Assalamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuhu. Bismillahirrahmanirrahim. Alhamdulillahi rabbil alameen. Wa sallallahu ala Sayyidina Muhammad wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa sallam. Jazakum khir, Sayyidi. That was such a beautiful and heartfelt and moving dua'a. It's a great honour to be part of this virtual coming together because in reality the coming together is not the coming together of bodies but it's the coming together of hearts. And when hearts are connected then distances are folded up. So may Allah SWT grant us on this blessed night as He grants those who gather in His houses because the intention of each one of us was to be spending these nights in devotion in the masjid, in tarawih, in prayer and supplication. Alhamdulillahi, we ask Allah SWT that He grant us the light of faith so that we rely not on our actions and not what is going on around us in the world but that we rely on Him and that we place our hope upon Him, a hope and a reliance that is unshakable so that if we err or fail, if we sin or stumble or if things don't work out the way that we wish, our hope is unshaken because our hope Ya Allah is in you, our trust and reliance O Allah is upon you. We ask you Allah for the insight that we have fear of no one but you so that we don't fear our failings, that we don't fear what is going around us in the world, that we fear none but you but with a fear that causes us to be humbled, a fear that with hope makes us turn to you and to have the urgency to pursue your good pleasure. Ya Rabbal Alameen, we ask you that you grant us the insight in these days of devotion by which we realize that our place in life is where you have placed us Ya Rabbal Alameen so that we don't seek other than what you are seeking from us, where you have placed us Ya Rabbal Alameen so that if you have placed us in the world of responsibilities, that we fulfill those responsibilities in the ways that are beloved to you with sincerity and with striving, with high intentions and that if you've placed us in circumstances where we are far from the world of means that you grant us the grace to make the most of that time that you open up so that we direct ourselves in devotion we direct ourselves in healing, we direct ourselves in reconnecting with you and reconnecting with family and friends and those networks of mercy Ya Rabbal Alameen, we ask you that you grant us in these days in which you have manifested something of your majesty to us Ya Rabbal Alameen that you grant us the insight to recognize that we are not the ones in control but it is you or Allah who is in control that you are the Lord of majesty and it is not for us to control the way things unfold in this life and that we gain in recognition of your glory and majesty Ya Rabbal Alameen, we ask you O Allah that we do not be of those who try to plot and plan every detail of our lives but who realize that it is for us to strive but that all matters in our own lives and around us are in your hands Ya Rabbal Alameen, we ask you that we direct our concern not to those things that are not our responsibility because those things are your affairs Ya Rabbal Alameen, the way things will work out, what's going to happen next week, next month these are not where our primary focus should be but rather that we should look carefully as to what Allah you are seeking from us and how we fulfill our duty to you and our duty to our families, our duties to our community, our duty to your creation in the ways most pleasing to you Ya Rabbal Alameen, we ask you O Allah that as we close this month the door of true asking be open for us that we leave the mirror asking with the tongue and really learn to ask with our hearts with certitude that your answer is a guarantee but in the way that you will and in the time that you will not in the ways that we whimsically wish for Ya Rabbal Alameen we ask you O Allah to grant us the light of faith, the light of certitude so that we realize that even when we ask for things in specified times Ya Rabbal Alameen that your answer is a promise but that what you choose for us and when you choose it for us and how you manifest it for us is in your merciful hands for you are the Lord and that we are your servants, we ask you O Allah that you grant us the faith and certitude and clarity so that when we experience anything of the difficulties of life and in its tests then we are not shaken by how it affects us materially or in our health or in our wealth and that we don't worry that oh I didn't pray my tarawih in the masjid I didn't do this because what you send to us is better than what we seek to send to you Ya Rabbal Alameen we ask you O Allah that you make us realize the tremendous feasts of opportunities that you send to us so that we realize that every moment of our lives is an opportunity every aspect of our lives is an opportunity to make us realize O Allah that we have so many ways of turning to you we ask you that we realize that every way that you have gifted us of turning to you is a way of fulfilling our potential as human beings as believers, as servants, as people who are grateful and who love you Ya Rabbal Alameen we ask you that you grant us to fulfill the potential of prayer to fulfill the potential of charity, to fulfill the potential of remembrance, to fulfill the potential of the Qur'an to fulfill the potential of reflection, to fulfill the potential of every sunnah of your beloved messenger sallallahu alayhi wa sallam so that we can fulfill what it means to be truly grateful servants of yours Ya Rabbal Alameen we ask you O Allah that you bring our religion to life, our hearts to life, our character to life, our devotion to life, our work to life, our family life our time to life by gifting us with the subtle reality of sincerity because it is this subtle reality of sincerity that gives meaning and substance and light to all our actions Ya Rabbal Alameen we ask you O Allah that we truly live seeking your pleasure, that we truly pray seeking you, that we truly remember you seeking you, that we truly recite the Qur'an seeking you, that we truly supplicate seeking you, that we truly give charity seeking you that we truly engage in every act of our acts of religion as an expression of seeking you but also that we work for your sake that no day should begin when we begin our work except that we renew our intentions that I am working for your sake O Allah that we never drive our cars that we never go shopping that we never turn on our computers that we never open our smartphones except with the renewal of that intent that this is for you O Allah that we never engage in the pastimes that we like whether we are making sour bread or we are cooking or we are helping someone that we make all of this for your sake Ya Rabbal Alameen we ask you that you grant us the sincerity in our dealings with our parents and our families with our friends in the community that you do not make our service simply fleeting and whimsical expressions of interest but that you make it Lillahi Rabbal Alameen truly for your sake O Lord of the worlds we ask you O Allah that you grant us this subtle gift of sincerity we ask you that you wash our hearts from riyat from insincerity so that we do not seek other than you in any act of devotion nor in any of our worldly actions Ya Rabbal Alameen we ask you that you free us of insincerity and any motive other than seeking your good pleasure in our devotions in our work in our family lives in our service we ask you O Allah that we be communities of light that we make our decisions on the basis of what is it that is most likely to be most pleasing to you Ya Rabbal Alameen we ask you that you illuminate our hearts with your love with the love of your beloved messenger Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam who has embodied and encompassed all dazzling beauty and all virtue and all perfections Ya Rabbal Alameen we ask