Happy Saturday. Saturday, May 14th, 2022. Of course, yesterday was Friday the 13th. However, we know our dates have been the actual number of the date has been jumbled up and I think the three of us as in our audience watching really only take the astrology to be kind of the serious calendar for us and for our galactic brethren. But before we get started, I am going to go ahead and light my stage before I even introduce our beautiful guests here, which you all know. We were just laughing before we started recording how messy sage is. All right. And so I'm going to ask that Archangel Michael and Archangel Gabriel come into the space, my space, Stephanie's space and Emmy space and also protect our viewers who are watching right now. If they accept the protection, if they consent to it to keep our recording devices clean and smooth because we know we are right literally smack dab in this final battle, one of the biggest battles we've ever been through. And we're going to be talking about what's going on and we're going to start off with a pretty serious topic that happened yesterday. But before we start off with that topic, I want to also introduce again my lovely friends here. Of course, we have Stephanie from spiritual perspectives of our great awakening. She hasn't been on the channel a while because she she's been sick. So I'm so glad she's feeling better now. And also we have my beautiful friend Emmy here, holistic genie. So I'm going to be posting their links as always guys down in the description box below. So you guys can go ahead if you aren't already following them, go ahead and follow them both Stephanie and me are what I would call channelers through different means. And me does the astrology and Reiki. And Stephanie is obviously an incredible tarot card reader. And so we're going to come together the meeting of the minds. I've got my cards here too, just in case I need to pull. And we are going to start with the topic that we weren't planning on starting with until something happened yesterday. We were just going to do just a brief check in with the energies of this crazy month for and but something being the crazy month of May that we're in something happened yesterday with our financial system. And it's really I was saying before we started filming, it's it's given me a very heavy heart this morning. And last night, I know, Stephanie, we briefly spoke about it. But I'm sorry, I'm being rude. How are you ladies doing before we even get started? I'm getting there. I'm a little I'm a little congested, but I'm getting there getting better. And I actually did Reiki on me when I was second. It really helped. I had a really bad, bad headache and and bad body aches. So it was it was some temporary temporary relief. I can't even talk right. So thank you, Rami. My pleasure. My pleasure. I'm doing I'm doing well. I'm riding the waves of these crazy energy times here. But in a way, it makes it easier being aware of what's going on, and and being able to observe things without attachment or without judgment, you know, it makes it a lot easier. It really does. And it helps me to to be able to be able to support and encourage my family and friends to be like, Hey, I know everybody's freaking out, but you know, this is what it's not final. It's not it's not. I heard something this morning that it's kind of cheesy, but I really liked it. We can't control the waves, but we can learn how to surf. You know, and another fun, if you've ever been surfing, we can't control the waves that we can learn how to surf. And another quote I love is in the end, everything is okay if it's not okay. It's not the end. And so with what happened yesterday, the reason why it affected me. Now I I'm going to be very honest with you guys. I and I know Stephanie and me and me know this, I'm not a money person like that's not my wheelhouse. I'm not one that under it really understands finances.  That was not as you guys know, I'm a history lover, philosophy lover, English lover. But when it comes to numbers, that's not my thing. It's not my strong suits. And I have very much steered. I don't like talking about in my own personal life. I don't like talking about money. Money makes me very uncomfortable to talk about even when I in the past have started new relationships with people and you eventually have to have that conversation about how much you make when you get serious with that person or, you know, if you're moving in with that person or what your your assets are that always made me super uncomfortable. I just don't and I joked before that it's not something that's important to me money. It's why I've always dated four men. Like it's not something I ever like look for in somebody. That's honestly just I think I have a lot of PTSD around it because of how I grew up. I grew up in a very aristocratic will say society and there was a lot of pressure there. And so that's why I try to stay away from this conversation. But with that being said, I've never personally felt comfortable with crypto. I've never felt comfortable with it. Even though I don't understand finances, like some people do, my gut always told me that this was not something that was good crypto. And the reason why I think I felt that way is because it seemed to computer generated where someone could just press a button and then it's done. And but with that being said, I'm not a specialist. I have friends that are heavily involved in crypto or have been heavily involved in crypto. I don't like pushing fear based propaganda when it comes to you have to buy this now, you have to buy this gold or silver now because I don't want people to be afraid. That's a low vibration that survival vibration. We know that there's more than enough abundance to go around for everyone. And I know that people in my life if they saw someone starving, they would bring them home and give them food like we are we are humans. We are not dog eat dog. We have compassion and empathy and so I've always steered away from that on my channel. But last night yesterday, I was notified that one of the cryptos or some of the cryptos crashed didn't dip. It completely crashed. And what I was told is that this had to happen. It had to crash because it is part of the system, which was what my gut was telling me anyway, in order for us to build up to a complete financial crash that we know has to happen. Now with that being said, even though yes, that could be good news for us because we're heading in the right direction. I also was notified and saw a bunch of postings. I have to be careful about how we say this because of YouTube of people who had put all of their money, all of their trust and all of their faith into crypto. And as of last night, they had lost everything. And in that desperation, we're starting to see people remove themselves from life. We know that the military back channel did speak about a particular weekend where this would happen. I'm not saying for sure that this is the weekend.  I love you and you are supposed to be on this earth. Please don't if you've lost everything, guess what? We're all about to lose everything because the whole system is about to crash.  DM me if you need to on Twitter. I'll be more than happy to talk to you.  It just makes me want to cry because you are priceless. You as a human being are priceless. And we all make mistakes. We've all been hoodwinked in the past by these nefarious players, these controllers. And so I'm not blaming any truthers who are promoting crypto. None of us truly know what's going on. In a lot of ways, we're just going off of our research and our gut instinct. So we all make mistakes. Forgive yourself.  But with that being said, can I ask you and then we get to the weekend because I think that this is happening. Well, we know nothing is coincidence, right? We know everything happens in divine time. And so just to give people any type of clarification and again, guys, as Stephanie says a lot is I see a lot. This is just tarot cards. So take it all with a grain of salt. We're generalizing. I know there's all these different categories of crypto. So we're just generalizing. Please do your own research. Don't do things because we tell you to do what you feel like is best for you and your family. Stephanie, can we ask the cards who is behind the crypto phenomenon? Because again, as I've said, my gut never felt comfortable with this. And it might have just been because I don't understand it. Yeah, I agree with you there. I was optimistically cautious and I just chose to wait. I did invest in silver. I took my retirement money out of the regular stock system and invested it in precious metals. But the crypto, I was kind of like you, Bryce. I just was like, I think I might wait and see. Well, precious metals, that's like money. You can hold it in your hand. It's yours. You can't just disappear, right? Right. And how inexpensive it was to buy. If I needed those few thousand dollars, I could just sell it. And it's about the same price that I bought it for. So I figured that was a safe option to invest in. Yeah. Well, it's definitely not nefarious players that crashed it. The 10 and cops, I mean, that's a happiness of family card. I'm getting it. That's probably the white hats or associated people associated with the way hats deals were made. Some sort of deal was made. But it's we're not going to some things being blocked with crypto right now. So we might not be seeing the full picture right now. Um, because it looks like that granted, this, this is just a card. So those who feel like they might have lost money may have not because this is distribution of money, this particular card. But it is someone high in power. That's the king and it was crashed, but it has to crash because it's going to be going on a new there's a new beginning with it. There's some new beginning that is coming up. So from what I take it is that if the white hats, the good guys were responsible for crashing it yesterday, then it obviously that would tell me that it was it's it's inception whoever created crypto was working for the bad guys. What I'm getting is they are crashing it on the nefarious end to maybe restart it on the beloved end. Does that make sense? Yeah. Yeah. So it's probably going to so don't again, don't take yourself out guys. Like everything that we money is replaceable. Yeah. Money is your life is not no money comes and goes like money is just glorified paper. We know it's energy, but there we all know at this point that we are slaves to a system regardless of whether it's crypto or regular money, we're slaves to a system until that system is completely demolished. And we just have to wait until that happens because there is no other reality we can walk into right now in order to survive. And so everybody who lost money, it's kind of all of us all of us have lost money to an extent through taxing through all sorts of stuff. They're going to get it back. It's going to come back with the new financial system coming in. All right. So should we ask then what the what is the what is God source God want people to know right now who are feeling hopeless because of what happened yesterday. They're feeling, you know, I know a lot of people are probably feeling very betrayed because I think a lot of triggers were promoting this and they probably feel like they were duped. But I want to tell you guys, like I said, we've all been duped. It doesn't mean whoever advised you was necessarily bad. It just we're all in a state of confusion right now as to what's what's going on, what's good, what's bad. So and I understand that I myself have struggled with anxiety and depression and we're in a crazy time right now astrologically anyway. And so these energies are making people feel things that are not permanent, you know, this too shall pass. Don't do anything that's going to stop you from being here with us. We want you here with us. Yeah, second to process this. I think creator is reaffirming that they are loved. I'm getting the Empress and the emperor emperor card. And when I'm looking at it as the mother father God, it's the feminine masculine aspect of creator, right? But this could be a mom and a dad's love right here, these two cards put together.  