Hello wrestling fans and welcome to historic Fenway Park for wrestling all stars of New England brought to you by Bell Time Club and Dante Luna. My name is Drew Kizu. I am joined at this time by Joey Business and the one and only the benevolent intelligent extravagant and eloquent Donnie wonderful aka tall on I would like to say I could have said that couldn't have said it better myself but I think that I might have been able to. I highly doubt that Drew Kizu can all dream guys ready you guys ready for some wrestle and action today. What we got eight woman tag match eight woman tag match calm down Mr. Business it's a wrestling we're talking about. It has Chris Matthews say I'm getting a tingle up my leg it's really tough to contain. Oh man Dennis gracious we're going to need you to exercise and self control Mr. Business these women here tip top athletes tip top shape I can't wait for this to be. Wonderful that's what my lawyer is for but here we go now here we got Mr. Spellman on the outside this is going to be quite a contest you've got a lot of talented ladies here they are absolutely going to go hog on this I want to see it because not only is this historic but we have women's wrestling in Fenway Park not just men's wrestling women's wrestling Mr. Spellman now look at this now we've got the handshakes you extended the hit oh hey another extension of a different kind I'm not going to disagree with that rebuttal there much to the pleasure of the young men here ringside. Mr. Business are you watching the match or something else do we even have to answer that question but here we go Mr. Spell oh kick in the gut see that's what good sportsman gets you that's what good sportsmanship gets you that's what I'm trying to do how many I got how many handshakes actually end up look at that vicious kick to the back of Mr. Spellman with authority with authority standing it up folks any any wrestling wrestling fan knows that Mr. Spellman can withstand punishment I've seen her go through tables I've seen her land look at that one not not not not sleeping on that one count that's all you're gonna get well being true to what you just advertised she's taking a lot of punishment in the opening seconds of this match absolutely right off the turnbuckle here Samuels put the boots right to the throat a little bit of superiority there I'm not gonna say that I'm not digging this as we see manager Joey Danucci on the outside shouting instructions to his ladies he's definitely ready for this contest today.  What sending her for the ride off the turnbuckle no reversal into the turnbuckle and would you look at referee Rob Tunnel he's always in the women's match goodness gracious guys I gotta tell you Joey Danucci looks great today what do you think pretty good pretty good like I gotta say it's not exactly where my focus is guys I know the fans are enjoying this action thus far but goodness gracious referee Rob Tunnel has to be enjoying it more look at look at his face. Delmi Exo and Tequila Rose now mixing it up in the middle of the ring. Tequila Rose quite a fan favorite and I gotta say quite a favorite of mine. Delmi Exo saying bring it up what did you say this Tequila Rose would get what nothing to do with you trust me. I'm squatting at invisible flies there. Oh my goodness. She's calling a shot much like the babe. Boom. Down she goes.  The control bringing her to the corner. That canvas is very unforgivable. Slap down head first that could be the end of the match and your career. No matter how many other teammates you have you headed canvas like that could be all she wrote as Delmi Exo. Trying to take a breathe here we see Joey Danucci at ringside again I really like the jacket I think Danucci looks great. Might I point out again referee Rob Tunnel looks very very very uncomfortable look at his shirts untucked what's going on. I don't know but Tequila Rose goes down hard why don't we call the action one two not enough not enough. Not enough Tequila Rose's got to reach into the tank here and seeking a tax I think you both are in one right now. Now folks let's not forget now that Delmi Exo is actually not of this planet. Folks aren't really sure where she's from somewhere out of space alien. If aliens look like that they can evade us tomorrow. Absolutely. As a matter of fact it could be amongst us right now. One two. Oh no it was was a three count see that's what happens when we're distracted folks but three got in she's gone. And that is it that's the one two three Sammy Lane now hey Megan has been eliminated from this matchup. Oh beautiful takedown there by Mistress Belmont. It's not unexpected Belmont is quite the better. It's the mean look at the mean street right there as she just slams the head of. Beautiful hair top. He picks it into the canvas. Very authority in the ring. You have to be that way that's ruthless aggression that's who's gonna win her the match her team the match. I gotta agree with you though Mr. Wonderful the ref shirt is getting more untucked as we go. I'm absolutely noticing that myself. I can guarantee you that's very intentional. Referee's worldwide untucked their shirts so as to maneuver about the ring more easily any wrestling fan knows that as we see Davie and out the handful of hair and just slams the veteran Vanity Vixen into the mat. Here we go with a cover one. Nope not enough not enough just a one count just a one count going for the waist lock. She's got her little bit of the dominant position. And there we go. We see the reversal of Vanity Vixen a 10 year. Hey look at this. We see some switch my name to Paul Pondorf 10 year veteran of the squared circle now Vanity Vixen. Oh and she takes a vicious clothesline from Davie in here. Down on the bat. Let's see. I can tell you I don't know which one I'm more impressed with the action or the other action. The action or the action as we see Vanity Vixen now draped over the middle rope. And she's taking a spanking. She is taking earmuffs and dark glasses. Chins spanking earmuffs and dark glasses as we see the alien Domi so stepping into the ring now missed. Oh Davie and ducks the clothesline got one of her own short arm clothesline with authority. Here we go. I don't know it looks like both have the same idea and a suplex or she's going for the cover one to not enough not enough not even one. That was a two count because you watch the tape. But unbelievable. I mean folks the fan what do you mean tell us. We're dying to know the fans here at Fenway treated to some fantastic wrestling action here today folks. Feeling of history in the air. When was the when was the last time there was professional wrestling here at Fenway. Do you guys want to. I got to say fans at home if you're watching and you wonder why Drew Kazoo so on top of this is because he shares the same chromosome is everyone in that ring right now. Oh if that's a hit below the belt Lord knows what's there. One. Nope not quite.  Sixty nine. Unbelievable. That's all. Kazoo. That was the year that the last is the one. What are you guys thinking. Let's call the last those wrestling here. What are you talking about. All right. As we see Davie and now and Delmi XO. Delmi XO is got quite interesting strategy. Yeah well it works. She actually took her down Davian and a forearm to the face. And there's another vicious right hand now.  