Welcome everyone to the class on Christology. Thank you for joining class and We'll begin looking at studying chapter three. Okay, we basically in chapters one and two we studied about the chapters one and two what what aspect of Jesus we studied the deity of Jesus, okay, and We established the fact that Jesus is God And we looked at various two passages, okay, which point out to his first lesson we studied was his pre-existence and second lesson we studied about his Equality with God the Father and the Holy Spirit, okay, and lesson three we started studying about His role in creation. Why are we studying Jesus's role in creation? Okay, by Showing his role in creation. We're trying to prove that he was there at the time of Creation, okay So in this chapter and again, we're trying to prove his deity that he is God, okay so we looked at the familiar passages of scripture and we look at and Basically, we were studying Colossians chapter one Where 16 and 17 basically looking from verses 15 to 80, okay, so we continue our study Can one of you please lead us in prayer please? Anyone can Need us in prayer online students online students. Can you lead us in prayer? Please anyone? Let us pray Heavenly Father, we just wish to thank you for this out of study Father, we pray that whatever we're going to learn today father. We will be able to remember it and apply it in our lives father. We pray that you bless our teachers and bless all the students and May we continue to grow Lord in thy word And in the spirit we ask all this Lord Jesus in thy precious name. Amen. Amen. Thank you so much Okay, so Colossians chapter one which we were studying We looked and what is Colossians chapter one verses 15 to 18 called as The great Christology. Yes, because here, you know We have a deeper understanding about who Jesus Christ is Okay, it qualifies Jesus Christ to be the pre-eminent one who has a supremacy over all things Okay We looked at we studied two phrases the first one is Jesus Christ is in the image of their invisible God okay, and we also study that he's the first born over all Creation so we try to understand what is the meaning of the word first born first born means first in priority or first in precedence in Creation in all time. He is you know before Creation his precedence to all creation in time and his sovereignty over all Creation which means in rank he's sovereign his head is over all Okay, and we stop there. So we look at verse 16. Can somebody read verse 16? Well, it was in him that all things were created in heaven and on earth Things seen and things unseen whether thrones dominions rulers or authorities All things were created and exist through him and in and for him Okay, he himself is before all things and all things were held together in him Okay, now look at how this verse starts verse 16. It starts with the word For right so the Apostle is beginning his explanation and proof of why Jesus Christ is sovereign over all Creation okay, so he's pointing to the reason to the reader that the reason Christ is the image of God is because he is the creator Okay, and also we look at that, you know in all things whether it's in the natural or In the spiritual realm everything was created by Christ through him and for him and in him all things Consists okay, which means he's in verse 17 says he's before all things and him in him all things hold to Together so let's look at these phrases You know for in him all things were created Okay, that means we look at these phrases created by him created through him Created for him and in him all things consist. What does these phrases mean? So what do these phrases created by him created through him created for him and in him all things consist mean Okay, so here this word him. Who is it referring to? Yes, Jesus and Jesus is the author of creation. That means he created Everything okay, so which means if he created everything he is not a created being him Self he's certainly not a created being and Certainly is not even the first created Being as many people say that you know Jesus is the first created Being because they use this was first born of all creation. He's not a created being Okay, he was the one who created everything. He was there even before The foundations of the world and he is he's a reason why everything was created Okay, so he himself is the creator of all things all things that we see here on Earth and all things in heaven everything that is material that means everything that we can touch feel see Okay, taste and everything in the spiritual which is the invisible Okay, so he's one who created everything in the invisible and the Visible so why is Paul stressing so much on Jesus being the creator that everything was created by him Everything is created through him everything is created for him and in him all things consist Why is Paul stressing on this? On the creation aspect of Jesus Christ That he created everything Why do you think he's stressing on there was nothing before him that was made? Okay, there was nothing before him that was made So everything exists because of him That means he was before all things were made. Okay What else why is he stressing that? God alone Jesus alone created everything By proving that Jesus alone created everything. He's trying to tell us that hey only God can Create right God is the only one who can make things God is only one who can create things So when he's saying that Jesus is the one who created everything in the visible and invisible in the material the Spiritual realm is trying to say hey, Jesus is God. He's not man Okay, he is God.  