I'm trying to see if I can find my little son. Hopefully my Wi-Fi working in, not Wi-Fi. I'm on phone service in here, computer office, and so I don't need that trouble. Y'all got to forgive me, I ain't got nothing to stand my phone up on. Want to pop in for a little bit, just because I didn't get to shoot a video today. So I want to pop on in. And I'm on the road, going to be home for a nice little bit after this, but duty calls for those of y'all that did not know if you knew here. As a mentor, life coach, consultant, whatever you call it, I work with sports teams. It's one of the things, I don't promote it online because I'm not looking for business in the area. In that area, it's kind of just referral, me being a former college athlete and having made every mistake that an athlete can make and having pro-potential, but not using it. I go and I talk to athletes just about choices, decisions, consequences, and doing the right thing. Because they hear from the guys who made it, but sometimes hearing from the guys that didn't make it because of our choices, it helps them out. So that's what I'm on the road doing right now. And I'll be back home soon. But until then, working from the hotel and wanting to pop in just for an hour, just going to be on here an hour. I know I always say that. I'll be on here an hour. And then I'll be off of here. House of Jasmine, not really. I don't really collaborate with YouTubers. For one, nobody asked me to collaborate. But then, too, it's just a lot of things with branding that happens. And so just one of the things I teach in my personal brand course on Tony Gaston Academy is just about protecting your brand. Imagine when you think about it, it would have been a great collab to do a collab with Bill Cosby and great collab to do a collab with Harvey Weinstein before all the stuff came out. And so that's really why I kind of stay away from collabs because I really don't know how people live their life. I do interviews, you know. But even with the interviews, it got to serve a purpose. It got to be to reach a new audience. It got to be to reach something totally different. Like one of the interviews, I had done an interview a long time ago, but they just put it up on the other channels. It was a total different audience, you know. And so spreading the message. So that's how I go about it. Now, if you have a question, put on hashtag Q in front of it. And again, I'm just going to be on here an hour because I need to call my wife tonight. I want to get to bed at a decent time. I was up late last night. So I'm out here working. I'm looking too crazy. So let me see. Listen to a woman's influence over 10 times. What? Camille, you're one of the greatest of all time. I ain't never heard of that. You must be exaggerating. 10 times? Tony, how can I get my son's dad to leave my home that I own? Says rent is too expensive.  Since I'm not really sure on that because that probably falls into like civil law and stuff. Civil stuff. So you may have to talk to an attorney or to the police station. And you know, you may need to be able to talk to somebody in full to share more about him because that's a dangerous situation. So it would kind of be unwise of me to speak on a situation like evicting a man without knowing the full complete history and story to know if he cuckoo for cocoa puffs. Y'all got forgiven. I had to take the light from back there and plug it in over here because I come over here wanting to light over here and I'm like, listen, I need to be doing a podcast in the dark. So I got no light, so hopefully y'all could see me. Mr. Gaston, will you be doing a video for new life coaches? If you're a new life coach through my course, we do monthly calls. Or if you're on my mentor.life, we do monthly calls. Through my mentor.life, we just had one. And I have, I think, videos on YouTube about life coaching, but I probably could do one in the blessed business tribe. I so wish I had me some. Y'all forgiven. Let me try to stand this here. Can prude up a little bit.  See that ingenuity. That's why we invented so much stuff. I had to fold these pants in half, set this up a little higher. Why would a guy be into a woman who is the age of his older mid-30s and he's mid-40s? Well, you gotta know men. Do you see the way these men out here talking on e-podcast? Are you surprised? Come on now. Come on now. Are you surprised? You hear the way to eat guy talking today? That ought to be all the answer you need. Linda Brown, God bless you now. God bless you now.  Don't want my boys having the same habits as their father, soon to be ex-husband and their dad and granddad have same characteristics, talks and womanizes what to do. You gotta introduce them. You gotta introduce them to resources. On Tony guys at academy.com I got a course for young men 13 to 18 and you gotta introduce them to resources so that they see real examples of real men. And one day I may just shoot all of it. I may make that course free here soon and just tell everybody, hey, you raising a teenage boy, just go get this here course.  Just post them all in one day. So anytime y'all ask, I just could see into that playlist for young men and just having heart to heart real talk with young men from a virtual mentor perspective. Been dating this older man for about six months, treats me like a queen from flowers, arrangements and motivation. I'm 26 and he's 44. I like him, but it's hard for me to see past age difference any hope here. Well, I tell you what, if you don't leave that man alone he gonna be on a podcast in the dark now because that right there and I see that's part of the problem of what they be talking about.   Now 44 is not old. That's very young. But in relation to your age he old is dirt. He too old for you. And so the reason why he treat you so amazing this lady got mad at me. She was a Caucasian lady. She really understand how much I be blocking people. I love to live that first time. Oh no, I think I blocked her. I think I blocked her. Let me stop lying. She gonna see there. This is what I'm talking about. You just be saying stuff and you don't even be knowing. Blah. Man, don't come on my page. Y'all forget the elbow. Been in a sleeve all day so he ain't got no lotion on. Y'all give him a second to get a little a little lotion for the elbow. I'm rollin' around in the room and it's chill, I can't tell you. I cannot tell you why I'm rollin' around in the room and it's chill. I could have got up and walked. Y'all forgive him. I can't tell you. I can't tell you. Y'all even give him a little lotion for the elbow. Now listen to me now. So the reason why older men treat younger women so good is because you're revivin' him. You're revivin' him.  Just like they say, still got a rule back. That's what you're doin' for him.  So he feelin' that libido. That libido go to jumpin' on. He go to thinkin' he gettin' the testosterone deposit from dealin' with ya. He do ya like that. So that's all you got to understand. It's kinda like it's your young skin. You see what I mean?  Somebody say Tony, you look 17. What? We like young skin. So as humans, if he 44 or 20 something or 30 something, you so much younger it's like having something everybody like a new car versus an old car. So it's really these guys that age and single. If they haven't had a wife that they don't age with, you know, like fine wine then they want something young to revive them and make them feel alive again. Because they go to lookin' at their own, they like, oh, 44 year old woman that been toe out the frame, toe up from the floor, woe out. So he go to thinkin' about that cause he lookin' at his 44. Now there's some 44 year old women that's still virgins. It's something that's only been with a couple of men.  It's something that ain't really had no real relationship experience. But just in his mind, he's got a lot of miles on him. He lookin' at women his age or judging them thinkin' they got miles on him. Too many miles on him. And so he wanna try to get them something that he think is could have more miles on her than the 44 year old do. But that's how he judge it. And that's how me personally I'ma tell you. As a man, as a real man I think it's kind of irresponsible. Like I'm 37. If I was a single man I wouldn't want no woman 27 years old. I wouldn't. My wife 35. That's now about too young. That's about too young for me. Cause sometimes she like to play too much. And I'd be like, oh goodness I shoulda got some out of my age. Cause she be having too much energy for me sometimes. So I could not imagine having a woman 10 years younger. So that just let me know a man that's kind of hella in a different space. Which I can't say too much about this cause my homeboy woman is 10 years or more younger. My barber. Wife 10 years or more younger. You know I know men closely. But that's what let's y'all know I'll be telling the truth. Cause my truth I'm right on the toes of the guys that be right next to me. And when I be talking about that you know what have you. Age differences. What advice do you have for someone who is trying to change bad habits and life around. First step.  I think a lot of times you know our brain is wired to feed into those habits but first we got to have a knowledge and understanding that we can do all things. Especially through Christ who strengthen us. And so when when I want to change my life I made a decision and then I said I'm not going to do this thing unless my body physically forces me to. And then I realized my body didn't physically force me to do anything. And with every passing day I got stronger and stuff start to just fall by the wayside. So really it first comes from a decision. It's not really about a trick in the book. It's not really about none of that. It's about a decision. You know House of Jasmine on the Q&A nights it's only for Q&A. So the reason why they'll take you out of there is to try to keep the chat clear just so we can have questions. So they'll delete everything that's not a question. Just because as you see it's millions of questions that are missing because the chat going so fast because when y'all put stuff that's not a question it moved, it moved all the the questions up. You see how just the extra commentary that people putting and so I try to get as many questions on these as I can. We only got 44 more minutes. My job is taking up a lot of my time physically and mentally. It's impacting reducing my time with God. What can I do? Don't let nothing take you from God. And what you got to realize is God don't need a bunch of time because you could talk to God all day. So while you're doing your job every breath I take I'm talking to God. In between every sentence I I'm talking to God.  But just get up 15 minutes earlier and just and later and pray.  