In fact, this is Dave Vellante, we're live with Silicon Angle and Wikibon's continuous coverage of Hadoop World 2011 and I'm here with my new co-host Jeff Kelly. Jeff, you've been checking out all the action today, so thanks for coming back and we're here, we got a great guest, Tasso Argeros, who's the VP of marketing and product management at Aster Data, welcome to theCUBE. Thank you Dave, first time on I believe. Yes. Yeah, so that's great, but it's been quite a year for Aster Data and the space in general, the enterprise data warehouse space, analytics and Hadoop and so you guys must be excited, congratulations on the recent acquisition. Thank you very much. And let's talk about Hadoop World, what's going on here for you guys, what do you see? And why don't you start by taking us through, sort of take us back to the acquisition, what's happened there and what's happened since and then we'll get into the Hadoop Angle. Yes, absolutely. So, the acquisition was a great thing for us, what happened was that we had, Aster was kind of the leader in this emerging technology space of big data for the enterprise, data that was obviously the leader in, data warehousing, enterprise data warehousing and so the merger of the two, I think created a leader in the big data space. So, the great thing about us being part of data is that we have a lot of, we have great amount of resources, we've been able to increase the amount of R&D investment that we're doing. We also have access to resources that we didn't have before. For instance, one of the things we did after the acquisition is that we came out with a hardware appliance that fully packages our software on a hardware packaging that's fully supported by data data and that's something that would be very hard for us to do frankly as an independent company. So, we're very actively exploiting synergies between data and Aster in terms of marketing, just technology and the amount of resources and support we have is great. Now, what's, did you plan on dropping Hadoop into that appliance? Is it already there or what's? No, so what is that? That's Aster software on an appliance, so it's our software on an appliance packaging and it also includes management software from data data and includes an Aster data connector. So, if you have a data warehouse, you can just drop this box, plug it in and very quickly get up and running and do ingest new types of data and move them over to your data warehouse after it's analyzed. Okay, so what about Hadoop World? Why are you here? What are you doing at the show? Well, I think Hadoop is obviously a great trend, it's a very big trend in the market. We do have, we're getting a lot of interest from people that are either using Hadoop or they're thinking about using Hadoop and most of the time the interest we're getting is that people love what Hadoop is promising, they love MapReduce, they want to be able to do deeper analytics. On the other hand, they're trying to figure out what is really a good use case for Hadoop, what is not a good use case and how can they reduce the overall total cost of ownership because the traditional way of deploying Hadoop which is you have a whole bunch of engineers and you deploy them to manage Hadoop to do the analytics, everything together, that's a model that works for a few companies like Facebook but has a very high overall cost. So what enterprise are thinking today is how can I deploy in MapReduce, how can I do this big data, new type of data processing but with a more controllable, more reasonable cost and that's where we can compliment Hadoop as a solution. So I talked to a number of Teradata customers, not just Teradata but other enterprise data warehousing customers and they describe what they go through as a sort of a snake swallowing a basketball and they're constantly ingesting more data and they can't keep up with it and that's one of the problems that Aster I guess set out to solve. Correct. And so I want you to talk about that a little bit and then talk about the unique requirements of Hadoop. So start there, tell people a little bit more about Aster data and how it's different as a platform and then we want to talk more about Hadoop. Yes, absolutely. So what Aster is doing is Aster offers implementation of MapReduce which is a language you also find in Hadoop and is the component Hadoop that allows you to do deeper analytics but we combine it with SQL. So we have a patented framework that's called SQL MapReduce that allow you to do MapReduce analytics but access those through a standard ANSI SQL interface. What this means is that business analyst and enterprises can do MapReduce analytics just like they could do SQL queries and SQL reports and you can also connect a lot of third-party ecosystem tools like BI tools, ETL tools to MapReduce through the Aster platform. So the way to think about Aster is that Hadoop is a great platform to ingest data, archive data and do batch transformations but Aster is a great platform to do a lot of iterative discovery analytics. If you have data scientists that need to quickly do a number of analytics, iterate through the data and expose those analytics to business analysts or BI tools, Aster is the only solution in the market that can do that. And in fact, we've gotten some tremendous traction, tremendous press around SQL MapReduce technology and even actually as I said this weekend there was an article in Forbes.com that was talking about technology and everything that you can check out. But really the combination of SQL and MapReduce is what it takes to bring the part of MapReduce to the enterprise. I wonder, are there any trade-offs you have to make when you wrap MapReduce in the SQL wrapper? I mean, do you lose any functionality, any capabilities? What's, are there trade-offs there? The way to think about it is that really what Hadoop has optimized for is scalability. Right, so Hadoop is super scalable, you can have a Hadoop class of like 5,000 nodes. However, for the people that do not need a 5,000 node system, we have traded some scalability for a lot of performance, ease of use, enterprise readiness. And what we find that for 99% of the customers out there that is a fair trade-off. Also, what SQL really gives you, the ability to iterate very, very quickly, it's very friendly to analysts, very friendly to data scientists. If what you have is engineers that all you want to do is just write code, code, code, Hadoop is obviously a great platform for that because it is a development platform at the end of the day. But most enterprises though, they're not willing to make the investment and hire an army of developers just to write code. So a year ago we were here and there was really one player, Rose Cloud there, and now you've got others entering the market. They were there, but a light has been