Suspense and the producer of radios outstanding theater of thrills, the master of mystery and adventure, William M. Robson. In the most banal cliche, in the most tiresome platitude, there is a hard core of truth. The sickening saccharine cult of momism is built upon the solid eternal fact that there is no substitute for a mother. Fathers just aren't capable of coping with the problems which mothers daily face and solve. Our story concerns one such a father, and a problem much, much too big for him. Listen, listen then, as Mr. John McIntyre stars in John Barbie and Son, which begins in just a moment. We have together ample capacity in freedom to defend freedom. This is NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. NATO nations trust each other, proof? Well, since the advent of NATO, the amount of information which member governments exchange concerning their armed forces and their economic and financial positions is greater and more detailed than any which allies have ever before exchanged whether in time of war or peace. The United States of America is a part of NATO. You should be aware of and alert to the objectives and programs of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. And now, John Barbie and Son, starring Mr. John McIntyre, a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. I'm afraid, Mary. For the first time since you've been gone, I'm afraid. I'm going to have to break my promise. I've tried, I've kept him out of sight like you told me to. I did just like you used to do when you were here, Mary. But it was the kitten that wandered onto the place today. Carl didn't mean no harm. What he did, he didn't mean to do. It was just that he'd never held one in his arms before. And now they're coming for him tonight from the home. If I could somehow just put him off for one more night. Oh, Mary, it would be easier if you were here. Carl, I told you to stay in your room. You hear that? They've come for you.  One moment. You're to stay in your room and not make a sound. You ought to be very quiet.  Now if you do as I say, I might be able to keep you here one more night. Coming. Yes? Mr. Barbie? Yes. I'm Mr. Wilt from the home. I've come for your son. Well, I know, but the boy's ill. Oh, well, you'll take good care of him far better than you can hear. But I'm afraid it's something contagious. He's broke out in a rash. Well, are you sure? Yes, he's got some sort of red spots all over him. Well, I wouldn't want to run the risk of infection. I mean for the others at the home, of course. Of course. Well, that's what I mean, Mr. Wilt. Yeah, well, perhaps I better have a look at it. Oh, please, Mr. Wilt, the boy's asleep. Well, we'll have to wake him then. No, you don't understand, Mr. Wilkie. He's miserable, since he knows he has to go. Don't wake him. Well, you have my sympathy, Mr. Barbie, but I have my orders. Well, you could bring a doctor the first thing in the morning. Then you'd be sure of no one catching anything from him. Well, I suppose I could do that. What about the neighbors? Well, they won't know. They'd never even seen him before today. And it hadn't been for the kitten. Well, I can't go into that with you now, Mr. Barbie. The animal is dead. However, under the circumstances, it might be better if I brought the doctor back with me in the morning. Yes, thank you, Mr. Wilkie. But the boy is not to leave the house.  Yes, yes. All right, we'll be here at nine sharp in the morning. Good night. Good night. Carl. It's all right, Carl. You could stay one more night. I promised your mother that I'd never let them take you away. That I'd do anything before I let them do that. I know what happens to him at that home. I've seen him after they've been there a while. They'd be better off. I know what we'll do, Carl. We'll go away tonight. Just you and me. We'll go so far away they'll never find us. Here comes a truck, Carl. Listen carefully. You have to hide in the bushes by the side of the road here. I'm going to flag him. Now, if he stops to pick me up, you're at a time in the back of the truck without him seeing you. You're not to make a sound.  Now, get in the bushes. Hello, senor. You have some trouble? Could you give me a ride to San Diego? Sure. Come on, get in. Thank you. Oh, just a moment. Does it matter if something is wrong? My glasses. I seem to have lost my glasses. Had them a minute ago. I'll just look around back here. You need a flashlight? No, not ever mind. Now, get in the back of the truck, Carl. That's a good boy. Well, I found him. The television unit.  A little older than most you see on the highways? Oh, no. I don't mean that. But what's the matter? You have a car trouble? I don't have a car. You hear that noise? What was that? Oh, that's my kitten. Kitten? See, I picked him up in San Pedro. He's a cute little kitten. I got a box all fixed up for him in the back of the truck. A kitten? What's the matter? Well, my billfold, I seem to have lost it. You lose it? When did that happen? Well, I don't know. I guess back where I dropped my glasses. I had it then. If you just let me out here, I'll catch another ride back. Sure, sure. I'm sorry, sir.  Well, no, no, thank you very much. It'll be all right. Well, good luck. I hope you find it. Well, just a moment. The back end of your truck's open. Oh, hey, better fix it. No, no, don't get out. I'll close it for you. Oh, gracias, señor.  Well, it's all right now. You can drive on. How's the kitten? He's all right. You can drive on now. Muchas gracias. Hasta la vista, señor. Carl? Carl, you don't have to hide anymore. He's gone now.  You did just like I told you to. And you didn't touch the kitten at all, did you? In a moment, we continue with the second act of suspense. In the democracy in which we live, the concept of the Medal of Honor is something which goes beyond the medal itself, something which goes beyond the deeds of valor. The concept is not a material thing. It is an idea, an ideal, which springs from the deepest roots of all that is best in humanity. It stands for the democratic tradition of freedom, of liberty, of the code of conduct in which the citizens of the United States of America believe. These ideals do not belong to any one race, creed, or religion of Americans, but to all. Private First Class Sadao S. Munimore of the 100th Infantry Battalion of the United States Army proved the validity of these ideals on April 5, 1945. Pin down by enemy fire from artillery and machine guns in the hilly Cerevesa section of the Apennine Mountains, P. F. C. Munimore found himself in charge of his squad after the corporal had been killed. During a lull in the shelling, the men advanced, but were forced to take cover from machine gun fire. Grabbing some hand grenades, P. F. C. Munimore rushed forward and demolished the enemy machine gun nest. Again, the men advanced, but another machine gun forced them to take cover. Munimore continued his assault with grenades and destroyed another machine gun. The enemy opened up with grenades. Munimore crawled back from Mora ammunition to a shell crater that shielded two of his men. As he reached the edge, an enemy grenade bounced off his helmet and into the crater. He immediately dove into the crater and smothered the deadly grenade blast. For saving two lives at the cost of his own, Private First Class Sadao Munimore was awarded the Medal of Honor. Devotion to his men and to his duty exemplified the highest ideals of the Code of Conduct. And now, starring Mr. John McIntyre, back to of John Barbie and Son. We made San Diego after all, didn't we, car? Now we'll get a room and get some rest. Eh, this looks like a nice place. But I better go in alone. It wouldn't be good for anybody to cease together. Don't wait here on this bench. But you're not to talk to anyone, I understand. No one. Ah, good evening. I'd like to have a room, please. You're lucky I've got just one single left. You haven't a double? Oh, sorry I haven't. Aren't you alone? Well, I am, but I prefer a double bed. I'm afraid you're going to have trouble finding any kind of a room in San Diego tonight. There's a big convention in town. We're lucky to have this one. All right, I'll take it. I'll have to. Have a sign here, please. It's not really a small bed. It's three-quarter size. Here's your key. Oh, that's fine. Thank you. Oh, could you tell me, is it on the ground floor? No, it isn't. Had you wanted it on the ground floor? Yes, you see, I'm a little nervous about fire. Oh, well, there's a fire escape just down the hall probably. Well, then, it'll be all right then. I've got to get... I mean, I'm going out for a minute. I'll be right back. Thank you. I'm right behind you, Carl. And nothing to be afraid of. You've never been on a fire escape before, have you? Fun, isn't it? There's only a little ways now. Here, take my arm. Ah, here we are. Now, you stay back until I look in the window first. See if anyone's in the hallway. It's all right. Come on, I'll help you through. Someone's coming. Stay out there.  