you that you protect us and our families and our communities Ya Akram Al Akramin we ask you O Allah that you protect and preserve our elders that you protect and preserve our scholars that you protect and preserve our masajid and our institutions that you protect and preserve those who serve that you protect and preserve our relationships that you protect and preserve our bonds of family and friendship Ya Rabbal Alameen and that you protect and preserve the ummah of your beloved messenger I was asked to make du'a in English and I have tried to encompass in this du'a the first ten of the aphorisms of Ibn-u-Ata'illah secondary if these were not primarily my words I tried to paraphrase the first ten aphorisms the hikm of Ibn-u-Ata'illah, taking some gleams from them in this supplication and I was asked and the supplication itself is meant also to make us reflect a little bit spiritually but there's one aphorism of Ibn-u-Ata'illah that I just want to touch very briefly and this is the thirteenth aphorism the thirteenth hikmah when the forms of created things are firmly imprinted in its mirror or how can it journey to Allah when it is tied down by its desires or how can it be added to enter the presence of Allah when it has not purified itself when the when this heart hasn't purified itself from the filth of its heedlessness of Allah and how can it understand the subtle realities of the meanings of faith when it hasn't yet repented from its slips this is an amazing aphorism right how can a heart be illuminated right because we were created with a purpose that we are granted a heart that has that was born metaphysically in the divine presence say that and was created in paradise in the presence with Allah before our bodies our souls experienced the light of knowing Allah but then we're placed in a heart our duty in a body the duty is to bring back that light into our hearts right that is the purpose of faith that's the purpose of life that is the potential of faith to go from mere affirmation of faith to truly seeing the light a light we beheld before time when we said we said when Allah asked us am I not your lord and we said indeed you are but we said it because we beheld Allah but how can we our hearts be illuminated find that light finally heed the call of Allah to be close when the forms of created things are imprinted are imprinted in its mirror your heart which is the locus of your concern was not created simply to worry about the stock market and the economy and these numbers and this politics and this gossip and this and this and this and this our hearts were created my dear brothers and sisters to be present with Allah and to be present with Allah we need to step back a little bit in our priorities and to put the first first because if the mirror of our heart is full is filled with all these other concerns then when will it find light and that is the first of these steps that I'm gonna I'll tell you I mentioned the second step how I'm how could that your heart ever travel to Allah when it is hobbled by your desires which desires your sinful desires your whims that busies you the busy away from being present with Allah from being pleasing to Allah those lustful great great those lustful gazes the listening to things whether it be sinful music that pollutes your soul or listening to sinful backbiting and gossip and slander and tailbearing and all these things that we just whimsically inclined to just clicking on those videos one after another wasting away hours rather than journeying to Allah and the journeying to Allah is not only through devotion but the journeying to Allah is by connecting with our families by connecting with our friends by caring for others by expressing concern in all the ways that are pleasing to Allah how can we enter the divine presence when we don't wash ourselves from the filth of being heedless of Allah and we are in his presence yet we absent ourselves from Allah imagine you entered the court of the king but you ignore the king and he is calling you well you're just looking around staring at the walls and there's the king the king is present the beloved is with you wherever you may be right when we realize that and we say how can I be absent how can I be absent we need to take a shower a spiritual shower and rid ourselves of the jinnabah of the of the impurity of being heedless to Allah how by listening to the words of our prophet keep your term moist with the remembrance of Allah and keep away from the acts of heedlessness don't do the things that the heedless do okay think of the words of Allah aspronounced has the time not come for those who have believed for their hearts to become humbled before the remembrance of Allah has the time not come for those who have believed for their hearts to be humbled before the remembrance of Allah otherwise as Ibn Atayla closes this aphorism how can one ever hope to understand the subtle spiritual realities of faith when we haven't repented from all our slip-ups there's a potential in this life that potential is to be with Allah and to live a life in devotion in our work in our family lives in our free time in our service to live a life in which we are with Allah in love of Allah expressing love for Allah gratitude and hope and all these meanings but what is life it's about Allah aspronounced may Allah aspronounced grant us that goodly life which is a life lived with him subhanahu wa ta'ala and if we fall short of this that he make us strive with sincerity because we are not responsible for success we are simply responsible to strive and to strive to be sincere Allah ma salli wa sallim wa barik ala sayyidina wa nabina Muhammad nifta hiba bi rahmatillah wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa man wala subhanahu rabbika rabbil izzati amma yasifoon wa salaamu ala al-mursaleen wa alhamdulillahi rabbil alameen wa barakah allahu ta'ala bi hurmatu keep us in our family in our community over here in your prayers shaykh faraz as-salamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakah alaikum as-salam wa rahmatullahi wa barakah how are you doing allah alhamdulillah we miss you and we used you as a lady we used you as a lady ala astaghfirullah al-barakah al-kabirikum i i i saw once i began talking that that you were on the on the call too subhanAllah i should i should not be speaking in front of my elder saidi imajad dumuna saidi


We had a very constructive conversation today. We have, of course, Alberta and British Columbia have so many opportunities that we share in common. Opportunities to create jobs, to grow our respective economies through responsible resource development. And those aren't just opportunities to grow our provincial economies. As the economic powerhouse is in Canada, it's our responsibility to grow the national economy, which we're very much focused on. And so today, Premier Redford and I agreed on creating a ministerial working group that will work on skills training, immigration and labour, where we will present a united front to decision makers across this country to make sure that our provinces have the tools that we need to be able to grow our respective economies. It's incredibly exciting to see the commonality that Alberta and British Columbia will have to drive Canada's economy. And of course, we're better able to do that when we work together. And we both agree that through responsible resource development that we can get our products to market. And we both agree that we need a strong focus on skills training to ensure that Albertans and British Columbians have the tools and the skills that are necessary to meet the demands of this growing economy and perhaps to attract even more people to our provinces from other parts of the country and around the world. This is a joint imperative, I would argue, not just for us as premiers. It's something that Canada needs us to do if we're going to be able to continue to grow the national economy.


