As-salamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh Bismillahi walhamdulillahi wa salatu wa salamu ala Rasulillahi wa ala alihi wa sahabihi ajma'in All praise is indeed due to Allah SWT Blessings and salutations upon Muhammad SAW We ask Allah SWT to bless him, his household, his companions, every one of us To grant us goodness up to the end May Allah SWT accept from us the supplications that we engage in so often The needs that we have are so many And it is Allah alone who listens to the dua and the supplication and responds positively My brothers and sisters, we were speaking about Ibrahim alayhi salatu wa salam's du'as, his supplications The Prophet Abraham, there are so many supplications I remember in the previous episode making mention of the fact that These prophets of Allah asked Allah more than what we ask Allah They called out to Allah more than you and I Look at their du'as, look at how beautiful all their supplications were They were so loved by Allah that Allah mentioned the same words in the Quran They also called out to Allah on more than one occasion for the same thing And different wordings It's important for us to understand this We were looking at Ibrahim alayhi salatu wa salam He asked Allah SWT for offspring, he was granted the offspring But early on in his life When he had asked Allah SWT for guidance He says to Allah SWT ربها بلي حكمة والحقني بالصالحين O Allah, grant me hukman Now hukman refers to a few things In the previous episode I had made mention of how it refers to the power of the authority But primarily it actually refers to knowledge So O Allah grant me knowledge, grant me the knowledge of the book etc It was revelation that was due to come to Ibrahim alayhi salatu wa salam With knowledge you are empowered So you have the power Without knowledge you're not empowered You are actually weak because you don't know So when all of these are connected You're asking Allah for power, for authority, for knowledge, for wisdom Even prophethood In the case of Ibrahim alayhi salatu wa salam Allah blessed him with that a little bit later on And Allah blessed within his offspring Them with the prophethood as well So the next dua that Ibrahim alayhi salatu wa salam made Was the dua for being remembered afterwards by the people with something good So if you've been to a city You leave, they should speak good about you If you have passed away, you've left the world People talk about you, they speak good Allah accepted this dua, what was it? وجعله لسان صدق في الآخيرين Surah Al-Shu'ara And Allah says, this man is saying O Allah, let me have a remembrance of goodness Upon the tongues of those whom I will leave behind As a result in Salah up to this day When we are seated in the Salah And we are about to end the Salah We say Allahumma salli ala Muhammad wa ala ala Muhammad كما صليت على إبراهيم وعالى آل إبراهيم إنك حميد مجيد We are sending salawat upon Muhammad sallallahu alaihi salam And we are saying, O Allah Blessings upon, send blessings upon Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa salam In the same way that you blessed Ibrahim alayhi salam Where did Ibrahim alayhi salatu wa salam fit in here? He was blessed by Allah And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala ensured up to this day That we too remember him with goodness on our tongues So Allah chose to add this as per the teaching Of Muhammad sallallahu alaihi salam to us in the Salah Amazing He just said, Rabbi Habli Hukman In fact, he says وجعلي لسان صدق في الآخيرين O Allah, let me be remembered in a good way By those who are to follow Here we are, every Salah Billions of people are remembering Ibrahim alayhi salatu wa salam with a good remembrance Amazing Look at that dua Look at how when Allah accept something He doesn't just give you what you've asked for It's beyond the imagination It's beyond the imagination You ask a multi-billionaire for one dollar And he ends up giving you 10 million I mean, subhanallah for him, it's nothing It's zero That's a normal worldly example The example of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is far higher But let's move on to some To more of these beautiful du'as of Ibrahim alayhi salatu wa salam In the same verses واجعلني مورثة جنة النعيم Make me from among those who inherits Paradise Grant me Paradise in other words The Paradise and the goodness that comes within the Paradise This shows us the importance of asking for Paradise Working towards it is one thing Seeking it is another thing وغفر لي أبي إنه كان من الظالين Oh Allah forgive my father For indeed, he's astray Now this was in the young age of Ibrahim alayhi salam He was asking for forgiveness for his father But later on Allah taught us something Through the example of Ibrahim alayhi salatu wa salam To say When you seek forgiveness for someone They need to have had the remorse Felt the remorse They need to have sought the forgiveness And had to turn to Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala If they did not do that You don't ask for them To achieve something they did not want Simple When a child has done something wrong At the school And the headmaster calls the parents to say The child has been suspended Please take the child away If the parents come to apologize That apology will only be accepted If the child is showing remorse And acknowledging that what I did was wrong But if the child is showing no remorse And the child is ready to do it again and again and again And is saying to the parents Listen, I don't need you to ask for this I don't want it Wouldn't the parents look so foolish To actually go back to the school and say We're apologizing on behalf of the child On behalf of who? On behalf of a child who's not apologizing Who's not apologetic to begin with So Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala is saying If people don't want to worship me Why are you asking me to have mercy upon them? Why are you asking me to grant them paradise When they did not believe in paradise in the first place Leave them alone What will happen is between them and I We will sort it out between ourselves You don't need to get involved You can only get involved when you want to ask for the mercy For someone who believed in the mercy But they may have faltered here and there Someone believes in jannah They believe in Allah They believe that they want to worship Allah But they were weak You say Allah have mercy on them Forgive them Someone who didn't even believe at all Allah says leave it between us We will sort that matter out May Allah make it easy For every one of us in our offspring So that was a benefit we learned from the dua Ibrahim A.S. made to have mercy on his own father When his father chose a totally different path It's like I was speaking to someone who doesn't believe in the hereafter at all And they were saying you know you guys are so bad Because you believe that people are going to go to heaven and hell And I said all religions are free to believe That a person who's good will go to heaven And a person who's not may go to hell But you don't believe it also Why are you worried? Why are you worried? I mean what are you worried about? If I ask Allah I ask Allah for guidance for that person But I don't need to say Oh Allah give him Jannah When he doesn't even believe in Jannah That's the explanation of this particular verse And what happened later on When Ibrahim A.S. was actually corrected by Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala in his prayer So then he says Wa la tukhzini yawma yub'athoon Yawma la yainfa'umaloon Wa la banoona illa man Ata Allah bi qalb salim Oh Allah do not embarrass me on the day that you resurrect the people The day that no wealth and no children will be of benefit Except for the one who has a sound heart Wow he's worried about the hereafter Ibrahim A.S. The friend of Allah is asking Allah Oh Allah do not embarrass me the day you resurrect everyone It's a dua I should be making You should be making We all should be making We've all done things We would not like people to know about We wouldn't like them to see It should be between us and Allah We say Oh Allah la tukhzini yawma yub'athoon Yawma la yainfa'umaloon wa la banoon Illa man Ata Allah bi qalb salim Oh Allah do not embarrass me on the day That you resurrect the people The day that no wealth No children will come to benefit anyone besides He who has a perfect heart or a sound heart May Allah grant us that sound heart So what is a sound heart? A sound heart is actually that heart That is filled with the obedience of Allah Or worshipping Allah alone And not associating partners with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala If you want a sound heart You need to work towards it You need to ask Allah to give that to you You need to make sure that you understand it And you ask Allah on the day of judgment To make you from among those who actually comes with a sound heart And Allah will not embarrass you May Allah not embarrass any one of us This was Ibrahim alayhi salatu wa salam And he was calling out to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala In this beautiful way And there are so many other du'az of Ibrahim alayhi salatu wa salam That he has asked for That Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has bestowed him with And given him And all of us have reaped the benefit of the du'a of Ibrahim alayhi salatu wa salam Like I said in the previous episode Even the du'a of loving the Ka'bah Loving the house of Allah In makkatul mukarrama It has reached every single one of us And we actually reap the benefit therefrom Now I want to go into some of the du'az Of the other messengers of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala You know, Loot alayhi salam made a du'a to be protected from his people And he says Rabbin al-jinni wa ahli mimma ya'maloon O Allah protect me and my family Because his family were the only ones who followed From what they're doing The immorality that they're involved in Look at Shuaib alayhi salatu wa salam Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says He said Before I translate that Shuaib alayhi salam was sent to a nation Who used to cheat people in business Shortchange the people They wanted to make money by hook or crook They just needed money money money They worshiped the money Everything was about the money Everything was about merchandise How they got it was besides the point They just wanted it Hook or crook They shortchanged They cheated They stole They deceived They did anything They could and Allah warned them And sent them a prophet To remind them Don't become greedy Greed to the level That makes you do things That are wrong So here he makes a du'a at a certain point He says O Allah We lay our trust in you Alallahi tawakkana We lay our trust in you Now it's interesting To lay your trust in Allah When we're talking about business Because if everyone is doing business Dealing that is very clandestine That is actually clandestine to the degree That when you try to correct them They might sideline you And you may not earn You may not make money But the provider is Allah So you've got to keep on doing What you believe is right And Allah will provide you He will give you the provision He will definitely provide for you So he says O Allah I lay my trust in you I've got to correct these people I'm going to say it I've got to actually do whatever I have to It's in your hands to provide O Allah I lay my full trust in you And I want you to judge between us Iftah You know When we say iftah It means to open When we're opening the reality We're actually judging between the parties So iftah baynana Wa bayna qawmina bil haqq Wa anta khayru al-Fatiheen O Allah Judge between us and our people With justice for you are the best judge You are the best who's going to judge And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gave that to him So Allah sent the punishment to the people of Shua'id To the people of Lut To the people of Nuh To the people of the previous nations When their prophets Who were sent to them prayed against them Until the prophet did not pray against them There was no punishment that came to them Because the prophet was instructed To deliver the message from Allah They came through They provided the message They gave the message They tried very hard They carried on and on When the persecution began That is when the clock started ticking What this means is The people were not okay Or the people did not sit back And say I don't want to listen to Nuh I don't want to listen to Lut I don't want to listen to Shua'id May Allah's peace and blessings be upon all of them The people did not just sit back And say We don't want to listen to them They started harming them They started attacking them And this is why Whenever you are calling towards the right path Those who don't like the message They will not just say Leave them alone Whoever wants to follow Let them follow They will come and start attacking you In your person Your struggle They will try and block you Stop you Attack you They may even want to eradicate you Because You're a thorn in the path You know They're doing their dealings They're cheating people in business If you keep on saying Stop cheating people in business You guys What you're doing is wrong Stop cheating people Stop deceiving people Those who want to continue deceiving and cheating And they're earning out of it You're their enemy Because You are trying to convince people to become upright Such that they won't like it I'll give you an example If corruption has overtaken community To the degree That the justice system is corrupt The police is corrupt Everyone is corrupt The ministers are corrupt Everything is corrupt If that happens To any country Any nation Then those who are upright Their survival is at risk The reason is When they come up to say Guys Don't do this It's wrong The police will attack them The judges will judge against them The ministers will be against them The entire nation will be fighting them Because They've been making their money In the wrong way They've been into bribery You know You could bribe Perhaps in some countries The justice system From the chief justice All the way down Perhaps some of In some countries It is And we've read about it It's such that they're all corrupt So the upright are sitting in the prisons And you know what? Those who are the most corrupt Who are supposed to be in the prisons Are actually the ones Who are jailing everyone It can happen It does happen So This was what we learned From the messengers of Allah That things that are turned around Because of you calling people Towards what is upright May Allah SWT strengthen all of us May He grant justice to everyone And may He make us all From among those who are upright They don't suffice by saying Okay, this guy is saying a good message Let me think about it Let's all become good people You know nations have failed Because of corruption Totally failed If we want to see the success Of our own nations We need to first tackle corruption From where? From the top to the bottom We need to understand When the police are corrupt It's over It's over You know, they say in the Arabic language The people who are meant to be protecting you Have become the thugs themselves Now what do you expect?  