This is the SF Productions podcast network 1982 with a crazy wonderful year in TV from the pop culture bunker I'm Mindy and I'm Mark you can check out our audio podcast how I got my wife three comics on iTunes or on our website SFpodcastnetwork.com We've been covering the new shows on TV guides 1982 fall preview and there were so many of them Yes, and so many hits that we had to break it up into two episodes So let's move on Going to Wednesday tales of the gold monkey ABC. We mentioned in the Anna Jones previously Here's the other half of the knockoff pair Jake Cutter Steven Collins is a cargo pilot with weekly adventures and exotic locales Mostly on backlots and sound stages Rodney McDowell Jeff McKay and Caitlyn Ohini round out the cast Inspired by the 1939 film only angels have wings This was an early Donald Belisario production who of course went on to Magnum PI and Jag and NC IS It fared slightly better than the other Jones knockoff. It got 21 episodes The next is one series that I actually watched and really really liked. I know it's silly. You're the one Seven brides for seven brothers Based loosely on the 1954 musical the show included a number each episode written by Jimmy Webb of the large cast only Richard Dean Anderson MacGyver and Peter Horton from 30-something or of note Almost cast was Michael J. Fox who picked another show that season, which we'll get to in just a minute One season and done 22 episodes, but still holds a place in my heart Mama Maloney Lila Kay a British actress plays an Italian chef who runs a TV cooking show from her apartment When the show was announced for the 1982-83 season It actually didn't air until March of 1984 Which might have something to do with the very stereotypical cast when it actually did air it only ran for 13 episodes Family ties on NBC and here's the show Michael J. Fox picked instead of Seven brides for seven brothers hippie parents Elise and Stephen who are Meredith Baxter Bernie and Michael Gross have three kids of the 80s Fox playing Reagan Republican Alex Justine Bateman playing fashionista Mallory and Tina Yeathers playing tomboy Jennifer Brian Bonzo was added in later seasons for the cousin Oliver effect. Well, at least Elise gave birth to him It was a huge hit reaching the top 10 for three seasons It also generated three Emmys in a Golden Globe and was the poster child for the very special episode Where a major dramatic event would occur? There was a revolving door of relatives and friends played by major guest stars Timothy Bustfield James Cronwell Gina Davis Joseph Gordon Levitt Tom Hanks Julia Louis Dreyfus who would later star on the spin-off series day-by-day River Phoenix Will Wheaton Recurring cast included Mark Price as nerdy neighbor Skippy Scott Valentin as Mallory's biker boyfriend Nick Tracy Poland as Alex's girlfriend Ellen and Fox would later marry her and is still married to her Courtney Cox is another of Alex's girlfriend and the show was based in our hometown of Columbus, Ohio You would see Mallory bringing in Lazarus shopping bags or Stephen would read the dispatch And I regularly watch this series. Yeah, and I actually watch day by day, which actually wasn't bad It's it the idea that series is that friends of the the the Keaton's are running a daycare and Julia we dry fist plays this very 80s woman who's like, why are you bothering to do this? You're not making enough money. I vaguely remember that Tucker's witch CBS Meet Rick and Amanda Tucker Catherine Hicks and Tim Matheson a happily married couple who own a detective agency Oh and Amanda is a psychic so heart-to-heart minus the millions plus the whole witchy thing She gets her visions by looking at the eyes of her Siamese cat It started out as a TV movie or backdoor pilot Which never aired with Kim Cattrell and Art Hindle But her racy role in porkies demanded a replacement Hindle was in porkies as well. So out they both went the first episodes villain Ted Danson Who was about to get a better gig the show ran only 12 episodes I think that might do pretty good now like on the CW with a young couple and the remake of that. Absolutely. Yeah Now we're to Thursday night and the first show we're talking about is star of the family on ABC Brian Dennehy is a fire chief with a wacky company and kids one of which is an up-and-coming teenage singer Kathy Mase Nick Michael Dudekoff and Todd Sussman round out the cast I guess someone thought Mase Nick was the next big thing and she wasn't I looked her up. She wasn't That and it's lead-in Joni loves cha-chi doomed it to 10 episodes It takes to ABC Richard Krenna plays a doctor whose wife Patty Duke Aston is a feminist assistant DA Wackiness ensues from the creators and producers of soap and benzene. It was a look at a couple with dual careers Their teenage kids were played by future stars Helen Hunt and Anthony Edwards Of course Krenna and Aston both were teenage stars in our Miss Brooks and the Patty Duke show respectively Despite all this firepower in front of and behind the camera. It was one season and out 22 episodes Duke would go on to another series by the same producers called hail to the chief The kitchen set would be recycled for another show by the same producers the golden girls So the kitchen set actually had Longer life. Yes. Oh Cheers on NBC The quintessential 80s sitcom and the bedrock of NBC's Thursday juggernaut, which I doubt needs to be discussed further But we will Incredibly the show was nearly canceled after one season due to low ratings It was 74th out of 77 shows But the Emmy wins five in its first season out of 13 nominations changed NBC president Brandon Tartikoff's mind The show would go on to an astounding 28 Emmy wins and 111 nominations Along with six golden globes out of 31 nominations Ted Danson and BB North won two Emmys Rhea Perlman got four Shelly Long here's the alley and Woody Harrelson got one each The directors and writers would basically take over the industry for a whole generation The show also introduced story arcs on a sitcom which helped fuel ratings It was in the top five for eight seasons Coach played by Nicholas Consanto died in season four and was replaced by Woody Harrelson Frazier Kelsey Grammer became Diane's Bo in the third season Diane left the show in 1987 replaced by Rebecca Which is Kirstie Alley Lilith BB. New earth started a relationship with Frazier in the fourth season Bar flies Cliff John Ratzenberger and George went we're there the whole series along with Carla who was Rhea Perlman and of course Sam Ted Danson After 11 seasons the final episode would be watched by 80 million viewers Grammer went on to be the longest-running single live action character on a TV show with Frazier The new odd couple ABC Ever since the original play slash film slash TV series the show has been recast over and over see the recent attempt on CBS In this case Sanford and sons Demond Wilson is Oscar with Barney Miller's Ron Glass as Felix Apart from the complexion. It's the same concept and jokes. In fact eight of the 18 episodes recycled old scripts We can't pay writers The powers of Matthew star on NBC We've talked about this series in our last TV guide review because it was supposed to come out in 1981 The star Peter Burton was badly burned by pyrotechnics during a stunt and the show was pushed back for months In the end it was moot and it was one and done in 22 episodes Knight rider NBC a throwback to 70s sci-fi detective action series like Gemini Man Billionaire Wilton Knight saves a police detective after a near fatal injury gives him plastic surgery and a new identity Michael Knight of course played by David Hasselhoff. Oh, and he gets an ultra high-tech talking car named Kent the night Industries 2000 the voice of William Daniels. This is the second half of his TV double-duty with st. Elsewhere Edward Mulhair leads the foundation for law and government flag and is Michael's main contact Patricia Patricia McPherson then Rebecca Holden then McPherson again plays kids technician and money penny tonight Kit was quite prickly and was constantly trying to talk Michael out of dangerous plans But then a turbo boost super pursuit mode or the bulletproof exterior would get them out of trouble At one point we get an evil twin episode with Hasselhoff and a goatee an evil car named cat It was a very silly series and quite popular it generated tons of toys and merchandise It also generated five remakes or reboots over the years None of which were hits plus various attempts to restart the franchise as late as this year for seasons 90 episodes and I do want to point out that some GPS's you can actually get the voice of Kit to tell you Where it goes. I love this show Meanwhile over on ABC. We have the quest for unrelated people photojournalist Perry King con artist Ray Vitae Retired cop Noah Berry Jr. and department store buyer Karen Austin are the heirs to a Mediterranean throne Based on TV logic who gets the throne? Whoever is the most worthy in a series of adventures set up by John Reese Davies and Michael Billington This mess from Stephen Jay Canal lasted nine episodes only five of which aired Remington steel NBC Female private eye Laura Holt Stephanie Zimbalist can't get clients So she creates fictitious frontman Remington steel to head the agency This guy shows up Pierce Brosnan announces He is steel and forces Holt to let him partner on cases He's a mysterious character a con man and has a very high opinion of himself She's the real detective and saves him from danger a lot. Can they get along? The show pulled a lot from film noir It was a genre that steel really loves and there's a lot of comedy and romance romance going on during their cases The show had actually been pitched in 1969 But it took MTM to push it to TV great tinker of MTM became chairman of NBC shortly before the series was green lit Various side characters came and went throughout the series Doris Roberts later of Everybody Loves Raymond came on as a secretary Ephraim Zimbalist Jr. Stephanie's real father was steel Steals con man mentor The show was briefly canceled after four seasons, but got a reprieve with new NBC head Warren Littlefield Unfortunately, this negatively impacted the careers of both Brosnan and Zimbalist He had been offered and accepted the role of the new James Bond But was forced to pull out replaced by Timothy Dalton. Of course Brosnan would later get the role anyway She was hired as the female lead in Robocop and had to drop out replaced by Nancy Allen That final season turned into only six hours of TV movies. So it wasn't even an actual season So five seasons and 94 episodes total So to recap in 1982 not counting the early shows We got nine hits meaning they went more than one season and 15 flops a very high success rate and NBC laid the groundwork for their 80s dominance with Silver Spoons St. Elsewhere family ties Cheers night rider and Remington Steel, which had a combined 38 seasons total So you can see that out of those nine hits six of them were NBC. Yes. Yeah Well, we'll soon see if 1983 can beat that and while you're thinking about that You can check out our audio podcast how I got my wife treat comics on itunes or on our website SFpodcastnetwork.com from the pop culture bunker. I'm Mindy and I'm Mark. Thanks for watching turbo boost


