Here are some ways I found amazing and well-paying work as both a drone pilot and a video creator and how you can as well. So a lot of people who start picking up drones or cameras often have trouble transitioning into paid work as it is quite a different world than just flying or shooting for fun. That's because there are some specific skills you have to learn in order to become a professional. So by doing some more research and combining that with my own experiences I created a framework so that by the end of this video you guys will have the knowledge you need to make better connections, find amazing clients, and do highly rewarding work. Since our goal is to find more paid work let me introduce you to a framework that will help you build in the right direction and I call this the gig try force. Keep this try force like in zelda in mind I'll reveal each of the steps as we go through the video. Now if I were to take where I am now years of freelance video experience and FPV drone piloting and upwards of six figures in income and just slash that back to zero the way I'd start would be by smashing that like button and subscribing to Kyvertigo because he's going to give you a lot of information that will help. In the event that Kyvertigo didn't exist then the first thing I would do would be to make sure my skills are at a baseline level. Of course before you start getting paid for work you want to make sure that you can at least satisfy yourself. You know how to at least go through the workflow of think of a video idea shoot the video idea edit it and put it out somewhere. If you're a drone pilot you want to be able to fly confidently without crashing into something the last thing you want to do is make a client unhappy. If you don't know anything about video yet I'd recommend you learn more about video settings how a camera works in shutter speed aperture and things like that just so you can produce a good image for clients will be shooting for. Bonus tip get your license I feel like that is just very helpful in terms of knowing the knowledge to be safe also it's a nice emblem to show people that you're legit you put in the time to actually get licensed it's a good sign highly recommend as we're building our baseline confidence and ability the next thing I do is start working backwards which means that instead of charging blindly into the next job the next job the next job think about where do I want to be in three years what kind of work do I want to be doing do I want to be shooting cars do I'm shooting skydivers gansers you know there's a bunch of different particular things I think we each think we'll enjoy filming and even if it's not 100% yet having a goal is always better than not having a goal once you have an idea of what that goal is I can introduce you to the first point of the gig triforce which is skill sets and this is arguably going to be the most important point of the gig triforce because your skill set is going to power the other two sections as well the higher your skill set and the more that you understand and are able to do things in relation to your goal the quicker everything is going to propel forward so having a goal is going to inform you on what you need to learn and teach yourself in order to get ahead of the competition and get the ideal clients you want I was watching the future which by the way is a great channel for freelancers and professional creatives to learn from and they were doing this interview with john in stark and he mentioned that if you're going to pick a target market you might as well pick the one with the most money that you feel like you can confidently interact with which is why I think it's helpful to set a goal especially if one of your goals is to make a higher income and choose a subject matter that you can film that will hopefully yield better results financially once you've picked an industry or a field that you want to study more of you can study that industry more and you can learn more about what makes a good real estate video what makes a good car video what makes it a top high tier dance video once you build your skill set and knowledge in terms of being able to shoot that then you can go out and start shooting it which is the next thing I want to mention when you first start out as a freelancer or as a professional you're not going to get handed work out of nowhere you got to prove yourself and that's what this whole video is about is about building that foundation and that traction to start getting reached out to instead of having to reach out to and so the thing I'm going to recommend to you guys next is actually a beautiful thing about our career path is that we have the opportunity to make our own projects and that is going to be one of the most powerful tools as we continue down this journey when someone's not giving us an opportunity for something we want to shoot we've got to take it into our own hands we've got to make a project that casts and proves that we can do something like this and we can show that to more people and I'll get more into that later on but the important thing is to make sure you're making opportunities for yourselves and making projects for yourselves that's also how you're going to learn the fastest and build your skill set in the gig triforce but of course we can only do so much by ourselves at the end of the day it's still extremely helpful to have people around us that we can rely on which the next thing and the next step is going to be starts with those around you you have access to start with the people that you are most comfortable with your friends i've done this before actually i wanted to get some car drifting stuff for my fpv portfolio and i reached out to a good friend of mine i went to school with and i said hey i want to do more stuff with that fpv for cars and he's like yeah let's go to the mountain and shoot something real quick i have never chased a car before but there's a first time for everything so we did and it actually turned out really really cool and the coolest thing was there was no pressure to perform for a rando like a client we had a good time we got awesome shot it was super fulfilling and then i had a super cool piece that i can now show to other people that i want to do car stuff for hey i can do this and it actually helps a lot in making that snowball and that leads us to the second point in our gig triforce which is going to be connections connections are going to be some of the most important things you have so the better you can get at being a good point of contact being a reliable person being a good person a good friend then the higher success you're going to have being able to get paid work in the future an example of this is one of the biggest jobs i've ever gotten was a job i did with top golf and the way i was even able to work with them wasn't by necessarily networking through business contacts it was a good friend of mine i had before i even started fpv that i was doing a lot of art stuff with he ended up becoming a project manager for a marketing agency and when top golf was their client he thought of me because he saw i was posting fpv content and he knew i was down that road and because he trusted me i had to go set the back it up he gave me the job and the rest of his agency were down to do it and they've been an amazing continuous client that pays well so that's just one example of how connections can be an extremely extremely valuable part of your entire paid freelance professional life so by building your skill set into connections you're going to learn how to be a better provider and one thing i've heard multiple times over my experience is that people who are really good at their craft but are not good with people still get picked over people who may not be as good but are just a pleasure to work with that is one thing that separates the amateurs from the pros is how much of a pleasure that they are to work with on top of being able to get the job done so you might be wondering what makes you a pleasure to work with in the first place and gary v talks about this a lot if you watch his stuff he has a lot of knowledge and experience in business and he talks a lot about the word empathy it's a buzzword but at the end of the day it just means being able to put yourself in the shoes of the people that you're working with being able to anticipate their needs understand what their goals and their drives are what their fears are and how you can step in and solve their problems and make their lives easier the more you can do that the more you can make their lives easier be a pleasure to be around then the more they're going to like you the more they're going to want to work with you the more they're going to want to give you what you're worth and the more they're going to want to refer you to their friends and this can be hard to really wrap your head around as an amateur especially when you're starting out and you're scrappy and you're grabbing for everything and you're like i need this certain amount of money to keep moving on with my career but at the end of the day if you want to make more and you want to be with people who are going to treat you well and give you what you're worth then you have to put yourself after them you have to put their needs first and they will reciprocate because they see you making the effort to do that be someone who can solve a problem of theirs not someone that needs something from them if this information has been helpful to you guys so far please consider subscribing hitting the bell for more videos let's keep it going and on to the next step so we've worked backwards we started building our skill sets we've started to reach out to friends family and beyond and in turn in the gig triforce we are building our skill sets and we're building our connections so now at this point you should have started to work with some people you should have started to manifest some of the projects and the next thing is now that you have work is to increase your legitimacy and the way you