Joining us to discuss your health tonight is Dr. Paul Fishman, neurologist at the University of Maryland Medical Center and professor of neurology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Doctor, it's good to see you again. Tell us about this new drug that was just approved by the FDA. Well, thanks Jeff for having me. And it really is exciting to talk about Lacanimab, which is the first drug to have full FDA approval to try to stop the progressive worsening of Alzheimer's disease. And even though its effects are modest, it really is a step toward changing the biology of Alzheimer's disease where there have been many studies before that have never been successful in this. It really is the culmination probably about an idea that's been around for more than 20 years and there have been many studies that have been unsuccessful and gradually this idea that one could give an antibody, a monoclonal antibody and try to remove the toxic abnormal protein that actually Alzheimer noticed 100 years ago but has only been biologically known, biochemically known for about the last 30 or 40 years. And the question is, could you remove that from the brain? And if you could, could you actually improve patients' long-term outcome with Alzheimer's disease? That idea that's been around for a long time looks like it has validity. Doctor, you said the effects are modest. How modest are they? Well, patients who received this drug for about a year and a half compared to those who were infused with placebo did about 30% better than expected. So when we look at several aspects, how they did in day-to-day life, their ability to go about their own business without help, as well as cognitive testing, again, there was about a spread of about 30% difference between after 18 months. So that's small, but that's not in, you know, it's still significant. And the biggest issue, of course, we won't know for years is that will that difference continue or will it expand over the next one, two or three years? Since, sadly, we all know about Alzheimer's disease, a disease that progresses relatively slowly, but with accumulating issues over years. So will that 30% turn into 40% and 50% and can we postpone the disability of Alzheimer's disease? Have people stay in their homes longer? Have people avoid institutionalization like assisted living or nursing homes? And if that is real and expands, as I mentioned, it's kind of the first step toward really turning the clock back on Alzheimer's disease. So if it's not a cure and it's not reversing the decline, it may be slowing it a bit. Does that mean it's most appropriate for a patient who's in the earliest stages of the disease? That's correct. And this was anticipated from earlier studies. And that's the only patients who are really studied at this point. Patients who had conditions we wouldn't even call Alzheimer's disease 10 years ago. They would be called having mild cognitive impairment. They basically can do all their activities of daily living, but they have interference with memory, with word finding, with calculations. That makes some impact on them, as well as patients with traditional early Alzheimer's disease, which may need some assistance, but again, fairly independent. So again, this is for patients very early in the course of Alzheimer's disease. Let me remind our viewers if you have a question about this new medication or Alzheimer's disease in general, give us a call at the number on the screen or send an email to livequestions at mpt.org. Doctor, this is given by infusion, I think. Tell me more about the process, the side effects, that sort of thing. Well, it's complicated to give. As a matter of fact, at the University of Maryland, we spent a good part of last Friday planning all of the things we need to eventually give this drug. So it is given by infusion, and unlike a lot of its partner drugs, it's given by infusion every two weeks. So you have to have an infusion center. They have to be monitored. A fair number of patients could have an infusion reaction, an allergic or like reaction, usually not severe. But again, patients have to be monitored by a nurse. All patients have to have a special form of brain scan looking for deposits of amyloid. Since in the older days, a lot of times we thought a patient had Alzheimer's, but it really turned out to be another form of dementia. And it's only patients who actually have Alzheimer's disease who have amyloid deposition. There's no point getting a drug, taking a drug to remove amyloid if you don't have that. So patients will need a special form of nuclear medicine scan that really needs to be read by an expert to say, definitively, there's amyloid here, that this is a patient who's a good candidate. They have to have cognitive testing to really measure, are they in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease or not too advanced that they would still qualify? And also to measure, is their cognition worsening during the course of this or being stable? They also need to be monitored for the most significant side effect of this class of medications, which can cause, in particular, some degree of brain swelling, and even at some point, some degree of small brain bleeding. And again, a sophisticated, well-trained radiologist has to look at MRI scans both beforehand and during the treatment process to make sure that there aren't risk factors, like a small amount of bleeding into the brain to begin with, because patients with Alzheimer's disease can have small brain hemorrhages. You would never want to give that type of patient this type of treatment. And to monitor it, if patients develop brain swelling or brain hemorrhages, they need to be withdrawn from the medication. So the monitoring process is intense. Let's take a phone call from Frederick County. This is Peter. Peter, thanks for the call. Go ahead. Yeah, with all the side effects, wouldn't it just be worthwhile to key in on the early, early Alzheimer person, 50 years old, and it's shown that they do have Alzheimer's disease because of, you know, they had a PET scan of, you know, to show that it definitely was Alzheimer's and not another type of dementia. That person has many, many years instead of that 80-year-old who may have multiple medical problems and the side effects, you have to look at the risk versus the benefit. Peter, thank you very much for the phone call. Dr, on that point is one of the things you would look at in a younger potential patient, whether there's family history. Well, particularly with early onset, family history is a bit of predictor, particularly with those early onset. And there are a few genes that have been identified, but there are two aspects to those questions. One, there are side effects, but in general, they're mild. It is actually very few of the patients had to be taken off the drug because of the side effects. And that's because the patients were well monitored. And through previous studies, they know that this particular dose usually did not have significant side effects. The most common one was basically just a headache that would go away. And it's actually very difficult and sometimes not particularly practical with current technology to identify patients before they have any symptoms. Jeff's right that if they have a strong family history and then identified with risk factors, those patients can be done. But these PET scans, the idea of doing them throughout the population, they cost between $3,000 and $5,000. Should everyone at age 50 have a PET scan? That's an experimental question. And the question is if you went to these very early patients, would they do any better? Would you prevent, would the outcome be any different than the group that they're using now? And that's a scientific question that isn't yet resolved. And the cost of the PET scan gets to an email from a viewer who wants to know what's the cost per month of the drug and is it going to be covered by insurance? I think it is covered by Medicare. Medicare has agreed to cover it and that's the advantage of traditional, not any special form of approval. Medicare will cover the drug. It's between $20,000 and $25,000 a year. But then you have these added costs of the PET scan of multiple MRIs, the cost of the infusion. But again, in general, that's going to be covered by Medicare. Medicare traditionally had not covered the PET scans because they said, why bother? There's no change in treatment whether or not you have a positive or negative PET scan. That's an experimental question. But now that PET scans are tied to a FDA approved treatment, Medicare is seriously considering of reversing that position. So even in the future, the PET scans may be covered as well. There was news recently that Maryland, in particular Baltimore City, Prince George's County are hot spots for the incidence of Alzheimer's disease. Is that the case? And what would explain that? Well, the study you're talking about is an interesting study. No patients in the state of Maryland were examined in this study. This was taking a profile that they developed from studies of patients in Chicago and applying it to census demographic information throughout the country. So none of the patients outside of Chicago were ever examined. And what they found, which are things that are expected. If you have a lot of the very old, so they looked at everybody over age 65, but if your population has lots of people in the 80s or over 85 or over 90, you're going to have a lot of Alzheimer's disease. African Americans sadly do have a fairly high prevalence. And that's because they also carry risk factors for vascular disease, such as diabetes and hypertension. And the general rule of thumb is that all bad things that affect the brain are additive. So if you have both traditional Alzheimer's pathology, along with blood vessel changes, you're more likely to have clinically detectable Alzheimer's disease. So those are some of the factors that they use to come up with this figure. Yes, we're the leaders, but there are plenty of other places that are closed. We were 12.9%, then the Bronx, where I'm actually from was 12.8%. So there are a lot of hotspots in the country where, again, age, prevalence of hypertension, diabetes, uh, educational