shined on this. What's your take on all that? Is it a great thing because everybody just gets more business? Well, competition is always a great thing, at least for the customers. I think what's happening is that it's very simple, the Hadoop market is growing and there's more and more people that are, you know, willing to go out there and offer services and offer support and even offer products around Hadoop. From our perspective, we believe very fundamentally that our value proposition is very unique. So the more people can offer Hadoop services, the faster the Hadoop market will grow and the better it's going to be for us because we have a great story about how we complement Hadoop to enable more analytics for enterprise users. What's the big gate in your view? I mean, it's obviously growing. We saw this show was probably 800, 900 last year. It's, you know, I think Mike said 1400 this year and probably, you know, growing at the pace of the community. But what do you see is the gate? Is it skill sets around data scientists? Is it the maturity of the technology? Is it the ecosystem, you know, all of the above? Can you talk a little bit about that? Yes, I think it's definitely a combination of things. I think there are surveys out there, excuse me, that you can take a look and what they say is that a lot of enterprises getting stuck either on the skill set that they need to have to, you know, roll out these Hadoop deployments or on the connectivity with their existing investments and ecosystem tools. And this is something that Astro can really help because we can mitigate some of the skills that are needed. We can move some of the skills that need more to analysts than developers and we can also help connect MapReduce to ecosystem tools. But it's definitely a combination of ecosystem connectivity and skill set.  And, you know, Google, which is really where MapReduce started, right? How is Google successful with the MapReduce technology? They have very smart engineers that can be an analyst, a developer, and a system administrator all at once, right? And that's the traditional model of how you make a Hadoop deployment successful. You hire people that can do all three at once. They can figure out what's the business problem, what it means in terms of analytics, they can code up the analytics in code, and they can deploy the code and they can run it. They can do what, you know, what is called end jobs. So this model is clearly unsustainable for enterprises. You know, if you Google and you write next to Stanford and you hire all the species, that's great. If not, you know, tough luck. So I think you will see the market evolving towards a place where Hadoop will have some specific use cases that it's going to be extremely successful on. But then you have other products like Aster and others that can serve other use cases that Hadoop cannot solve today. And I think we're looking at the market moving towards the direction very quickly. Do you, let's just listen to you speak to us so when I see a services opportunity there, are you guys going after that opportunity or leaving that to others or partners? So right now, the way Aster was developed is that we do have services. We're not, services is not our focus, so we partner with a lot of SIS in the market to help deliver those services, but I completely agree that services is a big part of the story. One of the great things about becoming part of TheraData is that TheraData does have a very substantial presence of services. So we now are able to offer a more full solution to our customers than what we could offer as a small startup with very limited services resources. Excellent. Well listen, thanks very much for coming on theCUBE today and sharing with us some of the perspectives, the acquisition, congratulations again. Sounds like we're in the early days of Hadoop, but you guys want to be there, you want to play and you got a lot to add with a big new parent and so well done and we'll be watching. Thank you very much. Glad to be here. Thank you.


Watch this video all the way through. I promise this is gonna transform how you run your business. Let's get into it. If you find today's video helpful, hit that subscribe button. And if you want more free information about how to grow your coaching business, head over to makemoneycoachingsports.com. All right, on this graph, I'm gonna show you the difference between getting paid cash. And when I say cash, I mean actually getting paid cash, Venmo, cash app, one-off payments on checks, or you're getting paid online, streamlined, where once you get paid, you never talk to your clients ever again about money. And I'm gonna show you the difference between private training and group training in camps and clinics between getting paid cash and going all online with all your payments. So first let's talk about private training. So I want you to imagine, right now you're meeting with one client. If you are getting paid per session every single time you see them, you are 100% relying on them to show up to the session to give you money. Now, here's the problem. If they text you that day and they say, hey coach, we can't make it to the session. Well, guess what? You just lost on that cash because the only way you get paid is when you actually physically see them.  So here with this model with personal training, private training or even group training, you're going to lose thousands of dollars per year because of how you operate. So here, I'm just going to put one dollar sign, all right? And you'll know what that means in a second. Now, if you operate online, then regardless of your client showing up or not, you're getting paid. So now I want you to imagine a client text you 10 minutes before the session, they're like, hey, we can't make it today. Well, guess what? They already paid. And if they already paid, you've already been prepaid upfront for your time, meaning you don't have to chase your client for money. So with this model, you're not relying on your client showing up to every session. Of course you want them to show up to every session. That's kind of the whole point of this business. So you can help them develop and get better, but you're not relying on them to do that to get paid. Instead, you get paid upfront for either multiple months or month by month. And you're not going to have to freak out when they don't show up or if they send you that text right before the session. So this here, I'm gonna put $3 signs. You're going to make way more money with this model than you will here. And I can prove it. I've already worked with literally thousands of coaches who transitioned from here to here. And they can have the same amount of clients and make way more money without even adding new clients because they transitioned everything over to online billing. So with online billing, it's going to protect you long-term. If you're doing this part-time or full-time, you're going to make way more steady income than you would if you're getting paid cash.  