Remember a hallmark card when you carry enough to send the very best. From Hollywood, the makers of hallmark greeting cards bring you Edward Arnold in Laura Ingalls Wilder's The Long Winter on the Hallmark Playhouse. Sweet Hallmark will bring you Hollywood's greatest stars in outstanding stories chosen by one of the world's best-known authors, a distinguished novelist, Mr. James Hilton. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. This is James Hilton. Tonight on our Hallmark Playhouse, we present our dramatization of a story by Laura Ingalls Wilder called The Long Winter. Have you ever stepped from a transcontinental train onto the platform of some railway station when the temperature is 40 below? Even a few minutes of it is something you'll never forget if it's a new experience, but perhaps it isn't. Perhaps you've been living in a place like that this winter. Well, the characters of our story lived in the Dakotas many years ago. Indeed, they were the kind of people who founded the Dakotas, a fine breed. And to play one of them in our leading role tonight, we have chosen a fine actor, Edward Arnold. And now a word about hallmark cards from Frank Goss before we begin the first act of The Long Winter. May we remind you once again that for every occasion important to your friends and loved ones, there are hallmark cards to carry your thoughts across the miles, across the years, or merely across the way. A hallmark card says what you want to say, just the way you want to say it. And that identifying hallmark on the back says that you cared enough to send the very best. Now hallmark playhouse presenting The Long Winter, starring Edward Arnold. Laura made her way toward the old Buffalo Wallows south of the Ingalls, claimed shanty. She could hear the cheerful whirring sound of the mowing sheen. Power was cutting to thick and tall bluestem grass for hay. The sky was high and quivering with heat over the shimmering Dakota prairie. In early August it was hard to believe that wind and snow and ice could ever drive the sun out of the sky, wither the grass and freeze the fond. Whoa Sam, whoa, dammit, whoa there, whoa. I brought you a jug of water, Pa. Sure, thank you, Laura. Fresh from the well. I pumped it myself. That's my big girl. And that just hits the spot.  I don't see how you stand it, Pa. Oh man, works better when he's warmed up half pint. Well, I better get on the move. Lots of mowing yet to be done before sundown.  Where is it? Over there, in the tall grass. Oh, by the pond there? Haycock child, that's a muskrat house. It is? Let's have a closer look at it, shall we? The horses will stand for me. Oh, I'd like to. Big, isn't it? Bigger than me. Oh, and bigger around the two of us could reach. My, my, we're going to have a hard winter, Laura. How do you know, Pa? Well, the colder the winter will be, the thicker the muskrats build the walls of their houses. You know, I never saw a muskrat's house built heavier than this one. But Pa, how can the muskrats know? About the winter going to be cold. Well, I don't know how they know, but they do. God tells them, I suppose. Then why doesn't God tell us? Oh, because we're not animals, we're humans. Now we've got to take care of ourselves. But I thought God takes care of us. Oh, he does, my dear, he does. He gives us the sunshine and the rain and the land. But we have to clear the land and plow it, and we have to sow the wheat and tend it, and harvest it and make it into bread for our use. And other men make other things. They work in shops and factories. Some plan and invent, some supervise and manage, and all together we have built a great nation here in America. But each of us as an individual can do as it pleases. Will they? Can't muskrats do what they please? No, my dear. Just look at that muskrat house. Now muskrats have to build that kind of a house. They always have, and they always will. But folks build all kinds of houses. And if their houses don't keep out the weather, it's their look-out. Man's free and independent. Oh. Well, come along now, little have-fine. Come along.  And I got to make hail while the sun shines. Lots of haze. We're going to have a long winter. Doesn't it, ma'am? No reason why it should. Do you think it's gonna snow more? Well, if it does, it'll be the first time I ever heard of a blizzard in September, Karen. Paul said it was going to be a hard winter. Not winter yet. Take a look at that pie in the oven, Laura. It's beginning to brown, ma'am. Looks good. I've never heard of green pumpkin pie before. Well, the frost killed most of the pumpkins before they could ripe. And we wouldn't do much if we didn't do things that nobody ever heard of before. Is Paul gonna shoot a wild goose for Sunday dinner, ma'am? Yes, child. Maybe he won't get a goose. Maybe he'll get some ducks. One or the other, the pond's full of them this time of year. Oh, come over by the stove, child. That wind must be raw. I walked into town.  Job, what's the matter? I don't know, my dear, but there's not a goose or a duck on the pond. And it seems that every living thing that runs us swims is hidden away somewhere. Maybe God told them like he did the muskrat. What did God tell them of muskrat, Paul? Never mind now, Carrie child. Supper's ready and your father's hungry, no doubt. Now, Caroline, we're moving to town as soon as we can. Why? I've gotta haul the hay into town first for the horses of the car and the heifer. If I hurry, I can haul one more load in before dawn. Oh, goodness, you just came in. But there's no time to lose, my dear. This house is nothing but a claim shanty. It doesn't keep out the cold. Our store building in town is good and tight and warm, but the stable is too. And as long as the trains keep running, we'll be a whole lot safer there.  Supper'll wake, Caroline, but I'm afraid the weather won't. Cando, isn't it beautiful? Yes. Yes, it is. Like a clip. The snow is beautiful, all right, but just the same, I'm glad it didn't come till we got moved into town. We're telling when I can get the rest of the hay hauled in. Well, let's see now. Your father-in-law has a room at the head of the stairs. New girl can have a front view. I wish we had a place like this out in the plain. Well, you could be glad we have it in town, where a train comes every day with coal and supplies. Just to be in town, we haven't been out of the house hardly in a month. Now, Laura. No wonder. I had to dig my way into the stable again. The snow's piled up high in the doors and snowed. Laura, take the pail, will you? Oh, sir. I'm afraid there isn't much milk in what there is for Osala before I could get it in the house. Well, let's be thankful for the little there is. There'll be less before there's more. Too bright, my dear. There's no coal left at the lumberyard. Folks burn so much in this cold weather and all Eli didn't have much on hand. What are we going to do, Charles? We're looking, Caroline. Of course, because we've got lots of hay and we'll burn that. Burn hay in the cook's stove? Sure, why not? How, Pa? Well, we'll twist the hay into states. It's not easy, I can tell you. But it'll help out till the trains get through. Come on, Laura, I'll show you. There isn't a drop of kerosene in town. Loftus hasn't got a bit of meat or flour left in the store.  Well, we'll just have to make that do. Laura, Charles, fetch him a couple of handfuls of beans. Still a few left in the barrel. And five potatoes, plenty of them, thank goodness. All right, Ma. You know, I wish there was a gristmill in town. You can't just boil the wheat, can you, dear? No, but, Charles, we have got a gristmill. We have? Sure. Hand me that old coffee grinder. We'll get along until the train gets through. My dear. You're wonderful. Yes, we'll get along. Together, I know we will. Now, there'll be no train till spring, not till the warm winds come, till the Chinook starts blowing. Charles. As fast as they clear the track until the traces of the cart that fills in again. The crew has given up. Oh, but they can't do that. We'll starve or freeze to death. Now, now, Caroline, we've been through harder times than this together that we've always made out. We've always said that it takes courage to open up a new country and faith in the Lord. You should carry hand me my fiddle. I want you to sing. All of you sing like you've never sung before. We want the Lord to know that the Ingalls have courage and faith. At the moment, we'll return to the second act of the long winter, starring Edward Arnold. Around my house these last few weeks, I've heard a lot of talk about purple. It seems that's one of the big colors of fashion this spring, and these are planning on a hat of either lilac, orchid, or violet, or maybe all three. Anyway, when I went down to select my Easter cards, knowing that hallmark cards always reflect the latest fashions, I fully expected to see purple bunnies. So I was really pleased when I found whole counters of beautiful hallmark Easter cards in every color imaginable. I welcomed the delicate spring sky blues and pinks of the Easter bunny's ears, the creamy whites and waxy greens of the gardenias as you welcome the first sunny day of spring. I know that when my wife receives the pink and white Easter card I selected for her, it will make her eyes all the brighter under her new purple hat because the words inside the card say something extra special. And that hallmark in the back means something too.  