This is a chance to really take a step back. One side. Yeah. Yeah, go within with the hermit card, you know, regardless of Jesus's story, we know that Jesus did go up on the mountain oftentimes to regroup and meditate and pray. So this is a good chance to take a step back. Don't do anything. Hey, see, don't do anything. Like block yourself from hurting yourself. This is a time to really just rest, wait it out, ride the waves. And I'm also getting I have the higher front right here. And I'm wondering if crypto has something to do with taking out the rest of the puppets. Yeah, like putting to rest these players. Now the higher font, it could be a good card, it could be a bad card. What it is is a spiritual leader. And we know that a lot of the dark players were spiritual leaders on the dark end, right? So I just want to get one or two more cards here. So if you're struggling right now emotionally, because you lost everything, it's basically a good time for you to take this opportunity to do some self healing and some self exploration that might not have presented itself with this happen. And I will say, guys, there isn't a financial advisor that I do listen to, even though my understanding of finances is very minimal. And he had been saying, he's a financial advisor that understands that's awake, basically. And he kept saying for months that crypto has to crash. Once you see crypto crash, it's it's go time. It means that it's about to flip itself. Everything's about to flip itself for the good. Yeah, I'm getting the queen of pentacles. So it's like queen of pentacles is a very is very wealthy that could be with money that could be with abundance of anything really. But she's very confident. And so I think sources saying have confidence we're going on a brand new beginning journey. Okay, so I'm not thinking that there's anything to be really worried about anyways, if you're stuck in 3d land where you're still in that state of fear, obviously, look within try to get yourself out of 3d thinking, because money is 3d thinking. I mean, obviously, we need money to survive and everything, but universe always going to take care of you. You know what I mean? So you know, going into not to go into money much details or anything. I know firsthand what it's like to have absolutely no money be a mom, barely have a place to stay a place to live and I've seen miracles happen in my own life because I had faith and I looked within and I tried to do a lot of work on myself and I got myself out of that situation. God will always get you out of that situation. God knows what you need. Yeah, and I've been very honest with you guys that every time I post a video on YouTube now $200 gets taken out of my absence account and money is being stifened into another account. We know it's part of the spell casting and as stressful as that has been for me, I've allowed it to continue to happen because it needs to happen because there needs to be there's a bigger picture here and I've been fine. You know, the universe is God is providing and so just allow to understand this is just one chapter you know and ask for help. I mean, there's a lot of people in your life. I can guarantee it for most people that can help you if you need a little bit of help right now, you know, and a lot of people are willing to help you because believe it or not, most people, I think most people, human beings are not super worried about how much money someone has, you know, that's a very shallow person, a very vapid person who cares about that. It's always good to prepare anyways for whatever is to happen. Like for instance, I was told, you know, a couple of years ago just to be prepared and with money crashes and stuff like that and what I did is I went on to the Facebook marketplace and I bought for really, really dirt cheap a few tents even just, you know, if it was cold outside, if it was winter and the lights went out, you put the tent in your living room and it keeps the warmth in or if it's really, really hot outside and the blackout happens, you put the tent out in your yard, you know, stuff like that.  And you know what? Who cares what it is? Who cares that it's not a big fancy house?  So that's the important thing. And honestly, if you put a tent out on a tropical beach, as long as I had a bathroom and a shower, I'm perfectly happy. I don't need that big house. We need to start letting go to of what we would deem as important necessities that are material things. Yeah, let it go. Just let it go. Our world's about to change anyways. So it's time to let go of the old things, the old ways, the old ways of thinking. Can I ask one more question? I think we talked about this last night and I'm not saying this is true or not, but just to kind of get people to ground themselves into what's happening. Years ago, the military back channel mentioned something about a particular weekend that starts with an S of people removing themselves from this plane of existence. You guys know what I'm talking about. And we've been trying to figure out what that weekend was going to be. Is this perhaps this weekend? I mean, it could be multiple weekends that this happens. That's kind of what I was intuitively thinking. It's not just one particular because I think there's going to be some dark players who do it one weekend. I think there's going to be sadly, I think fundamentalists are going to end up removing themselves and they realize that they're in a satanic cult themselves, even though we tried telling them. Yeah, I think we're looking more toward the future for that particular weekend with two ones. This situation is going to balance itself out. So, I mean, there might be a few people that do, but it's not big. Yeah, it's, it's, this is like, no, this is saying no, but I get that some people will with that nine of sorts card.  I think that's more or less going to be with that could be the stock market crash. That could be with a whole fiat money crash. That could be with disclosure. Like you said, disclosure of the satanic church, disclosure of the Hollywood people. Um, I think has multiple meanings. I think those military back channel drops have a lot of meanings to it. They're complex. Yeah. All right. So let's go ahead and shift focus just more the story guys like, please just listen to your gut with things.  Don't do it. Your guts just please just listen to your guts. Okay. Don't fall for scare tactics. That's the old system. You're, you're abundant love. All right. All right. So let's move into this weekend. So Amy, I'm going to let you take it away. Sure. Okay. So I started looking into more of the astrology around this lunar eclipse and it's, it's really quite interesting and it's not as scary or I mean, it's, it's intense and overwhelming, but it's not as scary as I think we, we can make it out to be, you know, we, we tend to make mountains out of mole hills. So I want to offer just some information to show you how we have particular alignments that are supporting us and helping us right now. So we've got the moon and Scorpio and the moon is conjunct the south node and a conjunction is when two planets or points are close to each other at a, at a degree point. Like if you think of the astrological wheel, it has 360 degrees. Well, when you have a planet or point within a few degrees of another planet or point, it's called a conjunct. So the moon and Scorpio is basically next to the south node and, and the south node is representative of where we've been, what we've done, where we're coming from, where we're coming out of. And then you've got the sun opposite the moon and an opposition in Taurus and the sun is conjunct the north node and the north node is where we're going to, where we're headed, where we're growing, where we're changing, where we're evolving. So this eclipse is a lot about separating the junk from the good stuff, what we want to let go of, what we want to keep. The moon and the south node together is like very cleansing. It's like a clearing out, a letting go of what is no longer needed. And the sun in the north node is like a simplifying, like a getting a handle on what it is that you want. Coming more into your authenticity, who you really are, your true self and what, where you're going and what you need to get there. So now Taurus is our first earth sign. So it's about what's on the surface, what you can see. And Scorpio is all about what's underneath, what you can't see, the deep rooted stuff. So if you look at all of the major areas in your life, like plants, like, like you're looking out in your yard and there's all these plants, the part of the plant that you can see would be sun and Taurus. And the root system would be moon and Scorpio. And so you want to look at your plants, which you've got going on, and figure out which ones need to go and then just go dig it up, uproot it. And perhaps what's going on with the crypto is this removal of this particular plant that is not needed. It's like an insidious weed that is masking itself as a pretty flower currently. So maybe that's what's going on. I love that analogy, by the way. That was really awesome. Bryce said let's make it simple so that a five-year-old would understand. So I'm just trying to do that here. When it comes to finances, you have to talk to me like I'm five. So that's why I like the analogy