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I've been thinking about I Won't never make it to dodge without water You'll make it not saying it won't Wait a minute Chester look over there. What are they doing in there? The man on the paint horse is Bill Pence. I'm at Bowers Foreman. The other two must be writers Yeah, but that kid they've got his hands is tied behind his back. They haven't seen us yet. Let's tell us right closer What's been taken down his rope for? Well, Mr. Dillon, you know what they're doing.  Well, yeah, it's his horse. Why Chester. Yes, sir. Go untie his hands Wait a minute. Go on Chester. And if anybody interferes with you, I'll shoot him.  I caught that boy I don't care what I'm trying to do I'm taking him in the dodge and if you want to ride in and make your charges against him legally you'll be there You can thank your look. I came by here before you got your own neck on a noose Because I'd have caught you for this fence and I'd have followed you to California for it. How you get out of here. Oh Three of you wondering when you're gonna turn move unless I limit powers and Bill Pence writing up the street when I came in Maybe we'll learn the truth about all this now. The boy swears. He ain't lying Yeah, maybe isn't Chester mormick bars. Hello bars Vince I told mr. Bowers the whole story Marshall. Did you he did Marsha? What you call a lynching wasn't gonna be no lynching at all.  I'm not gonna argue about this gentleman. We'll worry about that later Right now. I want to know what you're gonna do with that thief. I Haven't decided yet bars But I'll tell you what he told me I ain't interested in what he told you lesson anyway He said he didn't steal any cows and what's more he wasn't going to well Let's a lie Marshall me and the men watched him cut 15 head out And then did he leave him and start to ride away or didn't he? Oh, sure He's got to ride away either seen this year or he was coming back and drive him off at night What is that? He says he changed his mind He realized he couldn't do it even though he started to you believe a thieving kid rather than a man like Marshall, I don't know who I believe yet Bowers Let's get out of here I'll be mighty interested in what you decide to do about this So will every other cattle man. I know I want to talk to that boy. Just Drive back there waiting Unlock the cell just it. Yes. You said your name Steve Elcer Is that true? I got no reason to lie about my name Marshall. Oh, where are you from? San Juan Mountain Marshall over in Colorado What are you doing in Kansas? I'm 18 a third. It was time to leave home Why?  Why not? Oh Nothing my part does makes much sense.  I was just kind of seeing how easy it'd be Have you found out then some of his writers were watching you the whole time. I know they told me Well, there's one thing about you at least you don't carry a gun Maybe I'd better know Look else, sir. I believe you I'm gonna turn you loose But on one condition What's that that you get a job? Work at it prove you're honest I'm gonna give you a week to find one. Oh Marshall. I've been working all my life. I'm tired. I'll give you a week Elzer and if you don't have a job by then You're gonna have to leave the country You like in the world series New York Giants Cleveland Indians Well, I guess that question is on everybody's mind right about now Of course the series starts Wednesday at New York's famous polo ground Then the action moves to Cleveland's great municipal stadium You fans will bend to these great ballparks. No, they have one thing in common The giant Chesterfield scoreboard signs which instantly flashed the official scorer's decision. 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I bet you didn't ask are you wouldn't be trying to help this boy? Well, anyway, he didn't steal those cows Nobody came a lot closer to it than a man should Evening Chester, you better step in the alf again. Mr. Dillon pants is in there about to have a fight with young Elsa Not a gunfight Elsa ain't armed, but he's making pants awful man. I will see you later, Doc. So long man What's Elsa up to just well, so he's been bragging the pants about his not getting to hang in but not being in jail and all It ain't improving pants is temperament. Oh, hello, Marshall. Hello John His Elsa drunk.  Oh, I told you for the last time else wrongs Marshall But just ain't gonna listen to his talk. You don't have to I'll handle it You'll hang and there won't be no Marshall around the nurse.  That's You well, sir, I told you to go find the job. You remember a job It's a gun. I'm gonna find me. He wouldn't hit me if I'd been carrying a gun You start wearing a gun and I'll throw it in the Arkansas and you went after it I'm giving you a chance to make good Elsa, but it's not gonna last forever Now you get out of here and start doing something about it the next day I had to go up to Ford and learn it on government business But before I left I talked to a couple of ranchers who were in town about hiring on steel Oh, sir However, they'd heard about him and said I was making a big mistake trying to help a boy that was headed for the end of a rope Well, I argued with him, but it was no use And I decided I'd try to find him a job in town to start with I Was gone two days and the night I got back I went over the Texas trail looking for Chester He wasn't there, but kiddie was I saw Chester about an hour ago Mac He didn't expect you back till tomorrow. I didn't take as much time as I thought kitty Now tell me about things here, huh? Nobody's been shot or hung I know There's one thing I don't like though. Oh, what's that kitty? You know Ben Hander? For one reason or another I've thrown Ben Hander in jail at least ten times Well, he and Steve Elzer have been running together the last couple of days. What? Mm-hmm mighty poor company for Elsa. I think you're wasting your time trying to help that kid math As much as I admire your reason he isn't wearing a gun. Is he not so far I don't like this kitty Could be that all Ben Hander needs to get into real troubles a partner Somebody just like Elsa will kind of look up to him egg him on. Yeah Yeah, I was hoping the boy had done something about finding a job Maybe you've been too easy on him Matt have done what I thought was right kitty. I know Had sir Bill pence been around or Bowers No, but I heard Bowers has spread it all over the country how the law turned a cow thief loose Oh, sure expected that you can't blame people for wondering about it. No, but I can sure blame bars for backing up pence on a lynching He's gonna talk about the law. Why doesn't he start with that math what look around headed to the bar? I'm gonna have a talk with him kitty I'll see you later. Sure Oh, well, sir Oh Marshall Her Jews out of town. I got back tonight You're gonna buy us a drink Marshal Not likely I knew That ain't very friendly You found a job yet. Oh, sir. No No, I ain't you've been looking some where here and there Where oh, it's no use Marshall first man. I said nobody to hire me Anyway, there's no law man's gotta have a job. You gotta have one.  You think that's what I'm doing. Everybody is makes me ashamed. Nobody trust me Oh, sir, I'll help you find a job tomorrow Around dark somewhere, but I told you nobody will trust you as soon as you prove to them that they can know all they want Besides, I don't want no job. It just don't want one. There's no other way. Oh, sir You find a job by tomorrow night or get out. Oh, you can't do that You give him a week I changed my mind hander since he's met you What's that got to do with it? You're no good and sooner or later. He'll be in trouble So he's got to move faster now. You got no right to talk that way above me, Marshal. Why not? No, I'll leave him be Marshall Leave me be to I'll make out all right always do you may not find in a cottonwood grove Elsa So far you're not doing much better here. Now you come see me tomorrow night, and you have a job And if you think I don't mean what I say you ask hander here He knows me today one way cigarettes one size that is are almost obsolete Because they just don't give smokers what they want Either way, you'll like Chesterfield best. 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I Just had breakfast at a little Mexican place at the edge of town And I was walking back into the plaza when I noticed a small crowd in front of the overland express company I Started across to find out what was going on when Chester spotted me and came running over He taught him mr. Dillon he chopped the clerk in there who shot it been handed He tried to hold place up about ten minutes ago. Where is he to get away? Well, they say some men chase him down the okay stable and they've got him trapped in there. All right, come on I talked to the clerk got to them now. There was been hander alone. It's a little an elder wasn't with him. Oh He got any money. No, sir. Some men heard shooting come run across the plaza right away and handed off scared and left I wonder where the boy is nobody ain't seen him. I talked to How about the clerk Chester? Oh, we took one bullet in the shoulder. It's gonna hurt somebody.  