You know God is a spirit. He's not praying to a man so a spirit you talk to a spirit anytime every time. Am I wrong for not wanting to be honest with my friend about her long distance relationship after 17 years on and off he won't commit their careers keeping them in different cities. Well no you're not wrong because some friends don't know how to handle the truth and they get upset. Now you say 17 years listen that ain't rocket science she know that relationship ain't about nothing but that's better than nothing so she comfortable where she at cause she got something and some people will rather have half of something than nothing at all so that's all that is just found my boyfriend had a hidden tiktok account and was following 19 girls he's 35 I'm 28 I broke up with him I'm in shock did I exaggerate Lord forgive me for laughing now Lord forgive me for laughing you broke up with him over the tiktok over the hidden tiktok now listen he definitely got a lesson he definitely got a lesson you breaking up with him but yes that was a little drastic that was a little it's a tiktok now if you found a nasty app that he subscribed to if he on the fans site if he on the hub then that's totally different but the tiktok yeah that's bad you need to check them have a real heart to heart let them know this is absolutely 100% unacceptable now you broke up with him so you can't just take that back you got to see if he gonna say hey I apologize can we work this out when he say that now he know that you don't play no games Cheryl Marie God bless you now he know you don't play no games Gina Jarelli God bless your boyfriend terrific most of the time very kind but has out of the blue four unrages then acts as if nothing happened thoughts nothing out on me Gina you gonna have to get on that real quickly so what my daddy used to tell me he always used to say son in a time of peace prepare for in a time of peace prepare for so you gonna have to when he you know Ratna he calm you need to have that conversation with him tonight and you might want to have that conversation over the phone and say hey I want to talk to you about these outbursts that you have do you think you need to go to therapy or is there some else you need to do because the last time you had one that was the last one that I'm gonna be able to deal with and you got to be straight to it you got to be direct with it you got to handle that you can't deal with no type of temper tantrums and all of that how can I stop over our sleeping with other now he active in child's life but not wanting me I keep thinking about what he's doing now that he's through with me you know you got to feel it you gonna have to feel it until you heal it so process the thoughts identify with the feelings think it through think it through and get new knowledge in the process so read the books take the courses do all of that and as you getting new knowledge you gonna start to realize okay we weren't a fit we're not meant to be by you giving him your energy you blocking your blessings from meeting the one that is for you so the more you get knowledge the stronger you gonna get because what knowledge does is it's basically replacing the old thoughts it's replacing what we thought we knew and so that's why they say knowledge is power because the more you learn the more confident you become so it's that confidence that's power Samantha God bless my girlfriends invited me to a speed dating event personally I don't agree with speed dating the speed dating prepare you to socialize if you haven't been dating in quite a while well don't do anything you don't agree with me personally I would not do speed dating I don't really think it's wise to make a hasty decision to have a love minute to talk to somebody and then have to decide on whether you want to get them your number or not when the setting is rushed whereas yeah if you meet somebody in person it might not be that long but at least it's not rushed and you can ask them questions if you want to you can fill things out the other thing at most speed dating events is kind of like a different form of online dating it very it may be one real man in the event and a lot of the men might be paid actors by the by the host because the host need to make their money the event planner need to make their money so they got their cousins in there they got married men in there they got listed in the company event planning especially right now at well we're supposed to have our mask so y'all looking at each other at each other eyes blanking y'all in there trying to send signals because you got your mask on and then if not you could be on to a speedy hospital bed if you would know without the mask on and y'all doing these speed talks somebody y'all that see 19 on the crime right in your face so me personally I don't recommend it I just recommend getting out the house one old fashioned way because let your tell your friends calm down why does God bless people who live in willing sin you say he doesn't bless mess well that right there is contradictory and you know what you saying it just because something look good don't mean it's a blessing you got to understand that a snare a snare look like a blessing but it got a hook in it so when you go fishing this fish over here looking at this fish and this fish over here getting jealous oh my goodness look at that blessing this fish got fish warm up bite your bait this fish over here like oh sorry about your luck thought you had a blessing and that's what you got to realize just because you see people get a new car get a job that don't mean they got anything to do with God that don't mean they got nothing to do with God so you got to realize God don't bless mess because if God bless us in the midst of our willing sin we'll never come out of sin so that ain't you know that ain't biblical sense God ain't gonna bless nobody no sin now he'll give you the strength to come up out it he'll give you the strength to change your life and then on the other side of that change you will get you a blessing God bless you now Tex Coco hello Mr. Tony I want to know how come an insecure man is the most angry man um it's just when a man is insecure he unpredictable he's unpredictable and he's uncontrollable and he's insufferable so insecurity is why a lot of people are put in the ground meaning from that the H word H you know put in the ground lives are taken from insecurity not confidence so that's why and see the thing is is a man can take you out with his bare hands so an insecure man is prone to anger he's prone to being irrational and so you never want to get too comfortable with an insecure man because you never know what's coming when you got an insecure man you got to sleep like this which technically mean you going to die early because you ain't getting no sleep because this is how you got to sleep when you got to an insecure man and me being a man and being a former insecure man I know about it all too well and a lot of men insecure and don't know they insecure they don't think it's insecure they think it's being a man they think being controlling and being jealous and them 21 questions and all that they think that's being a man they think that mean they care about a woman and they call it territorial but it's insecurity so you got to run from that down but I need to put share in the share I need to have share one of them games winning some money with them quick hands but hey if y'all don't put the hashtag Q in front of your question share a friend to get you up out of there okay God bless you now chat this for questions now I know some people they not to this point in the video because they go to the live and they scroll it back and they watch it but the chat is live so they come in and I'm way up here and they way back down mother of five soon to be divorced four children from ex husband not dating I have my three B's six K a year constantly approached I'm guessing that six figures what I mean thinking about me with five kids and six K salary so share I'm guessing six K mean six figures well it just depend on the man one is an adjustment even one so two mean maturity so it depend on the man if the man immature he might think how much child support she getting if the man mature he he gonna say I got to really love her because he gonna have to be able to cultivate those personalities and navigate those personalities and to you know hopefully you ain't got the baby kids you all remember the cartoon baby kids and the kid was running that man crazy and so sometimes you can have baby kids and so that's something to right there when you got five kids dating really don't need to be on your mind you really need it because because you don't have love you don't experience that like you can't be thirsty to jump back in them when you got five kids that's the basketball team that's that's a starting five so you want to focus there first and a man who wanna be with you you want him to sweep you off your feet like that shouldn't be something that you focus on because as we know being parents it's one child is a handful I got two boys and it we all over place it's all you got five now you got five under 18 only the ones under 18 count as you know to the man as like your responsibilities like real responsibilities if they all under 18 then you need to pump your brakes you need to pump your brakes you need to focus on getting them schedules together make sure you know if you got to get you a nanny assistant what have you vet them background check all that do your whole nine and have your little sister have your little sister can three kids be a lot I got two and I and I got help my wife got help and it's a lot so the thing about it is what we have to realize about love and relationships is it's a gamble so that's why we're supposed to get all the knowledge we can get before we go into it because it can cost you everything and that's why I teach so much on this because it's a gamble when you're looking for love and so when we have freedom of choice but we don't have freedom of consequence so when you have children now it's time to then pause because now your life doesn't isn't about you as much as it is about them because you brought them in the world without their permission and so you got to make sure they protect it there they're secure they're prepared they set up because when you go back out if you focus on dating then you're going to be half you're going to be half good at dating and you're going to be half good at being a parent and so you got to be able to master the one before you bring in the other because the way we are today especially with all these toxic male voices out here you got a lot of men that's going to come in and they nasty so if you you don't know what he into and a lot of men so much into the nasty movies and hands a look that drive them down some roads that they could be into what you raising you catch my drill and out of seeing this with women that I know personally women out on coach to where they have multiple kids like three or more and they want to date and they so ready to date that they blinded and don't see the signs and the next thing you know the man that they're dealing with you see what I mean is out of line with what with who they raising and so you have to be able to taking you know take your time got to be able to take your time to where you know you got things managed right why do so many men lead with a meta professional guy in first class on a flight because work politics religion he invited me out and then led with literally slap him not see listen says listen don't don't ever in your life slap nobody male or female I know I know you was offended and all of that right there but you could have lost your life okay because you don't know who you're slapping if somebody gonna come out the mouth like that with you it's words sticks and stones may break my