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The documented drama of an actual crime. For the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles police department, you will travel step by step on the side of the law through an actual case transcribed from official police files. From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force in action. It was Tuesday, February 1st. It was raining in Los Angeles. We were working the day watch out of robbery detail. My partner's Frank Smith. The boss is chief of detective Stad Brown. My name's Friday. I was on my way into the office and it was 8.07 a.m. when I got to room 27A. Robbery squad room. Morning Joe. Hi. The rain let up? No. It's still coming down. It doesn't look like it's going to stop either. Sure got it out in the valley. Anything in the book for us? No. Talk to Skipper. He's got a couple things for us to check out. What do we got, you know? A bank job last week. Stad's office came up with a list of possibles. We're supposed to help check them out. All right. Here's a list. A couple on there we know, too. Mm-hmm. When'd Rocky get out? A couple of months ago. Can't stay out of trouble, can he? I called the adult authority. They say he's got a job working 9 to 6. We can still find a way to get out. Yeah. Now let's get on it. Okay. You think I'll need my rubbers? What? My rubbers. You think I'll need them? I don't know. They're your feet. Drainin' pretty hard. Well, I guess I better take them. If fail gets sore, if she finds out I'm not wearing them. I didn't hear you. I say fail gets sore if she finds out I'm not wearing them. Oh. I get home, she looks at the soles of my shoes. And if they're wet, she knows I left the overshoes in the locker. She gets real hacked, though. Yeah. You gonna put them on now? Yeah. I have to walk outside. Oh, yeah. Oh, sure. Hard to get on. Are you about finished there? Yeah. I don't want to see Danny before he leaves. Well, is it something special? No, I heard that he had a set of golf clubs for sale. I thought maybe I'd look at them. Are you gonna start playing golf? No. I thought maybe I'd take a look at them. No. I've been thinking maybe I ought to do something like that. Some kind of hobby. Golf isn't too expensive, is it? Fishing, Joe. What? You ought to take up fishing. That's for you. It is. Sure, fishing. Out in the boat, fighting the unknown. Well, golf, you hit a ball and you know where it's going. No, not me. You know what I mean. With golf, you kind of know what's gonna happen. But with fishing, there's always that mystery of what's going on at the other end of your line. You never know. Yeah. No, you don't, Joe. You never know what's gonna take the bait. Might be a big school, a white sea bass, or yellowtail down there. Might even be a school albacore. Now, fishing's for you, Joe. You think so, do you? Well, it's a little early yet, but you just hang on, old buddy, and tell you what, I'll take you out with me this year. Show you how it's done. No, I don't think so. I heard about your fishing. What do you mean?  He's jealous, Joe. He is. Yeah, he wanted them. Hot shot, I get it. You better hurry up. We got one to roll on. Yeah? Auction house out on Wilshire Boulevard. Huh? They were just hit. 8.37 a.m. We arrived at the Charles Kane Auction Gallery. It was a large Spanish-type building located on the corner of Wilshire Boulevard in Gregory Drive. A radio card answered the call, and the officers from the unit were taking reports. The policeman at the door told us that his partner was making a check of the neighborhood to see if he could come up with any information for us. An ambulance had arrived, and the man at the door told us that the attendant was in the store taking care of one of the victims. We went in and talked to him. Hey, watch it, then. He's like a stove Mahidian. Oh, sorry, Mr. Kane. Are you fellow officers? Yeah, that's right. Friday in Smith, Central Robbery. All right, if we talk to him. Sure, I'm almost finished here. Sure, you can talk to me.  All right, sir. This is my partner, Frank Smith. My name's Friday. Charles Kane. This is my place. I'm the one who will be robbed. Yes, sir. We understand. This is Miss Morgan. I know these are policemen. How do you do? Oh, you're the warrant. Where's your other cops? Sir? Other fellows. The ones in the police car. Where'd they go?  What's that, sir? The guns, the big ones. You know, the ones who are going to handle it. Well, I guess you could say that. Yeah, well, I suppose you want me to tell you all about it, huh? Yes, sir, if you would, please. Yeah, been in the auctioneer business a long time. This is the first time a thing like this has ever happened. First time. Uh-huh. Came in this morning early. Came in to check your consignment from Santa Barbara. Loading new stuff. Only it's old. Yes, sir. We bought it up. It's supposed to be here this morning. I came in the office. Yeah, yeah, right in here. The fellow will stand back at the door. As soon as I came in, he clouded me on the head. Whacked me a gooden. Eh, eh, wait. Take it easy with that bandage, will you? Yes, sir. I'm sorry. If you like that fella, Ichabod. Who's that? Ichabod, you know. Washington Urban. Ichabod Crane. The fella wrote around carrying his head under his arm. Yes, sir. I feel like I could do that. Uh, Grand, right, Urban. Read almost all your stuff. Grand. Yes, sir. What time did you come in? Yeah, Grand. Oh, it must have been about 7.45. Wonder if he can give us a description of the man. Sure.  