I'm almost live. I'm semi-alive. Anybody wanna chit chat and make a plan for this week? Nina, you said you were gonna make regular videos. I am, but it's Sunday afternoon. Oh, I hope I put this on live. Hi, Suki, I'm so glad you're here. Sorry, I'm trying to adjust my slippers. Hi, Susan Suki. Okay, well, let's talk about this. You know, I have, you know what? Here's my stories, Morning Glories. We have talked on this channel with, well, let's just talk for a second. First of all, do you have your water? Because if you don't, there you go, Sue. Hi, Laura. If you don't have your water, go get it because I am moving very slow this morning. I'm gonna talk slow. I'm just slow, slow, right on. Because you know what?  Oh, you guys are the best. Hi, Bee, oh my gosh. I hope you can stick around for a couple of minutes. Are you gonna be able to stick around for a couple of minutes? I know Sundays with kids and family are important. So before I went on, I was like, well, Nina, don't expect any, but oh, yeah. You know what? If your hubby's by you, he may be at work or not. I don't think I commented on your last video because I think I might have been driving and I was listening to you. But you tell him for me that maintenance is just as good as a loss. And I'm just like, I love watching his progress and he's just doing such a great job. Dishes, I'm not gonna. Renee's here. Hi, Renee. I'm so glad you guys are here. I was just sitting here.  Liz, am I dreaming, am I dreaming that my friend Lizny's here right now? Hi, Jimmy. You guys, what do you guys all do? I expected everybody to be so busy on this Sunday before Christmas. Please let him know. And yes, you should be proud of him. Liz, I'm so happy you're here. I'm happy you're all here. Thank you, Suki. Actually, yesterday I had piled it up here in just like to get rid of it. And the red-headed nurse said, oh, your hair looks so cute. And I'm like, are you kidding me? She goes, no, it looks cute. So I thought I'd do it again today. Hi, Gamm. Hi, Doreesa. Hi, everybody. Oh my gosh. I'm so happy to see you all. I totally expected. I've got my elf. Well, actually this is Steve's jammy shirt, but I'm wearing it. This is where I'm sitting. Let's see if I can turn you guys around. Let's see. If you haven't seen my video from last night yet, it's very short, sweet to the point about our decor. Go have a look at all the hard work my hubby did. Anyways, I was sitting here and I was thinking, Susan, just sitting here chilling on the Sunday afternoon before the 64th birthday this coming Saturday. Enjoy it, Susan. Just enjoy it. So many people don't get their 64th anniversaries or birthdays, right? Hi, Melody. Thank you, Renee. It's small, but it's cozy and it's warm and it's comfy. Okay.  My van was leaking antifreeze, so I had to go to the shop, but went to my way in. Okay, I'm gonna stop there and give you the biggest thumbs up I can. And you're down 3.9 pounds. Laura, everybody give Laura. I'm giving you a Bravo stick, that's, oh my gosh, that's fantastic. Oh my gosh, so fantastic. That's mind blowing. Everybody, let's take a drink on behalf of the Great Loth. From a Santa event, you know what? I need to ask Oliver if he wants to go have his picture taken with Santa. I don't think we did it last year. And we have the same Santa in our mall every year. I mean, it's literally the same Santa. Thank you, Katie. Oh, Laura, that's, you started off this live with a bang, and I don't know what I'm doing. I'm just, I was sitting here, I was having a couple thoughts regarding the white watchers, some things that I've been thinking about, and I thought, oh, just turn on the computer, Anita, and let's see if anybody is interested in talking about it. These are my thoughts.  Wait, Jill, Jill, congratulations. That's fantastic. You guys, let me know what plans you're on. I'm just curious, because I think that this changed the white watchers, and I'm never gonna say WWE, because I can't, white watchers, okay, wait, I gotta go back. If you guys are like, why is Anita slurring? Why is she like that? I woke up at three o'clock this morning, boom, wide awake. We went to bed early. I woke up at three o'clock this morning. I couldn't go back to sleep, so finally I called the game. I came out here, I was on my computer, sat out here for two hours, went back to bed, and I just woke up and got out a bit like an hour ago, and I can't seem to get my, I can't. So if you guys are wondering why I'm like, bleh, that's why. Hi, Bonnie. Hello from Tennessee. Okay, I need, okay, Melody's green. Turquoise, I haven't decided right now, you're too funny. The pumpkin cranberry bread, I haven't seen that. We've got Jill's green. Okay, so these are the thoughts that I was waking up with this morning. Of course, I have my water. I'm hoping you guys all have your water. Now I say this with all the seriousness in the world. I am always talking about the water. And last night I was talking to the redheaded nurse and she was saying that she's having such success on the green program, but she believes that the simpleness that I've been talking about, I'm paraphrasing, but the water, the walking and the tracking have completely helped her. And I wanted to get on here and talk with you guys. Even though it's the holidays, even though it's Christmas and Hanukkah and we have the good foods around us, this can still be done. I've seen a lot of people throw in the towel saying, for now, if I can maintain and absolutely maintain me is good. You know, I'm not gonna work on losing. You guys, it's totally doable.  Who, I have not talked to her yet. Denise over at Dish with Dee. If you don't know her, she has a YouTube channel called Dish with Dee. She hit goal. I saw her announcement on Facebook. I haven't been able to personally congratulate her. Guys, she hit goal in the middle of the holiday season. Does that tell you anything? And she, let me just say this about my friend Denise that I haven't even said to her and because I don't want her to take events.  She loves food. She loves to cook. She's a great cook. I don't love food. I don't like to cook. I'm not a great cook. And I don't like hearing about food. So a lot of times I'll sit in on her lives and her videos and stuff. And then when they all start talking about food, I'll check out. My point being is this is a person that enjoys the goodness and she hit goal. She lost 117 pounds, you guys. I didn't even know I was going this way when I started this live. I did not intend on talking about somebody without their knowledge. But man, kudos to her. And just because it's Christmas, just because people are baking, just because we're going to people's houses. And it totally can be done. It's not impossible. Weight Watchers and Weight Watcher folks, one of the big things is it's a way of life. Now, I kind of like don't, it's not a diet. I'm cold because I'm drinking this cold water. They say that Weight Watchers is not a diet. It's a way of life. And I don't always agree with that. But at times like this, it totally is and can be a way of life. I don't want everybody to just chuck their programs into the fireplace until the first of the year. And because you don't have to, it's totally doable. And I just wanted to get on here and enforce that because it's completely doable. Make plan out if you have an occasion that you're going to, if you have a, see, I'm lucky and then I don't have work parties or family parties. I have zero, zip zero parties ahead of us. In fact, Steven and I were talking about it yesterday at HomeGoods. He says, I said, I can't believe it's not a zoo in here because it was not a zoo in there. And I tried to tell him that the reason it's not a zoo in here is because this is, we're late to the decorating game. Last week was when everybody started decorating, you know, last weekend and after Thanksgiving and whatnot. And he didn't believe me, but he never believes me. And I said, oh, he said he was observing a young woman purchasing a windy canter. He says, I think a lot of the people in here are purchasing gifts and not decor. Why did I even go, what did I start saying? What did I start saying?  Can't stand when I talk about food. When I don't like it either and it's no offense to anybody, but they just get so into it. But my point is, is that I'm trying to make a good point for Denise.  And she's lost 170 pounds, 17 pounds. It is that goal. I had no plan on going there. I hope it's okay that I'm talking about her. I'm only talking about her in the most positive ways. All right, let me go back and see what's happening here with you kids. Jill did something that I think I might have missed. No, I found, okay, I did catch Jill's. Renee with the turquoise, Melody's green. Bonnie's from Tennessee. Okay, Laura, I am now the lightest weight I have been in my daughter's whole life. She will be 15, congratulations, Laura. Oh, that's so fabulous. Anna's green, Teresa's blue. Hi, Kath! My friend, Kathy's here. Kathy Spencer, you guys, she's my personal friend and I'm so happy to see her. Kathy, I was thinking about you yesterday because I didn't know if you've been on board or not. I'm so happy to see you. I'm happy to see all of you. Stella says her weigh-in was on Tuesday. She lost 1.6 after Thanksgiving. Bravo sticker to Estelle. Don't you wish they still gave Bravo stickers? I do. WWGIN's weight loss journey. I don't know what that's all Renee is saying. So bad about water.  Do I need to send you a cup? Would that help? I have to order myself a cup and I was thinking about ordering another one for a giveaway or for somebody.  