The makers of Wrigley Spearman Chewing Gum invite you to enjoy life. Life with Luigi, a comedy show created by Psy Howard and starring that celebrated actor, Mr. J. Carol Lash with Alan Reed is the swallow. Wrigley Spearman Chewing Gum is giving daily enjoyment to millions of people all over America in offices and factories, on farms and branches. In mines and oil fields, folks find that chewing Wrigley Spearman helps them feel better and work better. The makers of Wrigley Spearman Gum are glad that their product is proving helpful and enjoyable to so many people and they're glad too that they're able to bring you life with Luigi because they know it's the kind of radio program that millions of Americans enjoy. And now let's read Luigi's letter as he writes about his adventures in America to his mama Vasco in Italy. Dear mama me. Since I've been in America, I'ma think that this is the coldest winter I've ever saw. All over the country, people are sitting in the house trying to keep warm. And you know how they do this? Electric heat, electric lamps, electric blankets, electric radiators. Mama me. If America is ever blow out the fuse, the whole of the country is gonna freeze. Is it different from the other country? Mama me. When we got a cold night in a Castellamare, all the families sit around the fire with plenty of good red wine on the table. Twenty minutes by the fire.   So he's a guat in a barn. He's a fascist to push a hot water bottle under a goat while he was asleep. Mama me. That was the night that we found out the goat could have sweared. Anyway, the reason I'm thinking so much about a cold is because of my landlord. And it's supposed to be my friend in the country when a Pasquale is a no-giver steamer. So I'm sitting here like a frozen mackerel and ice. For days I'm a banger bang on a steamer pipes, but there's no answer. Well, I'm going to try again. Yeah, but a Pasquale, where is the heat? In Africa. What do you got? A new hobby, banging the pipes? And you don't give it a heat, so I'm going to let you know. Don't you think it's a cold enough? Luigi, I don't go by myself. I use the scientific methods. I got a thermometer in my store and it says a hundred degrees. A hundred degrees, so where do you keep it as a thermometer? Right where I can always see it, on top of the stove. See you have a Pasquale over there? The red line isn't ever going to drop it down. Luigi is not enough for the red line to run it down. I don't give steam until that thermometer turns blue. That's not a Luigi. You turn in a green. It doesn't look so good.  But Pasquale, the way you talk, I'm going to tell him to do something wrong. Come on, tell me what's the matter? Don't look so innocent, Luigi. Somebody owes me two months of rent and it ain't like Xavier Kugatz. Oh, so that's it? You mean you're not going to give me heat until I'm a pay-up of the two months of rent? That's exactly what I mean. Yeah, but Pasquale, I'm going to freeze it today. That's a free country, Luigi.  Pasquale, don't talk like that.  I've been pretty fair with you so far. Yeah, but Pasquale, I'm going to... Let me finish. I brought you to America. I said you often as a crazy antique shop. I've been lending you money right and the left like I was the Morris, a plan, and you was a Morris. Yeah, but I'm always a pay-up back. That's not enough. I didn't bring you here from Italy just so I could have gone and money landed a business. All I know is you were terrible a business man.  Oh, what's that? What's the use of it?  Well, what? What?  You promise? Sure, I'm a promise. All right, I'll change you from a bachelor to a sudden law. Now I understand. It's not for the two months of rent that you keep away the stimulus because I don't want to marry a factored daughter of Russia. I don't want to call her a factored. She's just a little round. Bascuali, if she was any rounder, she would roll, not to walk. Luigi, listen, listen, I'm going to give you your choice, Luigi. I'm going to give you your choice. You got a mario rosa, you're going to be cold all the winter. That's your choice. Yeah, but what is it? Rosa or frosa? You want to keep a warm and make up your mind to marry a rosa? No, Bascuali, I'm not going to marry her. Please, Luigi, just this one winter. No, no, no, no. When a man wants to keep a warm, he buys a little stove and not the whole of the gas company. Luigi, from a now on, everything is a strictly business. Are you waiting to get in the drop of heat because you owe me two months of rent? No, no, Bascuali, don't do this. You know I'm going to catch a call as a quickie. Luigi, I ain't a talker no more. You were a disaster victim. From now on, any appeals that you make are going to go direct to the Red Cross. Yeah, but, Bascuali, how are you going to be so mean? Luigi, it ain't easy. To Lou, I come back in the spring and defrost to you. I go, Bascuali. All right, class, let's come to order, please. I'll call the roll. Mr. Bascuali? I'm ahead. Well, Mr. Bascuali, that call sounds bad. Do you have a cold? No, no, it's all right. It's just a little tickler. Sounds like more than a tickle to me, Luigi. You should find out more about that cough. Most coughs should be taken care of immediately with the new drugs that are on the market. They're such as oreo, mycin, chloro, mycin, and streptomycin. And they will take away the tick. Go. You can get quicker results with a long feather. Bascuali, Luigi, you're going to be all right. Yeah, yeah. Well, maybe Bascuali isn't going to change his mind and give me back the steam with tonight. What's the matter, Luigi? Bascuali ran out of coal last night? No, no, no, no, no, no, no. He said if I'm done a pair with two months' rent, he's going to let me freeze it. Oh, he'll be very... You're very Yemenian, isn't it, Lord? That doesn't give steam in January. It's just a big, yes. Mr. Bascuali, this whole thing's very peculiar. Do you think Mr. Bascuali's holding back just because of the rent money? Well, uh... also because so the roce uh... ha now you let the cat out of the back stuff in the back begin up to hold a cat but well he has done some bad things but this won't take the case have you tried reasoning with him the week yet but but when it is a no use leviticus i know you would hate to do it but why don't you call up the border health complainable against past welly i think there's a lot of you don't know no no no no no harrow it's a place If I'm having trouble with my countrymen, I don't want to use outsiders. I'm using my own way. Your own way? What is that? Well, my mom, she's a teach me. Always, if somebody is to do something wrong, you turn to the other chick.  And tell Mr. Pascuali you'll do your best to get the rent as fast as possible. I think he'll go along with you. Yo ho, I agree with that. Yeah, but I'm afraid I want to think. What's that? Supposing he's a set-to-me, not stem or forever unless you marry us. Then you answer him with logic, Louie. Logic or what? Yeah, you say to him, Pascuali, when I go to the Turkish bath, nobody makes me marry the Turk. Oh, Pascuali, he's very cold in here. Yes, a little, Capuchin Puss.  Yeah, you did it. Oh, so you've got a cough already. Ah, it's too bad. You shouldn't have smoked so much. But Pascuali, you know this cough, it doesn't come from a smoke. No, then why is a smoker coming out of your nose, eh? Is it because he's a cold in a story? Oh, so that's why. And why is a cold in a story? Because it's in a steamer. Pascuali, come on, be nice, huh? Put on a steamer.  Ain't a-talking about it at all? Not at all, and not at a no. And uh-uh.  Huh? Oh, sure. Sure, you want all the cold air for yourself. All right, selfish, huh? Yeah, and wait, then, please, I don't want to come back.  And don't bother to talk with me, Pascuali, because I'm never gonna talk with you again. Never, huh? Never, Pascuali. I'ma swear to this, by everything, I'ma-I'ma hold the deal. Oh, you swear by every time you hold the deal, eh? You don't-you don't believe in me, huh, Pascuali? All right, I'ma tell you. I'ma swear by-by-I'ma swear by-by my mama that I'ma never gonna talk to you again. Well, look who's again in the series. That's right. You swear by your mama?  Oh, stop, stop. You're breaking my heart.  A vacation? Are you here?  All right, you greenhornaboo, but don't talk to me. Only if you don't say nothing, don't-don't expect I should answer you. To mention that delicious wriggly spearman chewing gum is not only good, but also good for you.  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Keep a package of refreshing delicious wriggly spearmint gum handy and enjoy chewing a stick from time to time every day And now let's turn to page two of Luigi Basko's letter to his mother and it Well, the mom mommy is a past the holidays and super squally is a stop They're giving a misdemeanors and some must stop to talk on it to him But is he not too so bad to know my mommy in a daytime I'm gonna keep a woman a stop by wearing two pair of woolen stockings on the top of my regular socks I Would be even a woman if if I could have squeezed my shoes on the top of the stockings Then on a nighttime, I'm gonna turn on all the lights and a gas range And I'm a boil of four big pots of water only trouble is a steam or goes up to the ceiling And the only one who's a keeper warm is the flies Well, I don't know how long is it gonna be before the past well is it give me steam, but I know one thing I'm never gonna talk to him again. Oh, he's coming in enough. Hello, Luigi. You ready to talk to me about your heat in the problem That's a matter That's a matter. Luigi cat to go to your tongue.  