Now back to James Hilton in the second act of the long winter, starring Edward Arnold. When he settled, our Midwestern prairies were tough. They were determined and they had faith. Charles Ingalls and his family were of this breed and blood, but even they found the Decotan Winter Challenge a long winter that seemed as if it would never end. There's an extra potato, Charles. They're not big ones, but you must keep up your strength. But, Caroline, I've already had mine. Well, eat it to save it then. We don't want it, do we, girls? Mama, truly, I don't want it. Are you sure? Well, in that case, how's the potato barrel holding out? Oh, there must be almost a bushel there. But the wheat's almost all gone, isn't it? Oh, we'll manage somehow. Already it's the end of January, then February is a short month. And March will be spring. There's nothing like pork grease to bring out the flavor in a potato. I'm afraid that's the last of the salt poured, Charles. And you know, Caroline, Loftus was telling me he heard there's a settler 18 or 20 miles south to southeast of here raised 300 bushels a week last summer. And he's wintering in his claim shatting. Oh, Charles, you're not going to... Well, Loftus says he'd buy the wheat if somebody could go after it. He's the only man in town who's got the money to pay for it. I hope you're not thinking of starting out on such a wild goose chain. Well, the man might do it with a couple of days of clear weather and a snowfall to hold up the sled. No. No, Charles, no. A blizzard might come up any time. And there are no roads, no marks of any kind. Charles, where are you going? Oh, I'm going over to Loftus's store. In a while the brother will probably be there and maybe some of the others. I won't be long. Clear tomorrow. And Loftus, are you still willing to put up the money for that settler's wheat? I said I would, didn't I? Don't know who's to go after it, though. I will. There's folks starving in this town on Monzo. Now, it's 40 miles. We haven't had more than one clear day at a time since this thing started. You'd be lucky to make it in a day.  A farmer has to take chances, and I'm a farmer. No telling when this weather will let up and folks in this town have to eat in the meantime. Engels is right, Royal. I'm going with him. Now, wait a minute, old Monzo. Eat time. Count out your money, Loftus. Got it right here. Two a dollar and a half a bushel. I'm afraid you'll have to pay whatever we can get the wheat for. The town's spirit, though, Loftus. We'll get as much as we can for as little as we can. If he can get through, and if he can find the settler, and if he's got the wheat and if he'll sell, we'll take that chance. There'll be no charge for hauling. Am I right, old Monzo? Right. When do we leave, Engels? Just before sunup, as the weather clears.  And there's still an hour or so before dark. What if he doesn't make it, Mo? No, no, girl. You wouldn't want your pa to see you like this, would you? You'll be all right. I know it. But you can't even see girls. Now, if you sit by the stove here, I'll be disinversed. That'll help pass time till pa gets back. That's it. That's my help. Now, man, let's see. Oh, here's one. Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of His glory. I can read my title clear to mentions in the skies. I'll bid farewell to every fear and wipe my weeping eyes. The light's getting so poor I can't see to reach anymore. Potatoes must be about done, anyway. Well, we'll set the table, girls. The father will be hungry when he gets back. He's frozen, I'll bet. Maybe I'd better get some more haysticks for the fire. Shall I, Mo? Yes, as long as you don't have to twist anymore. Oh, no, Pa twisted a lot of them last night. Remember? Yes, yes. Mo! I'll bring back, Charles. Sixty bushels and a dollar twenty-five a bushel. Lafters and some of the men are unloading it now. Oh, a dollar twenty-five a bushel. I guess two bushels will be about all we can afford. Well, that'll see us through, though, Caroline. I'll go get it the first thing in the morning. Thanks to Lafters, nobody'll have to starve around here now, even if the trains don't come through till May. Thanks to you and Almanzo Wilder, too. Who do you suppose that is?  Why, Mr. Fuller? Good evening, Miss Inglis. Your husband here? Well, yes, he's just... What is it, Fuller? Did you charge Lafters anything for hauling that week? Almanzo Wilder says he didn't. No, I didn't charge him a cent. Why? Well, Lafters is charging three dollars a bushel for that week. He what? How much weight do you got left, Inglis? Caroline. Laura, ground up the last of it this morning. Those two loaves of bread is all there is. Come on, Fuller. You get the wilder boys. We'll have a talk with Lafters right now. That's a bushel. That's my business. Yeah, we'll show you whose business it is. The price I wanted for it. That's right, Lafters. You have. This is a free country, and every man's got a right to do his duties with his own property. But remember, Alamzo and I didn't charge you a cent for hauling that week. Well, why didn't you? I stood ready to pay any reasonable charge for hauling, but... Three dollars a bushel. Inglis and I didn't make that trip to skin a profit off folks that are hungry. Almanzo is right, Lafters. You know, there's not enough money in the mint to... We made it for my wife and our two little girls, and for all the other folks in this town who need that week to keep alive. Look at it this way, Lafters. We're all in this thing together. We've all got the same purpose. There's lots of land here for everybody. The soil is rich. We know that. But what chance could one man have alone in a Dakota prairie against the wind, the snow, the rain, to the drought? We are licking it, Lafters. We're building wealth and strength here. Not for ourselves, but for all America. After us we'll have richer lives. More abundance, greater security. Good heavens, Lafters, you're one of us. You're not a selfish man.  Living in a great democracy. Working in a great cause. Not for yourself alone, but for all. Can't put it any planer, Lafters. Or more honestly. You, uh... You can buy the wheat for just what it cost me. $1.25 a bushel. There's nothing on the roof. It's come at last. And breakfast is all ready.  Here it is spring and none of us lost or starved or frozen. Just potatoes and bread, Charles. Not much to celebrate, huh? Oh, it'll taste different this morning because we know that the trains will be coming through soon. How you ever managed was so little, my dear. I'll never know.  And I've got a lot to be thankful for. I bet the muskrats are glad the winter's over, too. Won't God tell the muskrats that spring is here, Paul? Well, I bet he whispered in their little ears better than a month ago. We thank thee, dear Lord, for all the many blessings received at thy hands, for the land you have given us to work, and for the happiness we enjoy as a family. Bless how they shall home and our lives, and this food to our use. We ask it in the name of our Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen. This had had to happen, but it still came as something of a shock when I answered the phone just before broadcast time. The voice at the other end said, Don't you Hallmark folks make a card to send to the income tax man? Well, about the nearest I could come to answering that request with its association to greenbacks was to suggest taking a look at the bright greens decorating the gay Hallmark St. Patrick's Day cards and leave it to the charm of the Irish to cast away the worries and cares of this week in March. You'll find these eye-twinkling Irish cards at the store where you buy Hallmark cards. And while you're there, why not select those Easter cards you want to send? They are lovely. And you can find one that helps you say what you want to say, just the way you want to say it. See these and all the other Hallmark cards when you want to remember your friends or share a smile with them. On special days or any days, a Hallmark card is warmly received. For remember, that Hallmark on the back tells in its own way, you cared enough to send the very best. Here again is James Houghton. Whenever your name appears in the cast, Eddie, the audience can always expect a great performance, and tonight was no exception. Thanks for being with us. Well, it's always great to appear on the Hallmark play.  And Eddie, we are all aware of your acting ability, but probably very few of our listeners know that you are a pretty fine cook, too. Haven't you got some cooking hints to pass on to our audience? Well, as you know, Jimmy, I do like to cook. Exciting and different dishes. So I always begin with a good recipe. I use the best of ingredients and then see to it that I put in the right thing at the right time. Wait a minute. That sounds like the recipe the Hallmark folks use when they make their Hallmark cards. The right words at the right time and the whole served in beautiful surroundings. I guess that's a recipe for many of the things that give us pleasure. Surely is. And speaking of pleasures, I think we have a special treat in store for our listeners next Thursday night, Eddie. On Hallmark Playhouse, that's not unusual, Jimmy. What have you planned for next week? Our story will be John Sedges' The Long Love, a very warm portrait of an American marriage and the problems encountered. And for our star, we have that popular young actor, Van Johnson. Our Hallmark Playhouse is every Thursday. Our director-producer is Bill Gay. We're conducted by Lynn Murray and our script tonight was adapted by Axel Grinberg. Until next Thursday then, this is Jane Tilton saying good night. The Hallmark cards that are so lonely in stores that have been carefully selected to give you expert and friendly service. Remember Hallmark cards when you carry enough to send the very best. Edward Arnold will soon be seen in the Paramount picture, Dear Brat. The role of Caroline tonight was played by Loring Tuttle and Whitfield was Laura. Norma Jean Nelson was Carrie. Also in our cast were Ted Osborne, Lamont Johnson, Sam Edwards and Parley Bear. This is Frank Goss saying good night to you all until next week at the same time. When Hallmark Playhouse returns to present Van Johnson in John Sedges' The Long Love. And the week following, Margaret Irwin's Elizabeth, Captain Princess, starring Anne Baxter. And in the weeks to follow, Frances Parkinson-Keyes, Joy Street on the Hallmark Playhouse. This is KMBC, Kansas City, Missouri.


