أعوض بالله من الشيطان الرجيم بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وبهي نستعين والسلعة والسلام على خلقك وخاتم الأمبياء والمرسلين سيد الأولين والآخرين شفيئ المضنبين رحمة للعالمين وحبيبة إله العالمين ولا حبيبة إله وأهلو الذي سمع في السماء بأحمد وفي العردي بأب القاس محمد الله ما صلى الله عليه وسلم ثم السلعة والسلام وعلى أهلبيتها الطيبين الطاهرين المعسومين المذلومين صلى الله عليهك يا سيدية مولايا يا رسول الله وعلى أهلبيتك المذلومين صلى الله عليهك يا سيد يا مولايا مولايا وابنى مولايا يا أبا عبد الله يا رحمة الله الواسأة ويا باب نجاة العمة يا غريب حيا مبلوم كربلة ما خاب من تمسك بكم والعمنى من لجاء إليكم صادتي يا ليتنا يا ليتنا كنا ماكم فنفوزا والله فوظا عذيمة صلى الله عليه وسلم قال الله العذيم في محكم كتابه الكريم والقولك الحق ولستقل قائمين عوض بالله من الشيطان الرجيم بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم إن الله استفاء أدمى ونوحا وعلى إبراهيم وعلى إمرانا على العالمين صدق الله العلي والعبيم الله سبحانه وتعالى يقرأ هذا العالم في حالة ما يتعرف سنان الله يعني أن الله يقرأ ويقرأ ويقرأ ما يقرأ يُسمع أساعد أساعد neverитspeed و Download سإقرأ نوب وكتاب الله سبحانه وتعالى أين إلىات أمام فرك جميع أبقى報ائم الله has chosen to create this world with oceans and rivers and he has chosen to create the trees and mountains all of these returns back towards the Divine Decree and the commandments and the wisdom that Allah has applied in terms of creating this universe الكثير من الناس يسألون ، لكن لماذا فعلت الله فعلها مثل هذا؟ و كيف فعل الله لم يفعله مثل هذا؟ هذا another way. هؤلاء هؤلاء هؤلاء هؤلاء لا يتبقى أي حالة ، في حالة الوصول والعلم ، في حالة الوصول على الله سبحانه وتعالى لأن الله يمكن أن يفعله كما يفعله. This is his universe. And it is up to him to make whatever determination that he pleases. And out of his knowledge, really no one has the right to protest why Allah سبحانه وتعالى did something the way that he did. For instance, a child going to school, perhaps the rule of the school is that school begins at 8 o'clock or university class begins at 8.15. You cannot go toward your professor or go toward your teacher and say why did you make the rule like this?  You can't go to your professor and say that the class begins at 8.15 but I am going to come in every single day at 9 o'clock and because of me I want the class to start at 9 o'clock. You probably can end up filling the class if you come with this type of perception. Similarly, for instance, you can't go to work tomorrow and be like look, my boss tells me that I have to be at work at 9 o'clock but today or from now on I'm going to start coming to work at 10 o'clock. Probably you're not going to be working that job for a very long time after you make that particular opinion open toward your manager.  You can't do that because there are certain rules which govern the workplace there are certain rules which govern schools there are certain rules which govern the state and which govern this country. If you decide and you say that today I want the speed limit to be 85 miles per hour guess what's going to happen? You can act upon that but you're probably going to end up getting a lot of tickets perhaps your license is suspended and so on and so forth because that's just the way that the government has decreed the law of the land. Similarly, when we bring that back to Allah God has decreed and God has legislated that one has to pray 5 times a day one has to fast during the holy month of Ramadan yes, you have the right and you have the ability to do those and practice that if you choose to if you don't, you're going to have to pay the toll of perhaps receiving the punishment of God this is in terms of the legislation and the decrees of Allah SWT in this phase but there's a second phase and that's in terms of the universal decrements and ordainments of God that's in terms of how he wants to rule this universe allowing the sun to rise every day the sun to set no matter how technologically advanced you become no matter what level in NASA that an individual has reached in terms of position he's never going to be able to for instance date that today the sun is not going to rise and the sun is not going to set because that's not the way that I wanted to be it's not going to happen because Allah SWT has created the universe just like that we have to be amongst those who submit toward this fact we also often understand that there might be a philosophy behind it that God has presented toward us in the Qur'an in the أحاديت بها البيت عليهم صلى الله عليه وسلم and sometimes there might not be an explanation for why God has decreed certain commandments and certain acts of legislation let me give you an example many times people they wonder why did Allah SWT choose رسول الله محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم as the last of his prophets and messengers why didn't the Holy Prophet choose me why did Allah SWT appoint أمير المنين سيد الوسيين عري ابن أفطارب as a successor to the Holy Prophet and why didn't he appoint my son to be the successor of the Holy Prophet many times these questions when they enter into our mind number one we have to understand these questions on the very basic level are invalid questions there are questions that only bring doubt into our mind and probably only increase these satanic thoughts to come because who are you in comparison with the Holy Prophet or who are you in comparison with أمير المنين عليه السلام but none the less many times we might pose such a question or a question might be posed in the midst of our discussions we come and we see that on the one level الله سبحانه وتعالى has decreed the universe to be just like that God says that I want to create Muhammad as the last prophets of the last of my messengers and prophets because that's the way I wanted it to be and the same way that God says I want the sun to rise every single day in the morning and I want it to set in the evening we have no right no reason, no rhyme to protest that particular decree of الله سبحانه وتعالى why did God create فاطمة الزهرة the leader of the women of paradise or of the worlds why? on one level like we mentioned it's because Allah سبحانه وتعالى wanted it that way and we have no right to question the decree and the wisdom and the knowledge of Allah سبحانه وتعالى but on a second level on a little bit deeper level we come and we see that we do have a wisdom that is presented toward us in terms of why Allah سبحانه وتعالى has created his universe like this why did Allah سبحانه وتعالى create and choose specific individuals and hold them toward such an authority toward such a practice toward such an important level in terms of his government and we come and we see that these questions are not only questions that we pose but they were posed toward the Imam of the Ahl al Bayt people would come toward the Imam of the Ahl al Bayt and they would state oh Imam why did Allah سبحانه وتعالى choose you why did Allah سبحانه وتعالى choose your grandfather رسول الله راء عليه الصلاة و الصلام to take such a position and by this the Imam of the Ahl al Bayt they respond by stating that Allah سبحانه وتعالى found within these individuals the most suitable sincerity and position and akhlaq and leadership qualities and skills which Allah سبحانه وتعالى blessed them to give them such a position meaning that if anyone else God had appointed them to take those specific roles they wouldn't have performed their roles to the way and toward the value and toward that level that they had invaded عليه الصلاة هد acted upon but there is an even deeper philosophy and for that we need to understand the way that Allah سبحانه وتعالى has created this world when we begin to reflect on our station, on our position on the eyes of the universe we don't see beyond this world that we're living in we mentioned in previous gatherings that often times the human being is always in it for the now we want to know what benefit do we have today and tomorrow on that set we don't want to think about what's going to happen in 50 years we don't want to think what's going to happen after we die we want to only know when we want to only reflect upon this world that we're living in in these moments similarly when we talk about Allah سبحانه وتعالى His creation, Allah سبحانه وتعالى in this universe we see that we're always often only focusing on this world known as the dunya but in reality Allah سبحانه وتعالى has created worlds that are before this and worlds that are after this as well what do we mean in the narrations of Ahl al Bayt on a very basic level and in reality this discussion is very very a long discussion and a very detailed discussion that needs perhaps days or weeks and reflect upon but on a very basic level Allah سبحانه وتعالى has created this universe in three different dimensions the first dimension is what is known as the pre-world or what is known as the world of spirits or the Arabic language in the language of the hadith it is known as أالم الضر or أالم الأشباه or أالم الملكوت the world of spirits and Allah سبحانه وتعالى has created our souls he created our spirits but he did not give us a body and Allah سبحانه وتعالى put each and every one of us through specific examinations in that world which determine our outlook in this world and we'll get into an example of that in one moment this is the pre-world the spiritual world the world before this existence that we're living in now secondly Allah سبحانه وتعالى in a second dimension he creates what is known as أالم الدنيا this world that we are living in right now this dimension that we are living in on the earth with our family with our friends this moment that we are living in at this specific minute we are living in what is known as أالم الدنيا this world is temporal like the previous world and it is the prelude toward the third dimension in terms of what Allah سبحانه وتعالى has created and that is known as أالم الجزاء or أالم الأخرى the after world in which Allah سبحانه وتعالى he will raise us on the day of judgment and from there he will extend it in terms of what is known as أالم الخلود the world of immortality whether we end up in receiving the punishment from Allah سبحانه وتعالى or receiving the divine blessings and bounties for eternity we have to understand that every single one of these worlds they are linked with the previous one أالم الأخرى is directly dependent on the world how do we know this Allah سبحانه وتعالى he states in the whole in the whole of Quran that for every single act of good that you do Allah سبحانه وتعالى will recompense that act of good deed in the next life and similarly for every act of sin or transgression that you do furthermore we come forth and we see that Allah سبحانه وتعالى has created this middle world the world that we are living in and it is directly in correlation with that pre world the spiritual world known as the أالم الأخرى known as the world of spirits it is stated that on the day of the 19th of when at the time of fajr prior to the time of fajr he enters into the mosque of he enters into the mosque of and he sees sleeping in