Don't talk I Give you steam for just the one month's rent and I give you steam if you take out of my rose I can't stand this. Luigi. Just talk to me and I give you steam Hey, Luigi stop a polish and that Lincoln a statue talking to me. I Never was a president, but I can't grow a beard Some people in name of Luigi making me so mad Well, I go in a basement and when I come back is the library be a surprise Then we see if you talk Luigi my fellow poof. Yeah, but you look a little taller tonight Had to must be three pairs of stockings. I'm aware in the shirt Well, what happened did you ask for spotty to give you more steam? Ah, yes, but he was a bad to me then I'm a promise I'm never gonna talk to him again unless to my mom is asked me to but he was here a minute ago And I think he's a he's up at the something issues Oh, that was quality for what he's doing to you. I could make meatballs for him. Oh, yes He will go ahead and mr. Delacottes in the matter making me the balls from a man Why should I a dame's on the Terry? I Luigi Luigi See Schultz how can I give the steamer to a fellow who don't talk to me? Don't talk pasquale. His lips are so blue. He can't talk All right, then we see what's gonna happen and now what do you mean what's gonna happen? Just the way What's that coming up?  It's a steamer steamer. Have you seen him? He sounds like he's Columbus discovering America Well, Luigi you're gonna talk to me now. What do you say my son? You see Schultz. He just stands there nothing or give him a chance What do you mean to give him a chance come back in a few days, then you'll talk to you first He's got a far out Oh It's been four days already Schultz. I'm pleased to tell him to talk Luigi Pasquale says you should please talk to him. She'll sit tell him a note Push Wally. He says no Schultz.  All right. I heard it. I heard it And tell him if he don't start talking. I'm gonna give him so much esteem. Here's a terra mamma. Is it gonna fade? Luigi did you hear that tell a mama no care for Schwally Luigi says drop that Schultz wait to tell a he says it How can I make this a mommy talk? Wait, I know how Luigi's are gonna talk to me. Schultz to tell him I never he says never all right All right, you see if you're gonna translate this Schultz to tell him no many vodka finicky metal No many vodka finicky metal it go on it go out of town Luigi said that no over should He was such a language Pinwheel No, Schultz is all right there. You tell a him and on them and more to see parley or not But Schwally he says and here I go again You shouldn't please him partner He will I feel like the United Nations without an interpreter Please Luigi talk to me All right, see if you can turn me down now He don't go quam the steamer boy finicky me parley. I'm illio Emilia, you're not here. I am Luigi. Hey, you've been waiting here all this time I'm sure you think of the block is gonna let you put a something over on a Luigi What do you want to Luigi tell him he's got to turn off at the heat. I'm a cat to stand it Squalling Luigi did you get there was top out of the steamer some or anything out then tell him Oh, what's he use? Luigi, please talk to me. You break into my heart. Melio.  It's a too hot. All right. I'll talk to me I'll give you a fan. I'll buy you icebox. I'll bring you popsicles every five minutes Please the Luigi, please All right, I Know when I'm a lick Goodbye. Hello is a Luigi basket and take a shot. Oh, what seems to be the trouble talk to the last a few days I got a terrible pain on the right the shoulder. I couldn't hardly move with the reciders. No, I had them taken out 11 years ago I'll tell you this is a like I got a migrating headache in my arm But here here try a try raising it. All right That's bad. If I can't lift my arm the ring up a sale of the cash register either bad. I'm a paralyze Let me feel that arm again There doesn't appear to be any a demon the clavicular region And that the user smaller words in the charge of me less of money For your patient with money, haven't you feel me and if my occupation to make a money, you're right I think that's my trouble. I wanted too much money. I'm an old hound the Luigi for the rent He wouldn't stop talking to me, but you ain't interested on the contrary. Go on Who's this Luigi doc got some my best friend? Sure, I get him in all kinds of trouble little melon head But it's only because I love him. I see How was your arm before he stopped talking to you? Fine a finer doctor.  I could have lift the horse better than that I could have lifted my daughter Your daughter, what's that got to do with it? Wait, I'll show you Rosa Exactly what you mean Mr. Pasquale, I'm afraid there's nothing I can do for you. I'll be by again in a few weeks But this I pay you how I'm gonna get a well I think if you'll patch up your argument with your friend Luigi, you won't need me what Doctor, I'm gonna need you all the time again. Why? Because the luigi's are never gonna talk to me feel sorry for you papa I'm gonna feel sorry for myself for two, but but what I'm gonna start that I'm I'm not gonna finish Never never never unless Unless no, what does it no use to talk about it that's that it can't happen Goodbye Rosa. Why was it? Why was it such a fool to swear it? What I'm gonna do What I'm gonna do now how am I gonna fix I should have What what the kind of pondering is that? Hello Yeah, yes, so this is the luigi basket and take a shopper Sure, this is the luigi basket myself Huh what? I'm sure the whole land all right Who it telly It telly calling Mom, mommy Huh? Yeah, yeah, that's me. That's that's you.  I'm here. You're clear like a bell. Is it is it like a way with a boat in the semi-telephone of boats? Oh, mommy Mommy if you only know if you only know how I was a miss you just to this moment How you feeling? Yeah, how you feeling mommy? Oh, that's good Yeah, no, I think I'm a little Uh-huh. I don't go to bed though. Oh, that's good. How how should I go to? Oh the god, did you get married? That's nice, mommy. That's that's good Huh, is that a family or is it? Oh, how the time is a flyer? Yeah, mommy. I have to go quick But the mommy what why you call? Mommy something is something is wrong.  Huh, who? Well, somebody I'm I'm a know very well Well, oh, come on it. Tell me it's a who? Oh Yeah, yeah, that's that's that's right. Yeah, sure. Pascuali is sick. Yeah, but How you know that the mama here, huh? Oh, he did What? What? You you want them? I'm sure You want them? I should Yeah, sure. I'm sure. Oh, sure. I'm I'm gonna be very happy to do that the mama me Yeah, sure. Yes, you're the right to know. I'm gonna do it. Yes, but to take care of yourself, huh? Sure, mommy. Take a good care. Give them my regards to everybody. Yeah, mama. You sure I get it No, you're talking Hello, Pascuali. Yes, sure. Sure. I'm talking. And come on. Come over here.  I'm I'm I'm sorry. I'm a did what I'm a did but I'm a did what I'm a did but But but but what I'm a did I'm never gonna do Like a schultz is to say you getting all the push in I wait the way I get that. Hey, look at my arms. You know her to no more.  There was a phone call to Italy's a cost of me 88 dollars How do you get the dollars? That's what it's a cost. Oh, mama, mama, man. I'm Pascuali You ain't gonna get the money out of me again. Huh? And you little pumpkin head No, of course not Okay operator just to set the bill that we argue without later Here luigi here taking this a newspaper. Sure. Yeah, but I know your pepper. What the photo go ahead and read All right, but but they do what anything. I just paid 88 a dollars there. You talk to me again. 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Live from Austin, Texas, it's theCUBE. Covering Dell EMC World 2016, brought to you by Dell EMC. Now, here are your hosts, Dave Vellante and Stu Miniman. Welcome back to Austin, Texas, everybody. This is theCUBE, the worldwide leader in live tech coverage. Stu Miniman, my co-host and I are going to be wrapping up two days of coverage here at Dell EMC World. Used to be Dell World, they combined it to Dell EMC World. We'll talk a little bit about what's going to happen next. Actually, let's talk about it now. There will be a Dell EMC World, which will replace the former EMC World in the spring. Typically, it's in May in Las Vegas. Second week of May at the Venetian, just like before. So, EMC World plus the Dell stuff, so probably 15,000 plus people. And we got a flavor for what that was going to be like last year, because, you know, Michael was very prominent on stage, and so that's cool. And you know what's going to be? A zillion announcements and, you know, more or the same. Mega mega. So that's good, mega mega, right. So what's interesting, what's going to be interesting is what happens to this event, right? The Austin vibe is unique, in my opinion, in this industry. It's not Vegas, it's not casinos. You've got a great music scene here. Cool people, great food. People really enjoy being here. It's a laid-back environment, but it's good. It's a good quality audience and a lot of fun. And so I hope somehow, some way that's preserved. And Dave, what we heard is, you know, an executive event, they have what, four or 500 executives that are here. That will probably continue. It won't be Dell World. It'll be something else. And that was really what started this event. They added in what was the Dell Storage Forum, Dell Enterprise Forum, and grew this from, you know, when we first came in 2012, you know, Bill Clinton and, you know, almost 2,000 people, and now it's what, seven, 8,000 people here this year. So this one's grown and now we'll spin into the other one and this goes back to kind of its roots. So full circle. Stu, one of the things that we didn't talk about this morning, and I had to leave the keynote earlier, you stayed to listen to David Goulden's litany of announcements that EMC made. Many of them they made last week. Some today, like the Scale.io PowerEdge announcement, which you can see on the floor here, but take us through what was announced and what the significance of those announcements is. Yeah, so right, there's probably more announcements and we can go through all of them at a high level, right? Number one is Dell, actually Dave, the PowerEdge servers, they're actually branded Dell EMC now, which was something that was like, wow. When they first told us that, I'm like, wow, all those Dell bezels will go Dell EMC. So you're going to see those fit in a lot of environments. So