Hey guys, Jeremy here. First off, apologies to all of my Patreon supporters for the last while. I said I was going to do this video a few months ago and I did not. That is a fall on me, that is a fall on me. It's been something that I've been admittedly kind of pushing to the side because of things that I've had going on, but it's no excuse, no excuse. So essentially what I'm going to talk about here is talk about just the state of the Patreon and whether I'm going to continue it or not. I really did appreciate the support that I got from people. I was able to do a lot of things and upgrade a lot of things that have helped me with the editing process, but I actually have to say that probably one of the biggest things was like getting out of film and being doing this. Now while not doing film has definitely opened up my schedule, it has also ate into my budget. So while I have only been asking for as much as I have and I've been getting what I have, it has been helpful for keeping things going and keeping lights on and help like that, but I have been appreciative. Do not get me wrong in any regard, I have been appreciative, but I also feel like I've kind of taken advantage of people for that as well. So starting the beginning of April, I'm going to change the system. The Snickerbar thing was a cool funny thing. The group thing was a kind of a cool funny thing, but I do feel like I've lost confidence in a lot of people. People have left understandably and I understand as to why, why would you want to pay or give anything to anyone that one doesn't really feel like what you're doing is worth it.  Not a lot. I'm going to be clear on that one to try and we put both of them back. I feel like that would kind of be a waste of everyone's time, especially if you saw some of the videos. There are certainly certain things that I'll put up there beforehand, big ones. But then the other one is I want more of an interaction with you guys, taking requests of what you guys want me to review. I have a lot more time to do that now because I have that, but I also feel like my, your support should be what you feel is worth it. If you want to keep doing it, absolutely. Basically, I'm just going to change it now to a list of people who support me. I am not, nor was I truly in the level to do tiers. I really have seen that in the last little while. So that's that. So yeah, basically it's going to be pay what you want and you will get to see, it will just be like everyone who joins it will have the same benefit as anyone else. You'll get to see stuff up there. You will get to be part of discussions. It will not be like all the time, but I have put alerts in my calendars now to make sure that I pose something at least one, twice a month. I am going to try and keep to that. I cannot promise that I will be as on the ball as I would like to be. And if you guys see that, please call that out. I want to be transparent on that. But yeah, that's kind of it for me on that end. Again, I do apologize. I feel like I haven't done a very good job with it. There was good once and it helped me a lot. I really did appreciate what you guys were doing. And just the fact that you even thought that I was worthy of it in the first place was very, very heartwarming. And I appreciated what you guys did. But yeah, I want to do better. I really should do better. I should have done better before. And I'm trying to make up for that now. So yeah, again, I do apologize. So yeah, that's going to be it. Like I said, this is for, I believe I'm going to be probably releasing this on the 30th. I am going to be changing things April 1st. And no, I don't have an April Fool's joke. Not an April Fool's joke, I swear. But I will be. I'm just going to, I have to figure it out admittedly. I'm kind of curious. If worse comes to worse, I'm just going to cancel everything and I'm going to restart it again. So keeping that aware for people. But yeah, that's it. Anyways, I hope you guys are doing well. Thank you guys again for your patience. Apologies to those who I feel like I let down. And I hope you are still happy with what I've been doing. And for those who think or want or are interested in supporting me, I absolutely appreciate it, but you do not have to. Yeah, just wanted to say that. Wanted to come clean on that. I feel like it should have happened a while ago and I apologize for that. Anyways guys, I hope you're all doing well. I hope you're all happy. I hope your year is going well for you and I hope you do not get an April Fool's day joke that's bad for you. Like I said, I'm not doing one. I promise I've already got the carbon tax thing happening for those of us Canadians who know, you know what I'm talking about. Anyways guys, that's all for me. Hope you're doing okay. Hope you're doing well. And I will see you on the next one.


Hey everybody today is August the 31st 2018 last day of August and I'm not trading today I actually have to be at work in about an hour and a half So I won't be able to to trade but I wanted to talk to you guys about a couple of things First of all yesterday. I made a trade and it was a bad trade. I lost money on it. I lost 20 cents on it Bad bad trade. I'm here on the five-minute. I went against my rule and what happens when I Go against my rules. I lose money. I lose money. In fact, I think it was I can't remember if it was this one It had to been on this candle actually. I bought calls on this candle. It wasn't the ideal It was I went against all of my rules here it just it looks so good in hindsight, right on the 15-minute charts It was here everything looked primed to the upside and it just didn't work out I ended up selling. I I believe I ended up selling here. I'm not I'm not 100% sure either way It was 20 cents that I lost Huge on percentage wise, but either way I wanted to let you know that I just didn't have enough time to edit The video and put it out to you yesterday. Second of all, there's another podcast that we did two nights ago It was about exits. I'm gonna put that link in the description down below If you want to listen to it, that's some good stuff there good information for you guys and Last thing that I wanted to talk to you guys about is I Joined another I mentioned this a couple times in a couple of my videos Months and months ago, maybe last year late last year every time I join these Facebook groups It does more harm than good. I tried to Bring more awareness, I guess of spy options or options in general not just spy I noticed that most of these Facebook groups are composed of newbies beginners That's all well and good. I've been there guys. I'm you know, I'm still learning. I'm still a beginner relatively speaking and By all means I'm not saying I'm the best trader at all Not at all not at all. I have so much to learn but these Facebook groups are composed mainly of Small-time beginners Trading with a couple hundred bucks in some cases a couple thousand bucks not a whole lot in general is what I'm trying to say and They get stuck Holding penny stocks. They they they become bag holders and That's what these Facebook group There there's they're so good at they're good at making bag holders guys. Let me tell you trade penny stocks I don't necessarily have anything against penny stocks other than It creates a lot of back holders Trade penny stocks don't invest in penny stocks trade the momentum guys Don't believe the BS that it's gonna go to the moon It's gonna go to a dollar. It's gonna go to ten dollars. Don't believe that BS guys that feeds into Just What's what's the word? Pumping dumps. I forgot I almost forgot the Timber Knoller June And that feeds into pump and dumps They're gonna pump up the price and then just dump it and the people that bought at the top They become the back holders guys So my advice to you on this last day of August and this has nothing to do In about spy, but just trading in general trade guys You're in this game to trade and not invest sure there are a few penny stocks of rare But there are a few penny stocks that do actually have a legitimate business plan Legitimate CEO It's a legitimate company is what I'm trying to say and they start off tiny and they actually grow into actual companies that will eventually be Uplisted to the NASDAQ or what or whatnot? That happens once in a blue moon guys Trade the momentum guys. Let me say that again Trade if you're gonna trade penny stocks and even even on on spy trade the momentum Let me put it to you this way guys. It's called day trading for a reason day trading Trade what's hot now? sell it Find the next stock for tomorrow Trade the momentum. I can't tell you enough.  I have money to invest Which stock do you think I should put my my money in? Really guys if you have to ask for somebody else to tell you What stocks to trade or invest your hard-earned money? You're you're gonna lose it. You might as well hand over that money to them right now Because it's it's not gonna work that way. Trade the momentum Trade it hard trade it for what it is Get in get out make money. Hopefully rinse repeats.  We have Monday off. We have a long weekend. It's relax. It's really resets Let's rethink about our trading and start again next week. Thank you so much everybody for listening I greatly appreciate your time Hit that like button hit that share button hit that Bell notification button so you get notified Every time I upload a video And of course if you haven't subscribed yet hit that subscribe button. Thank you so much everybody Talk to you on Tuesday


Good afternoon. For those who are new, I'm Dr. Theron Sherman, and in today's briefing, we will be studying SCP-6603. There isn't any objectionable material in this document, so let's begin. Item Number SCP-6603 Object Class Safe Level 3 Classified Special Containment Procedures Foundation personnel have collected and stored all materials previously extant on SCP-6603. Patrol boats remotely monitor SCP-6603 for signs of activity. Description SCP-6603 is an islet, located 30 km off the island of Ponpei, Micronesia. The islet bears a tropical rainforest climate, with a one square kilometer area. An electrical system runs throughout SCP-6603, supplying continuous power throughout the islet. Though Foundation personnel have found no means by which the island generates electricity. An LCD television set, DVD player, several video game consoles, and a charging station utilize this power. Several items litter SCP-6603, listed below. Twelve iPod shuffles, each containing only one song each. Songs include Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody, the Allman Brothers Band's Jessica, and the police's Message in a Bottle. Eleven functional game discs, ranging wildly in hardware. Games include Minecraft, Animal Crossing, City Folk, and the Elder Scrolls 5 Skyrim. Another disc has been broken, presumably hurled against a tree. Twelve books, damaged by water. Books include James Joyce's Ulysses, Thomas Pinchon's Against the Day, and Daniel Defoe's Robinson Caruso. Twelve human corpses line the islet, in varying stages of decomposition. All corpses appear to have perished of dehydration or heat stroke. Thank you for listening.  Please become a patron or visit our merch store at the link in our bio to support our work. Secure. Contain. Protect.