You're working with like 20 to 50 clients. It's another whole nother job for you to collect money from them. Today's episode is sponsored by MakeMoneyCoachingSports.com. Simply head over to MakeMoneyCoachingSports.com right now and access my free webinar where we break down exactly how to grow your company to six figures and beyond. So we don't want to do that. We want to streamline your time. We want to streamline your business. So once you ask for money once, once you make the sale online, that means you're never going to have to go back to your clients ever again, all right? Really, really huge time saver for you and you're going to be way more professional with your business. Now let's talk about camps and clinics. This is a huge one because if you get paid cash for camps or clinics, you might have 20 to 30 parents who say, hey, we're going to be there on Saturday for your camp. But when they show up, you're either collecting money from them one by one or they're going to pay you after the camp is done or after the clinic is done. And again, that's not fair for you because what if they decide not to show up? Why would they still pay you for something they didn't use? And that's very common. A lot of parents who commit to cancer clinics, they don't show up to every single one. The problem you're going to run into is you're going to be relying completely on them to show up to the camper clinic to actually get paid. I've seen this personally in my business in the past. I remember I would have like 20 to 30 parents tell me that they're going to be at the session at my camper clinic and then like four or five people would show up. And I would lose hundreds and literally thousands of dollars that day because of how I operated. So here, all right? Again, I'm going to put a little dollar sign here. Like you can make some money, all right? But when you shift over to online, all right? You're going to be making way more. So we got $3 signs here. You're going to be probably making three extra what you would normally make if you're doing things the old way. So here's how I like to try to show you if you are doing it this way. If you are accepting cash, Venmo, Cash App, any of the things I've talked about, that is the most common way coaches are running their business. But here's the thing. You want to be an uncommon trainer amongst common trainers. And when you are uncommon, that means you have standards, you have rules. You are more professional than everyone else. And if that's the case, you should be doing things the new way, which is streamline all of your billing, have everything set up nice and neat and organized to the point where when you run a camper clinic, you could send out one email and sell out your whole camper clinic like a month before it even happens.  You just lost thousands of dollars because you're doing it the old way. So the new way is the most effective way to run your business. This is what all of the coaches that we work with, this is what they end up doing. And they can end up growing and scaling their company, again, without even taking on new clients. But once they have this as their baseline, anytime they get a new client, it's so much easier to onboard them and get them more committed to the process. So you can choose the old way or the new way. You're going to make way more money on this side than you ever will here. And again, as you grow and scale your company, you don't want to have to deal with this extra job of collecting money. That should be an afterthought for you. It should be you make the sale, do a good job with the clients, not focusing about the money beyond that. Cause I know how it is. If you're collecting money at the sessions or you're worried if someone's going to pay that day, you are completely reliant on them. And this business is really hard and annoying to run when you are just completely dependent on your clients. Don't wanna run it that way. There's other easier ways to do this. That's it for today's video. I'll see you soon.


Live from New York, it's the queue. Covering AWS Global Summit 2019. Brought to you by Amazon Web Services. Hi, and welcome to New York City, the Big Apple. I'm Stu Miniman, my co-host for today is Corey Quinn, and this is AWS Summit, New York City. It is one of the regional events that they have, but these regional events are actually tend to be bigger and more exciting than many companies, you know, big events. Not to say that companies don't do good shows, but if you look, we've got 11,500 people in attendance, over 120 sessions, over 125 sponsoring partners here in the ecosystem. Just had Warner Vogels up on stage, a number of the customers, such as FINRA and DoorDash, who we will have on the program, and Good Energy, a local show, it is free to attend. Corey, before we get into the technology though, there's a little bit of a protest going on here. It's actually the second Amazon show in a row that this was, it was at Amazon Remars, where a protester talking about, I believe it was, something around about chickens in Whole Foods, basically. She got really close to the richest man in the world, but the protest here, it's outside, it's going, and it's about ice and border control. It was actually a very well-organized protest. Security had to take many of them out for the first at least half hour of the keynote. Warner stopped a few times, and he said, look, I'll be happy to talk to you after, but please let me finish. I thought he handled it respectively, but what was your take? Very much so, and I think it's an issue where there aren't too many people you'd want to associate with on the other side of it. Kids in cages is not something anyone sensible wants to endorse. The challenge that I continually have, I think, is that it's easy to have these conversations, oh, now is not the time. Well, okay, great. Typically, it's difficult to get big companies to say, and now is the time for us to address this in anything outside of very carefully worded statements. So I empathize, I really do. I mean, as a speaker myself, it's terrifying to me. The idea that I could go up and have to have that level of conversation, and, hey, suddenly interrupted by people yelling at me, it's got to be nerve-wracking. Speaking to 10,000 people on its own is not easy. And having to carry that forward with something that effectively comes down to a morality question is, it's got to be tough. I have sympathy for people going through this and working at Amazon, and it's, I don't know that there's a great answer right now. So Corey, I know you are not deep in the government space, but you are at the public sector show