If we can get a description of the man, Mr. Cain, we can get a broadcast out on him. Yeah, he robbed the safe, too, you know. Yes, sir, we understand. Cleaned it right out. How tall was the man, sir? About six foot two. Big fella. Might even been bigger. How about his weight? Big there, too. Maybe a couple hundred pounds. Did you see the man, Mr. Morgan? Yes, he was here when I came in. Yeah, but I'm the one he hit. Well, he was back here with Mr. Cain when I came in. The man must have just hit him. Did you get a pretty good look at him? Yes, sir. Yeah, he hit me. He gave me a real whack right on the head. Yes, sir. This fella's covered it all up with bandages. You'd be able to see it. A real whack. Yes, sir, we understand. I think that'll take care of it, Mr. Cain. Will, huh? Yes, sir. I suggest you see your doctor, though. Yeah, why? We usually recommend it, sir. Oh, yeah. Well, thanks, young fella. Yes, sir. How about the man's coloring, Mr. Cain? Yeah, that ambulance fella been real nice. Yes, sir. Can you tell us about the man who held you up? Light. Light-complexed. Did he wear glasses? No, didn't have glasses. Well, he had them on when I saw him. Yeah? Well, he didn't when he whacked me. What kind of glasses were they, man? Well, they're the ones with the plastic rim, sort of a light color. Must have taken them off when he hit me. What was he wearing? Gray suit. Business suit. Gray. Was he clean-shaven? Do you remember? Well, yes. He had a dark beard, though. Real heavy, but he was clean-shaven. I'll get the soft job. All right. Uh, did he have any accent when he talked, Mr. Cain? No. Just hauled off and hit me as soon as it came in the door. Didn't say a word. Just whacked me on the head. Did he speak to you, Miss Morgan? Well, yes, he did. He told me to keep quiet and nothing would happen. Did you notice anything in his speech? No. He talked just like anybody else. Okay, you called him, right? Yeah. Miss Morgan? Yes, sir. What time did you get in this morning? Oh, it must have been about eight, maybe a couple of minutes after. Did you see the hold-up man when he came in? No, not right away. He wasn't out in the gallery. Uh-huh. I came into the office here. This is where I work most of the time. That's when I saw him. He was standing right over there. Mr. Cain was on the floor, and the robber was standing next to him. I guess he just hit Mr. Cain. Uh-huh. What did he say to you? Well, I told you. He said for me to keep quiet and nothing would happen to me. Did he say anything else? No. No, he didn't. Didn't say much to me either. Would you know the man if you saw him again, Miss Morgan? Yes, yes, I would. So would I. All right, sir. We'd like both of you to come downtown and look at some pictures, if you would. Oh, got him, eh? Fast work. Well, no, sir. Now, we haven't got him in custody yet, but we may have a picture of him downtown. Yeah, how'd that be? Well, if he's done this kind of thing before, and he's been arrested, we'd have a record on him. Oh, yeah. Mr. Cain. Yeah? What kind of a burglar alarm system do you have here in the store? Oh, it's right there on the window. Mm-hmm. Hey, you see those little strips of foil? Electricity runs through them. They get broken and ring the bell out in front of the store.  Oh, no, no. All these figures, if the bell went off, the cops would be here soon enough. I see. You must have found out some way to turn the thing off, though. It didn't ring at all. I'd heard it if it had. I'd heard it sure.  Yeah, both of us. Got out the broadcast, Joe. Good. It's all the crime lab that are on the way. All right, Clarence. I took another look at the front door. Whoever broke in sure knew his job real clean. You got anything? Well, we don't know yet.  Not me. Sure could use a cigarette, though. Calm me down. There you are, Mr. King. How about you, Miss? Thank you. Well, these questions about smoking, I want to know if you're going to catch that man. It was over $1,200 in that safe, and I had a couple of hundred on me. He took all that. What's asking all these silly questions for her? Well, there's some cigarettes here on the floor. It looks like the holed up man must have waited for you two to get here. Yeah, probably did. Broke into the safe, and then waited for me to come in. Dirty sneak. What do you got, Joe? Some paper matches here. Might be something. Yeah? Can you take a look at them? Yeah. There. I'm printing on that one. Can you read what it says? 23 miles to Wilming. The rest of it's burned off. Probably Wilmington. You got something, Clue? Oh, we don't know yet, sir. Here's another one, Joe. Can you read it? Yeah. This one's almost whole. Only the tip's been burned. What's it say? Well, it says 14 miles to Santa Monica. What was it? 14 miles to Santa Monica. Look like matches from a motel, every hotel, something like that. Might be a restaurant. You guys won't have any trouble at all. Get in the fella, I mean. Sir? Yeah, simple. Just find a place that's 23 miles from Wilmington, 14 miles to Santa Monica. Don't you get it? Find that place, and your man will be waiting for you. You get it? Yes, sir. Yeah, simple. Find that place, and your man will be there. 