From around the globe, it's theCUBE with digital coverage of AIOps Virtual Forum brought to you by Broadcom. Welcome back to the Broadcom AIOps Virtual Forum. Lisa Martin here talking with Usman Nasir, Global Product Management at Verizon. Usman, welcome back. Hi, Lisa. Hello, what a pleasure to be back. Good to see you. So, 2020, the year that needs no explanation of the year of massive challenges. I wanted to get your take on the challenges that organizations are facing this year as the demand to deliver digital products and services has never been higher. Yeah, so Lisa, I think this is something it's so close to all the far far, right? It's something that's impacted the whole world equally. And I think regardless of which industry you're in, you have been impacted by this in one form or the other. And the ICT industry, the information and communication technology industry, you know, Verizon being really massive player in that whole arena. It has just been sort of struck with this massive transformation that we have talked about for a long time. We have talked about these remote surgery capabilities whereby you've got patients in Kenya who are being treated by experts sitting in London or New York. And also this whole consciousness about, you know, our carbon footprint and being environmentally conscious, this pandemic has taught us all of that and brought this to the forefront of organizational priorities, right? The demand, I think that's a very natural consequence of everybody sitting at home. And the only thing that can keep things still going is this data communication, right? But I wouldn't just say that that was kind of at the heart of all of this. Just imagine if we are to realize any of these targets that the world leadership is setting for themselves. Hey, we have to be carbon neutral by X here, where the country, as a geography, et cetera, et cetera. You know, all of these things require you to have this remote working capability, this remote interaction, not just between humans, but machine-to-machine interaction. And there's a unique value chain which is now getting created, that you've got people who are communicating with other people or who are communicating with other machines. But the communication is much more, I wouldn't even use the term real-time because we've used real-time for voice and video, et cetera. We're talking low latency, micro-second-deceit-making that can either cut somebody's, you know, our trees or that could actually go and remove the tumor, that kind of stuff. So that has become a reality. Everybody's asking for it. Remote learning being an extremely massive requirement where, you know, we've had to enable these virtual classrooms, ensuring the type of connectivity, ensuring the type of privacy, which is just so, so critical.  You have to be concerned about the integrity and security of that data the foremost. So I think all of these things, yes, we have not been caught off guard. We're pretty forward-looking in our plans and our evolution. But yes, it has this fast track, a journey that we would probably, the leap we would have taken in three years, it has brought that down to two quarters where we've had to execute it. Right, massive acceleration. All right, so you articulated the challenges really well and a lot of the realities that many of our viewers are facing. Let's talk now about motivations. AIOps as a tool as a catalyst for helping organizations overcome those challenges. So yeah, now all that I said, you can imagine, you know, it requires microsecondacy and making. Which human being on this planet can do microsecondacy and making on complex network infrastructure, which is impacting end-user applications which have multitudes of effects, you know, in real life. I used the example of a remote surgeon. Just imagine if, you know, even because if you just use your signal or the quality or that communication for that microsecond, it could be the difference between killing somebody and saving somebody's life. It is that critical. We talk about autonomous vehicles. We talk about this transition to electric vehicles, smart motorways, et cetera, et cetera, in federal environment. How is all of that going to work? You have so many different components coming in. You don't just have a network and security anymore. You have software-defined networking that's becoming a part of this. You have mobile edge computing that is rented for the technologies 5G enabled. We're talking augmented reality. We're talking virtual reality. All of these things require that resources and while being carbon conscious, we don't just wanna build a billion data centers on this planet, right? We have to make sure that resources are given on demand. And the best way resources can be given on demand and could be most efficient is that the seed-making is being made at million microseconds and those resources are accordingly being distributed, right? If you're then flying on people, sipping their coffees, having teas, talking to somebody else, you know, just being away on holiday, I don't think we're gonna be able to handle that well that we have already stepped into. Ryzen 5G has already started businesses on the transformational journey where they're talking about end user experience, personalization, you're gonna have events where people are gonna go and it's going to be three-dimensional experiences that are purely customized for you. How does that all happen