Say it looks good. Oh, it's deep because of that. Yeah, there we go.  I had a full shot.  What's up, everybody? Welcome back to the channel. I'm EvilRabbit here on Forza Horizon 3. I am joined by a slew of A++ drifters right now. It's just T-John, MK6, and Mofi here with me getting Thanos. Later on, we're joined by members of ZDAC and HZFN, just to name a few of them. Trainwreck, OP Roadhead, Usa45, Sweepmist, and Refreshing, as well as Dewey joins us later on in the session to get a massive door-to-door train going on. I'm going to leave you guys some clips from this open lobby session. We're getting doors for, I don't know, probably an hour or so constant. I'll leave you some of the best moments of our open lobby here. I hope you guys enjoy. Time to get some doors. Okay.  I'm only 427 right now. It's also good for practice. I'm 448. I'm 443. Yeah, but I'm keeping doors with you. The train, oh my gosh. All the left foot brakes. We're going to go in a montage. We're going to go in a montage for sure. Damn straight, son. You know for sure half of this stuff is going to go on my channel. Half of this is going to edit it into a video. Heck yeah. Let's next go around and take the pass with us. Alright, I'll pass. Yeah, just run your line. Just run the normal line. Oh, how did I save that? Not much. I'm also on your door right now. Me and Rabbit found that transition spot like a couple months ago. Yeah, you just run it straight through instead of around it. And you can literally, if you time it perfectly, you can get almost a perfect pass. And you can get the double.  And then T-John's just right there. You pass this drink to T-John.  T-John just decided to take a freaking team burst pass there. Alright, we got you. Yep, team burst all day, boy. Nami, team burst pass. I see you. Filled for war. Wow. Okay, good pass. Filled for war. You're in the wrong car. Oh, no, save me, Rabbit. Yeah, but I'm not, uh, worried either, so... How about that? I have not pulled my e-brake at all. Oh, no, I'm gonna be okay. I'm sorry. There it is.  Wow, MK, hi. Alright, right on your door, it's cool. Oh, that was, like, the perfect double pass. I bet you're seeing it. Great putter. Oh, you're... Geez, I just got double passed. What is you doing? Oh, group, baby, what is you doing? Oh, no, I got scared. There's someone behind me, like, they didn't back up at all. I don't know what to do. Your car is 451 HP. You're good. Hey, Cortana, stop listening. Oh, my God. I hate when she does that. Save me, save me. Bye, JK. Geez, I don't like being in the middle. I'm in the middle, too, and I'm scared.  I don't like being in the middle.  Okay, okay, Rabbit, I see you. I see you. I'll let you have that one. I'll let you have that one for free. Hey, thank you. Thank you for the save. I didn't hit my clutch. All right, now I've got a clutch kick. Get back in it. See, this is why I love lower-roast-fire cars right now. You would not have this close to Tandems in higher-roast-fire cars. Oh, okay, okay, I see you. I got you. Trying to pull the meat. Oh, no, I fall off, no. He fall-walkered it. Get to it. Get to it. Great. Great game. All right, I'm up here right here. From ZDC. That's so corny, yo. It was like... I'm okay, Frank. Hashtag evil. I'm saying that in a circle, yo. Team Doryloch. Usas45, HDFN, yeah, Arnold Schwarzenegger, I'm drunk. I'm sorry. Also an HDFN. 507. Y'all don't even think this car can drift, to be honest, right now. QEV8. I might have to pull out a different car and just try to slow it down for y'all.  That NPC. QP. P-Trander at QP. ZDC. MK6 Parago. Team Evil Rabbit. And of course, you all know me. I'm Evil Rabbit of Seven here. Joined by ZDC and everybody here. And we're about to get some Poop Con passing and we're going to get some doors. So let's do it. Pass that Poop Con, boys. Okay, let's go get it. Oh, wait. I don't know what else I'm going to do. I'm just going to get a full lap of it.  A1. A1. Just a full lap. Oh, I almost parked right in. All right, so I'm going to go last. I'm going to flip and send it. I was almost perfect. I'm going to flip and send it right now. All right. I'm going to flip and send it. T-John always wants to send it. So I don't know if I can drift. All right, well. Okay. Run. Run. Ready for me to send it? I'm flipping it. I'm sending it. Send it. Send it. Yeah. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Stop. Ah. Apparently it can't drift. By the way. Yeah. I'm such a guy. Oh, I spoiled it. Don't drink and drift, guys. Too late. Too late. Don't make me your car. It's too late. Yeah. It's too late. I already have it. I forgot. Too late. I forgot. Too late. That you should not drink and drift. Hey. This is turning into a strange karaoke. To drink and drive. Yeah. Too late. That actually was a disaster for me.  T-John said it a little too much. I always say it's all too much. Too much folk.  You guys are taking that tight. You're training. There's a tight. It ain't right. Yeah. Nobody passes you. Oh, God. Oh, no. We've had a good start. There it is. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. All right, great. Oh, God. Little, it just scares you. No. Go. Everybody go. Everybody. Go. Oh, this is going to be bad. I just realized that because we're going to be criss-crossing. No, yeah. T-John, what are you doing? I know, it's all right. You talked about things. Nobody. Nobody. Nothing. Whatever. I'm meeting. Hey, whoever is behind me, follow my lines as I catch up.