level, and also socioeconomic status. They're all risk factors for not so great health care and also not so great brain health and prevalence of Alzheimer's disease. Let's get one more phone call from Montgomery County. This is Joe. Joe, thank you for calling. Go ahead. Hi. Yes, I wondered if PET scans have the same problem with MRIs with people with metal implants? Thanks very much. No, they have a totally different basis. So metal has no, uh, they're, they're an injection of a radioactive isotope and they're looking for its binding within the brain. So it does, it's not, it doesn't have any of the principles of MRI, although there are now fancy studies that can do both at once. You, um, you mentioned the, uh, the incidence of diabetes, hypertension. If, if somebody wants to lower their odds today, would keeping blood pressure and blood sugar under control be a good starting point? And, and how's it compared maybe to this new drug? Well, it all depends on when you start. If you start at a relatively young age, it is a very powerful risk reduction factor. So all the things that are heart healthy are basically brain healthy as well, which means physical activity, keeping the diabetes under control, keeping your weight under control, uh, control of hypertension. Those things and those have been studying intensively over decades. And if you do that over 10, 20 years, uh, that even outweighs the power of, uh, many of the genetic factors. Uh, but the question is the longer you wait, the more these vascular changes accumulate, uh, the harder they are to reverse. So they're always, uh, important to control, but you're better off controlling them as, as early as possible. If, uh, somebody watching, uh, thinks they may be a patient or maybe a candidate for this wants to learn more, maybe a family member, um, is this going to be at tertiary care big hospitals like Maryland? Uh, very likely. Just as I mentioned, uh, not every center is even capable. They're called positron emission tomography. So they, uh, so positron doesn't last very long. So you have to have the capability to do pet scans. You have to have the experience to interpret them. And the monitoring of the MRI, uh, even in Maryland, I'm afraid we're going to have to leave it there. Dr. Paul Fishman of the University of Maryland Medical Center. Thank you very much. Thanks for having me. Your health segments are a co-production of Maryland public television and the University of Maryland medical system.


Hello everybody and welcome back here to the channel. I'm Yvon Revet. We're here on dirt rally 2.0 to see if I can still rally race We are on the Mazda R9 base with the Mazda RS steering wheel We do our fan tech pedals and everything down here But I'm trying to see if I can still rally race using the Mazda Equipment here, so make sure you follow me and all such me knowledge found the description box below Let's get to it. So we do have a GTI here. I'm trying to think what if we're running Don't remember or manual sequential. Okay So we are running the GTI in a random stage, we're just gonna see if we can't actually just still rally We're gonna go full send We're trying to see how the direct drive feels Fifty of a crash one right titans Not just a little bit too much there opens into turn unseen don't cut one left titans This is definitely a very tricky game three right opens into one left titans three right into turn immediate for left of a crash opens long don't cut titans two into cut maybe for right Oh my gosh Turn down the fourth feedback into three right We are running the factory Mazda rally settings Into three left into five right Into four left very long opens 30 We're not doing too bad We're doing a lot worse into three left Into turn to right Opens in the dirt left opens very long Titans of a crest into three right Don't cut opens. I feel like I would have didn't stand to leave more prior trying to run this I'm a genie point Opens of a crest It is six right of a crest It is three left long titans don't cut It is six right cut four left into five right 20 No, no left in the slow too much for me listen sequential mode down opens of a crest That's what the car is set for slow 20 keep point of a crest turn unseen open every left The right of a crest Actually kind of surprised we got that hairpin though into five left 30 For left long titans Into six right this is Oh, jeez Much stronger than I'm used to into two left like this All right, that's a lot opens of a crest into six that long Into five right long titans three In the fight 36 left of a crest long Titans three don't cut so can I still rally race kind of Cut three left. He said don't cut. We're off the track. Oh boy 26 right to slow one left That's the first time I think we've actually had a major issue into one Open 60 of a crest and finish 70 to stop Last time I played dirt rally 2.0. It was actually on Xbox, so this is totally different here on the PC. I Guess it's not too bad Could have done a lot worse for sure So I think we probably need to go back and run the career mode and Continue back and get ourselves back into the game That was definitely a lot more intense than I thought and Like I said, we're running the factory Wheel settings and everything like that from Maza and they're actually very good But it is so much stronger than I remember when I used to drive this on my G9 20 on Xbox and even the fan attack. So we're just gonna go into rally career Lancia good start event We're just gonna go full send here and hopefully we don't ruin the car in the first stage We're taking definitely take a shake down A jump into four right we did get a penalty on the shakedown, but it's okay. It's just shakedown slow 30 turn cut to right opens 250 No, not what I want to do So definitely totally different you can see my wheelbase is just baking Opens 70 Six right into six left long 150 Definitely a lot different than I'm used to And I don't think we're anything no running in third person's worse. Oh, yeah Running in third person is definitely worse Definitely gonna return to that stage. So we're just gonna go full send on this stage We got a repair our vehicle though, I forgot we have to pay for all of our All of our damages totally forgot about that from the repairs their rally definitely not a paint of heart game So we're gonna go full send and see how we do in the first rally stage starts at 120 Into four right. Good luck five No penalty this time Six extra long times of a jump into four right try not to die Definitely design the shift right opens 250 Like we did on the shakedown 80 I see what the class is slow 50 turn one right opens 70 We got that Not sure what the settings are right now My shifter messed up and that caused me to lose some time on the class Into four left 60 Trying to utilize the pace notes Into three right tights 30 five left long that tightens two We're not far off the class leader 30 Turn three right tights. I feel like that mischief kind of screwed up They're transmissions a little bit. Oh, don't lose that extra long Little bit of break wobble there But press long 30 how much movement is actually going on in this in rally racing Slow six left of a grass 30 turn one left 120 Six right Into five right long That was a gear grind We're gonna ignore that into don't cut to left 30 of a crest Into three right long six left 30 of a crest All right long of a crest 30 I'm not doing too too bad keep right of a crest Oh Long as we don't slow Totally wrecked the car into three right long That is my concern Jesus man The first feedback is we it's definitely so insane compared to what Last time I ever played dirt rally Fuck left Keep right into six left long at 50 and that's not what I want to do Do not want to Destroy the car six left long into six right of a crest extra extra long Just slow crest and six left long Definitely be wearing gloves. I'm noticing 40 Oh, we're doing so good to We get back on track. I don't think we're gonna be able to get back on track three right long We're gonna get a five-second penalty Titans to we were doing so good too. Oh That's unfortunate. I think we'll be able to catch up now The class leader. Oh, we got some serious engine damage to the two right long Six long So the answer the question can I still rally yes My good at it long that time not any more 50 definitely going to be doing more dirt rally here on the channel because one keeps a rally here on the channel I'm coming down below keep left of a crest 30 I'm just gonna finish the stage out. They should get some in all such media all the time. It's good to find That's a lot of tech wall 80 Suffering some shaking around Long 30 Trying to gain some time that I don't think it's gonna happen long into unseen one right Titans opens long 50 now That was a hard hit 30 and when you don't go in the gear in unseen to right part is not like it opens 100 Make sure you ever put down all the way three right long into three left long Titans one long Titan small cut one right in some ground learning, but I still it's not enough to catch up We write of a crest over finished So we got second on the stage So I guess I will take a second so we guess plus you more to rally here on the channel Okay, no down in the context down below the car has seen better days So I'll do your business episode. It's always like thank you guys for coming back and watching I'm your rabbit. I'll see you guys on the track


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Roquan Smith has officially asked for a trade out of the Chicago Bears organization. He did so publicly in a screenshot of a notes section, very well-written explanation of what has happened and why he has gotten to this point. He is representing himself in this entire negotiation and in business, which I respect.   That was what he posted on his Twitter requesting a trade AJ Hawk. I think at the end there where he said I haven't talked to the McCaskey family, but they could potentially salvage this, is a negotiation tool, a leverage tool to say, hey, Ryan Poles, you ain't never done this before. Let me go ahead and fuck, hey, hey, hey. Let me go ahead and talk to who hired you, pal. So maybe this is just a public negotiation. Maybe this is just a leverage play, but also are the Bears dead? Bye.