This is siliconangle.com, siliconangle.tv's live coverage of Dell World 2012. This is theCUBE, our flagship program. We go out to the events to extract a signal from the noise. We're here wall-to-wall coverage, six hours a day, both days here at Dell World. We're digging in. We just had Michael Dell on for a good 15 minutes, digging into his vision, his culture, how he's seen these transformations before, and great contents of that video. We'll be up on youtube.com slash siliconangle, and we're just loving it. We're digging into Dell and really looking at the IT, changing landscape, changing data center, changing end user, consumerization experience. I'm John Furrier, the founder of siliconangle.com, and I'm joined by my co-host. I'm Dave Vellante of Wikibon.org, the source for open source research. We're here with Russ Fugioca, who's the Global Vice President of Solutions Marketing at Dell. Russ, welcome to theCUBE. Thanks for coming on. No, absolutely. My pleasure. I don't know how I follow Michael, but I think I was mentioning it before. This is Dell world. That means Michael Dell world. I gotta tell you something. It's almost better to follow Michael than it is to follow Tarkin Maynard. Oh, yeah. Because the energy level, let's forget it. By the way, when did Tarkin come? Because as it died down, so I could... He was here at 1.30. Michael was supposed to go on right after him. I was a little worried about that. We love Tarkin. Tarkin is a showman who's good content, great content, great stuff. You're a good guy, great guy. So, Solutions Marketing. Talk about what that is at Dell. I mean, it could be a lot of things to a lot of people. What is it to Dell? Well, I mean, I think that Dell world is the actual incarnation of Solutions Marketing. So, this is a show that, it's 2.0 this year. My group is the one who puts this on. And it is, I mean, I think if you look at where Dell has gone in this journey from devices to really systems to solutions, I think when you get to the solutions, it's really the outside outlook, right? So... Customer view. Absolutely. And customer pay point. Maybe even helping them beyond. So, you become the trusted advisor. So, you're really looking at, what is that business with a thing in IT that can help them change their business, right? So, obviously, there are different things in CRM and Insights and big data that you can extrapolate. The reasons why you see CMOs becoming big IT consumers now, right? So, that whole big data area. Big budgets, those CMOs. Right, absolutely. And, you know, they, you know, so those things tend to be one-to-one in business use, but everything else that you see is the challenges in BYOD, security, cross-aboard. I mean, these are things that we're helping our customers with every day. So, it's not necessarily even saying, I have a disaster recovery application for you. You know, it's more about, let me, you know, help you understand how we can empower your workforce. How we can future-proof your IT infrastructures on both a data side and an end-user compute side. So, you talked to Tarkin. I'm sure Tarkin gave you a little bit of a view on cloud-client computing and pocket-cloud a little bit. He really talked to us, but yeah. Yeah. He's great, we love him. But, yes, absolutely. Yeah, but integration is what he heard. So, first of all, the transformation, first of all, IT services, you guys are, have been in for a while. It's not new to Dell.  Obviously, desktops were screaming into leadership position pretty much during that time. But over that time, you have a position, you have customers, Dell's in the data center. You've been there, right? But now you're seeing it all come together with some acquisitions, quads, et cetera. So, you're now a full portfolio of a solution. So, okay, got that. But now we're living in an era of financial cliff 19 days away. You got data centers being transformed and reconstructed. We're hearing this notion of, I wish I had a clean sheet of paper. The legacy is not viewed as good enough anymore. So, tell us, how are you marketing to that world? I mean, like, is it, and to end, Dell's the full package, full service? Well, I mean, I think it's more, I mean, that's right in Dell's wheelhouse, actually. And not the fiscal cliff, but the idea that the tenants that we were kind of born of and about is that open, capable, affordable nature of our business, right? And so, as Michael said in this keynote, we aren't really tagged to heritage infrastructures, but what we are doing is augmenting the infrastructures that you do have to modernize and make them more efficient and agile, right? So, we're, if you have heritage apps, you talked about services, right? Apps and BPO modernization, you know, things like that, they, you know, Unix to Linux, taking them from Mainframe to X86. I mean, a lot of these things are the ways that we are creating more efficient IT models and more scalable. So, the ability to get what their compute models are on a platform that scales better, is more open, takes kind of half of the footprint, half of the energy, and again, can grow with your business, kind of Dell's heritage. You know, I always look at the data center discussions, you know, being kind of a geek and knowing having fun in that world and it has gotten complicated. You saw the, you know, the overblown of servers getting racked and stacked, sprawling, power and cooling.  So, the world's obviously changing.  I mean, there's components in there, it's an operating environment. You have disks, you've got processors, you have subsystems. So, Tarkin Mainer used the term systems management overdose. There's like, there's a lot of systems management stuff going on. So, Dell has always been good at assembling, you know, mail order, to build to order, to supply chain scale. So, do you look at the data center kind of like that? Are you assembling now these building blocks? Is that the strategy? Or is it integrating across the board? Well, I think that, you know, what Tarkin alluded to on the systems management overhaul, there's always this elusive single pane of glass that everyone's looking to manage provision workloads or, you know, to move them on-premise and off-premise, but very easily. But there's, everyone has their own systems management. So, you bring your own systems management to the data center work day, you know? And that's really what it is, right? Yeah, it is. And, you know, again, the ability for you to build systems management tools and applications that work with other tools so that you could choose to use one single pane of glass or at least work through something, it's got a lot of value. You know, a lot of it are active infrastructure, launch, and the ability to manage, you say the first thing that comes through. So, you talked about power, it's amazing. You could go into these, we could talk about big data, we talk about all of these really hard questions and solutions, and at the end, the CEO will look at you and say, I need to take my power cooling down and can I do this with less people? Yeah, that's a mandate right now. I mean, we're hearing that across the board. Facilities issues, footprint, and power. So, ARM chips, for example, are interesting, right? We see HP doing a lot of stuff with ARM. They've been in a lot of announcements. Is Dell on the same track there? Are you building your own silicon? Are you looking at partnering with other chip manufacturers? Because, you know, there are innovations that you guys have done with the power and efficiency that's software-related, right? And also chip-related. Can you share with how that fits in? Or is that not your... Well, it's certainly not my sweet spot, but I will tell you if you have, if you have on your interview schedule, Forrest Norrid, or someone from our, like Marius Haas, you'll find that we do have ARM servers that we were actually probably first to market in. We're actually, I think, into our second generation of the ARM servers. So we are looking at all of those different areas. And again, I'm not the one to go into that. Well, let me ask you, that's a solutions marketing. That's the biggest demand right now that we're seeing. So big data is a big hyped-up area, but it's relevant. People want to talk about it at Business Analytics. Analytics obviously is a killer app for today, right? It will evolve into others. But there's also a big data angle in the data center. Measurement, you know, instrumentation of the systems. You know, putting that aside, what is, and that's driving a lot of services, by the way, we're seeing that adoption. What are you seeing as the number one, two, and three, if you, at the stack, rank the solution demand by your customer base out there? As you guys go to market and bring all this together, what are the top three solutions that are on the top of the list for your partners? Well, interestingly, so again, Dell World behind me, the way it's architected is actually the five biggest pay points we hear every day, right? And you look behind me and security runs through all of them. So, whatever the topic is today, whether that's BYOD and consumerization, they'll talk about security. Whether that's cloud do, whether you're kind of in convergence, virtualization convergence to cloud security. When we look at social media and these other forces, these are the things that we hear every day. But again, you know, what it goes down to is also, help me figure out how I can actually invest in that. And in order to help them do that, we have to make them more efficient with their IT infrastructures today, right? So, the idea of getting. We're getting the hook here, but I want to just go back and just give you a 30 seconds for the last word. We've been impressed with Dell's solution. They've always been customer centric. Michael was talking about that. Share with the folks, the bumper sticker for Dell solutions or the quick summary of what they need to know about what's going on with the Dell solutions marketing right now for what you're doing. So, the big soundbite I would have and the reason we do Dell World is, I really don't believe that people understand how much we do today. And. It's mind-boggling. And I just think that they could walk through the solutions I spoke today, and it will be the one quote we'll always get. I had no idea you did this. So, how many people real quick are here on the show? Do you have a number? Do you have any numbers? We're north of 5,000 customers and partners. 5,000. Given the keynote that we saw today where we had to move people out of there, that was set for over 5,000. Well, you guys are definitely viewed as a tier one player on both the hardware and solution set. Obviously servers are growing. Marius was talking about that yesterday. And again, Michael was talking about 64,000 servers away from being number one worldwide. So, business is good. And I think that's a good package. You guys have congratulations. And thanks for having theCUBE here. We really appreciate it. We've had a great first day so far. We had all day tomorrow. And Marius is going to come on. We hear Michael Dell's making that happen. So, we really appreciate it. Well, we appreciate you guys coming. I mean, I know that Michael absolutely wanted to make sure that you were here and experienced it. So, thanks for coming. We really appreciate it. Thanks a lot. It's the ESPN of Tech. Talking game day here at Dell World. A lot of action options in the data center. Actions in the consumer experience. At the end of the day, it's all about putting together to build business value in the IT consumerization trend. I'm John Furrier, SiliconANGLE. We'll be right back with our next guest at the short break.