What's that feel like. It rattles the brain. A right shot to the temple could definitely end a boxing belt and it can do definitely a lot of damage here in the wrestling ring. Definitely no trainer of many a boxer here. Donnie wonderful. Oh absolutely. And what I can tell you the endurance of these ladies and these men with this card promoted by bell time wrestling. The bell time club has been great. These guys look great. These guys look great. This match is excellent. The endurance of these men is a ref in there. You are Paul Porn d'Or. Absolutely. You know there is a wrestling match between eight fantastic athletes going on in the middle of the ring. I don't know if you're aware of that. Okay well let's see here we've got Davian and Vanity Vixen. Look at this. One, two. That's a three count. That was a three count. A handful of tights there. Did you see that. Vanity Vixen the veteran who's got a handful of tights and that sends Davian back to the dressing room. Oh and look at this she's gloating now. What a dancing contest. Look at this. That the victory dance. Oh wait a minute. Hold on. Hips don't lie. Definitely not. There's a lot of pelvic thrust movement there. Rob Tunnel has to be very, look at him. He's very very uncomfortable. By the looks of Mr. Business over there. Tunnel's not the only one who's uncomfortable. Take it easy business. Geez. All right. Look at. Settle down gentlemen. Settle down. Vanity Vixen now in full control. Well Tequila Rose. I mean this is supposed to be a family show folks. Oh a handful of hair. And that is very painful. Not only on the back but also getting your hair pulled like that. And you speak from experience Kazoo. I know you do. One, two. Beautiful kick out. Beautiful kick out. I mean Tequila Rose is a fan favorite here. There's no stranger to know why. Oh. That is just old school thrashing. Definitely do not want to be on the receiving end of those shots. No do not. And here comes XO. Oh chop. Now I've noticed Toxes has been out in the been out in the apron a while. She's definitely fresh. That's true. You gotta wonder when she's gonna make her impact her parents here. Now I would definitely make it. At the outset of this contest you're gonna say that Toxes was going to be the main factor. The monster Toxes yet to be seen in this contest. Yes she's there just buying her time. Just being patient. Oh roll through. One, two. Beautiful kick out. Near fall. Near fall. Good near fall. Guys Mr. Spellmont's trying to draw the reps attention. Oh here we go. Another roll through. One, two, three. Look at this Tequila Rose cannot believe what just happened. Del me XO eliminated. I've got to wonder how that even occurred. I'm shocked myself. It was a fast turnaround. Mr. Business is exactly why you need to be attentive at all times. She tried to roll her up. She kicked out. Thank you for the technical explanation as always Mr. Wonderful. I appreciate it very much. Now wait. What is this now? Del me XO. What is this? Does she want Lizzie raise? Is she calling Lizzie raise out? Getting down to nitty gritty here. And she looks all too ready to accept that challenge now as Mr. Spellmont. Del me XO asking the crowd and here we go. That is a tall drink of water right there. Lizzie raise now. Oh let me tell you about Lizzie raise. I met her back in 2014 at an event held by a BTW. I took a picture standing next to her. I'm six foot four and had on Timberland boots which made me six foot five and she was eye level with me. Trained at the Bell Time Club. Look at this. Beautiful double choke slam. You do not see that anywhere. Picture S double choke slam. That was wonderful. Wait a minute now. What do we got? That was nice. Lizzie raise now with the boss. Double cover and the double count by tunnel. Did you see that? Lizzie raise now. Look at this. That is a tall tree to climb and here's Toxis. Oh takes her down quick. One, two, three. What did we say folks? Perhaps the most important factor in this match, the monster Toxis. Wait a minute. One, two, three. A surprise roll up. Oh my goodness folks. Now listen, that's a victory for Mr. Bellmont but I might be a little worried if I was there because you may have just angered the monster Toxis. Yeah, it's not gonna be a happy walker. Uh-oh. Looks like we were right. Oh, Toxis is not happy about that. Ladies and gentlemen, the naughty wonderful Joey Business. I'm Drew Kazoo for Wrestling All Stars in New England. We'll see you next time.


Welcome to Access to Trader, the number one community for those who are committed to taking control of their trading in order to achieve success, profitability, and longevity. Thank you for joining us. Here's Dan Shapiro to help you find your edge, master your process, and own your future. Everybody tries to tell you how much they know. I know nothing. I just know what these lines represent and the importance of market settlement. I literally know nothing. And that's the way I like it. I don't want to crowd my judgment. I don't want to have opinions. I know above the 50 days bullish. I know below the 50 days bearish. And we trade the same stocks. Rinse repeat, rinse repeat, rinse repeat. That's it. Keep it as simple as possible, right? And Jason, obviously, I'm not talking to you. I'm just talking to General Adams. Don't create an illusion of the market that's not there. I mean, don't do it. Don't try to recreate the wheel. Once you guys, once you, and this is kind of like my whole approach to trading, once you approach the rationale that you don't know anything, it's going to make you thinking a lot clearer. Because think about it. If a child doesn't know what one plus one is, right, they're a blank slate. So they're going to only accept what they're told, right? Think about that. So eventually when a child understands that one plus one, if you have one pen, one pencil, and you add another pencil, little Johnny, how many pencils do you have two, right? But if this child is getting information, well, it all depends on the pencil. What color is the pencil? Is the pencil yellow? Is the pencil blue? And why does it have to be a pencil? Why can't it be a pen, right? They're taking all this information, all this useless random information. And the only question was, how much is one pencil plus one pencil, right? Like, why do you need to know what color the pencil is? Why do you need to know who got you the pencil? How did it get to my house? That's what trading is. It's taking the most simple things and making them more problematic, right? Like, why do you need to know about a CHIP conference that's going on on the video for next week? What do you care? What do you know? 181.44 is a big level, right?  What do you care? What's the difference, right? Or, you know, is the CHIP short? Why do you care? We already know 81.41, 81.41, 81.44, 81.44. It's like when we were going up to the Qs, 96.75, 96.75. Hey, Dan, what do you think of the market? 96.75, 96.75, 96.75, right? We didn't care about what the GDP is, what the PPI is. We knew 96.75 is a huge number, right? That's it, guys. Look at the market from that point of view. Stop looking at the market for everything else. Well, there's a Fed meeting. Who cares about these Fed meetings?  All right, Steve, have a great weekend, buddy. Right?  Break the whole, you know, break the whole cycle of what social media is saying. It's ridiculous. Yeah. We already know Google, 1540 is a big number. Stop to 1525. We already know Airbnb 11010 is a big number. Stop there three times. We already know in the video, 181.44 is a big number. Stop there twice. We know this already. Why worry about everything else? All right, Scott, have a great weekend, buddy.  Right? Why worry about things that you can't control? Yeah, there's no reason to. Dan, you're not worried. I'm not worried about anything. That's the point because my mind is clean. I concentrate on technical analysis. That's the whole point. Stop thinking. Well, we're going into recession. Okay, that's great. We went through a pandemic. We were at all-time highs. You're thinking too much. The market's telling you which way we're going. Microsoft missed, we went higher. Netflix missed, we went higher. Apple missed, we went higher. Google missed, we went higher. How much more do you need? We're going higher. Yeah, that's it, man. Forget about it. And again, I've always maintained the idea that on the weekends, educate yourself as much as possible. Watch the workshops as much as possible. And yeah, you know, most human beings should understand what's going on. For me, it doesn't work. Number one, it just bores me, right? Number one, it bores me. Number two, I have no interest in it.  I couldn't care less what Kramer thinks or Barron says on the weekend. It cares.