the mosque of he goes toward him and wakes and tells him that it is soon going to become the time of many of you have heard this particular anecdote he goes toward and when he wakes up and he says او امير المؤمنين I will wake up don't worry but why are you waking me up and why are you not waking anyone else up in the mosque this is narrated in some of the books of history امير المؤمنين says I want you to wake up and pledge the allegiance toward me I want you to give your bayat toward me at this moment says why are you asking me this question and no one else he says I love you all Ali what type of a question is this at this moment you don't love me a second time I am loyal to you and I love you the second time you are not loyal to me and you do not love me at this time he says او امير المؤمنين but I am loyal to you and I love you and don't request this allegiance from me when you're not requesting it from anyone else the third time امير المؤمنين he looks toward عبد الرحمن عليه العنة الله الأولين والآخرين at this moment عبد الرحمن العنة الله عليه او امير المؤمنين how do you know that why are you saying this to me at this moment عليه الصلاة والسلام he looks toward and he says because those who are loyal to me in the world of war those who are loyal to me before this world of spirits they were loyal to me in this life and I know that you were not loyal to me then and you did not love me then and you certainly won't and don't love me now the question that comes is what happened in that world were we loyal toward امير المؤمنين عليه الصلاة والسلام we come and we see a narration عليه الصلاة والسلام and this is all an introduction in order to introduce toward us what is the position of this great lady that we are here to remember tonight in this narration it is stated that الله سبحانه وتعالى had created the souls and the spirits of all of creation 2000 years before he created the body of Adam according to a narration meaning we are talking about way before the creation of prophet Adam and that whole story and that whole anecdote that we have heard about in this world الله سبحانه وتعالى had created the souls and the spirits of all of creation and then he created a fire in whatever dimension that we were living in during that day he created a massive fire and he orders every single one of his creation to enter into that fire just because الله سبحانه وتعالى makes that decree and he is trying to test the obedience of his creation at this moment the narration the first one to enter into that fire is the رسول الله محمد الله سبحانه وتعالى after him is امير المؤمنين after him are the imams of اهل البيت فاعتمط الزهراء after them are the prophets of الله سبحانه وتعالى and after them are the followers of the imams and of the prophets الله سبحانه وتعالى they all enter following الله سبحانه وتعالى but there were a couple of people who didn't want to enter who didn't want to follow the command of God and those individuals remain disobedient toward God and disobedient toward the prophet and disobedient toward the imams of اهل البيت عريه مصرات وصرام in this life a direct correlation between that world and this world and narrations come forth and they tell us that we the followers of صرات وصرام were amongst those who followed suit with the holy prophet and with the imams of اهل البيت عريه مصرات وصرام now coming back toward understanding why does Allah سبحانه وتعالى choose specific guardians or specific prophets or specific individuals to overtake certain roles in this world we go back toward that world and we go back toward that narration we go back toward what is known as العالم الضر الله سبحانه وتعالى he chooses the holy prophet صلى الله عليه و عليه وسلم in terms of attaining the position of the last of the prophets and the most beloved of all of his creation because he was the first one to follow his command in that life after him is امير المنين عريه صرات وصرام which is why Allah سبحانه وتعالى has given the position of امير المنين عريه صرات وصرام صلى الله عليه و عليه و عليه and then we come forth and we see that this is the test and this is the examination that Allah سبحانه وتعالى offered all of his creation and those first individuals to pass that examination Allah سبحانه وتعالى has given them this blessing and this bounty in this world and amongst the first individuals amongst the first individuals to follow suit in terms of the instruction of God because ام المنين سيدة خديجة بنت هويلد صرام الله عليها the wife of the holy prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه و عليه وسلم الله ما صلى الله عليه وسلم and in the same way that lady خديجة عليها صرات وصرام was amongst the first to enter and follow the instruction of Allah سبحانه وتعالى in terms of entering into that fire Allah سبحانه وتعالى demonstrates that she is also amongst the first to follow the holy prophet and be at the support of the holy prophet صلى الله عليه و عليه وسلم in this world Allah سبحانه وتعالى chooses lady خديجة عليها صرات وصرام from amongst all of his creation from amongst all of the women of the worlds to fulfill four specific tasks that Allah سبحانه وتعالى has given her and no one else in this world let us go ahead and take a look at what are those four tasks that Allah سبحانه وتعالى has given her please recite one salawat we come forth and we see that firstly Allah سبحانه وتعالى has chosen lady خديجة عليها صرات وصرام to be the mother of Fatima al-Zahra عليها صرات وصرام in the holy Quran Allah سبحانه وتعالى he states in the verse I began with Allah سبحانه وتعالى has chosen specific creations he has chosen Adam and he has chosen Ibrahim and he has chosen Nooh and he has chosen the progeny of Ali Imran and he has chosen the Holy Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه و عليه وسلم and elevated these specific individuals of the universe and those individuals who are the cream of the crop in terms of all of the creation of Allah سبحانه وتعالى is a Rasool الله محمد صلى الله عليه و عليه وسلم and his progeny which comes from the line of Fatima al-Zahra عليها صرات وصرام and that individual who was able to bear the light in her womb of Fatima al-Zahra عليها صرات وصرام is lady خديجة عليها صرام she is the mother of the mother of the I'ma she is the mother of the one whom the Holy Prophet صلى الله عليه و عليه وسلم states Allah سبحانه وتعالى does not choose this out of any sort of coincidence but rather he realizes that only one lady can bear the light of Fatima al-Zahra عليها صرات وصرام and that is this lady that we are here to remember سلام الله عليها so on one level we see that Allah سبحانه وتعالى chooses lady خديجة to become the individual who is the wasila between Allah سبحانه وتعالى and giving birth to Fatima al-Zahra عليها صرات وصرام on one number two we come forth and we see that Allah سبحانه وتعالى has given lady خديجة عليها صرات وصرام the position has chosen her amongst all of the women of the worlds to be amongst those four women who are the leaders and the guardians of the women of paradise according to the narration of the Holy Prophet صلى الله عليه و عليه سيدة النساء أهد الجنة are four that the leaders of the women of paradise are four the first one of those is Maryam bint Imran the mother of Isa عليه صرات وصرام the second one is Asya of the Pharaoh or according to another narration the queen of Sheba the third one of those is خديجة صرام الله عليها the wife of the prophet the mother of Fatima and the fourth one of those is Fatima bint Muhammad صلى الله عليه و عليه و سلم و عليها صرات وصرام so these four women have been given this unique position because of the test and because of the examination that Allah سبحانه وتعالى has put them through and what is known is the this is the second position that Allah سبحانه وتعالى has given and has chosen lady خديجة عليها صرات وصرام the third one of these is that Allah سبحانه وتعالى has chosen lady خديجة عليها صرات وصرام to be the means by which the holy prophet صلى الله عليه و علي و سلم is able to preach the message الله سبحانه وتعالى states in the whole of Quran و وجدك آئلا فأخنا we found you impoverished our Rasool الله and we made you wealthy what did the holy prophet صلى الله عليه و سلم by which means was the holy prophet able to preach his message by which means was the holy prophet صلى الله عليه و سلم able to establish the rulership in the state of Medina he needed support from the Muslims he needed support from specific individuals but naturally whenever someone wants to become a leader of a specific nation state he needs financial resources and as we all know the financial resources during that time came from lady خديجة عليها صرات وصرام and one point which we need to make mention is that the holy prophet صلى الله عليه و سلم was not poor the holy prophet was not poor many people they get the impression from this particular verse and the commentators of this particular verse that the holy prophet صلى الله عليه و سلم was very poor و وجدك آئلا فأخنا and he was poor and Allah سبحانه و تعالى made him rich it wasn't only specific toward the holy prophet but it's in terms of the entire Muslim community when we go back toward reflecting on the life of the prophet we see that Abu Talib his uncle who raised him was very wealthy as was Abdullah as was many of those members from the Quraish he comes from that particular tribe the holy prophet was successful in terms of business he was wealthy we know that but when we come toward this position we come forth and we see that the wealth of the خديجة عليها صرات و و صرام and the economic stature that she had was a means by which the holy prophet was able to propagate the religion of Islam within that community of Mecca and we come forth and we reflect upon that and we see that during that 3 year period when the Muslims had been boycotted and they were stranded in the valley of Abu Talib we come and we see that lady خديجة عليها صرات و و صرام would give out all of her wealth for the holy prophet صلى الله عليه و تعالى and for the Muslims until it came where she gave away everything that she had and the early Muslims they had to eat grass and they had to eat the leaves from the trees in order to survive and amongst those individuals who was doing that was lady خديجة عليها صرات و و صرام we come and we see in the narration it states that Allah صبحانه و تعالى he has honored the holy prophet صلى الله عليه و تعالى in terms of carrying that mission by lady خديجة عليها صرات و و صرام and historians they come forth and they write that if the wealth of خديجة was able to be defined or relegated toward gold you would need a hundred camels or maybe more than a hundred camels to hold the gold of lady خديجة عليها صرات و و صرام that was dispersed toward the early Muslims during that time so on a third level we come forth and we see that Allah صبحانه و تعالى has chosen lady خديجة عليها صرات و و صرام to be the economic means by which the holy prophet صلى الله عليه و تعالى is able to propagate this message and fourthly and finally in terms of how and why Allah صبحانه و تعالى has chosen lady خديجة عليها صرات و و صرام and