Weeping down upon the underworld to smash gangland comes the friend of the unfortunate enemy of criminals. A mysterious, all-powerful character, a problem to the police. But a crusader for law, in reality Dan Garrett, a rookie patrolman, loved by everyone but suspected by none of being the Blue Beetle. As the Blue Beetle, he hides behind a strange mask and a suit of penetrable blue-chained armor, flexible as silk but stronger than steel. Today's episode of the Blue Beetle is entitled The Invisible Ghost. The trolman Dan Garrett, who in secret operates as the Blue Beetle, today matches brains and brawn with a cowardly ruthless gang of crooked slot machine racketeers. Can he spike their plans to flood the city with crooked gambling devices? Will he be able to uncover the mysterious leader who directs their activities? What is behind their endeavor to install their machines at John Dorre's carnival? As our story opens, the trolman Dan Garrett is visiting his old friend and advisor, Dr. Frans. Danny, I've been studying up on slot machines. Yes? You find out anything interesting? Well, I'm convinced that the difference between an honest machine and a dishonest or crooked machine is very slight. In fact, I'd say the difference was purely academic. What do you mean, doc? Well, of course, you realize I'm referring now to nickel and dime or quarter in the slot machines from which you will return if any will be a handful of coin. Yeah, that doesn't include vending machines for candy, chewing gum, cigarette, et cetera. Oh, no, no, no, of course not. I'm speaking about those machines where you put a coin in the slot, push down the lever and pictures of fruits or birds or playing cards whirl around and stop in different combination. Yeah, I understand. Well, if certain combinations come up, a certain number of coins will be returned to you. Sometimes as many as 40 may come out. That's called a jackpot. Yeah, I know. I've seen some of the boards in the forest by the machines in Charlie's cigar store, and how often do they hit the jackpot? I don't know. Not often, I'm sure. Ah, precisely. Those machines are fixed in advance to release a jackpot once every thousand, five thousand, ten thousand, yes, even every hundred thousand times. In other words, if you were the only one playing the machine, you would have to put in one thousand or more coins before you'd win the jackpot. A nickel a piece, that's fifty dollars. Fifty dollars to win two dollars. Oh, there must be enormous profit in those machines. Yes, yes, there is. Now, now let's suppose the machines these racketeers are trying to install are reasonably honest. Say, one thousand to one, which is average. Yeah. In a place like John Dorr's Carnival, each machine should average two thousand players a day. Let's say ten machines were installed throughout the area. Oh, that's conservative. Yes, yes, I know, but let's be conservative. Ten machines would get a play of twenty thousand players a day, and the average amount spent on such machines is about twenty cents per person. Well, that's one hundred thousand nickels at one thousand to one ratio. The machines would pay back one hundred jackpots or about two hundred dollars. Yes, but the intake would be four thousand dollars. Precisely, intake four thousand dollars, out go two hundred dollars. And crooked operators will go to any lengths to make profits like that. Just a minute, Dan, I'll see who it is, OK? Hello, Doc, is the pride of the police force here? Hey, if you mean Patrolman Dan Garrett, he's waiting for you, Managan. Well, Mike, got the car outside. Yep, are you ready, Danny? Ready and waiting. So long, Doc. Those crooked slot machine operators are going to get a big surprise when they run up against Officer Managan and Patrolman Dan Garrett. Come on, Managan, let's go. Off on Special Assignment, said Dan Garrett and Officer Managan in the police car. What is their destination? What will they find when they get there? Would it be a simple routine clean-up job? All of the people have to swing into action. Within ten minutes, the police car bearing Dan Garrett and Mike Managan is pulling up inside the gates of John Dorre's carnival. Well, here we are at the carnival, Mike. Yeah, where do we head first? Now, let's look around a bit. OK, Danny. I used to play baseball with the Brooklyn Sand Lossers. Why don't you try your hand at that baseball game? I think I will. Maybe I can win a chupi doll for my youngster. Come on, step right up, and right in your free baseball for a dime. Now, give me three of them bars. I'll show you what real pitching is. Sure thing, Lieutenant. Here you are. One, two, three. That'll be a dime. Thanks, Lieutenant. Careful of your arm, Lieutenant Managan. Remember, you're an old man now. Oh, yeah? Now, clap out the kid and then watch this. Hey, better look out, fella. My pal here is cross-eyed. OK, better out, Danny, over here. Oh, that was just practice. Now, watch this one. All through. Nice going, Managan. The sun was in the eyes. But watch this one. Hey, hey, I need some cuppi doll. Are you good, Managan? You hit the proprietor right in the old conch.  What was that, Managan? Hey, look over there. There's a crowd around that. Come on, look like trouble. What's happening? A tentpole fell down inside doorstep. Hey, anybody hurt? Come on, man. Hey, come on. Get back, everybody. Get back. Hold the crowd back. I might have a look inside, will you? OK, Danny. All right, get back out of here. Make room here. Come on, make room here. Get back while I'm here. What happened, Dora? Are you all right? I guess so. My tentpole fell on me as I was sitting at my desk here. Wait a minute. I'll have Managan call a doctor. You may be seriously injured. No, no, no, no. No, don't worry. Don't worry. No, no, no. No, don't call a doctor. I'll be all right in a minute. Here, I'll get you some water from the cooler. No, thanks. What caused the pole to fall? I don't know. Maybe one of the ropes holding it up brought it through and broke. Or was it cut? Here. Drink this. Thanks. I feel better now. Those crooked slot machine racketeers been working on you? Slot machine racketeers? No. No, I'm sure they had nothing to do with this. Have any of them been out to talk with you recently? Well, yes. When? Last night. Any trouble? Well, we had a few words. They wanted me to put some of their machines in. And you refused? Yes. Did they threaten you? Oh, in a general sort of way. But you know how a function under words come, huh? They talk big, but most of them, it's blunt. Yes, yes, I know. But sometimes... Hello, Johnny. Oh, hello, Mr. Dawes. Hello, Managan. What happened? I'll tell you, going back in the police car. Okay, Danny. Mr. Dawes, you better have a couple of your men you can trust. Act as a bodyguard until I can get the men from the police department assigned to you. In the meantime, we're going to track down this gang of crooks and put them where they can do no more harm. Come on, Managan. Back to headquarters. At police headquarters, commissioned Don Lee upon hearing Dan's story, ordered full speed ahead in a drive to round up the crooked slot machine racketeers. Late that night, Dan Garrett is in secret conference with Dr. Franz at his little apothecary shop. You know, I've got a hunch, Doc, that there's going to be something doing out at the carnival tonight after the crowd has gone home. And I suppose the blue beetle will be buzzing around out there. Right. And probably nipping, too. Look how he doesn't get nipped himself. No, not a chance. At least not permanently. Not through this blue beetle costume and mask. This blue beetle chain armor has saved my life many times. As long as I'm on the alert, nobody can overcome the blue beetle. I hope you'll always be on the alert, Danny. I'd hate to lose you. Now, you've been a swell friend, Doc. I owe my life to you and this chain armor you made me. I'm working on something else that will be of great help to you, I believe, in your crusade against crime. What's that, Doc?  