Also, I want to mention Africa because a lot of people actually always ask about what about Africa because we never really mentioned Africa as a destination for teaching. And most of that is because it's mostly unpaid volunteer work, certainly teaching, and it's obviously great. It's a great thing to do, you know, to go. There's a lot of programs offering like volunteer positions in Africa in different countries, specifically in Ghana, Tanzania, South Africa, Kenya, Madagascar. And you can do that without a university degree. A lot of people do that, like after, for example, after high school, even after right after college for like a gap year. But unfortunately, most of the time, Africa is just not the destination for like teaching full time, you know, earning a good salary. So, but the cost of living is very low. All right, I have a couple of comments about Latin America. Let me just check that out. So, dynamin. Can confirm that for Mexico a true shame because there are many great places to live and teach in. Yeah, I think you're referring to like the salaries and that it's hard to make ends meet. Yeah. Marcia also says yes, the salaries are too low in Chile. I saw an advertisement from it for teaching here and the salary was 530 US dollars. Wow, a month. Yeah. And then you need to get an apartment. You need to. You need food. You need to live. It's rough. Yeah. Very rough. So that's why a lot of people, they would love to go to Latin America. I would love to go. I really love to go, but it's just not something really sustainable. And I think a lot of people, at least I guess the people that I meet, you know, teaching English in Korea, in Japan and China. Those are the kinds of people who come here for the high, also for the high salaries, but also for the culture and the country. But definitely one of the biggest benefits of coming to this region are the high salaries, the great benefits and teachers are really able to save like a thousand dollars a month from their salary, which is just great. So a lot of people pay off their student loans. They come right out of college. That's what my friend, when my friends did, she came here for a year and saved pretty much everything she could to then go back home and save, pay off her debt. So that was one thing. And obviously you can save money. You can travel a lot. So yeah, but not really the case in Latin America, also not the case in Africa. But you know, some people like people are looking for different things, right? Some people are looking for being able to save a lot, travel a lot. While I think with Latin America and Africa, it's more about like the experience as a whole. I mean, I would think that, you know, volunteer teaching in Africa is like a once in a lifetime amazing experience. So it really depends on you and what you're looking for. And if Africa is calling you, if Latin America is calling you, then you should definitely do it, you know. So yeah, Marcia says with that money, it's too complicated to live here. And I think especially right for foreigners who are not from Chile, we're not from there. Marcia says, you can come to my place if you want to know Chile, I would be happy to have you here. I can lend you my apartment. Oh, that is so sweet. Yes, I'm definitely going to do that. Thank you so much. I'm really going to do that. I'm going to take you up on that because Chile, I'd really love to see Chile, especially the south. And just Latin America in general, I've always wanted to go. So yeah, definitely, definitely that would be amazing, especially then with local, you know, that's amazing. Thank you so much. I'm definitely going to take you up on that. You can come to Korea in return, okay. We also have a guest room. You can stay there. Good. Okay. Thanks so much for watching. We are ITTT, the leading provider for TEFL and TSOL training courses. If you like this video, please subscribe by clicking the button down here and click on any of the videos here on the left for more interesting teaching tips for getting certified to teach English abroad and online.


Ladies and gentlemen, it's all Mike back in the gym. So I'm a little bit different We haven't been to showing you guys a lot of the upper body days one because Connor is graduating to because I'm Getting ready for a deadlift only competition. So my upper body days are not as serious and not as planned out I want to talk a little bit general program when we're talking about, you know We talk about powerlifting power building bodybuilding The main differences in between Main differences between bodybuilding Powerlifting and maybe power building is maybe just exercise variation But even when you're powerlifting obviously the main focus 90, you know depending on the type of program and you have but 70 to 100 percent of your training will be squat bench dead or variation. I still think there's room for kind of the big six Years to the big three we got the big Six and what I'm talking about is we have a vertical pull which could be chin up lap pull down pull up Etc.  It could even be a lunge Or a Bulgarian split squat if you're more in a power building or power lifting or excuse me bodybuilding or power building So now in my upper body Because I get to kind of relax part of my head and not worry about my bench press. We're trying to get swole Still trying to look good because that's always the goal. I Get to play around a little bit. So I'm taking a little bit of a break from the barbell No real reason other than one. I want to stay healthy. I don't want to handle as heavy a weight I don't want to focus on My PR bench of all time or recent one when I'm dieting and two when I focus on the So basically doing two to three upper body days to compliment the Two main deadlift days with the belt squat And the main movement I found in my past, you know, ten ten years of training kind of strength and and trying to look good Even though don't really look good. So don't you know Still a work in progress, but is the incline bench press something that feels really good on my shoulders It was really good on my chest And I have a lot of fun. It just feels like a fluid movement So dumbbell incline is gonna be one of my main focuses dumbbell shoulder presses always felt really good And I feel healthy and a good fluid movement from it And then whatever arms feels good lucky for me You know, I get a lot of questions about tendonitis and the elbow doing Tricep movements lucky for me if I do dumbbells or single arm tricep stuff I can go hard and heavy Get a lot of questions about tendonitis and the triceps doing any kind of tricep movement really hurt in the elbows Lucky for me if I'm doing dumbbell movement cable movement one arm I can go a lot and heavy a lot of reps a lot of sets and never really have pain So as long as I kind of stick to that, I'm pretty good. I'll maybe do one both arm movement first deadlift I'll maybe do one Movement that's with a barbell or a bar for my triceps and biceps and the rest are unilateral I normally use dumbbells or a machine or even a cable one arm cable is one of the most comfortable on my Muscles and my joints. So I'm trying to get maybe two to three exercises of each bicep and tricep afterwards because these arms Aren't growing themselves. They're actually, you know, bodybuilding speaking wise probably one of my weaker points Plus I just want bigger arms. Who doesn't? Back kind of same thing rose kind of hurt my back sometimes. So I don't tend to do Too many bent over rows. I tend to like to do a chest supported row So sometimes I'll go to a commercial gym and they have the hammer strength chest supported Just alleviates a little bit of pain off my low back so I can focus that energy let it recover for the deadlift Or squat in certain cases. So I'll do my rows there Bunch of different grips to chin up something that's helped the basics build my back and my deadlift over time And I'm gonna continue with that probably with my deadlift competition and then maybe afterwards We'll see where we go. I want to get more into some sprinting again Like I used to do in my basketball days some jumping some different things like that after the deadlift competition But for the next eight weeks folk main, you know, 90% of my focus is on the deadlift And then just kind of maintaining the rest of it feeling good having fun and then after that We're gonna switch gears probably lose a little bit more weight. I want to get sub 200 pounds for that Sitting around 203 205 right now competing on 198. So we'll slowly get down to that if not water cup We've got a 24-hour weigh-in And then and then we'll get healthy get skinny. So we'll see when that time comes competition is July 1st Barbara Brigade will be filming the whole way up there going on a trip soon. So we got two or three more Jim videos coming then a little bit of vlog action ladies and gentlemen be sure to smash the thumbs up subscribe turn on notifications So you don't miss a new video new video drop in Tuesday Thursday Saturday Sunday Shout out my boy Connor putting on the hustle daily videos coming soon marker calendars Bitch, I'm about to blow up comment below if you know that quote ladies and gentlemen, so I might come out