there, and there's always this discussion as, well, you're supplying the technology, while Amazon might not be providing bombers and guns, they are providing the technology underneath. Facial recognition causes a lot of concern, rightfully so, that make sure we understand this thing. Security products and the like, so when you have the Department of Defense and Border Control as your clients, they do open themselves up for some criticism. Right, at some point you have to wonder who do you do business with versus who don't you do business with? And the historical approach, if well, as long as there aren't sanctions or laws preventing us from doing business with someone will be open to all comers. I mean, at some level, I find that incredibly compelling. In practice, the world is messy. If things were that black and white, we wouldn't have the social media content moderation issues. It would be a very different story with a very different narrative. Yeah, definitely Amazon as a whole has a platform and they have relationships. Jeff Bezos has met with the highest levels of power in this country. They've got Jay Carney, was part of the Obama administration, helping with policy, so absolutely great to see Amazon take a strong public statement and the tech for good is something that we are hugely a part of and therefore we want to see all the suppliers having a dialogue and helping to move this forward. Yeah, and I think the lesson that we take from it too is that there are multiple ways to agitate for change and protest. One is to disrupt the keynote and I understand that, it gets attention and it's valuable, but you can do that or you can have a seat at the table and start lobbying for change either internally or with the stakeholders, but there's a bunch of different paths to get there and I think that I don't blame anyone who's protesting today and I don't blame anyone who chose not to. All right, so let's talk now about some of the content. Corey, there's in the Amazon ecosystem, every day we wake up and there are multiple new announcements. As a matter of fact, we're always saying, oh my gosh, how do I keep up with all of the things happening there? Well, one of the ways we keep up with it is reading last week in AWS, which is your newsletter. I'll do the shameless plug for one of your pieces there. You're much appreciated. I get tired telling my own story. Corey, but Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights, Amazon EventBridge, new developer kits, fluent bit, talking about the momentum of the company, security, databases, and the general adoption overall. Quick take for me is I love to hear Werner up there talking about applications. It's not purely, oh, everything's going to live in the cloud and it'll be sunshines and unicorns and rainbows, but we understand that there's challenges here. Your data and how we manage that requires a broader ecosystem. With the EventBridge is something I would definitely want to drill in on, because from a serverless environment, not just one thing, it's lots of different things and how do we play between all of them? But since you do sort through and sift through all of these announcements, give us a take. Was there anything new here? Did you already know all of this because it's in your RSS feeds and newsletters, or what did it grab you? Surprisingly, it turns out in the weeks where you have the obviously reinvent is just a fire hose torrent that no human being can wind up consuming. And you see a few releases in Santa Clara and a few at New York, but I thought I knew most of the things that were coming out and I did, I missed one that I just noticed about two minutes when we went on the air called CloudWatch Anomaly Detection. The idea is that it uses machine learning, so someone check that author business card, or the Bingo card, but at that point you take all the CloudWatch logs and start running machine learning and look for anomalies, discrepancies and the rest. It uses machine learning, but rather than go figure out what it's for, it's applied to a very specific problem. And those are the AIML products I like the best where it's, we're solving a problem with your data for you, but providing guardrails as opposed to step one, a higher $2 million worth of data scientists. Step two, we're still working on that. All right, so Corey, CloudWatch, actually I saw the event bridge that I mentioned, which is that event ecosystem around Lambda. Deepak who we're going to have on the program now said that it was the learnings from CloudWatch that helped them to build it. So maybe for audience, just give us CloudWatch, there's a lot of different products under that. Give us what you hear from your customers, where CloudWatch fits, and maybe talk about that bridge. Let's start at the beginning. For those who are fortunate enough never to have used it, CloudWatch is AWS's internal monitoring solution. It gathers metrics, it gathers logs, it presents them in different ways, and it has interesting bill impacts. As a cloud economist I see it an awful lot where every time you have a monitoring company walk around the expo hall you'll trip over 40 of those. They're all gathering their data on the infrastructure from CloudWatch and interpreting that. Now you're paying for the monitoring company and you're paying for the API charges against it and CloudWatch was sort of frozen in amber more or less for a good five years or so. I wrote a bit of a hit piece late last year and had some fascinating conversations afterwards and it hasn't aged well. They're really coming to the fore with a lot of enhancements that are valuable on it. The problem is there's a tremendous amount of data. How do you get signal from it? How do you look at actionable things? If you're running 10,000 instances you're not looking at individual metrics or individual instances.  