Felly mae'n sgwp hwn i gael gwybod yn ei gael y platform Social Media i'n gwybod gweithio chi'n gweithio'r gwestol ac roeddwn i'n gwneud i'n cymryd y cwmhwydd â'n cymryd ac'n cymryd geilwyd yn fwybodaeth mae'n gwybod nhw'n cymryd ar y cwmhwydd mewn cwestiwn nyfodol. Mae'r cwmhwydd yn eu gwneud ei gwybod o'r pwyd, mae'n gwybod yn deall, ac mae'n gweinio'n gwybod. I used to get a thrill. I used to get a thrill and I still do even more now of like being hate but hating people. I never had no mercy ever.  At the moment I'm just like boxing, it's just the shambles like the best fighters aren't fighting the best fighters. Right now I think the fight to make every way to Tyson Fury and Joshua I don't know enough that's why I say I'll never comment on stuff I don't know enough about but why can't that fight be made? I just started having like made it with this group of lads but at that point the club was just going insane. I felt like everyone was having made it when I think back to it and some lad come by and stabbed me and I didn't feel it.    I don't know I just I seen fighting, I seen what I could do And I seen how quickly My thing was always I wanted to be technically the best I wanted to Just be a superior fighter There's fighters who are strong And tough and big And power and stuff like that I just always wanted to be technically Far superior And I noticed at an early age I had that in me Because at that age I was like 13, 14, 15 I was sparring with men And physically bigger people And all the kids were around the same age I had just got to a point in the gym Where I was just better than everyone There was no challenge anymore I was so skilled And not blowing my own trumpet I was My Muitai coach had vouched for me And obviously After Muitai I went to MMA But that's a different story At that age I didn't want to do anything else I only wanted to train and fight And that was it Passion for our love straight away Did you have good guidance from your trainer? Yeah, of course He'd take me off to training in Leeds With all the top fighters from there And he'd get me fighter Around the country My first professional fighter Muitai was actually in Scotland In a Greenock Fucking crackpoters down there Mate, I swear we went in And everyone was just like No teeth fucking I was just 15 and I was like I don't like to be And then And the guy who was fighting was like 26 And I was like I'm not into this fight and I was so naive I was like And then I went in and I was just like I just smashed him I got like 300 quid I think for my first fight And I was just like that's what my coach after Come on, let's get out of here Because they're all just like You scouse cunt This is mad This was my first fight But we travelled, we went to Canada I lived in Thailand For a stint I've still The same passion I had then I've still got now Obviously you hit speed bumps along the way And the road and blah blah blah But at the start My thing Was just make money anywhere you can And train to be the best I always had the mentality If I ever think that I'm going to be second best I would have stopped there and then But I knew I could be the number one At fighting Just fighting in particular So that's why I never stopped Because if I ever sat back and thought I'm not as technical as maybe him or him I think I'm going to stop Because he'll always be ahead of me I could never live with that deep down But I know even up into this day Like I'm still fighting to be the number one Like in my eyes what I'm in now When you're the champion You're at the elite level You're number one So that's what I'm still chasing now But back then it was the same mentality If I ever stopped for the second thought I'm going I think I'm only going to get to be number five or four I don't think I can be as better as that guy With the number one ones then Had I stopped That was like my mentality I don't know where that mentality came from I don't know where it came from But none of them were ever fighters So I can't tell you right now Where it came from You've got to have that belief no matter what it is For anybody watching, no matter what it is you choose You've got to believe you're the cream of the crop You've got to believe you're the best Or you will just accept And your existence will just not be as great as it can be Because there's levels to everything There's levels to the game If you're at such a young age You're travelling everywhere You're constantly seeing yourself as number one How did your friends treat you Did you have any friends when you were in your teenage years Or did you distance yourself from everyone I grew up in a rough area I had my friends But There was a point where I was just Distance enough to something else A lot of them I got involved with bits of crime And whatever You just see yourself We had no arguments You see yourself sort of grown further away Cos you're just chasing something And you know what's funny My mum, she still lives round where they grew up She loves it round there And I see all the lads in there They just treat me with respect And they love what I've done And what I am doing I'm not one of them I don't like the cliche thing I don't forget where they've come from You see a lot of rap guys I still go the hood What that statement means I haven't forgot where they've come from People say statements like that And I think it's thrown in security Cos they have forgotten where they've come from And they have let money get the better than them fame And I would be An absolute gobsite if I said now I haven't forgotten where they've come from It changes all of us Maybe it changes you for the better or for the worse But it definitely changes you Do you know what I mean? I wouldn't sit here to you Money hasn't changed me I'm just that until from this place Do you know what I mean?  I'm the same I get anxiety If I think I've got to go somewhere And I'll get notes and I'm like fuck I'll just I'm going to leave that I always say this Of course I will That's a lie There's times when Maybe I'm having a bad day Up to this day I've never said no For voters People want to have a chat I can't have a fucking time in a chat with everyone But there's days where you have your bad days And I'd be lying if I said Some days I don't care Some days you're just like I just can't be asked Let me get to my destination where I'm going Let me do what I'm doing You know you get a lot of guys Let's say famous guys And they're like oh yeah no fame hasn't changed me Or you know I don't care I get as many votes I've got time for everyone No you haven't because If you had time for everyone you wouldn't have no time for yourself You have to look after yourself Number one your family as you just said Definitely so when you start to get After your first fight did you start getting a buzz for that Making a bit of money No I didn't In my time there's no money to be made I've purely just done it for the love Do you know what as much as I love money and I love cars And watches and houses Every time Obviously I'm fighting on a bigger level Now every time I'm fighting and the contract Comes through and like I have to sign it I can imagine a lot of guys For instance Conor McGregor I don't get that much I don't like to look at the money Because I think I haven't I need to reign that as soon as I fight You know the fight So to this day I can safely say Maybe there's a bit in me that thinks about the money And stuff and blah blah blah But I do it to be the best That's just truthfully I do it to be the best Do you know what I mean At the start when I was fighting in Scotland And getting 200 quid And 300 quid It was just purely for the love And to be the best I was fighting in Canada, I was fighting in Thailand I was fighting up and down in the country Leeds, London, everywhere And I never made any money ever Until I changed over to him and me And then obviously you're going up the ranks But at the start mate It was just purely for the love For the love who you're enjoying Just the escape of it Just getting out and trying to keep off the streets Like that I just loved fighting You know what I mean Every day was a pleasure just like Did you enjoy getting hit? Yeah, I really do Is that like a sense of self harming?  Is it Dana? Or do you get a chance? I think when you get to a certain level In MMA And obviously in the UFC Where you're main event in all around The world, you have a say on who you fight Not that I pick and choose But you ultimately want to choose the best opponent For your style So I speak to Dana Or the matchmakers and they're like We want you to fight on such a date There's three opponents names You can pick from Main event, who do you want Speak to me coach, who do you think is the best opponent We'll fight him That's as simple as that What is, did you go to Brazil?        Are you the best yeah?  Colin Herring I've watched a few of his videos, he seems very nice But I've spoke to the boys and he says He's actually a nutcase as well Why you seem like a man who wouldn't listen to anyone Why have you got so much respect for Colin?       