Hey everybody, it's DJB, and I just established that this hallway makes a really good unboxing backdrop. This parcel says that it was only $6.75 to ship, which I find really hard to believe. And it also said that it was declared at $200, so I don't know how the heck this package actually made it to my doorstep. However, they don't sound very safe in there at all. They're moving around like crazy. The first one we can take out, she sent them in the boxes, which is kind of neat. This is Nanoma. Nanoma. Nanoma. And he is a vintage club special run. For whatever reason, I really like this mold. Ooh, it's cool. It smells very perfectly. He has a mark here, and he has an eye circle here. If any of you know my custom Denali, I really gravitate towards the eye circle. So I'm glad I was able to find one of these guys, because he was kind of on my semi-wish list, so I would potentially buy if the price was right. I guess this is like a vintage unboxing, because the next one is Roman from the Vintage Club as well. So this guy was another one that I was particularly fond of. San Domingo is one of my favorite vintage molds. He's so cool. So he has a 2018 special run, and Nanoma is a 2021. Actually, this color is incredible on him, and the gloss has smoothed out a lot of the texture and imperfections in the mold. He has this blue ribbon sticker, which don't hate on me, but we're going to remove and put in the box. I'm really happy that I got him. I am happy with those two perches.  Love it, love it, love it. Thank you so much for watching. This has been DJB.


from our studios in the heart of Silicon Valley, Palo Alto, California, this is a CUBE Conversation. Hello everyone, welcome to this CUBE Conversation here in Palo Alto, California. At the CUBE Studios, I'm John Furrier, host of theCUBE. We're here for a company profile, company called Diamante. We're here at Tom Barton, the CEO. As VMworld approaches, a lot of stuff is going to be talked about. Kubernetes, applications, microservices will be the top conversation, certainly in the underlying infrastructure to power that. Tom Barton is the CEO of Diamante, which is in that business. Tom, we've known each other for a few years. You've done a lot of great, successful ventures. Diamante's new one you got on your plate here right now. Yes sir, and I'm happy to be here. So I've been with Diamante just for about a year or so. I found out about the company through a headhunter, and I have to admit, I had not heard of the company before, but I was a huge believer in containers and Kubernetes. So I was already sold on that, and so I had a friend of mine. His name is Brian Walden. He had done some massive Kubernetes cloud-based deployments for us at Planet Labs, a company that I was at for a little over three years. So I had him do technical due diligence. Brian was also the number three guy at CoreOS, and so deeply steeped in all of the core technologies around Kubernetes, including things like EtsyD and other elements of the technology. So he looked at it, came back, and gave me two thumbs up. He liked it so much that I then hired him. So he is now our VP of Product Management. And the cool thing about Diamante is essentially we're a purpose-built solution for running container-based workloads in Kubernetes on-premises and then hooking that in with the cloud. So we believe it's very much going to be a hybrid cloud world where for the major corporations that we serve, Fortune 500 companies like banks, like Energy and Utilities and so forth, a lot of their workload will maintain and be maintained on-premises. They still want to be cloud compatible, so they need a purpose-built platform to sort of manage both environments. Yeah, we certainly, you guys have come up on our radar, but I was really curious to see when you came in and took over at the helm of the CEO because your entrepreneurial career really has been unique. You're a unique executive, both entrepreneurial and as an operator. You have an open source and software background, and also you had very successful companies and exits there. As well as on the hardware side with Rackable, you took that company and went public. So you got, I mean it's unique, and then open source, right? You got software open source and large hardware, large data center deployments at scale, which is essentially the hybrid cloud market right now. So you kind of got a unique perspective. You've seen the view from all the different sides. And I think now more than ever with public cloud certainly being validated, everyone knows Amazon, if you're green field, you start in the cloud, but the reality is hybrid cloud is the operating model of this next generation of companies, probably for the next 20 to 30 years. And this is the biggest conversation, the most important story in tech. You're in the middle of it with a hot startup with a name that probably no one's ever heard of. Right, right, we hope to change that, obviously. Why did you join this company? What got your attention? What was the key thing? Once you dug in there, what was the secret sauce? What got your attention? Yeah, so to me again, the market environment, I'm a huge believer that if you look at the history of the last 15 years, we went from an environment that was 0% virtualized to 95% virtualized with VM based technologies from VMware and others. I think that fundamentally containers and Kubernetes are equally as important. They're going to be equally as transformative going forward and how people manage their workloads both on-premises and in the clouds, right? And the fact that all three public cloud providers have anointed Kubernetes as the way of the future in the Docker image format and runtime as the wave of the future means good things are going to happen there. What I thought was unique about the company was for the first time, surprisingly, none of the X86 vendors in companies like Nutanix that have hyper-converged solutions, they really didn't have anything that was purpose-built for native container support. And so the founders all came from Cisco UCS. They had a lot of familiarity with the underpinnings of hyper-converged architectures in the X86 server landscape and networking subsystems and storage subsystems, but they wanted to build it using the latest technologies, things like NVMeBase Flash, and they wanted to do it with a software stack that was native containers in Kubernetes. And today we support two flavors of that one that's fully open source around upstream Kubernetes and another that supports our partner Red Hat with OpenShift. I think you're really onto something pretty big here because one of the things that Dave Vellante and my and Stu Miniman and our team have been looking at is, we're calling it Cloud 2.0 for the lack of a better word, kind of riff on the web 2.0 concept. But Cloud 1.0 was Amazon. Okay, DevOps, Agile, great, check the box. They move on with life. It's a great resource, it's never going to stop. But Cloud 2.0 is about networking, it's about security, it's about data. And if you look at all the innovation startups, they all have one characteristic. They're all playing in this hyper-converged hardware-meet software stack with data and agility, kind of to make the original DevOps model go better. The one data, which was storage and compute, which were virtualization playing. So you're seeing that pattern and it's wide-ranging. It's security, it's data, everything else. So that's kind of what we call the Cloud 2.0 game. So if you look at VMworld, you look at what's going on, the conversations around microservices, it's an application-centric conversation in an infrastructure show. So do you see that same vision? And if so, how do you guys see you enabling the customer up there saying, hey, you know what, I have all this legacy, I got full-scale data centers, I need to go full-scale Cloud, and I need zero disruption to my developer community? Yeah, so this is the beauty of containers in Kubernetes, which is they know it'll run on the premises, they know it'll run in the Cloud, right? And it is all about microservices. So whether they're trying to adopt the modern database, something like MongoDB or MariaDB or Crunchy Postgres, whether it's on the operational side to enable sort of more frequent and incremental change, or whether it's on the developer side to take advantage of new ways of developing and delivering apps with CI CD tools and so forth, it's pretty much what people want to do, because it's future-proofing your software development effort, right? So there's sort of two streams of demand. One is refactoring legacy applications that are insufficiently kind of granularized and behave and fail in a monolithic way, as well as trying to adopt modern, cloud-based native solutions for things like databases, right? And so the good news is that customers don't have to refactor everything. There are logical breakpoints in their application stack where they can say, okay, maybe I don't have the time and energy and resources to totally refactor a legacy consumer banking application, but at least I can refactor the database here and serve up container in Kubernetes-based services, has microservices, database as a service to be consumed by the application. They