Don't make a sound. Oh, Mr. Wilson. Hello. Well, aren't you in the wrong end of the hallway? Well, yes, I'm... Can't you find your room? Well, yes, but I was just looking around. Oh, the fire escape. I see.  Well, I am a little nervous. Yes, well, I understand. Would you like me to show you how to get out on your own? No, no, thank you. I've been out there already. You have? Well, you feel better about it. Yes, yes, thank you. Well, is there anything else I can do for you? No, I'll be getting to my room now. I guess we better close this window. That fog's getting pretty thick. I'll close it. Well, good night, Mr. Wilson. I hope you sleep well. Good night. All right, come on, Carl. Careful now. Follow me quickly. You hungry, Carl? I'll get us something to eat. Then we'll get a good night's rest. Office. This is Mr. Wilson in 314. Yes, Mr. Wilson. Could you send up some food? Oh, I'm sorry, Mr. Wilson, but room service is closed. You? You're welcome. Can you imagine that, Harry? Mr. Wilson must think he's in the Waldorf. Room service at 10 o'clock at night. Yeah, he's a strange one. I found him upstairs in the hallway trying out the fire escape. When? A couple of minutes ago. How'd he get up the stairs? He didn't come through the lobby. He didn't? No, I'd have seen him.  Do you suppose he's got someone up there with him? Well, it's happened before, but not if I know anything about it. I'm going to go... Oh, Mr. Wilson, you going out again? Yes, to get something to eat. Oh, well, have a nice dinner. Thank you. Miss White, have the boy take the board unless you and I go upstairs. We'll have a look around while he's gone. Frank! Yes, ma'am? You saw the old man that just went out the door? Yes, ma'am. Well, we're going up to his room. If he comes back before we return, ring twice to warn us. Yes, ma'am. Why are you knocking? I have a feeling someone's in there. They're not coming to the door, not if he sneaked them into the hotel. I suppose you're right. I guess I'd better unlock it. Nothing unusual here. Look at this bundle. And this boy's cap. Well, it might be his. He wasn't wearing a cap when he came in and he wasn't carrying a bundle. No, he wasn't.  That's Frank. The old boy couldn't have eaten that fast. All right, we'll get out of here. He says he's carrying a package. He probably brought something back to eat here in the room.  I'd better go down the stairs. He'll probably be coming up in the elevator. Miss White! What's the matter? You've walked off with the cap. Oh, goodness, I have. I didn't realize. What do we do? Shall I go back? No, I don't think you'd better. He'll be up there any minute. Maybe he won't miss it. We can put it back if he goes out again. Carl? Carl? Where are you? What are you doing in the closet, Carl? Was somebody here? Somebody has been here. Where's your cap that was on the bed? Who was here? Would you like to see the manager, please? Oh, well, he's not in. I'm in charge. Could I help you? Yes, I'm Detective Bowen. Here's my identification. We're checking hotels in the vicinity of the barbie. Have you anyone registered by that name? No, I don't believe I have. What kind of a looking man is he? He's an older man, about his fifties. He's... Well, there's an old guy checked in about an hour ago, but he's registered under the name of Wilson. Here it is, John Wilson. He might be the one you're looking for. Have a hunch he is. Is he in his room now? Yes, he went up a short time ago. I'd like to go up. What's the room number, please? 314. Is it something serious? Yes. Murder. In a moment, we continue with the third act of... Suspense. Another visit with Joe and Daphne Forsythe. Joe. Joe. Joe. Joseph. Yeah, yeah, I'm up. I'm up. I'll be right in. Relax, it's three in the morning. I said relax, it's three in the morning. I was relaxed. Daphne, why did you wake me up? Well, I was just wondering what happened to our savings bonds. You were what? I had a dream. I dream you lost all of your money, and all we had left were our savings bonds. I see. So I just wanted to make sure they were all right. They're all right. They're with the other important papers. You're sure? Well, I just don't want anything to happen to them. Savings bonds are the most secure form of investment. Why the whole faith and credit of the United States stand behind those bonds of ours. Uh-huh. So they're even better than dollars in your pocket because the government stands behind them and protects them. Uh-huh. And they protect us too, Joe. Every bond is an investment in our country, in our security and freedoms. Joe. Joe. Joe. Well, how about that? He feels so secure he went back to sleep. Hmm. Good night, darling. And now, starring Mr. John McIntyre, back three of John Barbie and Son. Mr. Wilson. Mr. Wilson, I have another room I think you'd be interested in seeing. I don't think anyone's in there. Yeah. All right, open the door. It's all right. I have a gun. I stand back out of sight. There's no one here. I look back at that door. No, I hear maybe the closet. Oh, nobody here. Say, he must have had somebody with him after all. Oh, what do you mean? Well, he registered alone, but the way he was acting, I suspect that there was someone with him. Look on the dresser there. Two bottles of milk, two sandwiches. Yeah, there is a matter of fact. I found him looking it over right after he moved in. Come on, let's have a look at it. The window's open. It must have gone out that way. Let's have a look outside. There's no one down below. You must have just missed him. Look, Mr. Bowman, somebody up there above. Someone's climbing onto the roof from the fire escape. All right, that's him. Come on. Nice, isn't it, Carl? Up here in the fog. Quiet and soft like. Like it'll be for us forever. Carl, you understand if they catch up with us, it means you'll have to go back to the home, don't you? We promised your mother we wouldn't let that happen, and we're not going to. It isn't going to hurt much, Carl. It'll be quick. Mr. Barbie! Mr. Barbie, don't! Say where you are. This is my affair. Mr. Barbie, that isn't going to do anybody any good. Now just listen to me one minute. If you come a step closer. I won't. Now listen to me. What do you want? Mr. Barbie, don't jump. Come back with me.  You'll not take him to the home. I know what happens to them there. Mr. Barbie, you're real. You don't know what you're doing. I tell you not to come any closer. All right. All right, I won't. But listen. I not listen to anything. I know what's best for my boy. I promised his mother. Didn't I, son? What? Who are you talking to there, Mr. Barbie? Don't pay any attention to them, Carl. Mr. Barbie, there's nobody there with you. What? What did you say? I say there's nobody there with you. No. What kind of a trick is this? You're just imagining things. Is nobody here with me? No, sir. Your son is dead. And what you're going to do now won't help anything. My son is here by my side. No, Mr. Barbie. No one by your side. You're trying to confuse me to keep me busy talking so that fella can sneak up behind me. Is that it? No, Mr. Barbie. Mr. Barbie, we're just trying to save your life. Come back away from that ledge. Let us talk to you. No, no. I've had enough of your tricks. Carl, are you ready? It won't hurt much. Take my hand, son. Take my hand. Mr. Barbie, no! Poor guy. You said he was wanted for murder? Yeah. He killed his son this evening. The authorities are going to take the boy away to a home. I... I guess his mind just snapped. Well, it's probably better this way. Because he thought the boy was with him. Right to the end. Suspense. In which John McIntyre starred in William M. Robeson's production of John Barbie and Son, written by Mel Dinelli. Supporting John McIntyre and John Barbie and Son were Ellen Morgan, Carl Swenson, Sam Pierce, and Jack Krushen. Listen. Listen again next week when we return with another tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. This is the United States Armed Forces Radio and Television Service.