Things happen In your life You get to this stage now A lot of people will come to me a lot of times They'll go, what do you think of Conor McGregor?   Is my grandad okay? Is my business doing good? Have I put that post on Instagram? So and so ask me to tag them in this story I'm not getting on average You know what I mean? You've just got all that And it's like You forgot about fighting You forgot about the most important thing That you're here for What's got me and what I'm doing Like if you said to me now Darren I'll give you a billion quid I want to be a champion And I'm probably not doing things right now To be the champion I go in the gym every day And I give me all My body's broken because of how much I give Maybe I'm getting sleepless nights And maybe I'm drinking more than I should You know what I mean?  And I'm like I probably couldn't get into that poker because I'm so addicted to stuff Like I'd probably just lose me head Start smashing people in your lose your money And also smashing money Cos I'm like out for 100% And I've always got this mentality It's either not or not 100% So I know for a fact if I enjoyed poker I'd be 100% So I'd be like that then The main focus again would get lost You get what I'm saying If my friend rang me up tonight I'm just like Darren I've just got this new car Let's go out racing I'm fucking there in five minutes Now I need the next an hour in bed I'm going out racing cars Do you know what I mean Darren I've just got a new quad here Are we out on the quads?       And I said, yes, whatever And he turned around and said, I haven't got no gloves And I went, what? I was like, what do you mean? Do you wanna spar?  I was like, yeah, let's go Went down to the gym in the hotel And we done like five rounds of sparring Who won?  Do you know what?      I did go through the ranks fast But I had a year in Brazil I'm not going to say deep depression But I was really depressed because I won my first fight And then my second fight got booked For the 24th of October in Dublin Against Nicola Starbley And we were both unbeaten And that actually was top 10 fights of that year I got a bonus in everything We drew, but in the third round We were 4th for the whole third round With my shoulder, I was absolutely annihilating I got fight of the night, it was a great fight After that then, I had to go and do shoulder surgery And I had split up With my daughter's mum So 2016 in Brazil for me was like quite a dark place I was like quite I was drinking quite a lot to be honest Every day was an excuse to have a bottle of Hanichun It was crazy, I was drinking every day My shoulder was like tingy For 16 months I think it was I was just had no direction, I got fat I was I was properly on my own And I could see my money going down I was living in my friends And I was like, then I spoke to Cole And I was like, Cole, I think it's time to come back I'm like When getting away to Brazil was the escape Getting away from Brazil was the escape I'm like the person, I don't like to stay in one spot for too long That's what I'm saying to you I'd love to go back to somewhere for a period of time I feel like it had come to me And after the four years And Cole was like, I think it's time to Sort yourself out to come back So I had to go to court To set up payments for my daughter To get all my things and all Cos I had a life over there I had a house, I had a car And then same thing I booked me ticket for the 25th Christmas day again Do you think your life turns in fours then? 19 years Back to Liverpool Four years later, 23 Now you're 27, you're kind of thinking the same Yeah Maybe it's time to change again Yeah, I like change Don't get me wrong I don't think I could get it When I say change It'd have to be a change With me coach I'm just too close That relationship coach Students Every few years I like to do a change And I like to refocus I feel like you get it sometimes I feel like I, anyway speaking for myself I just get into a bit of the same thing And you forget Very repetitive Sometimes it's just got one more change Wow, do you know what I mean?  I said I'm at the airport He said okay He buys himself cars He said I'm going to buy a car from a guy now in London I'm going to get him to drop it off the airport for you And you can drive on So I was like okay yes so he bought An Sredge fiesta An absolute banger When it turned up it was a rust bucket It was like cluttering And the guy was like is your car mate sad I was like sad I'm back in England back to the grind Absolutely made the fiesta From London to Liverpool There was not a soul on the motorway Stopped, put 25 quid in the fiesta I think he still got the fiesta to this day Turned up at my grandad Didn't even tell me grandad was coming on You okay grandad?   That doesn't mean a thing I didn't think about that I actually liked it I think it was better There was less drama You know when you come into an arena I thought at Madison Square Garden And you're just like wow Like the bright lights and the crowd Just gets here a bit Like get in, fight, home There was no big build up Do you know what I mean?  Not the last weight cut that I had for Maj Vidal I'm Wonder Boy My wake up was fine Listen, what the size of me I was making 77kg I was extreme weight cutting It was like 40kg 80kg Cutting it The night before waiting Cutting like 10kg To be honest I was in the business of being the best weight cuter I did enjoy it My last weight cut to 170kg was against Maj Vidal I remember going blind a few hours before waiting I remember cutting We got to the hotel and it was the night before waiting and I remember I do a 50 minute run with four layers of clothing on with all my sweet sweats the gels and that Lost weight Went in hip pads and I was still so far off and Colin was just like What the fuck are we gonna do and I was like put me back on the treadmill Colin is so brutal but even Colin was like Nah you can't, I was like get me back on the treadmill now Went back on the treadmill and at this point I was just on the treadmill and the screen was like just fuzzin and I was going wow and I was just toddling along and then I was hitting me pads still had way to go and I was like just let me go and sleep for a few hours and I'll carry on and he was like Darren I can't I said call just trust in me please and I know what I'm doing and he woke up and went on another run at this point I was just like literally I couldn't even move my body was shutting down and I was just going bland and then I had like 0.4g to go which sounds not but it's a lot at that point your body's not giving not a mô and then Colin went to sleep and I was in the room with my friend at the time and he was sleeping and he woke up and I got up put my clothes on and I thought if I woke the asde I'll lose that weight so I started walking the asde and I had just had to sit on the bench and I was just bland and I had to grab my phone half dial it and I was like calling and blandy I can't move Colin John came running along and he was like he had to hear me back to the hotel he was like and then when I was going to weigh in he was like that and looked strong and I was like that on the scales just like wow you know I can give the excuses that I got beat because of the weight cut I got beat by the better man on the night I'm a better fighter than the three guys I've lost to this is what I tell you if I didn't believe that I'd probably have quit now I know I'm better than the three people that have beat me I know that for a fact but to do a weight cut like that 24 hours before you're fighting the best people in the world is just like mentally insane how much stress is that on your team as well is close every time lot of stress on Colin my team even a lot of stress on the UFC they're putting these events on main events like I've sold out the echo Madison Square Garden I've sold out the Ulturina and I've sold them up the quickest we're talking combat sports think about that if that fight doesn't go ahead because I've collapsed through extreme weight cutting I used to do the most brutal weight cuts but again only myself to blame because 10 weeks before that I'm fucking sat there watching nachos Mexico we've had this conversation I'm not going to sit here and blame anyone and I'm going to take all my losses in life and I'm going to put them all on to me my last loss I mean my last fight I'm happy but I'm sad I should have just fucking went for it and I know they've got them out of there but you know everything that's happened inside the cage inside these losses are all down to me they ain't down to no one else that's how I think that's how I like to look at it it makes me stronger now I nearly miss weight because of me not because Colin was shoving cheeseburgers in my face because I 10 weeks before the fight was eating how I shouldn't have it I don't get me wrong at middle weight now I'm comfortable to eat what I want you know I'm not the strictest on me diet but