Greg Proups is the smartest man in the world. His podcast is called the smartest man in the world, Proopcast. Go download it on iTunes right now. Go listen to Monday's episode entitled The Last Clinic in Mississippi. Go listen to it right now and then come back to my podcast because today this is gonna be the Proopcast after show. So go away, come back in 90 minutes when you listen to the smartest man in the world's episode entitled The Last Clinic in Mississippi. Hi, welcome back.  Greg, are you still there? David, I am. Oh, good, thank you. That was 90 minutes well spent for me. I don't know where you were. And by the way, this won't be on KPFK. This part won't be on KPFK. Okay. I promise you, this is the podcast version. Greg Proups is, I forgive you and Jake Johansson. I had Jake Johansson on about a month ago. I hadn't had him on the podcast. And I said, I forgive you for your 900 lettermins. I know you did that to hurt me. And I forgive you, Greg Proups, for, I don't know. I just listened to that Last Clinic in Mississippi podcast. It is breathtaking. Thank you. It is journalism. You are restrained. You are generous. You let these people, if you wanna call them that, talk. You begin to like these people who are standing outside abortion clinics, lecturing women who are trying to get their abortion. You're sympathetic to the people you're talking to. A little a feat. But, you know, not too much. Not too much. It is a breathtaking piece of journalism. Congratulations. It really is. Lady Parts Justice League, Vaginal Mystery Tour is hosted by Liz Winstead. And you went down to Mississippi with Liz Winstead to perform as well as console comfort women who are trying to get abortions. There's one abortion clinic in all of Mississippi.  Why did you do this? Oh, well, gee whiz, David. We did it because times are scandalous now and the full frontal attack on women's rights is reproductive rights is insane. As you know, there's a zillion anti-choice governors out there in the state legislatures and they enact these crappy, what they call trap laws, which mean like waiting periods, stuff like that. And Mississippi's really the front lines of it because it's the last working clinic in the entire state. I don't know how many people Mississippi has, a couple million I assume, and almost three million people. And they can only count it. They can only count it two. Right, and they have to take up their shoes if they count it. People are so beautiful, sorry. Like I always say, people are so polite and collegial, deferential, and old school if you're white. And I'm white, so they're really nice to me. We went down for that reason. One, two, Jennifer and I decided after Orange 45 got elected, that the time for being privileged white people that don't do anything with our lives is over. And so we have to figure out for other people. And three, Liz Winstead asked me to do this. And she asked a bunch of different comics and we were down there with Joyle Johnson, Ian Harvey, Helen Hong and Liz. And her crew from Lady Parts Justice. And Liz is the real deal, as you know. She goes around the country on this tour, which is still going by the way, it goes into July.  And they go to the clinics, help out. They do clinic escort. They also do things like, for instance, at the pink house in Jackson, they garden and redid the whole garden for them, which is kind of the stuff that they need done. And as Liz says, really they just want contact. They want people to know, the clinics need to know that people are out there and care about them. You know, Liz said to me, we were there for like two days and she was like, see what, after two days, how much it means to them, just that we showed up. These are independent clinics, by the way, David. I support Planned Parenthood. I'm sure all right thinking people do, except for Mike Pence, but Mike Pence is busy going to Hamilton and calling his wife, Mother. So you make a call on that one. We're from San Francisco, you know the deal. And that haircut, wow. But the Planned Parenthood is well funded. And as much as I support them and I have them in every podcast I do, I try to have a Planned Parenthood table. Liz has made me quite aware that there's all these independent clinics and places like Arkansas and Louisville and- The mom and pop clinics. Well, they are, this one's owned by a woman. She bought it, she's a six year old woman and she's kind of a hero. And she bought this clinic and keeps it operating.  That's who goes there. So the A.K. Christian guys are yelling at them. And by the way, you didn't hear it on the show because they stopped.  Which is right, by the way, David. If anyone who had sold their soul to be on Who's Line is gonna smoke a turd in purgatory, there's no question about it. He is on a bullhorn screaming at them. And so Shannon Brewer, the head of the clinic said, it was really nice one day that they put the bullhorn down because you can hear them all day long. It's like a sci-fi movie. The guys out there screaming in a bullhorn because they're publicity hogs and there's a really excellent documentary called Jackson, which is on Showtime about this very clinic. And you can tell with a lot of the same characters. And they're in it. The guy says to me, you listen to the interview, did you see the movie, did you see me in it? It's like really, that's your big anti-choice stance is did I see you in a movie? They hector these women. And because Mississippi's laws are so awful and Governor Bryant of Mississippi is such an awful anti-choice misogynist, he wants to eliminate abortion in their state. And so there's no rules. Like these protesters, they don't have to stand across the street. They don't have to do anything. They can get right in the women's faces and scream at them, which they did. And Jennifer fronted a couple of dudes down pretty hard and they ran away from her because they could tell one, she was intimidating and two, she wasn't from Mississippi, you know, and really there was not much to take for her to put them down. And so it was a pretty wild weekend. I think what Liz is doing in the Lady Parts Justice League is astounding because they're really going to every single state that's in trouble. And Michigan evidently is as bad as any red state with the anti-choice laws and the restrictions that they want to lay on women. And as you know, being the Talmudic scholar that you are, abortion is mentioned in the Jewish Bible. And- I didn't know that, I didn't know that. It is, and you know how I knew this? We went to a rally at the Jewish Women's Center earlier in the year here, a Save Roe v. Wade rally. And a rabbi got up, a lady rabbi got up and said, by the way, if you want to know how Jews feel about this, it's already mentioned in the Torah. So we're covered. By the way, there's an article in the New York Times that the largest percentage of clergy who are Democrats are reform rabbi, something like 80%. Really? 80% of all reform rabbis, maybe 85, are Democrats. Even conservatives, and then it's Unitarians and, what is aim? Unitarians. Yeah, what is aim? What religion is aim? I don't know. They're very Democrat. I'm very excited to hear about Unitarians, so. Let's get back to Mississippi. They're the other white meat. Let's get back to Mississippi. All right. The women have one abortion clinic in all of Mississippi. You're saying not Planned Parenthood. It is an independently owned clinic. Have there been any shootings in Mississippi? Have they tried to shoot? I know you interviewed Dr. Crawford, but he has MS. Any vandalism? Anybody trying to- Oh yeah, they vandalized the clinic. If you watch the movie Jackson on Showtime, they get real freaky and they vandalize the clinic. They haven't shot anyone, which is nice, and they haven't threatened anyone. Yeah, who are they taking to court? Remember, she sprayed them with water. Oh, right. They act very snowflakey. Can you tell Jennifer, I listened to the podcast, and I just want to give her a message. Tell her I'm talking to Greg, not you. I don't like, she's getting too excited. You're looking right now. And then. He, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he. Oh, my God. There's a moment in your episode, The Last Clinic in Mississippi. I guess it's Jennifer trying to talk. The guy is reasonable with you. And then Jennifer pipes in, she isn't raising her voice. She just says something to him. He hears it as though it's 50,000 watts of, can't you get it up for me? It, you know, he just, he, he heard something else and was very condescending and told her, something to the effect you're being hysterical, something like that, very condescending.  I'm not trying to be cute here because you know my past. You know, you know all about me. And I can't, and there's no greater misogynist than I. I lived, I, I, I, I proposed to my wife and I had her for 30 years.  Will you marry me?  And I had her for 30 years and I was in a bubble. I'm in a bubble, you know. I had a pretty bourgeois, ASEAN Harriet kind of lifestyle. I'd sneak out at two in the morning, you know, hand out Bibles to runaways and do horrible things to them and crawl back into bed with my wife. You know, I'm all about income inequality and one of my daughters who should be traveling with Liz Winstead explained to me, you don't get it. I said, you got it. I don't get it. And she said, you cannot address income inequality until you address a woman's right to choose because if a woman can't get an abortion, she can't make money. She can't manage her life. Yeah. David. Yeah. It's really that simple. It's, yeah, so that's the ground level. I think, I think you're right. And I'm glad that you've listened to your daughter. Your daughter, of course, is a fan of my show. Two times ago in New York, she came with your ex-wife to my show. So I know that she's a bigger fan of me than she is of you. And everybody's a bigger fan. I'm a bigger fan of you than I am of me. But she's right about that. You know, this is where I draw the line with so-called progressives who say things like, a woman's right to choose on the table as a bargaining point.  