bones but words have never hurt me now it was offensive but you could have got your purse and just left because if a man crazy enough to lead with that he could be crazy enough to take you on up out of here so now you'll get took up out of here over some words so I want you to remember that because that may happen in the future you get to stuff you go about your business and then to you know if and also now next time if you meet a man in first class okay you got to some money but in first class now if talk to him on the phone you don't FaceTime with because see the thing about it is men a lot of men mine is being and the nastiness is being reinforced a lot of it being reinforced is being perpetuated like the gentleman in the dark who told men if you go on a date after after nighttime hey that right there got to be on the table so see this man had that mindset because this being reinforced this being taught so now here you is you to put physical hands on this man now if he would have put physical hands back things would have got out of hand and that man literally could have heard a message like that from the man sitting in the dark and thought that it was okay and that's why I try to tell these men we got to be careful with our messages because one guy came in my comments telling calling the man in the dark a professional man he told me I need not speak out against a professional black man because I could be sitting the wrong message to my following I say that's exactly what I'm doing is sending a message ain't the wrong message but I'm speaking out against it because it is absurd and I'm going to do that all day every day serve you don't like it then get you a ticket but that's the thing that's what I'm trying to tell these men now that could have went real bad and so understand that it's a lot of men that ain't been raised right and so you got to take your time and you got to keep your distance you got to get to know a man first before you just jump in this space and we got 25 minutes left now doesn't mean anything when a man spares a woman yeah it mean that either he it mean he got a good heart it mean he's a he's a good dude he a decent dude he feels like you're not the one and so he instead of lying to you leading your own messing up his harvest he'd say hey this not the one you're not the one you know we ought to part ways and so it mean a good dude decent dude at least how do I put my best foot forward to date right get the knowledge if you get the knowledge everything else will fall in place so get the knowledge everything else going to fall in place because you'll know what you're looking at when you see it hey I'm a 23 year old single mom with 3 year old son I am a LVN maybe you meant P N LVN I feel lost and alone any advice I don't know what LVN mean that's a nurse you're 23 years old so what you need to do is you need to get off social media unless you on here getting knowledges getting knowledge so you need to be able to go on social media go right to the channels that you know that's going to teach you something and anything out of that you need to stay off of that the reason why you feel in that way is because you comparing your behind the scenes to other people highlight real so you looking at other people your age and other people older than you and you comparing yourself to them but if you start to look within and you start to focus on you and you set your own goals and you create a plan of action toward your goals and you stop looking left and stop looking right and you focus on raising your child and you keep your eyes on the prize you're going to do wonders you're don't surprise yourself but comparison as the quote says comparison is the thief of joy I haven't told any of my days that I'll be a medical doctor when I graduate in May I want to assess insecurity level of men is that a bad thing no it's not a bad thing and I'm not really sure how you going to assess the insecurity level by not telling them you're not going to see but being a doctor is going to work in your favor and it doesn't matter how a man feel about that if he is insecure you'll see that you won't see it if you hide that status because he may he'll still show it he'll still show it now the thing about telling that you're going to be a medical doctor is that you could get you a gold digging man who don't like you but stick around because of your trajectory and see that's the thing that's the gamble of looking for love and that's what I'll try to tell the men who's saying they want to know up front before they go on a date if a woman is attracted to them sexually and I'm trying to tell these men that ain't how this works we don't know what we're going to get that's the purpose of dating see if you can hit it off to see what it's going to be ain't nobody going to come with a whole sign on their forehead on exactly how they feel about you what they think that's what I'm trying to tell these men so the same thing go for women when you go on this date and you meet these men and you tell them you know they say what do you do well I'm in school I'm in med school right now finishing up or you know residency or whatever it is okay cool well if he a doctor he might you know think that's cool on a business owner a hard working man he might think that's a cool thing and then you judge his character so the way you can tell is what you have to realize is humans can't really fake in its entirety for more than like a year so if you start dating everything going good around that year mark some signs going to start to show if not earlier how I'm a nurse now y'all doing good now we got doctors on here nurses on here six six figure earners people in first class hey y'all on here doing good my goodness I thought I would pull down the country you know I ain't no I ain't no y'all y'all it's all education I'm about to say a little education you know somebody hating on you they put love in front of it because I ain't got y'all education I'm about to call y'all education love destiny elevation God bless you God bless you I'm gonna end the live hitting the button boyfriend been divorced a year says marriage scares him now see listen I'm not all about to answer that but you see how all these successful women in him but men are rather hate they don't mean then to come on in here getting the best tribe and meet their wife they're rather call me a simp and a panderer then to come on in here and meet their wife could have a real connection to where he know this woman is in a place getting her mind fed not getting told what she want to hear getting it it's called right down the middle some stuff gon' sting it's gon' soothe it's gon' flatter a battle but it's gon' be the truth and sting or soothe but see men don't think like that they're rather go to the club get on a dating site to go to a place of substance and meet a woman of substance so to y'all fellas that just be passing by and just be being nosy just being nosy touchin' old and if you single then gon' get in the community and do your little networking might meet your wife and at least you know she ain't on no twerking channel she ain't you know she gettin' knowledge dating a man who has an exceptional personality and good qualities only setback is our conversations at a very surface level and aren't as deep as I would like can it work take the conversation deeper you know take the conversation deeper all you gotta do is ask a better question so this could hone your conversational skills you know don't just wait on a man because a man might not know how deep of a conversation you wanna have but he may be trying to walk on eggshells because it's a lot of sensitivity in our world so a lot of women are extremely sensitive like the sister who found her man got a fake TikTok she broke up with him over a social media site she just broke up with him they ain't do no coaching first they ain't have no just boom done and then the lady the man said she say she put hands on him that could have cost her her life or some piece of her health so a lot of women are sensitive so when you say you gotta this a great guy seem like but he tipped on it could be because of it's so many women on edge because it's so much toxicity in this hip world that a lot of women on edge men getting used to seeing women on edge because of these men with these messages that they putting out here that's putting women in harm's way it's putting women on edge rightfully so but you know I'm 40 and only 30 year old men professional, successful approach me why don't men my age approach me should I try dating a younger man seems like a doomed endeavor you just got to increase your exposure rate so get in some clubs get in some other associations have your little set outings get out the house at least three times a week go to this lounge go to church, go to Barnes & Noble go to Starbucks and just increase your exposure 40 year old men approaching you that's a good sign it must mean you look younger than your age it may not be as many 40 year old men in your area and a lot of them could be married a lot of them could be married so as you increase your exposure rate you going to meet other men now what I recommend is not going more than three years younger because women mature faster than men women on average are more mature than men so if you 40 you need a really mature 37 year old or a man up to 45 but when you increase that exposure it's going to increase the odds how do you stay positive in dating in that society you have to understand that where you have that message you going to have these messages over here so it's going to be a remnant of men that's doing the right thing and trying to do the right thing trying to go the right way and so you just have to keep the faith and you got to realize that that's just on social that's on social media it ain't going to permeate everywhere in society it's trying to but you have to be you got to know that it's going to be balanced to the scales and the good thing about seeing that stuff you going to learn the mindset so when you meet a man you going to pretty much know on the first date if he is of that mindset mindset and that's going to protect you you going to be able to move on about your business Zen, Chi, God bless you God bless your sister they're doing all kinds of good I met a guy on an app I live in Austin, Texas he lives in Dallas, Texas he is so sweet I love his block stutter he texts me every day though I'm 27 he is 31 so he in your age range by one year we got 13 more minutes on here he said I'm about to yawn and so listen to me you got to find the words to talk to him on the text and let him know that you okay with his block stutter that you okay and that you don't mind communicating with him and if you all are going to build something then he's going to have to be okay and trust you to understand that he has a block stutter now the thing is what you have to realize you met him on an app that's a red flag the other thing what you have to realize is sometime me and lie I remember going up to a lady in the mall when I was a single man and we had a flip phone I flipped the phone and I typed on the love in the text message area hey my name is Tony and I got a sore throat and I can't talk right now so I want to know if I can have your phone number and we can talk later when I get