in the what used to be called VCE product line, you know, there's a lot of those. So in the racks and the rails, not the blocks, there's the Dell EMC PowerEdge servers. For Scale.io, they have- Not the blocks because that's still UCS. That's Cisco UCS, absolutely. In Scale.io, which you can buy in the VX Rack, Flex configuration, you can have Dell servers or if I just want to do Scale.io, I can get the Ready node, which is the PowerEdge server. So, you know, I want to go buy a hundred or a thousand of them, a highly scalable type of configurations. Here's some configurations that we have in there. So there's the server rollout, which is what we all expected. Secondly, year of all flash, the Yof as EMC, hashtag Yof put out there. We saw a lot of that. So we talked to CJ Desiree earlier today about, you know, Isilon, how that's getting it, ECS, how it's getting it. So, you know, all of the different pieces where I had a little bit of flash, we have a lot more flash or all flash. So lots more flexibility there. And one of the big pieces, you know, an area I look at a lot is VX Rail. So it's, you know, the Dell EMC server inside VX Rail, and it has a lot of configurations, and they think that this is the platform that can lead them to become the market leader in the hyper-converged infrastructure space. Let me stop you there. So just for those in the audience that don't follow this closely. So, you know, Nutanix was one of the first to do this hyper-converge. There are others, you know, SimpliVity's another one, and then many others, right? And then the whole, many of the software defined companies are in there as well. But Nutanix, recent IPO, super successful. They're a good reference model for a hyper-converged. So a couple of years ago at VMworld, VMware announced Rails technology, right? Which essentially was software defined. It was one of the packages. So when VMware announced virtual SAN, it was actually the thing that got everybody talking about this word of hyper-converged. So VSAN is the software layer that can run on a lot of different configurations. So they put out something they called EvoRail, which was, here is a very prescriptive, this is the configuration you will run, not only, you know, here's the cores, here's the exact, you know, disc and flash configuration that they had. It was a reference architecture. It was a reference architecture. Not a solution. Not a solution, but it was very rigid, Dave. So that meant that there was, I think about a dozen companies, server companies, you know, like Lenovo and Dell and Hewlett Packard, before it was HPE, and storage vendors like Hitachi and NetApp also got on board with this. And of course EMC. And EMC launched one that they called VSpecs Blue.  They were hard to find. Yeah, it was hard to find, to put it into context. I think it was like 30 or 60 days of the new VXRail, which is a more flexible configuration, you know, the VCE Group putting together what was first with Quanta servers, plus VSAN in that hyper-converged deployment, you know, outsold like the entire EvoRail market, you know, install base. And then the big news now is we're seeing that Dell server technology migrate into that platform. Yeah, and once again, it's not one configuration. There's a bunch of different node types.  But they've had, you know, Chad, you know, is coming in, kind of chest beating with how many sales they've had. They've had real good adoption. We talked to Scott Winslow saying, you know, a Dell channel partner that's already sold some of these.  But this is, to me, there's a huge deal. And I guess people aren't making a big deal out of it. I've got Ashley on before and he didn't poo poo it, but he's like, yeah, okay. But the fact that now, Dell has a pipeline into EMC who consumes a lot of servers and will continue to consume a lot of servers, it's a captive base. And the same way that IBM can dictate sort of what technologies they use when they do want a big global services deal, if the customer doesn't care, IBM's going to use IBM technologies, that's kept, you know, afloat a lot of IBM's businesses. In the same way, Dell now has a captive base into EMC. Now maybe it's not as big, but it's meaningful. That's a brand new OEM customer. That's pretty huge. Absolutely. So Dave, you know, people always, we at Wikibon, we came up with the term server sand. And everybody's like, ah, it's a horrible name, whatever. But here's what it is. Before I bought a sand and it was, I bought a server for somebody, I bought storage for somebody else and I bought a network for somebody else and I put that whole thing together. What I get in a hyperconverged environment is that entire sand in a server. And I buy multiples of them and there's a software layer that does that. So I have a VMware option, I have a Nutanix option, SimpliVity has an option. You've got, you know, Maxsta and a whole lot of other companies that are competing in this space. But right, Dell has positioned themselves with, they've got the VMware assets, they've got the EMC Salesforce, they OEM Nutanix, they are the default configuration for customers like Pivot 3 and SimpliVity. So Michael wants to make sure that whichever one of those software options win, he's hoping that the underlying server hardware is going to be his. So I think he's done a great job there, really understanding this market because Cisco with UCS really nailed it with converged, with what they did with VBlock and Flexpod and about 30 storage partnerships and Dell has taken the leadership position by making sure that whether you choose the number one, two, three, four, they've got to play across the board in all of these environments, not just to play, but you know, a leadership position across the board. So the other dynamic that sometimes gets lost here, Stu, is when IBM chose to sell its X86 business, server business to Lenovo, it basically created a vacuum. And Dell EMC is going to fill that, is filling that vacuum. AM and HPE has an opportunity to as well as maybe do some of the ODMs, but some companies with server and storage are in the best position to take advantage of that pendulum swinging what you called server sand back to the server. Storage used to be separate for good reasons. Now it's swinging back. Dell EMC is in as good a position as anybody to take advantage of that. Arguably, actually, I think it's inarguable, the best position. So IBM gave that up. Lenovo has to figure out, okay, how do we partner with storage to do that? Now maybe at some point to go buy a storage company and that comes together, but there's still some deep engineering that can take place, some integration that creates some value there. So that's a, IBM decided because they said we don't want to be in that business. That's a low margin business. It's fine for some people like Dell EMC, that's not our gig. But from a TAM standpoint, they walked away from a lot of TAM. Dell EMC are embracing that TAM in a margin model that Michael Dell's comfortable with. Yeah, Dave, you're absolutely right. We poked at this when we were at IBM Edge and IBM has, you know, if I want to look at that kind of scale out, you know, what we call server sand architecture, well, they have something similar in soft layer. So if I want to consume it that way, not in my data center, don't want to own that piece of the stack, soft layer offers that, but they're not having, you know, an on-prem HCI solution. Lenovo, also Williams Nutanix, also works with VMware vSAN. They're absolutely doing that. HPE has a number of solutions that poke at it.  It's a good business, right? It's going to throw off a lot of cash. I guess let's talk about the financials for a second. So it's hard to tell. We knew what EMC financials were. That's, you know, very recently became a private company. So we have all that. Slow growth, but growth. Throwing off cash, but not as much cash as they were three or four years ago. Dell, as a company now, Dell EMC, Dell Technologies, let's call it, probably growing, we think, we're not really sure, but I would say probably growing in the low single digits. Certainly throwing off cash, enough cash to pay off the debt, not burdened by dividend payments and stock buybacks, which of course, by the way, are not tax deductible. Dividend payments are not tax deductible. So that's reduced, in theory anyway, the tax rate at Dell EMC. So some interesting dynamics there, but you don't really know, right? The profitability of the company, the growth of the company is whatever they say it is. Okay, that's the way it is until we find out more. Now there is some level of reporting that has to get done because of the tracking stock, so we're going to get some information. Dell files with the SEC, so there's bits and pieces, you've seen 8Ks come out. So pay attention to sec.gov. There's some good tidbits there, but generally speaking, the point here, Stu, is that Michael Dell can write whatever narrative he wants, and it's not a bunch of Wall Street analysts writing the narrative. So that, to me, from a marketing standpoint, is a big advantage because it removes a distraction that others may not have. Yeah, you know, it's interesting, Dave, I think back when Dell went private, I heard a lot more rumbles. I had a lot of friends that kind of had been at Dell a long time and kind of said, kind of cashed out when the deal closed and went on to do the next thing. Now, there's been some changes at EMC, some people have left, some people, there have been some small layoffs right now, what was it, 3,000 I think was announced before? It's expected that as some groups get consolidated, that there will be more, but at least I haven't heard nearly as many rumbles now on kind of the heritage EMC side as they did on Dell, but there's still a lot to play out, but I'm pleasantly surprised at kind of the energy everybody has. There's a lot of the heritage EMC people that showed up here for the first time at a kind of heritage Dell show. So, that's kind of interesting for me on kind of the people side