This is the SF Productions Podcast Network. I'm Turner Wax and Rice Aroni, the San Francisco treat. From the Pop Culture Bunker, I'm Mindy. And I'm Mark. You can check out our audio podcast, How I Got My Wife to Read Comics on iTunes, or on our website SFPodcastNetwork.com. I'm going to say up front that I'm a huge game show fan. Our recent failed attempt to see the prices right, thanks coronavirus, inspired me to look at long running game show hosts. Like most classic TV formats, game shows came from radio. In fact, on the first day of commercial TV programming, July 2nd, 1941, you could watch radios Truth or Consequences with Ralph Edwards. Edwards went from radio announcing to directing, then created and hosted radios Truth or Consequences, and did a couple of stints on TV. Edwards went on to produce or create This Is Your Life and The People's Court. He passed in 2005. Truth was an audience participation show, where a contestant would be asked a question, and if they got it wrong, it was always a crazy question. They would then be forced to do foolish stunts for cash. He ran in various forms from 1950 to 1988. Edwards actually continued a radio version of the show until 1957. I remember watching the show. It was popular enough that a small town in New Mexico would make themselves Truth or Consequences. Edwards brought in a new truth host in 1956 who would run the show for years before becoming the greatest host of all time, Bob Barker. Barker was a Navy fighter pilot in World War II, then worked as an announcer, that's where most game show hosts come from, before running an eponymous local show in LA, where Edwards discovered him. Barker would go on to host shows continuously from 1956 to 2007, with The Price's Right being 35 years of that. The CBS Studio, where The Price's Right is taped, is named the Bob Barker Studio in his honor. Barker was controversial. There were lawsuits involving Barker's beauties, protests against animal cruelty, and a decision to drop out of hosting the Miss USA Miss Universe when they refused to stop using furers. He also caused a ruckus when he stopped dying his hair in 1987, shocking the audience with his natural gray. Bob handed off The Price's Right to Drew Carey, who still runs it today. Now, Bob was not the first host of The Price's Right. That would be longtime host and eventual substitute teacher of game shows, Bill Cullen. Cullen survived a childhood bout of polio. If you pay attention, you rarely see him walking around on air, otherwise sitting or leaning. He went from disc jockey to sports commentator to announcing to hosting. His first hosting gig was Goodman Todman's first game show, Radio's Winner Take All. Goodman Todman produced many of the classic shows, including The Price's Right. Cullen served in the Army Air Corps as an instructor in World War II, then returned to do a number of hosting and announcing duties. He also became a familiar face on panel shows, where a group of celebrities would play essentially parlor games. This included long runs on I've Got a Secret and To Tell the Truth. He was given the initial reigns on Price's Right from 1956 to 65. If you haven't seen it, it's basically contestants' row as a separate show. If you get a chance, give it a look on buzzer or YouTube. It had ridiculous prizes, like new towels every week for a year, or an actual house in Florida. Later, Cullen would host more shows, 23 of them, as well as come in to handle temporary duties if a host became ill. His final run was on the $10,000 pyramid in 1987. There were other TPR hosts that came with a long pedigree doing syndicated versions of the show alongside Barker's Run. Dennis James hosted what is considered the first original game show for television, Dumont's Cash and Carry in 1946. James spent the 50s and 60s hosting various shows, Chance of a Lifetime, Stop the Music, The Name's the Same, while acting as host of the first TV telethon on behalf of United Cerebral Palsy. He did this for decades and hosting an eponymous variety show. His catchphrase and name of one of his shows, OK Mother, came from his time as an early boxing commentator. Now, boxing was perfect for early TV, small well-lit space, ready-made audience, segmented into quick rounds for more commercials. When he explained a particular wrestling rule, he didn't want to insult male viewers as if they didn't know those rules, so he said OK Mother to infer he was explaining to the female audience. James retired after his Price's Rights syndicated run he passed in 1997. Tom Kennedy was the younger brother of Jack Nars, who we will get to in a moment, and changed his name to avoid perceived issues with them promoting competing products. Hosts at the time were expected to do live commercials during their shows. By the way, Bill Cullen was their brother-in-law having married their sister. Kennedy hosted long-running shows you don't say, split second and named that tune, along with a number of lesser-known shows. He hosted the syndicated Price's Right in the 80s, and like Cullen, would step in as needed to other shows. He took over Password Plus in 1980 following the illness and death of Alan Ludden. Ludden was in charge of U.S. Army Entertainment in World War II's Pacific Theater and received a bronze star for his efforts. He then worked for a time as an advisor to youth in team magazines and radio, then hosting GE's College Bowl before going on to his best-known role, the host of Password which ran from 1961 to 1980 in various versions until he was too old to continue as host. There's also a great episode of the Odd Couple where Felix and Oscar get on the show. Ludden was husband to Game Show and TV royalty Betty White, who was the first female game show host on Just Men. Ludden passed in 1981. Now we mentioned Jack Nars earlier. He started as an announcer for Radio Superman Serial as well as TV's Space Patrol. He became well known as the announcer for the first sitcom of Betty White. See it all ties together. That was called Life with Elizabeth. He continued announcing four game shows, acted as sidekick to Bob Crosby's radio show before hosting in 1958. Unfortunately he began hosting just as the quiz show scandal hit. You can watch the 1994 film about that. His show was implicated, but he managed to get out of it mostly unscathed. Nars went on to host Concentration, guest hosted on The Syndicated Price is Right, and would end up co-hosting an episode of Password Plus with his brother Tom Kennedy. Nars passed in 2008. We did want to mention two other Jacks, Barry and Bailey. Unlike Nars, Jack Barry did not escape the quiz show scandal. Barry was a radio host who moved over to TV with partner Dan Enright to produce Winky Dink and You. This is considered the first interactive TV program. An animated character would need something drawn on screen like a car or stairsay, and youngsters weren't instructed to draw it on the screen using a special plastic panel that would attach to the TV. Unfortunately, lots of kids just drew directly on the screen. Barry and Enright went on to produce shows such as Juvenile Jerry and The Big Surprise, prior to their big hits Tic Tac Do and 21. According to a documentary, 21's sponsor Gerritol complained that it was boring because people kept repeatedly missing answers, and so a scheme was set up to feed answers to popular contestants. When this was discovered, government hearings were held with discussions of nationalizing TV as many nations do. Instead, producers such as Barry were crucified, and he couldn't get a national gig for years doing local shows in L.A. Finally he returned as host and producer of The Joker's Wild, which premiered on the same day as Barker's Price is Right. It was a hit on Network Incindication for Years. Barry passed away in 1984. Jack Bailey was a Vodvillian and Carnival Barker, which led to announcing and hosting. He was Truth or Consequences host prior to Bob Barker and would go on to appear in guest roles on series as well as Mr. Ed and Police Story with a cameo in It's a Wonderful Life, but is best known as the long-running host of Queen for a Day. This audience participation show even at the time was considered grotesque, but that's what sells. Someone would be pulled from the mostly female audience and be given a chance to tell their tale of woe. The illness, poverty, emotional issues, the more horrific the better the woman with the best sob story judged by an applause meter would then win a prize of their choice. A refrigerator, a hearing aid, medical care. The winner would also be placed on a fake throne with a crown. Barry's smarmy introduction. What you like to be Queen for a day is hard to watch, especially in today's culture. Now there's a lot more to cover. I'm actually mulling over separate podcasts about game shows at some point, but that's all for now. Yes. Mark's research can be a little bit intimidating. I always listen to our audio podcast, how I got my wife to read comics on iTunes when Mark is researching. You can check us out on iTunes or on our website sfpodcastnetwork.com From the Pop Culture Bunker, I'm Mindy. And I'm Mark. Thanks for watching. He doesn't start appearing on stage. We'll receive.