My name is Elena Pariskevis-Thedani. In this video, we'll talk about workplace investigations' best practices. Let's discuss who should and should not conduct the investigation. If the employer is relying on a workplace investigation as a defense, the investigator should be unbiased and neutral. An HR person who reports to a C-level executive involved is not the ideal person. Similarly, the general counsel who reports to the CEO also should not be doing investigations involving the CEO.


I sat, awaiting the fate I decided for myself. Unrelenting rain crashed all around. Thunder rumbled, gradually becoming louder, as if the lightning was eager to strike me down. As a bolt was sent down, I snapped. Time's flow had merely halted, and I made a jump from the chair I planted myself on. Potent electricity forced itself into my body, forcing it into the flooded ground. That pain overtook my back and spine, but I brought myself up before the water could begin to drown me. That electric chair that I had crafted minutes earlier was charred, but not a flame. Despite a nearly crippling pain, I thought my way back to my home, moving against a swift current of runoff water. It felt like hours, but I made my way back inside, with the rooms of the house still warm and dry. Strangely, my pain was already fading nearly immediately after entering the house. With my mobility returning to normal, I took the time to inspect my electronics for damage. Nothing seemed fried, but the power had been knocked out. Function testing could wait though.  A lichtenberg figure decorated my entire back, confirming that the lightning strike was no hallucination. With no wounds to be found, and no blaring problems showing themselves, I made the decision to sleep for a few hours. No dreams were crafted by my brain, and instead hours had flashed by after I closed my eyes. For 7 AM, and I can't fall asleep again. May as well start the day early. The storm that printed its lightning onto my back had eased up, but not passed. Still, it was enough that the electrical company could perform repairs and bring power back to residences. As a pot of coffee brewed in the kitchen, I glanced around, seeing that many of my devices powered back to life on their own. I flicked on the television, and it greeted me with a logo, and afterward a plain blue screen. Looking at the console that was plugged in, I was able to remember why I was even outside in that awful force of nature. And, no matter. I hit the power button of that console just for the sake of checking, and it gave no response. Dead, killed by the crashing electricity outside? Possible, but my pondering was interrupted by my phone giving an audible notification of a text message. An unknown number, with the contents of the text only being a string of letters and numbers. Giving it a search online revealed it to be a DHL tracking number. It moved extremely quickly, starting from France yesterday, but already departing a nearby distribution center. Estimated to arrive today. After the last package I had received, it made me an easy knowing I was about to receive another. Out of paranoia I retrieved a pistol from my nightstand, and kept it nearby as I awaited the courier. 12.04pm, and the delivery arrives. The courier came and went, and no one was behind or ahead of him. Carefully opening the cardboard, it thankfully was not another console. Instead, it was a laptop, and an awfully expensive one at that. Included was a piece of notebook paper with crudely written instructions, and a USB flash drive of a known origin. The instructions told me as such. Power on laptop and keep it connected to charger. Do not allow power to run out. Connect flash device and solve the files. Required software is not provided. Find it. Files will be modified when solve is complete. Upload to this FTP, redacted, with password, redacted. Performed task quickly. Rewards await.  Who would be issuing it? I wanted so badly to dismiss it all, but couldn't bring myself to ignore the contents. So, after spending the next hours preparing an isolated, secured network, I turned on the laptop and was greeted with a boot menu. Between DB and Linux and Windows 10, I picked the more familiar Windows. The desktop was filled with files, folders, and shortcuts, but I ignored them. Before anything, I plugged in my own flash drive, and installed a network analyzation tool. Connecting to my isolated network, and then connecting the flash drive I wasn't, greeted me with a single folder with the name of Task. It contained 1.0 gg, 2.sfc, and 3.vbs. Figuring this meant the order to solve these and, I went for 1.0 gg first. Thankfully, a media player was already installed that could handle it. The file had no problems opening, but the audio itself was jarring. It was a 5 second file with pink noise playing in the background, with odd chirps playing at a higher volume. Even listening to it on a loop, I was stumped. I decided to set 1.0 gg aside and move on to 2.sfc. It obviously cannot run on Windows natively, but I recognized this file type as a Super NES ROM. I went ahead and downloaded the first result for an SNES emulator, and got the ROM running. The game booted up with a bit of lag, and had a blank title screen except for Press Start in small white text. It looked like some sort of homebrew or bootleg, as it wasn't a game I could recall existing. I was placed into a simplistic looking level, a side scroller. The background was a dull cave level, with bats scattered about that you could kill. The character looked like a generic knight, and he swung the sword around to attack. For this first level, it seemed like someone's attempt at SNES homebrew development. It wasn't offensive, but it wasn't very good either. However, it seems the developer had a different idea for the second level. It brought you outside the cave, and into a burning village. Some buildings were half-collapsed, and all were mere tinder to the flames. There were no enemies, no NPCs, and no obstacles. The screen stopped scrolling, with one house at the end which wasn't caught on fire yet. Trying to enter prompted a password input. Again, I was stumped. I tried the FTP server's password just for the hell of it, but that didn't work. I'm not sure why it would in the first place, but I figured it was worth the try. Obvious passwords like password and 123 didn't work, nor did any random inputs. I dropped a save state at this point and closed the annulator, and played 1.0gg again. Listening to it revealed nothing new, but it sparked an idea in my head. I downloaded Audacity and used it to open the audio file. In plain waveform, it didn't look like anything. But using a spectrogram, I was able to find what the file really meant. Distant. Was that the password I needed? I closed Audacity and opened the annulator again, loading the save state. Still at the input screen, I gave it Distant. It was accepted, and I entered that building I was stuck outside until now. Upon entering, I was given a dark blue screen, with a text box filling the middle. Eyes of white. White like milk. To a victor goes the spoils. But what if the victor spoils first? Like milk, he will turn rancid. Proceed onward all night. After this, the game returned to the title screen. I kept note of all the dialogue, and went on to 3.vbs. With it being a VBS file, a type of script, I decided to look at it in an editor before trying to run the thing. Visual basic wasn't my thing, but I could tell that it had a protocol to modify both 1.0gg and 2.ssc. I figured this was the last step, so I made a backup of all 3 files onto my own flash drive, removed it, then ran the script. It did its work for a minute, and grabbed some new file from a server somewhere, as the folder now contained thanku.txt. Opening that file simply showed. Thank you for completion of tasks. Please log into ftp and upload solved files. Looking at the record of network traffic, the script actually grabbed the text file from the very ftp server I need to upload to. I went ahead with the upload, including the save file from the SNES rum, and took a break from screentime once they were done. An hour later, I got another text from the same unknown number. This time it said. Please now download finale.exe from ftp. For a moment I questioned why I was still following