The fact that people disagree about foundational things within Christianity mean that we need to get to a definition of what is true and what isn't true because two different Christians will tell you two different things and say that they're true and They will disagree on those things If we're going to say Christianity is true Why are those things different? I didn't bring this and I I repeatedly pointed it out First of all, I find it ridiculous and amusing and I figured that you would very easily say no I don't buy into the notion that there's five generals of hell and two of them are responsible for lesbian sex but How what criteria are you going to use? To determine the truth of what you call Christianity that would exclude what she thinks it is


Live from Orlando, Florida, it's theCUBE. Covering Pentaho World 2017, brought to you by Hitachi Ventara. Welcome back to theCUBE's coverage of Pentaho World. He brought to you, of course, by Hitachi Ventara. I'm your host, Rebecca Knight, along with my co-host, James Kobielus. We're joined by Charles Gatti. He is the business development manager at Melissa Data. Thanks so much for joining us. Great, thank you for having me. So tell our viewers a little bit about Melissa Data and what you do there. Well, Melissa is a data quality and identity assurance company. So we have been around for 30 years and we're a 30-year-old startup, you might say, and very innovative in what we do and the way we address our problems. We are the strategic partner for Pentaho as it relates to data quality. So most of our data quality solutions are embedded and available within the Pentaho stack. So my particular role there is to facilitate global sales and alliances, and Pentaho is one of our global alliances. Okay, so that's the strategic alliance and so what is your relationship now with Hitachi Ventara? That's a great question because now that we're with Hitachi Ventara, one of the things we're focusing on is a strategy around data quality blueprints. Data quality blueprints are something that Pentaho brought into that relationship or that new company, right? And it's a powerful way that they sell their solutions and craft the message around their solutions in a way that sound less technical and more engaging, I think. Now we're getting to a bit of an opinion there and so we're very excited to be one of the first companies from a partner perspective to do a blueprint that's not strictly Pentaho-based. Is it a consultative, you're talking about blueprints, is it a consultative marketing and sales tool or is it a solution accelerator template or a bit of both?  I think it's a bit of both, actually, yes. The nice thing that I've seen about the other ones they've done and the one that we're crafting is you're taking a use case effectively and you're breaking down what you're bringing to that use case with a sprinkle of technology so that they know it is a technical solution as well as a consultative sale, then you're telling them about the problem you're going to solve with it and then the expected outcomes after you've solved that problem. So the first use case is around, it's around customer data quality with an online retail, right? So everything from preventing packages from being misplaced by using address verification and geocoding in order to prove the inequality of address data that you're shipping all the way through to customer demographics so you can understand and overlay demographic information about the customers you're targeting online. All of these solutions, we bring the data piece of that and Pentaho brings the other elements to make that combined blueprint. So just in hearing you say those things I'm thinking back to what we heard in the main stage today about the potential of the dark side in the sense of the models maybe being used for nefarious reasons. I mean, how do you guard against that? Well, there's that AI component which was very much of the Skynet comment I believe and then there's data quality which having been around data quality for quite a while there's a rules-based element to that that isn't necessarily AI-based so you don't necessarily have as much of that dark side to deal with. What you are rightfully pointing out is the idea that you're using elements of data that represent someone's identity potentially, right? And how do you protect and safeguard that? And our 30 years in the business really gives us an insight on how to protect the data in ways that ensure the quality of it but then also ensure that it's not used for nefarious purposes like I said. Okay, so as you know Pentaho co-founder James Dixon coined the term the data lake. So how has Melissa partnered and integrated with Pentaho in that way? And how does data governance and quality ride upon and leverage the data lake to be effective? Okay, so two-part question. So looking at it from the perspective of what was described in the data lake, things are going into the data lake, right? Well, you can take two approaches to it. I guess you can try to boil that data lake which is very challenging, you know? Or you can extract quality information out of it and so data quality, whether you're pushing data quality into the lake or whether you're trying to extract actionable intelligence out of the lake fits on both sides, right?  Otherwise it's a lake. The other side you mentioned is the governance side of it. So our components that run and our services that run as a part of what is offered with Pentaho give elements of a feature like profiling. So you're able to profile the data as it's moving between these different places, see the anomalies, potentially address the anomalies if that's something you need to do or at least be aware of them so you know what's going on, right? And you're constantly monitoring. Is that, does that involve AI or machine learning on your end to do that to the anomaly detectives in the data lake? There's elements of our technology that leverage pieces of that for sure. I mean, I wouldn't call it a full blown AI from that perspective but there is some patents and some proprietary technology that we have that gives us a unique approach on how to profile that data and how to make that profiled information actionable within Pentaho. So you talked about the retailer use case and that's how we can make sure the packages are delivered to the right places and the demographic. What are some other examples of ways that we could use Melissa data? Okay, so as luck would have it, the first use case, the first blueprint we're doing is the customer one I just mentioned but we're already talking with Hitachi Vitara about the idea of doing a financial services one, right? And so in that FinTech space, not only would you be able to leverage matching the duplication which they call more of an identity resolution in that element, but you'd also be able to leverage the elements of data that we bring to bear to say that you are who you say you are. So you bundle those together in a FinTech or a financial services model and you've got a different use case from customers and online retail but you still have a very compelling joint offering as you're pushing data through. Which is particularly relevant in light of the Equifax breach which will haunt us for the rest of our lives we keep hearing about. Yes, so you have to be very careful with the data that you utilize, absolutely. One of the terms we keep hearing a lot is future proofing. What does that mean to you at Melissa Data? How do you describe your approach to future proofing your business? So it's interesting because as I mentioned we're pretty much a 30 year old startup so as a function of that we future proofed ourselves because we've evolved and adapted and you have to be nimble, you have to be agile as well as embracing agile concepts which there's two different meanings there if you will and so in looking at that you want to make sure that you've got the right technology set and that technology set can be easily adapted and evolve over time, right? And I think those are the key things we've done as a company with the solutions we've built and much like I heard today on the keynote that Hitachi had focused to do we've done a very similar thing because we started in direct marketing with a database of zip codes and now we offer matching and we offer these cloud solutions and identity so we've had a very similar tract to that story you heard earlier.  How do you stay innovative? I mean now you are a 30 year old startup that now has employees in four locations across the US dealing in huge businesses. How do you keep that startup mentality the hungry mentality and the hacky mentality? I guess you're just saying too. Well you know one of the real advantages we've got there is that our CEO and founder has always innovated from the first company before Melissa all the way up through today. He's always been one to say we need to try that next thing. Pentaho five or six years ago was that next thing that he and our VP of strategy said we should try and now I'm sitting here with you today. So there's a top down bottom up approach if that makes sense to you because if you have an idea you can bring that idea forward as well. You can see that the next thing and Hitachi Ventara has been saying that in spades today here at this event. It's also a Wikibon research focus. The edge, edge computing, edge analytics, data, machine data coming from edge devices. How is Melissa data in partnership with Pentaho moving towards this edge-to-outcome frame of reference or frame for building innovative solutions? Where does it fit with your roadmap going forward? Right, so you know our perspective on that is much like when we first engaged with them. Data was going into the data layers. Let's get it all in there.  