healthy and she looked at it and smiled, thought it was cute put a phone number in there kind of find out she got an old dope boy boyfriend I say woman, you about trying to get me don't give me your phone number woman you got this dope boy and so I had to get on and then she wanted a friend box me because she wanted her thug and I went all the way thug enough and but I was lying I was lying because she had a a tiger on her thigh and just I wasn't sure how to talk to somebody with a tiger on their thigh you know or the kitten paws or whatever I can't remember who had that on their leg that was a rapper if it would look him or somebody and so I was like no I need to come up with some other kind of game so I faked like I couldn't talk so I say that to say you know gotta keep that in mind YouTube be playing around you know how to show you how many people on here it keep flipping to one person so I don't know if that's when my service going out or what like YouTube we all stop playing on here with the nonsense not sitting out there in Palo Alto I'm trying to do my lie there out there in Palo Alto playing keep hitting the button come here come here now Amina come here they got this culture bumpkin on here let's hit the button on him and it will make it go to one and we'll see what he does you know he might just get off here cause we're trying to listen to this anyway we're trying to watch this other lie that's more interested and so they keep hitting the button and they keep going to one saying one person on here it's like YouTube I know y'all sitting out there watching the lie stop playing with the lie now out there in Palo Alto messing around with stuff child father haven't seen her since June of last year every month he make a different excuse that he have to work overtime or he have things to do what should I do Tony help well you got to shift your mindset sister to reality check bless you you got to shift your mindset to if it's meant to be it's up to me meaning that you got to see your child as 100% yours because you there instead of moderators y'all can take off now y'all can rest for the night y'all can rest we only got 9 minutes left so y'all can rest to moderators thank you so much for the help tonight really appreciate it but a lot of times it's hard when you waiting on 50 when you feel like 50 and you waiting on 50 so you got to shift your mindset and say I'm 100 I'm 100 and this on me and stop telling yourself I'm 50 and I need this other 50 in order to be complete and so you got to do that and when you do that then that mindset shift gonna make you feel 100 100% responsible and although it's not fair life ain't fair and this the situation you in so you got to make the best of the situation and stop waiting on him don't have her waiting on him you know or him I can't remember if you say you had a boy or girl and you know your child so you got to speak your child language and you know when the child ready for the truth and or you know a version of the truth how do I get in the blessed business tribe looking for tips well you in this here so under my video is you may see see perks when you click see perks it'll open up and you'll see where I say blessed tribe right up under to say blessed business tribe and so does your birth your book course teach you how to create a guided question journal if not can you do a video on the blessed business tribe I can do a video on that but the birth your book course will it won't teach you how to create it because that's your work of art so you have to make it make sense to you so my book 31 days the purpose is basically like a guided question journal to where each day is a different question and it got the lines for you to answer the question and each question the questions go in order so if I want to help you find your purpose I would say you know what would you say what are your passions and then I would say well what are your gifts a passion is what you love to do a gift is what you naturally good at you might not be passionate about though okay you told me your gifts you told me your passions now how can we marry the two and then what does that look like in the world so if you say my gift is writing my passion is writing we're going to marry the two the product is writing a book starting a blog writing a screenplay and then so I my questions guided you to where I wanted you to see what I wanted you to hear versus me just telling you so just make the questions go in order just as it makes sense in your mind and then how you you know somebody that kind of give you some feedback single mama three I'm a medical assistant and my kids share separate fathers one of the guys is keeping my daughter as a secret it's hard to explain but if you watch my video you'll understand well I know I ain't got time to watch your video and so if the question don't fit in here then I really gonna be able to help you on that right there sister so this right here so what you need to do is go to my mentor dot life my mentor dot life this right here just for a little light stuff right here that right there Jasmine that's a little that's gonna be a little heavier lifting so you got to find you a coach on mentor dot life and work with your coach and talk through that right there talk through that okay deactivated most of social media have so much peace without it will a man find this odd not at all he'll find that very good he will absolutely love that my wife didn't used to have social media and boy I loved it that I had all to myself and now she got social media and social media take up time you're just on there scrolling you're looking around and then all these random ideas coming so now I'm seeing stuff in my house and then nothing I know I see this come offline and I see this right here idea and then nothing I know this come offline so this man come to me I was at a flag football practice one of the dads come up to me he say yeah man my wife say she want to go to the Atlantis in Bahamas I say do she follow my wife on Instagram he say yeah I say we just was in the Atlantis Bahamas and my wife were posting the whole trip he said oh man that's where that come from so she doesn't see your wife over there he say I'm going home and tell her that I know where this idea come from he said I'm just sitting here wondering like why in the world out the blue she want to go to the Atlantis in Bahamas and that's how social media do us men and women but so anybody I wish I didn't have social media I wish I could get rid of this social media now listen if my audience is your demographic you come with the right pride ooh let one of these venture capitalists offer me 900,000 for my Instagram that got 900,000 people all right y'all well it was nice knowing y'all and I hope everything all the videos I put up to help you I'll be talking to y'all later do you hear me I'll be on that social media so fast but you know when you gotta reach people and that's how people know how to get in contact which you got to have it so anybody who could do without social media you got a job and your job don't deal with clients online you get a paycheck whether you got social media or not delete it delete it I'm telling you now I mean you can watch these videos but even if you need to delete these videos I ain't gonna be mad at you I ain't gonna be mad at you go about your business literally be in my head all day I learned to love God and do the work and obtain and apply with hey God bless you God bless you Lord poor out in a life that right there that's the mindset right there you can always see the lotion bottle that's different from my Asher elbows now I don't get down like that I don't get down like that I don't deal with hands a lot that's for my elbows you can always see the glass half full or you can see the glass half empty it's some women that they come and they see the message and I'm sharing the real and they say oh this just depressing me I just ain't gonna never have nobody and then some women come you know like that and some men come half full half empty so it's all about your perspective and how you see things now it's a good old game on the TV so I'm about to get on ready to call my wife and get a little bit of a game in my system hey well I'm gonna tell you what we're gonna end the Q&A I got a couple minutes I'm gonna talk to you now listen to me I'm gonna pop on here when I can get on here and Lord willing it's gonna be real I got the it's so much I'm ready to retire I'm ready to ride off into the sunset I'm ready to do something different but it's so the toxicity getting so loud that I realize I can't come down from this work right now that I got to keep doing the work because if I shut up the scale's gonna be so unbalanced and it's a few other you know men out here that's trying to help me out and talk some sense so I got to stay in it so I could help them so we could balance these scales because we have a lot of we got a lot of toxicity going on we got a lot of nonsense going on but I sure been thinking about opening me some other businesses and doing something else and jazz go boy look here this here do get draining but I say you know what the Lord gave me rest yet the work got to be done so I'm gonna keep doing the work the best of my ability and I really appreciate you to the men and the women to the fellas who be being quiet but supporting I appreciate you somebody asked that today and let me explain that before I go now let me explain that before I go somebody asked that the lady sent me a clown a clown video and remember what I told y'all remember what I told you the circus will always have a larger following than the classroom because a clown is more entertaining than a teacher remember that but the lady sent me a video of a clown and he talking about you know why y'all think it ain't a lot of men that follow and support Tony Gaskins and he said another brother name but the other brother name he said he don't even know that I'm going on 15 years of marriage the other brother Jeff was called in a scandal cheating on his wife we not the same we are not the same but the reason why a lot of men don't support me is because my message is exposing men in the dark so what men doing in the dark I'm bringing it to the light so if a man is not ready to grow my light is too bright so it's kind of like a demon running from a righteous spirit that demon don't want to approach a righteous spirit because spirits repel so when I come with a light a man in the dark who trying to stay in the dark gonna run the other way the only men who gonna support me are men who trying to go into the light with me and that's what you got to understand so men think that because it ain't a lot of men being vocal about my message and sharing my message that that mean that my message ain't to help men no the men who be here a lot of time they listen in silence and they growing and they learning in the dark to come into the light and they being healed and they working on themselves and they being quiet and the reason why a lot of times men don't want to share nothing is because it is uncomfortable for a man to speak up for women and for a man to say let's be fair let's be honest let's walk in love let's not take advantage that's such an uncommon message that most men are afraid to carry that message if they not directly