Live from Las Vegas, it's theCUBE. Covering VMworld 2017, brought to you by VMware and its ecosystem partner. Hi, I'm Stu Miniman here with Justin Warren. This is theCUBE's coverage of VMworld 2017. Believe it or not, it's our eighth year covering the show, about 23,000 here in attendance and polls from around the world, even though there is a European show, but happy to welcome to the program a first time guest at theCUBE, someone I've known for a number of years, so great to pull you in front of the camera, Dan Frith, who is a consultant with Penguin Punk. We had one of my guests this morning said, this is the punk rock set, so it only makes sense that you've got the shoes and the hair and even hit a punk show here in Vegas when you first get here, so thanks for joining us. Thank you, thanks for having me. All right, so Dan, just for our audience, give us a little bit about your background, you're heavily involved in the VMware community, your VMworld leader, tell us your background, what you're doing these days. Yeah, sure, thanks to you, so I've been working with virtualization for about 15 years now, started with Workstation, went to ESX2 and sort of it all went from there, thought that was pretty cool stuff, kept me really busy for a long time, branched out into further data center technologies, so I'm really interested in things that go in racks and how they can help people do stuff better faster and smarter. I've been working with VMware for about the same time, 15 years, had a little bit more hair and less gray when that started. I love some of the IBM to TV commercials where it was like, where'd all the servers go, put it into, racked it all up and things like that to watch the evolution and the ebbs and flows in this community has been pretty cool. So, how important is VMware today in your ecosystem and what's going on? Yeah, it's critical to what we do every day. A lot of our customers are very VMware focused, not just for the hypervisor, it's all the management automation that we wrap around that stuff. NSX is becoming more and more critical to what we're doing. Got a lot of complicated cloud plays happening locally, so NSX is really helping us to get where we need to be, where traditionally maybe it was a bit of a slower, harder process. We've certainly found that stuff like that is really helping us get some good wins on the board, yeah. Could you unpack that a little bit for us? Because yeah, definitely coming into the show, I hear a lot about NSX, lots of customers doing when I talk to some of the ecosystem at large, it's like, well, when you really get in, there's some complicated pieces. I mean, networking security never going to be simple. So, what are some of the challenges, how do we get over some of them and what does this really deliver? Yeah, I think some of the biggest challenges with networking and security in the enterprise isn't the actual tech anymore. It's the way that we apply the processes to that tech, the policies, the frameworks and governments that, you know, the risk compliance assessments, all that sort of stuff that people don't necessarily understand that well inside their business. So, having something like NSX come in, it gives them the opportunity, I think, to reassess what they're actually trying to achieve, what's critical from an application perspective down rather than just thinking about the infrastructure and the tools that they're using. It's not just about switches, routers, firewalls anymore. It's about what I'm actually trying to achieve, what really needs to talk to what, and oh, now I can make this happen with this tool that's actually really flexible and agile and very easy to get up and running. But the thing around the security aspect of it, in particular, is that it's not the same sort of audience that you would normally be talking to if you're a VM-way sort of person. That's right. It's usually handled by someone completely different. Similarly, the networking can be a little bit funny as well because networking people are all about the hardware and the switches and things that plug into it. And this virtual switching idea, when I first heard in this example, you're going to teach BGP to virtualization people? And I think that's been very interesting as well. I think we saw the last 10 years, the storage and virtualization guys seem to come together reasonably well and start to cooperate on stuff. And we're finally sort of understanding what storage is to VM-way guys and vice versa. Whereas the networking stuff is still that dark art where you have to have a certain number of letters after you're named to make it work. And the security guys, again, they're a whole different beast, right? They're kind of like the DBAs of the infrastructure world. So how far along in that, using storage as sort of an analogy, how far down that journey of getting people together and to understand each other on both sides? Yeah, so I think it's still pretty early days. Like I know VM-way has been very bullish about what NSX can do to transform your infrastructure. But I think there's a lot of conversations that still need to be had at a reasonably high level in organizations to get people understanding exactly what they can do with this stuff. And I think realize the potential of what they can do. Sometimes it's not actually, you know, what they need to do now, it's what they need to do three years from now. And I think a lot of businesses just aren't planning ahead that far, right? It's still- Dan, I'm curious what your take on the keynote this morning. Pat got on stage. I thought good energy. I thought it was one of his best keynotes that he's given. But for your audience, kind of in your geo, digital transformation, kind of the journey to cloud, how much of that kind of hit home for you? Any, you know, critiques that you'd