The Immaculata Medal, the highest honor this college can award, is awarded for creative leadership and evidence of sound scholarship, and is presented to a person who maintains a lifestyle consistent with the highest values and aspirations of Catholic higher education. The medal is awarded this year to Fred McFeely Rogers, affectionately known to two generations of America's children as Mr. Rogers. His creative leadership enabled Fred Rogers to establish and develop the longest running children's program on public television, Mr. Rogers Neighborhood. After more than 20 years, the show remains the outstanding example of television's ability to participate in the total development of America's children. Family Communications, the nonprofit corporation organized by Mr. Rogers to produce his program has branched out into almost all forms of communications technology, including audio cassettes and computer software. Evidence of the sound scholarship of Fred Rogers is found in the themes of his programs. Their goal is to teach children about the problems all young people have. Problems of establishing a sense of self-esteem, about childhood anxieties, about self-control, about learning to express feelings of love, sadness, anger, and trust, about the difference between fantasy and reality. That Fred Rogers has succeeded in this endeavor is shown by the receipt of every major award for which his program is eligible, including the Peabody Award and Emmy Awards. Fred Rogers has received over 20 honorary degrees and is the subject of an exhibit in the Smithsonian Institute. Mr. Rogers was ordained as a Presbyterian Minister in 1962. His seminary training included work with children, and he has continued this apostolate in an exemplary fashion through the media. He has provided us all with a model of quiet perseverance in doing good while remaining in the public eye, truly a lifestyle consistent with the values which Immaculata seeks to impart to its students. It is my pleasure to present Fred McFeely Rogers to Mother Marie Genevieve, who will award him the Immaculata Medal, and to present him to the graduating class who we will then address. Mr. Rogers. To some of the friends that I met for the first time today, that beauty isn't just outside. The people that I have met here already show me that Immaculata's got beauty inside, and I would imagine that that would have been very satisfying for you all to experience that during your time here. Well, one evening, as I sat at the piano, I began to play a song almost without thinking. Little by little, the words came to me, and I realized I had known that song for many years. It was called, When You Wish Upon a Star, and it begins by saying, When you wish upon a star makes no difference who you are. Anything your heart desires will come to you. If your heart is in your dream, no request is too extreme. When you wish upon a star, your dreams come true. I remember when I first heard that song in the movie Pinocchio. I had such a warm, wonderful feeling to think that wishing on anything like a star would make things come true. That was such a splendid idea to me. I had lots of wishes and lots of dreams. As I sat playing that song and thinking those words, it dawned on me how important it was that all my wishes and all my dreams had not come true. But it was equally important that some of them actually had. And I wondered about the difference. Why didn't I become a concert pianist or a veterinarian? Why didn't I learn shorthand or the Japanese language or get to be a commercial pilot? Those were all things I had wished for years ago. In fact, I probably wished on more stars for those things than I ever wished to be in television. What does make the difference between wishing and realizing our wishes? Lots of things, of course. But one main thing I think is whether we link our wishes to our hopes and our hopes to our active striving. It might take months or years for a wish to come true, but it's far more likely to happen when you care so much about it that you'll do all you can to make it happen.  Well, by now you know what it took to make that wish come true. And so do your parents and so do your teachers and your friends. When I was a freshman in college, I met someone who knew a very famous songwriter. That songwriter was a person I had always wanted to meet ever since I was a little boy. I was convinced that if I could just play my songs, I think I had five. That songwriter would introduce me to Tin Pan Alley and I would be an instant successful composer of show tunes. Well, I was able to get an interview with that man and I remember so well going to New York City and all the way thinking this is it. I'd probably have to give up college and get an apartment in the city and my parents would be so proud of me and before long, my five songs would be sung by millions of Broadway showgoers. That's not what happened. The composer was very welcoming to me. He asked me to play a couple of those original songs for him and he listened intently while I played them and sang the words as well as I could. When I was finished, he said, very nice friend. Now how many songs have you written? I told him five and that I had brought all of them. Then he said something very important to me and to my whole life. He said, I'd like you to come back after you've written a barrel full and we'll talk again. Well, you can imagine how I felt. A barrel full would mean hundreds of songs and I had only five. But his counsel was more inspired than I realized for a long time. He knew that if I really wanted to be a songwriter, I'd have to write songs, not just think about the five I had written. Even though I never got to see that man again, I have through the years written a barrel full of songs. In fact, the barrel full is overflowing now, but those songs didn't write themselves. I had to do it. I wished for it and I did it. But what about the wishes that don't come true? I remember a woman who all of a sudden one day said, I'm never going to be a circus clown. It just dawned on her that because she hadn't gone to clown school and had made some other choices and hadn't really tried, her girlhood wish of becoming a clown wasn't going to come true. She wasn't sad. She was just surprised when she realized her resignation. I'm never going to be a circus clown. I know another woman who remembers the time when she knew that her wish to be married and have children would not be realized. She remembers the struggle and the final resignation and then she remembers the outcome of that resignation. Enormous energies were available to her, which she used in developing uniquely creative work with young parents. All through our lives, there are resignations of wishes. As children, once we learn to walk, we must resign being babies. If we just want to be taken care of and not make any effort to grow and do more and more for ourselves, then we can avoid that resignation and just stay a baby. You may know some adults who are still babies. They want to be served all the time. How sad for them not to have been able to experience the excitement of growing from one part of life to another. In fact, you can see the excitement in children as a child grows from creeping to standing and walking. That child usually has very little speech development or other aspects of the toddler's development. It's as though all of that child's energies are bound into that huge task of getting up and walking. Once that task is accomplished, once they're on their own two feet, they get this exciting urge of development in other areas. It's as if they are obsessed with that one task and until it's accomplished, they can't concentrate on anything else.  That doesn't mean that there aren't some resting places along the way of our becoming. There is permissible rest and regression in everyone's life. Some people call it R and R. I think of it as an important moment when we reflect and receive. In our competitive world, some might call such times a waste. I've learned that those times can be the preamble to periods of enormous growth. Two weeks ago, I declared a day to be alone with myself. I took a long drive and played a tape that my son and daughter had given me for my birthday. When I got to the mountains, I read and prayed and listened and slept. In fact, I can't remember having a calm or sleep in a long, long time. The next day, I went back to work and did more than I usually get done in three days. We all need times like that, times for an extra measure of care. We need them, and so does everyone else. And it's nothing to be ashamed of. We don't have to think it's funny when we feel like we need an extra bit of comfort. I sometimes sing about that to the children, but as you know, I believe there's a child somewhere in each of us since our gifted musical director and pianist, John Costa, is with us today. I'd like to sing one of those songs which help fill up the barrel. I think of its title as permissible regression, but the neighborhood knows it as please don't think it's funny. He's old, but he's still strong. And sometimes you want to snuggle up closely with your own mom. You even need the light sometimes, but that's not bad. Who sometimes feel like this. Some people sometimes feel like this. It's great to know bigger. Somehow things you like to remember. And sometimes you wonder over and over if you should stay inside. Enjoy a younger toy like this. Please don't think it's funny. Lots of people feel like this. Graduates from the class of 86. The name was Alicia White. She's a member of our parish in Pittsburgh. And she loaned me some of her Gleaner yearbooks. And I noticed the writing in the front, all of the autographs practically every one of them said, let's keep in touch. That was so touching to me. I know of a young man who is just about to graduate from high school. His name is Keith. When he was 10 years old, his beloved grandfather became ill. His grandfather had always helped Keith to feel special. They had fished together and camped together and talked about all sorts of things together. And when his grandfather became sick, Keith wanted him to get better. He watched the doctor and helped his grandfather take his pills. His grandfather told him that he was good at that. In fact, his grandfather thought that he was good at a lot of things. That's why when Keith's grandfather died two years later, Keith was sad and angry all at once. But his grandfather had loved him enough and was comfortable enough with him that he could talk with Keith about death and how that happens to all living creatures and that the important thing is how we care about people while they're alive. From that time, Keith was 12 years old. He was sure he wanted to become a doctor. He had been first in all of his science courses in high school and he's been accepted at a college that has a fine pre-med course. Those who know him well know that it's fairly evident that Keith is responding to the loss of his grandfather. But also to the love which helps him mobilize all of his feelings toward constructive resolutions. In eight or ten more years, Keith will probably become a doctor. He says he wants to be a family doctor. My hunch is that he will be. His wish has become a purpose which is grounded in hope. Théard de Chardin writes that someone scrawled the following words on the bulletin board of that great Notre Dame cathedral. Le monde demain appartiendra à ceux qui lui ont apporté la plus grande espérance. The world tomorrow will belong to those who brought up the greatest hope. I don't know your wishes or your hopes. Nobody but you and the people you care to share them with should know them. Wishes are sometimes grand and far beyond the reality of the present. But other wishes are intimate. They are about simple things of daily life, expressed again and again in contacts with other people around us. I trust that you'll feel good enough about who you are to do all you can to help the best of your wishes come true. I wish upon a star where there are whole galaxies that we haven't even discovered yet. Stars way out in space and stars within ourselves that are patiently waiting to brighten up our world. On April 16th, one of my best friends died. We were in college together and stayed good friends forever. As a matter of fact, he wished and worked at being a superb singer all of his professional life. And whenever I wrote my first little opera for the neighborhood, I asked if he would come and help to sing it. No effort was too humble for him so long as the motives behind it seemed right. And so John Reardon and I began giving operas to children and anyone else who would visit our neighborhood. Even when he was singing leading roles at the Metropolitan Opera Company, Jack would come to Pittsburgh to help us make up a new neighborhood opera. So through our 40 year friendship, we've made a barrel full together. And what a delight that mutual work has been. The joys of our times together far outweigh the pain of my loss right now. Even though that seems very real. I wish for you some abiding friendships like Reardon's and mine. As you go from your alma mater today, it's one of the greatest gifts you'll ever know. I wanted to be with you today because I figured that many of you grew up with the neighborhood. And I'm so proud of the way you've grown. I'd like to give you one last song for a commencement present. You and everyone else who wanted to share this special day with you. That song is called, It's You I Like. The things you wear. It's not the way you've been side to you. The things that hide you. Not your diplomas or just beside you. It's you I like to yourself. It's you. Thank you.