do that is by sharing your work online having a good skill set is imperative because that's what allows you to grow having connections is important because that's what allows you to continue getting more and more clients and better clients but it's going to be hard to grow outside of your bubble if you're not sharing your work and one of the best ways to showcase your work in a way that people will love it is the third piece of the gig triforce which is portfolio your portfolio is awesome because you're no longer having to just by word of mouth tell people what you do and relying on people who have worked with you to speak for you now you have a whole another entity to demonstrate that for you whether you're there or not take the work that you've been trading for yourself for your friends and for your first clients put it into a portfolio reel of like a minute or less since attention is for never these days a minute or less is best and put it on Vimeo so that you can link it whenever someone asks for your work and of course post on social media just because we are in a crazy state of social media right now where I feel like attention is easier to get than ever because of short form content so being able to understand how to use social media to increase and maximize your reach is going to be imperative if you make content and it's actually getting increasingly more amounts of views and engagement when other people see it on your page they might think hey it's working for him if I hire him maybe it'll work for me too and this is another important step in terms of getting higher paid work and better clients is differentiating yourself from everybody else and of course easier said than done especially when you're starting out it can be a giant question mark in terms of how to actually start getting more views I completely understand that I was took me nine eight years to get to five thousand followers on Instagram and it wasn't until year nine where I had one explosive video and something finally clicked it's finally understood something and I went from five thousand to I'm at like seventy thousand now and it's been less than six months so it's been crazy what I think helped a lot was being able to understand what people wanted and once again that goes back to empathy being able to study content that was really good and talk to people about what they really want and understand what clients really liked in their type of videos and then taking that DNA putting it into my own work and sharing it and that ended up working a lot now I've been able to consistently get more views because I understand what people are looking for so once again putting yourself into the shoes what problems do they need solve if you're trying to real estate what are real estate agents looking for they're probably looking at their top real estate agents who are hiring the best real estate fpv pilots or the best real estate videographers watch those people who are making those videos and take DNA from them integrate it into your own content and you'll start to see magic happen and of course you can't just copy them because they're the best at what they do so the next most important thing is finding your own DNA what makes you different what combination of interests skill sets and perspective do you have that you can start to create your own version of it and stand out and become your best self i think the reason why i'm able to stand out as an fpv pilot is because i don't just post my portfolio work as it is because i'm definitely by no means the best pilot out there but i started integrating more of a human element into it i embrace the fact that i am the pilot i'm the person you're going to be working with and i want to reflect that in my content because i take pride in trying to be a good person and a pleasure to be around and work with when i'm on a professional set so showing that in my content and my portfolio is important because then people understand what they're getting when they hire me and here's one thing i want to touch on and don't want to gloss over because i do think it's important and it's something that once again a lot of amateurs struggle with which is being able to focus and niche down as they say a lot of people are scared of this especially when they start out because you might think oh i'm limiting myself from doing all the things i want to do but in reality especially when you're starting out if you say you can do everything you can do sound video drone real estate cars dancing at the same time then people are really confused about what exactly it is you're really good at one thing about niching down is it doesn't have to be permanent don't worry it's not going to be you for the rest of your life it actually gives you more leverage to join bigger projects and gain higher opportunities because i stopped just focusing on video and i took fpv drones and i started to carve out my own voice with that tool very specifically i was able to be noticed by higher level productions and i was able to get on and paid higher level rates because i had this very unique skill instead of just being a general crew member and by getting on these higher level sets you're going to see higher level people and you're going to learn more things quicker it's just a win win and once again you don't have to stick to it all the time you just carve out your niche and then you start to explore on the boundaries of that niche and you solely expand in that interview i was talking about with johnson stark in the future he mentions a really good analogy about a magnifying glass so if you put a bunch of kindling on the ground i don't care how hot a date is usually the ground will not automatically catch on fire but if you take a magnifying glass and focus the energy on a particular point you can light a piece of wood on fire right so he says focus is what you need to start the fire so start your fire baby i understand the resistance to this thought process and once again you don't have to take it but i had the same resistance and i've tried both and i've always noticed that whenever i do embrace being specific and having a spearhead i like to call it a spearhead which is my fpv drone that i use i've always found that yields much better results so recapping the steps i would say after achieving your baseline ability to create product video start to work backwards cast your goal in terms of what direction you think you want to go once again doesn't have to be perfect and then start to reach out to the friends and family and people around you that may have connections and resources to help you make work that will help you move towards these goals and then once you've made that work showcase it and share it and increase your legitimacy and this goes in tandem with the gig triforce which is to build your skill sets once again the most important tip and then this gonna bleed into building your connections which is going to help you get better and better and more consistent work taking the work you create with your skill set and connections and putting them into your portfolio which is going to work for you which is going to demonstrate how capable you really are to people who you may not have met yet and build your social media following all these different things and the cool thing about this is that each time you increase one of these it may be hard to kind of get that ball rolling but as you continue down this journey and as you apply more and more it starts to snowball and it starts to move more and more and this is the point where i'm starting to experience in in my career which is where i've been putting in a lot of reps i've tried a lot of different things and through this advice and through this experience hopefully i can shortcut your journey and cut out all the fluff and the mistakes i made follow this and you should be able to get that snowball of your the rolling much faster much larger if this video sparked any ideas or questions you have please leave them in the comments below i'd love to respond to them you might ignite the next video idea this has been kai thank you guys subscribe hit the bell if you like this content and i'll see you guys soon thank you very much take care best of luck peace


President for studies here at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and I want to thank you for joining us for this important afternoon and the opportunity to hear the remarks from the Foreign Minister of Turkey. He will be talking about absolutely vital issues today of the Middle East-Turkey's relationship with NATO, the Iranian nuclear negotiations, all super important issues in the United States, Europe, Middle East, and global implications. We are honored to have Foreign Minister Chavasholu here in from Ankara. He will be making his remarks as we spoke, and then we'll be taking questions and offering a discussion before he has to depart. As we mentioned, there's no challenge of difficult issues confronting Turkey, its allies, and other states in the region. He will be addressing those. One of them that we've worked on here at Carnegie in particular is the challenge posed by Iran's nuclear program and the diplomatic effort to deal with that. We've just published a book here with a colleague Sinan Ugan and I, and so it's available outside if anyone is interested on Turkey's nuclear future looking forward. But as I say, the minister will speak and cover a whole range of these issues, and then we'll have a discussion from thereafter. Minister Chavasholu is a minister since the last two years, but previously he was the minister of European Union Affairs and also is one of the founding leaders of the JK Party in Turkey. So with no further ado, Mr. Minister, please. Thank you so much for the introduction. Distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen. It's a real pleasure to be here with you all today. Let me thank Ambassador Burns in his absence and the Carnegie Endowment for the wonderful reception. I'm here in Washington, D.C. on an invitation from my