My man right here in the blue jacket. You see how hungry he is? Are you hungry? Okay, speak into the mic. Yes, let's go. Okay, that's that's the way I want you to speak. Yeah, are you ready? Yep, let's do it. Okay, I sent an accredited application on a 2018 Ford Edge. You feel me? Yep. Cool. I like the vehicle. You call me, show it to your manager. He says, get him in. He's approved. Does that sound about right guys? Get him in. He's approved. Okay, call me. Hey, how can I speak to Andy? Yeah, what's going on, bud? Hey, what's up, Andy? Just wanted to let you know that we got a pre-approval on your loan and we are ready for you to come down. Are you available today? Yeah, hey man, number one, thank you so much. I really appreciate that. So what's my payment going to be?  The payment is very important, I'm assuming. Just so you'll know what my store does, we do something a little bit different. I'm gonna kind of twist it to that. We do something a little bit different. What we do is we use, what we do is we use, what we use is called market-based pricing. So what that means is that we actually have...   Slow down. Remember how I just got done saying a minute ago, listen to me. You're ready to overcome something, your words mean nothing if it doesn't match what I need. Does that make sense? Okay, what's the objection? What the payment is going to be? So why are you talking about price? What? Why am I talking about price instead of payment? Well, I asked you what's my payment going to be and then you started talking about we use tools and we use what's called market-based pricing. It's not a price. Now a matter of fact, if anything, you've just made me wonder what's the price going to be also, right? Okay, now listen to me.  Do you want to gather yourself? No, I'm okay. Okay, can you handle this? Yes. He's a lion. Let's go. Let's go. You know. Okay, now listen to me. Hey, guys, if you want to understand this, that guy right there, he trusts me to grow him, okay? Yes. So he has respect for this conversation we're having.   Now since the last time I've seen him, he should be ready for this. This is easy. This is nothing for him. So now I need you to bury it, put it to bed, you got caught off guard and I'm going to give you a chance to reset. Hey, call me, call me, let me know I'm approved or let me know you got a way to go.  We'll go through this. We'll take a quick break.  Ready? Go. Let's go. Andy, good news. We got you pre-approved on the car that you like. When can you come in? Well, number one, hey, thank you so much. What is my payment going to be? I'm so glad you asked that. That's a great question. Your payment is going to be... Okay, hold on. Twins, who's responsible for him? There we go. All right, listen, I'm going to talk to you in a minute after Ian gets done having a talk with you. Okay? Okay, hold on. I'm going to let him go and then let Errol. Ready? I'm going to let you go. Errol was my first client that I trained. How are you going to just throw Errol out there like that? Hey, hold on. No, no, listen, listen, here's what we're going to do. It's Errol. We're from Denver. That's how we speak today. Hey, can you bury this? Yes. Okay, you see this little calm storm right here? Like, he looks like a tornado, F6 that's about to hit. It's quiet. Nobody knows what's going on. And then, it's like everything's flattened. That's you. Okay? Ready? Hey, call me. Let me know that I'm approved. Let me know that you got a way to go. Whatever. Ready? Go. Hey, Andy, it's Roger over at Vans. I got a way to go. When can you get in? Hey, thank you so much. Really appreciate you. By the way, what's my payment going to be? Hey, I'm so glad you asked that. My license finance department has a very strict budgeting program to ensure that you don't ever have a payment that's too high. In fact, 95% of my clients, Andy, who have had the same concern as you in the past, left with a much lower payment than they were expecting. So I'm glad you asked that. I know you don't have to have that concern. What time can you make it in tonight? Hey. Hey, Errol, come here. Hey, Andy, he's been training with me for eight months straight. Eight months. Hey, listen, hold on. I want to get there. Luis knows it too. Let's do this. Let's see. Luis needed that. Good, great, unstoppable. Am I right? Okay, let's see if Errol can handle that better. Cool. Listen to me. It's not always about what you say. It's also about how you say it. Am I right? Is buying a car exciting? Okay, my man got deadly with the words, but is there another level of charisma we could have put on that? Cool. Let's see if Errol can bring that out and send us into our break. You ready? All right, Errol, call me and let me know you got a way to go. Wait, you got to speak into it. I know that we got a big guy here with the mic down like that. There we go. Okay, here we go. Ready go. Hey, Andy, we got to pre-approven that vehicle that you're looking at. When can you make it in? Cool. Hey, I really appreciate you. By the way, what's my payment going to be?  Thank you so much. I just want to let you know we have a licensed finance department phenomenal. They use a strict budgeting program to ensure you never have to worry about your payment being too high. In fact, 95% of my customers, 95% of them who've had that same concern in the past have left with a much lower payment than they were expecting. So I'm so glad you asked that. Getting to know you here on the phone, you never have to worry about that. Not only do we go beyond that, we also highest in all the critical areas that are important to you and your family. When can you make it in? Good job. Hey, now listen. Hey, guys, I'm sorry, we get excited about this. You know what I like? You know what? There's nothing. I want you to think about something. There's nothing like being around people who want to win. There's nothing like it. I know some of you right now, you're trying to find that state because you say, well, this isn't the way we do things where I'm from. Whoa, you got it messed up, man. Do people want to be in a good mood to say yes? Yeah. Do they want to have a good attitude? Yes. Do you think with all this COVID that's happened out here that there's a lot of people running around with negative attitudes and negative mindsets can ask you a question. When they met you on the phone or in person, did they expect to find a person who made their life better? Who made them fired up to want to buy a car? That's the way they should feel. They didn't expect to find it, but they did and they found it with you. This is an art. It's like professional football players getting paid hundreds of millions of dollars to play. They are the best in the freaking world. I'm going to explain this. When you're dealing with the elite centimeters when energy on words will win energy on words. I want you to understand this.  Okay. What do people do? They move when they're at peace. What also is your job to make people agree with you? You got to get people to agree. Look at the word track here. Just flip it on and I want you to understand this, right? Every single person when they said, what's my payment going to be? You'll notice. We didn't say, I can't give you that. I don't know that. Come in and we'll give it to you when you get here. No, man, you're turning me off. Okay. What do we say? The first thing is, I'm so glad you asked that. Okay. Everybody listen to me. Customer asks you something. They have a concern. When you say and repeat back to them. Hey, Mr. Customer number one. I'm so glad you asked that. And you do that and they can feel that in your voice that you are not at all uncertain about this area. They feel certain with you. They know they've got the right person and they know they're going to get the right deal. And if you listen to what Earl said, he said, Hey, I'm so glad you asked that. Our license finance department uses a very strict budgeting system that ensures that look, you don't ever have to worry about your payment being too high. As a matter of fact, he said 95% of my customers 95% that had the same concern as you right now in the past actually left with the much lower payment than they were expecting. So, getting to know you here on the phone. We're phenomenal in that area. You don't have to have those concerns. What time can you make it in tonight or tomorrow morning? And by the way, we're also going to treat you with world-class customer service. We're phenomenal in every area of the industry. So, I'm great at that part. What color is your vehicle? That way, I know what you when you get here. What would you like to drink? You just start rolling right into that appointment. There's no concern. Nobody even feels like you're hiding something. Have you guys ever felt a salesman hide something on you? And the crazy is you can tell they're hiding it. Is there anything that pisses you off more than that?


