Thank you for tuning in. You're watching In The Studio. I'm your host, Lynn Weaver. The program is brought to you by Davis Media Access and is broadcast on Davis Community Television, that's Comcast Channel 15 and AT&T U-Verse, Menu 99. We're also online at dctv.davismedia.org. Today's topic is the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. My guest will help us to understand this very important piece of health legislation, what it is and how it's currently being implemented in California. I have here with me Ann Gonzalez, the Public Information Officer from Calvert, California, and welcome. And thank you so much for joining the show tonight. It's a pleasure being here, Lynn. That's great. Thanks for having me. I know you're very busy and so we're particularly happy that you can make it and the honor show tonight. Let's start with a very, very basic question. What is Obamacare? So Obamacare is the actual name of the law is the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.  And Cover California is the state's implementation of the Affordable Care Act. I see. Yes. And now who are the people you have a website and we're going to take a peek at this website in a moment, but who are the people enrolling coming to your website to enroll? Well, we this is going to be a long term multi-year shift in how insurance companies or how excuse me, healthcare providers and plans do business and how consumers can get healthcare coverage. So there are many things about the law that you know that we have adopted adapted to our state. We are one of 17 states in the nation who chose to set up and operate an insurance marketplace called an exchange. The exchange, the famous exchange. Correct. Correct. And then the remainder of the states are you know having the federal government oversee their exchange. And so our website is www.covered.ca, excuse me, www.coveredca.com. No, I'm calm. Sorry. Yeah, that's okay. So one thing, you know, it is a very complex type of legislation. And one thing that people wonder about Covered California, does it partner with Medi-Cal and Medicare? So it does. It actually, our partner is in our effort to set up the exchange is the Department of Healthcare Services, the State Department of Healthcare Services, which manages Medi-Cal in our state. And so we are not affiliated with Medicare, but we are affiliated with Medi-Cal, which is offers low income, excuse me, low cost and no cost insurance coverage for low income people, depending on their income. That's correct, it's based on their income. Now, what would you say are the key advantages of Obamacare, as opposed to what we had before? Sure. And so the the law went into effect in 2010. And since then, some consumer protections have already been put into place because of that. That would include being able to keep your child on your insurance plan, or yes, on your health plan through the age of 26, which was not possible before. It expanded that coverage period for children to stay on your plan. Also, there were some provisions for children with pre-existing conditions. You can get better coverage for them. And there was let's see, the guaranteed issue so that you cannot be denied coverage or dropped, have your coverage dropped because of a pre-existing condition. And pre-existing condition being if you have a chronic disease or some type of catastrophic serious illness, all of a sudden your insurance plan prior to Obamacare could very easily drop you. Is that correct? And it does not have to be anything too catastrophic. For instance, some individuals who were trying to get insurance in the individual market the way it is now, they were getting turned down or dropped for hypertension, diabetes, any type of or they were paying exorbitant prices for coverage. Or they were being surprised when they got to the point of delivery, either the emergency room or the doctor's office to find out that their plan didn't cover everything that they thought that they were getting coverage for. So those were the types of problems that people were having with their insurance plans so that that's where this outcry and mandate came for the Affordable Care Act. I see. And since we've talked a little bit about there are many other advantages of course, but we can't really cover them all here during this interview. But now that we've covered some of the key advantages, can you think of a drawbacks of this plan? You know that there is, it's a very controversial piece of legislation, as we all know, and especially the Republican Party is very much against Obamacare. And so what you're very experienced with with the insurance companies and how they operate, how would you say, what would you say are the drawbacks as as compared to what we had before? There is never a piece of legislation that goes through Congress and pleases everybody on both sides of the aisle, I would say. Very true, yes. However, this will be monumental in what it does for especially uninsured people or underinsured people in our country. Yes. We don't really get into the politics of putting this plan into place. Our mission is to implement the law as it was, you know, as it was passed. Yes. And keeping in