Another Ryan eyebrow transformation. Ryan got me some pretty pretty flowers, which is so sad to look up And we're gonna see the movie split at five. I hit 10,000 subscribers Cheers to going to cool colleges Yeah, very impressed Good morning guys, it's Saturday and we are about to go to get Ryan's eyebrows done another Ryan eyebrow transformation Are you excited? I'm not bad this time They're really bad He just has a Lot of sparse hairs at the top in the bottom. So he's just gonna get them cleaned We were gonna go to the beach today, but the weather is just really bad So we're just not gonna do that. We're gonna go to Winter Park.  I think it's called the Avalon. It's not a paper motion It's like more of a consignment store because they sell nicer brands than like Play-Doh's closet does and so I got like a really cool free people dress last time for like Maybe like 20 bucks or something. So I want to go in there and he does too I found a really nice north-west rain jacket that I should have bought and I ran so much I need like every day and nothing Arrange on it? Yeah, it's like a really nice one for this one. Yeah, it's a collard in the close to everything. Yeah So funny story Last night when Ryan was opening his gift when he picked me up like the tripod Oh my god I'm gonna email them and talk to them about it because this has not happened just once and it broke two of my lenses I literally had to well the first time I was able to get it sent in and repaired but the second time Like I should show you guys I should show you guys how bad it broke like I literally started like Obviously crying like that's just my first reaction last night. I overnighted a lens Off Amazon so I got here this morning, which is so awesome because I thought it was not gonna get here until 9 p.m Tonight and I was gonna be really sad because Ryan's only here for like a day but we are here at Venus Brow and Where are we? Why are we here? Too busy for us so rude loyal customers come on Yeah We got our food. I got the chicken and waffles. It looks amazing There's like onion rings and like hollandaise sauce on it, too And he got the melting pot omelet, and he's like loving this coffee right now He's saying it's like almost the best one he's ever had There's your keys everywhere and it makes me so sad I miss new chief Yeah, thanks About time she's been asking about three years all she likes is these yeah, that's what he says It's not all I like I just really like these but like I bought them at the lucky time And they really die today Fresh Ryan got me some pretty pretty flowers She's cheap days like four dollars true, and I'm gonna put it in the middle of all the roses He got me for Valentine's Day. I think it's gonna be really pretty.  Can you can you help me and show me? Okay? So it's like a really cute top it's a little bit cropped up like the designs really pretty so I think it'd be like a good Going out top or just like wearing it to brunch one day. I think that'd be better like to brunch. We'll see. Thank gosh for Ryan He's adding Coolant to my car because my AC is like running warm and it's so hot right now And we're dying so we like how to pull over and do it really quick. All right.  I don't I think it's called Joby or like the gorilla pod Like just don't frickin buy these because like this part got loose up here when it just like moved a little bit It literally just fall off like the ball literally just fell off it So I really don't frickin recommend these so once one of these actually pops off.  It's just so sad to look at This is the worst I don't even know what that is, but it just makes me really sad to see it like that So it literally just dropped and then just this whole thing shatter into like all these pieces and silly me Just was crying trying to put it back together thinking I could just like put it back together like No, who do you think you are Sonali? Not an engineer that's who so it was this lens the kit lens that comes with the Sony a5100 that broke so sad I Don't want to keep this though because like I think I could probably like use this for like a DIY if I ever need it I don't know. I just don't want to like trash it. That would be sad It's Yo boy over here. It's 445 and we're gonna see the movie split at five We're on our way to the movie theater in Waterford Lakes. I'm not sure which one it is. I think it's a regal I'm not really sure but I've been wanting to see this movie ever since I saw all the trailers like on YouTube before like the YouTube videos and stuff and I've heard a lot of mixed reviews So I'm excited to see for myself like if it's good or not I heard the ending was really bad and I do love spoilers. I literally tell people to tell me the end Which is like weird, but it's starting to rain. So it's perfect time to watch a movie So what do you think of the movie? What do you think of the movie? I'm a little over critical movies. Yeah, so like the whole time.  There's a mirror hanging on the wall And I was like just break the mirror stab the guy, you know, and I was like I do anything to get in there Instead of necklace on I was like just strangle the guy He's like this like he can be a nine-year-old or whatever they said Let's just talk to the nine-year-old and strangle him, you know, and you can't fight back. What do you think about it? I mean, it's the way what on the movie. I just I was really critical of it. I think Sorry if we gave you any. I don't know. I wish there was like a little bit more drama It was kind of like It was just kind of like one it like one is the big like climax I haven't it was like really long If you're not like you know like a mood to watch it dark pretty it's pretty dark. Yeah. Yeah Like it's like, you know taps in like some weird areas. Yeah I'm glad I saw it because I feel like if I didn't see it. I would definitely be wondering what that movie would be like Etc. How many catch-ups do you need? True Oh my god guys, I hit 10,000 subscribers It's not focusing but thank you guys so much for subscribing me and supporting me and watching me And this is a very artsy picture of this with my catch-up in the background, but Thank you guys so much. I'm so excited Good thing we got that cake to celebrate, huh? And we didn't even know it Wow First time you've ever seen that to me first time being on a blog knowing he's on a blog Okay, never mind Yes, we're live What guys What are you talking about? What do you think? Okay, do you like it Oh How excited are you to wake up in like T-minus two hours for your flight? I'm a native too. I had five people ask me if I go to UGA One was from Georgia The people said I know people in paternity there And three other like you FSU, but UGA is awesome Athens is awesome. Cheers to going to cool colleges UCF is pretty cool. Yeah, very impressed. Thanks doing you. You look so sweaty So I don't know if this is gonna be our last time vlogging cuz we literally have to wake up Yeah, you okay. Well, we have to wake up really really early for his flight tomorrow morning. Well to today morning This morning I had a good time good weekend girl weekend. It was literally a day Not pretty sure so she lost so much weight. It's so fit. I didn't lose so Anything I gained weight had a really good time. Honestly. Yay. I'm glad 10 out of 10 UCF I'm glad you could come and see the difference because I feel like it motivates me more to know that like it's working You know, I mean, oh you're working out. Yeah But I'm gonna take my makeup off and hit the hay so I'll see you guys in Literally less than three hours Hey guys on the way to the airport. It's actually five o'clock right now On the dog. Yeah, me left at five four thirty ish About to pull into my terminal, but this is the last time I'll get to talk to you guys until spring break So I hope you guys To rise spring break in Destin and I've been wanting to go back since ever since like senior year. We always go to Destin, Florida for like In high school for high school spring breaks So I've been just like literally craving Destin slash seaside so much So I'm excited to be able to go back And I am missing school But honestly, like I feel like much needed and I don't really ask for that often I'm excited because those will be really fun vlog. It's not being the most fun. I've actually had you see a Top top three definitely. It's coming more familiar. I guess you know, it's not it's like yeah Not like catching that I know people getting more fun. I can see why she likes it But it's nothing like that at georgia home It's so weird. I haven't been home like forever That makes me sad to like think about it, you know Yeah, because I don't even know I'm gonna probably end the vlog here. So thanks for watching guys and thanks again for 10 000 subscribers Makes me so happy. I mean by the time this vlog is up. It's probably like gonna be like pass that but Um, I just want to say thank you. I wanted to get her some balloons But she literally told me why we're sitting eating burger pie And it's just no way I could get to public sir somewhere to get her balloons at that point. All right guys. I'll see you next time


What's the word, y'all? NBA trade deadline is over. As of right now, the way your team looks, it's probably how it's gonna look for the rest of the season.  And for some people, you're extremely excited. And for others, not so much. And we're here to talk all things trade deadline. First of all, I wanna say thank you so much for the support over the last three to four days from the carry Irvin requesting a trade to us actual trade to the Kevin Durant video, to the Lakers trade.  It got to a point yesterday where we were number eight on trending, not trending gaming, but on the entire platform of YouTube. The first time we've been that high, number eight. And that was with the Kevin Durant video. And then if you scroll down further at 14, it was us again with the Lakers video. So again, thank you so much. I've been trying my hardest to cover the trade deadline as much as possible and efficiently as possible. We've been to the Twitch stream. We had 12,000 current viewers. So I just wanna say thank y'all so much for the support. And I'm just excited to continue this journey. Cause it seems like every single year we break new records. So thank you for that. We got trades on top of trades, on top of trades.  