instructions, but I told myself that I was too far in to drop it all now. Finale.exe ended up being a fairly large file, which hinted at more content than the previous files. I made a backup of it like the previous files, and proceeded to run it. The application launched in full screen, first all black and then with a light gray background. On the background was the title of distance with a single button saying play. Getting play faded out the title and button, but left the same background. A voice began to speak. I was confused, but then the voice said. Please retrieve the gift from your package. They are kept in good condition. The program flashed an eyeless face, and closed out, even deleting itself. The network log showed traffic being sent from finale.exe to some remote server. Almost immediately after, I got a text once again, same unknown number as each time before. To claim your reward, please return the borrowed video game console and video game cartridges. Address for delivery to follow. I knew exactly what console they wanted, but I had to find that gift the voice mentioned. I dug in the box, oversized for just a laptop. Under troves of packing peanuts rested a small glass vial. It had a mix of dark gray and black dust, tightly packed inside. The cork sealing it was impossible to pull out, and it held a cheap brass chain to wear around the neck. I donned the trinket and pondered everything said to me on this night. But what if the Victor spoils first? The Victor had spoiled. The Victor. Victor. Victor. The young man who sent me that console in the first place. What was he up to? I gave his number a call, but got a disconnect tone. Trying multiple times over gave the same result. Victor, what happened to you? I gave up and noticed the wall of texts that the unknown number had sent to me. One contained an address in Bordeaux, France. Then, please confirm you can make a shipment to the given address. Please confirm immediately. White eyes. Are your eyes so white? White like spoiled milk? The truth of what has happened cracked up to me. The dust, the face with the eyes missing, and all the mentions of a Victor all taunting me. I checked the box the console came in, and it held the same Bordeaux address as I was given over text. It was then that I remembered, Victor doesn't live near Bordeaux.  How did they find him, and how did they find me? These thoughts raced through my mind as I packed up the console in its original box, but I had no intention of returning to center. I saved all the logs of network activity, made backups of all the files and logs, and disconnected the laptop, shutting it down as well. They may have my address, but I have one of theirs. One of us will make the first move. However this was had Victor, and they nearly led me to my own death. Even if I must cross international borders, I will confront anyone involved in orchestrating this sick plan that is playing out. Even if I lose it all, I will do it. For Victor, and for myself.


Let me get everything prepped you make sure the wreath snug on you You'll watch while I edit in real time the old one, too Of course, I didn't actually lose any time put on headset ready ready when you are ready when you are chap Want you to describe what you see might catch Scav gotta be no one else with that kind of fashion sense. See I'm not finding anything crazy. Oh My gosh ordered recently pizza The box of pizza was the key ingredient Which you like that before Sounds like scabs to me Cup of coffee can't beat that rich synth coffee aroma.  They literally got and rutated. I'm just gonna slap across town for it They literally got and rutated for an electric core power plant located near a bus. That's hilarious DC used to have a big old complex in Charter Hill Like a slice chicks out, too How can you be sure though? End of recording he died here we go old electric core power plant in Charter Hill gotta make do with this for now Nothing else to garner from this scroll No time to lose we got to go there Definitely ride with me sure let's get going. It's right away. Yeah, and here we are Find us a way See if there's any blueprints of the complex lying around Join you as soon as I find something. Let's link on hollow till then She just tried to call me while I'm standing right here going in Hey, I'm trying to stop my favorite game. It's so good man. It is actually so good. What are my favorite things about it? Is this?  She's cruising. Oh, hello What's your problem? Wait, hold on. We need to go back there. I jig jig street Back in my day. We had a gang that called themselves crusade running the place They would walk around talking about clapping cheeks with the eight one-inch Officer Now this game is so good man Judy is calling.  Hello Judy?     She quit. She quit her job. I'm traceable. Oh, you could also just wait out the dialogue Was that something? That's crazy. You can just wait out the dialogue She quit hacked by it. Is it any me hacking part? That's so annoying This way flashbang and why stop there took a few internal organs while they're at it How so very resourceful That's Evelyn. Just don't touch her if she's recording you'll scramble her brain wait until I cut her link Wait, I see her cable to Grab it and tell me when you're gonna yank it. I'll break the link at my end at the same time What do you think what do I do now? What we came here to do find the truth ask her Johnny. She's unconscious Or she's a better actor than we thought all right. Yeah, let's do this. Oh My gosh Wait for my signal Here goes Ready wait, what if I don't pull? I just want to see what happens. Oh Thank God. Oh, I was supposed to not pull Evelyn. You hear me wait. I think I was supposed to not pull it Oh, it's illusion of choice Evelyn who hired you to contract at the high?  What's wrong with her? Honestly, I don't know Jerking around the cable probably didn't help. Okay Can we move her? She okay to be moved? No brain hemorrhages damaged to the spine It doesn't seem to have any wounds Yes, we got no choice. Oh my food is here Let's get her someplace safe. Let's get her somewhere safe fast to Which way I Sealed the doors and managed to power the elevators Elevators it is then she's sleeping. At least I think she is her eyes are closed and she's not shaking anymore I would have already killed her by now if I didn't feel so bad for her your manager Why editor why when you asked me to scour her behavioral chip?  I didn't have I know it's okay. I Depaused this is so important to me. I can't put my hand in the bag because my jacket keeps pushing it away from me So I'm sitting here trying to put my hand in the bag and it keeps going away, and I can't grab anything So I don't get why you'll find out in a sec. I'll show you the virtue. I found cold. Okay, show me Give me a sec while I set the parameters. Guess we'll find out if our doll really did lose her tune Come on fee I'll be the first to admit this does not look good. Thanks, Johnny. Yeah, you're really helpful, man By the way, you guys said you want to see food Wait, what it like completely came undone Fita wrap ooh, it's not good Mmm. Delicious. Wait. I ran back in my computer see food all his paper my bad How are you feeling? Hey? How you feeling? You need anything I'm not here to nag Just talk have to ask you something. I know it's a bad time, but I gotta ask You got any idea how to remove the biochip? Or know anyone else who might listen Evelyn, I Really need your help. It's important. I don't do anything and do it soon.   All right roll it data was in pretty rough shape not all that editable glad you managed to salvage them in the first place Need the second to load quality is lousy, but I did what I could What am I looking out for? Every single piece of tech I see security We need a layout of the whole room. Let's go back Oh What am I looking am I looking out for take a look around if you want can't see your face Under normal circumstances that kind of encryption is easy to crack It looks like I'm going to come back here. We give you the eddies.  