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And don't forget Merida. Merida enriched hot dog and hamburger rolls. We're not just a summertime thing. With his faithful Indian companion Toto, the daring and resourceful mask writer of the plains, led the fight for law and order in the early western United States. Nowhere in the pages of history can one find a greater champion of justice. Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear. From out of the past come the thundering hoofbeats of the great horse Silver. The lone ranger rides again. Come on, let's go because I'm still there. On a mid-summer evening in 1862, three men met in the office of the Territorial Land Company in Middleton. A settlement on the Missouri River near the boundary of Iowa and Dakota Territory. One of the trio was Lake Sanford, a shrewd ruthless speculator who operated the land company. His equally ruthless companions were Cap Haley, a boatmaker, and Tim Torrance, a rancher. The land speculator said, Boys, I just had word that the new railroad's not gone through here as we figured. Not gone? Why, that means we're stuck with all the land we bought out. Where are the tracks to run? Through the manned and Indian village in the Deepwater area. Ten miles from here. That's your auntie. What about the loss we'll take? You got any ideas, Leif? Yeah, Cap. I have ideas. I'll let him. Now if the manned and Indians leave the Deepwater area, the government will open that land for homesteading. We'll hire them to make homestead claims. They'll get titles to the land and then turn it over to ours. Can that be done? It can be worked by a man who knows the tricks. And I'm that man. By the time the railroad's built, we'll own all the land in the Deepwater area. And it'll be worth plenty. Leif! It'll cost money to hire the man you spoke of. We've already put a lot into your real estate deal. That's the point, Tim. If we don't do this, we'll lose all the money we put in. This is the only way we can come out ahead. Now what we make on our land and land, we'll mourn offset whether we spent buying up the land around here. Sounds like a good deal, but Leif, what makes you think the Indians will clear out? They always do when the fastest strikes one of their villages. Well, all we gotta do is burn down the Mandan village and do it in such a way that the Sioux will be blamed. Just the three of us? Oh, we'll need help. But a dozen men should be plenty. We disguise ourselves as Sioux Indians and make a sneak attack at midnight with fire arrows so we can get away before the Mandans realize what happens. Fire arrows. It's a good idea. The Mandan house is nothing but a light framework of poles covered by dry bark. Those places will burn like kidneys. Yes. My houses are close together. If a few fires are started, the whole village will burn. As I said, we'll dress like Sioux and let the Mandans get a quick look at me right away. Land sounds good, Leif. I'll get my ranch hands to help. They can be trusted. And I know some river routes about to do almost anything for a few dollars. Then wind them up, Captain. What about this guy? It'll be easier to pick up buckskins and feathers and put on war paint, but we'll need bows and arrows. I can make those in my boat shop. Good. When will we make the raid? It'll take a few days to get ready. Let's see. Let's plant it for Saturday night. All right. On the following Saturday night, the lone ranger and tattle rode toward the Mandan village to visit their old friend, Chief Cornflower. As they approached the crest of a hill, they saw a red glow in her distant shouts and cries. Hotos, something's going on in the village. It looked like fire. Come on, Tiller. It looks terrible. Burging their horses to greater speed, a masked man with Indian companions soon reached the hilltop overlooking the village. They saw fire arrows flying through the air, and many of the Mandan houses were inflamed. Come on, Tiller. A moment later, as he rode downhill, the lone ranger shouted, Attackers are running away. Open fire on them. The raiders made no attempt to return the gunfire. Bullets struck one man on the shoulder and another in the arm, as the terrorists, with backward glances, burned their horses and fled. Come right away, King Maccabi. Let them go. Right in. Come on, Tiller. As Calvin Silver came to a halt within 50 yards of the nearest burning cabin, the lone ranger said, Hotos, with a bright moon, I'm sure you'll be able to see the trail of those men. That's right, King Maccabi. I'd like to know where they go. Ride past the village and follow the trail, but stay far enough back so no one will not know they're being followed. Meet Sammy. Easy, Tiller. Meanwhile, I'll find out what happened to the Mandans. You leave Tiller here? Yes. It's far enough back so you'll not be bothered by smoking sparks if the wind changes. Come back when you've learned about the attackers. If I'm not here, wait for me. Me too. Get them up. Come. As he walked ahead, the lone ranger saw that none of the pole and bark lodges of the Indians could be saved. Burning like tinder, many had already been reduced to piles of glowing embers. The angry Mandan tribesmen and their families stood in small groups and, apart from these, Chief Cornflatter stood near the Blazing Council House. He gave the masked man a sign of recognition and said, Good friend, me glad you come. Chief Cornflatter, I'm glad to see that you're alive. Oh, me alive, but village gone. Are many of your people hurt? Many know of only one. Medicine man, take care of him. Him hurt by error, but not much. That's good. I see you, Tonto, right downhill. Shoot plenty fast. Drive off, bad Indian. Me, thank you. You know why you were attacked? Not know. Maybe enemy wants horses. But they didn't take your horses. Not have chance. You come too quick. Me glad horses left. They're needed for move. Move? That right? In morning, we leave here by new place for village. You can't abandon your crops. Must leave. Bad Indian make raid. Go away. Them come back. Maybe many more bad Indian comes. Maybe steal horses.  We go. We go for that happen. The bad Indians will be captured and punished. They'll not be able to attack again. Oh, friends speak good words. But we not take chance. We move. Here come medicine man. He's bringing you an arrow. No, no, no, no. No, no, no, no. Him say this arrow from raiders it one that wound Indian. May I see it? Scorched from fire. This is not a Sue arrow.  You see that? Furthermore, the shaft is made of cypress wood. Me not know cypress wood. It's used for boat building. Chief corn platter, are you sure the attackers were Sue Indians? Maybe not sure. Then wear clothes, war paint like Sue Indian. But me hear men shout when raid begins. Then shout white man words. In the excitement of a raid, no Indian would shot them English. You think white men make attack? Yes, I think so. We never heard white men why them attack. I don't know unless they want to drive you away from the deep water area. You may have something the white men want. Now has gold or any other precious mineral been found on your land? Oh, not know of any. Have you seen any white men examining your land? Only men who come from railroad. They measure land, drive plenty stick in ground. Railroad surveyors. Ah, them not look for gold. Them here only to mark where track go. Did they tell you the railroad would go through here? Oh, them say that. And that's the answer. Corn planner, you know of any one in this part of the country who builds boats? Me know man named Haley. He make boat in shop on river bank. Where? Ten miles from here in Middleton. This arrow may have come from his shop. You think raiders go to Middleton? They rode toward there. Then me take men of tribe. Go there, get revenge. Oh, no, no. You must not do that. Them come here, burn houses? Because of that, the law is on your side. The law will be against you if you attack the white man's village. I'll go to Middleton alone and try to get through if the raiders came from there. Silly! Hey, boy! Come here, silly! Me know a way to reach town ahead of raiders. How? We're in a straight line across Cornfield to Canyon. But how can I cross to Canyon? We make bridge so we plant corn on other side of Canyon. Good. I'll see you later.  Come on, silly! As Chief Cornplanner watched his masked friend right away, he muttered, Him go to danger, tell me stay here. But me not promise obey, that men kill masked friends. The man in chief made a sudden decision. Planting the cypress arrow in his fist. He waved it overhead and shot it. I know that way no Kiko. The chief hurriedly selected men who owned horses and good rifles. Too nearly a score of brave. The Cornplanner at their head rolled in a column toward the canyon bridge. We'll continue our lone ranger adventure in just a moment. 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The three leaders conferred, while Lace wounded Arm and the shoulder wound of another man were being bandaged. The bandage is too tight, Lace. It's all right, Cap. Did you get a good look at those two men who fired at us? I just got a quick look, but it seemed to me one of them was an engineer. That's what I thought. It looked to me like the other man who wore a mask. Did you notice him, Tim? Yeah. It looked to me like he was me. I wonder who there was no brazier. They must be friends with the Mandans. That's what I've been thinking. If they are friends with the Mandans, they may try to follow us. But if anyone fails, there's no middle ground. We're taking no chances. Cap, you and Tim hide in the brush alongside the trail. If the mask man of Indian come along, capture him. We'll ride on slow, so you'll have no trouble catching up to us. Come on, boys. Get him. Riding into the thicket that bordered the moonlit trail, Cap and Tim sapped silently in their saddles until the sound of approaching hoofbeats reached their ears. As Tonto drew a breast of the hidden men, Tim the rancher stood in his stirrups and cast a loop of his lariat over the tops of the bushes. It fell over the Indian shoulder. I got him. The rope was drawn tight, and Tonto's arms were pinned to his sides. Then, Haley, riding from behind the bushes, shouted, Keep the rope tight. You'll injure your cover, not struggling around shoes. Hold, hold, hold, hold. A short time later, Tim and Cap, with Tonto as their prisoner, overtook Leif and the other raiders. Leif calls... Leave him for his own. Oh, oh, no. What are you doing? We got the engine, Leif, but he won't answer a question. He won't say a word about the mask man. Never mind, Cap. We'll take him to your shop. And then what? After we get rid of these discolors, we'll persuade him to tell us everything we want to know. That's your voice. Come on, get up there. While the raiders were still on their way to Middleton, the lone ranger, having traveled by a shorter route, rode into a clump of willows on the river bank near Cap Haley's boat shop.  