The Azimuth saga has been running for over 18 months now in Elite Dangerous, the sweeping saga telling the story of the mysterious figure who would be the galaxy's self appointed messiah against the Thargoid threat is slowly reaching its conclusion. But this week, when an important plot point emerged, players started to take the narrative out of Frontier's hands and attempt to steer it themselves. To make sure you don't miss any of our videos hit like and subscribe and remember to click the little bell icon and select all notifications and if you'd like to help directly support this channel you can also join our Patreon via the link in the video description. There was a major perhaps not entirely unexpected plot twist in Elite Dangerous this week when the mysterious man who would be messiah, salvation announced that Taurus mining ventures with whom he'd been publicly collaborating for some time is in fact a cover operation for a still very active evil megacore azimuth biochemicals. When the news broke in game all of Taurus mining ventures assets including settlements, starports and multiple megaships became the property of the newly appeared now rebranded faction Azimuth biotech. Up until this point in the story salvation and indeed azimuth had been a brooding somewhat self-absorbed, no doubt malignant, very vocal presence in the story but despite all that both azimuth and salvation were also a non corporeal presence. There was never a hard target on the range that had salvation scrawled on the side of it that could act as a focal point for supporters or indeed detractors of whatever it is salvation thinks he can achieve. With the appearance of azimuth biotech in the game all that changed however and at exactly the same moment that happened a player initiative was born that immediately set about taking some degree of agency on what remains of the azimuth saga narrative. Before Galnet officially broke the story Taurus mining ventures assets had started changing over to show azimuth biotech and as soon as it became apparent what was happening players started taking action against the newly revealed megacore, players including the twitch streamer commander Selene Star Dragon. After a conversation between Selene and fellow twitch streamer commander Psykit happened on Monday the two formed a new entirely player driven initiative to use in-game tools against the newly revealed azimuth biotech and by association salvation and thus was born Operation Witch Hunt. As of this recording azimuth is present in five systems in total Titori, Karato, Marope, Maya and Mabuni. The plan is to use the background simulation or BGS in the game to affect negative changes on the presence and influence of azimuth biotech and quite literally cause them to retreat from the systems and assets where they have a presence driving them all the way back to their home system of Titori. Whilst it would be a wild eventuality both Selene and Psykit are under no illusions their actions will sway the course that salvation appears fixed on or cause frontier to change the story in any serious regard that they clearly have mapped out but if they can make a dent in azimuth's armor somewhere or force some kind of noticeable change in azimuth's influence and presence then it's possible it could be acknowledged in Galnet at the very least and that in and of itself would be very cool and become part of Elite Law. The background simulation is the only way that players can really affect any kind of significant change on the Elite Dangerous Galaxy and it's used daily by numerous player factions across the galaxy to change the course of various factions player and otherwise for the better or indeed for the worse. This is the second time that I'm aware of at least that a large player initiative has attempted to enact some kind of significant change on the Elite Dangerous Galaxy via that tool. The last time was the turning the wheel initiative that attempted to uncover clues to the existence of Raxla via expansion of the Dark Wheel faction. Whilst that initiative was well supported and successful in its goal of expanding the faction's influence ultimately no truths regarding Raxla were uncovered as a result. Whilst the Witch Hunt initiative has no illusions or expectations about what they might achieve I'm personally hopeful that if it achieves something like even a small retreat then that achievement can be acknowledged in game in some form. Also again if successful in some regard it sends the message yet again that the player base are willing and indeed eager to drive the narrative and the direction of the game themselves if you give them the tools a cause and a target. For any future narrative content I hope Frontier hear that message and are able to act on it in some appropriate fashion that would be one hell of a USP for an already very unique game. Operation Witch Hunt is centred on a dedicated discord server and is posting standing orders as and when needed to drive their goals as well as giving regular progress updates. To get involved yourself and join other commanders in trying to achieve those goals you'll find everything you need in the description below this video. Will you be joining Selene and Sykit in participating in Operation Witch Hunt? Do you think attacking salvation and azimuth biotech is unwarranted? What do you think Frontier will do if the Witch Hunt is successful? Let us know in the comments below. That's it for now, thanks very much for watching. If you enjoyed this video consider subscribing to the channel and maybe take a look at one of our other videos linked on screen right now.


Epistle of Jude. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. Epistle of Jude. From Young's Literal Translation. Translated by Robert Young. Epistle of Jude. Judas of Jesus Christ, a servant and brother of James. To those sanctified in God the Father. And in Jesus Christ, kept, called kindness to you and peace and love be multiplied. Beloved, all diligence using to write to you concerning the common salvation, I had necessity to write to you, exhorting to agonize for the faith once delivered to the saints. For there did come in unobserved certain men, long ago having been written beforehand to this judgment, impious the grace of our God perverting to this chiviousness, and are only master God and Lord Jesus Christ denying. And to remind you I intend you, knowing once this, that the Lord of people out of the land of Egypt having saved. Again those who did not believe did destroy. Messengers also, those who did not keep their own principality, but did leave their proper dwelling. To a judgment of a great day in bonds everlasting under darkness he had kept as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them. In like manner to these having given themselves to hoard them, and gone after other flesh having been set before an example of fire age during justice suffering. In like manner nevertheless these dreamers also the flesh indeed do defile, and lordship they put away in dignities they speak evil of. Yet Michael the chief messenger, when with the devil contending he was disputing about the body of Moses, did not dare to bring up an evil speaking judgment, but said the Lord rebuked thee. And these as many things indeed as they have not known they speak evil of, and as many things as naturally as the irrational beasts they understand. In these they are corrupted, woe to them, because in the way of Cain they did go on and to the deceit of Balam for reward they did rush. And in the Gainsang of Korah they did perish. These are in your love feasts, cracking rocks, feasting together with you without fear shepherding themselves, clouds without water, by winds carried about, trees altumna without fruit, twice dead rooted up, wild waves of a sea foamy out of their own shames, stars going astray, to whom the gloom of the darkness to the age hath been kept. In Prophesy also to these did the seventh from Adam, Enid saying, Lo the Lord did come in his saintly myriads to do judgment against all and to convict all the impious ones. Concerning all their works of impiety that they did impiously and concerning all the stiff things that speak against him did impious sinners. These are murmurers, refiners, according to their desires walking, and their mouth doth speak great swellings, giving admiration to persons for the sake of profit. And ye beloved, remember ye the saying spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ that they said to you that in the last time there shall be scoffers after their own desires of impiety is going on. These are those setting themselves apart, natural men, the spirit not having. And ye beloved, on your most holy faith building yourselves up in the Holy Spirit praying yourselves in the love of God keep ye, waiting for the kindness of our Lord Jesus Christ to life age durung, and to some be kind, judging thoroughly, and some in fear save ye out of the fire snatching, hating even the coat from the flesh spotted. And to him who is able to guard you not stumbling, and to set you in the presence of his glory unblemished, in gladness to the only wise God our Saviour is glory and greatness, power and authority, both now and to all the ages. Amen. End of Epistle of Jude from Young's Literal Translation, translated by Robert Young.