without this intelligence sitting there? And a network with all of these multiple layers, the sub-spectrum, it doesn't just need to be intuitive, hey, this is my private IP traffic, this is public traffic, you know, it has to now be into, or this is an application that has to prioritize over another, has to be intuitive to the criticality and the context of those transactions. Again, that surgeon's surgery is much more important than Usman sitting and playing a video game. I'm glad that you think that, that's excellent. Let's go into some specific use cases. What are, in some of the examples that you gave, let's kind of dig deeper into some of the, what you think are the lowest hanging fruit for organizations kind of pan industry to go after here? Excellent, right? And I think this, this like different ways to look at the lowest hanging fruit, like for somebody like Ryzen, who is the managed services provider, you know, very comprehensive managers, but we obviously have food timing much lower than potentially for some of our customers who want to go on that journey, right? So for them to just go and try and harness the power of their health, the fruits might be a bit higher hanging. But for somebody like us, the immediate ones would be to reduce the number of alarms that are being generated by these overlay services. You've got your basic network, then you've got your whole software-defined networking on top of that. You have your hybrid clouds, you have your edge computing coming on top of that, so all of this means if there's an outage on one device on the network, I'm going to make this very real for everybody, right? It's like outage on one device on the network does not stop all of those multiple applications or monitoring tools from raising havoc and raising thousands of alarms in their own capacity. If people are attending to those thousands of alarms, it's like you're having a police force and there's a burglary in one bank and the alarm goes off in 50 banks, how are you going to make the best use of your police force? You're going to go investigate 50 banks and you're going to investigate one. Where's the problem in? So it's as real as that, and I think that's the first win where people can save so much cost, which is currently being wasted and resources running around, trying to figure stuff out. Immediately, I tied this with network and security. Network and security is something which has eluded even the most amazing of brains in our engineering world. We typically have network experts, separate people, security experts, separate people to look for different things, but there are security events that can impact the performance of a network and then use your applications, et cetera, which could be falsely attributed to the network. And then if you've got multiple parties which have to play as stakeholders, you can imagine the blame game that goes on, pointing fingers, taking names, not taking responsibility. That is how it's always happened. This is the only way to bring it all together to take, okay, this is what takes priority. If there's an event that has happened, what is its correlation to the other down-chain systems, devices, components, and user applications, and then subsequently, you know, like isolating it to the right cause, where you can most effectively resolve that problem. Certainly, I would say on-demand virtualized resource. Virtualized resource is the hardened soul, the spirit of status that you can have them on demand. So you can automate the allocation of these resources based on, you know, customers' consumption, their peaks, their trends, all of that comes in.  So this particular application, you know, going to this particular data center, you could have this automated CIS AIOps, which is just providing those resources, you know, on-demand services to have a much better commercial engagement with customers and it's a much better service assurance model. And then one more thing on top of that, which is very critical, is this, as I was saying, giving that intelligence to the networks to start having context of the criticality of a transaction, that doesn't exist today. You can't have that because for that, you need to have this, you know, multi-layered data. You need to have multiple systems, which are monitoring and controlling different aspects of your overall user application value chain to be communicating with each other and, you know, that's the only way to sort of achieve that goal and that only happens with AIOps. It's not possible with that. You can't prioritize transaction. So Uusman, you clearly articulated some obvious low-hanging for use cases that organizations can go after. Let's talk now about some of the considerations. You've talked about the importance of the network in AIOps. The approach, I assume, needs to be modular. Support needs to be heterogeneous. Talk to us about some of those key considerations that you would recommend. Absolutely. So again, basically, starting with the network because it says if the network sitting at the middle of all of this is not working, then things can't communicate with each other, right? And the cloud doesn't work, none of this works. And that's because it's the heart of all of this. But that's the security. When you talk about machine-to-machine communication or IoT, which is the biggest transformation in the span, every company is going for IoT now to drive those cost efficiencies