at well to weight for me to stay at well to weight would have been 365 days a year probably just eating leaves because I was just too big for the weight I hope to make think I was How was it coming out of the echo with sweet catering absolutely popping it's one of the best entries I've ever seen it was you looked happy you looked buzzing if you see me face when I walked out to sweet carolina then you see me face when I walked out in London to two totally different people like the dad in London was just rage just full rage where there's an in Liverpool I was just like at the end of the day I was the main fucker man I was just breathing and taking and I was like wow I don't want this to end and I remember looking at Dana's face and Dana was just like listen to be inside there you've never seen nothing like it it was just full to the brim just everyone was there for me they were there for Dana or Colin or wonderboy they were there for that until and I picked the perfect song and it was just Why did you pick that song? because I loved the song and Liverpool were playing the same weekend as well and I just knew the way it had sold out I knew what type of card was going and I just knew that every single person mother, child, father fan would just be off the seats screaming at the top of the lungs the song so I don't know and it just became my song it's called that until sweet carolina it's not near diamonds because it's my song family must have been proud of you at that moment Do you know my mother, my uncle my father do you were all like this is a boy I don't feel like you take these moments in right until you retire and you look back I feel like if you've spoke to people like Bill you retire Dave because they just want to come back he's bored I love Tony man he's a great guy and you see all these fighters Mike Tyson and Roy Jones they just can't let it go they just can't let it go it's in the blood so I haven't looked back on Liverpool and really cherished the moment I haven't looked back on anything that you will when I retire and it's probably going to be the same outcome retire want to come back because not on beats fighting in individual sport not on beats walking out and having your hand raised that's like a drilling that you can't get from drugs or anything that is just a drug inside you that we're just made with and one in the fight as well that must have been a special moment to eventually get your hand raised and never have wanted to fight you at the start at the end of the day we do this to win I don't do this just to be a good sport I lost that fight but it was great I do this fucking sport not for the fucking entrances so my hand can be raised at the end and then you called out for the you wanted to be the world champion you don't fuck about with the Mike do you it's a fighter it's a bit of both I've seen a lot of a lot of fighters have got mixed thoughts and as I've been getting bigger and coming up more I just think it's we're in the entertainment business so I think the social media, the Mike the call outs, the fucking being a jack the lad funny person that is all just what people love people ultimately want to see great fights but people love the bravado that's my life I've got I actually wrote this down and a lot of times it's harder than words and I think to myself that's not necessarily true because sometimes you could fight a fighter who's probably better than you and you could just get in his head with words and then change the course of the fight because his head's completely fell off because of what you've said so all this bravado on that it just makes more for the fight it just fucking makes it all better the entertainment business lets entertain people so you've got your world title fight after that you're flying undefeated how was that experience getting in the cage with him do you know what at that time these fights were wonderful I missed Wife for Wonderboy all these fights leading up until I fought Woodley I wasn't thinking fight I was thinking weight so don't get me wrong it was great but I didn't show the Darn Tilt in that fight I just showed that Darn Tilt could make weight because I made weight for the Woodley fight and I'd pull all my stress and my energy into making weight when I didn't even put any focus on to fighting one of the best fighters in the world at that time O pressure Cymru because after I had missed weight with Wonderboy that's all people care about people didn't care about names everybody shouldn't be at wealth weight he can't make weight he given them a title fight he can't make weight the new column is worried and it was like what have you done I wasn't going to train thinking about techniques and sparring I was going to train thinking Have I lost enough weight today If I drink enough water to flush my system up that was my whole focus a mentality leading up to the Woodley fight Who was the weaker It was disgusting again I made it a lot easier easier than you did in the previous fights but Ond o'r proses, ychydig y gallwch chi'n ymwneud y 24-awr y camera, a'r proses yw'r proses, yn ymwneud, a ydych chi'n gweithio, ychydig y gallwch chi'n gweithio'n gweithio, ychydig yw'n gweithio. Mae'n ddamogon, mae'n potensiol yn ddamogon ffyrdd. ac mae'n iawn, fel dweud yw hynny, dwi'n gweld yn 10 kg yn y fawr. Dwi'n gweld yn 10 kg yn y fawr. Mae'r dweud yn fawr wedi'u gweld yn dweud gyda fawr, a dweud o'n gwneud, dwi'n ddwyf yn gwneud i gyd, a dweud o'r ddweud o'r ddweud o'r ddweud. Nid yn cael ei ddweud. Yn ni'n gwybod yn ddweud o'r ffosfwyto? Dwi'n gwych i'n ddweud. I should have lost. I should have beat that guy. I am a better fighter than Tarran Woodley. I am a better fighter than George Mazwell. And I am a better fighter than Robert Bitterbough. That was my first loss in MMA on the biggest stage possible. I was just like, I was so close in touch then distance for that title.  And I have lost and I've had fans and I've had people turn against me. And he's not going to be a champion and all that. I've absolutely loved and cherished every moment of it. Yeah, you embraced that. You're still young man. 27, this was all one. You're 25. 24, 25, doing all this. I've had all this experience. All this, I say troubles. I've had these losses, these troubles inside, outside the cage. I just don't even feel like I'm hitting me prime. I feel like I'm learning so much day to day in my gym. I think I've got three more years to hit me prime. They say in MMA that you hit your prime in your 30s. I've got three more years of learning, getting better.  Yeah, you'll do that with them too. I'm going to do it in too. Yeah, I believe so. But as I say to you, you've got to be held accountable and take in account every moment you're doing day to day. Do you think you're maturing more? I'd like to think so. Check your social media. I mean, it would be dare but debatable. I love social media. Don't make me wrong. It's great. But as I said to you, you should take it with a pinch of salt. On social media, I'm the most immature man going. But in life, I don't know if I can sit and say I am mature. Because just the other night, I was doing donuts and wheelies on my quad. So I'm immature. You say that, but I don't know. You must be, though, because you're speaking about it. You're identifying these things now where you're opening up and going, you know what? Yeah, I could be doing this better. I could be doing that better. That's when you will make the changes. You don't need to be done. Look how far you've already come. Yeah. It's hard. You've just, for me, I'm very, like, I'm very in me head a lot. I'm quite crazy. I need to just, I'm 100% or nothing. So as I say to these little moves away, why I like them is because then it just gives me to be 100%. In my head, I'm sort of, if I'm given 10% to, let's say, my business and then 10% to my friends in my own head, I'm thinking, oh, I'm not giving enough. So just go like that. Whereas I just want to be not, like, waking up. And it's all about the gym revolves around gym. I don't want to be doing these meetings about me house and everything.  But then these take over your life because this is everyday life. I'm in my own head so much. Whereas I just want to be waking up and just going to the gym 100%. 