He's talking about the supremacy of the Son of God that is Jesus okay and Paul is stating this fact that Jesus is the Creator and by proving this fact. He's trying to prove again that he is God. He is Deity, okay, so you know The second phrase we look at is He created everything was created Through him everything was created through him means what everything was created through Jesus yes, the him is Jesus. So Jesus is the mediator of the entire process of Creation so we can see it this way God the father was the one who the author or the one who planned the creation Okay, and Jesus is the one who? spoke it Okay, he's a word. He spoke it and the Holy Spirit is the one who brought things to us Okay, I'll repeat that again God the father was the one who planned creation Jesus the one who spoke it and the Holy Spirit was one who brought things to us Okay, look at what Hebrews chapter 1 verses 1 to 3 States states this fact that you know Jesus is the one who spoke and he brought things in to Existence how can you prove this Hebrews chapter 1 verses 1 to 3 can somebody read that please? In many separate revelations each of which set forth a portion of the truth and in different ways God spoke of old to our forefathers in and by the prophets But in the last of these days He has spoken to us in the Sun in the person of a son whom he appointed here and lawful owner of all things Also by and through whom he created the words and the reaches of the space and the ages of time He is the soul expression of the glory of God and he is the perfect imprint and very image of nature upholding and maintaining and guiding and propelling the universe by his mighty word of power When he had by offering himself accomplished our cleansing of sins and prudence of Guilt he sat down at the right hand of the divine majesty on high Amen. Thank you. So look at what it says in Verse 2 the last phrase in verse 2 says through him also he made the words Okay, so through whom who is this whom? Through Jesus also he made the words he is here referring to God the father Okay, so through whom through whom is Jesus? He also made the Worlds and look at what what verse 3 says Appolding or and Jesus is there a brightness of his glory the express image of his person upholding all things by the Word of his power. Okay, so Jesus is the one who's sustaining all of creation holding everything in its place And how is he doing it? How is he sustaining and upholding everything in this universe?  Yes, so that they can serve him and glorify God So all of creation was created for him so that all of creation can serve and glorify God, okay Look at verse 16 Verse 16 of Colossians chapter 1 Okay verse 16 says For in him all things were created things in heaven and earth Visible and invisible whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities all things have been created through him and for Him okay, and it says here. He is before All things right Verse 17 he is before all things and in him all things hold to gather, okay so He is before all things and also he is The one who created everything, okay in him all things were Created, okay, so this this phrase He is before you know the pronoun here is he right? It stresses on Christ's unique position and his free Eminence before all things. What is the meaning of free eminence? His authority his supremacy his dominions over everything. So Paul is stressing He's saying he's before he's using the pronoun. He here is saying he is before he means he's playing the stress on Christ's unique position and his free eminence or his Superiority on this prominence before all things which means that Christ alone it is he himself and no one Else just Christ himself and no one else who created all these things He's Christ himself was before all things now the phrase he is Okay, very nice To look at it in Greek when you look at it in Greek. It is auto auto's Aston the Greek word for he is in Greek is autos Aston though the word autos means he or himself and the word is thin in Greek is the third person For a singular form of the world To be or to exist Okay, so if you look at it, it is actually he himself is to be or to Exist okay, but it is translated as is he is But if you look at it in Greek it gives us a much more deeper meaning it means to be or To exist so he himself is to be he himself exists by him a self But here it's translated as is okay So if you put this together it signifies that he is or he Exists which emphasizes his active Christ active and eternal presence in the act of bringing all things into Existence okay, so that is why I brought out this Greek word is not there I think in your notes, but I'm trying to explain it through the Greek because Greek gives us a much richer meaning He he is it just basically doesn't mean he is before all creation Okay, he was before all creation, but actually it means that you know He exists before creation the word is thin in Greek for which is translated as is also means to be or to exist that means he existed even before Creation and another interesting Thing that when you look at it in Greek this word autos Eston The emphasis on the verb autos which is he and which is combined with this word Eston which is is or to be or to exist also we get the word in me Which means I am I exist so here Jesus was basically Paul is using this Greek word He is is basically he's saying that you know He is before all creation means is basically saying I am before all creation So he's using the the word that was the title for God Which we looked at in John chapter 8 verse 58 We also see it in the Old Testament where God reveals himself as I am so here This word this phrase he is is expressed as autos is thin But emphasizes here is the emphasis here is on the intense use of autos That is he combined with the present tense if you combine it with the present tense Me which means I am I exist so he what Paul is trying to say is hey he was not Born and then created everything but he is the I am he existed