They are mr. Dillon four or five of them looks like spread out around stable area I guess he must be waiting for you good That one right there ain't that Bill 10? Yeah, it is That's stable there. No way for him to leave I'll get in shot. Okay. I Want you and the other men to stay where you are at that's I'll go on after him. Well, he's armed Marshal. Sure But we could set fire to the police I'd with horses in there. I forgot about them Chester. Yes, sir Wait here till I yell for you, huh? Well Mr. Dillon if it's okay, I'd like to come up to the door with you. All right, sure If he gets past us pence Shoot him. We sure will Marshal or swings out Chester now that you're here. You can pull it open, but stay behind it I'll go on alone Okay, sir You can't get away and either a five-man waiting out here for you now.  Well, sir. All right, that's far enough you to stand right there Who was him on me? No, he was He wasn't anywhere near that express office. He's wearing a gun. I got a right to wear a gun just like any other man He had nothing to do with that robbery Marshal Clerk can know his men that followed me here can tell you that he was waiting here with your horses You can't prove that more. Why are you standing up for him? Hunter?  I ain't done a thing Chester. Take under his gun. Yes, sir. I got it. Mr. Dillon About Elsa. No, I'll leave him alone Step over here hinder Elsa What I still think you were waiting here to get away with hinder But he's right about it being hard to prove No, but you would have Anyway, I'm gonna give you one more chance I'm taking hinder to jail now and while I'm doing it. I want you to get out of dodge For good And don't come me around again. I've done all I can for you. So there's nothing more I can do You're on your own now. You know where the jail is start walking. You're my shoe. Let's go, honey He was gonna shoot you in the back died before he hit the ground hinder I can see it from where I was standing. Thanks for wanting me Chester I was just starting to follow you and I seen him move out of the corner of my eye I had a feeling he might try it. You did. That's why I was half ready for it Anyway, it's the first time I've been right about him And I sure guessed wrong up till now But it was worth it. Mr. Dillon Trying to help him I mean no not him Chester. It was already too late to help him. I should have known that And now our star william conrad. Thank you, george fenerman Ladies and gentlemen, I have two important pieces of news for you First as of this saturday night october 2nd Gun smoke goes back to its original time where you discovered it and liked it. 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All right, here we go from Dickens or Declan's world Question actually two questions. How do I get online men to engage in real conversation when all they want to do is text? Hey, beautiful. How to let a man down in a respectful way. So two questions. Okay Let's first do the question. How to engage. So if you're not familiar with my acronym nice N-I-C-E The end stands for name Name say his name. The I stands for inquisitive ask Questions ask questions. The C stands for compliment and the E stands for Enthusiasm so it might be an enthusiastic emoji. So it simply might look like this Hey, Jonathan nice to connect with you. I see you read a lot of the same books Are you into personal development? So I have a picture of all the books I like a stack of books that I like to read So I see you're into person. Are you into personal development? By the way, you're really easy on the eyes now. I'm a Leo.  So that's a compliment and then you end with enthusiasm and enthusiastic Emoji put a smiley face or something create a little And see if that person engages with you Questions is how we create engagement and if a person doesn't so let me share something with you I had a woman write me recently and she said you seem like the real deal But then she went on to ask question about the distance between us and I really appreciate it because it created a dialogue between us And and ultimately you want to create a dialogue and if they're incapable of creating a dialogue. This is what you say. Bye. Bye So, how do you let a guy down when you don't feel like it's a good fit? You simply say hey, Jonathan. I really appreciate the time to get to know you I don't feel we're a match and I want to wish you all the best on your own search for love I don't feel we're a match and I want to wish you all the best or you could simply say I don't feel like we're a match and I want to wish you all the best now. Here's what's gonna happen They're gonna get angry.  They're gonna go. What are you talking about? Who cares that they get angry upset? It's natural to get angry upset when we when somebody feels like they've been rejected But you haven't rejected them all you've simply said is you're not my person if they feel rejection That's on them. They probably haven't read the book the four Agreements the four agreements the four agreements are basically the agreements we make to ourselves and there's four basic agreements Be impeccable with your word Always do your best Don't let the projection of others affect how you feel and don't make assumptions This person is making an assumption when they say that they're they've been rejected You know as if there's something wrong with them that means they've got more work to do because the truth is We're not compatible with ninety nine point nine percent of the people out there That's favorably not true But the reality I don't want to say compatible But the reality is it's a very slim percentage of people that are actually a good fit for one another. I Don't know how many people are actually in Relationship who are happy but my guess is it's less than 20% of those all the people in relationship in the world are Actually happy with one another now. That's my anecdotal and it could be higher than 20% It could be lower. What's most important is are you happy with yourself? And that's my invitation for everyone here is to work on yourself because whether or not you find a man or a Woman in your life or not what's most important is the relationship you have with yourself In fact Esther Pharrell who wrote the book mating and captivity mating and captivity says the quality of our relationships Determines the quality of our life and it starts with the Relationship we have with our self the relationship we have with our self and so bringing back full circle nice and I see name in Inquisitive compliment enthusiasm and when you end it just simply say thank you for your time I don't feel worth it, and I want to wish you all the best. I hope that help Thank you so much for that question Declan's world. I really appreciate it Alright, woohoo. We are on a roll


next step in dumbbells. So by now he knows the command hold and he also knows to move a little bit towards me when I call him so kind of does the movement and so what I want to do next is that to start teaching him to pick it up. So first let me show you where we add with the indexer size so you want to make sure that your dog knows at least that before you move on to more complex which is picking up. So I use the PVC pipe that's what I had but for the picking exercise I have a PVC pipe on kind of wooden rolls I'll show you closer. And so it's just easier for the dog to pick up and today I'll be using this instead of my regular PVC pipe. So what do we know so far? Come on sit, good boy sit, hold, good hold, very good hold, right? Good boy. So as you can see he easily holds, he doesn't need any encouragement, he knows to take it and he's not. And what we did was moving hold, sit, come, bring, good, come, bring, good, yeah, good boy. So we do this for a little bit longer distances and so but you can see the dog knows clearly what the exercise is about. So now it's time to teach him to pick it up. So for picking up what I have is my regular at home command he also knows give it to me when we're playing with the toys and when I want him to give the toy or pick it up and give it to me. So today I'm gonna be relying on this at home command which is give it to me and then I also want to make sure when he picks it up he doesn't chew, right? So I need to watch clearly and I haven't tried that so what you guys will see this is the very first time he's doing it so hopefully we'll achieve, hey stop watching birds, hopefully we'll achieve the success. Okay I'm gonna use treats and if he doesn't successfully I'm gonna use a higher reward which is the toy. So how are we going to do? Can you guys see come over here, good boy. Give it to me. I didn't expect him to do it from the first time. So he knows the command give it to me because we do it with all the toys. Come on. Let's try again. But that worked. Good boy. Give it to me. Give it to me. Hold. Yes, very good. Good boy. Good boy. Good boy. Good boy. So I don't want the dog to be anywhere on the side. Hey, bring that. Give it to me. I want to be so him sitting then the dumbbell then me because that's the movement pretty much when he'll be coming back to you in the exercise and IGP and I kind of want to keep it that way. So nothing kind of on the side or running from me. We're not ready yet. He just needs to know to give it to me when I'm asking him. So again, I'm putting it here. Grabbing some treats. No, no, no, no. Give it to me. No, give it to me. Good. Hold. Yes, very good. He kind of held it crookedly, but he didn't chew and I like it. Good boy. Let's try again. Let's try again. Come on. Sit. Good boy. Give it to me. Cold. We'll finish at that. And that was great, actually. Fairly straightforward. So you can see how sometimes at home commands can help guide the dog. But again, I want to refer you back to my video that I posted long, long time ago about the vocabulary. Please use vocabulary with your dogs because it really helps navigate and helps in training. Happy training.