9.20 a.m. The crime lab arrived and went over the place. The burned matches and the cigarette butts were retained for evidence. Pictures were taken of their position relative to the safe. We continued to question the two victims. From their stories, we were able to piece together what had happened. They were both asked to go with us to the robbery division to check through the mug books for an identification of the holdup man. From their descriptions of the man, we were able to come up with an accurate idea of what he looked like. We contacted the artist up in the crime analysis division and asked him to start a composite drawing of the feet. The crime lab called and gave us additional information on the matches. From the distances printed on them, we were able to get an idea where the original matchbook might have come from. The intersection of the lines was in the Hollywood area. 3.15 p.m. We drove over to talk to the manager of the company who had made the matches, Mr. Tom Holger. Come on in. Thank you, sir. Thank you very much. Sit down. All right, sir, fine. Now, what can I do for you? We're police officers, Mr. Holger. My name's Friday. This is my partner, Frank Smith. How do you do? How do you do, sir? Well, what can I do for you? I hope it's nothing I've done wrong. No, sir, nothing like that. We'd like some help if you can give it to us. Sure. Always glad to cooperate with the police. I never know what I'm going to need them. All right, sir. We have some matches here, Mr. Holger. We understand they were made by your firm. Our matches, huh? Yes, sir. We'd like to know who they were made for, if you could tell us. Hm? Yeah, we made them. Sort of an exclusive design. Can you tell us who you made them for? Oh, I'll check the book. Probably have them in there. Now, let me see. I think that's model 4XY892. Yes. Yes, here's the book. It's probably in here. Huh. A lot of matches. Oh, yes. We make quite a few. They all differ? Most of them. Some of the same.  We make a few changes so that it fits the line he's in. You know. Uh-huh. Neither one of you follows his collectors, are you? No. Collectors. Either one of you guys save matches? Oh, no, sir. Neither one of you? No, sir. Well, it's a good hobby. I've got quite a collection. Yes, maybe six, maybe 7,000. That many? Oh, yes, yes. Some of the collectors have more. I've only been saving for about five years. Well, working in a place like this makes collecting easier, huh? Oh, no, you can't do that. Huh? Well, I can't take them out of these samples. I can't. Oh, no, no. That wouldn't do at all. You have to find them. It wouldn't be fair to take advantage of my position to get the books. Oh, no, not fair at all. What? Oh, no. No, I take trips. Drive all over to get ones. Last summer, I went back to the Smithsonian Institute. Now they've really got a collection. Oh, it's just beautiful. All right. Oh, my, yes, beautiful. Had a wonderful trip. Got a lot of new books. My wife did very good, too.  How's that? Sugar. She saves sugar cubes. You know where the wrappings and tell where the cubes came from? Oh, oh, yeah. Yes, sir, I've seen them. I know what you mean. She saves them. Two shopping bags full. Wonderful trip. About the matches, sir. I wonder if you could tell me. Oh, yes, yes. Well, here you are. I think this is it. Now, let me see the ones you have. I'll see what you have. Now, let me see. Huh? Same one. Yes, that's it. You know, we have guys coming in here all the time to see if they can't get some books for their collection. I won't go for it, though. The dodges they use. Some of the stories would really make you laugh if you didn't know what they were trying to do. Yes, sir. Now, about these matchbooks here. What? Oh, well, I try to tell them. I go out and get the matches fair. Don't come around here and try to do things the easy way. Go out and get them fair. That's what I tell them. Can you tell us where these matches came from, please? Oh, all over the world. They come from all over. No, sir. The matches we brought in. Hmm? Please. Oh, yes. Oh, my. No, no. These came from Hollywood. I met the others, the ones for collecting. Yes, sir. Can you tell us where in Hollywood? Well, let me see. Here. There's a... Mm-hmm. One, two, three, four, five, six. Oh, six places that use these matches have a different cover on them, of course. Well, anyway, you can tell us where these particular matches came from. Well, not when they're burned. If I could see the color of the head, I might be able to tell. The big part? Well, we put a different color head on the matches. Oh, I see. Different place, different color. Mm-hmm. Any way you could tell from these, though. Well, could be done.  