for pressing the pain a button.  Now, not everybody does, but the majority of people who are mentally ill usually take medications. And let's face it, taking medications is not always fun. We don't always wanna do it, but in the end we know that it's good for the brain. And we need to take our brain meds, just like you would take meds for any other organ in your body. So today I have three suggestions on how to make taking medication just a little more interesting. So first tip I have for you is how I'm gonna do with water. So usually when you take your meds, you like chase the nail with water or something like that.  For me that would be this. It is a pink, sparkly little shot glass that came from Las Vegas. Story behind this, my best friend's mom got this for me. So to me, even though I don't drink, the fact that I use this to take my meds kind of makes me feel pretty cool. So I'm just like, oh yeah, I'm totally just taking shots for my meds. You can get shot glasses in all sorts of ways. I know that they sell little red solo cup ones like in every store. But if you're not into the idea of shot glasses, you can always just find like normal cups, just any way to make them fun. You can even get children's cups, they're a bit bigger than this. I actually have another cup that says I'm totally awesome and it has a turtle.  So the second tip I have for you is a fun way to store your meds. So usually, usually your medication comes like an orange bottle or it comes in like the white stock bottles or in boxes, whatever. And if you take them every single day, you know, it could be very old just opening the bottles over and over. So an idea to have is a pill minder. Or it's also, I've also heard it called it's like a pill reminder, pill storage. I've even heard it called Convlers. And this is what one looks like. This is what mine looks like. Mine is clear and red and it has a letter for each day of the week. You can actually find these in a week or a week of morning, noon and night or just morning and night or whatever you're needing. I take meds morning, noon and night and I just put them all in here. For afternoon meds, I actually have this key chain that is on my keys. It is shaped like a pill capsule. You just open it up, put your pills inside, close it off and whenever you need it, it's right there. This one came from an event, but it says Walgreens. So I guess you can find this at Walgreens or you can just find any little key chain. Like you have to take your meds throughout the day. Just like a little key chain where you can put it on your keys or on a different key ring. Just some things to remind you to do it throughout the day. And I mean, I don't know. I find it kind of amusing having a giant pill capsule next to a dinosaur key chain but that's just me. And the last thing that I suggest is if you have reminders on your phone. So most of us have a cell phone. Personally, I have three alarms for this phone. One of them is silent. And I have one at 7.30 in the morning, one at 12 p.m. and one at 9.30 at night. And like I just remind you to take my meds. And if you have something like that, you may have like, you can change up the note or you can change up the alarm sound. Like I know for me personally, the titles of my medicine alarms are med time, afternoon med, med time. And just putting that is boring. So you could spice yours up a little bit and like put something like start the day right or brain power or let's get through the happy day or happy pills or something. It may seem really weird to other people but for you, I mean, it could be funny for you. And that's all that matters. It's just to make like a little more interesting. And the second thing is if your alarms have sounds. So my 12 o'clock does not have any sound and that's done on purpose. So when I'm in class, I don't hear it. I can see it later, let's see. What do I have? Both of mine have a different sound. Mine's a reminder for the 12 p.m. But all right, let's see. So this is what I have for my 730. This is what I have for 930. You don't wanna have those kind of sounds. Like if you have a smartphone, you could actually pick songs. I know on the iPhone you could do that. Like let's say I wanted to switch on to one of my favorite songs. So let's go with, you can make it really funny things. Like for those of you who don't have smartphones, there's a website called PhoneZoo that you can go on where you can free download the ringtones. I don't know if PhoneZoo still exists but I did something to look into. So yeah, those are my three tips for how to make taking medicine just a little more fun because it's not always that fun. So I hope you guys enjoyed this video. Please give it a thumbs up or if you have any other suggestions on videos, comment down below. Obviously go check out Psych2Go because Psych2Go is pretty awesome. And if you'd like to see more of what living with generalized anxiety is like, then you can follow my channel which should be linked down in the description below. So I hope you guys have a wonderful day and I will see you later. Bye.


This video will cover the following objective from the reproductive system, describe the location, structure, and function of the ovaries, define and describe the processes of oogenesis and folliculogenesis, describe the three phases of the ovarian cycle, follicular, ovulation, and luteal phase, describe the roles of FSH, LH, estrogen, and progesterone in the regulation of the ovarian cycle. The female gonads, known as the ovaries, are responsible for producing the ova and the sex steroid hormones, estrogen, and progesterone. The ovaries are a pair of oval-shaped organs located within the pelvic cavity, each is around 2-3 cm in length, approximately the size of an almond. The ovaries are supported by the broad ligament, an extension of the peritoneum that folds down into the pelvic cavity to envelop the ovaries, the uterine tubes, and the uterus. The ovaries are also supported by the ovarian ligament that anchors each ovary to the body of the uterus. Each ovary has an outer surface epithelium of cuboidal epithelial tissue, surrounding a layer of fibrous connective tissue called the tunica albuginia. The layer of tissue just deep to the tunica albuginia is the ovarian cortex. The ovarian cortex contains the oocytes that are maturing within structures called follicles. And then deep underneath the ovarian cortex, the inner region of the ovary is known as the medulla. So the ovarian medulla contains large blood vessels and lymphatic vessels and nerves. Here we see an electron micrograph of an ovarian follicle in the cortex of the ovary. This follicle is a secondary follicle, a follicle that has been stimulated by follicles stimulating hormone to start growing. And as it's growing, it starts to produce liquid that fills a space called an antrum. So a secondary follicle is a follicle that's starting to grow and develop an antrum. The process of eugenesis begins during prenatal development before birth in females when the eugenium divides by mitosis to produce primary oocytes. Then these primary oocytes enter into meiosis I, but immediately they will arrest at prophase I and meiosis I will not be completed until after puberty in response to rising hormone levels. Meiosis I will resume and be completed to produce a secondary oocyte and a polar body. The polar body is essentially just a waste product to remove excess chromosomes as the secondary oocyte will then go on to meiosis II. However, meiosis II will also become arrested. Meiosis II arrests at metaphase II and will not resume unless a sperm encounters the secondary oocyte within the uterine tube, in which case the secondary oocyte will complete meiosis II, producing another polar body that's just excess chromosomes that are being removed. And the secondary oocyte will mature into an ovum that will then receive the chromosomes from the sperm cell in the process of fertilization. Foliculogenesis is the development of ovarian follicles. Foliculogenesis starts with primordial follicles that are produced during prenatal development. Each primordial follicle is a single layer of granulosis cells surrounding the primary oocyte, and these granulosis cells are thin, flattened cells forming a simple squamous epithelium. In response to hormonal signals after puberty, primarily the follicle-stimulating hormone, will activate primordial follicles to mature into primary follicles. The primary follicle has a thicker layer of granulosis cells with a cuboidal shape, so the rounded granulosis cells first form a simple cuboidal epithelium surrounding the primary oocyte. Then as the granulosis cells continue to divide, the follicle starts to grow into multiple layers of