Hi, everybody. Hi, I'm Chris Leetham here with Think Tech Talks today. I'm sitting in for Jay Fidel. He's off island, and so I have the privilege of interviewing today's guest, which is Jamie Barnett from ConsumerAffairs.com. Jamie and I are going to be discussing without the internet, would or would our world cease to exist? That's sort of our topic today. So I just invite you to stay tuned and listen to some of the ideas that Jamie has. Welcome to the show, Jamie. Hi, it's nice to be with you guys. It would be nice if I were there on island with you. Well, you know, if it's any consolidation, we've had quite a bit of rain in the last few days, and I know that that would make you feel much better. Oh, it's raining here too. So I guess the weather would be the same. Next time we do the show with you, we'll have you come to Hawaii to do the show. That sounds excellent. Yes, I will sell my company on it. Okay, very good. Well, you know, Jamie, this is the issue of the internet. When Jay first asked me to do the show, I was sort of thinking about all the repercussions and how much we lean on the internet today. And here in Hawaii, especially because we're an island and we're sort of unattached, when we do business on a daily basis, we rely on the internet for a lot of the communication and transfer of information.  So at Consumer Affairs, we like to sort of look at things that we think would interest our consumers and then find some data points about them that aren't necessarily obvious and share those. And because we are an internet company, this seems like a pretty natural fit for us to fill people in about how we use the internet and what happens when we don't have it. Well, a lot of us are affected, you know, one of the things that we look at the internet today is our business models are reliant on the internet. But, you know, the internet is also this amazing source of revenue today. It is redefined competition in the marketplace in so many ways. And technology, of course, is eating everything. It doesn't really matter what industry you're in. So when we talk about the loss of the internet, we're not talking just about business, we're also talking about the social dynamics associated with people not having access to the internet. And I think a lot of the things that you wrote about your article related to that. Yeah, absolutely. We do think about business transactions and that certainly is something that is very scary when the internet goes down. You can't use your debit card necessarily or even go to the ATM and get cash. So in that way, as consumers, it's very concerning not to have the internet. Businesses lose a lot of money when they don't have access to the internet. But on just a more personal level, we've become so much more reliant on it as a way to communicate with one another. Now on Facebook, we see these messages come up. If someone is in an area that's been affected by a natural disaster or some sort of terrorist attack, Facebook can ask people who are in the area, are you safe? And then they can respond. Everyone that they know will instantly know they're okay. That's not something that we had the options to even five years ago. Well, we just had the 15th anniversary for 9-11. People were frantic at that point. They were trying to call loved ones to find out where they were. The system became overwhelmed. Texting was the only way to communicate, which of course is really internet reliant. So yeah, I can see that as an interesting scenario. And of course now we have some very interesting things going on. We have Kim Jong-un, for example, the new leader of Korea. And here's somebody who has nuclear warheads. Well, if one of those nuclear warheads were to go off, even close to us, the impact on our internet and all the systems that utilize or rely on the internet would probably fail. Even if nobody harmed physically, because maybe we shot it down, but it exploded up in upper atmosphere, that sends out a shockwave that we could imagine would damage a lot of our satellite systems. So yeah, quite a fascinating topic. Even when we think about, I think when we think about the internet, at least my mind instantly goes more to being able to send an email or get on social media.   But if you've been without power for several days, that might not be the case. So when we think about those sort of disasters, it's not just the internet that gets knocked out. But if the power gets knocked out, the internet goes with it. Yeah, it doesn't matter how well your your phone holds a charge. Still not going to work well for you. Yeah. Yeah. And there's, you know, nothing to be done. So increasingly, I mean, the fiber optic technology is amazing. And it gives us so, it gives us a stronger connection and a faster connection. We can send more information. But it also, some of the, you know, the old copper lines could carry energy with them. So when those, now when we lose power, we also lose all communication if it's if the power is out for too long. Yeah, that's true. That's true. Of course, then that means we have to start talking to one another face to face. Yeah, we absolutely, absolutely need to. I think that because we can remain connected to our family of origin or our very close friends, when we go out into the world, we don't necessarily make as many connections. We're playing with our phones when we're on an elevator. We're not talking to our neighbors that just moved in across the hall. And if we lose the internet, it's going to be those people who are immediately around us that that we would rely on. So just the way we interact. Well, one of the things that's interesting too, you know, I and I'm a parent, and I have two daughters that I raised. And I raised them while they had cell phones. And they were very cell phone reliant. And I noticed that their personalities changed. Once I got them hiking, like we would go out or we go hiking and get them away from technology, they would turn into human beings again, which was an amazing transformation. And I don't know, I would sort of put a plug out there for parents who find themselves dealing with sassy, bratty teenagers. Maybe you should take your kids for a hike and you'd be surprised at the change or the shift in the way they communicate with you and they communicate with each other. Yeah. Well, one of the things that we found in looking at our research was that when people put down their devices, their style of communication with one another instantly changes. They're talking about topics that are more thoughtful and in-depth. They're using longer sentences. And then over time, our study looked at kids who were at a camp where no technology was allowed for five seats, as opposed to just general, the general average kid who's using their phone all the time. And the kids who had not had technology for that long were better able to read facial expressions and to pick up on body language clues about what was going on with a person. So I noticed that. Yeah, that's true. Yeah. I mean, being able to pick up visual cues, then that's actually a huge huge part of communication. I think there's several books written. I think one was called How to Do with Neuro-Linguistic Programming, where they help people develop a heightened sense of visual cues from facial expressions and body language. And yeah, so those are, of course, important tools in communication today. Yeah, absolutely. And I think it's easier for, you said that your kids can behave human again. Well, if they're paying attention to body language, then they're going to be much better able to respond to what's going on with you, or with their parents. Of course, I can always read their body language, because when I would talk to them, they would look up at the ceiling, cross their arms, and wait for the lecture to end. So I got their visual cues quite clearly. Yeah. So let's talk about some other repercussions from the internet. We talk about how would it affect our national security. Is there dialogue about that? Yeah, there's a lot of dialogue about that. And the FCC has a couple of groups that are devoted to not necessarily not devoted to national security, but devoted to looking at the way our telecommunications system operates and how secure they are. And so they actually, it's the, no, it is the communication, security, reliability, and inoperability council, that's a mouthful. Wow. But they just had their last meeting of this current council group a couple of days ago on Wednesday and came forward with a bunch of recommendations for things we need to be doing. And their reports, their written reports aren't out yet. I've only had time to watch a few of the working group's interviews. But when they last met, one of the big things that they talked about was the need for telecommunications companies to have some sort of agreement to work together during national disasters of all kinds, including national security issues. And have so that people can still communicate. Well, we're going to take a short commercial break. I'm going to go home and get two cans and a string and we'll be right back right here with Think Tech Hawaii. Stay tuned for more. Aloha. Hello, I'm Patrick Bratton. Please join me every Thursday at one o'clock for Global Connections where I talk to a variety of guests and range through many issues from contemporary, international, political events, things talking about national security, all sorts of international issues, and also more local issues, history, and so on. I look forward to having you join me and talking with some of my guests. Thank you. I pity the fool who ain't watching this show at 12 o'clock on Friday afternoon. Stan, the energy man, watch it. Welcome to Asia in the Wheel. Looking forward to see you next month on October 13, Thursday at 11 o'clock. We just had a great show here on Global Connections with Masi Ganjali talking about building bridges through the arts. Masi, thank you for being