Hi there, I'm Sandy Allknock, artist and paper crafter here on YouTube and today I'm going to do two sets of cards, one fall themed and one Christmas themed all from three sets of big and bold stamps from Colorado Craft Company. These huge stamps really lend themselves to watercolor so I decided to make one big watercolor background out of all of them together because there's three different sets and they work for fall and winter as well. So I thought I'd use them all together and you can see I've laid out the big ones. I'm going to use the smaller ones to fill in and all of this is stamped in Distress Oxide ink and I'll show you the magic of that shortly. I'm just going to use the stamps, there's a couple smaller stamps, use them to fill in the empty spots all the way around and create a big beautiful background and this is a 6x9, it's half a sheet of the 9x12 so I'm going to get a bunch of cards out of it which is always fun to be able to do something once and get a bunch of cards made, especially when we're in this busy season and I'm going to turn them into both fall and winter cards so whichever ones it is that you need, you could make a whole bunch all at once. So I've got it all stamped and it doesn't matter that some things are layered over top of things, I did bare minimum masking, you saw me pull out a sticky note one time just to keep one leaf protected and then I'm spritzing with water, not heavy water, don't let it puddle up like crazy but just soften up a few of those areas around the whole piece and let the color bleed and get soft and then I'm going to take a couple of different colors, I started out with some yellow ochre which is kind of a dullish yellow because it seemed to match the ink that I was using and whatever ink you use, find a color that's going to work along with it and you might need to play along with it. I started out here playing with the yellow ochre and then I decided to jump in and add something brighter so I added Aussie Red Gold so you can add other colors to it but keep it really simple if you can as soon as you start trying to paint in every leaf and every pine cone and every berry, you're going to get into oh my gosh now how do I bleed out one thing so that it looks okay bleeding into the other, keep the colors really simple so I'm literally sticking with these yellow colors so that I can have a really soft uniform almost background and you could of course cut this into two and make two cards, I'm going to cut it down smaller and make more cards out of it so I'm not really worried about any piece of it in particular looking spectacular because they're going to be small strips and I'm going to have other things put over top of them. I just want it to feel like almost like a patterned paper but a handmade beautiful patterned paper and it will be impressive to whoever you send it to they will think that you have become an amazing watercolorist when really all you've done is add a little color. I'm picking out a few leaves here and there, what I did was squint along the way so I was looking for places where I could have a leaf sort of pop to the front by adding a little color underneath of it or a pine cone or a berry or something so pick a few spots where those things can lift up if you get too many hard edges just spritz a little bit more water on them just don't again get it sopping, sopping wet. So here's the finished result I mean it's not a very tight painting at all but it's going to work really well for what I'm doing. I chose a couple of card based colors and each of my panels is on some dimensional adhesive with just a little strip of scrap color that I've stuck onto the bottom of them and then I'm just making sure that they're going to show up on each of the colors that they're on so I don't want to put the orange on the orange and trading around so that they're all ready to roll and I can adhere them onto my card and what I decided to do could have done this earlier but ended up peeling up the bottom hello Vienna she's out there chasing squirrels I think this is going to be an ongoing issue but anyway I peeled up the bottom of the panel and just ran some twine around it a few times and then tied a knot I'm going to do the knot underneath of the strings so that they all kind of come together and they're not all just kind of splay it out all over the place because I wanted to make something that's going to feel like I've tied a tag on without tying a tag on because I don't like tying little tiny things on there I have enough trouble with just a bow so I'm going to get my bows kind of settled without having the thing that they're being attached with and tug it until it's the right size that I want trim off the outside edges but a boom but a bang these are going to be really beautiful clean and simple cards because all I'm going to do is take one of the sentiments this is from the oak leaf set and stamped it onto some little squares cut off the tops so that it would made little tags and then inserted it underneath of the bows and then it looks like they're hanging from the bows without hanging from the bows so all of that was done with a little bit of ink and two colors of watercolor now I've also stamped each one of these on a sheet of six by nine and this is going to go really fast just so you can get the gist of it this is not a super tutorial on this side but I'm going to show you how I created the pictures that I'm using for the Christmas cards on these I wanted a little more intense color so I'm using some of the new gambos a little bit of Aussie red gold I'm going to throw in some red some green some blue and just kind of have fun with it and play really loosely with it notice that I started out with spray of water and I just threw the color on there and I just let the color do what it wants to do I'm trying to guide it a little bit around some of the acorns so that I don't have everything kind of completely all over the place but I'm not stressing out about this very much I dried it after that first layer or let it dry and then came back and added another layer of color to it so if your color doesn't come out as strong as you like because watercolor always dries about 30 percent brighter or 30 percent shall I say lighter then it goes on so you'll want to add a little bit more color to it and that's what I'm going to do with these and I'm adding blues and greens and yellows all different kinds of fun colors this is a fall leaf that I want to push into being a little more of a Christmas card and if I have enough red and green in it even if it's not a leaf that's going to necessarily be around at Christmas time then it's going to work when you're playing with red yellow and blue a primary palette like this even if it's different reds different yellows and different blues be aware that all three colors together are going to make brown so if you want to have brown in it then you can put all three together in the same place otherwise make sure you are a little judicious with how you apply them the whole idea behind these the second set of cards by the way is based on the feedback that I got which was amazing on a video I did recently called playing with color it's for the Ellen Hudson release and I tried using a blue and a yellow in a lot of different ways just to make some different fall colors and it was really interesting it was fun to experiment and I'm doing the same thing here just with adding extra colors to it not just the the simple two colors that I used previously so I'm going to add some of the red to the pine cones and then the blue because red yellow and blue make brown and I want to let those colors mix and turn into some interesting kind of color combinations that may or may not be exactly brown but they're going to have that flavor to them and I'm just going to play with them and let them see what happens I'm going to sprinkle some color on there just letting the paint fly all over the place my whole table by the way when I get done doing this was a little on the crazy side however having paint all over the place is the sign of a well-used workspace so there you go next up is the holly and I'm going to do the same procedure surprise surprise and just throwing in some different colors in the leaves you can decide what color you want in the background of it if you want it to be more red put more red in if you want it to be blue add the blue to it blue in this case might feel more like snow this might feel like yellow snow don't really know I was debating whether or not these were just going to be either really large cards because they're really large stamps whether they'd be really big cards or I'd frame them and give them as gifts or something and by the time I was all done there were just some things that I wasn't super thrilled about in terms of framing them necessarily they were a great experiment and lots of great practice but what I ended up doing was trimming them down and adding them up to cards and you could trim them in sections and add them as small panels the way that I did on the first piece that I did or you can do what I'm going to do which is to cut each of them down into a card front size panel and just choosing the section that worked out the best because there's always going to be some section that you know the the splooging didn't work right or there was a bloom that appeared that you weren't happy with that sort of thing and this is what I ended up doing with them I added some paper layers and a sentiment across the bottom these sentiments in the Christmas sets oh my goodness they're so beautiful that Merry Christmas is going to be on my list of stamps I'm going to be pulling out on a regular basis so there are my two sets of beautiful cards some for fall and some for winter that you can all do from the same stamp sets which is a heck of a lot of fun to be able to get that much mileage out of them so I hope you enjoyed this video if you did click the like button if not then maybe I'll see you in another video go make something beautiful and I will see you again very soon in another video bye bye