cells, and an outer layer of connective tissue forms with cells in it known as sthica cells. These sthica cells will help to stimulate the production of estrogen, as granulosis cells are stimulated by a luteinizing hormone and produce a precursor to estrogen, an androgen hormone known as Andrastin dione. The granulosis cells can then convert that androgen hormone into estrogen. As the follicles start to produce higher levels of estrogen and the layers of the follicles start to grow into a more stratified epithelium, the cells of the follicle start to secrete a fluid and that fluid known as anterofluid starts to fill a space within the follicle called the antrum. Then the antrum continues to grow and when the antrum becomes very large, filling the majority of the volume of the follicle, a secondary follicle has matured into a tertiary follicle. The whole process of maturation from a primordial follicle to a tertiary follicle will take a couple of months, but then the tertiary follicles will either continue as the selected follicle that will enter ovulation and release the secondary oocyte, or the tertiary follicle will be degraded in a process known as atresia. So the tertiary follicles are the last stage, they're also known as mature follicles or antral follicles because the antrum is very large. They're also known sometimes as graphium follicles, but when the secondary follicle matures into a tertiary follicle, the primary oocyte is stimulated to complete meiosis I and form a secondary oocyte, and then that secondary oocyte will arrest at metaphase II within the tertiary follicle. And so it is the secondary oocyte that will be released from the ovary in the process of ovulation and after ovulation the remnant of the follicle that stays inside of the ovary matures into a structure known as the corpus luteum, and the corpus luteum will continue to produce steroid hormones, some estrogen, and a large amount of progesterone will be produced by the corpus luteum. The ovarian cycle is a roughly 28 day cycle that's divided into three phases. So during the follicular phase at the beginning of the ovarian cycle, secondary follicles are maturing into tertiary follicles, and those tertiary follicles compete to become the dominant follicle. So only one of the several tertiary follicles inside of an ovary will be selected to become the dominant follicle, and all of the other tertiary follicles will be degraded in a process known as atresia. But that one selected follicle, the dominant follicle, will go into the process of ovulation. So ovulation is when the secondary oocyte is released from the ovary and exits the ovary and then will travel into the uterine tube. The process of ovulation is stimulated by a surge of luteinizing hormone, and luteinizing hormone will stimulate the follicle to produce large amounts of estrogen during ovulation, and then after ovulation the remnant of the follicle known as the corpus luteum will produce large amounts of progesterone and estrogen in response to luteinizing hormone. So the luteal phase of the ovarian cycle is when the corpus luteum is producing progesterone, and progesterone will then have effects on the uterus to help prepare for implantation of the embryo. However, if an embryo never implants, the corpus luteum will stop producing progesterone as it becomes the corpus albicans. So corpus luteum is literally the yellow body, and it's yellow from large amounts of progesterone that are being produced within the corpus luteum. But as progesterone production declines, the color fades to white, and corpus albicans is literally the white body. Then corpus albicans will further degrade as it's not being stimulated by luteinizing hormone, as luteinizing hormone levels fall at the end of the ovarian cycle as we enter into the beginning of the next ovarian cycle. The ovarian cycle is regulated by the endocrine system. The hypothalamus produces ganatotropin-releasing hormone to stimulate the anterior pituitary gland to produce luteinizing hormone and follicle-stimulating hormone. Then follicle-stimulating hormone will stimulate the process of folliculogenesis, and luteinizing hormone will stimulate the production of estrogen. Estradiol is the primary form of estrogen that's produced, and estradiol will then have effects in the uterus. It will stimulate the endometrium of the uterus to grow to help prepare for implantation of an embryo. Estradiol will also have effects in the anterior pituitary and hypothalamus to decrease the production of GNRH, LH, and FSH. Estradiol has the negative feedback function of decreasing GNRH, LH, and FSH production to help maintain a homeostatic set point for LH and FSH. At approximately the 14th day of the ovarian cycle, the negative feedback mechanism we saw during the follicular phase of the ovarian cycle ends and switches to a positive feedback mechanism, where estradiol will stimulate increasing production of GNRH, stimulating increased production of LH and FSH. In particular, the levels of luteinizing hormone drastically rise. This is known as the LH surge, and this LH surge triggers the mechanism of ovulation, where the secondary oocyte is released from the tertiary follicle and travels out of the ovary into the uterine tube. Following ovulation is the luteal phase of the ovarian cycle, where the corpus luteum in the ovaries produces progesterone in large amounts in response to luteinizing hormone. Then progesterone will have an effect in the uterus, progesterone will stimulate secretions from the glands in the endometrium, the inner lining of the uterus, and progesterone will help to maintain the endometrium, which prevents the process of menstruation. However, progesterone has a negative feedback effect to decrease the levels of GNRH, LH, and FSH that are being produced. As the negative feedback causes declining levels of luteinizing hormone, progesterone levels will decline, and the declining levels of progesterone will stimulate the transition to menses, initiating the sloughing off of the stratum functionalis, the inner layer of the endometrium in the uterus. Hormonal regulation of the ovarian cycle during the follicular phase involves high levels of follicle stimulating hormone, activating folliculogenesis to produce secondary follicles that are secreting estradiol, then the secondary follicles mature into tertiary follicles, and one selected tertiary follicle grows as the other tertiary follicles are degraded by atresia. Then as we approach the 14th day of the ovarian cycle, a positive feedback mechanism takes over, driving increasing levels of follicle stimulating hormone and luteinizing hormone, and the surge of luteinizing hormone stimulates the mechanism of ovulation, where the secondary oocyte is released from the tertiary follicle, following ovulation, luteinizing hormone stimulates the corpus luteum to produce progesterone, and a smaller amount of estrogen. But as progesterone has a negative feedback effect to decrease the levels of luteinizing hormone, luteinizing hormone levels fall, causing progesterone levels to decrease at the end of the luteal phase, progesterone levels fall, and the falling progesterone will trigger the end of the luteal phase as the corpus luteum degrades, and this will also trigger the beginning of menstruation, the shedding of the inner lining of the uterus. Here we see the histology of the ovary, where there are numerous small primordial follicles in the outermost superficial layer of the ovarian cortex. Then in the layer just deep to the primordial follicles, there are several primary follicles and secondary follicles. The primary follicles contain a layer of cuboidal granulosa cells surrounding the primary oocyte, and the secondary follicles contain a developing anterum where fluid is starting to accumulate inside of the follicle. Then here we can see a large tertiary or mature or graphene follicle where the anterum is a large fluid filled space occupying the majority of the follicle volume. Here's another image of the ovary where you can see several primordial follicles with a simple squamous epithelium of granulosa cells, and then you can see a primary follicle here where the granulosa cells have a cuboidal appearance, and then the secondary follicle here has a developing anterum of fluid filled space and an outer layer of theca cells. Here's a high magnification view focused on a tertiary or mature graphene follicle where there's a large anterum fluid filled space occupying the majority of the follicle. Then surrounding the anterum is a layer of cuboidal shaped granulosa cells forming a stratified epithelium. There's numerous layers of granulosa cells, and then surrounding the granulosa cells are the theca cells.