because I love plants. I'm a gardener. So that works for me. Yes, yes. Okay. So, and also, okay. So with the moon's nodes, the north node is where we're going, the south node is where we're coming from. The south node is what's familiar. It is our old, comfortable, ratted, tatted pair of slippers. And they may be comfortable and they may be familiar. But we have these new slippers that have like memory foam in them and they're totally plush and lush and way better than our old pair of slippers. But our old pair of slippers calls us back to it because that's what's familiar to us. That's what's comfortable, even though it's not as good as what the north node has, what these new slippers have to offer us. So you might find yourself in a bit of a tug of war right now with, oh, I should let this go, but oh, I don't want to. You know, so just be gentle with yourself. Be very gentle. Try not to attach to anything that's coming up. Just observe it. Just observe it. Make mental note. Don't attach to it. So I lost you there. Did you hear that, Stephanie? Can you repeat that? My Michael, I'm going to ask you to come in again and make sure everything is stable with the recording devices so that we can get this information out for the betterment of humanity. So we're very wonky for the last 24 hours, by the way. Well, we know that that might be coming soon too, right? So yeah. Will you repeat what you just said there, Emmy? Because my system cut out, so for my audience. Sure. How far back do you want me to go? Like just the last sentence, I think you said that cut out. Okay. So there might be a bit of a tug of war you feel going on internally where you, you know, you want to wear your old pair of slippers, but this new pair of slippers is just so much better. And you just kind of a tug of war there going on. And also with the moon and Scorpio conjunct the south node and the sun and tourists conjunct the north node, we have a square with Saturn. And normally in the astrological realm, squares, which is a 90 degree angle to a certain point or planet and opposition, which is a 180 degree aspect to between two planets or points, typically those are looked at as hard aspects or challenging aspects. But in the astrology that I'm studying, they like to get away from the positive and negative verbiage. So they identify oppositions and squares as achievement, achievement aspects. So we have Saturn in Aquarius and Saturn is swearing the moon and the sun. And when you have a square with Saturn, you have this mentorship kind of energy or a parental or like a teacher kind of someone in authority, but it's not an oppressive authority. It's like someone saying, Hey, did you get this done? You know, did you do your homework? Did you get the artwork done? Did you get, you know, are you doing what you need to be doing accountability, right? Like someone holding you accountable? Yes, yes. Which is Saturn's that's Saturn's original template. We know that the dark players have inverted Saturn, but Saturn literally is like father time in the matrix as far as Saturn's literally just paying your bills. Yeah, gas in your car. Like that's Saturn's original role. Right. It's the necessary structure and authority that we need in our life to keep us moving in a forward direction.  Saturn is not a bad planet. Every planet and point has a spectrum of qualities. You know, you have the lower vibrational qualities and you have the higher vibrational qualities and this is a higher vibrational quality of Saturn. It's supporting what's going on with this eclipse. It's supporting the forward growth. And then we also have Pluto, which is retrograde and Capricorn right now. And it's making an aspect to the moon called a sextile, which is a more harmonious, easy going, nice flow state of an aspect. So you've got Pluto, which is a ruler of Scorpio. And you also have Neptune, the other ruler of Scorpio, making a trine to the moon. So you have these very helpful, encouraging, harmonious aspects to what is going on. So we really don't need to be so afraid. You know, we're all afraid of our fears, but these things are coming up to be looked at lovingly and with grace and with ease. Like just look at it. You know, don't run away. Don't be afraid. Don't get your panties in a bunch. Look at your plants. Okay, this one's not doing so well. Let's let's just get that one out of there.  So no fear.  And astrologically, what I see is some, yes, some potentially scary stuff coming up to be looked at, but you don't need to be afraid of it. Like we have so much support going on right now with these energies, even though they're incredibly intense, we are very much loved and supported going through this right now. If you're still breathing, you haven't lost really anything. Yes. Have your lungs still here. So that's pretty much all I, oh my God. And I just really wanted to just emphasize how important it is to be gentle on yourself and give yourself grace. And if there's stuff coming up that's, that's scary, just look at it. Acknowledge it, you know, name it, claim it, and tame it. Name it, claim it, and tame it. And you can do that. You know, we all have, we're all very powerful. We all can get through this in a healthy way. And like Stephanie was saying, ask for help. Like we're so, we want to do everything by ourselves. You know, and it's, we're not made that way. We're social beings. We need each other. None of us is an island. Like none of us, none of us can get through this life alone. Like it just is not possible. But yet we think that we have to or that we should or we're not strong if we have to ask for help. That's an old programming that just needs to be plucked. Yeah. Yes. And this comes back to something I harp on my channel all the time because it actually is like, because my whole professional life and personal life before YouTube was teaching authentic yoga and go back to India. This is spirituality guys. Spirituality isn't rainbows and butterflies and running away. That's escapism.  Spirituality is like actually allowing those uncomfortable emotions to actually be triggered, allow them to be triggered so that they can come up and so that you can work through them and remove them. Because if you don't work through them, if you push them away and you go back to escapism, then they're not going to go anywhere. And you're just going to be stuck in a rut, stuck in a rut doing the same thing over and over and over again getting no different results. And I know we talked about this, Stephanie, because I think people are often confused about meditation, where they use meditation to try to manifest things. And that's not what meditation is at all. It's having a one-pointed focus in order to allow things to come up, in order to allow whatever you need to work on. We all decided to come as spiritual beings to come into a very dense human existence. And we did that. So not only could we help push the earth forward, but also in the micro to learn more things as well. And when these, and that's why I love you were saying about achievements, why I've talked about this at Nazion, but I know that repetition is how we learn. David Greig, my first big teacher in Philadelphia, you know, the traditional yoga we practice is extremely difficult. It's extremely, people, we have a joke, we call it ashtonga reksik, because people start it and they can't, they lose so much weight because you're just burning. So, I mean, you're just, you're, you're, it's challenging. It's not fun. It's not like a relaxful thing. And when David would have a student come in that was like a 22 year old gymnast, whatever, next posture, whatever, when an older man would come in who was overweight, couldn't touch his toes, David would get so excited because now we have something to work with. Right? Where there is no resistance, where there is no friction, there's no spark, where there is no spark, there's no light. And so that friction that comes up, that uncomfortableness that causes that tug of war, as you said, is like that match that you're lighting. And eventually you strike hard enough and there's a light. And that light would not have happened without that striking, without that tug of war, without that resistance. And it's not fun. And sometimes it takes a while and sometimes you think you work through something. And then a year later, it comes up again because we're fickle human beings. And that also gives us this amazing opportunity to look at because I think that pride we have, or we don't want to ask for help, or we want to look like we've got it. That's coming from the ego. And the ego is the false sense of self. It's not real. Your soul doesn't fear anything. Your soul is vulnerable. Your soul knows humility. Your soul knows unconditional love. It's the ego that fears challenge. And the reason why the ego fears challenge is because we are mortal beings. And when that mortality happens for us, the spirit doesn't go anywhere, but the ego does. It goes back down with the body, back in ashes to ashes. And that in itself, as I tell my students a lot with the whole friction and resistance, that's the idea of opposing forces, which is what we're working with in the yoga practice a lot within the physical practice. But that's also the whole manifestation of your existence as a human. These opposing forces where you are an eternal being living in a mortal body.  