mind that it has survived more than 40 challenges, I think, in the in Congress since its passage and has also been upheld by the Supreme Court. So we're pretty clear on what our job is now. Yes. It's been tested, it's been challenged, and it is now here and we're in the process of putting it into place. So I am not, we try not to get into the politics of that. Very wise. We just know that there are, every day there are people who call us, write us on Facebook, who contact us and our service center representatives are hearing from many people who have been waiting for this day and in many ways our country has been waiting for this legislation for a hundred years. That is true. So what type of, what is the range of population that you see coming to your website or calling you, making inquiries? Yes. Our target audience in California is 5.3 million people. This represents the number of people who are either uninsured or underinsured, for instance. 5 million? Yes, 5.3 million. That's a huge amount, yes. Correct. Correct. And the, I think the total number of uninsured people is actually 7 million, but some of those are going to be moving into, the Affordable Care Act also acted to expand medical coverage. That's correct. So some of those will be moving into our new Medi-Cal. Which is extended and California is taking subsidies from the federal government? Correct. That will be managed through the Department of Healthcare Services. I understand. And when a person enrolls in our, in Covered California, it is a single application, very streamlined. So when they fill out the application and it, we find that they are, can qualify for Medi-Cal, then we explain to them that they can, they can go into the Medi-Cal program for low cost or no cost coverage. And then Medi-Cal would take it from there and help them sign up for those expanded benefits under that. Do you, perhaps you don't have off the top of your head, but what, what would be the requirement for being eligible to Medi-Cal? Like, sure, the, the salary I suppose, the income. Yeah. Sure. It's on a sliding scale and it is, and I'm sorry, I, I can't, I don't want to quote the wrong income. No, no, no, no. But it is. And it's okay if you don't have it. It is actually from 138% of the federal poverty level and below. And then there are different, it also depends on how many people you have in your household.  Or yes. But between 139% of the federal poverty level and 400% of the federal poverty level, there are bans, you know, there are different, different incomes, sliding scale incomes. Right. And in that area, you, you can, you qualify for help, either cost sharing subsidies that help you with your out of pocket costs, and also premium assistance, which can, which you can use towards your premiums to buy health care. And it will make it more affordable for your household. I see. Well, that's, that's very interesting. Now, let's display your website, the homepage, so that we get a feel of where, so here it is. Yes. And let's suppose that I'm looking to shop for an insurance policy. Sure. So how would I go about it there? Well, I would suggest that your first stop be, we have some tabs across the top. Yes. That explain some of the, actually, some of the points that we've been making tonight, which is the, some of the coverage basics. It will, it has some of the resources. It has a health plan booklet and health plan summary. And we'll explain all of the income levels. Oh, I see. And it will explain all of this, the essential health benefits that each plan is required to have. And if you go to the, to the middle, to the lower middle part of the page, you'll find a shop and compare tool. I see. Yes. And that would be a good starting point because that is, you do not have to enter any personal information. You enter a little bit of information. You would enter your age, the number of people in your household, and your zip code, and your income. I see. And it will call up for you a list of different plans that are offered in your region. There are 19 different rating regions. And then it would tell you what you might qualify for, either a MediCal, cost sharing subsidies, or premium assistance. Well, that's very interesting. And I am happy to say that yesterday I went onto your website and I tried to enroll and compared health plans. And I'm very happy to say that unlike the federal health, Obamacare website, your website, California cover website works beautifully. I had no trouble, no glitches, and no looping. So that's very encouraging. We've been working very, very hard, very diligently to use consumer feedback and service center feedback. Yes, testing. You did a lot of testing with consumers. And then we have been taking our enrollment function down at certain periods, very low traffic times of the day, like 10 at night until 3 in the morning. And then we have been taking it down on Sundays because our service center is not open then. And we have been increasing bandwidth. We've been increasing page loading speeds and generally trying to make it more intuitive and working on the navigation paths and making it. That's terrific. So there should be no stumbling blocks now for people going