on the show. Thank you for having me. How did you find our time here? Oh, it's lovely. I really enjoy your programs. Oh, God, this is so hard. Hi, this is Chris Leetham with Think Tech Hawaii, a Tech Talks here. That's a little bit of a tongue twister for me today, but I think I figured it out. We are talking to Jamie Barnett from consumeraffairs.com. Jamie recently wrote an article on, without the internet, what would the world cease to exist? And Jamie, we were just talking a little bit about some of the sort of the weird and wonderful things that you were mentioning with the telephone companies now being sort of prodded to negotiate and work out ways to communicate with each other in case the internet were to fail. And we were talking about national security as well. Are there any other organizations out there addressing this issue? The SEC is doing a lot with it. Homeland security is working with them to do that as well. There are some areas where there's no clear person who would be in charge of something like this. So there are undersea cables that carry 99% of the traffic between Continent or two islands. And one of the SEC's working groups found that there's because of so many different groups involved, the federal government, even for cables that fall inside American territory, there's no one person that is in charge, one group that's in charge of monitoring those. Well, a lot of these are commercial or private and some of them belong to the military, which of course, one of the things is we don't want people to know where these cables are, right? Yes. I mean, it's a secret because we don't want anybody coming in with a hook or something coming in and trying to dredge up a cable and then maybe using that as a form of piracy. We've got your cable and we're going to hold it hostage. Yeah, that's a problem. It's certainly a security issue that they have to keep the site where the cables sort of come aground, very secret, and they can't put exact cable locations on that. So that's sort of a double-edged, they can't, yeah, the exact location, sort of a double-edged part. Right. So somebody knows, but we're not telling. Right. So there are general areas where, you know, both aren't supposed to sort of dredge things along in fish or drop anchors, but without knowing exactly where those are, sometimes they're a problem. Yeah, you could just accidentally, that's right, you could accidentally pick up a cable if you weren't paying attention or, you know, because you don't know exactly where they are if you're down there running a side sweep sonar because you're doing an investigation in the area, it's quite possible that while you're dragging one of those behind, you could hook one of these cables. Yeah, so it's a double-edged, the word of how do we keep us safe and how do we also prevent accidents from happening that would wipe out, you know, a lot of communication between countries. Well, and the thing is with the internet too, you know, a more realistic sort scenario probably, and a more common scenario, is that you have partial loss of internet access, right?  But partial or a partial loss of the internet, I'm supposing that there's a lot of redundancy that's built into the way the internet operates. Yeah, um, you know, I was surprised once I started thinking about the internet going down that although there is a lot of redundancies, there's probably not as much as makes me feel really safe. So because a lot of the redundancies also rely on the power grid, so if we lose power then all of their redundancies fail, and there's also a lot of sort of patchwork of our systems that, because that was sort of how it was financially feasible to build these things up, and the internet's grown at such a rapid rate that our technology hasn't necessarily been able to keep up with the demand. Interesting, interesting. So partial loss is certainly a problem, I think of the Delta power outage a couple of months ago, you know, they lost power for about six hours. Their data center went down, people were stranded all over the world because no Delta flights could take off. But Delta was the only, they were the only company in their area that lost power. So there was a lot of like, well, it was the power company from Delta, and the power company was saying, no, no, it was Delta. So that tells Delta that they need to have redundant power systems in place and not be, not be reliant on a sole power provider. Yeah. And I'm sure that they do. I didn't follow that story closely sort of after it developed. But I mean, it caused a lot of chaos. And so that was a case where even one small hiccup for one company had a lot of effects all over the world for travelers. Oh, that's amazing. That's amazing. So now with all of these systems and the more the more companies lean on the internet, I guess the proclivity for failure would get higher. So where should, what other things should we do? Should we be doing anything strategically or tactically to ensure that we don't have failure, total failure of the internet? Well, as consumers, there's not a lot we can do to make sure the internet just doesn't go out. We can prepare for the case of that by doing things like keeping some cash on hand in case there's a problem with your debit card or your credit cards are being declined because of an error thousands of miles from you. Yeah, that's a thought. That's an interesting thought because if we were to lose access to the ability to process payments, of course, banks today don't carry as much cash on hand as they used to because they don't need to. And if you needed to go and get money out of the bank and of course then there is a possibility with the loss of the internet that there would be a run on the bank for cash. Yeah, I think that is a problem. And even, you know, ATMs, you couldn't use your debit cards to get money out of the ATM because that relies on the internet. So I think that is something that is a good thing to think about, keeping some cash on hand, some extra batteries, and the like crank radios so that if there's a weather emergency, you're still getting alerts about that. Yeah, that's true. I would prefer a pedal radio myself. Oh, okay. Pedal. Yeah, yeah. But if I could find a bicycle? That's right, I'll get up to the bicycle and just crank, keep that radio going. Yeah, but then of course we still have that broadcasting and I guess we would rely on older technologies such as broadcasting, we'd rely on older technologies such maybe there would still be some POTS lines that would still be working, maybe we still have some of the older switchboard technology around.  If it were to go down for a sustained period of time, we would have to make some serious adjustments to our economy. Yeah, absolutely. And that's something that I'm not sure how we would do. It would certainly lead to a period of chaos, I think, if it were to go down and not come back up. And you know, for all those people out there that are attached to dating sites, they're gonna have to meet people the old fashioned way.  Yes, yes, you'd actually have to know how to go up and approach somebody and introduce yourself and make conversation. In some ways it may not be a bad thing, you know. No, I think what we found in talking to people was that a lot of people actually said they sort of wished they could go somewhere that they were not connected. So about one and a half, about 60% of the people we interviewed said they would love to travel to a place without any internet connection. Do you think they would take their phones? You know, I think they would. So just having them, I just, I don't think we are willing to give them up. And thinking sort of about Homeland Security, again, this is, there are some colleges that are referring to today's college age students as the homeland generation. These are kids that were very young on September 11. They've come of age where they're always connected and we're in a 24-hour news cycle. They can easily find out what the terror level alert is. It's orange or yellow. And don't forget, we would have to go back to using maps to find stuff. Yeah, oh yeah, yeah. So I would be terrible. I'd be lost forever. Yeah, yeah, we would sort of, us older folks would have an advantage over our teenagers because we know how to get somewhere and be able to read a map and look at it and know how to get from point A to point B. So that would probably, yeah, that would be an interesting impact. And the psychological impact of being disconnected when you've lived your whole life, being connected to the internet. The withdrawals, I think they would create a whole new kind of psychological practice for psychologists and psychiatrists. Yeah, and just, I think that that psychological fear is why so many people wouldn't give up their phones even if they said, oh yeah, I want to travel to a place without internet connection. Yeah, yeah. And then you can imagine if the internet didn't work and the phone didn't work, they'd probably still clutch the phone just in case it's unplugged, it actually comes back on again. Yeah. A modern security blanket for us. Yeah, that's true.  Right. So, yeah. It's a very interesting topic. It really is. Just to think about how much has changed and the way that we've become reliant on things that did not exist at all 30 years ago. It's quite amazing. Or at least not for the average American. That's right. That's right. That's right. Well, Jamie, I want to thank you so much. And then we hope to see you here in Honolulu next time we talk about the loss of the internet and our digital dependence that we have today. And thank you very much for joining us here at Think Tech Hawaii on Think Tech Talks. Thank you so much for having me. It was great to chat with you. Thank you. Aloha everybody. Hi, I'm Chris Letham and hopefully next week, Jay Baidel will be back here at his usual chair here at Think Tech Hawaii. And we look forward to seeing you again. Aloha.