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So we were saying that this is going to be a very tough watch one. That's going to be a lot of emotion for others open wounds that People don't want to revisit at all. Well That's unfortunately not the case here and it's episode one. These are my thoughts my reviews of Selena and Yolanda the secrets we keep oxygen Documentary series. Here's what I did guys and what I would love for you to do is go to the latinoslant.com right now and join me in reading the article that I wrote for our website and Really, these are my like I said Just thoughts and fleshed out ideas on Part one called the woman in the red truck Reaction and review chilling so Part one unique uniquely reminds us of the history of Selena her eyes and the particulars of the actual Homicidal introducing Yolanda Salivar's family and herself Also the investigative team and the hostage negotiator at the time So there's already some fascinating insight that I myself did not know now if I could watch This without being influenced then the better I can give a non partial judgment on this Documentary and yeah, that was kind of just my My challenge, you know, I Actually was a little surprised at how I was able to kind of detach from from it Maybe because it was so procedural But I do realize that what's coming up. What's happening is that Ultimately, and I say this in my article that Yolanda and her family are trying to frame a New argument that maybe it's more of a manslaughter level type of crime. What are your thoughts right now? I can tell you that Who I was watching it with Infuriated her and she was not she's not necessarily a a Hardcore Selena fan. She was like if I was this would infuriate me So I get it guys. I absolutely get it. So let's get back to the article and Read some more of what I was pending here are my thoughts and critiques while watching besides the Rising potential new development secrets between the two supposedly this is also a glorified defense for the court of public opinion To perhaps grant Yolanda that parole in 2025 what they're trying to paint is interestingly What were the contents of the purse in the safe which included a resignation letter that the prosecutors were throwing under the rug? Was this letter what this letter what this letter proves is that Yolanda? Prior to the meetup tried to clean her hands of the professional relationship with Selena and clearly and Get clear away from her and Selena's family Journalist cat got enough to even admits that this adds confusion to an already very clear-cut case of murder as to why this was not part of the trial And Chris bet is admission that Selena did in fact receive the letter What's further interesting is that the investigators is the investigators that were involved in the case were the Were ones where one pokes at the holes in the weak police work from not reading initial from not Recording initial interviews with Sal Devar to not following up on the resignation letter on the other side the detectives who work the case State of Sal Devar in fact stated that if She turned in the resignation letter and wanted to resign she would have just walked away and Selena would still be alive One shilling segment is when Sal Devar's family is listening to a tape from Sal Devar's home Tape machine of voicemails where Sal Devar had moved out of the house She had ready took a job as a nurse that was going to begin orientation in another town But also to the many messages that Selena herself left for several days trying to find Yolanda. So as it seems Indeed Yolanda was trying her best to distance herself shocking that the public Nor authorities had never heard this tape before until this documentary Absolutely intriguing the plane of the tape brought tears upon hearing the voice of Selena to Tina Sal Devar the niece of Yolanda is further as a loot that Yolanda was indeed trying to distance herself while Selena was Indeed trying to bring her back into the fold And yeah, you know what I wrote that and I still believe that and in regards to What I heard is that you heard you heard day after day this is after the March 9th meeting and Before obviously the March 31st, you know Horrible encounter where I believe is a three or four days of voice messages that Selena left at Yolanda's house now it From listening to those From listening to those from what they show doesn't maybe they'll show us though We'll get to listen to more in part two, but from listening to those in part one. It sounded as that of a Friend reaching out and wanting that friend back in the fold not was not like where are you? I need my paperwork. Where are you? You owe me this you owe me that none of that. So, yeah, that is interesting That is interesting. I'm not gonna lie guys All right, let's get on back to this make sure that you are subscribed to our newsletter on the Latino slant calm It's free. You get a free weekly newsletter on all the things we're doing on The website and our YouTube channel. Here we go as this is the first episode, which is about two hours in length Is winding down. I had more haunting thoughts Suppose that Yolanda was threatened by the people that did not want her around Selena. Suppose all that is true She's got that's got nothing to do with the fact that she killed her friend in cold blood and that she's still not taking Responsibility for that other than it was an accident and I miss my friend also too. I Think about celebrities and the people they keep close to them Which you hear about from bodyguards to agents to secretaries These are people that become part of their families for many years based off of loyalty and trust that being said The dynamic of the relationship started off as one of professional and later became a friendship Those same people working for celebrities might be master manipulator social paths as well as playing Upon the light of said talent from Bob Marley's manager money laundering issues to other various celebrities you hear These horror stories all the time Unfortunately, this is the one that ended in death So while some of these points in part one are interesting that maybe could prove More of a manslaughter level of crime. The fact is it is being done a year before the possibility of parole for Yolanda Saldavar What are your thoughts stay tuned for part two is entitled room? 158 last thought I said I Was surprised from the unit only vision reporter who had been one of the interviewee subjects in the documentary Where she refused to speak on why Abraham Quintanilla was intimidating to her why?  I know wherever you're at keep your slam for it. Thank you


From around the globe, it's theCUBE. Covering HPE Discover Virtual Experience brought to you by HPE. Welcome to theCUBE's coverage of HPE Discover 2020, the virtual experience. I'm Lisa Martin and I'm pleased to be joined by two guests from HPE Long Time Partner, Tech Data. We have Colin Blair, the Vice President of Sales and Marketing of IoT and Data Solutions and David Smith, HPE Pre-Sales Field Solutions Architect. Colin and David, welcome to theCUBE. Thanks, Lisa. Glad to be here. Great to see you guys. So let's start with Colin HPE and Tech Data have been partners for over 40 years, but tell our audience a little bit about tech data before we get into the specifics of what you're doing and some of the cool IoT stuff with HPE. Thanks, Lisa. So Tech Data is a Fortune 100 distributor. We've continued to evolve to be a solutions aggregator in these next generation technology businesses. So as you've mentioned, we've been serving the IT distribution markets globally for 40 plus years. And we're now moving into next generation technologies like cloud analytics, IoT and security, global life cycle management services to be able to position ourselves with our customer base and the needs that their clients have. So I'm excited to be here today and talk a little bit about what we're doing in IoT and analytics with David on the HPE side. And in addition to the 40 plus years of partnership calling that you mentioned that Tech Data and HPE have, you've got over 200 plus HPE resources. David, you're one of those guys in the field. Talk to us about some of the things that you're working on with channel partners, David, to enable them especially during such crazy times that we're living in now. Absolutely, absolutely. So what we can do is we can provide strong sales on technical enablement. If your team, for example, wants to better understand how to position the HPE portfolio if they require assistance in architecting a secure performance IoT solution, we can help ensure that your technical team is fully capable of having that conversation. And it's one that they're able to have with confidence. We can validate the proposed HPE solutions with the customer's technical requirements and proposed use case. We can even assist on a customer calls if it would benefit our partner. To kind of extend out to that, we also have a deep technical bench that Colin can speak to in the IoT space to lean on as well for solutions that kind of span into the space beyond where HPE typically operates, which would be edge computing and network security. Excellent. Colin, tell me a little bit about Tech Data's investments in IoT. When did this start? What are you guys doing today? Sure, we started in the cloud space first to tackle this opportunity in data center modernization and hybrid cloud. That was about seven years ago. Shortly thereafter, we started investing very materially in the cybersecurity space. And then we followed that with data analytics and then the internet of things. Now we've been in those spaces with our long-term partners for some time, but now that we're seeing this movement to the intelligent edge and a real focus on business outcomes and specialization, we've kind of tracked with the market and we feel like we've been best a little bit ahead of where the channel is in terms of supporting our ecosystem of partners in this space. So the intelligent edge has been growing for quite some time. Colin, in the very unique times that we're living in in 2020, how are you seeing that intelligent edge expand even more? And what are some of the pressing opportunities that Tech Data and HPE's IoT solutions together can address? So a couple. So the first is, as I mentioned earlier, just data center modernization. And so in the middle of COVID-19 and perhaps post COVID-19, we're going to see a lot of clients that are gonna be focused on monetizing the things that they've got, but doing so to drive business outcomes. We believe that increasingly the predominance of use cases and compute and analytics is going to move to the edge. And HPE's got a great portfolio for not just on-premise, high-performance computing, but also hybrid cloud computing. And then when we get into the edge with Edgeline and networking with Aruba and devices that need to be digitized and sensorized, it's a really great partnership. And then what we're able to do also, Lisa, is we've been investing in vertical market since 2007. And I've been along the ride with that team most all of that way. So we've got deep specialization in healthcare and industrial manufacturing, retail, and then public sector. And then the last thing that we've kind of turned on here recently, just last month, is a strategic partnership in the Smarter Cities