even before Creation was okay, and that's connecting Jesus to The the title of God who is the I am are you able to understand? Yes, no No kind of okay. You don't have to worry. I'm just saying that the word he is is this not okay He is before creation, but the word is basically means he exists or to be which means he is the I am he existed Or he was even before the world was created and through him everything is created So the worst The phrase before all things Okay So Paul is mentioning One of the reasons crisis over all creations is because he was before all things Okay, so showing again his preeminences prominences authority, okay So what does Paul mean when he says that Christ's is before all things now before all things Basically is talking about Christ's eternal nature that Christ is eternal Okay, again, he's mentioning here Paul is trying to mention that Christ is not a created being he Existed before anything was even created which means he was he eternally existed as part of the Godhead and how do we know this John chapter 1 verse 1 and also we saw this prophesied through the prophet Micah remember we read Micah chapter 5 verse 2, you know, but now Bethlehem ephrata even though they were little among the thousands of Judah yet out of few will come for the Ruler of all Israel who's going forth has been from of old from Everlasting remember we studied this phrase So, you know Micah predicted that the one to come was going to be from everlast thing Okay, so Christ is before all things so Paul is trying to connect all of these dots Connecting it to what Micah prophesied, you know John chapter 1 verse 1 He's in crisis before all things and therefore he is the he's God Therefore he created everything and therefore he's worthy of all exaltation and all glory, okay So what makes Christ? transcendent which means what makes him You know to there is nothing like him is because the heavens had a beginning The earth had a beginning humanity had a beginning but not Christ Christ was without any Beginning because he is from everlasting He is over all creation because he was before creation and therefore he is God and therefore He is eternal and therefore he is everlasting, okay, so if you look at this Verses in Colossians chapter 1 verses 16 to 20 you can look at the frequent occurrence of the phrase or the words all things and by him By him all things were created in the past by him all things consist in the present by him All things are to be reconciled in the future So if you look at Colossians chapter 1 verse 16 and 20 there's so many times he's mentioned all things and by him Okay, so Paul is trying to say that in Christ all the fullness of the deity Dwells which means he is God, okay, Romans chapter 11 verse 36. Can somebody read that please Romans 11 36 Romans 11 36 Online students all of you with me very quiet today Shall I go ahead sister? Yes, please Lucy. Thank you Romans 11 36 for of him and through him and to him are all things to whom be glory forever. Amen Amen so here, you know Paul is again saying of him and Through him and to him are all things and because he's created everything He is God and because of that all glory and honor and praise to him alone Because he is the Alpha and the Omega. He's the beginning and the end and he's the all-in all Okay So that is the meaning of the phrase before all things and all things were created for him The next phrase is in him all things consist Okay, now Paul summarizes the son's relationship or Jesus's relationship with Creation with the words he is the creator He's not only the creator, but he's also the power that holds all of creation to gather Which means he's the one who sustains all of creation. Okay. He is a sustainer of all of Creation so the the word Consists in him all things consist What does this word consist mean that the Greek word for consists is soon as they know Okay, and soon as they know is from which we get the English word sustain. Okay So all things were created by Christ. It's not only created by him, but he is sustaining all things That means everything is conserved Everything is held together by whom? By the power of Christ's word, okay Look at what acts up to 17 was 28 says and somebody else can read first Corinthians 8 was 6 and Hebrews 1 was 3 So can somebody please need acts 17 28 That it sister. Yes, please sister. Go ahead For in him will live and move and have our being as also some of your own poets have said Also his offspring Amen, so here Paul is saying that for in him we live and move and have our being which means what What does this phrase mean for in him we live and move and have our being means what? What does it mean for in here? Yeah, go ahead Lucy. We are his children Okay, we exist because of him Yes, we exist because of him Sanjay says he's a source of all life. He's a source of our being is a source of our nourishment He's a source of our strength is a source of our hope. He's a very reason that we are Living and having our being because we have the breath of God in us. Okay First Corinthians 8 was 6 can somebody read that please first Corinthians 8 6 First Corinthians 8 6 yet for us there is one God the father of whom are all things and we for him and One Lord Jesus Christ through whom are all things and through whom we live Amen. Thank you. So here it says we have one Lord Jesus Christ through whom are all things That means who brought about everything that we see even our own existence through him And through him whom we live we have our life in him He's a one who sustains us Okay, and also we read in Hebrews chapter 1 was 3 that the entire universe is held or sustained By the power of his word can somebody read Hebrews 1 3 please Who being the brightness of his glory and the express image of his person and upholding all