But I think there's more nuanced than that for this trade deadline. And I hope y'all didn't take it for granted, man, because this was the best trade deadline we've had in a long time, maybe even ever. A guy like Kevin Durant doesn't get traded at the deadline. He basically never gets traded in general, but he definitely don't get traded at the deadline. And he definitely don't surprisingly get traded at the deadline. So don't take it for granted. I dropped a video on this channel about a month ago while I was subverting the expectations and saying that this trade deadline or I'm expecting the trade deadline to be buns. So anything that happened that was good, we'll take. And in that video, I was like, oh man, we might have a year where OG Annobe is the best name moved. He went, he moved. We got Kevin, we got Kyrie, we got others. So again, there's so much to talk about. I might not focus on the super big deals like the Kevin Durant one, because we did drop our solo video. We might talk about it here or there, but we already dropped that one. You know what? I'm becoming more of a fan of the Kevin Durant trade from the Brooklyn Nets perspective over the last 24 hours. I think I was just so enamored by the fact that Kevin Durant was traded that it felt like no matter what they got to return, it was gonna feel like a lackluster package because he's got damn Kevin Durant, arguably a top 10 player of all time. He ain't no later than 15 of all time. And he's still amazing. And you know, I saw the package of all the first round picks. I saw McCill Bridges and all of that.  And the more I look at it, the more I like it considering the circumstances from the Brooklyn Nets, where they basically gave him their word that if things went south during the season, they'd get him out of there and get him to his team. And of course his team during the off season was the Phoenix Suns. And this is a really good package, especially when you consider that they're serious about staying competitive this season. You just saw them first game outside of the trade without McCill Bridges and Cam Johnson and these guys suing up. They beat up on the Bulls. The defense is gonna be pretty good. And they, you know, have a couple spots between them and the play-in or them being completely out. And they don't have any incentive to be bad because they don't own the rights if they're on first round pick. And there was a report that came out from Zach Lowe that a team offered an additional four first round picks to get McCill Bridges's services that they turned down because they really wanted to stand pat with this current core, at least for the foreseeable future.  They could have walked out with what nine first round picks in a Canada rent trade. But I do believe that the way McCill Bridges is and how important he could be for a championship level team, that same offer will probably be there next season during the off season. Or if it's not four first round picks or whatever I just said, maybe it's two and a player or something like that. So there is no big rush to flip McCill Bridges immediately as it was for Jay Crowder, who's 30 plus years old and wants to go play for a competitive team. I'm excited to watch the Brooklyn Nets, but not as excited as I am to watch the Phoenix Suns, man, because they're gonna be pretty good. Enough said, they're gonna be pretty good. And as long as they can stay healthy, and that was one of the big things in my video that the health is the big issue because if Chris Paul pulls his hamstring for the 12th year in a row in the playoffs or Devon Booker get hit in the face or somebody dives into the legs of Kevin Durant and those players miss time come playoff time, they're gonna be, it's gonna be rough because they, I think that they're, we talked about the lack of depth that they have and it's not the best depth in basketball, but I also don't think it's the worst, but they also won't be able to mimic anything close to the production of those three players if somebody goes down. So if they can stay healthy, this team on the hierarchy of basketball teams and the hierarchy of the Western Conference, they jumped up back to it and they went from a team that I had as a championship level team last year, they got humiliated by Luka Donchich and the Dallas Mavericks and the world thought, me included, that the window was closed for them and now acquiring Kevin on contract for four seasons. We don't know exactly how this is gonna go, but he's under contract for such a long time that this window is back open and I think it's open wide for the next two seasons.  So I said I wasn't gonna talk about the KD trade and we just spent 12 minutes on it, whatever. Let's get to the next one. They already dropped the D'Angelo Russell and I don't even have any additional feelings about that. Other than I realized something I overlooked from the Minnesota Timbers perspective when I did my initial reaction to the trade and they had to do it with like the salary and the money saving possibilities of trading D'Angelo Russell and getting back Mike Conley. That's not my expertise to cap and all of that stuff. So I'll give them a thumbs up for that, I guess it's something that's outside of my expertise. But we'll see. I mean, it was rumored that D'Angelo Russell and the Lakers are interested in an extension which is for me it is weird to see a team immediately trade for a player and start talking to extension without seeing how he would pair along side guys like LeBron, James and Anthony Davis. They did the same thing in Rui Hachi more after they traded for him. Who knows that they gonna come to an agreement but it is a bit weird. It's also weird to see like Malik Beasley and Jair Vanderbilt sitting courtside or McKell Bridges sitting courtside watching his new team perform while they wait for physicals and all of that stuff. They're already being there, it's funny to me. So for reference, I'm looking at a Bleach Report article that shows me all the trades. The next one is J. Crowder ending up in Milwaukee. In this one, the Bricklenet's got three second round picks to Indiana Pacers get George. Hill back, ladies and gentlemen. George Hill is back, remember him? Lance Stevenson and Roy Hibbert and stuff. They were on cover of that magazine with the fashion and all of that. Do you remember that era of Pacers basketball? You probably do. Sergey Bak is going back and it's already known that he's probably gonna get balled out. Jordan Warren and two second round picks are going to Indiana and the Milwaukee Bucks get their guy and J. Crowder. They gave up five second round picks. That was the big thing in the trade that line this season. If you was trading for a player and you didn't have a first, here go four. Here go four seconds, here go five seconds. It was just all over the place, four to five seconds everywhere and that's the case here with J. Crowder. We'll see again, we haven't seen J. Crowder play basketball in quite some time. He seems to static on Twitter to be back in the swing of things. I don't know if he'll immediately pass his physical and start hooping next week or will it have a ramp up period where he's back after the deadline? Regardless, they just played against the Lakers as I'm recording this video and then in this one, Chris Middleton had one of his better games and looked closer to himself than any time. So the Milwaukee Bucks are ramping up and I wouldn't be surprised if they're a buyout team. A Brooklyn turns J. Crowder to three second round picks and you could commend that because again, they don't have much draft capital outside of what they are acquiring today. The Lakers made another deal to get Mo Bamba on the team. Mo Bamba for Patrick Beverly who will be likely bought out in a second round pick. I honestly thought that was a really undervalued deal when it comes to Mo Bamba.   I went when he got drafted, the Bulls hit the seventh pick that year, I was like, damn, I just need a Mo Bamba to fall into our laps. I think that was the year of Wendell Carter. So they ended up laying together eventually but I was a big Mo Bamba guy. So maybe I still am to this day. Apparently he got hands or something. He's ended up in Los Angeles for that price and considering they had to trade away TB because Thomas Brown requested a trade. This is a good replacement, not as great as the idea of Mo Bamba. Like the idea of Mo Bamba was stretch five, can block some shots. And this year, I think he's shooting close to 40% from three on like two attempts.  But for the Lakers at this price that was Patrick Beverly who had been sneaky decent for the past month and a half or so and a second round pick a worth deal because they have so many ball handlers now with some of the additional trades and they needed more center depth and Mo Bamba can do that. This is the surprising one. Sadiq Bay ends up with the Atlanta Hawks. So the Atlanta Hawks get some wing depth. They kept John Collins for the goddamn six year in a row. John Collins has found a way to just stay in Atlanta. But from what I read, the sons and the Atlanta Hawks were very close on the deal. And then Matt Ishpia, who is the new owner of the son said, get that we won't Kevin. So let's go after Kevin. So there's a world where John Collins was moved yesterday but it ended up being Sadiq Bay coming into the team. The Warriors lost their hands of James Wise and basically trading him away to get back Gary Payton a second. And then the Trailblazers ended up with Kevin Knox in five second round picks. Again, five second round picks. And it said, no, these are functionally two separate trades and they're looping them together. So shout out to BR for making it easy for consumption for me to talk about. And I think I read this after the straight that the Wayne Casing and plan on starting James Wiseman. It is a bit weird. And the reason I'm saying it's weird, not because they take a fly on James Wise because I think it's a worthwhile flyer for what you gave up. 100% a worthwhile flyer for what you gave up. Cause Sadiq Bay, he had been in rumors all season. Was he upset or whatever? We don't really know. But if you're telling yourself that Sadiq Bay was not a part of your core plan, getting the guy like James Wiseman on a flyer is interesting. You did it with Marvin Bagley. You ended up giving him another contract at least but ultimately I don't think Marvin Bagley was a part of the full-time plan. But the reason it's interesting slash weird or different is because you already got Jalen Duren. You already have Isaiah Stewart. And I read that the Wayne Casing company plan on starting James Wiseman. So you have Stu, you have Duren. Now you have Wiseman and you want the first overall pick, right? So potentially Vic, like you're shooting for Vic. Those are four centers. Now obviously if Vic comes to town all three of those dudes can go to the next team because you're gonna prioritize Vic. But like it's, would it be difficult to develop all of these dudes because they all generally play the same position. I know I just do is play a lot of four of the season. He's stretching the floor more. But you know, again for what you paid, not too terribly but it is interesting to see like who's gonna be a part of the long-term goal. Gary Payton II is a guy that understands and knows the system. I was pretty confident that the Warriors are gonna go out there and do something. And I thought it might've been Alice Caruso