Well eventually you have to make that data actionable. You're going to have a reverse scenario with the edge. There's a lot of data, small amounts, small chunks that are going to be everywhere. I think it was talked about being on cell phones and everywhere else. The idea that you can extend the reach of data quality along with the reach of analytics to actually make sure that you're getting the best data you can to feed those micro analytics and to feed that, that's a critical part that we see as potential. Looking ahead to, what are some of the problems that you want to solve? I mean just sort of the next year, the next five years, what are some of the things that you're thinking about and keeping you up at night right now? Well we're doing some very interesting things with globally unique identifiers, I'll call them that. Not a GUID in that sense, but the idea that every address on the planet could be indexed, right? And then the idea beyond that was every email and every phone and every identity around that could be indexed. And then when you're dealing with a massive amount of indexes, it becomes a lot faster and a lot easier to match, to do other data quality tasks. So it's one of the projects that our CEO is very interested in is this sort of indexing, our massive indexing table concept, right? And so that's one of the things I know we're very focused on as an organization and how that can feed all of our other technologies. How would that work? I mean I know it's a research process in motion. And keep in mind, I am the head of Global Sales and Alliances, so don't bust out over the two technical questions right now. So this is an identity resolution at a massive scale. Does it involve an internet of things, almost like a, you know, slap me on the wrist, like a graph, a social graph of you and all of the identities you may have running on various edge devices. You meaning a user. I think there is the potential for pieces of that. I'm a geek here. There's a potential for pieces of that to be used in that way. Like an example we got approached about was someone who wanted to have a cookie that represented the address that they just captured from this particular interaction on the web, right? Well imagine if you could use this table of addresses that was indexed, right? To get that number back and you just stored that number constantly with that cookie. You'd never have to store that address data again. You could match that index against other indexes and the uses go on and on and on. So it's not complete in any way so I wouldn't want a venture to answer the complete part of your question but the idea that you can represent things with a series of numbers is how the internet got started effectively, right? So you can look at something similar, yeah. Right.  What is your, what do you hope to take away from it? I mean, are you talking to- Outside of business? Yeah, outside of getting some deals done, exactly. But what are you learning? What are you hearing? What are you sharing best practices and how do you do that here? Well, you know, we're pretty tightly connected into different elements of what is now Hitachi Vitara, right? So we work with their office in Singapore. We work with, you know, work with them and engaged all over the world on many different fronts. And so it's nice to be here one so that you can literally put some faces with some names, right? And as you look at some of their different initiatives like cybersecurity that I've seen over there somewhere and then some of the initiatives they've got going, they march a bit in lockstep with what we're doing and we're looking, the nice thing about being here is the ability to sort of reconcile that and see and talk about how we could go forward together with those other elements, so if that makes sense. Right. Yeah, absolutely. Well, Charles, thanks so much for coming on theCUBE. It's been a great talking to you. Thank you for having me. I appreciate it. Great. We will have more from the CUBE's live coverage of Pentaho World in just a little bit.


Early data, what is this? This is a ESP32 Feather V2 and I've swapped out the CP2102N or CP2102104 with a WCH chip called the CH9102. You can see the WCH logo there and it's a pin compatible version of a USB to URK converter. It uses different drivers. It's not like a complete direct clone to lead new drivers but it's pin compatible and I was just testing it with uploading code to the ESP board at high speed so I want to make sure it works at the high speed we use which is a 921 kilobot. This is more info about the chip. It's kind of new but this is great because I'm having some difficulty getting an FCP2102 so this means I can keep the hardware in stock. We're going to make it through this chip shortage together so let's see this update soon in the shop.


Well, that's one veil Now the sorcerers can get in but there's still two more veils, right? Oh, no. Yeah, two more two more But yeah, you know is the one to worry about bro, I don't even know if he's still alive quite frankly Oh, is that him? Oh, it is Is he alive? He doesn't have full control she controls him gosh, he's creepy Oh Is he fighting back boy, I don't think you know who you resurrected man My body is special This is my soul He lost her grandson's soul is actually just gone. Toji just recorded over it brother To say the least Boos Ah, he's alive I'm going to punch them And to think that like my hito is headed right for yuji right now as soon as possible kind of an anxious feeling Oh How long can mechimora exist through this like radio thing at least he knows alive For making gojo omi that's all she could think about Oh, I thought she was near him that was faster Maybe he's getting a little worried that they're getting closer. Hopefully I don't know Oh, the butcher. This is the one that killed him all the way. He walks a little unnerving Isn't he taking in a sorcerer? She's just like Yeah, no agg is long gone I honestly don't even remember how that like blade worked. He just chucked it like nobody wins here, right? I don't know. I'm this is probably the last show I could power scale Throwing the match. Ah, he's fast He's just running to get his knife Okay, so it just moves. All right, okay But it's still possibly as close range, especially with the blade. Is it chasing her? Oh my gosh, it is He needs it though. No, he only has that one blade That's terrifying bro No, oh my Oh, bro, my achilles Oh, this is so creepy Dude, this guy is a demon Oh, no, no, you fell right for it God, her power is so clean man. He just doesn't care Skull shot. He break her jaw Oh Dog her jaw is 1 million percent broken. Oh my gosh He's like, yeah, this thing just moves. I don't get it either Oh, no, no, but I need to like pop off She's trying to speak to him Oh my god, my jaw is like hurts just still Great talent and love soccer would do if they were born a world without soccer The brother's analogy Oh Someone else someone else stop Who who's shoes who's walking? Oh Oh, no No, they're gonna stop it But what there's an interesting entrance though. She just broke the glass in Oh, he looks pissed. Why because of each EG? Oh brother Look at this giga chat, bro It's come for revenge. Oh, she's gone. Don't have the escalator. I can't believe she crawled away. He stabbed her like You can tell he's getting nervous 99% chance crits I died Dude, Nanami has the coolest power in this show. I don't care. He knows he has him. Oh my gosh Bro, he looks the minted.  Is this confident in it as a domain expansion No Whoa, what would have happened if he had gone to one? Oh my gosh She's like yeah, that sounds like gojo. Mm-hmm. She wants to fight Yeah, I think he's telling the truth Damn, it's not like he would turn away free help for no reason. What about yuji?  This is horrifying. Look at those muskules But what a banger episode the shabuya incident just heats up more and more and him saying that he has the minimum level Required just kind of sets the precedent for it all and now may taking on this special grade curse that has its own domain expansion Get those saying all right. Well if you can beat this and come to me and we can fight This is a lot of insane insane fight setup not to mention the fact that toji is here and alive Kind of I don't know like his this soul was stronger than the entirety of that other guy's entire existence And he just took over the entire spell or resurrection and even killed the grandma I would have thought that the gram gram like dying would sort of nullify the entire resurrection But I guess not I don't know we probably don't have enough information as is But guys doesn't mean for my reaction to the youtube guys. It just gets crazier and crazier drop a fat like on this one The event already. I'll catch you in the next one base base


Would you say that an accounting is a relatively flexible degree? So what I mean by that is, let's say, you know, an 18 year old who's about to go to college thinks they want to go into accounting because they want to become a controller, for instance. So that's their goal. They want to become a controller. And then a few, you know, a few years down the line, they change their mind, right? They, they, they work a little bit and they're like, okay, I don't want to be a controller anymore. Would it be relatively easy for them to go in a different direction? Yeah, yeah, and that's a great question. So the flexibility that exists within accounting, it's, it's there, but it's the limited flexibility to the realm of finance, right? So what I've seen, you know, the three major buckets, I'd say in accounting is either taking sort of the controllership route. If you realize that that's not really what you want to do and you realize you want to do more of the strategic finance, you know, more of like, you know, say, you know, planning out the future, the financial future of the company. So that's more, that's more on the sort of the FPNA or financial planning and analysis. So that's sort of the second bucket that you can easily transition to from a controller to FPNA or financial planning and analysis. And then the third bucket is going to be now what's becoming sort of, you know, an extremely lucrative and health market, which is financial systems. So this is like we talked about earlier, this is someone who can combine the know how of programming, the different, the various financial platforms and software and how to tie this all together and make systems talk to each other and make things more efficient, less prone to error and faster. And so, yeah, so the flexibility exists in transitioning between these three major