and have some customer experience. The integrity of data becomes paramount, right? The security integrity of that. How do you maintain integrity of your data beyond just the secure network components that is traversed, right? That's where you get into the whole arena of blockchain technology, where you have these digital signatures or barcodes, that machine, then an intelligent system is automatically able to validate and verify the integrity of the data and the commands that are being executed by those end user terminals, or end user terminals, so it's IoT machines, right? That is paramount. And if anybody is not keeping that into their equation, that in its own self is an AIOF system that is there for maintaining the integrity of your commands and your code that sits on those machines, right? Second, you have your network. You need to have an AIOF platform which is able to rationalize all of that network information, et cetera, and couple that with that data integrity piece because for the management, ultimately, they need to have a coherent view of the analytics, et cetera. So they need to know where the problems are again, right? So let's say there's a problem with the integrity of the commands that are being executed by a machine. That's a much bigger problem than not being able to communicate with that machine in the first place because you'd rather not talk to the machine or haven't do anything if it's going to start doing wrong things. So I think that's where it's just very intuitive. It's natural. You have to have it. Subsequently, if you have some kind of a, and let me use that use case of autonomous vehicles again, I think we're going to see in the next five years because it's smart photo waves, et cetera, they're all separate autonomous vehicles. It's much more efficient. It's much more space, et cetera, et cetera. So within that equation, you're going to have systems which will be specialist in looking at aspects and transactions related to those systems. For example, an autonomous moving vehicles brakes are much more important than the wipers, right? So this kind of intelligence, there will be multiple systems to have to sit and nobody has to, one person has to go and own these systems. I think these systems should be open source now that you're able to integrate them, right? If something's sitting in the cloud, you're able to integrate with it obviously the regard of the security and integrity of your data that has to cover us from one system to the other, extremely important. So I'm going to borrow that integrity theme for a second as we go into our last question. And then let's kind of take a macro look at the overall business impact that AIOps can help customers make. I'm thinking of, you know, the integrity of teams, aligning business and IT, which we probably can't talk about enough. We're helping organizations really effectively measure KPIs that deliver that digital experience that all of us demanding consumers expect. What's the overall impact? What would you say in Summeration? So I think the overall impact is a lot of cost that customers and businesses, excuse me, some customers use the term enterprises. The difference was inevitable. It is something that for the first time will come to light. And it's something that is going to, you know, start driving cost efficiencies and consciousness and awareness within their own business, which is obviously going to have, you know, a domino kind of an effect. So one example being that, you know, you have problem isolation. I talked about network security, there's multi-layered architecture, which enables this new world of 5G. At the heart of all of this, it is to identify the problem to the source, right? Not be bogged down by 15 different things that are going wrong. What is causing those 15 things to go wrong, right? That speed to isolation in its own self can make millions and millions of dollars to organization, every organization. Next one is obviously overall impact is customer experience. The 5G world, you're gonna have your customers expecting experiences from you, even if you're not expecting to deliver them in 2021, 2022, you will have customers asking for those experiences or walking away if you do not provide those experiences. So it's almost like a business can do nothing every year. They don't have to reinvest if they just want to die on the vine. Businesses want to remain relevant. Businesses want to adopt the latest and greatest in technology, which enables them to, you know, have the superiority and continue it. So from that perspective, that continuity will read that there are intelligent systems that are rationalizing information and making decisions. Supervised by people, of course, who were previously making some of those decisions. That was a great summary because you're right, you know, with how demanding consumers are, we don't get what we want. Quickly, we turn, right? We go somewhere else and we could find somebody that can meet those expectations. So Uusman, thanks for doing a great job of clarifying the impact and the value that AIOps can bring to organizations. That sounds really now as we're in this even higher demand for digital products and services, which is not going away. It's probably going to only increase its table stakes for any organization. Thank you so much for joining me today and giving us your thoughts. Pleasure, thank you. We'll be right back with our next segment.