things By the word of his power when he had by himself Burged us and sat down at the right hand of the majesty on high Amen, so he's who is upholding all things Jesus and how is he upholding everything By the power of his word Okay, so here we saw through various scripture passages and basically focusing on Colossians chapter 1 was 15 to 18 more looking at 16 and 17 in depth now How Jesus Christ is the one who created everything and he sustains everything and thus he's dating So what should be our response to? God who is our creator or what should be our response to Jesus who is the creator? What should be our response? The first response is we need to consider right think about ponder Think about everything that we have been learning about God or who God is As the psalmist says in Psalm chapter 8 verses 3 and 4 can somebody read that please Psalm chapter 8 verses 3 and 4 All of you are sleepy Wakey wakey Okay, some chapter 8 verses 3 and 4 please read When I view and consider your heavens the work of your fingers the moon and the stars which you have ordained and established What is man that you are mindful of him and the son of man that you care for him So what is the psalmist saying in verse 3 when I consider your heavens the work of your Fingers the moon and the stars so he's looking at creation. He's considering his pondering his Thinking so we need to take time to consider God's nature his attributes his works Okay, consider his works that he is the omnipotent Creator that we see in all creation the powerful you know He created everything the power of his word and how beautiful creation is so we need to consider We need to ponder ponder means what keep on thinking about it meditating on God and his works What happens when we ponder we meditate when we? Consider all of what God has created what happens? We can know his greatness. Yes What else also lost in his majesty the lost in his majesty in his glory in his power. Yes When you consider the work of God is creation his omnipotent power We see in creation the perfectness the order the beauty, you know, it just Gets us to see his glory right because in Romans chapter One versus 20 it says, you know the in the Invisible attributes of God we can't see God right but Paul is saying hey You don't have excuse those of you who are Gentiles not Jews the Jews They don't have an excuse because they have the law So he's arguing from that point of view in Romans chapter one He's saying you Jews you have the law, but you Gentiles can can't say hey We didn't have the law we didn't know about God He did not reveal himself to us But Paul is saying that you know for sins for sins the creation that means from ever since God created Everything ever since creation of this world. He says the invisible attributes of God are clearly seen That means when you ponder when you look at creation when you think about creation What do you see in creation the invisible attributes of God? Okay, you can't see God But it's invisible attributes are seen in creation and he's saying it's not only clearly Seen but also it is something that is been understood by the things that are made even his eternal power So you can see his eternal power in creation and the Godhead. So you are without any excuse So Gentiles people would not know Jesus people would not have the word of God the Bible You know, there's no excuse for them because why? Creation itself reveals the glory of God creation itself is very clearly You know revealing to us the invisible attributes of God Revealing to us the eternal power of God is also revealing the Godhead. So none of us are without any excuse, okay, so Even as we pondered on creation, you know, it helps us see his Glory, okay creation reveals the glory of God. Look at what Psalms 19 verse 1 says Psalms 19 verse 1 can somebody read that please The heavens declare the glory of God and the fervent shows his anti work Amen, the heavens declare the glory of God and the fervent shows his handy work Okay, so the vastness of our universe, you know is basically Fervent basically means the the expanse the sky the space everything shows his handy works The vastness of our universe indicates the greatness of our creator God like Psalm 147 was forces, you know count the number of stars and he calls them each by Name he got even calls each of the stars by Name, okay, and what happens? What does this lead to look at the same chapter verse five? So can somebody read Psalm 147 verses four and five please He determines and counts the number of the stars. He calls them all by their names Great is our lord and of great power. His understanding is in next Inexhaustible and boundless So the psalmist is saying hey, you know, he Counts the number of stars and he calls them each by Name and what is when what is the psalmist doing? He's actually pondering on God's creation He's thinking he's meditating. Can you imagine? He's even thinking about how he God is counting the stars He's calling them by name, you know, so wonderful and what is it leading the psalmist to do? It's leading the psalmist to insult God, okay, and in verse five saying great is our God and mighty in power And his understanding is in finite. So what is it leading him to it's leading him to glorify exalt and worship God, okay, and God is truly infinite. He is so great He's so dominant over all creation. Look at what Isaiah mentions in Isaiah 40 versus 12 and 13 So great is our God. Look at Isaiah 40 12 and 13 Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand? Marked off the heavens with a span enclosed the dust of the earth in a measure And weighed the mountains in scales and the hills in a balance Who has directed the spirit of the lord or as his counselor has taught him Yeah, so here even Isaiah is caught up by the greatness of God