You care about drilling down into things. Werner talked about x-ray, the distributed tracing framework today. And I think we're rapidly seeing across the board that it all ties back to events. CloudWatch events is what's driving a lot of things like EventBridge and the idea of an event-centric architecture. It's really what we're trying to see software is evolving into. Yeah, it's one of those things. When you talk to that serverless term out there, events are at the center of them and how do I get some standardization across the industry? There's some open source groups that are trying to insert themselves and give some flexibility here. What I want to understand from EventBridge is it says, okay, it's Lambda and their ecosystem but is this going to be a Lambda-only ecosystem or will this lay the groundwork so that, yes, there are other clouds out there and look at what Azure has and other environments, will this eventually be able to extend beyond this or is this a Amazon proprietary ecosystem there? Do you have any insight there? It's a great question. I would argue that I guess one of the, taking a step back for a second, it would have to be almost irrelevant in some cases. When you start looking at serverless lock-in, it's not the fact that, ooh, there's this magic system only in one provider that will take my crappy code and run it for me. It's tied into the entire event ecosystem. It's tied into a bunch of primitives that do not translate very well. Now, inherently, by looking at what EventBridge is and the fact that anyone who wants to get integrated into their applications, you absolutely could wind up with a deep native integration coming from another large hyperscale cloud provider. The only question is, will that? Yeah, great point. I know when I've talked to some of the serverless ecosystem, it's that skill and understanding each environment because today, doing AWS versus doing Azure, there's still a lot of differences there. Sure, I can learn it, but. Yeah, and one of the things that I think is fascinating too is we've seen a couple of attempts at this before from other startups that are doing very similar things in open source or trying to do something themselves, but one of the things that changed this tremendously here is that this is AWS doing that. It doesn't matter what they do, what ridiculous name they give it. When they launch something, the world generally tends to sit up and notice just by sheer virtue of its scale and the fact that it's already built out and you don't have to build the infrastructure yourself to run these things. If anything has the chance to start driving a cohesive standard around this, it's something coming from someone like Amazon. Yeah, absolutely. All right, Corey, databases is always a hot topic. Latest stat from Werner is, I believe it was 150,000 databases that migrated. You called out and said, hey, why is Amazon.com on there? So Jeff Bari's like, well, they have a choice. And of course, Amazon would point out they were using a traditional database for a long time and now have completely unplugged the last instance. Oh yeah, it took them a long time but they finally got off of a database that was produced by a law firm. And I understand the reasons behind that, but I was talking with people afterwards, Amazon does have a choice, do they use? And if AWS wants to win them over to use their services, they have to sell them just like any other customer. And that's why it's on that slide as a customer.  Okay, it doesn't quite work that way. It was actually, so the biggest thing I learned at the Amazon remarch show, when you talk about all the fulfillment centers and the robotics and machine learning, almost everything underneath there, it's got AWS services underneath it. So absolutely, it is one company, but yes, Amazon is the biggest customer of AWS, but that doesn't mean that there isn't somewhere, you know, I still haven't gotten the word that they are absolutely 100% on AWS, because we expect that there's some AS 400 sitting in the background, running one of those financial services things, maybe they finally migrated that one piece off. And that's why they're building an AWS 400. All right, Corey, what else, you know, either from the keynote or from your general observations about Amazon that you want to share? I want to say that it's very clear that Amazon is getting an awful lot of practice at putting these events on, and just tracking it year to year, not just the venue logistics, which, okay, great, get a bunch of people in the conference room, have a conversation, do a keynote, throw them out at the end, but the way they're pacing the keynotes, the way they're doing narratives, the customer stories that are getting up on stage are a lot less challenging than they were in years past, where people get on stage, they seem more comfortable. It's very clear that a number of Amazon execs, not just here, but at other summits, have been paying serious attention to how to speak publicly to 10,000 people at once. It's its own unique skill.  Oh, yes. And good, deep stories. This isn't, you know, there is that mix that they did a good job, I thought, of kind of the Cloud 101, because still, many customers are very early on that journey. We are not all Cloud native, you know, run by the developers and everything there, but, you know, good mix of the technology and the new pieces for those people that have been in it a while, but still, you know, welcoming and embracing for how to get started. Yeah, and the stories are moving up the stack too. It's not, we had a bunch of VMs and we put them in a different place, yay! Which is great, everyone starts there, but now the stories are moving into running serious regulated workloads with higher level services. And that's great, because it's also not the far extreme Twitter for pets. We built this toy project last week when someone else fell through and now we have to give this talk. It's very clearly something large enterprises are serious about. Yeah, so Corey, last thing I want to ask you is, you know, remember in the early days, you know, that public cloud, oh, it was cheap and easy to use. Today, they have 200 instance types up there. You know, what does that mean for customers? You know, you are a cloud economist, so need your official opinion and diagnosis here.  And the answer is, oh, almost certainly not, just based on statistics alone. So now it's a constant state of indecision. It's rooted in an epic game of battleship between two Amazon SVPs, and I really hope one of them wins already so we can stop getting additional instance types every couple of months. But so far, no luck. So in your perfect world, what's the announcement it reinvented fixes the problem? That's a really good question. I think that fundamentally I don't, and I don't think I have any customers who care what type of instance they're running on. They want certain resource levels, they want certain performance characteristics, but whatever you call that does not matter to them. And having to commit to what you picked for one to three years, that's a problem. You don't have to, you can go on demand, but you're leaving 30% of the table. Yeah, and I love that point. It's actually, I take a note to FINRA, I want to talk to them because they say they've done three major re-architectors in four years, so therefore, how do they make sure that they can get the latest price performance but still get good economics on the out there without having to pull them in? Well, for their regulatory authority, I just assume they get there with audit threats when it comes time for renegotiating. All right, you are Corey Quinn. I am Stu Miniman. We have a full day here of wall-to-wall coverage from AWS Summit, New York City. Thank you so much for watching theCUBE.