Hello everyone. Welcome back to SuperCloud 3, Security Plus AI. I'm John Furrier, host of theCUBE. We're here for a fireside chat keynote panel with J2 Patel, Executive Vice President, Security and Collaboration at Cisco, and Tom Gillis, Senior Vice President, General Manager, Security, Business Unit. Jim, thanks for coming back to theCUBE for our SuperCloud 3. Great to see you again. Thank you for having us, John. We just had a great chat at Cisco Live. You guys had the great focus strategy. You got the emerging team working on open source. A lot of cool stuff. Your business unit's booming. Security's top of mind. Security and AI. Certainly, the game changer is the generative AI story. Everyone has their angle. Security more than ever, and developers are seeing a lot of fruit coming off the tree immediately in Gen AI. You're seeing that trend. A lot of hype, okay? Every board's like, we need an AI strategy. And everybody develops like seeing ways to use it practically, so that you get this practical view. And then you have this now, executive mandate, almost a structural inflection point in all businesses generally accepted that's happening. This SuperCloud or multi-cloud, cross-cloud that's happening, you're starting to see the revolution of this layer of connectivity, connective tissue between clouds, and new apps are emerging. ISVs are turning into platforms. You guys run the networks, you're right in the front row here. What's your guys' view on the generative AI hype and the practical? How do you see it? Well, if you think about the industry in general, the attack surface is increasing. There's much, much more sophisticated caliber of attackers that are now actually participating in this ecosystem. So you simply can't handle security at human scale. You have to handle it at machine scale. And so we've been investing in AI now very heavily for a fair amount of time and definitely generative AI is a step function up. But even if you think about the predictive side, there's a fair amount that we've done to make sure that we can dig deep and try to detect breaches, especially in a world that becomes end-to-end encrypted and more and more of the workloads are moving to the public cloud, you need to make sure that you have some way of being able to detect whether or not there's malware in a packet without doing deep packet inspection. And so we've been doing that stuff for a while. We call it an encrypted visibility engine. It's on our firewall. You can go out and infer just from the movement of the packet on whether or not there's malware and then be able to do something about it. As you move into generative AI, the possibilities get pretty exciting and so do the risks because all of the tools and technologies that we have access to, so do the adversaries. And so on one end, we have to make sure that we can use generative AI in some really productive ways to enhance efficiency, to increase the efficacy and then make sure that the experience is way better for the end user. And so we're doing a lot of that. We announced at Cisco Live that we have this, the two major announcements we made around generative AI. The first one was policy assistant, where it's how do you make a power user that sets policy and security a super human? And you do that by making sure that the user experience has actually evolved to being much more natural language-based. And so you can set policy now in a firewall by saying, hey, you know, make sure that you exit this contractor from having any access to the systems and it'll give you the 15 things that you might need to go out and do as a checklist of items and allow you to do that. That's coming out at the end of the year. The second area that's actually super interesting is what we're doing with the SOC assistant. And that's an area which, you know, we've been thinking long and hard about because one of the big challenges the industry has is just shortage of talent. There's four million jobs that go unfilled every year. And so how do you go about making sure that you get talented resources to help you protect against preachers? And so the SOC assistants, what we're trying to do is people that are early in career, can they also have some kind of a sidekick, some kind of an assistant that can provide them with visibility into here's a breach that's occurring, here's what you might need to do to respond and remediate the breach. And so I think that the possibilities are enormous and we're just getting started. And we have to keep responsible AI in mind as you go about starting to build these things. I love the skills piece around the job, skills needed. That's the productivity gain. We're seeing productivity as the number one app of the Internet of AI right now, certainly in the coding area. We don't have any developers out there right now that's saying, coding, I'm got co-pilot, whatever you want to call it, it's increasing the productivity, which actually does all the heavy lifting. Okay, that being said, we'll get to that in a second. When you look at the practical aspect of it, there's a lot of hype and noise, I get that, but there are practical things happening. And you guys announced that Cisco like I mentioned a few of them, Tom and JT, what are some of the things that the enterprises are looking at that you think they should be focused on because super cloud and multi-cloud is coming fast. It's just distributed computing, something you guys know a lot about. You've been connecting networks for years, right? And have all that data. Yeah, maybe something to think about is, we all know the power of these models when you mess with chat GPT is a computer that can seem like it's reasoning with you, right? It can answer back in a cogent way. So the algorithms are really, really powerful. The other thing that makes it magic is the data that you're training with, right? And so I think for enterprise customers in general, you should be thinking about what repositories of data do we have that are text-based that were never useful before, but all of a sudden are. And I think what G2 was referring to is this SOC assistant, one of the areas that we think is extremely promising. We've been in the incident response business for decades and every time there's a security incident, we write up, here's what happened, here's what the response was, et cetera. And there's stacks and stacks of stacks of these write-ups that we can now feed through these large language models and start to create a very powerful assistant that create that order of magnitude efficiency that we're talking about about how do I respond to an incident in an automated fashion. And can I just add to that for, Tom brings up a really good point. There's one other area that we are really focused on right now, which is more and more large organizations are worried about information leakage.  How do you make sure that you do some kind of data loss prevention on egress and how do you make sure that you do some kind of filtering on the ingress? So two use cases there, right? I wanna make sure that I don't allow someone to just upload a piece of source code to go out and debug. We can now, in our secure access offering, which is our SSE offering, allow you to make sure that that doesn't happen because you'll be able to say, no, you know, this is a proprietary piece of code, you can upload it. And on the download side, if you say generate a piece of code for me, it'll give you the probability that this was actually written by a Gen AI engine. So it'll say 95% likelihood this is written by a Gen AI engine. And that allows organizations to manage intellectual property policies internally and just operate in a more responsible manner. No shortage of opportunity, right? Well, no, I think you guys are highlighting, I mean, I got a lot of questions about you guys can write to the punchline, which is data and security of the two areas you're seeing the most active. And I'd say network and data are becoming more. So I just posted a piece on Substack, I waited a week before I published on Substack, but Matt Garmin at Amazon, who used to run EC2, he's kind of a no BS guy. He went right to the punchline too. It's how you set up your VPCs in the cloud, for instance. So you start to see these networking concepts emerge to solve the security problem and also the data problem. So you're kind of in this architectural view. And I think a lot of enterprises have acknowledged this is a security privacy, not like privacy like the user, but like how do you organize your data so it's not either restricted, too restricted or too loose and too promiscuous out there on the network. So this is your wheelhouse. Yeah, yeah. If you think about how applications used to be built, you had a data store, you had the app layer and then the presentation layer. And they all lived in one place for like performance and latency reasons, right? And very, very clearly now in the era of SuperCloud, the knowledge engine, the large language models, these things are so big and so powerful that they're going to be somewhere else. So the network now becomes like kind of the glue that holds us together, but it's the logical place to do the enforcement and the monitoring that we're talking about. It's more important than ever before. And policy segmentation. These are all concepts in the network. I want to circle back J2 to you because you brought up the IP and licensing side. So the new modes, as they say, in this next level of inflection points can be data value, proprietary data. It doesn't have to be big and large. It could be small and narrow, but in an app. So you've got a developer angle to that and you've got an intellectual property value. You have valuation of IP and then you have agility for a developer standpoint. I've never seen this before at this level. Even at the network level where you've got to lock everything down, packets got to be tight, but this is a whole nother power dynamic. Well, so if you rewind back to November 30th, when we all got exposed to chat GPT, the big thing over there, when it got went from GPT 3 to GPT 3.5 to 4 was the number of billions of parameters that this thing was going to be exposed to. It is now in six months time window, the large language model, the large is actually no longer relevant. You're not going from a trillion parameters to 10 trillion parameters and that's not going to give you exponentially greater value. I think the models themselves are starting to commoditize. And what's actually going to be unique is the data sets around the model and the experience that you build to make sure that you provide insight in a way that's very easily surfaced for the user. And I think you brought it up in the SOC Assistant, Security Center Assistant. And then also the data, you guys have a ton of data, your clients and customers have data. Unlocking that now was not really realized before because there was really no application for mine that day to other than slunking some logs or doing something from a debugging standpoint or efficiency standpoint. Yeah, kind of like kind of boring, I won't say boring stuff for that business, but like I'm talking about unlocking some value, intellectual value from that is