and caught up with his dominance over all creation that is just leading him to just praise him and exalt and magnify his name, okay, so We've learned about God as creator Jesus as a creator. So what should it lead us to do? Firstly, what should it lead us to do? Consider, thank you. One person is awake. Consider, ponder, meditate and what else should it lead to do? When the psalm is considered, ponder, meditate what it lead him to do Glorify him, worship him, exalt him, worship him for his majesty, for his greatness, for his glory as revealed in creation Sanjay says it inspires us to live a life that honors him and the opportunity to be here in this world at this point in time Yes, yes, basically just worship him and praise him and adore him for who he is for his greatness You know a god of order a god of beauty A god of excellence a god of perfection So when you look at it, it basically talks to me in my own life that when god can just Make creation so beautiful so perfect Bring about order and perfection and everything good and make perfect You know when he created me In his image how much more is he going to perfect things in me do things that are good Do things that are orderly in my life and do things that are going to bring out his beauty It just it just leads us to worship and praise him So I hope even as we're learning christology a lot of theology is going to basically lead you to know more of this god Who we know to serve to worship him and to worship him for who he is in all his greatness. Is am I too loud? No, okay Okay, so all of this is going to lead out in song and worship in adoration and in glorifying Okay So that was chapter three for us Any questions anyone has any doubts anything you want to ask? Before we move on to chapter four No questions online students Okay, if there are no questions then we'll move on to chapter four So basically in chapters one two and three we studied about the deity of jesus christ We established the fact that jesus is god by looking at various scripture passages at point to his pre-existence His equal equality with god the father and god the holy spirit and his role in creation Thus we established the fact that jesus is deity which means that he is god Okay, now we move on in chapters four and the subsequent chapters. We will examine about christ's humanity So in christology, what are we studying in christology? Sister one question sister Yes, yes, go ahead. You see Sister, can you help us out in the third question? How will we apply first Corinthians eight six in our daily life? application First Corinthians chapter eight eight and six verse six Okay, first Corinthians chapter eight verse six Yeah One god the father of whom are all things For we for him and one lord jesus christ through whom all things and through whom we Live free Okay, how can we apply this in our lives? Any answers How can we apply this in our lives? In our daily life Sorry lucy We praise him worship him and recognize him Okay Then You know that he's a source of our creation He's a source. Okay. Sorry source of all blessings the source of all blessings. Okay Anything else Is our life is in him? Right. He knows everything about our present our future the next moment So we should be totally and utterly dependent on him or abandoning ourselves to him in his total care and trusting him For everything or at every juncture at every point just Going back and saying god, what do I do? How do I answer this? How do I take care of this?  I need to make or what should I say to this person or what should I do in this? I'm faced with the situation. So totally just connecting ourselves with Him, okay, whether this challenges whether this difficulties even enjoy and happiness Thank him Okay, and when you're looking for things in life Looking for answers looking for blessings looking for things You know where to go It's just above Is just there is there to help us because in him we Live in him. We live and move and have our Being he knows everything about us. He's our strength. He's our help. He's our hope Does that help Lucy? It's just a thanks sister. Yeah, thank you Any more questions any more doubts? Yes, sister yet. We're going to study about his humanity now in chapter four Okay, so chapter four in the subsequent chapters. We will examine the humanity of christ So any questions so far about the deity of jesus christ? Before we move on to his humanity Not that when we move on to his humanity, you can't ask any questions on the deity you can still Yeah Okay, so if there's no questions no doubts we move on to chapter four Okay in chapter four, we will look at some important old testament prophecies that were foretold about Christ's coming the incarnation of christ when you say incarnation. What do we mean? What do we mean when we say incarnation? God becoming man Thank you kofi god becoming man or god taking on the nature of the form of man Okay, so there are various old testament prophecies that talk about the incarnation That also talk about the various aspects of christ's work The person and work of jesus christ, which we will be studying in the subsequent chapters But before we look at the prophecies concerning the incarnation of jesus christ There are some important facts that we need to consider ponder to take hold of Okay, the first thing is that even before God became man or got to call the human form Okay Was incarnation something in the mind of god somewhere after adam and eve sinned Or you know when the judges refuse to Or the Israelites refuse to Walk according to god's ways or the kings refuse to You know walk along god's ways and keep his ordinances his commands and people were going astray They got plan incarnation During the course of the events of history. What do you think? When was Incarnation conceived