give? So cloud's obviously a half topic where I'm based. The VM-way on AWS story is getting more and more interesting. But again, for Australia, still not so much. You've got it in one geo right now. Australia's not going to be enabled for a while. It took AWS a long time to get a presence down there. I think if I heard right, they said within a year, by the time we come back to VMworld next year, which I think is going to be in Vegas, unfortunately, again. But they said we should be across all of the Amazon availability zone. So yeah. Yeah, in which case that could be tremendously interesting. But I've got to crunch a few numbers to make sure this really works. Because I like the idea. It's a neat idea. It's very good for those legacy enterprises that don't really want to get away from vSphere just yet. Who've got the kind of crusty applications that don't really run very well in public cloud. But they're in the middle of that transformation piece. Perhaps they're trying to get cloud native. This is a nice stepping stone. If VMworld can execute on it, and it makes sense financially, which I'm... Yeah, so what are some of the financial price points that you're seeing out there? We've heard over the years, VMware sometimes is, everybody's yelling about it. Sometimes not as much. Cloud is going to be the savior or a whale. It's really expensive. That's right. It sort of varies. And I think one of the points this morning, they said, oh, you can have a variable cost model. And a lot of the businesses I deal with, they hate that stuff. They need to know every month how much, every month how much they're going to spend. Yeah, CFO doesn't like uncertainty, right? Absolutely not. Yeah, and this kind of stuff can get out of control really quickly. So I'm not yet convinced, unless you put the right controls, governance framework on all that stuff on top of it, that's going to be the key thing, I think, for the success of this. And yet, there's a lot of talk about innovation, which involves change and risk. And so if we're trying to keep things into constrained boxes where we understand exactly what it's going to be, then by definition we're reducing as much risk as we can, which is kind of... Which is what's been fascinating with the customers I work with who are all traditional enterprises, thin services, those types. They've got CIOs coming in saying, let's go to the cloud. Everyone to the cloud. They've sent it all up there and they go, oh, my three tier application actually doesn't work in this cloud. I need to bring it back. We've got those people going through those cycles already, locally that's, yeah, there's a lot of innovation going on at a high level, but I think some of the homework hasn't been done to make that successful. And I think that's what people need to focus more on as an application centric, or even a business outcome centric. We use 2,000 applications in the enterprise. Well, what do they all do? What are they for? What are they for? Are they just there because they've always been there, or can we carve some of this stuff out? How does software as a service in public cloud fit into that discussion? Yeah. So I think they're going to be more and more critical. I think the maturity around some of the software as a service offerings has been really good. People are loving, I guess, the offload of risk and the offload of all care, no responsibility for SaaS. I think some of the problem is around, again, it's compliance risk. People aren't necessarily backing up their Office 365 stuff. They're sort of relying on Microsoft to have things in place. They're potentially not realising some of the risk they're exposing themselves to. Not that this stuff is dodgy, but it's tricky to navigate how you actually protect. Oh yeah, I was talking to a security person yesterday and they were like, oh yeah, no, no. Well, if I just use SaaS, I don't need to worry about the security, right? And it was like, no, you need to worry about it even more. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, just... We've seen plenty of examples of people who've put data into AWS, for example, and then just their S3 bucket is just open for the world to see. That's right. The simplicity adds a bit more mystery where it probably shouldn't. Yeah, so doing your homework and understanding the tools that you're about to go and use is important. Yeah, understanding the risks and understanding some of the consequences of your actions. It's not just about reducing the floor tiles on your on-premises stuff. It's about understanding what the data is actually doing, where it's going and what it's going to mean to someone if they get hold of that data. Yeah, but it's not a new situation, really. I mean, Cloud's been around for over 10 years now. A lot of these ideas of IT working with the business because that's what IT is about. So it's not exactly a radical concept. It's not a great... It's not a massive change in what we're doing. And I think some of the problem is we haven't done that very well to begin with.  