unheard of before. This is new. Do you guys agree with that? Yeah, you know, if you look at the problems in security, Zero Trust says you got to assume that somehow a bad guy's going to get a toehold somewhere in the infrastructure. Okay, so assume that they're already in. So the name of the game becomes how do you stop them from moving around? Well, where do you see that? The network. My work. Yeah, so being able to pull this data in and analyze it, I know there's a lot of hype in the space, but the reason there's hype is because this is one of those step function type moments where our ability to analyze this stuff is exploding going forward with, not just the algorithm, even the silicon underneath it, right? Like, you know, what we can do with GPUs, there's analytics that we can run that were not even feasible a year ago. And now we're also like, hey, wait, this could actually work. You know, it's very exciting. I heard something on the queue for the first time whenever I hear something that's new that I've been thinking about for many years and it actually comes out of someone else's mouth. I mean, they're thinking about it too, was we've talked for years about moving compute to the data, especially at the edge, because data egress and cost and latency. I heard them move the workload from one cloud to the other. And with less than a millisecond failover, because you now have this kind of super cloud platform. So you have failover, but you also have workload portability. That was fantasy 10 years ago. Remember, I remember many women trying to wish that to be happening, but now it's possible you have this new dynamic where the workload could shift. So the value of the data will be so important that workloads will move across the networks. And there'll be a couple of reasons why that's going to happen. One, there's just going to be, for the foreseeable future, shortage and compute capacity in the world compared to what the world's appetite is to consume compute. Like right now, if you ask Sam Altman, what is the largest kind of constraint that he thinks about with chat GPT? He thinks he talks about two things, power shortage and compute shortage. And so portability is really important when you have compute shortage. You have flexibility of going out to anywhere where the data is available. That's number one. Number two is most customers right now, looking for public cloud economics without the public cloud lock-in. And you don't want to get locked into a public cloud. You can't get locked. There's no way to avoid lock-in if you only have one provider of the public cloud. So you need to make sure that you actually distribute your loads. And when you distribute your loads to multiple clouds, which what you call super cloud, well, we actually think there's a value in is a neutral third party that can abstract some of these services like networking and security and persist those as your traffic flows and get steered to multiple different clouds. So that that ability for us to be able to say, you know, when your policy is on one cloud, that actually policy can transcend when you move your workload to the other cloud, that's architecturally gonna be a really important requirement as the market evolves. I want to riff on that a tiny bit. So let's talk about those super cloud worlds we talked about where there's some complex TensorFlow over here on Google and then there's chat GPT which is running over here and then you've got all these different services now that make up an application. And there's gonna be this communication across the super cloud to make this stuff happen. We want to apply those same zero trust principles. So what G2 was talking about this abstraction layer, it needs to be able to understand a principle of least privilege. So you can't just say, oh, I'm gonna open up a pipe so that everything on Amazon can access everything in my private data center. Because that's where your source code is, that's where your customer database, right? So you need to be more selective to that. This is an example of it's a little more tactical but something we're focused on right now today is what we call multi-cloud defense. And so it's having the ability to say this workload running on Amazon can talk to this SaaS application like chat GPT or just Salesforce or Stripe and it can connect back to this customer database and only the customer database. That's the least privileges part, right? So you don't have this big giant flat network that would open up a huge attack surface, right? These are the kind of places that Cisco I think really shines. And here's the thing we found, right? Both of us found this out when we were the customer together. 90% of a lot of our customers, public applications need to access a resource in the private cloud. And today, how does it work? Well, the public cloud speaks services, the private cloud speaks IP addresses, there's no translation layer in the middle. And what we need to do is make sure that that actually exists so that people are able to access that resource. And to Tom's point, only that resource because we are applying zero trust principles, not just for user access, but also for application access in the cloud. That's a great call out. I want to just double down and just give people some context. You mentioned that at Cisco Live as well. That's a huge point that people should really reflect on. One, services, not a bad thing. Cloud services are amazing. But when you're on premises for decades running networks, their IP addresses, again, networks is the source of truth. You can't, a packet's a packet. Either good or bad, right? You got data on that. Now, okay, we've got full surveillance on the packets, deep packet inspection, okay, all that's great stuff. Check, check, check, been there, done that. Now, going up the stack, you're talking about bridging these two worlds together. It hasn't been easy. Hybrid's made a lot of progress. Where are we on that transition? Because that's the number one thing I hear too is, the network guys are so used to operating this way, you gotta show me real proof points that it's gonna work when I blend a web services framework or a Lambda function, server lists, now Gen AI, high velocity, microservices. It's never gonna fundamentally change because the whole notion of an IP address is it's a physical construct, right? There was a box, the box had an app, the app had an IP address and that was a basis for identity. So the public cloud works that way too, but they've built layers and layers of abstraction where you can't see, you don't wanna see, trust me. It's this detailed level of plumbing. And that's our view is like, let's make sure that we build tools that allow our customers to bridge these two worlds, the physical, where there's boxes and networks and VLANs and VRFs and then- So you're doing that today then? We're doing that today, yes, right. And this is a shipping product that we're talking about. Cisco multi-cloud defense that can make that least privileged connection between private to public, public to public, public to service, whatever it is, it understands these services and makes it easy to put basic security code. We're talking about a pretty fundamental control here of like, you know, you can, A can talk to B and only B, not C, D, E, or F. Yeah, you also wanna keep an eye on what apps are running in sandboxes. In sandboxes versus production. Totally, totally. This is what I wanted to get to. Now go ahead, USC. No, but I was gonna say, it's important that we all recognize that even in the most optimistic scenario, there will be thousands of applications that organizations will have for the foreseeable future that will be in the private cloud. There will be legacy applications. But what you have to do is still modernize the security infrastructure around those legacy applications. Because if the legacy application is something that they've deemed to say, I don't have resources right now, so I'm not gonna go modernize the application. That's fine. But you can't afford not to modernize the security infrastructure around it. And what we are trying to do is modernize the security infrastructure around an application that you might choose to have be legacy that needs to interface with the modern application that you have running on AWS or on Azure or GC. And that's the fundamental debate, Dave and I have about super cloud versus multi cloud because super cloud's a whole nother level of modernization and rethinking around scale, data, automation, the things that are kind of next gen cloud coming, low latency, managing the cost structure versus the enablement. Yeah, I'll argue, I spend a lot of time talking to customers exactly to G2's point about OT environments and that the super cloud principles are now extending into the factories, into the warehouses and into these highly distributed networks. Creates a whole new set of challenges, opportunities that I think is gonna be really rich for us over the next.  By the way, we interviewed Audi at your event was a great use case. They're doing some amazing modernization. I mean, think of what happens in a hospital if a device for providing dialysis that's connected to the internet gets hacked. Yeah, right. You need to make sure that that was never built with the mindset of, oh, this thing could get hacked and I wouldn't be able to perform dialysis on someone. But we are in that world today and so you gotta make sure you modernize the security around it. Yeah, I was talking to a customer this morning, pharmaceutical customer.  