Hey, have you got any of it here? Yes, yes. But it isn't perfected yet. What's it like? Well, you know that every object we can see has some color to it. Yeah. And as long as that color is in the color spectrum, the human eye can see the object. Yes. But if the object is some shade outside the color spectrum, it is invisible to the human eye. I see. And this liquid you're working on? Outside that color band. Ah, then if I painted myself with this liquid, I'd be invisible. Yes. Yes, temporarily. What do you mean? Well, I've got to find a fixer. Something to add to the formula which will preserve the invisible qualities of the fluid longer. At present, it oxidizes too quickly and becomes visible to the human eye within a few minutes. Here, here's some of it here in this jar. Ah, say, that's very interesting. Well, if you had it perfected, I could use it on this blue. Quiet, quiet. There's someone out in the front of the shop. You stay here and I'll see who it is. Hello, is anybody home? Coming, coming. Oh, hello, hello, Officer Mannegan. And what brings you here at this hour? Oh, I was passing by and just thought I'd drop in. Is Danny here? No, no, Danny's not here. Well, then I think I'll wait a bit if you don't mind, Doc. Maybe he'll turn up. Well, I hardly think you'll find unguarded here tonight, Mannegan. By the way, have you seen the blue beetle around? The blue beetle? You mean the fantastic character who's always out withing the police? He won't help with them forever. Someday I'm going to catch up with that baby and when I do... Now, if you'll excuse me, I have... By the way, Doc, some neighbors of yours was telling me they've seen the blue beetle in this neighborhood late at night. What? Would you be knowing anything about that? Well, I rarely go out at night.  Is that it back there? Yes, yes. I never saw one of them things. You mind if I take a look around? Well, I'd rather you see. Oh, I won't touch anything, Doc. I just want to look. Well... What is it? What do you see? So, that's the laboratory. What a place. Yes, that's the laboratory. Must be great to have brains like you, Doc. Once along, I've got to be going. Tell Danny I was in. Yes, yes, I will, Mannegan. Good night, and keep your eyes open for the blue beetle. Danny, Danny, what are you? Right beside you. What? Yes, when I heard Mannegan outside, I quickly coded myself with your new formula. When he looked into the laboratory, I was standing right in front of them. Well, that certainly was a great test. But the effects are beginning to wear off. I can see a slight tinge of the blue of the blue beetle armor shining through. Hey, Doc, I've got to be on my way. I'd like to take some of this liquid along with me and use it tonight. The effects fade away quickly. Thanks, Doc. Those racket tears will get the surprise of their lives when they hear the blue beetle but can't see him. You'd better hurry, Danny. It's about closing time for the carnival. The blue beetle will have to really ride the night wind tonight. What will the blue beetle do over at John Doar's carnival? Will he run head on into a band of slot machine crooks? Can he again make himself invisible in Dr. Fran's magic formula?


Big news for mice and hopefully for people as the results of two new studies show that promising longevity interventions can regrow hair and combat hearing loss in mouse models. First up, scientists publishing in the journal Pharmaceutics have successfully regrown hair in mice using dissolvable micro needles loaded with rapamycin and epigallicatic and gallate, or EGCG, an active ingredient in green tea. Studies have found that rapamycin, one of the most promising geroprotective drugs, not only stimulates hair regrowth but can also partially reverse hair graying. EGCG is a polyphenol found in green tea and a potent antioxidant that has shown effectiveness against various conditions, including androgenic alopecia. Combating hair loss is not just about looks. Understanding the mechanisms of senescent alopecia and ways to reverse it can provide insights into other aspects of aging. In this new study, the researchers used an emerging micro needle technology to deliver drugs directly to the inner layers of the skin. Cone like micro needles were loaded with nanoparticles containing rapamycin, EGCG, or a combination. The micro needles were applied to shaved parts of the mice's bodies and slowly dissolved, releasing the drugs. The researchers found the micro needle based treatment substantially more effective than topical application, even though much higher doses were used topically. Rapamycin groups demonstrated more rapid hair growth, while EGCG groups had higher follicle density. The best results were achieved with a combination of both. The results were dose-dependent, with moderate doses of rapamycin being the most effective. By day 15 of the experiment, the mice on a rapamycin and EGCG combination had their thick black fur restored almost completely, while untreated controls hardly showed any hair growth at all. The researchers also confirmed that the treatment resulted in increased autophagy in follicular regions, and promoting autophagy is currently thought to be rapamycin's central mechanism of action. This study reiterates the health potential of two molecules popular in the longevity field, rapamycin and EGCG. Additionally, this micro needle based drug delivery method could potentially be used to treat various other skin conditions. In a separate study, scientists have released a pre-print showing that long-term supplementation of nicotinamide riboside, or NR, an NAD precursor, alleviates the progression of age-related hearing loss in mice. Globally, age-related hearing loss is the most common sensory deficit of older people. It is associated with several problems, including cognitive decline, social isolation, and accident risk. However, the disease is often overlooked. To determine the effects of long-term NR administration on hearing loss in mice, the researchers administered NR through the drinking water of a treatment group with a control group receiving unaltered water. Both groups were then tested for hearing capability at the ages of 2, 8, and 12 months. It turned out that the supplementation prevented the progression of age-related hearing loss specifically at high sound frequencies. Besides the preventative benefits, additional results suggest that NR, even when administered in later life, could benefit already affected mice at certain frequencies. The hypothesis is that NR administration indirectly affects mitochondrial homeostasis and function, thereby protecting cochlear cells from cytotoxic damage. Now, these are mouse studies. More work is needed and there's no guarantee these results will translate to humans. But what we're seeing here is strong additional support for molecules, rapamycin, EGCG, and NR that are already quite promising and are already used in humans. But we'll keep you updated as we learn more, so make sure to subscribe so you don't miss out. I'm Ryan O'Shea and we'll see you next time on Lifespan News.