Unfortunately, when we still aren't working with the business, you've still got pockets of the business doing their own thing. It's poorly understood. IT's still a cost center, a drain on the business, if you will. And it's hard for them to, I think, bridge that gap. We need to focus a bit more, I guess, on making the gap between what the business is trying to achieve and what IT can do to help them. I don't think that Cloud necessarily takes that conversation away. Yeah, unfortunately, the technology's never going to be a silver bullet, but I heard you say that IT still is looked at as a cost center for a lot of your environments. I hear people, maybe they're too optimistic. They said, not only is IT not a cost center, they're working with the business, maybe IT's driving the business. Sounds like maybe you're not quite there yet. So I don't think that's happening in the big enterprises just yet. The more conservative ones are still struggling, I think, with that bridging that gap between IT and business. The ones who can't see the value of what they're doing from an IT perspective, they're always going to struggle with that kind of stuff. Yeah. How about just a general concept of digital transformation? In your area, is that something? People embracing it, I read a great article, actually, by a networking, one of the networking vendors, and he said, look, people might not agree with digital transformation, but digital disruption is definitely real. So, what do you see? If there's a way we can shoehorn a way of doing things differently into traditional business, into traditional IT companies as well, and making them understand that they're not just there to take all our money and not necessarily deliver on all their promises, and if the business can start understanding that there is some value in IT, then I'm all for digital disruption if that's a mechanism to make that happen. Realistically, I'm still faced with the same challenges of legacy software being out of support and hardware that's sweating the asset, taking it a little too far. Those kind of problems are realistically what I'm still seeing every day. So it's kind of like the concept that Pat talked about in the keynote today of cyber hygiene, just doing the basics of washing your hands. I think some people are struggling with those basics because they've either never done it or they've sort of forgotten how to do it, or they expect magically that their new shiny cloud will do that for them or their service provider, and that's definitely not the case. We're still pretty early in the show, but any announcements so far, anything jump out at you or anything that you've seen yet that you'd want to highlight? I'm excited about the VMware on AWS thing. I think it's good to finally see that announcement last year at VMworld US, and now it's generally available, limited but generally available. It was actually announced a month after the show last year, which was one of the things we were a little frustrated that there was a three letter name, big company that they made an announcement with which was up on stage talking about security today, but not so much their cloud offerings. So much about that stuff, yeah. So it's been a weird, I'm not going to say it's a pivot, but it's certainly a little bit of a twist. So you're also a Vmug leader. What are the pain points that you're hearing from people in the community? What do they look for out of the ecosystem that would make their jobs a whole lot easier? I think people are sometimes struggling with the complexity of the ecosystem. It's still fairly broad and diverse, and sometimes people struggle to actually navigate their way through what they need to get done. I think that's what a lot of our Vmug members are struggling with. So I mean, I don't see the vendors in the ecosystem solving that problem. It tends to be the distribution consultants and the like that will help explain that, because right, the problem we have, I mean, even if I just take storage or networking, these are really complicated things, and there's not going to be one solution that fits 90% of it. So that's why I need to understand, you said customer with 2,000 applications. How do I manage that stack of applications? How do I deal with that? You were consulting, how do you help people through some of these giant challenges? So I generally try to start with what's important to people, like what's really making the business tick, what hurts them the most when it goes down, what costs them money, and some people have a really hard time understanding how much money they're burning every time an application falls over. And then we try to just make some links between the infrastructure, the application that keeps that outcome running for them.  And I'm not trying to poke at them, it's what we call the undifferentiated heavy lifting. It's like, come on, I think we talked to anybody, you're no good at building a data center, please don't do another one, somebody else can do it. Now, I'm not saying it all goes to the public cloud, there's lots of options how you do that, but from the ground up and as we work our way, right, what drives the business, what creates value for the business, and finding those areas, role the CIO's changing greatly, role of IT, I think it's going to look very different in five years than it does today. Oh, absolutely, yeah, yeah. And I think people don't necessarily appreciate the value of consultants, you can help them on that journey because it's hard, IT is hard, enterprise is hard, and putting IT and enterprise in the same sentence, that really makes it very hard. Yeah, very hard. Yeah, it's a little pretty. You got to be careful, I saw that there was like, one of those sarcastic memes years ago was like, consultants, if you can't solve the problem, at least there's lots of money to be made, moving it along, so. Yeah, yeah, yeah, and redefining the problem is another fun one we did as well. That's always fun. Yeah. So Dan, people want to learn more about what you're doing, how do they find you, you know? So they can find me at penguinpunk.net, I've got a blog there, it's been running that for about 10 years now. You can find me on the Twitter's at penguinpunk and various other things, come to a V-Mug meeting in Brisbane if you're ever in the area, we'll buy you a beer and treat you nice. Excellent, love to do that. We've yet to do the Cube in Australia, but something that's definitely what we want to do. So Dan, thank you so much for joining us. Thanks too. For Justin and Stu, we'll be back with lots more coverage here from VMworld 2017. You're watching the Cube.