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Live from Las Vegas, Nevada. It's theCUBE, covering EMC World 2015. Brought to you by EMC, Brocade and VCE. Hi, we're back at EMC World. This is Dave Vellante. Ryan Peterson here is the Chief Strategist for Solutions, EMC. Focused on the big data space. Ryan, great to see you again. Great to see you today. So, I want to show, where do we start? Let's focus on what's going on in analytics and big data. It's been an area that we've focused on, as you know, many, many years. You guys really hopped in, leaned in, as Paul Moritz would say, full force the market, sort of came right to you. So, give us the update. What are you seeing? What are customers telling you? Yeah, I think the big change is that the distribution battle has been going, you know, obviously ODP has made that battle even maybe bigger, to some extent. You know, I go out to see customers a lot. I've seen probably a few hundred customers in the last year or two. And what I think is shifting is the thinking that one distribution's going to win this. I used to walk in the door and see people, they'd all be wearing the same shirt. Maybe they're a Clodera shop, or a Hortonworks shop, or a Pivotal shop, whatever it might be. That's shifting. That whole world is now going to, well, hold on, the application providers that are choosing their distro to work with. You know, for example, Microsoft and Hortonworks and Clodera with VAE systems, we heard from them the other day, these application vendors are creating solutions on top of distributions. And just like Oracle Database and Microsoft SQL and MySQL and all these different databases have existed inside of the same infrastructure, they all do SQL. Customers are starting to have to think about how they're going to handle multiple distributions in their environment. So that's an interesting premise, let's talk about that. So in the early days, you had obviously Clodera, one distro. The world was really simple. And then everybody started introducing the distro. Well, MapR was pretty early on, but Fujitsu, Intel, WinDisco, Pivotal, I'm sure there's three or four, oh, there's SiliconANGLE, I think had a distribution. And so now you've seen consolidation there, which everybody sees, okay, that's a sign that the world's going to a winner-take-all world, but you don't see that. No, I think that there's not going to be a winner-take-all. And historically, we see this, right? Databases, certainly there was never a winner-take-all. I mean, certainly Oracle did really well in that space. Microsoft did great in that space. Open source products like MySQL done really well in that space. But Red Hat, Susie, look at all the Unix distributions. Certainly there was some that didn't do well and went out, but yeah, you know, Icelon are one of our best products. One's on BSD now. I mean, different Unix distributions for different reasons and requirements. And I don't think Hadoop's going to be any different. So I'm fond of saying that it's not a winner-take-all, but the first guy, number one, makes the most dough. Number two, makes some good dough. Number three, makes a little bit of dough, kind of breaks the even, hangs out, and then everybody else, you know, so loses money and can't justify the business case and eventually gets out. But most markets like this can support three. Yeah. So that feels about right. Yeah, I think so. You've got Cloudera, Hortonworks, and MapR. Those are kind of the big three. IBM, maybe if IBM wants to fund its own distro at 10, it can afford to do that, but who cares? I think some of the unique consolidation on space is obviously Intel consolidating into Cloudera, ODPs, saying basically we're going to standardize the backend of Hortonworks, Pivotal, and IBM, and some others. But that created another territory, and then you've got MapR, kind of on their own, but in any case, you've got those three different major distribution platforms now. And they all do things a little bit differently, and as a result, they have different SQL engines, for example. Yeah, so the ODP piece is interesting. I mean, you know, Pivotal, I always felt like, okay, Pivotal is getting into the distro business to learn, and see what it can do. Maybe it'll hit a homerun. It seemed to me it'd always be kind of a Hail Mary approach, but it made sense. It's okay, and so then you get to the point of, okay, it no longer makes sense. The money to be made here is up the stack. Let's consolidate with Hortonworks. Obviously, Rob Bearden was on the other day. Obviously, he's thrilled. We had Mike Olson on the other day. He's like, who needs this? So, my feeling is that in the middle of those guys go down there. Let the market decide, right? I mean, that's just kind of where you are. Yeah, the market's gonna arms. Yeah, and my position is, how do we maintain flexibility so that all these different distributions can have the same argument they can fight, but at the same time, a customer doesn't have to replicate their content for this data lake and that data lake, and the third and fourth or fifth data lake. We want to create a centralized infrastructure that allows all of those different distributions to access that content so that any application vendor who may have chosen their horse, for example, maybe they chose the horse of Impala. Maybe they chose the horse of Embari. One of those different components is going to be interesting for an application vendor. And if you want to buy that application vendor's application, they're going to want to go with their distribution. Well, that's an interesting example. I mean, there's room for Impala. There's room for Embari. People are going in each direction. You look at what MapR has done. They've obviously got some traction in the marketplace. So I think your scenario is right on. I mean, you use Unix, Linux, very good examples. History tells the future, right? Yeah, it pretty much does. Do you feel like this market is larger and can more easily, let's say, sustain three? That my scenario, the third guy kind of maybe doesn't make so much, actually could in this world. I'll say something somewhat provocative. And I know that some of the people at EMCF, I was just talking to my good friend, Matt Cowher, and he was disagreeing with me on this. I feel like Hadoop is going past the analytics business. We all talk about Hadoop equals analytics, Hadoop equals. I really look at Hadoop as a major platform, maybe even the data center operating system of the future. Everything's used to be divisible. You take an application, you divide it in two, divide it in three, divide it in four. And that's how, you know, NetApp and VMAX and VMAX and all these other kind of block or file systems had scaled. It's been open to the volume and the volume and the volume in the same with systems. Exchange server's a great example. After some number of users, some number of emails, I got to break that up and create a second one, a third one, a fourth one, and it breaks it into divisible format. As we've done is scale out platforms now, that has completely changed the architecture. As a result, customers are redefining their entire data center based on those requirements. So looking at scale out storage, scale out compute with Hadoop, scale out memory, Spark, and now scale out applications, also part of the Hadoop ecosystem in many cases, but then look at like Cloud Foundry being that application development framework that's a scale out platform. All of those kind of components in a stack, make it so it's extremely flexible. And think about things like SQL on Spark with the latency metrics you're seeing on memory and DSSD's capabilities around the space. Do we think that maybe Oracle's going to get run for their money? The scale up database will actually go to a scale out database. The whole world's changing around data center. Well, so how are people using Hadoop? I mean, our sort of research indicates that the initial foray into Hadoop was the sort of reduction on investment in the traditional data warehouse. Even though you ask anybody what's going on in your big data, the two things that they absolutely point to that support the big data initiatives are the traditional EDW and ETL. Yeah, I think frankly the EDWs came out with a lot of cost. Certainly the benefits were there to justify that cost. But as customers started realizing, you know, I don't need to move the data into the EDW to do an ETL job, thus saving myself a lot of cost per terabyte. I can just put it in Hadoop and let it do the work and then spit out the results CDW. That became a really good justification for starting out Hadoop. But again, I think all this stuff was just justifications. It was the way to get in the door and get things started. Right, so that's my point. So now what? So that's sort of, I think you agree, right? Initially it was like, let's save some dough. This is great. Take some of the air