In fact, I remember your first comments. Isn't that funny? I've been on the purple plan but I'm thinking of going to green. Purple is not working for me. I feel like I'm starving. Okay, Bonnie, then try the green. That's the beauty of all the programs is checking them out, see what works for you. Let us know. Okay, Katie needs water too. Come on, you guys, what do I have to do to get you to drink your water? Do you need enhancements? I just have mine cold and with lemon and I love it. It's so, so refreshing but we need to find out what works for you guys. Susan uses a sprinkle of crystal light and Susan, I think that's awesome because when I do choose enhancements, I cannot use the whole thing either, just a sprinkle. It's tough but it can be done. Bonnie says, yes, I agree on it. I think we keep up with our water and track everything to put into our mouth. We can still work the program and keep losing weight. Totally Bonnie, we totally can. Ask my friend, Kathy, ask her about me last year or actually, yeah, I did see her last year and the year before. Laura says, I got a soda stream from my aunt and that has helped me up my water game. Awesome, whatever it takes, whatever it takes. Renee, I agree, watch this, this is a diet. No, don't be sorry. You know what? Let me stop right here and say that we are all allowed our thoughts. We are all allowed our opinions and we need to all stop being sorry because I'm always apologizing for myself, not for you, Renee. And it's okay, we're all grown women, we're adults and everybody has a different outlook on things so let's not be sorry. Okay, Melody has a channel. I guess I'm gonna have to check it out, hold on a second. Oh, Teresa, I'm sorry. Go to sleep, I hope you wake up feeling better, friend. Hello, this mama. Who did you tell? Did purple last week and was down 2.6. Kathy, that's fabulous. I'm dying to know what you ate. If you're gonna be here for a couple minutes and you wanna type in any things that you like relied on on the purple program, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop. I'm so tired. Let us know, that's fabulous. I never thought of you doing the purple program, isn't that funny? Okay, Renee, hi there. Thank you, Andrea. You know what, it's a small house but it's a cozy house, it's a comfortable house and I like it. I was watching all the other girls and all their decorations and I kind of felt like, oh, I don't have much to show but you know what, it's about how you feel, right? It's about how you feel. This mama says she carries a thermos of water around the house all the time. Now, right on. I inspired my husband and he just bought his own thermos for water. That's awesome, good job. Okay, Katie says, check out Kioxa on YouTube or Connect. She has a huge amount and has loads of non-diet foods. Katie, she has lost a huge amount. I'm so tired, I'm sorry, check out on YouTube or Connect. She has lost a huge amount and has had loads of non-diet foods. Okay, I don't know why I'm not being able to figure out what that's saying to me. Anytime you don't eat, drink what you want, you're on a diet, I agree. I totally think it's a diet. Him says, you totally helped me drink in my water about a year ago now. Oh, I bought it for a long time, but it's all I drink now. Oh, Cam, you made my day, friend. How much fruit do you all eat every day? Suki, that is, is Suki your name? I was watching you on Amy's channel or somebody's channel and they said they thought it was Suki's your animal's name. I don't know if it's your name or your animal's name, but that's an excellent question because I think that that particular subject applies to different people in different ways. I eat a lot of fruit when I have it in the house. If I'm hungry or I have the snackies and I find myself wandering in the kitchen, I'm gonna grab some fruit. Bananas are dangerous. I have berries for my overnight oats, but I think it's kind of a, I've seen people have to pull themselves back, but I myself would rather eat fruit than something else. If I wanna eat something, and I have fruit, I'm gonna eat it, but I think it's an individual thing. If it doesn't have to feel, I meant to say it doesn't have to feel like a diet. It doesn't have to feel like a diet. Francis is starting again tomorrow. Francis, are you gonna do the grand program and why are you starting tomorrow? Why don't you start right now? If you have water right now while you're hanging out here with me and the other Patty Whackers, you're back on plan, my friend. But good luck and you'll be successful. Love, love, love the green plan. Melody eats one to two servings of fruit a day. That's really good. Jen, thank you, Jen. I appreciate that. I pride myself in trying to remember everybody's names. Since I don't have 10,000 people following me, I can do it and I like that. Kathy eats two to three servings of fruit. Okay. Oh, Katie has a cat called Suki. Oh, that's awesome. I used to eat a lot of fruit but have recently cut back a little. Kim, have you noticed any difference in your wands when you do? Sue says she has checked out Kioxa channel. Can I say wow, she has lost a lot of weight. You know, I appreciate that because I'm gonna say something that, it's not gonna be popular. When I watch YouTubers, I like to watch YouTubers that have actually lost weight. There's a lot of you watching YouTubers. Some of them I look at and they've been on for a while and they haven't budged. So I'm gonna check that person out. You know, can somebody, Kathy or Kim, somebody who's friends with me on Instagram, will you message me over there and give me this gal's name so that I can check it out? Bananas, Katie, bananas. I love bananas. On my 10th birthday, we were in Tucson, Arizona on a movie that my dad was working on, obviously. And we were in this hotel and right next to the hotel was a little fruit market. And every morning before school, I'd get a banana and on my 10th birthday, this guy gave me a whole thing of bananas. There you are. I was just talking about you.  Tell you what we were talking about. Thank you, Kathy. Thank you, darling. I love you. I miss you. Okay, let me go back. Grapes, I had to stop buying grapes because I was just eating them by the bushels. But they're good for when you have a sweet tooth but I couldn't be trusted with them. Good for you if you're keeping track. Monday is the official starting for everything, Renee. I'm trying to catch up. Me too, that's why I like the twins. I love the twins. I think the twins are the epitome of the YouTubing weight loss community. And let me tell you why. They're not in it for the money. They don't make any money. They don't collect any money. They don't sell things. And they just sit down and talk to us from their heart and tell us things that work for them. And I love that about them. They're not in it for the, you know? And yesterday, this is, you know what? I was talking to Amy yesterday and we talked about a bunch of different things. Amy, I was telling them how we were talking about water and walking and tracking and how well you're doing and how that's just, it's just how it works. But anyways, they're genuine. The twins are genuine. They're just there to sit and take 20 to 25 minutes of their time a week, if not every two weeks to tell us their thoughts, their feelings, what they're eating with no, that's it. That's it. They're not selling stuff. They're not, I mean, they show us things that they enjoy and that's that. Kim says, hi, I need to find the Clio bars you talked about there. So good, yay! Oh my gosh, Kim. Steve and I were talking about this last night. Let me read what else. Much rather have them built bars. Much better for you with the real ingredients. Okay, I can just shut this whole thing down now and be happy for the rest of my day. That's all I was trying to say. You know, I have, let me just say this. I'm gonna get this out. I have lost a ton of subscribers since my Clio review. And I think it's because people think that I am putting the kibosh on the built bars, which I'm totally not. And if anybody will listen to me right now, I would appreciate it. The reason that the built bars don't work for me, I love the built bars. But it's a franken food. And when I eat the built bars, my hands are so incredibly bad. My hands get so bad. I love the built bars and they're a little pricey for me since I'm not an ambassador and I don't sell them, I don't get a break. When I found the Clio bars and I found the real food and the real yogurt and the real chocolate and my hands cleared up, I couldn't have been more happy. Yeah, the built bars are delicious, Aime. They're totally delicious. I'm not putting the built bars down. I'm saying for me personally, I have to eat real foods. And I found out after months of eating the darn built bars and I'm happy to have found it. The Clio bars are good for you, the probiotics, and I'll just shut my yammer now. Let me go back and see what you guys are saying. Anyways, subscribers are leaving my channel by thanks, Kat, I saw it, darling. Let me see what's happening. Aimee, I saw your Instagram this morning. Oh my gosh, the church was so, so beautiful, so beautiful. Francis is going to the morning meeting tomorrow. I was going to start earlier, but my fiance is starting his weight loss program. Oh, Francis, that's fantastic that you have somebody to do it with. 250 pounds, holy Samolians, that's a lot. And she has a YouTube channel, okay. Great talking with everyone, drink water, gotta run my van is fixed. Okay, Laura, have a great day. Thanks for popping in. The cotton candy grapes, any grapes remain. Man, I love grapes. And I'm starving right now. I'm waiting for Steve to come home and feed me. What do you want me to remind you about? I got the reminder, but thank you, Kim. My friend, Kathy, sent it to me. This mama says, I always have fruit in the house, especially for my daughters. I insist that they have at least one fruit a day, but they devour grapes, so I never get to overindulge in them. You know what? The fruit for the kids is so important, and I'm saying this from my experience with Oliver, because, and excuse me for the TMI, but if he doesn't have the fruit, he sits in the bathroom for a good hour. That poor child, you gotta have the fruit for the kids.  