Dismounting, he left Silver in the thicket and hurried forward to the boatmaker's shop. At the side door, he pried off the hassle of the padlock. He left the door open for a quick escape. Moonlight, sliding through the windows, revealed a partly finished skiff and a supply of cypress lumber. On a workbench, the lone ranger found a supply of arrow feathers, scrap metal from which arrow heads had been cut, and one broken arrow with oily oakum tied to the head. Fire arrow. Meanwhile, the raiders, to avoid being seen in their Indian disguises by townspeople, broke north of Middleton to the river. There, they turned and followed the river bank. As they passed the willow thicket where Silver had been left, the stallions, sensing the nearness of danger, tried to warn the lone ranger. The raiders quickly found Silver and recognized him as the horse of the lone ranger. Then Cap noticed the door of the boat shop standing open and said, That man must be inside my shop right now. Alright, bring the Indian. Let's go the rest of the way on for a bit. We'll close in on the shop and call on the masked man to surrender. He'll do it. If what I've heard is true, he'll do a lot to help his Indian pile. And not only surrender, he'll talk. Talk? Yes. I would have found out if he's tipped off the law or anyone else about it. Can't let him and the Indian stay alive. Well, not gone, eh?  Meanwhile, the lone ranger had heard Silver's whinny and looked through a window. He saw the gang halt near the willow thicket and was still watching when the outlaws approached the shop on foot. In the black moonlight, he recognized Toto and saw that his friend was a captive. Then Leif shot it. You and the shop. We've got your trap. And we've got your Indian pile. Toto.  The lone ranger knew that the outlaw leader meant what he said. Make it fast. We know you're in there.  Moving to the open door, the masked man raised his hands and called. I'll do as you say. Keep your hands high and don't try to trick. My hands are up. Watch him, boys. Keep your guns on him. Toto, have they hurt you? No, Kimosabe.  Hold it, we see. You're close enough.  You're playing a dangerous game. Lock your gun belt. You men may hang for burning an Indian village. Eh. How can anyone prove we've won this? Easily. Aside from the clothes and war paint you're wearing, there's evidence inside the boat shop to show where the fire arrows were made. Moreover, your horse has left a trail between here and the inmandan village. It won't take long to get rid of the evidence. Now take off that mask and let's see your face. If you want the mask removed, step forward and take it off. I told you to take it off. Are you going to shoot me if I refuse? I doubt it. People in town would hear the shot and come here on the run. You'd have a hard time expending your buck's skins and war paint. Take off that mask or I'll run this night to Tuddu's back. Me not afraid to die. Hey, what are you doing? Hey, Tuddu. Tuddu, it's warm weather. Led by their chiefs, the mandan warriors rushed from their places of concealment. They came from behind rocks and trees, from behind the boat shop and below the river bank. As they closed in, they fired loads. Several of the raiders dropped with bullets in their legs. While the lone ranger taking advantage of the diversion, leap past Tuddu and seize Lake Sanford. Not a chance. Get that knife. I dropped it. Now I'll drop you. The mandans, closing in for hand-to-hand combat, outnumbered the raiders who soon surrendered. After the fight ended with the Indians victorious, the raiders were tied hand and foot and the wounded were given first aid. The work was nearly completed when the sheriff and a number of other men from town arrived to investigate the shooting. What's going on here? Corn planter, what are you doing here? You were massacred. Oh, him good friend. I'll explain, sheriff. These men disguised as Indians burned the mandan village. They went there with fire on them. The lone ranger quickly told what had happened and the sheriff had only to look at the white men in war-painted buckskins and the expressions on their faces to know that the masked man spoke the truth. And for further proof, sheriff, look in Cap Haley's bull shop. That's where the arrows were made. Cap Haley? And Tim and Lacey? Well, I'm downright surprised. You ornery po-clash. No, I can't. It was all Lacey's idea. He stopped us into the deal. If it hadn't been for him... You and Tim were equal parties. Used to to make as much as I did. That was your idea. How that'll do. Corn planter, you and your men shouldn't be here. Me bring men cause me think masked friends in danger. They were fighting on your side. Well, they better get back to their own place now. I've got men enough to take the prisoners to town. She's corn planter. You need to have no fear that these enemies will return. That's right. We stay in Deepwater Village. Build new houses, harvest crops. You must not be... He's silver. All right, Tonto. We're ready to leave. Boys, start moving the prisoners to town. We'll see you corn planter when your village is rebuilt. Oh, that's good. I didn't get around to questioning that masked man. What part did he have in this deal? Him, good friend of man and good friend of white people. Him, lone ranger. I'd like to read you something. The label on a loaf of Merida Old-Fashioned Enriched White Bread. 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I'm farting The room which included a handful of journalists as well as Kennedy's campaign manager former representative Dennis Kucinich was stunned Seemingly unsure about whether Deckard was farting at him guest personally or at the Or at the very notion of global warming the candidate maintained a steady composure in the face of the crisis I mean if you can keep your composure in the face of crisis like that Where somebody is farting at someone very loudly and yelling I'm farting I don't know if he said it like that, but that's how I imagine it You know, I do have to admit anyways that you know if you can hold your composure during that You are definitely capable of being the commander-in-chief of the United States now There's a lot to say about this story, but my first reaction. I think obviously is What the fuck and I just love how the article framed it as well We don't know if Deckard was farting At the person he was debating or if he was farting at the notion of global warming in general I Would kill for a video or even audio, but I've got to ask them listen when he did fart Did he like turn because then I think it's logical to deduce that he was directing the gas at his debate opponent But if he just farted then I think that he's more farting on this notion of climate change Yeah, now after the fart temporarily derailed the entire event it reportedly became a screaming match once again So the fart kind of broke up the monotony there and then they just went back to yelling at each other now Deckard did apologize for farting Saying quote I apologize for using my flatulence as a medium of public commentary in your presence.   That's That's how bad it is I'm not gonna be able to get over the fart people. So just just deal with it So first of all nobody is being controlled by climate change coverage I don't know what he's even referring to there large multinational corporations are continuing to destroy our planet for short-term profits and governments are letting them so Who's controlling who if anyone's doing the control? It's the large motion at multinational corporations who are buying off the governments and allowing them to continue to do this Furthermore the fear is valid, right? I mean he says that fear is being used to control us I don't see evidence of that, but the fear is valid. We are feeling fear and dread because we're facing an existential crisis I think that is just a human and normal response to Something that none of us can really control this is something that governments have to agree to do and they have not therefore I think the fear and the depression that this causes That doesn't make us unreasonable. It makes you unreasonable for not being fearful of the future I mean, it's a comment that is so ludicrous that it is indistinguishable from satire It's some don't look up shit, right? But then in the next sentence he contends that free markets are the solution when No Capitalism is what got us here. Just 100 corporations are responsible for 71 percent of global co2 emissions according to a 2017 report So to say that free markets are going to be the solution Don't you think that they would have already provided us with a solution given the gravity of the situation? But don't worry because he's going to contradict himself in the very next sentence and make that point for me by saying Polluters make themselves rich by making the public pay for the damage. Okay, so maybe the free market isn't the best solution Then is that what you're telling me? Then he finally says You show me a polluter. I'll show you a fat cat using political clout to escape the discipline of the free market Okay, so what exactly is the conclusion then is The free market bad should governments enforce discipline through regulations It almost seems like he's trying to take a both sides approach to climate change And he's being unclear because he wants to straddle the fence But even though he's trying to pay lip service to both sides and have it both ways This just comes off as incoherent babble to me, right? But this is why climate deniers and conspiracy theorists are attracted to him, right? Because he has plausible deniability in both ways, you know If you want to believe that he isn't a climate denier Well, he's an environmental lawyer and he's acknowledged the reality of anthropogenic climate change But on the opposite side of the same coin people who are climate deniers have said oh well He's using fear and that's true. You know, this whole climate hoax is about fear now We just we have to point this out, right? These are just a couple of headlines from the last week drought and extreme heat burn through farmers margin for error And it's only July recent rains have so far spared growers from the worst But harsh conditions fueled by climate change are still taxing irrigation systems and threatening crop yields in bread basket states Here's another one climate change safe havens can still get hit hard Vermont's flooding is a reminder two