good friend, Secretary Kerry. I will also meet with counterparts from the administration and have contacts on the Hill. Of course I value all those meetings that I'm going to have during my stay, but I'm equally pleased to address you at this century old institution. Over the years, Carnegie Endowment turned into a truly global think tank. It has contributed to the international peace through creative ideas and strategic thinking. I am sure you know the famous quote, every great dream begins with a dreamer. The institution has been home to the many dreamers of the peace. That is why I am very happy to have an opportunity to talk to you under this roof about the state of play in Middle East and Turkey's role. This is a topic on which there has been much debate here in this town. And I know that not all the comments have been positive. So I appreciate the opportunity to speak about our dream, our vision of new and different Middle East, one that rises on peace, stability and cooperation. Ladies and gentlemen, today the Middle East is largely in a state of turmoil. But the same Middle East has contributed greatly to the philosophical, cultural and scientific progress of humankind throughout history. President Obama himself highlighted some of these contributions in his historic Cairo speech. And we believe that this region still has the potential to create great things. So then the question is, how do we turn this potential into concrete achievements? After decades of oppression and wars, we witnessed the Arab Supreme. The people that transformation process started to shake the foundations, very foundations of the century old status quo in the region. In this process we played a very positive and supportive role as Turkey. We extended around $3 billion of financial assistance as well as political and technical expertise to the Egypt, Tunisia, Libya and Yemen. We also contributed to the efforts of the European Union as well as the Council of Europe, Venice Commission in all these countries. But the transformation process is currently characterized by a massive challenge. Let me identify some of them and also share my views for dealing with all these challenges. The conflict in Syria affects Turkey the most. The situation has become more complicated with the emergence of Daesh or ISIL, you say here in the United States. In other words, the situation in Syria has become a serious national security concern for my country, Turkey. We have provided significant contributions to the international coalition as an active member. We have mobilized our military and other resources in its support. So we agree on the existence of a major threat in our immediate neighborhood. But we also say that the selective approach focusing just on fighting terrorism will not remedy the situation in Syria and even in Iraq. The political vacuum in Syria has to be filled with a representative government based on the legitimate aspirations of the Syrian people. This is the only way to bring a sort of stability in Syria. The Geneva Declaration clearly identifies the necessary roadmap for achieving this kind of political solution. The parties for any negotiations to end the conflict are clear. These are the Syrian National Coalition and the regime. The coalition is recognized by 114 countries and 13 international organizations as the legitimate opposition. However, after Geneva 2 negotiations, the regime thinks that it has a free hand to continue its violence against the people. This has to stop. The international community must exert pressure on the regime so that it will sit down at the negotiation table. We have been working closely with the United States to find a way to move forward for a political solution in Syria. Our efforts on implementing training and acute program is a clear testimony. This program aims to create areas inside Syria that are safe. It will also provide a foothold for Syrians willing to fight Daesh. Ladies and gentlemen, Iraq has been in continuous crisis for many years. Daesh is the latest episode in the drama and maybe the most complicated one. The terrorist organization has occupied more than one-third of Iraq, which is equal to the size of Croatia in a short time. This was surprising for many. But we had been warning about this possibility for a long time. Why was Iraq faced with such a crisis? What is the reason behind? Simply because of the sectarian and oppressive policies of the previous government after the departure of American troops. So there is a need for a policy that reaches out to oppressed people and the regime and should regain their trust and the confidence, I mean the current administration. And new Iraqi government under Abadi started well and gained international support. And Turkey has been also fully support this new inclusive Abadi government in Iraq. But it is again our duty to remind the Iraqi government that it needs to do more for winning the others of the country. Promises must turn into concrete actions without further delay. In Iraq in a short term there might be some military successes. But lack of confidence between the people and the government is unfortunately continuing. Military successes will not be enough. There is a need for political and humanitarian steps taken at the same time. Decreed and the other liberated cities should be held and run by the locals. People shouldn't feel that they have come under another term of oppression in Iraq. Iraq cannot be governed as before Daesh. It should evolve into a functioning federal state. This is not something new, obviously. It was also foreseen in the Iraqi constitution. We know the task at hand is not easy and we shouldn't put undue pressure on the new government. But unfortunately the urgency is all too evident. That is why we are providing political, military and humanitarian support to Iraq. And we are carrying out a training and acute program for the Kurdish regional government, KRG and Muslim National Guard Units. We have already trained more than 1,600 Beshmerges in KRG. And on the humanitarian side we are hosting nearly 2 million people from Syria and Iraq combined. Our expenditure has reached almost 6 billion dollars, whereas we receive only 300 million dollar worth support from the international community. We are also doing our part to stop the flow of foreign terrorist fighters. We have taken all the necessary measures. We have set up a no entry list which now involves more than 12,800 people. And we have captured and deported around 1,300 people in this context. And about half of them we didn't have any information from the source countries, thanks to the sensitive work of our security and also intelligence. We have captured and deported them to the source countries and we inform all those source countries of these foreign fighters. But this is not an issue that Turkey can solve on its own. We need improved information sharing and more international cooperation, particularly from the source countries. And the source countries should also start asking themselves the hardest question. Who is really the weakest link in this chain? In addition to Syria and Iraq we see sectarianism as a general threat to the region in the Middle East. There is a standard message that we give to all actors and parties. Sectarian based policies create no win situation. All lose in sectarian struggles including first and foremost those who favor these policies. Yemen is the most recent example pointing at such dangers. In both Yemen and Libya what we need is political dialogue, meaningful political dialogue. We need political solutions based on the national compromise and consensus in both those two countries. Ladies and gentlemen, as a cornerstone of peace and stability in the Middle East, Egypt is another potential risk for the region. Egypt is an important country for the Muslim world. Egypt is important for the Middle East and Egypt is a very crucial country for not only Northern Africa but for the whole continent. Egyptian leadership pushes those people. They see as opposition underground and towards radicalism. Our concern is that if the current trend is left unchecked a new and more violent social outburst in Egypt will be inevitable. Egypt's deep and structural problems can only be solved in a liberal and efficient political environment. Therefore we encourage all parties to advocate the establishment of an inclusive political system in Egypt too. Ladies and gentlemen, of course one cannot speak about the Middle East without touching upon the Palestinian issue because it remains the core challenge in the region. And actually we all know parameters of the solution. A state of Israel living side by side with an independent and sovereign state of Palestine on 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital. Yet despite the best and most sincere efforts of my dear friend Secretary Kerry, the two-state solution is in a coma. You all know the recent Palestinian initiative regarding UN Security Council resolution to initiate a peace conference. Such a resolution will make the Israeli side sit down for serious negotiations for a two-state solution. Unfortunately this initiative like others trying to open the way to peace failed at the United Nations Security Council. The main body responsible for protecting international peace and security once again proved incapable of performing its task. Dear guests, ladies and gentlemen, yes the general picture in the Middle East is not very promising. But there are also reasons for being hopeful and to be optimistic as well. Look at the political process in Tunisia. This country shows us that a legitimate political solution is possible to the problems faced by the countries in transition. The Tunisian people deserve our full support and solidarity. We are also very pleased with the political understanding reached between the P5 plus one and Iran in Lausanne. We always advocated diplomacy as the only possible option for a solution to the issue of Iran's nuclear program. That is why we hope that the ongoing negotiations result in