The Career Explorers is an interactive video game that is a board game concept where kids get to explore different careers by going through the province and playing different mini games. The whole point was to just expose them to new, exciting careers that are in demand in BC and that are going to be in demand in different regions across the province. Well, certainly in grade four and five, and these are grade four and five students, it gives them an opportunity to explore different careers in British Columbia. The geographical placement or orientation of this game also helps with other learning outcomes in the curriculum. I was learning about new jobs that I didn't really know about before. I learned that there's many different places in British Columbia because some people just think that it's one big place that you can drive to everywhere, but it's not, and there's different jobs for each place. Right now they're highly engaged in a game, and from that there will be discussions with the teacher, which I can see being creating a lot more interest in careers for the students to explore.


Hey everyone welcome to today's day trading recap Monday February 8th starting the week off with a small green day plus 257 bucks Mighty 90 just took two trades here a couple small winners basically a scratch in Netflix for plus 15 and Tesla plus 78 No pairs trades today and then on the runners We had three winners two losers AMD was a nice winner for 228 Boeing small loss for 100 Blink which we don't trade very often, but plus 264 there Beyond was our biggest loser minus 624 and then DK and G plus 396. So let's take a look at what we did here Starting with our mighty 90 trades back up here to Netflix So Netflix this is one of this is our last might never second mighty 90 that we took but on this big push up You got this nice spike in volume Got short right here. I pushed against this. I did not add I know at least one person in the community added right there, which is nice because it rolled over When it started to roll over here. I just ended up bailed. I didn't even wait for two red bars Just the price section based on what the Nasdaq and the rest of the market were doing I just didn't like it. So I bailed a little bit early and just took a scratch on that So plus 15 and then Tesla had this push down a little volume spike I got in long right here pushed a little bit against me and then finally Bounced up and so got out off after the second green bar for plus 78 small winner there on the runner front AMD was a nice one had this big push up big second volume bar on this little pullback right here Got long really nice entry Pushed up started scaling out into this pivot kept one more little piece on and I was trying to get out about right here Didn't quite get there rolled over and so ended up closing out My remaining little piece about right here, but still nice winner for 228 in AMD in Boeing Boeing I was trying to take a an upside runner here It was strong initially just kind of started chopping chopping down. So when it got down to this pivot I thought we might get a continuation higher. So I got in and when it flushed a little bit lower I just bailed took a small loss of a hundred and then blink This was pointed out by one of the members in our community Not one I usually trade but big push up big volume on this pullback here got long And as it pushed up to this pivot just closed it out. So booked a nice 264 there Beyond was our biggest loser and beyond was looking weak all day all day and when it bounced here had this big volume spike got short here and It started to roll over and then push back up Added to it here again. Look like it was going to go down and then just ripped up So when it when it pushed back up above this level We just closed out and took a loss on that one and then lastly DK and G It was a nice winner for 396 had a push lower Nice volume spike here. So on this bounce back up to yesterday's low We got short scaled out here sat through a little chop and Scaled out of the rest down here at this pivot. So nice trade for 396. So plus 257 on the day Not not a huge green day, but good way to start the week always in the green We'll be streaming live every day this week if you guys have any questions. Let me know


I want to draw the analogy between the internet sector in the U.S. and the real estate sector in China. The difference is, I think, for one, for the internet bubble or the internet valuation, it is higher but it's not too far away from the average whereas the Chinese real estate sector is probably beyond what most people could imagine.