Welcome back to the channel. Welcome back to the vlog today. We are just doing a quick little vlog Well, not quick because we're gonna fall around all day today But we are out somewhere near where we're going to be moving because Andrana has a job interview today So she's about to go into the interview also I just came along with her for the ride because I have today off which works out perfectly So we both drove down here together I'm going to basically just sit here while she does an interview So I don't really know how this works out for me So I may just kind of explore the area take you guys along for the ride as well And then we are doing car shopping right after that and apartment hunting and apartment hunting. So wish Andrana luck Thanks. All right so Andrana Went into her interview and I'm just driving around exploring and I can't get my keys out of the Thing up. There we go. I just pulled up somewhere and I'll show you something awesome And this might give you a clue as to where we're moving soon All right, so just take down a little stroll here got the nice rental car on the back there It is a beautiful day as you can see and I don't want to get too dirty But I think I could probably get used to this life. You can probably see already by what's behind me But this is a little peep where we might be moving decent, right While I am not going to be moving directly on the beach I will probably be within like, I don't know 5, 10, 15 minutes max from the beach I'm pretty excited about it actually and seen as I've been locked up in a small apartment for the last Year well actually more than that last five years I'm looking forward to kind of getting out here and having a lot of space and more importantly being close to the beach Because the beach just makes me happy Also, how much do you want to bet that when Androna gets out of her interview? She's gonna want to come check out the beach as well. She's gonna get really jealous and like clockwork. What did I say? Guess who wanted to come see the beach as soon as I told her we were at the beach or near the beach I don't feel like taking my shoes off.  I don't know. I don't want to get sandy right now I'll let her be sandy. So she made me come out And I didn't feel I take down my shoes, so I'm being really careful Are we the only people at the beach at 9 a.m. On a Wednesday morning? Yeah, all right, so The beach is done now. I think we're going to go to a dealership and check out some cars All right, so I'm at the first dealership I'm interested in an Audi the Q5 specifically the problem is I'm not sure if I actually fit inside them Because I don't fit in many cars comfortably because I'm 6'4 my legs are really long. She's not comfortable We're gonna at least try to sit in one of these and see if I fit in them and then maybe we'll test drive it We'll see I don't even know if this is the right car for me, but it's just something I liked in saw So we'll try it out And we bought two cars We just bought the cars. Yeah, we just bought two cars. So Thank you to Audi for Not sponsoring us and us buying two cars on a whim. So how do you feel I? Guess good. We need the cars. Yeah, it's kind of a necessary evil I hate things that depreciate in value, but we need it We're probably not gonna come out here for a while until I start working This is one of those things we checked off now. Yep. We signed the lease Signed the lease. We got two cars. We got the two cars Michael has a job. I have a job and drama. I have a part-time job right now. So, I mean themes are You know falling into place. Hopefully so we still a lot to do to get insurance all the adult things But we're checking off things to do and making some progress before July Yeah. Oh, yeah, we haven't eaten anything Literally, we've had overnight oats. No, we just had a coffee. We left at 6 30 a.m. We had two coffees now We had overnight oats at Like 7 a.m. Yeah, no like 8 30 45 a.m. And It is now we split that yeah, we split a little cup It's now 3 o'clock. We haven't had anything to eat. So we're gonna get something to eat drive back to the city miss the traffic spend way too much money on tolls and That's that celebrate for Florida celebrate our cars and pack for Florida and of course my wife sees a Trader Joe's and now we have to stop and Be late probably hit a ton of traffic down the way back classic classic and your honor guys Okay Headed back to Manhattan. All right, everybody. So we're back at home now And I hope you kind of enjoyed this crazy little vlog I did with and your honor the whole point was to show you all Where we're gonna move sort of and then I favored a lot of you all responded to my last Video or one of my last videos when I asked if you wanted to see when I went car shopping Obviously, I couldn't show you the whole car shopping thing because that'd be pretty boring But I showed some pictures and we ended up buying two cars, which is fantastic It's kind of like relieving knowing that we don't have to go all the way back over there another time Bipars, you know test drive more I really just be one and done and be done with it and we did that I deem that a success so a little disclaimer here I don't want you to think we went to some foreign car dealership and bought two vehicles just on a whim Keep in mind that before we moved up here a year ago We sold both of our cars which we owned out right and we had that money And we just used towards these cars bit the bullet bought two depreciating assets But I just want to say for those of you who are finishing residency and think you're going to get some fancy car When you finish fellowship or finished residency as an attending just because your salary is higher I urge you not to do so because like I said cars are depreciating assets that go down in value regardless of what you do There really is no sense in buying a brand-new car with like zero miles on it Get a lightly used car with a nice warranty on it It'll save you a lot of money Especially if it's like one to three years old most of the cars depreciation occurs in the first three years After it is released from the manufacturer I always try to find that nice sweet spot two to three-year-old car with a nice warranty and You get rid of most of the depreciation already. Hope you all enjoyed this video and oh, let me show you one other thing Hold up and since we're on this personal finance used car spiel if you haven't read this book already It's called the white coat investor everybody who is in any part of medicine should read this book It's fantastic. I'll put a link in the description box below get this is an easy read It's like not even 200 150 pages you can read it It has the best advice on personal finance and stuff for any new doctor or new medical grad of any Medical specialty so that concludes this random video. Hope you all enjoyed it Let me know in the comments below what you think and if you like this I may film another vlog when we do it in Miami next week, but only if you all are interested So especially subscribe on follow me on Instagram and YouTube and take time to be done already and I'll see you all in the next video


What we're going to do in this segment is we're going to take a look at the individual components of the gas turbine engine and we're going to begin with a walkthrough of a gas turbine engine and this is actually that of a turbojet so on the video what you can see is as you go from the beginning of the gas turbine engine you start at the compressor stage and so the air would enter in and there we will have a series of rotors and stators and you'll notice that the thickness or the height of the blades is getting shorter and shorter smaller and smaller as the air compresses so we will go through the compression process it's a multi-stage compression process on axial flow turbines as we're looking at here and then you get to the point where you leave the compressor stage and you then move into the combustion or the combustor and essentially what these are they call them tin can combustors that are wrapped around the perimeter of the gas turbine engine and within these combustion stages you would have mixing and you would have fuel addition and combustion inside you're trying to minimize hot spots and then so you're dealing with a very high pressure gas it's been pressurized because the air it's combusting so it's very hot so you have high pressures high temperatures high enthalpy flow that then moves along into the gas turbine and that is