And so I love that embrace, embrace like Marni Alton, the bar teacher that we work with sometimes, she always says like, there's no such thing as, as like obstacles. It's just a puzzle. It's just a puzzle. How am I going to work this puzzle out? How am I going to work through this? So that I'm not just holding these broken pieces of the picture, I can actually put the picture together, seal it, frame it, put it on the wall and walk away and be done with it. So I love that you're talking about being an achievement versus like something that's scary. And what is the acronym for fear? It's false evidence appearing real. We have nothing to fear, but fear itself. You're still muted. Sorry, I had to blow my nose. I was like, oh my god, they both muted. It's just the bright show now. So I'm still very, you know, okay, lemmy. I want to make a recommendation to the viewers too. And this is something I've been doing. I told you, Bryce, I've been doing this. It's very, very helpful is journaling. If you have these emotions come up, you know, and you said to observe them. Yes. That's that's that's amazing to say. Putting them to pay putting the emotions to paper helps you to acknowledge it and release it. So it's something that I've been doing. And I've actually been doing a lot of shadow work anyways. And I told you this price yesterday on the phone, but something that I started to recognize about myself is actually going to be doing self triggering where I'm a musician and a singer. So where I used to be, well, no, I'm still, I guess, going forward, I'm going to make it a goal that I'm going to continue that. But music is what speaks to my heart. And music can either bring up some sort of happiness and joy, or can also bring up old emotions I haven't acknowledged in years, whether it be good or bad. And so I was listening to a song the other day that just happened to pop in my head, I put it on and it was amazing how much, how many memories came up with that particular song. And they were very happy memories. However, because I had this feeling of nostalgia, I actually started to cry a little bit. And so I had this idea and I'm going to be starting to do this. I'm going to be self triggering by going back to certain songs I know specifically that are going to bring up old standard emotions from my past. And I'm going to journal as I listen to it. And so this is a part of shadow work that I'm going to be doing. But and people don't have to do that. But just journaling what your emotions are is a good way to really get things up and released. Yeah. And that's that's kind of the same concept. I'm a big proponent for talk therapy. I know people are going to be like, Oh, but all the therapists are bad. The part of the system, not every therapist is bad guys. My trauma therapist was absolutely amazing. And she literally saved me. And that's kind of what they do in talk therapy, though, you start talking about something and they just keep digging and getting you to go deeper to pull up the root, right? The root of the issue, what is really going on? And somebody, we were talking, I forgot what video it was, but somebody made a comment where I said something and my trauma therapist told me this, I know this through yoga as well, like when we're talking about shadow work, and we're talking about things that like traumas that happened to us that have caused a residual type of behavior or reaction, it's not necessary to always remember what happened. That's not necessary. And somebody was like in my comment section, Oh, yes, but we need to know like why how no, no, no, no, it's kind of like what you were saying and me with like not labeling things good or bad. When things happen to you in your life, for example, everybody knows that I was in an extremely abusive relationship in my early 30s with to a man I was engaged to, I almost lost my life one night. That's how bad it was. Yes, he is someone that should be avoided for sure. Yes. However, I'm the one that stayed in the relationship. And so his participation has no place in my healing. He has nothing to do with my healing. Just blaming him for everything got me nowhere. But actually going into trauma therapy and figuring out why I had the propensity to date men like this is what started my healing. So it doesn't matter what happened to an extent. What matters is how what you're holding on to and why you're holding on to it. Because a lot of the times the emotion we're holding on to that's pulling us down because of something that happened isn't really about what happened. It's something else within us that magnetized to that. It's an energy that stays in our bodies because we're holding on to it for some reason. And usually what why we're holding on to it has nothing to do with the person who did it to us. It is everything to do with us. Everything to do with us. And we got to do that.  There's no poetry reading. There's no Indian music playing. It's just very cut and dry. And my teacher will literally be like wife fearing. Wife fearing. Like if you're in the mice room and in traditional yoga guys, there's not a teacher leading a class with music playing. It's you have in traditional yoga the traditional yoga, you already have six series that are already been choreographed and practiced for thousands of years that you're working off of. And so the mice or room, everybody's wherever they are in the series. So people are doing their practice at different times. The teacher's walking around working with people individually as it should be. That's the real yoga, which we are going to do an episode on that guys because there's a lot of fake 99% of the yoga you've seen America's fake. It's not real yoga. All right. So with that being said, the reason why my teacher is able to do this is because it's traditional.  When you're having this issue, you see people like when there's not music playing and the classes are being led and people are having to bring themselves to the series, you see people stop on their mat and start picking with their fingernails and like pausing before going to the next posture. And it's because there's something triggered and then that the posture is going to bring up. And so they take a pause and my teacher will walk and be like, why fearing? Why are you afraid right now? It's just a back bend. And so you have to go and think why or he'll say, where's your mind? Where's your mind right now? Is it out there on the street because you don't want to face what's about to come on your mat? And the beautiful thing too about this idea of going into the dark shadows of our mind in the dark places and Patanjali makes this very clear in the yoga sutras too. And this is true for a shadow work of all lineages. You know, nowhere in the yoga sutras does he say yoga is supposed to be easy and relaxing. That's not in any of the yoga scripture. That's something Americans and I believe the Kabbal created to try to distract us from the real healing of yoga. Don Ling talks a lot about the mind being in the now and tomorrow never comes and the past is done. But we're always living either in tomorrow or the past. What's coming in the future? What happened yesterday? Our mind is never right here in the now moment. And even in a course of miracles, God lives in the now. God's in the now.  But what happens in those postures in that moment is that your mind is not thinking about when you're in it. Your mind is not thinking about the laundry. Your mind is not thinking about something your dad said to you five years ago or the next boy you're going to date. Your mind's there in that moment just living with what's coming up. And that's where the healing happens because you're in that now.  It's there presently with you. And that's where God is. And that's where the surrender happens. You know, my grandfather, I think talking about the illusion that this world is the hologram illusion, my grandfather used to say this all the time, you know, my granddad would sit there and say, kids, they can take everything away from you. They can take your money from you. They can take your house from you. They can take your wife or husband from you.  And that's what we're learning.  And that's a powerful place to be. Yeah. So this is a crazy. I mean, like I said, guys, but I heard this morning, if we learn how to, we can't control the waves. We just got to learn how to serve. And anytime those feelings come, think about the beautiful, another one of my favorite quotes is some of your best days have never even haven't even happened yet. And so for in order for us to be in a place to receive those best days, we need to be as clear of our own shit as possible, right? And so now it's the opportunity. This is like literally like screen cleaning, isn't it? The universe is a beautiful, beautiful opportunity to like just go ahead, sorry. I'll say just really ride ourselves. I'm excited. I'm like going into this like first of all, surfing is exhilarating. If you haven't tried it, I said that in the beginning of the show, but I'm learning to surf on the waves of all these energies. And even though it's it's crazy energy to me, see, I thrive on change. Anyways, I love change. I'm obviously good change, but I'm looking at it and I'm feeling all these different energies and I'm like, wow, this is out of the mundane stand in feelings that I get from just regular regular old living, you know, day to day. So it's all about to putting it into a new perspective as well, a perspective that is exciting and, you know, but also living in the now like you said, Bryce, because that's so important of living in the now, just go with the journey, enjoy the waves, you know what I mean, whether they're big, small, and there's exciting times ahead of us. And, you know, we shouldn't just assume that if we lost our crypto, if we lost this, if we lost that, the world is ending, you know what I mean? That's part of the agreement that we each individually made to coming into this world is losing those things.  But sometimes we have to lose it all in order to understand ourselves as, you know, that's what I'm going with that. Well, how many people, and I think this is why this triggered me so much too is I, there's a lot of, we all have childhood trauma, not, not, not one of us did not, does not have some trauma from our childhood. Like that's just, it's not a competition, like we all have trauma. But we've done, we've done like two episodes where we've read into the school I went to. I went to a very hoity-toity private school, my whole life, and my school had a lake with swans on it. We had a chapel, you know, I never seen the only public school with lockers I'd ever seen was on Saved by the Bell until I went to one, like, event at a local public school. And I was like, whoa, it looks just like Saved by the Bell, because my school then had, my school was like hardwood floors. And yours was a Rory Gilmore school. I don't, I didn't watch the, like, oh, you didn't watch the Gilmore girls. No. Sheldon, Sheldon actually takes place in Connecticut. But yeah, Sheldon was one of those hoity-toity rich schools, very rich. They didn't have lockers either. Very, very rich school, very, very, and there was, we were, most of the kids there were lineage, my, before when my parents, it was an all-boys school, my dad went there, it's also a boarding school. And there's a lot of things I'm grateful for, like I grew up in a very small group of kids, there was very much a bubble, I'm still friends with a lot of them. We all knew each other, we all knew each other's siblings. When I had my back surgery, one of my friend's dads was my anesthesiologist, another friend's dad did the surgery, you know, and so we all kind of knew each other. So there was some benefits. However, there was a lot of trauma.  I always say my high school trauma does not come from the kids I went to school with. There weren't really clicks. There weren't, we were too, it was too small from the school itself. And I know we've read into it, Stephanie, that my school was definitely part of this group and had to capitulate. And I think for me, a lot of my stress and my disdain for money comes from that. And I'm not saying because there are a lot of people out there that are super wealthy, that are incredible people, look at Mr. T. But I think that that whole, there was a lot of pressure put on us. For example, academically, when I was, I graduated in 2001, my school, we didn't have Homeac. That wasn't an option. There was no shop class. We had to take calculus.   