They didn't say We don't want to correct ourselves They said Who are you? We're going to attack you We're going to harm you We're going to stop you And they tried even to eradicate these messengers In the case of so many of the messengers That is why The messengers were forced to raise their hands To say, oh Allah There's no one besides you This system is completely corrupt It's totally gone There is no one besides you Rabbana ftah baynana wabayna qumina bil haqq Oh Allah, I ask you We ask you to judge between us And our people Open the opening Make it clear Make it manifest Who's right? Who's wrong here?   After a little bit of time Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Indeed sent down the punishment To those who deserved it And Allah guided whoever He wished to guide And the punishment came down In such a way that subhanallah They regretted ever Having not taken heed Of what those messengers Were calling them towards I want to move on To a beautiful prophet of Allah The most beautiful Yusuf alayhi salatu was-salam Allah speaks about him An entire surah and chapter Named after him But have you ever thought of the duas That were made by the prophet Yusuf alayhi salatu was-salam Some strange amazing duas Amazing supplications That show you the difficulty That he went through The hardship that he had to endure Being a messenger The son of a messenger The son of a messenger The son of the friend of Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala So he had so much of blessing But he was tested I look at one of the first duas That come to mind And the ulamas speak about When they speak of the supplications Of the prophet Yusuf alayhi salam Joseph may peace be upon him He said, I love him From what they call me to him And if you turn away from me I will turn to them And I will be of the ignorant Again before I translate this du'a The supplication It's in surah Yusuf Let me set the scene for you Here are a group of women Trying to seduce this man And they are calling him towards sin And one of them is a very beautiful woman She has authority She has wealth She is the wife of a very powerful man And secretly, privately She is luring him towards committing the sin And they threatened him to say You either commit the sin And earn the displeasure of Allah in the process Meaning they were calling him towards it Knowing that this would earn the displeasure of Allah Or we are going to ensure that you will be falsely charged And you will be jailed So the false charges were about to be put in place Against him And he would be jailed as a result of these false charges Do you know what he said? He said, Oh Allah I would love to be jailed Than to be committing a sin against you Allahu Akbar The curse is upon those who falsely charge others How many times we hear of people who charge others For that which they didn't even do So if that is the case It is definitely a major curse And we learn from the story of Yusuf Aleyhis Salatu Wasalaam That he chose something that was much more difficult He was imprisoned for a long time As a result of a false charge That was laid against him by someone If we were in his place One wonders what we would have done A lot of people would say Well, you know, Allah will forgive Here is Yusuf Aleyhis Salatu Wasalaam Saying that I know Oh Allah If it's not for your mercy And the strength that you're going to give me I might incline towards what they're calling me towards Subhanallah Listen to the dua He says Now I'm translating it Oh my Rab The prison that I've been warned against Is more beloved to me Than that which they are calling me towards And if you do not Turn away Their plan and plot against me Perhaps they may put it on me And I will be from among the losers You know I may end up doing something that I don't want to do And I will be a loser So oh Allah, I'm asking you two things Firstly, I'm telling you That I would love to be imprisoned Than to disobey you Secondly, I want you to Turn their plot away In such a way that they don't impact on me Because if they do, I'm going to be a loser I'm going to be the loser That's what he told Allah Subhanallah He is literally asking Allah to be jailed That's what he's saying Subhanallah Assijnu habbu ilay Ultimately, I don't want to be jailed I'd like to see the justice happening But because there's no justice in the system And the false charges are coming across I'd rather be Falsely charged for something Than to perpetrate a crime Against you or Allah Do something totally wrong So sometimes we're faced with a scenario where We're going We're made to choose between the disobedience of Allah And getting a false accusation against you Perhaps being jailed Being accused of something you didn't do Here's Yusuf alayhi salam saying There's no even question You have to protect yourself from disobeying Allah Because we don't know how you're going to get out of that But this one here What will they do?  If they're going to jail you They've jailed people better than you So that's why when we look at the prisons And we see people in the prisons Not every time is a justice system competent enough Not every time are those in prison actually guilty Sometimes you find people coming out And you know the They are found To be innocent After years of having spent time in the prisons It happens when When it's revisited and they come out innocent Who people look like fools I've seen it happening in so many countries I'm sure we've read pieces in the news So my brothers and sisters It's very important for us to know This dua of Yusuf alayhi salatu was-salam Allah says Fa-stajabalahu rabbuhu fa-sarafa'nhu qaida hun Allah responded his call and turned away their plot From them as a result He went into the jail May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala grant us goodness And open our doors May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala really grant us the ability To call out to him We need to know how to call out to Allah What to ask him And may Allah bless us all I'm looking forward to seeing you For the next episode Insha'Allah Until then I'll say this Wa-sallallahu was-salam wa-baraka ala nabina Muhammad Wa-sallamu alaikum wa-rahmatu wa-rahmatu