I think we got it because my sleeve kept pushing the bag away for me and then I was sad What do you think woman who hired her woman who hired Evelyn any idea who were up against your guess is as good as mine? Sorry V She had long earrings with circles now. We know what happened to clouds. They're the ones who tried to flat-line her Launched a nuke at her chip So it was punishment For getting played by her she knew more than they thought she knew Couldn't let that go So that's who she was running from looks like Evelyn never told us the whole truth.  She managed to organize a full-blown heist And swipe the bio chip from under her boss's noses So that's where you came in she hired you and brought this all on herself On you too There's one more recording Want to see it? Sure. Why not? Nothing surprised me at this point. What's she doing?  Wait, what just happened? French the French The language is she speaking I don't know Haitian Creole it is the voodoo boys didn't I Wait, let me see if I've got a little John the east side boys meantime you try to tune into the phone's frequency See what the other side saying Got it. Give it a second We have to know what they're saying we could be You Right, I need to I need to hear what they're saying cuz I'm I'm curious She's our best route to Yorinobu. We must take this I wish I shared your confidence that silver hand will lead us to alt You have a better idea Good, and if you're done questioning my judgment you can get back to work. Wait, so what do they want was wait What do they want with Johnny Silverhand?  Yes, you're right. She's just more grown We should bring us trouble She wouldn't dare so best right here, okay, so Yorinobu I Wish you should have commented the Silverhand will lead us to alt So they're trying to use Silverhand to lead us to alt But Silverhand is dead. Everybody knows that Johnny Silverhand is dead Unless they know that I have the chip inside of me, but does anybody know that okay, Judy? We're good All right disconnecting and then in that case they're actually trying to follow me What's this have to do with Johnny Silverhand? He died like forever ago V you got any idea? This is a flash pack from before the chip, okay His construct is on the bio chip the bio chip we stole it's It's got Silverhand's n-gram burned on to it n-gram Digitized I'm an ingram personality construct. Can you give me a minute? I need to go over some stuff I'm not crazy.  Thank you for the five gifted man. I've been dead.  She thinks I'm a crazy now.  Got no notion whatsoever One way or another everything leads back to that netrunner Finding hers our biggest priority If she knows as much as I think she knows about the chip she can help us out Thought you said nothing could help us No, just find us that juju wirehead, okay? Juju Smith Schuster you got any idea how to get in touch with the voodoo boys I'll ask around make a few calls Let me put it this way the voodoo boys wouldn't trust a cat if it walked onto their turf But someone's got a no way in Well, good luck. I Hope you won't need it Dude, I'm I have so my ADHD is so bad. I have to make my room completely ADHD proof Do I have like speakers in there around the room? I have my microphone So that I can make sure that I'm paying attention at all times Good luck. Hope you won't need it. Thanks. Thanks, Judy No, V. Thank you You're a little combat yet. I haven't had time. You're a good person Evelyn could never see what was under people's skin.  Thank you Chat you're welcome being a good person hearts and chat for me. Okay. Let's call mr. Hans What's shaking need to make contact with the voodoo boys chief if you can swing it She's like Now that'd be memo brigeet be tough getting a word into her I looked up what happened to Evelyn if S main didn't kill the ball dude from the prologue I Don't do any business really don't do any biz with them Not with the chef's chef and priests and whatnot all got durageable sized egos won't talk to lowly me But if you insist I can ask around try to set something up I'll just need some details first Got something they want Truly want to sell something to the VDBs trust me. They don't want it They don't need it They're isolated insulated. They got their own contracts tech networks, but have it your way, okay? I'll see what I can do and get back to you That's a fast trap Keep busy and don't miss your hands calls back Wait this guy has tier four components isn't that huge I Just got knocked up on the car Dude if I drive around on top of this car on the city just punching the air that will it just make everybody in the city go nuts


So guys, don't forget to hit up my clinical rotation playlist. I will leave a link for that, but you can always just go ahead and type it into my search bar if you're searching for what I'm doing on my different rotations.  The Donna, welcome back to my channel. As you can see, I am at the beach here at beautiful Ocean City. I'm on my weekend because guess what you guys, I have weekends off on this particular rotation, which is amazing. So I get to go hang out with my family and just kind of relax and get away and just rejuvenate, which is something that you, you kind of didn't really take advantage of during didactic gear because you were just studying consistently and continuously, but now with rotations around, you have a lot more time to kind of study during the week because you're not being bombarded every single week with testing quizzes. So that is one thing I really, really like about my rotations. I get to kind of spend it out here and just relax and have fun. So if you're on your clinical rotations or looking forward to clinical rotations, your didactic gear, fear not, your time will come soon enough. You'll have that break. You'll have some time to just kind of chill out like me here on the beach. So fear not you guys, hang in there as you're almost there. I am on my rotation, my cardiothoracic surgery rotation this month. And I have just finished my first week. So that's what we're gonna talk about my first week on CT surgery. So really and truly, I had an amazing time. We're in the actual surgery, like me suturing and doing stuff on Tuesdays and Thursdays, Monday, Wednesday and Fridays we're actually in the clinic seeing patients. So it was pretty interesting because the first day I'm there, I'm seeing patients right away, like looking at CT scans, which I'm not the best at. So I'm getting a lot of practice on this particular rotation, which is really, really interesting and really cool. It's gonna prepare me for future rotations that I'm gonna actually have to be looking at CT scans a lot more often. So I really appreciated that. Another thing I really liked about this were just all of the people because a lot of the people that we're seeing are cancer patients or people that had cancer and they're now in remission. So it's really cool just being able to talk to them kind of just get a little bit of their life story and then kind of keep it moving after that.  We can't definitively say it until we go in and do surgery, but going in and giving people that news, it's really hard. Other than that, it was pretty cool. I went into surgery on Tuesday and Thursday. We were doing lobectomies, actually like resecting people's whole lung or like pneumonectomies, which was interesting like seeing the whole process. It's done through video assisted techniques. So we're doing it like under an actual like scope and we're going in and we're cutting. And then I'm closing. Yes, me, I'm doing my hand ties. I'm suturing. They allowed me to close up like the two more superficial layers, which is really cool because I'm like, I'm just kind of one month out of didactic gear and I'm already suturing people. So it's been quite a ride. I've had a great time and I'm able to spend my weekends here at the beach, chilling out, having fun, but still I have to go home and do work. So it's not all fun on rotations. You still have to study. You still have to do work, but so far so good. I will keep you guys posted in another three weeks on how my whole rotation went. I'll give you my wrap up on that on what I maybe kind of sorta saw at the end and then what I'm really looking forward to on my next rotation. So thank you guys so much for watching. If you have any questions about CT surgery, like something specific, leave it in the comment section below. And if you have any questions on anything else, please let me know. Don't forget to comment and like and follow me on Instagram at AdanaThePA. I will see you guys and talk to you guys next time. Bye.