where you're extracting some of that enthalpy and getting work out of it by rotating the turbine and so the turbine stage is the final stage you could have one stage two stage three stage multiple stage of the turbines but typically fewer than you would have for your compression stage so that is a quick overview of the gas turbine engine what we're going to do now we're going to take a look at component by component taking a look at what each of these look like and we will begin with the compression stage so the compressors or the compressor I should say typically we're dealing with multi-stage and I'm also talking about axial flow type there are there is another type of gas turbine engine that uses a centrifugal compression compressor at the front but we will not be considering that here we'll be talking about multi-stage and axial flow type and typically what you could see in the video it's referred to as being a cascade and here which you'll have are compressor blades that are very thin and you'll have a stator row they call it the stator row because it's not moving it's stationary and that is followed by the rotors these should all be identical there we go that was a little better now the rotor is rotating and so it's moving in this direction the stators are stationary now the velocity coming in of the air and we're compressing air would have v not that's usually the first stage and the velocity leaving would then have a velocity that is typically tangential to the trailing edge v1 would be the direction and then what we do we superimpose the velocity of the rotor which would be omega the rotational rate times the radius and that would give us a relative velocity and so if you take a course in turbo machinery you'll draw a lot of these different vector diagrams as you look at each stage of the process and then when you leave the rotor again you'll have v2 and you'll notice now we're at stage or station 2 so we started 0 then 1 then 2 again you add on the velocity due to the rotation and you will get the absolute velocity for the air coming through would be in a direction like that for example now typically what the compressor consists of is basically a series of well-designed diffusers because what we are trying to achieve we're trying to achieve a pressure rise across each of these stages and that's what a diffuser does gives you a pressure rise so it's providing a large static pressure rise without large total pressure losses now where could you get large total pressure losses it could be from things such as shock waves and it could also be due to boundary layers separation you do not want to have separated flow that's where the boundary layer detaches from your airfoil within the compressor cascade and so those then in themselves will result in pressure losses we want to avoid those and so that is the compressor and the next thing we'll do is we'll move on into the combustion chamber so the combustion chamber takes the high pressure air that was coming out of the compression stage and we mix it with fuel and then we initiate combustion so that's what the combustion chamber does it's taking our high pressure air from the compressor we try to minimize the amount of loss as well as hot spots and they're essentially tin can combustors so let's take a look at what one of these might look like if you're to cut it open you might have something like this now quite often the technology within the combustor itself is proprietary depending upon the particular manufacturer of the engine because they're trying to do things with the combustion process to minimize pollutants such as NOx or that's nitrogen oxide or other types of things that you might get as byproducts of combustion that are environmentally not desirable so what we have coming in here is our air and that has been compressed from the compression stage we will then also introduce a small amount of fuel so that's mass flow rate of fuel coming in and I show these it's like a double can thing but you have secondary jets coming in here of some of the air coming in from the side and the purpose of the secondary jets is to provide a lot of mixing and reducing the hot spots that you may have and then there are different ways that they will use to maintain the flame in this combustion region so sometimes there's a swirl combustor where you get a vortex and the vortex has a induced velocity upstream and you can kind of hold the flame there other times what they'll have is kind of a bluff body here in the wake within the bluff body is what maintains the flame different technologies depending upon the vendor and the engine fabricator so that is the combustion chamber within an engine and then eventually what will happen is the exhaust gases leave here and what you try to do is have a uniform temperature distribution at this stage now you're not always going to get that you'll have some hot spots the reason you want to minimize the hot spots is you do not want hot spots on your turbine or that point to the turbine blade will exceed the rated temperature of the turbine blade itself so with that let's move on to the final stage and that is the turbine so with the turbine what we're looking at and we're talking here again about multi-stage and axial flow but we're dealing with high inlet temperatures and consequently we need to consider heat transfer and cooling of the blades and we either do that by material science that is using high temperature alloys and different types of coating aluminum oxide ceramic coatings and we also do using heat transfer and for that what we do is we take bleed air from our compressor and we use it to cool the turbine blades and so looking at a schematic of the turbine itself it looks something like this and again we will use the vector diagrams that I talked about earlier for the compressor now the turbine has a lot more curvature than the compressor and you can see that by looking at the blades themselves which I'll show you a video of in a second again I apologize for my horrible artwork but here we have staters that would be a stationary row and then we have the rotor which would be a row that is rotating and so here the rotor might be moving in that direction again we use velocity diagrams looking at the relative velocity from one stage to the next so what the turbine is doing it's converting high pressure and temperature gas so high enthalpy fluid into work so what I'll do now we'll take a quick look at a video with an actual turbine blade and that gives you an idea as to some of the cooling mechanisms that might be within the turbine so let's take a look at that this is the blade from a gas turbine engine and what you are looking at here this is the leading edge of the gas turbine blade looking at it from the end you can see the cross-section and so it's a very curved shape unlike traditional airfoils like you'd see on an airplane this is changing the direction of the flow going through the turbine quite significantly the other thing to notice there is a bit of a bluish white coating and that would be a coating to protect it from the high temperatures that would be encountered within the exhaust gas stream of the gas turbine engine and the other thing to notice is that there are a number of ports on the bottom of the blade where it would go in to the engine itself and compressed air from the compressor would be used and imported through that ducting system and then it would come out through these small ports there's some on the leading edge there's some up on the tip of the blade some towards the trailing edge and then even on the tip you can see there are more ports there those are used for cooling the blade due to the hot combustion gases and and that is the gas turbine blade so you could see from the turbine blade that we had a coating on it and really that is the area of increasing the efficiency there are a number of different areas you have the combustion section you also have the performance of the compressor but in terms of the turbine places where we can have efficiency enhancements are in terms of enabling a turbine blade to take higher and higher temperatures so going on a scale of looking at our exhaust gases typically turbine gas turbine gases in the exhaust are anywhere from 1300 degrees C to 1450 degrees C and you can have efficiency improvement as you basically have your gas turbine blades able to tolerate a larger and larger temperatures so if we're at around 900 degrees C now that's what we get with internal cooling is somewhere in that ballpark so these are the places where the efficiency of the gas turbine engine is going to increase it comes with a little bit of a challenge though because as you get to the higher temperatures you can start getting NOx formation so NOx is NOx that we will look at when we consider combustion and you need to be careful there because that is a pollutant and so then that would come back to the engineers working with the combustion chamber and they would have to do designs there in order to reduce hot spots and and reduce NOx formation so these are the the balancing acts that people that do gas turbine engine design would be involved with as they try to drive the thermal efficiency higher and higher