don't need to kill the old to bring in the new. They can use containers in an orchestration layer like Kubernetes and still be positioned for whether it's service meshes or other things coming down for that piece of the infrastructure and everything else could run as is. Right, and there are multiple deployment scenarios for containers. You can run containers bare metal. Most of our customers choose to do that. You can also run containers on top of virtual machines and you can actually run virtual machines on top of containers. So one of our major media customers actually runs Splunk on top of KBM on top of containers. So there's a lot of different deployment scenarios and really a lot of the genius of our architecture was to make it easy for people that are coming from traditional virtualized environments to kind of remap system resources from a VM to a container at a native level or through a VM. You mentioned the history less than there around virtualization. How 15 years ago there was no virtualization now virtually everything's virtualized. We agree with you that containers are going to change that game for the next 15 years. But what's interesting about VM where what made them successful was they can add virtualization without requiring code modification. And they did it kind of under the covers. And that's a concern customers have. I have developers out there, they're building stacks, they're building code. I got a preexisting legacy. They don't really want to change their code. Do you guys fit into that narrative? We do, right? So every customer makes their own choice about something like that at the end of the day. I mentioned Splunk. So at the time that we supported this media customer on Splunk, Splunk had not yet provided a container-based version for their application. Now they do have that, but at the time they supported KVM but not native containers. And so unmodified Splunk, unmodified application, we took them from a batch job that ran for 23 hours down to one hour based on accelerating and on our hyper-converged appliance and running unmodified code on unmodified KVM on our gear, right? So some customers will choose to do that. But there are also other customers, particularly at scale for transactionally intensive applications like databases and messaging and analytics where they say, you know, we could preserve our legacy virtualized infrastructure, but let's try it as a bare-metal container approach and they discovered that there's actually some savings from both a business standpoint and a technology tax standpoint or an overhead standpoint. And so as I mentioned, most of our customers actually choose to do bare-metal. So there's real efficiency there. It's in the batch as a great example. All right, so let's dig into the product and technology differentiators. What's the big secret sauce? Describe the product. Why are you winning in accounts? What's the lift in your business right now? You guys are getting some traction from what I'm hearing. Yeah, sure. So like at the highest level of the value proposition is simplicity. There is no other purpose built, you know, complete hardware software stack that delivers Kubernetes, you know, production Kubernetes environment up and running in 15 minutes, right? The X86 server guys don't really have it. Nutanix doesn't really have it. The software companies that are active in the space don't really have it. So everything that you need, the hardware platform, the storage infrastructure, the actual distribution of the operating system, CentOS, for example, we distribute. We actually distribute a Kubernetes distribution upstream and unmodified. And then very importantly, in the Kubernetes landscape, you have to have a storage subsystem and a networking subsystem using something called CSI container storage interface and CNI container networking interface. So we've got that full stack solution. No one else has that. Second thing is the performance. So we do a certain amount of hardware offload. And I would cite Amazon's purchase of Anteperna. So Amazon bought a company called Anteperna that's basis of their nitro technology. And it's little known, but the reality is more than 50% of all new instances at EC2 are hardware assisted with the technology that they bought. So that's what you mean by hardware offloaded? Yeah, exactly. So we actually offload storage and network processing via two PCIe cars that can go into any industry server, right? So today we ship on an Intel white box. They're hyper-converged containers. We're hyper-converged containers. Yeah, sort of, exactly. So you're selling a box? We sell a box. With software, that's the... With software, but increasingly our customers are asking us to unbundle it. So not dissimilar from the sort of journey that Nutanix went through. If a customer wants to buy on Dell, we'll support Dell. If a customer wants to buy on Lenovo, we'll support Lenovo and we'll just sell on top of it. So have you unbundled yet? Are you unbundling? We are actively taking orders for unbundling at the present time. And this quarter we have validated Dell on Lenovo as alternate platforms to the Intel white box. And you have subscription revenue on that? We do not yet, but that's the goal that's quarter right. That's Nutanix struggled with. So, and they had to take their medicine. They did, but they had to do that as a public company. We're still a private company, so we can do that outside the limelight of the public markets. So I'm expecting that you guys are going to get pretty much, I won't say picked off, but certainly I think your doors are going to be knocked on by the big guys. Certainly Dell at Dell EMC, for instance, I think he's starting, you said you're doing business with Dell EMC? We are doing as a channel partner and as an OEM partner with them at the present time. There, I wouldn't call them a customer. How do you look at VMware? Obviously they're in the VMware business and Pat Gelsinger's on the record. He'll be on theCUBE. He said, you know, Kubernetes is the dial tone of the internet. They're investing, they're doubling down on it. They bought Heptio for half a billion dollars. They're big and cloud native. We expect to see at VMworld tons of cloud native conversations. Good bad for you. What's the tailwind? I think it's good. It legitimizes what we're doing, right?  That kind of legacy and presence in the data center isn't going to go anywhere overnight. There's a huge set of tooling and infrastructure that VMware has developed and offers to their customers. But that said, I think they've recognized in their acquisition of Heptio is indicative of the fact that they know that the world's moving this way. I think that at the end of the day, it's going to be up to the customer, right? The customer is going to say, do I want to run containers inside of VM? Do I want to run a bare metal? But importantly, I think because of, you know, the impact of the cloud providers in particular, if you think of the lingua franca of cloud native, it's going to be around Docker image format. It's going to be around Kubernetes. It's not necessarily going to be around VMDK and VMX and ESX, right? So these are all very good technologies, but I think increasingly, you know, the open standard and open source community is going to bring those. I mean, we see people putting Kubernetes on switches directly is no need to have anything else there. So I got to ask you on the customer equation. You mentioned you got some of your taking orders. How are you guys doing business today? Where are you guys winning? Give an example of why you're winning. And then for anyone watching, how would they know if they should be a customer of yours? What's, is there like, is there any smoke signs and signals inside the enterprise? You mentioned batch to one hour. I mean, that's just music. There's a lot of financial services years, for instance. You know, they have timetables and whether they're pulling backups back or doing all the other things, timing's critical. What's the profile customer? Why would someone call you? What's the situation? The profile is heavy duty production requirements to run in both the developer context and an operating context container and Kubernetes based workloads on premises that are compatible with the cloud, right? So increasingly our control plane makes it easy to manage workloads, not just on premises, but also back and forth to the public cloud. So I would argue that essentially all Fortune 500 companies, global 1000 companies are all wrestling with what's the right way to implement industry standard x86 based hardware on site that supports containers and Kubernetes and is cloud compatible, right? So that is the number one question that essentially. So I can buy a box and or software, put it on my data center, and then have that operate with Amazon, Azure or Google. Which is the beauty of the Kubernetes standards, right? As long as you are Kubernetes certified, which we are, you can develop and run any workload on our gear, on the cloud, on anyone else that's Kubernetes certified, et cetera. So you know that there's no. Give an example of a workload that would be indicative of the nine. Well, I'll cite one customer, right? So the reason that I feel confident actually saying the name is that they actually sort of went public with us at the race and Gartner conference a week or so ago. And the customer is Duke Energy. So very typical trajectory of journey for a customer like this, which is a couple of years ago, they decided that they wanted to refactor some legacy applications to make them more resilient to things like hurricanes and weather events and spikes in demand that are associated with that. And so they said, what's the right thing to do? And immediately they picked containers in Kubernetes and then they went out and they looked at five different vendors. And we were the only vendor that got their POC up and running in the required timeframe and hit all five use case scenarios that they wanted to do, right? So they ended up refactoring core applications for how they manage power outages using containers in Kubernetes. So a real production workload. Real production. We had the develop and stand up. Absolutely. In a sandbox, push it into production and be working. Absolutely. So you sounds like you guys are positioned to handle any workload. We can handle any workload, but I would say that where we shine is things that are transactionally intensive because we have the hardware assist and the IO offload for the storage and the networking.  