months of rain fell in two days in Vermont and left some towns under water Here's another one extreme heat wave continues in Houston Scientists are already warning that 2023 could be the hottest year on record and finally here's another one floods fires and deadly heat Are the alarm bells of a planet on the brink and I just want to pause right there to put things in a perspective Because we're just looking at a couple of headlines from the United States but if you zoom out and you really see how climate change is affecting people around the world it is Utterly overwhelming, right? It is Reasonable to see these headlines see what's happening how it's already affecting us and think about the future and how much worse It's gonna get but I want to dive into that Washington Post article because I think it gives us a good sense as to how fucked We are when it comes to climate change quote the world is hotter than it's been in thousands of years And it's as if every alarm bell on earth were ringing the warnings are echoing through the drenched mountains of Vermont Where two months of rain just fell in only two days India and Japan were deluged by extreme flooding They're blurring from the scorching streets of Texas, Florida, Spain and China with a severe heat wave also building in Phoenix and the Southwest in coming days They're burbling up from the oceans where temperatures have surged to levels considered beyond extreme and they're showing up in Unprecedented still burning wildfires in Canada that have sent plumes of dangerous smoke into the United States Scientists say that there is no question that this cacophony was caused by climate change or that it will continue to intensify as the planet warms So basically all of the planets alarms are going off and lawmakers around the globe are basically plugging their ears and pretending like It's not happening even though the writing is on the wall now if that doesn't strike fear in your heart Then nothing will I'd argue that you're the one who's weird for not being Afraid of what's to come when the writing is very clearly on the wall for our species now anyone telling you to not believe your lying eyes despite all this evidence and Anyone who's calling this a hoax or dog whistling to climate deniers? I genuinely believe that they are complicit in the demise of our species and that includes you RFK Jr And yes, I did turn a video about a fart into a video about climate change I mean you got me. How am I going to get you to eat your vegetables, right? But while we're on this subject of RFK, I do think that it's worth exploring Other areas where this individual has been peddling dangerous Alex Jones level misinformation for years And climate change is going to be one of the main ones that has the broadest implications along with Anti-vaxxers right because he has a very large platform and he has lots of influence But when it comes to other more fringe ideas that he's espousing I don't think that it's uncharitable to say that his misinformation mirrors that of Alex Jones Because let's just recall what Alex Jones said in this famous meme and then I'll show you what RFK said as well And I think that you'll be able to easily spot the similarities So that's a meme right it's funny it's Alex Jones nobody takes him seriously right but let's listen to how similar RFK juniors claims are courtesy of CNN and Keep in mind that this is somebody who is not widely regarded as a crazy person or You know somebody who lies and spreads misinformation even if a lot of people acknowledge that this is somebody with a lot of legitimacy So let's listen. He has suggested that man made chemicals found in the water could be making children gay or transgender He's also suggested a conspiracy that these same chemicals could be responsible for making boys more feminine and girls More masculine now experts that we spoke to strongly Pushed back on these claims take a listen to just a couple of those comments from Kennedy There's atrazine throughout our water supply atrazine by the way If you in a lab put atrazine in a tank full of frogs It will chemically castrate and force forcibly Feminize every frog in there. We're seeing these anomalies which are no longer anomalies But in sexual development in boys and girls, but particularly girls getting you know Nowadays commonplace for nine and ten year olds to get their periods Now we talked to experts and they told us that this was basically comparing apples to oranges Look where humans frogs are amphibians for humans sex is determined at the moment of conception for frogs They can be determined by a number of things including environmental factors So we posed this question to the Kennedy campaign How does he respond to what the experts told us about what he said and here's what they told us a spokesperson for Kennedy said he is merely Suggesting that given copious research on the effects on other vertebrates this possibly deserves further research Yeah, so what he's saying there is indistinguishable from Alex Jones But yet Alex Jones gets made fun of for saying that whereas RFK junior gets platformed by people like Jordan Peterson and others So it's more dangerous when people with legitimacy say these things spread these Conspiracies because more people are likely to believe it and the reason why these types of conspiracy theories are so compelling to normal people is Because thinking about what's in our water and our food being concerned about that is a very rational human thing We're all concerned about that right furthermore a lot of these conspiracy theories They are derived from a kernel of truth, right? So if somebody asserts something and they say it confidently and you personally don't know the particulars And you're not able to interpret this very technical scientific study It's very easy to get duped by what these people are saying Now I want to show you what I mean by this and kind of tell you why I just demonstrate how these types of conspiracy theories are Formed so let's go to political fact So in response to Kennedy saying that atrazine in water is turning kids trans political fact Obviously finds that statement false, but I want to show you how he arrived at this conclusion So let's look at these bullet points here So it starts on the bottom here with the kernel of truth a 2010 UC Berkeley study found that some frogs lost fertility and Grew ovaries when they were exposed to atrazine But then they also claim that atrazine is in the water and that's true And then you learn that atrazine is linked to potential health issues within the realm of reproductive health And has also been linked to kidney disease So after hearing him say what he said maybe you're skeptical at first because it sounds a little bit absurd But then you look it up and you'll find out that he's actually correct about specific details within what he's saying The problem is that the conclusion itself is not correct But it's intuitively true to somebody who is not trained to interpret these studies that he's looking at Or who doesn't really know about biology, right? So it seems reasonable to assume that what he's saying is correct, right? he is making this jump from point A to point B to point C and It looks like it's plausible But he doesn't have enough evidence to make those logical leaps and that's where the problem lies, right? It's not that every single thing that he's saying is incorrect He sprinkles in facts, but the problem is he doesn't point out that well Correlation doesn't necessarily equal causation just because there's a link between atrazine and low birth weight, for example That doesn't mean specifically that atrazine is the cause of this phenomenon So the potential health risks need to be studied further because the link doesn't necessarily mean cause He's not explaining this. He's not adding those caveats He's just saying it affirmatively and confidently and that's where people get misled Also, there's been no established link between homosexuality gender dysphoria and atrazine But despite the lack of a basic correlation or any evidence RFK He takes it one step further, right? when the biology of frogs are brought up he Makes it seem as if well if it applies to frogs obviously it's gonna apply to human or affect humans the same way But that that just no no Because frogs and humans are very different biologically, right? So these Tactics here whether he's using them wittingly or unwittingly This is how conspiracy theories gain prominence because that kernel of truth can hook people and once that trust Is established between the lay person and the person disseminating these conspiracy theories They then are more or more open to listening to more conspiracy theories, right? Perhaps anti-vax conspiracy theories. So they kind of get into some sort of rabbit hole Once there's that buy-in and that's the problem and whenever RFK is pressed on this He always pivots back to his usual defense to give himself plausible deniability He'll say something to the effect of well, I'm just suggesting more research, right? But that's not what you insinuated when you were talking about this, right? Even if that is the case and we're being as charitable as possible You're playing very loose with the facts and you're not being clear in the language that you're using So weasels like him are extremely hard to pin down all conspiracy theories are very hard to pin down For this reason because again it goes back to that kernel of truth that hooks people But in conclusion getting back to the fart. I'm glad that the old men yelling at each other Disrupted this press event and I'm also glad that the fart Disrupted this press event because he deserves nothing less. I hope that the fart was very stinky and it made his eyes water But I mean this goes without saying probably you are the company you keep right? So a farting possibly pension in climate denier is Exactly the type of person that I would expect to host the dinner with this loon


SCP-580 is a silk and wood zeppelin. The flight component has a dragon and phoenix painted in bright green, silver, and gold on its side, while the deck seems to be made out of an unidentified hardwood. The deck itself has no visible weapons, although eight canon slots have been identified on both sides. SCP-581 seems to have taken no damage from either weapons or environmental hazards present in space, although it does show the standard wear and tear that can be found if such a craft were present in atmospheric conditions. There seems to be no visible means of propulsion from the outside of the ship. Records unearthed in archaeological dig sites have failed to provide any clues regarding this matter.