So we had this philosophy of like, this stuff is all safe and yeah, yeah. And now all of a sudden we have to make them connected. It opens up a whole new set of challenges and opportunities. And again, this is the whole idea of like modernization, enabling lower cost, more agility, more scale and security built in, not even a question, built in, not a bolt on. The question I want to get to before we run out of time is the customer orientation to the trend that's generative AI and security, mainly generative AI. It reminds me of the early days of the internet and the web where it's like, okay, we recognize this is happening. We just don't know yet how to interface with it. Do I do my own website? Do I own my own thing? Do I connect my buildings on my campus? Hence routing started, okay, this all grew. That happened and it started very embryonic but then grew very fast. Gen AIs have been a similar trajectory where, but it's happening faster where it's like, okay, I get it. Now I got to figure out where to start. And then what's that roadmap look like? Clearly, network and security and data and developers are low hanging fruit areas where people are smart. There's practical use cases, there's enough data to get success. That's been always the form of success. Where do you guys see your customers coming in and from a practical standpoint, leveraging some of these trends where they can get in and show some proof points of that scale, a little bit of three steps in the cloud of dust kind of before they start running. What's the areas that you guys would see that would be practical? So I mean, the way that we think about this is there's three major kind of areas of innovation in AI. The first one is, can you use AI to enhance your cybersecurity stack? And a bunch of the examples we gave are around that. The second thing that's gonna be there is, can you actually enhance your cybersecurity stack to protect against AI? Because as AI starts having more sophisticated uses, the bad intentions over there need to get protected against, right? And so that's the second area. And then the third area is this notion of preventing data loss on the egress to a gen AI engine. And intellectual property as these moots are developing? It's just pure IP, right? I think you just wanna make sure you protect for that.  Because I think what's gonna happen in the world in the future is no one's gonna start from a blank slate. And so when you start from something that's gonna be 80% done that you're tweaking the final 20%, you gotta make sure that that's tying with the policies that's tying with the responsible AI framework that you might have within your organization. Those are things that you have to think about. And so these are three major building blocks where you'll actually start to see. It's funny you use the word building blocks. Reminds me of your composing models. It's gonna go, a preferred future might look like, hey, let's grab that model from 2023. Let's use that new one from 2028. If you think about the profound impact that open source had on software development, right? You don't have to go build a web proxy anymore because there's one that exists. This is what you just talking about is like the next layer there where there's gonna be sort of 80% of the solution just when you push a button and there's always gonna be need to apply reason and human intuition on top of that. But man, we can take a lot more. And context and data. You'll be very specific to your domain. Don't underestimate that context and data thing. I think we've seen this pattern over and over and over again, which is that the more you train a model, the algorithm more always kinda nets out to like, eh, they're all about the same. And so, and I'm sure there's scientists out there like, no, mine's different. Okay, but it's the data that matters and the quality of the data and how do you teach it right from wrong? It's a really hard problem, right? And that's where the enterprise is probably some opportunity that lies. Like think about what data do you have that is unique and valuable? All of a sudden a computer can understand that data. That is transformative once you start thinking about that. I think you guys have the bottoms up, guardrails that could enable massive value. My final question is how do you guys think about something that we're seeing emerge which is platforms of platforms? So we're moving from the point solution to platforms. And it's interesting, I used to, I'm, you know, the platform wars in the old days was, you know, top two platforms win. Maybe third one, third place gets some crumbs. Now you're seeing platforms emerge as a feature of intellectual property at scale. So you're seeing the coalescence and cohesion of multiple platforms working together because of APIs and of data sharing, privacy controls. You're starting to see different vendors have platforms that need to be working with other platforms.  Obviously you got other data platforms with developers will be on. So this is a trend that's emerging. I want to get your thoughts on how you guys think about that because you guys are running the networks. You have all that IP underneath both IP. I'll start and you commentary. There's clearly movement towards platform, right? And the reason for that insecurity is that these attacks that you two was talking about earlier, the attackers have toolkits now that allow them to steal a credential, to, you know, sort of have a root kit to get in and emulate legitimate user behavior and legitimate application behavior really, really well. So if you're only looking at one little piece of the puzzle, if you're only looking at email stream, it's tough to say with confidence, yeah, there's no ransomware in there because there is, right? And it's indistinguishable from real email. If you're only looking at a web stream, if you're only looking at the endpoint, you're missing more than half the picture. That's what's driving this movement towards platforms. And so being able to look across multiple domains is gonna give you a better security outcome. But we think there's gonna be platforms that are unique to the vendors that deliver these platforms. So I think there'll be a platform that focuses on the operating system and the application, right? An obvious candidate for that is Microsoft, right? With Office 365 and Windows.  Connectivity, access, infrastructure. That's why we're here, gang. Authentication across networks are hard. Yeah, exactly, right? The network plays an essential role in your security ecosystem. So there will be a couple of platforms, and our view is we're gonna inter-operate with these other platforms that have a kind of rightful air to that position. And we wanna take our rightful position in the industry. And then there'll be additional platform and integration opportunities on top of that, right? Yeah, I think the philosophical constructs of a platform are, one, it has to be open. So you have to make sure that you even take data and telemetry from your competitors because the true enemy is not the competitor, it's actually the adversary. And we can't forget that in this industry, right? And so that's number one. Number two, as you think about how the Gen AI movement started in the past, since November 30th to now, one thing is for sure, it's gonna get increasingly hard to predict long-term outcomes in this industry because the rate of change of this industry is so fast now that I think you'll see scientific progress compound at least at 1,000 X of where we are today. It's virtually impossible to say what's my five-year outlook gonna look like? Anyone who thinks they've got a five-year vision is just nuts. Maybe Elon Musk has it, but the rest of us, you know, mere mortals, we have to actually have a much shorter window of time within which we're gonna be operating. And number three, you have to be responsible because the way in which bias will seep into a model, the way in which transparency and fairness need to be incorporated in a model are pretty important. And so those are three characteristics of a platform that are pretty important as we think through the evolving of the evolution of the platform. Great to have you guys on. Obviously the data is the value, the network and the security impacts huge. As people build apps, they're gonna need to put policies in place, have them brought on the right parts of the network, enabling that next generation applications. J2, Tom, thanks for coming on SuperCloud 3. Appreciate it. Thank you for having us. This is fireside chat keynote. I'm John Furrier. We'll be back with more SuperCloud 3 coverage after this short break.


Alright, this story makes me laugh. We all know scalpers have been running amok. They've been bragging. They've been trying to act as if they are a charity act. In fact, the very group that said that they are basically doing God's work by providing food and paying bills for scalpers by charging them fees to access tools claiming they're not using bots. Some people who have leaked information claims they actually are using bots, it is what it is. This very scalper group just got screwed. So this article is over there on Eurogamer by Emma Kent. Let's just take a reading of this because man, this is glorious. I love, I love when a retailer sticks it back to scalpers. So since the launch of both PS5 and Xbox Series XSF, stories of scalping groups and extraordinary third party prices have hit headlines and it's often felt like little has been done to prevent the practice. But today's scalping story ends somewhat differently as a group that boasted about securing 1000 Xbox Series X orders has found them all cancelled. The scalping group, the same one that claimed to have ordered 2500 PS5s at launch and I will note that's also the group that said they're doing charity work here basically. Yesterday posted on social media that it had secured over 1000 plus Xbox Series X consoles from a very well known online retailer. The scalping group charges 29.99 pounds monthly subscription or lifetime subscription membership for 399.99 pounds for its members to get information on how to carry out scalping themselves and reportedly uses bots to automatically find cheap prices in complete mass purchases. The group claimed to have notified its members of a restock at the retailer and urged its followers to buy a subscription for that information. The retailer in question it seems was very, which normally limits console purchases to 1 per address. It seems likely the scalping group was able to find a way around this restriction, which they have found a way around these restrictions on all retailer websites. But unfortunately for the scalpers, the company has cancelled all of the orders. Can you imagine, yes we successfully attained 1000 of these systems and they're like, ha! By the way, those systems don't exist, have a good day. God, I want more retailers to do this, please. Alright, it does suck for legit consumers too, but man. As a result of a technical error, some people were able to place orders for the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X console for a short time on Sunday, very told Sky News. However, these items are not on sale. Oh, that's great. And affected customers have received notice that the orders have been cancelled. We apologize for the confusion caused. A couple of legitimate customers claimed to have been swept up in the confusion, but very has promised to refund for the majority of customers within 48 to 72 hours. According to Sky News, very did not confirm whether it currently had next-gen consoles in stock. Even if the mass order was only possible due to a technical slip-up, it is quite amusing to see scalpers group beaten at its own game on this occasion at least. Retailers are often reluctant to discuss the issue of scalping, but you may remember that Curries used its own unique brand anti-scalpy measures by temporarily increasing console prices to £2,000 and giving customers a £2,000 voucher. This was likely used as a way to allow legitimate customers to complete their purchase without the website being overrun by bots. Talk about a bot rescue mission. I mean, think about that.  