The latest edition of telehealth in Hawaii, my name is Vikram Acharya. I'm the Chief Executive Officer of Cloudwell Health, an all virtual telemedicine company based out of Hawaii. It's very rare that we have an opportunity to interact with an NBA champion. On this show, we have one. I am very happy to introduce, I'm honored to introduce Ms. Thoreau Desai. She is an athletic trainer with the Golden State Warriors. Thoreau, how are you today? I'm doing great. Thank you for having me. How are you doing? I'm doing good, I'm doing good. Thank you for being on the show. Much appreciated. Of course, of course. You were just part of a 2022 NBA championship team with the Golden State Warriors.  And that's very exciting and very unique. To get the conversation started, why don't you tell me a little bit about yourself? How you got to where you are, where you're from? We'll go from there. For sure. So to start, I was actually born and raised in the Bay Area. So this is home for me. I grew up in a small town called Orinda, went to high school there, did my undergrad at University of the Pacific in sports science, and then went directly to PT school at University of Southern California, worked for a year and decided to go back to school and got my master's in athletic training in Oklahoma. From there, did an internship with the Oklahoma City Thunder. So that's where I got really introduced to the NBA. And from there graduated, came back to California, worked at a high school for a year. And then after that, worked at UCLA for seven years. From there, I got a position here with the Golden State Warriors as one of their athletic trainers. And here I am now. That's amazing. You know, a lot of people aspire for positions like what you're doing with the Golden State Warriors.  What's the day in the life of a physical therapist for the Golden State Warriors? It must be pretty exciting stuff. Yeah, yeah. So my role was definitely two-fold. So first I started with the Santa Cruz Warriors and a day in the life would be anything from prepping them for a practice, having conversations with the coaches, covering practices. So if anything were, anybody were to be injured, just making sure they got tended to rehabs, post-practice treatments, post-practice. And those were just practice days. Game days were a little bit longer with practice in the morning and game day games at night. But the flow was pretty similar. So that was for athletes who were participating. And then of course, from my PT background, for those who were injured or coming back from surgery, I had the ability to create programs to get them back to full. So that was with Santa Cruz and with Golden State, it was similar in that I helped with practices, covering games, and I got the chance to go to Boston with them for the finals, which was incredible. So helping with everything on the road as well. And then everything in the summer league. So we just finished that in Las Vegas. And that, again, had to do with covering pre-practice treatments and rehabs and practices and then our summer league games as well. That's very interesting. Physical activity, you're around top athletes all the time. And looking at the way they prep, not only from a physical but mental standpoint, what are some key takeaways that you have found when working with athletes, specifically basketball players that a lot of people can do in daily life to improve their physical activity? I think the biggest thing is consistency. So sometimes, not just athletes, but all of us, it's easy to fall into sort of being idle, especially when you have some off-time or vacation time or things of that nature for us. It was like off days, but always doing something so that you're moving. You're doing something productive, even if for us who are not athletes, going on walks every day or having a timer. I mean, now there's so many smart things, like watches or phones that you can use to track the calories or your steps.  So that's one thing, especially with athletes is just hitting certain marks. Of course, with them, it's more at an elite level, but nonetheless, it's just setting goals and being consistent with getting to those. Yeah, yeah. Now, when it comes to things like telemedicine, for example, telehealth, do you do any type of virtual work with the Warriors or do you feel like that's the future of how physical therapy is done, potentially, like the virtual space? I think that for us, it's a little bit different because there's so much in terms of having to disclose information to our GMs or coaches. So a lot of what we do, we try to do in person. However, during times like these, which all of our guys are now out somewhere in Europe or South America or somewhere, a lot of things have to be done virtually or through FaceTime because we just can't be everywhere. And so some of that is at least initiating it and then communicating maybe with who might be working with them in those separate countries. I definitely think that outside of like an NBA team, a lot of us do physical therapy virtually with patients across the country. And I think that that's a huge benefit just because a lot of people can't get to places. A lot of people may not have like the resources, but there are certainly a lot of things like you had mentioned earlier that you can do in the house that can help with your overall wellbeing. Yeah, what are some examples of things people can do in the house to improve their overall wellbeing? There are tons of just body weight exercises that you can do. And there's thousands on the internet that you can find that whether it's squats or push-ups or sit-ups, like we've all done something of that nature. If people have a treadmill at home or an exercise bike, that's easy. Or honestly, some people just do laps around their house. I mean, at least you're getting steps in. For us, as you know, we have a very large driveway. And so going up and down your driveway, doing something outdoors, getting some fresh air, doing some breathing exercises, some yoga, those are all things that you can certainly do in the house exercise-wise. And then there's tons of resources in terms of the nutritional things that you can do to help your overall wellbeing as well. Yeah, yeah. Now, talk me through like game day, for example, the players are about ready to take the court.  What's that like for a trainer who's trying to get top NBA athletes, top players on the Warriors ready to take the court? What's that like? Well, it was pretty surreal when I started. But I mean, again, it just kind of goes back to consistency, making sure that every practice is important. And if every practice is treated as such, then games kind of follow suit. So making sure that energy stays and making sure that the guys are physically and mentally in the right place prior to entering the court. So it's definitely something that I was prepped for at UCLA. So the transition actually wasn't too difficult because my mentality was the same. And so, and all these athletes, the athletes that I worked with at UCLA were female and male and working into the NBA with it all being guys like mentality is pretty similar. They want to win. And we're there to help them reach their goal. So just making sure we bring that same energy and expectations and consistency again, that's what helped kind of get them to where they needed to be. Now, a lot of the players, is there a lot of consistency in the goals between the players or is it more of like one player has very different goals than others? Like is there some consistency that you work off of or is it pretty customized? I mean, everybody is so different as individuals. There are some guys on the team that are a little bit more outspoken about their goals. Some guys that are a little bit more quiet, but you appreciate everybody's differences. And I think ultimately, especially with the Golden State Warriors and Santa Cruz Warriors, the ultimate goal was to win basketball games. But one thing that I admire about kind of the framework of the Golden State Warriors is their biggest thing is bringing joy to the gym. So as much as you want to win, you got to do that in a way that brings you joy. And what brings me joy may be different than what brings a person next to me. So it's really finding those individual pieces. And I think if people can continue as much as they can with that mentality, I think that that helps with the overall goal of the organization. Yeah, you know, bringing joy to the gym, it's interesting to mention that about the Warriors because a lot has been written about the team culture there. You know, as a trainer, somebody who works very closely and very embedded in the organization, what type of positive attributes are there about the warrior team culture that you really identify? I think for me, being a first year athletic trainer with the organization, the thing that really sort of caught me off guard was because you hear about the great culture and you hear about so many positive things, but then when you experience it, and for me, it's, you know, there aren't too many women yet in my role, but being a woman of color on the performance team, I never felt like I was isolated. I was always included in a lot of things. As soon as I got there, Coach Kerr got to know me, understood my name, you know, learned my name, wanted to know how I was doing. Turns out we have some mutual friends, you know, like things like that where he really cared about who you were and he didn't have to do that. You know, who am I? I'm just somebody that's sort of new, but that kind of followed suit with everybody, whether it's a video coordinators, obviously my colleagues, but the athletes themselves too, you know, they kind of saw what their leaders in these different positions were doing and followed suit with that. So, and it's the consistency of that, you know, it wasn't just on day one, he said that and then paid me no mind. It was, he was like that throughout the whole season that I was there. That's amazing that, you know, Coach Kerr really just does a great job of connecting not only with the players, but also everybody on the staff as well, it sounds like. Yeah, for sure. And I mean, again, I worked with him and the Golden State team from pretty much April through now, but from October through April, even when I was with Santa Cruz, the same whole held true for all the athletes and we had a coach or we have a coach, his name is Seth Cooper. He was the exact same way. He was our head coach and he led the same way. You know, he really trusted me as soon as I started. He really valued me as a person. And I think that was like the easiest transition from one job to the other I've ever had. So made it very easy for me.  