Live from Orlando, Florida, it's theCUBE, covering .conf18, brought to you by Splunk. Welcome back to Orlando, everybody. We're here with theCUBE covering Splunk .conf18. I'm Dave Vellante with my co-host, Stu Miniman. Chris Crocco is here. He's the lead solutions engineer at Viasat. Great to see you. Thanks for coming to theCUBE. Thanks for having me. Appreciate it. You're very welcome. So let's start with Viasat. Tell us what you guys do and what your role is all about. So Viasat is a global communications and technology company, primarily focused on satellite based technologies, anything from government services to commercial aviation and residential service. And what does a lead solutions engineer do? My primary role is to help us kind of transition from a traditional operations state into more of a DevOps environment, including monitoring, alerting, orchestration and remediation. Oh, we love this conversation, don't we? Okay, so the basic question is, and I know it's hard, but it's subjective. It's kind of, if you think about the maturity of your organization in the context of DevOps, you know, on a scale of one to five, five being nirvana. So let's assume you're not at five because it never ends, right? You're constantly evolving. Where would you say you are? Are you just getting started?  What do you think? That's a good question. I would say we're probably three on our way to four. We've had a lot of growing pains. We've had a lot of learning opportunities. The processes of DevOps are getting pretty well entrenched and right now we're working on making sure that the culture kind of sticks with the DevOps. That's critical, right? I mean, that's really where the rubber meets the road is, you know, that organizational and political, you know, without getting into the dirt of it, give us what it looked like before and, you know, where you are today. Sure, so prior to our shift to DevOps, which was mainly motivated by our latest spacecraft, ISAT2, we had a very traditional operational model where we had everything funneled through a network operations center. We had a technical operations team and if they weren't able to triage and remediate issues, they kicked it over the fence to engineers and developers who would then throw something back. And there wasn't a lot of communication between the two organizations. So when we did find recurring problems, recurring issues in our network and in our environment, it took a long time to get those resolved and we had to have a large volume of staff there just to kind of put out the fires. With the transition of DevOps, one of the things that we've been focusing on is making sure that our development teams, our engineering teams understand the customer experience and how it's impacted by what they do and decentralizing that operations structure. So all of the triage work goes to the people who actually work on those services. So it's a pretty big paradigm shift but it's also helping us solve customer problems faster and get better education about what the customer experience is to the people who actually make it better. And roughly what was the timeframe that it took to go from that really waterfall model to the structure of the app today? We've been going for about two or three years now in this transition. Like I said, the first year or so was kind of bumpy and we've really kind of ramped up over the past year in terms of the amount of teams that are practicing DevOps, the amount of teams that are in an agile and scrum model. So overall, two to three years to get to where we are today. So the problem with the traditional model is time to deployment is slower. That means time to value is slower, a lot of rework. Here, you take it, now you take it, hey, it worked when I gave it to you, a lot of back and forth and not a lot of communication, creates frustration, not a lot of collaboration and teamwork, now you're working through that now. How large is the team? My team is five people, we have 4,500 people roughly at Visat as a whole. And I believe roughly 2,000 of them are in an engineering or technical role. Okay, and so, but in the previous model, you had developers and you had operations folks, is that right? And your five were sort of split over those or was it a much, much larger sort of corpus of folks? It was a very large distribution of people. It was very engineering and developer centric. We still had a core operations team of 60 to 100 people based in our Denver office. We're keeping our headcount relatively the same with respect to our operations and we're growing a lot in terms of those DevOps teams. So as those teams continue to grow, we're adding more operational resources to them and kind of inserting a lot of that knowledge into other parts of the world. You're doing a lot more with the same. Are you come from the ops side or the dev side? I come from the ops side. I actually started my career with Visat in our knock in Denver. From there, I transitioned into a ops analyst role and then we created the solutions engineering team and I took the lead on that. Kitchen, can you tell us how Splunk plays into your DevOps? Did you start using it in the knock and kind of go from there? We did, actually. Splunk started out as just a tool for us to see how many modems were offline in the knock. It was up on the video wall and we would see spikes and know that there was a problem. And as we've made this transition to DevOps, a lot of teams that were using other solutions, other open source and homegrown solutions were kind of organically pivoting to Splunk because it was a lot easier for them to use for alerting dashboards, deep data analysis. A lot of the things they need to do their job effectively. So as we've grown as a company, as we've grown in this organizational model, Splunk has kind of grown along with that in terms of use case. And that growth is predominantly in IT operations and security, correct? Well, it's actually pretty interesting. It's kind of all over the board in our organizations. Started in IT operations and security, but we have people in our marketing department using it to make sales and campaign decisions. We have executive leadership looking at it to see the performance of our spacecraft. We have exploratory research being done with it in terms of what's effective and what's not for our new spacecraft that will be coming out, the Viset 3 constellation. So it's really all over the board in the organization. This is interesting Stu, you're not the first customer who's told us that no, it's not just confined to IT, it's actually seeping through the organization. Despite the fact that we heard a bunch of announcements today, I don't know if you saw the keynotes, taking, making it simpler for lines of business folks to actually utilize Splunk. So given that a lot of your teams in the business are actually using it