It's obviously a way to deter things, but knowing this, scalpers could technically still take advantage of it, but man, this is great. Any time you could stick it to scalpers is a good time. I mean, scalpers are just, they're getting to the point that we, within these systems anyways, that we could just call them criminals. I mean, let's just look at the Xbox Series X on eBay right now. Xbox Series X. Okay? Because this group, you know, was boasting about securing a thousand of them. I mean, look at this, $1,300, $1,200, oh, this one just under $1,000. Let's go to buy it now though because that's where you really see what the systems are going for. And so you're $1,300, $1,200, oh, this one is still a sponsored post at $995, $900, oh, another sponsored post, new listing for $900. So the price has come down a little bit, $800 here, assuming this is even a legit posting because there's been a lot of fake posts as well.  I mean, we already know it's really bad for PlayStation 5. I think the point that we're seeing here is that scalpers are just scum. And I like that even though this was unintentional, that scalpers ended up getting screwed in the end. I mean, here, I'm just glancing at the price of Siri S's. Remember, this is a $300 system. People still want $200, $300 for it. I mean, people, you know, you think it's exclusive to the next gen. I mean, just glance at the Nintendo Switch. The Nintendo Switch is being scoped right now. This bundle here is selling for $489. Here's a new sealed red box edition one, which is the only version they're selling, and it's selling for $475, it's almost $200 over MSRP. Like it is insane right now. Things remain in the Fortnite bundle that just came out, geez.  I mean, at least the Nintendo Switch lights only $40 past, you know, what it costs at retail. That's because people aren't that interested in the light. They want the full Switch, and of course, for good measure, we'll just glance at PlayStation 5 because it's just a joke what's happening with PlayStation 5. But you know, we have to look. We have to look just for posterity's sake in the first listing, $1,800. It's to a point now where scalpers are basically thieves. I know in free markets, like in the UK and the United States, it's not against the law what they're doing, all right? It's interesting because there's been people during the pandemic that were hoarding toilet paper, hoarding, back when that was an issue, but I guess remember the toilet paper issue, the great toilet paper issue of 2020, there were people that just were hoarding supplies like hand sanitizer or N95 masks. And the government basically came along and said, nah, you can't do that. You can't be doing that and selling it for 700% markup. Technically, it's not against the law for them to do what they were doing, but because it was a pandemic, the government stepped in. What sucks is it took a pandemic for the government to do something about those scalpers. What's it going to take for the government to do something about these people right here?  He's got five PlayStation 5 consoles, all disc versions that he's trying to pedal off for almost $2,000 each. This like shouldn't happen, shouldn't be possible, but this is the reality that we live in. People have multiples of this system, you know, three of them here trying to sell for $1,700 each. I mean, look at this one, this guy's got eight of them trying to move them for $1,300 each. I mean, look at this guy, look how many he's got, what is it? Got 12? 2,000 he's trying to get. It's insane. And I hope that these people, this person here with 12 systems, I hope this person doesn't sell a single one of them, not even for retail value. When the price has inevitably come down in six months and you're able to get this system at retail, I hope that none of these systems sell and they are stuck with these 12 PlayStation 5s and unable to recoup any of their sunk costs for it. If you think about it, you know, that person spent a pretty penny to get all those systems. Six grand plus taxes and shipping in some cases to get those systems. I hope that they lose all six grand. Even if they keep one system for themselves, they lose all six grand and get nothing back. I'm sorry. I'm all for the free market and I believe you absolutely have the right to resell your stuff, resell your games, resell your systems, resell whatever you need to sell to get by. I sold a bunch of stuff last year when I was in a hard financial time to get by, pay bills, put food on the table. I get it. We're in a pandemic, so it's hard times, but this isn't about hard times and don't believe this scalper group. When they say it's about hard times, it's not about hard times. They would have been doing this anyways. This is about supplying demand and PlayStation and Xbox are unable. Nintendo as well right now to keep up with demand. So because of that, scalpers are using backdoor links that is not available to the public. They're using inside connections that, again, are not available to the public, to know when restocks are going to hit and to get the orders in before the public has even a shot. There are retailers that there are certain retailers where this group, and I know this because unfortunately, I know someone who's scalping on PlayStation five who used a similar group. These groups have backdoor links that show available stock before it shows the public the stock is available so they can essentially sneak an order in before they even let the public in to order. That's how bad it is with scalping. And this happens in other fields. It gets ignored because we're in the video game community. This happens a lot with sneakers. You know, every Air Jordan release, it happens. This is something that happens in a lot of different fields. Something needs to be done about it at some point. Retailers have tried their best to curb it, you know, only one system per address, only one system per email, only, you know, confirmed customers or like, you know, trying to put up, you know, cues. Like there's been various cues at places, you know, to try to stem this. But then what's happened with the cues is that there's been secret links to get around those cues and get directly in and make an order in front of thousands and thousands of people that are waiting for their chance to buy one. So this is just the world we live in right now.  And unfortunately, it doesn't seem that we can do much about it. But on a day such as today, we get to laugh a little bit because those 1000 Xbox Series X's that were bolstered by this hacking community. This has really got a hacking. Well, they're kind of a retailer hacking community, right? Like boasted by this, this, this disgusting, this disgusting business. Lost all their orders. I hope they don't get refunded. I like most people are refunded in 47. I know they can't steal the money, but I almost don't want them to refund. That's that's where I am right now with scalpers. All right, folks. I'm Nathan Robodance from the center prime and I'll catch you in the next video.


I just have to laugh because this is this is so well done because I should have seen it all along. I should have seen everything all along but you don't! Right, there's freedom. Yeah, yeah.  Okay, I'm actually here now. Hiya, welcome to my channel and today we're doing my first reading vlog! So when I knew that I went to do a reading vlog quite early on because they're pretty much my favorite thing to watch. I know people apparently don't like them but when I knew I wanted to do a reading vlog I wanted to do something a bit special, a bit of a theme. I don't know, just not just me reading around a book and I thought what can I do? And then I realised I've got a book that has just come out. I'm so excited to read it and it's a genre I've never read before. I have never read a thriller, ever. I don't know why I've never read a thriller before. I think it's because I've read a lot when I was like up until 1415 and then I stopped until the past year or so and so I think I'm, I don't know, you just don't really read thrillers when you're 14 or 15 and so yeah, this is my first time picking one up. The book that we're talking about is The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware. This is what I'm going to be reading in this vlog. I knew I wanted to read this when Lala or Kayla, from Books and Lala who's my favorite, I just love all her videos. When she recommended it, gave it five stars. I could not have stopped talking about it. I was like I've got to buy that then. I've enjoyed a lot of other books that she's recommended. Hang on, I'll just grab two quickly. I really enjoyed Dead Mountain which is one that she recommended and Girls in Paper and Fire is my favorite books of this year so far and that was one I picked up from her recommendations. I basically, I just read everything she likes. So anyway, back to Turn of the Key. I don't know much about it other than a woman answers an ad to be a babysitter and it's in this super like smart home and she then she finds out that she's basically accused of killing one of the kids and but she's saying that she didn't. It's all written in letter form. That's what I remember. I was in Waterstones as she did and I was buying books two and three in the Winter Night trilogy. My favorite books ever now but I had a 30 pound voucher and so I needed to buy another book and I was gonna buy Daisy Drain's on the sixth but then I saw this. Okay, not a big fan of the cover, you know, whatever. It's very typical of UK thriller covers I feel like but then, then I saw, oh, hang on, hang on. Look at the keys. Isn't that so much fun? So that was Mark 1. That was Mark 1 where I was like, okay, I'm a sucker for not only sprayed edges but things that aren't just a color like I love artwork on the pages. Isn't that, are you obsessed? And then, and then I saw this inside. Isn't that so pretty? I don't know what it's, I also want to find out why it's like that. I assume maybe one of the wallpapers in the house is like that. I don't know but I saw that. That was strike two. I was like, well that's so so pretty and then she signed, she signed. I hope that the signature isn't a bad luck charm because the only other signed book I have is Vengeful by V.E. Schwart. And I gave this two stars as a story for another day though. Yeah, I gave this just five stars and I gave this two stars though. I'm gonna read for half an hour now. I've got some other things to do today so I'm gonna read for half an hour and then I'll check back in with you and then we'll probably read a little bit later and I'll take you through my day. A little bit because I know you're so excited to see that. Okay, bye. So I just went for half an hour. I got to page 50 which is a nice round number and that's much quicker than I usually read. So like usually if I'm lucky I manage a page a minute but this is a super fast read so hopefully this vlog isn't gonna be too short. But yeah now I'm really enjoying it so far. Obviously you're just kind of setting it up.  