inside a very large company. Well, you would expect there's got to be some rationalization of the headcount. I mean, there has to be, right? I mean, again, we've talked about this a lot on theCUBE. We've had, and David Gouldin disagreed, but I'm not going to argue with him on theCUBE, but there has been a 10 year collapse in infrastructure hardware and software pricing. EMC has been certainly fighting that in a variety of ways and done a fantastic job, credit to them, but at the macro level, there has been a collapse and there continues to be a collapse and there will be a further collapse. The good news again for Dell EMC is it's hidden inside of a private company. The point is you have to have a cost structure that compete with cloud because it was cloud and open source that are driving those pressures. And so Dell's cost structure and a supply chain in our view, anyway, allowed, I think you'd agree, allowed Dell to compete effectively with today anyway, the cloud providers. So Dave, last year Satya Nadella was on stage. We talked a lot about Azure and the future of Azure Stack. At least in the keynotes, I didn't hear a lot about it. We poked around the VMware on AWS stuff. I was a little disappointed at the overall cloud discussion here. Kind of poked at a little bit of to how Dell sees the multicloud world living and some of the pieces that they think will help manage them around there. I'm curious, we talked to a lot of the executives and people around here. Do you have any updates as you're thinking on the VMware on Amazon piece after talking to Michael and everybody? I think I'll repeat what I said before. My opinion VMware absolutely 100% capitulated in its position on AWS generally and public cloud specifically. Point number one, point number two was I think it was the right move to fight that trend would have been a huge mistake. So the trend is your friend. That said, it's unclear to me that that solves the cloud challenges that this company has. It maybe staves it off for a bit. But specifically as it relates to VMware, I think it's business as usual. They've extended their TAM somewhat. They've made it more convenient to run VMs in Amazon instead of waiting whatever seven days for infrastructure. They can spin it up virtually instantaneously. I think that's good. I think that's good for customers did not lose on this. Great, so if customers don't lose, that's good short-term for VMware. The bigger picture is Dell and Dell EMC. How do they compete in the cloud? And to me, the way they compete in the cloud is they sell solutions to cloud providers. I don't expect them to sell a lot to Amazon, Google, and Microsoft. I just don't unless it's part of a quid pro quo. I don't think that's going to be the dominant way. The China hyper scale guys that some people with closer ties to China are likely to win. But the other piece to your point is I think Azure Stack is a great strategy and I think it's the correct strategy. I think it's a gap in Amazon's portfolio. I think Dell can do very, very well there because I think a lot of companies want to mimic as closely as possible what they're doing in the public cloud on prem. Because as Michael said, it's not about where you put it, it's an operating model. I mean, it is about where you put it in terms of who wins, right? But from a customer standpoint, it's about the operating model and the Azure Stack allows you to have a mimic to a great degree as possible, that operating model. And the only other company besides Microsoft doing that is really Oracle, right? And Oracle's a little niche within their red stack. So to me, Dell is in a good position. I'm surprised they didn't talk about it more. Maybe they didn't add a deference to AWS. They didn't want to rub salt in that wound and just have fresh off a deal. But I think, if you listen to Andy Jassy's narrative and compare it to Michael Dell's narrative, even though they're slightly coming together, they're still different ends of the spectrum. And those guys are still battling from market share. And I think that Dell is going to use its choice card where it needs to to compete effectively long-term with Amazon. And that's my take. What do you think? Yeah, no, Dave, I think, yes. I agree with you on a lot of that. As I asked Michael, it's like, okay, I understand how it opens up. It can prevent some bleeding for VMware and over the next couple of years, give them some opportunity potential for some growth. Absolutely, I understand for Amazon, it's a big straw that they stick into 500,000 potential customers and say, we want to pull as much of our stuff into our environment and look at all these other great services we've got here. Wouldn't you like to use them? Isn't this great? The macro thing I look at is, Microsoft has told every customer, SaaS is awesome. You're all signing up for Office 365 and once you get SaaS, it's like, wait, maybe I might want to choose other environments. VMware has told everybody, public cloud is a great place to hold your workloads. Look, here's VMware in an Amazon data center. It's in a soft layer data center from IBM. So where it lives shouldn't matter to you as much anymore. I mean, great. Dave, we've been screaming at the top of our lungs how owning your data center is something you need to get out of. Hopefully this will move the needle. You know, so it's interesting. I still, you know, after everything I hear, I still think this is a much better deal for Amazon in the long term. I would agree with that. And the other thing at the end, at the macro level, SaaS is becoming the new control point in the organization. Applications continue to drive business value. It's the infrastructure is the plumbing. But you know what? Infrastructure is still a good business to participate in that business. You've got to have the right cost structure and Dell understands that. It's got the best supply chain in the business. This is not a complacent company. It is not, in my opinion, a vulnerable company. It is a winner, right? Michael Dell is a winner. I mean, Dave, I love the point from Michael when he talked about the scope of his organization. He's like, we're much bigger than Amazon.   All right, listen, we got a wrap. Stu, thanks very much. Great, great pleasure working with you. Check out wikibon.com for all the research. 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Well over a thousand miles from the Warumph of Rome, in the wild northern reaches of Roman influence, an epic battle was fought in the northeast of the land we call Scotland today, known as Caledonia to the Romans. The battle of Mons Gropius, fought in either 83 or 84 AD, was a crucial battle in the Roman invasion of Caledonia that resulted in a great victory for the Romans. Yet Caledonia was a land that the Romans could not fully conquer, partly due to the ferocity of the native people, namely the Caledonians. The Roman historian Tacitus describes the inhabitants of Caledonia as having red gold hair and massive limbs that proclaim German origins. I guess it must be a Caledonian after all. Although we do not have too many individual descriptions of Caledonians, Tacitus does describe one specific leader of the Caledonians, a man called Calgacus. He is in fact the first Caledonian to be recorded into history and he is described as the chieftain of the Caledonian Confederacy, a series of tribes that unified under the Caledonian banner to fight the Romans in the Battle of Mons Gropius. Tacitus describes Calgacus as the outstanding leader of the Caledonians due to his valor and nobility. His name can be interpreted as meaning possessing a blade, although other sources see his name as closer translated as the swordsman. At the Battle of Mons Gropius, the Caledonians managed to raise a massive army of around 30,000 men that were fighting against a highly organized Roman force of approximately or just over half the size. Prior to the battle, the Caledonians were essentially trying to avoid fighting the Romans in a pitch battle setting. Instead opting for more guerrilla warfare tactics, they were proving quite effective up until that point. The only reason why the Caledonians were brought to the battlefield was because the Romans went after the main grain denies of the Caledonians. It left the Caledonians with essentially two choices, either fight or starve. The Romans were led by Gaius Julius Agricola, who ruled as the council and governor of Britannia, beginning in 77 AD. Importantly to note, Agricola was actually Tacitus's father-in-law, so the account of Tacitus most likely contains bias, although he is a fascinating primary source regardless. Despite their inferior numbers, the Romans won a decisive victory on the day, with around 10,000 Caledonians said to have been slaughtered on this bloody occasion, although this may be an exaggeration and the numbers at the losses from the Caledonian side may not have been as high. Before the Battle of Mons Gropius, however, Calgacus is said to have given an epic, poetic and inspiring speech to rally his troops. It's a speech that deserves to be recited in full. As Tacitus describes, Calgacus gave the following speech. Whenever I consider the causes of the war an desperate position, I have great confidence that today, the day on which you are of one mind, will mark the beginning of freedom for the whole of Britain. For all of you have united together and you have not tasted servitudes. There is no land beyond us and even the sea is no safe refuge when we are threatened by the Roman fleet. The battle and the arms, which brave men honour, are the safest recourse even for Calvars. Battles have been fought against the Romans before, with varying success. For all forces with the Britons hope and their reserve, for we, the noblest in all of Britain, who dwell in our innermost sanctuary, and do not look across at any subject shores, had been keeping even their eyes free from the defilement of tyranny. We are the last people on earth and the last to be free. Our very remoteness in a land known