That's at the front of the ticket. This whole, you know, income inequality is all, is extraordinarily important. But people's bodily autonomy is certainly more important. And by bodily autonomy, I mean, the right of black people to live without the police shooting them, and the right of women to be able to control whether they give birth or not. People who are anti-choice are also anti-birth control, which seems insane. But then you realize that logic isn't something they're really using as a lever to open this world up to them. You listened to the show, and I gave a couple of the Christian guys, the Andes, a good long time to explain their position. And they don't, they can't, because it's all over the yard. And you know, the women who were escorts there are all volunteers, and they didn't have any escorts before about six or seven years ago. Shannon, the director, told us that, you know, the Andes were just out there screaming at people, and these women had to park and basically run through a gauntlet of crazy people yelling at them. Oh, by the way, all white. Yeah, I wanted to mention that. Can you tell her to lower her voice? David, you said lower your voice. My wife, David, my wife's hysterical now, because she's giving her opinion while men are talking. And I just won't have it. There are high-pipping voices go right through you. Don't you feel emasculated when women talk when you're trying to make a point? I find this might help with your girl. Say, I got this, and then wink at her. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I got this. Okay. Right? Yeah, yeah, wow. What do people need? I want to go through the characters in your podcast and ask what they need and start with the woman who needs an abortion in Mississippi. You're saying they're primarily African American in Mississippi? I am. Why is that? They're good at this clinic. Why is that? They don't have access to good healthcare. They don't have their own private doctors. Their insurance is not what it might be. My guess is they're, for lack of a better term, low-end wage people who probably aren't making anything more than the minimum wage. They also live in a pressure-packed world where people around them are also laying pressure on them because many of them are Christians that they're doing the wrong thing and that they're being terrible people by managing their lives this way. Almost all the women who come in there are already mothers. Right. You really are the smartest man in the world. You really are.    I would assume that abortions are being performed elsewhere in Mississippi. They are, but illegally. Really? Well, yeah.   I automatically assumed listening to your episode that if you can afford it, you can get an abortion elsewhere in Mississippi, but you're saying that's the only legally sanctioned abortion clinic in all of Mississippi. It is. The very last clinic in Mississippi, it is not run by Planned Parenthood, it is owned by a woman and independently owned and operated and that's the situation there, man. And you know what, David? I've had a lot of reaction from this show, very positive, you included. Wow. And what's funny is all the women who react or whoever reacted and have written me or mentioned it, almost always tell me their story about how they had to have an abortion or how they were hassled sexually or something awful that happened to them. And all of the men who've commented on this really hadn't the slightest idea that any of this was going on. Yeah. If you know what I mean. For men, it's news. For women, they're all like, mm. Yep. This happened to me and I had to deal with it. Yeah, there's the men's room and the women's room. And that door is shut and we don't look inside there and we don't talk about it. So all women in Mississippi who are pregnant and want to get an abortion have two choices. They can either go to another state or they can go to this one clinic in Mississippi and they need their privacy. Roe versus Wade, they said it was the right to privacy. That's how the Supreme Court justified giving a woman a right to choose. They're losing their privacy. When they walk to that clinic, it's a walk of shame. Oh, absolutely. That walk of shame. Is that truly humiliating for them? How damaging is that? It's terrible and that's the part that's really, really heartbreaking. They've already made the decision when they go in the first time to consult, obviously. Then they're forced to wait 24 hours so they have to run the gauntlet of these yelling, screaming. What do you mean they're forced to wait 24 hours? There is a 24-hour waiting period. You're not allowed to go in and just get one on the day because the state of Mississippi requires that you suffer another day with your decision and with your trauma. Are these women thrilled about getting an abortion? Do they go, hey. Not at all. Part of the reason I didn't interview any of the women that were getting abortions is the mood inside the clinic is not exactly one of levity and light. Everyone is in a very grim and determined mood and I didn't really feel like busting in on anyone and going, hey, tell me why you're doing this. Because they've had to answer to their family, their church, these guys outside.  And so, yeah, that's the heartbreaking part, David. To see poor African-American women who are making a very important decision, which by the way is fully their decision, as Liz said, there are no good abortions or bad abortions. They're simply the one you need.  Safer than, for instance, getting your gallbladder out or there's lots of other things. Childbirth is more dangerous. And so the whole idea that abortion is some sort of horrible, dangerous thing, when it becomes dangerous is when it's illegal and women abort themselves, then they're more into trouble. You were asking me a question before about what a middle-aged, I mean, what a middle class and rich people do. I'm assuming that in Mississippi, because it's the South, and it's like being in your family, everything's a lie, that rich people in Mississippi are able to get avail of themselves, their own doctors. You know what I mean? Concierge service. Rich people have always had access to abortions. It's everyone else that doesn't. And which is part of the racism of the antitrust argument. So tell me about the clinic. How many doctors are in there? How many nurses? You say they need somebody to come down there and garden for them, which I find interesting. What does the clinic need? What are the people, they need a laugh, I would assume. That's why Liz and the Lady Parts Justice League, magical mystery tour travels around. Do the people from the clinic come to the show? Do they need a laugh? They did. Everyone from the clinic came to the show. There's two doctors on the days that they're performing the procedures. There's seven full-time employees. And all of the escorts are volunteers. Explain to me what an escort is. An escort is a person who's trained to, the parking lot there is smallish. So people are forced to park several blocks away on the street in Jackson, Mississippi. And it's a very cute neighborhood called Fondren, which means it's emerging, meaning it has boutique artisanal restaurants and things like that. You would recognize that it's like Brooklyn or San Francisco. And that happens to be where the clinic is. So the women have to park several blocks away. The escorts go to their cars and walk them through the gauntlet of screaming guys and try to keep the guys away from them a little bit.  In that one segment what I'm talking to, the activist Dr. Crawford, who's got MS and is also a disabled person's activist as well as a feminist, you can hear them screaming and that's the jazz they're screaming the whole time. So it's quite horrible. So that's what the escorts do, they get the women into the clinic and then they get the women out of the clinic by physically accompanying them, sometimes two and three around one woman because there's so much screaming and yelling and intimidation. Is it safe to assume and tell Jennifer, I can tell she wants to say something and to knock it up? I know, just I got it. Men are talking now darling. Is it safe to assume that there's not a single woman who skips to an abortion clinic? Yeah, I would think, yeah, I don't think that it's the most traumatic decision of every, I mean, we're not women so it's impossible for me to say with any accuracy but no, it's not a fun thing you do lightly but it is something that is necessary and it's also, by the way, something that is as natural as anything else. Women abort on their own, as you know. That's what staircases were invented for. Exactly, the idea that it's some sort of a natural act that women are performing to destroy babies is the most fallacious and horrible thing of all time. Men can't give birth and so they avail themselves of their opportunity to use firearms to kill everyone. And no one really curtailed that. It's very patriotic to have a firearm. The second amendment is the most important amendment as you know, no one ever talks about any of the other amendments. The first amendment gets discarded constantly like today with the reporters at the White House. But somehow, somehow David abortion is women committing murder whereas a school shooting is the inevitable result of freedom. You did comedy there. Did any of the women who had abortions did they come to the comedy shows? That I can't say for sure, but I will say this. Jennifer told me, I let her speak, I lifted Sharia law and I let her talk. And she told me that all the women there traded their stories about abortions. So I can't say with any accuracy whether women who had had one that week were at the comedy show but I can say that a lot of women who were at the show have had abortions and we're discussing them with one another. So if that's a way to answer your question, women who have had abortions were at the show. Whether women who had had one that day or not, I couldn't answer you. You know, a lot of my listeners are from Alabama and from Mississippi. Sure.   