out of our EDW because we're chasing ships and it's a bloody nightmare. Now what? How do we get more return on this? What are you seeing? You know, I had a great conversation with Doug Cutting. I've had some great conversations on the Hortonworks site as well. And it's been, I think this is what's happening next. ETL got started. Analytics grew it out further because now I can do some of the things that may be iterated or in a teaser we're doing before on Hadoop directly. But the biggest thing is scale out applications. Applications are being built that consume common data sets. Great example might be taking a Telco tower, Wi-Fi tower, or a wireless tower. And I'm getting all this CDR and XDR content. Well, you know what? That data looks the same. They're the same towers and across multiple different providers. The information all looks the same. I'm consuming it the same. So why can't I build a common application? EMC's actually been building some applications. BAE systems built an application around this. It sits on top of Hadoop. Starts automatically processing that data. It gives you a result. And that I think is the next step is we're seeing application providers build scale out Hadoop-based applications that are going to automatically consume that content and we're going to see more and more and more of that over the next few years. I couldn't agree more. I mean, it's taken a while, right? Mike Olson, I think at Hadoop World 2011, said this is the year of the application. Right. And, you know, It's been a couple of years. We're still talking about it. And he said, look, we had to build out the infrastructure. And maybe I was a little bit over my skis on that prediction, but ultimately it's happening. And that's where, so we've just come out with a new scenario on our big data forecast. I'd love to get your opinion on this. You look at big data and where the spend is, it's all services, like 40% of the market's services. And that's not scale. Services don't scale. So we sort of started to think about this and forecast it out and said, look, the future software. And software today is quite a small piece of the pie relative to the rest of the business, largely because of open source, but we think that's going to flip. We think that software is going to overtake services. Now maybe it's going to take five, seven, 10 years, but software is the growth engine. It's the only way this thing's going to scale. So let's go back on history again. Windows 1.0 came out. I remember that. I was alive. I'm still pretty young, but it was alive. And I remember it being really flat. There wasn't anything really there. And you played with visualization things. A lot of programming involved. A lot of services involved in those early adopter customers. They had to figure out how do I use Windows? Same thing happened with your iPhone. Same thing happened with Android. New opportunities just comes out. You've got to play with it and a lot of services to build your own apps. But when somebody figures out, hey, you know what? That data set's the same as that data set. The customers are all looking for the same thing. The software company's going to build a common software that can handle multiple different applications. You're going to see a massive shift of spend away from the services side into the software side. Scale-up applications are going to start controlling the data center. And as a result, you're going to see things like Hadoop and Cloud Foundry really as a combination I think, are going to scale out architecturally speaking across the entire environment to help handle applications and custom development against those systems. Ryan, your role strategy. What's your scope? Is it, I've been focused heavily on big data, but I've got all the vertical solution categories. So I've got media and entertainment, healthcare, life sciences. As you know, Hadoop has really been prominent in those kind of early vertical spaces. We've got architects who spend time thinking about how can I really change healthcare? How can I change life sciences? How can I change surveillance, for example? And we really look at how, the things we're saving people money, we're making people new money, we really think that people need to change their thinking and mentality. And our guys really think about that process every single day, how can I make, save, or save lives? And we love, of course, the saving lives one is the most important in our mind, but at the same time, we got to make the company some money so that they can afford. Making money is good too. You got to make some money so you can afford to save lives.  Yeah, exactly, we're going to save. It's funny, we have this term life, liberty, and happiness. And pretty much all of these life, liberty, and happiness things can get tied back to, whether it's life, I'm saving lives. Liberty, we've actually had countries liberated by the use of things that could do. Data usage to get into things like Arab Spring, incredible changes in shifting economies. And then you have happiness. Well, you know what, we build major movies on top of our platforms, and we use analytic tools to make that process faster. Of course, we wouldn't have a life if it wasn't fun and enjoyable. So we think that what we're involved in is life, liberty, and happiness across all of the solution categories that me and my team support. Yeah, and I think, you know, the famous quote by Jeff Hammabocker that the best minds of my generation are trying to figure out how to get people to click on ads. That's the early Hadoop days. That's really changed. Somebody asked me, it was even last summer at a conference, you know, when are we going to see, you know, this big data affect our lives? It's happening. It's happening all around us. You guys talking about the information generation, which is good marketing, but there's some really interesting tidbits in there and sort of a futurist look at what the world's going to look like. I've got a session just after this. I'm going to speak to hopefully the IT leadership track. It's a bunch of CIOs and my pitch is chief information officers need to start thinking like chief innovation officers. And if they just simply do what the company tells them to do, then they're not going to allow for the process of change and complete conversion of their business. Every business out there is at risk because of what's available for their big data processes. Well, you know, it's an interesting topic and innovation's not going to come from doing a bunch of non differentiated heavy lifting. It's going to be combining technologies and creating new business models and changing the world, as you say. Well, data sets are everywhere. I mean, to me, big data is not about your data and your company. You might have a lot of data, but it's when you start adding an external sensor, start bringing in Twitter feeds, bringing LinkedIn information. I mean, the World Wide Web has tons more data than you've got in your environment. That's big data. How do you utilize those things to provide a new answer for your organization? And some of those things might save money. They might make money. They might save the lives. And you've got solutions in your title. So now, based on what you just mentioned, let's talk governance and you got so many opportunities for you all. Right, and that's the next big thing for us is to really collapse all of those capabilities and requirements, make sure we're providing the strongest, most stable, most governed cataloging processes that as you're bringing data into the data lake, we can make sure that you know where it is. I equate it to Legos. Memorial Day, you get a Lego box. You pour it out on the ground. It's just start building something. Well, and that's kind of what Hadoop is, right? You just kind of build something. You figure out what's going to come out of it. No schema. Yeah, but really what you need to do is take all of those pieces and say, you know, I've got red one by twos. I've got some blue two by sixes. Oh, I've got a couple of Lego wings. Hey, maybe I can make an airplane because I've got wings. Start building those things up. But if you don't have wings, you're not going to build an airplane. So you catalog what you have in your environment and also what's outside of your environment. How do you know what you can build and what you can create? And we need a chief innovation officer to start thinking, what can I create? Not, what do I have to create? Yeah, right. And then connecting to APIs and so many sources of public data now that you can leverage. It's just living in amazing times, as Joe Chucci says, interesting times. Brian Peterson, really appreciate you coming to theCUBE. Great session, good ideas, thought provoking. As always, thank you. Thanks, I appreciate it. All right, keep right there, everybody. This is Dave Vellante, we'll be back. We're live at EMC World 2015. This is theCUBE.