Mm-hmm. Analyze the burned portion. Tell what the chemical content is in the head. Tell that way. Take some time, though. But how long? Well, a couple of hours, maybe a little longer. Well, how much would knowing the color help? Well, you can see here in the book. There are two with red heads, two with green, and two with white. Be able to narrow it down to two for you. Well, that's not necessary, Mr. Holder. Be glad to do it. Well, we'll drop the matches by our crime lab. They can run the test and then we'll call you back. All right, that'll be fine. I wonder if you could give us the address of the places that use the matchbooks. Oh, sure, I got them right here. I'll make a copy for you. Sure, appreciate it. No trouble at all. Say, I was just thinking... What's that, sir? You fellas wouldn't like to start a collection, would you? I could let you have a few books to get you started. Well, sir... Wouldn't be cheating. Just a few. No, sir. The thing's just the same.  Loads of fun. Huh? Sugarcube. It's all the way from Des Moines. We got the list of places using the type of book matches found at the scene of the robbery. We told Tom Holder that we'd be back if we needed any more help, and then we left. 5.30 p.m. We called the office and talked to Sergeant Murphy and Rafferty. We gave them the addresses of the three motels and asked them to check them out. 6.46 p.m. We started to check out the three motels on our list. The rain continued to fall. The Weather Bureau's report indicated that it would keep up for another 12 hours. At the first two places, we got no new information on the hold-up, ma'am. 7.29 p.m. We checked at the last place on our list. Yeah? Police officers would like to talk to you, sir. Oh, sure. Come on in. Thank you. Oh, it's sure coming down, isn't it? Yes, sir. What's all this about? Something wrong? No, we just like your help. I think I can do. Say you guys like a cup of hot coffee. Take the chill out of your bones. No, sir, no thanks. Just the same. Well, how about your partner? No thanks. All right. Now, what can I do for you? I'd like for you to take a look at a picture here and tell us if you've seen the man. Sure. Frank, we got the sketch there. Oh, yeah. Got it right here. A little wet. Uh-huh. Got some water got in the pocket. Yeah. What do you want this guy for? Something special? We'd like to talk to him. Yeah, sure. I didn't mean to pry. Just wondering if it was a big job or maybe a bad check, something like that. Uh-huh. There you are. Seen him before? This is his description down here at the bottom? That's right. Robbery, huh? Big deal. You seen him? I'm not sure. Description fit a lot of people. Uh-huh. Does it fit anyone registered here? Yeah. At least four guys. You are listening to Dragnet, the authentic story of your police force in action. They've got the taste and they've got my this millions all agree. They're low in nicotine and they're the highest quality. 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We don't know, sir. I hope not. I run a quiet place here. I'd like to keep it that way. All right. Would you just stand over there, sir? Sure. Not here. When'd you see him last? I didn't see him at all today. Last time was yesterday evening. Came by to see if there was any phone messages for him. You say who was going to call him? No. Kind of impressed me like he was just asking to kill time. Better check the closet, huh? Yeah. I didn't check it good at first. I will now. How long has this killer been here? A couple of days. That's all. Just a couple of days. I didn't know he'd cause any trouble. I wouldn't let him in if I didn't know him that. Sorry, sir. Joe. Yeah. See you, man. Sure. You got something? Yeah. I'll do your laundry here. Take a look. Yeah. Burglar tools. The burglar tools were not disturbed until they could be checked for fingerprints. We asked the manager of the motel to go back to the office and act as if nothing had happened when the suspect came in. He told us the motel had a switchboard telephone and we asked him to ring us in the event the office called. I called the city hall and told them where we were. I also asked that another team of men be sent out to help us with a stakeout. Then Frank and I settled down to wait for John Keller. The rain kept up. We waited. Eight. Eight-thirty. No sign of the suspect. The office called to say that they were sending Stuart and Creasy out to relieve us at midnight. Nine-thirty. Ten-fifteen p.m. Well, I sure wish we could smoke. Yeah. I wonder what he's doing out in a night like this. Sure coming down, isn't it? Yeah. Oh, Faye and the kids are all right. Is there anything wrong? No, but once in a while when it rains real heavy like this, the storm drain across the street gets clogged. Water backs up, fills the street, you know. Well, we only got another half hour to go here. Yeah. I'm glad to get some dry socks on. No, hold it. Somebody coming out there. Yeah. All right, Keller, stand still. Who are you? What are you doing my place? Police officers, you're under arrest. What do you want me for? I haven't done anything. Those are your tools in the closet? You guys been snooping around. Better shake them, Frank. Yeah. I got it gone. You'll find it anyway. I got it gone. All right, give it to him. Thirty-eight. All right, got it. Yeah. Let's get out of here. Now, you got nothing on me. Let me call a lawyer. You'll be turning me loose in a couple of hours.  