Renee's burnt out on the bill bars. What? Amy says, what, what, what? I love the bill bar.  See, you've got it figured out. They are expensive, Melody, and it's a bummer that I can't express my personal opinions without taking a hit for it. But, oh, well, even if I were anti-bill, but Ryan's subscribed, we are all different. Because you know what? I don't know. That's a great question. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. I'm sorry, you guys. I have you on my wobbly old lady TV tray. Let me see. Just track every bite and drink that water. You will done this before and we'll do it again. Okay, what did Melody say? I missed what she said. Oh, she's struggling. Melody, we're here for you. And like Amy said, have your water.  I know that this is my shtick, but it's because I totally believe in it. I track everything. I don't eat it until it's tracked and then I eat it. I haven't walked this weekend, but it's raining here. And just keep it simple. And don't, and you know what? This is all stuff I say all the time and I'm just gonna say again. If you don't have anything in your house that like I can't have graham crackers, no graham crackers, or like Nilla wafers, that kind of thing, it's in my cupboard and I wander in there and I can't eat one. I have to eat the whole box. Don't have anything in your house. Melody, we all lose at a snail's pace. I don't know how old you are, but the older you are, the slower it goes. And it's okay. As long as you're losing, it's totally okay. I was like that at the beginning when I was like, and at the beginning I was actually losing really well, thinking I was going really slow and in all actuality I kind of wasn't. Because thank you Renee, thank you Renee. It's just, I was, like I said, Amy and I were talking yesterday and I was telling her that it bothers me because I would never, ever intentionally, you guys know me. All right, let's go back and see who's here. Snail's pace is okay as long as you're losing Melody. And the water is so good for you. And it helps with my hands too. See, this is what Amy and I were talking about at the rate she says water has made so much difference. You've been having bathroom issues, Melody. I wish I knew where you were on your program. Did you just start? Have you been in there awhile? Every, you know, it's so not funny, haha, funny, peculiar, but everybody who starts on a weight loss program has that issue at the beginning. I mean, horribly bad. Just some of us will talk about it and others will not. And you just kind of have to get over that hump. It's just a matter of your body getting used to the different foods I think because everybody's out there with their opinions. Get metamucil, which is actually a good thing to have if you get some metamucil and have some every morning, it'll help. But let me tell you sister, I had a tough time when I started. Tough time. Oh, is Tamsen in here? I didn't see her. Tamsen, if you're here, oh, there she is. Hello, happy Sunday, friend. I think this is the first time you've caught me live. And the water too will help. It's just Mima's here. Hi, honey. No poop, no loss, frankly. Hold on, you guys. Amy, keep an eye on everybody. I'm gonna go grab something to show Melody.  You're gonna see lots of YouTubers selling things online, different things, T-M-E-T, this, that, and the other. See, this is where I lose my subscribers because I opened my big yeah. But we all get the same emails from different companies, T-M-E-T. What else do we get, Amy? We all get the same emails from companies wanting us to hawk their wares. Some people do it, some of us don't. I don't, unless it affects my personal family. If it's something we can use like the vaunt. Oh my gosh, you guys. Okay, somebody remind me to go back to that. Melody. Walmart, market, anywhere. Is this backwards to you guys? Smooth move. It's just regular tea for the regular Joe that you can buy in your regular market. And it will totally help. Now, T-M-E reached out to me and asked me to do it. I'm just not good at that because I can't, I'm not reliable. I think I would have liked to have done it to try it for myself, like Amy said. I would have liked to have tried it.  Smooth move, isn't that a great name? And if you look at the ingredients on these and the expensive teas, you'll find them to be just the same. All right, let me go back and say hi to everybody. Tamsen, I agree. I drink tons of water and even with my skin problems, it can only help. Calm, yes, Amy, yes, calm is magnesium. Magnesium, get some magnesium. Absolutely, thanks Amy for bringing that up. Kim says, I never go out to fast food places but my daughter took me to KFC today. Oh, it was point friendly? That's awesome, it was point friendly. So you're good to go, we don't have one in my town. Melody calm is the name of a particular, Google it, go to Amazon or something and type in calm but it's basically it's just magnesium the way they do it. I'm sorry Charlotte, I'm sorry friend. Oh my gosh. And heavy walks in after going to get me good food with a pizza but he's sweet and knows this is my trigger and he tries to sneak it upstairs. Oh Rachel, oh my gosh. Oh, there we go, Amy's got the calm out here for you. Oh, they have raspberry and lemon, I didn't know that. I mean ma, family gathering, I miss my family right now. Lots of emails, Amy, lots of emails. Yeah, exactly Amy, only if it benefits us in our life not to just sit on here and yakety yak, I don't know. I know, Ellie, but it's kind of disheartening, it's really weird, I have lost. Oh good Sue, the calm is great and it's just regular, like I said I messaged Amy yesterday and I told her that, I mean I've lost like a ton of subscribers and I can't figure out why, we can't figure out if it's the algorithm on YouTube or what, but Sue you'll love it, start slow, one teaspoon at night. It's because I'm not hip. I'm not doing, actually Amy remind me to tell you next time we talk, I talked to Steve about it yesterday and we came up with a couple of ideas. I use cascara sagrara to get things moving oh I've never heard of that before Rachel, I think it is too Amy, because the numbers are just too big and it's just weird. I just don't want anybody to think that I'm just being me and I'm just putting out my opinion on things and that's all, I'm not, that's it. Here's the secret and if Steve comes in and walks in behind me you guys start screaming so I stop talking. We're not big, how do I put it? I don't have my own credit card, I don't have my own debit, oh I have a debit card for, oh my gosh Melody.  I love you, I'm so glad you're here right now. The copy issues won't directly affect me because I don't, this is not my job, I don't make enough money to where it'll make a difference when you're getting a couple bucks a month. But my Disney friends are just like all in, they're not happy because even though they're doing Disney, it doesn't mean it's meant for children, you know? And they're taking a hit and it's a drag and there's petitions, if you guys get a petition that comes across, sign it because my Disney friends need it, man. Kim says, you're wonderful, if they don't see that it's their loss, thank you Kim. Francis, have a great day, thank you for popping in. But yeah, my Disney, I call them my friends when they're not, in my head everybody's my friend. But they're gonna suffer from it because the rules are animated, like if there's animated this, that they automatically think it's for children. Well, you know, if they're sitting at a bar in downtown Disney throwing back some drinks and Mickey Mouse is there, what are they supposed to do? You know, it's horrible. Thank you, Ellie. You guys are the best. You like the overnight oats, Rachel? Oh, that's so great, you know what? I bought some, I don't know if you go to meetings or not, okay, so here's the thing is they stopped selling Walmart, stopped selling the only thing I loved about them. I know, Cathy, I'm like, I'm, okay, so anyways, Cathy, I wanna come back to that. Walmart sold the sugar-free oatmeal, stopped selling it. And I'm like, oh my gosh, this is totally stink. So what I did was I got the regular oatmeal. Does anybody need to see it? I'm gonna show you just in case. Sugar-free brown sugar, Walmart, was that it had taste, it was good. I just made it with my premier protein, my blueberries, my strawberries, being good to go. Okay, so they stopped selling that. So they, Steve and I stood one day and scanned every box of oatmeal on the shelf. I am not kidding, he's more annoyed about it than I am. So I finally got this, this is three smart points. Sorry about my fingers, you guys, my hands are so ugly. You never realize how much you take your hands for granted until they're so ugly. And don't worry, I'm not looking for, okay, so this is three smart points, so, but it's just plain. So what I do is I put vanilla and or birthday cake extract in there for a little taste and it works out well. Now at my last Wait Watcher meeting, they had these on sale. Okay, honey, they had these on sale. These are three points too. And since they were on sale, I bought them. I normally don't because