honored her to have this position is that Allah صبحانه و تعالى has chosen lady خديجة عليها صرات و و صرام to be the moral backing and the pillar of support for Rasulullah صلى الله عليه و تعالى و و صرام we come and we see that the holy prophet صلى الله عليه و تعالى had to go through more trials and tribulations than any other prophet of Allah صبحانه و تعالى we've been mentioning over the last several nights the story of نوح علي صرات و و صرام نوح for 950 years margin of life boycotted by his community but the holy prophet صلى الله عليه و تعالى states that no one has suffered like I have meaning that the suffering of نوح over 950 years compared to the suffering of رسول الله محمد in those 23 years what did the holy prophet after go through things that we don't even know that stressed that the holy prophet had to go through yes the holy prophet is content with whatever Allah صبحانه و تعالى has decreed for him yes the holy prophet صلى الله عليه و تعالى remains patient in the midst of all of these difficulties that he goes through but at the same time the holy prophet the holy prophet is also a man he's also a human being he has pain when those rocks are struck at his face he was hurt when those individuals would come and they would curse him it came to an extent where the people of قريش the people of مكة they would come and they would throw feces of animals at the face of the holy prophet صلى الله عليه و تعالى و تعالى everyone had neglected the holy prophet صلى الله عليه و تعالى but the only place where he was able to find solace was in his home صلى الله عليه و تعالى which is why narrations of Ahl al Bayt they come forth and they state that when Allah صبحانه و تعالى ever wanted to send down a revelation from jibra'il of the Quran toward the heart of the prophet jibra'il would enter into the house of khadija صلى الله عليه و تعالى and say oh Rasool Allah I am coming here to bring you the revelation of God but before I do that Allah صبحانه و تعالى يlaims his salutations upon you and khadija عليه و تعالى who is lady khadija عليه و تعالى و صلى الله عليه و تعالى we cannot know we cannot understand the position of this lady صلى الله عليه و تعالى but we come and we see that again the most important responsibility of hers and why الله صبحانه و تعالى chose her is because she was able to bear the trials and tribulations of the holy prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم and that has taken suit and we have numerous examples of how she did just that but as a conclusion i will just narrate toward you this one incident in terms of how lady khadija عليه الصلاة والصلام had to bear with the trials and tribulations with side by side with the holy prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم it is stated that one day the holy prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم مكة he went out and he began to preach the message toward those small group of companions who surrounded him when a group from those of خريش they began to come and they began to surround the muslims and they began to surround the holy prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم and they started to beat them and they started taking rocks and stones and throwing it at the holy prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم which is very common in terms of what the holy prophet had to deal with in those first 11 or so years in the holy city of مكة it is stated that at this particular occasion the holy prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم was left abandoned they were abusing him they were violating his rise they were scolding him calling him names throwing things at him abusing him physically until the holy prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم began to leave from the city of مكة and he finally found a solace between within a valley between two mountains on the outskirts of the city of مكة it is stated that when the news had become spread in the city of مكة that this has happened to the holy prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم عليه وسلم was very young he's a young boy at this time he rushes toward the house of the holy prophet he knocks the door lady خديجة عليه وسلم says who was at the door امير المؤمنين says oh lady خديجة it is me Ali she says what has happened to my husband رسول الله what has happened to محمد امير المؤمنين عليه سلام says that this is what happened we have to go and find them we don't know where he is the narration states that امير المؤمنين lady خديجة عليه وسلم they leave the home and they begin to walk in the streets of مكة for the entirety of the day looking for the holy prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم it is said finally they realized that he cannot be in the main city and they began to leave toward the outskirts of the city and they began to walk toward those mountains where the holy prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم was taking solace he was bleeding he was hurt he had just been abused he was taking some rest after that episode that he had just been through it is stated that at this moment from a distance امير المؤمنين عليه سلام he sees the holy prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم sitting all bloody exhausted at this moment it is said that امير المؤمنين he gives some sort of symbol to lady خديجة عليه سلام as if to say that the holy prophet the beloved messenger he's sitting over there he's okay it is said that at this specific moment when lady خديجة عليه السلام saw the bloody face of the holy prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم she began to weep and she began to cry at this moment جبرائيل descends from the sky and says oh رسول الله tell خديجة عليه السلام that الله سبحانه وتعالى has given her his salaam and tell her to remain patient and not to weep because her tears are having an effect on the angels in the sky it is said that at this moment we come forth and we see that lady خديجة عليه السلام she comes toward the body of the holy prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم she embraces the holy prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم she begins to wipe the blood from the face of the holy prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم perhaps she gives a sip of water toward the holy prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم and if this is the episode in the heavens and in the skies in terms of what جبرائيل tells رسول الله during this incident of when خديجة what for the holy prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم that I asked جبرائيل what did he see in the heavens and in the skies when إمام الحسين عليه السلام was lying on the plains of كربراء and this episode has a very mirror image to when إمام الحسين is lying on the plains of كربراء and زينب عليه السلام is walking toward the body of إمام الحسين it is said that at that moment lady خديجة عليه السلام she was able to embrace the body of رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم but lady زينب عليه السلام she was unable to embrace the body of إمام الحسين عليه السلام because شمر بن الجوشن was sitting on his chest it is stated that at this moment lady خديجة عليه السلام she was able to remove the blood from the face of رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم but lady زينب عليه السلام had to watch 360 أروز being pierced through the body of عبا عبد الله الحسين it is stated that perhaps on that day lady خديجة عليه السلام she offered some water toward رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم but إمام الحسين عليه السلام on the day of أشورة he looks toward his enemy and he says بجد رسول الله عنات شاون i swear by my grandfather رسول الله i am thirsty إنا لله وإنا إليه راجعون we pray to Allah سبحانه وتعالى to allow us to receive the blessing of the زيارة of lady خديجة عليه السلام in this life and we pray to Allah سبحانه وتعالى for her شفاءة and the next life my dear brothers and sisters there's a request for several women from within the community who are sick many members many friends who are not doing well these days during the holy month of Ramadan with our grief over the lady of the women of the worlds and on this moment we are fasting on this blessed day of the holy month of Ramadan we pray to الله سبحانه وتعالى to grant them a quick recovery with the eye of شفاءة five times go recite with our hands raised بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم يجيب المضطر بادعه ويكشف السوء أما يجيب المضطر بادعه ويكشف السوء رحمتك يا عرحم الراحمين وصلى الله عليه وسلم محمد وعالها الطاحرين ورحم الله من قرأ سورة المباركة الفاتحة


I don't want to go around for life. Okay. Bring me back in real strong, cause you can't do no wrong. Y'all ready for part two? Yeah, yeah, yeah. We got a sequel? Yeah, we got a sequel. Cause ain't nobody equal. That's what you've been up to this whole time. Okay. You hear that? You know how freestyle? Do you? A little bit.  Don't dare me. I'ma do it.  Go ahead first. Bring me in. I gotta bring you in? Yeah.  What you wanted to be about? I don't know. This is it. Me? Yes. I don't know. I only did it a few times. Not really that good.  Let me try it. Hold on. I do it like you do with an old lad. Look how Marvin Gaye looking at you. You done came through with no tattoos. God, it's dope. I agree, cause that's true. This the flow for me. I'm about to pass to you, but not now. Because I know how. Let me go and slow it down and go and cool it now. Cause I'm about to have a new addition.  Probably make a new addition to the family. You wrote that. That's not too good.  I'm just coming with the static. Ay! That's it. I can grab it. Ay! You know a nigga automatic with the flow in the freestyle. It's been a little while. So I'ma gonna tell you what I'm up to now. Just bought a house. Might buy a cow. Might buy a couch. But I don't know how. They gon' deliver it. But I ain't gon' be at home. And I ain't gon' answer no strange numbers on my phone. They like, lo, sorry you're home. Cause we got your couch.    They didn't send me a couch I wanted to buy a cow. Wow. Now, let's talk about how I'm living. When is Thanksgiving? Ain't it like a month late, right before Christmas? That's a long time. If you think about it, but not really. Cause in a little while it'll be here. That's silly. My homeboy named Billy. He like to stand outside when it's chilly. He be lying all the time. I be like, oh really? Really? That's silly.  He always wants to get drunk with me.  You know, Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin.  To the point where we don't need one.  That's right. You get it, you get it. That's like the old act. No, you got me, that's fine. Okay, but I was just. That's fine, you did that. Okay, baby. You got to believe in the camera. You got to believe in yourself. You got to be. You got to go in. That's fine. You told me to believe in myself. I think I was believing in myself at 99. Literally, cause a little bit of me was like, nigga. Then when you was like, no. Man, dude. I was like, some of this room don't be filling me. Cause I always discount about three, four motherfuckers because I know, well, like some niggas is just naturally haters, right? So I always be like, three of these motherfuckers ain't gonna like it.   