a comprehensive agreement by the end of June this year. As always we are ready to offer our active support to the process. We also hope that a final and satisfactory solution to the nuclear issue might motivate our Iranian neighbors and brothers to facilitate the resolution of other regional problems. In short our approach in the Middle East is based on finding comprehensive, political and inclusive solutions. So let me put what we imagine into a picture. A secure and stable Middle East where the energy and trade rules interconnected East Mediterranean resources to all directions. A region which no longer makes the headlines with death tolls but rather with cooperation projects and success stories. Turkey is doing its part to invest in a common future in the region. We are putting a lot of efforts in increasing and liberalizing trade, lifting visas, expanding investments in the region. On the humanitarian side being the third largest donor and humanitarian aid in the world, we continue to extend our helping hand throughout the region. We are trying to ease the pains not only in Syria but also in Iraq and Palestine. In Iraq we are among the first to come to the help by sending 750 trucks containing food kits, tents, bedding, blankets, medicines and medical equipment. Our official humanitarian assistance to Gaza only last year is more than 19 million dollars. And we will continue to work for a better future for everyone in the Middle East. Ladies and gentlemen dear guests, I know our topic is Middle East. But speaking as the Turkish Foreign Minister in Washington, I will not be doing my job in full if I don't mention two other issues. Two issues which have created mistrust and confrontation in our region for a long time. First, Cyprus. We have a window of opportunity to find a political settlement to a problem that has been with us for more than 50 years. And we believe 2015 will be an important year for the settlement of the Cyprus issue. Our commitment for a solution is as strong as ever. We expect the negotiations to resume very soon after the elections in the north. And the Turkish side is ready to go to the extra mile to make a lasting settlement possible before the end of this year. But ultimately it takes two to tango. And what is needed for settlement is true political will. If Greek Cypriots side and the Greeks showed a similar strong political will, there is no reason why a settlement cannot be reached by the end of this year. As always, the active involvement of the U.S. will be important in the critical period ahead. Second, the Turkish-Armenian relations. We have been working since 2009 to overcome the division between these two ancient peoples. Two people who for centuries coexisted in peace and harmony. Let me underline this point. Turkey shares the suffering of Armenians. We try with patience and resolve to establish empathy between two peoples. We continue to believe that we can build a peaceful common future only through dialogue. In this context, our President's message last year on the events of 1915 was a historic step. The recent statement of our Prime Minister in January, I mean, was another step forward representing our humane perspective. And couple of hours ago, Prime Minister Davutoglu extended his condolences to the Ottoman Armenians who lost their lives under the tragic circumstances of World War I. And he also announced that in parallel to the remembrance ceremonies around the world, our ceremony will also be held at Armenian patriarchy in Istanbul on 24th of April. This is another step of historic significance. And we will continue on this path. And we will continue to work for a framework that both addresses the historic aspects of the problem and also helps solve the Nagorno-Karabakh issue. Dear guests, ladies and gentlemen, geography is destiny. And today we stand at the crossroads for the region. We in Turkey believe in the promise of our region and its peoples. We are willing and able to stand up to the existing challenges.  The history of Turkish-American relations is full of success stories we wrote by working together. Our past achievements in Afghanistan, in the Balkans and elsewhere is testimony to what we can do together in the future. That is what gives me the confidence to say that Turkey and the United States will continue to work as close partners. Because by working together we have a better chance of creating a bright future we imagine for the Middle East. Thank you very much. Can I answer the questions? If you don't mind? Yes, please. He's going to stay here. For technical reasons, it's better. No, it's much better for the vision. Okay. Thank the foreign minister for those who called. We're going to take questions and we will do it in the normal way that we do things here, which is raise your hand. I'll call on several questioners. We'll take several questions together. The foreign minister has been kind enough to stay to address those questions. Please again, there will be many people who want to ask questions. So make your question very brief and also in the form of a question, please. And also please introduce yourself before you start. So let's start with these three right here in this row. Thanks, George. Barbara Slavin from the Atlantic Council and lmonitor.com. Mr. Minister, how do you square your views with those of the Saudis, particularly when it comes to an issue like Yemen? Your prime minister was recently in Iran. You've called for a political solution there. But you are also, I believe, supporting the Saudi effort, which is now bombing the country with no apparent result. So how do you bring people to the table here? And if I may also ask a question, another question. Is Turkey taking a position on the direct supply of weapons to the Kurds in Iraq? Thanks. Kurds in Iraq? Just hold that question for one second and then I'll pass it here. We'll start with you, Michael, after. Michael Gordon, New York Times. And a different subject, sir. You mentioned the negotiations with Iran. The details aren't known, but the basic principles are known. It will extend breakout time to a year for a period of 10 years. But breakout time will shrink after that. No facilities will be closed. And Iran will be allowed to do research and development on centrifuges. What is Turkey's position on this agreement since the main elements are known? And are there any circumstances in which Turkey would feel that it should pursue the development of nuclear technology on its own as a precaution against an Iranian breakout? What would those circumstances be? Thank you. Well, unfortunately, the situation is Yemen is concerned for all of us. And Uttis took the control of the whole country. And democratically elected president had to leave the country due to the security concerns. Of course, due to the invitation of the legitimate president, Saudi Arabia let GCC countries had the operation. And this operation became legitimate. And in principle, we supported this operation. And we announced that if they need, we can support, we can give them logistic support and intelligence as well. But so far, we haven't received any demand from the Saudi Arabia let coalition. But at the end, Turkey is for political solution and immediate ceasefire. And humanitarian aid, we are very sensitive in that. And broad-based political dialogue, meaningful political dialogue. And possibly national unity administration or government in Yemen. That is what we need. And that is Turkey's position. And I was with Erdogan in Tehran. And he was very straight with our Iranian counterpart that what Iran is doing, their sectarian policies ambitious in the region is not helpful and not helping their interests either. So we were very clear with Iran. But Iran should be also involved in the process, in this process that I mentioned in Yemen. They should also use their influence on who it is that they should withdraw. And they should be ceasefire and meaningful dialogue and so on. And regarding the basic principles, the current achievement between the five plus one and Iran, we are fully supporting this process and we are fully supporting the achievements. And we haven't underestimated, we shouldn't underestimate the achievements made in this process. And we also spent a lot of efforts together with Brazil in 2010. And it was not easy to convince Iran. Iran is our brotherly country, our neighbor, but it is not always easy to make deal with Iran. We haven't even changed the gas agreement that Turkey signed long years ago. And hopefully we can find a solution to that as well. But we are fully supporting this process. And we are against nuclear weapons in our neighborhood. Not only in Iran, but we are against nuclear weapons. And Turkey has no intention to have a nuclear weapon. We didn't, and we will not have nuclear weapons. Thank you. Yes, I'm Tom Deval here at the Carnegie Endowment. Minister, thank you for your remarks. I'm going to ask you an Armenian question without mentioning the word genocide, apart from just now. You already did. I already did, yes. But you yourself today and also the Prime Minister and the President have gone much further than Turkish officials in past in acknowledging the suffering of the Armenians. But as you yourself would know, the situation on the ground is still very bad. The border is closed. And to give one other example, very few working churches, Armenian churches in Turkey, many churches still in ruins. I wonder if you can share any concrete steps that your government will and can take to advance reconciliation with the Armenians. Thank you. Well, first of all, regarding the Armenians living in Turkey, we have around 40,000 Armenian citizens. I think there are two candidates as well from different parties. One of them is from my party. They are enjoying all the rights. They are also enjoying the rights that the Turkish government and state has been giving back. I mean, this is not something that we give it for free, but it was their rights taken in the past in Turkey. But it's not only them that all the religious