Hey, welcome back to VMworld 2013. This is theCUBE, our live coverage live in San Francisco, California. I'm John Furrier, the founder of SiliconANGLE, and I'm joined by my co-host Dave Vellante, the co-founder of Wikibon.org. Bill Fathers is here. He's the CD Vice President and General Manager of VMware's Hybrid Cloud Services business. I gave a great keynote on Monday. Bill, welcome to theCUBE. Thank you very much, Nate.  We just had Pat Gelsinger on.  So I just went right to the execution points, and clearly one of them was Hybrid Cloud adoption.  So, talk about your role, and where we're at in terms of that adoption. Getting it done. I think every enterprise client we ever speak to is already starting to experiment, to some extent, with public cloud. They've obviously invested heavily with VMware to build sort of private clouds. So the reality is clients are going to be living in a hybrid cloud environment. They want to get the best of both worlds, and obviously we're very focused on making sure that they can now get the best of both worlds by having a public cloud solution that's entirely compatible with their private cloud. So that was kind of the original vision. I think back to, you know, 2009, when the Berkeley paper came out above the clouds, and then all the enterprise guys came in. So no, no, we're cloud too, and they had the private cloud, and then they laid out this vision of the hybrid cloud. A lot of that was sort of vision of federating applications. Are we still at that definition? Are we changing the definition of the hybrid cloud, or is that another journey that we're on? Yeah, I think that's still the lofty goal. I think that that was visionary, but I think the reality is you've got to sort out a lot of the stuff of the infrastructure layer to mean that you can actually realize that goal. And I think that's going to take a few years to really make sure that the infrastructure layer, you've got that compatibility on the on-premise and on the public cloud, which then over on top of that, you can start to have applications that will take advantage of this sort of compatibility in hybrid environment. So one of the big announcements was obviously the GA of the cloud, the cloud. Take us through that. What's the big feedback and the process getting there? I mean, because this is a big milestone and people want more cloud. Hybrid is a solution that enterprises need. That's it. They see shadow IT going on, but they need to control it, but have flexibility. You guys raced and got this out, got the GA out there, big milestone. Talk about that process and what was the feedback so far? Yeah, we went into an early access program on the, just in early June, we announced in 21st of May. So we went into an early access program. Very lucky, it was very oversubscribed. So we were able to get feedback from a lot of clients who started to adopt it quite aggressively through June, July and August. So we got two things out of that. One was we learned exactly how clients use this in a hybrid model and some really interesting use cases started to emerge, which I'll talk a bit about. And then the main thing though was that we felt the platform was stable, the roadmap was fine and therefore we're able to go into GA. You know, we always talk about MVP, minimal, viable product to get something out that's always a challenge. You don't want scope creep on anything. You want to get something out that's bulletproof. The buzz on Twitter and what we've been hearing in the hallways is obviously disaster recovery is one of those needed things. And you talked about that. Can you re-emphasize what you meant by that and some of the comments around disaster recovery? Yeah, disaster recovery is the perfect use case for hybrid cloud and then it gives you the opportunity to create a disaster recovery environment that you know from the get go is going to be entirely compatible with what we've already got on-premise. So it's just a great use case. A lot of our clients have already bought Site Recovery Manager and they're using that obviously to do a disaster recovery within their own facilities. And we're now just going to extend that product and integrate it with vCloud Hybrid Service so that you can just use vCloud Hybrid Service as a destination point for your disaster recovery. That'll go into an early access program in the fourth quarter. And we suspect we'll see that roll out and become more and more sophisticated by sort of middle of next year. And by that I mean we're starting out with data replication with some orchestration but as we get into the first and second quarter next year it'll be increasingly automated with increasing levels of sophistication in when you can recover back to being under-recovered in multiple locations and low balance and the rest of it. There's a spectrum of imperatives bill for disaster recovery. A lot of clients prior to VMware really didn't have a disaster recovery strategy in where it lowered the cost and enabled that but the spectrum I would describe it is going to get zero data loss versus a check off item so you can tell your board you're in compliance. Yeah. Where do you see, how do you see that spectrum laid out in terms of the imperative of disaster recovery in the context of hybrid cloud? How does it shake up? Yeah, I think the vCloud Hybrid Service is going to be very good at the end where you need absolute recovery with a recovery time under five minutes or even minutes and the ability to ensure 100% availability of all data down to sort of middle ground where you've got an RTO of a day or maybe half a day and you've got 99.99% of data recovered. So we're sort of in that spectrum the guys that just want it as a check off item it's probably not going to be something that they'd use it for. And does using the hybrid cloud as you guys have defined it change the, because so much of disaster recovery of course is the process around it. Yeah, that's it. How do I get people to the data or the apps or can I move it back and forth the constraints of doing that? Are you seeing, are you having the discussions with customers or at least seeing them with maybe some of your partners around those business process changes? Are those actually occurring or is it sort of, I always say paving the cow path? Yeah, I think it's, it is an area where a lot of professional services help can be required to help re-engineer the processes so that you do actually have that. So if in the event that you do incur disaster recovery you've actually worked it through and you've done a lot of the rehearsals. So yes, we're seeing it and we're probably going to create some professional services engagement packages that we can bolster the underlying infrastructure offering with professional services engagements that can help clients prepare for it. And frankly, if they do then instigate the DR we can be there to add resources to help them bring it up and running. So we're talking to Pat about he gave great respect to Amazon and Google and of course Microsoft and the VMware is the other big player there and we think we have some advantages of 500,000 customers and a lot of good perspectives on this. I want to talk specifically about Amazon. Kind of the gold standard of the public cloud and I think we've heard this week how you intend to compete SLA's privacy, security, governance. You have a long list of attributes that you're going to provide. Of that long list, from the standpoint of when you talk to customers, how much is there today? How much is roadmap and how long will it take to build that out, that capability? Because Amazon's moving really fast. Everything you mentioned, they'll have a web page. That says the Amazon, you know, HIPAA service. The Amazon, I mean they just got services coming out of the years and they're moving like crazy. So what's there today? What's the roadmap look like? And then I have a follow up on that. Yeah, okay. So I think today the underlying infrastructure itself is ready to go and that's why we're going into general availability and it does provide the SLA, the governance and most importantly the guaranteed access to resources. So you're not in sort of a consumer multi-tenancy environment where you're contending for resources. When you buy the cloud hybrid service from VMware, you have guaranteed access to capacity so that you know for sure that your application is going to run. In terms of roadmap items, as we further reinforce, I mean our main differentiation is this absolute compatibility so that you know the application. You've already created 400 SAP instances. When you use that same gold image, you run it on vCloud hybrid service. It is going to work. You don't have to go through three to four months of system testing, integration testing and performance testing, which is what you have to do if you put it in any other public cloud. And that's the bit that you know it's there today for us and I don't see how anyone not using VMware technology to run their cloud is ever going to compete. Okay and I want to follow up on that with an SLA question. And I talked to Pat a little bit about this but I really want to grill him on the SLAs because I want to talk to you. I knew you. Who owns it. Exactly. So I hear a lot about SLAs. Everybody criticizes Amazon SLAs but as an analyst I'll go in and I'll start, I read them. I read all the fine print at night as I'm falling asleep. It's hard to find public cloud companies other than Google, you know, you see HP. They're very similar to Amazon's SLAs but a lot of guys who are putting out the rhetoric on Amazon's public cloud, you can't find their SLA online. You ask for their SLA, you don't get their SLA. It's they're not transparent about the SLA and as an independent I see a lot of lip service there. So I want to know from VMware, will you publish those SLAs? How transparent will you be? How easy will it be to get those answers? Yeah. So today, the short answer is we're going to be very transparent. We're going to be very, very competitive and we'll have industry leading and have industry leading SLAs. The reason for that is clients are already trusting their business critical applications. Many of our 500,000 clients run their mission critical applications today on our technology and as they use vCloud hybrid service as an extension of that, they're going to expect the same level of very, very high level of service level agreements with real teeth in them. So