space. So we're able to leverage a lot of those vertical market capabilities, couple that with our HPE organization and really drive specialized, repeatable solutions in these vertical markets where we believe increasingly, customers are going to be more interested in repeatable solutions that can drive quick proof of value, proof of concepts with minimal viable kinds of products. And that's kind of where we're partnering today with our HPE organization and the HPE corporation. So, David, let's double click into some of those of vertical markets that Colin mentioned. Some of the things that pop into minor healthcare, manufacturing, as we know, supply chains have been very challenging COVID. Give us an insight into what you're hearing from channel partners now virtually. But what are some of the things that are oppressing importance in 2020? So from oppressing importance to Colin's exact point and to your exact point as well, is really it's all about the edge computing space. Now, from a product perspective, as Colin had mentioned earlier, HPE has their edge line converged systems, which has kind of taken the functionality of OT and IT and combined it into a single edge processing compute solution. You kind of couple that with the ability to configure components such as Tesla GPUs and specific edge line offerings to offer an aid in things like real time video processing and analytics. And a perfect example of this is a social distancing in the COVID space. If I need to be able to analyze a group of people to ensure they're staying as far apart as possible or within social distancing guidelines, that is where kind of the real time edge line compute aspect of things can be taken advantage of. Same things with the leveraging cameras where you can actually take temperature detection as well. So it's really kind of best to think of edge lines solutions as data center computing at the edge to kind of transition into the Aruba space. Aruba also has offerings aid in the IoT security, such as ClearPass device insight, which allows for device discovery of network and monitoring of wired and wireless devices. There's also Aruba asset tracking and real time location of solutions. And that's particularly important in the healthcare space as well. If I have a lot of high value assets, things like wheelchairs, things like ventilation devices, where are these things located within my facilities and how can I keep track of them? They also, and by they, I mean HP, they also kind of leverage an expansive ecosystem of partners. As an example, they leverage thing works a lot of their IoT solutions as well. When you kind of tie that all together with HP point next, the end customer is provided with the comprehensive IoT solution. So Colin, how ready are channel partners and the end user customers to rapidly pivot and start either deploying more technologies at the edge to be able to deliver some of the capabilities that David talked about in terms of analytics and sensors for social distancing? How ready are the channel partners and customers to be able to understand, adopt and execute this technology? So I think that on the understanding side, I think the partners are there. We've been talking about digital transformation in the channel for a couple of years now. And I think what's happened through the COVID-19 pandemic is that it's put a real spotlight on the need for those business outcomes to solve for very specific problems. And that's one of the values that we serve in the channel. So we've got a solution offering that we call our solution factory. And what we do, Lisa, is we leverage a process to look outside the industry at Gartner Magic Quadrant Solutions, Forrester Wave, G2 Crowd, top leaders, visionaries and understand what are those solutions that are in demand in these vertical markets that we talked about? And then we do a lot of work with David and his team internally in the HPE organization to be able to vet and then build out that reference architecture so that we know that there's a solution that drives a bill of materials and a reference architecture that's going to work, that clients are going to need, and we can do it quickly. Tech data, everything's about being bold, acting now, getting scale, and we've got a large ecosystem of partners that already have great relationships. So we pride ourselves in being able to identify what are those solutions that we can take to our partners that they can quickly take to their end users where we've kind of developed out what we think the 70 or 80% of that solution is going to look like, and then we drive point next and other services capabilities to be able to complete that last mile, if you will, on some of the customization. So we're helping them, for those who aren't ready, we're helping them. For those who already have very specific use cases and a practice that they drive with repeatable solutions, we're coming alongside them and understanding what can we do using our practice builder approach, which is our consultative approach to understand where our partners are going in the market, who their clients are, what skill sets do they have? What supplier affinities do they want to drive? What brand marketing or demand generation support do they need? And that's where we kind of take some of these solutions, bring them to bear and engage in that consultative engagement to accelerate being ready, as you rightly say. So TechData has a lot of partners in general. You also have a lot of partners in the IoT space. Colin, how do you, from a marketing hat perspective, how do you describe the differentiation that TechData and HPE's IoT solutions delivered to the channel to the end user? A couple of different things, I think that's differentiation. And that's one of the things that we strive for in the channel is to be specialized and to be competitively differentiated. And so the first part I say to all of my team, Lisa, is whether it's our solution consultants or our technical consultants or our solutions developers or the software development team that works in my organization, our goal is to be specialized in such a way that we're having relevant value-added conversations, not only our channel partners, but also end users of our partners want to bring us into those conversations and many do. The next is really education and enablement as you would expect. And so there's a lot of things that are specialized and are technical, where we drive education, certification programs, roadshows, seminars. One of the things that we're seeing a lot of interest now, Lisa, is for digital marketing. And we're driving some really neat offerings around digital marketing platforms that not only educate our partners, but also allow our partners to bring their end users and tour some of these technologies. So whether it's at our Clearwater office, where we've got an IoT solution center that we take our partners and their clients through, or we're using our facilities to do executive briefings and ideation as a service and kind of understanding the art of the possible with both our resellers and their clients, or if we're using our solution catalog. So we've built an interactive PDF that allows our partners to understand over 50 solutions that we've got and then be able to identify where would they like to bring in David and his team and then my consultants to do that deep planning and business development that we talked about a little bit earlier. So the engagement right now is maybe even more important than it has been in a while because it's all hands off and virtual. David talked to me about some of the engagement and the enablement piece that Colin talked about. How are you able to really keep a channel partner and use your customers engaged and interested in what you're able to deliver through this new virtual world? That's a great, great question. And we work in conjunction with our marketing teams to make sure that as new technologies and quite in the IoT space or as well as within the HPE space as well that our channel partners are educated and aware that these solutions exist. I know for a fact that for the majority of them you kind of get this consistent bombardment of new technology but being able to actually have someone go out and explain it and then being able to correspondingly position its use case and its functionality and why it would provide value for your end customer is one of the benefits that tech data adds to kind of build upon that previous statement. The fact that we have such a huge portfolio of partners. So you kind of have HPE in the edge compute space but we have so many different partners in the IoT space where it's really just a phone call and email a Skype message away to have that conversation around interoperability and then provide those quick responses back to our partners. Excellent. One more question before we go Colin for you. A lot of partners, why HPE for IoT? So a couple of reasons. One of the biggest reasons is HPE is just a great partner. And so when you look at evaluating IoT solutions that tend to be pretty comprehensive. In many cases, Lisa, it takes 10 or 12 partners to complete a real IoT solution and address a use case that's in the field. And so when you have a partner like HPE who's investing in these programs, investing in demand generation, investing in the spectrum of technology whether it's hybrid cloud, data center, compute, storage or edge devices and IoT gateways then to be able to contextualize those into what we call market ready solutions in each one of these vertical markets where there's references and there's use cases and we're coupling education that's specific around most solutions. HPE can do all of those things. And that's very important because in this new world, no one can go it alone anymore. It takes partnerships and we're all better together and HPE really does embrace that philosophy and they've been a great partner for us in the IoT space. Excellent. Well, Colin and David, thank you so much for joining me today on theCUBE. Tech Data HPE, IoT better together. Thank you so much. It's been a pleasure talking with you. Thank you, Lisa. Thank you, Lisa. And for Colin and David, I'm Lisa Martin. You're watching theCUBE's virtual coverage of HPE Discover 2020. Thanks for watching.