The newly appointed Acting Inspector General of Police Kaya D. Egbetokou has declared his readiness to change all criminals out of Nigeria. Egbetokou made his declaration after he was decorated by the Vice President Kashim Shatima at the Presidential Villa in Abuja today. The president's name Egbetokou asked the new acting IGP following the sack of Usman Baba. I have just been deported and I'm looking forward to taking over tomorrow morning by 11 a.m. I really can't describe how I feel recently but if I have to tell you anything I will tell you that right now I feel like a tiger inside of me ready to chase away all the criminals in Nigeria and some other time I feel like a lion in me ready to defy all the enemies internal enemies of Nigeria. You can work and you will be happy I'm handing over to somebody I know that will carry the mantle of leadership from where I have stopped. We grew up in the job, we grew up together, I was his boss at the time not even when I was high he worked under me twice, we've been working together and I know how he is now and we are here to champion because of the police from where I have stopped.


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Welcome back everyone, Google Next here, live theCUBE coverage, I'm John Furrier, host of theCUBE at Rob Strecce, Savannah Piecer, Rebecca Knight is all here. We're getting all the action, day two of three days of wall-to-wall coverage. It's great to see Google next level. We've got a CUBE alumni here, Hen Goldberg, Vice President in General Matter of Kubernetes and serverless at Google. She's working on all the cool stuff that's sitting right above all the CPUs, CPUs. Hen, great to see you. Thanks for coming on theCUBE. Thank you so much for having me. It's always a pleasure. It's been quite a journey. Talking before we came on camera real quick that Kubernetes is celebrating its 10th anniversary. We were reminiscing, looking at old footage from 2017, CUBE interviews. So much has changed, but there's a lot of similarities in Kubernetes and AI. But first, congratulations. Well, congratulations to all of us for Kubernetes. For all of us, definitely, you know, it's an amazing testimony to the community. Cause I think it's not easy to sustain a project for so long. And I really remember those early days thinking about, will there be a Kubernetes 2.0? And what will migration look like? And it was really like our no-star was to avoid those kind of migration projects for our customers and users. So I think the community has done an amazing job. Yeah, a lot of debates, but a lot of solidarity, a lot of great community came together. Now AI's got a similar kind of view in the sense of you can see the future, you get it, it's coming together, it's unfolding right in front of us. And you have a role, and you have a team building out on top of Kubernetes, which is everything from containers to server. Take a minute to explain what your current role is now. How are you fitting into this? I won't say new Google, but let's say Google Cloud. I mean, you got a CEO of a public sector with board of directors. You have now all this horsepower. It's starting to see the layers of the stack and the workspaces, user experience. What's your team do? How do you fit in to the Google Cloud equation? So my team is responsible for what we call modern runtimes. Meaning when you want to come bring to the cloud your workloads, no matter if it's a traditional workload, AI workload, any modern workload. And we are helping our customers to manage and operate that at scale. It's probably sounds familiar with Kubernetes. And we have two main offerings that we do it through. And one is Cloud Run. Think about it as a container, as a service. The easiest way to build applications on Google Cloud. And the other one is, you know, when you're looking for something more customizable, flexible, you want to build your own platform on Kubernetes, GKE got you covered. And within Google Cloud, that's exactly the role that we are playing. And we are helping our customers run geo transformation, innovate, create new experience. And now with AI, it's just amazing to see what's possible. Things are coming together. What's the keynote highlights that you see that you got excited about that your team's working on? Where you see opportunities for more innovation. So the first thing that I will highlight is the opportunity with AI to improve our technology team's velocity. So we made one announcement, a Gemini Code Assist, a few months back, and I'm sure you're going to talk about it with Gabe. But yes, we also announced Gemini Cloud Assist, which is talking about how do you take Gemini and create Gemini powered insights and recommendation within the console and just help me be more productive, be more effective. So that's something that I'm really excited about. I'm asking my team to become more effective and productive and really leverage AI. And we are doing it in the context of testing and coding. So I think that's one area which is super exciting. It would seem that it's also with Cloud Run and with Kubernetes and getting up and running. A lot of people don't necessarily want to run their own kit right now. And is that where you're seeing the biggest uptick from a Cloud Run perspective? I think that's what's happening is that if five years ago, I think many wanted to build their own platform. But the world is changing. It's, there are more things we want to do. There are more investments we want to make. It's actually higher to higher, great talent. And I talk with different customers. I'll give some examples. And those VPs, the CIO that I talked to, they are saying, I want my team to invest where it matters, where we want to innovate with our unique IP. And I just give two examples. So we had the founder of Lung Chain, which is a very successful open source. Parasen Chase, great guy. So they did a benchmarking on what platform would be the best. And they decided, we're going to go with Cloud Run. Why? Because it gives us the velocity, it's the best for us. And we're like, yay. But you know what, on the flip side of that, I'll give two other examples. Today I had a session, my spotlight, when we were talking about the new things we are working on. And Farhan Tawar, he's a VP at Shopify and we've been working very closely together. And about a year ago, I was asking him, hey, what about Cloud Run? And he's like, yeah, you know, we always do our stuff. We build our own. And I'm like, what about trying it? And he's an amazing leader and his team is amazing. And they try it out. And now they're like, yeah, we're all in. Really? They went from tire kicking to you a favor? Give me a taste test. It's not for me, right? I think it's for them, where they invest their time. And we see enterprises that they just feel that value. So I think that we will see more and more use of managed services. We can see it with Vertex AI, okay, as well. And I love it because we would like to build platforms and build services. And I love to see what it's able others. Why is Google Run working so well for folks? What's the reason? Simplicity? Simplicity, oh my God. You see me smile, right? Yeah. You know, every time I think that we made it the simplest ever, then the team comes with another way to make it even simpler. So this week we announced a Cloud Run application canvas, which you can use natural language, say what you want, and behind the scene, we're powered with Gemini, we're creating the architecture, all the APIs enabled, everything you need, you just click deploy, and voila. Magic. It's not magic, it's technology. But it works and it makes things simple. Well, AI gives a feeling of magic. I mean, that's what ChatGPT did to the whole world when it said, wow, it's just getting a response to a query, but it was generating a response. That's what people want. They want ease of use coding. How's that going to impact new application developers? Either is it a low code, no code? You see it much more about creativity. What's that going to do for the developer? Obviously, it's going to create some value, time. I think it's... I have lots of ideas around that topic, but maybe going back to Kubernetes early days, I think that the most important thing that we are seeing people do right now, they are experimenting. And there are a lot of areas that are experimenting. They are experimenting in frameworks. They are experimenting in use cases. They are experimenting like which models should I use? We see a lot of options. How do I decide? And I think that in the next, I don't know how long it will take, probably not much because everything is moving very fast. We're going to see a lot of learnings and experiments which will then tell us what will be that developer experience. What will people expect? And from an innovation perspective, I will say that we see a lot of AI startups that are building their own models and they are solving problems in very creative ways. The back of my head, I'm thinking about for this to really change the world, we'll need to make sure that the technology is accessible. And now maybe it will be the last thing I will tie to Kubernetes. When we started that journey, one of the things that excited me is that through open source, we made this technology accessible for people. So no matter where I'm from, where in the world, what kind of education I can try and scale and we enabled a lot of experiments and learnings, we didn't try to solve all of the problems at once, slowly. I think that will be key for such a technology. Yeah, I think one of the things, and we were over, I was over at KubeCon in Paris and one of the really interesting things was that it seemed like, it's called KubeCon CloudNativeCon, but it looked like the CloudNative part was really becoming more front and center and it was the ecosystem around that. How does that really impact what you're building and how your teams work with all of the different ecosystems that's around Kubernetes in general? I think that before everything happened with AI, our goal was to keep Kubernetes boring. Okay, I think that's one of the critical success factors in order to get to the 10 years anniversary. And we've done that by creating those