100%. Fuck, these are the things. Yeah. How was it? You had a fight book for the 5th of December. And that's the first fight you've ever pulled out of. How was that experience? You know what? When we talk about maturity, I think this was the first time I'd matured on a level. On a level in fighting because I've got my, both my knees are destroyed. My whole body is shattered. I've never been 100% in a fight. But I've only just come off this injury after the last fight with Robert when I tore my MCL. And I said to Carl straight away, right, my knee will be okay in a few weeks, you can book a fight. He's like, okay, do you want you to fight in December, main event against Jack? And he's like, you know if you beat Jack, you're getting that title shot. And I was like, I know, I know. And then as a gradually grew, of course, with the fight, Carl's just like, your knee's not looking good, is it? I was doing everything. I was wrestling fam, but he was like, one little smudge in the fight, it's going to go. So I was like, okay, pull me up, Carl. I was like, give me more time to get stronger, better, healthier, fitter. And next year we go again. And I don't like to say this next year is going to be my year. I hate stuff like that. But I've actually turned out and said to Carl, I can't wait for next year. I'm looking forward to what's to come. Not in life, just in fighting next year for me. Who's on the radar for you? Right now, do you know, right now I haven't even looked at anyone. I just want to get better. And next year I say, right, go for that. But right now I just want to cure myself. Mentally, physically? I think physically, physically my body is going to be broken when I retire anyway. Mentally, it's 90% mental. What's your plans for the future then? I just want to be a world champion. You will be? I just want to be a world champion. I don't want to be anyone else. I just want to be a world champion. I'm going to have to do whatever it takes to be a world champion. What do you think needs to change to get you that extra inch? I think that that until now just needs to be a little bit more disciplined than in certain areas. Maybe let's say, not so, not big things.  And just other small tweaks inside the gym and outside. But just 100% devoted to what I'm saying. If I want to be a world champion, I've got to be 100% devoted to it. And right now I'm not. But you will be. You're talking about it. You can see it's coming again.  It's game time again. I hope so. I hope that I'm sitting to you in five years time with me three belts. And not in five years time saying, ah, I nearly got there, James. No, not by having you on. If you've not getting the belts, may as well get your finger out. But what code is to identify it as well? That could potentially happen in five years time. It could be one of them.  Oh, I could have been like that. I was good. I was good. That can happen to any of us. You can't just, I can't just sit back on. I know I'm doing everything possible. Everything's fine. Everything's hunky and dory. I need to identify that there's little things that need to be tweaked to get there and not to be the guy standing on the bar going. Could have been me that. It could have been a kind of tender, yeah. You know what I mean? How's your relationship with Dana now? It's okay. Listen. I don't speak badly about Dana. If I've ever got a problem with Dana, I'll message him or ring him. I've got his phone number. But I know without Dana saying it, he wants me to be a champion. They had the first British champion, sorry, English champion in Mike Bishbing. They've had Connor, the Irish champion. But I know they want me to be the next English champion. I know they do. It's because of the backing that Liverpool give you.  Do you know I'll be totally honest with you yet? The whole of the UK, you're massive on Scotland as well.  When I've been to places like Scotland and little places in England, little villages, people love me. They're like, wow, Darren. You know what, it's mad they love, I guess. But that's everywhere as well. When I've been in America a lot of times and places in Europe, people do show me a lot of love. They are big fans of me. So I know that UFC identified that and I know that as soon as Darren is a world champion, he's going to go. Just another question, Brian. I know you're good friends with Terry, who was in a UFC. He was a great fighter, tough as fuck. How was that relationship? Because I know you've got a lot of respect for Terry. Terry's since day one, since I got into him, he's just been my biggest idol. I've seen what he was capable of in the gym and what he'd done in his fights. I think with Terry, what happened, Terry had a vicious knockout with Edd's and Barbara. I think from that, he's told me himself.  He's one guy you could, but I think he just lost a love. He said to me, the love wasn't there. I wasn't getting up in the morning for my runs. I wasn't coming to gym and giving it my all. He said, I sort of realised that was the time to step back. I say to him nowadays, I say, even if you came back to training, you could probably still be a champion because I've seen it and he's like, I know what the love's not there. For me, that proper hate me deep down because I know what Terry, even though he achieved amazing, great things anyway, I know what he could have been. I could probably even take inspiration from that. Kei coon a genio sef? I've got to carry the torch for Terry and Colin to be that world champion, the best world champion from Riverpool, from team Carbon. You will be. When you got the jail in Tenerife, how long you in for? Four days. I'll tell you what mate, I'll probably never go to jail.  Listen, I'm one of these people. I actually, I've got a really good friend who's in jail now and he rings me every weekend. He just rings me as I said this year. He just talks about life. I always say to him, I say, listen mate, because he goes to me, he goes, you're mentally strong. I'm like, yeah, but I'm not mentally strong for them jails because I'm like, I'm never going to jail. The guys got us. So the police turned up in the street, the taxi was all the way up the street and the first thing they said, that until, and I was like, yeah, yeah, but I haven't done that on ten of them. Get on the ground now and I was like, well, I haven't done it and cuff me, sent me four mates to the cells, meet the roughest.   It's called flies. I was like, there's nowhere else to put it.  But what's hilarious about that story is when they put us in the cells, the first night, one of the guards, he was like, one of the, must have been a lieutenant when I come to see me. He was like, Darren, I'm a big fan. He was like, do you need anything? I was like, a little bit of food.  He was like, I'll sort it, no worries. So he comes back like, he went, is that your good mate as well?   And he went, go and sit in the hall near you and I'll give you your phones. And I was like, fuck, this is some guy this. So we were eating, I was on the phone and no one knew about it. But my girlfriend had texted me, she's like, where are you having it from? I was like, listen, I'm in jail. I've been nicked. I'll be out in a few days. And then I couldn't see her reply because I had to get off my phone. We was just in there for four days, mate. It was the grimest thing ever. We were eating like these stale crackers every day. It was grim. That chicken breast was the best thing about it.      My friends didn't have any money. So I just have to pay the €15,000. We tried to go round to sleeping hotels when we got out until the money had cleared, the international money. Every hotel had been sent to fax from the police station. Don't let these guys stay here. So we were going in and they were like, can't. We ended up having to stay in this little apartment. And at that point, the daily mail, the daily start, the mirror, the echo, it just came out. And I was just getting phone calls and I was just like, airplane mode. Bwmph, bwmph.  Did someone steal a taxi? Sorry? Did someone steal a taxi?  I'll tell you the God's honest truth about this story. I won't hold nothing back. I actually wasn't meant to go on this trip. They were going for one of our mates' birthday to Tenerife and they told me about it. And I went and said to Cole, I said, Cole, I'm all right to miss a few days of training and I'm going to go to Tenerife. Cole's one of them, he's very silent on what he says, but he's got a tone to him and he went, listen, I don't think it's a good idea, son, cos you're a bit, you're not all there, but okay, cos as I said, I'm 100%. I won't just go out and drink five pints. I'll go out and drink 100 pints and steal taxis. That's what I do, that's my thing. But I said, okay, Cole's son. I said, I'll be good. So we got there the first night. These guys have booked themselves a five-star hotel. I just jumped on the holiday. So got there, five-star hotel.  Right, let's get out there. So you've went out to, like, the strip in Tenerife. Everyone knew me. Yes, that and buying me shots.  Ended up in this proper exclusive bar. We were just going mental. Ended up in McDonald's, blah, blah, blah. Got a taxi back to the hotel. Now, I've done this a few times before this incident. So I must have a thing for it. As we meet to walk and do the hallway, I've grabbed the fire extinguisher and just went... Just sprayed them. Next minute, one of them, I've grabbed the fire extinguisher. We went in the room. And do you know what? I'm actually quite embarrassed talking about this. It's funny, but it's actually a passion that doesn't it? We've destroyed the room with throwing matches off the balcony. Then some guy, I think my friend has actually got a video, some guy at the bottom started shouting. I've got a tech chair through it off the balcony. And he's like... He's just like, what, gone back in? We've just gone mental. We've grabbed the suitcases before the hotel staff could come. We've went out the fire exit. We've gone up this hill. We've went to another hotel. We've rang a taxi to the hotel. As this taxi has come, I've sat in the back of the taxi. We're all loading our suitcases into the back. One of my friends has jumped in while he thought it was the passion to sad, but it was the driver's side over there to the sad. And I went, what are you doing?   