That's for your listening enjoyment, John Lawton, Baz. Johnny Dawes. George Dean, Johnny. Conduct Mitchell. Oh, hi, George. Johnny, how does Los Vegas sound to you? Expensive. Can you afford it? Got to a client of ours at a 30 grand diamond necklace stolen out there yesterday. Little of a sword. The batter? One and only. Still packing them in after all these years. And still the same? Well, they think every girl needs a hobby, George. Not two hobbies, though. That should run into money. The makers of Wrigley's Spear Mint Gum bring you John Lawton, another adventure of the man with the action-packed expensive couch. America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator. Here's to you, Johnny Dawes.  That lively, full-bodied Wrigley's Spear Mint flavor is really refreshing.  The pleasant chewing helps keep your throat moist, helps relieve that dry, thirsty feeling. And delicious Wrigley's Spear Mint Gum is so handy. Just flip a package into your purse or pocket and you've got refreshments right at your fingertips. Chew Wrigley's Spear Mint while you're working. Enjoy this refreshing treat along with your favorite summer sports. Wrigley's Spear Mint Gum is always enjoyable and you can chew it without even taking time off. Get a few packages of Wrigley's Spear Mint Chewing Gum. Helpful, refreshing, delicious. Accounts submitted by special investigator Johnny Dawes to Home Office Concourse Mutual Assurance Company, Hartford, Connecticut. The following is an accounting of expenditures during my investigation of the Jones medicine. Expense account item one, $318.60, transportation, round-trip airfare and incidentals to Las Vegas and the Flamingo Hotel, where the ordinary citizen lives like an oriental potentate wishes he could live. After checking in, I took a short walk down the street to Lily Le Sur's hotel. Johnny Dawes, special investigator for your insurance company. Oh, well that's very nice. I'm sure of it. That's why I'm here. Mind if I ask him in? Oh, please do, Mr. Dawes. This is Eddie Lawson, Mr. Dawes, my very dear friend. Just a doll, really. Hello, how are you? I think it's awfully dry and nice for the insurance company to take this and interest in my poor little affair. I imagine they regard $30,000 as more of a rich figure there. Oh dear. And then I suppose you'll go around crying into all my most intimate secrets and such embarrassing questions that I'll just... Oh, I think having jewelry stolen is always such a bore. Yes. The insurance company feels the same way, Mr. Sur. Now, it's not just... Oh, good heavens. Look at the time. I got the fly. Lily, you remember what I told you.  Don't you think these questions out there are just adorable, Mr. Zoller? Well, they do a lot to point out the girl's personality, all right? Well, maybe this investigation won't be such a chore after all. Oh dear. I'm late. Buck and Devastator are going to be just furious. Oh, tell me more about your show tonight, Johnny. 10 o'clock at the Billion Dollar Club. Buck Barclay, he's the writing instructor at the Lacey J. Staley's. Devastator is the horse. It's a better name for Lily. I'm going to marry Lily, Mr. Dollar. Oh, congratulations. Now, what about this necklace? What happened? It disappeared. That's all I know about it. So how? Where?  The same gang will be there, and you can check to set up yourself, see what happens. You can keep an eye on this Buck Barclay that you want to kiss with me. And the other are anywhere, as long as it's not on Lily. Two dollars and fifty cents. And twelve dollars for a hired car to the Lacey J. Staley's. Horses for hire. English or western-style saddles. Instructor available. A western-style instructor as was soon painfully obvious. Hello, Mr. Dollar. Lily just took off from here a couple of years ago. I know. You, uh, eastern friend of hers? Well, I'm not exactly a friend. I'm a special investigator. Checking into those diamonds she lost the other evening. Oh, I see. I haven't seen if you were there. Might know something about it. No, sir. Beats me. There we were sitting on that fancy pairs kind of thing they got there. Hoisting a little poison and shawing on some beef steak, you know. And the next thing you know, Miss Lily lets out a gyphosis. My rocks. Somebody at them took my rocks. I didn't even know she had any jewelry out there with her. Did anybody know she had? Well, not unless it was with Joe. Miss Joe? Oh, the gal I've run, Miss Joe and Greg. I was thinking she might have known because she ambled down to Miss Lily's room with us so they could change their glad rags and put on their bathing suits, you know. She'd been pestering me for a week to meet Mr. Sir, but she sure wouldn't take nothing if it didn't belong to her. But I wonder if there was a diamond necklace on the terrace. Well, you ain't able to say Miss Lily lied about it, are you? Well, that little woman is true blue, Miss. Matter of fact, Mr. Darlow wouldn't want this to get around, but I'm sort of amin' her. Well... Tell me a guess, Buck. You're amin' to marry her. Yes. I reckon it just sticks out a little bit. Double Miss Darlow. Well, it's supper, Mr. Darlow. Not that I'm the only one with a pool. It was after Mr. Sir's last show, so the four of them had the place pretty much for themselves. Now, who were the four, Marshall? Well, there was Mr. Sir, of course, in the gin color he brought with it from the east. Had he lost him? Yeah. Don't know much about him, except she's dang old enough to be his mother. Well, I'll have to admit, she doesn't work at all. Sure, I don't. Well, the other young fellow, so when you talked to Buck Bartlett, he called and said, Oh, yeah, the Texans. Yeah. He's about as Texan as you are, Mr. Darlow. Came here from Los Angeles. He just puts on that talk because the eastern are like it, especially the eastern women. The Texans are all comes in handy, huh? Then the other one, the girl named Joan Bray. Yeah, she was there with Bartlett. And she's kind of a funny young, pretty, smarter than whip. Came out from the east while back. She's floor manager at the casino at the billion dollar club. Talk to her. See what you think. I can't figure it out. All right? I'll see if I can. Yeah. Come talk to me again after you look around a little. Fine, I will. You know, I've seen these slot machines all over town. The last place I'd look for one is in the Marshall's office. Well, that's kind of very special. Guess I might as well take the jackpot with me. Lemon. Yeah, that's all it ever is. Huh? It's rigged. I send the money it takes in over the county opening. Charge it up to experience, Mr. Dollar. Expense account items free, one dollar for experience and information from the Marshall's office. And $17 miscellaneous expenses at the billion dollar club where miscellaneous covers a lot of different items. One item is the roulette wheel for conversation anyway. Of course I haven't had much yet. What would you like, the story of my life? We could start with that. All right. Lay out a dollar. 12 p.m. Raised entirely by nurses. Educated in exclusive private schools. I'm glad you're looking to flank colleagues for such a leave's name. 30 p.m. Would you like it so far? Well, it isn't original, but well told. Go on. Lay out another dollar. You've lost that one. And where was I? Oh, yes, the divorce. Quite sensational, really. A lot of clients with good accounts and support. He was bankrupt during three months and dead by suicide within six. You see, the other woman killed him. And I had tenderly nourished his tackling. He was passed out into the world of industry. Well, never fear. Heaven will protect the working world. Oh, that was also funny. Yeah. It was a scream. Work came even. And what did you do with the necklace? What? What is this? Who are you? Johnny Dollar, insurance investigator. And you're Joan Gray. The one who badly damaged the service. She changed clothes in her room with her. She was the only one who knew she had the diamonds out of the pool. The work's here for about only 50 bucks a day because of the use. $30,000. $22,000. And I asked you what you did with the necklace. I think that ought to cover the... What is this? Mr. Dollar, if you'd like to say we're left by all means, stay around. But I must say that I