from one end to the other on enrollment. Yes. Yes. And it's a great resource. Even if you're not interested in enrolling right away or you have your own health insurance already, it's a very informative website. And I do just want to make sure that you understand that the shop and compare tool that I showed you is just that. It will give you an estimate. And then there is a tab on the front page that says start here. And that will actually take you to the enrollment portal. I see. That's very, it's a good distinction. Yes. One thing that I'm not clear about is that suppose I want some insurance and I go to your website, can I enroll in a plan without being contacted by an agent? Oh, absolutely. Are one of the, you know, one of the centers of this, the centerpieces of the ACA is that we're using online tools. Yes. So that somebody can do it themselves. That we have full functionality for somebody to complete self-service online enrollment. Very good. However, if you need help, we have hundreds of service center representatives at three different service centers throughout California. And growing every day, we're training and adding to those as our peak enrollment will probably be in November, December areas. Yes. We also have certified enrollment counselors, hundreds of those being trained and certified to give one-on-one in-person assistance. So you could go to a, we do have licensed agents that are certified to sell Cover California products. Yes. But there are many different options for you to go through the process. That's very interesting. And the population is going to be enormous. So the projection is that more than 3 million people will be looking for insurance with the Affordable Care Act. I don't know if you've listened, if you've watched or listened to the news today, but the media was raging about the, this famous quote, and they kept quoting President Obama and what he's been saying for the last four years, namely, if you have a health fair plan, if you are insured and you like your plan, I don't sound like him, but anyway, I'm paraphrasing, you can keep it, period. And now it turns out that that's not, that's not always the case, that very often the plan that you had and you liked does no longer exist or is no longer offered by the insurance company under the Obamacare. Correct. Is that correct? And why is that? Well, what happened is that there was, you know, quite a bit of misinformation floating around at the time that the President was starting his education, his education process. Yes. And for them, I mean, in general, he is correct. If you have, for instance, in California, 90% of people that are insured get their insurance through their employers. Correct. And so that statement was made in a general broad sense that most people, if they have insurance, they are really not going to have to wonder about this or change. They're not going to have to change if they have employer sponsored coverage. Yes. So in California, but under the Affordable Care Act, because of these new consumer protections in the individual market, now, keeping in mind that this market has historically been the most expensive, it has been the most volatile, it's been the least secure for people is offered the leanest benefits. So these are what we call Swiss cheese plans. They have so many holes in them. Yes.  They are at the mercy of the market in terms of their premiums can be increased. And of course, we have all seen across the board have seen healthcare costs rise over the last couple of decades. Yes. That 10 to 12%. Yes. So those people who are on plans that are these bare bones plans Swiss cheese, Swiss cheese plans. Yes. They what happened is they will need to, if they're not being grandfathered in, they need to bring their standards up or or move these people to other plans. So it's not really that and some in some cases, these people in fact in California, where we estimate that maybe 900,000 people will have to transition to other plans, 310,000 of those or about a third of those will be able to go to the exchange and qualify for subsidies that will either keep their premiums around the same as what they're paying or could lower their premiums. So it is a mixed bag of what's happening in terms of costs, but the important thing is all of these people will get the same benefits, the same safety net and the same security of these 10 essential health benefits that were not there before. Well, that's very reassuring. I also read that some of the insurance plans prior to the protection, the consumer protection act or affordable care act were unfair in some respect. For example, I read that women would pay more. That mammograms, for example, were not covered. Now the plans under Obamacare mammograms have to be covered and some other preventive medicine testing. Of course. Yes. There is a list of 10 essential health benefits that are outlined in the Affordable Care Act and they are on our website, but they do include maternity care, they include preventive care. Some of these plans did not even have preventive care, so you would still pay for your annual exam. We also require prescription coverage. That's right, the prescription coverage