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What is going on guys welcome back to the channel critical overload here? So we're gonna be talking about scream 7 in this video here today So Daniel RPK has put out more reported information on the upcoming scream 7 that we know is supposed to start filming at some Point this year and is I need 2025 release We've known about the 2025 release since last year when everything unfolded with Melissa Barrera and We don't have Campbell will be back. We know Courtney Cox is expected to be back Patrick Dempsey is expected to be back We know that Sidney's children will be involved and I've talked about how they are apparently going back to Canada again Some of this stuff has not yet still been confirmed including this stuff here from Daniel So Daniel is saying or giving some clarity on more of the story He says while there will be new young leads again We already talked about the new young leads the 20 something-year-olds that they are in talks with Sydney and Gale are once again the main characters along with Sid's family Someone is targeting Sid's family is the basic story here, which is not shocking at all That's it seemed to be going in based off of everything that was being reported They are already in talks with actors for all the lead roles including Sid's two kids Now I have stated that I have heard that one child was already cast Granted that doesn't mean that that's true since Daniel is saying the opposite but again, it's never confirmed However, the most important thing I know for a lot of people is the fact that Sidney and Gale are once again the main characters along with Sidney's family So what that tells me is that we could be seeing a screen four play out again more so in the respect of the fact screen five is Less of a Sidney Prescott story It's obviously core for centric mostly Sam Carpenter lead And it's relying on bringing in a new gen of characters that are in Woodsboro connected to the legacy that Sydney is a part of While Sydney gets to go off into the sunset and have her peace Now now we're going to shift back into the focus of Sydney Prescott carrying this franchise And that's why it feels like screen four because screen four You had her cousin around with her friends Jill Kirby Olivia all of which died Charlie Robbie her boyfriend Trevor who she couldn't stand for reasons if you've seen screen four, you know Trevor cheated on her And she's not the girl you cheat on if you're not aware So with screen four it definitely felt more so like Sydney was just the main character Given how much screen time she had there While I would argue that screen four was her weakest outing the amount of screen time She had made it pretty clear that they were still trying to sell to you that this is still Sydney's story being told while it was balanced with the new characters who I would argue weren't really that well developed in screen four outside of Kirby her cousin and Yeah, that's really it. I hope we don't see the same mistakes in screen seven with these newbies I would hope that they are treated with some level of we're going to pass the torch to you Granted, here's the other thing. Why pass the torch again? You're already going back to Sydney Prescott Just come up with a story that can play out over the course of two movies after this one or one more movie Take the halloween trilogy approach. That's what I think should be That's what I think would be the best outcome. I think that doing movies with sydney prescott With year gaps in between like we're back into the original trilogy That's going to be a hard thing to sell for individuals like me who are trying to look at this with a lens of Being realistic still and When you keep on this is an argument many of us have already heard when you keep on having New people coming after sydney prescott and it's years later. It starts to chip away at the There's no way all these people Are after her type of thing that you're going for because it's not michael mires versus lower strolled It's multiple people putting on one costume going after sydney prescott That's why you have some people going. Why are so many people upset at this one lady? It's starting to not be believable. I think a way to reduce this argument Very well is to have the stories closely connected in time Don't have scream eight if you get a scream eight set three years later and then have screen nine Set a few years later too Have the story kind of connected Very closely the same way the halloween trilogy story is connected. Hell you could even do seven and eight Same week same month and then maybe scream nine is set a year later That is more digestible and a lot more believable. You're still going to have the people saying why are so many other People still wanting this woman dead, but at least keeping the stories close In their uh in their time frame will eliminate The lack the loss of appeal that you might have on your way already by placing the same person in the line of fire Instead of just letting them have their peace Now as far as gale weathers gale weathers I think is the one that I would be more interested in following in a screen movie now not sydney prescott Gale weathers has been very influential in terms of where we've ended up in culture with ghost face in this franchise When it comes to stab the way ghost face is very popular clearly Going off of what we've seen in screen four and screen five and screen six gale has a big spot in all of this A movie told from her perspective sounds a lot more appealing to me than a movie told from sydney prescott's perspective Once again because of her role how she is always chasing a bag How she has always just been able to dis disassociate herself from how these stories hurt hurt other people all in the name of her Making a name for herself Making some money becoming