And I went, no lad! And I'm in the back going, stop it! I'm going, drive it back now, we'll be okay.  He went on a whole trip around the island. He was doing donuts and skids. And I'm in the back going, client. I'm going, stop the taxi please! Lad, we're going to get fucked. He skidded the taxi, bombed it out. So I ran the other way. I thought I need to get away from him.  And I've sat by this car. And I thought I was going to sit here. I'm not going to act like I'm running away or anything. I've sat here. Then he's come running back.  He saw the tension next minute. These bizzies have just all pulled up. And just grabbed us. They just knew straight away.  Have the guns out now? They had the guns out. They all knew who I was.  And that, but any ex used to arrest me. They were going to arrest me. And that was it. And then I didn't really come out to anyone. I didn't steal a taxi or anything. It was just basically that until Steele's taxi. You have to go with that headline. I can't come out and say, I didn't steal a taxi. Even though it didn't. I was just taking your friend on. I was there on it. That's it. I'll cast him. Say you don't know. Listen, I took that up for him.  Got a shout at that. But that was it. What did the UFC not say? They just shake their heads. Do you know what mate? It's a tough one with the UFC. Because with boxing it's very different. I remember Billy Joe last locked hand on that video.  Yeah, punching the bag. Larius. But the British boxing board of control. The band them. I don't know what he's on to. He took his licence or anything. I told the video it was hilarious. He was just joking clearly. But okay. We're in the era of people getting offended. People getting offended. The UFC is totally different. I think obviously as we spoke of it. They're not fucking... They're not bothered. That more publicity for them. Yeah. I remember the boss. Not Dana. The boss boss. I'm texting me. He's like any support you need. I'm right here. And I'm like.  Obviously you can't take the piss. If you do something severe.  But they were just willing to support me. Is that not worse for you? Knowing that you've kind of got the backing. No matter what you do. Yeah. Don't worry tonight. I'm going on stealing some taxes. If anybody was on my menu. You'd be a dangerous combo. But they were supportive.  I think in there is the problem. Listen. He hasn't killed no one. He hasn't beaten no one up. He hasn't blah blah blah. We'll support him in this. Obviously there's a line. You do not cross it. Of course. Same on social media. There's always that invisible line. Don't cross it. Play with it. You're playing with it a lot. I play with it. But don't cross it. Like last week could have been a bad one. You know. If I actually did offend a transgender woman man. Whatever. But I didn't. But I do. I play with that line. Is that why you delete your apps a lot? No. I have me two apps on my phone. I have Twitter and I have Instagram. Now I'm quite active on my Instagram. I have to be for me. Promote my businesses. I've got a few sponsors that support me.   But my accounts been deleted a few times now. So I don't know whether it's because of reports. Of like memes or videos or whatever. But that's been deleted. But sometimes what I like to do is just turn the apps off my phone. Like the Twitter app what I'll do is I'll have a big rant on Twitter. But then I'll delete it off my phone because I don't want to be sat there. Especially with Twitter. It can be such a draining thing with all these opinions. You can really get dragged into it. Especially a lot of negative comments. Can you imagine as I told you about moderation every day.   So I think it's good to have moderation. Can I affect you? Your businesses will touch on that before we finish up brother. Giving my plug your watches. Where can people get them? Off my... There's a separate Instagram called the Mavi. It's called the link there. We link the links in the description. You're boozing. How can you talk about that? Are you just going through some sort of legal problem? No yet. The roadhog is basically my little baby. We all know where it's come from. To be honest it's absolutely smashed it. After the Whittaker fight Colin, who I involve in every one of my businesses. And one of the guys who had a photographer for me. They were just begging me to be like darren. Make a brand out of this. Everyone wants a t-shirt. They were like do me. And I just went okay. We set the company up. But I've always wanted to be quite different. I said what we're going to do. We're not going to release a t-shirt. So people can buy it whenever next year in five years time. I said we're going to make everything we do on this roadhog a limited edition. I said so we're going to release a t-shirt. It's going to be only for seven days. And that t-shirt ain't never coming back. Maybe when we do Christmas fillers and all that we'll bring it back. But everything's going to be a limited edition. So when I started doing that. For everything I brought out. T-shirts, lighters and that. I done a promo. Add promo video with it. So I started doing promo videos. Releasing hats, t-shirts, lighters. Then everyone was coming to the idea with me. Like darren. Your name, your brand is called Roadhog. What does that mean? Roadhog on someone's bed. Roadhog on your bed. No condom. So when do people mostly have sex? They're like after the night out. After they've been on the beers. I'm like oh yeah. Call them. We need to release a beer. And I was like good idea. Then through a friend of a friend a brewery got in touch. I'm like we want to make Roadhog beer. So they come to me. They were like we're going to make Roadhog beer. Blah blah blah. This price is all out. Whatever. I made one mistake. My beer is the price when we released it. It was too high. But that was because of the making and the brewery. And people involved. That was my one mistake. I say this on camera now. I'm actually working hard to change that around. I want the beer in every bar place all over the world. I've had people from Brazil, from Spain, Dubai. I've had restaurants in town. People wanting to stock it. So I know that this Roadhog, potentially for me, is going to be in five years time. A massive mass of air. A prop or two kind of coin on the Gregorisk. Definitely. And it's a ffumbra on people buying to it. But what's recently happened is G-Star or I've sent a cease and desist letter. I don't even know what. I'm not the cleverest. They sent the letter and I was just like. So I said can you please read that. Basically they want us to stop trading. They've basically said that. They own the trademark for raw, which is RAW. And we're basically trading and it's affecting whatever that means. So they've sent this letter. I think last week or the week before. And when I've looked into it with my guys, they've sued Nike, H&M. They've sued so many people. And they're very brutal with it. So right now is the process of seeing where they will go. Change the name maybe. Change the name. Speak to them. Maybe they want to get involved. Maybe they got in touch because they loved the brand. But that tells me a few things. That tells me that they feel threatened. And that tells me that this brand, even it's been going a few months, has gathered so much momentum. Because everyone I speak now, the first thing they say to me, don't talk about finding a scene. Rodog's smashing it. And I'm like, it actually is. We've done very well. It's absolutely smashing it. Fair play, brother. I hope I get past that. Yeah, fair play for all the businesses. For your achievements so far at the age of 27, it's phenomenal. You should be proud of yourself. I am. For how far you've come from a lot of people to the inspiration of what you're doing. A lot of people will be looking up to you. And I know all your stuff you do on social media is all about the fun in the staff. But you're still only 27, mate, when I was your age.  I was... I would get through off to YouTube, mate.  But for coming on today, brother, and telling your stories, thank you. I very much appreciate it. It's phenomenal. Shout out to Tony Marell and Craigie Boy at the Only Fools Bar for setting this up as well. I really appreciate it. And good luck for the future. We're all tight on the next 18 months. I look forward to seeing you. God bless you, brother. Check out more of my podcasts on the right. And be sure to like, share and comment your thoughts on this week's podcast. Thank you.