in the mind and the heart of god It was planned much earlier sister Okay, uh, how much early is lucy? It's really in god Sorry Okay, sorry it was this master plan before itself Master plan before itself. Okay. What is the before you're saying? Before what That's good Good answer, but before what? Take the mic. Please just behind you If you check in genesis 3 14 15 There it is mentioned that first time god is Uh, promising like you will get a savior Okay, genesis 3 he's promising that he Promises that you will get a savior. Yes So he's you're saying that after adam and eve sin that was conceived in the heart and mind of god Okay Sanjay says revelation 13 8 the lamb was slain before the foundation Of the world is the phrase that refers to the pre-ordained sacrifice of jesus christ for the salvation of mankind So what do you think about revelation chapter 13 verse 8 even before the foundation of the world? That means even before the creation of the world In the heart and mind of god The full sufficient perfect sacrifice of jesus the plan of salvation was already a completed done thing Thousands of years even before jesus came on the scene even before the creation of the foundation of the world So when do you think incarnation was conceived in the heart and mind of god? Before time began, right? Thank you sanjay for that before even creation even before the foundation of the world even before time began the plan of Salvation was conceived in the mind of god and was already a come done completed thing in the heart and the mind of God it was already finished so everything that we see in happening in history The past and the present and the future is already Conceived in the heart and mind of god is nothing new to him. He did not say when adam and eve sin He didn't say oh, oh, you know my plans have all gone. Hey wire. What do I do now? You know, he didn't say that you already knew did he know adam and eve are going to sin Yes, but what you mentioned about revelation Genesis chapter three, which is very good Yes, it's about what he is how he is going to unfold that plan Okay, not that it was conceived then and there But it is already a done completed thing But was something that he was revealing at that point of time in history to us Okay, so yes if you look at So christ incarnation was an event plan in the mind of god even before time began even before creation How do we know this? Let's look at first Peter chapter one versus 19 and 20 can somebody read that please first Peter chapter one versus 19 and 20 But with the precious blood of christ as of a lamp without blemish and without spot He indeed was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you Amen. Thank you. So here it says That to save for Peter the same way we are saving the precious blood of Jesus christ the lamp without blemish without any spot He indeed was foreordained before the foundation of the World which means this was already pre-planned in the heart and mind of god even before the foundation of the world But was manifested means was revealed To us in this time in this age Okay, so somebody asked you.  Yes, it was not something that he thought of everything after anything happened But you can point them to first Peter chapter one versus 19 and 20, okay, we'll stop here Anyone has any questions? any questions no Okay, no questions. Uh, this friday is a holiday we've missed Three fridays in a row right now What's the second two fridays? Two fridays in a row. Okay. So this friday. We are having a holiday. It's a republic day in india So you won't have classes. So i'll see you next Tuesday. Please read your notes Please read these scripture passages very important fonder think God's creation praise and worship him links all time and let his glory be manifested in our lives amen Thank you everyone. Have a blessed week ahead. God bless all of you. Thank you


Hello there. So in the following slides we will talk about a series of problems that actually we encountered in a set of different companies in which the technological part was not really enough to solve the issues. So I am Andrea and I work in Red Hat Switzerland as a consultant. So basically we always talk about cooperation and cooperation is definitely an essential part for any kind of successful process or project. But most of the time the word DevOps is actually abused because so we try to basically throw technology at the problem without solving it in a more deep kind of way. So this psychological aspect is often underestimated and in companies in which we are very old school and there is no cooperation whatsoever. There is a lot of garden keeping and there is no mean for automation or they don't want to automate. There is a lot of fear of changes. It's actually an interesting playground when you try to do all these things because it's basically a lot of stuff it's kind of recurring in all of those companies and basically what you always see there is there is a silo organization in which there is no sense of collaboration whatsoever. Changes are impacting the teams. Documentation is not there. There is unnecessary complexity because there are an absolute lack of standards that the processes are very complicated and most of them are over engineered on purpose and there are not even coding standards that are set. So basically there is no kind of common ground across the teams and there is lack of automation and it's normally because not only there is no software to automate but there is no will to automate and manual tasks are still you know it's something that still feel comfy for for most of the people and there are a lot of technology gaps between the teams. Usually these organizations work are divided into separate teams. It's dedicated to a specific subject of technology. These often there