Even my freshman year, we were overworked so much where I would have this propensity just get so tired of throw up, exhausted as a 14. So I think I have a lot of trauma. And when the whole crypto thing came up, all of a sudden, I have a lot of friends that removed themselves from the earth plane at a very young age because of the pressure. You know, there's one person I know that talks a lot about securing generational wealth for your family. And every time I see that, I'm like, I just want to like throw up because even in that facade, that's all an illusion. That's all a facade. People who come from that world are under so much, especially the boys. I mean, most of the boys I went to were like, such and such the third, such and such the fourth. They had so much pressure to be a doctor, be a lawyer to continue this lineage, right?  And so, I think for me, when I started seeing yesterday that people were actually taking their lives because of money, you are worth so much more than that. Don't let that evil system do that to you.  I really don't care at all. I'll buy you lunch if you're hungry. Like, I don't care. You are what's important. And I've laughed about that. Every guy I've ever dated has been poor because I don't care. I never care. I just like the person, you know? And so, please, guys, please know that this is going to pass. If it is bringing up some darkness in you, some issues in you, use it as an opportunity, that resistance to course correct, to understand that you are not your bank account.  God doesn't care. Your money is not going to follow you into the next life. We know that, right? Like, it's not coming with us, right? Like, we know that, yeah? So, that Mercedes isn't coming with us, right? That family house, beautiful marble floors, that's not coming with us, right? That's just Earth, that's here on this plane. And you are so much more than that. So, anyway, I just, I just want to make sure that, I don't know. I just, I know a lot of people who, because of the pressure of that, and I just, you know, please don't do that, guys. DM me if you need to talk. If you've got a lot of stuff coming up, or if you had a major financial tragedy, like what Stephanie was saying with the journaling, I really encourage you to balance the tough stuff that's coming up with a list of your assets.  And just make a list of everything.  And then read it over.  We're, we're taught so much of our life to focus on the bad stuff, the stuff that needs to be changed, the negative stuff, the stuff that people don't like, the stuff that I don't like. How often are we encouraged to list our assets and focus on that stuff? Because we have so many. Yeah, so many. And, you know, it can be hard with shadow work, and there's a lot of people doing a lot of shadow work. And it's, it's really important. It's essential to do your shadow work. But I really encourage you to balance it and look at your assets as well. Absolutely.  Amen. I've been doing, I've been, I mean, I've been on a totally different topic. I, I know Shanzi and I did an episode on body morphic disorder, which is something I've struggled with in my life. And I think I said on that episode, like I, I'm pushing 40 years old in February of 2023, I'll be 40. And I've started every morning, I look at myself naked in a mirror. And I compliment myself. And I say stuff like, you're almost 40 and you got a six pack. Look at that. I've worked hard for that six pack, but your boobs are still pretty perky. Like, you know, like I, and I, and I feel like my body is starting to show signs of that positives vibrational versus what I was, and I think that is, that is a conditioning, right? We're taught that, you know, it's with money, with looks, with everything that's part of the 3D world from a very young age.  You know, the first rule of the yogic principles is, and one of the yamas is a word that's a hemsa. Now, hemsa means non-violence. So hemsa is violence. A hemsa is non-violence. And Patanjali picked, that's the first, that's the foundation of this practice. And he picked this word non-violence very specifically. He didn't pick peace. He didn't pick kindness. He picked non-violence because there is a way to go about your life aggressively healing yourself and letting yourself experiencing the shadow work without being violent towards yourself, right? Without, you know, we say, I tell my students a lot, it's, we don't want to open up Pandora's box. Once you get, you can't put the ship back in the horse. Like, we want to slowly pull back these layers so the nervous system can handle it. And another thing with a hemsa that it took me a long time to understand is, most of us would never speak to our friends or other people the way we speak to ourselves. There are things that I would say to myself that I would never say to Emmy or Stephanie. And if anybody ever said what I say to myself to these two ladies, I would be pissed. But I say it to myself all the time. So, and that's one thing I think I said this in the beginning with the whole crypto thing, like, forgive yourself. Have that mercy on yourself if you fell for it. Forgive yourself because we've all fallen for stuff.  And I, you're right, Stephanie, if people bought a lot into crypto, they probably was in their sole contract to learn something from this experience. So, okay, cool. Now you're an algebra class. Now you're going to take your, now, now you're at that class, right? That's, this is just your class you're in now. And learn from the experience and forgive yourself. Like, again, none of us know truly what's going, we're just using our, our best logic and what we can to, to figure out what's going on. So, so don't beat yourself up for making that mistake. Don't do it. You know, does that make sense? Like, yeah, yeah. So anyway, sounds like it's like a Debbie Downer episode to an extent, but that's okay, guys. We want everybody to know that we're all in this together. And if you're feeling, and I think there's maybe some like validation, if you are feeling certain type of way, maybe stressed out or emotional now you know why. And so use it to your advantage to, to grow and to nurture yourself. And exercise is great, guys.  It always helps. So, all right, ladies, any parting words you want for our, want to sell, tell to our audience? Um, yeah, just slow down. Take the next few weeks and just take a breather.  We went to the beach all day yesterday. And it was amazing. Like, I feel almost a sense of slight euphoria today, just being out in the sun and in the water and on the sand.  Um, and just slow down. Yeah. Now you make me want to go to the beach. That's my favorite place to be. I think I've said everything I need to say, so I'm good. I'm going to put a challenge to everybody watching right now on my channel. I'm assuming this will be okay to do on Stephanie and Emmy's channel too. For everybody watching right now, I want you to put in a comment section, three things that you love about yourself. I like that. Yes, absolutely. And it can't be anything material. What do you like about yourself? Three things about yourself that you really like about yourself? Let's, let's start focusing on that. Yes. Your true value. So awesome. Love it. But before, Stephanie, before we leave, you want to pull just like a few cards to see what the week, what God wants to tell us about the week ahead. And today is the day of Saturn, guys. It is the day of karma. So Saturn is also your karma, which is just your work. That's all it is. Nothing scary. It's just, we all have it. It's just your work. So, um, in the traditional yoga practice, we always rest on Saturdays. That is like the Sabbath. So in order to observe that, that I think my teacher thinks we should just lay in bed all day, but we can't do that in the last, we don't have cooks and drivers. We got dogs that have to go outside and go to the bathroom. We got kids that need five minutes sitting under a tree and just breathing is amazing. We're going to have a wild week. Sounds exciting. Interest. This isn't what this card means, but this is what I'm getting from it. It's almost like he just removed a wand out of the ground, like a plant, like you were saying him. Like uprooting. Things are being uprooted. And there are, this is a major arcana, so the world, so there's going to be worldwide large changes that are occurring for the collective endings. Yeah. Well, the world can be the ending of a karmic cycle too, right? Yeah. So this could be on a worldwide or individual level. So these energies are going to be lifting, you know, stand in energies and in causing changes in people's lives that are to major arcana. So it's a very, not a temporary change. It's a life changing change. And endings are going to be occurring along with like the, the most high the creator is offering these new beginnings to us. So this was inverted. So to unstuck, get us unstuck out of that stand in energy. These energies are pushing us forward. It's almost like God is saying, you're not staying where you are.  Like the mom bird pushing the baby bird out of the nest, so it'll fly. Yes, exactly. That's sometimes, like you said, Emmy, that energy that holds us accountable, right? You know, creators holding us accountable. It's like, nope, you need, you can't sit here. You can't sit where you are. You need to become unstuck. These energies are forcing us out of that unstuckness. But it's giving us a chance to look at, this is a reminiscent part, the six of cups. So it's like, we're, we're observing these energies that have been stuck. And once they become unstuck, then we observe them. And we look at them and then we release them, right? So that we can start loving ourselves again. So that's, that's what this week is all about, is it's creator pushing us in the, in the direction we need to go. Whether you want it or not, you're not going to have really much of a choice, it's these energies are forcing us into these new beginnings. That's awesome energy. I like it. Yeah. And that's one thing too, before we sign off, I'm going to bring to the attention so as you guys ever heard of roughing, roughing, roughing, it's roughing, roughing, roughing, like the form of massage that you get into the fascia. It's intense massage. It works with the fascia. Okay. Emotional release. I get it done in India. And oh, oil, the oil, the, the, the oil you put on. Yeah. That's, that's, that's mild compared to roughing. Roughing can be very intense. Well, I came up with this concept of healing, of releasing the, because we hold our information in our fascia, right? It's, it's all there. She studied the human body and human patterns and behaviors for a long time, decades. And there is only so much that we as human beings can do to self-correct because we all have blind spots, right? So I always need teachers. But at some point, what she discovered is there has to be an external force that comes in to, to change a pattern within you. And that's why we have aggressive adjustments in the, in the traditional yoga. They're not the sweet little adjustments. They're aggressive. They're cranky. That's why roughing is so aggressive with the fascia is because it's that external force to cause movement. And when you said that, that's what came into my head. I was like, yeah, this is like what roughing is telling us that sometimes we're only going to get so far when we're doing things ourselves, because we're always going to carry blind spots. Sometimes things have to come in and it's, it's an energy. What I'm getting is it's a very forceful yet loving energy. And what I'm seeing in my brain right now is, and this would happen for me, let's say we were going skydiving for the first time, never done it before. And the thought of it is, I'll petrify me first of all, okay, skydiving. Okay.  