So you kind of feel how she's feeling and I really loved how it opened because obviously it's all letters but you had these really short couple pages. She's trying to write the letters and not being able to start and I feel like obviously at that point you're turning the page quite quickly and in a way it almost sets the speed that you're gonna be reading at like turning the pages super quickly so yeah I feel like there's gonna be quite a quick read and you really forget that she is writing a letter and that you're reading a letter. You feel like completely drawn into the story. I love the way that it's written in the sense that you are essentially reading someone's thoughts. I'm gonna go do some stuff and then hopefully come back to this a bit later. I'm just sitting down to have lunch and I said I'll take you through my morning but I didn't. Essentially what I've done since I saw you last is we let out my new the kitten you saw. We have two other cats but that's our new kitten. We let him out for the first time in the garden so I'm going to watch him to make sure that he didn't escape anyway which he did but you know and then I just filmed another video and I've just made my lunch so for lunch I'm having it's basically called bread soup. I know it doesn't look very well I call it bread soup. I know it doesn't look very appetizing but it's basically ciabatta, mashed palm tomatoes, garlic basil and parmesan. That's on Israel versus Parmesan. Just all mixed together. It's so good and filling. I'm watching Becca's new most recent vlog whilst I eat. Hello. Just checking back in again. I know it seems like I haven't moved and you've only just seen me talking but for me it's been a little while. I've just been sitting and reading it. I'm on page 126 already so I've read like a pretty good chunk of it already. Oh my god. It's like it's super spooky. It's really reminding me of if any of you have watched it, Haunting of Hill House on Netflix. Oh my god. Such a good show. Go watch it if you if you can. It is spooky though and it did mess me up for like about a week after. Me and my boyfriend watched it together up in Leeds. We lived together when we're in Leeds and we started it on Monday night. We watched two episodes then. Then Tuesday night we watched two episodes. There's 10 in total and then Wednesday we wake up at 10 in the morning having stayed up late watching his other two episodes and we watch all six at the rest of the six episodes just back-to-back just laying in bed like it felt like it was still the night before and he had an exam the next day for like final uni exams. The end revised one. We just had to watch it like we just had to find out what happened and this is really reminding me of that. I'm trying to make it no spoiler-y but I don't know if it's anything supernatural really at all. I don't think I don't know. I don't think it will be. The House and Haunting of Hill House wasn't modern in the way this one is. It wasn't a smart home but like in the old parts that's what I'm imagining this house to look like. So all their bedrooms in my head like I'm imagining the Haunting of Hill House bedrooms. Oh I just knocked you a bit. Okay that's like making it extra spooky for me because that actually freaked me out. So I'm a little bit scared. Just starting to get a bit scared. But like Ruth Wade is doing something really clever and she keeps kind of laying little nuggets down. Like the narrator will just say little things about herself or going oh of course he didn't know that or or something like that and you're just sitting there like I feel like this is gonna be a really quick read so I hope I'm gonna leave the house for you in the time that I read this. I think we might go for a walk a bit later but I'm starting to get a bit scared so I don't know how I'm gonna go reading it tonight but yeah that's my little update for now. No hi. Good morning actually it's not quite morning it's more afternoon well midday. I'm just catching up with you. If you can hear the movements that's my kid again. I just went to the gym I did two classes I am so tired. I'm so tired. I did body pump and body combat and so I'm just feeling so tired. So tired. But yeah I didn't end up reading any more of the book yesterday we came back from the walk, had dinner and I was just so tired then as well that I just fell asleep. So I didn't end up reading any more yesterday but we are about to go out to Lakeside if anyone knows where that is. It's like a shopping centre but there's other stuff around it. There's a new golf mini golf course there that we're gonna go do. I'm gonna have lunch first and then we'll go so that's why I'm catching up with you now because I haven't got a lot of time. I'm gonna read in the car on the way there because it's a fair drive. I'll get a bit of reading done then and on the way back and hopefully I'll film a bit at the golf course probably but the next time I'm speaking to you is when I'm back home. It's really much later but then I'll update you and how much I've read in the two car journeys. Super busy yesterday and I did read a little bit but I didn't have the chance to pick up the camera. I've noticed while looking at all the footage I've been filming that I'm not very good at putting myself in focus and I'm also not very good at making sure I don't have stuff in my teeth. So that's all we're working on today. I'm gonna try and finish turning the key today. Let's go, should we go get it? Yes Megan, we should. Okay then. So I'm about 250, 260 pages in there which means I've got about 100 pages left. I feel like it is all about to kick off. It's gonna hit the wall, it's gonna hit the fan, it's gonna hit everything. So I feel like I'm gonna be able to just be able to sit here and just get through it. I'm hoping I do because I'm listening to an audiobook at the moment. I'm listening to Wicked Fox whilst I'm also reading this. I've been reading Wicked Fox for like a month on and off and I can't get into it. I am not even halfway through but I want to finish it for August. If not, I think I'll probably just DNF it. So I'm now setting down to read this again. Oh, sorry about my leg. The thing is, even though I'm only 100 pages from the end, I don't know who I can trust. I don't know where it's gonna go. I don't know if that's because I'm new to reading thrillers. Maybe I'm just not adept at like figuring out you know who the bad bad guy or bad person is. I have no idea who I can trust and I have no idea what's going on. I have no idea of the explanations for everything. So yeah, I only have that much left to read so it shouldn't take me long. Oh my god. I did not see that coming. I did not see that coming. I didn't see it coming. I didn't see it coming. Okay, I'm really trying not to see it but what is gonna happen now? Oh my god. Oh my god. Okay, I'll be back. I'll be back after a rinse and more. I just have to laugh because this is this is so well done because I should have seen it all along. I should have seen everything all along but you don't. Oh my god. Girl, girl. Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh my god. How did I know? Oh my god. I'm about 30 pages away from the end so I'm gonna finish it. I mean I still got to find... I still got so much to find out. I still got so much to find out. Okay, okay. This has been a... this has been a great update. I'm gonna go and finish this book. Bye. Five stars. Five stars. Five. I did not see it all coming. About 20 pages from the end I thought oh I've got it. I've got it. I know what the twist is gonna be right at the end. I didn't. I was wrong. I felt like the characters were really well fleshed out but more like the most important thing was like the twists. Come on. Turn on the key. Let's get sickness. No, okay. I just... this is... this is... this is a great thriller. This is a great thriller. I mean I know I'm not a connoisseur but any strange imagination but it was great. It was great. It was so good. It's such a quick read. It's such a quick read. You could... if you're the type of person who can like read close to a book in a day you'll finish this in a day. I just took a couple days because I was doing stuff and sometimes I'd put off reading it because I was like I've got a film and I didn't have anything in my face. It was just a moment. I mean I know I should really give you a more in-depth analysis of it but right now I can barely think. You know the twists sometimes I think in thriller books what I hear is that they were they were the same like there's like cliche trope twists. I don't think these were that or not done in a way that you would expect them.  Everything... look how I'm hugging it.  You can understand everything once you read it, once you read the twists. I think everyone should read this. I think everyone should read this. I think everyone should read this. I'm a bit too excited obviously. I think this is a great book and I'm evidence that you don't have to be a big thriller fan to read it and to want to read it so yeah I would definitely definitely definitely definitely recommend it. I'm really excited to read some more Ruthwear soon. I'm definitely have to get my hands on some of it. Definitely definitely definitely. The ending was incredible. Don't do what my mum does and read the end first because then it just spoils it. It just spoils everything. I mean you won't understand everything but just don't do that. Just don't do that. Thank you so much for watching. If you've made it this far I really really appreciate it. Make sure you like the video if you enjoyed it and comment down below. I don't know, whatever. Comment down below any thrillers that you think I should pick up next because I'm really excited to get into them now. I'll see you very soon with a new video and I hope you have a good time until I see you next. Bye!