already, what do you think these announcements will do for it? Maybe you haven't had time to evaluate it, but essentially it's making it easier for business people, simplifying it. Yeah, you know, all of the announcements in the keynotes over the past two days have been really, really exciting. Everything that I was hoping for got checked off the list. So I think one of the big things that's going to allow us to do is get our customer facing teams and our customer care organizations more involved with the tool and getting them the information that they need to better serve customers that are calling in and potentially even prevent the situations that customers have to call in for in the first place. So giving them a lot of account information quickly, giving them the ability to access information that is PCI and PII compliant, but still allowing them to get the data they need to service an individual customer. All of those things I think are really going to be impacted by the announcements in this conf. So you were in the keynote yesterday. I was. Were you shaking the phone? I was, yeah. Which group were you? We were Orange Group. We were Orange too. We were sitting in the media section and all the media guys were sitting on their hands, but we had a lot of devs and ops guys shaking with us. It's like when you do the wave at Fenway Park, when it gets behind home plate, everybody just kind of sits down, but we were plugging hard. All right Chris, what else has excited you about Conf 18? It's cool stuff that you've seen, some innovations, things you've learned. Well I'm really excited about the app or infrastructure. That's something that we've been trying to get for ITSI for a long time now in terms of entity level monitoring and any entity level thresholding, and I think that's going to complement our business really, really well. The advancements that they're doing with the metric store, specifically with things like Syslog, are really, really exciting. I think that that's going to allow us to accelerate our data and make it more performant. The S3 compliant storage is absolutely fantastic. And it comes in black now and that's really, really fantastic. Oh right, dark mode, you mentioned the ITSI. Have you used the VictorOps pieces before or is that something you're looking at? We haven't looked at VictorOps as of yet. We're an ex-matter's customer right now, so we've been using their integration that they built out and is on SplunkBase. But VictorOps, it's going to be interesting to see how that organization changes now that it's part of the Splunk. So dark mode actually, it's one of those things that it really got such a loud ovation. It was funny, I was actually talking to a couple of Splunkers there, like we want that dark mode t-shirt, which I think you have to be a user and you need to sign up for some research thing that they're doing and they're giving out the black shirt that has gray text on it. Why does that resonate with you, the dark mode? Well, it was actually what they talked about in the keynote. If you have it up on a video wall, which we have in various parts of our company, or if you're sitting in a dark office, something like that, looking at a really white screen for a long period of time, it's not easy on your eyes, it's hard to look at it for a long period of time. And generally speaking, a lot of our presentation layers go towards that visual format. So I think this is going to allow us to make it much more appealing to the people who are putting this up on screens in front of people. So your responsibility extends out into the field, I presume, right? The data that's in the field, is that true? Okay, so I'm interested in your reaction to the Industrial IoT announcements. How you see, or if you see your organization taking advantage of that? Well, we're a very vertically integrated company, so we actually manufacture a lot of the devices that we use, and that we provide to our customers. I think a lot of our manufacturing capabilities would really benefit from that. Anything from building antennas for a ground segment that actually talked to the spacecraft, to the modems that we put in people's houses. That entire fabrication process, I think, would benefit a lot. I really loved the AR presentation that they did, where they were actually showing the overlay of metrics on a manufacturing line. I think that's something that would be fantastic for us, particularly if we're sending somebody to an antenna or a ground station to replace a piece of equipment. We can overlay those metrics, we can overlay all of that, and we can use the industrial analytics piece of that to actually show which piece of hardware is most affected, and how best to replace that. So, a lot of opportunities there for our company. So, I wonder if you could help us understand what's, from your perspective, on Splunk's to-do list. We're going to have Doug Meridon a little later. If you had Doug right here, and he said, Chris, what can we do to make your life better? What would you tell him? You know, I think a couple of the things that would make it better, and it looks like they're heading in this direction, is streaming in and streaming out. You know, it's very, streaming in is of course important. That's where a lot of your data lives. But you also have to be able to send that out to Kafka, to Kinesis, to other places, so other people can consume the output of what Splunk is doing. So, I think that would be a really, really important thing for us to socialize the benefit of Splunk. And then vertically integrating the incident management chain. Looks like something that's on their roadmap, and I'd be interested to see what the roadmap looks like in terms of pulling in Phantom, pulling in VictorOps, pulling in some of these other technologies that are now in the Splunk umbrella, to really make that end-to-end process of detecting, directing, and remediating issues a lot more efficient. Okay, and do you see at some point that the machine will actually do, the machine intelligence will do a lot of that remediation, or do you see the human still heavily involved? Well, I think one of the important things is for a lot of these remediation things, we shouldn't have a human involved, right? Particularly things that are well-known issues. Human beings are expensive, and human beings are important. And there are a lot more important things that they can be doing with their time than putting out fires. So if we can have machines doing that for them, freeze them up to do a lot more cool stuff. Right. All right, Chris, well, listen, thanks very much for coming on theCUBE. It was great to have you. Yeah, thank you very much. Appreciate your insights. All right, keep it right there, everybody. Stu and I will be back with our next guest. You're watching theCUBE from Orlando, Splunk Conf 18. We're right back.