only to rumour has protected us till this day. Today the furthest bounds of Britain lie open and everything unknown is giving an inflated worth. But now there is no people beyond us and nothing but tides and rocks and more deadly than these the Romans. It is no use trying to escape their arrogance by submission or good behaviour. They have pillaged the world. When the land has nothing left for men who ravage everything, they scour the sea. If an enemy is rich they are greedy. If he is poor they crave glory. Neither east nor west can say their appetite. They are the only people on earth to covet wealth and poverty with equal craving. They plunder, they butcher, they ravish and call it by the lying name of empire. They make a desert and call it peace. Nature has willed it that each man should love best his children and his own kin. These are now being torn away by conscription to be slaves in another land. Wives and sisters, even if they escape being raped by Romans as enemies, are seduced by men posing as friends and guests. Goods and possessions are consumed by taxation. The fields in their harvest by the grain requisition. Men's varied bodies and hands by building roads through forests and marshes, under the lash and subject to insults. Those born to be slaves are sold once and for all and what is more are fed by their masters. Britain pays for its own enslavement every day, feeds its masters every day. In a private household the latest newcomer amongst the slaves is the object of derision even to his fellow slaves. So too in the slave household to which the whole world has long belonged. We are the new ones, the cheap ones, who are picked out to be destroyed. For we have neither fertile lands nor mines nor harbours in which we might be kept to work. Besides courage and an untamed spirit in its subjects are not welcome to the imperial power. Even their remoteness and their very seclusion, while they have kept us safer, have also made us more suspect. Abandoned then, any hope of mercy take courage at last, whether it is life or glory which you hold most dear. The brigantes, with a woman as their leader, set a cologne on flames and stormed a fortress. If their success had not made them careless, they could have thrown off the yoke. We who are still unimpaired and unconquered will be going to war to defend their freedom, not to regain it after second thoughts. Let us show straight away, in this first encounter, what manner of men Caledonia has kept him reserved. Or do you believe that the Romans bravery and war matches their license in peace? It is by our quarrels and disunion that they have gained fame. They have exploited the faults of their enemies to bring glory for their own army. That army has been put together from peoples that are very different from one another. Success kept it together, but it will fall apart in defeat. Or can you really suppose the Gauls and Germans and, it is shameful to mention them, many Britons too are bound by loyalty and goodwill. They may be lending their lifeblood to a foreign tyranny, but they have been enemies for longer than they have been slaves. Terror and intimidation are no strong bonds of affection. When you break these bonds, fear will end and hatred begin. Everything that can inspire to victory is on our side. The Romans have no wives there to fire them, no parents to taunt them if they flee. Most of them have no home country or an alien one. There are few in number, scaled and bewildered, staring round at the sky itself and the sea in the forest, all strange to them. They are in a way like men imprisoned and chained, and the gods have delivered them into our hands. Do not let their outward show alarm you. It means nothing. The gleam of gold and silver that can neither shield them nor wound us. Even in the enemy lines we shall find forces of our own. The Britons will recognise their cause as their own. The Gauls will remember their lost liberty. The rest of the Germans will desert them exactly as the Ysipi have just done. There is nothing beyond them to fear, just empty forts, calling no eye of old men, towns sick and disunited between unwilling subjects and unjust rulers. Here is your general, here is your army. On the other side, taxes, mines and other punishments imposed on slaves. Whether we endure these forever or take quick vengeance will be decided on this field. On then into battle and as you go, think both of your ancestors and your descendants. This speech led to roars, cries and singing amongst the ranks of the Caledonians, inspired by their leader, but ultimately they were defeated on the battlefield. The fate of Calgacus is actually unknown. Although he was not listed as one of the hostages taken by the Romans, he may have been slain on the battlefield. And it is important to note as well, there is some debate whether this event actually took place and whether all the details are 100% accurate, as a Tacitus is essentially the only source for this. Although there is probably lots of bias contained within his writings, there probably is equal amounts of truth given the fact he is a primary source after all. Although the Romans tried to consolidate their position within Caledonia in the decades after, they never managed to acquire a firm grip on that land, on the territory of Caledonia. To find out more about the Romans in Scotland and the particular Antoninians Wall, please click here. Thanks for watching, please subscribe and hit the bell. If you like to support this work, through Patreon buymeacoffee.com or picking up merch including this t-shirt, all the links will be in the description below. Thanks again for watching and I'll see you next time.


All right, see you. We're good to go. Thank you, sir. All right, good morning everybody. How are you doing? Good. Excellent. Good morning everybody. How are you doing? Great. Fantastic. It's good to see all of you. Welcome to the NCAA Debate Camp. This top Cali lecture is going to be pretty surface level. Does anybody familiar with top Cali? How many people have debated before? I know this is not this lecture, but... Okay, so some of you have some experience and some of you probably have never heard of top Cali. What top Cali is. Top Cali, as you'll see, is a stock issue today. But it's a stock issue that is a little bit different from what you typically hear in debate rounds. You don't always hear top Cali. Well, why not? For those of you who have debated before. Yes, sir? Because you agree with all the definitions. Right. You agree with the definitions, right? Absolutely. Why else? Anybody have any examples? Think of why you might not hear it. That I don't know how to run it. You know how to run it, right? It's something that novices, a lot of people, for example, don't necessarily know how to run it. They don't know how to run it effectively. And so they stray away from it. People think that top Cali is a bad part of the debate. Some early debaters or people who are beginning debate actually despise top Cali sometimes. But in fact, it's truly, truly an important element of debate. It's a stock issue that must be upheld. Otherwise, the ability to have that debate just disappears completely. And we'll find out how that works today. So that being said, we know top Cali is a stock issue. We're working from that perspective. Secondly, you can see it says up there that the stock issue is a priority issue. What is a priority issue? Should we consider before any of the other issues? Absolutely. Should we consider before any of the other issues? Now, we've talked about what top Cali is in the essence of a stock issue. We've talked about it's an important issue that needs to come first. Can anybody tell me why? Why is top Cali so important out of all the stock issues? It's not worth having a debate if you can't agree on the definitions of the resolution. Absolutely. The definitions. This is a topic that you're going to discuss. How many of you have experienced, let's say, a casual conversation or casual debate with your friends and family? And all of a sudden you notice that you started perhaps here and over the course of an hour or two or three or four or five, you ended up here. You're like, how do we even get to this point in this discussion? We were talking about this issue and now we're talking about something entirely different. Top Cali ensures that the affirmative debate stays on topic. That they come into the debate with a topical plan and that's why it's such an important issue. That's why we call it an a priori issue. If the affirmative team entered our debate and they came in talking about anything in the rule they wanted to talk about, could the opposition or the negative, could they adequately have a debate and report that type of plan? Certainly not. And so we tell our judges that topicality is always an a priori issue. Whenever you finish running through your shell or through your entire topicality argument you need to outline that as an a priori issue and that the judge must vote there first. They must look to see whether or not the affirmative is topical. And then, and only then, if the affirmative is topical can we have the debate about the top-end, the substantial top-end. Think of topicality as like the gatekeeper. In essence, in reality we need to figure out whether or not the affirmative meets the resolution within the resolution. And then we can talk about impacts and harms and inherency and all the problems that we want to uncover within that debate. So you see there at the bottom of the last component of the slide in essence topicality is protection for the negative. I like to think of debate in terms of a box. Imagine this box being everything in the world you can debate about. Everything you can debate about in the world. Topicality and the resolution limit that debate topic and limit what you can discuss as the affirmative in that debate to this section here. Now, let's not to say that there aren't a lot of cases or a handful of arguments that you can maybe hear about this topic. If we look