Right, with your third eye.  Yeah, as you should. Cause you only responsible for how you show up. Right, damn. But see, when you say a third, I ain't even gonna say it. Cause my third eye somewhere else.  Bring it back. I'm not the one up here. I know what you're talking about. I don't know what you're talking about. Four eyes. Yeah, yeah. Anyway, back to the regularly scheduled program. Back to the work-a-long-a-long schedule program.  They be like, what are you from? Back to the regular little schedule program. The regular, you know. You need to try to regular gurgle it on that motherfucker. Come on now. The regular gurgle it is.  Resuscitate.  No, hold up. Irregardless of what you gotta say. Now see, here you want to be demonstrative.  Oh, real, very real. They're real objectionable. Hold up, I gotta conversate with you. Listen man, listen. So what you saying here? Oh, I see it. She trying to corroborate the story. Oh, that's what it was. Okay, so she trying to arbitrate with the other chick.   You know how they do it nigga. I looked at her nigga, I said virtuosity. Virtuosity.  Trying to judge me. Bitch, I'm an amendment. Come on now. I'm an amendment. Hey, hey, first, second. Hey, and then I left, I told her. I said, listen, listen here. Prostitution wasn't in the constitution. Huh? What you saying? Prostitution wasn't in the constitution. She's got them right. And I left that motherfucker just like that. You heard what I said? That's what an old nigga mean business. When he turned that guy, listen here. That one, listen. I walked right up to his face and I told that motherfucker, I quit. You hear me?  Why wouldn't I believe it?  All right, I'm at the part of my blunt. Well, I want to ask you some more questions. Thank you for the slutty, big. Play me some slutty music. I don't feel real slutty right now. Got on a silk tank top and it's rubbing on my nipples ever so gently. What? I knew you was coming out from feeling real slutty. You did that.  Just a pole. Oh God. It just stas. Yeah, you said that.  I get mad. I feel real slutty right now.  That's what he is. Nah, they draw. It's just saying, homie, it's sacred.  Missing the whole middle.  This is really a baseball cup. I just wanna snap, snap. You mean a baseball cup? Yeah, that's what you're talking about, real slutty. So look, you got some very interested menu items or should I say menu names? Yes. Give me a few of your favorite menu names. They haven't necessarily had to be menu items. We got the One Night Stand. I had one of them. The Menagee Tois. At the flooded vegan. Can you tell us, Blue, what's the One Night Stand? So the One Night Stand has bacon in it. That's the most popular. It got the vegan bacon, the cheese, the patty, sauce, the seasoning, the lettuce, the tomato. It's a sexy burger.  Cause you just made an alburger when you was naming it in Greek. Let it, let it, let it. It's a whole, listen, it's a whole experience. But people come, let me tell you something.  So how does that work? You just feed the hog vegetables? Is that how we doing it? Because they say it tastes like real bacon and I said, I know what she's doing. I know what she's doing.   I've had it. Is that a true question? I've had it. That's it. We have personal two. Whoa, wait, whoa. Hey, listen, you know what I said. Somebody asked you if you eat pork. That's fight words. But anyway, no. So it tastes like what, like a, I guess a turkey bacon would taste like. Oh man, come on. I ain't never eat a lot of more turkey bacon. I eat turkey bacon a lot. Yeah, so I had turkey bacon too. So it tastes like that. But we got that. And then we got the menagerie. So that got shrimp on it. I see how that could go. Cause shrimp do look, it's the same thing. Let me tell you something. Y'all be surprised. It's real shrimp? No, it's not. Well, it ain't dead. Think about it. That's what I'm talking about. Yeah, it ain't dead. It was alive at some point. No, it was. It's a plan. It's vegan shrimp. Yeah, but it wasn't dead. Like, Parker's dead. I'm just gonna go over there. You just gotta come. You just feed him. I got you.  And you gonna love it. She said I could go. Can I go? Hold on. I'm trying to let her finish this, this menagerie. It's gotta be two different kind of vegan meats on there. Yeah, well, it's three. It's the bacon, the shrimp, and the patty.  It's expensive too. They all land in the bed together. Yeah. Lay it up. You know the shrimp curled up. Managed. The shrimp curled up over there. Big spoon energy. Managed for everybody. From the waist down, slather. Bacon nasty.  It's a lot of red in there, though, too, though. I don't know. It was from the vegan sauce. Ketchup. It's vegan bacon, though. So he's still, he's like leaning up a little bit. I got a side ho, too. That's a me, you either?  I was like, I ain't nothing about it. I'm too old to be a side ho. Come out and say that. Yeah, no. The pressure got to you. But that's a shrimp basket. And then we got the Hollywood hooker. That's a vegan filly. It's so funny because when I came up with the names, it was just a joke to just match with the theme. And like now everybody know it. They like, damn, that one night stand. I'm like, that's crazy. I got people that's Christians, Muslims, people 65 years old asking for a side ho. Coming to the restaurant. I know people be coming up there fucking. There's a little old lady.  There's nothing. Yes, it is. I just had one. But you know, there's power in redefining words, right?  And you're not thinking about the fact that we quote on quote selling sex. But in reality, it has nothing to do with sex.  But I'm getting people to pay attention. Listen, do you know how many black people are talking about converting to veganism, or at least eating a little healthy or eating like a plant-based lifestyle because of study vegan? And we reeled you in because of the name, the raunchy, racy name. But then when we got you there, we mastered teaching with the experience. So you don't even know the whole time you learning. We teaching you about veganism and how it is cool to eat something that didn't require killing the dead, killing the animal. You got whole hood niggas out here eating. What? Every day.  I thought it was just a hamburger. It's got to be some meat. It ain't all meat. It's some meat. Listen, I thought it would be surprising. We got to put a little ground beef in there. A little ground beef, bro. I got rappers. I got hood dudes. Everybody come to study vegan because they're not thinking that it's a burger joint because we up played the experience. They thinking, damn, this is good food. I'm hungry. What's that? You want to go to study vegan? And they go. And they come back. And they keep coming. And they tell people about it. I've never spent a dollar in advertisement yet. It's been two years in. All of this is just word of mouth. What's the sexiest?  The most visually appealing to you. Mushrooms. Girl, what kind of? What? You would ask me a question. What do you want to ask to use to look at what? I did not expect that. Yeah, mushrooms. You know why mushrooms? Because you can make mushrooms anything that you want them to be. They could be big. They could be small. They could be skinny. You could do whatever. So it's versatile. What kind of mushrooms is you talking about? She talking about mushrooms like Bruce Lee was talking about water. She's going to make that big mushroom. Listen, hey, somebody going to retweet what I just said, though. Yeah, no, for real. This is going to be the one part. They're going to be like, bring the mushrooms for her.  I know what she would see.  She would put y'all up on gas, for real. Not the hands. Oh, they all work. Well, yeah. No, we got some dope names. And we coming up with some more stuff. The research department just brought us some research that said there are over 10,000 known types of mushrooms. Yes. I didn't have quite a few. Listen, mushrooms is good for real, like really good. You cook them right, and they absorb the flavor. They'll absorb you. You ever had them kind of mushrooms? You know what? Them mushrooms got there. I was scared. So somebody that I was with wanted to do it.  And something happened. I'm like, no, I ain't playing that game. You would have thought a slutty vegan, but you would have took it a totally different way. Yeah, though. You would have been trying to get naked on only fans with vegetables. Dip your tin in this guacamole. And I like guacamole tins, too. But yeah, no, I ain't never take no shrimp. Well, no, regular oyster mushrooms.  King oyster mushrooms, yeah. Yeah. Where do you get all your cooking skills from? My grandmother. So my mother was always at work, and my grandmother, she Jamaican, she told me how to cook. But we Jamaican, so we was making her rice and peas and bami and fishing, growing up, eating stuff like that. So it's funny, because I tell people, I'm not familiar with soul food until I came to Atlanta. Because I grew up going to McDonald's. It was going to McDonald's once a month. It was a treat. It was like going to Six Flags back in the day that you could go. So I just learned from my grandma. That's how it's supposed to be. Shout out to all the Jamaicans. Yeah, shout out to all the Jamaicans. Y'all just adopted a new Jamaican. I see Adele. The Jamaicans have really embraced Adele so much. Jamaicans do love Adele though. Man! What? You go to Jamaican, that's all they sing it.  We stop singing back in 95. Like, it's a hit. Jamaicans are the funniest people. It don't matter what song it is.  Oh, and don't play no Celine Dion. What? Jamaicans love Celine Dion. I don't know what it is. I did not know that. You hit me with a random fact that time. When did this start? Forever. You'd be surprised, you'd go, you never did Jamaican before. Nah. You had to go.  I'd really say it's a good advantage. Man, COVID. Listen. Okay, go Lord. Let's hold that now.  We just missed a whole summer. Who else did Jamaicans like over there that you would never think? That's too random for you to just leave it at that. Maya. Jamaicans love Maya.  You Jamaican too. Am I telling the truth? Why is that? See? He was listening to Maya on the way over here. You can tell he said, mm-hmm, mm-hmm.  There you go. That's what we know. Yeah.    That verses was fire too though. Yeah. Yeah, that was fire. Mm-hmm. I knew it.  First song came out, Sim Sima. Who got the keys to my Beemo? And then my man, I just saw him just like, let's me hold the guard. Everybody get the keys like, Sim Sima! Who got the keys to my Beemo?  Give me my car keys. That's what everybody's saying. Well, it's just random.   He was sharing. He was like, you hold the guard.  Man, who keys is he? Had them keys for hours to beat a man and got on the mic drunk. Sim Sima! Who got the keys to my Beemo? For a hug. I been trying to get it.  