absolutely the SLAs are available, they're public and we think that they are industry leading in terms of our guarantees on availability, on performance for things like provisioning and then frankly, you know, in terms of all the key metrics clients are going to want to see, we're very competitive. So that's a statement about your willingness to take risks and share that risk with customers at scale. I mean, that's a big bold move. I should probably ask Jonathan this, do you have to have any kind of financial reserves to do that or was there any kind of discussion internally that you can share with us to accommodate that greater risk than some of your competitors are willing to take? Yeah. I think you can't get into the services business and talk to an enterprise client about the moving meaningful workload if there isn't some discussion about the extent to which risk is going to be, you know, measured and shared between us and our clients. I've personally been in this business for 10 years and have had that conversation with a thousand clients. So you have to be in the game of being able to take a measured risk. Now, clearly it's a risk that's shared and you know, you're drilling very deeply around where the boundaries of responsibility are going to be and the scenarios in which, you know, one party takes, you know, accountability versus the other. But we think, you know, we're bringing that sort of skill and discipline into that discussion. But there was, as you say, you know, a fair discussion at the executive team about us moving into this market. And we've explicitly said, you can't go in the services market and hedge, you know, in terms of sharing risks with clients. Yeah, and that's hard work. I mean, Amazon and Google and HP as well have basically said, hey, we're going to make it a low bar and try to exceed it. You guys are taking a different approach where you're going belly to belly with clients about risk sharing. That's right. Yeah. So I got to ask you, obviously, we know infrastructure as a service. Everyone sees Amazon as the poster child for that. And, you know, platform as a service is now the new battleground. The question that is obvious is that, you know, you have to have that. You got to have it, it's table stakes. Yeah. And so you have minimum features, use cases that you're going to roll out and add more and more. But how do you guys get to a trajectory and economies of scale that others have gotten to through the growing pains?  They're still crashing, right? On some situations, just last week, there was an outage. Yeah. That's a fear, right? So enterprise customers, you know, it's a zero tolerance for outage. That's it.  So how do you talk about the scale growing pains problem? And how do you guys address that? And what are you guys doing to handle that? How do you communicate and alleviate the fear? Yeah, that's a fair question. And obviously we're feeling pretty confident about basing our technology or basing our solution on VMware's technology, which has kind of been around for a while and proven and scalable. In general terms, yes, and I agree, it's amazing that Amazon still seem to have these outages that sort of get such high profile and have such a material impact on clients infrastructure. So I think our approach is twofold. One is clearly, we've spent time and effort to get the product right. We're rolling it out in a fairly steady way. We're also creating relationships with service providers. We announced one earlier this week where we're actually asking, or service providers, have looked at their own cloud offerings and decided that they would rather perhaps embrace vCloud hybrid service as a technology platform. They're now deploying that in their data centers and starting to use that as the basis for selling that into their clients. So to some extent, we're going to leverage service providers' scale and experience to help us scale and grow fast as well. So to one extent, we are building out our own services business, but we're also doing so with, hopefully, dozens of service providers around the world who've been doing this for a long time as well.   And so this is going to be a challenge because the stack is evolving fast. I mean, the change we had in Martina earlier, I'm with the network. And the goal is to make it as simple as possible and that foundation. So I asked Pat this question and he kind of said past was the line, but where's the line for the hard and top, right? Because at the end of the day, if I can roll out and if I'm in a customer, I can have an infrastructure that's truly sustainable, bulletproof, meets the SLAs, but yet enables some agility and application development. Is that past? Is that pardoned? And I'm finding that customers really don't mind, quote, perceived even perceived lock-in or a real lock-in if it works. So there's a working, it has to work factor. Where is that line? Is it infrastructure as a service? Is that creep up into pass? We're certainly focusing day one on infrastructure as a service with some sort of services on top of that like disaster recovery. You'll also start to see us start to introduce services at the platform layer. So Cloud Foundry as a service will come online in the fourth quarter and then that will become sort of broader in the first half of next year. Which is all part of us generally pivoting towards making it an environment in which you can develop applications. So which Cloud Foundry is a tool, but I think one of the areas of opportunity we see is a lot of application developers feel rather locked in when they get stuck into the proprietary tools that reside on AWS. So we think that there's an opportunity there to sort of take a more open source approach to provide application developers with application services that are open source. And you're participating with OpenStack, so that's a flank for the strategy, right? Exactly. So you're kind of, I want to say compatibility mode, but like Cloud Option, with open APIs and vCloud. Yeah, I don't think Amazon customers are going to be flocking to VMware per se in the short term, but certainly enterprise customers who have the desire. So you're kind of picking the meat and potato use cases. That's it. Do you ask the recovery back up and whatnot, right? Is that kind of the philosophy? Exactly, and I think people are putting born in the cloud apps into Amazon are probably not looking at us, particularly for that use case, but there's an enormous opportunity of traditional applications in the enterprise that we think gives us plenty of runway. Pat called it born in the hybrid cloud. I hadn't heard that term before. I wish I'd used that. I like it. It's very good. My last question is, how do you deal with the hyperbole of things like price cuts?  And when you peel the onion skin, you realize, oh, it just lowered the toll charge for dedicated instance.  So how do you deal with that pressure? Because you're not in the race to zero business. Right, I feel pretty good about it. I mean, number one, we are very focused on our own cost structure. And we drive every scrap of cost out of our own cost basis through automation and virtualization. And frankly, I think we're ahead of most other people in terms of the underlying unit cost. Obviously what we lack is scale. The secondary though is we're absolutely layering on value added services that help clients realize the benefit of having this highly compatible approach. I mean, we see agility as the number one driver for adoption of cloud. They weren't done on Monday. And obviously they want to make sure they're not being, they're not paying a particular premium over Amazon services or Amazon pricing. So we feel pretty good actually about the combination of very low cost structure, value added services that really reinforce the hybrid benefits. And frankly, we're going to scale at some point as well. So I think as long as we stay in touch and remind ourselves of that being a useful benchmark, then I think we're going to be okay. You've cost our nail agility, sell the value, and we'll win, okay. So my final question, and this is more of kind of like an industry-wide focus. We always talk about virtualization as the engine and the car fans that want to know what color the car is, what model is it, what dashboard features. That's it. And so you're seeing big data playing a big role in that. So the theme that comes out of the show is, okay, I want to race to enable my infrastructure. I got to have a foundation. And I got to enable service cataloging, whatever you want to call it, service brokering. So clients can automate and create the top of the stack and do all that stuff, right? So that being said, that's kind of what we're hearing. Big data is obviously taken the world by storm. It's creating a data fabric component in the stack and also enabling application developers. So how do you view that from a vCloud, looking at open stack as on the table with you guys? What is the big data equation? How does that impact your world? Yeah, if we look at one of the number one net new applications our enterprise clients are spending money on, it's analytic tools that are typically creating and drawing upon the need to analyze large chunks of data. So we're going to be, you'll see this very, you know, very early on next year, you'll see us focus on partnering with some of the key providers of the underlying infrastructure for the sort of unstructured database providers or the sort of cloud areas of this world where you'll start to see us create even closer relationships. And obviously working closely with Pivotal as well. So we've got a lot of things in the pipeline with Pivotal so that we can bring offerings to enterprises that help them develop applications on our cloud that obviously going to take advantage of some big data-oriented tools. Bill, thanks for coming on theCUBE. Really appreciate it. I know you guys worked hard. I was at the hybrid launch you had at the headquarters. Great progress. You guys kind of focus on execution. The GA is a big deal. And again, it's a sign that you're telegraphing that you're going to be committed to execution. We heard that from Martin. That's the cadence of Pat Gelsinger as we, Dave and I talk about, you know, March and ship. Right? Exactly. And he's technical so it's good. So thanks for coming theCUBE. Really appreciate it. Congratulations. This is theCUBE. We'll be right back with our next guest after this break. Thank you.