No, but there are these... You know what, to them you're Ira Glass. They really can't tell the difference. One Jew, another Jew, they've got glasses on. Yeah, by the way, listening to your episode, I don't know if you're friendly with Ira Glass but I got angry at Ira Glass for some reason. I thought this, not that it's a competition but I'm filled with rage, bile and jealousy and everything has to be channeled through who's better than whom and Jake Johansson did 3,500 lettermans A day doesn't go by that, I don't think about that. Sure.  Right, you'd be surprised what you could remember. Yeah. I don't think she saw me at all. I must not have seen her for more than 15 seconds. I don't think a day has gone by that I haven't thought about her. He also says, awesomely, any fool can make money if that's all he sets his mind to, you know? Wow. Hang on, let me just pause. Okay. And salute you, sir. That is amazing. Bernstein. Oh, my favorite character in the movie. Yeah. Charlie Kane never cared about anybody but Charlie Kane. Wow. Okay. So I lost, you just really just blew me away. So one of the things I like to do on this show is throw dirt in genius' face and see if they can come back, if they can remember their train of thought. I think I remember my train of thought but you really did throw me. There are liberals in red states. Very much so. Particularly in the cities, you know. A blue state liberal escorting a woman to her abortion. How safe is that? It's not as dangerous as everybody thinks it is.  And there are firearms. No one was wearing them. That was protesting. The clinic guard, Mario wears a sidearm and keeps it very low key. Like he doesn't get in people's face. He's a really low key African-American gentleman. And we had a good long chat with him. He wouldn't really talk to me on the day on Mike but after the show when we drank together he told me a lot. And let me put it this way. When we did the comedy show at Dooling Hall and Dooling Hall was a very cute little play in a very sharing-caring white people boutique restaurant mall, right? Like Dooling Hall was a school. They've turned it into a bunch of really cute restaurants that you would love, even though they serve shellfish, which is how you know it's an anti-Semitic state. And it would, you know, would like bacon on it. At this hall on the night, the cat who was working the door was wearing a giant sidearm. And I mean like a 45. And I was outside smoking pot with one of the other comedians, as I do David. And a cop rolled up in a squad car and came running up and said to the guy who was running the place, someone smoking dope and the guy, and it wasn't us hilariously. They weren't after us. The cop went, I don't smell any out here.  But they were freaking out. And I mean running around like chickens because someone had smoked pot on the other side of the building. And they were wearing sidearms. And so that's the kind of state of play. You know what I mean? Whereas marijuana is a huge issue.  Whereas here in California, of course, or New York, you're like, whatever. So their priorities are way different. The liberals need pot. I think they do. And the wearing of sidearms everywhere. I don't know about you, but I never feel comfortable when I see a gun. No. The guns make me uneasy.   It makes me feel like the potential for violence is there. All you need to do is get on the highway, look around and say, how would you feel with these people all holding guns? Right?  You're like, if I had a gun right now. Well, I'm saying you can barely trust a person with a car. Why would you trust a person? Oh, yeah. Well, to go back to your point, because you wanted to stay focused. One thing I've said, oh, for a million years. First of all, my family's from the South on my mother's side. They're all from Mississippi. Really? And as I've said, I didn't grow up in Mississippi. I didn't go to school in Mississippi. Well, no one goes to school in Mississippi. The education standards in Mississippi are gruelingly awful. I did nothing but make fun of them for the first 20 years.  Any other state would feed a catfish to death as a compission or a rat. It's a terrible marauding, you know, carrion eater, and you people cook them here and serve them with Deep Fried Lard Puffs that's not supposed to be food. But you have better restraint than I do. Or did you restrain yourself? Oh, when I was at the clinic. Yeah. Well, I tried to have a sense of humor and a jaw to the beat, but I didn't exactly quip the whole time. Tried to keep to the matter at hand. And also when you're there, you know, people take it, you know how it isn't a trench. There's always humor. And because of the, I mean, I think at one point when I'm interviewing Liz, this one woman who murmurs to herself and walks up and down as a protester, and then every once in a while screams bloody murder in one of these women's faces.  And then she walked by Liz at one point and murmured something to Liz. And Liz went, yeah, you're being real helpful. Interesting thing about your episode was you gave these people rope, the right wing Christians. You let them talk and that was just the art of the podcast. That is what podcasts are all about. You cannot hear this on radio. You can't even hear it on NPR with ira glass. You let this thing breathe, and in their case it was through their mouths. You let them just, you let them speak and reveal themselves. What do they need? Attention? Is it wrestling for them? Is this their thing? Kind of like the Phelps, the Westboro Baptist Church. With them it's more about the exhibitionism than it is about Christ. What do these people on the front lines trying to stop these women from getting abortions? What do they need? What do they want? I think you're right, David. I think it's attention and validation. They're funded by groups. There's one called AHA, and I don't know, Jennifer, if we can remember the, there's another one in Mississippi as well, who are very well funded. And they're kind of the, it's in cities, David. The people that were out there screaming and yelling, and I talked to a couple of them and those who are here on the show, are obviously not particularly highly educated, sort of blue-collar white dudes, with a real penchant for metaphor and fairy tales. The people who run these anti-choice clinics, which are there are many in Mississippi, and the anti-choice agencies that fund these guys who are out there protesting, are well-read white people. Like, it's easy to blame dopey Duck Dynasty rednecks for everything, but as you know, the reason why we have the president we have is rich white people. It wasn't poor white people that arranged this, and they run everything. And I think, get back to your question, they want attention and validation. When I was talking to them, you notice they really, really wanted to get their point across to me, and I let them. And then, of course, if you hit them with any sort of logic or anything like that, they kind of stumble a little bit because there's really not a lot of ground they're standing on. I really thought it was important to ask them how they had the money to stay out there all day. Many of them own businesses, and the clinic escorts know them all by name and know what they do for a living. One was an elementary school teacher in Carthage, and I said, does his school know that he comes out here and yells at women? And the response from Deandra was, yes, they probably do, and they probably would support him in doing that. And the one cat, I can't remember his name, Kevin, I think it is, who said he had a landscaping business, and that I believe he said to me, God had blessed his business, I'm not certain how one determines that. God has certainly never come by the podcast if he has. He never leaves a donation. That's the thing about God, he's a stiff. Well, he's Jewish. Well, he's right, he's Jewish. Like, hey, do it yourself, right? You know. But the guy also lived in his car. You think you're special? That's my God, you know. You think I should give you something? The guy lived in his car at one time. The guy said that he himself had experienced poverty, but God... Yes, I mean, he needed help. He received help. He received help, and God provides opportunities, and if you're not willing to seize those opportunities, then you kind of deserve what happens to you. Yes, he did say that. I think it's very interesting that you would take welfare and then deny other people their own forms of welfare. I don't understand that other than it's a control issue for men to control women. You said, are you willing to adopt these children who aren't getting aborted? And he said, well, a friend of ours was a single mom, she got pregnant, she couldn't afford the baby, and my wife and I signed all the papers and we were willing to adopt her child, but she decided to give the baby to somebody else because she knew us. She knew who we were. Right? Right? I started like... She didn't want to do, let's give it to those people. Yeah, he goes, you know, she knew who we were, so she didn't want to give us her kid. I'm going, how did you not... But you were very restrained with these people. Did you find them sympathetic? They are sympathetic. If you were to ask Barack Obama or Ralph Nader, they would say you need to love them and understand them and give the people who are abusing these women at the abortion clinic, these abusers need jobs, education, teeth, a nutrition, which they're lacking. Dress, someone to teach them how to dress so they don't look scary all the time. And marijuana, right? Oh, God, they use marijuana. The main thing is it's very difficult to move people off their dogma, David. I mean, you know, we got into that philosophical theological discussion and the guy asked, and he asked me if I believed in God, and I said I thought there was an overarching force in the universe, and then he said, do I believe people come from monkeys? Now, if we're starting at that level at the scopes trial level and we're playing in here at the wind here, no, obviously people didn't come from monkeys. Monkeys are a separate strain of primate. If you can't grasp that fact, then we're really at square one here. And then when I said no, I thought that life started in Africa with Pichanthropus and Australopithecus. He said, well, what were their names? And it's like, well, okay, three million years ago, it's very difficult to see where people were named Arthur. You know, they didn't speak English. How do I get, you know, what do you do? What, I mean, when he said what were their names, it was. I know. So how do you educate them, David? Like you said, they need education, they really do. But they're trapped in a church cycle of ignorance and reinforcing weird things that they want to feel.  