I'd like to thank the Institute for International and European Affairs for hosting the events. It's a pleasure to be back here at one of Ireland's most prestigious think tanks. Of course, since my last visit to the Institute, Scotland has been on an incredible journey. Following the referendum and the initiation of the Smith Commission process, it was established to make recommendations on further devolution of powers to the Scottish Parliament. Scotland has now arrived at a new juncture in our constitutional journey. Throughout this journey, the Scottish Government's aim has been to create a stronger, more successful Scotland, a fairer Scotland that meets the challenges of its citizens and responds to the challenges that we face. I appreciated the words of the T-shirt, Enda Kenney, following the outcome of the referendum, which demonstrated his commitment to the deepening and strengthening of the close relations across these islands. The T-shirt has also indicated that the process of enhanced devolution would be followed closely in Ireland. It is our intention to keep the channels of communication open and to keep Ireland abreast of the latest developments in the Smith Commission. And today I'd like to reflect on the referendum and the engagement of Scottish citizens in the discussions over Scotland's future, discuss what's next for Scotland, and to consider what this may mean for our partners in the EU, including our relationship with Ireland. And one of the central messages to emerge from the Scottish referendum was just the extent to which ordinary citizens across Scotland, many of whom had never voted before, reconnected with the political process and participated actively in the national debate. This was a debate that was not only about how individuals saw their constitutional future, but more importantly, a wide-ranging discussion about the kind of society in which they wished to live, and which policies they wished their government to deliver. So how did we get to this point? In 2011, the Scottish National Party was standing on a platform of independence for Scotland, one of the majority of seats in the Scottish Parliament, giving not only a political mandate but the constitutional legitimacy to call for a referendum on Scottish independence. And the cause of Scottish home rule has always been advanced within the governmental system in observance of the constitutional tradition of the UK, and at every stage has been compliant with the rule of law. The independence referendum was conducted within that tradition, with the Scottish Government working with the UK counterparts to agree a binding constitutional process enshrined within the Edinburgh agreement signed in October 2012 by David Cameron for the UK Government and Alex Salmond for the Scottish Government. The Edinburgh agreement set out the principles under which a referendum was to be held, and a key paragraph of the agreement was paragraph 30 on cooperation, and it stated that the UK and Scottish Governments would respect the result of the referendum and work together constructively in light of the outcome pursuing the best interests of the people of Scotland and the UK, and the Scottish Government has accepted the result of the referendum. The result of the referendum was that a majority did not support the proposition that Scotland should be an independent country at this time. However, it became equally clear that not all of the 55% voting against independence were voting for the status quo. Therefore, what happens next in Scotland will be framed by two sets of commitments. The first is shaped by paragraph 30 of the Edinburgh agreement, as I've set out. The second commitment made by the leaders of the UK political parties is that further substantial devolution of powers to the Scottish Parliament will be delivered within a short period of time. Proposals for this will be developed by a commission headed by Lord Smith of Kelvin, who is currently meeting with representatives from each of the main political parties in Scotland. The promise two days before the referendum was there would be a command paper by the end of October, and the publication of draft legislation by the UK Government no later than January 2015. Now during the referendum campaign, the Prime Minister said, if we get a no vote, that will trigger a major unprecedented programme of devolution with additional powers for the Scottish Parliament. Danny Alexander, former chief secretary to the Treasury and the Liberal Democrats stated, he's not a former, he's currently stated that Scotland would see effective home rule but within the security and stability of the United Kingdom, and former Prime Minister Gordon Brown said that we're going to be within a year or two as close to a federal state as you can be in a country where one nation is 85% of the population. The Scottish Government has earlier this month submitted a set of proposals to the Smith Commission. These proposals were shaped by four overriding and interconnected objectives. Firstly, the outcome of the Smith Commission must meet the expectations of the Scottish people, as expressed in the referendum, which is a package of reform that lives up to the rhetoric of home rule, near federalism, and deval max. Secondly, we must significantly enhance the financial and democratic accountability of the Scottish Parliament and government to the people we serve. Thirdly, we must transform the ability of the Scottish Parliament to create jobs and economic growth, tackle inequality, and represent our interests in the EU and internationally on matters within our devolved responsibility. And fourthly, we must ensure that the overall funding arrangements for the Scottish Parliament are equitable and allow it and the Scottish people to enjoy the financial and economic rewards of sound and sensible decision making as well as having the tools to manage the risks of our new responsibilities. Now, we've been clear that we want the ability to represent Scotland's interests internationally. We also wish to see new mechanisms that give us a role of influencing UK foreign policy in areas where we are currently unable to formally contribute. And the important point here is that we're looking for powers for a purpose. We want to reflect Scottish views of the world with the dual aims of improving the lives of people in Scotland and contributing as a good global citizen. The powers that we seek are consistent with those aims and are essential if we are to ensure the Scottish Parliament and Scottish Government play a stronger role in decision making on areas of our responsibilities. We are making the case that additional powers should include specific competence for Scotland to act directly in the European Union and internationally to improve Scotland's sustainable economic performance, maintain the integrity of Scottish Government policy in devolved areas, and make a distinctive contribution to global challenges. The Scottish relationship with the European Union is particularly important in this new debate. The EU exercises considerable influence over economic prosperity and social welfare areas of policy that are either already the responsibility of the Scottish Parliament or expected to be transferred to Edinburgh through the Smith Commission. And our strong belief is that Scotland should have guaranteed rights to engage directly with EU institutions and EU decision making processes in these areas. Within our proposals to the Smith Commission, we are therefore asking that a statutory mechanism be put in place to enable Scotland to jointly develop influence and represent UK policy positions on broader European matters. For example, on EU reform or treaty change, and this development would recognise the distinctive Scottish approach to the EU. Now this is a fundamental principle. You'll have seen that my colleague Nicola Sturgeon, soon to become First Minister of Scotland, has called for proper protection against any of the nations of the UK being removed from the EU against their will. This protection could take the form of a double lock, but that I mean a requirement that is decision to leave the UK by any referendum could not be actioned if Scotland voted to remain within Europe. This could also apply to Wales, England and Northern Ireland. Protection from unwanted constitutional change is something that we can be seen in states such as Australia and Canada where significant constitutional changes require not just a majority across the country but in each of the provinces as well. A decision to leave the EU would have profound consequences for jobs, the economy and for Scotland standing in the world. And when we've heard the language being used in the referendum that the importance of Scotland staying within the Union is as a family of nations, then every member of that family requires to have a say in important constitutional change in relation to its membership of the EU. So having gone through our referendum in Scotland where all sides argued that membership of the EU is important, the Scottish voice will be distinctive and experienced in any future in our referendum. And it will be a voice which strongly advocates as remaining in the EU. Being in Europe means being part of the world's largest single market of 500 million people, almost half of our international exports are to the EU, and it's estimated that around 336,000 jobs in Scotland are associated with exports to the EU. And being part of the EU also has the benefits to the Scottish consumer, providing access to a wider range of products and services at home and abroad. The right to free movement means that around 166,000 people have chosen to live and work or study in Scotland. This contributes to our economy, adds to the vibrancy and diversity of our nation. So Scotland is an outward facing nation. We're keen to share our talents, our goods, our ideas with those around the world. This has not changed because of the result on the 18th of September. The job of the Scottish Government now is to ensure that the expectations of early and substantial change that were raised during the referendum campaign are met. This means transferring new powers and responsibilities to the Government and the Parliament in Scotland to tackle the challenges that we face. My Government has very much welcomed the opportunity to put forward these proposals. However, it isn't just politicians who are leading the way in creating a fairer, more prosperous Scotland with a stronger voice on the international stage. And at this point, I want to take a moment to reflect on what the referendum has meant for the people of Scotland. And in particular the extent to which the ordinary citizens of Scotland have engaged throughout the debate. Before the referendum, 97% of those eligible to vote in Scotland registered to make their voice heard on the day turnout was 85%. And even now we're starting to see the referendum's legacy beginning to play out. And quite importantly, the level of political engagement experienced in Scotland challenges the idea that political apathy has irrevocably permeated society. Nowhere is this more dramatically illustrated than the increase in membership of the pro-independence