And do you think that, I mean, give us some advice for the media, because you know, again, the media did mainstream the Tea Party and wants to, doesn't want to be in a war with the Republican Party, let's just be clear, in general, the media does not want to be a war with the Republicans, they want to treat both sides the same, but both sides are not the same. What was that? And how did I get back here? Anyway, here we have yet another one of those obvious Democrat media segments where they try to convince the viewer that they're not exactly what they appear to be. No, they want you to believe that they just look that way because their political opposition are horrible and human monsters who should never have power. While their side is utopian and above criticism. According to these trustworthy stewards of democracy, the only way to save it is to give their party total unending control. While their political opponents are treated as an outlaw domestic enemy. Sound so democracy-ish. And why wouldn't you trust this massive forehead? It's not as if she blatantly lies within the first few seconds of this clip. And do you think that, I mean, give us some advice for the media, because you know, again, the media did mainstream the Tea Party.  In reality, the Tea Party was mostly comprised of families who cleaned up after their protests, but yet were endlessly demonized from the very first time they dared to protest Barack Obama. It got so bad that on multiple occasions, the media falsely attributed mass shootings to members of the Tea Party. MSNBC and the rest of the Democrat media went out of their way to demonize these people as racist, much like you see today with any kind of protest that stands in the way of their agenda. It's like I always say, they think the only legitimate protest is one that advances their agenda. Take a look at this email that Congressman Alan Grace and a Democrat of Florida sent to supporters yesterday comparing the Tea Party to the KKK. So this has happened before in history. In Germany in the 20s and 30s, there was this right-wing reactionary element that was so terrified of anarchy and communism. That they said, you know what, there's a group of street thugs that are real ideologues and they're willing to take it and what they didn't realize. Does that stretch Nazis versus the Tea Party who just want smaller government? What is true is that ideologues are only loyal to ideology. What?  It's just a coincidence. Not only do they not have any solutions, there is no solution that will satisfy the Tea Party, people except going back to the 60s. I'm talking about the 1860s, not the 1960s. They're crazy. There's 8 to 15 to perhaps 20 members of the Tea Party influenced wing of the Republican Party in the House who are crazy. They are crazy. Yeah, these are people that don't believe in evolution of global warming, so why are they going to believe that default would hurt anything? I mean, you're not dealing with like rational people here. Come on. They've strapped explosives to the Capitol and they think they are immune from it. These Tea Party guys are like strapped with dynamite, standing in the middle of Times Square at Rush Hour and saying either you do it my way or we're going to blow you up ourselves up in the whole country up with us. Let's see, drop the taxes, drop socialism. Okay, let's see, you're here with your two-year-old and you're already in debt. What does this have to do with taxes? What does this have to do with your taxes? Do you realize that you're eligible for a $400 credit? Okay, well, Kara, we'll move on over here. I think you get the general tenor of this. It's anti-government, anti-CNN, since this is highly promoted by the right-wing conservative network, Fox. And since I can't really hear much more and I think this is not really family viewing, toss it back to you, Kara. Because, you know, again, the media did mainstream the Tea Party and wants to, doesn't want to be in a war with the Republican Party. Let's just be clear. No, not only did the media not mainstream the Tea Party, they turned them into domestic terrorists. One thing I thought that the media should do a better job of, which is how do people in the media conduct themselves in an autocratic country? The ones that believe in free media. We need to think more like that in the media and less like this is just A and B and decide, let the voters decide. That's the plug we have to give up. They keep saying that word, autocratic, to describe their out-of-power political opponents, who are a minority in the media landscape and in America's institutions. Here's the definition of autocratic, relating to a ruler who has absolute power, taking no account of other people's wishes or opinions, domineering. First, in what way does this describe the Republican Party? Nobody thinks Trump is a guy with absolute power? We already saw that the last four years. We already saw what happened when Donald Trump's in power. U.S. institutions broke laws, incited riots, and spread actual Russian disinformation in an attempt to undo those election results and torpedo his administration. It should be obvious, logically, that an authoritarian needs institutional support, which Republicans just don't have. They don't have the media, they don't have the education system, Hollywood, or corporate support that Democrats enjoy. Don't take my word for it, this guy lived through it. In your book, you're describing the directives of Mao Zedong during the Cultural Revolution that would be distributed publicly every night. And then you write, this is your quote, they served a function similar to Donald Trump's late night tweet. So do you see Donald Trump as an authoritarian? Well, if you're an authoritarian, you have to have a system in supporting you. You cannot just be an authoritarian by yourself. Certainly, in the United States, with today's condition, you can easily have an authoritarian. In many ways, you already in the authoritarian state, you just don't know it. How so? Since it happens today in the US, it can be compared to the Cultural Revolution in China. Like what? Like people trying to be unified in certain political correctness. So it's simply impossible for a guy like Trump to be an authoritarian in this environment. But let's think of who does. Democrats have all the institutional support. Currently, they have all the power, they have the vast majority of control in the media. Making the first and second amendments, the underpinnings to freedom in this country, and the first targets of any authoritarian. Alright folks, that's all I have for that. Make sure to join me on Twitter, hit that like button and leave a comment to help the algorithm.