Welcome to the 30 paintings in 30 days project. So every day of this month, at least 30 days of this month, we are gonna create a little painting a day and we're gonna see what happens. I'm gonna experiment mostly with watercolor and gouache and let's get to painting and I will see you at the end. Hey guys, we are here for the 30 paintings in 30 days project. We are going to do study painting number 18. We are still working on skyscrapes. So let's get started, shall we? Alrighty, we're gonna get out our half inch flat brush as per usual. And I am going to, I'm looking at this page of photos here that all have like bright sun coming through the sky, which I wanna do something inspired by that. This is gonna be challenging because I think I wanna try practicing something I'm not very good at, which is leaving white space.  I need to stand my books up first. There we go. Okay, so I suck at that, but this is probably good practice, right? So we're gonna just use sort of the colors that are on the palette here. I'm gonna add a little bit more blue, cerulean blue. Ooh, that was a lot. That was just a little bit. What is that? That's a Van Gogh cerulean blue. Look what that did. Wow, that really blued it up a lot. Let's add a little bit of the inky color back in and a little bit of brown. And if you hear my phone going off in the, I mean, my computer dinging in the background, sorry that some people are, hang on, one second. Okay, it might still ding in the background, but I think it's calmed down for just a minute. So we're gonna take this sort of turquoisey blue color I created here and we're gonna, I don't know if this is gonna work, but we're gonna try it. I'm gonna put a little bit on and I'm gonna get my brush wet and blend it, blend them out.  So again, you know, when you're working from these inspiration photos, you're inspired by them to create something, a painting, but you're not necessarily locked into trying to duplicate that picture exactly. We are artists and painters, we are not photographers. If you want an exact picture of that beautiful baby, then that's what you would do, take a picture, not necessarily do a painting. So I just kind of like the starbursty look of this sun setting. And I don't know if I'm gonna be able to do it justice or not or create something interesting from it, but we'll see, we're gonna find out so far. It's not looking too bad. You could really do this with any color. I am, of course, inspired by the actual sort of blues that are on the painting because of the sky, but you could do it with any color. And so we're gonna just do this and we're gonna add our color here and add some water. And we're gonna go around the edge here with the same color. You'll notice I haven't done what I usually do. I have not grabbed the heat tool to try anything. I know, right? That's shocking. I'm having fun with this single color, playing with pigment, creating the shape or suggestion of the shape I see in the inspiration photos. Sometimes it's not about anything more complicated than that. Seeing where the paint is gonna go, playing with the water. And you know what? I like that just the way it is. Let's give it a go. Let's pull the tape. I really like where this one went. It was very simple, very quick, an interesting shape. It bled a little bit under the tape, but that's okay. These are painting studies. That doesn't want to tear, there we go. And they are really not meant to be more than that, but if you really liked this and you liked the way where it went and you wanted to take this and expand on it and create a larger painting from that, I think that's a great idea. So anyway, that's painting number 18. Speed food through version, sorry. If you'd like to support the free content here on Facebook or in the, here on Facebook, holy cow. If you'd like to support the free content here on YouTube or over in the Facebook art groups, I certainly would appreciate that. You can of course join Patreon. We do have YouTube membership here for a small fee. And also I have an Etsy shop and I have PayPal tip jar and all that stuff. So check out the video description. Relevant links will also be down there. And yeah, don't forget the most important things.  Do share your work with me. I would love to see what you're doing. That's it for now. See you later. Bye guys.


Hello everybody! E here. Welcome back to 31 Days of Halloween. Today I am reviewing the 2023 horror movie The Boogieman based on Stephen King's short story of the same name. This one stars Sophie Thatcher, David Dasmalshin, I'm sorry if I got that wrong, Vivian Lira, Chris Messina, Madison Hugh, and Maren Ireland. Anyways, let's jump right in the review. Okay, so The Boogieman 2023. I did not reread the short story before I watched the movie, and I really wish I would have because I do not remember much about the story, which is kinda funny because I don't remember a whole hell of a lot about this movie, and I literally just watched it last night. I remember enjoying it, I remember throughout the movie saying, this is really good for what it is, and then a night went by I came out here to shoot my review and I literally had to look up the plot on Wikipedia, none of that sounds familiar, I almost thought that I had not actually watched this one, that I had watched another film called The Boogieman because there's a bunch of them out there, but I went back to, I believe it was Paramount Plus or Hulu, I can't remember which one I watched it on, but I went back and checked and we'd actually watched it. Also looking up the creature images, I remember the creature, and the creature is a standout point for me at least, now I need to preface what I'm gonna say next with my review for Grim Cuddy, most people disagreed with me and I knew it was coming, I have a very weird taste when it comes to creature features, what I like, what I don't like, I really enjoyed the character design, the creature design of Grim Cuddy in that one other than when he was shown from a distance, in this one I feel the same way, when he's shown from far away, he wasn't anywhere near as creepy as he was up close, or maybe that's a mental thing, I don't know, there is a really cool original aspect to the creature, I don't know how original it is, basically something inside the mouth that I was rather impressed with and I didn't see coming, I figured we were going with a very basic shadowy creature and that's not what you get at all, so 10 out of 10 for the creature design in my opinion, as far as the characters, I don't remember anybody except for the guy who plays Lester Billings and the only reason I remember that name is because I looked up the actor who