Ram around. Young player. Imagine he's going to be there for a little while. You feel like you got at least one thing figured out. I believe there are four or five now on the extra man MC. I believe after that last one didn't go their way. MC is headed down to the sideline. She's going to chat with head coach Paul Cantabene. We will check in with her coming up at the half. Stevenson, another opportunity, and there's a highlight goal. Not only a long pole goal, but a behind-the-back goal for Eddie Masterson. For Eddie, and that one will feel good. Creating the angle, using the long pole, makes it 15-2 with 2-29 remaining.


Well nearly 120,000 people in the United States are waiting right now for an organ transplant. CHI St. Joseph's Health was recently recognized for its work increasing donor registration and registry awareness. Mel Meyer has more in this week's Community Spotlight from Park Rapids. CHI St. Joseph's was awarded platinum recognition through the Health Resources and Services Administration Workplace Partnership for Life Hospital Campaign. The hospital worked with the group LifeSource to educate doctors, patients and the community about donor registration. We set up registry stations in our lobby with volunteers to assist with that online process. There are other ways to become a donor than just the dot on your license. Even letting your family know your wishes can ensure that this happens. Part of their work was to end certain misconceptions. A lot of people believe that if they have donor marked on their license that the hospitals won't save them because they only want the organs to be transplanted. The hospital added 400,000 donors to the nationwide registry since 2011. In the event of a death at the hospital, LifeSource also contacts the family to see if there's an interest in donating. Some families would decline, but some families say yes, I think my loved one would have wanted that. Despite the addition of so many new donors in the event of their death, most people will not qualify to have their vital organs donated. You have to be on a ventilator. You have to be in an ICU and have to have a neural injury to be an organ donor. So not all deaths qualify either. In smaller hospitals like St. Joseph's, anytime there is a donation, it's a profound experience for all involved. These are real lives that we touch, whether it be a donation of eyes or tissue or whether it's a kidney or a heart. With so many people on the waiting list, the more people who sign up, the better.  According to LifeSource, 62% of adult Minnesotans have registered as a donor, however a new name is added to the transplant waiting list every 10 minutes. In Park Rapids, I'm Mal Meyer, Lakeland News. If you're interested in registering, you can do so at organdonor.gov. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.


the Bosch Coat Plunge Base Micro-Adjuster. What we're trying to demonstrate here is using the micro-adjuster for a really small plunge. So I've got my router bit in that I want to use for this particular dado. I want it to be less than an eighth and so to do that I can use this micro-adjuster. You turn it a few rotations clockwise but not so far that it falls off the screw. So you've got it so you have some room to turn it back counterclockwise. Steps would be to plunge down to where your router bit barely hits the top of your workpiece. Don't press on it or anything. Then loosen this and push the depth dot rod down so that it's on the very bottom plateau of the turret. That would be what we would call our zero position. Now if I want to do a one-eighth cut then I could use the turret because these are one-eighth steps but let's say I want to do a one-sixteenth cut depth-wise. Bring it up and I'm going to rotate this. Each complete rotation in a counterclockwise position will raise this by one-thirty second of an inch so if I want to do one-sixteenth that's that's two-thirty seconds so I'm going to go around twice. There's little indicators on it that are each quarter or each ninety you know one-quarter of the way around so those would each be one over one-hundred and twenty-eight as far as a portion of an inch. So I want to go I'm going to try to do a one-sixteenth cut so I'm going to rotate this two complete times so that's quarter, half, three-quarters, one quarter, half, three-quarters, two.  My only purpose here was to demonstrate this little micro adjustment device. You could obviously do that same depth of cut even with a fixed router you don't have to have a plunge router with any kind of a device just to set the the depth of the bit. Small workshop guy signing off.


From around the globe, it's theCUBE with digital coverage of Dell Technologies World. Digital experience brought to you by Dell Technologies. Hey, welcome back, everybody. Jeff Frick here with theCUBE. Welcome back to our ongoing coverage of Dell Technology World. We've been covering Dell Tech World since it started. Really, it used to just be Dell World and there was EMC World after the merger. And this is the all virtual version, but we're excited to be here and we've got a great panel coming up. I think you're going to enjoy it. Our first guest is Rajesh Jani. He is the Senior Vice President of Global Alliances for APJ for Dell Technologies. Rajesh, where are you coming in from today? I'm speaking to you from Gurgaon, India. Awesome. It's the power of the virtual, right? It's not all bad that we don't have to get on planes all the time. Absolutely. All right, and joining him is Udpal Bakshi. He is the Vice President and Global Vertical Head, high tech for Y-Pro. Udpal, good to see you. Nice to see you. And where are you calling us in from? I'm from Dallas, Texas, actually. Suburb, outside of Dallas, called Southlake. Oh, excellent. Great to see you. And again, didn't have to get on a plane to do this, so not all bad. And also joining us is Satish Yadavalli. He is the Vice President and Global Practice Head, Cloud and Infrastructure Services for Y-Pro. Satish, where are you joining us from? Hi, I'm joining from Bangalore, India. Excellent. Well, welcome. So gentlemen, you know, let's just jump into it. I mean, Y-Pro is a huge services firm. Does a lot of work with Dell. So I wonder, Rajesh, if you can talk really about the importance of partnerships and the importance of having somebody like Y-Pro, you know, within the Dell ecosystem. Absolutely. And thank you for having us on with Vipro. Vipro and we have a partnership which is over two decades old. And we have a multifaceted or a 360-degree kind of relationship with Vipro. Vipro is a platinum partner. And what's more, while we bring a lot of technology and products and the depth of product which are relevant to customers' transformation scenarios today, coupled with Vipro's consulting and services and design abilities, this becomes an unbeatable powerhouse, so to say, whereby we can work closely with our customer to help them transform and live in what we are calling the next normal. Yeah, that's great. And Utpal, TU, you know, there's a lot of interesting trends going on. I mean, we've had cloud and big data been going on for a lot, but really, you know, the talk in social media is what's driving your digital transformation, the CEO, the CIO or COVID. And we all know what the answer is. So we've got, you know, a lot of new stuff in terms of digital transformation, working from anywhere, workforce transformation. Wonder if you can speak a little bit about how, you know, kind of COVID has accelerated some of the priorities that your customers are trying to get done. Yeah, no, I think that's a great point, you know. So, see, Vipro has been, you know, transforming over the last several years. You know, we were a strong, large-scale system integration partner, large IT organization. But over the last several years, we pivoted hard into the digital transformation world, moving into the design side, leading with design, moving to cloud and helping our clients help make that journey. And all of that got accelerated with the whole COVID situation. You know, the work from home became all pervasive and the whole virtualization of the workforce and, you know, really pivoted with some of our key transformational ideas around live workspace and the virtual desk, which we've been working very closely with Dell, have taken shape. So that has been a big part of our ongoing strategy, you know, doing the modernization of the network, you know, has also accelerated the customer networks and infrastructure was not necessarily set up for enabling these hybrid work environments. So some of, a lot of our clients are coming back and saying they want to modernize and actually accelerate. So that has all changed and, you know, with COVID, some of it is very positive actually for the business from an SI perspective. And