If you're trying to create consistently, but then your life is a bit chaotic, for example, you have to sometimes unexpectedly travel to take care of, you know, elder care or some other care taking or, you know, family illness or you have another job or, you know, kids have school or there's lots of reasons why life can be unpredictable and you are therefore having a hard time creating consistently. What do you do? Okay, so there are several responses to this, but I'm going to go with this one. Imagine if you were to promise a friend, a good friend, friend that you, the fact that you're asking this question or any of us means that you tend to be a caretaker. You know, those of us, a lot of us who are here in my audience tend to be of a more caretaking personality and you might even say at the dark side of that is people pleasing, the light side is caretaking. And so you allow others to, you know, encroach on your boundaries more than, more than some people anyway. But I'm going to use that to our advantage for this example. Imagine you promised a friend that you would send them, you would send them a thoughtful message every day. Because maybe the friend is, you know, struggling. And you have some advice or experience or just presence to share with that friend. You see where I'm going with this? So, again, imagine that your friend and I don't know how they prefer, well, gosh, you know, you want to be personable.  Let me tell you how my day might, again, it could be a friend who is struggling and you just want to like show up and be a presence, a caring presence in their life, right. And you might sometimes write, sometimes you might leave a voicemail, you know, like Facebook messaging is easy to click the record button and leave a voicemail on Facebook messaging. The Facebook messaging, that's not a perfect example, there's only one minute voicemail. By the way, there's a secret. If you record on your phone and voicemail, you can attach it on Facebook messaging and have it be more than a minute voicemail. A little trick someone taught me. Or sometimes you want to be, to be real encouraging to your friend and you make a video for them. You take, you know, you take three minutes to think about what you want to say and then you record a three, five, seven minute video for your friend. And you promise to do this to your for your friend or you make the commitment to do this for your for your friend who's struggling every day you leave him a voicemail or a video or a thoughtfully written message with complete with emojis and a story you tell them or whatever. Okay. How does that feel, even when you're traveling, you would do it even when you're traveling because you made that commitment to care for your friend. Right. So you're at the airport. Hey, Tamsen. The flight's about to take off but you know I think there's probably another couple of 10 minutes before the flight takes off before I have to turn off turn on airplane though but I just wanted to tell you how my day went and thinking about you and, you know, I was thinking about the conversation we had about, you know, XYZ issue and I just had to thought about that you know, have you have you thought of it this way. Okay, you would do it no matter what and so maybe you see where I'm going with this. I want you to treat your audience like that friend. Because your audience, your ideal audience is like that friend. And, you know, especially when your life is unpredictable and chaotic, you have to treat content creation with that kind of lightness. I mean, I encourage you to treat content creation with that kind of lightness even your life is is stable and predictable, like mine is, but I treat content with that kind of lightness too. I'm recording content right now, talking as if I'm talking to a friend. Shreta, how's it going. I'm recording this for you, because I am. I always record or talk or write as if I'm talking to one person, a caring friend or I'm talking to somebody who trusts me, who likes me. And for whom I have something helpful or entertaining to say. That's it. And it doesn't matter if you're running a nonprofit, or you're running a company. Let's say you're not running a nonprofit. Same thing your audience that the ideal donor, the ideal volunteer is that trusting audience, who just wants you to show up for 10 minutes a day, record a message. I mean, that would be more like a podcast but record a video to say, hey, flights about to take off and I wanted to share about the campaign that we're running right now and our nonprofit. Hey, and now I'm switching to a service provider. Let's say I'm a relationship coach. Hey flights about to take off and I want to just share a tip that I've been useful from in my relationships. Or, hey, I just, there's something happened to me in my, you know, today that made me think about this, this dynamic and relationships. That's it, flights about to take off. Alright everyone. That's all for now. I got to turn on airplane mode now. See you in the next video. 10 minutes, recorded video, three minute video, whatever, you know, content creation has to be that light. It's not, it's not a, oh, I don't have the two hours to sit down and write an award winning blog post. You know, or I don't have, I don't have the half an hour to sit down, or I'm not inspired. Remember, if I'm making sure the friend is being taken care of every day, I don't have to be inspired. My friend needs me. My friend just wants me to show up and write an I care for you message content creation has to be that light. Especially if you, you know, I'm going to hopefully remember the link below this video if I forget please remind me, because content creation is this light. The three stages of content creation. That's, that's what I'm going to link you to, which is stage one is what I'm talking about to, we, we like to become consistent means to become consistent with stage one, stage one content that has to be this kind of and casualness and prolificness. I'm not saying you have to do it every day. But it's with that kind of lightness that you approach it and I mean if you do it once a week you're doing content consistently more than most people, more than most companies more than most nonprofits more than most service providers. If you can do it every day, a little bit every day, I mean, I tweet every day, you know, I use Twitter as my way of just adding a little bit more thought to a particular thread that I'm working on that will become a blog post. So I tweet almost every day not every day I didn't, you know, four or five times a week I'll just add to add to my Twitter thread on some kind of blog post I'm writing for the for the future. So it's got to be that light, whether you're, you're, you're adding a tweet to your thread or replying to your own Facebook post to add to your thoughts for a future blog poster. Make it light and then once a week, sit down for half an hour and collate those thoughts into a blog post or, or, or finally make the video or something like that. Right. Make it consistent and then stage two, once you get consistent with stage one then hopefully you have the discipline to make to because ultimately ultimately ultimately no matter how unpredictable your life is still about discipline.  Or I'm not going to fill in the blank that's something you, you just not even a quest it's, it's non questioned that you do this thing every day, or every week right is it there are certain activities you just don't even question. It might take you half an hour or an hour or two hours to do it every single week. You don't question taking care of your family members you don't even. That non question and but yet, taking care of your own business is a question and taking care of your creativity why is that a question and taking care of your parents is not a question. I have a whole other video about caretaking that that that we'll talk about but that's a separate topic but ultimately I think we need to take care of ourselves. And content and maybe it's not as important as taking care of your elderly parent. I don't know, maybe it is maybe it's not it's it's up to you to weigh that in your own values but I hope this is helpful and inspiring and I look forward to seeing your comments below. Thanks.


All right, we had two games that went down to finish that Dallas game against Detroit and the Atlanta one against Cincinnati. I want to go back to the Dallas game first because there were so many question marks about this offense, about Dak Prescott. I don't know if they answered them today, but they came through in the end because of Ezekiel Elliott. Well, that's the key. I think everything in that offense runs through Zeke. You know, 25 carries, 152 yards, 4 for 88 through the air, and the big catch on the final drive to set up the go ahead score. And everything works better. The protection's better, Dak's better, the defense is better. He makes everyone better. He's a dominant player. Yeah, and if you look at it, what that does, he's had five games in a row, five games in a row without passing over 200 yards.  There's a formula for success out there in Dallas. Michael, let's get back to that Cincinnati-Atlantic contest.  Well, I passed out, and Terry came over and faked you back.  It's a little too close for me. I felt the breath. Because you took Atlanta in the pre-game show in your face. I took Atlanta in the pre-game show. I've really pulled from, I gotta say, for Cincinnati to go into Atlanta, play the way that they played. But it's the Atlanta team that you just don't know. You give you something, you get excited about them. And the next thing, you know, the next week, you go right back to the bottom of the barrel. So I think for Atlanta, you know, watching these guys put up that many points and not being able to hold somebody off within that time frame. If you put up 30-something points, you're supposed to win the game. But Atlanta is also missing three of their guys in the secondary, plus their leading tackler and linebacker. Is this the point where you start seeing the injuries catch up to them? Yes, and I think it's a defense that is built to play with the lead, built to compliment that offense. And that offense certainly has been dynamic, but it's not a defense that's built for them. This is a game of scoring. We need to get used to that. It's always going to be in the 40s. 40 this, 40 that. I mean, that's the way our league is designed now. And if you have a somewhat good defense, you might be able to go to the Super Bowl and win it. That's just the way this game is set up. If you look at it now, even the Thursday night game with two great D, Minnesota's defense, the Ram defense, a lot of points in these games. So these offenses are really, really playing well. One other big injury, though, in that game that Tyler Eiffert goes out for Cincinnati. They're a big tight end. Yeah, that looks like a definitely coming back from injury. A season ender. And that's a team, Tony. That maybe people need to start giving a little bit of love to Cincinnati. They do. You know, we were I was with you. We went out there during the preseason, got to see him play up in Buffalo, and they looked really good, especially on the defensive side of the ball. It really offensively. Annie Dalton's a good quarterback. Yeah. And they got AJ Green, one of the best in the business. You saw his play and the impact he had at the end of that game to win the game for them. Once Mixing gets healthy, he didn't play today to run it back. When he's running and those legs are churning to go along with Annie Dalton and that offensive attack, they can win some games. They this is a good football team, and I think we have slept on.