but the Bull said they want two first round picks. Gary Payton II is a very similar play. He doesn't shoot it as efficiently as Alice Caruso does. The value about to say, Alice Caruso don't take no shots but Payton knows the system. Of course being the NBA champion with them last season. So does, is this enough of Warriors fans? I haven't even been, I haven't been in the loops with each individual fan base after the trace to figure out who's excited about their moves or who's not. Does this move the needle enough for the Warriors where like a team that did make big moves you feel like the Warriors are still, cause I think they were the betting favorite pre-trade deadline. I don't know if they still are. Does this move of adding Gary Payton back into the swing of things make the changes where they can stay? Or I don't really know. I like it from the Atlanta Hawks perspective especially considering another deal that they did earlier was like to cut salary. It was like the Justin Holliday deal. It's just super on brand for the Atlanta Hawks to try to save a lot of money but they got a guy in Sadiq Bay that will become an immediate rotational piece for their team who can't run some three, who can't run some four. But I thought for sure the Atlanta Hawks are gonna do something else and that was John Cobb. Jacoperto ended up getting traded for Kimberch. First round pick of 2024, top six protected and then two seconds. And this was a confusing deal because we all thought that the Raptors are gonna be not a blow it up team but a team that at least was gonna move a Gary Trent Jr. and Old Gianna Nobby, a Fred Van Vliet. These were three of the hottest names on the market pre-trade deadline and not a single one of them ended up getting moved. But instead they bought in on Jacoperto breaking them back after they trade them away a part of the Kauai Leonard deal obviously. And the idea is that not only are you trading for, this is not a rental on the last year of his deal but the idea is to re-sign him and now he is the center and you don't have to force Pascal Siakam to be a center. But now since you didn't trade OG or you didn't trade Pascal, you didn't trade Gary Trent Jr. What is the lineup now? Because you traded for Yaka because you want Yaka to hold down the paint. You want Yaka to start. Who's cut, is it Gary Payton going back to the bench and now you got OG, Scotty, and Pascal on the start lineup with Freddie? Probably. But it just felt like, like with this being basically the only deal that Toronto Raptors did, it was a let down me as a neutral fan because they had some of the pieces that could have swung the deadline. And I think it might have hurt them a little bit that Kevin got traded because teams like them and the goddamn bulls who we will talk about at the end of the video, I'm gonna get my rent off, best believe it, felt that since all of the talent, the superstar talents that got traded went from East to West that we don't even need to sell no more because well, we think that the Brooklyn Nets aren't gonna be as good. And now that gives us an opportunity to keep our pieces and see what we got one more time. And we just need to go on a little win streak because if anybody can do what is us, that is the mindset. Yaka's a really good player though. Yaka's a really good player. I just don't know if he was worth the 2024 first round pick. And I think they gave up a first round pick to get that he's young last season. So they're throwing around these picks for players. And I guess we'll see what come of it. And for the Spurs, you got a first round pick for Yaka Pertle, which is all they really asked for. Actually, I think they asked for two first round picks, but they got one and then two seconds, which is good. My least favorite deal of the day was Bones Highland getting traded to the Clippers. And it's not for the Clippers' sake because I think the Clippers did an amazing job in this one because it was Bones Highland for two second rounders. And Nugget's fans, before you say anything, I understand that there were some ripples with him in coaching and they didn't absolutely love his shot selection and I completely understand that. The deadline for the Nuggets was Thomas Bryan, which is a huge upgrade from Deandre Jordan. That's beautiful because Thomas Bryan is a really good basketball player. But it feels like they were completely confident seeing the rest of what was going on around the league and thought, we still think that we can do it because we have continuity and because Jamal Murray continues to look better every single game. But they didn't make a deal to get better outside of the Thomas Bryan one. And maybe, and I'm guessing because it's the deal that they agreed on, that the value of Bones Highland was basically nothing. But based on what I saw, there were six or 17s. I feel like they were lined up for a possibility to get Bones. I don't think any of those teams has given you super rotational pieces. But a player in return when you're trying to go on a championship push, a playable player would have been good. But the deadline for them is just upgrading the backup center, which is dope. But let's be real, come play off time. Yoko just gonna play 38 to 40 minutes anyway. So TB and Yoko just not gonna play minutes together.  So you didn't do anything to improve your playoff rotation. This room is that they gonna be out there on the buyout. So we'll see if they go get a Reggie Jackson, a John Wall and one of the people that are available. But out of all the people that I feel like are losers per se, the nuggets have to be in the conversation. Maybe not losers because Thomas Bryan is a really, really good backup. And for the next 26 games of the regular season, he's gonna be amazing for them.  And shout out to Aaron Gordon tonight though. He was ridiculous. But for the Clippers perspective, I mean for a guy like Bones Island who has the mode in the make of being a flamethrower off the bench, a spark plug type dude. And in a lot of cases guys like that don't end up having big roles in the championship push. That's just not what they're there for necessarily. But you could get an occasional, a rare, you know, 15 point game off the bench in a playoff series from one of these guys. Jamal Crawford has a decent amount of them in his career. And I'm not saying that Bones is what Jamal ended up being as a six man product. But he has that type of mode, that type of mindset, that type of game to maybe eventually ends up being there. But what is he in year two? Like this is a very, very young player. I just hate that they didn't get a rotational player back. Two second round picks for it. It's kind of nasty work. Josh Richardson got traded to the New Orleans Pelicans and this was the only deal they made. And you know what? I'm okay with this. You know, I saw some people saying that they should have went out and swung for defenses and there were rumors that they did have an off of Roseanna Nobby that was a lot of picks because I think they have 12 first round picks in their briefcase and they can afford to throw three because they'll still have nine if my math is, you know, right? But there's a report that they were okay with not going all in on this season because well, BI, Zion, these are dudes that are unhealthy right now, but the core is young. We have a young core. You might have been a two seeding when you're completely healthy, but we see the landscape of the NBA right now. We don't need to be hyper aggressive and go out there and do some magnificent big time deal because who knows when the next star is gonna one out. And we have 12 first round picks currently. Let's chill. Let's these young guys hoop. I kind of like the fact that it only ended up being Josh Richardson and four second round picks that take on Vonte Graham.  And then four second round picks for taking on Vonte and getting rid of Josh Richardson is cool work for the Spurs. They did a lot of small things that ended up with a lot of draft capital, which you, you know, you appreciate from the Spurs because they never really been a team that's been doing a lot of the selling and stuff. So the fact that they're doing it and it seems like they're doing it successfully is good. Mason Plumlee is a, is a clipper. They've been looking for backup center play. Mason Plumlee is solid.  Now, with the hornets, he was trying to do some stuff that you don't want a guy like Mason Plumlee doing, but as a backup center is Mason Plumlee is really good. Now, will he play again? And when you talk about these teams that are trying to compete like the Clippers, I try to look at it from the perspective of will these people be a viable come playoff time? Mason Plumlee might not get a ton of minutes in the playoffs. He might get 10 or so per game or something like that. But you needed some backup center minutes. They wanted to get more of a rangey switchable center. They didn't end up getting that in this, but Mason Plumlee can play make a little bit. He's gonna gobble up some boards. He's gonna get dunked on occasionally. So just be prepared for that. And it only cost you a second round pick at Reggie Jackson who had fallen out of favor of Tyron Lou anyway. Clippers keep going, bro. The Clippers did what? Four trades? Three, four trades? This trade deadline? Danny Green and John Wall going to the Houston Rockets. John Wall to be waived. And there's rumors that Danny Green might get bought out as well. The rights to a swap of Milwaukee Bucks, yada yada, also going to the Rockets. So they got another first round picking this one. And then Eric Gordon in three seconds are going to the Clippers. And then the Mifras Grizzlies get Lucanard. So the Grizzlies go get a lethal shooter, which is something they need. They don't lack three point shooting, but they could use more of that. But again, looking through the lens of a championship caliber team, a team trying to compete, Lucanard can't play a ton of minutes, can play off time, especially if you're paying him alongside Jamerant in the backcourt. And majority of playoff series, the opposing guards are going to try to eat that. You know what I'm saying? Become regular season, having another guy on the wings that could just catch the ball and shoot the ball at a high clip. 40 to 45% is dope. The Clippers get Eric Gordon back. You know what I'm saying? Eric Gordon had been trying to get out of Houston for forever. And they get him.  