Who am I? I don't know, nigga. You, bruh.     I like this vibe. I like it a lot. This is, play me some pimping, man. We got company. She like it in here. Quiet. What you thinking? No, play something else. She heard that one. She like it in here. Play something new. And you shagging on the job. Yeah, I like your vibe. Nah, this is- Appreciate it, man. Sometimes you don't need music. Don't let this be the last time. Listen, I'm right next door. Every time you drop a new sandwich, come down here. Oh, I could be like a drop-in host. Amen. You dropping sandwiches? No, I said a drop-in host. I ain't dropping no sandwiches you got. No. I was about to say. I thought you had sandwiches coming out like singles. I'm just saying, I know she got something in the works. I'm just like- You got a happy meal coming out. Probably got like three fulls different. I got an adult happy meal coming out. But instead of a toy, it's going to be alcohol that you get. That's the only way? That's the only way? Yeah. That is the only way to make an adult happy meal. Yep. And it's called cheap date. I want it.  Can you describe it? Yes.  So that's coming. Listen, we got so much crazy. They have a little bit left. Yeah. She can take some home. Yeah, she can take some home. He take the box home. Boom. Take the box home. So now you pack a lunch for your kids. You feel through what I'm saying. That's what you're trying to do. Take the box home. Take the box home.  I just got what you said. Hey, what niggas like to say in the government club? You can use that.  No, it's going to say eat the box. If the box edible, you might be on the slumber. The only- that's how you got to get your food out.  Eat the box.  We should have just stuck with take the box home. We should have just stayed right here. Oh, what if the box is shaped like this and it open and you just- See, what if you just- if you could gently spread it with- but you got to use four fingers, you got to- Now you know we can't do that. Can't open it like that. Shit, yes you can.  You have to slam it like that. Y'all taking the slam away too fast.  I don't like that.  But you know why that's real? Because you got to make love to the food.    And then- ah, man. Let me speak to the manager. You can tell your shit ain't made with love if you can see the person make it. That's why I don't like them places.  No, I don't want to see you with your attitude. I said a little bit of black beans. I said, man, start over, man. That ain't no little bit. Motherfucker, I want seven black beans there. That's the case.  You got to get specific. Man, what is wrong with you? Then they going to drizzle that nasty-ass sour cream. Why is it running? I haven't had sour cream. Sour cream stay on the spoon. You know what? Black people, the only people that go to the restaurant and cook our own food. We'll peep around the- Hey, bruh! Hey! Right. I used to work up here. Drop mine for two minutes. Put the chicken back in. There, let's you grab it. I used to work up here, bruh. I'm been a little more chicken.  And by the time the order come through, pull it out. Put it on the grill. You know what's crazy? They only doing that, the black-owned businesses, though. What you mean? Like, what you said. Shit.  Do they do that to you? Do you catch that? Well, I mean, yeah.  Yeah, I mean- Like, people swear they're critics of every goddamn thing. But you know what I think it is? I feel like there's a higher expectation because now one of us made it. So now you, we holding you to a high standard. I ain't saying that it's right.   I'm coming out with a book.  Yeah, this is a black-owned business. They be trying to pressure me, but I be like, mm-mm. This is a black-owned business. It's not a pressure. No, it's just not. This is a black-owned business.  I don't, I'm not the worker. They really take your attitude. You really don't even supposed to be talking to me. I'm the CEO.  Right. What gave you the motherfucking- Right. Gall. Because you accessible. The gall. The audacity. The motherfucking audacity to hit the CEO of 85 South show, nigga, we picking up what Radio Shack left on. Nigga! What? Nigga, we got unfinished business. Nigga, we started right there. Wherever Radio Shack stopped, that's where I just started. Pick up. OK. Motherfuckers talking to me. Talk to me. And then you know who you.  All in, they feel it. They try to tell you what to do.  Oh, you be getting them too? Nigga. Listen. That's what you get? Listen. I get them too. White women be in mind, but they don't be like, hey.  I do. I ain't had some. They ain't did nothing to me. But you be, I do it. They just send me pictures of them with their dog. I do it because of I seen what other niggas had to go through. So I'll be just like wanting them. Let me ask you a question. Do you respond to them or are you on it? No. You don't entertain them. That's the whole trap. That could be the CIA, if all I know. You respond to a white lady and you say something back. And then white ladies get, they feelings hurt through words.    Nigga got a traumatic experience.   What did you do? I sent him a message and called him. Like, I said, listen, it's cool.   And now I can't wait.  I'm so sorry. Your honor, my client. 200 hours of community service. I got to pay a fine, go to court, and then apologize to her for all that. Isn't that crazy? Just because you responded to a white lady. I'd get you out of that if I was your lawyer. My client has an auto response for anything that anyone says. And it's always been chimps. It's the only black man who has ever went to court and successfully won anything. Johnny Cotter and some white women. That's sad, though. I don't even know if that's funny. That ain't even funny. He just made money, though. He had enough money to get the whole everybody that was good at law. That's like getting everybody off the radio law commercials. This nigga got big L, cancer, and Pennsylvania. Because he had money. 411 pain.  But look at how many niggas went and lost. It was 999 niggas and one. Listen, O.J. Simpson had a different kind of access.  Why? Because it was a fair case? That's why you said that? I don't know. Because you don't beat the fair case. They got the name.  We still don't know. We still don't know.  That's all it was. There's a rap with that motherfucker being there. He didn't even have a mic to drop.  When he hit the rhyme, that was the defining moment that made white people say, hey, man, I don't know right now. I don't know if O.J. did it. Let me tell you what it is. Y'all are missing the point.  So when it comes to sports, you know, people don't see color when it comes to sports. As long as you act right. No, listen, listen to what I'm saying to you. White people love O.J., black people love O.J., Asian people love O.J., he was loved by the world. So you go in the court. Listen, they love the idea of him. They may not have loved him as a player, but they love the idea of this black man. He got this life. He done made it. He made a career for himself. He was a staple in somebody community. Somebody loved this nigga. We had his jersey. Yeah, he was riding his jersey, right? So of course, and on top of having access to resources, he walked away sky-free. Now, obviously, I haven't looked into that case a long time, so I don't know opinion, neither here nor there. But like the reality of it is, is when you got money and access to resources, you could do a lot of things that the regular niggas cannot do. Skies are them. What Michael Jordan say, the ceiling is the roof. The ceiling is the roof. And you can stand on them some roof. It made more sense, because the ceiling is the roof. Oh, little man. What?  The ceiling is the roof. He's not wrong. But it's the ceiling. He's not wrong. But you know, if you think about it contractually, you hit the ceiling before you get to the actual roof. I know, but if you go through the ceiling, you on the roof. But I mean, you gotta hit the ceiling first. The ceiling is the flip side of the roof. But I'm saying, he's saying so. So you telling me, if I jump up and I touch that ceiling, I didn't touch the roof of this building. But if you fall down and touch the roof, you didn't hit the ceiling. But wait, the ceiling is not the roof, because you get to the ceiling first, and then you buy that ceiling to get to the roof. Because the ceiling is the bottom, and then the roof is the top. Listen, every house got a roof. Every house might not have a ceiling. Exactly, because if you live in an apartment, you got a ceiling. But the roof might be six months, seven days. But then they create the ceiling because the roof was too high? Nah, because the ceiling was there first. He was saying, don't live in apartments. What? Don't have nobody above you, nigga. If the ceiling ain't the roof, move. The ceiling ain't the roof.  Ceiling, that's roof, ceiling roof. Hey. Ceiling in the roof. Nah, bro, you think of it that way.  That's what I'm saying. But if you think about it. So let me ask you a question. Some houses don't have ceilings, but they have roof. But let me ask you a question. The type of people that you need in your life are they ceilings or are they roofs? I hope them are fucking, it's a roof.  You've ever heard a motherfucker say, I've had it to the ceiling with this motherfucker? Right. You don't hear nobody say, I've had it to the roof. So you need roofs around you?  Well, you know what they say. Through the roof. You need a roof over your head. You don't need a ceiling over your head. They say you need a roof.  It's a- The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire.  So that doesn't mean though, whatever was going on in there. And they threw the roof. It said it was through the roof. We tear the roof off this motherfucker. Oh my God. Damn, so she, wow. That was deep. What?  Should it be roofs or roofs? It's roofs, ain't it? Is it roofs? Roofs is. Roofs is. If you own most of the rooms, then you have roofs. They changed it. This is where the name came from. I know what it's called, tops. Two roofs. Guess what those are? Roof-ous. That's where the name Roof-ous comes from. Two roofs. As you can see, we have a- If your grandfather's name is Roof-ous, that nigga either used to work on ceilings or he fixed the roof. Roof-ous! Are you up there still? Damn. What are you talking to, boss, man? Talk to your boy, that's your new name. That's probably how it really happened though.  We don't really be telling lies, that's the- Nah. Well, and fix it. I ain't got no ladder, no nothing, no hammers or nothing.  That's crazy. And don't come down until that roof is done. Damn, man. Well, I could supposedly not be up here for a while.  How many slaves got in trouble just because of white man bullshit? I'ma get those toes in the morning and you can finish that barn. White man get drunk the night before. Come out there at 7 in the morning. Why'd that barn finish? Well, you said you was gonna get the wheels and we was gonna finish it tomorrow evening. Bullshit, I didn't tell you that. I did not say that.  