being benefited from it now if I told men ay come go on tour with me ay come do this with me and they saw where they saw dollar signs and they thought oh this might be some money in this and all kind of men come out the woodwork and that's what we got today that's why we got the guys who talk about relationships this so many of them they talking about it the wrong way and on the wrong side but they doing it because they think they gonna make a lot of money and not realizing they gonna realize in a lot of money in this it really ain't no money in it not if you really trying to be set up you really trying to be comfortable you gonna have to have other businesses I got over 50 streams of income I know that though because I'm not a business coach so I don't teach on that I stay in my land and I serve my purpose but my money come from all different kind of ways I had 13 companies at one time and have to try to downsize them and try to consolidate a couple of companies that could fit under one umbrella but I had 13 companies at one time because God thinking I'm on line just getting wealthy off of relationship talk I'm trying to create generational wealth talking about love and relationships but see that's the ignorance of some men that they had so far up they behind and they don't want to grow and learn so they just want to hate and the thing about it is men so territorial because like I say if a man is insecure they gonna think that supporting another man make that other man look better than them whereas a real man gonna say if this man talking about something that I can't talk about something that I don't know a whole lot about then I'm gonna support him in that lane right here and then I'm gonna do me in my lane right here and so if I see a guy talking about something I don't know much about I'm gonna go watch his videos hit the like button, hit the subscribe button and I'm gonna support him in his lane and then I'm gonna stay in my lane and do me but the thing is when a man taking and elevating when a man is elevating a manhood when he elevating and going to another level if a man wanna stay mediocre then he fears greatness he fears a man elevating he fears a man cutting out vices and getting over things that's holding him back and so what happens is a lot of men will say well hey if this man represents this and represents this and represents this he may represent a better version of a man than I do I don't promote him because I don't want my girlfriend or my wife to see him and see what he represents a manhood because I don't know if it's real and I don't really believe it's real because I don't believe in men and this is what he telling himself he's saying that he's never seen honest men the fact that men have never so sold for my whole career all I have read from guys is he's doing that but he doing that to get H.O.S he doing that to get P and that's all guys would say and the reason being is because but they're not realizing is that that is a testament to how few real men that we've seen in our life that we can't look at another man and see another man as a good man we got to see every man who claims to be doing something positive as a scam artist and what happened is we have men who got a whole lot of knowledge but they've been turned over to a reprobate mind so they've been turned over to the devil and so they go to they talk about all of this black people stuff black people stuff black people stuff but then they overcharging for courses they overcharging for consultation they getting people money and they scamming people so they start saying hey I'm building a school they raise millions of dollars and they never break ground on those schools so now here go these men who are doctors and philosophers and all of this they doing all this talk they doing all this talk and so other men look and say hey this man over here doing all this talk he raising millions of dollars talking about he doing the school I ain't even seen now piece of land bought I ain't seen no ground broke so this man over here Tony Gaston must be a fraud and then he see the pastor in his city get caught in adultery he see the relationship coach get caught in adultery his daddy walked out on his mama his brother put hands on his sister on his girl he done put hands on his girl he got multiple baby mama so he done cheating on every woman he done dealt with so when he look at himself and he look at the man he know he does not see examples of real manhood so therefore when he see a real man he can't believe that it's a real man because he hasn't seen enough examples of a real man so that's why a lot of men don't support other positive men and ironically the men who are positive who get support it's because they're not challenging men in the areas that men are most weak in so you see I seen a brother who he calling himself pan-African and he wearing he born in America but he wearing the dashikis or whatever you call him and he calling himself pan-African and he doing all of this talk he attacking the white man but then the next thing you know it's all these text message and all this stuff release or him sleeping with all these strip him sleeping with strip him in and out with strip and so it's like all this knowledge and all this energy toward the white man but can't take none of that energy and put it to self-discipline in the bedroom and in a relationship preaching black, black, black, black, black but can't find a black woman and treat her like a black queen instead treating black women like peasants and then some of these men who doing all this talk about economics and all of this right here and black, black, black, black want to get black women and then have two, three, four girlfriends two, three, four wives and black want to talk about black empowerment while they breaking the back of black women and so when they see somebody like me who represent who represent a one woman man who is loving this woman the way Christ Lord of church that name Jesus Christ they fear that name because when you have a spirit in you that is in opposition to a righteous spirit you going to fear the name of Christ demons shutter and shake and run when they hear the name of Christ and so when they hear me say the name of Christ they get so scared because they know my light going to expose the darkness that's in them and so they run to these other gods and they run to these other religions that's going to pacify and condone their irresponsibility and that's going to give them the right to have multiple wives or multiple girlfriends and have no consequences have no regulations have nothing to ask them to sacrifice in the areas where they most weak and so that's the thing so you got all these men black power, black power, black power and then breaking the back of their own black women but want to talk about black power my black power is in uplifting my black woman and loving her and loving Christ love the church that's when I'm going to show you my black power at first and then raising my black sons that's when I'm going to show you my black power at first before I go get out in the street and march I'm going to take care of home first but see it's a lot of men they going out in the street and marching but they ain't taking care of home and so they ain't taking care of home and then the next thing you know it's like okay well what the world going on and that's what we got to realize and uh we're not arguing about the bible and don't get blocked on here trying to argue about no bible because we ain't even said nothing about no bible we talking about black men and how black men treat treat they black women but yet talking about black this, black that, black that and it's like black wall street you first need to take care of black main street meaning your household and you got you a woman that you loving and you cherishing and you treating like a queen then you can go out and talk about a wall street but what does it gain what do we gain to gain the world and lose our soul what do we gain to have all of this externally and not be able to take care of our temple internally and understand that okay Gloria and you got the preface what are you saying now because while I'm on here talking you just can't be posting stuff without no preface you got to have preface on there y'all know y'all know I won't be playing now you know got to preface that put a whole full sentence on there so listen that's why you don't see a lot of okay thank you Gloria that's why you don't see a lot of men that support me because I get it I'll be honest with you it's hard for me to support me it's hard for me to support me and the reason why it's hard for me to support me is because I have to challenge myself every day I'm crunching my toes every day I am checking myself every day I got to grow every day my flesh wants to talk any kind of way to my wife to do everything that every other man is promoting your flesh always gonna want you to go to the OU but I got to consecrate my spirit daily and I got to step on my toes daily so every day I wake up and say Lord why did you call me to this why you couldn't call me to finances like Dave Ramsey Lord why you couldn't call me to build the houses you know why I couldn't be a fisherman like Lord why you call me to confront the area that men struggle with the most that I struggled with in my life the most and the Lord remind me I turned Saul who was a persecutor of Christians into Paul who end up writing 13 books in the Bible and so that's when I realized that God will use us in the areas where we struggle the most and so people always try to discredit people who have gone through something for teaching about it they try to discredit it that's why I say you know if you're single and you don't went through a divorce teach about why you went through that divorce and what you did wrong instead of teaching the opposite you know teach about what you did wrong and so we have to understand that and that's why it's a battle and so guys I'm gonna tell you I remember walking through the airport in a Charlotte do you know I have never it's so many men that recognize me even with my mask on that let me know how hard men be looking at me online that they recognize me with my mask on that is the gift of a woman a woman could recognize if I had on some my whole face cover a woman to be like oh that look like Tony have line painting on Tony Tony Gaskin that's how women be do you know it's men that I be walking the other way and they'll be like hey Tony Gaskin I ain't telling you no lie and every single man I done met have come up to me and say hey man you ain't told now lie but you ain't lie at all I have never had a man meet me in person and tell me hey you know you're lying you know you're lying and you know you're wrong you pandering never every man I have ever met the only man who have something to say be online be online when I meet men in person they ask me for a picture they say man my wife gonna love this or man my girlfriend gonna love this or man my sister think it's gonna be blown away can I take a picture with you hey man you be telling the truth man I don't be wanna hear it I don't be wanna hear it man keep doing what you doing that's what I hear from men but online men want to look tough and cool for other men so if a man is saying hey you need to