Good morning everyone, happy Monday. I feel like I'm a cat lady with all of the dogs that are in my car at all times. It is Monday morning, I stayed at my parents last night, so I'm driving back into the city, so it's like a 40-ish minute drive. And I'm at my favorites drive, which is the Adriatica Drive-Thru. It's the best one. This is like the one that I grew up at the most. Anyways, my window is like so dirty. Oh my gosh, it's embarrassing. I need to get a car wash. But it's like all trees, so cute. There's water over there, beautiful homes. I'm trying out a different order I saw on Instagram. Hi, how are you? Can I just have a grande iced chai with one shot of espresso and then the pumpkin cream cold foam, please? Oh, no problem. Perfect, thank you. Guys, I'm gonna have a secret roommate hopefully in November. Comment down below if you guys can guess who it is. I'm gonna listen to a podcast, I'll let you guys know. I'm wearing another boys' lifestyle, this one's my favorite, word vomit. I'll see if I can link it below because this one has actually been available more than my other ones. Guys, I've just been loving the constant uploads, the vlogs, everything. It's been so fun. Coco, I swear, girl, stay over there. I need like limo blockers for these dogs, okay? That's what I need.  Aw. Thank you. Oh my gosh, fix. Yes, I'm surprised that you knew that. I feel like he doesn't look like a normal doodle at all. Yeah, I've seen a lot of them that have like cleaner hair. Thank you. Yeah, he did. Oh my gosh, fix. Oh my gosh, thank you. Have a good day. No, Pappuccinos for you guys today because you guys have not been good. Taste test, everyone. Here's the order, screenshot if you want. It's very good. It's very good. It's not something I get regularly. I have to be in the mood for a sugary drink and most of the time I just make me fall asleep. Here's what you should do. You should just keep your schedule clear in hopes of me being like, hey. When you have a need to hang out, it's like in a room. All right, well, I'll see you at 3.45 on the dot. I don't know about that. What? I mean, it's 40 minutes away. The last list shouldn't take a whole hour.  I'll see you later. All right. Well, I'll remember this. I really will. All right, guys, I'm back home. I was just cleaning up a little bit, but I wanted to show you guys a few things that I've recently picked up. First thing, film. Not exciting. Oh, I got those light bulbs that change colors because everyone like keeps talking about them on Instagram. So I got these new colors in leashes through Amazon because rope collars like this or leashes like this cost a lot of money. These definitely don't feel as nice, but they are pretty similar. However, these are only like $10 and normally they're like 40, so I willing to rub them out, but I got this collar. It's way too big for him, so I might just order a small one for the time being. And then, Coco's came in.  I don't even know if this is gonna fit. Honestly, you're on the leash right now, so I can't shoot you, but it's not in a beige color. Like, oh no, this is definitely gonna fit her. Okay, so this is really cute. Honestly, guys, like, this is so inexpensive too. Bonda sent me stuff, so we've got some rotini pasta under you guys, tripod, shells, some vegan mac and cheese, which I might make today. And then we've got some Bonda rice made from chickpeas and I love chickpeas. The next thing I have is a selfie stick. I bought one of these months ago and I swear it just completely disappeared. I don't know what happened to it. I need one for the house because, like, obviously I don't have people. I work by myself, so I don't have, like, people to take photos of me today. Oh, slash, I, like, hate asking people to take photos of me. There's just a select few group of people that I will actually ask and they all have 95 jobs, so I don't see them during the day. I will be setting this up. I'm excited. I bought one because it broke forever ago and it literally just disappeared. Like, that's not okay. So, this is just assuming how you hold the phone in. This goes off of your phone. I have another thing for Maurizia. Ooh, I made one order, but it comes separately. One of them was on back order. So, it's more blue than gray, doesn't it? I mean, I like it, but I got it to match my pants. The big one, so this is gonna be, like, super slouchy. However, I don't know. I love the TNA boyfriend set. I always get a size three because in my mind, that's, like, the biggest one. I want to oversized. This is the oversized crew. Oversized. Um, then I still get the biggest size that there is. I'm literally gonna look like a marshmallow or something. I'm gonna use this to throw the trash away. So resourceful, you know? I don't know where my trash is, but I'll put on my cloths. All right, I need to finish putting stuff away. Getting that organized, I think I'm gonna go upstairs and sweep off my rooftop. I haven't been up there in, like, probably two months because it's been so hot, but it's getting nice now. And yesterday, I ordered online a fire pit and chair set, which I'm really excited for. So we're gonna make the rooftop fall. So, get pumped, everyone. Wow, just, you're gone, guys. The umbrellas over there, all of these. Like, this is not... Yeah, it could be better.  This will be the corner where the fire pit stuff goes. We'll see. Obviously, the pool's gotta go. This rug is, like, brewing. Oh, shoot.  Over here, I'm still... I literally have this turf downstairs, and I've yet to bring it up.  I know it could smell, so I don't know. I need to clean the floors again.  We did this a lot. That is gonna stay, even though, obviously, we won't be, like, laying out. And then, this rug is trash. Like, it's so gross now, because of all the rain and everything. So, I need to find a better outdoor rug that doesn't shed, because as you can see, it gets on this.  I still need to get pillows for outside. I love this set still. I'll have it linked down below. I have no idea what that is, so that worries me.  It's gonna be really cute. I might move the umbrellas for the time being. I'm not sure. Woo! This lens is not okay. Okay, guys, sorry I did it so much later. My camera died, so I wasn't able to vlog this morning, but I just got a lot of cleaning done. I put away, like, three loads of laundry. What's new with me and laundry, guys? I know. I just got a lot of stuff done around the house, and I feel good. I self-tan. I forgot to mention tonight. It's very exciting. We are actually shooting a new cover for my podcast, which I've been wanting to do for so long, but we had to, like, rent a convertible, which sounds so douchey, but when you guys see the photo, it won't be, or at least hopefully it won't be. It's really just, like, you guys will see, okay? The brights? Oh, my sister's doing my hair and makeup, so you guys will see that in the vlog. But on the bright side, it is officially fall. It feels like fall. The rooftop feels so good. I mean, it just feels so good out, and I'm just in the best mood, which inspired me to get back to cooking. I feel like I've taken the last few weeks off. I've been ordering way too much DoorDash, and that just cannot happen anymore. So we are going to Trader Joe's, which I haven't been to in a few weeks. I've just been ordering stuff, and I have a stew and a soup that I'm going to be making. There's this pasta I want to make, but I don't think I'm going to get the ingredients just yet, because I don't want to get them, and then them go bad, and it just be, like, too much food at my house. So we'll see. This feels like such a good thing, because who remembers when I used to always sit here and then put my AirPods in before I would go on Trader Joe's? Of course all these people parked near me as I'm talking to a camera. This case is from Cover Lab, by the way. Actually, I have another one I need to try. Putting my AirPods in. Probably going to listen to a podcast, but I'll show you guys what list I made. Like I said, there's one recipe I don't think I'm going to buy right now, but I will do that later this week if I end up making it. I'm just not sure what the week entails, okay? So I make, like, my menu for the week. It's really easy. I pretty much always choose from the modern proper. Any of my recipes are from them. They're not my recipes, but anything I make is from them, basically. Nine times out of