abstractions and really enabling that ecosystem that you're talking about that I think is crucial for any innovation. What I think is now happening though, specifically with AI and I'm sure you also heard that like in Paris and we'll hear about it in the next one as well is that Kubernetes and containers have some key attributes that are a great fit for what's happening. Containers are great for innovation and moving quickly. We have an abstraction to the infrastructure so it's a good way to manage GPUs and TPUs and of course I have orchestration which helps me to optimize, but together with that there is some new things that are needed. The scale is different, okay? Like we always take pride in our 15,000 nodes cluster but then we have customers like character as an example that they need a much bigger cluster. Then what? How do we do that? How do we work with them? So I think this will be interesting. They're moving forward. You mentioned accessibility. Obviously you've been dealing with all this and it develops all the time. You get performance availability, scalability, maintainability, those are all the usual conversations. The accessibility is good, but it also brings up two other factors that are part of the AI. I call it the glue layer, it's emerging relatively fast, that's security and compliance. So governance has become a big topic because if you get the governance right from day one, a lot of the data can be scaling and be fast and be into AI much better, more safety, more security. So talk about the security compliance that comes along with accessibility. How do you see that unfolding? Or is that too early for the conversation? I think it's a great point. By the way, definitely an area that we invest a lot in at Google at every layer, okay? So my team, of course, is focusing more on the containers and the runtime from that perspective and the data team. But of course we care about data in transit. So there's a lot of factors there, who has access. So that's one piece. Another piece, especially when we talk about sovereignty, for example, a lot of people are worried about what kind of access we will have as cloud provider for things running on our cloud. So that's another angle that we are working on. But that we continue with your data is your data. And container security, I mean, the big conference that's been always there is supply chain, S-bombs or have been a solution. Any update there? I mean, I'm just curious because since you brought it up I might as well ask. So we are working on that for sure and just trying to think about a couple of things. From a container security, a lot of things are staying the same. But what is becoming interesting that with ML Ops, our tool chain is changing, okay? So working through that for sure. So those are the kind of things that we are investing in right now. And it seems like that as the ecosystem grows and there are new personas coming in, like the persona of a platform engineer and we were kind of talking about that earlier. And how do you look at addressing that, the skills are changing and platform engineers sometimes have a much broader view and they're more than just Kubernetes. How do you see that as you build out the services like Cloud Run and GKE? So first of all, I think this is a super exciting time for a platform engineering team. Because I think at the heart of it, if you're a platform engineer, you want to enable innovation and innovation is happening, okay? We see all of our customers are thinking, how can they take AI? How can they empower their developers to build game changing experiences? So I think that's very exciting for everyone in the field. Our goal, also with GKE by the way, is to make things as simple as possible. So if there is a problem or a challenge that we've already solved for you and we can automate, we'll do it. I'll give you a different example. A Ray framework, which is being used by many of AI developers for their workloads. It's actually pretty complicated to have it available on a GKE cluster or on a Kubernetes cluster. Now for us, it's a checkbox. Okay, we automated that. Why would you invest the time? It's a problem that we can solve for you. You want to enable TPUs. It's a checkbox. Other problems that we are solving specifically for AI workloads, which I think is again interesting. One of the challenges, especially in inference, is that the container images are much bigger. Okay, sometimes they have the model and if you want to scale out quickly, you need to take into consideration the cold start time. So what do you do if you don't have a solution and then you over provision? But GPUs are very expensive. You don't want to over provision. So we are creating a lot of new mechanism in the platform to do that. And I think what, for example, we're doing the image preloading, which Vertex AI, which is also running on GKE, we like to drink our own champagne, have seen 29 times improvement because of that. So we are making an effort to solve everything we know at scale. And I think if I'm a platform team, my role hasn't changed. My role is to enable tens and hundreds and thousands of engineers to build new AI applications and I shouldn't forget about all the other workloads at Arani. Okay, so my job maybe from that perspective is becoming more complicated. And so how many, tell me about your team. How big is it? How you guys organize? Do you go by technology? Do you organize by groups? Let's see, can you, it might be confidential for me. We don't talk about size, it's a large team. Okay, that's okay. We are... But you got a lot going on. You got the container. It's the big part of the tool chain. You mentioned ML Ops. This is going to be the hottest area on the planet because you're going to have models coming in. So the way we are usually structured is that every team thinks about what's their role in Google Cloud. And I think you said in the beginning, our expertise is in that runtime piece and orchestration and integration to other systems. So we are not building new ML Ops, but we will be enabling, creating new tool chains as an example. And I believe that we are doing a good job enabling other platform teams for AI workloads because just last year, we've seen growth of 900% in GPUs and TPUs on GKE. 900% one year. So I guess we're helping that innovation happen.  What's your overall goal that you're trying to achieve your vision? Is it to have the most cohesive integration layer? Fastest runtime? So in essence, I believe that I would love to see customers use more managed services as much as possible because you don't need to reinvent the wheel. And I want to make sure that if I need more complexity, if I need more flexibility, we are not creating barriers for that customer. So really allowing innovation to move on. So we are really investing in that, what we call inter-probability. So we started talking about GKE and Cloud Run, but now we're also talking about GKE and Vertex. Maybe I will start my work with Vertex and maybe there will be one use case that I will need for inference and I will be really specific about what kind of utilization I want to get. You know what, maybe GKE is a great. Can I use them together? Can I use my model garden with it? Yes, I can. Can I use Collab Enterprise notebooks? Yes, I can. So thinking about that, I think from my perspective, is how we enable innovation. I mean, distributed computing is the paradigm.  Final question for me, and Rob might have a couple more questions is that, what's your business plan for the year? Obviously, we just came back from KubeCon EU in Paris. We've got North America coming up in the fall. And your job, what is your business objectives, goals for the year? Can you share your plans and what you're trying to do and what you hope to accomplish this year? So I think the good thing that our mission or our vision hasn't changed, meaning for the past few years, and you know I can also maybe go back to the beginning of Kubernetes, it is about enabling innovation. And maybe there are different challenges and maybe different workloads, but in essence, it's about making things easy, okay? Comprehensive, okay? You don't want to stitch things for no reason, and that's something we take a lot of pride in GCP. Can we integrate the entire stack? Okay, I don't want to build like point solutions. It has to work together, and it has to be reliable, okay? We are a cloud provider. You should trust us with the most important workloads. So across that, we continue on that mission. You should expect us to continue and invest in security. It's a high priority for us. The second thing is supporting AI workloads. And the last thing is, how can I scale it within the organization? I would love to see more enterprise customers, more traditional workloads, benefiting from all those new technologies. And the commercial opportunities are great. Even the public sector, we had the new CEO, Kara, to put on earlier. She's going to be, I mean, all this AI is going to, I mean, I think about the government, Rob. All those procurements, paperwork, inadequate processes. Well, I was going to say, I mean, and part of what you have to be concerned with is that Google's not just running in Google Cloud now. It's, you have the distributed cloud, and you have sovereign clouds, and you've got all these certifications now with the government, with the agencies and stuff. Is that a big, do you see that as just another set of requirements that are coming in, and how do you keep that for being simple as well, I guess? So first of all, we have a special team that is focused on that, and their role is doing exactly that. So how can we take all that power, all that amazing things that are coming from GCP, but make them accessible with those set of constraints? Yeah, yeah, that makes total sense. What is the, my last question would be, what do you want us to be able to be on stage with us next year to be able to save? What if you, what do you hope to be able to save next year that you can't save today? I would love to see more and more customers running. I work with that scale. Okay, we see a lot of the startups now innovating, but I expect this will change how we live our lives. So I think that would be amazing