more popular than she already is and continuing to just Establish her legacy as one of the best to ever do it when it comes to journalism That's what she wants to do So to see a film setting her perspective from her perspective Seeing her deal with some of the consequences of her decision-making over the years. That's way more appealing then Sydney prescott once again nav camber link hortney cox Tremendous actresses. I'm sure they're gonna knock it out of the park It's all coming down to the fact that I think that sydney prescott should be allowed to have her piece And we should be able to move away from her It's no different than what sam carpenter since some people think that I prefer sam carpenter over sydney prescott You're sadly mistaken. I prefer sydney prescott over sam carpenter You should also not be doing this crap with sam carpenter Sam carpenter should not be brought back over and over and over and over again What I'm getting at is we should stop Flipping back and forth between a certain section of characters and the screen franchise needs to really kick in new people That can carry on your franchise if you want your franchise to be ever lasting the way spyglass has already made it clear They want they want to keep making screen movies Well, you need to cook up something that is going to be able to let sydney prescott and gale weathers Disappear at some point and you're already off on the wrong track when you're back tracking and going back to the characters in Full effect like this screen 7. I hope is going to be very good. I actually have heard that they have a good script Again, that's just a rumor. I've heard that doesn't mean the movie is going to be executed Well, it could end up being one of the best screen movies It could up in it could end up being one of the worst screen movies We'll just have to wait and see let me know what you guys think about all this down in the comments section below if you haven't already, of course Make sure you subscribe turn on post notification numbers video in the description. I have links on my social media accounts I'm on facebook twitter and instagram you can message me there, of course Let me see the movies and those reviews let me to cover in the future and with all that in mind guys. I will see you in the next


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Goodbye most beautiful room, check out it's at 12 o'clock and it's 20 to 12 so we've really maxed out our time here. Unfortunately it's time to go and of course just like always they put us at the very top of the hotel as far away from Bumblebee as they possibly could. Bumblebee is alive, is Bumblebee happy? I can't believe it, there's still some oil dripping. There's still oil dripping from the suspension? Yeah. Oh yeah, look at that. Our suspension is going to be even softer today than before. Jesus. Come on Bumblebee, make it 12 matty please. Okay, okay, great. Easy starting to gain it easy. Ready to start the day. Alacol. Alacol, alacol, yes. I forgot my name, I forgot my name. I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you. Nice to meet you. One, two, three, go. Yes. Look at this place here. Oh wow, this is like the main square of the town. Good morning world. Welcome back to our circumnavigation around the globe and motorcycle. We're here in the town of Ayagos in Kazakhstan and we stayed last night in Hotel Khan in town and it's absolutely crazy because we were just eating dinner at a restaurant last night in town. Yes. Now we're talking. Oh. We thought we would treat ourselves after a crazy horrible day on the road yesterday and then we started chatting to this couple from Almaty and the guy Galimjan at the end when he was going to leave. He just said to us, guys, I'm going to pay for your hotel tonight in town. If you go to Hotel Khan, just give them your name and you guys are going to have a free night at the hotel. We were just blown away. I mean, that generosity, that is absolutely unbelievable. It's just incredibly nice because I don't know if you have noticed normally we always go for the cheapest, cheapest room in town. It's not very often that we get a hotel room with two different rooms to be in, a bedroom and like a whole living room. It was like a whole apartment for us. Yeah, it was so nice. It was so nice. So today we are praying for a better day than yesterday because yesterday was one of the hardest rides we've ever done. Okay, I've got to slow down again. I almost just want to jump off and walk. Oh my God. Please, Spumble, be survived. Not only was the road absolutely terrible, but our rear shock, all the oil has gone out, all the gas has gone out and we're just bouncing around on our spring and then add that to a fractured rib that I got in Mongolia.  Google estimated it would take us five hours yesterday to reach this town and in the end we were on the bike over nine hours. I think our average speed for the day was something like 15 to 20 miles an hour. So we're hoping for a better road today, so let me show you guys the route for today. So we now have our shiny new map of Kazakhstan and it is massive and we are here. And today we're going to be taking this road south towards Lake Alakol and then continuing on this road towards the city of Almaty. Once we arrived in Kazakhstan, every person we spoke to is like, you have to visit Lake Alakol. So that is where we're going to try and get to today, but it's really going to be dependent on the road conditions. Google is estimating five hours to get there, but it is a little bit of a detour on our way to Almaty and if the road is really bad, we might just give up that detour and just continue on to Almaty. Yes, because in Almaty the plan is to fix up Bumblebee completely to get a new shock, to get a new service done, that we will be able to do detours like this in the future, you know, because