which apparently drugs are exorbitantly expensive in many cases. Now, what I wanted to ask, a lot of people are called, it's not really related to Obamacare, well it is related, but it's sort of going a little further. There are people who say that because so many more people will be insured and will be eligible for a lot more care, that California is going to have a huge shortage of doctors, especially primary care physicians. Are you aware of this and how is the state? I know it's not really your field, but how do you think the state is coping with this? Actually it's a very important issue to cover California because expanding healthcare coverage is one thing, but we also have to make sure that people can get access to the care that they have found out before. That's right, especially in rural areas for example in California. Quite a bit of time was spent. We solicited bids because we are an active purchaser and that means that we negotiate directly with the health plans. Part of that negotiation process included, look we're interested in having good premiums, we want to make this affordable, but we also need to have a balance of access to care. When these plans were submitting their bids, they had to prove that they had adequate networks, that they were able to serve the amount of people that would be coming, and they also had to submit emergency plans that would automatically kick in if we find that there are bottlenecks anywhere in the network. But you have to understand that for some people who have never had coverage, this is a brand new world, they're going to have coverage. I can't imagine not having the the reassurance of having health care. Well this is so interesting and I'm afraid that we are running out of time and so we need to leave it there, but I just want to remind our viewers that please go to the website coveredca.com and if you have any questions I'm sure that Ann Gonzalez can be reached at some point somewhere and Ann I just wanted to thank you so very much for being on our show and for giving us so much information about the Affordable Care Act and Obamacare as everybody knows it. I appreciate the opportunity to share some some information about it. Well thank you so much and of course thank you all of you for watching From Home. You've been watching In the Studio. I'm your host Lynn Weaver. Now if you want to see this program again you can go to our website at dctv.davismedia.org and perhaps while you're there you can maybe check some of our other interesting programs and enjoy them as well. Again thank you and see you next time.


What are you guys up to? Skipping the ring. Skipping, okay? Can we try? Okay. Take it. What? I could do it. Can you do it in this? Wait, what is this? It is impossible. When we skip, we make only one loop in a rope. But did you know, you can make as many loops in a rope as you want. We can make one loop as usual. Or, if we rotate it quickly enough, we can make two loops. The midpoint of the string not moving. When a string is rotated or vibrated in such a way that there is one point of the string not moving, then that point is called a node. And these points of the string on this side and that side which move the most, they are called anti-notes.


So we're here at the Embedded World 2018 and who are you? I'm Alex Toplinger. I'm the NXP Global Segment Lead for the Industrial Segment for iDotMX applications processors. So the iDotMX 8 was announced like a year or a little bit more ago and there's like different versions of it, right? Yes, that's exactly right. And so we've been announcing different parts of the iDotMX 8 for about a year. This at this event, we have launched the iDotMX 8M. So it's the first one of the iDotMX 8 series that's actually launched and in production, placing orders now. So in the family, we have the three different, in the series, we have the three different families. There's the 8 family, which is the largest one. It's really geared towards graphics and high performance applications, things like vision applications, automotive applications. We also have the iDotMX 8X, the one on the bottom there, which is about a 70% hardware reuse between the 8X and the 8 for similar applications. So you get a scaled down version. And then the 8M, the one in the middle, is the one which we have actually launched now and it's shipping now. And that one is geared very much towards multimedia applications and also some industrial and control and computing applications. So just to check it out quickly, there's actually at this show a bunch of boards being shown with the 8M. So that means it's really shipping. Like it's like available. Yes, available. These are our partners. So about a year ago, we approached all of our very excellent EBS board partners and we invited them. We showed them what we were thinking about for this part and we invited them all to submit their proposals. And so based on the proposals, it was very hard to choose, but we did narrow it down to about eight of the different partners who would be early access and would launch their boards and their solutions the same day that we launched, which was at this event. And right here there's, for example, an