played him and it felt forced, it's one of those things where, I don't know man, it's like he seemed awkward, not in an acting sort of way, the guy seemed awkward like he was having problems with his lines, I don't know, so the two things that I remember is the creature and Lester Billings, as far as the story, I don't have any idea how well it adapts the short story, the boogeyman has never been a favorite of mine, I've read it like two or three times but I couldn't tell you off the top of my head if this is an accurate representation of that story, I don't believe it is because the story is rather short from what I do remember and this is a hour and a half movie, anyways I'm sorry for this review where I'm just like I don't remember much about that but I did want to bring this up here and give you my thoughts on the film because it's pretty bad when you watch a movie and the night before and you can't remember it the very next day and I can't even blame my my gummy or anything else because I've watched several movies the past couple of past week and a half and I remember all of those just fine but with this one I am I'm trying trying my best now what I what might have happened is I might have been picking on the movie while I was watching it and not paying attention but also I've been reading reviews from people and a lot of people agree that this movie isn't memorable it's not going to stick with you I'm trying to go back through other Stephen King adaptations that are that are like this one where it's a good one-time watch but you probably never gonna watch it again and I can think of a couple of them I think the golden years which I have never reviewed I haven't watched it since it first came out that's one that's just kind of forgettable oddly enough sleepwalkers no one ever talks about sleepwalkers it's not a terrible movie it's got some really great stuff in it's got some really funny scenes the corn cob there's a couple other movies out there sometimes they come back that's another one that just kind of came and went the mangler same thing it's usually the short stories that stray pretty far away from King's original idea that kind of just you know fizzle out you know and go away so lawnmower man but lawnmower man was absolutely terrible I'm trying to think of the good ones anyways if you can think of more middling or mid as the kids are saying if you can think of more mid Stephen King adaptations let me know down there in the doobly-doo I have a I have an idea for a series of you know getting instead of getting King wrong getting King right maybe getting King in the middle I don't I don't know let me let me know what you guys think about that kind of series down there in the doobly-doo but yeah I'm before I came out here to film this I was sitting pretty at a 3.5 but the fact that I can't remember anything about this movie I'm gonna go ahead and give it to so I didn't tell you guys that upfront for those of you who like to just get my you know get my rating and move on watch it for yourself I do I am really disappointed because this is Rob Savage the same guy that did host I believe the same director and this one while it was shot beautifully it looked really good I remember saying that while I was watching it it didn't hit anywhere near as hard as host so I'm hoping this is like probably not a sophomore effort I think he's done other things in between but let's hope this is just a one-off and his other films are more memorable from here on out but anyways have you seen the boogie man let me know what you thought about it down there in the doobly-doo but until next time I have any you've been you this has been another episode of 31 days of Halloween I'll talk to you guys later bye bye


And welcome in this video. We're gonna add on to what we did last time last time We looked at a few different news channels and we looked at how to stream them using MPV So if you want to use your own media player that way you don't have to worry about You know ads and whatnot on the channel or just because you like using your media players such as I do But today we're gonna look at actually downloading some of those videos So let's work in reverse well last time we ended on NBC dash to comm which is my local news channel One of the local news channels and again, these are just the first channels that came up in a web search I'm not promoting any news channel. I know that's a touchy subject these days. I actually Try not to watch any news channel But here this they stream using YouTube so it's very easy. I can grab their YouTube URL here and I have YouTube DL installed So YouTube dash DL which you can install from your repositories most time But it's one of the few programs. I do suggest YouTube dash DL going to their website and Going to downloads and they give you instructions right here easy using curl or W get it's just two commands It's download it and make it executable download makes useful can also use pip if you want to I usually just use one of these first two commands and the reason for that is because YouTube DL allows you to download files not only from YouTube, but a lot of different sites and Especially YouTube they change their website a lot to help to prevent people from from doing this And usually within 24 hours YouTube DL is updated, but it's not necessarily updated in your repositories that fast So it's very I Would want since it needs to be updated so much I would use this and then you can just use once it's installed you can do pseudo YouTube DL dash capital U And type in your super secret password and we'll check to see if you're at the latest version and I am up to date I updated yesterday or day before in fact, I've been meaning to put it in a cron job So it tries to do that once a day anyway You have to have YouTube DL installed and what we're gonna do is we're gonna say YouTube DL And they're just gonna give it the URL. So we'll go back here. We'll go back here I'll just copy this and paste that URL and it will start downloading that live stream Great. So if we open this up, I open up another shell here I can list this out. I can list these files out. You can see this file right here. It's downloading. It's 2.8 megabytes I check it again. It's now for I'll check it again, and it's at five So it's downloading that file. It's downloading live stream YouTube DL Does all the work for you on a channel like YouTube such as that and then when I'm done I can come up here and I can just hit control C to kill that the only issue with that is Oh, no, it worked at times. Sometimes if you I did hit Q first I'm not sure if Q killed it or my control C if you kill it and still has the dot