You know, I've come to understand that I'm wrong about almost everything, you know. It doesn't. Well, that- But how do you teach someone who asks you what the first people's names were? When you- Where do you go from there? That moment, because I'm very forgiving of religious people. I think it comforts them. I like the Bible, but that moment I understood Bill Maher and Dawkins and all the people who are just insane about religion. When you said Austria, I can't even pronounce it, Austro-Polygian. Yeah, Austro-Polygian. I can't even pronounce it. He's, I don't know that. You know, all I know is what's in the Bible. And you say, okay, now I understand why people hate organized religion and why the Bible, this guy, this is why you gotta listen to this episode of The Proopcast because that moment in and of itself is such a great argument against religion because you don't have to be smart. You don't have to study evolution. You just have to read one book. And make that giant leap of faith and everything and it's true. You were there for two days, they're inveterate racists.  Well, Joy L. Johnson was there, who's an African-American comic from New York. And she's tall and she wore a Wonder Woman outfit to the clinic. She had a Wonder Woman t-shirt and a little cape. And she got into it with them. She was really forward with them and really fantastic. And her outspokenness, her sexuality, one of the guys actually got too messent yelling at her the day before and that was documented on camera. One of them took a picture of it.  And I believe she said to one of them, what was it? You need to work on your projection, what was it? You need to work on your public speaking. You need to work on your public speaking. Because he was like, the Lord will tell you, you know. So, by the way, the protesters by and large don't live in the city of Jackson, Mississippi. Jackson, Mississippi is over 70% black, probably 75% black. They live in Rankin County, which is next door, which is quite white, which is like Pearl, Brandon, Mississippi, Carthage, whatnot.  Having said that, I wanted to go back to some of you said earlier. Every city and every state in the South is full of highly intellectual and engaged people. They're not the majority and the way that the Confederacy has broken down and tried to hold on to the past for so long has really prevented some of the states from moving forward. You've been to Georgia and you've been to Atlanta and you know that Atlanta is a great big hip city. And it has problems and Georgia has problems, but Georgia has a giant economy. Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama are hurting. Their economy's hurt. They hurt themselves by staying so backwards. Their legislatures and their governors are crappy and white. The new mayor of Mississippi, of Jackson, Chocolate LaMumba, was elected while we were there. His father was also mayor. And he said he was gonna make Mississippi the most radical progressive. Jackson the most radical progressive city that he could, which is really nice to hear. Whether that translates into women's rights, I don't know. One thing I wanted to say was I play Florida, North Carolina, Mississippi, Texas, whatnot. There's so many smart engaged people in all these places. I really detest the red state, blue state thing because it's only true in a political electoral sense, but the electoral college as you know, and not to go into another show here, is a hangover of the slave state phenomenon. The reason why the electoral college was invented was to protect the owners of other individual people's rights as slave owners. Because in those days, you could count a slave as what was it, two fifths or three fifths of a person. So there's all that. And of course, as you know, the Declaration of Independence, they wouldn't, South Carolina and Georgia really wouldn't sign off on it until their rights as slave owners were protected, which is why they left out the giant claws that Jefferson wrote about slavery. And all of the founding fathers had slaves. Well, excuse me for a second. Jefferson wrote a clause attacking slavery? Yeah, the real left out of the, I happen to have it right here, David. The rejected clause reads, the piratical warfare, the appropriate with infidel powers, determined to keep open a market where men should be bought and sold. He's prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or restrain this exquerable commerce. According to Jefferson, the clause was rejected in complacence to South Carolina and Georgia who had never attempted to restrain the importation of slaves. You're saying Jefferson knew slavery was wrong. Very much so. So did Washington.  And of course it was Martha who did after George died. And Jefferson? I don't know that. I don't think he did. Well, upon passing, maybe some of them were given what that phrase that they call a menu mission. It's hard to let your children leave the mess. No, they're right. It's an empty nest syndrome, it's tough. Yeah, I mean, let's see, what the first, how many presidents were slave owners? I'm reading a book called Black History at the White House by Clarence Lucene. And he writes, more than one in four U.S. presidents were involved in human trafficking and slavery. Of the 12 presidents who were slavers, half kept people in bondage at the White House. So when they talk about these truths to be held self-evident and all this, and that's the hangover in the South. And I think that's what is so destructive. Having said that, I've never had so much fun. Mississippi has great places to eat. The dire crushing third world poverty is a little shocking when you drive to the other side of town and see tin shacks and houses put up on bricks and garbage everywhere. And then you go to the other side of town and there's gleaming new medical centers and banks. So there's that disparity, as you were talking about, economic injustice being the race and, or was it Ken Burns, race and money or the story of America? I don't think I really grasped the problem of race and the problem women face historically in this country. I just turned a convenient blind eye to it. I think a lot of us did. And like the very first question you asked me, why did I do this? That's the reason I know that I'm a white privileged guy. I've paid lip service to being involved in different causes. I've always been pro-choice ever since we've known each other. I went to places in San Francisco, and I did pro-choice benefits. My act has always been pro-choice. Having said that, I've done enough misogynist material in my lifetime. Not as much as I have. No, well, honey, you're like John Carlos. You got your fist in the air. You're at the top of the stand on that one.  We're allowed to say anything we want. I think I said on my show a couple of weeks ago, if I was a wild misogynist and racist, I wouldn't lose my podcast and I wouldn't lose my position as a comedian. I might even have a sitcom or a movie star.  It doesn't stop you at all, and that's the difference. Let's review last week. Reza Aslan was fired, Kathy Griffin was fired both from CNN, Bill Maher, who I respect and was very good to me, not fired. Interesting how that works. White male says horrible things about Islam, drops the N bomb, not fired. He shouldn't be fired. Reza Aslan calls Donald Trump a piece of excrement, fired, and Kathy Griffin holds the severed head of Donald Trump, fired from CNN, around the world in civilized Europe, Britain, France, Germany, the Netherlands, what is their experience with abortion? It's in England in the 90s when I lived there, I toured, and I used to do this giant bit about abortion and how much I disliked the Pope's opinion upon it and all this jazz. And my man, one of the tour producers I worked with used to say, it's really not an issue here, Greg. You really don't have to go on about it to us because we allow it. But in the last few years, the anti-choice crazies have really risen in England and started to make women feel really awful about it. It was always available in England. I assume in France and Holland, although I'm speaking with no authority here, that they are allowing it as well, the countries where it's real issues, Ireland.  Did they just pass something? Didn't they just pass something?  So they have a real issue with it there. Even Spain has it. And Spain is a hardcore Catholic country and the Catholic church is not, let's just put this, let's see how badly I can understate this. Women and children's rights are not paramount in the Catholic church. That hasn't been an emphasis. Much like Penn State's men's athletic program was not a cauldron for understanding young men's sexual needs. Jerry, what are you doing down there at the basement with all the noise? Can I plug one thing, you were asking me what people need? Yes. For your listeners that are concerned, they can go to Jacksonwomenshealth.com that's the actual clinic. They can go to ladypartsjusticeleague.com and help support Liz's tour. And they can go to a site that's just a general pro-choice site called pro-choice.org. And that site has information about what's going on in every state. So if you wanna go to any of those websites, you can either donate and or edumicate yourself. Right, and before you go, I'm gonna plug some of your money-making enterprises. One of which is the, the smartest man in the world podcast, the Proopcast. If you haven't already, go subscribe to the smat, smatist, I just got back from Boston. The smatist. Yeah, go subscribe to the smartest man in the world, Proopcast, Greg Proups. You really are the smartest man in the world. Your conversations with the people standing outside an abortion clinic in Mississippi so fascinating you were not condescending. I think you should seriously consider doing a show where the smartest man in the world talks to the stupidest people in the world. I think this would, I'm being serious, I think it's fascinating because you don't make them feel stupid. And this is what I wanted to end with. I was struck by how intelligent these right wing racist, misogynistic Christians were because they're curious and they want to know and they are searching.  