ten, I would say. I think this is going to be purchased later. I'm going to get these two things today. The lentil soup with quinoa and mushrooms, and then I'm going to make a spice vegetable soup or stew. I don't know why. I cannot read breakfast, and then I need to get something for snacks, but I always have the link here, so it's easy to go back to, and then I can check it all off. It's really simple. Here is my grocery haul for the week. I just did it on story, so apologies if you guys are seeing it twice, but vegetable broth, onions, egg, banana, celery, carrot, avocado, quinoa, seasonings, my favorite for avocado toast. Then I just got a bunch of, you guys can see it here. It's all pretty much the same stuff. Kale, mushrooms, some flowers. I'm going to make some fall arrangements. We'll see, because I actually, there wasn't a lot to pick from. That was like more fall. And also this eucalyptus is actually just for my shower. I've been wanting to try that for so long, and I just am now getting, it literally has been like three years. Diced tomatoes. This is actually my favorite bread. They're gluten-free bread. It's definitely a little more expensive, but it's so good, especially with avocado toast. Sweet potatoes, lemons, garlic, ginger, lentils. These are for the soup that I'm making. This is like my favorite thing from Trader Joe's, the glaze. It's so bomb. Oh my gosh. And then organic tahini, which I used to have on salmon all the time, but I just haven't found it. It hasn't been at my Trader Joe's since I moved, and it was there today. So really just made me so happy. Guys, I am feeling so good about this. Like, who would have thought that I could make something like this? Oh my gosh. I am just so pleased with myself. I don't even know. I mean, the tall one goes on the table, but it just looks so cute. I guess that will go on the coffee table. Wow. I'm just so impressed. This is exactly what I was worried about with my sister moving 10 minutes away from me. She's just shown up. Wow. So you can like walk. Her femur is broken by the way, guys. So how's it going? It's fizzes. No, you can't take that from... You are so annoying. Maddie, that's literally my water bottle. Yeah. But it's dry. You are actually being so annoying. She just comes over here. Maddie, I was literally just about to edit. It is so big. Oh my gosh. What if it doesn't want that? Oh, that's actually... Oh, that's actually really cute.  It's really great. She was so happy, too. We were supposed to go shoot my new podcast cover art in like two or three hours, but now it is a 90% chance of rain and it's outside and it involves a car dealership. So I just like feel bad because there's so many people who are involved. It can't control this, but it still sucks because it's like, of course the one day it rains. I love rain, but I don't want it to rain right now because I want to go shoot this. So I guess we're probably not to reschedule. I'm going to give it like 30 more minutes before I say something as of right now. It's at an 85% chance of rain. So that just can't happen. I'm surprised no one from the dealership is texting me saying like it's going to rain. But I don't know.  Fall night at home cooking and stuff.  You know what I mean? So anyways, I'm editing my anxiety like morning routine that I've been working on. I'm just doing the intro and that'll go up in the morning and I'm trying to get another video up right now, but it just like won't finish processing, which is so annoying. My videos have been taking so long to process lately. All right, everyone. Welcome to a cooking with Kenzie. Tonight I'm making lentil soup with quinoa and mushrooms. Very exciting. As always, you're going to start by cutting the onion, carrots, and celery. I don't know why I did that up. And then it says that we're going to put them in the pan for like 20 minutes, which is a long time before adding everything else. It honestly looks super easy, but I'm excited. All right, guys. So we have the carrots, garlic, onion, celery time. I also need to do some seasonings and do some olive oil and let it sit for like 20 minutes. You want the vegetables to soften. 20 minutes, honestly, is a pretty long time. So it says that you need to be patient, which is, you know, not my best faith. It's left, and I'm just getting really impatient. So we're going to go ahead. This is exactly what you're not supposed to do, but it's literally two minutes. It's fine. We're going to add in 10 cups of vegetable broth. Now that is a lot. So you're going to add in the lentils, the quinoa, and the mushrooms. So here I am with the lentils. It says in the recipe that it'll take about 15, or 35 minutes, but the bags is just 15 to 20. So I'm just going to check in, and then you also want to add in the mushrooms. But that is what we have. Ooh, we brought all the lentils, quinoa, mushrooms. We're going to bring this back down to a simmer. Timer on for like 15 minutes. All right, guys. I just made myself a bowl of this soup. It's kind of hot. Liz is coming over and kind of surprised. It's just like so much food, and it looks so good. It smells so good. Like, I can knock it over this.  So I'll try it. This is my new, like, such a weird thing to put on, but this is truly my new. If you guys have never seen my big truck quick wedding, where the dad thinks that Swindex cures everything, and solves everything, which I kind of do too. Um, glaze is like my equivalent. It's definitely an odd thing, but it's too hard, you know? But honestly, the glaze with it, I can tell it's incredible. And it smells so bomb. I know it will freeze their soup, but that scares me. Like, I don't want to freeze that. Ignore all the stuff on my counters. This is what I'm going to use for, where it seems how I don't have one big enough. But this, I just put the dog on the walk. It's raining out. And Fitz is like the biggest diva in the rain. But this tastes so good. It smells incredible. I would recommend putting the glaze on. Thank you for those recs, guys. It was very good. Guys, confirmed by Liz, this is actually really incredible to add. It just, wow. I definitely noticed a difference. I just packaged them all up. Put them all up. Um, the ones that I catch, like the lentils and quinoa, definitely got bigger. So it is what it is. We still have, maybe I'll just hopefully eat the rest, because I don't want to like throw it away. But, here we go. This is my meal prep for the week, basically. We got our beautiful Sonic Blast drinks. Why am I doing this, guys? If you've seen the TikTok, see, isn't this the perfect size? The mini, no, it's not. Not big enough. I could honestly do a medium. Okay. Mini, personally, for me, is like the perfect size. Sonic Blast. You get the Oreo and cookie dough. It is so good. You probably won't even finish this. I probably won't. Liz is just mad because I never finished my blast. Like, literally so mad. Because I inhale it in like five minutes. I don't know why. It's just like really heavy for me, but it is so good. All right, guys. That is it for today's vlog. I definitely thought it was going to be a little bit more eventful, but I'm glad that we still did some meal prepping, some grocery shopping, all that stuff. Hope you guys enjoyed it. I love you guys so much, and I'll see you soon. Bye.


The Lagos State Police Command has put its officers on read a lot ahead of 77-annual celebration of the new Black Movement of Africa, also known as Black Acts on Wednesday. Some cultists, popularly known as IA Comfortanity, celebrate 7 July, while the Buccaneers hold their anniversary on 8 August every year across the southwest states. The Lagos Police Public Relations Officer, Olu Muiwa Adejobi, in a statement said the police would not tolerate any gathering in commemoration of 7-7 celebration. The command wants any group of persons under any nomenclature, particularly members of the new Black Movement of Africa, also known as Black Acts, to stay clear of Lagos State as the police and other security agencies are prepared to go after and deal with them within the ambits of the law. Commissioner of Police Lagos State Hakim Odumosu, who are directing the area commander's division of police officers and heads of tactical units to monitor the activities of cultists and intensified patrols across the state, reiterates the command's zero tolerance for cultism and other social vices in Lagos State.