buckets, controllership or the accounting. And then you have the strategic finance or the FPNA and then you have the financial systems. This is the three buckets of work and then the other flexibility that exists. And I've had colleagues in the past go to work for the government. So, you know, for example, there is a popular program with the FBI in working as a special agent in the accounting field. Right. So this is one of forensic accounting, you're, you know, investigating, you know, corruption and government officials. A lot of times you're overseas and it's, this is very glamorous and it's a lot of people, you know, pursue it. You need to have a certain requirement in terms of age, in terms of you have to go through some, I think physical tests to get through it. The other thing that you can do as well is work for the UN. So, you know, I've had a colleague go from a controller to working as a treasurer for the UN. So there's a lot of positions open, open up with the UN more difficult to get into the private industry for sure, but the flexibility is there. So I'd say there's a lot of flexibility within the realm of finance to move between, you know, accounting and finance positions. Hey guys, Shane from the future here. I really quickly wanted to mention, because for some reason I forgot to in the video, Bill has some phenomenal resources for anybody who wants to become an accountant and I'm going to include those at the top of the description down below. So definitely check those out. Got it. So would you say that maybe compared to other degrees or other types of careers that, you know, an accounting degree would be one of the more flexible out of all of them or would you not say that? You know, like to objectively say that, you know, because I've only had the one career, right, in accounting. Yeah, that can be kind of difficult to, yeah. But I guess I guess I'm judging from, you know, looking at, because I have friends who are engineers, doctors and different, and different walks of life, different, you know, different kind of career types. And the flexibility that I've seen in my career has been great enough to say that it's been higher than even what they do.  You could go work for a private company and research. So, you know, you can tell here that the flexibility in both in accounting and also in all of these other fields is what you make of it. You know, plus, and this is really important, what other skills can you combine with this to become something else? So, you know, take accounting or finance and add communication skills, someone who's a great communicator, right?  So, or a financial coach. So, the ability to be flexible exists. It's just what you can add to it and combine, combine another skill set with finance or accounting and, you know, reinvent yourself or something else, you know, that exists. So, yeah, this is, I would say that's great flexibility compared to like other careers. Got it. And then what type of, I know this can be a pretty difficult one, but what type of person or personality or, you know, natural traits do you think would be good for someone that goes into accounting? Yes, good question. So, you know, by definition, just from my own experience working in accounting, you know, if you're sort of personality type, your personality type is an introvert and sort of, you know, thrive more in an environment where you're dealing with a smaller group of people. Accounting is very well suited for you.  So, the one area of, you know, in between or a gray area here is if you get into accounting as a mean of getting into strategic finance. When you work in strategic finance, you need to be sort of the extrovert type who is going to be talking to everyone from sales, engineers, you know, around the company. Pretty much every function around the company you need to be communicating with as a finance or a strategic finance person. So, if your personality type is an introvert, I think accounting is going to be very well suited for you versus extrovert. For that, I think, you know, more strategic finance role will be much more well suited. So, for someone who is maybe on the fence between, you know, finance, accounting, some of the other business degrees, or maybe even someone who doesn't know if they want to do a business degree at all. They're just looking, you know, around a different degrees. What would you give, what would be your best advice for someone, for a viewer to find out if accounting would be a good career path or getting an accounting degree would be a good degree for them to get? Yeah, great question. So, I think that, you know, one of the steps you can take is if you're in college and you're still kind of testing the waters and you're trying to look around and see what you should be doing, you know, taking an accounting 101 class is a good way to kind of see, you know, you're going to be stuck studying this for the next three years, right? So, like, you need to like it. So, taking, you know, an accounting 101 course is really good. The second thing you should be doing is doing your own research in terms of talking to people who are accountants and quite honestly doing what you're doing now if you're watching this video and kind of like seeing what it looks like to be sitting on the other side of the fence once you've kind of, you know, mid-career, you've put in, you know, a good number of hours and years learning, what does it feel now?  Excuse me. So, this is the kind of thing you should be doing in exploring your own interest, you know, take a good class in accounting. Funny because for me, I didn't really want to major in accounting necessarily, but when I took accounting 101, that professor was just an amazing guy. So, you know, it's interesting what are the motivations, right? Like the guy used to speak so highly of his own, you know, private practice as a CPA and how much fun he has with it that he kind of convinced me to get into it. So, you know, I'd say, you know, taking a class and speaking to people is really important in kind of discovering in general what you want to do. I just from personal experience, I enjoyed accounting in terms of, you know, studying it and working in it. It's been rewarding to be someone who can, you know, open up the 10K of a public company and like really just know, you know, where to go and what to look for. So, so yeah, this has been my experience and I, you know, advice everyone to kind of like do, you know, watch, you know, watch interviews, you know, videos, try to get as much exposure to what it is really like to work as an accountant. There's even like things that you can see online on like the day in the life. I think the day in the life is really important to kind of measure, you know, if you can see yourself doing this for a career. So yeah, that's what I advise people to do. So let's say that someone was looking into a very specific position, not necessarily, you know, you specifically, but let's say they were potentially thinking about becoming a controller, setting that goal for themself. How would they go about getting in contact with a controller in such a way where they could maybe ask them a few questions, pick their brain to see if it's a good career path for them? You know, LinkedIn has been a good, like a good place for that, where, you know, sort of at the early on in my career, you know, people are just more willing to talk to you than you think. I think this is kind of a misconception that you think that, you know, no one has a time, which is true to some extent. However, you'll be surprised, you know, ask and you shall receive like ask for the advice, reach out and ask.  So yeah, I think it's a it's really, you know, a head and treasure to kind of go out there and look for, for these people to talk to. Don't be discouraged if you reach out to 10 people for only one person to get back to you. This is just a nature of things. People don't read their, you know, messages or inbox that often sometimes you just don't have the time for it, but, you know, asking and you should receive just like ask the question, reach out and, you know, you'll get some answers. Would you recommend maybe getting an opinion from several different people just so you can kind of get an idea, because sometimes you might ask one person and it's like they're super passionate about the career, you ask another person, they're not, not so happy about it. So it's probably a good idea to get an opinion from several different people if possible. Yes, absolutely.  So I'll tell you that it's, it's fun. It's rewarding. It's awesome. I'll tell you all these things.  And so, yeah, getting some different perspectives. Yeah, that's really important I think. Is there anything else that I didn't go over? Any questions I didn't ask that you think are, you know, might be pretty important for someone who's potentially looking to get an accounting degree or become an accountant? You know, I guess like the, the one thing I'll add is the benefit of working in accounting is knowing the sort of the ins and outs of the numbers that go into the business. So the funny thing about it is like when you go to a company, you want to talk to someone who knows everything that's going on. You're likely to be, you know, looking at an accountant.  And so, compare that to someone who works in, you know, whether it's the R&D or engineering department or in sales, most likely they'll know sort of like their realm of what they do. They'll be really good at it. However, someone who can tie everything together for you is going to be someone who's working in accounting, most likely. And so this is the one thing that sort of people don't think about too much. And it's important, right? Like when you know the mechanics of everything that goes on in the company, it makes you much more rounded, not only in your career, but also as, you know, when it comes to your investments, if you're like investing in the market, you know, knowing, you know, looking at the income statement and figuring out where the potential areas of issues are is really important. So that's one of the things that I'll say has been like a rewarding sort of attribute to working in accounting in general.