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Hey, what's going on guys? Patriot Prime here once again with another episode of The Sit Wrap. And my guest for this episode is Tony, one half of the dynamic duo from Toast and Toys. Tony, how are you now? I'm doing pretty good, Jason. And I really appreciate you having me on the show, man. Dude, I'm glad to have you.  Oh, dude, that's one of the best books I ever read. I swear to God. We were talking about the movie and somehow we got to talking on the Facebook page. And I found a copy on eBay, I think it was. And I sent it right to him and got him hooked. You ended up buying all the books, didn't you? Dude, I did. Dude, I even took a couple of days off of work just to keep reading and reading, you know, but don't tell nobody, you know what I mean? Nobody's going to see this. This is on the internet. All right, well, first, Tony, tell my people a little bit about you. All right, well, I am close to 46 years old. I clean and sterilize operating room instruments. And I love to collect toys. I love to read comics. And I'm just a big nerd, man.  I used to, dude, I was heavy into video games. But it seems the older I'm getting, I don't seem to be playing as much. So I don't know what's going on. I don't have a problem now, too, and he's four years old, is why I don't know how to use that. Yeah, dude. I saw that. I saw that, hey, that shit's amazing, man. He's a hoot. He's a hoot. Well, anyway, how the SITREP works is I've got 10 questions. The first five questions are regarding you and collecting. Of course, we're talking about Transformers. And the last five questions is about your YouTube channel. So if you're ready to rock and roll, let's do it. I'm ready. All right, sir. Question number one, what is the appeal of Transformers for you?  That's some awesome stuff. For me, it was the stories, because I was introduced to them via the comic book before I got any of the toys. OK. It was issue number three of the Marvel Comics series with Spider-Man. Yeah, nice. All right. Now, this one, aside from G1, which is always the number one answer, what is your favorite Transformers fiction, comic book, movie, cartoon? Which one's your favorite? Transformers, Rescue Bots. Hey, that's a pretty good show, actually. I watched a lot of it. Most unexpected answer yet. No, to tell you the truth, man, I've tried, you know, I've tried the other stuff, but it's like, I don't know, man, like G1 is pretty much, you know, that's about it for me. Yeah. Mine would have to be, of course, I've admitted before I love Beast Wars. Granted, I didn't like it at first, but I just tried to get into Beast Wars. And then I think it was because I had just gotten married and shit, you know, and I was like, well, I don't know, you know, just, I just couldn't get into it, man. Well, I kind of had the, I got the whole series while I was in Iraq, and I got to watch them start to finish in one shot. So that kind of helped. OK, cool, man, cool. All right, sir. Number three, do you have a favorite figure or holy grail? One toy you will never let go of. I sure do. I sure can do.  No, all right, what are you reaching for, Jason? Uh-oh. Go ahead and admit it. There he is. I don't believe it.  Roll to the rescue, my friend. Roll to the rescue. Oh, man, to tell you the truth, my favorite figure that I have is MP13, reissue of Soundwave. Oh, that is a good one. That's a good one. Yeah. Do you have any cassettes with him? He came with, if I remember correctly, the, I think it was the rumble, who's, I think it was Frenzy. Yes, Frenzy's the red one. Yes, yes, and then you got, yes, hey, to the old fucks like us, it was the red one, yeah. And then it came with, I think, the laser beat too. I think it came with three. But anyway, to make a long story short, that figure got me into financial trouble. And because it did a couple of years ago, I refused to get rid of that figure. I refused to. Nice. Monobile MP01 over there, hold the American flag. I hear you, brother. My wife liked that for me while I was in Iraq, so. Nice, hey, yeah. He was there. All right, number four. What figure is your white whale? What is your most wanted toy? If you get this toy, you could quit collecting. Are you ready? I'm ready. Are you ready? Which rescue bot? Do you look like a heat wave type of guy? No, man. This is going to be a good one. G1, it would have to be the Megatron. I've always wanted a G1 Megatron, bro, forever. And he's so expensive right now. I can't even try to think about trying to buy one. Oh, even the three issues anymore are ridiculous. Yeah, right, dude.  Oh, boy. Here he goes. I knew it. I knew it. Look at that.  He's just he's so ugly. I can get the center right. Yeah, I know. I remember when I was a kid, I got him Christmas of 84. And I was so disappointed when I first transformed him, because he looked nothing like the cartoon. I know. And it's so disappointing, too.  