Let's get to this topic. Let's talk about Biden and get it over with because it's not fun. Assuming Biden wins in a landslide and that landslide destroys Trumpism. What can we do to get ready to step into the void created and give people a rational alternative? That's a great question. It assumes a lot of things because I don't think Trumpism is going to go away. I think the Trumpism, which is the real focus on nationalism, on industrial policy, on anti-trade, on anti-immigration, and mixed in with religion is not going away. I see it's big advocates moving forward to be people like Tom Cotton, Josh Hawley, and Tucker Carlson. Kind of a leftist economic agenda with a nationalist right-wing social agenda. That's not going away and the battle over that will continue and we're going to have to be players in that battle to give ammunition to whatever better elements there are within the Republican Party that can fight that off. I think there are going to be two or three other elements within the Republican Party. The Republican Party is basically going to have a massive internal civil war. There are the, quote, more libertarian aspects of the party, supposedly Rand Paul and supposedly Lee from Utah and maybe Massey in the house. Hard to tell where they go. I think most of them gave in completely, bought into Trumpism and lost all credibility. Ted Cruz used to be a part of that group, but Ted Cruz I think has lost all credibility and I don't think Ted Cruz is going to be a force in the Republican Party in the future, certainly not in a, quote, libertarian wing of it. There's another wing of the party which is a relatively free market wing, a kind of a more traditional conservative fusionism wing that wants to collect the libertarians with some religion, with some tough on policy and that would be more the Nikki Haley, Nikki Haley wing of the Republican Party. I'm not sure who else to lump in there, but oh yeah, Sass. I don't know if you saw Sass. Sass came out, Ben Sass came out recently really well after, went after Trump I think yesterday. So Sass I think is part of that wing. I think that's the solid, pretty good, not great compromising, but basically somebody, people we can probably work with, founding fathers, founding fathers ideas and basically economic liberties. So Ben Sass, maybe Allen West, certainly Nikki Haley, people like that. I think they will be the most powerful anti-Trump force within the Republican Party. Then there are the people who basically are nothing Republicans. They don't stand for anything.  The Trumpists, when it's Trump's in, you know, they were Bush, neocons, when it was Bush, they would be, that would be anybody to anything, right? They will adapt to complete chameleons. They stand for nothing. They are nothing. And they are going to be the majority probably that will swing with whoever, whoever's going to be ultimately win out. The rhinos, a lot of them are rhinos. I mean, whatever, whatever it is at the time, right? So I, I think the question is going to be who wins out on that battle? What can we do to provide them with intellectual ammunition? And I think that's the key. The key is to get to, try to get to anywhere from anybody who will stand up against the Trumpists within the party. Anybody who will stand for even, even just a lip service to free markets, anybody who's willing to still say, I believe in free market and free trade, and I'm pro-immigration, even if it's, I'm not, you know, opening up the boat, open immigration, but I'm generally pro-immigration. If people, if that wing of the party, what we need to do is try to influence them and get in front of them. And we need to be the advocate of these ideas to give them a sense that they ask somebody out there who supports the better ideas that they have and will challenge them on the bad ideas that they have. But that is, that's going to be very difficult for us to do because we're still so small.  You should be avoiding the Josh Hawley type and supporting the Ben Sasse type. Even though Ben Sasse is religious and I know he's religious and he's quite religious, right? And avoiding the Rhino type and avoiding the, we'll go along with anybody type. Try to find the ones that are somewhat principled, somewhat, I say, it's hard to be somewhat principled, but they're somewhat principled and who are supporters of the founding fathers. I think that's essential. And, and supporters of free markets. Okay, another election question. I'm going to take the election questions that are $20 or more first. If Trump wins on day one, we can start advocating for Ben Sasse and Nikki Haley or other free market people. I don't think a Trump victory destroys the party completely. We can fight to move it to something better. I don't think so. I mean, I hope you're right. I hope you're right. But I think it's, it's the end of Ben Sasse. I mean, you saw today that even somebody I don't like, but you know, but, but what's his name from Pennsylvania to me from Pennsylvania is leaving the party. Not only do I think that what's going to happen is the Trump is going to lose. I think, I think the Republican party is going to be decimated in this election. And I think people are leaving and you saw what happened to, there was only a senator that stood up to Trump. I mean, Ben Sasse is finished if Trump wins. Ben Sasse will be drummed out of the party. So Ben Sasse, I met Ben Sasse. Ben Sasse is much better than Mitt Romney. Much better than Mitt Romney. Ben Sasse is, is really versed in the founding fathers. He, he has a deep understanding of the role of government. Mitt Romney was a nothing. Mitt Romney was a rhino. He was a businessman, but he had, he didn't have the intellectual stature or the knowledge. I mean, Ben Sasse knows a lot. I mean, again, he's religious and he's problematic in all kinds of ways. But in terms of his knowledge of the founders, his knowledge of ideas is, I think principle stand. He is, he is far better than Mitt Romney. Christian, thank you. Really, really appreciate it. This is on top of the match we already have. So this is taking us well over $1,000. Thank you guys. This is, this is amazing. I really appreciate the support. This is the best super chat show we've had since, you know, early, early September. So I don't think Ben Sasse need to give you a chance. Not only that, I believe that if Trump wins, Trump Jr is going to be groomed for 20, for, for 2024. I think people like Tucker Carlson, Josh Hawley, I think you'll get a whole new group of congressmen and senators who are in that line of Trumpism, who are going to come to dominate, I think they'll purge the party of every last person who stood up to Trump. And it's going to be a very, very, very different political party in, in the future if, if Trump wins. So, and again, you know, I, that's my assessment. I might be wrong. And, and I'm sure you guys will point it out. If I turn out to be wrong, you'll put it out to me. But I just don't see any hope for the Republican party. But look, I, if, if, if Trump wins, and I, and I think that we will have then solidified two clear, statist alternatives of a Republican party that is clearly unequivocally statist, and a Democratic party that we know is statist, that's, that's, that's it, that it's, it's done. Somebody says, you know, Ben Shapiro might run. Ben can't win. Ben can't win. He's a religious Jew. He is too good on economics. He's, he's too free market. There's no way he can win. Yeah. So anyway, you guys can, can hope, you can vote for Trump and hope that the Republican party can still survive in spite of that. But I am, I mean, it will survive, but it will survive as a very different party, very, very different type of party. So, and, and, and not a party that I think would serve our interest long term, not a party that I think serves American interest long term, not a party that can be an opposition party to the Democrats to our galloping into statism, galloping into authoritarianism. That's what I think the consequence of a Trump victory will be. What we need today, what I call the new intellectual would be any man or woman who is willing to think, meaning any man or woman who knows that man's life must be guided by reason, by the intellect, not by feelings, wishes, women's or mystic revelations. 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Happiness Isn't Brain Surgery with Doc Snipes. This podcast was created to provide you the information and tools Doc Snipes gives our clients so that you too can start living happier. Our website, docsknipes.com, has even more resources, videos, and handouts, and even interactive sessions with Doc Snipes to help you apply what you learn. Go to docsknipes.com to learn more. Today we're going to continue talking about understanding symptoms of anxiety and depression. We'll identify the causes, function, and interventions for eating disturbances. Now, whether you're angry, anxious, or depressed, a lot of people look to food for comfort. But people also sometimes eat out of habit and sometimes they eat because their body is at a whack. It's not sleeping when it's supposed to or you're not getting quality sleep. So your eating and fullness hormones are out of whack. So we're going to look at some of those causes and what to do about them. So basically we're talking about eating too much or loss of appetite. We're not talking about specific eating disorders. We're just talking about general, you know, I'm eating all the time, or, you know, I just can't seem to stomach anything, or I don't have the desire to get off the couch to make anything. This can be caused by an imbalance in the brain chemicals that help you feel motivated to eat, such as norepinephrine and serotonin, or like I said, some of those other hormones like ghrelin and leptin getting out of whack so your body doesn't know when it's hungry and when it's full. There are five primary causes of overeating. Your body needing the building blocks. Sometimes, and I know it's true for me, if I haven't been getting enough water, for example, and that's not necessarily a building block, but it's a necessary thing to have, I will crave iceberg lettuce. You know, I will crave salads and it can be the middle of winter and I will start craving salads. And that tells me that my body's indicating I need more water in my system because iceberg lettuce is like 90% water. So, your body could need the building blocks so you're having cravings for food that are designed to help you get the minerals or vitamins that you need. So, that's an important thing to look at. You want to look at your nutrition, go over it with your doctor or your nutritionist, to make sure you're eating a healthy diet. You could have low serotonin, and low serotonin can lead to feelings of high anxiety and in some people depression and sometimes when you have low serotonin and you're feeling that way, you eat for comfort. Think about American society. When do we eat? We eat when we're bored. We tend to eat to feel happy. We eat at celebrations. We eat at funerals. We eat at holidays. And a lot of times, food is associated either with comfort or with happiness. So, people will gravitate towards those.  