I feel like they trading a lot of stuff and getting stuff back. But all of their trades so far, I'm a fan of, I just need to see it materialize. Because this is a team that we haven't really seen their actual rotations because you don't know if Kawai is going to play this game or if PG is going to play this game. And you just add more depth, but they already had decent amount of depth. Is this just added on top? I don't know. They have so many players over there. They just got a lot of players. Who's playing? Who's not? I mean, it's good problems to have. The least interesting trade of the deadline, Garrison Matthews of Bruno, Fernando for Justin Holliday, Frank Kaminsky, two seconds. That was just a share of money. We look past it. Darryl Scharch in a second for Darius Basely. I'm happy to see Darius Basely get another home. It's just, I don't love his fit there in Phoenix based on his skill set. And hopefully he pooms me wrong. And he immediately becomes impactful for a team that's looking for good rotational pieces. But, you know, it don't, it don't, it don't feel great. That's the trade that we don't even have to talk about too much. The next pull a trigger on Josh Hart. And I've read some things that they were in conversations for other people as well. But the only one that they completed was reuniting Josh Hart and Jaylen Bruntz. And you got the, the host a moment of those two dudes together. Or I guess Jaylen Bruntz are finding out that Josh Hart was going to come back or come to play with him since they were teammates in Nova. And it was a cool host a moment. The trade ended up being Ryan Archediak and Osfima Kailu. Kam Redis, a ladder to protect the first round pick that's its own and turns into four seconds if it doesn't convey this season. Which it won't convey this season. You just won't. The Knicks will make the playoffs. Knock on wood. I don't want to jinx nobody. Knicks fans ain't trying to jinx you, but they're good enough to make the playoffs. They've been good. And now Josh Hart's added to the depth. I don't think he's going to start. I mean, maybe he does, but he just adds another guy that plays defense, gets rebounded for a team that lacks defensive rebound and especially will Mitch Robinson going down. And for the price you pay, what's basically going to end up being four second round picks and people that you didn't care about. Anyway, it's, it's cool. The Blazers do a beat. We talked about this in our Blazer video and I still got hate from it from Blazers fans when I was trying to point out the fact that it would be impossible for them to resign everybody that's on the roster and going to the, why would you go into the luxury tax for a team that's struggling to make the playoffs? So they made a couple moves around the edges including trade and Josh Hart because they didn't think they were going to be able to resign him. And they basically bought into the idea of resigning Jeremy Grant coming off season. Will he take the money? We shall see. But this is a deal that they take a fly on Cam Reddish and Cam bro, this is, this is, I mean for me, this might be the last stop you get bro as me being a believer in what you could potentially get. This is a team that desperately is looking for wing depth. They just traded one of the guys away. They're desperately looking for wing depth Cam.  Cause people still think he might be the next Paul George and it's been years at this point. You know what I'm saying? It's been years. The trade that they ended up doing talking about the Portland Trailblazers is them receiving Matisse Stiball. I guess they did three trades cause we already talked about the Gary Payton one earlier. Matisse Stiball is going to the Portland Trailblazers. The 76ers get Jalen McDaniels, a couple second round picks. Sfima Kai Luke is now routed to the Charlotte Hornets and the Hornets get a second round pick for Jalen McDaniels. I was surprised to see Jalen McDaniels moved. I know there are rumors about it for some time but I was just surprised and you know they have a way of drafting players and they just sit around for three to four seasons and don't get a ton better and then they get rid of them. Kind of the way Charlotte does it. Matisse Stiball moving on to another team and he's Gary Payton replacement. Simple as that. He's going to defend. Not going to hit a lot of shots. He's going to defend. He's going to do a little something like that. All defensive player if you remember correctly. I'm interested to see Matisse Stiball playing alongside Damian Lillard. Cause I do believe that in the small amount of time that he was with Philly where they used him as a role man. He was pretty damn good. And I wonder if they'll, if Tati Billups will try to run a Dame Matisse Stiball pick and roll. But yeah, an interesting one for the Blazers. I will say that. I feel for y'all Blazers fans. This ain't, say the deadline you wanted. At least your team did something even if it wasn't great. We already mentioned the Thomas Bryan move. I really liked that for the Denver Nuggets. And then the last leaves moves getting traded to the Boston Celtics to replace Luke Cornette's center minutes. And we love that. Those are all of the trades that happen. There are two major, and I mean major, major losers of this deadline in my opinion. The first one being Pat Riley. Sleep at the wheel. Sleep at the wheel. And listen, he don't got a lot of access to work way. But Pat Riley has been this dude that has been like a superstar. In the eyes of a lot of us NBA fans because he always finds a way to get it done. He always finds a way. We got no assets. We still go end up winning this trade. Doing nothing at all when your roster looks like the way it does is bad. Especially for an all-time great at that position. The biggest of all losers, because at least the Miami Heat are playing good basketball right now and they project to be a legitimate playoff team. And once healthy, they'll probably still be solid. So it's not that terrible. You still have Cal Larry on your roster, whatever. The biggest loser of all of trade deadline done. Goddamn Bulls. Zero trades done is about as unacceptable as any. If you told me zero trades was done last season at last deadline when we were the one seed at the deadline, then I ain't even mad at you, brother. We the one seed. This team is very far away from that. This team is very, very far away from that. And listen, I've been very vocal on this channel about what I want and don't want as a Bulls fan. And what I wanted and most built Bulls fans wanted was something we didn't know if we wanted to sell. We didn't know if we wanted to buy, but we wanted to know what the direction was of our organization.   The reason why this is so very bad is because Vooch is a free agent. Io DeSumo is a free agent. Vonte Graham is a free agent. I think there are Jones Jr. is a free agent. Do I say Io Kobe White is a free agent? And the Bulls throughout the history of being owned by the Ryansdor family has went into the luxury tax one time. One time in the history of it all. You know, and think about that. They've been the owners through the Jordan era. They were there through the D Rose era. We went through the luxury tax one singular time, ladies and gentlemen. So the fact that we didn't move some of these expiring deals just means that we're going to be okay with either losing Kobe White, losing Io DeSumo, losing Javante Green, losing Dera Jones Jr. A combination is these dudes in free agency for literally nothing. And we're just going to be worse. And being worse is not a terrible thing, but it's terrible when you don't even do anything to set yourself up to be worse. Us being worse right now is just because it's cheapness and not by design. If we started to be worse by design, I'm sure that 70% of Bulls fans would have accepted it. If we were to trade in one of the big three, we would accept it because at least we know this is the direction of the organization. And instead we keep talking about continuity on a team that has reached this peak a long time ago. Reached this, we just went into Brooklyn on a team that traded Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irvin the last 72 hours and they smashed us. Ben Simmons looked great on against us. I know it was eight points, but you get what I'm saying. These are games that we're losing regularly.  I couldn't wait to hit a press conference and watch no press conference and none of the other 29 teams. I wanted to see what the Bulls front office had to say about them not doing a damn thing at the deadline. And what did he say? Well, I think we're playing a lot better. What team are you watching, my guy? We're playing a lot better compared to what? The year we got Derrick Rose, yeah. Yeah, we playing a lot better, barely. Cause I think our lottery odds are the exact same right now. We not playing a lot better. Oh, we had a couple of games slipped through our hands. There's a difference between letting the game slip through your hands and blowing a 20 point lead five times before the trade deadline. There's a difference. I don't know how you can see the anemic offense and be like, ah, we'd be, I get that, get that ball to the rose and let them shoot another mid range contestant and pray that it goes in. The offense is awful. And Billy is benching the young dudes because he don't know what to do either. Are we supposed to be trying to, should I be letting Patrick Williams get all the burn because we're trying to develop him? Should we let the other dudes hoop if they playing better today? Cause nobody knows what is going on. Yeah, we were in the worst thing he could have said. And this is Karni Chauvin's that, yeah, we were on the phone all day. Just nothing materialized. Brother, something materialized for 20s, eight other teams. You're saying you are the one of the two teams that nothing materialized though. We, we throw four second round picks for somebody like everybody else. We didn't, we didn't sell somebody at all. I'm so disappointed. And I'm counting down the days until the season is over game, 27 more games. And yeah, they might go on a little run. Oh, they might end up in the playing boom. We might end up in the actual playoffs. This fool's gold, man. We know that. We gonna go to the playoffs, match up against the boss of Celtics if they make it out of the play-in. And we gonna get swept. And that's, that's it. And then the off-season gonna come around and we gonna bring back Vooch. I'm curious about the Zach Levine rumors if they're true or not because that changes the dynamic the dynamic of this off-season potentially. But boy, oh boy, it's disappointing. And me, I'm die-hard. I will be watching the last 27 games undoubtedly. I'll be tuned in with a Bulls jersey on. I'm here for my squad. I'm a rock on my squad, but God damn, we got no hope right now. Talking about, we picked up the phone. We was in a lot of conversations, but nothing material last. We've been playing better. Just do a lot of buzzwords. I was a shout out to Casey Johnson who was a reporter slash journalist here in Chicago. He was not afraid to ask the real questions. Like, okay, what are we doing here? And there was no genuine answer. It was very political, beating around the bush stuff here in Chicago. We've already talked too long, but I kept my Chicago talk to the ear for the people that don't care about the Bulls. Let me know what you think about your favorite team in this trade-out line. And of course, as always, I will be in the comment section.