I know they don't originally do that in the actual skydiving.  You don't know what to expect.  And guess what? The person behind you, whoosh.  I don't know if I'd be saying that, but I'm just trying to come up kind of like your plant analogy.   Now my heart is beating fast, but I survived it. And, okay, that was quite the experience. It's like one of those, the energy I am getting is, it's, no, no, you're not staying on that plane.  It's kind of like a tough love.  That's what, yeah. Well, it's funny. I know I told Shaunty and Mornay because Shaunty posted a video on Facebook of her skydiving in Nancy. I'll never say Mornay's country, but a skydiving is something that is absolutely terrifying to me, but I keep telling myself I'm going to do it because I think I need to do something like that to like, and when I go visit them, I'm going to strap up and jump out of an airplane with them.   Oh my gosh. So it's fine. You know, we're, as one of my teachers used to say, no one gets out of this world alive. We all have to go through this and we're all going through it together. And you know, if you can need someone to talk to you can DM me on Twitter. Just hold your head up high. No, please know that some of the best days of your life have not happened yet. And if you remove yourself because of this stressful weekend, you're never going to experience those beautiful days that are ahead of you. So the best is truly yet to come. All right, ladies, talk to you guys soon. Bye guys.


Live from Boston, Massachusetts. Extracting the signal from the noise. It's theCUBE, covering HP Big Data Conference 2015. Brought to you by HP Software. Now your hosts, John Furrier and Dave Vellante. Okay, welcome back everyone. We are live in Boston, Massachusetts for theCUBE at HP Big Data 2015. Hashtag HP Big Data 2015. Or go to crowdchat.net slash HP Big Data 2015. I'm John Furrier. With Dave Vellante, our next guest is Chris CB Bone, Senior Database Engineer at SD. Welcome back to theCUBE. Thank you very much. So SD, hot in the news, beating earnings, growing. Last time we talked, you gave an awesome talk about the large scale. We're back. Large scale is back and hot. It's gotten even bigger. It's gotten even larger. But great keynote speech by Stonebreaker, a conversation with Colin. We thought about a couple things, variety of data. I focused in on that. Yeah, volume, velocity, that's cool. It's happening bigger, faster. But the variety piece is interesting. I want to get your take on where all this fits in. How do people manage the data analytics with the large scale build out of cloud on-prem? You know, it's a tough problem. There's a lot of, at Etsy, we've got a lot of different data sources and data repositories. We've got Hadoop, we've got Vertica, and we're trying to unify them all into one manageable piece, but it's hard to do that because they're all sort of proprietary and they all grew up organically on their own. And our job to make it more manageable is to bring them together. What's the engineering conversation? It's all the guys that's sitting around, kind of really looking at this from multiple perspectives. How do you guys frame it? I mean, a lot of stuff's going on. You have different database. It's all over the place. You have different platforms and technologies. I mean, unification, okay, that's a high level goal, guiding principle. How do you frame it? How do you start engineering that? I mean, what do you take tackle first? What's the approach? You know, it's kind of like if you were to be building a city. You've got all these different parts of the city and how do you connect them all? It's through the transportation layer. So what we're doing right now is we've gone deep into Kafka. We're using that as our messaging bus and we used to replicate data from our production databases into Vertica with sort of our own proprietary process. We hook up directly to MySQL databases, read the bin logs, do an ETL process into Vertica. Well, now we're pumping all that data into Kafka and then our replication is basically being a consumer of those data messages that are coming along and that's, you can see Vertica has done the same thing as they just announced today that they've got this Kafka streaming capability now. Excavator, they call it. Yeah, well, that's their next version of Vertica and part of that is this Kafka streaming thing. So they're thinking along the same terms. Hey, let's get a common bus for data and then everybody can be a consumer of that and so that's where we're headed. It seems like this- It's like tapping to the main data stream. Yeah, exactly. Well, it seems like the data pipeline was very disparate, all these different pieces, streaming, MPP databases, et cetera. So you're saying there's this clear trend to start to bring them together. Now the cloud guys are trying to do that with integrated data management but you don't get the functionality, right? So what's more important to you, that functionality or the simplicity? Well, they're both important, but simplicity in the end is going to, I think, win the day because it's got to be manageable. If it's not manageable then it doesn't matter how functional it is. It has services, ultimately. It's really where you're headed, right? But we used to use, for example, we still do currently Vertica as a conduit of data into Hadoop, which is kind of a backwards way that is usually done. Usually you have your data in Hadoop and you have the- Filter it and then send it into it. Exactly, but since we were getting our production data into Vertica, we found it easier than to just connect it to Hadoop and bring the data over that way. But since all this data is now going to be flowing through the Kafka pipeline, all these different databases can now subscribe to that data and it makes it much easier.   Well, basically we've got our production databases which are horizontally sharded MySQL. We also have some Postgres databases that are sort of legacy, has mostly are a lot of tall tables for billing information. And we have our own proprietary tools, we call them Schlepp, that brings the data from- It's another in my life. It's the soccer and cross and stuff everything around. Okay, but- Well, so we brought that data into Vertica with our own Schlepp process, right? But now we're saying, okay, instead of having all these different ETL processes, let's try to just whittle it down, let's get one unified pipeline of data, Kafka, and then we can use these robust consumer products to bring the data in. And so we're going to make use of the Vertica, Kafka streaming connector. It's going to make our life a lot easier. See, we got to ask the question. We were one of the things Dave and I always riff on. It's kind of like the unknown. And this is a database meets real time problem.  To make something asynchronous in real time, you need data structures, you need lists, you need some coolness, you got things like Redis out there, and Amazon's got beanstalk, and you got elastic search everywhere. So you got to imagine the complexity involved. How do you get the databases to scale so fast when you got to deal with a lot of real time streaming and then the database piece? How does that all click together? Yeah, you know, it takes a unified effort between the data analysts, the people who are running the databases, and the SysOps guys who are building the underlying hardware to make it all good. You know, we've been, we're looking at speeding up our databases by going to SSDs more. They've come down in price enough and they're getting reliable enough that, and they're super fast, that's going to make things a lot better there. The meantime between failure seems to be better than spinning rust. So are you guys looking at this challenge or something that we're kind of just seeing some data on, which is how to take the benefit of Elastic Cloud, bring that into some sort of listing based streaming with Twitter feeds. We don't make use of any external clouds at all. We just have too much data, and the problem is not that they're a bad thing, it's that it's hard to get the data into them in a timely way. Now years ago, years ago, it means like two, three years ago at most. Dog years. Yeah, exactly. And so we used to spin up some Hadoop things in AWS, but it turned out to cost a lot of money. Because you're moving stuff back and forth in the bandwidth cost. Back and forth, the storage too kills you. Spinning it up and down. Our storage bills on Amazon can go up and up and up. Oh, we were spending a lot of money every month and we ran, crunched the numbers and said, well let's just build our own Hadoop cluster. It's actually going to cost us less because it'll be co-resident with the sources of the data. And so does that cost a lot of money? A lot of machines laying around too. It's off the shelf machines. You can throw it on great commodity gear. Yeah, we now have a huge Hadoop cluster. We've got a team dedicated to maintaining that and that's worked out well for us. So it really depends on the nature of the company. I think your smaller startups going into the cloud is awesome for them. But once you get past a certain scale, you got to look at it and say, are we better off doing this ourselves in our own facility?  But you know, in a lot of the big data stuff. So where's the reality out there? Share the folks in your mind. What's the core reality right now in terms of problem space, solutions out there and the bar that people just want to jump over? I mean, it's not just a change the world.  