Yes, sir. Eiden Edlindes is a man of few words. That's good. And many memories. For two decades, he's stood by U.S. Army Europe soldiers, literally, giving privates and generals alike the four-star treatment. When I first came here, he did a really good job of my hair. How useful. Oh, it's consistency. I mean, when you get a good barber, you come to rely on him. For years seems like a long time. Yes. Until you find out he's been cutting them high and tight since he moved from Turkey to Germany at 19. You know, 43 years. That's an eternity, though, compared to the time he has left. June. June. Time goes too fast. In a few short months, he'll be on the receiving end of a trim. Thanks, sir. The U.S. Army in Heidelberg and Mannheim are doing what armies tend to do. They're moving out. There's enough news for a man who stayed year after year, while troops have come and gone. Now he's going too, but not alone. Okay. Nice to see you. First bar. He plans to take all of this. Maybe a stup cup. Stup cup. Clowns, you know. I don't want to say he's a workaholic, but he really enjoy working and being around customers. Andrea has 28 years of military haircuts on her resume.  But the hard part won't be moving on. No, it was always teamwork. I mean, it was... It'll be saying goodbye. A really good time working with him. Aiden probably won't say it. He lets his work and his wall speak for him. For U.S. Army Europe, Jesse Granger, Heidelberg, Germany.


When an Asian actor is asked to put on a fake Asian accent, is it offensive or is it just part of being in Hollywood? Oh man, this is a classic debate that Asians and media have, but it just got sparked again because Stephanie Sue from Everything Every World I Once said that she walked out of an audition because the casting director was like, hey, can you say that again a little bit more Asian? And she said, I'm so glad I was able to make it without demeaning myself and my culture. A lot of people agree with her. Some people said it matters on the role and other people were like, you're so spoiled. You got lucky with that big movie. How are you to hate on the Asian actors that just need to do whatever they need to do to make money? All right guys, we're going to break it down on how you can tell whether an accent is offensive or not. And then we're going to break down some of the most famous Asian accents of recent history in Hollywood and then we'll judge them. Yes, we will be judging them. So guys, please hit that like button. Let's get into it. David, when judging an Asian accent, what's the first thing that people need to consider? All right, so a lot of people are going to say, you know, all Asian accents are okay, man, it's just entertainment and other people want to be like, no, no Asian accents are okay. Unless you were born from that specific country of origin, unless your parents said that accent 10 out of 10 level, you cannot do it. Well, the truth is, it's in the middle. Andrew, you have to look at the context and you have to look at the intention. You have to look at who wrote it. What was the meaning? Is the character cool? Is the character dominant? Is the character submissive? Is it a protagonist antagonist? I actually don't think that matters as much. I just think the character has to be cool and have something to it.  You know, that was a villain in rush hour one, but ultimately it was a cool character that stuck with people and got embedded in culture. Right. I think the next thing that people need to think about is whether it's a commercial role or a movie role. Now commercials get made a lot more often than movies and they are shorter and they're trying to capture your attention and sell something.  It's great. And then like, that's like a Best Buy commercial. And I believe the thing that Stephanie Sue walked out of was a commercial shoot. I do think commercials, you know, they're made by a lot more often. You see a lot more diversity, but you also see a lot more problematic commercials, even more than movie roles because movie roles have to go through so many levels of bureaucracy before they get made.  But because it's in a whole movie and you got to watch the whole movie with them, most people don't really find it offensive. But anyways, the next thing that you got to understand is that the tone matters even when you're asking someone to play a character. Now what this casting director told Stephanie Sue in 2012, can you be more Asian? That is not going to fly in 2023 because what does it mean to be more Asian? Do you mean like this? This is more Asian? Right, more just choppy and broken and I think that speaks to the environment in 2012, how un-nuanced it was. Literally man, Andrew, we started our careers like 10 years ago. I'll tell you this, the environment has changed dramatically. Like the amount of sensitivity that people have to have around culture. Back then, it was like two out of 10 and now it's like eight. Yeah, I don't think it's wrong to ask people to do like an accent and be like, hey, do you think you have a Vietnamese accent or someone who might have been from Vietnam? Do you have that in you? I think that's okay to ask, but you also got to have pull up like a YouTube video of like a Vietnamese actress like saying that so you can compare it, you know, because now there's all this media out here that can kind of double check your accent so accents can be more accurate now. Right, right, right. If they're trying to tell you to say me so hungry in the accent, then definitely you're going to be like, yeah, that's a red flag. I mean, I think the guidelines shift with culture to over the years. Like we said, things that were acceptable back then are not acceptable now. And I think that that's one of the benefits of wokeness, to be honest. Like, you know what I mean? Like a lot of people, there's like a whole anti woke backlash and, you know, we'll make another video about that. But you know, I'm glad to see culture shift in favor of people who are traditionally picked on. Yeah. And I just think it's about accuracy guys. And I think the name of the game is to be as accurate as you can within reason. Give it a good shot. I think last but not least, it just matters on the individual actor themselves, because everybody has a different threshold point of like when they feel like a sellout. And you know, you always have in every industry, there's people who are super respectable Kendrick, Jay Z, J Cole, they probably have a different line than like NBA young boy Kodak little Dirk. By the way, I like all those artists, but you would just say they have a different approach to like what is being viewed as like a statesman for their community. Definitely. Definitely. So those are the things to look out for. And again, I just want to wrap it up by saying, listen, everybody's going to feel you can't not offend anyone, because there's always going to be someone who comes out and says, you know, I found this character offensive. And yeah, that's what it is. I think you just try to do the best job that you can with all the tools and information and talent that we have nowadays. So David, let's go through some of the most famous, most notable fake Asian accents that were put on in recent history. Starting off, number one, we got Jimmy Oh, Yang in Silicon Valley, right? He played Jin Yang. He was like, yeah, this is my combinator now. This is my. So I think some people try to criticize Jimmy because Jimmy's from Hong Kong and he doesn't have this northern. I need some Hong Kong. Yeah, he doesn't have this northern accent, right? So he's putting on a northern accent. And but I think I was very offended.  He does not embaldy the northern Chinese spirit, but I would say his character is funny and likable and had a lot of great lines. And it might have been a little weak season one, but I think they did five or six seasons and he got progressively stronger and more alpha all the way through. I definitely think that there's good debates on each side. But Jimmy, funny actor, good guy, you know, I think ultimately, people are okay with it. They came to terms with it. Moving on, Andrew Ken Lerng playing Sang in Rush Hour, aka in the streets, Jun Tao. Even though Jun Tao is a totally different character in Rush Hour. I get it. I get it. Ken Lerng is a Chinese American. He's a really good actor. He played a Cantonese gangster.  You're bleeding. Yeah, that's pretty nice. I would say I would give him a 9.5 out of 10, honestly. And honestly, such a memorable character, blonde hair, badass. I loved it. Steven Yoon in Minari. Steven Yoon himself is born in Korea, but raised in North America, of course. Yeah, I mean, I would imagine if he was born there, his accent's got to be at least a nine if not a 10 out of 10. No, it's a great movie. Great accent. Did a good job. Great character. All right. Number four, Ken Jong in the hangover as Leslie Chow. Oh man. Man, I would say this.  