minorities have been enjoying all that. We have been giving their properties back. We have been renovating the church, chapels, and synagogues. We just integrated a grand synagogue in Edirne recently, and Turkey restored it. And we restored Armenian church in Akhtamar Island in Lake One. And Armenians get together every year for worship in that church. And we need to do more. And we are supporting the Patriarch as well. Patriarchy in Istanbul, base in Istanbul, and also Armenian foundations. And our citizens plus another roughly 40,000 Armenian migrants also enjoying living in Turkey. We know that they had to leave Armenia because of unemployment and poor economy. And they are irregular migrants. I don't like to use word illegal as the former president of the Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe. They are not illegal people, but they are irregular migrants. We tolerate that they stay in Turkey. And regarding the Turkey-Armenian issue and reconciliation, we are for reconciliation. And we have been spending a lot of efforts, particularly since 2009. Of course, this year Armenian-Armenian diaspora focused to influence the world public opinion on the events of 1915. So we are not expecting any positive response from our Armenian friends. But we understood that we have to look forward and we need to overcome all these issues. And the statements of President Erdogan and the Prime Minister Davutoglu's two statements are a kind of turning point in Turkey as well. So we have been taking courageous steps towards reconciliation. I hope that Armenia and our Armenian friends also understand that we need reconciliation. And we will not give up as Turkey and we should continue to spend efforts towards reconciliation. Thanks, George. I am Mahir Zanal from Turkey's Today Saman Daily. Mr. Prime Minister, I am wondering if you remember last year your government- Did you call me Prime Minister? Thank you. Sorry, Mr. Prime Minister. I was wondering if you remember last year your government kicked me and my family out of Turkey because I tweeted a single report on Twitter. And also, your government has recently arrested journalists like Karajan Mehmet Baran. So how do you reconcile these incidents with the democracy and the media freedom in Turkey? Thank you. Thank you. I don't have a question, but my name is Abdul Halim Brigel. I am originally from Somalia. I am a Somali-American. And I thank Foreign Minister and welcoming him here. The success for Turkey, everyone knows it's Somalia. So thank you for your government, for your people. And Mr. Erdogan, who went to Mogadishu in 2011, during that time no one was going to Mogadishu today, Mogadishu and Somalia, it stands where we are because of that leadership and division that Mr. Erdogan showed. I went on the Somali – the Turkish – Istanbul Conference on Somalia. And at that time I met with Mr. Erdogan when he was the Prime Minister. And I promised him at the time I say to him, I don't know what to give you as a gift because, you know, it was very quick. So today I have a gift here. I will give it to the embassy. Thank you. It's a book. It's not any book. It's the Quran. Our book, you know, is the defined word of Allah, Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. And this is where Daesh al-Shabaab is the same book that's read by 1.1 billion Muslims.  So thank you very much. And I will give it to the embassy. Thank you. Well, media freedom is crucial for democratic societies. And as a former President of the Parliamentary Assembly, which is the home of rule of law, democracy and fundamental rights, I am fully for free media and freedom of expression. However, in democratic societies and countries, nobody is immune from persecutions because of his or her profession. And regarding the journalists in Turkey, the latest committee to protect journalists, CPEJ, reported seven journalists imprisoned in Turkey. And when you look at the list, none of them are persecuted for their journalistic work. And as a matter of fact, five of them charged with serious crimes such as homicide, causing injury with weapons, bank robbery, forgery, throwing Molotov cocktails to the security officers. And two of these journalists have been released. And we see the similar cases in other democratic countries as well. For instance, following the news of the world phone hacking scandal in the UK, the news editor of the said newspaper Ian Edmondson was sentenced to eight months. And the calls on editor of the news world world was also sentenced to 18 months in jail for conspiring to hack phones in 2014. And there are also other similar cases I have to give here in Italy, Greece, as well as this country, the United States. For instance, Francesco Gangemi, the 79-year-old editor of the monthly magazine to debate the debate. And Alessandro Salusti, editor-in-chief of the Milan-based Daily, are present for charge of libel, perjury and criminal defamation. Let me give you another example. There is also another example in Greece, but since it is our good neighbor, I don't want to give this example. Another example from this country, Barack Brown. He is a U.S. journalist and he has been sentenced to 63 months of imprisonment in January 2015 for involvement in activities of activist group called Anonymous. So for me, even one journalist in prison because of his or her journalistic words is unacceptable. So it's for Turkey. Therefore, Turkey cannot tolerate any parallel structure, particularly opposite structures in the state structures. And no democratic country can tolerate this either. Thank you. Thank you very much. My name is Tyler Thompson. I'm with United for Syria. I was hoping that you could expand on, we've been hearing that Turkey backs the idea of either a no-fly zone or some sort of protected zone to save Syrian civilians along the Turkish border. And I'm wondering if you could sort of expand on what the Turkish policy is on that and also explain any roadblocks or obstacles that the United States may be presenting in the future for protecting civilians. Can you repeat the last part of your question, the obstacles in the United States? The obstacles that the United States might present to Turkey in implementing this type of protected area. Thank you. Thank you very much, Mr. Foreign Minister, for your address. Given your extensive experience in the European affairs, in your tenure at the Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly, I just wonder if you can comment on the fact that on April 15, 2015, the European Parliament has adopted a resolution which officially recognizes the tragic events that have faced Armenians during the Ottoman Empire as a genocide and where it calls upon the European Council and the European Commission and Turkey as well to recognize the events as the genocide and to come to term with your past and thus pave a way for genuine reconciliation between Turkish and Armenian people. Thank you very much. Thank you for the questions. Before I answer this question, I forgot to respond to my Somalian friend. Thank you very much for the gift, first of all, and we are doing our best to support Somalian people and we just built a hospital with 200 beds and Turkey is running this hospital now, but hopefully in five years' time we will hand over to the Somalian that we are training them right now, the doctors and the staff, and then hopefully they will be able to run that hospital. And we also built hospitals in other African countries including Sudan and serving not only those people of those countries but citizens of other African countries and we are developing, we are supporting the development projects in almost all African countries and we will continue. And thank you very much for the gift once again. Regarding the safe zone, Turkey proposed safe zone with air cover or no-fly zone. We know the realities of the region very well and as I mentioned in my introductory speech, we warn our allies and other countries in the coalition right now about the possible developments in Syria and also in Iraq. Unfortunately, our recommendations or advices were not taken in the account. Now including United States, our friends regret that they didn't. Now we are proposing a safe zone because it's a mass in Syria. First of all, we need safe areas. Now we are implementing the train and equip program and we need safe zones in Syria for the success of this program in the ground. Secondly, you know how many refugees living in the neighboring countries, Syrian refugees including Turkey, more than 4 million. And you know how many IDPs in Syria, more than 8 million. And who is helping these vulnerable people? Turkey is doing its best and we are supplying whatever they need particularly in the camps. Now around 240,000 of them living in the 25 camps that we built. Another 38,000 living in the camps, 3 camps that we built in Northern Iraq. And we are supplying education, healthcare and food and everything. Now the budget of World Food Organization is run out. And we have to support those vulnerable people living in Turkey, not only in the camps, but in all over the Turkey. But these people deserve better. Can we give proper education to the children? There are 500,000 Syrians in Turkey at the age of education. And we have been able to give education to only 140,000 of them. What will happen to another 360,000 Syrian children? And we have more than 100,000 Nile burn Syrian babies in Turkey. So what I mean, this zone is also essential to relocate all these refugees and also IDPs. Our guests in Turkey are living in better conditions than the ones living in other neighboring countries. I'm not blaming them because they are also doing best, but they cannot afford actually. Particularly Lebanon and Jordan. So we need to relocate these people in this safe zone with all the infrastructure that they need. School, hospitals and whatever they need. So that's why we propose this safe zone. And the main problem is here, how as the coalition is going to enhance the security for this safe zone, whether it should be