And let's move on to something that I'm finding really interesting at the moment when I discovered or came across your name and your coaching. I discovered you on YouTube. You've started fairly recently started a YouTube channel. Why don't you tell us a little bit about your motivation for doing that? So during lockdown, as everybody, I was confined to my house and my garden. And to kind of keep me mentally active and physically active as well, I created a YouTube channel. Well, I started by making a few videos at home to help my players on my program to stay active and to keep them thinking about tennis so that when we were able to return, they were ready for action. So I made a few kind of short videos for my Instagram page and got some nice feedback, started to make those videos slightly longer and a bit more detailed and then thought, why not set up a YouTube channel? And then since then, yeah, so this was back in in May, June time. Since then, we're now in start of October. I made about 60 videos. I've got just under 1000 subscribers now, which is fantastic. Really, really happy with that. So yeah, I just just to motivate people really and to motivate myself and it just kept me busy during lockdown really enjoyed the challenge of kind of putting the videos together, editing them. And just it was just a nice thing to be able to give to the people that were watching the videos. So since returning to the tennis courts, I've again expanded, made the video slightly better, doing some drills on the tennis court to actually help people when they get back onto court. And I do plan to try to make a video each week just to keep reinforcing some of the things that I teach on the tennis court in real life, but online. And yeah, so I've loved it and I'm going to continue. I mean, they are fantastic videos. And I'll put a link to the channel in the show notes for this episode. So what's the feedback you've had so far? Obviously, people are enjoying them because, you know, they're watching and subscribing. I think your most viewed video has 13,000 views, which is fantastic. And as you say, you've just got under a thousand subscribers, not just got as in just under a thousand subscribers. So what kind of feedback have you got from it and what are people enjoying? So initially, the feedback was coming from the members at the tennis club. But, you know, the first day back I came in and people were kind of quoting some of the lines that I was saying in the videos. And it became a bit of a talking point for the first couple of weeks. And everybody was kind of thanking me for keeping them sane during the tough period that we all had. So it was just really nice to have real people that I know enjoying the content and getting stuff from it. And then since then as the channel's grown, I've had lots of strangers that I've never met before commenting and sending me emails and kind of, yeah, just being appreciative of my time, which is really nice. I didn't do it to get loads of feedback at the start. It was just a case of me keeping myself busy. But it's kind of become this little beast really where it's kind of gaining a bit of traction. So yeah, feedback's been brilliant. And everyone's kind of asking for more. So I'm going to keep going. Do you have any plans for where you're going to take it in the future? I think realistically, if we were to have another lockdown or if there were a situation where I got injured and I wasn't able to work physically on the tennis court, if I've got a library of this content, there may be scope to kind of put together more detailed courses. So if you were a complete beginner, and you've never picked up a tennis racket before, I'd like to be able to produce some content which can take you from being a beginner to being able to enjoy a tennis match with your friends. Or if you were an intermediate player, club, let's say club level team player, there may be a detailed online course which can take you from being in your men's or ladies third team up to your second and first team and getting you to progress. Or then potentially if you were a performance junior player, a course to help you to develop your mental skills or a course to help you to become more match fit and that sort of thing. So I think at the moment I'm kind of thinking of topics randomly. It might be one video on the grip on your serve or it might be a video on footwork on your backhand for example, but actually longer term if I had a bit more time to put towards it, there could be a more substantial chunk of content for a course as such. So that's me kind of thinking ahead if I were in a position where I couldn't be on court so much. Okay. And you mentioned the possibility of going into lockdown again. I mean, who knows what's going to happen right now? I think part of the UK is lockdown certain cities and certain regions of the UK have gone through looking at local lockdowns. So I don't want to be the harbinger of wanting to sound negative about it, but it's a possibility that sports could stop again. So what would you do differently if we went into lockdown again for your clients and the people watching our channel to keep them entertained and motivated? Good question. So the videos that I made were all kind of me with my camera, nobody around, nobody to see me make mistakes. So, you know, the start, if you watch my first YouTube videos, you probably see me being slightly more nervous and you know, not so confident on camera. And slowly I did through practice and taking myself out of my comfort zone, I became more and more comfortable. So at the stage, I wasn't really comfortable with doing a live Zoom lesson. For example, you know, it's funny, I'm super confident on the tennis court with a tennis racket in my hand with a, you know, I could have a group of 30 adults and be fine or a group of 30 coaches and be tutoring and be okay. But it's just odd, it's just a different setting. So now that I feel a bit better in front of the camera, I think I'd probably do more live trainings. So to get, have that line of players directly, there's nothing better than that. And that's something that I missed during lockdown was the fact that I was delivering content, but I wasn't getting, you know, seeing smiles on faces and seeing them, you know, with that light bulb moment going, aha, when they've learned something. So I think I'd probably, if I were to do it again, I'd run more live sessions and have people at the other end of the computer, if that makes sense. But it takes time to get used to being in front of a camera lesson. So, you know, along with starting this podcast, I've done a couple of YouTube videos, kind of sectioning up the podcast episodes and putting it on YouTube. I've started doing a kind of an intro and outro to each of the videos.  And just kicking it up. Yeah. Tell me about it. No, it's funny. So even when I'm filming at the club on the tennis courts, I'm lucky enough to have a ball machine. I've got a slinger bag. So, you know, that can't hear my mistakes. So I'll book a court at a time where it's quiet. There's nobody around.  But it's getting smoother. And, you know, I'm hoping that if I keep doing it, it will become a lot quicker, you know, the process will become a lot smoother. But it's just new. And I think lots of people are getting used to having to adapt the way that they work. Yeah. Yeah, I think it's a really interesting medium. So I wish you all the best with it. It's, and the videos that you put up at the moment are fantastic. And I urge anybody to watch them. So, and, you know, I'm not, I play tennis really badly as a kid. And I'm not, obviously, don't know much about the sport. And I can still get some of the, you know, I still get value from the stuff you put out there. So it's great.


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