interesting looking box like here with the IMX 8M with Q-Box and there's some IMX8 and the X also and a lot of stuff going on right here. And if I was looking over here, there was a IMX8 QM too. That's the Quad Max. The Quad Max. That's the Quad Max. We've got two Cortex A72s for A53s, two GPUs which are with vision extensions. So this guy is a big guy. It's also going to have a DSP inside, multiple display controllers and camera inputs. So it's a very nice processor. So I end on the line. There's another demo right here of this one. So it's high end. It's for maybe let's say self-driving cars or something like that. Well, so 8 Quad Max will most likely appear in the dash of a vehicle and that would be driving both the driver's side. So all of the controls for the driver, the safe side and running something like an RTOS. And on the other side of the processor, same chip, you'd be driving every one of the displays, radios, inputs, taking the cameras for the entire vehicle. So it's doing the infotainment and the safe side of the driver support. And if I just stop over here, I'm just going to check this out right here. There's some other partners that you were working on to release. There was a Technixian, a CompuLab, right here, like this kind of board and a Seco also. So they are like developing boards, right? That's right. And what you're seeing here, we're at the end of the show. So some of the guys have already taken their boards home, unfortunately, but these are boards that are fully functioning and have been launched at this event at the same time. And if I get around here, right here, there's something going on right here. Is this on the M? Yes, this is on the AudenMax 8M Quad. So this is the one that is in production right now. And this demo is actually driving two displays from the 8M Quad. So this guy's playing a 4K video. It's with a full high definition or high dynamic range. And at the same time, it's driving these lovely graphics which were created by our graphics partner, Crank Software. And we also have, I don't know, hiding in the back, there's a microphone there, which is with our partner Snips. And Snips has developed a local voice recognition. So not to the cloud. It's absolutely recognizing key phrases and instructions from the voice. And here at this show, you also launched a new item, like a family for it and a new chip for that, right? Yes, we did announce. Now let me go find that one for you. Hang on. Yeah. There's the family right here. Yeah, oops. So we see the X and the 8. And all the A72s is here. Here's just 35. And here's 53s, a bunch of 53s here. So just to keep an eye, so it's two A72s, four A53s, two M4s, two GPUs with vision extensions and a DSP. And so these are some of the ones you saw in the case. As well here, we have up to four A35s and M4s, the same GPU, basic GPU as in all of these. And a DSP, so that's IDEMX 8X family. This one is also safety-certifiable. It has ECC protection on the DDR3L memory, which means it can be safety-certified up to a sill level three. And that's the first time we've done that in IMX. But that family's been announced but not quite launched yet. It will launch, you know, we'll talk again. And on the 8M, so this is the one that you're looking at in this demo, 8M quad. It's got four A53s running up to 1.5 gigahertz, and then four plus the same GPU that's here. And what this does is allows for a very lot of reuse. You want to start low and move up or start high and move down, you can do that. As well with the new device. Do you want to talk about that one next? Yeah. So that's the, there's a new announcement, new in the M family. Yes. Right here's some intro for that. Right. It's called Mini. 8M Mini, except it really isn't that Mini, to be honest. So, 8M Mini is the same Cortex A53 cores as in the 8M that you're seeing on this demo. And it is the same Cortex M4. It's the same graph, oh no, sorry. It's a smaller graphics processor. That's Mini. But the device itself has higher performance on the RM4s than the already existing device. 14 nanometers. Yeah. So that's the key. The other one is 28 HPC process. So that means a smaller chip. Maybe lower power consumption. Definitely lower power consumption. So this LPC FinFET process is known to have a significant less leakage. And so that makes this part suitable for battery operated handheld applications, for fanless applications and small enclosures. There's quite a lot of interest in this as a computing device as well as a multimedia device. We kept the same audio capabilities on this one exactly as what's on the one you see demoed. Yeah. And so this one we'll also be sampling this year. And this some more information about the Mini. Yeah. So just a little bit on specs. So you can see there'll be a single dual on a quad core, 8503 is up to two gigs. So this process allows us to go faster. The Cortex M4 float will also be faster up to 400. It's the same DDR memory interfaces. So LP, DDR4, DDR4 and DDR3 L at 32 or 16 if you want to. Yep. And all the other kinds of interfaces. But we've also added new in here. We've added a video encoder hardware. So it's a 1080p60, HT64 video encoding. Encoding. Encoding, right? So you can bring in the video encode. And so because it's 14 nanometer, does that make it more expensive or? Ah, good question. Because it's mini but the price might be a little bit higher. The mini is mini. Is mini. The whole goal was to bring down the power consumption, the cost, the size. The cost too. Yeah.  