So, your body may be saying your serotonin's low, I need more, I'm going to make you crave some of these things. Which is again why I said in the last presentation that some people, especially those that are prone to anxiety and depression, may not do well on very low carbohydrate diets because that takes out the high sugar-ish kind of foods. And carbohydrates are a sugar, whether it's a complex carbohydrate, which is a complex sugar, or something like sucrose. And a lot of times, you can meet that need with a complex carbohydrate. You don't, I'm not saying when you feel this way, go out and eat a candy bar and you're going to feel better. You may for about 30 minutes and then you're going to crash probably. But it's important to recognize if you're craving these sorts of foods, you may want to look and see if, how your mood is doing and whether you might be embarking on a depressive episode. It can also be because your circadian rhythms are out of whack. Like I said earlier, grayling and leptin are your hormones that tell your body when you're hungry and when you're full. And those are kind of reset or set, if you will, by your pattern of being asleep and being awake because it helps set your cortisol and everything else. So it's important, it's vital, to make sure that you're trying to get good quality sleep and preferably at roughly the same time.  But if you're struggling with depression or anxiety, it may be worth it. It may be important to you to try to stabilize your shifts a little bit. And in the presentation on sleep quality improvement, I talk about a lot of things you can do if you're a shift worker to help improve your quality of sleep. You also may eat just out of habit or self soothing. I've told you all before, I have a bad habit of coming in the door, setting my stuff down in the foyer table and going straight to the refrigerator. I don't even think, am I hungry? Or are we going to be eating dinner in 45 minutes? I just go straight to the fridge. And I've started to stop that habit. But I won't tell you that I'm perfect with it. And some people look for, they get in the habit of eating when they watch TV or eating when they're walking around or eating when they go to the movies. Even if they're not hungry, it's just what you do when you are watching TV or at the movies. Other people may eat to self soothe. It's what they do when they're stressed. They may reach for a pint of ice cream. Or for me, it's peanut butter. Love my peanut butter. And not that that's a good habit. But I know if I start craving peanut butter, it's probably, I'm probably stressed and I need to check out what's causing the stress. But some people will eat for that reason. And thyroid issues can also cause you to overeat or under eat. Especially if you have hyper thyroid, your thyroid's going too fast. Or you have too much thyroid hormone. You may eat more and still not gain weight. But I've also known people with hypothyroid, not enough thyroid hormone to help them. They gain weight, but they feel like they're hungry all the time. So how do you cope? In the past, when you have not had an appetite or have been eating to self soothe, how did you deal with it?  Generally, I'm lazy.  So if I have to do that, you know, if I know that that's one of those things I'm holding myself accountable for, I'll think twice before I just randomly eat because I'm like, you know, that's that's a lot of work just for a scoop of peanut butter. And how do you deal with the stress? If you're self soothing, you need to ask yourself what helps me feel better besides food? Or what's going to help me feel better in this situation to soothe my anxiety or anger? Do I need to call a friend? Do I need to go on a walk? Take a bubble bath, write in a journal. What works for you? How can you make sure you're eating a generally healthy diet so your body has the building blocks it needs so you're not having these weird cravings that, you know, lead to overeating or eating additional calories that you really hadn't allotted for? And what can you do to ensure you're eating due to hunger and not distress? So one of the first things, like I said, is identify the foods you generally eat in order to self soothe. And those are generally usually high fat, high sugar or very sweet, artificially flavored things. So you want to look at those and consider not keeping them in the house for a little while.  What can you do to prevent non-hunger eating? And there are a lot of tips and tricks for this. My grandmother used to brush her teeth as soon as every meal was over and that the mint in toothpaste tends to satiate your appetite so you don't want to eat again, plus mint combined with most things tastes nasty. You can, for me, if the kitchen is clean, if the kitchen is quote closed, I don't want to go in there and make another mess because I like to have the kitchen clean when I wake up in the morning. So if it's already clean, I don't want to have to do more housework. You can practice taking 15 before you eat. So if you have a desire to eat and it's not meal time, force yourself to do something else for 15 minutes. And then if you're still hungry after that, or if you're still craving food, then you can reassess what that's about and maybe choose a healthier option instead of a candy bar, maybe choose an apple or a pear. And what can you do besides eating to distract yourself from your distress or self-soothe? You may not be able to solve it right then, but what can you do to distract yourself?  So I'm not thinking about and perseverating on the food that I want to eat. I need to just completely change my thought pattern. Keep a list of things you can do besides eating to distract yourself. Because when you're in that phase that you just you want to eat everything in the cabinet, you're not going to be thinking, well, what else sounds appealing? Keep a list and force yourself to, you know, pick one thing and try it or a couple of things. And if one doesn't work, try the next one. Another thing to help remind yourself to do these distraction activities is to keep them available. I crochet. So I keep my crochet yarn in a basket next to the sofa. I also keep my mobile device with me pretty much all the time. So that helps because it's right there. And it reminds me, oh, I've got this other option available. If you have to go down to the craft room and get everything out, you may go, uh, that's that's too much effort. So make it easy for yourself. Because eating is very rewarding. So if you have to go through too much effort to do whatever the alternative is, you're probably not going to do it. So make whatever it is rewarding, something interesting, and make it as easy as possible to do. Some other simple interventions. Stop consuming caffeine at least eight hours before bed. Now, what does this have to do with eating? Well, if your sleep is out of whack, then you're going to probably be your body's not going to know when it's hungry and when it's full. And some of us eat to stay awake.  So let's get that sleep improved. If you drink caffeine, um, six hours before bed, you know, at six p.m., it is still in your system at midnight and fully in your system. Half of it is gone at midnight. So what does that mean? That means that if you drink coffee at noon, you drink it with lunch, then half of it will be gone by six p.m. And some more of it will be gone by midnight. I go to bed at like eight 30. So I need to make sure that I quit drinking caffeine at like 10 a.m. So it doesn't disrupt my sleep because having caffeine in your system keeps you awake, keeps you more stimulated, so you don't get quality sleep. Even if you go to sleep and if you wear a tracker, a fitness tracker that monitors your sleep, you can look and see how well you're sleeping, how much of your time was in deep sleep versus the other stages. And you really want to shoot for, as those things monitor it, about three hours of deep sleep at night. And if you're not getting that, you want to look at what might be causing that. Drink enough water. If you are dehydrated, you're probably going to crave certain foods. And dehydration also leads to confusion and depression and low energy and other symptoms. So drink enough water. Even if it's sparkling water or powerade or something, as long as it doesn't have sugar and caffeine in it, it's better than nothing. Try to have three colors on your plate at every meal. This will help ensure that you're getting the nutrients that you need. Look at it as maybe a protein and two vegetables or a protein of vegetable and a fruit or if you eat grains, then a protein of vegetable and a grain. But you want to have food from the different food groups. And you don't want to get too... A lot of people found that a lot of people found that the old food pyramid was just too complicated. Six to 11 servings, three to five servings, this and that. Just too much. So a nutritionist that I work with suggests to a lot of her patients to make sure they have three colors on their plate. And that helps ensure that you're getting food from each food group. But it keeps you from having to go through all the complicated, how many servings of this did I have, gyrations. Eat foods you enjoy, but in moderation. If you're not hungry, then having foods you enjoy may kind of wake your palate up a little bit. If you're eating too much, eat in moderation. Use a salad plate instead of a dinner plate.  