It's like for them, it's saw eight another horror film but there is this intellectual curiosity. They are searching for something. Socrates talks about this in the Republic. You got to get the kids away from their parents. The state has to educate the children. These people you spoke with, you didn't hate them, these right wingers, right?  No, there's always that aspirational hope that everyone can be like you. But I think I almost felt bad like I was hanging them out to dry by letting them give their opinions because their opinions are unsupportable and that's what everyone's really reacted to. As well as, of course, the honesty of Shannon Burrers, magnificent staunchness as the director of this clinic and Liz Winstead's backbone and the escorts that we spoke with and that young girl jazz, how intelligent and informed she was. And then I didn't feel bad because they're funded and they're out there every week yelling at these women. So they, like you and I, have put themselves out in the public forum. You and I are susceptible to criticism by giving our opinions the way we do. You and I are susceptible to all those flings and arrows and so are they, baby. You're gonna go out there and yell at women, then I have every right to report on you and every right to expose that. I tried not to give my judgment and I tried not to get angry or, as you say, it was a bit of journalism. I said to Jennifer last night, we, you know, the best way to report this is not to get screamy with them, but to let them talk. They want to be heard. Right. And then you're able to do what a lot of people aren't able to do, which is try some analytical thinking about subjects. Try to put yourself to use empathy to get Greek again, like Socrates. Empathy means pain, right? I didn't know that. Sympathy means pain and to sympathize with someone that's to feel their pain. And that's all you can hope for. Now, I don't hate a lot of people.  Obviously, I'm burning with bitterness and pain all the time. And if you, if you, for anybody who thinks that toxic white male privilege doesn't exist, all you have to do is look at the current administration and the GOP support of that current administration. That's toxic male white privilege. Incompetence, collusion, impropriety, lying. You and I started together in San Francisco as comedians. We had, what you describe as toxic white male privilege. My toxic white male privilege was, I didn't notice that there were no African-Americans getting into the clubs in San Francisco. I noticed that when I went to Oakland, there were more African-Americans.  I didn't notice how hard it was for women to not just go out on the road, but to go 50 miles out of San Francisco. Just being in a car with you know who. And the dangers of just showing up to a club, hoping to get home safely into your own bed. I, my toxic male white privilege was, voting for Mondale, hating Reagan, being a feminist, gay rights, saying all the things, but conveniently turning a blind eye to blacks, gays, and women, and Hispanics, and Asians, because more pie for me. That's what I'm guilty of. I think we are. And the hooker that I murdered in Detroit. But that's, that's. Well you know you panic. Larry Brown. I agree. And how are we not guilty of it? Whether it's a sin of omission or not is really not the point.  You're in Mississippi talking to that guy who lived in his car. How do you explain to him to check his white privilege? That's my final question. Oh golly. I don't know that you can. I don't, it's such a cultural thing there. You know, they get to be heard and they also have that, if the Lord's on your side, kind of mentality going on. So, I mean I tried to, within the conversation, point out to them that they might find other ways to help women other than yelling at them and screaming that they're sinners and they're gonna die because of what they're doing, that there might be a more productive way to interact with women. And they didn't really want that. They didn't dig that as much as they might. So, I think all you can do is keep reminding guys of that, David. Okay. And no matter what level of society they're on, because as I say it's not just these scary hillbillies with the camo hats, the real danger in the world is of course the Rupert Murdoch's and the Koch brothers and the head of NBC allowing that maniac info wars guy to be on television and be interviewed as a legitimate human being when he's a raving lunatic. Oh, I thought you were talking about Megan Kelly. You're talking about the other guy, Alex. Those are them. Yeah. I wouldn't allow Megan Kelly on TV either.  And she causes body dysmorphia for young girls. She causes body dysmorphia for me. I want to have ankles like that. And she looks fabulous in heels. Greg Proups is the smartest man in the world.  Declan McManus, is that it? That's right. He changed his name to Elvis because he said yes. Look at me. I encourage the scrutiny. Greg Proups calls himself the smartest man in the world.  Really? And not only are you the smartest man in the world, you know how to train Jennifer. She really, she behaved. I don't know if she heard that one. You know all my dirty dark secrets. You know everything. And there, you know, if you were ever deposed, I just say, just let me write the check, your honor. Just whatever it is, I'll sign. So I'm at KPFK. I've been there for a couple of years. Very left wing radio station in Los Angeles.  And my heart, I went, oh my God. Anyway, Nils College was in all, at the time, it was in the Bay Area, it was all women's school. And I might have had a problem with Nils College. I was going through some things that were, it was bad. Greg Proups is the smartest man in the world. His podcast is called The Smartest Man in the World, Proupcast, go download it on iTunes right now. Listen to Monday's episode until the last clinic in Mississippi, then support his sponsors. Greg Proups donates his time and his money for important causes. So you need to support Greg Proups' comedy in every way imaginable. And the return is you'll be smarter, you'll laugh, and he's the best, you're the best. I love you, I do. I love you and it's an honor to have you on my show. Thank you brother, thank you for having me on man. Can you stay on the line for one second? Yep.


Hi, my name is Karla Holt and I'm going to show you some of the accessibility settings on an iPad or an iPod that will support students who have low vision. So in this tutorial we'll look at the large text feature, the invert color feature and the zoom feature on an iPad. All of these settings can be turned on in the settings app. So let's open up the settings app first of all and I'm going to click on general on the sidebar and I'm going to scroll down to accessibility. So I'm going to click on accessibility and here you'll notice one of the selections is large text. Let's start with that. So I'm just going to click on large text right now off is selected. So I would change that to you know anywhere from 40 point whatever would suit the student best. And now if I open up my mail app or my notes app my text will be the 40 point font. So if I open up my notes you can see here we have 40 point font. Unfortunately the large font does not transfer to all apps so you will need to double check. But we will look at the zoom feature that does transfer to all apps. Additionally we're going to look at the invert color setting. So let's go back into our settings app. Now I'm still on the large print right now. I'm just going to shut mine off and I'm going to go back hit the back bar at the top where it says accessibility. So I'm still in settings general accessibility and as you can see here's invert color. So when I turn that on you'll notice you see a greater contrast between the black and white with the black background and the white font. And that does carry over to most apps so if I open up my safari or if I open up mail you'll notice we have the black background with the white font. So I'm just going to switch that off and we'll start to have a quick look at the zoom feature. So to turn on the zoom I'm just going to go back to settings click on general at the side scroll down to accessibility and I'm going to tap on zoom. And now I'm going to turn zoom on and I do want you to note that it does change the way in which you can move around your iPad. So I'm just going to turn that on right now. So now the main thing that you need to realize is that you're going to use three fingers to drag around the screen. So the zoom feature is very useful when you want students who have low vision to be able to read different menus on the settings on their iPad because we cannot simply do a pinch to zoom in.  I still use one finger to tap but it's about three fingers to move around. When I go to my apps they are also zoomed in. So again I can use three fingers to move the app screen to navigate around the app screen. Anytime I want to switch screens I'll just use one finger to swipe like we normally do. So now if I open up Safari I can again use three fingers to zoom in. So tap with three fingers, three fingers to drag around the page but here on a web page I would still want to do that pinch to enlarge the text more and then as well three fingers to drag around the page with the zoom. So we have looked at features to support students with low vision such as the large text feature, the invert colors and the zoom feature.