supported by no-fly zone or air cover. Obviously, we think different here with the United States. Or United States have different proposals or different ideas of this safe zone and no-fly zone. But if we agree, we should do together. We should implement together with the United States. So Turkey is not insisting to enhance the safe zone or no-fly zone as its own self. But unfortunately, few coalition members like France gave full support. But other core countries, the core members of the coalition have different opinion on this safe zone. But we will continue to try to convince our allies. And regarding the Armenian issue and the European decision of the European Parliament, it's a Euro-skeptic party, I think, made this proposal. It doesn't matter who did, but this resolution is not legally binding and it's not binding. And to our mind, the politicians, national parliaments and the European parliaments or parliamentary assemblies of international organizations shouldn't give such decision. We shouldn't politicize this issue. And I know as a politician, it is not that easy to decide about the history. I also wrote a lot of reports for the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe on missing persons in the Balkans and so on. And I wrote one of the most difficult reports for the Parliamentary Assembly on mass famine. Mass famine in 1932 and 1933 or Holodomor or Golodomor. So it was not an easy job. And I visited Kazakhstan, Russia, Caucasus, part of Russia, Ukraine and also Belarus for fact-finding visit. And I met everybody. Then President of Ukraine Yushchenko was obviously for genocide. And he arranged a group of scientists to meet me. And during the meeting, at the end of the meeting, 40% of those scientists, historians told me that it was a genocide. And 30% of them said, no, it was not genocide. And another 30% said, we don't have idea or I don't have idea. So as a politician, how can I decide whether it was or it was not a genocide? In my report, I said crime against humanity for mass famine in 1932 and 1933. Well, who is going to decide whether it was a genocide or not? Obviously, genocide is not a generic term. It's a legal term. And to our mind, historians should also decide. That's why we propose Armenia to set up a joint committee of historians and scientists. And we proposed to open the archives. And this joint committee shouldn't be limited with Armenian and Turkish scientists and the scientists, historians from third countries could also participate. And the third countries should also open the archives. And we committed in our letter, in the letter of Prime Minister Erdogan, we committed to accept the outcome of this study. So what else do you expect from Turkey? Why don't we set up this joint committee of historians? Let them study, let open the archive, and we will accept the outcome. Otherwise, it's easy to convince parliamentarians to sign the resolution or to adopt the resolution, but it doesn't help to solve the problem. It didn't. In the past, the national parliaments of some countries in Europe, in Latin America, adopted such resolutions. But it didn't help. I think Turkey and Armenia and Turkish and Armenian people should solve this issue together. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks very much. You have peace and stability in Europe, and then you have chaos in the Middle East. Do you ever regret having invested so much effort and attention in your Middle East policy? And are you ever concerned that Bashar al-Assad, if he stays much longer in power, is going to suck Turkey into the vortex of Middle East and chaos? Thank you. Thank you very much. It's true that despite all the challenges that European societies have been facing, like economic and financial crisis, migration issues, and integration, and also international crime and organized crime and international terrorism, climate change, I can name more, all these challenges, the European continent is still the most stable and most developed and most democratic continent. And we never regret for investing in Middle East. You cannot always succeed. But we should do our best to support the Middle Eastern people. And we should support the countries suffering from all these crises. That's why we give full support to the new Iraqi government, inclusive government.  But meanwhile, we should also eradicate the root causes of the problem. Yesterday, there was no Daesh in Middle East in Iraq and Syria. There was al-Qaeda. Daesh was emerged from al-Qaeda in Iraq. Then they got support from different circles, and they moved to Syria, and they got a lot of support from the regime. That's why they have these Russian, Chinese, and Serbian-made weapons in their hand. And then when they feel themselves strong enough, they went back to Iraq, they captured Mosul, and they also kept our consulate staff as hostage for 102 days. And at the end, we were able to bring them through a smooth operation. That's another story. But in Mosul, the Shia militias of Maliki, around 70,000 of them left Mosul. And they left all these heavy weapons behind, and Daesh got them. Tanks, artillery, and even missiles. And all these heavy weapons, American-made weapons. Now Daesh has American and Russian-made weapons in their hands. And they advance in both Syria and Iraq with all this power. But if we don't eradicate the root causes, yesterday it was al-Qaeda, then al-Nusra, then Daesh, and tomorrow we don't know who is going to be emerged as a terrorist organization. So the current situation and the regime is the fertile ground for the radicalization and terrorism in Syria. Therefore Assad must go. And we cannot unite the people of Syria around Assad anymore, because this regime is killing. As long as Assad stays, they will continue killing people through the barrel bombs, through the chemical weapons, through the crawling gas, and air bombings. And Aleppo is very strategic town, and around 2 million civilians living there. Therefore we never regret where we stand for the Middle East. And Turkish foreign policy is a multi-dimensional one anyway. And this multi-dimensional and proactive policy is complementary. We cannot alternative to each other. Thank you very much. For Marks and especially for your taking all these questions and addressing them, wish you well on the rest of your stay here. And please come back and join us again. Thank you. He's going to come out very quickly, and then we'll all open. Everyone can stay seated, please, just for a moment. Thank you very much.


Live from San Francisco, California, it's the Cube at VMworld 2014, brought to you by VMware, Cisco, EMC, HP, and Nutanix. Now here are your hosts, John Furrier and Dave Vellante. Welcome back everyone, live in San Francisco, this is VMworld 2014, day 3 of wall-to-wall coverage, this is the Cube, I'm John Furrier, the founder of Silicon Anions, I'm my co-host Dave Vellante, co-founder of Wikibon.org, our next guest is Gunner Burger, CTO of Desktop & Apps Group with Citrix. Welcome to the Cube, appreciate you coming on. Thanks for having me. You guys are certainly a big player, first of all we use all the go-to meetings all the time because we love, you guys certainly are doing a great job at the desktop level, end user computing is no strange to that. A lot of changes going up and down the stack, so I want to get your perspective on the under-the-hood requirements for now, this top-of-the-stack pressure, right, you're seeing it at the top, the apps, what's going on from your perspective Citrix, and how are you guys dealing with all this activity in the marketplace today? Well there's obviously a lot of changes happening structural-wise, leadership-wise, we had Mark Templeton out for a bit, he's come back now and he's committed now to, you know, be at Citrix as the as the CEO, Sudhakar's been there about a year and a half who's running the whole enterprise service vision and then my boss, the GM of DNA, Rakesh. So lots of changes going on just as a company, but I think, you know, Mark coming back is just huge for us, I think just as the core of the company and as an analyst, I mean, you know, just covering this industry as an analyst is, Mark is really the heart of the company, so I think just coming into it, it's like I was very, very happy to see that he's coming in there because I just think that he's the heart and you see that in synergy when he comes on stage and he's doing that happy thing and all this kind of stuff, he just brings that that joy into it and so a lot of things just going on leadership-wise that I think that are now becoming a lot more concrete and so of course that then turns into product, right, in the end you want to see product and so, you know, within my group DNA there's massive, massive changes going on, so DNA stands for desktops and apps, so Zen app, Zen desktop, the major change that we're up to is the whole CWS strategy, the Citrix Workspace Services strategy and that strategy is taking, think of like taking Zen apps and desktop and turning it into a SaaS application, so you log into a simple SaaS app and say I want, you know, terminal service type sessions, I want full VMs, whatever it happens to be, but the whole idea of this eniness that you hear Mark talk about, that it's not about us, right, we have a lot of customers that love Zen app, they love Zen desktop, but it's not just about us and what cloud we can sell you, it's about what cloud works best for you and so we look at, you know, Azure of course, this is the choice question, yes, and it's all about where do you need your stuff to be and you're going to choose AWS, potentially your platform, you could choose Azure as your platform, you could choose Google and it's called for the best user experience you want to put your apps, your data, everything as close together as possible and so wherever that workload lies, we too want to move your workload with Zen apps and desktop into that, so that's what CWS is all about, CWS is more than just DNA, but I'm just a CTO of DNA, so I kind of focus there, but for my group