they're pricey, but I like my oatmeal, I'm starving. So for you guys who have seen my overnight oats in the past, get this one, find your favorite flavoring of extract, put a little drop in there and you'll be so happy. I know I was, I should do a video on that. Amy and I were also talking about my wraps yesterday. She said I should do a video on the wraps I eat because I didn't switch them up a little bit. Yeah, Tamsen, those extracts, and I didn't even realize how many flavors of extracts were there until Joan at Joan's pointed plate did her, was it pancakes or something with the cake batter extract? You know what, Sue, they have pumpkin pie, absolutely. They have pumpkin pie oatmeal that I did purchase and I have a couple left in my cupboard. It's too spicy for me though. I like pumpkin pie, I don't like pumpkin spice, but absolutely, you can make it exactly how you like it. Let's see what's going on over here. I know I'm a little concerned, but I don't know enough about it. Okay, Melody, I lost what you were concerned about. I'll have to go back and look because I want to help. Oh, Meemaw, we are absolutely friends. I'm talking about the Disney people that I watch. I always say that they're my friends and they don't know me from Adam. Okay, Cam, see you later if you, if I didn't, I probably already missed you. There's nothing in the small packages. Rachel says she uses a quarter cup, quick oats, two, oh, two smart points, okay. Half tablespoon brown sugar, substitute, half vanilla, oh my gosh, that is an excellent idea. I need to copy that somewhere. Okay, quarter cup, quick oats, why didn't I ever think of the brown sugar substitute when I have it in my cupboard? Sometimes I'm not the brightest bulb on the branch. Vanilla protein, three smart points. Oh my gosh, Rachel, thanks for typing that in. Oh, that's awesome. Kathy says I ate plain oatmeal, hot with spray butter, swerve, oh swerve brown sugar, and berries every morning last week. I bet it was delicious, especially in the sweater, huh, Kathy? Hey, did you see the swerve cake that I made? Did any of you guys see the swerve cake that I made? Quick fix for not having sugar for you anymore. Absolutely. Rachel, would you mind if I put that idea out or even made a video about that? Do you have a YouTube channel? Because if you do, I won't. But that is such a great idea. Kathy, you need to send me another message. I'm so tired, I'm never gonna remember what you typed, but it sounds so good. But you know what, I'm thinking maybe some warm oatmeal would be good this week. Well, it looks like the clouds are parting. But the reason I got on here is because I don't want anybody, I don't want anybody, no channel, totally go for it. Thank you, friend. I appreciate that. I'll give you a shout out. Kathy, you sent me what you typed? Because once I end this, it's gonna be going forever and I don't wanna sit here and... Just because it's the holidays, you guys don't have to throw your program to the wayside. Absolutely not. It's just the opposite. Just be a little more mindful, more aware, have your regular days. Because I know with me, and because I am honest, my idea of celebrating the holidays is sitting here with a Vietnamese throwing a couple cocktails back. Because to me, that's how you celebrate the holidays.  But you don't have to. You know, how about a little willpower? Nobody ever talks about willpower. And I don't know why that is.  If you have to do some baking, I don't. And I try to, what's the phrase? Preach what I, I try to follow, I try to do what I put out there. But I know a lot of you guys have to bake and stuff. When you're baking and you're making things for friends and neighbors and teachers and think about it, how important is my way lost to me? How important is it? And do I have the willpower? Or do I have to put this cookie in my mouth? Do I have to? You don't. But if you want it, take it, track it, enjoy it. There's ways around all of it. What'd Joni do? What'd Joni do? Kathy, Rachel's oatmeal up above, what she, let me see. She's right above you with her oatmeal. Let's see, Joni says that I'm an inspiration, me? Or somebody else. I lost 2.8 pounds this week. Congratulations, Bravo stickers for you, friend. That's fantastic. I lost 2.4 and I wish I hadn't made that video because I made my friend Katie over in the UK feel like her one-point game was not good when it was good. I was putting out the whole wrong message. A loss, I keep saying gain, loss. I had a 2.4 loss.  A loss is a loss is a loss. Embrace it and I need to do that myself. Tamson, let's see here. Bee loves her oatmeal, I know. Slice banana, 3 quarters, isn't it better? Oh, I shouldn't be doing this when I'm hungry. Planning does help, even for us who don't work to plan. You know, pre-track. Joni says I am making one-point mini M&M cookie recipe today. One point I said, did you hear that? I am hearing you, friend, but I can't do it because one cookie is one point and 12 cookies is 12 points. I can't do it. My friends on YouTube, as the kids like to say, had that wonderful cookie collaboration and I couldn't watch them because I would just want to make them and eat them all and I just have to do what's right for me. You know what I'm saying? Thanks, Kath. Oh my gosh, you're the best, I'm so glad you're here.  Haven't we just all made so many fabulous friends? I, she's one of my best friends. We don't see each other as often as we'd like to because she lives at the other end of the state. But I am, you know, as much grief as the internet brings me, it has brought me just as much happiness. All right, let's see. Beth, hi, Beth. Hi, Nina. I watch a channel that has a ton of subscribers and she sells so much stuff with discount codes. Not only the food, but now jewelry and candles and stuff like that. And you know what, Beth? I think that's, I don't know what to say about that. You know, it's interesting, because I was telling Amy yesterday, maybe I should start answering the emails from the people who say, well, you sell our stuff. And it's just not me. And I just need to do what makes me happy, even though it leaves me with less subscribers than the folks that hawk the wears. You know what I mean? It's like, it's just, and to me, it doesn't have anything to do with Weight Watchers. I don't know. I'm just babbling. Rachel says, I need so much willpower in December, because guess what? I started 20 years ago. 25 days of cookie countdown, don't guess, Christmas. Oh my gosh. I used to sell as cookie, I used to sell as cookie clean, but just give them away now. Oh my gosh. Mima lost 1.2 this week. I know Mima. It's not everybody. And you know what? It takes a lot of work to do that, too. It takes a lot of work. Hey, Sue, have a great day. Thanks for hanging out with us. Have a wonderful rest of the day. What time is it? It's 1.20.  Thanks, Kath. Siri just said bummer indeed. Thank you, Kathy. I appreciate it. So that's all.  I've got all these foods in front of me and my fire and my trees and comfy cozy. I thought Steve would be home by now, but I guess he's playing with his neighbor friend. For you guys who hang out with me on my channel, I greatly appreciate it. I just want to say that when I put my personal opinions out there, nobody has to agree with them. It's a big world with a lot of opinions and what works for me won't work for you. It might work for you, but I just like to put it out there. I like to hear other people's ideas like Rachel's. Look at that great idea we got today from Rachel. And just because something isn't for me doesn't mean I'm putting down somebody that's for them. You know what I'm saying? I like McLeo bars. I love the bill bars. I just can't eat them. They are not good for my skin. It's a franken food, but that doesn't mean I'm downing anybody who does enjoy eating them. Tamsen says, you're doing a fun, great job, Anita. Thank you, Tamsen. Oh, my beautiful smile and laughter. Thank you, my friend. Thank you, thank you. I like to laugh. Laughing is the best, isn't it? So hang in there this week, you guys. Hang in there this month. It can totally be done. Bye, Susan. Enjoy your supper. Thank you for hanging out. My laugh is contagious. Thanks, Rachel. I like to laugh. I just like I'll be in my kitchen brushing my hair. How about the bathroom, Anita? And something will tickle me, and I'll just laugh. Laughing is laughter is the best medicine. So, OK, let's wrap this up.  I'm going to call the husband and say, hello, hello. Can you take me to Sharky's? Because I want to have some chicken and some veggies. And I got lots of points since it's 1.20, and I haven't eaten today. But you guys, don't let the holidays don't be fooled to thinking that you can't follow your program, because you totally can. And even if you don't want to lose, you want to enjoy the cookies. You want to enjoy the lint. Did anybody see that huge lint chocolate at Home Goods? Oh, my gosh. We saw it yesterday when we were out getting some stuff. Steve says, do you think you could eat that all in one sitting? And I said, if somebody challenges me, yes, I do think I could. Bye, darling. I hope it's not too crowded. Good luck to you, too. So yeah, you guys, I'm going to go for once. I'm going to do what I say. Stick with it. You can do it. No, Kath. Oh, my gosh. Love you. Love you all. You guys are the best. Thanks for popping in here when I just turned on my computer and just want a yakky yak. Hang in there. If anybody needs any help, thank you, Rachel. With anything, feel free to let me know. I'm going to go eat. Everybody enjoy the rest of the day. And thank you for coming and hanging out with me. It means a lot. Truly it does.