Did you always have like long-term aspirations to work in the NBA, let alone an NBA champion? Did you kind of set some goals for yourself that this is where you wanna be at certain time markers in your life? For sure. I didn't have a timeline because when I was younger, it just seemed so far fetched. So I was like, I don't know when this is going to happen, but I'm gonna make sure this happens. And a lot of that stuff I kept to myself or I just told a few close friends because it seemed especially for like a five one Indian woman so far fetched when we were kids that I didn't really tell too many people, but I always had that in my mind that this is just something that I'm going to do. So. Yeah, because that requires a significant amount of determination and focus, you know? So you must have put a lot of hours into not only developing your craft as a physical therapist, but also the networking side as well, I would think, right? Yeah, for sure. I think for me, I always tell people you can be really skilled at what you do, but if you don't genuinely build good relationships and treat people well, it's only gonna take you so far. Like for me, I think that being able to connect with people is the biggest asset that you can be as a healthcare provider. Cause even for me with athletes, if I just know a lot of stuff, but I don't know how to put two and two together and connect with an athlete, there's that trust factor. So they won't trust me. Yeah, so it took a lot of that. A lot of blood, sweat, tears and consistency and perseverance and a lot of closed doors before getting one to open. You know, we talk a lot about, especially in healthcare to your point, the relationship with the patient. What is that like when you're treating a patient like an NBA champion? Is it, what's it like? I'm sure they confide in you and there's just a lot of, it's a very intense environment that you're working with to begin with, let alone trying to take care of a patient who's also an NBA champ and a top athlete, whether even at UCLA or for the Warriors and what's that relationship like? To be honest, it's treating people similarly. So like when I was a physical therapist for an outpatient clinic, it was a little different in that you see patients like two to three times a week, as opposed to two or three hours a day, seven days a week. But it's still treating people and getting to know people for who they are. These guys are NBA players and NBA champions, but they are great human beings first. And so really trying to get to know them like I did at UCLA and like I did in my outpatient facility, it's similar because they're people first. We're all people first and our profession kind of comes secondary or sometime after that. So my approach was pretty much the same. I just happened to be working with an NBA champion, but they were great guys first, you know?  What are some of the things that create, you know, a certain degree of stress when it comes to making, you know, when it comes to your job? I think like any healthcare professional, you always wanna make sure you're giving people the best. And so sometimes if like an outcome isn't exactly how you had foreseen it to be, I think that has been stressful in the past, but because I've gone through multiple things of that in my like 10 year career of being a physical therapist and athletic trainer, you find ways to compartmentalize it and figure out different avenues. And again, to your point about networking, making those phone calls with people who may have been able to deal with some of situations or outcomes. But those are things in the past that have kind of in some ways kept me up at night is making sure that I'm giving them the best or finding a solution if it didn't turn out as I wanted. Yeah, yeah. Is there a particular moment? Obviously there was a championship, but is there a moment that you reflect on more as a physical therapist where something that very memorable a very memorable experience you had taking care of a patient that you'd like to share with us? Yeah, I mean, for me, a lot of those came at UCLA because I was there for seven years. So some of these athletes I saw from when they were freshmen to seniors and I know I had a couple athletes who I had to rehab back from a surgery to full go. And one of the coolest moments is one of those athletes starting with a surgery in the summer and then fast forward to May and us doing a whole lot of rehab every single day winning a national championship. And that athlete being one of the top players that was the she won an award and all of that. So I think that was my biggest selfishly I felt like I was a small part. She obviously did all the work but being able to be a part of that journey was pretty incredible and gratifying, you put all that. But in addition to that, it's just again, all the stuff that you don't realize that you're doing that you hear, I get texts from my athletes from now like NDA, but also my UCLA athletes who still remember some of the things that I taught them and they're utilizing it in their own ways. Like some of my athletes are playing abroad or playing for USA. And so just that's also pretty nice to know that they were listening and they're taking the tools and using it in a way that in their sport they're able to kind of dominate. Yeah, that's wonderful. You know, we've talked a little bit about the steps that people can do physically to take care of themselves. Now from your experience on the mental health side the psychology, psychological aspects of improving oneself, being a great athlete. What types of techniques and things have you seen that top athletes have used and that we can do on a regular basis to improve our mental health? For sure. I mean, I think we all know of a ton of different apps that are out there that help with breathing or just slowing your mental side down especially before going to bed. So breathing exercises, meditation, yoga obviously some people truly benefit from talking to somebody else so whether that's seeing a psychologist, psychiatrist so those types of things finding somebody to talk to really journaling. There are so many ways that you can help your own mental health and everybody's different. So what may work for me may not necessarily work for you or somebody else but that's what I've seen and I'm really happy to know that it's becoming a lot more spoken about. And so there's not this as much of a stigma in terms of that for everybody whether an athlete or non-athlete just across the board. So you're seeing, that's an interesting point. So you're seeing about equal emphasis on the physical aspects for athletes as well as the mental health it's becoming about the same in terms of how athletes are preparing. Yeah, and I think the best thing about that is athletes are advocating for it. It's not just healthcare providers but once you see athletes advocating like when I was at UCLA I would initiate certain things but it was my athletes who would take off and once an athlete sees their teammate speaking up about it and feeling like it's okay it just became like a domino effect. And so I think that that's probably the most powerful thing that I've seen between when I started this profession and now. Yeah, you're breaking barriers across the board. You described, you're in terms of gender in terms of race, in terms of goals for people who want to aspire to where you want to do the things that you're doing now to get to this stage. What advice would you give them for those that want to achieve levels that you are achieving now? I would say that be prepared for a lot of hard work but as long as you're persistent, consistent and genuine in your intentions I mean, you can achieve anything. If I could get here I feel like everybody can get here as long as you put in the work for it and above all else, like I've always said like treat people well. And I'll always say that, it's a lot of what happened and the doors that I've opened are because I just happened to network and become close with people and genuine. I tried to build genuine relationships to where I think at UCLA a lot of things happened and I was able to become close with people because of who I was and just being consistent with that. And I've always said I will never step on somebody to get to where I am. So just, I would just give that advice because it's a cutthroat environment. But just understand that that's kind of the direction that a lot of sports are going into is hiring good people. So I'm not saying force yourself to be a good person just be genuine in what you're doing, know what you don't know and whatever you don't know, feel free to seek out resources for it but just be consistent and persistent and understand that you'll have some doors closed on you but just keep pushing and eventually one will open. Yeah, yeah, there's obviously people experience setbacks or like you said, the door was closed a couple of times. How did you respond to that when the door was closed? What was your, how did you take it in and how did you channel that energy to say, look, I'm not gonna be held back. I have goals I wanna pursue. I'm gonna do it. How'd you go about doing that when the doors were initially closed for you? For sure. I mean, not to lie, but I was, it was tough. Initially just you feel defeated. You feel like you're not sure if you wanna continue and but then having good people around to really bounce ideas off of and allowing yourself to feel those feelings I think is important.  