specifically, that's what we're working on. So the dockerization trend certainly highlights kind of where you guys have been pointing to as the future, which is, okay, you have apps that should run anywhere they want to run, developers should have ability to develop apps, how does the containerization trend, the notion of open stack, and then everyone having their own little differentiation underneath that play into what Citrix is doing. You kind of get into areas that aren't really my forte, we have the cloud platform group and I think that's more of a question for that group versus the group that I live in. Containerization of Windows is still something that honestly gets me to another conversation that will take us into another rathole, but I think of Bromium, I was talking to Simon Crosby about Bromium a little bit that I actually think that he did that for Windows when he invented Docker, but I don't think when he invented Bromium, but I don't think that was his intention and he actually disagrees with me a little bit about that, but really he's the one that that product actually goes all the way to the Windows kernel, basically hacks it and creates multiple instances of the kernel, and if we're talking about containerization of that, you're really getting outside of my scope of expertise. So Gunna, when you think about what you guys have done in your sweet spot, in your area of expertise, I was very strong affinity with Microsoft, I've talked to a Citrix customer in your world and they're Microsoft customer, many of them, and you mentioned Azure, how is that, and I remember when we did Synergy, we had the Cube at Synergy a couple of years ago and totally agree with you about Mark, great leader, we were asking, okay, as Microsoft moves to the cloud, what does that mean for sort of the VDI business, the desktop virtualization business at Citrix? Can you talk about how that affinity with Microsoft has translated into the cloud? You mentioned Azure, AWS, Google, is it beginning to bifurcate and you're having to change your strategy, I wonder if you could just address that. Yeah, cool, that brings me right into CWS, that works out perfectly. If you think of where did Citrix, where were we born? We had access to the Microsoft code and they basically invented terminal services, right? So then you have Microsoft doing RDS and then now XenApp sits on top of that and that's how we have a lot of happy customers. So you look at the future, where's Microsoft going with this? We see remote app Azure, and so we're putting everything into this Azure SaaS-based plane and where does Citrix sit in that picture? And so that's where CWS comes in. Here's this layer that Microsoft's giving us with remote app Azure, with Azure pass, and there's a way for us to kind of have that magic of the pass where we can layer on top of it. And that's something that we actively talk to Microsoft about, I won't say on a daily basis, but definitely on a weekly basis with them, that we want to get a lot of that synergy that we've had before. And what do you make of, for instance, something like Amazon WorkSpaces, how does that fit into the whole competitive dynamic? It doesn't. You just don't see it? No, no, no, it's just they're giving you an empty shell of a desktop and no one wants that, right? So it's just not viable? It's not. As it stands today? It's completely not.   But in the EUC space, it's so much richer, it's so much more difficult. This is why server virtualization was pretty easy. Desktop virtualization, extremely complicated, right? So Amazon's out there, they have an IaaS play and so they say, ah, we can do desktops too because it's IaaS. That's how they kind of approached it, right? Here's a VM shell of windows, you know, a copy window server that looks like a desktop and they're like, okay, we're done. It's like, but that's not it. Look at our stack. Look at the rewretches that we brought into all layers of the stack, all the things that we do, the bells and whistles of ZenApp. It's like, all of that's missing. In fact, Microsoft was quite a bit smarter in their play saying, I'm not going to give you just a shell, but I'm going to focus on application. So Remote App Azure is actually a TS play, terminal search play, and they're just giving you the application. So I just look, when I see Amazon, I just see a structure that, you know, from a CWS perspective, you want to use it as an IaaS play? Go for it. Go for it, right? But if you actually want to do a full stack of EUC, they're really missing the ball. So the point you were making before is to serve a virtualization and desktop virtualization, it's like two different worlds, completely different workload profiles, and you guys understood that early on, and you got to the point where your desktop experience with your product was equivalent to one, you know, the virtualized desktop was equivalent to one I'm using, you know, standalone desktop.  And then it seems to me that that allowed you to really dominate that market. And you had some competitors and a lot of people thought VMware was going to do really well because their server virtualization, I think they misunderstood the dissonance between those two market spaces. It seems like, okay, so VMware brings in Sanjay Poonan, they make an acquisition of AirWatch. Is your lead intact? I wonder if you could give us an update, again, competitively, on where you stand. Well, you're kind of leading into something I'd like to address there, which is, you know, getting the performance of a virtual desktop, so as, you know, fighting with your MacBook Air there. Right. I think that there is a dam in the whole VDI market that has yet to be breached, and it's something that's near and dear to my heart, which is cost. And so right now, a lot of the VDI things where you kind of see it, think, you know, coming, put my Gartner hat on for a second, that we see it about, they saw it as about 5% of the total market. So, you know, you got 95% of the market that's physical, and it's physical because physical is cheaper. And that's really what you're fighting, is you're right. Citrix has got to the point, we're now with 3D app workloads, and we can do some really amazing stuff. I got YouTube videos that you can watch me doing some fun games and stuff like that on YouTube just because it's fun to show off. But really, the problem has been that you have to make this whole play about OPEX, and you have to talk about, well, yeah, it's going to be more expensive on CAPEX, but OPEX will make sense over time. And the thing is, when you were early adopters of server virtualization, you did the same thing. Right, you were doing OPEX, you were doing stress testing, and can exchange be supported on this, all that kind of stuff that you just have to do as an administrator. Right. But then as server virtualization went along, you stopped doing that, right? You stopped asking the question of, is it cost saving? Because everyone just knows it, right? You make the argument of, why do you need physical now, right? You have to make the reverse argument. If you want physical, you got to make an argument. Right. And right now, desktop virtualization is in that market where it's just kind of teetering between, on that CAPEX cost, where it's kind of in there fighting for cost. But I think that dam is still there, and that's something that, in my role, I want to just completely destroy that dam. Okay, so except in niche applications, like a call center or claims or something like that where it makes sense, you're saying that's the next way for you guys. Well, I mean, you always have the 80-20 room between terminal services, still does a great job for those kind of niche applications, as you say. And then you have the 20%, which is the VDI. And I'm kind of talking about the VDI specifically, that that was just kind of been locked up due to cost complexity. And I think that we can kind of, I really think that we have some more room that we can do to just knock that out of the market. Connor, thanks for really appreciating your coming on theCUBE. You guys certainly brought up the Windows. You guys know that Windows space, but also I want to give you the final word on the Linux Zen app, Zen desktop. Give the quick, quick update, and then we'll end the segment on what's going on with Linux. So talk to the camera on this one? Sure, very uncomfortable with that. If you guys go to your email and your Twitter, I will address the camera. I will hang with you. Okay, I'll just talk to you. I feel so much more comfortable talking to somebody. So Linux VDAs is something that, when I came on board, you know, as a CTO, you started learning all the cool stuff. Like as an analyst, I thought I had like access. Like I really thought, man, I got all the knobs. This is cool. I get all the, you know, NDA stuff.  I mean, we do stuff that we'll never see the light of day, because it's just, it's meant to be a prototype. It's meant to show just crazy innovation, right? And so we see this stuff, and then Linux VDA was in there, and there's a lot of conversation internally going on about Linux VDA. I was like, guys, we're doing it. I can't tell you who we're doing it with. Release it. I was like, yes. We're doing it. Let's put it out there. Yeah, awesome. Let's just put it out there. Let's show that we are an innovative company, and it wasn't anything we had to write. It was done. Yeah. It's in use. I can't tell you where it's in use, but it's in use, and well, we'll figure it out. We'll follow you on the phone. Maybe a lot of trouble if I did. But it's something that's already out there. It's already in use, and it's just, let's put it out there. Let's show, let's show some innovation here. And so we did. And really, I mean, I actually just looked at the list of all of you who signed up for it, and it's very long. Gunnar, we're getting the hook. Oh, I'm sorry. We really appreciate you coming on the Cube Citrix with Linux now. It gets the mass, taking names. It's the Cube. We're right back at this short break. Thanks a lot, man.