I mean, I would say he was basically a Korean guy doing an impression of a Chinese Vietnamese gambler with the last name C-H-A-U. That's how I would describe it. It's a hilarious character. Obviously, it is demeaning the Asian men. It can still be hilarious at the same time. Guys, those things are not mutually exclusive. You can have both. I would give it like a four out of 10 on accuracy. Yeah, but I would say it might be a nine or 10 out of 10 on controversy. Yeah, this was super controversial. And to this day, you know, I see both sides, but I definitely, you know, I don't think Ken is a bad guy. I don't think that he puts trying to make Asian men look masculine on the top of his priority list of his life, though, to be honest. I mean, like we said, that goes back to the individual basis, just like there's different rappers that are just different, you know, there's sports figures that tend to be more political or ones that are more apolitical. It's just like a person to person. Listen, if his goal is to make you laugh and be funny, then he did that on like a 10 out of 10 scale. But that, but that doesn't always fall in line. Because then there's people who are like nice and real life when you meet them, but then there's people who are like that they play problematic characters. And there could be people who play these really great characters that like uplift the people.  So there's a separation between the personal and obviously the on camera representation of them. Next up, we got Constance Wu on fresh off the boat. This was her breakout role. She played obviously Eddie Huang's mother in this. And I would say her accent accuracy probably wasn't super high. I would say maybe a six out of 10, but I think it was a likable character, had a bunch of seasons well developed. She was one of the stars of the show. So overall, this was not like bad at all. Yeah, moving on, we got Randall Park and fresh off the boat. Same show. I mean, I would say he had a really slight accent.  Right. But you know, I thought this character was like positive representation. Yeah, for like ability, maybe nine out of 10. Mike Moe playing Bruce Lee and once upon a time in Hollywood, Mike Moe is a Korean, half white, half Korean guy who played Bruce Lee. I thought his depiction of Bruce Lee as far as accent and look and move wise was pretty good. I was almost like trying to be more Bruce Lee than Bruce Lee because you know how you study someone's tics and nuances and you like triple it to really make sure, you know, people think you're them. I don't think anybody really knocked his portrayal of Bruce Lee, but they knocked Quentin Tarantino's writing of Bruce Lee. Bruce seemed like he was on coke, to be honest. Like the way he was acting. It was extra cocky. Moving on. Number eight, Andrew, we got Keong Lee and unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. Andrew, we know Keong were friends with him. He played a V in this. What do you think of his accent, man? Keep it real. All right. So to keep it real, I watched clips of the show and his accent is not very strong. It's like barely there, but it's not a great accent. I thought they could have just made this character Korean maybe, but maybe it's for the storyline. But either way, the unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, it's like a comedy and the entire show is very ridiculous. So I give the accent accuracy low, but I give the character like a seven out of ten is fine. Moving last but not least, man, we got the most controversial one maybe up there. Matthew Moy as Han in Two Broke Girls. Man, this is Han. He is this. So Matthew Moy is Cantonese, right? Yeah. Well, he plays a Korean. I don't think he's Korean in real life. Right. So he plays a Korean shop owner. And I gotta give the accent to me.  It was pretty bad. Like a two out of ten. Yeah, it was horrible. It was a horrible accent.  It's almost like you're thinking about like, how am I ever going to get a steady paycheck in this game?  Yeah.  And, and, you know, I think that to wrap this up, guys, I mean, I think it's fair that anytime you watch, anytime you watch media, you watch a movie or a TV show where somebody got paid to play that person, it is well within your right to criticize that role. Anybody can feel offended by that. And anybody can take any role they want to be honest to. Anybody can take that role. No one's forced to take roles here. So I think at the end of the day, you know, I think that the times are changing where people are trying to do things more accurately. A lot of these roles are from like eight years ago. And nowadays in 2023, I guarantee you that those roles are looked at differently. So I think that times are changing for the better. And I do think that that is one benefit of this woke culture is that certain bad characters and bad like kind of motifs in Hollywood got canceled, essentially.  I know there's people that are like live their life that way.   You know what I mean?  I'm not like so industry minded, you know, like thinking that I'm not saying Hollywood and media doesn't have an impact in the incepting ideas in the people's minds, but so does every day IRL. All right, everybody, you let us know in the comments down below what you think about accents on Asian actors, like obviously, listen, it's Hollywood, there's creative liberties, people got to play different characters. It is what it's all make believe. Okay, everybody's just playing make believe in Hollywood. So of course, you know, people are going to play things that they're not, but let us know in the comments down below what you think about all this. Is it offensive to you? Is it not? Is it just funny? Should everybody just chill out? But just yeah, let us know in the comments down below. And of course, yes, I will say this at the end, characters and scripts that were written by Asians, I would say 97% of the time are less problematic than scripts that are written by people far outside of the community and may not even respect the community, to be honest. Anyway, let us know what you think in the comment section below. Let us know what you think of Stephanie Sue's quote. And should Asian actors put on fake Asian accents that they do or do not have? Until next time, we the hop hop boys, we out. Peace.


Okay, made it to Washington Park. It's a chilly 42 degrees for this 13 mile. That's right, a half marathon threshold run. This, I mean, we're narrowing down to some of the last hard efforts before the marathon. So it's almost, I mean, 42 degrees is pretty much perfect. It's not too hot, not too cold. Maybe I would wish for maybe like 47, but I'll take 42 degrees Fahrenheit any day. And all right, but I am going to wear a buff. It's a little chilly in my gloves for this warmup. And yes, it is 7 a.m. straight up. I like to do hard efforts before peak race at the exact same time as the race starts, just to get the legs used to going fast earlier in the morning. So if your peak race starts at 9 a.m., do some hard workouts at 9 a.m. Maybe it's a late start, maybe it's a noon start. If, you know, it's during the winter or something, then I would practice. That's what I like to do. Just to, again, get the body used to waking up and going fast. So all right, here we go. Warmup, I'll be right back. Oh man, 13 miles. Come on now. Come on now. Let's do this. By the way, the allergies are 7 out of 10. They're not horrible, but they're not great anyway. I'm hanging in there. There we go. All right, just a couple of miles for the warmup. Let's go place the bottles. Zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom. A couple of strides, and then we're going to go. And we're going to go, we're going to go, ladies and gentlemen. Oh man, feeling pretty good. Temperatures are real nice right now, real nice. All right, see you in about, I'm going to do a couple of strides and then we'll see you all in hour and 10 minutes. Does that sound good? Does that sound good? That's where I can go. There we go. All right, good day at Washington Park. I believe I met the goal. I'll get back to the house, upload it to Strava just to make sure before I let you know. It wasn't the perfect day. Wasn't an easy day per se. I'll explain why back at the house. And just so you know, I did not film at all today during the workout with a GoPro or with a big camera. I actually just ran out of time because we are going on a mini family vacation, so I got to get back to the house. Just hanging out at Great Wolf Lodge with the fan. Here comes Joseph. AKA the stairwell at the Great Wolf Lodge in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Basically the family and it's really echoing in here. I'm basically in a concrete bunker. So apologize if the audio's a little off right now. Basically the family's totally passed out so I can't record this in the hotel room that we're staying at tonight. So anyway, we'll be back in the studio tomorrow night.  