younger than two years of age because it is not effective in this age group. Conjugate vaccine is not recommended for persons older than five years of age. The larger number of serotypes in the polysaccharide vaccine is advantageous to older persons. Providers always need to verify the correct vaccine is being given before injecting it. We all want to avoid administration errors. If a child is inadvertently given a dose of polysaccharide vaccine, you should administer the correct vaccine as soon as the error is discovered. If an adult receives conjugate vaccine, ACIP recommends waiting two months before giving the polysaccharide vaccine. Widespread use of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine is preventing invasive pneumococcal disease among both children and their close contacts. It is likely that additional vaccines with even more serotypes will be licensed in the future. Hopefully, the incidence of pneumococcal disease in infants will continue to fall and the disease will become a rarity, the same way Hib conjugate vaccine has made Hib disease a rarity. Donna. Thanks, Andrew. We do receive a fair amount of questions about pneumococcal disease and the vaccine, so we'll go over a few of those now. Andrew, you know, providers are seeing so many kids with asthma now and we say that it's an indication for influenza vaccine. What about pneumococcal vaccine? Well, actually, asthma is not associated with pneumococcal disease, so asthma alone is not an indication. If someone has chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or other types of chronic diseases that we've discussed, heart disease, diabetes, those would be indications for the pneumococcal vaccines, but asthma alone, no. Thanks. Bill, what about children who've actually had pneumococcal disease? Do they still need to be vaccinated? Good question. There are a lot of different serotypes of pneumococcus and just because a person has an infection with one, even if it is documented and often it's not, even if it is documented, that does not necessarily mean that they'll be immune to one of the many other strains, one of the other serotypes of pneumococcus. So, yes, we do recommend that even if a person has culture-confirmed pneumococcal disease that they should, if they have an indication of child, for instance, they should in fact go ahead and receive the entire vaccination series with pneumococcal conjugate vaccine. And if they have an indication for polysaccharide vaccine, they should receive it as well when they're two years or older. Okay, good. Andrew, I hate to talk about administration errors, but we do get questions about this. And we say if an infant inadvertently receives pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine, that we, they can go ahead right then as soon as they discover it and give the conjugate vaccine. But on the other hand, with older children or adults, if they have vice versa, if they've received the conjugate vaccine, then we say they need to wait eight weeks before giving the polysaccharide. What's the rationale for that difference? Great question. The infant is not going to respond at all to the pure polysaccharide vaccine, because as I mentioned before, pure polysaccharide vaccines do not work well in infants. So, you need to give the conjugate vaccine to the infant or a child ASAP. Whereas in the adult situation, if an adult by mistake receives the conjugate vaccine, there is this concern of local reactions, which are more common with frequent dosing of pneumococcal vaccines. So, hence the recommendation to wait two months to give the polysaccharide vaccine. Okay. I think that might help some people in understanding why we have that difference in the recommendation. Bill, here's another one. Is there ever a situation where we would give pneumococcal conjugate vaccine to an adult? No, basically no. Two reasons. Number one, the vaccine is only approved for children older than nine and actually recommended only through age five. There's much more benefit for pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine in older people and adults because of the large number of strains that are contained in the polysaccharide vaccine. Okay. Good. Andrew, one last question here. You know, pneumococcal, a lot of providers will say this is the pneumonia shot. So, if a person has a history of pneumonia, is that a high risk situation or an indication to get the pneumococcal vaccine? Good question. A history of pneumonia alone is not considered a high risk. Again, it's those chronic diseases, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, heart disease, other chronic conditions that are a recommendation, but a history of pneumonia alone is not considered to be an indication for the pneumococcal vaccine. Good. I'm glad we addressed that because I think there is some confusion about that. A lot. Okay. Thank you. Thank you, Andrew. Thank you, Bill. Okay. Myelitis is a disease few healthcare providers in the United States will ever see. Wild-type polio virus transmission was interrupted in the United States almost 30 years ago. With our exclusive use of inactivated polio vaccine in the United States, vaccine-associated polio also no longer occurs in this country. So, we are going to limit our discussion today primarily to polio vaccine issues. Poliomyelitis is caused by an interovirus. There are three distinct serotypes of polio virus, one, two and three. There is minimal heterotypic immunity between serotypes, which means that the immunity to one serotype does not protect you very much from other serotypes. So, that's why there are three viruses in the vaccine. The infection is acquired through the mouth. The virus initially replicates in the pharynx and GI tract, then spreads to the lymphatics and other tissues, including the central nervous system. Most polio virus infections are asymptomatic. However, about one in 200 infected persons develop permanent paralysis. The paralysis caused by polio virus is usually asymmetric and sensory function is intact. Persons initially paralyzed may recover some or all motor function. Overall, from two to five percent of paralytic polio cases are fatal. In general, the severity of polio increases with age and older children and adults are more likely to be paralyzed or die than infants. This graphic shows the number of reported cases of polio by year since 1950. Polio peaked in 1952 with more than 58,000 total cases and more than 21,000 paralytic cases, which are shown on this slide. The number of reported cases was falling even before the introduction of the first polio vaccine in 1955. By the time oral polio vaccine was licensed in 1963, the number of cases was only a fraction of that reported in the pre-vaccination era. The last documented cases of paralysis caused by while polio transmitted in the United States were in 1979. These cases were part of an outbreak among the Amish in the Midwest. The virus responsible for this outbreak had been imported from the Netherlands. The elimination of indigenous transmission of wild polio virus in the United States helped stimulate the development of a global polio eradication program. Even after the last cases of paralysis from wild-type polio virus in 1979, cases of paralytic polio continued to be reported. This graph shows the number of paralytic polio cases reported in the United States by year since 1980. Between 1980 and 1999, 158 paralytic cases were reported, an average of about eight cases per year. Six of the 158 cases were acquired in other countries and imported into the U.S., and the cause of two cases was uncertain. These eight cases are shown in tan on the graph. The last imported case occurred in 1993. The remaining 150 cases, or 95 percent of all cases reported since 1980, were caused by polio vaccine virus, shown in the green bars on the graph. In fact, every case of paralytic polio acquired in the United States in 1980 through 1999 was caused by vaccine virus. Because oral polio vaccine is no longer used in the U.S., the last known case of vaccine-associated paralytic polio acquired in this country occurred in 1999. The single vaccine-associated paralytic polio case in 2005 at the far right of the graph, shown in red, was unique because it was a U.S. citizen who acquired the infection outside the country. This case is a 22-year-old woman from Arizona who was believed to have been infected with polio vaccine virus in Costa Rica in January 2005. She had never received polio vaccine because of a religious exemption. She represents the first case of vaccine-associated paralytic polio in a U.S. citizen since 1999 and the first imported vaccine-associated case ever documented in the U.S. This case illustrates that international travel by an unvaccinated person, even to a country without indigenous polio virus transmission, is not without risk. Details about this case and the investigation were published in the February 3, 2006 edition of Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Another OPV-related issue emerged in 2005. A seven-month-old infant with a severe immunodeficiency was found to be infected with a type 1 polio virus that was derived from the vaccine strain. The child was unvaccinated and lived in a community in Minnesota where many children and adults were unvaccinated. Investigations identified seven additional infections in the community. Four children in the community were shedding the same virus in their stool and three of the child's siblings had serologic evidence of recent polio virus infection. None of the infected children were paralyzed or had other symptoms related to their infection. The virus was vaccine-derived because of mutations. It is called this because it is clearly different than vaccine virus. This was the first identification of a vaccine-derived polio virus in the United States. Vaccine-derived polio viruses have caused outbreaks on the island of Hispaniola in the Philippines and in Indonesia as recently as 2005. Testing of the virus suggested that it had been circulating for at least two years, meaning that the virus was older than the infant who had the index case. The source of the virus has not been identified. The takeaway message from this is that unvaccinated persons are at risk of polio virus infection even if they live in a country with no endemic circulation of wild virus and where OPV is not used. Details of this investigation were published in the October 21, 2005 edition of MMWR. Bill? The first polio vaccine, the inactivated vaccine developed by Jonas Salk was licensed in 1955 and the demand for it was enormous. Millions of doses of Salk vaccine were administered in the late 1950s. Trivalent oral polio vaccine was licensed in 1963. OPV rapidly became the polio vaccine of choice. An enhanced version of IPV was licensed in 1987 and the original Salk IPV was taken off the market in 1988. Production and distribution of oral polio vaccine was discontinued in the United States in 2000. Oral polio vaccine was responsible for the elimination of wild polio virus from the United States. OPV continues to be used extensively throughout the rest of the world and will eventually be the vaccine that eliminates polio from the planet. But OPV no longer plays a direct role in polio vaccination policy in the United States. So the remainder of our discussion will concentrate on the use of inactivated polio vaccine. Enhanced IPV, which we will refer to simply as IPV, is an excellent vaccine that is highly effective in producing immunity to the three types of polio virus. Like many other inactivated vaccines, most recipients do not become immune after a single dose. But 90% of recipients are immune to all three polio types after two doses. 