The Tip O'Neill Irish Diaspora Awards are back for 2023, presented by Donegal County Council. The event will take place on Saturday, September 16th, at the Unichone Gateway Hotel in Bongkranagh. This year's awards will recognize the contribution of Professor William C. Campbell, Caroline McLaughlin, and John T. Fries in their chosen fields. Secure your tickets now through Eventbrite and join us for a fantastic night of Crack August Call. The time is 11.32 and it's Saturday morning, which means, and it's the first Saturday of the month as well, which means only one thing, it is time to talk all things movies, and I'm glad to say, delighted to say, in fact, I'm joined in studio by Colleen McFadging. Good morning, sir. Thank you, Rory. It's always great to be here. And, you know, it feels really special today because I love when it seems like we've planned things that I would be here for National Cinema Day. It's almost serendipitous, isn't it? Yeah, but when I was driving in and I was listening, obviously I was listening to the show, and I heard them mention National Cinema Day on the headlines and I was thinking to myself, I've never been in to talk about something in the headlines before. Like, I feel like it's Paul Reynolds, you know, those crime cart, you know, Machu Picchu, we're getting these people in to talk about real issues. I felt all important. I wouldn't have worn one of my better, more formal Hawaiian shirts if I knew. This is your moment, so make a count. Well, that's what I think, and surely that's the whole point of National Cinema Day. Now, I'm always wax and lyrical about the joys of the cinema, even when sometimes, you know, we don't absolutely love the movies.  I'm not... Well, well... Yeah, most of the time, but nobody asks you to rewind the show or anything like that to you. I like that. Bit of product closeness, yeah. But all of those things, yeah, who's he? Well, which fella's in? Okay, you can be unlucky, but most of the time that... But you see, I think I'm preaching to the converted. You like the cinema. You like the arts anyway. So, you know, you're somebody who's open to those things, but there's a lot of people who are falling out of the habit of the cinema or, you know, they're on a budget and, you know, all the cinemas in the Northwest all have good value and budget days, but that doesn't always suit everyone. Maybe people aren't all from the Tuesday or the Wednesday when those things are happening. So this gives a chance on a Saturday for anyone to go to the cinema. Even if you're going, look, the kids love the cinema, I find it probably... But we go today because it's only four years for ticket, or you're going, oh, you know, I haven't been to the cinema in ages. Maybe this is the day to go, or I think more likely, and we kind of mentioned this all fair. The movies we talked about last month, when I was really surprised that you'd seen both Oppenheimer and Barbie, because they weren't out that long when we were talking last month, and you were really up to date, but people were going, I kind of fancy it, but I don't know. I don't know what I do three hours of it. Or I don't know, it's all the fuss about Barbie, and I know it's not my cup of tea, but you know, I would like to see what it's all about for four euros. Can't be bad. It can't be bad. Well, it could be bad. Well, it could be bad, but you would feel value, you know, you'd barely get a breakfast, you probably wouldn't get most breakfast loans for that. And that's the thing, you just go and experience, and not, look, it's all about value, right? So for me, cinema day, you know, okay, I get into cinema for quite a lot, but even if I didn't, I would be kind of going, oh, I might go in the quieter day and happy to pay the money because I love the cinema so much, but that's not the same for everyone. And it just gives you a chance to try, taste it and try, and go and see something you wouldn't maybe experience. One of the ones I'd like to mention as well is there's a movie called Bally Walter, which is just out only today in most cinemas, and then it's coming back in three weeks. And it's a new movie starring Patrick Kealty, who is going to be in the news quite a lot. There may have timed it for the actual Lake Lake show. What were the chances I won? Yeah, they might interview themselves, but I actually didn't know he was doing this movie, and I'm really taken by the trailer in that he's kind of a guy who maybe life hasn't been great on, but he always wanted to be a stand-up comedian, and he meets this woman played by the Irish actress, Cianna Curslake, who's really good. She's been in a lot of low-budget Irish movies. It was a taxi driver who also's life's not going well, and it's one of those sort of bittersweet comedies that actually the UK tend to do very well of two people who maybe meet some people. I don't even know if it is romantic as much as two people who just help each other in a way that you wouldn't expect. Unlikely friendships. I, this looks lovely, and I'm so pleased, because I always go on about Irish movies when I'm here, Rory, and that, you know, we've big movies, and we mentioned later, The Equalizer and all that, that are out at the moment, but there's an Irish movie spearheading this, and all the people go, I don't know if I don't see an Irish movie. Again, it's four Euros today. You know, you can't go wrong.  When people start talking about it three weeks, and you go, oh, you're only talking about that movie there? I saw it on National Cinema Day on. Yeah, you're so far behind at times, because let's face it, that's part of the fun, too. National Cinema Day, I mean, is this a fairly new thing? You know, I'm only hearing about it these last two years or so, or there's always been a thing, but it's only been promoted. No, this is only the second year, and last year it was very much an experiment, and they just wanted to see if it would work, and there ought to be a great time to give a boost in the arm to the cinema business, which obviously is basically somewhere here in the Northwest, where it is much more... Let's face it, it needed us after recent years. Yeah, after Covid, and after... But our cinema is much more tourist-based than maybe if you're a city centre cinema in Dublin or in Cork or Galway. So, you know, kids are back to school, the hours change and so on, and give them a chance to go, but also to open it up, and last year I think the idea was maybe we could get people who were frightened, frightened as maybe the wrong word, but nervous about coming back after Covid, being back in crowded cinemas, saying, look, maybe just come back and see if you still like it. And loads of people, because we all got, you know, all the devices and stuff at home, especially over lockdown, and we got used to watching stuff at home and to give people and go, ah, it is slightly different. Sometimes better, maybe sometimes not, but even one of my favourite movies of the last couple of years is the movie Doon. I have to pronounce that way, because my Dublin accent comes out and then everyone mocks me, because I say, Doon! And I loved it, and it was brilliant. I was recommended by a sister, and she never got around to watching it. It was a couple of years, and she was off on holidays. She watched it recently on her laptop. Now, maybe she wouldn't have liked it anyway. But on her laptop, she was kind of going, I was a bit slow, and I kept on stopping it and going for a walk with the dogs, and I understand why. Whereas in the cinema with the sound, it knew be somebody who appreciates the difference in the sound quality. We always think about the big screen, but the sound makes such a difference. I genuinely believe the sound is much more important.  