And also three colors. The more colors that are on your plate, your brain thinks there's more food there than if you're just eating a plate that's the same color or all the various shades of light brown. So cute little tricks there you can use. Make sure to eat in moderation.    And if we eat half of what we thought we were going to, we find that we're pretty full. Get enough sleep so you're not eating to stay, stay awake. Talk with your doctor before you start taking a multivitamin, but it may be helpful to take a multivitamin. I take mine after dinner so it doesn't upset my stomach. But you know, that's between you and your physician. You can experiment with essential oils. Some will increase appetite. Some will decrease stress and cravings. You don't have to put them on you. As a matter of fact, I recommend you don't. I recommend you use either a diffuser or the little tart things that you can plug into the wall. You can also get little sprays. I put mine in a little spray bottle that's meant for like cosmetics or whatever. And I mix the essential oil with vinegar. So I can just spray it really easily in the room. And it makes a nice, nice smell. But I don't have to touch it. The benefit of essential oils or a huge part of the benefit of essential oils is from the response in your nose receptors. It's not from being absorbed into your skin as much. So essential oils can be really helpful even if you just breathe them. If you can't stomach eating, talk with your doctor about exploring a meal replacement like Ensure. This usually is not done for a long period, but sometimes it's done as a stop gap because people are just, you know, they're having a hard time even getting out of bed, let alone taking a shower and eating a good, healthy diet. So sometimes that can be a stop gap. Eating disturbances can be caused by a whole variety of factors, including sleep rhythm disruption, causing imbalances in hormones, low levels of serotonin, which can produce high levels of anxiety and or depression and comfort eating. And it can also produce cravings. You know, if you have low levels of serotonin, your body wants to balance it out. So it will produce cravings for food that may increase serotonin naturally in your brain. And it can also be caused by nutrient imbalances. So if your body can't make the serotonin because you're not eating enough protein with tryptophan, and don't worry about it, just eat good proteins, you'll get it. But if you're not eating enough good proteins, your body cannot make serotonin. If you're not eating enough magnesium, calcium, iron, there's a bunch of vitamins and minerals that are involved in the production of serotonin, then your body can't make it, which means it'll be low. You may have cravings. So nutrition and sleep are really, really important.  What I want you to look at is what is reasonable for you, and what is going to help you start feeling better. Work with a nutritionist, work with a doctor. But remember to include foods that you like, and not to exclude, unless there's a medical reason, a lot of nutritionists recommend that you don't exclude your favorite foods like chocolate or pizza or whatever your favorite foods are, you just have to have them in moderation. As soon as you start saying, I can never have this again, you are more likely to set yourself up for a binge on it. Interventions for sleep, for, for eating disruptions or disturbances, normalize your circadian rhythms, that's your eat, sleep, wake cycle. So circadian rhythms are not just about sleeping, it's about telling your body when to secrete cortisol, when to be hungry, all that stuff. So if your sleep's out of whack, it's going to be a problem. Eat a relatively healthy diet. Rule out thyroid and other hormone problems, which may be causing a, causing you to be hungry all the time and gain weight, or causing you to be hungry all the time and eat all the time and lose weight. Develop alternate self soothing behaviors and keep a list of them handy.  And you've got to find a way to practice the pause is what I call it, because, you know, it's pretty second nature. If it's for a lot of people when they're stressed to go straight to the kitchen and start eating, you need to put a pause in there between getting stressed and eating, when you say, is this what I really want to do? And that's where keeping a food journal on the counter and forcing yourself to write in it before you eat can help you really ask yourself, am I hungry? And there are some suggestions on, on the worksheets that accompany this video for things to put on your diet food diary, including why are you eating? Are you hungry? Are you stressed? And are you craving any particular things, salty, sweet, particular foods? That way you can maybe identify patterns and show your healthcare team so they might be able to help you figure out better ways to help you maintain a healthy appetite, not overeat, not under eat and practice mindfulness to address instead of eat your feelings. So like I said, you practice your pause and then some people will start practicing mindfulness and saying, okay, what's bothering me? And instead of even looking at, why am I craving this food? They will journal or do some other activity to try to figure out what's triggering that desire to eat and cope with it right then. But mindfulness is basically the act of asking yourself, right now in this moment, what do I feel? What do I need? And what do I want? Because sometimes your needs and wants are not the same. Maybe you want a hug but or you need a hug, but you're wanting to eat brownies. So how do I feel? What do I want? And what do I need? That makes you check in with yourself so you can better meet your needs. If you like this podcast, you can subscribe on your favorite podcast app. You can join our Facebook group or you can join our community at docsnipes.com and access additional resources.


Live from Washington D.C., it's theCUBE, covering .NEXT Conference, brought to you by Nutanix. Welcome back to the district, everybody. I'm Dave Vellante with Stu Miniman, and this is theCUBE, the leader in live tech coverage. We go out to the events, and we extract the signal from the noise we're here. This is day two of the Nutanix .NEXTConf hashtag. NextConf, Chris Shue is here. Sorry, Calvin Shue is here. VP of product marketing at Citrix. Welcome to theCUBE. Thank you very much. So, you're up on stage earlier today, right? Lot of good action here at the show. Talk about Citrix and what you guys are doing here. Yeah, so I think Citrix, Nutanix, we've had a partnership going back for quite a while. I think what really brought us together were customers that were actually trying to solve this issue of how do I implement VDI, and how do I do this better, right? There has to be a better way. And it's funny, we were just talking a little bit before about how many different infrastructure pieces and how many different components there are to learn in order to do VDI. And that was one of the things that always kind of stood as a barrier to adoption in some of the early days, going back, I don't know, several years now, and it would say, well, you got to be an expert in networking, you got to be an expert in storage, you got to know all the server-side infrastructure, the virtualization goes with it, and then you got also know the desktops and the app parts of it and how to manage all of that. And in my experience, it was all that technical knowledge, but it was also the people, right? So you also had to bring those people to the table. You would have one VDI project, go and talk to a customer, and we're going to do a pilot for 200 people to start. And there'd be 20 people in the room because everybody had different areas of responsibility. And so as Nutanix has evolved and the whole idea of hyper-converged and HCI has come around, that's really been some of the basis of where VDI is kind of getting that second booster of its life cycle here. But they're realizing that, you know, it could just be a few people that are responsible for that HCI infrastructure can deploy the VDI. And now they have a more simple, reliable way of implementing that solution. So we'll get it. I mean, that's kind of what we even want to go back to the converged infrastructure world. VDI was the one like foothold use case with V blocks in the early days, and HPE stuff or HP then. And you know, I have to say, I have to ask both of you guys, because you know this business really well and you're obviously a VDI expert, but when you talk to customers, they get really excited about VDI. They're like, hey, this is a great use case. We're doing VDI, VDI, VDI. It was a big, big project effort. When you talk to analysts, they're like, ah, VDI is so boring. What is it about VDI that there's this bifurcated opinion base, right? Analysts, ah, okay, but customers eat it up. What's going on? What unpacked that for us? Yeah. And then analysts don't necessarily feel the day-to-day pain of managing a desktop, right? And that's what it is, right? So for them it's a, it's a, it's a, well actually, I know some analysts that actually did that job. And so they're the ones that are still excited about it, right? But in general, like once you get past the idea of, you know, that consulting a client on the complexities and, you know, how do you choose a vendor? And then it comes down to a few basic things. It's which one's going to deliver the best employee experience with the solution? Which one's going to be the best, you know, operationally to manage? And then sort of their job is done. But then, you know, from an IT admin perspective, it's like they're still, every day, they're managing a new application update, a new desktop image, and it doesn't end, right? And that's dozens and dozens of hours out of every week, every month that you spend. All right, Dave, it was called VDI Fatigue. Every year was the year of VDI, you know? I think we've gotten beyond that because I tell you, from my viewpoint, it was wait, it was this mess of a stack and we're going to fix that. Oh wait, now storage is the mess. Yeah. Now flash is going to solve that.  