I think it's important to understand what you feel and then understand what your goals are and then being able to change your mindset. Like, okay, so this team didn't want me. Let me figure out who they hired and what that person has that I don't have. Like maybe there's a skill set. Maybe my interviewing was not as great. Like, okay, what are some things I can do better instead of sulking about the fact that I didn't get it. So it's okay to be upset for a day or two. But I think that after that you gotta find a solution. You gotta find solutions to change your outcome. So and sometimes it's multiple times. It wasn't just one or two doors that were shut. There were dozens of doors that were shut before one got open. So it's like fine tuning that maybe figuring out what it is and talking to people. And I now have quite a few mentors who are in the NBA and just bouncing that off of them. Like, what do you think I should do? What are some things that are out there that I'm not knowing and how can I research? What are some skills I can, what are some certifications I can get or skills I can develop? Just always trying to make yourself better is kind of my approach after that. Yeah, I always think about these athletes like it could be like Michael Jordan, for example, where their game adapted over time. What used to be like, I'm just gonna take it to the basket. I'm gonna try and dunk every time. Later in his career became a lot more focused on jump shots, fade away jump shots. And it looks like you did the same thing. Evolve, take the feedback and then just improve yourself going forward and not be defeated. For sure. I mean, I think that's with anybody in their profession. If you wanna fine tune your craft, whether you're an athlete or a healthcare provider, whatever it is, if that's truly what you wanna do, then be open to feedback. I think that's where sometimes people get scared if somebody gives you feedback, sometimes people shut down, instead of taking it, obviously it should be constructive, but taking it and saying, okay, this might be something that I should be able to add to my repertoire or get better at. Yeah, yeah.  How do you keep yourself? And when you're not on the court, what are your activities? I love when I can, finding time to just hang out with some friends. Like I don't necessarily like going out, but I love having people over, going to people's homes, catching up with old friends, whether it's high school, college, childhood friends, it's like my favorite thing. Like having people over making dinner, obviously working out as a big one too. When I have time, that's something that I try to do because I do like to eat well. So it's just finding that balance, making sure that I take care of my body as well. So, oh, and travel. Travel is another big one for me too. That's awesome.  I mean, I just really wanna thank you for being on the show and talking about your experiences. I mean, it's just, it's an incredible story, not just to hear about, but for many people to learn from, you know, breaking barriers, overcoming obstacles, becoming a champion, but also having the humility and just the way you've carried yourself. I mean, it's really incredible and I just can't thank you enough for being on the show. Well, I appreciate you so much, Vic. And I appreciate the support that you and Shanti have given me through the years. It's been incredible. So I'm very grateful and grateful to be here on your show too. Yeah. Now, we thank you so much. Wish you all the best and thank you for providing your insight. Thank you. Thank you so much for watching Think Tech Hawaii. If you like what we do, please like us and click the subscribe button on YouTube and the follow button on Vimeo. You can also follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn and donate to us at thinktechawaii.com. Mahalo.


Talking stuff in a violent room Platinum blonde tall and fine. She got an attitude all these years I've been singing the lyrics wrong adding my own disposition to Dorothy's a scorekeeper I keep track of how many times I waited up how many bitches I got called won't stop till I'm done and good But that day will come I tell the sky sunny on one side dark and plump with hailstones on the other I Talked with plants all day. It made me sane all work week just selling time just buying pretty and all its forms Eating it ravenously. I had to Google what healing even means the other day One has to ask when one is stupid enough to go back for more Back to one who cocoons himself in rolling papers never adapted to the real world survival of the stunted stubborn and mean as a barnacle I Always love as I imagine them never the real deal find myself here again fighting with lovers past What I saw in you not visible to the human eye is how your sweat don't stink How you palm the basketball of my skull shrink me down all soft and pliable on your tongue like juicy fruit Just like the old days nothing good about them Okay, and then I'm gonna go with super old stuff Because my dad's been on my mind what changed when daddy died I gave his stuff away Just gave it hoarders came first with pickup trucks then back with trailers attached They emptied those storage lockers at Playboy Penthouse Scientific American kerosene lamps oil painting sandal making equipment from the 50s wood boxes cardboard boxes more boxes And I had him burned in a plain wood box with his old felt cowboy hat and a hand-woven sweater his ditzy girlfriend picked Dad lose the bimbo. We'd said but she lost him instead He paid on those storage lockers for 30 some years moved all that stuff up the mountain and back down his ball and chain We turned his pistols into cold hard cash split it between us like drug dealers All the real silver had gone to drug dealers back in the 80s the cocaine years And we just gave his shit away his reason for never visiting us never moving out west with us his other daughter Unclaimed heaving heavy pieces into the arms of collectors. This is how she experienced him through his stuff It was that or his words and trust me his words were even more pervasive He was a talker is what I'm saying these junkmen they had a big barn a great big barn to put it all in Said they wish they could have met him. They liked his hoarder style I did my time clearing paths through car parts and paintings journals tractors snow plows dogs and so many damn cats Circling food bowls like weed and camel smoke yellowed the ceilings He held on to broken pieces of his Park Avenue upbringing Revealed in his disregard of it the mud-seizing chaos tracked in from the door yard Lugged in with lanterns and pee buckets to make it through the night without tiptoeing cold feet in snow And when he died that's what changed those old rounded fingernails a warm hand big soft lips Cold and dead burned up in a plain wood box carried back to the mountain Dumped into snow with Styrofoam cups by his children and our mother's red nose But not crying not sentimental us. That's what changed the hands and the money and the money changed hands This is my opinion. So please never offer me any goat cheese is an abomination The door was heavy a loop of twine as handle I often struggled with falling backwards on the wooden ramp Worrying the fat sack to gray speckled barn spiders afraid They would lower on to my head and the goats running from the barn Especially bucket with the biggest horns the meanest disposition They had goats that chased kids and adults that found it amusing at Sweepies house it was hard to get so much as a drink of water having to stand on something to pump The bathroom was the whole outdoors no outhouse or bucket no electric light or lantern Just grab toilet paper by the door and find a spot away from the goats and the spiders Which meant surely holding it in all night long and not adding bed wetter to the embarrassment each night I sobbed I want to go home I want my mom till dawn at home when I thought about spiders I loud cried till mom turned a light on here There were no lights and there was no mom sweepies mother wasn't tender like that with me She'd say why did you bring her here?  