political parties in Scotland. For example, on the 18th of September, membership of my party, the Scottish National Party stood at 25,000. Today, just over a month later, membership stands at over 80,000. The pro-independence Scottish Green Party has also recorded a dramatic increase in its membership. Now, if we were to put that in a national UK or indeed Irish terms, 80,000 would be the equivalent to membership by a political party in the UK of one million people. In Ireland that would be the equivalent and in terms of the UK, of course, the Labour Party is the largest UK party membership currently around 190,000. That's a dramatic increase in comparison. One in 50 of the people of Scotland are members of my political party. Ffina Gail is the largest of the two parties governing Ireland. It has over 35,000 members. The equivalent of what just happened in my country would be a membership of 69,000. So it's clear that the debate in Scotland has re-energised our politics and in doing so challenged our politicians to respond to the expectations and aspirations of our citizens. Our First Minister-elect only last night addressed an SNP meeting of 1,000 in the core exchange. She's got one of a series of six meetings across Scotland. They sold out within 24 hours, including the Hydro, which has 16,000 seats. And our Deputy First Minister, a student to be First Minister, sold faster than Lady Gaga in terms of filling out the Hydro. So that energy and that impetus still exists. It's important to get a sense of that. In line with our commitment to the EU, the Scottish Government has published an agenda for EU reform with the fundamental aim of bringing Europe closer to the citizen. And through our own experience, we have witnessed within Scotland that political engagement soars when people can see the relevance of policy to their own lives, when they feel that they are being listened to, when ideas are being debated and they've been taken seriously and their vote and their influence matters. And that is what's happened in Scotland. And it is my vision to see the level of engagement rise not only in my country but also elsewhere across Europe as well. And the Scottish Government's focus will be to prioritise economic and social policies which will reflect the fundamental aspirations and concerns of citizens right across Europe. We are convinced that this prioritisation of economic and social policies must go hand in hand with regulatory reform. And as such, we've set out five principles of better regulation in our reform agenda for the European Union. European laws should be transparent, proportionate, consistent, targeted, and the institutions should be held to account where regulation is overly restrictive or onus. This approach of ensuring better regulation rather than less regulation for businesses contrasts with the UK Government's approach of seeking to repeal EU legislation via an arbitrary one in two out rule. And we believe that the only way to effectively reform the EU is to look forward and to seek to do things in a more efficient and coherent matter. And the Scottish Government does not agree with the Prime Minister's assertions that our relationship with the EU should be renegotiated and enshrined within a reformed treaty. We wish to protect the integrity of the single market and the benefits we derive from it and consider that the existing EU treaty framework provides a suitable political and legal basis to effect the reforms that we are advocating. It is particularly given the case given the Commission has shown its willingness to engage in a constructive dialogue on reform on programmes such as Europe 2020 and Refit. So I'm always delighted to have the opportunity to come to Dublin and to further the joint efforts to enhance Scottish and Irish cooperation. I also welcome Minister Flanagan's remarks that trade opportunities exist as a consequence of the new powers promise of Scotland and I look forward to welcoming him to Scotland in the near future. Ireland has been the subject of many good news stories in recent weeks. It was announced that Ireland has the fastest growing economy in the EU, that unemployment rate has fallen to a five year low and most recently the Government has delivered a well received budget. Ireland is an important and valued partner for Scotland and this is a relationship based on a shared history, culture, language as well as recognition of our differences. Our similar size and nearness means that Scotland and Ireland face similar challenges and it's our aim to pursue further opportunities to cooperate in areas such as energy, economy, culture and tourism and that will allow us to meet some of the challenges that we face. But at the important point of doing this it has to be by putting the wellbeing of ordinary people at the centre of that work and that means we can collectively realise our respective national priorities and that also matters on the European stage. I was pleased to join Pat Rabbit of last May during the Irish presidency of the EU in addressing the strategic energy technology conference during which we highlighted the real potential of both our countries to meet EU energy security needs for the future. And of course that is an ongoing geopolitical issue that everybody faces. Ireland and Scotland will continue to work together within the framework of the British Irish Council. As the Scottish Minister with lead responsibility in this area I have always been keen for the Scottish Government to play a full part in the work of the council which I believe provides a strong mechanism for Scotland, Ireland and Northern Ireland to work to our mutual benefit. And I'm also keen to ensure that we continue to take advantage of the opportunities presented by the European Interreg programme. Last year we secured £1 million for the second phase of the flagship cross-border aisles project to consider how an offshore electricity grid would be developed between Scotland, Ireland and Northern Ireland. Going forward, as the First Minister highlighted in his recent meeting with Peter Robinson and Marty McInnes on 20th October we need to consider how we might work together in the priority areas of research and innovation, environment, sustainable transport and health. So I'm pleased for example that there's ongoing work between the Scottish and Irish food and drink bodies supported by the EU to support our SMEs to grow their business. And it is only today we're pleased that we have an archaeology seminar taking place at Edinburgh Castle between Scottish and Irish archaeologists. And of course you might be aware that last time I was here we declared that we'd find the remains of a Dublin Viking King Olaf from the 11th century. We'd also like to work more closely with Ireland on certain EU aspects. Example, on banking union to learn from a member state which is in the Eurozone about economic governance and fiscal union. Equally we don't want to collaborate on EU policies where we have a significant expertise such as energy policy and climate change. Renewbill sources delivered just over 40% of Scotland's gross electricity consumption in 2012. This compares with an EU-wide figure of 23.5%. Cooperation between our nations can also be facilitated through joint accession of EU funding including the interim programme I've just mentioned. But we know we cannot achieve our goals in isolation. We recognise the issues such as climate change or, importantly, youth employment. I go back to the issues about what matters to the people when you're debating reform and engagement. Youth employment clearly has to be at the core of everything we do. And of course that affects us whether it's in Spain, Portugal or Ireland and that affects Scotland too. So we see future ties in terms of our debates and our discussion and our dialogue. We certainly see future tie-in with the work of the Institute here as a positive way of working together on these issues. This comes at a point at which the work of the Institute is in providing high-level analysis of issues that we face in the EU is vital. And your chairman, Brendan Halligan, gave a very insightful speech at the Europa Institute in Edinburgh in September on what it means to be an insider in the EU which included some very helpful advice. Think big, be street smart and be fun to be with. Scotland is very much committed to being an active player within the EU and cooperation with the Institute will help to further enrich the debate on European issues within Scotland. And therefore pleased to announce that we are taking up the Institute's invitation to work with you on your programme of work on the future of the EU and I look forward to joint seminars in Scotland early in the new year. Scotland has come a long way in the course of this debate and we have learned a great deal about ourselves. The world was watching and I believe that the manner in which we conducted the debate, peaceful, progressive, constitutional, engaged, energised, empowered, has been recognised as an outstanding example of democratic participation. The civic engagement around the referendum has shown how open democratic debate can enthuse and inspire and be the catalyst for positive change. It was empowering, it was energising.  And throughout my remarks I have avoided referring to the referendum as any sort of conclusion or final act. I have done so because it is clear that the referendum is only a staging post albeit a very significant one on the path the Scottish people are on. Scotland has changed and has changed forever. I look forward to taking your questions. Thank you.


Tuesday morning we woke up. We saw that the storm had shifted. I decided to move the boats in about an hour or so. So we took the boats through the Caloosahatchee River all the way to Lake Okeechobee through to Fort Pierce. Stayed there the duration of the storm and then once we got pretty much a clear of how the storm hit and affected the Fort Myers Naples area, we decided that Southwest Florida still needs 45s for search and rescue and LE missions. We made a trek from Fort Pierce to Fort Lauderdale to Station Marathon and all the way back around and we ended up putting our boats back into Station Cortez and Station St. Pete for a total of 41 hours. Definitely it's something that I haven't seen in my career to try to get so many boat movements such a small time. People are you know stronger than ever. People, strangers are helping strangers you know families are coming together. We definitely came together we helped each other out. Some people at our station had damage to their house. A couple of guys went over gave them a hand on their time off so it definitely strengthened our morale. This is a very tight knit group and community not only the station but how much the crew has helped out in the community and that's one thing that I'm very proud to not only serve in the Coast Guard but with this specific crew to go through this. We may not have a station and moving forward you know we'll get amenities but nobody is down our morale is still high. That kind of shows the identity of this unit how great everybody here is willing to do their part to just go on the next day and continue to get better.