Well, there's a lot of reasons. We did skin down the GPU. We did take out some pins. We put it in a smaller package. But certainly the FinFET process is very helpful for this. Yes. And how soon is this available? So this is, it will sample this year and it should be production ready in this year and the launch to come. And what's the market for this one? So the markets for all these processors is a very wide range to be honest. So both of the parts here are qualified for both consumer and industrial use. They'll have a temperature range of minus 40 up to 105 for the industrial case. The industrial parts will be in our 10-year longevity program, meaning they will ship for at least 10 years after we launch. And they are supported by Linux and Android on the A-cores and by FreeRTOS on the M-cores. So with that and with all these capabilities, we have customers who are interested for things like over the top set top boxes, a lot of very audio applications for the 8M and the 8M Mini and there's maybe some more coming who get even more efficient at the applications. But we're seeing a high interest in handheld applications for this. Think about things like scanners, radios, phones. So there's a very wide range. All right, so it's going to be busy in the next few months? Yeah, busier. Busier and busier? Yes. It seems to be very busy right now with all the stuff that you're showing this show, all the 8Ms being launched and all the development boards that are going to be available. Yes, yes. Support and open source. Yes. And you provide a GPU, what is the name of your GPU? So the GPU comes from Vera Silicon. It's a VX7000 Lite. And this GPU has four shaders. It has an open CL 1.2 which is great for computing as well as for some vision applications. And it has open GLES 2.0, which is great for driving the graphics processors. And it's open source. Is it open source? Is it an open source driver's foot? So the way that we support our GPUs, I mean, it is something we license from the vendor. And so to a point, I mean, we offer everything you need to be able to light it up, right? There are certain things that we cannot give because that belongs to the vendor in question. But there's a chance that they open source that? I don't know, you'd have to ask them. I just heard that the MX-8 was supporting some, in terms of compared to the Mali GPU, that it would be more open source right here. Can't really comment about that one. That's up to Vera Silicon. But that would be exciting if that happens. Yeah, you should really ask them. All right. Okay.


Okay, welcome back everyone to theCUBE's live coverage here in Monaco, for the Monaco Crypto Summit. I'm John Furrier, your host of theCUBE. We've got a great guest, Dustin Plant-Holtz, who is a crypto advisor, but also the crypto editor for Forbes Monaco, here emceeing the official event, the inaugural event of the Monaco Crypto Summit in Monaco, your coverage area for Forbes. You're emceeing, welcome to theCUBE. Thank you for having me. And it's always fun when I get to have an event in our backyard, because I get to hear what others know. And to me, I'm very curious, always learning. So you're on the emcee on the stage here, keeping the program online, great program, so it's an innovative event, inaugural event, great name, by the way, Crypto Summit and Monaco Crypto Summit. Yeah, the Monaco Crypto Summit. That sounds like I want to attend every year. You're more than welcome to attend next year. Well, I hope so. Either way, I'm at the inaugural event with you. So give me the take on what's on stage, what's been the program like, what's your observations going on here at the event today? What we're starting to see globally is this digitization of things. And the people that are part of the innovation side, and so that's what we've been able to see this morning, we're now at the break, is what sort of companies are out there, the good ones. And what are they building? Is this innovation, is it even innovative? And figuring out how they're going to do it, and the roadmaps to getting there, from the metaverse to NFTs, and even to decentralized finance. Yeah, and it's the number one question I get is, what's legit, what's not legit? And then you're starting to see the wheat and the shaft separating here, and you know, something called crypto winter, but I don't see it. I mean, I see correction for some of the bad things going on in terms of not having the right underpinning infrastructure. The creative ideas are amazing. We're also seeing like digital bits and other platforms kind of coming together to enable the creators. And the NFTs side, for instance, has been huge. What has been your observation on that enablement? Because you have two schools of thoughts. You have the total nerds who are up and down building everything. Then you have artists and creators, whether it's music, tech, apps, building. They