Oprah Winfrey's advice for young people who want to be rich I don't know where you grew up but in the world and society where I grew up, everything was already set long before I was born. As a child, I was not expected to think or question what everyone else believed. What I was expected to do was very simple, be a good student at school, study medicine or law.  All you have to do is to work a job for 35 years and retire. Nobody tells you about purpose and fulfillment is defined as money. As long as you get a job in a bank or in a hospital as a doctor, you should be happy since you'll be well-paid. However, when I was 17, I started wondering if the path that everyone was going is the path I should go. I was troubled because nobody in my immediate society was qualified to guide me and I didn't even have internet access then in my town so there was no way I could follow a mentor or connect with great people online. The only option I had was to read books so I started reading every book I could find that may guide me on self-discovery. I was lucky because even though I didn't have money to buy books, God sent some very good books to me through friends and the library. I read books about potentials, I read books about life, I read biographies of great people and I read books about temperaments. The more I read, the better I knew about myself and the more I knew about myself, the more arrogant I became. Okay, not really arrogant but when you start to think different from your parents and everyone else, the name for such behavior in my culture is called arrogance. I'll continue the story later in this video as I want to share with you one of the most valuable advice from Oprah Winfrey. If you're new here, consider subscribing so you won't miss other interesting videos like this. Now here it is. Oprah Winfrey said, your job is not just to do what your parents say, what your teachers say, what society says but to figure out what your heart calling is and to be led by that. It's amazing how most people simply leave to fit into the society. It's surprising how most people simply believe that there's only one road to the market. It's unbelievable that most humans spend 18 years in school to study many subjects but they never spend a single year of their life to study and know themselves, the power in the uniqueness. To continue the personal story I was telling you earlier, the more I got to know myself the clearer I see that I'm not part of this world. I just discovered that I'm a very different human who shouldn't think like everyone or go to where everyone is going. I knew there's a path that I have to take even though I didn't know anyone in my immediate environment who has ever taken such path and taking such path was just what I did. It's a general weakness.  For instance, when I decided to leave school my brother told me that if I don't have a degree in my life I won't be accepted by other people who do have degrees and this will affect my chances of success. Well he was wrong. I knew right there that he was wrong but I didn't know how exactly I was going to prove him wrong until about nine years after. I suddenly became more relevant than most people. My company worked for the richest state in my country and I was able to meet with the wife of the state governor. I was invited to speak by PhD holders. I was in a meeting with the vice president of my country and suddenly I remembered what my brother told me. He told me that if I don't have degrees people will disregard me but without any degree I've been to places and met some of the most important people in my country. Your job is not just to do what your parents say, what your teachers say and what society says but to figure out what your heart calling is and to be led by that. The world is wrong. If you truly want to be happy your goal is to discover who you are and how you're different from everyone else.  You wake up every day to look for what the society thinks is normal. Your life will be influenced by what you see on the Facebook and Instagram and you make that the standard of your life and your life will be miserable. The reason why you won't find real joy following everyone is because you're a different person far different in some ways from everyone else.  Should we put them on the tree? Should we put them on the floor or should we put them inside the water? No matter where you put the fish, birds and the horse as long as you keep them in the same environment two of them will never be happy. If you put these three animals inside the water, the fish will be happy but the horse and the bird will be miserable. If you put them on the tree, the bird will be happy but the horse and the fish will be miserable. If you put them on the ground in a jungle, the horse will be happy because he can now run but the fish and the bird will be miserable because none of them love walking or running on the ground. This exactly is what is happening in our society. We keep every child in the same environment, teach them the same things and brainwash them to be the same kind of adults. That's why most people are not happy. Most people are not happy because they are birds but the society has brainwashed them to live inside the water. Some people are fishes but the society has brainwashed them to live on the tree. Some people are horses but the society has deceived them to live on the tree. No miracle can make these people happy except the miracle of self-discovery. Your job is not just to do what your parents say, what your teachers say or what the society says but to figure out what your heart calling is and to be led by that. How to discover yourself In my childish opinion, nobody should be called an adult except they can state in 30 seconds who they are and what they want to live for because adult life is about decisions and how can you make the right decisions if you don't know who you are? Let me try to give you some tips that can help you here. Now number one, spend time with yourself You need to spend time with the world to know how the world works but you also need to spend quality time with yourself to know how you are. Use this long time to ask yourself probing questions such as what do I love doing? What do I hate doing? If today I have all the money I can ever have, what job or career will I pursue next week? 2. Read books about temperaments I recommend Why You Act the Way You Do by Tim Lahaye But if you can find other books about temperaments, go ahead and read them.  This may guide you into knowing what profession or career path you should pursue. For example, a choleric who wants to be a medical doctor will need to think twice while a melancholy who wants to be an entrepreneur will know that he needs to partner with a choleric. A phlegmatic who wants to be a politician will have to understand his weakness, work hard on it or try another path. 3. Don't be afraid to be yourself That you're different from every one of us should be a great thing we all should celebrate. The world will attack, criticize and reject you for being who you are. Be courageous because it's only by being who you are that you can change what the world is. In conclusion, let me correct a notion that some people have about being different and that is, many people exercise their differences in a negative way. Some think that the reason why they dress like prostitutes is because they are different. Some think the reason why they use hard drugs is because they are different from the rest of us. If your differences don't help you to become a better person then that is not what I'm advocating in this video.  Know the carrier that will make you happy and fulfilled and go rough even if everyone in the world thinks you're crazy. Your job is not just to do what your parents say, what your teachers say, what society says but to figure out what your heart calling is and to be led by that. Thank you so much for watching our videos. Are you between the ages of 15 and 40? Then we invite you to join our new channel which was specially created to share with you inspiration and life's lessons to succeed in life. We call it Under 40 TV. Kindly look at the description box to join the Under 40 TV. We love you.