of course this is what's travelling all about to visit amazing places, but at the moment I'm just go, go, go, let's go to Almaty, let's get it done, then we can then enjoy it because I really don't want Bumblebee to break down between here and Almaty. Now Almaty is the biggest city in Kazakhstan, so that's where we're going to be trying to get kind of everything done. We're still in the process of organising a shock with Motorcycle World back in my hometown Northampton, the dealership which actually gave us our beautiful Bumblebee in the first place. While these guys are sending a new shock out to us, thank you so much guys, we just got to get there basically, we've just got to get there in one piece. Exactly, it's already here, 12.15 so better hit the road, let's go, oh my god the road already gets quite pump here. Oh yeah, great start to the day, first of all we've basically lost the tarmac, second of all we have a lot of trucks on this road, yeah, come on road. You know what, at least I had a really really nice rest in this amazing air conditioned room, so I feel that we can tackle another bad road today. I feel like that now, but let's see in five hours hey. I think I remember that one of the guys yesterday said the first 150km are bad and then I guess better. Go through this and you will reach the promised land.  I just can't believe that this is the main road here, look at it, really worst road condition I think we have seen so far. I mean look what people have to deal with, trucks, cars, motorbikes, look at it, our suspension is just bouncing around, like madness, absolutely madness here, yeah we didn't make really good progress in our first hour, we did 25 miles in our first hour, it's not too great hey, it's not too great, I just feel sorry for all the people who have to take this road here all the time you know, like I said it is the main road, it is the only road connecting Almaty with Semi, well I'm just praying that a little bit further down the line the road is finished, oh man, all the rest of the way to Almaty, please, please, yes, oh my god, another good section, let's do it, no, oh my god it's going to be like this the whole day, oh no here's a flat, yeah poor guy, the second track we see with a flat tire, yeah I bet the Kazakhstan people are just waiting for this new road to be finished all the way, I tell you, I'm waiting for this new road, wow this petrol station is so busy because it's like the only petrol station and it's filled with cars, we pushed ourselves to get here to this point to have a break because we knew we'd be able to get some snacks, get a nice drink, but it's taken us two hours and 15 minutes to do 60 miles, so it's so slow going, I'm so amazed by this road really, I'm just amazed, amazed by this croissant, it's a chocolate croissant, I'm hungry too, so I will eat now, oh it's not a real guy, another real guy, another real fish, that's funny, okay I don't want to jinx it now but the road has been absolutely perfect for a little while now and we are going 15 miles an hour, that's like the record for the day, I mean at this point I can hardly feel that our suspension is broken, I mean look at this road, it's pristine this road, it must have been built like literally this year or last year, we have made more in the last 10 minutes than we've made in the whole hour before we got to the petrol station, I tell you, yeah pretty awesome, I'm really happy for you, yeah flying along, I just hope it keeps like this for a little bit, I'm praying, fingers crossed, one minute 37 seconds later, oh no the dream is over, the dream is over a little bit too fast, well it's always like that on the good sections, you go faster so that's over quicker, yes, the slow bit seemed to go on forever, because you're going slower, yeah exactly, I think that was our longest good stretch so far for the day, I think we did about 20 miles in about 20 minutes, it was absolutely flying along baby, yeah it was great, yeah I thought we were finished for the day, I was like nah it's gonna be good all the way from here, yeah me too, I was like good, I'll tell you I'm Matty, here we come, yeah it's really surprisingly empty here in Kazakhstan, people told us that there's nothing going on in the north of Kazakhstan and you know what, there's even less than nothing going on in the north, apart from an incredibly bad road to focus on, there is really nothing here, yeah absolutely nothing but the odd horse, and they're cute, yeah they're nice, yes another good section of road and whilst we're on a good section of road, I'm going to tell you guys a little bit more about country number 26 on our journey around the world, Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan is massive, it is the largest landlocked country in the world and it's actually the ninth largest country in the world by area, and it's funny because there's only 19 million people here and that makes it less than six people per square kilometer, so it's one of the least densely populated countries in the world, the territory which is now Kazakhstan has been inhabited and occupied by many many different nomadic peoples over the years, including as part of the Turkic Empire and most famously part of the Mongol Empire, but after the breakdown of the Golden Horde in the 15th century, this became the Kazakh Carnate, then later it became part of the Russian Empire in the 18th century and then part of the Soviet Union up until 1991, so modern Kazakhstan dominates Central Asia economically and politically, it actually provides 60 percent of the GDP of all Central Asia, but most of that is from oil and gas, and it's really interesting with the name Kazakhstan because the word Kazakh actually comes from the ancient Turkic meaning to wander and it's actually the same root where the Russian Cossacks come from, so Cossacks, Kazakhs, they