Hello and welcome to NewsClick. Today we are going to discuss about the Kurdish referendum which has been carried out by Barzani's in region Iraq and to discuss the issue we are joined by Ily Trinche, Prabir Purghast. So, Prabir, this referendum has taken place. Is it actually going to result in declaration of independence and what are the reactions of the involved countries in the area? Again, two sets of questions. One is, is it going to lead to a declaration of independence? Now, there are two elements to it. One is, is it a legitimate referendum because the Barzani government, the Barzani was a president in 2008 and this is the five-year term. So, 2013, this term should have ended. The elections should have taken place. The Kurdish parliament, which is really a regional parliament, extended it by another two years. 2015, it should have actually formally ended, after which it has not been again extended. So, essentially his presidency could be considered not legitimate. That is one part of it. So, is it a legitimate referendum at all? Secondly, without the consent of Iraq, which after all it is a part of legally, is there a legal referendum possible to be held by not even a fully legitimate government, shall we say, of the Kurdish region? So, these are the two illegitimacies as it were of the referendum itself. It is an enabling provision for Barzani to bargain with, if he wants, with Iraq. It is also for Iraq to consider whether he will accept this referendum or not and we will come to that in a minute. But he has not declared Barzani and his group has not declared independence. They have got 92% votes. For all those who cast votes, obviously, largely were in favor of independence. But he hasn't declared independence. So, we shouldn't take the referendum as a given that this is automatically led or will lead to independence. That is one part of it. The second question that you raised, what are the response of the countries? Clearly, none of the countries in that region want an independent Kurdistan. How homogeneous are the codes in that area? Open question. There are 28 million codes in that region. The largest, about 12 to 14 million really are in Turkey. Others, I think the next largest is Iran, then Iraq and about 2 million in Syria. So, this is the total of 28 million in the region. They are not homogeneous in terms of either religion or in terms of the language they speak. There is an ethnic identity of being Kurds. That's what unites them. This is the recognition with which Ocalan, who is now in prison in Turkey, he had said we should look for soft borders, autonomy and not look for now national identity and central determination in terms of the Kurdistan. That's been Ocalan's position and that's something the PKK has been following, though they have now come again into an almost virtual stage of civil war in Turkey. Barzani is only one part of it. He has been an old CIA asset. The Peshmerga were built by Israel to fight against Iraq and Israel had not really forgiven the Iraqis during the 48 war having defeated them. The Iraqi brigade there did defeat his really forces at that point of time or the Zionist forces at that point of time. So, they were really itching for a fight and they found Kurds in Iraq to be a vehicle for that. The Peshmerga were built on that basis. The whole geopolitical politics in that region has changed. It was earlier the Shah of Iran who was supporting the Peshmergas. It was CIA of course and Israel who were the main people who were involved in all of this and that was an anti-Bathist Iraq operation that they were doing. Now as I said the things have changed. In the realignment that has taken place while Turkey and Iran may be on the opposite sides but given what has happened in the region they are not as opposed to each other as they were. Saudi Arabia has emerged as a new pole and the Americans are no longer the best friends of the Turks after the kind of coup attempt that was there in Turkey. With this realignment Turkey was the firmest backer of the Barzani's. He was training their people, he was training their army, he was allowing oil to pass through. Turkey also sees the threat of a Kurdish state coming up in the region because then the PKK's demand for an independent autonomous region or independence would then be a threat to Turkey. So Turkey has come down very heavily. They haven't stopped things from the moving of the border but they have come heavily. They've stopped flights to Erbil so have certain other countries. The flights to Erbil have stopped. They are threatening to stop the flow of both food as well as oil. Certainly they can stop oil. The financial transactions are going to be hit. Already Bank of Iraq has said that they will not accept transactions for Kurdistan. So Erbil which is where the center of the Barzani clan today is, is coming under attack of this kind, isolation of this kind. With all the surrounding states having declared they will not accept independent republic of Kurdistan in Iraq which Barzani is a referendum was, doesn't look likely that this is going to be easy without any external shall we say access to the world. How much the Americans and the Israeli, the Israelis have declared open support for Kurdish region particularly the Barzani's who are their old allies. Their entire Peshmerga as I told you was built by the Israeli Mossad and the Israeli forces. So how much Israel can play is an open question. They don't really have any easy access to the region. Americans yes, they would have access to air but how much they want to invest and alienate Turkey completely still a major NATO power is something we have to see. So I don't see this going anywhere except isolation for Barzani externally but it could help him to retain control over rest if Kurdish republic, rest if Kurdish people in the region who are not happy with the fact that they have a illegitimate president holding on to power without local sanction. So probably as you have pointed out the reactions of different countries and what it is going to lead to how are things going to change in Iraq and Syria and since there's a lot of fighting going on the Free Syrian army there what will be reaction of Bashar al-Assad government regarding it what is going to happen there? Well the major element now is the collapse of the ISIS which is also making the Kurds react in different ways because as it vacates the area who's going to grab it is really also the issue. So if you remember when the ISIS attacked the Sinjar mountainous regions and this is this was a really something which is a real big blot on Peshmerga literally either we drew or ran away whichever way you look at it and it was actually the PKK, YPG fighters who came in that region to the defense of the Yazidis that who are not really fully in that sense of Kurdish identity but ethnically maybe considered Kurdish but have different religious beliefs than either Sunnis or Shias. So all of this saw actually only PKK and the YPG come to the defense. The Peshmergas ran away or withdrew from the area. Now Peshmergas or the Barzani clan's relationship the ISIS seems to have been very much of a hide and seek one. They have not engaged them they have not fought against them and it would also seem to indicate that the Americans wanted ISIS to grab territory in that part to put pressure at the time on the Iraqi government which they felt was too getting too close to Iran and also of course put pressure on Bashar al-Assad who they wanted to depose or wanted the regime change. So you see tension growing between the Kurdish forces as well as the Syrian army and the Americans have seemed to be playing a game of trying to get the oil to the Kurdish groups which in which case they can exercise an indirect control over that. It's also very similar in Iraq the question is who now gets Kirkuk? Who is once the ISIS falls? Who takes that region's oil is also the reason Barzani would like to flex his muscles. So this is one part of it. I think this is something that we have to see how it develops. I have till now believed that the YPG has been playing a very careful game of calibrating how much it opposes the Syrian government and how much it opposes the Russian forces and how much it recognizes that without some amount of shall we say negotiations with the Syrian government it cannot face the Turks alone and clearly the Turks are the major enemy because YPG is very close to PKK if not really a part of it. So given that equation I do not believe that the Syrian Kurdish forces will behave the way Barzani forces will. Barzani has a stake only in the oil and the loot of the region for personal gains. So that's been the problem there. How much the Kurdish population will support Barzani is a bigger issue for me and will they be able with opposition that Iraq is now going to place be able to continue to expand and take over the oil-rich areas which are with ISIS till now that's something we have to see. The fall of Masul is the Iraqi army which has played a role and it's clear that they have been the primary forces fighting the ISIS and when ISIS is fallen whether the vultures of the Barzani clan will try and take over the oil wealth without fighting from the ISIS is really the question that we have to see and that's the larger geopolitical stake that is there in the fall of ISIS and attempts by Barzani to expand shall we say his share of the oil wealth.