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Hey, this is Brett, and this 2020 Dodge Charger RT is stock number 21D242A. We are here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, you're new and use Dodge and Dodge Charger and sports car headquarters. This 2020 Dodge Charger has the 5.7 liter V8 gas engine. This car has been fully safety and inspected by our service shop per the state of Wisconsin inspection process. It has a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off, and this car is 100% ready to go. We're going to go all the way around inside, start it up, take a look under the hood, and check out all the options on it. Tor Red is the color, and we shoot all of our videos in 4K, so if you have HD capabilities on your computer, tablet, smartphone, or television, I highly recommend turning them on right now because it is your best way to check out the quality, condition, options, and cleanliness of the vehicle before seeing it in person. If you like the video and how we do things here at Summit Automotive, consider clicking the subscribe button to our YouTube channel in the lower right hand part of the screen. Then click the bell notifications, you'll get updates on the videos we do each and every day here at Summit Automotive. This one comes with the 20 inch painted alloy rims. It has Goodyear Eagle RSA 245, 45 is ZR20 tires, and these tires have a lot of tread left, I'd say probably 60 to 70% of the tread left on those tires. Front fender is in really nice condition. Those come with the HID headlamps, the LED running lights, and the LED fog lamps. Front bumper is in excellent condition, I didn't see any dents, dings, scuffs, or scrapes on that front bumper, and it comes with the carbon fiber-esque stripes on there. They go all the way on to the hood, the co-induction hood. They look really good, I didn't see any rips or tears on them. The hood is in excellent condition, I didn't see any dents or dings on there, and the passenger side front fender is in excellent condition as well. Passenger side rim, no scuffs or scrapes on that, and as you go down this side of this 2020 Dodge Charger, take note of how clean the body is, how reflective and mirror-like that paint is. We take these HD videos, so if you are far away, or even if you're close by, you just cannot make the trip down, but you're still interested in purchasing the vehicle. You can see the car, hear the car, and have confidence in the vehicle that you're looking at before you even get here, so when you do get here, there's absolutely no surprises, and you can make a smart and informed buying decision from wherever you're at, and if this video helps you make that decision, let your salesman know that you saw the video, that it was helpful, and that Brett sent you. His back rim is in excellent shape, and the back tires have just about as much tread as the front tires, maybe just a hair bit less, which is understandable on a rear-wheel drive vehicle. Coming around to the back, the rear bumper is in excellent shape. I didn't see any major scuffs or scrapes back here. It does have the backup parking sensors. You get those same carbon fiber-like stripes on the trunk lid. They are nice shape. Didn't see any rips or tears on them. You do get the button back here for the trunk. Back storage area is in nice shape, and this one comes with a spare tire. It's also where your battery is located. Those seats do fold on for extra storage. You get the LED racetrack tail lamps, and coming around the driver side just as clean as that passenger side. No major dents or dings on the rear quarter, and for full disclosure, this back rim is in excellent condition as well. Going down the rest of this side of the car, the doors look really good. It does have the enter and go system. This one does have blind spot monitoring and heated mirrors.  No rips or tears on those seats there in very nice shape. It does have power driver seat with lumbar, factory floor mats, auto headlamps, telescopic steering wheel, power windows, power locks, and power mirrors. Hop inside, check out the miles, radio, and everything that this car has to offer on the interior. You can see that this one has 30,548 miles digital speedometer, 7-inch LCD display. Instrument cluster is very nice and clean. It comes with the leather-wrapped steering wheel. It is heated. You get cruise controls on the right, Bluetooth and information center controls on the left. It does have the paddle shifters on there as well. This one comes with the 8.4 4C radio, AM FM, and Sirius XM radio capabilities on here. It also has your heated seats and heated steering wheel controls, and you get all your different apps on here. You have performance pages and projection manager. You can project your cell phone to the screen. So if you have a nav system on your cell phone, such as Waze or Google Maps, projected to the screen, it's like you have nav right on the radio, because this one doesn't come with the factory nav. We actually did a demo on Android Auto with an 8.4. If you want to check that out, it's in the upper right hand part of the screen. But this is also where your backup camera shows up, and we'll show you that at the end of the video. Down here are your dual climate controls, your more tactile climate controls because you can do them on the screen, or you can do them down here. 8-speed automatic transmission, keyless entry with remote start, passenger side floor mat, and seat are in excellent conditional rips or tears on there, and the headliner is in fantastic condition as well. This car smells very clean inside. I don't think it's ever been smoked in. 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It's theCUBE, covering IBM World of Watson 2016. Brought to you by IBM. Now, here are your hosts, John Furrier and Dave Vellante. Okay, welcome back everyone. We are here live at the world of Watson, the world with Watson. However you look at it, it's Watson all the time. It's theCUBE, theCUBE Watson. SmartCube. I'm John Furrier with Dave Vellante and he, Chusa and Jens Meagers. Welcome to the theCUBE SVP of Cisco Collaboration and IBM, another partnership. So again, he talked about the relationship with Cisco because collaboration, you got to move the packets across the network, you can move from point A to point B. Yeah, you know, when I think about the way people work, they want to work in teams, they want to surface content, they want to progress a business objective or process and throughout that, people are going to want to interact in real time. And when I look at the landscape of potential partners and leadership vendors, it was for me very clear in terms of the spectrum of all that Cisco provides across unified communications or across next generation of telepresence, across audio, video, voice and thinking through even the elements of Webex and web conferencing, how do we integrate that with everyday workplace applications such as email, calendaring, document creation and editing. And on top of that, actually infuse Watson. Okay, so Cisco has a lot of points up and down the stack. So as Cisco's been moving up the stack, as everyone is enabling that, what's the relationship now on the collaboration side? Because we talked about messaging before we came on camera. So what is the integration design point? Can you guys share what you guys are doing together? Sure, basically when you just look at the customers that we have today and our existing customers with our existing offerings, they basically, our product portfolio is highly complementary, right? So IBM provides email, they provide social, we provide real time meetings, messaging and chat. And so we basically were listening to our customers and said, the guys, you have to integrate better. So that's when we started talking to any in our team. And then when we started working together, we got more and more ideas what we can do. We really figured out that we can do more than just integrating, like bringing cognitive intelligence in there and making the portfolio much, much better. And that's what we're doing right now. Is it all the collaboration products and this partnership or is there set partnerships? Yeah, it's worth thinking holistically about the collaboration products across both companies. And as Yen said, step one is integrate the existing applications that exist in our clients environment. And then step two is how do we innovate and take them to the next level? The other piece we are doing is we are actually going jointly to market to clients together to say, hey, X industry, CIOs, Chief Workplace Application Leaders, if you're thinking about that end-to-end experience, we're going to design for it in a way that makes these pieces all work together really well. So you're marketing a joint solution in that case? Yes, well. So what does that solution look like or does it sort of depend? It's really like the best of email, this IBM voice, and the best of social but the best of meetings was Bebex. And it's incredible. The feedback that we get from our customers who basically have either one of these solutions, they accept what we need, they're very happy. Take us to an example of your favorite use case. By the way, we're a customer of WebEx too. So doggie sign and WebEx. We run on all those great SaaS products. Well, maybe I'll start with just a simple example. So think about if you're starting in a connections community and you've got a sub-community in there where it's a team around the topic and it's your marketing team and you're thinking about your next customer event like this and you see the members of the community and you realize you need to talk to them very quickly in real time. Being able with one click initiate a web conference scenario would be one example of the thing that we're designing for. But when you're in the web conference scenario, wouldn't it be great rather than the individual having the burden to think about away what version of the document did we use? Can we make that presence aware to say, hey, by the way, here are the last three files and this is the most recent one as you're in that conference so that the right people are actually integrating. Another area that we're thinking about is time and time management. So when you look at email and calendaring, it's such an area that can be so disruptive in a great way with cognitive and you marry that with making a verse and our verse calendaring experience, presence aware of all of the details for WebEx and vice versa. And then when we think about also next generation of what Cisco is doing with Spark and the possibility of infusing Watson and we've talked about like virtual assistance, right? And bots and expert advisors surfacing, it just makes that end to end experience for an end user so much better. It feels great what you're doing with the group in here because the whole communication, unified communication space really grew out of voiceover IP, which you guys know