Oh, yeah. I'm going to tag on YouTube now for this. Probably.  Look at that. I need it. Oh, I need it. I need it so bad. Can you hear how squeaky the joints are?  There he goes. I'm so jealous. I'll send you weird pictures of him later.  Oh, this is a good episode.   All right, so now we got that out of the way. I'm looking forward to this one. All right. What is your favorite Transformer character? Any fiction or any media, I won't judge. OK.  He was. I did a really good video on that. I both did, bro. There's no character that can carry a rhyme like wheelie that you could take serious like that. And the way he could, he worked at Slingshot? Oh, man. I said I wouldn't judge, but my god. No, to tell you the truth, it would have to be, I'm sure you've probably heard this all kinds of times. But my favorite character is Soundwave.    He is. Did you see, have you seen my newest review of the Siege figure? I want him so bad. Dude, that thing is so impressive. I want it so bad, bro. But I have yet to see him in any stories here. Like anything that is close by to me, I have yet to see him. Well, that's me. I just happened to walk in, look down. There he was. My store never gets stuff. And there's Wave 2. Never saw Wave 1. One Megatron, that's all I saw. Hey, have you had a chance to score your G1 reissue of gears? Not yet. Really? Dude, I still have.  And I always try it for you, bro. I always do, and I never see him. I think it's a pipe dream. It's like the Loch Ness Monster. It's like the Loch Ness Monster, man. I've seen pictures, but it don't exist.   This episode may air tonight instead of waiting a day. Just to give my people a treat. Oh, man. All right, here we go. These are now the YouTube questions. All right, let's do it.  On YouTube. Dude, to tell you the truth, man, I had no intention to do it. None, all right? I am not a true reviewer.   The only reason Toast and Toys exists is because I was corresponding with my case at the embossed in shots. And he told me, if he was to send me a box, that he would want us to film it while taking shots to it. And I was like, OK, I can do that. Hey, back then, I was like, yo, this isn't a good idea to do this. 20 episodes later, I'm still saying, hey, man, this isn't a good idea to do this. So that's how we pretty much came about, man. And it works. You have a very entertaining show, and it's never the same show twice. You've got all those different toys and camaraderie between you and your partners. Javi, is that his name? Make sure to say it. Yeah, well, his name is Javi. Oh, I'm sorry, buddy. Yeah, he is my daughter's fiance. So it's like weird, man. So we're all just like one big family. You know what I mean? Speaking of family. Uh-oh. I think Dylan's coming for a visit. Oh, OK. Dylan, are you coming for a visit? Come here. Can you say hi to Mr. Tony? Hi. Hi, how's everything going, Dylan? Good. Good. Kiss her. He likes rescue bots. He does? Yep. I was showing him this guy. Oh, boy. Hey, I need that figure. You do? Yeah, I do. Who is that? It's Arthur's crime, but it's mine. That's the extra one. Oh, man. You getting ready to go to bed? Yeah. OK. Can you tell Mr. Tony good night? Good night. All right. Good night. Night. Looks like you have a lot of cars right there. He's got a lot of Hot Wheels cars. Yeah, he's doing it. Look at that. All his cars. He's got a lot of us just like Daddy. He's like his big cars. That's pretty cool. All right, then, Oliver. You get ready. OK. OK. Goodbye. He's showing off now. All right. Really? Get out of here, you're not getting to the wall. Can I give you a snack? Yeah. I don't have any snacks here. OK. I want a snack. I'm fresh out of snacks. For real this time. For real? OK, when I'm done talking to him, I'll get you a snack. OK. All right. Goodbye. Bye. You too. Bye-bye. OK. OK. He's a eight. Yeah, he is, man. OK. Where were we? Oh, yeah. I think it was question number six. Yes. What was the system? We were talking about Bobby. Right. So Bobby, he plans on, they're going to be married here in October. So I'm pretty much, I have a show with my future son-in-law. That's how you want to go about it. Yeah, it's pretty cool. Yeah. It's really cool. I do appreciate it, man. All right, sir. Number seven.   For real? Yeah. But for the few subscriptions we do have, I love every one of you guys. And for those people, we just love to get in front of the camera and do our thing.     And what sucks is that the more you drink, the less you talk about the figure.  There was one episode.  