don't have any more conversations. It's not a big crisis. I thought I was overcharged for what I got. And this will show you the whole story was true. And with all that background and running a casino, is the best you could do? The best for me. It's good in glamour and sparkle. And that's what I was brought up to success. Diamonds sparkle a lot too. I missed Lily's first show at the Billion Dollar Club but I met her by the pool at her hotel right afterwards. It was a warm night. The stars blazed against the bedded sky and Lily and her guests cindillated back from the terrace below. Except me. I didn't cindillate. So far I wasn't any closer to that necklace than I did when I got off the plane. I had the feeling I'd learned a few things when at the same time I hadn't learned anything and Lily didn't have much. You're utterly gorgeous, Johnny. Yeah, the original Catalina had. Just look for the flying fish. Oh, he's just beautiful. He was a lifeguard in Miami, you know. Much thinner than he is now. I see. Look at Mark Watson. He makes you so too frivolous. He knows it too. Oh, they both just streaming me too. Stream me. How about that necklace? Oh, it's too nice and nice. Let's worry about it tomorrow. Let's worry about it tonight. Oh, John. Might as well go along with him, Lily. I've got a one-track mind. John, darling, I didn't see you there in the shadows. That's helping out the island. Why were you standing that night, Lily? Well, by the oddest coincidence possible, I didn't have very chance. You see, ordinarily I kept the necklace in the hotel space, but I wore it in my show that night and it was late when we got here and then we changed into swimming suits and I didn't want to leave it in my swing, so I just bought it out here. That's in a handkerchief. It was right here on the seat beside me all the time. Well, all of a sudden it wasn't there, did it? Well, yes, that's exactly the way it happened. Now it's all settled. Let's talk about something. Lily, you know as well as I do, it's not settled. You can't tell the insurance company that things just disappeared and that's all there is to it. They want to know how it disappeared, when and where. Well, it must be so hideously persistent. It happened while I was playing the slot machine. That one, that over there. I left the necklace behind here in the gym. And where were the others while you were over there waltzing with the slot machine? Oh, hello, nice phone. I don't know. When I hit the jackpot, I said we went right out of my mind. How about you, John? How are you? Like it says, you're out. Oh, plenty of opportunity, that's what you mean. Oh, at least, fantastic. She's a dear girl, John. And I insist that you stop suspecting her or anybody else either. Well, I wasn't the court or the other way. There wasn't really much of a problem, Johnny. We were wearing swimsuits, you know. John, I doubt if you went out of your mind over the jackpot, did you notice where the boys were at the time? Well, far as I can remember. I reckon the man ought to have the privilege to answer for himself. By sure. Pull up an empty saddle and join the party. Excuse you, Eddie. All right, Buck, where were you? I was over there with Miss Lily. I was standing right behind her when she up and hit that jackpot. I was in the pool. I came out when I heard everybody yelling about some diamonds and things. Do you check them out on that, John? Sure. That's how I remember. Well, I'm certainly glad it's all set. Oh, Johnny, you'll have to excuse me now. I've got to get ready for my show. I'd be mighty proud to scorch to your room, Miss Lily. Now, wait a minute. Stable to breathe. Boys! Boy, you can both scorch me. Come along now. I'll be right back, Johnny. Don't go away now. Silly and soft of the kitten on the surface. But inside, all angles and heart is a rock. She belongs to a different age, John. The last of the champagne slipper girls. Johnny, how much are those diamonds worth to you? To me. To the insurance company. Sometimes they make deals, don't they? Sometimes. No questions asked. Sometimes? How much? Ten. I have to find out. Everything about life, Johnny? I hope I can help it. It's real crazy where it works out. I didn't finish that story of my life, Johnny. My real name's Jones. My father was Jonathan Van der Lee Jones. Jonathan Van der Lee Jones? But if that's true then... Yeah. It's real crazy. The correspondence my mother named in that divorce case was Lily LeSue.  It's good to chew almost any time and any place. In warm weather, you'll enjoy especially the refreshments that Wrigley's Spearmint Gum gives you.   Besides, chewing on a good smooth piece of Wrigley's Spearmint Gum seems to add enjoyment to whatever else you're doing. So always keep some Wrigley's Spearmint Chewing Gum handy. Enjoy it at home, at work, wherever you are. Remember, that's Wrigley's Spearmint Chewing Gum. Helpful, refreshing, delicious.  I sent there trying to put things together.  But which, and what was it? I tried to remember what had happened just before, what had been said, and got nowhere. You know, Johnny, it's funny. I'd always been the innocent bystander, up until now. Maybe that's what you want to go on being, unless you've told it yourself. Would the daughter of Jonathan Van Der Lee-Jones turn out to be a thief? She might, for money and other valuable considerations. Like, for instance? Like a chance to hit back at the woman who ruined her father. Mm-mm. How are you heading up a dead end street? Maybe you are, too. Well, I guess we're expecting that to bring you down a club. Not I. Little Joan's got work to do. So is little Johnny. Maybe we'll meet in the same playpen. Somehow I don't think so. As I know. What happened if I just waived any claim of insurance on the next visit? Drop the whole thing, right now. Which one did it? Sure, I don't... Which one do you think did it do? Maybe I decided it doesn't matter which one. Suppose it was Joan. Would you still want to drop it? Oh, that's ridiculous. Or there's still another possibility. Maybe you started something you want to back out of now. Johnny, why must you be so hideously difficult? The insurance company sent you out here to save $30,000 for it. And I'm just utterly certain they won't care how or why as long as they seek it. No, maybe they won't. So what about me, Lily? It leaves me curious. No, I'm quite sure you know a good deal more about this than you're letting on. Well, I've got to run again at times of my show. Bye, sweetie. Expensive item five, $10 for an hour and a half of more miscellaneous at the billion-dollar club. Lily was in too much demand for any chance of a quiet talk, and my other three chums weren't around. I was trying to decide whether to go back to the hotel when I was paged over the public address system. I picked up the phone at the end of the bar. Johnny, darling. Oh, yeah? What's up, Marshall? I've been arranged to get into the market. Did you find it? No. Did you notice your hand? Yeah. Apparently, you've had him around something greasy, rusty. I wonder... Wait a second. You may not have been killed here at the club. He could have been brought here and left, if possible. Who's this cop along to? Buck Bartlett. We've got the boy out looking for him now. It's almost time up. Do you want to let me in on it, Mr. Dollar? Let me check first. I'm doing a lot of guessing. Joan brought up this deal while we were all at Lily's hotel this evening. I think she just