Hi everyone. So I would like to present my study, the measuring the impacts of the COVID-19 lockdown and the eight package in Vietnam. So this is the outline of my presentation. So first I present the objective and the data and the country context and the method mainly the regression method and the empirical result and finally the conclusion and policy implication. The objective of this study is very straightforward. We know about the adverse impacts of the COVID-19 on the health and also the economic outcomes. And to cope with this crisis, the government they have the policy on the lockdown and also provide the eight package, provide the cash transfer and support to the household, to the people. So in this study, I look at the impact of the lockdown time and also the eight package on the number of the outcomes in Vietnam. So I try to measure not only the economic outcomes, but also the opinion of the people to see where the people they are satisfaction with the government policy in response to the pandemic. So the objective is a very straightforward. The contribution either I try to provide the findings for Vietnam and also focus on the impacts of the lockdown and also the impact of the support to the household opinion about the government's response to the pandemic is that the main contribution. In order to answer this question, I use the data from the three rounds survey data in the three years. So in Vietnam seen 2009, the UNDP United Nations Development Programmes and the Vietnam Fatherland Front, they conduct their, they call the Opinion Survey. They collect information from the 14,000 citizens throughout the country and collect their experiences and their opinion about the government and the public administration. So in this study, we use a survey in the 2019 as a sampling frame and I use a survey that conducted by the Mekong Development Research Institute and UNDP and they conduct the survey in the 2020 and 2021. They use a 2019 survey as a sample frame and they randomly select the respondent from that survey and to survey in the 2020 and 2021. They conducted the phone survey in the September and October in the two years, 2020 and 2021. And the final observation in this study is the 4,500 and 24, and considering the 1,688 in the 2019 and around 1,400 citizens in the following years, 2020 and 2021. And in the survey, they contain the data on the respondent employment and their income and their knowledge about the COVID-19 and also their opinion and assessment of the government's responses and whether they receive their cash transfer, the support from the government. So this is some overview of Vietnam. Vietnam in the 2021 is quite successful in containing the COVID. So at that time, the COVID was quite spread in other countries but in Vietnam, it's very low and the mortality rate in that time is very small. However, in the 2021, the COVID was spread throughout the country and at that time they know the vaccine. So a lot of the people they affected and more than 40,000 people died because of COVID in that time. And in order to control the COVID in the 2021, the government they have to implement that it's a longer lockdown time. So the time of the lockdowns mainly from the June to October and eventually in the provinces with higher number of COVID cases. So this map shows the geographic variation in the number of COVID and in the number of months of the lockdown and the proportion of the people they received the cash transfer from the government. You can see that in the north of Vietnam, the number of COVID is smaller than in the south and also the number of lockdown time is also lower because they don't have the medical cases. So the government they impose the shorter time of lockdown. However, in terms of the receiving the expected, so it's quite equal over time across provinces, the people in the north they also receive similarly in terms of the cash transfer like the people in the south. So the government they provide nearly 3 billion US dollar in 2020 to support the household and the enterprises and in the 2021 they also provide the eight package but the smaller amount to the people and to the firms. So this is summary of the beneficiary from the eight package. So basically they provide the cash transfer to the people, to the workers who lost their job and that in the formal sector. Normally the people in the formal sector when they lost their job they can report. For the people in the more informal sector or the household business, if they report that the revenue and the business has been closed and then they can also allow for the cash transfer and finally another group is the social policy and the poor household. They also receive some kind of cash transfer. Though the cash transfer is equal about it's not very much. The people they can receive maximum three months. So for example here the monthly allowance is a high gift for the people they lost their job and the smaller for the poor people. For the poor people they can receive the cash transfer even they didn't lose their job. So that's why they receive the smaller amount of money. This is a percent the proportion of their citizens they receive their cash transfer in Vietnam. So we can see that in the 2020 in the 21 percent of the people they receive the cash transfer and the rate decreased to the 30 percent in the 2021. Even in the 2021 the the effect of COVID is higher but at that time the people in the the government they they have the smaller resources. So that's why in the 2021 the proportion of the people in the receive the cash transfer is smaller. And one one one one one thing you can see from the ZIT graph that in the 2021 because at that time the effect is quite small. So most of the groups they receive the similar cash transfer and the poor they receive the highest because at that time the government they target to the poor and to the policy household. So that's why who are poor who are ethnic minorities they are more likely to receive the cash transfer. But in the following year in the 2021 the people in the south of Vietnam they affect heavily. So last time the people living in the southeast and the Mekong River Delta they are more likely to receive the cash transfer than other reasons. So now to the methodology. So the main research question is whether the longer term of the lockdown and whether household and the people they receive the cash transfer. So whether that can affect their economic outcomes employment and affect their opinion about the government. So we run the question like that we have the why is a dependent variable measure different outcomes of the individuals and we had the dummy to measure where the just the people that receive the the the cash transfer or not and we have the lockdown that's the number of months just provinces implemented the lockdown. So in Vietnam we have the 63 provinces so the variation in the lockdown time is very at the provincial level and we control for characteristic of the individual we control for the province dummy and the year dummy. So see these are the main reason from the discussion. So we look at the effect of the lockdown and the age package on their economic outcomes. So we see that if the people they receive their cash transfer they are more than reported income in last year is about the 8% higher than the people who did not receive in the first column and we see the strong impact of the lockdown and the income. So one additional month of lockdown increase so they can reduce the per capita income by the 8%. So the second you can see the second round column one and for the effect on the employment the impact on the employment is smaller we do not see the impact of their cash transfer on the employment but we see some impact of the lockdown time on the employment. Specifically you can see that for the people who are living in the province it's a longer time of lockdown they are more likely to lose their job mainly unskilled short that's in the labour market and they have to move to the self-employee non-farm work that's been been fighting. And next I look at the effect on their opinion of the people about their government. So we measure the assessment of the people and ask them to to to rank the performance of the local people and the performance of the provincial government and the central government and they can rank from the one that is a very bad performance to two bad to three is a normal four good and five very good performance performance in response to the pandemic. Here we can see that receiving the eight package they have the positive impact on the opinion of the provincial governments the column four in the column four I simply measure the dummy variable where the that respondent they report the good and very good performance of the governments we see that receiving the eight package they can increase the assessment the positive opinion of the respondent to the provincial government and to the commune governments there's no effect on the central government and the lockdown they have the negative correlation negative impact so longer time of the lockdown so people they have the they're more likely to to lower the rank of performance of the provincial level. In the paper I conducted several estimates and several robust checks and basically the estimates are robust to different samples different variables and different control levels and we also try to look at to explain the impact of the cash transfer on the citizen assessment of government and we try several ways and our finding simply such as that so receiving the cash transfer or the eight package so simply increase their citizen trust in the government so that is the main idea. Finally we conduct several heterogeneous effect to see where the effect of the eight package and on the on the opinion about the government different across different groups of people so here we see that the effect is lower for the mail and lower for the young people so we can see that interaction in the column one and column two three that are the negative meaning that the effect is smaller for the mail respondent and smaller for the young people so that is the the main finding. Finally the conclusion so in terms of the coverage we see that the eight package they cover quite well the vulnerable groups like poor people ethnic minority so they can reach these people very well. The main finding that the lockdown helps the negative effect on the economic outcomes including the income and also they reduce the the employment for the unskilled worker in the formal sector and they move them to the self-employed non-farm work that the main finding. Receiving the eight package they do not have effect on the employment but they have the effect on the per capita income so people they receive the eight package they're more likely to increase the higher income however we see that the positive effect of the eight package they cannot compensate for the negative as a lockdown so that why in the total the people owned the people they affected seriously. One point is that the lockdown they can improve the sorry the lockdown they decrease the citizen positive opinion about the government while the cash transfer they can improve the opinion of the citizen about their government. So it also suggests that during the crisis and pandemics so the most important for the government is they can produce they can provide the timely support and it basically cash transfer for the people vulnerable so that that can help to increase the trust in the government performance so that is the main presentation so thank you.