Why didn't it finish? This barn. Well, sorry. I made it up to the ceiling, but I don't got no materials to do the roof. The roof is the ceiling, boy.  No, sir. You got to put a roof over this ceiling or the whole thing.  The ceiling's enough. Silence. Don't ever talk back to me.  Wrong with you, boy. The ceiling is the roof, don't you see?  They gave us impossible tasks. Impossible tasks. Impossible tasks. Put the roof up first. What's the roof, sir? No wall. We're gonna build this barn. I said put the roof up first. Build it from the top down. Listen, that's why black people, we're so talented. Like, we could build anything.  Yeah.    Black kids had to pay for our own birthday party.  That's coming right off the top, man. You didn't tell me our parents were just promoting our birthday party. Hey, that's just on the top. Well, you know you got in-house expenses. Ice cream is night free.  They're charging me for towels, my nigga. Yo, mama said you two were 360 dead. She get a good 360 dead, baby. Christmas money. Birthday money. This was Donald's money. Money my dad gave me.  You was coming up with great ideas. Mama, I know you got your check in the week. What?   Don't mention my money. Let me ask y'all a question, right? Because when you said that, I'm sitting here thinking like, what's your dad in here like?  Like that nigga was in walking distance of everywhere I was. That nigga was literally in my life. Hey son, you all right? I just heard that boy trying to get your smoke river with him.  Man, that girl want to get you some pussy, man. I'm like, dad, let me, bro, let me, let me. This is how it's supposed to be here at all times. This nigga was showing up in the lunch room. Damn. Hey, he was working in the cafeteria. Getting the trays brim for like two weeks. Whoa.  God damn, man, that shit's so funny because I wish the answer was no sometime.  It don't matter where I go. I could be anywhere in the world. He'll just show up. He literally in my life. Son, I heard you in New York. I had to come. You know what I'm saying? I didn't even talk. Okay. I'm not telling you, not the gun, but I'm just saying you thought. That's dope though. Man, that nigga is crazy. That nigga's so funny to me, man. He just, he just. You know, I wish I could say that my dad got deported. He can't even touch American soil. Like if your nigga had some dirt in his hands from America, he couldn't touch it. They need to get tired from touching this. Touch this.     America's so touched the blood clot.   That might be real. Oh, I ain't trying for a dude. I ain't trying for a dude.  Just to be good. Just cause he knew he ain't supposed to touch his hand presses in. Is that American soil? No, man, blood clot, American soil. We get this dirt from, sir. You got two kilos of American soil.  I believe this man got some pure uncut Baltimore dirt up there.  I know it is.  What you bringing it for, man? We got some, trust me, wherever you go, they got it. You worry about it, not having those dirt. We got fruits and vegetables.  I can't bring in my dirt. Me years later, never touched a soil.  Me touch it. See, keep meeting with dirt dealers. What? Dirt dealers.  Ooh, dirt dealers, that sound like a high business. Dirt dealers.  Dirt. I don't know. What is it? Luckily they crushed up Lori. Okay. All right. My bad. But dirt dealer. I don't know what y'all want, but that's what I'm on. I'm gonna listen to Pinky, cause she be all in the room. Dirt dealer can be a drug dealer. To sell weed. The company is called Dirt Dealer. Oh, we just sell the one weed possible. Why are you gonna put, are you tired of the weed being too strong? No, listen. Let me tell you something.    Cause we get the best dirt.  Seal in the roof. Let's go. You know why it's the best dirt? Because her daddy be touching every batch before. I'm out of this soil. Me touch it. Me touch it. Me touch it. Your blood clot touch it. Touch it.  That's it. Stupid. See, that's the fire name. That's for my partner right there. He liked it. Pinky, can we talk about this later? I'll be working on the Jamaican accent. You know my favorite Jamaican accent? It's the old Jamaican nigga with the, with the little harsh vibes. You don't know why I'm not talking like this. You always got one Jamaican nigga. One, one, one. I don't mind, see boys. You want to start programming for me? Hey, listen, they walk around drinking. Tonic, Jensen, it's a movie.  Never. They're like a Roman Red Bull. That nigga eight of them, batch of nails. You're still the 80 man, you drink a Roman Red Bull. What you thought was going to happen? That's high blood pressure. Jamaican nigga's funny.  You see me?  It ain't nigga, I see it, it ain't. I'm telling you, we all the same people. Jamaican's a vibe though. Jamaican say, you see me. Niggas from Louisiana say, you heard me. I don't know why niggas think you can't see them or hear them when they say something, but some niggas say you feel me. But all the while we say, you see it, I'm saying? People need love. You smell me, that's the best. Smell me, yeah. Everybody use their senses.  You touch me? No, they not touch me. Fucker you. What if we were really like in our feelings, we're like, bro, are you emotionally embracing what I'm saying to you? How does what I'm saying make you feel? Can you act out loud? What if I'm expressing cut to the core of your heart? No, my man, I didn't mean to misinterpret your feelings, but what you said caused me to be reactionary. I don't label anyone, you know. And they knew that when they be on the Islam, like all of them, they be doing that. I'm sorry, my brother. It was just misplaced aggression that I had from my father being ever so active in my life. It made me under protected. You feel what I'm saying? So when I overreacted, I just think about my father and his overabundance. And I'm sorry, I didn't mean to take that out on you. Why didn't I? No, I didn't. Because the hands add a certain seriousness to what you're seeing as a black man and you have to keep your hands ever so present. Don't let that deter you from the degeneration of the masculine escapation. I see what you're saying, brother. I know what you're being. You've been eating slutty vegan.  See, you walked in here with a whole different attitude and then listen, I recognize the change that's going on phonetically with you, my brother. Oh man, it's all about ions. You know, it's really about ions. Because once your body reaches a certain outline of which you should be at an eight already, naturally as a black man, are you at the right? If you're staying away from the white woman and being active in your community, your pH would naturally be an eight. Say that again.  It's affecting our sisters and they don't understand the consequences of their actions. Moving on a lower frequency. Come on, man. More vibration. That's how they be talking. Come on, crack babies. Because then it keeps going further.  Hot Cheetos. Why hot pies? Popeyes chicken. Popeyes chicken been open for 30 years and they just decided to start selling chicken sandwiches two years ago.  The same week that the Concorde 11's come out, it's a mass destruction of black people, man. Stay, walk, and pay attention. Black people gotta stop listening to the radio. The radio calls baldness in the black man. Well, you know what they say. Listening to all that bass and those subwoofers in your ride will cause baldness, receding hairline, low testosterone, and feminine energy.   That's hyper masculinity. He has to overcompensate for his lack of lack of love. So he wants to be heard, he wants to be seen, but he does not want to be touched.  Did you know that?   It's everything. He loves nothing, he respects nothing. Natural born killer. Wherever you put this beast, he's going to kill. That's what they want you to believe. That's what they want you to believe. And you know who wants you to believe that, my brother? The natural born killers. See, the killers tell the story. See, I told you about them and they, and I'm gonna tell you about we and us. Now what we're about to get back to is the slurry figure-nism of the ecosystem. Come on, let's get back to it. Talk about it. You need to cleanse your body. See, a lot of brothers walk around mad. You know why they mad? Because they have not boo-booed all day. Back to boo-boo, man. You got to do the, get off the boo-boo.  Believe yourself.  Hello, buddy. Hey, man. I believe it's called alkalization.   That's how they do that, bro.  How you gonna be hungry and have the boo-boo at the same time?  If you did that, you'd be a sister for fuck's sake. What?  That means your body already wanted you to do it.   The body just waited. Man, give me something. Come on, man. Well, I'm shouldn't either way at 1.30.  Thank you. What's your Instagram, boo? It's my Instagram. Yeah. So we can drop it in there and everybody can show you love. My Instagram is sladyveganatf. Sladyveganatf? Yeah. Just follow your locks. It's just a little magnificent. Thank you. I don't know. Yes. I like the color. It bounces. It vibrates. It resonates. Thank you. I appreciate that. He's just barging on reason. But yeah, it's sladyveganatl. And if anybody that's watching this, I want them to come and catch a vibe. Because sladyveganat's a vibe. I'm going tomorrow. I'm going to try my whole experience. Like you should really vlog it? I'm going to do it. I'll be going live. I'll bring them with me. Because for real, it's going to be fun, but you're going to feel proud because we organized.  You know, it's hard.  You run a tight ship. Yeah, I don't play those games. Oh, you one of them, man. Oh, yes.  You know why? Because it's my dream. So if I work hard for my dream, if I can clean the bathroom, you going to come in, and you going to clean the bathroom, too. My man, Larry, here. He's a foodie.  Really? You bet. I'm a sladyvegan. I have a vision for how I need you. You got to come. You sleeping. Maybe sladyvegan can sponsor 85 Stuff one day. I would love it. That's a clap. Yeah. Yeah. That's a clap.  I done left all my wind out. Oh, how are you going to be hungry and have a boo boo? That's a boo. How are you going to be hungry and have a boo boo? Dr. Bernard. And guess what volume two is called?   That's what you have to call it. We appreciate you stopping by. I'm happy to be here. Even though I've been there for about 24 hours. I know this isn't it. What do you mean even though? I've been here.  It's just not enough. I'm sorry if I've taken up so much of your time. What do you want me to do, man? You're so busy these days with your business.  I was there, baby. I was there when you were still putting pinto beans in place of motherfucking corn, baby. This is me. I believed in this slutty vegan when she had just, you know, been with a few people before it got really slutty. I believed in you, Pinky. And for you to turn your back on me over a couple hours. I had some hoes like that. That was crazy. Over a couple hours, Pinky.  