What do you got here? Pretty wise. You guys don't miss a trick. No. Thirty-two strapped to his leg, Joe. What are you doing with that, Keller? Saying nothing until I see a lawyer. Where's your wallet? In my coat. That way you keep your money? You know a better place. All right, take it out. Well, I see cops think they own you. You ever done any big time? I know what you're talking about. All right, come on, Keller. You know what's going on. You ever done any big time? Yeah. Where? Back east. For what? I'm robbery. You want parole now? None of your business. Now, look, we're going to find out anyway. Save yourself some time, and that's some trouble. Answer the question. Saw on parole. What's that parole? You know you're out here? Yeah. Didn't he tell you it's against the law for an ex-con? I have a gun. He told me. And how come you got two of them? I drove out here. You need protection on a trip like that. How much money you got in your wallet there? I don't know. About how much? I haven't got the slightest idea. I always know how much I got. Maybe it makes a difference to you. Count it. What for? Count it. Fifty. Hundred. Hundred and fifty. Put it out on the table. We'll guess we can both count it. Now let's try it again. One, two, three, four, seven. It comes out $3,053. You want me to count the change in my pocket, too? Where'd you get the money? I worked for it. Where? None of your business. All right, Keller, let's get on town. Frank, you want to get the tools? Yeah. Pick up the money. Keller, put it back in your wallet. Well, suppose I just leave it there and walk out of here. Wouldn't I make it all right?  It doesn't make any difference anyway. You guys got nothing on me. Nothing you can hold me on. Yeah. I'll get the tools, Joe. All right. Hey, how about my coat? Your what? A coat. All right, here. Now let's go. You guys are sure going to feel pretty silly. Is that all right? Sure, you got nothing on me. My lawyer will have me out in no time. He's a good lawyer. Yeah, well, he's going to have to be. Huh? They get you out of this one. The story you have just heard is true. The names were changed to protect the innocent. On June 14th, trial was held in Department 97, Superior Court, of the state of California, in and for the county of Los Angeles. In a moment, the results of that trial. Now, here is our star, Jack Webb. Thank you, George Phenomenon. 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Then I saw at some point your journey led you to India, and this is kind of like the awakening moment, right? So can you share a little bit about that with us? Yeah, exactly. So I was working in Silicon Valley. I just started to explore different ways to, I guess, hinder some of these side effects of caffeine, but also was trying to like heal maybe some of the depression and anxiety that was sort of underlying all of it and was just more or less being amplified by caffeine and activating the sympathetic nervous system and around that time I was painting like every night after I'd get home from work and I got invited to do an artist and residency program in Goa, India. At the time I'd never been outside of the country besides like Canada or Mexico and I was enjoying my career, but I knew that I needed to sort of break myself open a little bit to really get to that next level. I remember having a meeting with my VP of product at the time. He was my manager and I was just telling him some of the things I was experiencing like I really felt like I had a lot in me, but I was sort of holding myself back and he told me that he was like, Shane, you're the most talented designer that I've ever worked with that doesn't know it. And I think that that really hit me hard as far as to how anxiety was hindering my ability to be my highest self and reach my potential. So when I heard that I was kind of like, it's time, whatever it takes, I got to get rid of this. I want to step in to figure out who I really am. So I got this invite to go to India, live there for six months and work on an art show essentially and had a free place to stay and it wasn't like a lucrative opportunity at least financially, but spiritually and personal development wise, it totally was. So I took a leave of absence from work and jumped on a plane and landed in Goa. That's pretty amazing. And then as you start going through this like rediscovery, what's is it the tea that kind of sets off the idea to start the company? Or when were you thinking about how do I take this? Like it's making you, you feel amazing personally. And then at some point, just making that leap to the ultimate, in terms of anxiety and depression, starting a company surely can set that on fire. And so just talk us a little bit through of when you started to figure things