part You might just want to remove that but we should be able to check that and it says here that it is an MP4 file I can now MP4 or MPV that MP4 and when I hit that it's gonna play what we just Downloaded so we downloaded the stream as it was going You know, we didn't get anything before we were recording But as we're recording it's downloading it as it goes So that's one way to download live stream as you're going if it's on a simple YouTube website But luckily YouTube DL also makes it easy to download from other sites as well So let's go back here and we'll go back up now We'll go to CBS news calm and and we'll open up our console again You can hit F12 or control shift I in Chrome I'm going to clear this and click watch and then we'll filter here again We'll look for our M3U. We'll grab that first one here I'll say copy this URL and we should just be able to say YouTube DL and then in quotations paste that M3U file and YouTube DL knows how to look at that M3U file and now it's downloading that M3U again we can go like this and It's going to by fault name it name of that file which we'll talk about in a moment So if I list this out you can see here that we've downloaded 6.8 megabytes so far if I run it again you see now that it's 8 so it is growing if I come back up here Let me hit Q real quick See what happens It's still going okay, so this particular case. I'm gonna hit control C to kill that I don't know if there's a better way to do that. I'll control C because it's second to finish up and Now we will list out our files again and this particular case it left that dot part there So what I'll do is I'll in this case. I'll just move that file So master to master so it's just named MP4 just so it doesn't have that part at the end But I should be able to say play that file now and it is playing what we have recorded You can see we recorded 42 seconds worth of the stream So few things there We did it when we hit control C it left that dot part at the end and then we had to rename it And it's also named here at master or CBS news dot MP4, which isn't too bad But if we go back up to our YouTube DL here, you can see I guess it did pull that name from there I was gonna say anyway We should be able to say dash oh and give it a name and I'll just call it CBS news Dot MP4 I'm pretty sure that's the argument for that and there we go it's now downloading it and I can hit control C and in this particular case since I gave it a Name there. Let's see what happens Now I did do a dot there is a command in for for it so it doesn't add that part split real quick. Let's just move This to this and now we can do this CBS news and again It streamed it there downloaded the stream real quick. I forgot the command. Let's do man YouTube dash DL Oh, I guess I don't have the man page for it install probably because I downloaded from the website rather than using our repositories There is a command to tell it not to put the dot part the dot part is just because it's while it's downloading it calls Dot part because it's partially downloaded and then when it's done it usually removes it since I killed it It's not removing it. There's probably a better way to kill it kill the process But I know there's also an argument. Let's do YouTube DL dash H for help and let's rep part There we go no part boom, so we should be able to run this command again and We'll say dash dash no part And let us call this underscore 2 here. So I'll run that for a moment Give it a couple seconds So that it downloads some of it And after a few seconds I'll hit control C and in this particular case it didn't have the dot part So that's how you would prevent that dot part in this particular case MPV I should be able to play what we captured. So there we go. So, yeah, MPR YouTube DL is a great Program for downloading not only from YouTube from other sites a lot of other sites You can give it just you know the the URL from the page, but lots of times it that doesn't work But I didn't want to show you that's what I want to show you. I just remembered so we have this URL to the playlist if you try to just W get that what you're going to get is the playlist So I did that and you can see it's right here if we cut that out Master that and through you. It's it's the playlist information So it's grabbing the playlist information, which is giving a list of other playlists again I think these are different qualities and M3 sorry YouTube DL is smart enough to know that I gave it a URL that it's going to use that domain that base URL to add to this to get these files So it's just it does a lot of late work for you and actually it says right here. Yeah, these are different qualities So this master one is looks like the highest resolution. Here's the frame rate With a different bandwidth and then you have different resolutions here So you could specify if you wanted the lower quality one you could tell it to look at this file instead of this master file So we should be able to Just replace that in here. I think let's see Cross my fingers that this oh, and we don't want that we want the YouTube dash DL and we'll do dash. Oh CBS Underscore test mp4 Let's see if that works Yep, so now we should theoretically be downloading the lower quality the lower resolution stream So I will kill that list out my files here That's done That's message repeated one time control C list. So here it is We will move that to that without part because I didn't do the no part thing and if we were to play that CBS underscore test oh Something that time it didn't work if I do file CBS underscore test It says it's medium. Maybe I killed it before it captured enough something went wrong there But theoretically you should be able to capture different Qualities if you want it anyway, I do thank you for watching here That's just options on how to download the videos. So check it out have fun with that and If you didn't watch previous video watch previous video because I showed you how to use the W get to pull the m3u files From at least the CBS website. 