at the resolution over here we can see it says United States government should increase its development of the Earth's moon in one or more of the following areas. Energy, minerals and water. So you can make a case a number of different cases that are topical within the frame of the resolution but it disallows the affirmative and making arguments over here. That would explode. I think it is exploding the negative in essence. Because if you have to cover everything could you really have an active debate? No. Could you have the depth that we're really looking for to uncover these issues and resolve them without that limitation you simply would not. Alright. So let's think about T now in terms of the good, the bad and the ugly. Because as I mentioned a lot of novice debaters early on really hate this notion of topicality if you're warned. They want to talk about rare Earth minerals and the like. But in essence, topicality is important because without it there will not be equal division of ground quite simply enough. And without an equal division of ground in the debate we won't have a fair debate using the same box. Let's imagine now that this box is a football field or a soccer pitch whatever it might be. In a game each team has equal ground that they have to cover and equal ground that they have to defend in the debate. It would be unfair for example if all of a sudden we said you know what 49ers are playing I like them a lot and the dolphins are playing I don't like them. So let's go ahead and change the rules. Let's make it so instead of the Niners having to go all the way down the field 75 yards where now the dolphins have to go 75 yards to score a touchdown. It's obvious. And the same thing here with ground and fairness and argumentation if we allow or are affirmative to do anything they want to not be within this resolution as I mentioned again it's exploding that research for it. It's preventing you from being able to actually cover arguments that you want to in a debate adequately enough. So far, topicality is also an excellent argument because it ensures that we have rich education from these debates. Again the concept of the idea of depth versus breadth which do you think is more important than why? Depth of a topic being able to uncover everything you know or think about it or perhaps just tangentially learning about a million things. If we didn't have topicality the education as far as this topic goes would probably be well, surface level and in terms of the types of debates that we do there's plenty of doubles debates. We have the resolution here. We'll tell them into this topic we'll uncover everything we need this and we'll have research and articles and piles and piles of evidence that compile the course of the year. Whereas in parliamentary debates you'll have debates that again cover different topics as you know from your experience of our first few weeks of class those topics will be picked at random and you'll only have so much time to uncover and understand the full depth of those arguments to be made. Alright, the necessary evil, the notion behind this being necessary again lies in that and that we have to have a quality in the debate. We have to ensure that our murder of debaters or a flame bear and are allowing the opposition to have the adequate response and adequate rebuttal to the case and without topicality it's just not going to be there. Okay. I'm going to continue on because we're a little behind with the timing here. Let's see here. Okay, so some guidelines for topicality before we get into the actual format. We're going to go into the format next. The first rule of topicality and really debate persuasion in general is to know your audience. You'll find sometimes that judges will give you different opinions about what they think topicality or how topicality should be played out around. Have you ever experienced that before? Some debaters or some judge will tell you, I never vote on tea or I won't vote on tea unless you prove beyond a reasonable doubt and some judges are more apt to pull the trigger on topicality. It's important before you begin your debate to ask questions. Right? Read your judges' philosophy and when you're outlining your topicality case, be persuasive. Be persuasive. Don't just read the shell that your coaches give you, right? When your coaches give you an outline format of what topicality looks like go through it and understand it fully so you know the argument you're making and not just reading it off of a script. Again, it gets down to being more persuasive.  Me as a judge in the back of the room I'm going to question whether or not you really believe that argument or you know what you're saying especially when you get cross-examined for example or you're not able to respond without looking at that sheet of paper. To make sure that delivery is as persuasive as possible and that you are actually understanding the argument and not just reading it but more guidelines, the actual format and structure of topicality argument. Any questions so far? So, when you're constructing your topicality argument the first thing you need to do for a judge is outline the definition the interpretation of the word that you're raising in this topicality argument. Now, when you look at the resolution of the board here the United States Bureau of Government of Justice, et cetera, et cetera you look at the entirety of the resolution I look at a couple of words on this and I see the word increase and I see the word development perhaps the opposition perhaps as the negative in this debate I hear the affirmative outline their plan specific to this resolution and in the end I don't necessarily see them increasing anything perhaps when the affirmative reads their plan I surmise we're looking at my definition of what the word development means perhaps my definition of development is vastly different from what the affirmative's development plan actually is again this is specific to the plan text as the topicality is trying to critique that is the plan text specifically. When I find a word such as this development and I determine that my affirmative team my opponents in this debate are not actually developing anything in relation to the plan I need to first of all define for the judge what development means so your first step is to give a definition of the word or the term or the phrase within the resolution that you're going to say that the affirmative team is not leading I'm sorry yeah there we go secondly now is violation give the first step and outline topicality cases to tell your judge what the definition is the second step is to tell the judge how they don't meet the word is how your affirmative team does not meet your definition specifically again you're going to have to tell the judge look my definition of development for example is long term let's say that I have a definition that said development equals years and years of continual development if the affirmative plan was only to send let's say one mission to the moon and that was the end of it if this was the affirmative plan let's send out one package and see what happens and you think about your definition it says no no development means years and years of effort you're going to tell the judge step number one here's my definition of the word development step number two here is how and here is why the affirmative team is not topical in other words they are not resolutional they do not meet this term you tell the judge specifically what is the affirmative team doing affirmative team is sending one mission to the moon one space capsule to the moon whereas as I outlined in my definition my interpretation of that word judge this word development means that you need to have years and years of continual service once that's outlined from the judge they see the discrepancy in this debate they see where you're outlining the problem and why your affirmative is not topical the third and fourth step though are incredibly important because this is where the judge is going to lay in and determine why this matters because that's really what he or she will be asking themselves at this point sure you say it means development you know developing means continual they say it means one mission why do I care that third step is outlining a set of standards from the judge or you can think of it as the reason to care can anybody tell me some standards they've used or know of in terms of running topicality predictability predictability yes sir what does that mean that you imagine to this that you would know a way to I guess predict how they were going to define it and therefore you kind of see your prototype so back to that term of the definition of development if you expected it to be long term would you ever prepare yourself for a plan that was let's say a singular space module trip certainly not right if you are projecting that development means a certain thing and it means that long term action must be taken you would never consider it would explode your research burden you would have to go and find a plan that perhaps just spent maybe all two or three days on developing development wouldn't be substantial enough it would be outside of this resolution and it would be impossible for you to really cover that so what's another standard explain grounds for me because how they define the case they have more grounds than you do in the case right absolutely so the same notion again we talked about already with grounds of having the equity in this debate if your opponent explodes that research burden for you there's absolutely no way to be able to review that particular case what's another standard grammar grammar why and how is grammar important in a debate of top caliber so I think there was this case where the United States government should agree to more agreement with Mexico and the affirmative just added one agreement so the grammar was on the pass within the definition or within the resolution you'll also see the term and or does that mean you have to do