This is this is a very difficult interview. You said it was going to be easy. You lied So you guys are from New York Brooklyn, okay, so talk about how that has shaped you guys's worldview and Also, you guys relationship as well growing up in Brooklyn like kind of like what he said like You got to be a certain way to survive and You can't Be not even can't be gullible. You get taken advantage of things like that So that does translate into your relationship as well. And that can cause problems I'm gonna say this I Lived in New York for a little bit New York women Brooklyn women, maybe Harlem the Bronx Have a very bad reputation for being super masculine What is your experience with that and how would you Let's say you're explaining it for to a dude from the south who's thinking about I might try to go New York Find my queen to be like, how would you explain how he needs to navigate? Brooklyn women or New York women? It's a good question I think that a lot of it is Sensationalized like a lot do because it's fun. It's popular and That's what you see just like the people think you go to Brooklyn. You're gonna get robbed. You're gonna get I never got robbed. So It's always the more Traumatic things that get shown and it's promoted but not everybody's like bit really everybody's like that There's a lot of nice females in Brooklyn or whatever that is not loud and Masculine or whatever but there else on that. Yeah, we hear about it That's not it. That's not the majority at all Um But yeah There are some that are like that and they it's kind of like they have to be like that because Who else are gonna be like that for them? Who else are gonna protect them a lot of them don't have their dads or whatever Or if they do He you know When I'm putting these videos together I'm not necessarily thinking about the person in the chair as much as I am the people who Identify with the person in the chair. So for other people who identify with you They have a similar personality. They have a similar background, whatever the case may be Why is a Convo a good match for you Okay, so here's my strength I'm very shy and Sometimes I don't speak up through myself room and but he'll do it for me or I'm more Boring. He's the adventurous one. He kind of pulls me out of my shell and We have fun together like like I would be apprehensive, but Like come on, let's just do it.   Like I don't watch our shows. Really He watches them and he'll say, you know You did good and if something he won't like I need you to speak up or whatever then I'll do it Or even so with the children I Do sometimes need him to be that backbone like, you know so I You know how they say opposites attract. We are opposite, but where he Where I like he picks up for me And where he likes I pick up for him So something we got girls sometimes you need to be a little softer So I'm not softness and It's just he's just such a he'll he'll do whatever he got to do for me and He builds me up and makes me feel comfortable Doing things that I probably never would have done on my own He opened my world up to a lot of different things He makes me laugh all the time Even if it's the corniest thing and like you so lame Just being so lame will make me laugh because he's trying Yeah, things like that if I'm working and He's home he'll Like do the laundry or washing dishes or cook things like that and I'll do the same for him when he's at work, and I'm home So that works together like we kind of like balance each other out That's what makes Since we got connected, you know me and him have had some conversations and things like that he is definitely a very alpha personality type and What's interesting about that is These days that personality type in black men isn't necessarily celebrated your chauvinistic your you know I'm saying compensated whatever the case may be What do you think? We're missing as far as women who have so much to say about men who like to take charge Men who like to be you know, I'm saying in in in control. What do you think is Missing in their understanding or their appreciation of men like that I do say things to him and I Yeah, he likes to be the alpha male and I May be quiet in person and everything but when I have something to say I'll say to him And I try to just use with logic like sometimes what you're saying That's not what it is But he makes good points and sometimes I gotta step back and like you're right Because it's You are a person I Think people need to look at each other as people not your man your female people like be kind I wouldn't want to hurt your feelings and Make you sad and if this is doing that then What kind of person am I to be hurting another person purpose thing? I Think you just got to break all of those Like preconceived notions misconceptions not even that just that I'm gonna say stereotype. It's nice, but Assumptions He'll back the layers like okay labels labels Don't look at the label.  He's this she's that Look at people as people not Their color there what they're doing their Job all of that Look at them as actual people and Would you want to be treated a certain or your child to be treated a certain way and a lot of girls now I'm scared for my son from what I hear, but then Sometimes some things gives me hope like This is just social media and they're gonna put out the worst because that's what brings the views I'm hoping people aren't the majority of people aren't like that I'm not sure but from what I see I'm scared because These girls are out here Like he would say They're hungry. That's why they need to date and that makes me so like real. That's real. Yeah That's so sad That like things like that is kind of like wow I get taken aback by that That whole alpha male thing me being Them being in control women being more masculine That's the that story is never gonna go away It's so much to it that Nobody's ever going to win the argument because you can argue on both sides And not come to agreement or you agree to disagree I let him lead on Certain things until after like wait no, I Don't think that's cool, and I'll talk to him about it and Whether he agrees with me Then we'll go forward if he doesn't then let me ultimately Most of time he does Not agree with me, but he'll just Okay, let me ask you this What do you think like when we're talking about Whether when y'all are talking about it or the internet or other people barbershops beauty shops What do you think is at the core of this black gender war? What do you think men are missing women are missing? We are missing as black people like How do we How do the single people watching this? Maybe achieve what you guys have That's a hard question It's hard even for like people that Have been single as an adult it's even harder for me, so I've never been single as an adult I can't relate to them in that way So From what I see I would I would say listen to each other because And when the guys say that all females are spoiled and things like that I can see that I can definitely see that But then I could also see Women were silenced for most of humanity. Oh, yeah, okay So Now they want to talk They have points to just The list But then then a lot of these females now Are not seeing Create things. I Don't know what happened with that. I don't know Mmm-hmm to use somebody to use people for their assets Just that like you don't even want to Get to know them like them or anything you just want to use their money as well And I felt I think a lot of females are doing that now. I don't know if It's their age Like younger females because they see social media I Think that plays a big role in this whole gender war thing Because they're seeing all oh she has this she has that I want that too How what do I got to do to get that really she could have just borrowed that and returned it You don't but you don't know image Yeah, it's sad and then Guys all they see is oh, she looks like this. She looks like I want that but then Can't handle that because that's a lot of