Hello and welcome to the International Daily Roundup by People's Dispatch, where we bring you major news developments from around the world. Our headlines. US imposes new unilateral sanctions on Syria, targeting major economic sectors. 34 million workers have lost their jobs in Latin America, says ILO. Opinion poll shows overwhelming support in Chile for constitutional reforms. European Union to sue UK over bill to override Northern Irish classes of Brexit deal. And US ambassadors comment spark concerns of interference in Portugal. Now first story on Wednesday, the US announced fresh unilateral sanctions on war-ravaged Syria. The US Treasury Department in a state statement said that the sanctions have been placed on 13 Syrian entities and six individuals. The main entities which are listed for sanctions are Syrian companies working in the telecommunication, tourism and technology sectors. The sanctions also target individuals including the governor of the Syrian Central Bank, Haasim Yunus Karful, and the head of the Syrian General Intelligence Directorate, Hussam Mohamed Luka among others. US Treasury Secretary Stephen Mnuchin tried to justify the unilateral sanctions as an attempt to force the Bashar al-Assad-led Syrian government to come to the UN-led negotiations. The negotiations are to be held on the basis of UN Security Council Resolution 2254 aimed at ending the decade-long war in the country. Wednesday sanctions follow the previous set of financial sanctions imposed on Syria in June this year under the so-called Caesar Act of the US Congress. These sanctions have prompted pharma companies supplying several essential drugs to withdraw their license causing major shortages in Syria. Similar to previous sanctions imposed by the US and the EU, the current round of specific sanctions are unilateral and not recognized by the UN. According to UNSC Resolution 2254, peace can be achieved in Syria only through a political process and peaceful negotiations among all the parties in the country. The current round of sanctions are expected to further complicate the economic situation in the country which is already battered by a decade-long war in the recent COVID-19 pandemic. In our next story, according to the latest report by the International Labour Organization released on Wednesday, around 34 million workers lost their jobs in nine countries across Latin America. These nine countries constitute 80% of the total economically active population in the region. Though some of the job losses are temporary in nature and are expected to revive once the effects of the lockdown are over, going back to pre-COVID-19 situations is expected to take a long time. The report also highlighted the fact that in terms of the loss of working hours in the first three quarters, Latin America and the Caribbean tops other regions of the world with almost 21% contraction, that is double the world average of 11.7%. The report titled Labour Overview on Times of COVID-19, Impact on the Labour Market and Income in Latin America and the Caribbean, is based on data collected from Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Peru, Paraguay and Uruguay. According to the report, in the first three quarters of 2020, the labour income decreased by over 19%. The report says that the worst quarter was the second one when the total was more than 33.5% of all the workers lost. The average unemployment rate for these nine countries in the second quarter was 11.5%, which is 2% higher than the previous quarter. According to the report, the COVID-19 pandemic has created an unprecedented economic contraction in the region, as per the International Monetary Fund, the economy of the region is expected to contract around 10% this year. In our next story, according to a study by active research poll store, over 80% of Chilean voters approved constitutional reforms. Chileans were asked if they would vote in favour of reforming the constitution in the October 25th, plebiscite. According to a survey, 83% of electors would approve it, 13.4% would reject it and 3.6% of voters are still indecisive. Over 40% of surveyed considered it very dangerous to go to voting because of the pandemic, while 34% said it would not be harmful and 22.4% said there was no risk of contagion. The study also estimates that about 53.1% of the Chilean people would vote in the October elections. This corresponds to about 8 million people. In this event, 66.8% of those interviewed are in favour of creating a constitutional convention in which all members would be elected by a popular vote. In contrast, 28.1% of the people agree with a mixed constitutional convention which would be made up in equal parts by members of the current Congress and those who elected directly by the people. The survey also unveiled that less than 50% of Chileans watched the advertisements related to the plebiscite. Of that group, 57% of people considered the approved campaign to be more trustworthy. The Chilean referendum rescheduled from April 26th to October 25th due to the COVID-19 pandemic could open the way for substantial modifications to the political and economic model created by the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. The referendum was announced following massive protests last year and this year against the policies of President Sebastian Pinera. We now move to news from Brexit. Following Boris Johnson's failure to respond to Brussels' demand to drop legislation that would override the withdrawal agreement and break international law, the EU has launched legal action against the UK. The European Commission President Ursula von der Leiland announced that the UK had been put on formal notice over the internal market bill tabled by the Prime Minister last month. The internal market bill would give British ministers legal powers to override two elements of the Northern Ireland protocol. Early this month, Johnson was facing backlash from the EU and from within his own ruling Conservative Party after his government said it is ready to break its commitments to the EU over the Irish border. Speaking in Brussels, Ursula von der Leiland said that the EU had invited UK to remove the problematic parts of the draft internal market bill by the end of September and that by its very nature to breach of the obligation of good faith laid down in the withdrawal agreement. She also added that it will be in full contradiction of the Northern Ireland protocol. The Commission's letter is a start of a lengthy process that will ultimately end the European Court of Justice. And finally, early this week, the left block in Portugal expressed strong objection to the remarks made by the US Ambassador in Lisbon, George Glass, in an interview to a local newspaper. The statements by the ambassador were made in the backdrop of the ongoing trade war between the US and China. He suggested that Portugal must now choose between its allies Glass described the country as a battlefield between Washington and Beijing. He further revealed in response to a question that a delegation of the US Treasury Department was in Portugal to work with regulators to prevent Chinese companies from gaining greater access to the Portuguese market. Portugal is currently one of the major recipients of Chinese investment in Europe. The left block in Portugal called it manifest interference in the internal affairs of the Portuguese state and termed it totally unacceptable. The Portuguese Communist Party also registered a strong protest against the statements. Following widespread protests and condemnation over the ambassador's statements, socialist party and government in Portugal responded saying that the decision-making process in the country is under the government and will not be impacted by US pressure. That's all we have time for today. We will be back tomorrow with more news from around the world. Until then, keep watching People's Dispatch.