for sure. And from a technology perspective, I think it would be interesting to think about what is that AI platform we look like? But you know, the painful truth we are not excited predicting the future. Well, you've done an amazing job. We loved you on theCUBE. And again, 10 years ago, Kubernetes started, and the CNCF was in the round then, then when they picked up the project a few years later, you were a big part of that success and the community is glad to have you. We're glad to have you on theCUBE as a CUBE alumni. You're like a contributor. You're like an analyst for us. You're running all the good stuff at Google. I think, yeah, the key part there, from my perspective was focus, and optimizing for learning, and really working with customers. I mean, that was, from my perspective, so something actually pretty new that we've done in an open-source project, both creating focus and think about a product, in a sense, and that's my philosophy for innovation. Well, and I think you're on the right track. I've been saying on theCUBE, I've been like a broken record. Generative AI is just distributed computing with the notion of runtime assembling things. And this is that bit around computer science principle, so it's kind of another shot in the arm for computer science, engineering, and with low-code, no-code tools, the creativity barrier can be right in the front line. So you don't need to be a super coder. You just kind of have computer science systems thinking, and you can make these happen. So I think the revolution's legit. It's very high-pubbly right now, but it's a good bubble. It's not a bad bubble, but it's a good bubble. It's fun. It's fun, it's a lot of fun. And thank you so much for your time. Thank you so much for having me. And Heddon Goldberg here on theCUBE. Vice President and General Manager at Google, covering serverless containers, at Kubernetes, here. Q, I'm John Furrier with Rob Stretchy. Savannah Peterson and Rebecca Knight. Dream Team is here. Team coverage here at Google Next. We'll be right back after this short break.


Google has released the list of most searched words in Nigeria and around the world for the year 2022. We'll look at the list as we seek to understand what was on the minds of the people in Nigeria this year. And the World Bank has projected that debt servicing will go up over 123% of Nigeria's revenue in the year 2023. We'll look at what this means for the Nigerian economy. And we have a review of the headlines on the front pages of today's national dailies in off the press. And we're back with the Breakfast and Plus TV Advocates. A beautiful, beautiful Tuesday morning. And we have fantastic conversations lined up for you. My name is Kofi Bartels. My top trending segment is usually what we start off with. And this is something that I'm sure will interest you. A lot of people have been commenting on this actually on the social space. And that's what we do on the top trending segment, which is we take the conversations online and bring them on television. This is what we call a viral video showing a Nigerian man confronting officials of the vehicle inspection office, VIO.  Because they will always be somewhere looking for faults in your vehicle. You know, faults that you would say, well, I mean, there are many cars moving around with that, you know, let me go. But hey, this is probably a young man, you know, venting his frustration. He took it out. He took it out on the VIO officials. And they were seen driving without their seat belts. All right. So one day the bush meat go hunt the hunter. It's a song that is popular in Nigeria by the late sound sultan and the two-faced Idebia. Let's go to that clip. Let's just look at it. We'll come back on the other side. Watch. But this is a VIS vehicle. Who is not even sitting there? So I'm going down. You can see this better. Sorry, excuse me. Why are you driving without seat belts? Why are you driving without seat belts? You arrest Nigerians for driving without seat belts. But you yourself, you can see them. I just want you to know that it's sweet when you are breaking the law. Because you feel like you are above the law. Your pressure without seat belts. Where is your pressure on this road? Where is your pressure on this road? You are the ones following this country. Later you will say it's Bwari. You will say it's Bwari. Is it Bwari that is your problem? Ordinary small position that they gave you now. You have neglected the law of safety. Seat belt is not for, it's not because you said to your VIO we arrest you. It's for your personal safety. And it's an offence. I'm supposed to arrest you too. I'm supposed to seize this car. Oh my God. I think all I have to do is just to give them a round of applause. Give him a round of applause for that. I think we should just put our hands together for this young man. Clap, clap, please. Clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap. He deserves a round of applause. We need to look for the gentleman and give him a word. You see, that is what we want to see Nigerians do. That is what we want to see people in this country do. Stand up, stand up and stand for your rights. I mean, this is maybe one in 1,000 or one in 10,000 would have in this country. We'll have the guts, you know, the boldness to do that. But it's your right. You can take a phone. You can film policemen. You can film military breaking the law. You film military breaking the law. I didn't say anything.  That's going to last you one week before that slap gets to your brain. I know that. I'm not there at the heat. You don't know me. But on a serious note, I think it's important people realize they have a right. I've been a beneficiary of police brutality. Why? Because I saw them, you know, brutalizing a young boy somewhere in this country. And I decided to do my journalism and I filmed them from a safe distance, you know, they were seen. Somehow they saw me and I was beaten up and, you know, today I have the scars and the pains on my legs. But I got a lot of, you know, reactions.  I was not wise. I was foolish for filming salesmen, you know. But the thing is this, if someone has to do something, you know, someone has to do something, you never can tell what these VIP officials are going to, maybe they're going to have an accident and die. God forbid. So this guy probably would have saved their lives. But this is a conversation we need to have. The keepers, those who are meant to be the keepers of the law in this country are the breakers of the law. I'm talking from the very least to the highest. I'm not saying that Nigerians should break the law. No. But I think that the least the Nigerians deserve from these guys who are the keepers of the law. I'm not just talking about law enforcement officials, but also public officials generally is that they should at least give Nigerians the respect of doing the right thing. Holding themselves to the standards they're holding Nigerians to. I mean, if you go into the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, it's flipped to the back, all right? You look at the shadows there. There is something called a code of conduct for public officers. It's very important, you know, it's very important. And a lot of things these guys do. I'm talking about those who are uniformed and those who are not uniformed in government, all right? It's against the law. So the code of conduct itself does nothing to prosecute these people. So, I mean, we can talk about the policemen who drive against traffic. You call it one way.  I can't give you. I know about Podhakot. They do it every day. You see traffic congestion on one side of the road, and they will switch to the other side and drive against traffic. Sometimes it's just one police van. Other times they're leading a convoy, a convoy of some VIP breaking the law, all right? I'd like to see one day that a Nigerian will park his car on the road and block them, and other people will come and then film them. Yeah, they're going to beat the person up, I know, probably. They're going to kick him, probably, all right? They might even fire shots, probably. But until people stand up, rise up to some of the nonsense you see in the country, it will continue. You know, it will continue. And I mean, yes, it may not be wise if you don't want to lose your life, okay? But at what point does this rubbish, so to use that strong word, at what point does it end in the country? At what point? You know, at what point? Because, I mean, we're going to leave this country, we lived in this country all these years, and one day God is going to call us, our children are going to come and meet these same things and say, no, the parents didn't fight to make Nigeria a better place, you know? So are we going to be a country of cowards? Well, a country that stands up to those in positions of responsibility, I don't say power, responsibility. They say, do the right thing, do the right thing. You know, people have hit their heads in the sun like ostriches for far too long, okay? You can film a police officer if you think he's breaking the law. He has no right to stop you. But you see, we are afraid. That's why people go to these guys and say, oh, boy, make it no trauma again. I'm sure you have friends who will be discouraging him.  Don't try him again or you get his family. It will be your friends who will make you just tell you the truth. That's page in English, that's because, sorry. You know, well, your friends just won't tell the truth. Don't try him again. So when will things change? Now, VIO collects money from passengers, from motorists rather. Federal Safety Corps. That was a very, very clean agency. They collect money, bribes, from motorists. Police, that one is a normal thing. That one is a normal thing. It's a multi-billionaire industry. What the policemen do on the roads. And now, soldiers have joined in. I mean, military uniform we used to respect it a lot. Our respect is not there again. Because the soldiers have joined the police to stand on the road, bring themselves down to that level of collecting money from motorists on the road. It's unfortunate. You know, so Nigerians need to do. I'm not saying you should go and stand somewhere and endanger yourself. No, disclaimer, don't do it.   