The sound has been awful, and it lets it down, because it doesn't immerse you, you know, in the experience. And I've been on tiny screens, you know, 30-seaters, 40-seaters, and the sound is just completely different. It is just completely immersive and perfect, and that, you know, that really adds to the experience and makes it what it's supposed to be. Yeah, and especially one of the big movies we talked about last month, I think the one you enjoyed more, which was Oppenheimer, I think we all expected, like, it looks beautiful, but it's all big close-ups of faces. The actual nuclear bomb effects aren't that stunning, but the sound of the bombs and the sound of the stamping feet that is kind of a running thing was really what impressed me. Christopher Nolan knows about that. The sound in that movie is an important gem. If you think about it more often, you know, if you think of the classic horrors, the classic sci-fi, it's not about what you can see, it's about what you can't see, you know, you can hear it, but you have to imagine, you know, what this thing looks like, or whatever thing it is, whatever, you know, whatever the movie is, let's say alien food or something, it's about what you can't see as opposed to what you can. The scariest thing part of Jaws in many ways, I know there's jump-out shocks, but it is the music. It is the music. When we mentioned Jaws there, the first thing everyone thought of, and that's why it's brilliant. You know, and there's lots of interest and stuff, and as I said, I suppose we should talk about some new movies at some stage. Of the ones that people want to see, I would also say Mission Impossible, and one of the cinemas I'm most connected with, right? The Posh Lounge, because it's only four years, sold out of Mission Impossible first, which kind of surprised me, because that's the one that's been out for three months, but obviously people went, that's the one, you want the comfy chair, and to sit back and relax.  That was the one that they went for. Maybe it was because everyone had already seen Barbie. But so some of the summer hits, but we do have new movies, so... Yeah, so let's talk new movies and some of the wider releases. Tell us the first one you have on the list. Equalizer. Equalizer. It's the Equalizer. Denzel. Three. Now, Roy, you're a fan of the 80s, but you're not old enough really to remember the TV show The Equalizer, are you? No, no. But I'll tell you what, I went to see The Equalizer. Purely, you know, I'm at a loose end here. I'll go to the cinema. What's on? Not much. Equalizer. Denzel Washington. Ah, yeah, I'll have a look at that. I loved it. And that was my first introduction through The Equalizer. Equalizer. I had no clue that it used to be a TV show. And when the relaunch came out, you know, the rebooted TV show, I didn't bother with it. No, no, I never watched that either. Yeah. And I'm sure it's very good, but it's not for me. The movie is enough. Yeah. It's one of those movies. John Wick has a bit of it. There's a couple of other movies that, I suppose even taken to an element of the quite cheesy B-movies with proper actors in it. Yeah. Who kind of lend a gravitas to it. For anyone who hasn't seen The Equalizer and doesn't know a thing about it, basically a vigilante. A vigilante. It's death wishes. All those, you know, these movies have been done before. And it doesn't matter, by the way, if you haven't seen the first two. Okay. I haven't watched the third one the other day. It really makes no difference because you know this story. He's a good guy who with a bad past who's retired and he just wants a peaceful life. And people keep on annoying him. Or more importantly, they annoy people he likes or loves. And he goes and helps them. And Denzel's way of going and helping them is beating the tar out of all the bad guys. And boy, does he do it. And I have to say in this one, I haven't looked at the ratings for the other ones, but they amped it up a bit. Obviously they're being influenced by John Wick and stuff like that. Okay. Now, Denzel has all the guns that he needs, but he will still stop and find a garden implement to beat somebody up when it's right because it's a bit more spectacular. And in this one, he's in Italy. He's down in Sicily. So it's all beautiful scenery. And everyone that he meets are very friendly Italian stereotypes.  I like that. Well done. Oh, thank you. No, no, no actual training, Rory. It's hard to believe. But he meets these, and they're all his friends, but suddenly evil mafia guys with clearly I am evil tattoos on them turn up and start hassling the local fish shop who are friends of Denzel's. And he's going to sort them out. And he does in spectacular fashion. And as I said, if it wasn't Denzel, if it wasn't made by Anton Fuqua, who's the training day in proper directors, this could be back in the day, direct to DVD rubbish. But they bring a new level to what is basically a gory, he's going to get everyone. At the same time, you know, not reinventing the wheel. No, absolutely not. And nor should you, because sometimes you just want candy for the eyes.  And it's so entertaining. And you should just watch Denzel. Like, you know, the old, watch them read the phone book. There are no phone books anymore. I don't think. But you can watch them, scroll through his phone, and you'd still find them entertaining. Because the camera loves them. He's magnetic, flashes a smile, or when he says, you have nine seconds to make the right decision, or I'm going to come and get you. You go, he means it. Nice microphone technique. Thank you very much. He really means it. You go, I would not mess with Denzel. So I would definitely recommend seeing it, it's four euros or over the next couple of weeks. But whatever you do, don't mess with Denzel. OK, so that is the equaliser three. That is in theaters right now. Right now, OK. We're going to talk Disney's 100th anniversary after this. Yep. OK, and we're going to talk some of the classic re-releases that are available to view over the next month. Back after this commercial break. If you're really thinking about us, go do us because you'll feel much better about yourself. People are there to help you and you will get on. Either make a phone call or go on the internet and sign up. Improving your reading, writing, maths and digital skills can change your life for the better. Adult Literacy for Life. Call 1-800-20-20-65 or visit adultliteracyforlife.ie to find a free course near you. Supported by Education and Training Boards Government of Ireland and the European Union. 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And with the Glentys Harvest Fair just around the corner we'll be chatting to some of the organisers and artists about this amazing event. So that's the Monday Night Sessions. This Monday Night between 8pm and 10pm. Right here on Highland Radio. 1146 it is Saturday morning. Colleen McFadgeen is in studio. We are talking all things movies. And it's Disney's 100th year this year, 100th anniversary. And they are re-releasing classic after classic after classic. What is it this month? Yeah, just when you think it can't get any better. So last month we were talking with Snow White, with Pambi, which was great because it was a whole new generation of people traumatised. Traumatised? Again, not so much the children. Children who can deal with that stuff. It was more the parents going, I've forgotten. Exactly, just completely triggered. And what's really good is there's loads of people, grandparents and old parents who remember this when Disney stuff wasn't even on VHS. Disney were really tight about what they would release in the past before Disney Plus. It used to be, you know, a summer in Donegal. They would re-release one of these movies made in the 50s. Back in the cinemas I remember going to see Robin Hood in the Aster Gridor. Yeah. And it was years after it came out but that summer's release. So the next couple, this week we've got Peter Pan which weirdly, I have seen so many thousands of versions of Peter Pan. I haven't seen the classic Disney animation. Really? For whatever reason. Wow. But what's funny, almost all of what we really think with Peter Pan, even when they read made, you know, Hook and so on, is much more influenced by the Disney animation. In the same way Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in the original story, the Dwarfs weren't named. The Dwarfs we think of are from the cartoon. And in the same way, a lot of the Peter Pan stuff, all the imagery of Captain Hook and the Crocodile. While it's in the book, what we really think of is from this classic cartoon. So that one's open this weekend and they're very strict. They're for one week and one week only. There is no extent. When they're gone. When they're gone. But the one maybe even more people are excited about. I have a lot of colleagues. A hundred and one Dalmatians is next week. And there's an awful lot of people. That seems to be a particular favourite of all generations. And then the following week it's my favourite, which is the Jungle Book. Because it has to be the best soundtrack to any of these. I know Let It Go and Frozen. And we're getting that at the end of October. But we'll talk about that the next month. And we're getting Toy Story and all those. But Jungle Book, like come on. Where else would you, you know, whether it's a kids thing. You play it in any of the pubs around Letter County. If somebody lashes that on about a quarter to 12 tonight. Even the 19 year olds are going to get up and dance to, you know. I'm the king of the swiggers or I want to be like the bird necessities are just great.  