don't necessarily want to get into the covers. They don't want to deal with all that. Have you seen, what's your take on that? So I'm seeing that a lot of these major brands, you know, they're striving for excellence. They're being more careful of who they partner with, and the types of companies, and you know, they look at it from reality, and a little tough love, to figure out should they align their brand. And so what we're seeing here is, is that there is so much inertia moving forward, that we're just at the beginning of this thing. McKinsley recently said that the ecosystem will be over $30 trillion. So when you recognize that we are so early, and it's those right now, or some might say are the risk takers, but to me, they aren't taking risk. They're being a part of making history. Yeah, you get the pioneers, and you get the finances. So as they come together, how do you see the market? Because what I've noticed with crypto and here in this market is international one, a lot of international finance. US is kind of lags behind, you got all kinds of rules. But you got the combination of the future billionaires. Sure. Okay, the pioneers, and then the financiers. Yeah. Coming to money. The money and the power coming together. What's your reporting show you that's going on right now? What should people know about it? How this is evolving? What they shouldn't expect? So you have a group that wants to become cryptonaires. They're seeing these individuals globally. They're making lots and lots of money. But what they don't realize is that not everybody is gonna have that outcome. But looking at the technology aspect of it and how it's going to improve a system that many can agree is collectively broken, legacy. It just can't move beyond. It was never designed to. You'll see people take shots at certain car companies. I go, what you recognize, they developed the assembly line. And so I'm seeing that the smart money, they got in long ago, believe it or not. And those now that are looking out for their errors are the ones that saying, I will not have an excuse when my grandkids or my nieces or my nephews, when they come and ask, where were you? When the greatest transformational shift in human history from both education to jobs, careers and even wealth was being shifted to a digital world. Why were you on the sideline waiting? And so I think what we're gonna see is this tsunami coming. And it's gonna start with one big player and then two and five.   And that's what we're seeing is that this collective is moving forward. And the community we just had Beth Kaiser on. I've known Beth for many, many years and what she's, her journey has done. She's had a great mission and then gets, she's a data scientist and came to Analytica. Now she's doing work with Ukraine. And the rallying support around it has been impressive. And it's a community vibe, but the community is not just like sympathetic. They're hands on together to your point. Yeah, but it also takes courage. I mean, you look at Brittany Kaiser and what she had and to me, courage is not not having fear. Courage is not allowing the fear to stop you. And I recently asked my executive coach who's 85 and I'm turning 39. This question of, do you let fear stop you? How do you decide? And he said, you know, you can either let, you can either ride the dragon and I said, or let the dragon chase you. And Brittany has been one of these that made a decision to do what was right. And it came down to integrity. So what do you have to these days? What's going on in your world? What is going on in my world? So I moderate events all over and I connect and I like to ask people questions. So I'm going to ask you, I'm going to turn it to the interviewer. All right, this is it, in natural. What are you learning? I mean, I'm learning, I mean, today or this week or this month or this year, while I was just talking with Brittany about this, the security world is converging, cloud technology, cloud computing, that revolution has just been amazing. Amazon posted their earnings yesterday. They blew it away as far as I'm concerned. So they kind of show there's no tech recession. I've learned that this recession that we're so called in is the first downturn in tech where there's been cloud players as hyperscalers as an economic engine. Okay, so from a business perspective, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, now Google Cloud, Alibaba's now in the international version. This is the first time a downturn's ever happened with cloud computing as an economic engine. And so therefore what I'm seeing is the digital transformation that's happening across the world for enterprises and entrepreneurs is not stopping, it's actually accelerating. So although the GDP's down and inflation is down, you're seeing a massive shift continuing to accelerate spending and transformation with cloud technologies and decentralized. So you can all see it kind of in this event and other events, even some of the bigger events. The best, smartest people are working on it. The applications in all the categories are transforming. If cloud is step one, decentralized is going to be step two. So I see that kind