But you know, when will things change? I will leave it at that. And we'll give kudos to this gentleman who called these guys out. But we're waiting for the head of the VIO in the country, or in Lagos, I think this was filmed, to say something. We're waiting for them to say something. Most times they won't say anything. Because they don't feel that they are answerable to Nigerians. And I think if they don't say anything, the media in Lagos, in Nigeria, needs to take up the baton, all right, from where, the baton, from where this gentleman has left it, to go and meet the VIO head and say, what are you going to do about these officers who did not wear the seatbelt? What are you going to do about it?  You want to take bread away from your family? Really? Do you know how many families have suffered because of victimization by these public servants or officers? So we're waiting. I think we'll give an ultimatum to the VIO head. Me, I'm giving you 24 hours. I'm giving you 24 hours. If you don't say anything, I'll send a reporter to you so that you answer and tell us what you're going to do to these officers. It's really sad. Let's move on. Let's move on. Sorry about this. It's sensational. But yeah, yeah, yeah. Yes, to answer. Another one. This is really sad. And do not know what is going on in the southeast. Do not know if elections are all in the southeast.  The offices of INEC in different parts of the southeast of Nigeria have been attacked, you know, in the last 12 months. Lots of attacks. Here are known gunmen, you know, gunmen and all that sit at home. No, it's been a bloodshed bloodbath in the southeast over the past few days. Since a hook, so should I call it phantom, sit at home was ordered, which has been rejected by the indigenous people of Biafra and of course INEC and the headquarters of the Independent National Electrical Commission in Imustit. This time it's not a local government area. But in Imustit, it's situated, or situated on Port Hacot Road, Imustit. I came under attack yesterday as a gunman invaded the office. So what were they invading this office to do? You can see the pictures on your screen. It was gathered, you know, by some new sources that the hoodlums were more than 10 in number and they attacked that office at about 3 a.m. Imustit has been a recipient of lots of attacks by so-called unknown gunmen. Lots of attacks by so-called unknown gunmen. We hear that more than three officers on the premises were touched, were set on fire before the police reinforcement could arrive. They're seen to dislodge the hoodlums who three of whom were reportedly killed. Three of whom were reportedly killed. And look at those pictures on your screen. Really sad one. They are really unfortunate. And of course, again, these unknown gunmen have struck and it's causing us to ask what exactly is the motive of these attacks? Why are they attacking INEC offices? It's our eastern part of the country. Well, the police public relations officer in Imustit spoke, you know, and he had some things to say about that. But I think the most important thing was that three of the officers, attackers, rather, were killed. Why, while two others were said to have been captured alive and the police are said to be on the trail of the other suspects. The police public relations officer in Imustit is CSP Mike Abatam. CSP Mike Abatam, I don't pity him. I think he has his work caught up because of the plethora of attacks and, you know, killings in Imustit in recent times. I don't envy him at all, rather. That's what I meant to say. So he has a lot on his table. But the question is, what are the, for me, the reasons behind these attacks? You know, what's the motive when you attack an INEC office speed the local government office of INEC or the state headquarters of INEC? What's the motive? You know, at 3 a.m. Do they want to steal, you know, voter cards? Do they want to burn permanent voter cards? Do they want to kidnap the REC? It seems that such attacks would probably be to destroy permanent voter cards. You know, probably. I don't know. Another reason and a motive could be that there are some people who want to scare people away from going out to vote in the southeast. Maybe there are some people who would feel that people troop out to vote in the southeast it's not in the interest that they may want to do this. I'm just trying to come up with the possible scenarios here. I'm not saying this is the situation. The police will have to investigate. Okay, they'll have to investigate to tell us what exactly happened. They killed three of these attackers, captured two, and now on the trail of the others. So they're turning number. Okay, that means five escaped. So they should be able to get information. I mean, the police is used to doing what I call investigation by confessional statements. You know, most times they come up with results of investigations. It's through confessional statements. So we wait to get the reasons and why these guys attack. Is it because, you know, people want to scare some persons, want to scare what we call the voters away in emo state? Is it because some persons want to intimidate INEC staff in river state to make sure that voting does not hold in emo state, sorry, in the southeast? Is it that people want to destroy permanent voter cards so that people who have not yet collected them will not be able to vote, thereby reducing the number of persons who will be able to vote in emo state? I don't know. This is what we hope the police can tell us. But it's really sad one and we'll be keeping an eye on that situation. All right, the final one I'm sure a lot of you remember that presidential candidate of People's Democratic Party Alhaji Atikobubakar He had deleted his tweet earlier, you know, condemning the murder of Debra the young woman, Debra Samuel, a student who was lynched in her university that is the Sheo Shagari College of Education in Sakura State for alleged blasphemy against the prophet Muhammad Atikobubakar tweeted, condemning the killing and then he later deleted it. But you know what, people have already munched that tweet you can see there, and it was too late when he deleted it, we already had copies you know what he said, there cannot be a justification for such gruesome murder. Debra Yacobu was murdered and all those behind her death must be brought to justice my condolences to her family and friends, and he since deleted the tweet. The suspicion and speculation out there is that he deleted it because he did not want to be, to incur the wrath of northern Muslims, of Muslim fundamentalists who felt you know killing Debra was the right thing to do in defense of the prophet Muhammad you know, and of course not a few people actually came out to justify why this girl Debra Yacobu or Debra Asambu should be lynched should be murdered in cold blood and burned. You know, they justified it because they said that the religion forbids that blasphemy which is alleged of committed them. We don't know where her killers are, some people were arrested, they were taken to court you know, so many lawyers who came to defend them.   Some also came out to say, well, if you look at the writings of the Holy Quran it may not support what happened, you know so that debate is out there I'm not interested in getting into that debate, but what the latest is as you can see on the screen is that the presidential candidate of the People's Democratic Party, Tico Abubakar has stated that his he deleted his tweet condemning the murder of Deborah Samuel because the tweet was shared without his approval it was shared without his approval, and this is something he had said before, it's not the first time he's saying this, but you know the campaign is on for the presidential election coming next year and these are questions that they'll be faced with from time to time. He was at a town hall, a presidential town hall meeting organized by a television station on Sunday, and he was asked why he deleted his tweet, and he had to answer it, but I'll just quote him here, he says quote, Tico Abubakar, quote I asked the tweet to be deleted because I normally approve every tweet, and since I did not approve the tweet, I asked him to delete it if you read my subsequent statement on that murder, I condemned it okay, so that's that will the Nigerians take that statement as a true condemnation when the tweet was deleted, or not will there be a backlash from voters who were against the lynching and the murder of Deborah Yacobo for alleged blasphemy, will there be backlash in terms of votes against Tico for not condemning this only time will tell, but this is the country we live in, and it always will lead people to ask the question should Nigeria you know, separate you know, north go its way south go its way, or should a country stay together, because of the difference in values of the two parts of the country thank you very much for your time we'll take a break, and when we come back we delve into of the press, we look at what the papers have for us, stay with us