You worth it. You worth it. You know how many people subscribe to this, Pinky? Not how many people are going to watch it. How many people are waiting on it, Pinky? We are at 1.7 million, Pinky. And guess what? Guess what? I'm sorry. I did not tell you. Listen, this is an amazing opportunity. No, you know what? I'm happy to be here.  Thank you. Any time y'all need me, I need you right now, actually. And I want y'all to keep doing what y'all doing. We going to. We got such a great opportunity, as I'm going to say young, because y'all feel young, right? Yeah, I would have. Young is a feeling, right? Yeah. So we all have such a great opportunity to use our platform so good, and y'all do that. And we do that too, and that's just dope. That's exactly what the 85 South Show is about, keeping Marlon Gay named in every episode. So many people need to know how great he is. Look at that. Look at that look. I use that picture every day to inspire me. Man. Shit, when I can just, that picture is in my mind.  Like, I know you can do better. That really look like what he's saying, though. That's why I double-jig. Like, he looking like, like, nigga, for real? Like, you really just going to do that? It's a slight, like, disgust, because it's like, he expect more. He saying, never get too comfortable.  That's because, like, when you said, my dad can't touch America, so I looked up at Marlon. It's really like he looked up at me like, fuck, they going to do it if he touches America. You get what I'm saying? Like, that shit's so necessary. Even Shadeh, Shadeh can't believe when you said that. She looked like, they said, what? When Michelle Obama said, there's nothing we can do about it.  I wish a nigga would talk about some soil. Yeah, damn, Angela Davis is stuff, man. She ready to go. And look at Barack Obama. He is like, he about to get his eyebrows done. He showing the nigga what he want done. Listen here, just take it up just a little bit. When Martin Luther King said, Martin Luther King, he got that look like, man, look how far that nigga took my headline back. He plays with my hands. Malcolm X trying to show him. Look, I got a young nigga cut the line. And he uses the same system that he's been using. It's a great system. See, he doesn't make any cuts before he lines me up first. I make him take the Beijing spray, not the powder. I make him spray it on first. And I look at it before he cuts it.   I'm going to bring some slutty vegan over here one day. I'm going to just drop it off. Look, oh, wait, wait. Any time you want to bring some sluts through here. Sluts or slutty vegan? Sluts, slutty vegan, slut, slutty vegan. That's the slang for it, yeah. Slutty vegan. Yeah. Slutty vegan, yeah. The kids say sluts for short. Bruh, when she opened the other one, it'll be slutty vegans, won't it? It's slutty vegans next. It's, I'm saying, but it'll be like the chain of them. Slutty vegans. Slutty vegans. I got four entities right now, it's about to be five. Yeah, yeah, I know.   No, that's real though, for real. For miskewits, she's really hot. For miskewits, that's just serious. She's like Paris Hilton mixed with a little Nicole Richie. She's like, just seeing a few people. She's flirty. Yeah, she's flirtatious. But that's happening now. She's really racy. Other companies are trying to mimic what we created. For real? Yeah, but that just made me go harder. That's it. Well, me and Clayton been talking this shit, but I ain't tell them that I'm trying to get me a restaurant too, man. Really? Yeah. What you trying to say? They want nobody to believe in my dream. I want a barbecue spot. Is it vegan? I'll invest in it. No, it's not, though. That's what I'm saying.  I cannot. I cannot. You see why that ain't in the vest. Damn. Listen. Dirty dicks. They're going to put that sausage. You are not.  Oh, man, y'all.  You know why?  Dicks, but it's a play on words. Dirty dicks. Barbecues. Dirty dicks. Dicks going to be the face. And y'all laughing. And you know what? Dicks going to be the face. That's how I'm going to sell the ribs. The face going to be dicks. Guess how I'm going to sell the ribs. Dicks going to be the face.   Nah, wait till I get these bones in your mouth. Now, if you going to do it, if it's going to be a marketing frenzy.  See how quiet it got. See, you taught me that just by being here for 24 hours. And that's what I'm saying, Tuts. Me and you together.   We can really take this town over, Tuts.  We can see things.  Hey, listen, I know the real Dickie. I'll turn you on to him. Dirty dicks is a good friend of mine. And look, all the employees can wear Dickie's outfit, so it's a play on words. So now, it's all about your imagination. I like it, and we can make them keep the hot sauce in their pockets.  Hey, while you're up, still me and pack a hot sauce.  He knows. He knows. He knows. He knows. I didn't mean any offense, Tuts. I forgot you. I didn't mean it. Your people, my people, we're the same, but we're not. I understand. Your people had it hard. My people had it hard. I know. Hey, hey, hey, we were here first. We were here first. Relax, relax. And no, hey, hey, relax. We ain't, there's a few other men. I don't know which ones are, but a few of them are. That one kid, he said. I don't eat that, I don't eat that. That one kid, he's a restytherian or whatever. Probably like to listen to Louis Farron kind of. I don't know. I don't know. He said, you know this girl, she said, her father can't even touch the dirt. That's a tragedy, huh? Sad, real sad. Never touch the dirt. So listen, Tuts, you want to get in on Dirty Dick's barbecue? No. You ever want to touch the bones? No. Actually, no, thank you, no. So what are you trying to say? Vegan's your thing, right? You don't want to touch any meat, huh? No, I don't touch the meat. I don't touch the meat either. You know what I mean? I never touched the meat before. I just, I just not my thing. I'm not a, I'm not a touchy feeling type of person. I get mad.  That's how Tony loves to do it. Hey, relax. Nobody's going to be touching any meat around here. And you can believe that.  What, what meat? What meat?  You know why? They say they got the meats. There's more than one of them. I don't know.  You're not even good at the roast beef thing. You know what I mean?  Figure something out. You know what I mean?  Who the fuck, in November, who asked for this?  Hey, relax, relax, I believe these motherfuckers are going to put this on a motherfucking podcast or something. You know, one of those Rastafarian channels. Who's going to watch it? No one's going to see it, but they just be careful what you say on there.  I've been there. It's pretty good. A lot of nice girls up there. Standing in line, but you know what I mean? Hey, I stand behind that. You know what I mean? Hey! Hey, I stand behind that. You're the big man, I move it! Hey, hey, the foods we're waiting for, you know what I mean? Hey, she said she don't touch no meats. I said, baby girl, me either, you know what I mean? What a coincidence.  You know what I'm saying? Anyway, listen, Tuts, we're glad you came over. Nonsense. You'll be careful around that Rastafarian kid. Got my eye on you. I don't know what he believes, but, you know, watch it. Nice kid, real nice kid, real nice kid.    I don't know if he's hungry or not, but he's going to, he's going to, you know what I mean? Hey, what'd she say? He's going to touch the meat, you know what I mean?  Man, we really appreciate you, though, man. We wish you much success. Continue to do what you're doing.    And, you know, just to see a successful black woman doing what you're doing, and for you to take the time out to just come chill with your local comedians in the trap house. Anytime, it was good.  He ain't, you know, we need him still. I don't want him to work. Don't you can't you just ask that woman to ask?  People out there, believe it, didn't you? What's that? He's eating fast. Hey, you got mail in a minute? Yesterday, something about that guy to show us up, and then he's a pinching me on there. That's your weird night. I'm going to check that out. It's your love, Will. What y'all doing, ladies and gentlemen? They'll see you. You know, that's where older people hang out that wrap the mail. So did you catch the news this morning? That's how they be for real. Oh, my god. That local news is the killer for old people. They get so caught up in it, they discuss it with the name. You know they say it was a car chase on that 20 this morning. A man was going 115 something miles. Just how you know old people are always lying. When they get to the number part, they'll say a number and throw something at the end. You know they say that man was going 150 something miles. But hold up. You know about LA, right? Yeah. So you know LA News is different. Like, they actually put in the car chase on the TV. They can't wait for the car chase. Yeah, they ain't doing that here, but LA. What?   And the police being slighted. They be chasing.  You know what I like about the car chasers in LA? Is they get good camera angles. Yes. It be multiple camera angles. They got so many angles.  It's like you there.      Because that's when all the bets come in. They only do that in LA.   This is a black dude the way he drives.    He jumped out, got some footage for his video, jumped back in the car, and then I was like, nigga, legend. That's great.  They arrived the bank, and they was on the chase, and they knew they was going to get caught.  That's great. But that was some real live robber hood. Slow clap. Yeah. Come on. You know why? You know why? Because all heroes don't wear capes. I'm sure that money pays some rent. Bought some weed. Oh, we bought some Jordan. And you say weed. Got some kids, babysat. The candy lady got rich. Somebody got a freezer full of meats.   They come home every day Monday through Friday about 4, 4.30. Then Friday show up at 6 o'clock.  Go outside and help me. Where you get a van full of groceries from? Why did you bound this meat? We don't have enough room for this food. What are we going to do? And we bought that deep freezer. We must do what black people do. We must go through this whole freezer and rearrange everything.  We're going to make when nothing gets thrown away. It just gets rearranged.   Who put this in here like this? Now you about to go through three hours of that. Who put this shit?    Absolutely. Oh my god. Damn it.  Anybody who ever did that.  I'm talking to that demographic of black people. The Rastafarian kid. Who is the Rastafarian? It's a play on racism. Never mind. Look, we're not going to hold you for 24 more hours. I know we've been wrapping up for a little minute, but I'm going to enjoy you so much here in the trap. This is good. Thank you for having me. It's been better than another rendition of the 85th South Show. Make sure you support Slutty Beagle. Yeah. Yeah. I'm going to dab your hands on that. Thank you. I appreciate your patience and ever-loving blessings. Absolutely, man. This is good.


