding groups 158 to 178 for Guardians So that's not a lot because opening day they got up to the 200 so they must have had a down moment today This is actually my first time being back here at night. So it's so fancy. Are you excited? Oh, super What song do you want? I want Blondie one way or another Blondie What about you? But I want tears for fear is because I love it. I love it Yeah, all right, I guess I want something different too And we're just heading in This is so awesome the way that they have this There is no line look at this we're just walking right on This is kind of how it was for the Regular boarding groups though. So I like it. It's good to know, right? I feel like I've written this enough that I don't need to film the whole entire ride Instead, maybe I'll just do a little pov showing myself I'm gonna have to take this precious baby off I'm bald Lars laughs at that joke every time every time You got your hair up By air well one I look like the happiest kid in the entire world like I just woke up to like that Remember that end Nintendo video from like America's place on video where the kid finally got to Nintendo. Oh, yeah Oh, that's too good Oh boy This So much fun I love that ride and like I said, I have to film and also I did like a little Front-facing pov if you guys want to see like full rides I put up two videos already about this ride today It was just the luck of thing being here for the the luxe resort extra extended evening hours Now we're gonna ride some more rides and just enjoy Now we're gonna make our way up front to the park I'm so excited every time I see spaceship berth lit up though. Look at that Isn't she a butte? Isn't she a butte clerk? I think that's I think that's the second time I said that in this vlog Real nice Also, I did speak to multiple people that said they got three Rides today they bought a lightning lane They got a 7 a.m boarding group and then they also got the 6 o'clock boarding group So there is a possibility to do it if you wanted to How they tell other people are actually deluxe resort guests is you have to scan your magic band when you want to go ride Thank you Oh There we go This is a pretty cool spot to actually uh stop on the ride Just watch them pound weeds fat papaya Papias I don't think he's actually uh pounding anything there Now we're gonna go from spaceship berth over to soren So we're gonna make it uh probably our last ride of the night. It doesn't think I don't think there's a long wait at all Looks like it's a 20 minute wait stepping that box Oh, oh you're clever you Nice It said 20 minutes, but it was just a walk on so we got lucky there. Hi, how are you? Look at that Very fancy. Oh, wait a second. It is just a walk on There's not even anybody in line But there's not even a single person in line This is great. Make sure we ask for b1. Yes The only way to go b1 b1 that's the way Nice work pal Look at lars' socks Love it And with that, I think we are done here today. What a very epic memorial day I had so much fun going around now we park hopped got to drive a boat got to have some lunch Seriously, could you I I don't think I could have asked for a better memorial day So I hope you guys enjoyed the video. I enjoyed making it. We'll see you next time Bye Oh, Gracie Where are you? Gracie girl, where are you? I have a new friend for you to meet There she is. Woo. I got a friend for you Say hello to Groot your new friend Groot Say hello Groot You don't like Groot? No


So someone's frustrated in a relationship, lack of confidence, self-sabotage, fear, ego issues, and jealousy. Okay, Virgo, let's see what's going on here. So this chaser, definitely a chaser, could be lacking confidence, has a lot of fear. Remember there was abandonment issues, maybe some jealousy, they don't feel good enough. Oh, okay, two cups reversed. Wow, that's a breakup separation. Somebody might have gone through something, could have been with you, there might have been a breakup. This person's tremendously restless if there was a breakup. It could have been with you, it could have been with somebody else. But even with that four of swords in the reverse, the person is just, they're not at peace. They have a lot of anxiety but they're ready to act. And that could be this person, ready to act towards you. This person, it could be a Virgo, Taurus, or Capricorn. This person wants you to be greedy for them. They don't have a lot of faith in some relationship of some sort, whether you meet them new or you're already dealing with this. They have a lot of faith that this is going to work out for some reason. I feel like this person wants you to, I don't, I feel like they don't want, they don't want to have a breakup with you. They don't want you, they want you to be like super super excited about them and always want to talk to them and that kind of thing. Which is odd, but it comes from their anxiety. They kind of picture like if you were, if you are always reaching out and searching for them and chasing them in return, then to them, that makes them feel like, or they think that that is, then you must want them, right?  You can't go to extremes. Let me see. Wow, my card is showing up in the reverse, the emperor in the reverse. You have a narc on your hands. Someone's very narcissistic, or at least if they're not that, Aries energy in the reverse, temper tantrum, expect to have their own way.  Just maybe even like an, like just a big ego as well. Okay. Why isn't Virgo like chasing me? Like I'm chasing them. There's a bit of like an immaturity showing up here. This person doesn't seem to be, you know, just kind of mature. Let me just get a couple more cards here. See what's going on with this emperor. Okay. All right. All right. Definitely you could be dealing with someone who's just very old about themselves. So keep that like that's why they don't feel like enough. It's crazy, right? Maybe like an oxymoron, like someone who's always about themselves. You would think they would always think that they were good enough, but it's because they don't think that they're good enough that they think that they are. Does that make any sense? Hopefully. It's the insecurity. It's like a false sense of self going on with this person. Okay. Now, I don't know if it's related to that. It could be that chase their energy. But even with the five of wands in the reverse, this just kind of gives me a sense of. This person is trying to resolve the problem that they have within themselves of being insecure or not feeling good enough by, if they know that you are more into them, then that kind of fulfills up their ego hole, I guess to say. Their ego hole. Okay. Yeah. Even the six of wands in the reverse. It's just, it's just all, it's the same. They lack the confidence. They come across as an emperor, but they lack of this, this actual confidence within them. You know, and for some, it's not an arc.  