get one woman you need to be 100% faithful to that woman then a man gonna say a man can't support that a man can't retweet that can't repost that unless he in the dog house with his woman that's when I get most of my support from men when they trying to get out the dog house very rarely I have a handful of men who not in the dog house who gonna support me publicly and openly because they man enough to not be jealous to not be insecure to not be in competition and that's how they you know that's how they'll be the reason why I don't get the opportunity to support other men because I'm working because I'm in the field I'm doing the work if a man not doing this work then he watching other people do the work and he doing his work in his lane so the men who they doing their work in their lane and it's not my lane I support those men I'm on their channels subscribing I'm liking you know I'm sharing it with my clients and I'm gonna support that and so that's all it be so rewind this screen recorded and anytime you see one of these men and this type of men is just clowns you know I try not to name call but any type of men is clowns and it's like come on man use common sense it's like every man know why men don't support a message like mine because it's exposing the darkness but it ain't a man in the world that can tell me how to say it's something wrong that me saying that we need to have strong relationships we need to be faithful to each other we need to raise our kids in the home loving and caring and showing them the right way that me showing that that me saying that ain't nothing wrong with that ain't a man in the world that can say oh that don't make sense we need to cheat on each other we need to have open relationships that don't make no sense to be faithful and to be monogamous and to raise your kids the right way and be good example man that don't make no sense man what you talking about is being quiet or their rather hate and that point playing period and that's why I got to be louder because one thing about it if a hater gonna hate I'm gonna give you something to hate now I'm finna put my foot on your neck now if the devil mad I'm finna stomp on my I'm not finna take it easy on the devil or you wanna get loud or you wanna bark or you got something to say oh I'm finna be even louder I'm finna disrupt your game every single woman you taking advantage of and playing with finna be on to your game finna be at your life you finna be at home by yourself with a bottle of Jurgens and your little subscription to your website taking care of yourself with Hangella that's all I'm finna leave you left with since you wanna jump bad and have my name in your mouth and go to talking about this and that and yappity yapp cause you don't wanna see us advance you don't wanna see us grow because you're working for the devil so listen, I'm finna leave you out here starving I'm finna expose the darkness I'm finna shout so much truth you start to throw up at your mouth you're just throwing up them demons you're throwing up them spirits I'm finna have you sick to the stomach when you go to sleep you gonna hear my message in your head it's gonna chase you it's gonna run behind you you not gonna be able to get away from a message you gonna turn on the radio you gonna hear my message you gonna turn on the TV you gonna hear my message every woman you meet she gonna be listening to a message from a real man cause we finna shift this thing we finna get a devil of black eye we finna turn her up on his head so guess what I was land dormant I was hibernating but now you don't woke up a sleeping giant and now I'm finna come out there with a conviction from he who sent me I'm finna be turning over tables just like his son did so listen to me thank you thank you for having my name in your mouth thank you for calling me out thank you for waking me up thank you for reigniting what God said in me in 2007 thank you on bike and you gonna feel me boy we finna set captives free we finna have a healthy relationship we finna have a whole relationship we finna have real love we finna have faithfulness we finna have kids being raised the right way everything finna shift everything finna change watch what I tell you the work bout to get done hey this is Tony gas and God bless you I went over 20 minutes God bless you all watch this hill bike if you missed any of it and thanks again to the moderators and a blessing on hill thank you to the person that sent me that cash out too share posted my cash out I really appreciate that share hey God bless you all and we'll talk soon we'll talk soon it's up right here I gotta say this right here


So my name is Brian Aker. I've been working on open source for a couple of decades now, I think, a bunch of different projects, bunch of different pieces. For the last two years, this is something I've actually been spending my time on at HP. So it kind of gets in question of people ask me like, so this will come up of slides missing. So who is HP? So why HP in the first place in regards to this? Did you guys build printers and stuff? Well, the thing to know about HP is that if you go back in a little time, HP was the company who actually indemnified Linux against SCO. I don't know how many of you in the audience can remember that. There was a period of time when Linux was going pretty nicely and then suddenly SCO stepped in and started to threaten everybody over a patent and issue. And so copyright. So at the time, HP looked at the market, kind of sat back and said, you know what? This is a market that needs to exist in the future. So they probably did an indemnification that covered like Red Hat, it covered SUSE. It wasn't just about HP and exactly what was on an HP server or laptop. So this was something broadly that they decided to do. The end result of that was, well, today, they ship one Linux server every minute. So that's what we're doing today. And that's, by the way, the number that I'm like, eh, two, three people give me numbers. This probably is the one that I should go with. It's somebody that, like, one in 15 seconds. Really, one in 15 seconds? Three of you sent me the one in server in a minute. I'll go with that. So what happened is that about in 2011, I got a phone call and some guys tried to talk me into coming into their offices.  I want to sign in the NDA. And I'm like, no. You'll really be interested. Not really very interested. OK, we're going to do open stack. I'm like, really? So sometime about in the summer of 2011, I went to the HP offices, which discovered there was one in downtown Seattle where they were at. And they showed me all these notes on a board and said, yes, we're installing open stack. We're doing this as a public cloud. We'd like to come work on it here. I was like, yes, is that what you're really doing? Just want to make sure, just to be? And they're like, yes. So in August, I actually joined HP. And then, of course, immediately went to the internal site and double clicked on it and checked the REST data interface and went, yes, that is definitely open stack. So HP had made a giant bet. Because at the time, Chris before talked about an ecosystem. If it was only Google running Android, it's not really much of an ecosystem. And at the time, Rackspace had taken open stack, tossed it out, but there was not an ecosystem at that point. There was Rackspace and what they were open sourcing. And so by HP coming forward and saying, we are going to create a public cloud based on open stack. It actually begins the actual ecosystem around this. So at this point, 2011, HP starts letting people, anybody with a credit card, sign up and use open stack. And at the same time, helps to actually start the foundation. So really comes back to people who goes, well, OK, that's great. So what actually is open stack? And what is this whole stack business? Well, to go back in time, remember this? Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP, Perl, Python, all that. For a decade or so, this is what we've been talking about. And we talked about what is a stack and what is open source.  And there's been many, many different attempts to kind of mold it differently. There was SAMP. We had WIMP. We had all kinds of things where people would try to enter new letters. And it was kind of crazy at the time. Every time somebody would do this, it would be like, well, that's not really creating a new stack. You're just trying to insert your product into this concept. That's not a new stack. And so I mean, there are plenty of stack based this stack, made everything. But what we didn't see yet was something that was kind of truly changing, something a lot more universal. And at the time, you think about it, you know, lamp, awesome, great. But what have we seen? We've started seeing Google. We have seen Amazon. We have seen all these companies start to enter. And where a lamp is one thing, it is something that just runs on top of it. It's no longer the stack. It is just one component and piece of it. And that right there is kind of something that should be telling, because really, like, why not have it open source and in? And this was the beginning of what we see open stack. So we had Nova, Glant, and Swift. Nova is compute, you know, ask for a server, get a server. That's Nova. Glant, the whole component that actually supplies ISOs to run this thing, images. And Swift is object store. I've got an object. I need it stored. I want a URL.  These three pieces were the first pieces that made up open stack. And from these pieces, what do we see? Well, you need a little more than that to actually run a public cloud. So we start to see it kind of grow a little bit. So when you see, you see horizon. You start to see a dashboard enter in. You are to see things like Keystone. Federated ID. This is one of the ones that, sorry, not federated, but ID as a service. This is still an extremely, extremely powerful concept. I find that very few people have fully kind of baked into their conscious yet. Is that we have a system here, which is actually, as a service, identity. Next piece in here we looked at, we've got Neutron. The network itself is a service. Because why not? It's end-to-end. Let's actually control the entire piece. You've got multiple racks, everything. You should be thinking about not just the single host instances, but the network that underlies it. And now, we start to see, fast forward a couple of years, and you start to see all these given pieces now. You start seeing things like load balancing. You see database. You see authentication around counting. How do we do metrics occur? And this is just a few, messaging, orchestration. Today, when we keep a spreadsheet on this, there are 32 discrete systems that we track that actually make up OpenStack today. And not everything is actually, all of those pieces make up things like old things we know about, like network time protocol. How do we actually make sure time is actually synchronized? We need to actually be able to send out email, send out alerts. So this is all open source, all built up. But it's actually a pretty large thing. And in the time of thinking about it, like open source, an end-to-end component piece like this that runs across multiple systems, we've only had three, maybe four open source projects that ever actually showed off this kind