Chevy. Chevy. Chevy. Such a good boy. Vena, how you doing, bud? How you doing? Very good, thank you. Thank you. How you doing? Hello. Boy. Morning, everybody. We've been home for a few days now. I didn't film every day, so a little quicker on your end, I understand, but we've gotten a lot done. We are slowly getting this house up to tip-top shape. It's gonna be good. So we should be done in the next few weeks. Other than that, I gotta head back out on the road today. We're going to Alberta. Got a load that needs to deliver in Edmonton. And then I've got a load coming back home, and I'll be back for next weekend as well. I gotta finish this work. I wanna get everything done here, finally. I don't wanna be living like that any longer. I wanna paint that, put the trim up. It's time. It's time to just get everything done, and then don't have to worry about it. So we'll do that next weekend. But for now, we gotta get our stuff together. First, I gotta go mow the lawn. I'm looking forward to that. And then, and then we gotta head to Alberta. Gorgeous, but gorgeous Alberta, right, Chevy? Home, sweet home, right? Not gonna lie, I really didn't wanna leave home. I never wanna leave home.  I love what I do. I love my job. I love driving truck. I love getting on the road.   It was more hard than usual today. But man, I'm not gonna get you down with that. We're back in our mobile moving home. The one that makes us money. The other home doesn't make us any money. It actually costs us a lot of money. This one is the one that makes us money. So, got my big blue bag here. This bag has my life in it. Got everything except my wife in here. Wait, maybe she's in here. I'm just kidding. Maybe I packed her away. Wouldn't that be a nice surprise? Okay, what is this? Turn this around. Open it up. Where's the zipper? Where's the zipper? There it is. Okay, then we got this. I got my little bear Scotty here from my friend Wadi in Scotland.  Plain to bag pipes. What are you looking at? He missed me. At least I have someone to look forward to spending some time with other than diesel, eh? Where can I put you?   Britt and I really want to go on a trip to Scotland and Ireland. We were actually planning on taking the trip this year, right? Well, this year or next year, soon anyways. Like really soon in the immediate future of the next year or two. And then the sickness came. Well, here's our new friend. Just hooked her up. I hook up the lights, roll up the dollies.  Geez. Yeah, we gotta go do our pre-trip and stuff. We'll be on our way. I don't know how far I'll get tonight. I wanna at least get to Brandon two and a half, three hours down the road. It's already dark, so I thought quite dark, but probably about 10 o'clock right now.  So I was just checking the wipers here, making sure they're working, washer fluid's working and we're all set, ready to rock. I got carried away watching videos on the internet here about what's going on in Portland, Oregon. It's crazy, just night after night of riots. Wow. Glad I don't go through there very often. I tell you that, I'm like, wow. We're not going there, we're going to Edmonton. Let's hang out out here for a little bit. Things are getting a little crazy down there. Let's sit this one out, let's just go to Edmonton. Making our way around the south side of Winnipeg. Sun's pretty much gone down already. The northern sky is still light over there, but the days are slowly, slowly the daylight hours are slowly getting shorter. I don't mean to leave you on a depressing note, but still beautiful weather out here. We got another month of hot summer heat start getting ready. There was a cyclist on the road there, on the other side, going the other direction. You're going to get hit, buddy. There's a cyclist path on my side of the road. Why wouldn't you be on the cyclist path? Cyclists, I tell you. They're like my arch nemesis on the highway. I'm hauling like 80,000 plus pounds of vertling steel, and you've got this little tiny bicycle on the highway trying to share the road with me, doing just a fraction of the speed I'm doing. Yeah, that's smart. Ha, literally wouldn't even feel it. I don't like cycling. Some people just don't like cyclists. So how far do you think we're going to make it today? Like I said, I'd like to at least make it in Brandon. We shall see if we got started a little later than I anticipated a lot later.  Things always take longer than you think it will. Always. Grab myself a little bit of late supper here. Pilot flying J-Pizza. Park stop and goodness. I am ready to rock. First day on the road is always kind of blah. So at least the first day back on the road is short.  How's that sound? So we're at the flying J in headingly. Manitoba here, just on the west side of Winnipeg. I guess I'm gonna have to go all the way around because this way these pumps are set up. That's okay, out of mind.  So if I'm spending the night in this region, I'm usually spending the night at home in my own bed with my wife and not alone in the truck. Well, I got diesel, but it's just not the same. One second, signal my intentions. I've told you this before, right? On my driver test, it was just my regular car driver test when I was 16. My driver test, I got five points against me because I did not signal my intentions in a wide open gravel parking lot. Apparently we're supposed to do that. So I do that. It also helps people wandering around the parking lot know what you're doing and what you're up to. There's a big bug right in front of the camera. That was there the whole time, wasn't it? Why didn't I, you know what? We're gonna clean it off right now. We're going back around, signal my intentions to want more, want some more. Ah, we're going back in here. I'm gonna wash this window. How dare it? They always smash right in front of the camera too. It's frustrating. Everyone's gonna be wondering, what's that driver doing? He's crazy. Going back for more for you? Well, no, some bug committed suicide with my truck. Why are you gonna involve me in that? It was just that one bug. The one bug right in front of the camera. It's like they planned it out. It's like they're at war with me. I'm not at war with them, but they're at war with me. They keep taking shots at me. Little soldier bugs. Make sure to hit them right in front of the camera. He really hates it when you do that. Gotta say they got pretty good aim. How's that? Better? Try this again. Now I can go this way. I don't have to go all the way around this time. Ridiculous. Much better. Let's hit the road. Trans Canada, westbound. And we have arrived to Brandon, Brandon, Manitoba. City of the West, western part of the province. My image stabilization doesn't work as well at night, so you're gonna see a little bit more shaking. Got an ESO now. ESO bought Husky. Sort of like how Pilot bought Flying J, I think. Or is it the other way around? What do I know? ESO bought Husky. And now it's ESO. But I still call it Husky. Husky has like a Canadian ring to it. ESO. How did ESO buy Husky? ESO was almost obsolete. You'd never see ESO anywhere. Suddenly they buy like one of the largest truck stops in Canada, just out of nowhere. Where'd you get all that money, ESO? I thought it'd be, I thought Husky would buy ESO. I think I'm overthinking this, I'm tired. Coffee hasn't quite worn off yet. My brain's still going 100, 100, 100 miles a minute. You figure that one out. We're gonna pull into here anyways. I wanna stop at a truck stop. I gotta get some water. I don't have any water in the truck. Makes me nervous when I have no water. What if something happens and I get stuck somewhere and I got nothing to drink? That's not good. You should always have food and water for at least a few days. A few days worth. What? Hey, don't look at me like that. I'm like a dog. I go to a truck stop and I have to do three laps before I find a good place to lay down. I think we found a good spot here off to the side. In our own little zone. Diesel's looking at me like, you thought you were bad. I always say that. I'm like a dog I need to circle around a few times before I find a good spot to lay down. Cause it's gotta be the best spot. I don't sell for anything but the best. So thanks for tagging along with me today, everybody.  We just made it to Brandon, Manitoba. Got another 1,146 kilometers to drive tomorrow to get to Edmonton. I'm, I'm recognizing it. Don't worry. That is 712 miles. I'll have 13 hours to get it done. Actually less than that cause I stopped past midnight but we should get very close if not all the way there tomorrow. It'll be a long day. So I really encourage you to please subscribe to my channel here and tag along with me because it's gonna be a long day and I need some company. So if you would come and keep me company, that'd be great. It's just gonna be a lot of driving across the prairies. Epic scenery ahead. Lots of sky. If we're lucky maybe we'll see a moose. Probably just a lot of corn though. Not gonna lie, it's probably gonna be a lot of corn. So come, join me tomorrow. Let's all watch the corn grow together as we drive down the highway. I'll see you then.