And yes, we did have a great day today. You saw the footage. Great Wolf Lodge is amazing, but it can be a little expensive. So we are going in the off season. So basically right after the spring break rush, that's our little tip of the day. If you wanna save some, pinch some pennies when you're thinking about a little family vacation. So okay, here we go. Yes indeed, I did set a half marathon PR today, but that's not very hard to do because the last time I raced a half marathon, it wasn't very hard to do today because the last time I raced a half marathon was nine years ago. That's right, I haven't raced a row in half marathon in nine years. And I thought, I think basically today, actually let me get you to the official time, but I think my first half marathon was after CU. I kind of had a, not a big head, but I was very confident like, okay, I can go out and just train 30 miles a week and run a fast half marathon. Well, it's not that easy. So I think I ran like 117, 118 for a half marathon nine years ago. Well today, let me just pull it up here. I ran one hour and 10 minutes and 42 seconds. Actually, I think it was a little faster than that because I stopped the watch a little late. Basically one hour, 10 minutes, and let's just call it 30 seconds approximately. So basically 522 pace, 523 pace, right where I wanted to be. Actually, I wanted to be right at 520. My legs were struggling to wake up a little bit today. You know, they just, it was cold out. It was rainy. You saw the rain coming down on the window of the car. So anyway, it didn't go, it didn't play off quite as well as I had hoped, but I'll take it. It was a great workout. An hour, 10 minutes. We'll take it for my second to last threshold run for this training block. So anyway, oh yeah.  Basically an average, I won't tell you all the splits. I basically went between and I was in the Nike Zoom Fly-Flying. So the first mile was 512 pace. The sixth mile was 523. The 10th mile, 522, so that's good. But the last mile was 530. So I was slowing down a little bit toward the end there. So anyway, that's just, that is the pacing and what else did I wanna mention? Basically the Zoom Flies, they didn't feel amazing today. For some reason, I don't know what it was. I don't know if it was like the cold. It was like a little cold out. So the midsole was a little more stiff. Basically it felt like I was slapping the pavement a little bit. And the roads were wet that I was running on. So anyway, I didn't feel like I was in complete control of the Zoom Flies today. Not a deal breaker, no major, like I'm not totally concerned about it, but just wanted to update you on that. It is a very slick outsole for the Nike Zoom Fly-Flying. And basically what else? I'm just running through my, I wrote down a few notes here to share with you all tonight, I think that's it. I am going to update you. And yes, the keyword is gonna be half for today's half marathon workout. So half, you can even do a one, two down in the comments. I'd appreciate it. And you can still hear my allergies. I just remembered that I was fighting the allergies a little bit today. It wasn't a horrible, but I could definitely, anyway, I think it impacted my breathing just a little bit.  And so come back tomorrow. Yeah, I'm just gonna leave it at that. I don't wanna leave you hanging too much on that, but come back tomorrow and give me an update on how the more updates on today's run. So question of the day has nothing to do with running. Instead, what is your next vacation? All right, that is the question of the day. I personally someday would love to go do like a two or three country tour and of course run a couple races along the way. Oh man, I just would love to go race somewhere in Europe, somewhere in South America, somewhere, I don't know. It would just be fun to do that. So anyway, let us know, what is your next vacation? If you have a vacation planned, especially with summer coming up, that would be so cool to hear that from all of you. And if you don't have one planned, maybe you could let us know, maybe you just went on a vacation and maybe we can all get some ideas going. Listen, I love asking questions of the day about running, but also about life, just to get to know all of you better if you know what I mean. All right, we're at the Great Wolf Lodge. I'm signing off. See you duty, work hard.


Hi, welcome to CTN Member Highlights. Today I'm here with Abeth Russell. Hi Abeth. Hi Lozie. From the Hidden Ladder Collaborative and the Union of Main Visual Artists. Yep. Yeah, well we've got some exciting collaborations happening here with Community Television Network and the Collaborative and the Union of Main Visual Artists. Yeah, so let's talk about it. Yeah, so Hidden Ladder Collective has been putting on shows for like the last, just about two years now in Portland. We were doing shows every single month at the McPerry Center and they were always like super interactive shows that were all about art and music and just kind of engaging the public with art and like letting them come in and explore art. They're real happenings. Yeah, happenings. I've been with several of them and there's nothing, you really can't describe them. Yeah, totally. Yeah, we were doing them for like a year at the McPerry Center and we really were missing doing them and now that Hidden Ladder Collective is joined up with the Union of Main Visual Artists and CTN, we're coming back with like our biggest show yet, our biggest, most exciting show yet. And the first of many because the UMVA is taking over the gallery space here at CTN. Yeah. And we're thrilled, just thrilled to have so many artists from not only the greater Portland area which that's where the bulk of them will come from but with UMVA, they'll be coming from all over the state. Yeah, we're suddenly connected with all these people that we don't think we ever would have been able to reach before. It's like we've tapped into this huge, amazing network of artists and we can really pull them all into this gallery. I'm just really excited. And the first time really, they've had a gallery space. The individual artists have shown all over Maine and the world really but now there's a space right here on Congress Street in the heart of the arts district. Yeah, it's gonna be really cool to have a space that people know every single month, every single first Friday, there's gonna be an opening at this gallery and they'll know where to go to find the UMVA and Hin-Latter Collective. Well, let's talk about yellow. Now, how did yellow, why yellow? So, William Hessian who is the co-founder of Hin-Latter Collective, we've founded the collective together. We were just sitting down and talking about what kind of shows we could have and we had put on so many crazy shows before and so he was like, what if we just do a different show for each color and we'll just have a whole bunch of shows coming up in the next couple of years each based just completely on a certain color. So all the music, all the art, whatever performances it'll all be connected by this one color. So this month happens to be yellow because it's spring, so yellow seems perfect. Daffodils and busy sunshine again and yeah. Everybody wants some yellow. Yeah, yeah. And I've been seeing some of the art come in and it's absolutely amazing from all over. Tell us a little bit about who the artists are who are gonna be here. I did not expect to get so many responses to the open call. There's about 50 artists now, 50 visual artists that have submitted not to mention the musicians and the performers, but yeah. So we've got Kenny Cole, Abby Sean, Andrew Abbott, those are like some of our, you know, some that first come to mind and there's so many more. I mean, so many of the members of the Union of Main Visual Artists, lots of Mecca students, Baxter Hoplow from Mecca is gonna be doing a yellow installation out in the local Muscle Art Trek that's gonna be parked out front. So there's just some really great artists. And there'll be some musicians and dancers. There'll be musicians. So there's three performing acts happening throughout the night. Out in the local Muscle Art Trek, we have cassettes of life performing from five to seven and then eight to nine. We have a band called Four People. And inside from seven to nine, we have Laughing Animal, who will be doing interpretations of the color yellow through electronic music.  I've gotta find something yellow to wear. I know, yeah. It's kinda hard to find yellow stuff. Yeah, yeah. So tell us a little bit about Hidden Ladder and UMVA. Yep, so Hidden Ladder Collective is a collective that started a few years ago. And we have the philosophy that anyone can be an artist, anyone can be a musician, and that everyone has kind of this hidden ladder inside of them that they can climb up into this great world of creativity. And you know, you shouldn't be afraid to create. And we're very open and we don't exclude people if they haven't been doing art their whole lives. And then UMVA is a membership organization. Yup, UMVA. It has a sliding scale. Yeah, they've been around for quite a while too. And William also got that going here at the Portland Branch. Yeah, so he went up to a meeting. I can't remember, I mean, rock on or something. We've gotta kind of wrap it up, but I think we'll put the information about who the contact person is for submitting art, and which is coming to an end. So there's only, yeah, there's only about a day left to submit art. But also if people wanna join UMVA for further future shows and also the hidden ladder collaborative and collective. Yup, definitely, so they're both online if you just look up UMVA online. Well, I know, I'm gonna be there and I think everyone else should be there, so thank you for doing this. Yeah, definitely, stop by. I'm very excited. Yeah, me too. Yeah. Great.