So large flow of data. Yeah, absolutely. Transactional data. Yeah. We have customers that are doing simpler things like CICD, which at the end of the day involves compiling things, right, and managing code bases. So we certainly have customers in less performance intensive applications, but where nobody can really touch us, and what I mean is literally sort of 10 to 30 times faster than something that Nutanix could do, for example, is in those. So you're saying you're 30 times faster than Nutanix. Absolutely. In transactionally intensive applications. Just when you sell a subscription, not to dig into the small little bit, but does the customer get the hardware assist on that as well? To date, we've always bundled everything together so the customers have automatically gotten the hardware assist. On the hardware box. Yes. And that'll involve where I got to load it on a machine. That's right. But does that machine give me the hardware assist? It will not unless you have our two PCI cards, right? And so this is how, you know, we're just in the very early stages of negotiating with companies like Dell to make it easy for them to integrate our two PCI cards into their server platform. So the preferred flagship is the device. It's the device. If they want the hardware assist, if they still need the software, it's maybe not that intensive. That's right. If they don't need to have 30 times faster than Nutanix, they can just get the software. Right, right. And that'll involve our CSI plug-in, our CSI plug-in, our OS distribution, our Kubernetes distribution and the control plane that manages Kubernetes clusters. Tom, it's been great to get the feature on New Company. Give a quick plug for the company. What's your objectives? What are you trying to do? Obviously probably hiring, get some financing, any news? Any kind of things you want to share? Yeah, we will be announcing some news about financing. I'm not prepared to announce that today, but we're in very good shape with respect to being funded for our growth. And consequently, so we're now in growth mode. So today, we're 55 people. I want to double that over the course of the next four quarters and increasingly just sort of build out our sales force, right? We didn't have a big enough sales force in North America. We've got to establish a beachhead in Amia. We do have one large commercial banking customer in Europe right now. We also have a large automotive manufacturer in APAC, but the total sales and marketing reach has been too low. And so a huge focus of what I'm doing now is building out our go-to-market model and sort of 10xing the amount of marketing. So standing up a lot of field, going to market. How about on the BizDev side? I'm going to imagine that, you mentioned Dell, I can imagine that there's a large appetite for the hardware offload option. Absolutely, so BizDev boils down to striking partnerships with the cloud providers really on two fronts, both with respect to hardware offload and assist, but also supporting their on-premises strategies. So Google, for example, has announced Anthos. This is their approach to supporting on-premises Kubernetes workloads and how they interact with Google Cloud, right? As you can imagine, Microsoft and Amazon also have on-premises aspirations and strategies and we want to support those as well. This goes well beyond something like Amazon Outpost, which is really a narrow use case and point solution for certain markets. So cloud provider partnerships are very important. X86 server vendor partnerships are very important and then major ISVs. So we've announced some things with Red Hat. We were at the Red Hat Open Summit in Boston a few months ago and announced our OpenShift project and product that is now GA. Also working with ISVs like MariaDB, MongoDB, Splunk and others too. So solid tech team, product team. Great. You guys are solid. You feel good on the product. I feel very good about the product. What about the skeptics that are out there just to put the hard question to you is, man, it's crowded field. How are you going to compete? What are your chances? How do you like your chances known that it's a very crowded field? You're going to rely on your fast balls, what do you say on the speed? What's your thinking on? Well, it's unique. And so part of the way or a proof point that I would cite there is the channel, right?  But our channel partners are promoting us and talking about companies like Lifeboat at the distribution level, talking about companies like CDW, SHI, you know, WWT, these major North American distributors and resellers have basically said, look, we have to put you in our line car because you're unique. There is no other purpose built. And why that life? They get more services around that. They wrap services around it. They want to sell the hardware. They want to wrap services around it. Absolutely. And they want to do migrations from legacy environments towards microservices, et cetera. Great to have you on, share the company update. Just want to get personal, if you don't mind, personal perspective. You know, you've been on the hardware side. You've seen the large scale data centers from Rackable and that experience. You've also been on the software side, open source. What's your take on the industry right now?  I need to have my people building software stacks for my APIs. And then I go to the vendors and say, support my APIs or you can't be a supplier. Now that's on the CISO side, but the mega trend is, there's software stacks being built inside the premises of the enterprises. That not, I mean, they had developers before building, you know, cobalt apps in the old days, mainframes to client server apps. But now you're seeing a renaissance of developers building a stack for the domain specific applications that they need. And that requires that they have to run on an on-premise, hyperscale like environment. What's your take on this? My take is it's absolutely right. There is more software based innovation going on. So customers are deciding to write their own software in areas where they can differentiate, right? They're not going to do it in areas that they can get commodity solutions from a SaaS standpoint or from other kinds of on-prem standpoint, but increasingly they are doing software development, but they are all 99% of the time now, they are choosing Docker and containers and Kubernetes as the way in which they're going to do that because it will run either on-prem or in the cloud. I do think that multi-cloud management or multi-cloud is not a reality. Our primary modality that we see our customers choose is tons of on-premises resources that's going to continue for the foreseeable future. Then they pick one preferred cloud provider because it's simply too difficult to do more than one, but at the same time they want an environment that will not allow themselves to be locked into that cloud vendor, right? So they want to potentially experiment with a second public cloud provider or just make sure that they adhere to standards like Kubernetes that are universally shared so that they can't be held hostage, but in practice people don't need multiple clouds. Or if they do have multi-cloud, it might be applications like if you're running Office 365, that's Microsoft. It could be, yes, exactly, on one particular point. So domain-specific cloud, but not our core cloud. Have a backup, use Kubernetes as the bridge. Do you see that, do you see that? I mean, I would agree with, by the way, we agree with you on that. But the question that we always ask is, we think Kubernetes is going to be that interoperability layer the way TCP-IP was within IP networks where you had this interoperability model. We think that there will be a future state at some point where I could connect to Google and use that Microsoft and use Amazon together, but not to do it. And so nobody's really doing that today, but I believe and we believe that there's a future world where a vendor neutral, vendor neutral with respect to public cloud providers can offer a hybrid cloud control plane that manages and brokers workloads for both production as well as data protection and disaster recovery across any arbitrary cloud vendor that you want to use. And so it's got to be an independent third party. So you're never going to trust Amazon to broker a workload to Google. You're never going to trust Google to broker a workload to Microsoft. So it's not going to be one of the big three. And if you look at who could it be, it could be VMware, Pivotal, now Cisco's got an interesting opportunity. Cisco's got an interesting opportunity, Red Hat's got an interesting opportunity, but there is actually, it's less than, the number of companies can be counted on one hand that have the technical capability to develop a hybrid cloud abstraction that spans both on-premises and all three And it's super early. If you had to peg the inning on this one. First inning, obviously. First inning. Yes, really early. Yeah, we like our odds though, because the disruption, the fundamental disruption here is containers and Kubernetes and the interest that they're generating and the desire on the part of customers to go to microservices. So a ton of application refactoring and a ton of cloud native application development is going on.  