Live from Las Vegas, it's theCUBE. Covering VMworld 2017, brought to you by VMware and it's ecosystem partners. Okay, welcome back everyone live here. Day three coverage, I'm John Furrier, Dave Vellante. VMworld 2017, we're in the VM Village for wall-to-wall coverage of VMworld. Our next two guests are Eric Calberg, who's the Senior Director of Cloud Solutions and Jason Chemerick, who's the Senior Assistant for the Peak 10. Guys, welcome back, Infinidat. You guys are doing great. Absolutely, it's been a wonderful year. We were just talking on camera, got surprised when we kind of went live.  And it's just, you're disruptive, but you're not doing anything super radical technically. You just come in blocking and tackling with storage solutions for big, industrial clients. Give us this update. Absolutely, I mean, I'd say that the disruption is in two areas. One, it's in how we're approaching the clients and where we're going in the data center. You know, most typical disruptors would start at the edge and eventually get to the core, but Infinidat's modus operandi from day one was let's start in the core and then broaden the aperture. So we're out there displacing VMAX, we're out there displacing legacy storage arrays that are used for tier one workloads from day one. And that strategy has worked out great for us with 260% year over year growth just this past quarter. It's been a wild ride. So one of the things that people may or may not know is that this whole scene here at VMworld is all about disruption. Oh, the computer industry's thrown upside down. You guys have a very simple approach. Come in and just get a better price performance, more bang for the buck if you will, but really deliver some of that core storage. Can you just take a minute to elaborate on that specific point? Absolutely. So the storyline is really about commodity hardware paired with awesome software that makes all the difference versus the traditional architectures. So what we do with our combination of flash and DRAM and high capacity hard drives allows us to make sure that the workloads are in the right place at the right time all the time. And that means something transformational for our large scale clients. And the challenge that we see is versus all the other startups in this space or the smaller companies in this space that ultimately you have real challenges doing that at scale unless you have the intelligence and the expertise that our three generations of storage leadership have really brought together. So Jason, I wonder if we could bring a Peek10 and Viowest recently, recent merger but bring you into the conversation. Maybe talk about briefly your company and your role. Yeah, sure. So Peek10 and Viowest, we're a hybrid IT company. We specialize in co-location and cloud services and we package that in with managed and professional services. So we were looking for a way to consolidate a bunch of the dedicated client arrays that we had out there. And we needed a good shared solution that offered high performance that we could throw a bunch of different workloads onto. We evaluated a bunch of flash arrays and other hybrid arrays and infinite that just happened to outperform pretty much everything that we benchmarked. And your role is to look after that infrastructure. Yeah, so currently we have 11 infinite box arrays ranging from the 1000 series up to 6000. We have about four petabytes of physical space and almost 10 petabytes of virtual space. So before we get into the environment, we want to do that. What are the, I mean, as a service provider, obviously SLAs are super important.   But like a lot of service providers, you mentioned, so you wanted to consolidate things. You are probably servicing different workloads with different types of infrastructure. But what are the big drivers in your business? Cloud, obviously, the big wave is here. What are the things that are driving your business that affect IT specifically? So one of the things is we want our clients to be able to get to market faster. So with the infinite box, the implementation and configuration of it is extremely simplified over some of the other storage products that we've used in the past. So we're able to get our clients up to speed. They start to use the infrastructure sooner. And the performance benefit is amazing. So we've actually had testimonials from clients that have put their workload that they had residing on other vendor products. As soon as we put them on even a shared infinite box, not even a dedicated, but a shared infinite box, we have the workloads running. They've seen as much as a five to 800% improvement in application performance.  What's it look like? I mean, kind of workloads, servers, storage, capacities.  Yeah, sure. My group is responsible for, so I work on a platform engineering team and we're responsible for the infrastructure and code that make up our client center cloud offering. And that is based on VMware and the infinite box. So we have a mixed workload. We have clients that have physical servers connecting that run Oracle Rack installations. They'll have Hadoop clusters, large SQL servers, whether that's a normal old TP or analytical workloads, in addition to large and small VMware deployments. And we just run that all together on the same unit and nobody, there's no hotspots. Are you virtualizing Rack? I don't believe so, we may have some, so. It's not possible. It's not uncommon that people don't. Yeah, I can tell you, we do have some virtualized SQL server clusters out there along with physical. You name it, we have it out there. Okay, so take us back to pre-Infinidad. What was life like? What was the conversation like with Infinidad? You know, small company comes in knocking at your door. Hey, I got an array to sell you. Take us through that story. So basically the process, we ended up with that, like I mentioned before, we ended up with a lot of dedicated arrays for clients. I think at one point we're over 70 dedicated arrays. 70? Yeah, okay. So that becomes kind of a management nightmare when it comes to patching and things like that. But even before we get to how we got that many for each individual client, we try and talk to them, take a look at their workload, and then from that we would have to model what kind of RAID groups we need, how many disks within those RAID groups. So there was a lot of consulting time involved in getting the correct configuration for them. With moving to the Infinibox, we don't have that problem. We don't have an option to do different types of RAID groups. Everything just works within the infrastructure that's there. So we save a ton of time having to do all that consulting work beforehand. That also adds to quicker time in the market for our clients. So you essentially consolidated a large number of arrays down to an Infinibox infrastructure, is that right? Yeah, yeah. So we have, like I said before, we have 11. We have those scattered across multiple locations. Okay, and the biggest impact was what? Time? People time? Time. There's less time for deployment configuration. We spend less time looking at performance problems. So we have more time to focus on the more important thing. So we do a lot of monitoring and things like that for these arrays now. So we do trending and everything. We have time to actually put forth for those, creating those scripts and those infrastructures. So can you talk about performance? I mean, Eric, you could maybe address this too. Infinidad has basically said, look, you don't need an all flash array. We can deliver a little bit of flash and a lot of spinning disk and work our algorithmic magic and deliver better performance than an all flash array. Am I summarizing your point of view correctly? You got it, exactly. I mean, we would say that the all flash array movement is great for certain workloads, but by and large for the 80, 90% of common data center environments, it's just a way to make storage expensive again. Okay. Here, here, come to the party. Okay, and so Jason, from your experience, can you talk about the performance? Did you look at other, you know, all flash alternatives or other alternatives to Infinidad? Yeah, so we actually started looking at all flash arrays to start off with because we knew that, you know, with the cloud type infrastructure, we're going to be putting all these varied workloads on there. And we tested several flash arrays. We benchmarked those when we get them in and we actually saw a more consistent and better performance across all those workloads from the Infinibox. And as you know with the flash, you pay a lot for a much smaller amount of capacity. So that was a problem too. So from a cost perspective and performance perspective, the Infinibox pretty much beat out all the competitors. I'm sorry if I missed this. How much capacity are you managing? So right now we have four petabytes of physical, about 10 petabytes of virtual. And how many people manage that? There's probably just a handful of people and it's basically set it and forget it. So it's arms and legs.  It's optimized from the start. And that was obviously different prior to the installation of Infinibot or? Yeah, before there was a lot of, you know, like I said, tweaking of disconfigurations and storage pools and, you know, cache settings and things like that. So there was a lot more hand-holding. So what did you do with all that time that freed up? I mean, what did you do with that labor resource? Where did you point it? We put that into our, you know, analytics and monitoring platform on the back end. So we create a lot of scripts to help us kind of trend capacity and performance for the Infinibox arrays. Eric, I want to ask you a final question for me, is that the story I'm hearing at VMworld is that as you do more of these projects, some of the costs kind of add up. Of course. Where are you guys seeing kind of the opportunity to come in, stabilize operations from storage standpoint, free up that time, which sounds like the great, that's always a great value proposition. Reduce steps and save time and money. But where is the action happening where the costs start to get out of control when people start thinking about true private cloud, hybrid cloud? Where's the hotspots that customers should look at, saying, you don't be careful, that's going to blow out of control in terms of costs? I personally think it's all about scale at some level. Whether you're thinking about a large scale public cloud deployment, or whether you're thinking about, you know, collecting, going from five fall flash arrays to 50, let's say. That's when the cumulative costs grow at an exponential rate, and that's the opportunity for companies like Infinidat successfully bringing these multi-petabyte architectures to fruition while managing all the labor costs and all the implementation costs and operational costs. So VSAN has been growing like crazy. For instance, let's just take that as an example. Those things can add up in price. How do you guys compare to, say, VSAN? So head to head against VSAN at scale. There is no comparison, frankly. Whether you're looking at operational. Are you guys trying to over them? Yeah, definitely us over them. You know, when we look at multi-petabyte scale deployments of which there are relatively few in the market today, you have so much investment. One customer quoted $12 million to do what Infinidat could do for two million, with comparing against the VSAN base. I'm kind of skeptical on those numbers. I'd like to see, that's a huge delta. So we have to kind of follow up on that. You have to see it to believe it. I mean, that's a $10 million savings. Absolutely, absolutely. Saying that you guys are going to save $10 million off the VSAN number. In terms of TCO, when you look at, again, it's not the cost of the hardware or even necessarily the software so much, but it's the cost of the implementation. It's the opportunity cost versus all of the innovation, like he was mentioning previously, that really eats into the overall budget for them. Okay, so let's go to the customers. Okay, that's a good value proposition. Puts a stake in the ground. Good order of magnitude in terms of solar system of value, right, two, 10, two versus 12, that's significant. How does that play out in reality when you think about those kinds of numbers? Where's that savings coming from? Just the box deployment, the consolidation, where's it coming from? It's pretty much all over. We're able to, so part of the cost savings that we have too is once you have all those, a large number of individual raise, you've got to re-up on maintenance costs and things like that. So we're able to have a much lower number of raise to service at that same workload. We save there, we save on man hours for configuration, for performance, troubleshooting and things like that. So across the board, we're saving on time for our employees. Awesome, Eric, Jason, thanks so much for sharing. Bold statement, huge stake in the ground. Good job, you guys are aggressive and lower prices and fashion performance, what we want. Absolutely. So congratulations. Finidad here inside theCUBE. I'm John Furrier, Dave Vellante. Back with more live coverage, day three of three days of coverage after this short break back from VMworld 2017.


The newest part maybe is just like trying to like judge, like where is there a fake breakdown and how do I like, you know, add into that? And like, you know, like GFAI, great example right there. Yep, you're pointing right at it.  And then somehow it just catches and continues. But yeah, like I don't have much fear at all with longs. Like it's very easy and very comfortable for me because I know my stops. And you know, I factor some slippage in of course, but I'm very rarely surprised, you know, by how much money I lose when a long trade goes wrong. It's very easy for me. And as far as what other traders can do that, like long or short, I think the risk first mentality is just the way to go. And that can make trading much less emotionally draining.