of bridge going from cloud computing, cloud native to decentralized native. And I think the DApp market's going to just explode. I think NFTs are just scratching the surface. I think that's kind of, I won't say gimmicky, but I think it's much more of an illustration that there's more coming. There is a lot more coming because people are seeing that there's more to an NFT than an ugly, like in JPEG image, that there's data in there. And that your avatar will be stored as just that, as an NFT. And I learned today from Gaurav Singh that decentralization is the key to innovation. And I agree with that statement wholly. Yeah, I mean, I think access to stuff is going to be multi-dimensional. Like you think about the NFT as an ID, whether it's him or unstoppable domains, is a company that just got financed another round worth a billion dollars. Their concept is like, hey, one NFT is your access for all of your potential identities in context. And isn't that exciting that we're now going to be at this stage where you travel with you.  And to me, everything you're doing in this world, this reality is now becoming part of your digital asset as a whole. Yeah, I remember when I started my podcast and company in 2004, Early Pioneers, Evan Williams was there with ODO and you had the blogging revolution going on. That whole democratization wave actually didn't happen right then, but all the people that were involved in that Web 2.0 kind of craze was all about democratization. It's kind of happening now.  And I think in the middle of that, the Facebook's a little engagement. The walled garden data manipulation kind of took it off track a little bit. So I think now I'm psyched to see that it's back on track to where it was. I mean, Facebook made billions of dollars. Now you got LinkedIn. I mean, LinkedIn's great for your resume, but it's also become a walled garden with no data export. Yeah, and then some of it keeps changing. Think about this, that if you want to apply for a job, just change something quickly. Ah, now you're the senior VP before you were an office manager. Like to see the immutable block change. You don't get to see when did the record change.  People don't want to rein that in. And I think the user in charge message that Brittany Kaiser was, he talks about is hugely a massive under amplified concept. Digital assets are key, but the data ownership is something that I think is powerful. So I'm going to be launching a brand new company in and around September called Crypturns. And it's a crypto career center. Think of it like the crypto for LinkedIn that it's an aggregator, becoming the industry standard for education, becoming the industry standard for crypto chips with partners like Ledger and MoonPay and Casper Labs. Look at this, we've got an exclusive scoop on the cube. This is the first time, I will tell you, this is the first time in an environment like this that I'm excited to talk about because it's time to be part of the change as a father. I look at, I know where it's headed in the world of business. I know in the world of this, we're going to call the internet of connected things that it's going to require you to have a certain talent skill or a certain certification. And to me, it's important to have an industry that supports one standard. And also history on misinformation. Smear campaigns can happen and ruin a career overnight. Can you imagine that? One little thing. And because the internet never forgets, it stays around indefinitely. The truth has to come out. Dustin, great to have you on the cube. Thank you so much. Final question, what have you learned in there as MCing, what's your takeaway real quick? What I've learned is I never tire of learning. Thank you again. To learn more, dustinplannell.com. All right, thanks for coming. Cube coverage here at Monaco. I'm John Furrier. We'll be back with more coverage after this short break.


Hello, this is Griffin Bass with you on GoMustangSports.com. I'm here with head coach Morgan Bitting of the Stevenson field hockey team after Stevenson's 3-0 loss to Weidner. So coach, can I just get your general thoughts on the game and kind of what you say to the team after a loss like that? Sure. Honestly, very pleased with the style and the brand of hockey that we're playing, but we are still missing the fight, the grit, the attitude, the energy, just honestly the ability to finish and put the ball in the back of the goal. Yeah, so you were able to out-shoot Weidner, I think it was 9-6. Was that part of the game plan? You wanted to come out aggressive and out-shoot Weidner? Absolutely, yeah. We always want to be attacking in our circle and obviously get as many shots on goal as we can, but we're still missing that fight to finish and put the ball in the back of the cage. Gotcha. You've got a four-game road trip coming up now. What are you going to take from this game so you can build off of it going into this upcoming week? Yeah, we're really excited for the opportunity to bounce back on Wednesday. And yeah, it's fun to play at home, but excited to hit the road and play Immaculata on Wednesday and find the opportunity to hopefully bounce back. Gotcha. Thanks, Coach. Good luck.