Now, the new government has confirmed the death of a six-year-old male nurse in Aotea General Hospital and one other person of COVID-19. The head of the state's coronavirus case management, Dr. Ebuoyi Osage, disclosed these during the daily press briefing on the virus, also adding that the two people were not vaccinated. Osage said that the state recorded a total number of 36 new cases of the virus and to death, four patients were discharged within the last 24 hours.


We think of observability as the ability to do open-ended exploration. What do I mean by that? We're adjusting all this data. We talked about the volume. But then people need to make sense of it. They need to explore the data. When problems happen in a network, you want to be as quick as possible to figure out what's going on. And so we have this notion of, we call it data explorer. It's this ability to very quickly and openly explore your network data and figure out what might be going on in real time. Hi, this is your host, Saptan Bharti. And we are here at CubeCon in Chicago. And today we have with us Christophe, Mr. Chief Product Officer at Kentic. Christophe, it's great to have you on the show. Yeah, thanks for having me, man. Yeah, and it's my pleasure to host you today. And if I'm not wrong, this is the first time I'm talking to someone from Kentic. That's a problem. Ha, ha, ha. I'm glad you do. But that also means that we have now cracked open the door. And I can see there are a lot of things that you folks are doing, which means that there are a lot to talk about. But let's start with some basics, which is talking a bit about what do you folks do? What is Kentic all about? Right, so Kentic is a company focused on network observability. So basically think of it as an observability company, but with a network-first approach. You know, there's many companies out there that do APM, application level observability. There's very few that are focused on the network. And part of the reason for that is that network is a very complex space, very high cardinality data. And so many observability, traditional observability back ends, they choke a little bit when they see all this network telemetry. So we ingest flow, VPC flow, SNMP, of course, EBPF. Now we'll talk about Qube in a bit. And we ingest all that into a big data backend. And then we help our customers do analytics on that data. Now, to give you a sense of the volume that we're talking about, so we did some checking last year alone, we ingested 200 trillion with the T telemetry records. So I'll do some math for you. That's about 6 million per second. And so you can imagine that's really, really high volume type stuff. And that's why we think we're a little bit unique and a little bit different. Now, since we are here at this event, talk a bit about what is the importance of events like these and so far, what has been your observation no pun intended? Yeah, it's pretty early days. But it's crowded. That's good. Lots of momentum and excitement in the ecosystem and the community. We love that. Yesterday, I was at Silium Day. I don't know if you're the new CNI, basically, or one of the CNIs, very popular. And they do also EBWF-based approaches. And so we're very similar. I think Kubernetes, in particular, has become kind of an operating system for the cloud. And it allows people and companies to be a bit more cloud independent, whether you run on AKS or EKS or GKE, the Google stuff. And that's one of the things that we help customers with, meaning we support all of these backends and clouds with our Kubernetes approach. But let me talk a little bit about observability. We have been talking about observability at TFR for a very long time. But we have not talked a lot about network observability. What is it? So let's talk about our approach to observability. So one of the things we think we do slightly differently. And there's one other company in the APM space who has a similar definition as we do. So we think of observability as the ability to do open-ended exploration. What do I mean by that? We're adjusting all this data. We talked about the volume. But then people need to make sense of it. They need to explore the data. When problems happen in a network, you want to be as quick as possible to figure out what's going on. And so we have this notion of, we call it data explorer. It's this ability to very quickly and openly explore your network data and figure out what might be going on in real time. That's very different from just looking at a dashboard or looking at some alerting. We actually allow customers to dig into all this massive data and figure out what's going on. And we think that's very differentiated. And then, as I said, networks have huge volumes. And so that's why probably Kenting is one of the only companies that does this stuff well. What does that mean for the whole ecosystem if you are the only folks who are doing it? Does that mean that there are a lot of awareness education needed in the space? Or you see that, no, a lot of ground work has already been laid. And your potential customers actually are not talking about what it is. But they are talking more about, hey, give us the tools that we need. Talk about the state of network observability. Yeah, so I will start with maybe another statistic. We have well over 400 customers. So we're not small. Many customers, we started with service providers. Then we went to what you call the digital enterprise, which is basically the SaaS companies of this world. So whether it's a Salesforce or a booking.com or a Zoom, they're all Kenting customers. Why? Because the network is fundamental to their business. Where we have a bit more education to do is in the more traditional enterprise. Because these traditional enterprises have been focused mostly on their on-prem networks. And now all of a sudden, they get these cloud workloads. They get Kubernetes workloads. There's the internet that's becoming the new backbone. And so how do you get visibility into all of that? And that's where we have education to do now. You may have or may not, may have not seen some articles in the New York Times or Wall Street Journal about Kenting. Why is that? It's because we have very unique insight into the internet. We appeared with thousands of networks. And so when something breaks in Ukraine or a subsea cable to St. Helena has a problem, we see the traffic impact and the latency impact in public clouds, as an example. And that is a very unique value proposition. That's why customers rely on us and our capabilities. Did you folks make any announcement here at the show? Yes. So we announced what we call Kenticube, pun intended. And Kenticube is a way to extend our value proposition into the Kubernetes ecosystem. Now, there's plenty of companies who do Kubernetes observability. But what they're missing and what we add and what we do in terms of value is that with Kentic, you can look not just at your clusters, but you can see what your clusters and pods, who they talk to. Meaning if you're interested if one of your pods talks to an embargoed country or if there's cross-region traffic originating by one of your pods or containers, which is something that costs money and may be a problem, we think we're probably the only ones who can give you that visibility. Because we stitched together the Kubernetes telemetry, which we get through EBPF, with all the context and the data we have from the internet, from public clouds, and so on, and provide a much broader picture in terms of what's going on with your Kubernetes installations. Kentic started almost in the same year when Kubernetes C&C have came to exist. And you folks both have K in your name. But a lot of things have changed ever since observability has evolved. Talk a bit about how network observability has evolved over time, or what does network observability mean for this changing landscape? Yeah, very good question. So the way I would frame it is that for the network, people, especially in the enterprise, less so service for Raspberry Enterprise, used to be focused on their on-prem stuff. They had full control. And then companies started to get interested in cloud and deploy cloud workloads. And initially, let's take AWS as an example, people had one account, a few VPCs, and everything was hunky-dory. But nowadays, there's customers who have thousands of accounts, or in Azure subscriptions, whatever the cloud calls it, thousands of accounts. The underlying technology is very complex. You have transit gateways. You have VPN gateways. You have firewalls now. And so all of a sudden, what used to be meant as kind of an abstraction is becoming, oh, it's a real network. And you have to manage it. And there's connectivity issues. And you have to configure it. And you have to make sure everything, the traffic flows. And so I think that is a very key difference from a few years ago that people start realizing that, hey, cloud is not the nirvana. There's work to be done. You need to actually be able to make sure that you observe your network, especially when it comes to hybrid cloud connectivity. Like, is my traffic actually flowing back to my data center or wherever I need it to go? And because we have this unique visibility into the clouds, into Kubernetes workloads, into data centers, and also the internet, which has become kind of the new backbone for companies, we think we can provide some pretty unique value to customers. I want to talk about some emerging trends and technologies, of course. I'm looking at Genetic AI. Talk a bit about what does Genetic AI mean for network observability, and what does network observability mean for Genetic AI workloads? Yeah, I'm glad you asked. So look, like many observability companies, we've been doing machine learning, anomaly detection, baselining, all these things for a long time. We call them insights. And we crunch all the data we have, and we provide insights to customers about what's going on on their network. Now, with Genetic AI, I think one of the biggest short-term values that can provide is the ability to, we call it, lower the barriers to entry. So I talked about this data exploration. Genetic has a data explorer. It is pretty intuitive, but still there's a bit of a learning curve. Like what if you could ask Genetic in natural language, what are the devices with the highest CPU utilization on my network? Which are the interfaces that have most traffic? And then the Gen AI, the language model, translate that natural language into the query that then gets executed, and then the result comes back. So for us, Gen AI in the first incarnation is all about lowering the barriers to entry to observability tools like Kentic. We have some pretty exciting work in the oven around this kind of stuff. We just released some stuff privately to some customers to help us test accuracy, because you want to make sure that whatever you put in, the right results come back out. And we'll make some announcements here pretty soon about this kind of stuff. So pretty exciting. No, of course, you folks are always working on the next thing. There are a lot of things in your pipeline you may or may not be able to share at this point. Of course, we'll talk about them when they're ready. But just give us a teaser, a glimpse of what kind of things we should expect from Genetic. I talked about natural language, and that's obviously just the first step. If you think about troubleshooting for networks or for any other complex system, it really is a sequence of questions you ask. You ask a question, you get a result, you drill into some more detail, you branch off into some other questioning and so on. And so the ability to do that and correlate for the engineer all the different things that get out data based on the question that he or she is asking is we think a way to, again, lower the barriers to entry. Now, if you have enough of these, we call them journeys, as an example, we believe that eventually, by training the model on enough of these journeys that customers do, so think about a customer asking 100 users, having 100 questions a day about their network, that becomes a pretty big data set. And so if you can train the model on this data set, eventually the model might be able to go from answer directly to solution. And so it's kind of the holy grail of root cause analysis that this industry has been trying to deliver on for a very long time. I've yet to meet a customer who says, hey, root cause analysis is, my root cause analysis is great because it's not. And so we think that JNAI and large language models can help with that over time. Christophe, thank you so much for taking time out today and talk about network authority. And as we can clearly see, there are a lot of things that you folks are working on. So I'm looking forward to talk to you folks soon again. Thank you. I hope so. Thanks for the great conversation.