of scale in open source, which really brings out a need for a whole new kind of testing. Because you can't test end-to-end with these services. You need to be able to test edge-to-edge, which kind of brings us into the mentality of all this stuff. So OpenStack itself is actually an ecosystem. Obviously, because if you had this stack, you've got some software, how do we actually make going forward? There's, what, a couple hundred companies, an awful lot of people who are involved in this thing, and well, an awful lot of commits. And the information was outdated the moment I put the slide up. So what actually ties this whole thing together? Well, we can't just take these little pieces out there and say, well, Swift works, or Nova works, or Libvert underneath it works, or anything like that. We actually have to start actually doing testing on a large scale, and much larger than what we've ever actually seen in open source. So continuous integration and deployment, CI, deployment, not actually solved. This gives you an idea from the daily patch volume. So this right here is just the volume of patches. This isn't everything that's actually going to be committed. This is just where we look and see how the volume kind of goes up and down. So this is everything being sent in. Now, I think at this site we see one in three patches actually make it through. And if you think about that, what does that mean, as far as participation with velocity? This right here, by the way, is the growth of the number of actually accepted commits over time. So what you're seeing here is both participation at a very, very high rate. So this is more and more participation, more and more changes that are accepted, not just stuff thrown over the wall. We have no idea of the quality, but the stuff that's actually tested. Which actually gives you also the idea of the velocity in which this is actually occurring at. It's kind of pretty amazing. I don't know of anything we've ever had that's been quite this big. And if you're really interested in how all the testing pieces work for this thing, you should look up Zool, Z-U-L. I'm pretty sure at this point we don't have anything, I don't know, I'm pretty sure Microsoft has something like it internally, probably Google does. But it's the first time we've actually seen a system where we can do batch set of patches being tested all at the same time. So exactly how does HP participate in this whole thing? So what can we do? Well, we're a giant enterprise. So one, we can provide a lot of people, which is kind of handy. In this case, we supply people for multiple different projects, we supply things, also things like legal. We supply things to the CI team. We provide things for documentation. We provide people across the board for OpenStack. We also do some bits of development, too. For instance, Trove. This is database management systems as a service. This is one of the things we work on that's being incubated today. The idea that paths should not actually be just kind of left up to kind of like, well, maybe we'll find some paths stuff. Integrated paths pretty much needs to be done within OpenStack. Otherwise, you end up with these really bad impedance mismatches. So for things like database management service, RESTful API, give me a database. Give me a cluster of databases.  So this is one of the early services. Libra, load balancer as a service. Load balancers. Turns out you need them to run websites. So what this does is actually provisions up an HA proxy and sits there, pulls it. As a user comes in and needs another load balancer, they make another request. And what happens?  It's crazy. You know what load balancers used to cost us? In slash.terms, since Jeff's out here, this might make his heart warm. We had two load balancers. We jokingly referred to them at one point as Lamborghini number one and Lamborghini number two, because that was the actual cost in the damn things. Think about this going now. Libra itself is providing what used to be a really high end service at a commodity piece. And the software, by the way, has actually been even picked up by at least one of their cloud vendors. So this is one of the great things Chris had also mentioned. Like, does your software end up in competitor stuff? Well, I guess it does. That's fine. Few other things. DNS as a service. We work on Triple O, which is the installer. Because it's kind of nice to be able to install the software. Handy that way. Ironic servers as a service. Something that very few people seem to understand at this point, but it's kind of powerful, especially for any of you all who have ever spent your time installing VMware to only put one virtual image on top of it just because you're trying to manage that one virtual image. Well, scrap that. You think about it like data center, power utilization on the planet, 7%. And you're now losing like 40% of your given capacity for just putting an image on top of a machine that really only is running one image. Forget it. Heat orchestration of service. And we supply what? Like patches back to Nova, Glantz, Swift, Horizon. Pretty much anything inside of OpenStack. We have people that are actually trying to push package, just basically put patches back in. So the things that I like looking at OpenStack and kind of like tinkering with, there is so much more here than what often meets the eye. And we're really just starting to inching the age where there's just more than a few of us who have actually installed OpenStack. And OpenStack has become simpler. Like the abundance number of folks now actually running OpenStack deployments is getting larger and larger every day. So we've started seeing people actually learn more about how the tool works. So something like this. Here's a standard kind of deployment. You've got Keystone. You've got Nova. You've got Trove. You've got Swift. You can see where Trove itself actually makes use of Keystone directly. It makes use of Nova for doing deployments. Actually, technically, you use Swift for actually handling where its backups are stored. This is a service-oriented architecture, and all these little pieces can be molded together to do different things. And this is where, as we see people starting to be creative with installations and things like, for instance, this is a thing we actually do, we see things like, we have Trove, we have Nova, but we can also create private Novas. We can have multiple running Novas at different times. So in our case, what do we do? We actually have Nova running in a private environment just because we have a select set of hardware that we run, that we actually run the database as a service on. And we're finding this to be kind of a useful thing. And if you think about it, obviously, the other cloud vendors are doing this sort of thing. And the architecture is friendly enough to actually do these pieces where you can say, well, I want to take a Nova here. I want to put it on top of a very particular set of hardware. Or I don't want to run with virtualization. I want to use containers, the trick we do, less overhead. So these little pieces allow us to start moving things around and actually determine what we want with them. And the architecture itself is pretty Lego-like. You can start putting these, tinkering these things together and coming up with different systems. So here's an example. And this is the kind of stuff that we're actually learning and we're trying to, as we learn it, pass it along to others. Kind of brings up the question, what do we actually learn from actually running a public cloud? One of the things I think we add that's us in Rackspace do is just, how does this thing actually scale? Where are the bottlenecks in it? One of the first times we ever had it up and running over a certain size, I remember watching it melt down. This is about a year and a half ago. And then we started going in and going, OK, why is this thing actually melting down? What's the problem? And what we found out, oh, bad index is on the database. Let's go get that fixed. Nova had bad. So what do we do? We actually put them together as patches, sent them back in. This is something that public cloud vendors can particularly do, because we are running stuff at such a scale, and it is stuff that we are giving back. We've done a recent run with Keystone. What do we find? Oh, it turns out that nobody considered what would happen if the token's built up because you were creating thousands and thousands of instances at once, all trying to generate tokens. Well, that's got to be cleaned up. We find these sort of bugs, and we pass back that information, because that's one of the things we can do for the project. So other things. We're starting to try to figure out how to apply our philosophy. It's something I kind of push my engineers towards. It's like for us to find a common design philosophy and think about what these things are, and then push them back into open stack, see if others will actually kind of share with some of us our ideas. Continuous integration. It is thankfully the norm. This was a debate. This could be a debate with folks a couple of years ago. I came to CI. The whole conclusion of CI about more than a decade ago when I had first joined my school as actually an employee, and I discovered, like, so we built Windows binaries, right? But we don't actually test them. So we have no idea that this stuff actually works. OK, we've got to fix that. So this something is, thankfully, it's kind of like version control. Once upon a time, I would tell audiences, you must use version control. Do you know what it is? And half the audience would raise their hand going, we have no idea what this version control thing is. Thankfully, that's not the case anymore. SSH is, into production, it's considered harmful. I can go into more of that. Data security encryption at temp level, and just talking about the values of open source being audible. So this is one that we've learned along the way, and we're trying to push back. Don't allow SSH ever into your environments. No shell, nothing. One of the things about Trove is when Trove is running, all those database instances, there is no SSH. There's no shell, there's no nothing. You're not going to get into those things. They are pretty little toasters, and that's it. Why is that? Well, you end up with these things where some opera or developer often will come back to you and say, well, everything was working. But what was that hiccup the other day? Well, I just had to log in, and I run this command every so often, and it works. You did what? Hold it. You have to log in. What happens when you go on vacation? Get hit by a car? The process has to be restarted. All these things make for better software. The software needs to just work, not have maintenance. It needs to run. I just deleted the logs. Oh, the file system's filled up. I'm sure many people in the audience have been a victim of, well, we have this one guy who never knew that every three weeks he went in and just deleted these logs that have just been growing. Forcing people off SSH off boxes means that this stuff has to get fixed, and it has to go through a CI process, and it works better. Humans are essentially sources of bad entropy. Human logs into a box, it's over, which kind of just forget it. We look at this stuff like