Hey, this is Brett and today I'm extremely excited to go over this brand new 2024 Jeep Wrangler two-door sport package and This stock number is 24 J 26 I'm here at Summit Auto in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin you're new and used Jeep and Jeep Wrangler headquarters and Super excited to do this one because we don't get a lot of sports in and I know there's not a lot of videos out there on the sport package and this one is extra special and I say extra special because the sport package is supposed to come with the 2023 and older JL grill and for some reason this one came with the Updated grill on it and I figured out why it came out or it came with the updated grill and but if you want a Jeep Wrangler sport with the updated grill for 2024 You have to get the satin black Grill from OPAR. It's a three hundred twenty five dollar option gives you the black grill, but it also gives you the updated grill That's squished down From the old grills so that I thought was pretty cool. You do get the halogen headlamps on the sport package All the other packages either have them available or are standard now with the LED lights And the sport package is the only one you cannot get the LED lights on so That is an interesting Fact of the sport package you get new tires for 2024 these are nexon rhodion HTX2 Tyres these are all-weather performance 245 75 r17s you can see the tread pattern on those the other thing new for 2024 is the antenna has been deleted off the side of the vehicle and you get a trail rated badge there now and The antennas are now in the windshield All the other trim levels get the Corning Gorilla glass standard these sports still has the normal Wrangler windshields T50 on the side of the doors that indicates how to take those doors off with your torx 50 wrench We actually did a demo on how to take those off if you want to check that out That's linked in the description below And in the upper right hand part of screen here's the original window sticker feel free to pause this I'm not going to show everything or go over everything, but most of it. This is a 2024 Wrangler two-door sport four by four Bright whites of color black interior. I think it looks charcoal or gray, but they say black Anyways, this one has the two liter turbo the eight speed automatic transmission everything on your left. There is your standard Equipment including the you connect five with a 12.3 inch touchscreen display. So that is a new radio for 2024 and There is all your other standard equipment anti-lock four-wheel disc brakes on the 22 B or sport package and 8 speed automatic transmission this one has the deep tint sunscreen windows, which is a $395 option comes with a three-piece hardtop which is 1495 and the satin black grille by Mopar, which is 325 and that's how you get that Updated looking grill on there from the factory didn't have to do anything to get that other than put it on the build sheet 38,605 is your total MSRP to get your Summit price with all the rebates and incentives on this particular Jeep in the upper right hand part of screen and linked in the description below is a Link to this vehicle on our website three or 36 bump into bumper five-year 60 power train 30 miles per gallon 20 city 21 highway and average of 21 It's not rated for safety ratings other than the three-star for rollover and it's a four fuel economy and a seven Small grading so pretty good small grading And we'll get to the instrument clusters in just a little bit You get the painted steel wheels with the four-wheel disc brakes Matching spare tire, of course You do get a case for those front hardtop pieces this back seat can come out Folds down like so and then you can remove it by pressing that bar We actually did a demo on how to get the back seat out of your two-door JL Wrangler if you want to check that out That's in the upper right hand part of screen and linked in the description below you got Three bolts on each side two on the top so a total of eight bolts and two quick disconnects how to take this hardtop off We did a demo on that as well. You guessed it It's linked in a description below and in the upper right hand part of screen The only thing that's different in 2024 is these quick disconnects store in that in this case right here This comes off and then there's two storage areas for those quick disconnects You get these seven slots on the back rail and the JL badge on the back with wheelbase overall length and water 14 So that's pretty pretty cool. I know a lot of people don't do videos on the sports There's not a lot to them, but it's still a Wrangler with all the capabilities and four-wheel drive of a You know Sahara You get the black mirrors this one is pretty Entry level there's no power windows. There's no power locks. Now once again, let me know if you think these seats are black or Gray I say gray I do like the gold stitching on the sport package though and the gold trim on the dash you get this cloth bolster and The manual windows manual locks You get this new that this is new for 2024 this Wrangler and gladiator back to back Hop inside take a look at the instrument cluster here This one does have the digital speedometer, which I like Bluetooth and information center controls You do get audio controls in the back of the steering wheel and cruise controls on the right So here is the you connect five twelve point three inch radio It is all new for 2024 and it is the standard radio no matter if you get a sport or a Rubicon X or a 392 This is the standard way radio The only difference is is some have nav and some do not and you cannot get nav in the sport or the sport s Package however, you can get and this does have Android auto and Apple CarPlay capabilities where you can project your cell phone to the Screen so if you got ways or Google Maps on your phone project the right to the screen And it's like you have nav right on the screen So you got AM FM serious Bluetooth all your USBs and Augs jacks We got radio Margueriteville playing for in honor of Jimmy Buffett and Comfort get your climate controls here. This one does have dual climate control or I'm sorry single climate controls You can control it up here Or you can control it down here and then you have your different vehicle settings Including your review camera which are standard on the Wranglers and they've made those crystal clear and HD So it's really nice to be able to see that when you're backing up and then you have all your different apps on here I'm not going to go through everything. I'll just kind of show you that You do get off-road pages on here as well, which we'll come back to And then there are the other things there's your off-road pages though I get your steering angle and whether your transfer case is locked or unlocked latitude longitude altitude accessory gauges and pitch and roll and If we were outside and GPS satellite Cape or satellite Signal We'd see the pitch and roll of the vehicle, which is pretty cool. Anyways, down here your more client Tactile climate and volume and tune controls start stop capabilities stability control select speed crawl control You get usb usb-c and an Augs jack eight speed auto and your 4x4 shifter right there 12 o'clock point and a push button start so everything from here down is the 2023 design these Vents are different for 2024. They used to be on the side two of them just like the vent over there You get the cloth bolster with the gold stitching on it on the dash over there And the other thing that is new for 2024 is all the Wranglers including the sport come standard with side curtain airbags So that is a new thing for 2024 as well. You get the crushed eggshell finish look to that hard to those hardtop pieces and That's pretty much it Yeah Guess I'll turn the lights on here and do a final walk around for you and Hopefully you enjoyed the video you got any comments questions concerns scathing rebuttals Please I'll leave them in the comments below. I check YouTube every day So I can answer any questions that you might have if I know the answers in a relatively quick amount of time But once again 2024 sport with the updated grill remember that Mopar satin finish grill. You'll get that Updated grill when getting the sport package Anyways, thanks for checking out the video and to see more pictures of this Jeep or one of our other 550 new news cars trucks SUVs mini vans and of course Wranglers go to that website right there It's summit auto comm full pictures and descriptions of every single vehicle all at summit auto comm if you like to check out more HD videos You can go to youtube comm slash summit auto click the bell notifications get updates in the videos. I do it in every day including Access to one of the largest catalogs a vehicle and particularly Wrangler walkarounds on YouTube 8,000 videos and counting almost 9,000 and almost 500 Wrangler videos up there In fact any second you will see a link to subscribe to my youtube channel in the upper left a link to all the Wrangler videos I've done in the upper right a link to how to take your doors off your jail two door in The lower left and a link to how to take your hardtop off your jail two door in the lower right click those check us out And we're super excited to be offering the brand new 2024 Jeep Wrangler sport two-door sport In bright white clear coat. Thanks again for checking out the video remember to like subscribe and share on the youtube channel I really appreciate it. Thanks again