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From London, England, it's theCUBE. Covering Discover 2016 London. Brought to you by Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Now, here's your hosts, Dave Vellante and Paul Gillis. Welcome back to the banks of the Thames, everybody. This is theCUBE. We're live here at HPE Discover. Paul Gillin and I, Paul, we walked over this morning. It was pretty cold. I thought the Thames was going to freeze up. I've never, never seen that cold. It's warming up here in London now, and we're going to talk more cloud. So, Ken Wanis here is the Director of Cloud Solutions Marketing at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and he's joined by Mark Jewett, who's the Senior Director of Cloud Platform Marketing at Microsoft. Gentlemen, welcome to theCUBE. Thank you. Thanks for having us. It's exciting times. It is exciting times. We're seeing, every time we come to Discover, there's something new happening. The split, the spin merges, the software merges, but big news here, at least part of the big news is the relationship between Microsoft and Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Azure Stack, which was announced in October. You guys, obviously, fundamental party of strategy. So, Ken, set it up for us. What's going on? So, we're seeing a huge amount of interest in customers who want to deploy a hybrid type of environment. Clearly, there's a lot of growth and interest in the public cloud, but we're seeing a lot of interest in private cloud as well. So, we know that this hybrid cloud environment is really important, and one of the challenges that a lot of our customers have is being able to have consistency between these two environments. Today, if you want to deploy an app into public cloud and one into private cloud, typically you have to do some code changes or some changes to the underlying application in order to do that. So, the really exciting thing that we're doing with Microsoft is this Azure, Azure Stack hybrid environment, which allows us to have an application that you write once and deploy it to either an Azure public cloud data center or an on-premises Azure Stack environment in your data center. No changes to the code, completely the exact same application. So, huge benefits from a developer standpoint, a maintenance standpoint, and a deployment standpoint. Well, now, Mark, Azure Stack, can you give us something on Azure Stack? It was delayed for a while. Are you shipping now? What kind of customer base do you have? So, it's available as a one-node system today. So, it's in a preview form that customers have been looking at. We've had thousands of downloads and deployments of that so far. We ultimately are working on integrated systems and that's some of our important work with Ken and the HPE team to develop that into a system that not only helps streamline the deployment of what ends up being a pretty complex and dynamic system, but also, importantly, the updates. Because it's a system that's going to need to keep up with the innovation that we're showing in Azure. And so, it's going to need to be a frequently updated system. So, is this a partner play? Those systems come a little bit later. Is this a partner play? I mean, you said you had a lot of downloads, but is your primary distribution medium going to be through partners like HPE? So, our focus is on the systems. We want to make sure customers are successful deploying and updating those systems. And so, yeah, HPE is a great example of somebody we're betting on to make sure that those systems arrive in a good state with the customer. Mark, talk about the strategy from Microsoft's standpoint. It's considerably different than some of your other large public cloud competitors, particularly Amazon, but also Google, who seem to be resisting putting any kind of on-prem infrastructure in place and enabling that. You've taken a different strategy. Why is that? And why are you confident that that strategy is the right one? The reason we're confident is because it's what we hear from customers. Every single customer out behind us here has a situation where some of the systems that there are some of the applications they want to deploy into the public cloud and some of the applications are not ready for the public cloud yet. And so that became the basis of our strategy and being able to serve that dual environment without customers having to, as Ken said earlier, write the applications in a different way, use a different set of skills, use a different set of management technologies. That introduces a ton of complexity for them. And so that's why we come at it that way. I think it happens because our roots are really in the enterprise. And as the enterprises come to the cloud computing model, we see them facing this both opportunity and then a set of barriers that we need to help them with. So Ken, I wonder if I can get your perspective, a little different question for you. You saw the VMware AWS deal. A lot of us felt like that was sort of a one-way trip into the public cloud. And this debate about that, many of the people in our community felt like, oh, that's a good thing. But generally speaking, we saw it as kind of a capitulation by VMware to say, okay, we give up, we can't win, join them. Are you concerned that your relationship leads to a one-way trip to the public cloud? And if not, why not? You know, I think what Amazon and VMware did was a little short of what customers are really looking for. You know, they're looking for that ability to have the exact same environments in their public cloud and the private cloud. And it's just too complicated to have different environments to manage, to have different code bases for applications to deploy into. And so this strategy that Microsoft and HP together are following around the Azure and Azure Stack just makes it simpler for customers to take advantage of the speed that you can get applications up and running, whether that's in a public cloud or a private cloud. And that API compatibility is super important because it makes it so simple for customers to be able to have that choice of deployment. It becomes super important where you have issues like data sovereignty, you know, that's a huge concern, particularly in Europe and actually many countries around the world around where you have data privacy requirements, compliance requirements where the application just cannot work well in a public cloud. So now with this Azure Stack solution, we're able to deploy in the both in your on-premise data center and in the public cloud. As I said, exactly the same app. That's a huge value. Lay out the landscape of what you'll support. We just had Bobby Patrick on talking about plans to support SUSE, OpenStack. You're going to support Azure. Are there other cloud implementations you'll be selling and supporting as well? Well, what you heard Bobby talk about is our game plan is to give our customers choice, right? And we're doing that by supporting OpenStack environments, VMware environments, Azure environments. And so that's our game plan in an open, as open way as we can. Because we know that most customers are deploying or using multiple cloud technologies. You know, we actually find that most people don't just stick to one, that often they may use multiple, different departments, different use cases may require different cloud technologies. And we want to give them that choice. But they will be looking to you for guidance. Can you give us layout, some guidelines for helping them make that decision? Certainly. You know, the customers who are heavily Microsoft shops, customers who are using Azure already, public cloud, those who are developing apps and .NET, Java types of applications are great examples of customers who are ideal for Azure and Azure Stack solution. Now OpenStack, as much as it's much more mature as Bobby talked about, it's much more mature than it was years ago now. It's really largely designed for people who need some sort of customers or special environments. It's not designed for the cookie cutter of what we're doing with Microsoft. So it's really a different use case for Azure and for OpenStack, really depending on what the customer's looking for. And Mark, can you define, I mean, for Azure Stack, is the intention to make this a completely transparent platform migration will customers be able to allocate their workloads dynamically between the cloud and their on-premise environments, move them back seamlessly? How will that play out? By creating a platform that is transparent, that is absolutely the vision. That takes orchestration tools and things on top of it, that will be, I think, a journey. But if you look at some of the tools that we have, for example, the operations management suite, OMS, that was something that they focused on in the keynote yesterday. That'll give you a common view, no matter where those resources are sitting. Could be Azure, Azure Stack, could even be some of the other environments that we're talking about OpenStack and AWS and others. And so that is an example where we're already starting to build that orchestration, that monitoring that'll allow you to look across your hybrid cloud into those environments. And that's the primary gate. So thank you for that honest answer, by the way, and I have a follow-up. I want to poke at that a little bit. But is that the real gate? Is that orchestration layer? Are there other components that need to facilitate that? To facilitate the transparency of the environment? That's, as Paul was saying, the same on-prem as in the cloud. Yeah, it really does start with the consistency of the services. And so if I use VMs as a service, if I use websites as a service, and if I use analytics as a service, the APIs that I use, the code that I'm writing, it must start there. The layers on top are often about process, not just the technology, right? And so organization needs to build up the skills and the process and things around it. But yeah, some of the orchestration, I think is one of the more key things that'll... So I want to follow up with that because I often have debates with my old friends at Oracle when they say, we're the only ones who can do, they have the same, same strategy, you've heard it. And I say, what about Microsoft? And they say, oh no, that's not the same, same, because they're using different hardware or... And notwithstanding that Oracle's cloud is immature in the service, but the vision is clean. And essentially you're laying out a very similar vision, except with partners. Am I right? Or is there nuance there? To help us understand and differentiate that notion of same, same. Yeah, there