sock-compliancy. The day somebody said, oh, we definitely make sure everything is sock-compliant. I love sock-compliancy. If you're not doing sock-compliancy today on your own systems, just do it. It has so many good, rewarding things that forces you through best practices. And for any of you in the audience, thinking about debugging, this is the kind of stuff we're trying to push back and think about. As you want to operationalize OpenStack, you need to actually think more about what are the long-term pieces? You don't have people logging in. You want centralized logging. You want centralized logging anyway, because what do you want to do? Give your support people shell access? That sounds like a bad idea. Kick the box from the fleet, all this idea. The idea that if for some reason a human does need to actually go into a machine, at that point, what do you do? You take the machine out of rotation, you let them in, and then you format it and reinstall. This is great. It means people don't want to go into the system very often because they're going to have to do with formatting, too. We do get to find out if the system is actually HA or not. OK, you get access to the database. We just pulled it out of rotation. Let's see, it does Galera work. Excellent, it does work. These are best practices that get people like to think about things. Provide snapshots. Run as many things possible in the VMs. And the way that I was showing how you can use Nova, use Nova to deploy some of your services on top of itself. Give people snapshots. Allow them to look at that, but don't really allow logins. And this is what we're trying to do right now is when we go in the software, like how can we build out each of the services so they don't require these things in the first place? How do we make things into toasters? Part of this involves like security. We don't really want people logging into systems because once they're in those systems, well, what can they have access? That also means what can other people access? This is kind of a new thought process. I'm trying to get more open source developers to think about when we're developing software right now if someone can log in, if your system requires some kind of log in, we have already kind of defeated privacy on that moment. And it's kind of how do we actually rethink these things? Don't think about people logging in. And really, as we develop software and what we're trying to do is think about how we just do this a little differently. No one should be able to log into someone else's database. That's period. It's their database. Your vendor should not be able to log into it. It's your data. You don't want them to do it. In fact, not only do you not want them to do it, you want the system built so they can't even do it in the first place. And by the way, it saves a lot of headache if you're the vendor and you're like, sorry, I'd love to give you access to that data, but I don't have access to it. It just happens to run over here on this machine. I don't know. Would you like the encrypted randomized bits that exist for us? Things like that. Tenant data should be visible to the owner. So this is things as we kind of learn as being a public cloud operator, thinking about this piece. Data that is actually the tenets only make it visible to the tenet. That's actually how we should be doing encryption today. So another thing to be thinking about in all this is something I've been pushing is like, we look at copyright, and we've been thinking about copyright for quite some time. But copyright is not only a list of like, did we actually actually change the log? It's not only about just copyright. Not only who did something, but I mean for the means of did we actually get the correct sign-offs and all that. Like, when we start going back through history and we have a question about something, we can start looking at and going and analyzing all patches and understanding where things came from. And I can tell you this is like a big deal right now for everybody who's been doing open sources to go back and analyze. Like, where did it come from? What do we think? What did it mean? What did it mean in aggregate? So this is kind of an important piece. Anyway, so these are a few notes I've got right now. As far as us running actually OpenStack, it kind of gives you a little bit of sense of what it means for HP to actually be doing this. This is one of our big bets. And for me personally, when I look at it, like, this is the next generation of the stack. And we require it actually having an open source one, in my opinion. And so as we go through, we have to look at, like, what are the new challenges that exist? Where's the world we live in today? What is different about it? And actually, how do we go into doing a set of best practices around this and make them really very secure based system? So anyway, thank you. If you've got any interest at all in stuff I write, there's a blog, there's Twitter. I'm kind of constantly trying to learn more every day about this along with HP. So hopefully, we publish enough that others can pick up on our lessons. So thank you very much.


Welcome. This is Melissa Arma with the Stock Swooshing and Reviewing so far. Month isn't over yet. November 21st, reviewing here, November Advanced Trader Tracking off this week, if this is another good month. So earning season really is the time to make the money in reference to trading if you're an active trader because of the fact that you get a lot of stocks that have big moves. But I mean, I've got to be honest with you. And I said this to the room maybe two, three weeks ago. I really think December, even though it's not earning season, it's going to be a volatile month because I think there's going to be a lot going on in the market. I think that's going to create volatility in stocks. And not only that, the market too. And that's going to mean that there will be opportunity to make money to profit if you have the right stock pick or if you're doing the market and you can get it in the right direction. Because volatility equals profit for traders if they trade it right. So this is me. If you have any questions or you'd like more information, you can feel free to reach out to me at Melissa at the stockswush.com. Feel free to call me at 9293200 Gap or follow me on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, or Skype. So one of the big winners that was quick and fast and had a huge move was N-Tap. And again, this is for November. This was on the 15th. Stock closed here the night before. Runs $77.50. Gap down here, runs $71.00. So a very nice bearish move for this stock followed through in the gap down. High in here from the low down in here was about a $4.00 plus move. And it went to the dream target. So you will have stocks that do have these moves. And as I said, earning season is a good time for that. But honestly, I think with everything that's going on right now in the world and the world events that the market in the month of December is going to have some wild moves. And I think that is going to mean volatility for stocks as well. So I think there's going to be playing things more than we would normally see in non-earning season. And in earning season, you get tons of gaps. In non-earning season, you still get stocks gapping. But you don't get like 30 a day. So that's the big difference. So earning season is really good time to trade. And that's going on right now. Goes into November and then picks it up again in January. And as I said, in the in-between time in December, you do have gaps. But I think it's a good time in the month of December to learn how to trade because you have time to learn it, practice before the busy season so that by the time the busy season hits, guess what? You are raring to go. Have your accounts set up. Know what to do, know the system. So just going over here, again, month of November, ECA was break-even, W was a loss, Qs was a win. Most of these trades, by the way, are short summer longs. SYY was a short TV day off the second. CAR was a loser, SPY was a winner, MAR was a winner. Z was took two shots. One loser, one winner.  WIN was a loser on the eighth, CTRP, two days in a row, huge move in that one and YELP was a loser on the ninth. The 12th closed for the holiday, TSM was a winner on the 13th, that was a nice gap. 14th, SPY was a loser, M was a huge winner. An end tap, nice solid win. On the 15th, that was a gap I just showed you. NVIDIA, loser for the first trade on that first day. JWN was really the home run on the 16th. I didn't go after the NVIDIA a second time around, although it worked on that initial first day, November 16th. And then of course, big winner on the day it fell off a planet on the 17th. So a lot of people say, well, what's an advanced trader risk? Between $1,500 and $2,000 a trade, okay? Some trades have ads, so I'm giving that cushion in there. You'll learn more about that in the class specifically, but whatever amount you decide to trade, you risk what you can afford. So even if you can only risk $200, if you make $200 in a trade and you're in and out in five, 10 minutes, that's 200 bucks. $200 times five days a week, guess what? That is enough money for some people to actually support themselves. Comes out to 1,000 bucks a week or four grand a month. So it depends where you are in the world and what you have going on, but even an extra $1,000 a week aside money to work for a half an hour, to work for an hour is certainly doable for most people because again, you're in and out very, very quickly in these trades. Most of these trades go in the morning and we're in and we're out of them by 10 a.m. Eastern time. So if you wanna learn how to do this, if you wanna work for yourself and work from home, you can learn in my system, in my class, it's called the Golden Gap course. And the next class is December 15th and 16th from nine to five Eastern time. Class of the class is $59.99 US dollars. The class is online. It can be anywhere in the world and take it. Must email me if you wanna sign up. I also offer the Trends course as a combo with the Golden Gap, $64.99. It's two classes for one price. You save if you sign up for both. Trends class is for swing trades. It's more for people who are doing swing trades or options or if you wanna get better at day trading because I really do think that this helps you get better at day trades. One of the things that's helped me read the market so well to be honest with you. And then you can also sign up and do options. If this is something that you want to do, the options letter is a newsletter. $49.99 is the price for this. Again, it's an annual letter. Trades are emailed to you.  And if you want to sign up for the Golden Gap course for the Black Friday special, I have a video explaining all of these details online but if you wanna do it, you have until November 25th and you would receive the socks which you'll like trading for free for one year. Options letter subscription free for one year. Wealth manifestation course free. Of course, the Golden Gap course. This offer ends at midnight, November 25th. There's no exceptions for this. If you want more information on this special, there's a video on it on my YouTube or you can email me at melissa at thestockswish.com to register. Thanks everyone, have a great day.