You feelin' much better today? You feelin' much better today, baby?  Yeah, I'm really hyper. Now that I'm in short speaking up in there, I'm gonna show you my old school collection. His old school collection. But I'm actually off limits now, because I'm, it goes right, the way before he used to play the track masters, way before he used to play the track masters. They may not know what a track master is, so you're a track master. With Tom's friends stuff. Tom's friends, Legos, Tom's friends, Legos. And now again, Tom's friends. Alright, baby, so come on, let's, you really hyper, so come on, let's show them.  So, this is my old school collection. Alright. So, if you're kids watching this, I don't think you're kids watching this. You don't think there's kids watching this? So, that's gonna give you, anyways, I'm just gonna, don't know what this is. Okay. Alright. New, opposite. And I have this old video camera, actually found somewhere in the house. It was just really, well, it was just really fascinating to me. So, basically, it's not working now, but it has to be charged. Okay. And there's a lot of battery. I don't think you need to show most, most of the people who watch my channel, they know about this stuff, so. But unless there's like a kid watching this. Old school phone, you probably know, just press buttons and stuff, so we're not really sure that, because that is not what you got. I know most of them. Old. Be careful, baby. This is an old clock. Yeah, most of them have had one of these. From the 90s or 80s. I guess. Oh, yeah. More than likely, the 80s. Yeah. He's a good job, baby. And there's the little open thing. What the heck is that? Oh, I know what that is. Okay. And this, another one, that's not working. And this is a pulled-arrow camera. It used to work, and you press this, and then, like a jump scare. Something. Oh, it's that you just touched. That big thing right there you just touched. Oh! A boot bump. Oh, my word. Okay, this is really good. You don't have to put that into all the way up. And that other portable thing also has an antenna too. But we're not surprised with that at the end of it. Okay. So, this is the wall again. Mm-hmm. You gonna show baby? Oh, that's a surprise. Oh, baby, we ain't got time to put. Oh, you just gonna show them how to. Yes. Okay. It will start spinning. Right now, it's not plugged in. Right. It starts spinning. You put it on, and it'll be like, don't scratch it, because if you do like this. Yeah, I know. I have a little scratch that I did accidentally. Which record is this? Oh, that's that oldie. Oh, yeah. Um, where's that record? I don't know what decade I'm in. Oh, he likes this record. This record has a lot of scratch. Yeah, you listen to it a lot too, though. It has the Commodores, a taste of honey. I don't know any of these people. Oh, what is this? What are these things over here? Let's just call it a tip or a cassette. So, who do you have? You gonna show them who you have? Who do you have? So... That's Marvin Gaye, too, baby. Oh, Marvin Gaye. You got two more. I can't really see it. Yeah. I can't see it. All right. And so, then, what do you have down here? Okay, tell them what you have in your hand. This is a... VHS. Um, similar to the cassette. All right, and then... It's something called a VCR, but I don't have it here. Now, you show them the one thing that Pa Pa gave you, because I've met a lot of them. Most of them are probably... They know what it is, but they haven't seen it in a while. Chow. This is called a... Okay. It tracks our soup. Yeah, I don't... And there's a huge rule of this kind of, like, tape stuff in here. I don't know about getting an A-track player, baby. And if you shove it in... Yeah. It spins. Okay, so, the last thing you want to show them... What's the last thing you want to show them? This is called a... Oh, it's got deliberate. You want to show it to me? Now, let's head over here. All right. I'm not sure that you just... Man, this is my dang old work keyboard. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was talking about, whoa, Secret air is big in town, but I can't pull it out. Oh, this is portable TV. Yeah, it's portable TV. It's really popular in the 70s and 80s. Volume then comes off. This is the VCR that I've been... Got things to go well again. All right, you guys. I'm back here. It is Saturday, but look, just because... Let me say this. Let me back up. I'm very grateful to be able to work from home, but it has been a hell of a week. I was extremely busy yesterday. Yesterday, I worked off and on for about nine or 10 hours. When I tell you, I was exhausted completely. I'm so glad we're out of school. I was done. I was spent. I have been working since 5 a.m. And I decided to stop to three hours off and on. And then my intentions were to get up again really early in the morning today and start working again. But things got sidelined. I feel so bad for our baby, so bad for JB. He had a little breakdown today. This is his first breakdown of being inside and being bored.  So with that being said, I've been trying to really do a work-life balance thing, especially right now. It ain't happening. And JB's not going to be doing camp. I know the camps are reopening.  Because of COVID-19. Basically, yeah. Now we are considering going to an indoor playground. Not indoor playground, girl. No. This Lego thing. But they're very strict. Like, hey, stop it. They're very strict, which I admire. But I think that it's going to be so strict that JB won't even enjoy himself. I mean, everyone has to wear a mask. No one can play with each other, which I like. Everyone has to be six feet apart. At the Lego place. Like, you cannot... I don't know if we're going to do that, JB. And mask? Yeah, I don't know what we're going to do. I mean, there's... You could do that at home. I don't know. I'm going to cancel that, okay? I don't know if we can do that. Because that'll be... I mean, it's like... I don't know how to... I don't know what the feeling I'm feeling when we have to do stuff like this. It's almost like forced fun with this. You want to have fun, with this unsaying of... Twist. Yeah, it's a twist, but there's... I don't know how to verbalize what I'm trying to say. They want the kids to have fun, but you've got to be very careful. You know what I mean? So you've got to be six feet apart. You've got to wear a mask. The kids got to do it. And I'm like... Those kids are going to be all under... They're going to be squished. JB, yeah, we're not going to do it. We're going to have to find something else to do. Especially... Libraries are closed. I'm not going to no cap, baby, for mask on. So, yeah, I'm just vinting. I'm sorry. I'm just vinting because... I want my child to be able to have fun and not to necessarily have fun, but I don't know what I'm trying to say. What is this? It's all squashed. Oh, let me show y'all what I ordered. So, I ordered this Infinity Pro by Conair. This is a titanium. Is it titanium? A titanium flat iron? This is what I'm going to be flat ironing my hair with. And then I went ahead and purchased another red by Kiss Blow Dryer. Now, honestly, I could have... What do you call it? Am I... What do I call it? Influencer? I have a contract with them. I could have gotten this for free, but it was only like $20. So, I went ahead and purchased this from Amazon. It has that detangling pick and the other stuff. And I have several other attachments that I can add to it because this is the best one I have. Okay, I went ahead and unwrapped this. The one thing I like about this titanium flat iron, again, is that it is by Conair. It has an on-off, but it has a temperature setting. So, it can go all the way up to like 450. Hey, you guys. It's just a real quick video because I know not everyone is on social media all the time, but I did post a message on my community tab earlier. There is something funky going on with my hair. It feels extremely dry. Like, hey, straw dry. The porosity feels off. My ends feel fried. Either I need to really do a... I need to really clarify, or I'm on my way to protein overload, which I don't even want to talk about that. So, I'm trying to determine... Well, at first I was trying to figure out which product was the culprit. I can't do that, y'all. I will say I noticed a change about a month and a half ago, and it was after I used this product. I don't want to say it was this one. What I'm leaning towards, it's using a bunch of different products. After I did this Dabarbatica deep conditioner, I used the TGIN Twist and Define Cream, along with Eco Styler to do a wash and go. Wash and go was banging. Oh, it was beautiful. But we all know that Eco Styler Gel is drying as hell, right? Did that. Then immediately after that, I used the two products by Texture ID. Trash. I had to say it, but... And not only did I use it once, but I used it three times. Oh, yes. I used it three times. So, wash my... Y'all, we'll get to it. It's hair. We'll get to it. So, wash my hair in between the Dabarbatica and Eco Styler, right? And I noticed something was a little off them, but not as bad. So, then I used the Texture ID. This is after I did the wash and go. I noticed it wasn't... Something was off, but it really wasn't that bad. So, I'm like, let me go ahead and use the Texture ID anyway. Use that. Then when I went to go wash the Texture ID out this time, this go around, it feels...  So, a couple of things that I plan on doing to try to correct this situation is immediately go through all of my... First of all, go back to my oldie track which three products that work for me. However, if I feel like I'm a little bit on the protein, I'm gonna go through and eliminate as many products as possible that have protein, which is really hard to do with natural hair products, you guys. But there are some that are out there. Sorry, I have to do something with the coloring, but look, I need to make this as easy as possible, especially with all this hair. So, one of the things I did was look at a couple of videos. I looked at four or five videos, went onto the old school long hair care forums to see what women were using. I added a couple of things, items to my Cart Amazon Cart, not a lot, three items. I was running out of sweet almond oil. I added sweet almond oil, which is great for moisturizing your hair. I ordered the Lada Body Style Milk, which apparently has no protein. And I ordered what I'm gonna show you here, another jar of the Eden Body Works Natural Peat Conditioner, which is protein-free. Now, there are other protein-free conditioners and leave-in conditioners out there. You can do your own research to determine what products are best for you. I'm gonna turn around. I'm gonna show you what I'm using today and what I'm going to do today. I'm going to do a quick clarify, but I feel like I need to detox my hair. So I'm gonna show you. I need a lot. You know what? I will probably have to go the whole foos to find some more clay. I'm going to be doing a detox with clay next wash, then follow up with moisturizing deep conditioner, and then follow up with a leave-in, plat up my hair, moisturize my hair as needed. So let me turn the camera around and show you guys what I'm gonna be doing today.  