The question here from our dear friend and colleague, Lauren, is that as men have been painted as the brutal perpetrators, ironically enough, the culture has encouraged her to act more and more like a man and validated the expression of her, what feel to her like masculine attributes. And so here we have a subtle subversion of feminism that where feminism buys into patriarchal values and says, yes, women can be equal, women can be valuable, women can do the things that men have been doing and therefore be validated. So they're taking patriarchal values for granted and actually becoming allies of a patriarchy where women are inserted into the same roles as men. That is not a very deep kind of revolution. And in fact oppresses women. Lauren's not the first person, you're not the first person who's said this kind of thing to me that to dare to be feminine, like that risks, oh, you're playing into the patriarchy, you're acquiescing to your own objectification. Like what opinions and desires is it okay for you to have? And what are politically unacceptable? We did this, boy, this was in Berkeley, boy, oh boy, it was just a cauldron, but we did a, I co-facilitated this thing and one woman got up there and she's like, sometimes I just want to be taken. Like she was, you know, expressing this kind of shadow dimension of femininity that might get played out in BDSM circles and things like that. But like, where does that fit into it? You know, I remember as a young man, if you wanted to kiss a girl, you weren't supposed to ask. And if you asked, she was like, can't you tell I want to be kissed?  Like, can't you read my signals, you know? But now if you did that, like then you're kissing without consent or something like that. It's like really confusing for men because it's become so politicized. So yeah, we have women who, well, there's another thing here. It's fine to say, yes, let's validate and celebrate and affirm women's choice to be more traditionally feminine if they want to be. It's fine to say that. But if you say that at the same time as you uphold an economic system that only validates the male things, that's hypocritical and futile. So I think if we really wanted to overturn patriarchy, we would have to, like right now, if a woman wants financial security, either it's through dependence on a man in the patriarchal pattern of one woman essentially owned and financially like economically controlled by a man, dependent, or she's got to go out and work like a man and lean in, you know, and be the single mom or the working mom and put the kids in daycare and only see them two hours a day between daycare and bed. Like, there's a lot, I mean, that's a lot of people. So I think if we really were serious as a society, this is what I say is to the right wing like conservative traditional traditional family values people. I'm like, if we're serious as a society about validating and celebrating traditional femininity, like, we got to support that there should be universal basic income for all women. And I don't know, like, maybe men get half. I don't know, like, this is this really gets me into trouble to say that, yeah, we should have universal basic income and women get double what men get. Because again, you know, from a place of patriarchy, any acknowledged difference becomes grounds for oppression and domination. But, you know, and a lot of matriarchal societies, which is not the same as patriarchy with women in charge, okay, matriarchal societies are very different than that, we hardly really could even recognize them. To our eyes, they might look patriarchal. But in a lot of matriarchal societies, women owned the property. And it would maybe even be unmanly. And I'm not really an anthropologist here. So I might be making this up. But I think it was at least sometimes the case. It has an appeal to me anyway, that it was kind of unmanly to own property to because a man's got to be free, you know, he's got to go out and hunt the animals and bring stuff back and give the gifts to the woman, you know, and the woman is the one who holds the house, holds the family, holds the village, and the men are on the periphery, scouting things out, protecting against enemies, you know, keeping everybody safe. They're the exterior, and the women are the interior. And power is in the interior. So I don't know. I guess what I would just say is that we've never experienced anything but patriarchy in a mass society. All of our global societies today come from a history that goes through patriarchy and all the rest, all slavery and the domination of nature and so on. We don't have any alternative on a large scale. So in this arena, what I, my practice has been to just drop what I thought I knew and to be open to learning. And I think that would be a good start because our perceptions are so colored by immersion in patriarchy that we don't really know what it is to be a man or a woman outside of it.


I was researching carbon dioxide capture and storage which is a technology to capture carbon dioxide emissions from sources like power stations and store it in rock about a kilometre under the seabed. The idea being that you could reduce carbon dioxide emissions while growing our renewable energy industry. So how did I get from that to working for positive money? Well when I started researching it, it was 2008 and it was actually quite an exciting area to be in. The government had announced a competition and we were going to have our very own project in the UK. And I kind of imagined myself finishing my research degree and going and working on that big project in the UK. But of course as the financial crisis of 2008 set in and the recession, I realised that the renewable energy agenda and the environmental agenda at large was getting shelved by the government. And this kind of frustrated me quite a lot. So in autumn 2011 I found myself at a sustainability conference and Ann Pettiford was one of the speakers. She's a fellow at the New Economics Foundation and a member of the Green New Deal. And she said two things which really stuck with me. She said we can't afford renewable energy. And the second thing she said was that when Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the Fed, bailed out the banks, he just typed numbers into a computer. And that talk was really my wake up call. Those messages really deeply unsettled me but at the same time they kind of made sense. There was kind of a direction I could point my frustration. You know if you've got a situation where we can't afford the things we need but banks can get bailed out by typing numbers into a computer then the system must be pretty broken.  It's quite an unsettling feeling. And I kind of realised then that policy makers probably really didn't have a clue why the financial crisis happened. And they probably didn't really have a clue how to fix it. And since working for Positive Money I found that to be kind of confirmed and felt like it'd be truer, truer. So needless to say when I finished my research degree the money for the big project in the UK had been scrapped because we couldn't afford it anymore. So today I'd like to welcome you here. Who came to the Positive Money conference last year? Excellent. OK, so I'm going to talk about what's happened to Positive Money since then. And then I'm going to talk about how that has shaped our strategy and then talk about building a movement and how we want you to get involved. So last year we launched Modernising Money, a book written by Andrew Jackson and Ben Dyson of Positive Money. And since then we've sold over 2,000 copies which has been very exciting and fantastic. And they are on the left, Lorda Dair Turner, who was the chairman of the Financial Services Authority. Now he's a fellow at the Institute of New Economic Thinking. In the middle is Martin Wolff, who's the chief economics commentator at the Financial Times. And on the right is Professor Tim Jackson, who's the author of Prosperity Without Growth. And what's quite exciting is that Andrew Jackson is going to start a full-time PhD with him to kind of further this research. So that's quite exciting. So at the last year's conference we also heard from Professor Victoria Chick who talked to us about why academics don't get this. And she laid out really clearly how money creation has basically disappeared from economics departments and syllabuses across universities in the UK and worldwide. And it's quite exciting that one person in the audience last year was Joe Earl, who is one of the founders of the Post-Crash Economic Society. And they're a student society based in Manchester studying economics, kind of challenging their department about the economics they're being taught. And they've achieved quite a lot of media coverage in the last year and this is one article about them. But they've also been joined by many other societies and universities across the UK. So rethinking economics came out of LSE and there's been other societies set up in universities such as UCL. And so they're starting to feel a swell of economic students unhappy with what they're being taught. Last year we also heard from Patrick Chalmers, who's a former Reuters journalist, and he talked about why the mainstream media don't get this. And since last year, we've thought a lot about how we can get into the mainstream media. And whilst we've had some success this year, you might have seen Ben's article in The Guardian, he spoke on the world service. It's been pretty slow and that's kind of been kind of frustrating, but we're kind of realising that maybe it's too early, we can't actually get into the mainstream press. One thing we've learnt a lot from is writing about Scotland. So Ben wrote a report trying to open the debate around the Scottish currency. We thought we could lay out an alternative. But what we found was that by the time we tried to get that into the media, already the discussion had shrunk to being a politics debate between the Scottish National Party and Westminster. And no one was really interested in having a kind of open discussion about real alternatives. So it's been pretty disappointing, but perhaps not that surprising. So last year we also decided to do some more research. So Andrew Jackson wrote this paper which was released last year on sovereign money and Ben's going to talk about that this afternoon. Ben and Andrew have been doing a hell of a lot of thinking about critiquing the current system and proposing alternatives. And we have this poster up in our office says change will happen when expert opinion and public opinion coincide. And when I joined Positive Money in 2012 I was kind of like, well that's quite simple, I don't think it's really going to be like that. But as I've worked there and kind of become very frustrated with the state of our political system, with the media, I kind of feel like it's truer and truer. And it definitely feels like the right place where we have to start. And if you're wondering which person this is a quote from, it's from our very own Andrew. He came up with it. So we feel the expert opinion is actually shifting. You know Martin Wolff at the FT has written a couple of articles on this. Adair Turner has made several high profile speeches over the last year on the topic of debt, money and credit. And this is Michael Cymhoff from the IMF who wrote the paper The Chicago Plan Revisited. And he's