figured out how the necklace was stolen. I think she was killed trying to get it. I think I figured it out, too. But let me check first, Marshall. I'll talk to you later. Ten minutes later, I was alone on the deserted terrace beside the swimming pool at Lily's hotel. I knelt on the edge and looked down into the water. Crystal clear, lighted by an underwater bulb, sunk in a concrete wall. The pumping system was running as usual, drawing the water from the drain pipe on the deep end, circulating it through the filter tanks in the pump room, and returning it to the shallow end. I took my handkerchief, waved it with my room key, picked the spot carefully, and dropped it into the water. I watched it sink down till the drain. Down, down, then suddenly it was caught by the curtain, sucked into the drain. So far, so good. The next step was the pump room. I looked around to the switch on the pump motor, found it, and shut it off. There was a crescent wrench laying on the window ledge. It was shiny and clean. No use worrying about fingerprints. I picked it up and started to work on the rusty cover bolts on the strainer tank. Probably the same way Joan had started. Now, if you're clever, she said, well, she was clever. Well, not clever enough. Inside the strainer tank, laying in a wire basket was my handkerchief and room key. And beside it was Lily's diamond necklace. I was halfway across the terrace, and the lights around the pool went out. Somebody had pulled the main switch. I stopped and listened, waiting. But when it came, I was caught off guard. Somebody hit me and knocked me into the water. When I came up, I heard someone swimming. Whoever it was had come into the pool after me. I made the side, grabbed hold of the ledge with my left hand, threw back the wrench in my life. As the slashing came close, I lifted it and swung. Look here, without flashlight. There's a light. The switch was pulled. Here, helped me get him out of the water. Yeah. Marshall, this time, I had the wrench. Well, huh? He'd lost it. Yeah. I found the necklace in the strainer of the fillet system. Well, it's been all the time. He was lying when he said he was in a pool when Lily hit the jackpot. Right afterward, during the excitement, took the time as with him. Joan knew he was lying, and she figured out what he'd done. He was a smart kid. Too smart. Oh, you did. I mean... Which one of your boyfriends? Why don't you give up, Lily? Time moves along. The years add up. I'm not harming anyone. Aren't you? Joan is dead. He killed her over these diamonds of yours. Dead? Dead? It's all right, though, as long as you're not harming anyone. But how could I know? I didn't mean any harm to that poor girl. Eddie could have had the diamonds if I'd known. They didn't matter, Johnny. Just a gift a long time ago. I don't even remember who it was. J.V.J.? Those are the initials on the class. Shit. That's who it was. Joan. Some fool named Jonathan Vanderley-Jones. They didn't mean a thing to me. Item 6. $51.40. Hotel charges and additional miscellaneous. Expense account total $418.40. Remarks? Suggest you reconsider this account. Clients should be regarded as a bad risk. It'll happen again. Here's truly Johnny Dollar.  That lively full-bodied wriggly spearmint flavor is really refreshing.  The smooth, pleasant chewing helps keep you feeling relaxed, too. So you naturally feel better, work better, get more fun out of doing things. Remember, too, wriggly spearmint chewing gum is a refreshing treat you can enjoy almost any time and any place.  Do as millions do. Keep wriggly spearmint chewing gum handy and enjoy it often every day. That's wriggly spearmint chewing gum. Healthful, refreshing, delicious. 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Welcome back everyone to theCUBE's live coverage here in Barcelona for MWC24. I'm John Furrier, host of theCUBE with Dave Vellante, my co-host from day one, 14th season Dave. We've got Savannah's here, we've got Shelley. theCUBE team's expanding with theCUBE research, formerly Wikibon growing. We've got theCUBE team continuing to expand and of course SiliconANGLE, more traffic there than ever before. As the world goes next level cloud, cloud has changed the game. Now it's changing telecom. We've got a great guest here, Dr. Ishwar Parulkar, who's the chief technologist of the telecom edge cloud for AWS, Amazon web services. Dr. Ishwar, thanks for coming on theCUBE. Cloud has made it and penetrated and infiltrated the ethos of telecom, finally. Yeah, absolutely. Welcome to theCUBE. Thank you, thanks for having me, it's a pleasure to be here. So you got a telecom background, give us your background and how you got here and what you do at AWS, and we'll get into good chat. So I've been at AWS for about eight years now in the role of the chief technologist for this vertical. I spent several years before coming to AWS in this industry. Around 2014, 15, there was a lot of talk about 5G virtualized networks, APIs, and edge cloud as well, mobile edge computing, what's called MEC Mac. And I was convinced that the cloud had a big role to play in these technology transitions, which is what brought me to AWS in 2016. It's been a journey, it's taken a few years to really afford the cloud to understand what the telco industry does and what could be done. And vice versa, it's taken some time for the telco industry to understand what the cloud could do. But we're here now at Mobile World Congress, it's been, it's our third year. So it's quite evident now that the cloud is the central part. It's not even a lot of Amazon, Dave and I both have done a lot of AWS interviews. Clint Crozier and I joked last time he was on theCUBE, there's no edge in space, because the world's, where does it stop?  So obviously connectivity is driving this show. Cloud has come in and changed the game because developers are in the cloud. They're using APIs as you guys that pioneered, we talked many times. But what your blog post wrote last week and what you're doing here at the show is interesting because you're saying that the telco is an API, I'm oversimplifying it, but if the telco is an API, then the developers who know APIs, they're the users. And therefore the developer conversations already built in to all the real critical work being done now on transit, 5G, seamless mobility, these new abstractions. Is that right? What is your vision? Explain the telco API and how that impacts developers, ultimately where the applications are going to come from. So if you look at what the cloud is, it's a large scale, multi-tenanted compute and storage infrastructure. And over the 18 years, we've built a large business out of it by creating this infrastructure, creating services on top and abilities for developers to write applications. But all of that stuff, all of the innovation, all of the technology is offered and consumed through APIs. So we have 240 services built using thousands of APIs and all the developers see, all that our cloud users see are APIs. It's a sea of APIs. And one piece that was missing was the connectivity piece. So we have compute, we have storage, we have databases, we have machine learning stack. And now what this is bringing to the equation to the developers is the connectivity piece. Now they can use all of these other services that we have and telco, connected from telco, all through APIs to build applications that are network aware and applications that were not possible before. So I think that's really the value to developers. As the telcos see the value of data, which they have a lot of and they have a device access, the edge now becomes very interesting with cloud enabled edge. So okay, you public cloud, I have a lot of stuff in AWS, I'm a customer. But I have my on premise, which is a big edge and the edge itself where the telcos are providing services, private 5G, business 5G. What's the connection point for AWS? How do you guys bring that together with the telcos, make money and you guys expand your cloud operation footprint? Yeah, so there's different notions of edge. And around 2017, 16, 17, there was a lot of movement around hybrid edge and conversations around what does hybrid edge mean on prem versus cloud. And we took our time to really understand what was really needed in this space. And the way we have approached the edge is about bringing the cloud to the edge. It's not just servers sitting in an edge location. It's not just a rack of servers that you have to put together a cobble software and get it going.  