both mean wander, so Kazakhstan literally means the land of the wanderers. Another really interesting thing is that when I was reading about Kazakhstan it was saying that the Kazakhstan bandit team is apparently one of the best in the world and I was like oh that's cool and then I was like what is bandy? Apparently bandy is basically like a different version of ice hockey that's played by like Russia and yeah Kazakhstan are one of the best bandit teams in the world. I also read that Kazakhstan is really good at boxing as well, so in the last Olympic Games Kazakhstan got the most amount of medals for boxing apart from Russia and Cuba, so pretty good boxes as well. Yeah don't mess around with the Kazakh, okay? I can't believe that the road remained good enough for me to tell you guys about Kazakhstan, I'm really happy. Thumbs up! Actually I've got a feeling that it might be good all the way to Almaty. Look how many crickets there are here on the side of the road, I don't know if I can see it on camera. Okay so we've reached the junction now where the lake Alakol is this way and our final destination Almaty is this way and we just routed it and it's actually 42 miles in the wrong direction to go to this lake but look at this guys let me just point out something to you look at that that's a rock hey that is a rock it's a big one over there as well it looks like this road is under construction but not far enough under construction 42 miles that way and then 42 miles back is just a detour that we can't take at the moment so we've decided we're going to have to skip Lake Alakol if we head one hour towards Almaty today we might even be able to get there tomorrow which is a really inviting prospect because there we've got a long break waiting we've got bumblebees fixed waiting and yeah we just need to get there I mean it would have been nice to see the lake but in my mind I was like if it's just 10 miles okay maybe I can push through it but knowing it's 40 miles if the road is really bad we could be on this road for another two hours we had a hard enough time already over the last two days hey yeah I think I would cry I think I would cry no I've been suffering so much for the last two days yeah it's like there's a limit so anyway we are now going to be heading in this direction the direction of Almaty we're going to ride an hour more and then we'll look for a place to stay and then yeah maybe we get there tomorrow yes let's do it I think we made the right decision to continue look at this road it is absolutely pristine oh and it just feels amazing to be flying along it's just amazing and we've hit some mountains oh Jesus Christ that was close hey guys editing Ollie here whilst we're cruising our way towards Almaty on this unbelievably smooth road I wanted to tell you guys about this video's sponsor On Vacation Doctor and their super handy app for people traveling the world like us the On Vacation Doctor app connects you to top English speaking doctors in any country in the entire world including Kazakhstan just put in your location and this app provides you with the name location and phone number of the closest English speaking doctor to you it also provides local ambulance fire and police numbers as well as the local US embassy address and phone number this app is totally free for the first six months so why not give it a try on your next travel you never know when like we did a few days ago you might need a local doctor who you can actually communicate with download the app for free today by clicking the link in the description below now back to the video all right it is seven o'clock so it's time for us to try and find a place to stay for the night so we've just turned off for the main road because there's a little town village down this road a couple of miles down here yeah I have really bad signal here in Kazakhstan it's really hard to search on google maps if there are any hotels this place now was on maps me actually so it might exist it might not exactly we will find out we'll find out in a minute welcome to Koilik welcome to Koilik and there's a huge herd of cows coming down the road a bit of a cattle drive going on I'm just going to see if I can get around these guys I'm not sure we'll be like a little bit of a slalom right here yeah do you think I should just kind of go between them oh where this car just came from I should go there don't hit them no no I'm going to try nice look at that hey it's awesome they seem pretty chilled cow slalom nice okay so this place hey yeah I mean it looks like they might have some rooms okay let's check it out yeah I don't know it looks like something it's a little bit closed door here possibly yep okay let's check it out okay so the place is a hotel and it does have rooms and this is Jeanette Jeanette I'll take cafe oh thank you thank you our life saver yes yes I'm really glad they had a room all right we're gonna unpack the bike stinky boots after this trip we have to burn them for sure but anyway we made it happy to yeah and look at this nice little room we have here both got a nice little bed for ourselves I'm so impressed because although it's really basic it's super super clean and I feel really comfortable here actually plus it only cost like five thousand tenge which is like ten pounds less than ten pounds less than ten pounds wow so we are now only five hours ride away from Almaty so there's a really good chance that if the road condition stays like this that we're gonna get there tomorrow which I'm super excited about me too and that's it from us today we hope you enjoyed the video if so please give us a thumbs up subscribe to the channel share the video with your friends and family comment below and if you really really really like our videos you can join us on patreon the link is in the description below we will see you next time