a lot about. You get into telepresence, okay? It's a great solution. But now integrating that in with the web and mobile technology in the cloud supercharges it. So I can imagine that this is going to change the game a lot to get both of your comments on the notion of presence because telepresence I see with videos in the name but the presence of the human, where are they, are they mobile, they have a wearable? What's going on with cognitive? Are they have cognition enabled? What's going on with Watson's bots over here? So this kind of changes the game radically on presence. Totally changes the game. Here's the thing, when you look at it realistically, the tools that you just mentioned, even IP telephony, email, telepresence when I came out in 2005, once we had like flat screens, right? At enabled telepresence. These were tools that were basically designed mostly in the 90s, right? And now in the digital transformation, we need new tools. And we are at this very exciting time in this industry right now, we're at this breakthrough basically where we're creating complete new tool sets for this next generation of work. So this is what I like about it. From the ground up with the modern existing, so presence, messaging you mentioned earlier, what are the presence things should people take advantage of? Because there's a lot of data out there that could impact your life around presence. Like I'm here, I'm in Vegas, I'm not in Palo Alto. So is there what's cool going on? What's new? Any new things happening? Well I think one of the first things, I mean if you can marry the physical and virtual in a very simple way. So, and then let me take it to the next level of this notion of applying Watson. Of course you have weather in there too. And weather in terms of disrupting services. But if we were having a conference, let's say the four of us, then we're also having one or two other people join. And maybe they're joining either via audio or via web. And you had both in the experience a way where there's a virtual assistant that's actually taking tasks and actions from the meeting. It's presence aware because it knows who said what because it can begin to recognize who's talking potentially in the room. And then when the actions are assigned was it John you taking the to-do action to calendar or was it Dave? Or was it my responsibility to send the document or file to the next team? So these things you start to rethink the way people can work in terms of freeing up their capacity to focus on higher, let's say more difficult challenges that you know and our creativity on doing other things. Yeah and some function in productivity that you just described. And then if I can, if I don't know if you can help me solve this problem. If I can go back and look at that corpus of data or somehow investigate it, right? And say okay, I know we said it at that meeting. What was that nugget that we're looking for in that 45 minute FX that we just had? Can you help me solve that problem? Yeah, well and I think one of the things that Cisco is doing a very great job on is the intersection between collaboration and IoT and other applications and Jens in particular has been really driving all of the collaboration innovations but the possibility of machines and systems and devices and things with people interaction, it's going to be huge. Interactivity is always hard not to crack with video. You'd have a video app and then you'd have some sort of jammed in, chat app or this over here. And now with APIs, the integration points are different. It is. So you guys are doing that with Workspace but I understand it correctly. You're going to say okay, we'll take this in, integrate it in so it's modular in the sense of the composability on. That's right. Yeah, I think we're entering an API, well we've been in an API economy but this notion of microservices and maybe it's microprocess steps and elements but the APIs, we want them to be open. API economy, David and I talk about notification economy which really is the interruption economy. We have been interrupted with notifications. Well to your point, you're interrupted with notifications you're in the middle of work and then all of a sudden you're over here. There's a lot of this non-linear. When it comes to this like look, what will you have to solve for is to create experience that are extremely simple. Because right now the biggest problem with all of this APIs, interruptions, you mentioned presence, is that stuff is not simple enough. We really want collaboration to be magical and I think with the integration that we're doing and the cognitive and AI technologies there's a lot of stuff that can be done to actually really solve these problems and I think it's exciting. This is going to be really big. You mentioned magic. You're kind of exploring the FM category, FM magic we sometimes say. Okay, but so, sorry. So lay out the vision, Cisco's vision for collaboration in the future. Very, very simple, basically. What we want to do is we want to create an incredible collaboration experience from every mode of communication, from the smartphone all the way up to the boardroom. And then we want to do this in a very simple way. Want to have magical experiences and want it to be open. And so that is the core of everything we're doing here at Cisco, magical experiences in an open environment. Okay, I want to get the developer questioning because I've been asking all, because this is all goodness on the developer side with the cloud. Really great environment, we're seeing some startups here at World of Watson coming out of the woodwork and that's a good sign. You start to see pure startups coming in and using Watson. If I'm a developer, how do I get involved? What can I do? How do you guys see that holistic relationship between Cisco because now if I'm a developer I care about DevOps, I care about policy-based, whatever that is, now I can do all kinds of cool things with Cisco and with the data and Watson. What are the opportunities for developers? Well, here for every attendee, but those that are watching, we recommend you go to IBM Bluemix and also the Watson Developer Cloud. And that's where we're exposing both the variety of Watson APIs, like conversation, alchemy APIs, classification, different ontologies, image analytics, within it we're exposing the Watson Work Services API, which is a summarization action service. So that's an API that you can put on all kinds of third-party applications. It doesn't have to be just one that we're using within IBM. I happen to be looking at APIs as we build them, we're gonna use it and we're gonna build on top of it to train it and test the system and then we wanna expose that as well. So that puts the rigor in the engineering accountability, but for us as well as for the opportunity for developers. For the developers, what we found is with our collaboration suite, Cisco Spark, one size never fits all. So we have tons of developers that come to us, hey, look, I wanna integrate your technology in my app. And we support that. I think that's very, very important in the future. So that's why we basically launched developers.syscospark.com where we basically have developers.syscospark.com. Okay, CiscoSpark.com, okay, developers. And so basically we have about 200,000 developers for just that they basically use our APIs and use our SDKs to integrate either their technology with us or embed our technology into their apps. And also you get the Blue Mix now renamed with SoftLayer underneath that. So Blue Mix is the brand. No, Blue Mix is the brand. SoftLayer got put under Blue Mix or Sunsetted. Inhe, final question I'll go to you is, personal question, I know you just moved to Palo Alto so congratulations on it, Silicon Valley. You're in your new role now. You were doing BizDev, business development, now a general manager of this really transformative space with existing customers, existing products, kind of creating a clean sheet of paper for the future. A lot of great partnerships, a lot of success, congratulations. What's the big learnings that you've had? Looking back now as you look back through the first run of this, what did you learn? What's the big learnings for you? Technology-wise, what's been an observation? Can you share any insight? Yeah, there are a few. Thanks for asking. The last 10 years I have been deep in all aspects of data and analytics. You guys know that in a variety of different roles in offering management, product, BizDev, strategy. And one of the things that has always been a hurdle is we've applied analytics to enterprise structured data, enterprise data. We're starting to put analytics on data outside the enterprise, AKA Twitter, Weather. Now what I consider this is almost this last model of putting analytics on people and people interaction, which is actually the last hard piece because it's a lot of dark data as people talk about it. It's a cognition load that kind of impedes faster ways in which people can connect and work. And so being able to do that with this team is really exciting. So infusing cognitive to everyday email, everyday social networks, to blogs, to documents, to creations, new media content, like video is really exciting. And my fundamental belief in all of this is similar to what Jenny said in the Watson keynote was, look, Watson is something that we want to share with everybody. It is not just an IBM thing, and it's something that we believe is an open approach for the entire ecosystem and it'll be embedded in many places and we want people to creatively design their applications around it. So that's how we're thinking about it and that's why we're being so proactive in our partnerships with Box, Cisco, DocuSign, Apple, Code, and with everyone. So biggest surprise for you, just an observation like something you didn't expect in the venue. Oh, in the valley, oh, by the way, as Tom was alluding to, I just moved to California in the last two months as of August, so I've officially left New York to California. We're welcome, you're welcome. Okay, something local, interesting. You know what? I had to take the driver's license test, so I had to study a little bit. You didn't look at the manual, they tell you not to look at it when you're taking the test. But it was good, you know, the biking community in California is pretty awesome, so I had to kind of like get right up on that and the food obviously is awesome, wine selection is great, weather can't complain. So you're official now, you're not keeping that New York license, great. It's done, not only a new license, I'm fully registered to vote. Paying more taxes in California, obviously, so welcome to California, hello to California. Eddie, thank you so much, Jens, thanks so much for coming on theCUBE, really appreciate it, the Cisco IVM partnership, it's all about Watson, congratulations on collaboration. This is theCUBE, I'm John Furrier, Dave Vellante with REC with more after this short break.