99% are immune after three doses. There are three combination vaccines that contain inactivated polio vaccine. PediaRx is produced by GlaxoSmithKline and contains DTAP, Hepatitis B, and IPV vaccines. It is licensed for the first three doses of the DTAP series among children six weeks through six years of age. KinRx is also produced by GSK and contains DTAP and IPV. KinRx is licensed only for the fifth dose of DTAP and the fourth dose of IPV among children four through six years of age. Pentacel is produced by Sanofi Pasteur and contains DTAP, Hib, and IPV. It is licensed for the first four doses of the component vaccines among children six weeks through four years of age. Pentacel is not licensed for children five years or older. We discuss additional details for the use of these vaccines in the DTAP segment of this program. The schedule recommended by the ACIP and the American Academies of Pediatrics and Family Physicians is four doses of IPV beginning at two months of age. The first dose may be given as early as six weeks of age. The second dose should be given at four months of age and the third may be given as early as six months of age. A fourth dose of IPV is recommended at school entry at four to six years of age. If an accelerated schedule is needed, the current minimum interval between all four doses of IPV in the series is four weeks. These minimum intervals are being discussed by ACIP and could change in the future. It is preferable to administer the fourth dose at school entry. However, it may be given as early as 18 weeks and be counted as a valid dose depending on the age and spacing of the earlier doses. This is one of the most common questions we receive now about polio vaccine. According to table one of the general recommendations, the minimum age for the last dose of IPV is 18 weeks. However, some states have requirements that mandate a dose of polio vaccine on or after age four years. So if you encounter a child who has received four doses of polio vaccine before the fourth birthday and you live in a state that mandates a dose after age four years, the simplest solution is just to administer a fifth dose after age four years. Serial logic testing is an option, but the testing is expensive and you'll need to test for antibody against all three serotypes and the results can be very difficult to interpret. We suggest you just give a fifth dose and be done with it. Children who receive three doses of either OPV or IPV before the fourth birthday should receive a fourth dose of polio vaccine at the time of school entry. But if the third dose was given honor after the fourth birthday, a fourth dose is not required. However, this rule only applies to children whose first three doses were either all OPV or all IPV. If the child received any combination of both OPV and IPV, then a total of four doses are recommended regardless of the age when the third dose was given. Now this will no longer be an issue soon for U.S. born children since distribution of OPV was stopped in the United States in 2000. A related issue is that of children who received OPV for their early doses and are now due for their school entry dose. We've gotten many calls and emails with questions about how many doses to administer in this situation. Remember that IPV is the only polio vaccine available in the United States. You may still occasionally encounter a child who began the series with OPV, such as an immigrant from another country. These children should receive IPV to complete the polio vaccination series. Any combination of four doses of IPV and OPV by four to six years of age constitutes a complete series. You do not need to add any extra doses. Four total doses are all that is needed. Now we want to make sure you're clear on this point. A total of four doses is recommended if a child received any combination of IPV and OPV. This recommendation is for all children through 17 years of age, that is, until the 18th birthday. The only situation in which three doses are acceptable is when all three doses are the same type of vaccine and one or more of those doses was administered on or after the fourth birthday. Andrew. Polio vaccination of adults generates a lot of questions, mostly from international travelers and travel health providers. Routine polio vaccination of U.S. residents 18 years of age and older is not recommended. The only adults for whom vaccination should be considered are those who travel to polio endemic areas of the world and selected laboratory workers who may come into contact with wild polio viruses. Endemic areas currently exist only in Africa and Asia. Vaccination of adults would also be appropriate in the event of an outbreak of vaccine derived polio virus has occurred in Minnesota in 2005. Unvaccinated adults, including those who cannot document prior vaccination, should receive three doses of IPV each separated by at least four weeks. If travel is imminent, less than four weeks, an unvaccinated person should receive a single dose of IPV. The remaining doses of the series should be administered later if the person remains at risk. Persons with the documented incomplete series should receive the remaining doses of the series. It is not necessary to restart or add doses to the series because of a lapse in the series. Adults who can document a complete series of any type of polio vaccine in the past should receive a single booster dose of IPV. This booster dose is only given once in an adult's lifetime. Contraindications and precautions to an activated polio vaccine are also very limited. As with all vaccines, a severe allergic reaction to a vaccine component or following a prior dose is a contraindication to IPV. Moderate or severe acute illness is a precaution and vaccination should be deferred until the person's condition improves. Pregnancy is not a contraindication to the use of IPV, but since routine polio vaccination of Americans 18 years and older is not recommended, pregnancy will not be a common issue except for those of you who see travelers. An activated polio vaccine is one of, if not the safest vaccine available. As with any injected vaccine, local reactions such as pain, redness or swelling at the site of injection occurs in 2.8% of recipients after any of the first three doses of IPV. Severe adverse reactions are rare and are mostly allergic reactions. In the past, almost all adverse reactions following polio vaccine were due to oral polio vaccine. Vaccine associated paralytic polio was a rare occurrence, but it led to the discontinuation of use of OPV in the United States. However, OPV is still being used extensively outside the United States and could be encountered by travelers as we described earlier. It is likely that in the near future polio will become the second virus intentionally eradicated from the planet. The last known case of paralytic disease caused by wild polio virus in the United States occurred in 1979. The Pan American Health Organization devised an aggressive and successful OPV mass vaccination program in 1985. The last case of wild polio virus in the Western Hemisphere occurred in Peru in 1991. Due largely to the success of the polio elimination program in the Americas, the World Health Organization established a polio eradication program in 1988. At the end of 2006, polio was considered to be endemic in only four countries shown on this map in red, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, and Nigeria. In 2006, a total of 1,997 confirmed cases of polio were reported from the four endemic countries and 13 other countries where the virus was reintroduced due to importation. The total for 2006 was about the same as the total for 2005 due primarily to a large outbreak in Northern India. This outbreak resulted in the reintroduction of polio into areas of India that had been polio-free and 10 times as many cases in 2006 as in 2005. In 2006, Nigeria accounted for more than half the polio cases reported worldwide. Transmission is mainly occurring in three Northern states. However, due to intense vaccination efforts in Nigeria, the number of polio cases dropped in the second half of 2006 and in the first five months of 2007. Transmission of polio virus continued in Pakistan, mainly along the border with Afghanistan. Transmission is also occurring in the southern region of Afghanistan. There have been challenges during the past three years, in particular the outbreak in Nigeria with subsequent importation into previously polio-free areas and the 2006 outbreak in Northern India. But strategies continued to be refined and the world moved closer to eradicating polio in 2006. With continued progress, we look forward to the day when the scourge of polio is relegated to the history books. More information about the global polio eradication program and opportunities to volunteer for short-term assignments in the program are available on the Updates and Resources webpage. This brings us to the close of this session of Epidemiology and Prevention of Vaccine Preventable Diseases. We would like to remind you of resources that you can use to get more information or to contact us. Here's the companion book for this program. The Public Health Foundation is the sole source for a printed copy. The book costs $35 plus shipping and handling and is a useful resource for any office that administers vaccine to persons of any age. You can contact the Public Health Foundation through their toll-free number at<PHONE_NUMBER>. You can also order materials online from their website at bookstore.ph.org. If your patients or their parents have immunization-related questions, you can refer them to the CDC Info Contact Center. You can reach the contact center toll-free at 800-CDC-INFO. The CDC Info Contact Center is staffed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. If you or your staff have questions, you should direct them to us at the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases by email. Our email address is nipinfo at cdc.gov. Throughout this program, we've mentioned additional immunization resources available to you on the Updates and Resources web page. The address is www.cdc.gov front slash vaccines. Click on Education and Training, then the Self-Study link. Choose this program from the list to find all the materials we've discussed during this program. We want you to have the most current immunization information at your fingertips. An easy way to do this is to have the information available on your computer. We've compiled all the current ACIP statements, vaccine information statements, the course text, and much more on a CD called Immunization Works. The CD is a great way to have all your current immunization information together in one place. Immunization Works is distributed free of charge by the CDC. The Updates and Resources web page has a link to order it. Continuing Education Credit is available for viewing this program. Details and instructions can be found in the Continuing Education Chapter of the DVD or on the Updates and Resources web page. Thank you for joining us for this session of Epidemiology and Prevention of Vaccine Preventable Diseases. Please join us for other programs in this series when we discuss specific vaccine preventable diseases and the vaccines to prevent them. Until then, goodbye.