And it must have carried on for 10 minutes. Dude, exactly, man. You know? So it's like, I don't know, man. But for the people that do watches, we appreciate it. And we just tend to keep doing what we're doing, man. That's good stuff. I hope I can get some people your way. I hope so. Hey, I doubt it, though. But I hope so. Oh, I'll link you. Don't worry. OK. OK, buddy. Number eight. I know where this one's going to go. There are thousands of toy reviewers, toy entertainers on YouTube. What makes you different than the rest?  No, really, bro?  Now, yours is more of a family show because I see you and I see Javi. Is it your wife or his fiance that's filming because there's always somebody laughing in the background? Yeah. That's my daughter slash his fiance. She's the one that operates the camera. And then, occasionally, my wife, she'll be in the audience.  Nice. That's cool. All mine right here.  That hit me, and I was like, I don't care what it takes. I have to do a Sarah McLaughlin-style sad story about these island beauties.  I had so much fun with that. Yeah, man. Oh, boy. All righty. Number nine, what's your thoughts on the Transformers social community, i.e. YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, et cetera? And do you have any special shout outs? OK. I only belong to Transformers and Shots. I made the mistake. Yeah, I made the mistake of joining this one on the Transformers group. And I swear to God, dude, everybody was hating on everybody.    So I've left a lot of Transformers and such as my main one. And that's the only group that I happened to deal with.  So now, as far as the shout outs, I have all kinds of shout outs, man. I have a shout out to your channel for Christ's sake, OK? So Patriot Prime, all right? Yes, sir. Hey, that's right. I am G1's V8 producer. OK. I got a tiny bit of Jameson and some Canada drive going on here. I also have a shout out to Boston Shots because they were the ones that gave us the chance to even start all this ridiculousness. And then to Chris and to Natalie, they have helped us out all kinds of times. And actually, I can't think of anybody right now, bro. I have lots of shout outs, but I can only remember three.  There you go, there you go. You know, I'll be honest. I've seen Boston Shots. I've watched your show. I've been wanting to do something like that myself. Dude. But I need to wait until they kind of like go out of town. Yeah, OK, OK, OK. With my luck, I'd break this.  I know. I need to dust. Hey, I made that toy so bad, I can taste it from here, bro. Uh-oh.  All right. Last question. God damn, this has been fun. Do you have any channel goals? And where can our viewers find you plug yourself? OK. Our latest episode, this is the first time we're going to be trying green screen. All right? Yeah.  We used to come out 12 times a year, but I'm too old to be doing all this drinking and carrying on bullshit, OK? So we kind of like cut back to every other month.  And you can find us at Toast & Toys on YouTube.   Hold on a minute.  We're not clean by all means, all right? We got some profanity. There's a couple episodes I'm not even proud of, OK? No, really. And they're bad.   Like I said, I will link the channel in the description and your latest videos in a way to subscribe to you at the end of this video. So I will promote you, my friend. I appreciate it, Jason. Thank you very much, man. Oh, no problem. Thank you. I appreciate you getting on. It was just one of those random things I think you made a comment toward my videos. And I was like, hey, I need to get you on my show. Oh, yeah, man. And I'm so happy to be on it, too, man. Dude, and it was a blast. I really enjoyed it. And I guess that's it for the question. So we're done here. OK, bro. Excellent.  There's some odd fan fiction for you guys out there. I don't know where this will go. All right. Guys, once again, this is Patriot Prime. Don't forget to like. Don't forget to subscribe to keep up with all the videos that I put out. Special thanks out again to my friend Tony from Toasting Toys. This is Patriot Prime signing out. Hoorah! Hey, I really appreciate you guys stopping by my channel. 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Gaia is saying, you know, if you don't wake up This is it. Well, you still have a chance. That's what I'm saying I think everyone still has a chance at least if you know when when the event happens to at least stay in a Third-dimensional earth that doesn't have this crap that's going on and still be able to progress versus if they continue the path They're going they're just gonna get reconstituted. This is it for them