And what that means is from day one when you turn the power on, all the services that are available in our large regions and data centers are available at the edge. So it's a reflection of the cloud at the edge. What that allows you to do is firstly run the same applications that run in the public cloud in the regions on the edge seamlessly. There's no change. What runs in the regions and the big data centers runs in the edge. You can move things around. You can migrate things from the edge to the region. You can build applications which have a dual mode. Like if you look at most machine learning applications, there's training which needs to be done in large, needs large compute capacity and there's inference which can happen at the edge. So you can build this bimodal applications where part is in the public cloud part is in the edge. So that's our approach to the edge which is really bringing the edge cloud, not just putting servers at the edge. So how does that relate to the hardened telco stacks? You got this, you know it well, the telco stacks been pretty robust but inflexible for years. As it disaggregates, how does that evolve? Is it the BSS and OSS systems that are going first? Other parts of the stack that are moving to the cloud on the edge help us to paint a picture of that. So cloud adoption is a journey and we see this in all other verticals as well. When a company adopts a cloud you phase it based on the workloads that make the most sense that are the right ones to start understanding or applying cloud principles and so forth. In the telco space, what we see is the OSS, BSS one workloads are the first ones to get adopted because they are more similar to enterprise workloads. They can be run in the large central data centers. So they have characteristics that make them the first candidate typically in terms of adoption. Then we have the IMS and the packet core and we've seen traction on that now. I mean, in the last couple of years we've seen more adoption of that. And lastly is the radio access network as well. Now radio access network is quite performance demanding. It requires accelerators. It's also very distributed, it requires a far edge. So as you move from centralized to distributed, as you move from relatively not as performance intensive to requiring performance, that's kind of the adoption journey we see from more centralized to more distributed and from workloads that look similar to enterprise workloads to very, very telco specific workloads. And so it's a journey, so it doesn't happen overnight. But the key challenges was we see it and we've been talking about it now for a couple of years is to be able to replicate that stability because while we sometimes, John talks about the glacial pace of telco, but it works. They do good at connectivity. How, where are we on the spectrum or the curve of that maturity with sort of the distributed, more open network being as reliable? Are we just getting started? Are we well on the way? So the cloud was built with some fundamental principles. Security is one of them, you know. If you go back to the early days of the cloud, enterprises would not trust their data, their managing the control over their servers to anybody else. So we had to focus tremendously on making sure these were secure from grounds up, right? That is what lend to the trust of these IT organizations to run the workloads in the cloud. Reliability is the same thing. We had to be, we had to make sure that we build the infrastructure grounds up right from the bottom most layers of the stack to the top most layers to be very, very reliable. Otherwise, enterprises would not have moved the workloads to the cloud. So we have constructs like availability zones. We call them availability zones, which are for, you know, multiple data centers which comprise of- Not just one data center. We know. Not just one data center, right? So it's in many ways much more reliable than something that an individual enterprise can afford, right? They do some level of reliability at hardware redundancy, but we have actually multiple data centers. And we can, they don't have to incur all the cost of four or five copies of these things because we are multi-tenanted. We are large-scale. We use elasticity to manage this. So it's a much more reliable model at a lower cost that we can offer from the cloud. So coming back to your developer question.  And before SaaS it was COTS, remember COTS commercial off the shelf software. And then that became, you know, SaaS. Who were the developers today? You mentioned the applications on top of the network. Are these sort of new applications that are going to be SaaS or are they more internal that is sort of new invention within companies that are more, you know, bringing competitive advantage? Thinking, again, back to the pre-COTS days. Yeah. No, so it's going to be all flavors of software deployment. It could be SaaS. It could be other models of deployment. But these are just applications that developers writing today. They can be enhanced with network or telco APIs. And then there could be applications which we've not thought about, which will come up because once you put the APIs in the hands of the developers, right? So my, the analogy I give is the iPhone, right? Nobody would have imagined the type of apps and the number of apps that were developed when the SDK was opened up, right? It's the same thing with developers. You have to put it in their hands and the creativity will be unleashed. But we are already seeing the early seeds of what's possible. So we anti-fraud, we announced an anti-fraud solution. And this was, this is for banking financial services where they use biometric data, but they can use additional data from the telecom networks through APIs to know whether the swim, the SIM has been swapped in the phone is the mobile number, the right mobile number associated with that person. So it just makes the security and the anti-fraud detection even stronger, right? So you will see a class of applications which exist today, but which can be made better with network information. And then there will be a class of applications which are completely new, which were not possible before. So on those examples, is that part of the open gateway initiative that these APIs are going to be available? Is that just Telcos having their own APIs? Can you like parse the