It feels horrible, so I need to go back in. Before the bald light went in my hand, let me tell y'all what I did. So this morning I finished up the African Pride's pre-shampoo review, right? Coincidentally, the African Pride line that knew moisture, is it moisture milk? Moisture milk line. It's protein free. Cool. But me being ignorant and extra, after I added the pre-shampoo, I added coconut oil. Girl, saturated my hair. So no, that the coconut oil today wasn't a culprit, but it just added to it. As I stated, the last three washes have been a mess. So let me show y'all what I'm gonna be using today. So one of the benefits of being a product junkie is that I was able to find some products that are protein free that I can use right now. So I'm gonna be using this detox purifying shampoo. I know this is probably not protein free. Let's just be real. But I wanted to go ahead and do this to basically strip my hair. I'm gonna be going in with ACV rinse. And then while I'm in the shower, I'm going to put on the, this is Eden Body Works Natural Dependitioner. I added olive oil, sweet almond oil, vitamin E oil, and half a cup of honey. I'm not playing. Gonna add that to my hair while it's soaking wet. I'm gonna sit under the blow dryer for 10 to 15 minutes. Breathe. Another thing you guys, is I have been using fenugreek oil. That was my go-to oil. That has some protein. I went back and added my own DIY oil, vitamin E, castor oil, castor oil, sweet almond, olive oil. That's it. Again, try to, I know this seems a lot, but yeah. What's on them? All right y'all. It is the day after my wash day. And, JB, I'm talking to them about something very serious. My hair is jacked up child. So, it's the day after my wash day.  It is no more near, like it feels 25% better. You have the coloring. We look good, huh? You look good. You're so cute. So, a couple of things I did. I went ahead and purchased the Eatin' Body Works Natural Conditioner that has no protein. And, I purchased the curl milk, style milk. What is this? Curl style milk by a lot of body. That's coming through Amazon. And, I also purchased some bed tonight clay. I have a little bit of that love. I need a way more than that. Child, I was like, I mean, I may need to do that Coca-Cola, Cherry Cola, whatever that. Y'all know that, that Coca-Cola. It basically was like that. The Cherry Lola Moisture Treatment, that was really popular, like six or seven years ago. The TGIN has coconut oil, but contrary to what people think, coconut oil really doesn't have a lot of protein. So, I'm still going to use the TGIN. That's what I used on my hair yesterday. The Aunt Jackie's Defining Curl Custard Curl Lala apparently has no protein. Now, I did look up this generic, it's a tan, Miracle Hair Mask, Deep Conditioning Hair Mask. It has keratin, but keratin is okay. But right now, I'm going to do a hard pass. I'm going to stick to, I'm going to stick to the Eat It, Eat In Body Works. Sorry, y'all, my phone is ringing. I'm not going to answer it. I'm going to stick to the Eat In Body Works and the TGIN, the TGIN Honey Miracle Mask, because I can get those locally, because I'm going to be deep conditioned in my hair every week. While I'm waiting on my bed tonight, Clay to come in. Bam! I usually have a big thing of this, container of this, and I didn't have any. I'm really using this. So the Camille Rose Honey Hydrate, apparently has no protein. This stuff is expensive, but I was sent this like two or three years ago, and I have quite a bit left. I'm looking for minimum protein. So yeah, it does have keratin, amino acids, but a cholesterol treatment is totally different from a protein treatment. The cholesterol treatment typically leaves my hair feeling very moisturized. So with all of my deep conditioners, I will be adding honey and oil. So let's take down a part of my hair. Y'all, this back here, again, I already moisturized my hair, and what I'm going to be doing is moisturizing my hair every two days. It's still wet. Now, yeah. It's deep conditioner. Let me see what this feels like. It's wet. It's not dry yet, so it's really hard for me to determine, because I don't know what to do with it. I don't know what to do with it. Because it's wet, so it feels, but look how it looks. It looks like... It looks stringy, doesn't it? Can y'all see? It's stringy. Your mama's stringy. Oh, I am your mama. It's stringy. You know what? Put it in the box. It's going back to Amazon. That's not happening. Put it back in the box for me, baby. It's kind of dry. Oh, yeah. It feels horrible. Look at that. Look at this. Hair has never looked like this. Are these... fairy? I definitely need a good trim. That's for sure. All right. Since my hair is wet, let me go ahead and add a little bit of this Camille Rose. It's heavenly. That feels really good. I'm going to keep using those same products. You know what I mean? Right now, I'm using what I have. But yeah, definitely, once I detox with the clay, clearing fine shampoo, and then I'll go in between the eating body works and the TGIN deep conditioners. Yeah, Jamie is playing real quick. I want to say this to you guys. Just because I'm not speaking on what's going on right now in this country and other countries actually, doesn't mean that I'm turning a blind eye. I just cannot do it right now, you guys. My husband looks at the news while the news is on for hours while he's here. And I am so, so drained. Emotionally, spiritually drained. So I received the text message a couple of days ago from a concerned mom.  And she was just being very sympathetic. And she's like, how do you explain? What does she ask me? She's like, how do you explain? Hold on, Jamie. Hold on. She asked me, how do you explain what's going on to Jamie? I'm like, Jamie has no idea what's going on.  Now, let me say this. Jamie's only seven years old. He absolutely understands that there is racism alive in this country. Unfortunately, my baby has experienced it himself at school. That's a whole other subject. And again, one of the reasons why we decided to hone school. But I don't feel the need to share with him what's going on right now. He sees it on the TV. He sees all of that because my husband is watching it. But he is also so sensitive that he asks that we turn it because he can feel the anguish and he gets anxiety from looking at that.  We are absolutely going to have to, you know, have a sit-down talk on what to say if a cop pulls you over, you can't wear a hoodie or a dark hoodie. We have to have those discussions that are age-appropriate. But to tell him this stuff now, oh, I want my child to not worry about these things.  All right, y'all. It is three o'clock. I'm going to get started. Really, I don't have to, but I'm going to sit on my drain. That's what we got to do. Girl, it's been a try-in. It's been a try-in week. So I'm going to be making this. I'm almost like a French martini, but not really. We have here vodka, Chambord, um, rum, cranberry juice. I have a lime juice sweetener. I have coconut sugar. Make it pretty. And I have a lime. And there you go. All done.


Welcome folks, we have the Dow Industrial Trading up 316, NASDAQ up 263, S&P up 63, gold contract down $8.10 trading at 19.23 an oz. We have Silver down 8 cents, $21.80 an oz, LightSuite Crude up 68 cents, $68.29 a barrel, notes and bonds, a 10-year note, down 27 ticks trading $114.07, the 30-year off full point plus 2 ticks at $130.20 an king dollar. King dollar's down 228 ticks, trading $104.414, the euro's at $106, yen is out here at $133, British pound is at $121-1 EUS dollar. You know when you take a look at the S&P, we get some divergence out here, and what it is, you know, the S&P's going up with light volume, you know, not a, well, it despises up 6 points, but you know, you have a huge contraction of volume going on in the spy. So, I suspect what you're going to see is that we're going to run probably up, we're at the 395 right now, yeah, that can run to 401 tomorrow, even with the, you know, how it's set up right now. The NDX100 wants to run to its highs. This is a different setup. This is a, well, when I say it's high, I'm talking about the highs of a couple weeks ago. What do you have with the Qs? You had 73 million shares traded, you're going into 56, blowing that away, and you can see that volume up at that high at the 313. So, we're right at the bottom of that high right now. That had 83 million shares, but we're going to do over 83 million. You're at 73 already. So, low of that high is 306.72. We've hit 306.19 thus far. I suspect coming into Friday, it can go up there and whack that baby. Gold, gold contract, that's going, sideways move out here today. You have gold, you had a high out here in gold. Today of 1938, you got a low of 1911, you're trading out here at 1923. And we get over to Kingdala. We take a look at Kingdala, but we have a Kingdala right here. You got a small back down. You know, my take is that you're still going to see this 106, 107 area. We've got to the 105, 583, 883 thus far. So, the way this setup, you had to sign the strength yesterday. You're going sideways today, trying to back down a bit. What I expect you're going to see is that gold, the dollar still wants to get into higher price. And if we go look at the bonds, you know, bonds have had a huge move. I mean, like you're backing down today, but the type of volume that the bonds have had, you're going to be in a consolidation. You know, you gave up everything in the 10 year that we had yesterday. That being said, they're still dealing with 256,000 contracts, which is big contract volume. Stay right there, folks. Come right back.