Because even though people's lives are not happy and fulfilled in times, there is a familiarity to linear time. And the Holy Spirit is associated with the unknown, something that will be completely different than anything in time. In the state of heaven, the mind is naturally in a state of peace. But the first fear that seemed to be experienced was the fall from grace. And it was a tremendous shift in mind from loving and peaceful and happy to terrifying and frightening. So each step that you take with the Holy Spirit will have some reverberations of fear associated with it. Because even though you are awakening from a nightmare, the ego is afraid of this awakening. It's afraid that it will be annihilated. It's afraid that it will cease to exist. And that's why sometimes people will refer to the Course of Miracles as brainwashing. To the world, brainwashing is terrifying because it is losing a sense of control over your own thoughts. When people say to me, it sounds like brainwashing, I will say, oh, it is mindwashing. But you don't need to be afraid of it. You just need to surrender into it. So it does come down to the issue of control. And that's really what George Orwell's novel is about. It's about fear and control. To the ego, the Holy Spirit is controlling. To the ego, the Holy Spirit is dismantling its whole world. But let us take for a moment, time to look at the difference between the ego and the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit never commands and never demands. The Holy Spirit only offers suggestions and reminders. The Holy Spirit offers helpful instructions. But you can always tell that it is the ego in your mind. It feels like a threat or a command or a demand. The Holy Spirit never offers an ultimatum because that would be coercive. And the Holy Spirit does not use force, does not force anyone. The Holy Spirit must wait until you voluntarily offer the thoughts of the least to Him. So in this sense, the Holy Spirit is different from Orwell's big brother. Because that big brother is based on control. And the Holy Spirit is based on giving up control. Now there is a positive use of the word control in A Course in Miracles. Jesus says that you can control the direction of your thinking. Meaning you can actually train your mind to align with God and the Holy Spirit instead of the ego. And there is another use of control that is very helpful in the Course in Miracles. Jesus says you have no control over the world you made. And that is implying that true happiness comes from surrender of control. It would be like going to a movie theater and watching a movie. And the ego would say, you could talk to the characters and say, no, stop doing that. I want you to do something different. But the Holy Spirit knows that it's a movie and the movie has already been filmed. And this is why you cannot control people or behaviors. It is even frustrating if you think you have direct control over your own body. You think I should be able to make it lose weight or be more fit or whatever. But the body is part of a prearranged script. And again you can only control the direction of your thinking. This is why behavior modification never really works.  The ego says, I have many other problems we can throw in here. You spend 10 years losing 40 pounds.  And that's why Jesus says it's with your thoughts that we must work. We have to change the way that you think. From thinking with the ego to thinking with God. And when you're thinking is a lie, the form will be irrelevant. Do you really think Jesus was ever concerned about his hair or his weight? You know, imagine he says, Peter, John, I'm having a bad hair day today. Or stop fleeting me. I've put on 20 pounds. I have manners from heaven and I'm not going to listen to you anymore. You know, it seems funny because it's really the thoughts. It's about changing our thinking. So if you follow what I'm saying you'll see that you can stop worrying about behavior. Because what you do comes from what you think. And if you hear what I'm saying you'll devote all your attention and effort into mind training. So I reached a point in my life where I realized that I was going to put all my effort into mind training. Before that I was into physical fitness, played tennis and golf, basketball. I went weight training, you know, did all this stuff to try to improve the body. But once I started doing the course I realized that I needed to put all of my effort into mind training. Before the course I would go to movies to escape from the suffering in my life and distract away. And after the course I would go to movies to let my emotions come up and to pray throughout the movie and ask the Holy Spirit to show me what I needed for healing. Before the course I hated to travel. But after the course came into my life I was willing to do whatever would be helpful for the healing of my mind. So this body has traveled tens of thousands of miles but it's been fun. So it really comes down to the mind training, just the willingness to do the mind training. And you learn to trust the Holy Spirit and let go of trying to control anything in the world.