difference between the nuance there? Yeah, so Telcos will offer their own APIs as well. What open gateway is doing is standardizing them across Telcos. So one key thing that we need to understand and appreciate in this is that application developers write an application and they want it to run anywhere, anywhere, everywhere. They don't want the application tied to a particular operator. So if you're running a banking app, you could be a customer of one operator or you could be some other person could be a customer of another operator. And the same application needs to run with all of them. So you need standardization of these APIs. So even though it's coming from a different operator, it has to be the same API, same format that can be integrated into the application. So what open gateway is doing is creating that standardization across operators. So they can come together and agree on that API which connects to their network. Are you behind open gateway? You involved in that process? Yes, absolutely. So what's the status of that? Because we were debating that, we were discussing, is it how real is it? Who's involved? I saw the announcement 47 now. Net operators are on it. That comprises over 200, close to 250 networks. So it's growing, it's growing very fast in terms of the membership of the operators. The open gateway initiative has made progress in terms of defining a reference architecture so that telcos can partner with other channels like hyperscalers to expose their APIs to their developer system. So we can now use these APIs from multiple telcos and expose them. It's operational. Well, it's an architecture which the operators are agreeing on so that they can offer these APIs in a standardized common manner to one channel. So just so I get the progression where we are, they've got architecture. The next step would be they're rolling them out and making them available, absolute developers which is not yet available. Well, they are available today, not in the form of aggregation, but if you follow the announcements, there's already announcements. My blog is about that. Because it is about offering these APIs from multiple operators through AWS. So that's starting to happen now. So what are the low-hanging fruit white space here as you'll see developers jumping in on? You mentioned some of the SIM cards swapping. Yeah. Actually security would probably be a big one, right? Yeah, so to me there are three areas which are low-hanging fruit or ready to be adopted and already be seeing traction from application developers. One is the space around security, anti-fraud, user authentication. There are some APIs that help in that. Financial Services is one key area where that plays a role. User identity in virtual environments is another one. So that's one space. The other space is around quality on demand API which is the API that allows some level of controlling of bandwidth and slicing in the network. A lot of the video streaming, media, gaming type of applications need that. So we're seeing applications in that space starting to use that. And the third one is around location. Location services and getting the location of the device through an API with autonomous vehicles, with our asset tracking systems that we use in our supply chain for retail. We're seeing definitely an adoption there. So that would be used for the mobility seamless, private network between public networks. Is that what the seamless mobility piece comes in? There is a seamless mobility piece. So that's in private networks also, there is an application. But as I said, in terms of APIs, it's the authentication, security, anti-fraud related APIs, the quality on demand API and the location APIs which are getting the most traction right now. What's the monetization? I mean, I get how AWS makes money. How do the developers make money? Do they pay for that sort of data? Is it, are they building kind of new services on top of that? I mean, the ones that you've mentioned are actually very kind of network centric. You know, the telemetry and understanding sort of the patterns, the data patterns, the fraud detection, obviously. So those are services that will layer on top of the cloud that somebody's going to pay for. Maybe the bank, maybe the consumer, but it sounds like not necessarily. Yeah, it's like any other application, right? I mean, there is the application developer, the group of folks that who are going to develop the applications are going to make money because they're developing applications. The consumers, depending on the application, you know, will have some role to play there. The key question here is how do telcos monetize it? And a lot of the discussions in the operator community right now is how do you monetize them? How do you price these APIs? This is something we've done over 18 years now. We've learned a lot in this. There are APIs that developers are willing to pay a lot for. There are APIs they expect for free. It just depends on what the API does, what the outcome of the API is. And that value will be determined as we put these out and developers get to use them, right? Amazon turned the data center into an API, so the value is very obvious, right? I need storage, I need compute. I think the telcos saw that and said, I don't know if we want to be turned into an API yet. But they got a good monetization with their data. And I think application developers will probably come in at the infrastructure, fill in the white spaces, then go after the apps for user experience, probably some sort of value I'd imagine there, like any app market, you know. Yeah, it's a large pie and there's enough to go on for everybody. It just depends on how it's going to play out, right? We have to see, you have to put it out in the hands of the developers, see what the applications are, really test out and understand where the value is and you know, that will determine the economics here. Ishwar, thank you for coming on theCUBE. Really appreciate your time coming on, sharing the perspective. Quick, we got 30 seconds left. What's next for you? What's going to happen with AWS and telco? What's on your agenda? What events do you go to? What's, take us through, what's the next year look like for you? Obviously, reinvents in December, we'll be there. Yeah, so yeah. We think cloud has a big role to play in terms of helping telcos transform from connectivity providers to digital service providers. We are well on that journey by running networks on the cloud, working on these APIs, exposing them. AI and artificial intelligence and machine learning is going to be a big transformative technology. So we're looking at how we can apply generative AI and our other artificial intelligence and machine learning services to help telcos really transform their businesses. Not only help with the customer interface, but also network operations and other business processes. It's going to be a really exciting journey for the cloud and the telcos coming together. Yeah, timing's perfect, acceleration's going to go fast. The pace of play will be much faster than it was in the past couple years. It has to, because the world needs to get connectivity. Edge is going to be a big part of this inference. So we're going to be following it. Thanks for coming on, I appreciate it. Okay, we'll be right back. More CUBE coverage in Barcelona. I'm John Furrier, Dave Vellante. Stay with us. We'll be right back after this short break.