out. And then I guess at some point the seesaw goes, okay, this can help other people. And then that becomes the greater mission and sort of the fear kind of calms down. But what was that like? Yeah, I think in psychology, they talk about changing your environment and how that can change a lot of your internal environment as well. And so going into a new country, obviously with completely, it was a completely different country, not just time zone, it had different beliefs, different clothing, different speaking, different everything was kind of like it allowed me to rethink my own cultural prescriptions. So like what was prescribed to me by my parents, by religion, by school, by friends, essentially telling you, or not telling you, but giving you a sense for what is good, what is bad, what is cool, what is not cool, sort of trying to pigeonhole you into an identity. And when I was in a new place, not knowing anyone, traveling there on my own, I sort of felt empowered to just be like, it's a fresh canvas, right? Like I could sort of detach myself from some of the things that were no longer serving me or at minimum at least see them in a different light because now it wasn't the norm. And I was in a place where these cultural prescriptions wasn't the majority, the people weren't doing that. So that was definitely really a big, powerful insight that I had that took me back. And then part of that was also over there. Chai is like where coffee is here. Like it's on every corner and like everyone, it's in everyone's home and whatnot. So I started drinking chai and I'd love chai going to India. And when I arrived there, like drinking solid chai at the Wala, it was just like an amazing experience where back home, it was really tough to kick coffee for me just because of how ingrained into culture it is.  Let's go grab a cup of coffee. So it was really tough. And in India, I got to essentially replace that with something else and I got to see what that feels like and was like, why can't I do this all the time? Like it gave me power, right? And so when I came home from that trip, I found a masala chai blend, powdered blend that had no sugar in India. Like they typically will mix it with a lot of milk cream and a ton of sugar. So it's not really like a sustainable morning ritual, at least for the lifestyle I'm looking to live. And this blend that I found had one seventh caffeine of coffee. So just inherently cutting down caffeine really helped me with anxiety and depression. It helped me sleep better, which I think sleep might be the one thing that kind of, it's a fix all for most things. If you can solve that, it really does help. And I was drinking this every morning and masala chai is, it's an amalgam of multiple different ingredients, right? Like chai means tea and tea and masala chai is typically like a black tea. And then the masala is like a blend of spices where you have cardamom, cinnamon, ginger, cloves. And so I was kind of just looking at that and I was like, like if I'm going to drink this every single morning before pursuing like my dreams essentially or like my highest self, like what can I put into this to essentially like stack in a ritual or a healthy habit, healthy consumption habit? They would serve, you know, my lifestyle. So I was like focus is obviously a really powerful attribute when you're in like the entrepreneurship world. And at the time moving home from India, I was working for a tech startup. And immunity obviously you don't want to get sick, no one does. And so I added some chaga and reishi. Oh yeah. And for the focus, I turned to lion's mane. And then I also trained jujitsu. I've been working, I've been training jujitsu since I was a little kid. I live a really active life outside of that too. Or I'm constantly like I drop in on CrossFit classes, a rock climb, like surf, all these things. And the physical side is something that's really, really important to me, both just because it feels good feeling that way, feeling strong and feeling vital in my body, but also because it helps with the mental side too. Mind and body are really connected. And so to support the body, I added cordyceps. And then I was doing intermittent fasting. And so I added cinnamon because it helped me curb the sugar cravings that I would get normally around like 10 to 11. And then turmeric to help with inflammation. And a little bit of sea salt. I felt like it really helped the flavors pop together. But obviously there's some minerals, there's some hydration properties to it. But that was ultimately the formula that I was just like playing around with in my home kitchen. No intention of starting a business. Just knew back to LA, was actually working on another startup that I co-founded with a friend that was a B2B SAS super techie company. And this was just my little secret where I was working remote, like didn't even have people, nobody really knew I was even drinking this. I was just like, I needed something to make me feel good. And that was ultimately what I found.