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All right, here we go, here we go, here we go. So this is a question I get. Actually, I've gotten more recently. It's like, do I have to do the King Jack diet or that diet's bad or you shouldn't do this? I guess more people are maybe questioning what the diet is or isn't. So I kinda, I wanna really, I guess maybe debunk it but also is it for you? Is it the right diet you should do? And what does that actually look like? And so as you come on, do me a huge favor. Give me a little shout out where you're from in the world. What's up Instagram? I'm actually streaming, I think on like nine platforms at the moment. So my phone's got Instagram. So you and I Instagram, we're on, like we're here. The rest of them are all going through my other platform. So, but the reality is, is a lot of people follow me for keto. And I was talking to a good friend, he's the assistant, he's a business partner of mine. And he and I were chatting about, well, I'm not sold 100% of the King Jack diet. I'm sold on elevating your ketones. I'm sold on that component of it. You have to find a diet that's sustainable. And if you can't do the ketogenic diet really, really well, then you're gonna have to find a way to supplement that so you can get the major benefits. Isn't that right, Liam? Mexico in the house, super excited. What's up, Faye? How are you, Canada? Canada in the house.  And yes, Milwaukee's all over the world too. So I wanna kind of just take a moment and say, should you do it? And the reality is, I don't know. I work with people in such extreme environments. We work with people that are really big health challenges where the ketogenic diet may be the right approach for them, but it could take them six months to a year. We work with a lot of people that are looking for weight loss or what they think is weight loss, but really fat loss. And the ketogenic diet may not be necessary for them, although they may sprinkle it in. And then we have world-class athletes that we're utilizing. It's like they wanna perform up here, the ketogenic diet is perfect for them. And then some are that we may hybrid it, right? And so I guess the question is, what's your goals and what are you really looking for? But the reality is, I want you to keep this in mind, is that if you're gonna do the ketogenic diet and that's your goal, I want you to remember this, it takes six months to a year to really master that diet. So it's not something you try, it's something you do. But the same thing if I was to tell you, go do a vegan diet, go any kind of extreme diet that's really poor opposite of what the norm of society is, you have to commit long enough to it. And I explain why very quickly. I'm not gonna get too deep into that. But something that's doing like a Mediterranean diet or a low carb paleo diet, it's not as extreme as a vegan or a ketogenic diet. So the big thing about why it takes so long to figure that out is number one, you have to become efficient at food, burning fat. Most of you watching this right now are not. So most of you right now that are watching this video, you cannot produce enough ketones on a diet alone. So therefore you may not feel very good. If you combine a ketogenic diet that's formulated properly for you with right exercise, right sleep, right lifestyle choices. And I'm not talking about supplementing ketones, I will talk about that in a second, but I'm not talking about that. If you combine all that, yes, six months from now you can kind of figure it out. Well then at six months, what you now have to figure out is there any gaps that you're missing? Did you, is there something that you need to fill? And I'm not gonna get too deep into that. The same thing if I was working with a vegan, they may feel better for six months and then what happens, they feel worse. Well, the reason why is that they maybe filled a deficiency and then they created a new one with their diet choices. So I see this very, very often. So is the ketogenic diet, should you really do it? The question is most of you probably not. Most of you won't commit to it. People go all the time like, I do keto or I did keto. I'm like, really? I did it for 15 years and by no means was I perfect. And then now over the last eight years, I've done a hybrid ketogenic diet or maybe a low carb diet, a more paleo-ish diet with some flexibility, meaning that I enjoyed my life at the same time and I utilized supplementing ketones as the secret to the whole thing. So I get the same benefits as the diet. I just don't have to be strict on it anymore. And I found a lifestyle that I can sustainly do.  I literally don't stress about food and worry about what I eat all the time. I just enjoy life and that's to me the gift that I wanna give more people in the world. So if you wanted the ketogenic diet, this is what I tell you, is that first off, expect it not to be right. Expect to feel better, number one.  Whatever you're starting with today will not be the same diet you're on. Even if it's a ketogenic diet, it won't be the same type of diet.  Maybe you don't have enough protein. Maybe we gotta change that. Maybe your fat sources are wrong. Maybe your vegetable sources are off. Maybe you need to stop dairy or maybe you need to add dairy. All these things are things you're gonna learn through this journey. And so, but what I can tell you is this, is that elevating your ketone levels is really the thing that you need to focus on. It's really the thing that matters the most. So when people go, I can just do the ketogenic diet, the reality is probably not. And then if they get pissed about that, that's okay.  And I'm all for that, 100% for that. But numbers will tell me that you'll quit. Meaning that I've been doing this for 20 plus years and I only know six people right now that have been doing as long as I have. Six in the world. And I don't know a lot of people, by the way. I'm actually specialized in this space. Most of the ketogenic experts in the world do not follow a ketogenic diet nor can, but they are the ones that'll present on all the health benefits of it all. Just to put that in reality, that's why when our product became available, they were blown away. Why they all want research it because can you get the benefits without doing the diet? Pretty dang awesome. What's up, Miguel? How are you? So, Miguel will know I had some chips the other day. So I was not doing keto, right? That's okay. I drank my ketones. I did really, really well and I found a hybrid to it. All that works really, really well for me.   I think that's a great idea. But then what do you do in between is really the foundation of a lifestyle that you have to create. So with that said and done, what I believe is that if I was to generalize a diet that most people should follow, it would be this. It would be a low carb paleo diet. So meaning that most people can sustain that. It means that you prioritize high quality clean protein often most of the time. You digest high quality vegetables that are often as seasonal and local to you as possible, great.  