From New York, it's theCUBE. Covering Escape 19. Okay, welcome back to theCUBE coverage in New York City for the inaugural multi-cloud conference called Escape 19. We're in New York City, escape from New York City, escape from your cloud, multi-cloud is the reality. Armand Dadgar, he's here, CTO co-founder of HashiCorp, CUBE alumni. Great to see you, thanks for coming on. Yeah, great to see you, thanks for having me back. So first of all, I just got to say congratulations on all your success. You guys have been doing extremely well as a business and you guys started out with a very pure mission, continues to be, you're getting some validation, marketplace is spinning in your direction and you couldn't ask for kind of a better scenario, kept doing it, so congratulations. Thank you so much, it's been fun. So you guys are at the pinnacle of kind of the confluence of automation meets, you know, what developers care about, just standing stuff up and getting stuff done, infrastructure as code has been the ethos of cloud, DevOps. Now we're on the horizon here at a cloud that's kind of billing itself as the inaugural multi-cloud show. When people have multiple clouds, but they're not multi-clouding, they're not inter, so there's still a lot more work, but the best minds are here, having conversations around what does that picture look like, what can we do foundationally, what best practices and things you double down on, what's your take on all this? You know, I think it's funny because I think if you had this exact same conference three, four years ago, everyone's take would have been like what, multi-cloud, right? Like everyone was like, multi-cloud's not real, it's only Amazon, et cetera. And so it's funny now to actually be at a multi-cloud conference where it's like nobody even questions the premise. Everyone's like, yeah, obviously we're gonna be multi-cloud. Right, and I think what's happened is that you've seen maturity of the public clouds, right? So it's no longer just Amazon, there's multiple credible clouds. And then I think the other piece of it is large organizations are realizing multi-cloud's inevitable, right? You might say I'm gonna go all in on, you know, cloud A and then I buy a company that's cloud B, now multi-cloud, right? And so I think the pragmatic reality for the kind of global 10,000 is you're gonna be a multi-cloud company whether you want to or whether you don't, right? It's like multi-vendor in the old days. When I was growing up in the, you know, the mini computer networking days, you had multiple vendors, that's not a bad thing. Yeah. Just kind of create some abstractions. I want to get your take on the work environment that's out there. You guys have been very successful providing great tools, open source and commercial for developers to stand stuff up and do their work to operationalize multi-cloud, which is inevitable. How do you see that vision? I mean, obviously common workflows and work streams, but if I'm an IT guy or I'm a VP of IT or CISO or whatever, I got money. I don't want to fork my developer teams. I want my guys being productive. I'd love to have my own stacks on premises. I'd love to push APIs out to my vendors and say, that's how we work together. So a modern thinking is going on. How do you look at the operationalizing that next level? So what I just spoke about is sort of like when we talk about multi-cloud, I think there's kind of four definitions of it. One is the notion of data portability, which is perfect fit for database technology like Cockroach, the notion that I'm going to have data that exists in multiple clouds at the same time. Then you have the notion of workflow portability, which is exactly what you're talking about, which is, hey, if I'm a developer building an app, I don't care, is it going to land on Amazon, is it going to land on-premises, is it going to go to Google? I want one workflow for how do I do my CI CD? How do I do my testing? How do I do the deployment? How do I monitor it? What are the workflows in terms of delivery? Because to your point, if I'm the CIO, I don't want to invest in four different workflows. I want to train my team on one. I want to have a common way of delivering it. And that's a developer efficiency. I think there's the sort of Shangri-La of multi-cloud, which is this idea of workload migration. I'm going to push a button and move it from cloud A to cloud B. And I think for most organizations, that's a very hard to architect for. It requires so much discipline, and I'm not sure it's actually practical for most organizations, because it means that you can't really use any of the cloud's high-value services. It means you have to really architect everything for data portability, everything for workflow portability. And so I think what's reasonable is kind of exactly what you said was really good. Well, the Shangri-La example is a good one.   So SLAs, I mean, just, that's almost impossible. Yeah, it's not practical. At this point. So the low-hanging fruit ultimately is data portability and workflows, and preserving the developer focus. So what is your take on, and I'd love to get your expert opinion on this, because people are investing in developers, and it's that people are doing it well, and some are not doing it very well. Meaning they've been relying on outsourced vendors. This company's been providing all my dev, and we've been lean and mean, we've got dashboards, we're pushing provisioning servers, and I got to cloud, I got Amazon dashboard, but now I'm like, I can't really crank anything craft out there. I need real developers. So you got great and poor. What's the successful one for having a good, strong enterprise developers? So I think what's interesting is those companies you talked about that you're sort of used to outsourcing everything. For them, they never thought about software dev as a core competency. It's like, oh, I'm a media company, or I'm a retailer. It's not my competency. I'm just going to outsource it to HP, IBM, whoever to do my dev work. And I think what's changing is as you think about DevOps and sort of this new digital economy, it's that, no, the application is my value. Like yes, maybe the product I end up delivering to is a razor blade, but my value is in the digital experience, the engagement. And so I think your core competency has to become software development. And I think that's that big shift. It's a bit of a top-down shift in terms of how do you think about the development group? And then I think from there, it's bootstrapping, a culture, it's bootstrapping, sort of those core engineering teams, like to your point, the kind of cloud native practitioners. I think you have to foster that sort of internal culture and community. But it's also a top-down investment. That's never going to work in a bottom-up way if you don't foster the top-down investment. Say, actually I'm going to think about this team as a revenue driver and not a cost center. It's interesting, I was just doing an exercise on the flight out from California here to the East Coast, and I was looking at all the different players that we cover. We cover hundreds and hundreds of companies. And I was trying to put them in buckets. And then I was like, cloud native, there's clearly a cloud native bucket and there's people in the cloud native. It's like, we know who they are. Then I'm like, okay, enterprise, data center. No, hybrid, oh yeah, hybrid. Well, are they hybrid? Hybrid IT? No, no, hybrid developer. So I was just like trying to shoehorn in, like, so a hybrid certainly is there, but it's hybrid IT is kind of losing favor on my list. It became hybrid developers. Meaning that IT wasn't like categorically relevant in just how they were organizing. They were doing hybrid with developers and then you had pure cloud native, which is just scale. So those two worlds are coming together on the data. Your reaction to that? Yeah, I mean, I think to your point, you can think about the architecture, the application architecture, I think is being distinct from the IT practices, right? And I think to your point, you can live in this sort of weird world where you might have a cloud native architecture, but sort of a traditional IT practice. And I think maybe that's what sort of a hybrid IT might look like. And so I think what ultimately people want to migrate away from that into more of sort of a truly cloud native DevOps sort of mentality. Well, I think one of the insights that's happening in real time with this conversation is that if software is your core competency, then inherently IT is subsumed into it. Right. Because in DevOps, they are the IT. Right. Right, so. Right, so you better be really good at it. Yeah, exactly, yeah. Yeah, so every company, I mean, I think ultimately that's the pivot in my mind is that if you're not going software digital, then you might not make it. Yeah. Ultimately, because someone else will. Right, exactly. All right, talk about your success in Hashicorp. What's been the magic formula for you guys?  What's the big success formula for you guys? You know, I think there's two big ones, right? I think the two sort of bigger trends that we're sort of writing is one is this motion of cloud adoption, right? Like, you know, that's huge. The other one is this sort of app modernization of how do I go from traditional ticket driven process of delivering an app into DevOps, self-service, agile delivery. And so I think that sort of modernization of the process is just as important as the modernization of the architecture from on-premise to cloud, right? So I think we're kind of writing both of those. And I think what's been really important for Hashicorp is sort of an ethos that I think has helped us is this notion that we care a lot more about the workflow than we care about the technology, right? Because what's crazy to me is we're a small, you know, we're still a startup, right? And so in the last six, seven years of our life, if you look at 2012 and say, hey, what's changed from a technology standpoint since then, I'd say everything. 2012, you had one cloud. You didn't have Docker. You didn't have containers. You didn't have Kubernetes. You didn't have serverless. You didn't have infrastructure as code, right? So there's been just a sea change after sea change in terms of technology, but what hasn't changed is core workflow. And I think for us, that investment was, hey, we're going to be a workflow-oriented company and those things don't change, where if we say, I'm going to be the greatest shop at delivering Java and then Docker shows up, you know, that's an existential threat to your business. Exactly. And I think one of the things that we as a tech industry get into is speeds and feeds, the shiny new toy. And I think that's a great success for them. In fact, I was just having a conversation with another technologist this past week and we were talking about all the cool stuff's going on. He was, John, John, if you think about the workflow, as one thing as an underpinning, this thing's going on, that's automation and some goodness there. He goes, but up the stack, machine learning, forget all that. It's just the workload. Right. So if you think about just workload and workflow. Right. Everything else should just fall into place. Exactly. And that's where the cloud 2.0 is modernizations going. Right. So I think the companies you've seen succeed are either, to your point, they're a new type of workload that exists in the cloud as a managed service. It's Confluent. It's Spark. Right. It's Cockroach that I can go consume as a service. Or you have the workflow vendors. But I've said, great, I'm going to give you a common multi-cloud DevOps way of consuming that and deploying your workload out there. And I think those are the two patterns that work. It's so exciting. This new wave is great. It's just the beginning. We're multi-cloud here. I got to get your take while you're here on cloud 2.0. It's something that I've been kicking around inside the CUBE team as a goof on Web 2.0. Because Web 2.0 is a big goof. Oh, it is Web 2.0. And it caused a lot of fun. Cloud 1.0, if we just say is Amazon, compute, storage, not so much networking, but large scale born in the cloud, goodness. Great. But now the reality of the enterprise and hybrid, things are emerging. Observability is important. Right. Automation is important. Workflows. How would you define cloud 2.0? What's the, if you had to take a stab at that kind of architectural definition where there's new subsystems emerging that are important? Like observability is just network management, but it's super important. Right. Automation, configuration management, but it's now automated. Those are now little white spaces that have become very important. Right. What do you see the building blocks of cloud 2.0? So I think with cloud 1.0, I think it was characterized largely by like a lift and shift, right? You said, okay, I can kind of see how it looks similar to my on-prem. I'm just going to lift and shift the same thing. Versus cloud 2.0, I think the phrase we like to use is it's multi-everything, right? Your multi-cloud, right? It's multiple public clouds in on-prem. It's multi-platform. It's not just lift and shift of VM. It's great. I have my VM-based workload, but I have my container, I have my Kubernetes, I have my serverless. So I have a ton of different platforms that I'm consuming. And it's also multi-service, right? We talk about microservice sort of patterns. It's not just take my monolithic Java app and move it to the cloud. It's decompose that one app into 50 services, summer containers, summer serverless, summer VM, and mixing and matching all of that. So I think that 2.0 world is much more sort of dynamic, much more of sort of a diverse set of technologies that you're using. But to your point, that brings in a bunch of enterprise reality of it's not managing one simple app anymore. There's a ton of complexity in managing the multi-cloud, multi-platform nature of it. So I think there's a lot more investment in sort of management tooling and process to actually make that sort of sane. Well, what's next for you guys? You guys are doing some great work. Again, congratulations. HashiCorp has really earned great reputation, great user base, great following. People sing praises about your tools and software, what's next? What's conquering next? I think, you know, there's two things we recently announced. One was our sort of Terraform Cloud service, which was, hey, how do we take Terraform from just desktop tool, make it sort of a cloud experience where you can collaborate on it as a service, sort of use APIs to hook it into your other systems. And then similarly, we announced a partnership with Microsoft on a console on Azure service, right? So I think we're starting looking at that and saying, really, how do we kind of, I think the irony of HashiCorp is, we're a cloud infrastructure company, but we sell desktop software, right? Like there's an obvious disconnect there. So I think how do we sort of write that and sort of say, okay, really, people want to consume this stuff as a service. How do we meet them where they are, right? And I think we're starting with- And offer both options. Exactly. Exactly. Well, Armin, thanks a lot for coming on, sharing you.  Appreciate it. Thanks so much. Thanks for seeing you. HashiCorp here in the CUBE conversation, talking about what's going on in this dynamic world of modern infrastructure, modern software, where software is a core competence and multi-cloud reality is coming. CUBE coverage is here. I'm John Furrier. Thanks for watching.