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OK, let's get going, I guess. Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Confidence Computing Mini Summit. I think this is for most of us who missed the one in San Francisco in July. We've got some good talks here today. I'm doing an intro here. In a few minutes, we'll hear from Dr. Trieflinger on pets of the world tonight. I think this will be a very interesting topic. Osama will take us through his subject matter expertise around attestation and teach us about some of the formal specifications. We'll take a quick break then. And then, Jean-Yu, we'll talk about Secure, the open, euler, native Confidence Computing framework. This one is new for me, Jean-Yu. So looking forward to that. Nikolai, with a use case deep dive, secure and privacy-preserving cyber threat intelligence exchanges is a hot topic at the moment and a very interesting area to be working in the exchange of cyber threat intelligence. It's absolutely a necessity for most government entities, I think, around Europe in particular. And Confidence Computing seems to be a really good area for that. And Josh, who's in the Google research team, done some nice work recently on TDX, I think, as well. We'll talk to us about securing the unseen and the research that they're doing inside the Confidence Computing space. And then we'll wrap up with Mike at the end, as well. Okay, a few words from me. First of all, I think some of you may know me I'm around the Confidence Computing space for quite a while now at Intel. And just a couple of things to brush over here. I have to go back to see this now. So where we've been successful so far, security, I think we've done a good job on over the last couple of years since we brought SGX to the market and recently with the SEV, et cetera. Compliance is a big, strong area for us, too, as well. I think a lot of us are working in the compliance space now and seeing compliance as a nice tailwind. And control, as well, we see data sovereignty as a big thing, as well. Governance here in Europe, as well. And we'll see a lot more announcements, I think, coming on data sovereignty in the next couple of weeks or months, even. But we're still in the sort of early adapter stage, I think, and there's still some good use cases coming, but not enough. But we're starting to see a line of sight here to what I call platform services. And these platform services are things that are starting to happen on the hyperscalers, like data bricks, analytics, easy to use type of things on hyperscaler services. And we'll see that with Google, I think, a lot more, as well, talking to Josh earlier on. But we still have a lot to do in the awareness space. We simply don't have the level of awareness that we have with confidence computing at the moment across the market. And I think this is a problem for us. Raising awareness is an individual and collective responsibility for confidence computing at the moment. In surveys that we've done at Intel, we're seeing very, very poor results from CSOS, DevSecOps, on what confidence computing can actually bring from a compliance and security perspective. So this is a collective responsibility that we all have to bring out of infrastructure and into different levels of services across confidence computing. And that really means getting into areas like standards bodies. And this is, I know, from talking to Micros where the CCC will do a lot more work. Policymakers, we're starting to see some good tailwinds come from the likes of Anisa who are talking and recommending confidence computing as a mechanism for securing data in the cloud. And a lot of this is very much cloud focused. We've seen others from ICO in the UK and there's a collection of these now. I know the CCC are in Asia, in November, I think. The Monetary Authority of Singapore is also recommending confidence computing as a sort of go-to protection for the cloud. Customer success stories, we need to keep these coming. We've had some good ones, working with Sven on Bosch, for example, showing how we can bring confidential AI to the cloud using Intel S2X. But we need to start driving these. And again, with the CCC, we're gonna get down and dirty on customer success stories and start to bring those things out, even in the concept of a chessboard showing where different use cases can work across different communities. We continue to work with the analysts as well. I think we see a lot of interesting analysis come out of IDC and Gartner. Sometimes it swings one way or the other. But we're talking a lot to IDC and Gartner at the moment about where we are with confidence computing. It's not two to five years out. It's here now, people are using it. And it's just gonna get bigger over the next couple of months. And vertical industry groups, and another area that we need to work on as well, around that whole evangelism area. But this is a collective responsibility for all of us right now. We're the ones here that have to drive this forward. So as we kinda look at what we need to do and where we need to focus our collective energy, usability for me is the biggest barrier that we currently have with confidence