both some people are going to have a definition that means it says yes you do other people of course love the definition that says no you don't but the point being is this is important in terms of the resolution and the way it's put out I've seen debate rounds as well for example where opponents have asked for a plan text and I see here a plan text written out fully and punctuation was missing in the debate we lost that debate because it means something is substantially different than the United States federal government and again I'll get into the nuance of that but it's important to know that grammar is without a doubt important and that it is it can without a doubt change what you're doing in the resolution plan if it isn't kept in check alright let's move on here so I'm making the argument now defining terms this is your format oh I forgot I'm sorry I got one more thing here we've got standards as our third and the last but not least we close out with the base in the top cali argument it's for voters to tell you what voters are and how they apply in the top cali argument this is what you tell the judge this is why you should vote for them so you need to tell the judge once you've got the standards for the base why in effect they need to vote for you you've given them what you think is important and now tell them specifically what are they going to vote on so for example you might tell them this is a a priori issue again I'll always tell the judge when you're telling them to vote for top cali that is an a priori issue which basically means look here first look here prior, look at any other argument as I mentioned at the beginning of this lecture you need to be topical and understand that we're make sure that the permeable is topical substantive component of the debate you can start off by saying hey judge, this tea is a priori for ground there's been a loss of ground and this debate on my side is a negative what's another voter there's no clash because there's no loss of ground absolutely no clash much like the standards they're quite similar you can tell the judge this is a voter for we have these debates for a reason to become more educated to affect change in the world and when your affirmative is outside of the debate when you come into this debate expecting a plan specific to the USFG is this topic here and they come in and say hey we should take blockbuster and I don't know maybe change it somehow there's no way you can actually rebut that with this ground and the ground on the standard I'm sorry, what if I break this ground on the both of us and the ground on the standard you use them both I'm not sure if I understand the question you said them twice yes, you said them twice, absolutely in effect when you're outlining the voters for the judge we usually keep them pretty short we keep them fashionably short because you've already done the explanation in effect you've already done the explanation of not lining the standards for that debate so in essence the reasons for the argument or the reasons that this argument has implications in the round is based on the standards and the voting issue at the end is just a summary of that you're basically telling the judge this is the voter for ground education, no clash predictability any of those terms that you use is basically a summary of that in the end what else do you have so far yes sir I'm having a little bit of difficulty understanding grounds as a standard alright so when we're playing a game I like to think of debate as a game strategically we're maneuvering pieces across this board but just like in any other game we both at the start of that game should have equity we should have equal opportunity equal ground thinking of it as a game we should have an equal chance in essence so while I'm not going to draw a chess board and of course a debate visually here think of it in terms of again a ball field when we allow the affirmative to talk about everything in the world that again is going to explode the research burden on the opposition side of this debate which is completely exploded there's no way you can actually that then provides them an endless, almost endless amount of topics that they can discuss for this debate that they can think of it like this and they can prepare for think of the prep work you do for the debate that after the debate should be equal to and she both had an equal opportunity to uncover equal arguments on that particular topic now when you go outside of that threshold of being this resolution the limitation of the debate when you say you know what, you don't have to be topical you can talk about rare earth minerals or energy and water in the moon but you can also talk about let's say US and Russian relations imagine a plant test and include something else in relation to energy minerals and water in the moon and a handful of Russia sense well we don't have any space anymore would you be prepared to talk about US Russian relations maybe they do not but if they were doing something outside of that resolution outside of that topic again you're taking that imaginary line in the sound and it's kind of sand that existed before the debate you're getting rid of that and you're giving them more arguments that they could make arguments that exist outside but in essence the affirmative then if they don't have to be topical has a lot more ground in this debate ground being arguments you can make cases you can make as compared to what you'd presume the negative or the opposition would have coming into the debate with the prep time they had beforehand does that make no more sense? other questions? concerns? okay let's continue moving on here yes sir just a quick definition interpretation you are giving your own redefinition or like your own redefinition correct you're not criticizing your definition that's correct that's under violation basically you talk first then affirmative absolutely the topicality argument is run will be the leader of opposition constructive or of course the one NC that's in fact when you run topicality this is an argument you should run right at the very top if you have two disadvantages and whatever else with your case counterplan before you even get to those a priori issue can be topicality knowing that we can't even really evaluate a disadvantage we can't evaluate a counterplan until we really know whether or not the affirmative is topical you want to start there first you outline your definition you don't tell the judge in that first component well look I think here's what's wrong with their definition you give it to them you give them your whether it's very dictionary perhaps it is an expert in political science who is defining something contextually any of those definitions will work in relation to your topics and then secondly once you're told you judge what you define development to mean you tell them how and you need to be specific but be specific in what it is the affirmative does not do what is it that the affirmative does or doesn't do that makes them topical or not topical thirdly then is standards but again as I mentioned these are your reasons to care as a judge you explain those in detail and then last and not least the voters are just where you just tell the judge in a word to this is a primary issue or fairness, education brown, whatever it is and then you write on to your disadvantage where in this do you specify which definition you are talking to which definition you're talking to does that make sense well you're not you mean the word how do you interpret it they interpret it this way that's a violation look they thought that development meant just simply doing one mission whereas my definition clearly articulates that we must be there for the long haul for the duration on that most people also name their topicality whatever they're attacking the definition this topicality development and then they go on and so if you have political disadvantage whatever it might be and then basically your voters you're literally just like restating your standards of why the judges prefer to end like you said that's exactly correct because restating them in a word or two that's all you need to do with voters so I mentioned up here real quick how the critic will see it and I'm not going to hang on this too long we haven't gotten to answering T yet as you see here each critic will see topicality differently there are going to be debate rounds where you feel you've won you've proven your side of the debate in terms of what development means and you've clearly outlined why the affirmative isn't developing the boon and you're going to say look I deserve that round well as you see here each critic is going to see it differently and there is no one correct answer some judges will look at topicality and say look if it's reasonable if it's within a reasonable interpretation of what I thought the framers intended that's fine where some will be more specific and nuanced to looking at again like a grammar topicality where you're looking at periods and dotted lines and crossing p's so everyone will see it differently and that's why it's important to be able to explain how your opponent isn't topical be able to articulate that there is abuse in this round okay so note the terms which you'll be challenged on this is getting into answering topicality as I mentioned at the top here the resolution of the board outlines every term that the affirmative has to meet terms such as increase what does it mean to increase something terms such as development we all have different definitions or interpretations of what it means to develop something and or etc etc look at all these terms of the resolution and know and think about both sides of them have responses so when you're of course running on the affirmative you know how to answer that when you're in opposition you know how to adequately fight your opponent as well let's see here in addition no reader arguments it gets pretty sloppy by the end of the debate a topicality that doesn't have clearly