Most people can't sustain that either. So I'm not even gonna talk about it. And then you will maybe have some fruit. What I found is that people are gonna cheat one way or the other. Can I just get them to cheat in a way that's maybe more naturally healthy for them or has it stocks the odds in their favor rather than against them? So if you were to have to choose between a Snickers bar or a apple, I'm gonna suggest the apple. But if I always restrict all fruit variables and you're gonna give in, you're gonna give it to the Snickers bar, but you might give into two or three of them. And so that's why I like to teach it this way. If we give you some things on one end, you're less likely to take on the other. Doesn't mean you can't. I had some chips the other day. I'm just bringing that back up, right? I just didn't eat 25 bags of chips. I had a very good enjoyment. We had a great night out. I had a margarita. It was fun. And back in the day, I would have consumed mass amounts. I didn't. I just enjoyed a moderate amount that I felt I was satisfied with, okay? So what you wanna do is follow, that's the diet I recommend. And you wanna follow that. If you're a sick person, you need to follow that either a ketogenic, strictly work with a professional that can formulate that for you. Or what you wanna follow is you wanna follow a low carb paleotype diet. Low carb, meaning at least under 100 grams a day, maybe probably more towards 50 or less a day. When you start getting more than less than 30 to 20 grams a day, then you're moving into keto space, right? Into that deep keto space.  And you don't feel good. And so therefore you're gonna quit, right? So what I recommend is supplementing your ketones. So get the benefits of being on a ketogenic diet without being perfect on the diet, but find a hybrid diet to it. And I was just talking to a buddy of mine from high school and he's like, I've done keto, I'm off of keto, blah, blah. I'm like, listen, I don't wanna put you on a ketogenic diet. He's like, really? He's like, the keto pro doesn't wanna put you on a ketogenic diet. I go, your lifestyle doesn't suggest that that's what you need to do. You wanna lean down a little bit.  So let's treat you that way. What's the best thing that you can do to perform better, live better, and lose your body fat that he wants to lose? Which obviously ketogenic diet is a great way to do that. Although the history has shown me that it's not sustainable for him. So what if we hydrated it? And he's drinking ketones now. He's having one in the morning. He'll have an optional one in the afternoon. We'll intermittent fast four to five times a week. Intermittent fast, eat it late at lunch. And then what we're gonna do is we're gonna say, hey, listen, just modify what you currently do.  What I want you to do is just be appropriate. Like eat them in moderation. If that's moderation of chips, if that's moderation of fruit, if that's moderation of an Italian dinner. Meaning that if you used to eat three or four bowls, maybe you have one bowl and then you maybe have some, you know, prioritize the protein on the side. I go, you'll find that you're gonna get great results on that. And it'll be remarkable. And you're gonna go, I can keep doing this. This is easy. I can live my life this way. And it gives them freedom to spend more time as a business owner, to spend more time in this business and develop this business. So that's my advice right now. Do you need to follow? Should you really follow a ketogenic diet? And the answer is for most people, no. Should you be in ketosis? The answer is yes. Okay. So the only alternative to get into ketosis without doing the ketogenic diet perfectly for six months to a year is drink ketones. Can I do it that way? Does that read right now? I don't think so. So this is a top secret flavor. Right here. We actually have a flavor drop that just came out. So who ordered the sweet tea lemonade? It's absolutely unbelievable. It'll change your life. It is so good. But right now you can supplement ketones. Now remember, this isn't something somebody just made up. This isn't something that was just, oh, these people are just trying to sell. We get these things because people are been sold their whole life, right? They've been sold their whole life. And the good thing they have been sold. If you haven't been sold, you wouldn't have a cell phone and you wouldn't have an automobile and you wouldn't have a house right now. True story. If you weren't sold, you wouldn't have those things. You wouldn't have clothes on your mask. So being sold isn't a bad idea or a bad thing. But you have to look behind that and figure out why it happened. And so this technology wasn't just to be built so somebody could sell it to you. It was actually invented for the elite soldiers in the United States government, the Navy Seals. That's why it started. NASA was looking into the same technology. So this wasn't just something that was trying to be sold. It was trying to solve a problem. Great things can come from a problem that needs to be solved and that was the invention of consumable ketones. And we just happened to bring it to the market so that you have availability to it. So you don't have to try to go spend three or $4,000 a serving. Yes, that's what it used to cost when it was invented. Three or $4,000 a serving.  I mean, right now with inflation going on right now, this is one of the most inexpensive health products in the entire planet right now because everything else is just jacked up in prices. And we're not doing that. We wanna help people live a better life. So if you haven't tried that, what you wanna do is that you wanna find a diet that's good for you, whatever that is. It might be where you're starting today. You wanna drink your ketones.  If you wanna lose body fat, then you're gonna need to move your body more. You wanna sleep better.  That's it, right? Adding ketones helps you elevate your health and life so it's sustainable. If you wanna perform better and live better and have a higher level of performance, just add this. Add this, prioritized protein and then you may have to fine tune it. If you wanna get strong and buff in the gym, you better get in the gym. You can't get strong and buff. If people go to me, Dustin, I wanna put on muscle and I look at their work and I'm like, you'll never put on muscle. Like, you gotta find another routine. That routine is not designed to put on muscle, right? It's just really that simple. And so you gotta find the lifestyle that you ultimately wanna, what's up, Judy? Judy just ordered five meals from Sun Basket. That's awesome, going with the five-day fast. That's super cool, Judy. Smart idea. I have a lot to say about that but with that said, I'm gonna go, I haven't done a live in a while so I'm actually trying to get back into my rhythm, my groove. So if there's a topic you want me to talk about, there's a