computing. The past adoption, the likes of Databricks, you know, the likes of Datadog, these companies adopting confidence computing is making it easy for enterprises to come along and ultimately get to the point where they can click a box, check a box somewhere, and their workload is deemed confidential. They can get an attestation certificate, and their compliance officers are happy with that. And that means more workloads move to the cloud. So with the cloud native companies like that, that's a real nice thing to do. Talking recently to some big enterprises who are cloud first, you know, they don't know how to spell Kubernetes. They don't do infrastructure anymore. They've no interest in this. They're all in on the hyperscalers. They want confidence computing to be a check box exercise. They'll pay more for it, but they don't want to manage infrastructure at all. So cloud first. And as we see with some of the emerging workloads in the cloud, Microsoft's AI, et cetera, is all going to be confidence computing enabled from day one. So that's a check box exercise and brings confidence computing into its sort of mainstream. Confidence containers remains critical to build this out. You know, ease of portability, potentially even across clouds, et cetera. And as I say here, this past adoption, very, very critical. Usability is a barrier for us at the moment. And everybody working inside of the software elements of confidence computing has to be conscious of this, right? We've got to make this right. EdgeList are doing a nice job with Constellation, for example, to make this easier from a manageability and orchestration perspective. But we've got to work hard on this. From a hardware perspective, standardized feature discovery is something we're heavily invested in, also with AMD and with ARM as well. And the trusted IO roadmap is well on the way you would have heard from our CTO at Intel at OC3 in March or April around our plans to bring out an IO roadmap and accelerators to GPUs. And that's going to be critical as we tackle the confidential AI workloads, which are going to be critical for confidence computing growth over the next couple of years. And workload portability, most of the customers that we all want have multiple cloud contracts, not just one cloud. And they want to choose which cloud for which workload. And it's got to look and feel the same for them to do that. And that's a great opportunity, I think, for some of the startups in this space is how can we make workload portability easy? At the end of the day, your customer is a DevOps person who should be able to choose which cloud, which workloads go to in an automated sense. And then whole community, evangelized to analysts, as I said in the previous slide, this is really important. Wherever you can talk about confidential computing, let's get it out there. Use the CCC as well as a vehicle for that. Seek their advice when you're talking to people, especially with policymakers, et cetera. And global penetration. We've got a lot of success in Europe. Europe is leading in confidential computing. A lot of success coming in the US as well. And US hyperscaler dominance. We're a bit barren in Asia. We need to fix that as well. Mike and the team are committed to go to Asia and try and bring some knowledge across the Asia. It's a big area to play in with many, many different regulations. Europe is not the only one with strict regulations, Singapore, et cetera, just as strict at this place. So we need more penetration in Asia generally. And lastly, confidential computing is a privacy enhancing technology.  It's a strong, strong player in the privacy enhancing technology space. But it's not the only one in that space. And as Sven will talk about in a few minutes, in order to bring the most robust privacy solutions, in some cases, we need to partner with other privacy enhancing technologies, especially MPC. And we're already seeing work with Infra-heavenanced, you know, their adoption of confidential VMs on Azure to strengthen their XO war platform on Azure for their customers and use the concept of attestation, right? So the concept that their cloud or that their customers can get an attestation certificate guaranteeing the veracity of the environment that they're running in. And that's a pretty powerful combination with MPC as well. Let's then cover more on that. And others will come as well. A lot of the key MPC players are now looking at how they can use technologies like TDX or AMD SCV for that extra piece of robust. So this is the work we have to do. This is the area that we have to focus on. We've done an awful lot of work on infrastructure and other areas like that over the years. But we've got to bring it above the infrastructure layer, get usability in there, continue on the hardware roadmap that we all garner together and bring this whole community, including the Confidential Computing Consortium, into a tailwind and use this success to drive it forward as well. As I say, we're not there yet. We're still working to get there. But the future's bright, I think. Okay, that's it from me. Thank you.