What's the reality? Well, Stonebreaker brought out the heavy weaponry. Yeah. And you let it fly. It was so good, wasn't it? Yeah, it was good. But he had a few misfires and everything. He's saying, oh, it's all hype and the big thing I see for everybody out there is you bought into all this hype. Well, okay. Anytime you have some product out there that's actually doing something useful, there's going to be some marketing hype around it. That's just the world we live in, okay? What did he misfire on? Over it playing his hand on the hype or was he technically wrong? Was he pumping? Well, he implied that there wasn't really hardcore value being created. That was a practitioner. That must have really kind of been off-putting. He kind of shot down everything. He basically said, who do? Why are you even using it? The people who invented it to Google are abandoned it like 10 years ago or whatever. The truth is- He didn't misfire on that. I didn't want to call him out on that, but case in point, Kubernetes is open source because MapReduce was co-authored by Cloudera. Right. And that internal conversation at Google was very much like, we don't want to have the same thing happen to MapReduce to Kubernetes. So that's kind of refused Stonebreaker's comments, right there. Well, I think so. And the good professor makes a lot of good points. We're going to get back on the cube. See, Stonebreaker, you got to get back on the cube. Come on. So I think the problem here is that there's two forks, really, of data analytics. One is very batch oriented. That comes out of the whole Hadoop thing, MapReduce. But the truth is that a lot of analysts are more ad hoc in nature, and a lot of them aren't the best at writing MapReduce jobs, or they can write SQL with the best of them, right? And so that's where we have Vertica for the analysts who are ad hoc oriented, and then we've got the MapReduce jobs in our big Hadoop cluster for those batch jobs. So I was going to ask you, are you serving data scientists, or are you serving business analysts? And you're saying both. Because we have both. So we've got data analysts, and we've got data scientists. We've got some really good ones. But they're working on different things. The data scientists are more predictive analytics, whereas the analysts, they're crunching raw numbers, really. We went public earlier this year, and being able to crunch big data for the analysts, doing that in Vertica was really great, because they could get the answers they needed quickly. Congratulations, by the way, on the IPO. Thank you very much. How's that changed the culture besides mingling a few new millionaires? The reporting piece of it, no change of, you know, you're here laying it out. A few more edicts. Yeah, last time I didn't wear a coat. Now I got to wear the coat. It does change the culture a little bit in this way, in that we have to have more data security now. So we've been implementing across our whole data systems security, because not everybody can look at everything. So that's part of the problem I would advise companies to start thinking of that earlier on, because when you have to go back, there's some technical debt you got to pay off for not doing it earlier. Yeah, you can really get jammed on that. So let me ask you about the impact of mobile to your job. Okay, obviously you guys have been there from mobile first. You guys have a good presence. For the folks out there that know mobile's here and they've got their toe in the water or they're fully immersed, might be in the double down what's working, or that's rearchitect, share your point of view on how mobile's truly impacted the down the stack and things that you guys have done that you've learned. Our tissue you can share. Well, I mean, three, four years ago, mobile was like nothing in terms of part of our sales and so forth. Now it's 60%. So it's outstripped traditional desktop systems. That's the way the world is working and that's increasing. You're going to see more and more of it, but there's a problem with the form factor of mobile. So our challenge as a marketplace is making it accessible and I think we're doing a really good job at that. But we're also analyzing a lot of this stuff. So we get a lot of information in our clickstream data about how is mobile being used? And that kind of brings us to real-time analytics because we run a lot of AB tests. Real-time analytics I think is going to be a bigger and bigger player as we go forward. We're looking at a product that's right new on the scene called PipelineDB. It's a fork of Postgres and it allows you to pump a stream of data into your database, create a view on top of that that you can then join to your regular table.  Oh, where are they from? We'll join to our user details table, say, oh, okay, they're in this part of the country. And so we can start to really analyze and dig deep on the trends and how people from different regions, both in the U.S. and internationally, are using mobile. Stream on the user experience, on the fly, basically. That's what we have to do. And so we're tightening the loop on getting answers. So that's why I say real-time analytics is going to be a big deal because we've had this loop where we get data, we have to bring it into Vertica. That's kind of a tedious loop that takes some time. We want quicker answers. So we're looking at all the different streaming analytic solutions, real-time analytics. And they're all starting to emerge right now into the marketplace, but there's no winner. It's, there's high flocks. Super early. Super early. And this is the fun part. I think you just hit the nail in the head we were talking earlier about why it's so much fun to be in this business because there's innovation going on right in front of everybody. Absolutely. Well, so you heard Robert Young-Johns talk about sort of tongue-in-cheek about these Hadoop projects spinning up, what's your strategy? And they're like, well, we got these Hadoop clusters as in dog years, two years. As the markets evolved, how was the decision-making process around which projects to fund and which vendors to use? How has that changed? I would imagine it used to be pretty decentralized and pretty sort of down in the weeds. Is it escalating? Is it becoming much more strategic? It's definitely escalating. I'll tell the story about big data at Etsy. We had a back in the dog, a couple of dog years ago or whatever, we had a post-grass BI machine. And post-grass has great database, but it's a relational database and it's really excellent at looking up single records. But when you're trying to do aggregation, it starts to fall down as they all do, okay? So then we started looking around, oh, what are we going to do to replace this? We need to get fast results for aggregation. So we settled on Vertica and we've been a Vertica customer now for about three years. And that really has been great. But we brought it in just for certain analysts to use and all of a sudden it exploded throughout the company. It's kind of the linchpin of our whole data stack at this point because it's so accessible because of the good SQL language that it has. People know SQL. And so now it's used by analysts, data scientists, people running A-B tests, we run certain types of dashboards off of it. So when things start to grow like that, it gains an importance. Like I wanted to upgrade Vertica to the latest version for about two months now and the head of our analytics, business analytics team says, don't you dare? Because we're crunching Q2 numbers and so forth and we can't afford to have this thing go down for any amount of time. So that's showing how important it has become. And when things become important, then the decision process gets a little harder. The usability drives everything, right? It's like SQL is comfortable, it's accepted, accelerates adoption. Right, I mean, if you have a really fast car but and it's a gear shift car with a clutch, but no one knows how to drive that then it's just going to sit in the garage. So it's got to be powerful and usable. So I want to ask you a question to riff on something with us. Dave and I always talk about some stuff that we're kind of getting our arms around and one of the things is this whole omni-channel thing. And one of the things that we were talking about on theCUBE a couple of months ago was to get A-B testing, there's other letters in the alphabet, to goof on the Google thing that's news, alphabet, it's been kicked around. You can do a lot of different use cases. So it's not just A-B testing, which is traditional. You're limited by a lot of data. You can't store all the other scenarios. So take us through the mindset of soon there will be multitude of tests, A, B, D, all the way to Z, plenty of letters in the alphabet. Yeah, I think that. How would you attack that problem? How would you protect it? The way we currently do it is we put out an A-B test to a very small segment of our user base out there and we see how things go with that. Now we're a rapid deployment shop. We push code about 30 times a day out to our web servers. That allows us to do A-B testing really well because we can push stuff out and then we can pull it back quickly. There's probably other companies out there that don't have that kind of flexibility in their deployment routines. So it's important if you're going to do A-B testing. That is pure DevOps right there. It is, well we open sourced a tool called Deployinator that's used by a lot of companies now. Deployinator? Deployinator, because it's a problem when you have, you know. And then the ops guys call Terminator. They have their own counter strike tool. Well, when you have this plethora of servers, you know, we've got hundreds of servers that are serving web requests and you've got to get the code out to that. You have to have a reliable way of doing that so that you know it's all good and we have this Deployinator process goes through, you know, putting it out to some test servers first, making sure it all runs, it goes through all its unit tests and then it pushes it finally out to production at the end of that whole process. It's very reliable and we're able to roll back stuff easily. So you have to have that. If you're going to do a lot of A-B testing or all full alphabet testing. So we're moving in that direction because we can pull things back if need be. But you also have the, to do the analytics on it, you better have a system that can handle that kind of flow of data.  