Satish, you've got cloud and infrastructure in your title. I mean, public cloud really changed the game when Amazon, you know, kind of came on the scene and now we're seeing this, you know, kind of evolution and kind of change over time between public cloud and hybrid cloud and multicloud and cloud on clouds. I wonder if you could speak to and then we're even having, you know, AWS inside of other people's clouds are trying to get it out there. You know, the evolution of cloud, both as a technology, but really more as a way of thinking in terms of, you know, rapid deployment of new functionality to support the business and what you're seeing with your customers today. Yeah. So let me share a perspective, right? And enterprises today are looking at options to extract greater value from hybrid cloud investments. So it's a, it's a brownfield environment today where customers have their existing data centers, but the hyperscalers have really come into play now and right cloud is the strategy which most of our customers embrace to address the market demands which are primarily focused on business outcomes today. We pro, as we've invested in developing a holistic extensible platform-led approach called a Wipro Boundless Enterprise to drive business outcomes to customers. So the BLE construct is all about providing a ready to use plug and play platforms making IT easily consumable from multiple stakeholder personas like so be it admins, be it line of businesses, developers and partners. So basically we have built a holistic solution and our BLE solutions has majorly five building blocks. The first building block would be the Boundless Data Center. The second is the Boundless Container Platform. The third is the Boundless Data Protection Platform. The third, the fourth is the Boundless Cloud Exchange where we get together all the internet connections and define the software-defined network power to give access to the workloads across hybrid environments and the Boundless Integration Platform which we call it as BLIP. Basically this is what we have put together to deliver an outcome to the customers powered by BLE. So BLE again, you call that the boundaryless, the boundaryless enterprise. So what's the most important components of BLE? What are the things that most people are missing to actually implement this strategy? Yeah. So if I actually peel down here, right? The five building blocks let me elaborate in detail. The first is on the Boundless Data Center. This enables our clients to deliver an infrastructure as a service across data centers and public clouds and enables customers to seamlessly move workloads from edge to cloud and manage them in a consistent and efficient model. That's the first building block of our BLE. The second important building block is containers, right? We all know today container orchestration is key across hybrid clouds. And with microservices and architectures becoming more prominent, we see huge search for managing various Kubernetes environments with our clients. So our BLCP platform liberated solutions like VMware Tanzu, which is again a Dell company to enable clients manage their multi-cloud Kubernetes environments through a single pane of glass and provide seamless migration and movement of workloads across cloud environments. That's going to be the key in the future with microservices being dominant and every enterprise embracing microservices architectures, this becomes very important building block in our overall solution. The third important stuff is Boundless Data Protection, right? Now that data is all-crossed in hybrid cloud environment and applications actually consume this data, it is important to protect the data which is intellectual property and very critical to every business. So with the BLDP platform, we ensure that we deliver availability, sovereignty, security and reliability of cloud adoption increasingly and rapidly across multi-cloud platforms. So our solution leverages the DTC of Dell and other existing Dell storages and data protection solutions to offer seamless and right cost models, which will be very critical for any cloud transformation initiatives as we move forward. The fourth point which I was talking about is BLCE. This is basically a cloud exchange where in a hybrid cloud environment, you need to establish connectivity across pass and SaaS platforms as well as on-premise networks to provide seamless access to data and the workloads which are in multi-cloud scenarios. So that's about BLCE. With respect to BLIP, it is an integration platform, right? Today we are in a software-defined world and when I talk about providing a single pane of glass solution, it is important for us to have an integration platform where it can bring all APIs together and do northbound and southbound integrations with the architectures of clients and the cloud providers to spin off workloads to commission, decommission and provide a seamless consumption experience to clients across multiple hyperscalers and on-premise infrastructure. Thank you for that summary. I think you hit on all the big trends.  You've been in the business for a very long time. You've seen a lot of other transformations and you've seen a lot of big trends. Why is this one different? What makes where we are today such a unique point in time in this kind of IT industry journey? Excellent. I think I would say we are in a period of what is called an enforced innovation. While most of the time transformation in IT has become, has been very, very sequential or continuous, I think we are seeing an order of shift in the transformation. And this whole situation is forcing everyone to accelerate their pace of innovation and transformation. There are two key priorities for every organization in this time. One, build resilient operations and second, employ safety. These two parameters have forced the organization to look at their businesses differently, look at their IT infrastructure differently and create a sort of opportunity you can say which is right for Vipro's boundary-less enterprise because there are no boundaries. People are working from home. They are no longer in an office confined or boundary. So that's smart. And we, and coming back, we are seeing an accelerated innovation. That means our partnership to deliver customer transformation at scale becomes all the more important. Bringing all the good technologies of Dell on one side and combining it with Vipro's size scale and services help us lead in the marketplace for customer transformation. And what's more? We are adding our Dell financial services solutions as Dell Tech on demand to enable all these two being consumed as a service and with flexible payment option which Vipro helps us translate into customer offerings. That's great. Udpa, I want to go to you and get your perspective on how customers in terms of this boundary-less, how things have changed since kind of March 15th which at least here in the U.S. If in India it was on the same date when everything basically got shut down, right? So it was this light switch moment. Everybody worked from home. No planning, no thought, like ready, set, go. To now, we're six, seven, eight months into this thing and clearly it's a marathon, not a sprint. And even if we go back to some semblance of what was the old normal, the new normal is going to be different and everyone is not going to go back to work full time like they did before. So how, from a customer perspective, from a technology implementation perspective and from kind of an initiative and getting this stuff done, how has that changed kind of pre-COVID and oh my goodness, it's the light switch moment and now it's, hey, we're in this for the long term. Yeah, no, I think Rajesh did hit upon that a little bit. So this is truly that moment where it was a forced innovation. Some of it was happening anyways and it was bound to happen. But I think the COVID kind of accelerated all of it. What has impacted is it all started with, okay, how do we enable work from home? And that is when the whole boundary less infrastructure, boundary less, the virtual desk solutions and all of that started gaining impact. I think after that, most companies have realized that this is not a short-term fix. It is a long-term, it's going to be here for staying. So they wanted to have a long-term fix. So they wanted to come in with the innovation, but at the same time, from a business perspective, they've had impact on business. So they wanted very creative business models for them to get set with the technology innovation quicker, but they didn't want to do it in a traditional way of paying it all upfront and moving it to that. So that is where the creativity in terms of joint innovation which we did with Dell in flexible payment options, bringing in some kind of an asset lease model and