are, in both cases, there are two things on either side. And perhaps some with position is same, same. What I would position is actually, we have something a little bit different on the other side, which is a hyperscale public cloud. The advantage of building the consistency between those things is that you get all of the innovation. I think we can agree the amount of innovation that's happening, not just at Microsoft in the public cloud, but the public cloud generally. Yeah, absolutely. Is surpassing innovation pretty much anywhere. And so being able to take that pace of innovation and have it apply in other people's data centers, it's frankly a tricky act for us to pull off, but we believe in the mission of being able to do that. Nobody else sits on the enterprise on one side and the public cloud on the other side. And that's part of the strategy that we have to bring a different... Yeah, so what you described is you're basically bringing your hyperscale prowess on-prem. Which is... Yeah, and we're matching it with, I think, our enterprise prowess. There's an act there that's, like I said, it's tricky, but it's important. Which Oracle is essentially taking its enterprise prowess and saying we're going to bring that to the cloud, which is perhaps a little different than hyperscale in, right? I mean, I think there's interesting questions about what's hosting versus what's cloud. What is a real cloud computing model? I think that's fair. What are the elements of a cloud? Certainly Azure is in that category. It's strongly in a cloud. And think of this as expanding essentially the footprint of where Azure can operate. Yeah, Azure's not hosting. Azure's not hosting. And you could say that about soft layer. It's kind of hosting plus and it's getting there, but clearly Amazon, Google, and Azure are hyperscale clouds. We can agree on that. Okay, we can agree on that. I think all you need to do is look at the level of investment. There is not many, and it's maybe the few that you mentioned there. And there's maybe one in China, and one in Japan, maybe. Yeah, we can discuss how deep the list goes, but it doesn't go very deep. It doesn't go very deep. And bringing that then to other people, taking that innovation and making it available to other people for those scenarios that Ken was talking about, where hybrid is really the answer. And then Ken, I have to understand now, the only company that's going to be using Azure Stack, what's different between the HPE implementation of Azure Stack and some of Microsoft's other partners? So one of the challenges that customers have as they're moving to this hybrid IT world is the management, the operations, and the financing aspects of this. And that's the areas where we are different. As an example, as we're managing it in an environment today, most customers have a traditional IT environment, and it seems fairly complex to manage from an operations, management, monitoring, orchestration standpoint. Well, as you move into this hybrid IT world, you have to do that same function for your public cloud, your private cloud, maybe managed cloud, maybe multiple cloud environments. So what we are enabling our customers to do is to have a consistent management across all of their hybrid IT environment that's with our Opsbridge management product that allows us to have a consistent application performance, infrastructure performance, monitoring experience across all of this whole hybrid IT environment. So there's that management capability. You have the same concern from a security standpoint. So we know that security is a huge concern of everyone going to the cloud. And so we want to provide the ability to deploy or to provide consistent security policies across your traditional environment, your public cloud, your private cloud, and we can help customers with that consistent security as well. And finally, I'll say from a investment standpoint or financial standpoint, we have ways through our flexible capacity program to actually make the whole infrastructure, the Azure Stack that we can deploy to be paid for as a pay-as-you-go model. So it's not a capital upfront purchase. You can do it as a pay-as-you-go, just as you do it with public cloud, which is one of the reasons why everyone loves the public cloud. You can just pay as you use it. So that financial flexibility that we give, and along with that, a single bill that covers both Azure and Azure Stack, that's something that you can only get that from HPE, provides simplicity from a financial standpoint to our customers. So there's actually a number of reasons. There's that management, the security, and the financial flexibility that HPE can offer because of our experience in the enterprise, that you're just not getting from the other vendors. Will you be doing anything on the technology front with Synergy or CloudWorks to optimize them for the Azure Stack platform? We have a lot of new technologies that are coming down the pike, right? With Synergy and our hyper-converged platforms, and we expect that over time, we'll see more happen around Azure Stack and on different platforms. Today, what we're doing is we're focusing on a very well-defined environment because we want to make sure that customers' experience with Azure Stack is positive, it's simple, it's easy for them to play into. So actually, our first implementation of our integrated solution is based on the world's most popular server, the DL380s because they're so reliable, they've been so successful into the marketplace. It gives us a very solid foundation to provide this Azure Stack environment on. Mark, what's the timeline on Azure Stack going forward? You said you're in a single processor version right now. How does that evolve? How quickly does that evolve? So it's in a single server form factor right now. You can run all of Azure Stack on a server, essentially. It needs to meet some certain requirements. You can see how it's running, not in a cluster. Great for testing how you're going to integrate with your systems, seeing how it's working. We also have customers that are developing in Azure today with the idea that they will be solutions deployed to Azure Stack. Coming back to the consistency, that's part of what you can do, dev in one environment and then deployment to Azure Stack. The systems themselves, getting into the multi-node systems, we're talking about middle of next year. That's our targeted date, middle of 2017. One of the things we're hearing from HPE is we want to make hybrid IT simple. Sometimes I like to do a little research on theCUBE and it's something that's brewing in the Wikibon community that I don't fully understand. Maybe you can help me parse through it. One of the complaints that we hear, despite all the great innovation that's going on in the public cloud generally, and I'll pick on Amazon specifically because nobody usually picks on them. We always talk about how great they're doing and they are doing great. But one of the complaints I hear is that if you're using data services inside Amazon, it may be the same for Azure, I'm not sure. But whether it's a key value store or you're doing streaming or you're doing block storage or object storage, whatever it is, they're different proprietary APIs. And the API creep and the complexity is problematic for people. Trying to understand where hot data should go, where cold data should go and which one to use and what the bill is at the end of the month. That's complex, that's not making IT simple. Can you help solve that problem? Does Azure take a different approach and can HPE on-prem through its single API, perhaps, help me solve that problem? Can you help us educate us a little bit on how you guys approach that? Well, I'll go first and then you talked about Azure. From an HPE standpoint, there's a couple of things that we're doing. First of all, we are aligning to a single API infrastructure through OneView to dramatically simplify the management of the infrastructure. So when you're managing tens or hundreds of servers, updating, patching, so on, it gets incredibly complicated. So through OneView, we can simplify that quite dramatically. And with Azure Stack, now we don't have a separate set of APIs that you're dealing with for your on-premise private cloud. You have the exact same APIs that you're using in your public cloud. So that's a huge benefit. I would argue that's one of the top reasons why so many customers here at Discover here are so excited about this because it does give that simplicity of fewer APIs that they have to deal with across their public and private cloud. And from Azure's perspective, you've got a more consolidated API approach or is it pretty much primitives at each service? So I'm going to build on Ken's answer because I think it's on target, which is you introduce optionality. I heard you talk, Dave, about a couple things there. One, I think was complexity. Another was am I getting locked into an environment? I kind of heard that, you know, you said you're hearing that from customers. I need an exit strategy just in case something changes. You're absolutely right. Part of the discussion that we have around Azure Stack is that it's in addition to giving the capability to deploy in the same way those applications in private environments, it also gives me optionality on public environments so that I'm deploying to a set of APIs that I don't have to change the application if I bring that to another environment. If you contrast that to some other places that you might build, you really don't have that optionality and so I think that locking can be hard. So I think that's a key point that you're making there. That's good. So we're super excited about the partnership where, you know, amazed and actually in awe of what Microsoft has done and how the whole culture has seemed to change literally overnight. I mean, it's really great to see Microsoft sort of back. It's been fun to see from the inside. So that's great. Congratulations on the partnership and last word Ken, vibe of the show. What's it like out there? Well, we've got an incredible amount of activity. You go out to the show floor, so many interesting conversations going on, just packed with people talking to folks across all the different demonstrations. We have a ton of area, a big area for all of our partners. So a lot of activity in the partner booths. So really exciting time. I think everybody here, particularly I know all the HP guys are all tired because we're having such great conversations, you know, and evening events. So it's been a very exciting few days. All right, Axel, with theCUBE, we never get tired in theCUBE. Gentlemen, thanks very much for coming on the show. We really appreciate it. Thank you very much. All right, keep it right there. Paul and I will be back. For the next guests, we're live from HPE Discover 2016 in London. You're right back.