definitely attracted a lot more attention around the subject. Both Martin Wolff and Adair Turner have books coming out later this year which will feature the topic. So we feel like this is a serious topic, the money system, and it's going to attract more and more serious thinkers with time. And so we feel more confident than ever that our research proposals are gaining momentum and that there's a possibility of expert opinion shifting and that it already is. But can these individuals shift public opinion on their own? We think probably not. So that's where positive money comes in. Cos positive money really is its supporters. You know, from day one it's been the people who've been interested in the subject that's allowed the organisation to establish its foundations and to grow. Now we feel confident in what we are proposing. We want to build a national and international movement for change. So what is a movement? It's kind of an ambiguous word. So that was the positive money supporters, that's all you. So what is a movement? Well, obviously there are hundreds of definitions about what a movement is. One simple one is that it's a large group of people who are focusing on one issue to change, one either political or social issue that they want to change. So we know that economic system is really broken and we know that at the heart of that sits the money system. And that's what the positive money movement is about. It's about changing money. So systemic change, however, doesn't happen that often. It doesn't usually happen when governments suddenly realise that the way that they're running the system isn't particularly fair or useful for most people. And it's also kind of unlikely to happen when central bankers kind of get their own wake-up call and realise that the way they're running the money system isn't actually very useful and it could be changed to better serve society's needs. And so big-scale change generally happens when people on a mass scale demand it and when governments generally become fearful and they're worried about risking their losing their position. So they actually change things in a big way. But politicians aren't actually, I think we know politicians aren't rational decision makers, to say the least. How many people here have talked to their MP about the money system? And how many people here have managed to have a calm rational discussion about the money system? Okay, I'm really glad it's not just me. So they're humans, you know, we're complicated, we're not these rational consumers that economics would have us believe. When I met my MP in the summer of 2012, I went into the meeting thinking I was going to have a really calm rational discussion. I thought I'd focus on house prices, talk about the fact that it wasn't just a supply and demand issue that mortgage lending had something to do with it. But I left the meeting feeling utterly deflated and really frustrated. He'd really aggressively challenged every point that I'd made, tried to close down all of my arguments with his superior debating skills and not wanted to have an open discussion at all in the slightest. So we don't want to waste time, really, and energy banging on closed doors to media and politicians. Positive money has always had its most success when we've tried to bring new people into the conversation who are open to the discussion. And that's why we've now got over 22,000 followers on Facebook. We've got 15,000 subscribers on our newsletter, and we've got over 7,000 followers on Twitter. And we get about 30,000 new visits to the website each month, which is about double the amount from last year. So that's really exciting. Yeah! No, no, back. So positive money is not simply Ben or Mira or Andrew or me, but it's everyone. It's everyone that shares a Facebook post, it's everyone that tweets, it's everyone that donates to us. It's everyone that talks to their friend about the money system, anyone that organises a film screening, anyone that books a room for the reading group, anyone that writes to their MP. And we're much stronger working together than working separately. You know, we can bring lots of things to the table, we can help each other better to communicate, to influence politicians, if that's what we want to do, to bring in our friends and family to the conversation. Who here has tried to explain the money system and the issues to one of their friends or family? Who here has had unsuccessful results or has been quite unsure about how to even start the conversation? Surely more. And so that's why we need a movement, because we need to help each other figure out how to best communicate to each other. And if we agree that we need to shift public opinion, then we do need to bring new people in to the conversation about how we've got a broken economic system, but also how it can be changed and how it can be fixed to have a better society. And I get the feeling that quite a few people do realise that there's something seriously wrong. You know, when they see in the local area more and more people going to food banks and at the same time on the news can see stock markets hitting all-time highs, they can tell that the system is seriously broken. But obviously we all have different barriers to wanting to get more involved or wanting to learn about the problems and what positive money is proposing. Some people will be put off because they think that they need to understand all of this technical jargon and to be intimidated by it. Other people might just simply not have the headspace or time to even think about money creation. So we need to work together to help remove barriers for people to get more and more people involved. So we now have 18 local groups across the country, which is very exciting and they meet regularly from up in Newcastle to down in Dorset to show up positive money. And we have 19 national groups across the world, which is really exciting. I think we've got about nine of them represented here today. So I think we've got people from Denmark, yeah, from Sweden, from Switzerland, from Germany. From Germany, yeah, from France, Iceland, here by myth. From the US? No, okay, yeah, from the US. So this is really exciting because it is an international movement and it might be more likely that we can change the money system in a country that's not the UK and a country that has a smaller bank lobby. So we need to support all national groups growing. And with the technology we've got, there's absolutely no reason why we can't work together on an international movement. How many people knew that Mira, who does every single one of our Facebook posts, does it from her home country of Slovakia? So we're already an international movement and we can work together across the globe. You know, even though it was the UK that designed the first wind turbine, it was Denmark that turned it into an industry. So we want to support each other working together. So what does a money reform movement look like? Well, it looks like this room to start with, but it also looks like people getting together in groups and regions across the UK to talk to each other, to support and motivate each other to take action. You know, we can reach a whole lot more people online, but we can't actually build a movement online, because a movement is about relationships and it's about people. And that's why we're here today. OK. How many people have been to positive money events that's not today? Yeah. And how many people felt that by going to that event they felt, and meeting other people that were interested in similar issues, they felt more connected and more committed to that cause? Cool. I think that's about the same number. I'm definitely one of them. So that's why we want to build a movement, and there's already been hundreds of fantastic events that have happened from street stalls in Cardiff to film screenings in Sweden, and we want many more of those to happen and to come out of today. And we've got an opportunity in the UK with the 2015 elections to get more... It's more likely that your MP will turn up at an event if you can organise a successful one in your area. We all have different resources to bring to the table. So some of us might... So this is building movement. Sorry. So some of us might understand the system in really great detail and absolutely get how the current system works and the proposals that positive money has. Other us might be great at communicating the ideas and understand how to bring in different kinds of people and make it real for people with different interests. And some of us might be good at organising and know what it takes to organise an event. And all of those kinds of people are really valuable to positive money, but they're even more effective when they're working in teams rather than in isolation. So what do we want positive money local groups to do? Well, we kind of feel they should have the same goal that positive money does, which is to grow. And so that's a really overarching target and we're not going to define how that should be, whether it's grow the number of people attending your monthly meetings or grow the number of people attending your events or grow the number of signatures you pick up on the street to send to positive money. But we all have a common goal, which is to grow, and you can measure that really easily. We measure the number of people signing up to our newsletter, the number of people looking at our website, the number of people looking at Facebook. And if we're growing the movement, then that's got to be a good thing. So we're asking quite a lot of you today to give up your Saturday to come here and join the positive money movement.  You need to tell us what you need from us, whether that's resources for your group, whether it's support or training, if it's technical knowledge about how to become a speaker or social media, how to facilitate a group. Those are things that we can help you with and we want to. I got more involved with positive money when I attended their speakers training in 2012, but we found that speakers haven't really been able to find audiences to then go and talk to. And that's why we wanted to set up groups so that we can support each other, reach many more people.