And that's coming into Vertica so that we can analyze it. You look at the numbers, you look at the results. Yeah, it's interesting. I mean, the thing that we also talk about is that, you know, there's optimization for large scale, high performance web servers, for instance. You can both load them up, just juice them up, but then it might be rigid from a flexibility standpoint. When you're pushing code 30 times a day, you got to have the high performance web servers and all the tech underneath software, but you need flexibility. How do you balance that? You know, that starts to- The art and science, the kind of- Well, it is art and science together, you know, and it flows up to higher levels. You know, we have a really good operations team at Etsy. And they, we work closely.  And so, but we work closely with them because, you know, hardware is changing all the time, software is changing all the time, and they have to work in concert. So, Colomahoni and his keynote sort of went back to the early days of ERP, you know, systems of record and a lot of highly customized examples. And then he sort of became packaged apps. And I thought he was going to say, we're going to see a similar track with analytics, where everything's highly customized and it's going to be more packaged. And he really didn't go there. He said, it's going to be different. It's going to be more composite. It's got to be more flexible. What are you seeing in your organization? Is there a demand, a push for more packaged apps, analytics, you know, bundled into the apps? Or is it really this sort of scenario, composite, composable pieces? Yeah, I think, again, it really depends on the stage of the company. You know, I think if you're small, packaged apps are really good because it gets you along quicker than if you've got to roll your own. But when you start to get bigger, like Etsy is now, sometimes you need the flexibility of being able to roll your own stuff. So, basically what we do is we get the building blocks, like Vertica, Hadoop, and so forth, Kafka. And then we have the know-how and the expertise to quickly write things to work. And that gives you differentiation. Yeah, well, presumably, right? And competitive advantage. We know best what's going to work for us. So, there's some package things that we use. We use Looker, for example, to help our analysts get, you know, inside into our data. Tools like that are really useful. But there's some things that we have to roll our own, especially when you're down beneath the surface and at an ops level. And you don't necessarily see that change. I mean, tell me, square that with the earlier statements about simplicity ultimately is going to win. Are we just years away from that? Simplicity, having that type of functionality, or will there sort of always be a coincidence? Well, when we talk about simplicity, it's about the end user within our organization, you know, the analysts and the data scientists. They want it to be simple and predictable. Making it simple is not simple. That's true, but that's why under the hood there, you know, data engineering and ops, we're all working together. There may be some layers of complexity under there, but the whole point is, we'll have a complex under here where we understand it, but it's got to be simple when it's facing the user. But I think where some things are going also, as you heard about SQL on Hadoop, that's been a problem now for a number of dog years. And we're excited about what Vertica is doing in there, because we have a lot of data in Hadoop that we're not bringing over into Vertica at this time, and maybe that'll work for us to make that accessible. You said it's been a problem because it hasn't been available. Well, it's like, okay, this is nice data in Hadoop, but it's too much hassle right now to get it over into Vertica, so we'll just let it sit there and we can do some map-reduced jobs. But so the SQL on Hadoop will make that, it's going to democratize that data. It'll let people run queries directly on Hadoop where they hadn't been able to do that. The conventional wisdom is Cloudera's Impala sort of changed the world. I mean, Hadoop was first, but Hadoop failed, but Impala sort of changed that, and then Vertica's always been there. But Hadoop failed because it had some onerous requirements, basically hanging a solar and Postgres server off of every node in your Hadoop coefficient. So CB, I got to ask you a final question at the hook here, but I'm getting some comments back channeled to me from folks in the industry. Are you bullish or bearish on Kafka, and why? We are bullish. I mean, we're kind of going all in on it, but why? Because it's the winner in all this messaging stuff. There's been a number of Apache-sponsored messaging brokers and systems over the years, and a lot of them have failed. And you talk about technical debt, I'm glad that we waited and didn't go all in on some of these things earlier because you can be left holding the bag and that's the worst thing that can happen to you. Kafka's out there, it's getting traction. What we think now is critical mass, it's going to be around. And another really important thing is that when you're adopting technology, you want to make sure that it does have critical mass because there's people out there who know it.  And then any staffing you have to do, you've got to train everybody, it's better. I mean, this is why PHP is kind of one of the web interface games, there's so many people who understand it and can program it competently, that it wins out in the end for that. Okay, CB, thanks for sharing that. I got that last question in. The folks in the press are going to thank me for that. So thanks for the comments. We're bullish on it as well. 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Have you ever been to an event where the food comes out too cold or not cooked to order? Well, a meat cannery can have a solution. With fondue, everything is cooked exactly how you want it and it won't get cold because you're the one cooking it right at your table with use of portable stove tops. This gives our customers more fun and interactive way to experience their food. A quick hit. A quick history. Fondue is a mixture of French, Swiss, and Italian influences. It gained popularity in the U.S. in the 1960s and kind of died down towards the end of the 1970s. So, hopefully some of our Hardian's members have memories of making fondue dark foods and going to fondue parties. And they all should know some of the hassles of the food preparation in addition to most households only have enough money to buy one fondue pot or only see the logic of buying one fondue pot. We don't have the option of enjoying all courses but one. Well, we make this experience easy. We started the event by showing up to the event location a few hours early for food prep and set up. There's going to be one fondue pot for every two people at the event. And the fondue pot itself has a removable bowl on the inside so that our staff can easily and swiftly move through the course process. We make this four course fondue experience simple, safe, and worry-free for the customers. Our target market is between the ages of 25 and 60. We wish to serve the upper to middle-class populations of the Minneapolis-Saint Paul area. We'll also really be focusing in on the wedding industry, marketing within bridal boutiques, magazines with event planners, and also by participating in bridal shows. I'm now going to hand out a manage of the judges so they can look at what a meet has to offer. Here are customers' different packages which may include salads, cheese appetizers, main courses, and chocolate desserts. On this menu we have also included lactose-free and gluten-free options, along with making sure that everything is organic. Through industry research we found that these are major trends that should not go unnoticed. Continuing on that note, about 80% of consumers now look for locally grown organic ingredients to aid them in their healthy lifestyles. So along with giving consumers the food they want, we want them to have a fun, interactive experience that they won't forget. Our marketing campaign is to have the customers leap happy. This is important to us in order to build relationships and a repeat customer base. The relationship we will now will help our future success in opening a restaurant. The main purpose of a meet catering is to raise initial funds for this restaurant and just to test and see if fondue would make a viable business before we do decide to expand. A quick recap. We plan on starting in the catering industry to practice our recipes and build a loyal customer base in the Minneapolis Twin Cities area. We use that revenue to build a brick-and-mortar store in the same area so we can serve all income levels. Overall, we believe we can give consumers a fun, interactive experience at their catered event that they won't soon forget. You're sure to have fondue memories with friends and family at a meet. Thank you for coming to our presentation and for your consideration with this competition. We're now moving on to other questions. Can you expand a little bit more on your thoughts about marketing, getting the word out, especially in a big market like Minneapolis, St. Paul? Sure. I mean, I think a lot of it comes from just like people telling each other like word of mouth, but I mean, we're going to have a website and like social networking, which is free. And like within the bridal boutiques, we're going to have like flyers and everything and then we're going to try to work with event planners to see if they'll like help us and we can like kind of pair up into like well, they'll... What am I trying to say? They're going to kind of recommend us and then we'll recommend them as well. In addition to, we plan on contacting the start review and having an article in the newspaper about our services. So I'm intrigued by your idea. I'm a little bit curious about your financing and usually this sort of business is a bootstrap business and I'm a little bit concerned about your plans for investors and venture capital. Why? Like what is your concern? Why would you go that route? No, that would be for more of like the restaurant once we do go on because that's going to take like a million dollars to start up a restaurant. But for the catering part, we're going to just pitch in our own money and go from there. Yeah. In addition to, there's very little competition for fondue related restaurants in catering but has anybody heard of the melting pot in Twin Cities? Yeah. It's a very high end popular restaurant. It's franchised and it's quite popular throughout the United States. They have restaurants throughout the East Coast but that's primarily the only fondue related competition. Yes. Any more questions? Mentor and Professor Marta for giving us guidance and aid throughout this project this semester. Thank you.


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