And Jesus said, you are the salt of the earth, you are the light of the world. It is our desire as God's people to be effective agents of change, to bring hope and stability to our troubled world, lest we become victims of change by our own neglect. Our leadership forum today focuses on change that brings hope and stability. It is therefore my great privilege and pleasure to introduce the speaker of this afternoon. Recently he signed a proclamation declaring 1983, the year of the Bible. He issued the formal proclamation naming 1983 as a special time to reexamine and rediscover the Bible's priceless and timeless treasure. The National Association of Evangelicals community from coast to coast in our great land deeply appreciates and values his love for the truth of the Bible and his commitment to its great moral values. Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States, Ronald Reagan. Thank you very much and Reverend clergy all, Senator Hawkins, distinguished members of the Florida congressional delegation and all of you. I can't tell you how you have warmed my heart with your welcome. I'm delighted to be here today. Those of you in the National Association of Evangelicals are known for your spiritual and humanitarian work, and I would be especially remiss if I didn't discharge right now one personal debt of gratitude. Thank you for your prayers. Nancy and I have felt their presence many times in many ways, and believe me, for us they've made all the difference. The other day in the East Room of the White House, at a meeting there, someone asked me whether I was aware of all the people out there who were praying for the President, and I had to say, yes, I am. I felt it, I believe, in intercessionary prayer, but I couldn't help but say to that questioner after he'd asked the question or at least say to them that if sometimes when he was praying he got a busy signal, it was just me in there ahead of him. I think I understand how Abraham Lincoln felt when he said, I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. From the joy and the good feeling of this conference, I go to a political reception. Now, I don't know why, but that bit of scheduling reminds me of a story which I'll share with you. An evangelical minister and a politician arrived at Heaven's Gate one day together, and St. Peter, after doing all the necessary formalities, took them in hand to show them where their quarters would be, and he took them to a small single room with a bed, a chair, and a table and said this was for the clergyman, and the politician was a little worried about what might be in store for him, and he couldn't believe it then when St. Peter stopped in front of a beautiful mansion with lovely grounds, many servants, and told him that these would be his quarters, and he couldn't help but ask, he said, but wait, how do I get this mansion while that good and holy man only gets a single room? And St. Peter said, you have to understand how things are up here. We've got thousands and thousands of clergy, you're the first politician who ever made it. But I don't want to contribute to a stereotype, so I tell you there are a great many, God fearing, dedicated, noble men and women in public life, present company included. And yes, we need your help to keep us ever mindful of the ideas and the principles that brought us into the public arena in the first place. The basis of those ideals and principles is a commitment to freedom, personal liberty, that itself is grounded in the much deeper realization that freedom prospers only, where the blessings of God are avidly sought and humbly accepted. The American experiment in democracy rests on this insight. Its discovery was the great triumph of our founding fathers, voiced by William Penn, when he said, if we will not be governed by God, we must be governed by tyrants. Explaining the inalienable rights of men, Jefferson said, the God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time. And it was George Washington who said that of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. And finally, that shrewdest of all observers of American democracy, Alexis de Folkville put it eloquently, after he had gone on a search for the secret of America's greatness and genius, and he said, not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits aflame with righteousness did I understand the greatness and the genius of America. America is good. And if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.  Only through your work and prayers, those of millions of others can we hope to survive this perilous century and keep alive this experiment in liberty, this last best hope of man. I want you to know that this administration is motivated by a political philosophy that sees the greatness of America in you, her people, and in your families, churches, neighborhoods, communities, the institutions that foster and nourish values like concern for others and respect for the rule of law under God. Now, I don't have to tell you that this puts us in opposition to, or at least out of step with, a prevailing attitude of many who have turned to a modern secularism, discarding the tried and time tested values upon which our very civilization is based. No matter how well intentioned, their value system is radically different from that of most Americans. And while they proclaim that they're freeing us from superstitions of the past, they've taken upon themselves the job of superintending us by government rule and regulation. Sometimes their voices are louder than ours, but they are not yet a majority. An example of that vocal superiority is evident in the controversy now going on in Washington. Since I've been involved, I've been waiting to hear from the parents of young America. How far are they willing to go in giving to government their prerogatives as parents? Let me state the case as briefly and simply as I can. An organization of citizens sincerely motivated, deeply concerned about the increase in illegitimate births and abortions involving girls well below the age of consent. Some time ago established a nationwide network of clinics to offer help to these girls and hopefully alleviate this situation. Now again, let me say I do not fault their intent. However, in their well intentioned effort, these clinics have decided to provide advice and birth control drugs and devices to underage girls without the knowledge of their parents. For some years now, the federal government has helped with funds to subsidize these clinics. In providing for this, the Congress decreed that every effort would be made to maximize parental participation. Nevertheless, the drugs and devices are prescribed without getting parental consent or giving notification after they've done so. Girls termed sexually active and that has replaced the word promiscuous are given this help in order to prevent illegitimate birth or abortion. Well, we have ordered clinics receiving federal funds to notify the parents such help has been given. One of the nation's leading newspapers has created the term squeal rule in editorializing against us for doing this and we're being criticized for violating the privacy of young people. A judge has recently granted an injunction against an enforcement of our rule. I've watched TV panel shows discuss this issue, seen columnists pontificating on our error, but no one seems to mention morality as playing a part in the subject of sex. Is all of Judeo-Christian tradition wrong? Are we to believe that something so sacred can be looked upon as a purely physical thing with no potential for emotional and psychological harm? And isn't it the parents' right to give counsel and advice to keep their children from making mistakes that may affect their entire lives? Many of us in government would like to know what parents think about this intrusion in their family by government. We're going to fight in the courts. The right of parents and the rights of family take precedence over those of Washington-based bureaucrats and social engineers. But the fight against parental notifications is really only one example of many attempts to water down traditional values and even abrogate the original terms of American democracy. Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged. Our founding fathers passed the First Amendment. They sought to protect churches from government interference. They never intended to construct a wall of hostility between government and the concept of religious belief itself. The evidence of this permeates our history and our government. The Declaration of Independence mentions the Supreme Being no less than four times. In God we trust as engraved on our coinage. The Supreme Court opens its proceedings with a religious invocation, and the members of Congress open their sessions with a prayer. I just happen to believe the school children of the United States are entitled to the same privileges as Supreme Rights of fear I set to Congress, a constitutional amendment to restore prayer to public schools. Already this session there's growing bipartisan support for the amendment, and I am calling on the Congress to act speedily to pass it and to let our children pray. Perhaps some of you are being held during the student's own time. The First Amendment never intended to require government to discriminate against religious speech. Senators Denton and Hatfield propose legislation in the Congress on the whole question of prohibiting discrimination against religious forms of student speech. Such legislation could go far to restore freedom of religious speech for public school students, and I hope the Congress considers these bills quickly and with your help I think it's possible we could also get the constitutional amendment through the Congress this year. More than a decade ago a Supreme Court decision literally wiped off the books of 50 states statutes protecting the rights of unborn children. Abortion on demand now takes the lives of up to one and a half million unborn children