things like that have gained traction. A lot more conversations are around, we want to transform, help us find a way to make the transformation sooner with maybe less investment upfront and find a way to fund this from the future saving. We'll get so that we can be ready for the future without necessarily impacting the bottom line today. So all of that has changed. I think I would say in summary has accelerated the adoption and the rate of change, but it has also led to us, all of us thinking some creative business models and new approaches to doing business. Right, right. Satish, back to you, right? What are the big conflicts that always exist as kind of innovation versus kind of security, right? And enabling innovation and giving people more power, more tools, more data to do things at the same time now your attack surface has increased. You don't necessarily have everybody locked down on their home infrastructure and they were forced into this. So when people are talking about digital transformation, how do they continue to drive forward and how are you helping them on innovation and enabling innovation at the same time as you talked about keeping the data protected and really thinking about business resiliency and continuity in this kind of increased attack surface, not only because of mobile, but now with the working from home thing, it's increased exponentially. Yeah, so I would just take an example of how Wipro handled this pandemic, right? When it hit us and what solutions we did. So let me just give you a perspective, right? As we all know, the current pandemic had disrupted many industries and we were no exception. And basically COVID has brought to the forefront many crucial factors in terms of business continuity process, the quality of employee experience and the organization connect with its employees. So while we enabled our employees to connect, collaborate and communicate with ease from anywhere from any device in a secure way with a consistent user experience powered by Wipro Live Workplace platform, which actually takes care of delivering a seamless onboarding of user via the Wipro Live Workplace platform and consume all the services the way they used to traditionally consume when they were working from office. So this is something which is the power of Wipro Live Workplace platform we have implemented to deliver a seamless employee experience access to the workspaces, that's one. But also there are some learnings, right? When we implemented the solutions on the flip side, as businesses we must also acknowledge and be cognizant of the fact that employees are trying hard to juggle between frequent interruptions at home and notifications from various applications we receive both on corporate and personal devices. Basically in nutshell, it is difficult to have the culture of corporate to be working from home. And basically that's another big learning. While all of us were adjusting to this new normal, we are in constant touch with our employees and trying to improve the overall employee connect and experience. From a solution perspective, let me just give you what we actually did. We are close to 175,000 employees across the globe. Suddenly started working from home post-workdown. What does this mean? The traffic pattern suddenly changed the directions which were traditionally moving on an east to west direction started moving north to south. Basically this means 100% of the workforce in a corporate started coming from the internet to access the corporate infrastructure and then gain access to the customer network. So basically we had to quickly swing in with our solutions and got our engineering teams to re-engineer and tweak the infrastructure and security architecture to this new normal. By leveraging our Vipro BLE and VDI architectures which is powered by Dell VxRail, NSX, we were able to spin off and build capacity on on-prem as well as on-cloud in less than 24 hours post visa what got approvals from the clients. Lastly, we also deployed a back to work IOT solution which helped our employees to get back to work safely. Basically the solution offers various security parameters apart from traditional COVID updates. It also helps in scanning the employees temperatures, employee movement within the office premises, bundled with video analytics and enable secure touchless access to the ODCs for employees who are coming back to work. So we put in all these solutions together and we pretty much seamlessly were able to navigate from the pandemic situation and get our business back to operations in a matter of days. 175,000 people, that's an interesting, it's really interesting to think about how that network traffic completely changed from inside the firewalls to everything coming from the outside. That's a lot of people to get working from home right away. So congratulations on that. You know, as we come to a close Rajesh, I want to come back to you and talk about again partnership in the age of this rapid acceleration of technology adoption and new technology. I mean, we talked about the work from home, we've talked about cloud. We haven't talked very much about is this other big thing that's coming down the pike which is 5G and IOT and kind of this entirely new scale of communication that's machine to machine, not person to person and now these connected devices and the amount of traffic continues to go up into the right at an accelerating rate. Again, tell us a little bit about, you know the meaningfulness of having a partnership like with pro that you guys can build solutions around new cutting edge technologies and have that real close connection, you know with the customer with all the supporting services. Would love to. And maybe first I'll give you a perspective on how our employee base started working from home. Some of the statistics that I wanted to show maybe add on to what he said. Sure. We transitioned 120,000 employees twice the normal to work from home within two weeks and every day we have some running something like 20,000 meetings and 16 million zoom minutes per day. That's the kind of traffic IOT is seeing and then zoom minutes per day. Wow. That's the kind of traffic we have. And our VPN traffic user load just tripled as soft to our IT we call Dell Digital. It was just a smooth and seamless experience. Now coming back, you said rightly while we have partnered so far to deliver to the solution which are here today and the customers needs which are here today what are we going to do for the future needs especially IE, 5G, IOT. I think we believe as a cooperation that edge is gonna be the next wave of innovation and next wave where customers will benefit. Therefore connectivity to the edge via 5G becomes critical. IOT devices and managing the traffic and contain it there itself rather than flowing it back to data center become critical. And as an example, Vipro and Dell Technologies are using our hyper-converged solutions along with VMware telco hardened software for a European telco to provide automation in AI to deliver rapid results for the customer. Right, so these are just early parts of it. We are partnering with Vipro to build solution around 5G as well as telecom related innovation that will come into the picture. IOT Satish spoke about a simple example of employee attendance. Imagine this is a need which will only accelerate from every organization. Multiply it with the automation and AI that needs to be built into machines and feeding all the data back to drive some intelligence and refine the processes, refine the business outcomes. So I think we are working together on many of such things. And what's important is in all this, when the universe just explodes to devices and millions of devices, security becomes a paramount feature and we are working with Vipro to build what is called an embedded security into each of the solutions that we are designing. So security cannot be an afterthought or a bolt on, it's becoming an integral part of the overall solution as we move towards the edge. Yeah, right. And I think as Satish talked about all the distractions and notifications and a lot of great opportunities I think for Applied AI too, to help people know what to do next, right? And it's hard to be context switching all the time, not only on your work, but also the spouse is working from home, the kids are doing homeschooling. So, you know, it's not an optimal environment at all. Well, gentlemen, thank you for your time. Congratulations on your partnership and hope you have a fantastic Dell Tech world. Sorry, we can't be in person, but this is not too bad. Thank you, Jeff. Thank you. Thank you, Satish, for your partnership. All right, thank you, gentlemen. Thank you. All right, so stay with us for continuing coverage of Dell Technologies World 2020. I'm Jeff Frick. Thanks for watching.