So you're talking application refactoring that needs to run on a cloud operating model. On-premise and public. That's correct. In a sense, DMATI really brings the cloud to the on-premises environment, right? So for example, we are the only company that has the concept of on-premises availability zones. We have synchronous replication where you can have multiple clusters that are synchronously replicated. So if one fails, the other one, you have no service disruption or loss of data even for a state full application, right? So it's cloud-like services that we're bringing on-prem and then providing the links, you know, for both DR and DP and production workloads to the public cloud. A lot to unpack with you guys at DMATI. We want to keep track of you made a stateful date. It's a whole nother topic as, you know, stateless data is easy to manage with APIs and services when it gets state. That's when it gets interesting. Right. Tom Barton, the CEO, the new chief executive officer at DMATI. How long has you guys been around before you took over? About five years. Four years before me. I've been on board about a year. Great job. Looking forward to tracking your progress. We'll see you next week in San Francisco at VMworld. I'm Barton, CEO of DMATI here inside theCUBE. Hot startup. I'm John Furrier. Thanks for watching.


All right, I'm going to be running through some of the boring stuff that you guys need to know because there's been bunch of changes that people need to know before they run out. So I'm going to quickly run through the overview of the conference and hopefully help you understand what's happening where, what are some of the important bits that you need to know. Let me get my slides up. Has everyone got the Wi-Fi username password now? All right, so that's the kind of boring stuff I'm going to do. All right, so that's the Wi-Fi username password right up there. If you've not made a note of it, you can. By the way, my name is Naresh. I'm the guy who's been spamming you with emails. That's how people keep knowing me. I'm one of the organizers of this conference. Last year, I think when we did the Selenium conference, Dan was here when we did the Selenium conference. And I think he said, what if we rename Selenium conference to Appium conference because it's big enough. And that kind of got a couple of us thinking, Sai and I'm going to call out to you guys, Sai and Srinni, if you guys can please stand up. I mean, we're having the Appium conference, I would say, because these two guys really pushed hard, so certainly appreciate that. I know you guys have been sitting a while, so how about doing a quick stand-up exercise? Yeah? I like it. All right, can we please stand up? Keep the energy high. It's actually amazing to see a full hall, so it's good. Thank you all for coming in. What we want to do is a little exercise where we self-organize ourselves into groups of ten. And the ten people in your group have to basically fulfill one of these roles that is up on the screen. That's it. Self-organize and form a group of ten people. We'll see who wins, whichever group comes first. I have a winner. I see one group over there. One more group over there. That's cool. All right, I see six groups so far. That's pretty cool. All right, thank you guys. That was good. Six groups pretty quickly. All right, please sit down. That's it. Any ideas why we do this? A, to highlight the diversity of people we have here in terms of different roles, different people from different places. You know, 352 participants in the room from 198 different companies here. So it's pretty diverse group in terms of from where people are coming. But more importantly, in my opinion, people come to conference to network with other people to kind of see what other people are doing, not just the speakers, but there's a wealth of knowledge that, you know, folks like you bring to this conference. And this was just a little exercise to get you to kind of interact with other people. And hopefully over the next two days, you're going to use the opportunity to meet other people from different companies, see what is going on in their company, and hopefully have a good networking experience. All right, can I do one more quick stand-up exercise? Just please stand up wherever you are. Sit down if you have traveled for 10 kilometers radius from the hotel. If you stay within 10 kilometers radius. All right. How about 50 kilometers radius from the hotel? That should cover most of the Bangalore. How about 100 kilometers? 500? What about 1000 kilometers radius? That should cover most of India. Wow. All right. 5000 kilometers? Maybe not sure. All right. So thank you guys for traveling for more than 5000 kilometers to be here with us. So we actually have people from 25 different countries here, which is pretty amazing. I think for Selenium conference, we've had 20 countries, but Appium kind of beats that record. So that's cool. I would like to thank the speakers that we have here. We have 38 speakers today. The font is really bad, but I'm just going to read that out. So we have 38 speakers again from 14 different countries who are here to speak with us. So again, if you see the speakers, please do thank them. All of these speakers are kind of volunteering coming out here to spread the knowledge that they have. So again, thanks for all the speakers who have come from far to help us here. Does anyone know how long it took for us to put this conference together? Other than the program committee. Eight months. Eight months back, we announced the conference. It took us about six months of actually going through putting the program together, working through the program committee. The way the conference is put together, I think few of you have participated in that. We have an open submission system where we invite for speakers to put in their proposals, speakers submit their proposals. We have a program committee that reviews those proposals, try to give feedback, try to work with them to improve the proposals, and then we finally select a set of proposals. So if you were to look at how it basically panned out, we had 73 proposals that came in and out of which we accepted 40. So about 50% selection. And a lot of this was to try and work closely with the speakers to try and improve the proposals that came in. So again, if you did not get an opportunity this year to submit your proposal, we will be doing the conference again hopefully next year, alternative years. And we would encourage you to submit the proposals to participate in the conference. It's open to everybody to come and speak at the conference. The graph down there basically tries to show you how we've tried to balance the different kinds of talks at the conference. So when we do selection, we also try and look at a healthy mix of different types of sessions, you know, talks, workshops, demonstrations and so forth. So we try and balance that out. After this session, we're going to be breaking for a coffee break when they're going to be dividing the halls and we're going to be splitting into three parallel tracks.  