Do you think there'll be the inevitable comparisons? Well, I think so. But I think when they've worked well, like Beauty and the Beast did quite well. And I think the Jungle Book version was actually very good. They are companion pieces. It's not either or. It's both maybe at a different stage of a child's life because the live action one, say, of the Jungle Book is a bit tougher. I think some of the other ones they just haven't worked for. But again, you know, it's like people seeing them now in the cinema. It's their one first time around. I think the Little Mermaid, for example, which I liked the thing. It wasn't the same as the cartoon. But here's the thing. I saw the cartoon with my niece who was like seven years old at the time. So that'll always be magical to me. I watched the new one as a cinema reviewer. But there's loads of mums and dads who watched that was their first time. And of course, because she looks different and some of the new movies, people look different and they get, like, Ariel gets to do a lot more in the new movie. And I think maybe for this generation of girls are going, that's my Ariel. But there's no doubt about it. There was some sort of magic dust in certain one of these. And 101 Dalmatians, the Glenn Close movie is really good. But the cartoon is just special. And again, it's not just the visual thing. It's the soundtrack. We're going back to it. It's the music. It's the songs. They were all original. That was just that little bit of magic. And people who were showbiz Broadway, they knew how to rise a tune. But also, I think there's something about that sort of hand-drawn animation. And I think so one of the worst adaptations I thought was The Lion King, because I didn't see the point of having, because they're both cartoons. One's just computer. It's not live action. No, it's not. Yeah. It's not live action. There is something to be saying, to see Emma Watson as Belle and Beauty and the Beast, I get it. To see Halle, her name escapes me at the moment, as Ariel. I get that. And she's a lovely singer herself. And you can see her belting out live. But those ones didn't really work. And I think, to be honest with you, for some of them, if they remake them, Disney's A Hundred Years, which means they're copyrighting some of these things is up. And by making them again, you get to make new versions of it. And you keep the copyright. Right. So there's a business there. There's a business there. But some of them have been good. I actually thought Aladdin was pretty good, just because it wasn't Robin Williams. And the great thing about it, the Will Smith one, they didn't try, Will Smith didn't try and be Robin Williams. He was Will Smith as the TV. He did his own thing. He did his own thing. And I think there's the ones that work, that you go, oh, I like both of them. They're different flavors. One's vanilla ice cream, one's chocolate ice cream, that sort of thing. But I think these ones, they know the ones they've picked, though. They know the ones they've picked. They've picked special magic ones. And that's why even some of the ones people go, oh, why not this one? Because that's not the real magic. And the fact that it's Toy Story, Frozen, Beauty and the Beast, Jungle Book, they know what they're, there's the ones they've skipped over. They're not playing song with the sound, because that's banned, because that has to be very castle. But I think it's a really nice idea. And as I said, people are bringing back, kids are bringing their granny to see their favorite movie, which is lovely. And granny is going, this was my favorite movie, too. And that's the magic the new ones will never have, I suppose, because there will never be granny's favorite movie. But they both share a love of Hundred and One Dalmatians. So we've got, we've got 100 and One Dalmatians. We've got Beauty and the Beast coming as well. Jungle Book. And Peter Pan this week, and Jungle Book. Jungle Book. And then next month, well, we'll get on to next month, next month. Very quickly, I want to talk to you about what's going to happen between now and over the next six months. The Raider Strike in the US. I don't know if I'm throwing this curveball at you, right? But, you know, I like that. We've got the Raider Strike in the US. It is causing mayhem. Mayhem. It is causing havoc. So what does that mean for, you know, we've got the Christmas blockbuster scene. Yes. That's the next big blockbuster scene. We're already seeing release has been pushed back and moved around. What do you see happening? Well, it's funny that my cinema side and my boss, hello Daniel, who will be listening at the moment, will, you know, will be working, because they're going, the blockbuster has been moved because they're afraid. The films are done but because the difference it makes when people appear on Graham Norton and on TikTok and all that sort of pushing the movie, look at how, Barbie would have been hit anyway, but look how much you saw Margot Robbie and the stars appearing everywhere. It makes a huge difference to the box office. So they're pushing these movies away and it will be a problem. There are little gaps appearing already. I was talking about doing earlier, doing two, I was looking forward to so much has been pushed back. There's a couple other movies, Ghostbusters, yeah, I'll be pushed back. So there's gaps there. Now, the cinema lover in me and the Irish cinema lover in me suddenly thinks, but surely there's gaps that we could show some of these other movies because the independent movies aren't affected by this, the small Irish movies and even some of the English movies with big stars but because they're independently financed the stars are allowed to come and promote those movies. And I was kind of going, maybe, maybe people will go and see a couple of these independent movies. Maybe stuff like Ballywalter, maybe stuff like Floor and Sun starring Eve Euston which I really like the look of. So there might be a chance. There's an opportunity here. There's an opportunity there and maybe there'll be still enough big blockbusters to pad it out and maybe we will see it again. Now, obviously for cinemas they would love blockbuster after blockbuster after blockbuster like this summer and there's still going to be some new Marvel movies and so on. I think for whatever reason they're outside that loop of the strike but hopefully, maybe, you know, that's my very much silver lining on it but maybe we can see a few more apocalypse plans. Exactly. We'll talk about that. Right, Collie, listen. We're out of time. Listen, thanks so much for coming in to see us. We'll talk to you next month again and we're heading into October and we'll be heading towards the end of the year. It's hard to believe that, you know, it seems like a couple of shows ago we were talking about yeah, we're in January. I know. It's a quiet time for us. Now the summer blockbuster season is behind us. Next one is Christmas. Next one is Christmas. Although I have a Paw Patrol movie. My enemy's the Paw Patrol that I'll have to watch and watch them for you. I'm going to stop you there, Collie. That's all right. Collie, thanks for coming in. We'll talk to you next month. All right. Bye. Take care of her by Collie McFadging. We'll be back with us next four weeks time at the start of October to talk all things movies.