They've long since got electricity and running water I love a thousand-day Gouda almost as much as sex, but people please what's with the goat cheese? I don't want it on my salad or looking tempting on baguette goat milk tastes like helplessness and fear Like licking the barn's dirt floor the twitching tail and shifty eye Don't talk to me about goats or goat yoga or goat cheese even if it has a creamy French name Love is unruly dark and early morning your face a rough cheek saw rough cheek soft kiss your neck I'm crying in the car on podcast the artist speaks of painting black bodies of fame and ego I think of all the colors in your skin how I long to polish the red tones sandalwood sweet The artist has the last name of a man who beat me up. You would never hurt me, but I am hurt by you Brilliant and incarcerated braggadatio should be yours art is your bone structure I think about your wrist that small mark of beauty you rising to the hoop Intelligence that transmits physically even unlike my own awkward and still you get me you got me I consider jailhouse marriage a future of separation. Isn't that what it's always been? Whichever two people locked up by fear and capitalism the artist speaks of desire you and me We see each other ageless and without shame When you left our visit after strip search back in the dorm you check on the kittens your family Inmates are eager to burst your smile wipe my kiss from your lips hating their soft turn up Eager to tell you one of your babies is dead a child molester has stepped on and killed that tender bit of mulling life He doesn't know it was the loss of a baby that brought you to the edge Flooded with your father if you're of turning into him now you live in a dorm of him Try to differentiate yourself each day tires and treat sirens Sirens and tires, there's no trees in there Squill off Fruitvale grocery bags blow sky glows from the Coliseum's light sad sack city flat and broke Streets filled with trash a sofa blocks a driveway Burnt rubber in the orangey air cornmeal between hands larding gray plastic containers Someone is keeping bees in the empty lot at the end of our street Slabs of jagged concrete stacked at the side of chain link and weeds There's hope in bee boxes someone is composting while someone else empties blunt wrappers from their car onto the ground Where they'll float into my yards, which are sweet join my chimes in the wind winds dance My neighbors started a marigold farm over the decrepit fence I reach from a ladder grab my cat his fat fur tangled in the wisteria I see the yellow flowers rose and rose of gold like a dream The people just moved out from next door to me every time it's always interesting to see who's gonna move in I missed the marigold farm Vices and virtues I was driving that old yellow Impala me and Steve when the engine died and we pushed it into a parking space We were on our way to buy alcohol the thing we did together I wanted so much more the parking space turned out to be in front of a house He lived in by chance the people came out an older couple both dreadlocked in dark skinned in a small white town We lived Steve mixed up beige and me pale and insecure the woman beckoned us beckoned us in I was worried about my car But she insisted she sent Steve to price choppers for wine sat me on her couch I did what she asked appreciating but not trusting Steve poured wine and disappeared in the back with her man She pulled out the tarot cards. I was no believer She shuffled and spread truth in everything. She said I was spooked She didn't do it for money, but she saw money behind me like a ghost dad's trust fund how it haunted him She said you were pregnant, but you lost it. No, you had an abortion recently. You're grieving I was shook looking for ways. She might have seen me at that clinic wondering if she worked there remembering my feet and force ups Vulnerable searching my brain for faces. I had seen their frantic the flowered poster on the wall and deceptic the boy whose child It was how I never gave him a say.   I was shaking my head no at the lady No, that's not true. You can't know that about me.  I never get near anyone's cards as she instructed me to be cautious I barely remember her how she lured me in how she read me up and down like the pages of a book paper thin and revealed Probably should have printed some better copies and smolder. I used to buck the system. I used to hide behind youth I used to break it off my heart Himalayan sea salt my platelets tectonic my hips shifting to accommodate babies and lovers Aking wide open and bruised where he grabs me. I keep telling him I want to know him most certainly my mistake his lips will never sink in as flawless teeth grazing the fruit of mind His length reaching soft new parts of me his baby skin surprising like his dead-ass stare Head thrown back in sleep. He'll disappoint if I push lose all the sublime Strangeness of his touch leaving a mortal snore. I tell myself leave it Like training a dog known to carry on with a bone till I've bitten my own tongue I keep dating lesser of kissers lesser liquors just to pass the time I used to piss barefoot in snowstorms walked a mile uphill and down My no look back 3,000 miles long and lasted lifetimes made of grit and maple wood my backbone the frame of 57 Chevy I'm heavy have wings and cat's eyes red lips that sink ships leave landmines behind I'll fall in love a thousand times in one late night Hate him the next day when he fails to call. I'll stand up swinging bow out quiet lower rage to simmer Spoon slowly and open my hungry shell for each of them. I'll offer pink and tender flesh so easy to ruin So difficult to repair Appeals the drunk wife of your friend tells me to take care of myself What she means is don't wait don't bother celibate and dusty. I squirm not in smile I'm drunk too, but I've plateaued Wonder how you'd feel to hear this even though she says those are your words from their visit They're not your words on mine. I'm okay. I say not really can't say I love this other man How much I've loved him since I was 17 hating him equally how much he'll gut me again with a cold viciousness After a year I walk away.  What I am what am I worried about? I've never had a relationship last eight years. You are bound to come home to a more battered But single me even if I dive headlong even if I could not stand to be alone None of those things right or wrong like the crimes or in the crimes that caused the crimes We are all as gray as the buildings that house you peeling and old I'm having my third been life crisis still have something to prove. What does healing look like? I've asked dictionary comm a thousand times read essays about confronting about not hurting the same Got so mad I smashed plates on the front of his house. So sad. I soaked his t-shirt with tears He said nothing dark silhouette in my bed. I define my healing by replacement Replacing one silhouette for another no idea if I'll still be here eight years from now when you come home Okay, so I'm gonna read just one from collapse and leave it at that I was also thinking about this week and gun violence, and I'm just gonna give you some Jihad live tweet People on get people are getting stupider angrier my face Lynch mobbers coming out the woodwork Typing their idiocy into the stratosphere coming stewed up and strapped up to a Ferguson near you face flags and fake news reality show called election War said the world is a ghetto Malcolm said the chickens would come home to roost Push so long they'll show up on your doorstep wolves at their heels.  They will not welcome you to their land of the free They will send contractors to make more money off you while you climb from under the wreckage They dropped so much ammunition when you tripped and fell they accused you of strapping the bomb to your belly Thing is you never even left East Oakland, and they had a story about a replica pistol awfully fast I'm starting to realize the whole world is a ghetto and the chickens are coming home to roost Thank you


Live from Orlando, Florida, it's theCUBE. Covering Cisco Live 2018. Brought to you by Cisco, NetApp, and theCUBE's ecosystem partners. Hey, welcome back everyone. We're here live at Cisco 2018, Cisco Live 2018. It's theCUBE Live coverage here in Orlando, Florida. I'm John Furrier with Stu Miniman, my co-host. For the next three days of live coverage, our next guest is Brooks Portriding, Presidency of Live Action and Darren Kimura, Chief Strategy Officer and Vice-Chair for Live Action. Fresh off the heels of a great acquisition. Next generation monitoring, networking. Welcome to theCUBE. Thanks for joining us. Good to see you again. So love, love the action going on, literally live action with M&A activity. You guys got some good news happening around the company. But also Cisco's event here really is perfectly poised for what you guys are doing. The CEO on stage literally saying to his army of customers, this old way is now old. This is the new modern era and really talking about what is multi-cloud basically. And so his entire army of customers are moving to next generation. So it's right intersects with what you guys are doing. So take a minute to talk about live action and the news. So I think first of all, live action, we've always been known to be a leader in network management. We've worked very, very closely with Cisco for a dozen years. And what we help companies do is take the complexity of the management of their large networks. So