That's right! Actor, comedian, and author Russell Brand is changing the way that we're talking about mental health. What is up everybody? This is Chris from The Rewired Soul where we talk about the problem, but focus on the solution. And if you're new to my channel, I am somebody who is very, very passionate about mental health. So, if you're into that kind of stuff, make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell. So, this is a new series that I'm starting, alright? And I'm starting it off with Russell Brand. I just finished his book, Mentors, which I'll talk about as well as one of his other books, his podcast and all sorts of stuff. But anyways, I want to make this series because one of my main goals in life, right? Like, I have two main goals, two. Just two, right? To help as many people as possible and to change the way that we're talking about mental health. So, what I want to do is I want to showcase and discuss and create some awareness around people on this planet who are changing the way that we're talking about mental health. Some of them are going to be doctors, some of them are going to be psychologists, some of them are going to be people like Russell Brand. And I think it's important because mental health is sometimes a taboo subject, sometimes people gatekeep mental health. And I think it's important to just widen the conversation. So Russell Brand, oh my God.  I've been like, this is alright. And yeah, I was first introduced to the other things that Russell Brand's doing. I believe last year, I think I started watching some of his podcast because he had on a lot of interesting people who I follow, such as meditation teachers and things like that. Then he launched his book Recovery last year. And I'll talk about that one in a second. But anyways, on Russell Brand's YouTube channel, he covers a wide range of subjects. You could tell that he's very into Buddhist philosophy, but he's also recovering at it like moi. So I really relate to him on that level. But anyways, over the weekend, I binged his book mentors. The audio book just came out. I think the actual paperback came out earlier this year, but the audio book came out. And if you're interested in Russell Brand's books, I'll link them down below. I highly recommend the audio books because Russell Brand, he is a funny dude and like he interjects that into his books. So since he narrates them, it's awesome. But anyways, the book mentors, I think the audio book was only about three hours or so. Most books are between like five and seven hours. Some can be much longer than that. But anyways, in his book mentors, like, God, I cannot tell you how important it is to have mentors. Like basically, like Russell Brand is just explaining why we all need mentors, how we could all use mentors. And he talks about the various mentors he's had throughout his life, as well as how he has become a mentor himself. So a mentor is basically somebody who passes their knowledge and wisdom on to you, right? And he talks about the various mentors he's had, first one starting out with like a 12 step sponsor. And he talks about, you know, his mentors in like Brazilian jujitsu. I think he even mentions like a therapist being a mentor and just other mentors who have helped guide him through different parts of his life or different aspects of it. And I like the way he explains it to mentors are often people who can not even necessarily pick up like the slack that our parents had. Well, some of us need that, but they can fulfill roles that our parents didn't fulfill with us. So there are many things in my life that were not taught to me, but now I have mentors. And mentors are something that I've been taking advantage of for probably the last year or so, but more specifically in the last few months. Like when I first got into 12 step programs, much like Russell Brand, like kind of like one of the, you know, ways to kind of find a mentor is find somebody who has what you want, right? And they'll teach you the steps to get there. So when it came to my recovery, I wanted somebody who had sobriety, some sanity and some serenity. Those are the only things I was looking for. And my first sponsor, boom, nailed that, right? But now as you know, I've been sober for, you know, over six years now. I've asked a few people to mentor me in different aspects, you know, some of it is with my YouTube channel, some of it is with business. Some of it is with, you know, the relationships I have in my life. Some of them are people in the mental health field where I turn to them now more than ever about, hey, do you think I should talk about this or not? Or what do you think? How do you think I could talk about this? And they're basically people who I turn to for advice. And one of the things that like Russell Brand talks about, which I can really relate to is I cannot trust this thing up here. All right. Many times, many times this thing will lie to me and I know a lot of you can relate to this. We struggle with things called cognitive distortions, right?  You know what I mean? So a mentor is a great person to kind of guide you through these things and offer you some advice and some tips and suggestions, right? So in his book mentors, he also talks about how he started mentoring people. And this is something that I've always done since I gained some sobriety and got a little bit further.  That's the other thing I love about Russell Brand too is he has no problem. Like even with over a decade clean, he has no problem discussing how he is still a flawed human being and that helps keep him humble. Something I try to do is recognize like I don't know everything. I'm still learning. That's why I have mentors, you know, and like it shows that he's constantly trying to learn and constantly trying to grow and I respect the hell out of him for that. So his other book recovery that came out, I believe it was last year, phenomenal book. So if anybody out there watching this is on the fence about 12 step programs or you know somebody who is like, you got to get this book. He breaks down the 12 steps in a way that many people won't explain them to you. And when I was working at the treatment center, I recommended this book to everybody. So many people. Russell Brand, he like, he changes this 12 steps like kind of simplifies them in a funny way. There's a lot of F bombs in there too. But the thing I loved about that book too is like and how he's changing the way we talk about mental health is he talks about how everybody has a thing. Everybody has some kind of addictive thing. And he talks about how we have some kind of void inside or we're dealing with some kind of pain or not dealing with that pain rather. And we're turning to something, whether we're turning to love or sex or pornography or buying things or food. We're doing something to escape the way that we're feeling, right? And there are so many things that can cause our lives to become unmanageable. Back when I first did a full review on his book, I talked about how Russell Brand said, us drug addicts and alcoholics, we're the lucky ones because our addiction manifested in a way that you could just clearly see. And it's like, aha, there it is, work on that. But for so many other people, they're turning to a multitude of other toxic behaviors. Like, I would say the number one one that I've seen from other people who don't have a drug or alcohol addiction is love and relationships. Love and relationships constantly bouncing from one relationship to another, trying to fill a void they have inside of them. And they just keep repeating that cycle because so many of us refuse to look at ourselves. We refuse to look at what's missing within us and work on fixing that and we keep bringing other people in because we think they're going to fix us. Speaking of, there's a great standup special on Netflix from Daniel Sloss and it's called Jigsaw. Go watch it if you're questioning the relationship you're in or relationships you're about to be in. Future relationships, like go watch that standup special because a lot of it talks about that missing piece and we're trying to find someone to fill that. But anyways, let's talk about Russell Brand's YouTube channel. So like I said, he talks with a lot of meditation teachers. He talks with a lot of people who are like philosophers, people who have just different ideas about the state of the world. And like, I love it. I love it because Russell Brand is just very inquisitive and he he looks at things from kind of a philosophical angle.  Like what so many people don't realize, like aside from chemical imbalances and genetics, which have been proven to only be a very small percentage of our mental health, so much of our mental health is based on our perspective. So many of us do not realize that our perspective is not reality. What we perceive to be true is not always true. We believe our emotions constantly. And if anything has taught us from previous experiences is that our emotions should not be trusted when we get into our emotional selves, the logical part of our brain shuts off. So when Russell Brand does his podcast under under the skin, he gets underneath these things and these root topics. The other thing I really love is he talks a lot about power dynamics, right? And this is something that I'm very fascinated with because a lot of our mental health to is dependent on these ridiculous social hierarchies that we've created, right? And it's absolutely bananas where we're constantly and this is the way I used to think is whenever I met somebody, I was constantly thinking, am I better than you or am I worse than you? Am I better than you or worse than you? I was constantly comparing myself to others to see where I was on this social hierarchy and it drove me nuts and it played into my own social anxiety. It played into my depression because I never thought I was good enough. How am I ever going to be as good as that person? So Russell Brand talks about that a lot. But anyways, anyways, if you haven't checked out his stuff yet, like go check out his YouTube channel. Like I said, I'm going to link his books down below as well as his YouTube channel. Go check it out. Go check out his podcast because Russell Brand is changing the way that we talk about mental health and I absolutely love it. Alright, but anyways, that's all I got for this video. If you're a fan of Russell Brand, let me know down in the comments below what your thoughts are, how you think he does with kind of opening up the conversation about mental health without any credentials just being a recovering addict who's on his own spiritual journey. Let me know down in the comments. Alright, but if you liked this video, please give it a thumbs up. If you're new, make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell because I make a ton of videos and a huge, huge thank you to everybody supporting the channel over on Patreon. You are all amazing and if you would like to become a patron, help support the channel, get some extra perks like monthly Q&As and all that stuff, click or tap right there. Alright? Thanks again so, so much for watching. I'll see you next time.