Welcome to Affector from the Electronic Friends Here Foundation. This is the audio edition of EFF's email newsletter geared towards keeping you on the bleeding edge of your digital rights. Check the show notes for links to all of our stories. This is Affector Volume 34, Issue 1, titled, 10 Years After the Internet Blackout. This issue was published on Thursday, January 20th, 2022, and I'm your host, Member Outreach Assistant Christian Romero. Let's start with some top features. First up, it's Copyright Week 2022. Ten years later, how has SOPA and PIPA shaped online copyright enforcement? Ten years ago, a diverse coalition of internet users, nonprofit groups, and internet companies defeated the Stop Online Piracy Act, SOPA, and the Protect IP App, PIPA. Bills that would have forced internet companies to blacklist and block websites accused of hosting copyright infringing content. These were bills that would have made censorship very easy, all in the name of copyright enforcement. This collective action showed the world that the word of a few major companies who control film, music, and television can't control internet policy for their own good. We celebrate Copyright Week every year on the anniversary of the internet blackout that finally got the message across. Team Internet will always stand up for itself. And for our next feature, Victory, Google Disables 2G Feature for New Android Smartphones. Last year, Google quietly pushed a new feature to its Android operating system, allowing users to optionally disable 2G at the modem level in their phones. This is a fantastic feature that will provide some protection from cell site simulators, an invasive police surveillance technology employed throughout the country. We applaud Google for implementing this much needed feature, but now Apple needs to implement this feature as well, for the safety of their customers. Okay, now we have some EFF updates. First up, Saudi Human Rights activist, represented by EFF, Sue Spyromaker Darkmatter for violating U.S. anti-hacking and international human rights laws. EFF filed a lawsuit in December on behalf of prominent Saudi human rights activist, Lujane Alhathlau, against spying software maker Darkmatter Group, and three of its former executives, for illegally hacking her iPhone to secretly track her communications and whereabouts. Next up, we've got a new episode for how to fix the internet, algorithms for a just future. Modern life means leaving digital traces wherever we go, but those digital footprints can translate to real-world harms. The websites you visit can impact mortgage offers, car loans, and job options you see advertised. EFF Cindy Cone and Danny O'Brien joined Vincent Lay, legal counsel for the Green Lightning Institute to discuss our digital privacy and how U.S. laws haven't kept up with safeguarding our rights when we go online, as well as some ideas and examples about how we can turn the tables and use algorithmic decision-making to help bring more equity rather than less. Next up, nearly 130 public interest organizations and experts urged the United Nations to include human rights safeguards in proposed UN cybercrime treaty. EFF and Human Rights Watch, along with nearly 130 organizations and academics working in 56 countries, regions, or globally, urged members of the ad hoc committee responsible for drafting a potential United Nations cybercrime treaty to ensure human rights protections are embedded in the final product. The first session of the ad hoc committee is scheduled to begin on January 17th. Next up, court orders authorizing law enforcement to track people's air travels in real-time must be made public. The public should get to see whether a court that authorized the FBI to track someone's air travel in real-time for six months also analyzed whether the surveillance implicated the Fourth Amendment. EFF argued in a brief file this week. And here's our last update. Fact checking, COVID-19 misinformation, and the British Medical Journal. Fact checking should not mean that users must be exposed to a whole new ecosystem consisting of new actors with new processes and rules. Facebook and other technology companies cannot encourage processes that detach the checking of facts from the overall content moderation process. Instead, it must take on the task of creating systems that users can trust and depend on. Fortunately, the current system created by Facebook fails to achieve that. And now we have one announcement. Oral arguments Friday on motion for summary judgment in Williams v. San Francisco. On Friday, January 21st, 2022, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the ACLU of Northern California will ask a California state court to find that the San Francisco police department violated city law when it used a network of non-city surveillance cameras to spy on Black-led protests in 2020 against police violence in the wake of George Floyd's murder. You can watch live at 9.30 a.m. Pacific Time. We also have one EFF staff update to share. In 2020, a majority of non-management staff at the Electronic Frontier Foundation signed union cards. Joining the IFPTE, also known as the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers, Local 20, a local also known as the ESC. The executive team at EFF voluntarily recognized the union. We look forward to collaborating together in the best interests of EFF and its employees. Moving on, we have some job openings. First up, senior speech and privacy activist. Help EFF spearhead our work on corporate threats to speech and privacy online. We're looking for a full-time advocate and researcher to join our activism team as a senior speech and privacy activist. Next, associate director of community organizing. EFF is looking for a full-time energetic and enthusiastic organizer and manager to join our activism team and direct our grassroots Electronic Frontier Alliance network. And for our last job opening, EFF is looking for a system administrator to help build and maintain the organization's digital infrastructure as part of the technical operations department. And finally, we have a couple mini-links to share. First up, from the San Francisco Standard, San Francisco police illegally use surveillance cameras at the George Floyd protests. The courts must stop them. San Franciscans pushed for civil liberties in a landmark privacy ordinance, which EFF and the ACLU of Northern California are proud to defend against unfettered police spying on protesters. Next, from the Lawfare Podcast, working towards transparency and accountability and content moderation. EFF civil liberties director David Green joined the Lawfare Podcast to discuss the Santa Clara Principles 2.0 and the future of online content moderation. Next, from the Washington Post, academics want to preserve video games. Copyright laws make it complicated. DMCA section 1201 hurts preservation, repair, security, and innovation, but does nothing to prevent copyright infringement. Next, from People's Dispatch. After recurrent delays, trial of software developer and activist Ola Bini is set to begin. Free software developer Ola Bini's trial resumes this week. And EFF and other organizations are closely following the case and hope that due process can finally have its day in court. And this last mini-link comes from the markup. College Prep software Naviance is selling advertising access to millions of students. Naviance, a college and career readiness software provider, used by 10 million students yearly to submit applications, is also a targeted ad platform that allows admissions departments at colleges to target students purportedly by race. And that's it. We've made it to the end. Thanks for listening. If you like what you're hearing, be sure to sign up for the email version of AFFECTOR, which includes links to in-depth coverage of these stories and more. See past issues and subscribe at EFF.org slash AFFECTOR. Before we end this issue of the newsletter, I just want to let you know that EFF is a member-supported non-profit organization and you can help us protect digital privacy, security, and free expression for everyone. Donate to EFF today and even grab a bit of gear by heading over to EFF.org slash AFFECTOR. 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