And it's like, no matter how much, no matter how many jars of good, beautiful sparkles you pour into that hole of emptiness, it just comes out the other end. Like it's a never, it's an, it's a unfulfilled prophecy with this person until they start accepting themselves and just saying, Hey, wait, I am good enough until they seal up that hole and fill themselves up with those beautiful sparkles. This person, they kind of try to, it looks like everybody around them that has good sparkles gives them good sparkles. They can't create their own. That's what I'm saying. What's going on with the sparkles? All right, let me say what else is going on. King of cups in the reverse. Okay. Cancer Scorpio Pisces. Page of cups in the reverse. Yeah. All reversals here. And the Six of Swords. So the King of cups in the reverse is pretty much like emotional manipulator. Even the page of cups in the reverse as well is just someone who's very immature in their communication. And with the Six of Swords in the reverse, this is basically just someone who's unable. Like they, they think they're stuck. You know what I mean? They're unable to like take a risk here. Very low on the confidence level. This person is just really low on the confidence level. They can't seem to, everybody else has to be like structured around them and then they feel structured. If everyone around them is structured and like a safe, like a safe place, everyone around them, then they feel safe. But if all their safe places are gone and they're not tethered or grounded, then they're a mess. Does that make sense?  Because I feel like this person needs your energy. Is that like a vampire, energy vampire or something? I feel like this person, it's sad because it's really hard, but it's really important to gain that self-esteem and self-confidence. You know, it's really, really important. Like you have to be your own lighthouse in the world. You know, it can't depend on other people to provide all of your safety. You have to rely on yourself because people make mistakes. People are not, you know, people are fallible, fallible, fallible. People, it's just human nature. Like, and regarding yourself making yourself your own safety net, it's like either God or spirit or just within you to rely on, you know, having faith. And I feel like this person, they rely on you. Okay? And especially if this is someone new with the Ace of Cups over there, that's something you need to pay attention to going forward. No one can be everybody's lighthouse, you know what I mean? That's kind of how I feel with this energy. And it doesn't mean to say, so, you know, when we say this should resonate, it should only resonate if this is happening to you or if you come across this energy and it starts happening to you. Don't put the energy on someone.  You know what I mean? Yeah, this person is passive. They're so passive to the point. They've been stuck before and they haven't really, they kind of, I almost want to say they've been stuck in their lack of faith. Virgo, all I can tell you is about you.  So, you know, perhaps all the good you do will rub off on them. And hopefully this person will be able to take some of that and actually fill themselves up and let it stay, you know, so that they have, so that they start coming from a place of wholeness. I don't feel like this person feels whole and they won't feel whole without you. But hopefully, like even with the hanged man, this is kind of getting a different perspective and saying, you know what? You might teach this person that or you might just, that energy might rub off on you even with the six of pentacles in the reverse. I'm sorry, the five, because that's an energy of being like, that's like recovery, like getting hope returns and seeing things from a different perspective. Excuse me. And even with the hanged man in reverse, like that's a very spiritual card for me. It's a very faith-based card for me. Excuse me. You don't have to be religious person. You could be agnostic or believe in something greater than yourself. This person, if I always say if you're not believing in a power greater than yourself, then you're making yourself the power. And I'm not a big fan of that idea, although I get it why people do it. But I think having a sense of humility can really restore a faith. If that makes any sense, maybe it doesn't. I don't know with you guys, but let me see. I just want to get, I'm going to pull two Chinese sons here. Okay. Near of the monkey and near of the rat. Okay, that might be you. Could be your person. It's going to be neither of you. Don't sweat it. All right. Let's see. Oh, okay. That fell. So someone is 58. We have the letter T, August 31st. They're giving me a Taurus. You could be connecting with a Taurus. Another zodiac sign, Libra. Okay. Someone's born in January and we do have 52 or 53 age or year. I just want to get one more. Give me a September birthday. September 7th. Okay. September 7th. This could be for you. You also have two hearts here. So what is happening? Dropping stuff. So you've got two heart, two intertwined hearts. So this could be like a twin flame thing that's very difficult to deal with. It doesn't feel like a soulmate. It feels more like, like the difficult twin flame kind of relationship, you know? Because the reason I say that, and not that I need to explain myself, but when I turn the hearts upside down, they look like flames that are intertwined. So I do kind of feel like that energy is playing out where one hasn't risen exactly yet.  I'm not telling you to take on projects and people. I'm not. Just be who you are. Let your glow shine. Don't ever subdue it because someone doesn't feel good about themselves. You know, you don't want to lower yourself to make someone feel better about themselves. You can give off the good energy and the good vibes, and that tends to help people want to kind of be better, be better people, or be a better person, you know? Lowering yourself to meet them does not help them. So if you're truly that Virgo that wants to help someone, whether it's a friend or family member, a twin flame lover, whatever, stay the core of who you are, be true to yourself. That's the strongest message I have there.