few that I'm going to be talking about. One of them is more business related. If you're watching this right now, I'm just, I don't know who's still on, to be honest. It's everything's so many different places but what word, what word do you relate to more? Business, opportunity or extra income? I'm just curious, if you can put in the chat, what word do you relate to more? Business, opportunity or extra income? I'm just curious. I'm thinking the masses actually would relate to more extra income unless you're more business minded which most people are, my mom's afraid of business, my sister's afraid of business. So I'm just curious. But right now, we just got back from an event in Nashville and it's a pretty dang awesome event and it just made me realize like, we're in Nashville, right? Nashville, Tennessee, I don't know how many, fate likes opportunity. How many people live in Nashville? Somebody looked at it and told me but there's let's just say there's at least a few million people within the greater area of Nashville. And out of that area, I would say only 30% of those people would consider themselves healthy. Out of that 70% are not healthy, they basically are more confused, not understanding and not aware of what's happening in their health and wellness and they actually don't know who to listen to. We have a product that is state of the art backed by the top scientists in the world. We've seen people completely transform their lives, watching people like Miguel, I don't know how much your weight you're down but they didn't have to wait for him. Yeah, he lost weight, that's what he started for. But he's got his life back for his kids, 10 kids. That's life changing, that's the game changer, that's the deal breaker, right? And I'm sitting there thinking like people gotta be looking for opportunities out there or looking for extra income out there or looking for maybe a business. I don't know, it depends on what you're at. We actually have something you can do all three with, right? And to me, that's just pretty cool. So if you're looking for extra income, you're looking for an opportunity in your business, I don't care what you wanna name it. If you're not looking into what we're doing, you're not looking very hard. It's right here in front of you. And so I can go for days about that. I opportunities seem to fall in my lap quite often and I realized and they used, they not used to do that. And the reason why is I'm open to what's out there. I'm like, let it come in. And then when you find the opportunity, take massive action on it. Don't sit your hands on that. The biggest health movement in the entire world right now is happening. Know it or not, it's happening. It's there, it's a game changer, it's gonna be. And the biggest opportunity in creating extra residual income is happening right now. And it's not in Bitcoin, by the way. It's in ketones and it's in the biggest breakthrough that's been created in health and wellness, right? So you have the most in human history of the sickest population ever. The first time in human history where my mom is gonna outlive my kids statistically, not my family, but statistically, it's kind of scary. And people are more afraid of their actually career than they've ever been afraid of. Meaning that there's not much security in their actual job. So I would have a plan B at least. And if you really wanna change your life and make it a plan A, but why would you not take advantage of that? You know what I mean? You can start a business for under $10,000.  You can create an additional income for under $1,000. Why would you not do that? Why would you not? I don't understand, at least not, why would you not investigate it? And so it's funny and then I realize why people don't investigate stuff is they're afraid. They're afraid of being judged. They're afraid of telling people their own financial situation. They're afraid of failing. They're afraid of what people might think of them. And these things are normal. I see these things all the time. And a friend of mine said something. She goes, why would you care what other people think? Cause they don't pay your bills, right?  And I was like, dang, like she was raw with the whole thing. And she goes, but this is the thing is like, we have an opportunity. It's right here in your hands. What are you gonna do about it?  So I'm done. That's it. So the ketogenic diet, awesome diet. And if you can formulate it and you can work with the right people, I think it's a great way to live a life. Ultimately, most people hybrid the ketogenic diet. They do more of a low carb or high protein version of the ketogenic diet. Most people that I know are moderate high protein with the ketogenic diet. Ultimately, you have to find a lifestyle that you can sustain and you should, if you're doing the diet, not doing the diet or figuring it all out, you should at least drink ketones to give you the benefits of the anti-aging, the longevity, the fat burning, the quality of life, the muscle mobility, the muscle protection. Why would you not want that? Why would you not want that while you're changing your life? Just say kind of makes sense. It's kind of like, why would you not wanna have tires in your car when you're learning to drive? You can drive a car with no tires, just on the rims. You're just not gonna get very far. It's not gonna be very efficient. These are like the tires on a car. It's kind of a high level requirement if you wanna get anywhere really fast. Put that in your cup and drink and that was my best analogy maybe in a while. So, with that said and done, I need to go. It's time for dinner. Peace out. I'm gonna be back on live. It's been, I've been on the road. When I'm on the road, I don't do as many lives. So I apologize for that. But if there's ever a topic you want me to talk about, hit me a message and I'll talk about it. I will be talking about a few other things, more business-driven, because what I realize is I wanna grow a business. I wanna find people that are ambitious, that wanna help change the health of our country and that are okay with making additional income doing that. You don't have to be a professional. You're not, I wasn't. I didn't know anything about all this stuff. I was just willing to learn and willing to do the work. That's it. So, I'm gonna be talking more about that because what I realize is that I can jab my jaws all day long, but together we can change millions of lives around the world every single day and I can just jab my jaws about what I'm good at. You can jab yours about what you're good at. So with that said, Miguel, I'm outta here. Judy, bye-bye-bye. Thanks for plugging in, y'all. Cheers.