The changing workforce, mobile workforce, there were always the next, the next, the next, the next thing. And it reminds me of our conversations with DeRos.  And a lot of it was, it was this big category of, you know, to talk about the user experience is I think what Citrix is focused on. And how do we make that simpler? And you know, so many analysts, the other thing from an analyst is most analysts focus on a piece of it. And this is very different. I know some analysts focus on like, you know, user experience and let's look at the application that's probably closer to where VDI is than, right. If you ask the storage guys, they're like, ah, VDI. If you ask the, you know, the desktop people, they're like, wait, my fine place is fine. So, you know, it's that, it was a really complicated problem, but it's very different today than it was. And I have to think that with Nutanix, it must have changed a lot in the last five years. Absolutely. Well, I think the other thing that's funny is thinking back to like 2008, right? Analysts called the VDI game really early. So, that's what they were saying, every year was the year of the VDI.  The customers are still just trying to deal with some very basic desktop management issues today. And, you know, they're probably lagging behind the industry and analysts by three to five years, I'd say, right. But what I hear now is Windows 10 is coming around the horizon. How am I going to manage Windows 10 updates? I've got an Office 365 deployment project on my hands. How am I going to get this all out? How am I going to get the functionality that every one of my end users needs? And it comes around, it's like, VDI is a great answer for that. It's a great way to solve that issue. Calvin, one of the things that we hear from Nutanix customers, they love the kind of one-click simplicity, one-click update. And I hear about, you know, Windows 10 is like the rollout of the next thing and where things break. How are Citrix and Nutanix working together to solve some of these challenges? Yeah, I think that approach of one-click, the automation, you know, that both the blueprinting types of technologies that we're pulling together, all that sort of automation is really important for this type of environment. You know, I think we're both willing to pull together solutions that really then drive that simplicity for both the infrastructure and the management ongoing of that solution. It's like, for example, you know, we're working together on the Citrix workspace appliance, right? And for us, it's not a product name, that's really a program. It's a way of defining a HCI infrastructure like Nutanix and jumping on board with this to be able to point that thing at the Citrix cloud and then download all the resources that it needs in order to run a Citrix workload on it. So it's a very automated way of getting stood up so that not only is the deployment of the infrastructure automated and simple, but placing that workload on it and getting it set to manage and then even running it and operating it is more like running and operating a cloud service than it is even operating, you know, a local infrastructure for it. One of the things, David Foyer from Wikibon has done a lot of analysis saying if we can get to, it's basically a single managed entity is where he calls it.   Yeah, well, I think it's time to value, but it's also making VDI accessible to more customers, right? And more segments of the market. The types of things that VDI solves, you know, security, manageability, those aren't just enterprise problems, right? Even mid-sized companies, they have security concerns and for them, it's actually probably even more dramatic. Like they have a breach there and it's catastrophic for the company, not just, you know, we're delayed by a few hours. And so it, you know, having that simplicity and making that whole thing easier to deploy and faster, but not just easier to deploy, but on day two, it's easier to manage ongoing. Those things are, you know, getting attention again. So for years, I remember I've been to Citrix Energy, been a bunch of VMware, you know, VMworlds, talked to customers, and it was always a two-horse race between those two companies. And Citrix was like secretariat, and VMware was like, devil is due. You've probably never heard of devil is due. Pretty good horse, but not secretariat. And you guys, Citrix was the dominant player in that marketplace. What's the competitive situation today?  How do you see them as a competitor? So I think where, it's interesting, is I think that what really happens in the competitive space now is that it becomes less about VDI versus VDI and like what features are in each one.  You know, earlier you talked about user experience. I think the way we're looking at this market and what's happening to it right now is less about sort of user experience in the sense of a classic protocol versus protocol sense and a technical sense. And more about, and I'll use the term more and more often about employee experience. Right, so it's not just what is the performance of my virtual desktop when I'm on X, Y, D device over a certain network. It is what happens that first time I give an employee a resource or a virtual desktop or a mobile application or access to a SaaS application or an internally hosted web application through a virtual browser and they go in and they want to get work done, right? So the experience of that employee is now not just one of these technologies, it is what we refer to as workspace technologies. It's everything I need from the applications to the files that I want to use, to the workflows that I want to kick off. And I think that will be the new area of differentiation. Again, that's where we want to move very far forward. Calvin, what should we be expecting to see from Citrix and Nutanix going forward? Long partnership, how does it improve even more for customers? I think the stuff that Nutanix has announced here with the whole hybrid cloud strategy, I think that very much is in alignment with our philosophy on the hybrid cloud approaches for customers. So I would expect to see a lot more in that collaboration area. There's lots more that we can do on the net scale side of the business from networking and enabling the reliability of a lot of these network connections as people become. I love that concept of the core, the distributed and the edge cloud, right? And all that's going to need connectivity and security and reliability. And more the same on making VDI simpler for all customers of all sizes. I think we're just at the cusp of, we've got this automation plan going in, we're creating the workspace appliance and simplicity there. I think there's a lot more we can do, again, from day two perspective, operationally. As I keep going and I'm growing this thing and I'm managing my images and I'm managing applications and growing the infrastructure, increasing performance, taking on different types of workloads. There's lots more we can do in that area. What is the all-cytric stack workplace appliance? Right, so it's really the, Nutanix has announced support for Zen server. And for us, Zen server, we've really done a transformation of that technology over the last couple of years where we've taken what was a general platform a virtualization solution. And we've really specifically targeted at our workloads, at ZenApp, ZenDesktop, Netscaler, and making it the best virtualization platform for our solutions. Why did we do that? We did that because there's going to be certain things that we need out of that layer from an innovation standpoint, whether it's supporting graphics, which we were the first to do across all the major chip vendors, virtual GPUs. Coming up with new security paradigms like being able to do deep hypervisor introspection and identify day one malware attacks before they even infect any other machines. Those sorts of innovations become really important that we can drive and having control over Zen server we're able to do that. And so through the partnership with Nutanix and getting their support on that as well, then all the joint Nutanix and Citrix customers could take advantage of that innovation. So now they also have the disposal, everything that Nutanix is putting into AHV, everything we're putting into Zen server and being able to manage it that way. So in the workspace appliance reference guide for building this, one of the things we focus on is the Zen server component of it and being able to have that innovation coming from Citrix as part of that solution. Great. Calvin, thanks very much for coming on theCUBE. Appreciate your time and insights. Yeah, it's great to be here. We'll see you. All right, keep it right there, buddy. Stu and I will be back with our next guest. We're live from .next. Hashtag nextconf, this is theCUBE.


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