This is going to be track number one, grand ballroom one. This is going to be track number one. The dividers are going to come in there once you guys step out and then that's going to be ballroom number two. So track two is going to be over there. And track three, you go out of the hall and take a left turn and all the way in the corner, that direction, there's a room called Jupiter. So that's going to be track number three. Clear? Three tracks, simple, all on the same floor. It's going to be here. It's actually not true that we only have three tracks. We actually have four tracks. Where's the fourth track? The hallway track, which in my opinion is the most interesting track. Not saying that the speakers are boring. But I think it's fun to hang out and meet people and a lot of interesting conversations happening outside. So there is a fourth track happening there. Can everyone just basically check their delegate kits if they've got the feedback form? Sorry, we don't do feedback forms. Why don't we do feedback forms? Save paper, that's a good reason. But I find this form of giving feedback the most useless form of giving feedback. Not about going digital. It's about actually getting feedback in the spirit of getting feedback. If you put in the feedback in this form, send it to us, when will we act upon it at the earliest next conference? Is that going to be helpful to wait for the next conference before we can act on the feedback? I don't think that's a very useful or better way of giving feedback. What we generally encourage is that kind of come in, I'm going to highlight who are the volunteers in the program committee, and it would be actually helpful if you can give us feedback now. So we can actually try and fix things as we go along during the conference, instead of trying to wait for another year. Also sometimes there is some thought process and context behind why certain things is in a certain way. And it might help if you come and talk to us, we may be able to help you explain the context of why something was done some way, and then that may help you appreciate what happened. For example, one common complaint will be, why do we have so many plastic bottles? Fair enough, we do also have water dispensers, and there are glasses, so you can use those. If you don't want to use the plastic bottle, there are options like that. But why do we do this? Because there are a lot of people who feel uncomfortable drinking from dispensers. So we don't want to be like, screw you, drink water from here only. Also there's a liability that the hotel has if someone falls sick, and so they want to make sure that they're covered. So there are things like that that hopefully when you explain to someone, they may appreciate why certain things are done certain way. So all I'm trying to say is if there's something that bothers you that you think is worth highlighting, if you can come to talk to one of us, it'll be really helpful because A, we will learn something or there's a small possibility that you may learn something. Are you with me? There's also another important thing with putting this up. This is a 100% volunteer run nonprofit conference. All of us have regular daytime jobs just like you, and we are here as a community trying to put this together. So if you see small things that can be improved, don't wait for someone to fix it, right? Take charge. This is your conference, right? Which is again, when you put these feedback forms, it's kind of like somebody else's problem. No, it's our problem, right? We want to improve this experience for ourselves. So are you with me? Awesome. How many people are familiar with the law of two feet? A few people who've been to open space conferences, it comes from there. So the law of two feet is one of the things that I think is very important for our conference and I really want to spend like two minutes talking about it. What it basically talks about is if you find yourself in a session where you're not adding value or getting value, what do you do? Look for feedback form, but that ain't there. What do you do in those cases? Take your two feet, right, and take yourself to a place where you will get value or add value. Of course, it's impolite to kind of get up and disturb everyone when you leave, right? So we request everyone to kind of silently leave when you're coming in the door, make sure the doors are closed just so it doesn't disturb other people. So just basic courtesy, but it's completely acceptable and encouraged for you to basically move out of a session if you're not getting value from the session, right? There are at least three options and the fourth option outside, right? So hopefully in one of those four places you will surely get value, right? So how many people will use the law of two feet? That's awesome. How many people know about the story of how APM almost got killed by Jason? Not many people. That's good. Few people. All right, so this evening we're going to have lightning talks which is kind of how Dan introduced APM before it was called APM at SeleniumCon 2014. 2012, sorry. So in spirit of that, we actually have like a keynote talk where everyone's going to be in this room and we're going to do lightning talks at 5.30, all right? How it's going to work is basically there is no pre-signing or any of that stuff. We're going to have a board here. People walk up, write their name and just queue up and then it's going to be five minutes or three minutes. We will take that call depending on how many people show up for giving the talks, but that's the plan. Dan is going to facilitate that. So we're going to have 5.30 lightning talks. So if you want to present something to everybody here, think about a topic that you have in mind and be ready for lightning talks at 5.30 this evening. There is a price for what? For the best. The crowd determines the most popular lightning talk and Dan has a personal gift for them. Maybe date with Dan. It's not that. He's just being clear. All right. I do want to really thank our wonderful sponsors without whom it would not be possible to put this conference together. So it's not just about financially supporting it, but also giving us the confidence, helping us reach out to people and various other forms to basically make this conference viable. The sponsors are outside, so please do stop by and meet them, but please do give them a big round of applause for helping us put this conference together. They're just outside. As you can see, it's hard to miss them, so please do stop by and see they have some very interesting things going on. So for example, one of the sponsors is giving away some exciting prizes if you participate in a contest they're running. Essentially, you need to share your Appium tip either on Twitter or LinkedIn using that hashtag, and then tomorrow evening we're going to give away these prizes. Has everyone got the app on themselves? Don't test it out. There are no tests for the Appium... There are no Appium tests or any kinds of automated tests for this app, but it works mostly. So please do get this app. Why do you need to get this app? So A, it's going to help you kind of see what's coming up and things like that, so it's just easier to kind of manage that. You can add things to your calendar. You can basically look at the schedule. You can see who else is attending by basically clicking that and kind of get all the details of the session. There may be chances that, you know, some speaker may not be able to come or we swap some sessions and things like that. So this remains up to date. If you have printed stuff, that will go out of date and things like that. This is one cool way to kind of just keep up to date with what's going on. So encourage everyone to basically download the app. There's also a poster outside where you can get this thing, but it's just a convention app. You can, you know, another feature in the app which, you know, you may be interested is there's an option to win some pretty cool prizes that the sponsors are giving away by going into the app and seeing those goodies and then going and seeing the sponsors. For example, you may be walking away with this quadcopter today. Right? So, but we also want to be inclusive. There may be someone who says, like, I don't want your shitty app. That's perfectly fine. You can go, there is a web version of it where you can look at the schedule on the web. This is how it will look. You can basically, that's the URL. It's also there here, in the app. You would be able to rate the sessions here as well. So, sorry, I kind of missed that back here. But once you go to this thing here, you'd be able to, once the session is over, that plus mark is going to turn into a star. So you'd be able to click and rate the sessions. And it's important for us to get the ratings so we know which speakers are, you know, being well-received which speakers are not. So, if you're at a previous conference, if you rate the session, so please do rate the session either through the app or through the web version. Both allows you to rate the sessions. All right? With me. Just wanted to put the Wi-Fi username and password again here in case someone wants it. Just want to request the program team to please stand up. All right. So if you're not happy with the program, please stand up. So, again, thanks a lot for the wonderful work you guys have done. Greatly appreciate that. And we do have volunteers, so can I have the volunteers quickly stand up? So Pooja is there, Anand, Vishal, Rahul, Vishal there. So we're going to be in different rooms. So, you know, if you need any help, reach out to one of us. We'll do search or things. We're cost-cutting. But you'll find us. All right.  And thank you again. We will see you again in 20 minutes, I guess. We're going to split the halls and we're going to kickstart the sessions. We do try and start the sessions on time and end the sessions on time. So request your help to keep that kind of momentum. All right? Thank you. See you in the evening.