Today, we are doing a Q&A and I think I'll start doing these on a monthly basis. So towards the beginning of the month, keep an eye on my community tab and I'll make a post then you guys can leave all your questions down below. Before we get started, if you can sign up for the newsletter at frank-fano.com to stay in touch as well as subscribe so that YouTube can unsubscribe you next week. So our first question is, what did the elites eat? What is the secret to their health? And there's two main considerations in health differences between the elite and the masses. In reality, these people shouldn't be called elite, they're a bunch of degenerates that have just kept secrets from the public for many, many years. One, they are not being poisoned throughout their entire lives with various chemicals and radiation from soy formulas to fluoride to chlorine, cell towers. Two, they receive adequate vitamins and minerals during developmental stages of life for optimal brain function. That base of health in early life is definitely the most important, but the elite do have access to certain doctors, procedures, hormones, chemicals that they can take for things like antioxidants, energy, brain function, and overall holistic doctors, naturopaths, natural medicine was what the elite used for many, many years. Modern medicine is for the masses, not for the elite. Why so many boys dressing up like girls? And I don't really spend a lot of time on social media, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, so I'm not 100% sure what you're talking about, but my two guesses are, one, they've always been dumping estrogen in the water like it's nobody's business, and two, the twisted gender agenda being shoved down our throats wants boys to be girls and girls to be boys. I did see a video by James Charles last week about Guy Liner and it's like, I don't know how many views it got, probably over 10 million by now, showing guys how to do eyeliner.  Where do you see yourself and your channel in a year? And this is something I really need to do a whole update video on and just talk about my life, my thoughts, you know, what I'm currently feeling and thinking. At this point, I mean, even just a year ago, I did expect to have some relief, like to not have to film, edit all my YouTube videos to run all my businesses myself. I expected to either have some help or to be making enough money to be comfortable and not stressed or worried about things. Now I'm going to continue to stick it out as long as I can because I have been doing YouTube every day for almost three years. But now I really don't know how much longer I can do this without any progress or reward. You know, my only guess is that pertaining to YouTube, my channel will still be heavily suppressed. I'll likely have a similar view count, if not less. And that's the reason I keep making videos every day. I'm really scared of what would happen if I stop because just taking a month off for jaw surgery from live streaming, I basically have to stop live streaming. I lost over 70 to 80 percent of my viewer base just taking a month off. So I feel like if I ever took a break from YouTube for any period of time, I would I would lose a very large percentage of my viewers because I'm not gaining any new ones due to my position in the algorithm. If you if it can even be called that other ingredients in supplements, what's totally fine, acceptable, but not optimal and avoided all costs. And this is very subjective and there are many different editives that can be in supplements off the top of my head. You have rice flour, magnesium, stear, a scourable, pomatate. The best case scenario, it should just be the supplement ingredient in a gelatin capsule. So if you buy like magnesium, glycinate or copper, glycinate in the ingredient list will say magnesium glycinate and then gelatin capsule, that should be it. But by all means, it's better to take a supplement and have some slight negative ingredient than not have that mineral in your diet because there are some things that are pretty much impossible to get from food now. So there has to be some level of sacrifice pertaining to that. What do you think about power electricity cut prediction by world economic form? Just like they predicted, you know what? With the scripted event, it's just more predictive programming, getting people to expect something so they don't question it when it happens. Everything in this world is planned, staged, scripted by those in power to control the masses. This is simply one of the tactics they use so that most blindly trust and authority. Oh, they're so smart. They predict the future. They knew what was going to happen. They warned everyone.  They have the script. My personal opinion on that is they need to keep people attached and connected to the internet, to the Wi-Fi, keep people getting radiated. So I'm not too confident that they're actually going to be cutting the power for any point in time. And if they do cut the power to people's homes, they certainly won't cut the power to radiation towers. Do you know what cancer really is? I don't believe in their explanation and all modern medicine. I think it is many different health issues with different causes, which has to be cured differently. They just call it cancer and don't worry if the person dies. The main goal of the medical establishment, big pharma, all doctors, MDs, nurses, is to pad their pockets through deception of the masses. There are a few real reasons to require a doctor or hospital. And we mentioned elites using naturopathic and holistic remedies earlier. Most modern health issues are caused by poor diet or high environmental radiation. I can't think of something that's not caused by those two things. Do you still eat raw meat? If no, why? I mean, we made the venison tartar last week, but I haven't been eating that much raw meat when you have liver damage or really any health issue. The bigger problem is to fix the underlying cause. And the only difference between raw and cooked meat is slightly less stress on digestive enzymes, and there is certainly a thermogenic warming effect to cooked meat. So raw is not better than cooked by any means. And there's no magical cure all property to eating raw meat. Like there's no underlying health issue that's caused by eating cooked foods. It's just a lack of certain things in your diet. And yeah, raw meat was present in many ancestral diets, but not mandatory by any extent. Do you prefer sausages or bologna flaps? And honestly, I thought there would be more silly, dilly questions that I can answer, but they are addressing those boys up pretty now. And maybe I just need to take a break from Instagram because I spend more time trying to figure out what the person's gender is before seeing their private parts. I mean, that's usually not an option. And they do have some really good surgeons now. What kinds of tea to go for and what kind to avoid as well as good brands? Is there anything at all to detoxing with tea, etc.? So just drinking tea or water fasting in general can take stress off your digestive system, but different herbs, roots, flowers, whatever is used to make the tea, have different properties. And there are dozens, hundreds, thousands of different types of tea. So you have to look at what you have access to. And the two main things to figure out is how the tea is grown. Is it polluted or full of chemicals? And what are those beneficial plant compounds in the tea? You know, something like Pau de Arco or olive leaf or uva ursi is antimicrobial, but there's certainly an anti-nutrient component to those things as well. There's pros and cons to nearly every food we consume. It's just we want the pros to mostly outweigh the cons. What should we shower with and use instead of deodorant? I'm in Serbia. There is no way for me to get your products. What are the natural things our ancestors used? So I'm sure you can find some clay locally, which can be used abrasively for cleaning your body, brushing your teeth. Our ancestors lived natural lives free of modern chemicals and bacteria. So just by bathing a few times per month in a river or lake, they were able to clean themselves fairly effectively. Another question about clay, the use of clay to absorb toxins. Animals use the clay to absorb toxins from the food. A study has shown the clay can absorb deadly amounts of mercury. Then we could eat clay after eating fish to get the benefits from fish without the pollution. So when you consume clay with a meal, it can bind to the toxins that were in the meal. But you don't want to consume the toxins in the first place. You're still going to be absorbing some of them. And it's an impractical solution that doesn't address the root problem. Has your perspective on fat loss changed over time? Do carbs have to be limited? Is there an optimal strategy for maintaining fat loss?  And I used to advocate for carnivore or high nutrient dense foods, which does work. I actually have several videos like how to lose weight, top five tips for losing weight as fast as possible. But in order of importance, I would say, number one, consume organic, high quality, local from farms and remove chemicals from the diet. Number two, reduce Wi-Fi EMF in the environment. And number three, don't combine sugar and fat to make hyper palatable foods. And then if you have adequate animal protein and high quality plant foods in your diet, your weight should regulate to normal. When you say you're getting fried by the Wi-Fi EMF, how do you know what that feels like? I'm surrounded by five computer and TV screens most of the day and I feel fine. So most people are used to being in a high radio frequency environment due to their cell phones being on them all day, always next to a router, laptop, various devices. I have a head cover and clothing on Wi-Fi shielding.com. And if you wear it for just five or 10 minutes, you will feel the difference.  The main reason I know this contrast is because I commute to New York City a couple of times a week and the levels of EMF in my house compared to New York are basically zero versus maximum. So I can really feel the difference. Does acid rain affect my spring water source? And if you are fortunate enough to have well or spring water, you still want to get it tested for chemicals and pollutants because it's impossible to know what exactly is going on nearby. I would Google like water testing and send it out to a couple of labs. It shouldn't cost you more than a few hundred dollars. Tutorial on how to grow taller with diets and environmental factors. Why are some people born naturally strong? So from the health of the sperm and the egg to prenatal nutrition, breastfeeding, early childhood nutrition, teenage years, getting adequate vitamins, minerals, fatty acids, as well as being in a low radiation environment throughout all of those stages of life are required for optimal physical development. With that optimal physical development comes height, bone density, natural athleticism and strength. And that's the physical side of the mental side, the DNA that does have to do with ancestry. It's a reason royal families usually only marry with each other. That's a whole different discussion, though. But hopefully you guys enjoy this Q&A. As I said earlier, keep an eye out on my community page in early February and I will make a post and we'll let it go for about a week or two, accumulate questions and then I'll pick some out. 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