that's been the core fundamental value proposition that we've always delivered is how we simplified the network in these increasingly complex environments. So what's interesting now with this period of time is networks continue to become more and more complex. You have things like digital transformation. You have things like cloud and multi-cloud and hybrid cloud. You have things like software defined networks. Each of them in their own right just makes the wide area that much more complex. And more endpoints every day. I think he threw a stat out, another couple hundred million endpoints are coming now. So it's not ending. That's true. And in that market transition, it gives us a great opportunity because our core value proposition has always been simplifying the network. Now that's even more essential than ever before. What are the critical problems that come out of that? Obviously, it's a tsunami of endpoints as one. We heard the security threats with encryptions and other one. So the need to instrument seems obvious, but also it's almost overbearing. Like what do you do? How do you guys see the core problems that you're attacking? Why don't you take that? Well, I think the big, what we're trying to do at Live Action is simplify the network. That's really at the core of everything we're trying to do. And when we talk to our customers, we understand from them that most times they might have four, 10 different tools. So the first thing we're trying to do is figure out what are the biggest use cases and combine them all into one singular tool. And that's what we're producing at Live Action is the ability for you to see your entire network from end to end, east-west and north-south. So as we take a look at things like the cloud environment, you know, what exactly is that, right? Is it north-south? It's all of the above. And what we're trying to do at Live Action is have a full stack application that can basically provide visibility and analytics so you can understand all of it in one place. So any vector, no matter what it is, and certainly that makes sense with the perimeter gone. Yes. It certainly has to have that baseline. Right. All right, so we'll give you a good example of that as now with the whole software-defined network and what we're doing with SD Access, for example. But now we're going back into the data center and there's these complex terms around the overlay network and underlay network and logical and physical and it's becoming incredibly complex. We give you the ability to actually see the flows like through those complex fabrics. And that's an essential toolkit now because you need to be able to find out when there's an issue. Where is that coming from, right? That is the, what is the source of the issue? How quickly can you identify that and how quickly can you then remediate it? Before you get there, I want to follow up on that because one of the focus with here in DevOps side is automation. If you can't see it, how do you know to automate it? Right. Is that coming through the dialogue or is that? That is the dialogue for us here. So we provide situational awareness. We help for our end users to understand what's happening across their networks real time. And then we work with Cisco, for example, hand-in-hand on the intent-based network. So being able to provide insights for the next generation of the products to be able to actually take action. Yeah, one of the things we've been watching in the networking space for many years is the use of analytics. And you recently made an acquisition, really ties into that space. Why don't you give us what led to the acquisition? Yeah, so we had news on Friday. And to be fair, I mean, Darren's been leading this charge for us for quite some time because we've been a net flow-based solution for a long period of time. Meaning that we can provide visualization for the devices that we have integrations with, essentially. There's a lot of devices that don't have net flow. So we couldn't actually capture them into our visualization engine. So what we did on Friday is we announced the acquisition of Savius. And Savius is a packet capture and inspection technology company. Been around a long time, so very famous products with OmniPeak and OmniFliance, for example, that are consumed by thousands of customers. And now we're able to, with that appliance, actually tap into all sorts of devices and suddenly propagate all of that into our visualization engine. So it opens up a dramatically larger addressable opportunity for us. And we're kind of defining this to be the next generation of network performance management because no one else is doing this visualization across that scope of devices like we are. Your observation space is massive now. It is. Yeah, Darren, I wonder if you could follow up that because one of the big questions I had coming into this is if I'm a networking person, what about all that networking that I don't control anymore, that I'm on the hook for it? It's, you know, we actually, the network here went down even for a few minutes and we're like, we're here at Cisco Live with, you know, probably the largest single concentration of network people and wireless experts and the like. So, yeah. So one of the things that we're trying to do now is we're trying to capture all data from basically all endpoints, whether it be a client to a server, a VM container, doesn't matter what it is. We want to see it all. We want to get it from the granular, most granular packet level all the way up. But take all of that data and make it simple for people to understand and put it on a simple UI, understand a very simple workflow so that they can automatically associate problem or good network behaviors right there on screen, without having to, you know, go through the 5,000 page Cisco manual and really understand what exactly is going on. Okay. I think what's important about that is how quickly can you identify the source of the issue? That's really where we come into play. We talk a lot even these days about MTTR, mean time to resolution. That continues to be an essential kind of metric that people measure. But what's more important to that even is the initial diagnostic. So is it the network? Is it, you know, something at the edge of the network? Is it the service provider? You know, where in the network does this happen? And by being able to provide that essential information to the first point of contact, it really does help expedite and accelerate the entire process. Easy acceleration. Daren, I want to ask you a point, I'm sorry to interrupt, but on the acquisition, help the customers that you had on one side understand the benefits of the NetFlow integrations and the NetFlow customers understand the new benefits. What is the customer's orientation? What should they do? I mean, how should they understand the new live action? Yeah, so what we've added on is the ability for us to diagnose at a significantly deeper level. So one of the things live action has always been really good at is voice and video. But we do it at a NetFlow level. So the problem is when we try to get down to the very granular level, what exactly is going on? Where is it happening? We're blind to that, frankly. Now with the packet capture technology, we can actually go all the way down and capture down to the millisecond and be able to look back over time and understand exactly where the problem occurred. And that allows our users to actually go in and fix it once and for all. And what are they solving with that problem? More point problems, solution versus resolution, routing and policy, where does it value? It's all of it, it's all of it. Understand where the packets are dropped. Understand, we get down to deep packet inspection. So understanding applications and users and who really is having the problem and why. Fake news, maybe, can help us identify all the fake news out there. I haven't thought about that yet. That's the Russia's packet. That's the Russia's packet. We've been talking in the network, the surface area has continued to grow as we push out to the edge, push out to SaaS, push out to public clouds. How's that impacting you and your customers? So we're definitely trying to stay ahead of that with a few things that we've done recently. So one of them is, for example, we now have an agent that we can deploy onto servers and workstations in a mass quantity. So you can now get those elements to be fed into your visualization network as well. We also have the ability to deploy that type of concept into the cloud and into SaaS applications so we can then get a pulse coming from them. And so we're starting to correlate all of that together into the same type of workflow. Yep. Guys, take a minute to talk about the relationship with Cisco. Obviously we're here at Cisco Live, their show. They got their priorities pretty laid out. They got a lot of work to do. And we heard the CEO talk about some of the pressure they're under with the security alone. I mean, they're running huge networks, networks are changing. What are you guys doing next?  