Guys, we are here talking about the Galaxy Z, oops, Z Flip 3 and the Watch 4. And why I think both of them are a awesome combo for Samsung devices, so let's find out. Okay guys, so honestly, this is a very interesting match in pairing because technically you can use the Galaxy Watch 4 with any Samsung device or any Android device in general. But I think it pairs well with the Flip 3. Well, well, there are a couple of things. Now, first off, if you want to see more coverage of what I'm doing on the Flip 3 and all their Galaxy devices, subscribe to the channel and also check out all the content we have. Now, as you guys know, BoatFam has really spent more time with the Flip 3 than I have, but I spent some time with this, especially on our trip to London, coming back. And seeing how used the Flip 3 has been quite interesting, especially the fact she loves taking photos. So being able to take photos everywhere, for her that's been great, it's been fun. For me, it's been an interesting process because I'm not one to take photos like that, but I do like the fact that I can and I go to experience some of that today. Being able to hang out with friends and do a group selfie. And it's funny, because we all sat down and everyone was like, who has the best phone? They all had, some people had iPhone 12s, I had my S21 Ultra, I had my Flip. And BoatFam was like, look, let's use the Flip because we can set it down and of course take selfies. And boom, it worked out. Images look good. And honestly, the camera quality of the Flip has been really solid. Definitely check out Daniel Sin's videos.  So, that's something to definitely take a look at. Also, Danny Winger has done some good videos on the Flip and I, look, I like the images that come off the camera itself. Now, speaking of the Watch 4. So we kind of go back and forth, right? The Watch 4 is pretty cool. It looks pretty nice and clean. It's got this nice aesthetic look to it. It's a very solid looking product. Now, it's got the digital dial on the Watch 4. The Watch 4 Classic has the, of course, regular dial. And that being said though, it gives you this very comfortable feel while you wear it. And I like the way it functions with ties in over Wear OS, being able to use navigation on my wrist while driving is great. But it's just very smooth. It's not something that's oddly new, but it's just a very smoother experience now. The other thing, of course, is you've got the access to the Google Play Store. So you've got access to all the applications that you can use and all that fun stuff. So that stuff is actually pretty nice. Now, let's go back quickly to the camera. Now, this camera takes some really good photos. I was quite surprised and really does a good job in expressing. The fact that you can use the camera while closed right here, you know by just basically double tapping the power button and then you've got access to the camera and I can take some photos for you guys right here. Boom, ah, boom. You get the idea, right? Allow me to look fresh and clean. And speaking of that though, quick word from our sponsor of this video, Thread. Now Thread is a website where you can get all the latest clothings from different brands that you like. And the way Thread works is that it actually has built-in algorithms that learns your styles, your habits so they can actually select clothes for you.  And honestly, I look good. Thank you very much guys from Thread. And you can actually pick and select what matches your style. And they've also got built-in stylists who can actually go through and say, hey, look, this matches you. This is the kind of wardrobe you want to go. And it's an awesome experience. Honestly, definitely check them out and use the link down below. So speaking of style though, that's something that the Flip really has. It's a stylish looking device. Especially like the Black Flip because it's phantom black, it doesn't slide off and also has a very clean look to it. Though the case though is nice. The Flip case, I do like it because it allows for you to just kind of hold it in your hand quite easily while you either keep it open, stuff like that. So again, pretty cool overall. But this is the device that has kind of like fashion of function to it, if you will, right? And that's something I really think that a lot of people may not understand. And it's kind of hard to explain, honestly. I can't give you just the, oh, it's got this spec and that's why I like the Flip. I'll tell you why I like it because it's cool. It's portable, it's small. It's got great usability from a camera perspective and it does what it says it's supposed to do. Now with the Watch 4, it does everything you want from Android Watch and there are very few good Android Watches out there. So I really like where Samsung has gone this watch to be. Now let's talk downsides. When it comes to downsides, both devices have terrible battery life. Yeah, I'll say it that way. The Flip 3 was 3,300 milliamp battery. If you record a lot of video throughout the day, it's going to hit you. So just bear that in mind. Yes, it's got two displays of cover display. It's not that crazy. It doesn't really drain as much, I would think. But when you use it quite a bit, it's just a small battery. So hopefully Samsung can amp the battery size for this device, maybe up to 4,000 milliamps and be great so we can see, get more from this device. Now with the Watch 4, that's something where I was kind of shocked. Like if I didn't turn on power saving mode, my battery only lasted a day. Now with power saving mode on, I can go to two days and I've kind of kept it on power saving mode because that's just the most sensible thing to do. I don't know why it's that bad, but honestly, it's not a great experience, especially if you're going to be working out and you're going to be walking around and using it in different places. This definitely needs more battery life overall. But the other thing also is charging. And I think that's where I really need smart watches to get improvements. I would love to see 10 minute charge to fully charge this device because when you jump in the shower, in the morning you can fully charge it, especially if you use the sleep tracking at night, which will drain your battery as well. Same thing with this bad boy. Even though it's got reverse wireless charging and it's got 25 watt fast charging, it's just not enough. But that being said though, like yeah, those are the things that I hold against them and that's it. Everything else, I do like. I like the way this device works. I like the way they kind of pair together. To me, I think it just definitely works overall. And you guys will ask, okay, things like gaming, you've seen, check out my gaming video. It does that pretty well. I mean, you can do all the tasks you want to do, but you've also got a cool phone that flips, bends, and allows you to do more photography-wise than you would think. So there you have it, guys. That is my, those are my thoughts on the Flip 3 and the Galaxy Watch 4. I think these are really good. Definitely check them out. If you want to pick up any of these devices, use the links down below. Otherwise, don't forget to like, share, subscribe. Check out more videos on the channel. It's gonna be a very busy September and October, guys. So stay tuned for more content. I'll be chatting with you guys more on the community page, I promise, because I'd be very bad at that. And always enjoy your entertainment.


Hello everybody. Repeat after me. I wish that Rachel would have the depth that she wishes for. I wish that Rachel would have the depth that she wishes for. With all of her friends and family lying around her. That's the way it's going to be in the future. I also wish for her to be really, really old. So those are the sort of questions I'm into these days. I want to real quick, I guess the thought is that I think that stripping some of the theater away from the sort of costumes and the set or stuff and just talking to people is really awesome to be by now. So I wanted to ask you guys the right questions and then ask each other really quickly because I think we're running out of time. So I want all of you to think of someone in your life that you wish you knew better. And think about what kind of questions you would ask him or her to get to know him or her better and write some of those down. I want you to think about if you're going to a museum to see an artist's work, what kind of information do you want to know about this artist? Write down some questions that you would want to know about this artist before you go to see a museum. Please text me now everyone. And finally, what are some questions that you would never ask another human being? Write some of those down. Whatever comes into your mind. And then I'm going to give you the mic and I guess I just want you to turn it to my friend Rachel and just, oh yeah, you get all the questions. Just ask her, say two of your questions and then we'll go through everybody real quick. Can you guess why I'm bleeding? That as you brought the chairs over, a chair scratched your leg really hard? Close, it was a chair, yes. How hard do you work at what you do, whatever that may be, if you can pick that? And how much of it comes naturally? I guess I would say that I don't think I work hard enough. And I think I want to work hard and I want to do my best. But I get lazy sometimes or I think I'm working hard and take a break. And I wish that I would really get focused at the thing from the beginning about wanting to have a really serious day of hard work and something that I really like. What's your name? I'm Nancy. I guess this requires three questions. Do you have a profession right now? Have you chosen what you wanted to do with your life? I'm an actor. When did you know that you wanted to be an actor? I was building puppets for a summer show when I was eight. And we were paper macheting outside under the sun and we were all in ripped up clothing. And I was the youngest one and everyone was in high school and they were playing Dave Matthews. So I thought it was really cool to know who it was in time on the show. And they were all actors and I wanted to be like them. And what did your parents think when you told them? I actually told them. I think they knew. They knew and I think they're really proud. My dad at one point said to me and I'll never hear this conversation. He said you cured cancer. Why are you doing this? But not in any way. He wanted to understand why if he thought I could cure cancer, why I was choosing to do something else. And we've ever answered that question. But I think over the years he knows the answer. I know you but what's your name for everyone else? Not really. I have the empathy. I'll be up in a second.  What's one thing in your life you regret? I'm doing it. Okay, what was your first friend like? She was awesome. I got really excited. I was really enthusiastic. And I'm just having such a good time. People being unveiled and just being really honest and direct. All right. I'm done. This is a really short period to say goodbye to you.  And this prayer you prayed by just repeating after me. Hello. Hello. I'm praying to you. I'm praying to you. I want to be accepted by you. I want to be accepted by you. I want to make contact. I want to make contact. I want to be close to you. I want you to reach out to me. I want you to reach out to me. I'm willing to risk embarrassment. I'm willing to risk embarrassment. And in order to prove it, In order to prove it, I'm going to accept you. I'm going to accept you. I'm going to reach out to you. I'm going to reach out to you. I'm going to make contact. I'm going to make contact. Amen. Amen.