Live from Dublin, Ireland, it's theCUBE. Covering Hadoop Summit Europe 2016, brought to you by Hortonworks. Now your hosts, John Furrier and Dave Vellante. Okay, welcome back everyone. We are here live in Dublin, Ireland on the ground for live special CUBE presentation theCUBE. SiliconANGLES flagship program. We go out to the events and extract the signal from the noise. I'm John Furrier, my host Dave Vellante. Our next guest has got now CTO of Hortonworks back on theCUBE. We were here together, not here, but in Silicon Valley for Big Data Week, which consists of two events, our event, Big Data SV, and Hadoop World. So we chat a lot about the stuff going on there. What's changed in two weeks? Obviously, European, different conversations. Out here, then in the States. What announcements do you guys? In like five minutes, things change. And that's a great thing about this market, right? The agility that we have there. And we've had a couple of big announcements this week. We've announced two major partnerships. We've announced some additional technology in the last two weeks. And you know what? If we get together in two more weeks, there'll probably be even more to talk about. So honestly, the big thing we're hearing is Spark and partnering, integration. These are kind of like data points that people are connecting around to the next generation of how fast acceleration will take place for these big data applications. Cloud is a big theme of that. Spark is a big part of that. What is the connected data platform technically in terms of your, from your position, the CTO? What are the key underpinnings for this connected data platform? You know, the key thing in there, really the word is platform. So in a rapidly changing market, which obviously we're in, where there are new tools, there are new requirements and new applications every day, the key thing that we think that makes it sustainable is that the fact that there is a central platform that can go through this evolution and agility and remain basically the platform so that applications don't have to be rewritten and rehosted every time there's a new shiny object, right? So platform is really the key, making it extensible, making common security, common data governance, common implementation, common operation, so that customers who are going down this path with us can really future-proof the business by making sure they have a sustainable platform into which new projects, new options, new applications can be built, and they know because of our open community model that will support any of those things that come along. I want to ask you a specific question on this connected platform, because I think this is a winning strategy you guys have. I know you get your meat and potatoes, your core engine, and you get the emerging group which we discussed at Big Data SV, but bringing it all together under one is really key, especially around the open source aspect because community will win the day, no matter who's involved, whether it's a data warehousing, pre-existing guys, to the new school coming in developers. If you don't have a community, you won't be a winner. So I got to ask you, and this is what we're talking about, a number of patchy projects that go into each distribution grows every year. So Cloudera tells us that 50% of the engineering effort goes into each incremental product that's towards interoperability, 50%, okay? Why not 100%, okay? Is that because they have other priorities? Do you guys have a similar philosophy when you're putting 50% of your time into open source and 50% into something else? I don't understand. Well, there's a significant effort that goes into interoperability and building the platform. So obviously I said, I think our differentiation is the fact that it's a platform and not a collection of different projects that don't speak with each other. So there is obviously going to be some work that goes into that. I think the difference really comes along because of our ability to really work with the community and within the community entirely in open source to actually help each of the projects do some of the interoperability themselves and to think about themselves as part of a bigger thing where we're not confused or have different proprietary things that we have to do manually and expend engineering resource in. We look at the whole thing as 100% open and we actually influence the community to make those things work together as a platform. So Cloudera has proprietary stuff. It would seem that way. Okay, so with that being said, inherently then you're saying is you're connected data platform with 100% open source is inherently interoperable because it's open source and customers can figure out how to interoperate themselves. That is what we deliver, is that interoperability? So follow up question on that because the Cloud guys generally at Amazon specifically seem to be kind of cherry picking on the big data innovation and building a data pipeline that's set of services pretty simple and easy to use. Is the deck stacked in their favor from the standpoint of adoption because of that dynamic? Or would you argue that the richness of your ecosystem is going to trump that simplicity? I wonder if you could square that circle. Yeah, you know, and it's interesting, right? I think that obviously across the landscape and some of the cloud providers there's a lot of really good stuff going on out there, right? And one of the things there's one strategy that says, let me do something that's really simple, that's very small, very contained, as an easy on-ramp for customers who are just sticking their toe in the water and trying out these new kinds of applications. The trouble becomes obviously that if those things don't operate together as a platform over time, they become very expensive to maintain and manage, forget the cost of the cloud infrastructure, just for companies to reconcile 37 different applications and they'll talk with each other that don't use common data sources becomes unsustainable. So we've chosen a platform kind of strategy and I think one of the things that you'll see us working on is ways to package that platform to make the simple onboarding easier, right? So one of the announcements that we made this week, the partnership with Syncsort for DMXH is a really nice way to package ETL onboarding from legacy systems, right? So customers who are building data lakes, one of the things they want to do is not only get new and emerging data into the data lake, but they want to pull in some of the legacy data from their operational systems, right, to get better analytics. The DMXH is an easy button for that. So you'll see us looking at opportunities where we can make it easier to either onboard data, easier to build application, but not lose sight of the fact that it's got to be an integrated platform for sustainability over time. So that's a solution that you guys, there's a go-to-market, what is that? It is actually a go-to-market so we can resell kind of as a single vendor a package of the Syncsort solution along with Hortonworks data platform. And it goes together as an ETL onboarding for legacy data. And then you made another announcement with Pivotal, specific to HAWK, correct? What's that all about? So yeah, so we made a big partnership announcement about Pivotal, obviously Pivotal is adopting HTTP as kind of the core distribution for Hadoop inside of those applications. And we also have the ability to deploy Apache HAWK, the open community version of HAWK as another data access engine. So this gets also to the notion that we're not building individual pieces, but in fact we're building a platform. Having HAWK in our portfolio is another data access engine for our customers to use without having to change platform without having to rewrite all of their underlying infrastructure, but now gives them another option to plug this tool in where they have specific applications that might take advantage of that functionality. At the same time, and we've gotten some questions, we're not abandoning Hive, right? It's not the tool, it's another tool, right? And so there are a lot of advantages that HAWK brings to the table, there are a lot of advantages, Hive brings to the table, Spark, HBase, we want to have them all be part of that platform. She mentioned Spark and Hive, so obviously Cloud RST, Spark as an execution, the default execution engine for the ETL with Hive, IBM says Spark's going to hollow out Hadoop. How do you guys see Spark fitting into your roadmap? So again, I don't see it as either or, but and, and I think the real value is in the and. Spark as an engine is extremely powerful and it has some use cases where it's like the best things in sliced bread, right? There are other use cases where it's maybe not the best option, and so I don't see it as a one-size-fits-all. It's a use case-driven scenario. It's a use case-driven scenario, and it needs to be part of the portfolio, and it's obviously integration with our latest release of HDP. We have the latest version of Spark supported, and we will continue to do that. We also announced in March a partnership with HB, E, on adding to the Spark community and adding functionality and performance. So we are a believer in the engine, but we don't think it's the only engine. Yeah, what about the conversations that you're in from a technology perspective? Obviously, we're living in a weird time right now. It's global economy, global communities and open source. Are the conversations different in the States versus here in Europe? We're around some of the data questions. I mean, we've always seen kind of pockets of country-specific policies and governance and things and whatnot, not as IoT data. I think we were talking about telemetry data or telematics data that could be kind of crazy. Yeah, I think the biggest difference in the conversation really is around security and privacy where there are so many different and discreet rules and regulations that are very different than in the United States. And so we have a lot of conversations about that. Obviously one of the announcements we made on the integration of Atlas and Ranger, integrating metadata tagging and security is something that's of great interest in this part of the world because there are a lot more rules and there's a lot more sophistication in how data can be used and transferred.  