a year. Human life legislation ending this tragedy will someday pass the Congress, and you and I must never rest until it does. Unless and until it can be proven that the unborn child is not a living entity, then its right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness must be protected. You may remember that when abortion on demand began, many and indeed I'm sure many of you warned that the practice would lead to a decline in respect for human life, that the philosophical premises used to justify abortion on demand would ultimately be used to justify other attacks on the sacredness of human life, infanticide, or mercy killing. Tragically enough those warnings proved all too true. Only last year a court permitted the death by starvation of a handicapped infant. I have directed the Health and Human Services Department to make clear to every health care facility in the United States that the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 protects all handicapped persons against discrimination based on handicaps. We have taken the further step of requiring that each and every recipient of federal funds who provides health care services to infants must post and keep posted in a conspicuous place a notice stating that discriminatory failure to feed and care for handicapped infants in this facility is prohibited by federal law. It also lists a 24-hour toll-free number so that nurses and others may report violations in time to save the infant's life. In addition, recent legislation introduced in the Congress by Representative Henry Hyde of Illinois not only increases restrictions on publicly financed abortions it also addresses this whole problem of infanticide. I urge the Congress to begin hearings and to adopt legislation that will protect the right of life to all children including the disabled or handicapped. Now I'm sure that you must get discouraged at times but you've done better than you know perhaps. There's a great spiritual awakening in America, a renewal of the traditional values that have been the bedrock of America's goodness and greatness. One recent survey by a Washington-based Research Council concluded that Americans were far more religious than the people of other nations. Ninety-five percent of those surveyed expressed a belief in God and a huge majority believed the Ten Commandments had real meaning in their lives. And another study has found that an overwhelming majority of Americans disapprove of adultery, teenage sex, pornography, abortion, and hard drugs. And this same study showed a deep reverence for the importance of family ties and religious belief. I think the items that we've discussed here today must be a key part of the nation's political agenda. For the first time, the Congress is openly and seriously debating and dealing with the prayer and abortion issues. And that's enormous progress right there. I repeat, America is in the midst of a spiritual awakening and a moral renewal.  Now, obviously, much of this new political and social consensus I've talked about is based on a positive view of American history, one that takes pride in our country's accomplishments and record. But we must never forget that no government schemes are going to perfect man. We know that living in this world means dealing with what philosophers would call the phenomenology of evil, or as theologians would put it, the doctrine of sin. There is sin and evil in the world, and we're enjoined by Scripture and the Lord Jesus to oppose it with all our might. Our nation, too, has a legacy of evil with which it must deal. The glory of this land has been its capacity for transcending the moral evils of our past. For example, the long struggle of minority citizens for equal rights. Once a source of disunity and civil war is now a point of pride for all Americans, we must never go back. There is no room for racism, anti-Semitism, or other forms of ethnic and racial hatred in this country. I know that you've been horrified, as have I, by the resurgence of some hate groups preaching bigotry and prejudice.  The commandment given us is clear and simple. Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. But whatever sad episodes exist in our past, any objective observer must hold a positive view of American history, a history that has been the story of hopes fulfilled and dreams made into reality. Especially in this century, America has kept a light to torture freedom, but not just for ourselves, but for millions of others around the world. This brings me to my final point today. During my first press conference as president, in answer to a direct question, I pointed out that as good Marxist Leninists, the Soviet leaders have openly and publicly declared that the only morality they recognize is that which will further their cause, which is world revolution. I think I should point out I was only quoting Lenin, their guiding spirit, who said in 1920 that they repudiate all morality that proceeds from supernatural ideas, that's their name for religion, or ideas that are outside class conceptions. Morality is entirely subordinate to the interests of class war, and everything is moral that is necessary for the annihilation of the old exploiting social order and for uniting the proletariat. Well, I think the refusal of many influential people to accept this elementary fact of Soviet doctrine illustrates an historical reluctance to see totalitarian powers for what they are. We saw this phenomenon in the 1930s. We see it too often today. This doesn't mean we should isolate ourselves and refuse to seek an understanding with them. I intend to do everything I can to persuade them of our peaceful intent, to remind them that it was the West that refused to use its nuclear monopoly in the 40s and 50s for territorial gain, and which now proposes 50 percent cut in strategic ballistic missiles and the elimination of an entire class of land-based intermediate-range nuclear missiles. At the same time, however, they must be made to understand we will never compromise our principles and standards. We will never give away our freedom. We will never abandon our belief in God, and we will never stop searching for a genuine peace. But we can assure none of these things America stands for through the so-called nuclear freeze solutions proposed by some. The truth is that a freeze now would be a very dangerous fraud, for that is merely the illusion of peace. The reality is that we must find peace through strength. I would agree to a freeze if only we could freeze the Soviets' global desires. A freeze at current levels of weapons would remove any incentive for the Soviets to negotiate seriously in Geneva and virtually end our chances to achieve the major arms reductions which we have proposed. Instead, they would achieve their objectives through the freeze. A freeze would reward the Soviet Union for its enormous and unparalleled military buildup. It would prevent the essential and long overdue modernization of United States and Allied defenses and would leave our aging forces increasingly vulnerable. And an honest freeze would require extensive prior negotiations on the systems and numbers to be limited and on the measures to ensure effective verification and compliance. And the kind of a freeze that has been suggested would be virtually impossible to verify. Such a major effort would divert us completely from our current negotiations on achieving substantial reductions. I, a number of years ago, I heard a young father, a very prominent young man in the entertainment world addressing a tremendous gathering in California. It was during the time of the Cold War and communism and our own way of life were very much in people's minds and he was speaking to that subject.  But I had underestimated him.  There were, there were thousands of young people in that audience. They came to their feet with shouts of joy. They had instantly recognized the profound truth in what he had said with regard to the physical and the soul and what was truly important. Yes, let us pray for the salvation of all of those who live in that totalitarian darkness. Pray they will discover the joy of knowing God. But until they do, let us be aware that while they preach the supremacy of the state, declare its omnipotence over individual man and predict its eventual domination of all peoples on the earth, they are the focus of evil in the modern world. It was C.S. Lewis, who in his unforgettable screw tape letters, wrote, The greatest evil is not done now in those sordid dens of crime that Dickens loved to paint. It is not even done in concentration camps and labor camps. In those, we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered, moved, seconded, carried and minuted in clear, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice. Well, because these quiet men do not raise their voices, because they sometimes speak in soothing tones of brotherhood and peace, because like other dictators before them, they're always making their final territorial demand, some would have us accept them at their word and accommodate ourselves to their aggressive impulses. But if history teaches anything, it teaches that simple-minded appeasement or wishful thinking about our adversaries is folly. It means the betrayal of our past, the squandering of our freedom. So I urge you to speak out against those who would place the United States in a position of military and moral inferiority. You know, I've always believed that old screw tape reserved his best efforts for those of you in the church. So in your discussions of the nuclear freeze proposals, I urge you to beware the temptation of pride, the temptation of blithely declaring yourselves above it all and label both sides equally at fault, to ignore the facts of history and the aggressive impulses of an evil empire, to simply call the arms race a giant misunderstanding, and thereby remove yourself from the struggle between right and wrong and good and evil. I ask you to resist the attempts of those