numbered arguments really any case for that so for example when you are rebutting let's say a standard line by line much like you see a number of these four components of the topicality show here if I was going to get into standards and I wanted to rebut their standard of education perhaps I thought that this was actually a very educational round and I wanted to point out why naturally when you're answering T tell the judge where you are on your flow sheet say listen judge on the topicality getting down line by line you go through the definition you get your counter definition first of all you tell the judge how you are not violating the term development of course through the standards and voters if you want but in a number of those arguments and tell us here's the first reason why I feel my interpretation of topicality or of this development is educational here's the second reason why or similarly just rebutting them one by one remember those all the way out so that in the end the judge can look at each one of those and say alright and they can make a determination on how they feel about that and then and only then we'll get down to the notion of voters and say well okay I have to pull the trigger I have to go for the against the affirmative in this round so answering T as the affirmative the first thing you need to do is give your counter definition in partly you'll give a definition in the prime minister constructive we already know that so we have Lincoln Douglas in partly the prime minister constructive will give their own definition to start off that debate but in Lincoln Douglas you're going to have the definition from the affirmative team come out in its second speech in the second constructive you need to give a counter death as the affirmative outline secondly how your interpretation of this of this word like development is preferable and then secondly why your definition does not violate your own excuse me why your definition of development does not violate that term that you got on the top does that make sense so you think development means long term and your plan clearly is long term because you're going to be in the moon for maybe 25 years and that as the outline does not violate what I determined development to mean how your definition perhaps increases education you can talk secondly about how it does not decrease education shown in number one and it doesn't decrease number two the areas and examples of where a term like this actually increases the education that comes from this round etc etc questions on answering so far about two minutes yes so you're affirmative you're responding you again you're restating your definition basically saying because we finally this as this way we're not in violation that's correct exactly yeah when you outline that your definition is long term and that this definition comes from a reputable source in other words the term typically think about the term like in field contextually speaking secondly and you tell the judge look ergo I did not violate I am not non-topical because this is all the means so all these standards that the outline for you one two and three all the fairness issues they brought up in this debate they no longer apply tell the judge that why you are not unfair and because this doesn't apply then therefore you have nothing to vote on and no reason to go accept exactly that's exactly it and extend also don't just say look I'm not that that's a defensive argument I'm not being unfair explain to them particularly how you are how your term actually provides more again allows for a better debate to occur any other questions about top your concerns alright everybody thanks for coming on this morning I will see you a little bit later on this afternoon good luck for the rest of the day with these debates bye


Brian Welcome folks. This is Tom O'Brien of TFNN. We have five days a week. We go seven hours a day We go 24 hours a day in the internet at tfnn.com Always remember folks, whatever you think about you bring about whatever you focus on grows Hope everyone's having a great day safe day making a great night folks Be impeccable with your words seek to know the truth When you hear an opinion and believe it you make an agreement because part of your belief system The only thing that can break this agreement is to make a new one based on the truth Only the truth is the power to set you free Likewise, let's take a look at it out here. We have the now industrials up 16 as a cup 72 s and p's up 9 Gold car and tractor $2.20 trade that's 1786 an ounce We have silver down four cents $22.44 an ounce late sweet crude up 37 cents 72 dollars 42 cents a barrel notes and bonds the 10-year trade down four ticks right now at 130 oh six The 30 off a full point plus six ticks at 160 23 Now we have the 10 years yielding 1.51 right now and king dollar folks king dollars down 471 ticks trading at 95 9 95 8 97 euros 113 Yen is at 113 and a half and the British pound is at 132 to 1 us dollar iPhone numbers 877 9276 648 if it's called folks one notes going on in y'all world and the world of the s and p's Let's take a look at them. What do you have? Well, we're going to go after these highs folks and we have a contraction of volume Setting up I guess it looks like it's setting up for friday, man. I mean we're already at wednesday You know you're up 78 cents in the the spy you've got a monster contraction of volume which would make It would make sense the market takes a rest anyway because of the two days you had my take is this is a counter trend Bear bounce in a market that wants lower price in a market that bottoming wants to come down to consolidate and come into this October 4th low so the october 4th low on the spies 426 or a 468 I suspect first though, guess what wants to go test those highs where at 468 95 Yesterday the spy got into the lows of the high you're into it again Bottom line once you once you get into it just it hasn't dug excuse me. It hasn't dug deep into it yet Okay, it's only into it by a buck 55 But you know the the bar itself is uh, let's see so the bars The bars only four bucks So once you're buck 55 you go to the top of that bar And the x100 the three cues say the same type of setup inside the three cues The difference with the three cues. I don't think it's going to hit the highs The three cues probably will go for the lows of the highs, which is that 400 and What is that 408? No Well, oh, that's interesting man just 399 19 And we hit 399 35 today. Okay This will be interesting to see what the cues do because so the cues Got into the lows of the high And yeah, there's not really no rejection. We haven't done anything in the cues. It's been sideways all day Outside of the fact that the contraction of volume is absolutely huge. There's there's no doubt, you know Right now what we've done is 31 million chairs. We're just doing 40 45 million. Maybe we did 56 yesterday Which which is light volume in a monster way the highs at 61, which is light volume Gold gold contract building cars for higher price gold out here Uh sideways move out here today. You went to have a low of 1780 high of 1794. You're trading out at 1786 You've done uh, you're up 2020 cents. You've done just over 100 000 contracts You know, I suspect we're gonna not only go higher, but it wants to go after The 1825 area, which is The top of the consolidation that I suspect that's in also and good old king gala.  So that's uh, you know, but the 360 380 Points from where we are right now I suspect that will get hit But what i'm thinking is that this thing is actually going to go back to its breakout area And we'll see how that hangs out Some of the higher volume equities out here. Let's take a look at them inside this market. So You have apple apple. Look at apple apples apples leading the charge, man You get apple up $3 and 15 cents. You got carnival up a buck. We got amc up a buck 47 uh, Norwegian cruises up a buck 62 Stitch fix getting smoked. That's down 5 66. That's down 20 percent Snap is up 350 Inside the dial industrials the strength versus the weakness inside the dial Putting points into the dial dial out here. You get apple putting 20 positive points to united's health 18 disney 16 Taking away from it home depot minus 39 Honeywell minus 13 and microsoft minus 13 We go take a look at the Ndx 100 the strength versus the weakness inside the ndx docusymes up 10 percent peloton's up 9.8 percent Biogen is up 3.4 taking away from it nxpi nxpi down four and a half percent You get craft highs off 3.3 You got trip calm down 2.4 and you get cost go down 2.4 So let's go to cost go and take a look at cost go. I believe cost goes coming out with the numbers after the close Uh, no they're coming out with their numbers after the close tomorrow december 9th So cost go the lows 307 the highs 5 60 you're trading 5 28 you have They're going to be looking to take 49 billion to the top line 262 to the bottom line They're still growing by look at that they're growing by 4 in the world. That's that's pretty cool, man That is no doubt cool Um, we take a look at cost go and you know this someone it's like almost like someone knows something This is going to be an abc structure of down This is going to be dangerous actually because you made a high out here with uh 1.2 million shares you come off the high with 2.2 You accelerate further down with 1.3 And you're doing 550 today And you went to a higher high and gave it up on price. Yeah, this looks like a much lower price So this is going to be interesting to see how this baby actually shakes out because of the fact That the way that this is trading, you know, I mean, you know in six months that's going from uh, what is that? Oh my god, that's three in six months. It went up 180 points went from 380 to 560 Let's come off slightly bottom line. We'll see where this baby's going to shake out, but uh, I need this to say Stitch fix they they come out with numbers and those numbers just weren't there stay right there folks who come right back We had a man joe from boston.