I'm like, oh, okay, I haven't thought of that. Yeah, so that surrounds us and I think that is one of the centerpieces of the conversation that we have with customers here in this part of the world. I want to ask a security question. I'm working with the CXOs in the Wikibon community to basically write a research document on how to communicate with boards of directors on what they need to know about security, with the threat matrix, you know, continuously growing, two questions. One is what's changed that boards need to know about specifically and what's your advice to a CXO communicating to a board about security? How should they approach it? So first question is what's changed that I should be communicating to the board? You know, I don't know that there's anything that's really changed specifically that should be communicated to the board. I think the threats continue to change and mount up as people devise new ways to try to infiltrate. I think it is really simple that there are three things that boards need to look at and understand and understand that people are managing. First is what's my security perimeter? How do I manage the fence? Am I using best practices in managing the fence? Can I report on the threats that have been deterred and so on? The second thing is how do I compartmentalize the data inside the fence so that when someone breaks through that fence, and I'm sorry, the question is not if, the question is when, when they break through that fence, how do I compartmentalize it so I can minimize the data loss? And then third, what are my logging practices so that when number one happens and number two happens, how do I understand what got out so that I can minimize the impact so that I can take direct action and not have to go replace every credit card for every user? A response plan. A response plan. So if I can follow up. One of the things that seems to have changed and I want to test this is that executives are more open and transparent about the probability of getting hacked. You said it's not if, it's when. Do you see that change? Yeah. Yeah. You know, when I say that, I get varying degrees of responses. And I think there's an acknowledgement that frankly the world we live in, you should expect that it will happen and hope that it doesn't, as opposed to the other way around. And if you think about it the other way around, you're living in this partial state of denial because it's out there. And if you believe that that perimeter, that fence is going to be impenetrable and you don't take action on the inside, then the loss downstream is a lot worse. So I tend to be very pragmatic. Plan on it happening and build in that response, build in the compartmentalization, build in the logging. And by the way, if the fence holds up, you've won. Hope for the best plan for the worst, as you like. Scott, I got to ask you the question I asked Sean Connolly who's filling in for Rob Bearden earlier. A lot of hands went up when Herb and it's asked the audience, I mean people are new to Hadoop. You're still seeing a nice inbound migration of new people coming in the community from a customer standpoint, potential customers for you guys and developers. What would you say to those folks around how you guys are different from Cloudera and other approaches? What is the Hortonworks from a CTO perspective? What is the Hortonworks main value proposition? Yeah, the value proposition really is in connected data platforms. I think we're the only vendor talking about data at rest and data in motion, and really being able to manage the end to end process from point of data creation to point of analytic and back with security, with governance and all that kind of stuff. And then secondly. Vapor or shipping product? Shipping product that works today. Talking about it doesn't mean you're doing it. You are doing it. Installed with customers at scale. And that we do it as 100% open community. So that means that we can continue with the agility, getting new and fresh ideas in there and be very transparent with our customers and prospects. I said two things, but the third thing, and that is that we're also publicly traded. So we're 100% open, right? We are completely transparent. You're open book, literally. We are open to the third power. We're open community. We're open ecosystem with all the partners that are attending here. And we're open in terms of being public and transparent. What one thing that you would like to share with folks out there that they may not know about Hortonworks or something that could be a misperception on Hortonworks? What would you share? Wow. That was a trick question. It's hard to think of just one thing. There's a lot of fud going around the market. There's a lot of people saying this is any other thing. They don't, I mean, end to end thing's interesting. It's shipping product, end to end. Yeah. Yeah, some of the people should know about Hortonworks. It is not vaporware and the intensity and the energy level that I see every day when I go to work is just, it's very encouraging. It's really great to see. I have one. I think people still think Hortonworks is a services play. There's still a lot of people out there. I mean, people in the community obviously understand it, but there are a lot of sort of people that observers, maybe investors or whatever, that hear somebody say that, that fud, and so it's a services play. It's a services business model. It doesn't scale. That's not true. I think that that's completely untrue. Obviously I voted with my feet and I'm here and I believe that we sit at a very unique time. When we were together two weeks ago, I talked about the data tipping point and just what's happening just with the sheer volume, velocity and variety of data. And I believe that the only way to really address that successfully for the long term is the model that we've chosen. And those things coming together in my mind, it's a once or twice in a lifetime kind of opportunity. Yeah, and the connected network I was telling Sean, I love that positioning. I think connecting data can give the 360 degree view because you're getting all the data's out there now. And it's not about mutually exclusive platforms, it's about integration. That we see integration. So my final question is with that being said, what is the white space that you're going after for your plan now?  It's still changing, it's evolving, it's a moving train. Whatever you want to call it, what are the white spaces? I think there are a couple of areas of white space. One is in areas of new algorithms and analytics. As we get new IoT data in, we're going to have new kinds of analytics evolve. And so fueling the pump on that to get better insights back to our customers, that's an area of white space. And the Apache Metron is an example of other white space of connected applications where we think an open approach can make sense. Obviously in cyber as a big problem to go solve, my simple minded way to think about it is the bad guys are a community of bad guys working against the perimeters that we're building and telling our boards about. The good guys combining together into an open source cyber module is a really good thing. And we'll look for other areas of opportunity for connected modern data applications, especially where we think there's an open community play. Is that really your last question? I'm taking bets on that. This is like the fourth last question. I might have a final final question. Okay, good. So, John, you touched on it before when you were talking about Spark, potentially trying to marginalize Hadoop and deposition it as just a storage engine. But isn't that kind of what Hadoop was originally envisioned to be was a storage engine and does that bother you? Do you care about that or is that a misconception or talk about that a little bit? I used to be a teenager and now I'm not. I think that obviously there's still some perception out there that we're still in Hadoop 1.0 which was HTFS and MapReduce. It was batch, single application. The world has changed, right? We're now a multi-tenant, multi-application. We're real-time, we're batch, integrated workloads. Now with Hortonworks Dataflow and our ability to move data, we're also combining data in motion, data in REST. It's a platform decision for modern data architectures. It's not a single-purpose thing. Some people may have missed that change in the marketplace. Okay, my final, final question is, okay, if you look at it over the next few minutes. Do I get paid extra for this? You can ask me a question. All right. Go ahead. No questions, okay. Final, final question. Obviously the show here is smaller, okay? The big keynote presentations from Worldpay. Big player up there. Obviously smaller crowd and infinite in Europe, but that's a real fully, that guy's fully loaded with Hadoop, so that's one of those situations where he's in production, real critical financial transactional thing. Can you talk about that and how that, because it seems to be much more telco, a lot of telcos in Europe. So transactional stuff is key. But it's also a pretty big deployment. Why Worldpay on stage? Was it the security angle? Was it the, can you share some of the deployment scenarios? Well, I think the big thing is showing relevance and gravitas is really important. And I think that that was obviously the intent. And when we go looking for those kinds of opportunities, the folks who are gathered here love hearing from Hortonworks and from other vendors and solution providers as they're looking at their roadmap. In the end, the most valuable thing that they can leave with is hearing from others who have gone before them and done it and been successful, creating that credibility. One of the great things about the show, not just the keynotes and the speeches and the sessions is a networking opportunity where folks can actually talk with others who have implemented and get the real deal. And so, I think with any of these shows, hearing from the vendors is really great. I love presenting from time to time, but hearing from folks who have done it is relevant and we'll continue to push that for this event, this event next year, the event that we have coming up in San Jose. Scott, thanks for sharing the insight on theCUBE. It's great to hear from you. And also, as the CTO, you have a good view into a lot of the frontline activities as well as inside the kingdom of the community and the Hortonworks. So thanks for your time. Thanks for having me back. We are here live in Dublin, not London, Dublin, Ireland for theCUBE's special presentation of Hadoop Summit 2016. We'll be right back with more live coverage after this short break.