What is going on guys welcome back to the channel critical overload here same time about Halloween ends once again So how do we ends we know I had a video previously Talking about the fact that James U Courtney was not going to be starting production until February because that's what he had said now the Idea around that was that people thought that they also meant that production wasn't gonna start on the film entirely Until February what I in that video I did mention the fact that that could mean that he's just not gonna be there because they could Still start production without Michael Myers and just be filming a lot of scenes before Michael Myers Of course is needed to be involved with the events that unfold in the field So it seems that Halloween ends did indeed start production I it looks like I guess today because that's what the plan was apparently to start production on January 19th and We did find out one of the new cast members joining Jamie Lee Curtis Andy Matta check and Kyle Richards We have found out that Michael O'Leary he'll be coming in to play a character named Doctor Mathis now If I'm not mistaken Doctor Mathis is a character whose name was mentioned in Halloween kills I believe that was the individual that who got mentioned when the nurse and doctor couple When his wife was mentioning that he should go into the office and punch Doctor Mathis in the face I believe that's where we heard Doctor Mathis is named for the first time in Halloween kills But I might be mistaken. I'm pretty sure we heard his name in that film though so What role he'll play who knows we'll probably just hear just he'll probably just be a minor character that We learned about and how he had it What his relation might have been like with the doctor who passed away four years ago, etc. And his wife and Just maybe he has a bad reputation in town Also for his ways not just with that couple that we heard from in Halloween kills, but some other capacity and as far as like the production and Images that we can expect from production if production did indeed start today as it was being planned to then We should be getting some news shortly or production images shortly from anyone who's out there I'm imagining there's a lot of people that are out there gonna be taking pictures and posting them online sharing us all these tidbits and details as far as like What's going on out there in Savannah, Georgia? So Mr. O'Leary put out this tweet that's now been deleted I'll leave a link to the bloody discussing article down in the description because I actually did come across the Tweet before it got deleted, but he has since deleted it before I got a chance to record and talk about it He says that Halloween ends. I'm thrilled to announce that I'll be playing the role of dr. Mathis in John Carpenter's iconic slasher starring Jamie Lee Curtis The other thing to point out here is that this individual Mr. O'Leary he actually did put out a tweet Saying that he would be in a movie because he's he's deleted several tweets There was one tweet I think like around in November December on his page He put out something saying that he will be participating in the movie cave dwellers now I remember cave dwellers is the working title for Halloween ends So he's he had been saying this for quite a while One was in cold with the working title cave dwellers then another recent tweet he put out where he just flat out named Yeah, he's participating in John Carpenter's Iconic slasher playing the character of dr. Mathis, but those tweets both have been deleted I can't find them anywhere on his Twitter at this time We know the film will have a time jump what that will include Still don't know as far as like what the characters have been through these characters I'm most most focused on right now are Jamie Lee Curtis's character of Laurie Strode and Allison Nelson played by Andy Maddichak I'm assuming Allison lives with her grandmother. There's probably some tension in the household as well Maybe Allison is suffering the same way Laurie was kind of struggling for the past 40 years until Michael ended up escaping like she had always thought he would and She says she even prayed for that because she wanted to kill him So we'll get to see hopefully how Alice has been affected and how their relationship has kind of probably been kind of Fractured in ways or how it's kind of probably brought them together With the loss of Alice's mom her father Alice's mom being Laurie's daughter Karen Strode and Just kind of really just diving into what these two have been up to before jumping into You know the carnage with Michael Myers and you know, he's back for more bloodshed because we know that there's gonna be bodies piling up I would like Halloween ins to not do what Halloween kills did which was give you a lot of returning characters with almost no Knowledge of what they are like as it is today The movie was heavily reliant on you just being Being nostalgic overseeing Lindsay and Tommy back and Marion Chambers Lonnie, you know, we just don't learn enough about them to ultimately care about their their fates because they they have some moments where They're talking and we learned that they are Our friends that come together to commemorate what they went through 40 years ago, but then that's that's it We don't really get to learn too much about them I'm hoping Kyle Richards gets a chance to shine a lot more have that scene with Laurie to kind of just see What their relationship is like now because I'm assuming they definitely have talked in the past four years about the events that have happened probably sad about Tommy as well and I would just like to see some dialogue and spend some time with these characters before we jump into the bloodshed and gore and I Would like just some type of heart behind the film have a lot of heart to it I would like us to learn about any new characters that they plan to introduce before they start dying off You don't have to have give us like overly long monologues about anyone or anything Let their traits stand out. Let let different personalities stand out Let these characters come to life and let us be able to identify all these unique traits about them before they start Dying so we can grow attached to them and making them the bloodshed from Michael Myers Just that was more gut-riching at times because there honestly wasn't a single moment in hallowing kills Besides Karen, I would say Karen definitely got me where I was upset that any of those people died not that it matters, but that goes back to my thing that You need to develop the characters give us something to root for with them Lindsay and Tommy of course I'm not saying I wanted them to die But when I'm not learning what they've been through for the past 40 years other than they come to a bar and get drunk or something You know, that's not that's not really giving me any ammo to get invested in a character that in this timeline I haven't seen for well in In the real world more than 40 years in this timeline It's been 40 years because it's still October of 2018 So hopefully we get some differences with character development here this time around more character development So we can get attached to the characters I am definitely hoping that Lindsay is the person that we get to have fleshed out a lot more since Kyle which is coming back and Something about coverage performance in hallowing kills I would just want you to see more of that character and learn a lot more about I thought she did a great job but hopefully we'll get some behind-the-scenes images if halloween ins did indeed start filming this week and Hopefully we'll get to see dr. Mathis if they have some image that comes out of him on set He's actually I think not supposed to be there though until January 27th So, you know, we'll start to learn some things along the way And I think production supposed to run from January to March honestly But let me know what you guys think about this down in the comment section below if you haven't already forced make sure you subscribe turn on Postification and miss video in the description. I have links to my social media accounts on my Facebook Twitter and Instagram You can message me there, of course Then there's any movies news or views you'd like me to cover in the future with all that in mind guys I will see you in the next video


And talking tourism now, the House of Representatives Committee on Culture and Tourism has threatened a zero-budget allocation to the National Theatre Lagos, and the controversy surrounding the culture house is not addressed amicably. Chairman of the Committee on Culture and Tourism, Uwe De Ihama, said this during the 2022 budget defence. Emmanuel Ehidjene report is presented from our studios. The chairman of the House Committee on Culture and Tourism, Uwe De Ihama, made the threat on the leadership of the National Theatre, who appeared before it to defend their 2022 budget. Uwe De said that the role surrounding the possible sale of the National Edifices and being replaced with a five-star hotel by the Federal Government, the Committee is constrained to allocate funds for its operations in the 2022 fiscal year. The lawmaker expressed worries that the edifice, which ought to have been replicated in the role of states for tourism purposes, has been utterly ignored and left to ruins. The Federal Government presents a national budget that still covers National Theatre and the head of the Paracita seats before us and wants us to commit more public funds into National Theatre where we do not even know the status of National Theatre. In the later development, the Director General, National Council for Art and Culture, Shabu Rishawa, also commanded the National Assembly, the EFCC as well as the rest of FCT, Muhammad Beller, for the quick intervention in averting the takeover of the land belonging to the NCAC. Rishawa made the commendation when the leadership of the National Council for Art and Culture appeared before the Committee for the 2022 Budget's defence. That land is worth 9.8 billion Naira. This is government property so people want to take over. It's more important than any other because that place can generate over 13 million IPRs for us, IJR. I need to make it known today what's happening after your visit to the place. So, we do respect you to this Committee, sir.  Meantime, the BG of the National Theatre, Professor Samuel Doble, had a real comedy of how the National Theatre had gone through serious dilapidation and the need to rehabilitate it is rather federal government where the CBN Bankers' Committee came to an understanding.