How are you taking that to the next level with Cisco? What are some of the things on your radar, on your horizon that you could share? Well, I think we worked so closely with Cisco and the Cisco Enterprise Networking Team that we're often looking ahead of the curve as far as where we want to develop and invest in next. For example, you see that with the way we're prototyping the SD Access and Cat9K management. So we did that in Barcelona actually about six months ago. So we were the first out with that. We're doing the exact same thing now with DNA Center and integration with DNA Center. So they're able to talk about how live action as a third party is integrating into their framework and extending that framework out for a lot of new innovation. Your strategy is to go deep with Cisco. You go down as deep as you can, get everyone geared up on the engineering side.  Absolutely. That's been our strategy since day one. It's been an awesome partnership for us. I think we've been able to bring a different point of view and also provide validation, a third party perspective for the end user to understand and have confidence on what exactly the network is doing. I get this all the time. Entrepreneurs of Silicon Valley always asked me about Cisco and Cisco's had a sustained track record of letting partners take big white spaces. To them, it's a white space to accompany an IPO potential. So this is a Cisco thing. Talk about that dynamic as you guys seem to be really solving a big problem and they're happy with it. I think what we've, to your point about white space, I think what live action has been able to really effectively do is be a strong partner to complement the solution that Cisco is already putting out there. So as Brooks had mentioned, in our past we worked very closely with the Cisco Prime team and we brought in things like visualization, for example, quality of service configuration. And as the infrastructure began to, I guess change over time, through IWAN and now into Viptela, we bring the same kind of ideas. We bring the same posture to the party, if you will, meaning that we try to make it, we try to understand what Cisco product management is doing and bring what we do best, the situation awareness, visibility, action ability to that. All right, one of my final questions is, bumper sticker the bottom line for your customers. With the acquisition on Friday, with what you guys got on Cisco, what's the bottom line for your customers? What are they going to see? What's the immediate headline for the customer? So we've adopted this tagline of defining the next generation of network management and we think we have a very unique position in defining where that market is going now with the acquisition of Savius and what we're doing with the ability to visualize all these different elements. There really isn't anybody out there that's doing anything close to that as far as how we're making it easy to manage increasingly complex networks. It's as simple as that. We've had great conversations here already with many of some of the largest companies in the world and what they're looking for is, I need help to simplify. And run at a high level. That's right, to deliver the service levels that I'm expected to hold to my Fortune 500 type of enterprise, I need better tools to help me cope with this increasing complexity. Brooks and Darren, I'm going to put you on the spot for the last question. Where it's day one of Cisco Live, what's the big story you see emerging? I know it's day one, we've got two more days, but you can almost see the smoke screen coming and the signals there. What is the top story coming out of Cisco Live 2018 in your opinion? I still see software defined WAN as being massive. I think that, I think I still his answer. But you know, it's been a topic for such a long time, but now we're seeing the implementations happen and it's so exciting because it's actually bringing real change to networking, something we haven't seen in 10 plus years. What's different about SD WAN than in what the promises were, say five years ago? That's happening now. What's happening differently? Now people are actually monetizing it. So now it's enterprise ready. I think Cisco led the whole industry a step forward with the acquisition of Viptella and increased kind of the pace of the maturity of those offerings. And now that it's six months in, they're being adopted at scale. You have a lot of reference cases now that people are using it. They're getting, driving the monetary benefit from it. You know, they're taking this step into software defined and we're kind of in that mainstream adoption phase is what I would say right now. Thanks so much for sharing. Great commentary. Congratulations on the success. The new acquisition and the continued integration deep with Cisco.  Of course, we're here with all the live action coverage both live action company and also live cube action here at Cisco Live 2018. Here, stay with us. Three days of wall to wall coverage. I'm John Furrier with Stu Miniman. We'll be right back after this short break. Thank you.


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Joe and Gay, hello, and congratulations. I'd like to thank Professor Chiapa so much for inviting me to your retirement dinner and for letting me send my love by video since I'm on vacation the week of the big event. I know you've done a tremendous amount of good in your years teaching writing at MIT. In addition to guiding students with their projects, you've demonstrated the way a working writer lives his craft, getting the job done day after day after day. As I should know, because I just checked and found out that I have been your editor since 1997. And I'm luckier than MIT, since as far as I know, you're not planning on retiring from writing.  Congratulations, Joe, and have a wonderful retirement. Hi, Joe. I'm really sorry that I can't be at your retirement dinner. And I really wish that I could be there to give you a hug and say best wishes on your retirement. Since I can't, I'll say it from here. Joe, you're one of my favorite writers. You're one of my favorite teachers. And you're one of my favorite people. And I feel like it's a great loss to MIT that you're leaving them, although I'm sure that it's going to be great for you to have more time for your writing. To MIT, I'd like to say you guys are losing a treasure. I'm sure you already know that. And the only comfort that you have is that you still will have Joe's terrific works. I'd recommend that if you start missing him, you go read, oh, say, Graves or None So Blind, or The Hemingway Hoax, or The Forever War, my very favorite novel, and one that I think about all the time. So you still have those works. I'm sorry you won't have Joe. Best wishes to all of you. And again, I'm really sorry I couldn't be there. Bye, Joe. Hello, Joe. It's a great pleasure to be able to talk to you. On the occasion of this great celebration, I'm proud of you as everyone is. I want to say that I had one of the greatest conversations of my life with you at a convention in which I responded to your query about my well-being with the sentence, well, Joe, my whole life hurts a lot less now. And I want to mention The Hemingway Hoax, which is my favorite of all your books, so beautiful, so complex, and yet so clear, I cried at the last line. I just wanted to thank you because the debt I owe you cannot possibly be expressed. Or if it's expressed in words, it's expressed in the words that I've written ever since then. I had a story this year that was a finalist on the Stoker ballot for what they refer to as long fiction that was published in Asma's last fall. I've landed on ballot after ballot after ballot for my fiction. And I really appreciate that. And I also think that I teach fiction at Swarthmore College and other places, in part because of you, because I think you instilled in me a kind of sense of you have to pay it forward, that you show other people what you know. You work with other people. You get other people published. You do everything you can for them, even quietly, even bribing the Clarion staff. And I taught at Clarion this past summer. I taught the first week at San Diego and loved it once again and feel like, in a way, I've come full circle because of you, gone from being a student at Clarion to having now taught at Clarion four times. So anyway, I wanted to thank both of you for everything, for years and years of friendship that doesn't need to be repaid, does it? Certainly, I don't know what else to say about that. I love being your friend. I will continue to be your friend, even when you don't drink anything anymore. And we're both sober. I thank you for everything. And that's really about all I have to say, I think. Yeah, so thanks. I hope both of you are having a really good time. And finally, I just want to note because of the way your screen thing works, you don't realize that I'm, in fact, not wearing pants. Thank you, and good night. Hey, Joe, happy retirement. You may think you're retiring, so you'll have a lot more time to sit in the sun in a hammock and play guitar. But we're all hoping that it means you'll have a lot more time to write a lot more books and stories. Joe and Gay. Oh, my God. Best is to friends, greatest of allies, and peerless of colleagues. It's not the same around here without you guys. You guys clasped up the joint. And really, we don't get as much sun without the two of you here. We miss you so much. We miss you so much. And I just can't thank you enough for your friendship and your kindness. And I miss seeing your faces. I miss you guys very much, and I just send you all my love. Yeah, and after all, I ain't nobody around here writing lines like, he didn't tell me he was from another world, and I didn't tell him I was from the future. Thank you so much, you guys. Bye.