attention facts. It's expensive. Yeah, I Think social media really really really hurt relationships and Black people we historically Always want to jump on someone else's bandwagon and not stay on ours. I don't so We do need to come together as a people and sometimes I don't understand guy when they they like Sometimes I feel like they're not on black women's side and it's weird because Yeah, you are a man But you're a black man So you should understand what it is to be discriminated against and you should be able to somehow Understand a little bit of what women might be going through being discriminated against just because they're a female They don't they don't simple that From what I see on social media again Which may not be true for the majority Um That's not being around. I think that also Took a lot from the black relationship the black families and the moms Some of them aren't good moms All right, all right and Yeah it's and then you bring that trauma and To your kids and then they grow up and bring that into their relationships That's a big reason why There's this this Distance and disconnect between women and men Absolutely Yeah, absolutely I will The only thing I'll say and I think Convo was going to say so I'm similar Black women have always had a voice I'm Nigerian And in our culture, um, well, I'm more specifically Igbo and in our culture On the surface it looks like The men are just a whole bunch of convos, right? They're a whole bunch of alpha males um But then there is a female delegation called the umada They're the first mothers of the community or the first daughters. That's how it translates And what's interesting is people might assume that If you want to get something done you you got to go to the chiefs Right, but really one of the first places you have to go is to the women Because not only do the women control the chiefs the women also control their sons who are the warriors so In african society women have always had a voice When we came over here as enslaved africans It was also put Like the structure was created where it was a matriarchy the woman was in charge in an attempt to emasculate the man Now when feminism came around That's when white women convinced all women you haven't had a voice then they started pushing out movies like color purple They started pushing out narratives of bees patriarchal domineering black men who were abusive when really it was their husbands It was the white women's husbands that they had an issue with But a lot of our women drank that kool aid and then we get to today Where a lot of women see a point they not even try to listen And it's the first time where you have a kevin samuels where you have the Guys with podcasts who are actually saying what men actually think And a lot of our women a lot of our sisters don't know how to deal with that You know because they've never had to listen to men They didn't have to listen to you on a plantation because you weren't in charge They didn't have to listen to you know what i'm saying in the in the 80s because you were in prison for crack And i was more educated than you Because i went to college Right, so i think a lot of a lot of times a lot of our our history gets kind of mixed up with white women's Yeah situation and then we're like but you did then i'm like i ain't do none of that. That's jerry But i'm getting blamed for it To some extent i guess i mean I never I grew up in a mom and dad household. They were together. They're still together now and My mom yeah, she talks a lot And my dad he doesn't really talk that much but At the end of the day it's Kind of what he would say But it would come through my mom And you did like if You're not there I don't have anybody to listen to And then you come in and you're telling me what to do, but i've been living With all my you know, i'm not saying for me, but The black one yeah, i've been doing this on my own and i've been surviving on my own All this time when you weren't there Now you come in and you want to kind of like Tell me what to do What make The disconnect yeah What what is your Philosophy let's say you were What's that song if i rule the world if you were president for a day if you were president of black women or you're president of the Black delegation and you were like, okay, my first order of business is to solve this gender war What do you think or how do you think we should approach it? What should happen first what should happen second? What do men need to do with what they need to do? It's difficult it's not an easy answer a question. No, it's not especially if you not But anything i just want organic whatever's on your mind. Um take your time no rush men are competitive inherently like you know and they are selfish and And i say this only because when The world wasn't civilized like how it is now you had to be But i think that they still carry on that you don't have to be A lot of wars and stuff is because of Men's greed And they want to be The top and the best in the When why can't you just settle for what you got? Why do you have to go after someone else's? I don't understand like with the white people Coming into Africa to take people why? And i feel like all men do that and it's you don't have to this this world is huge We have enough for everybody women What's wrong with women? We don't need to listen to How they feel because they do have feelings They do that's the other like in society It's like you're supposed to be a man and not have feelings and not so And that's how you guys made it you guys made it to be this is the A way a man is supposed to be you're not supposed to show feelings. You're not supposed to do this You're not supposed to do that and we Follow that rule Because that's how y'all put it we didn't set that rule up for you guys y'all did And we're gonna follow whatever y'all say because y'all are the leaders of the world So we They do have feelings and We should listen to them and care about their feelings And get that whole macho man. Oh, they don't care. They don't they're not they're not supposed to care. They do We're human all humans have emotions and feelings And it's just that that We don't care we need to get that whole Um box of what a man should be Out I think that and what a woman should be I think all of those boxes need to go away Because it's not it doesn't apply for everyone if you want to be that way fine But don't down someone else for wanting to be another way that makes them feel good and comfortable A lot of the gender roles I would get rid of that No such thing as gender roles. I think that would be the first that Second step Um Educate everybody everybody because a lot of things A lot of reasons people get into um Arguments and debates and is because they don't know enough about that other person or that other culture or that other And when you get educated you can kind of like oh Well, they do this because you know That's how they do things. It's not wrong that they do it that way That's just how they do it. Okay. Unless it's like inherently wrong like you're killing people, of course That's just wrong. There are some basic just no-nos Um What else what I do to get over gender wars, um, I think money plays a big issue in that as well Um because a lot of women are Going to school and getting the higher paying jobs and that kind of I guess make men feel not needed Because they can take care of themselves now um What you would do with that everybody Encour I don't know There's a lot of things you can unpack with that like Why aren't if you see Women going out and getting it. Why aren't you? What is holding you back from doing that So I get those things that are holding them back. I guess I would get rid of that because a lot of people would say racism I'm not like Money they can't afford it. They have to take care of Their family so they can't afford to go to school or whatever to get those higher earning jobs or I don't know whatever other Um obstacles are in their way