is often silos which teams they don't they don't talk to each other basically they work doing their things for their own department not caring about other departments and how these changes will impact all of the departments and basically when when they make a change and this breaks something in some impacts other people then this generates a reactive culture where the changes are addressed after it happened instead of before so so the other teams they have to adapt the process scripts etc after the change has happened when it's too late. There is also a general usually lack of standards for automation standardization is crucial you cannot automate without having standardization because it will be too too way too complex to to create a program that handle the complexity so we need standards and naming conventions and they must reflect all information needed for and for this and if changes are made they must be communicated in advance so that people can adapt their processes and programs to these changes. Without enough time there is no again going back to the previous slide there is no there's a reactive instead of proactive actions. Usually also there is a lack of clear communication sometimes I mean we can define communication to inputs and outputs what do you expect from me and what do I get from you kind of so so usually we found that these inputs and outputs are not for a technical part they are either not well documented or outdated so maybe something happens and they didn't the team responsible for that didn't update the documentation so the other teams they they found out when the things doesn't work as expected also it happens with processes sometimes you need to run after people see who knows what are the steps the right steps to do certain things so so this is also a big problem for automating there is also lack of feeling of ownership some many departments they will think okay this is my job and I don't care if I make a change to my area I don't care if it's gonna break somebody else's script it's not my problem and this is very bad because it just makes a lot of people frustrated because they will they will I mean they will see their their processes break and sometimes they get management attention and then we can enter into the blame game who is who is responsible for this and so and so so all this again feedbacks into the silo problem the people become upset with each other let's say and then they don't want to work together one of one of the main issues that we actually saw in a lot of those organizations is actually that the fear of changes so basically even though you know the engineer the engineers might have will to change but basically when they get into the problem and they actually need to change the stuff and they basically work a lot with specific technology the problem that they found is that basically they don't want to change it because they're scared that that technology could replace them so even though they have they do have the technical background they don't want to touch it because simply they're scared of you know what can possibly happen and even though business strategy is like automate at every cost everything the the the problem that we normally encounter is that stability is weak so basically the servers are being you know manned manually there is no automation there were no standards again so basically you know like the controls are at the bare minimum so basically you have people messing around with stuff they don't go through their held up account they they have like you know a common root account whatever so you can't actually track what they do priorities are not set because of lack of communication again so people don't communicate to each other they have a lot of stuff to do they just do it one thing after the other there is no you know no organization no no kind of common goal so stuff is going to break and in this situation it's extremely hard to test and that's something that you definitely want to do because without testing you don't know if that stuff is going to work and the the problem is that the first time they try to apply automation is that you know you have something not not automated and it's messy you automate the mess it starts to be an even bigger mess bigger mess so basically what happens is that um some people are very good at it so they start to automate break things don't communicate to the other the other ones don't know the new technology they don't put the ends on the new technology they can't fix it so plus there is a fragmented ownership because you know that guy on that desk knows how to automate knows the stuff so he's gonna do it if he gets sick nobody's gonna touch that stuff so if it's if it's broken it will fix it when he's back and um yeah as I said automating this kind of in this kind of messy environments uh it's just getting more messy this brings to uh basically to an evil circle which in which the company needs something the engineer engineering received the request it starts a sort of a manual process that is off manual all automated no one no one knows exactly who is doing what and then when this process is done stuff needs to be checked it's probably broken and he needs to be redone again so management gets upset and the evil circle starts and so how did we solve the challenges uh on both um human side and technical side collaboration and openness is nice but unfortunately we humans we get moody unstable sometimes depending on the people so there should be some technical means to to prevent human errors and also to prevent accidental sabotage by lack of interest or just because somebody doesn't like some other person and so on so what we could use to solve this technical challenge is um so we have Ansible Tower we we use it very often for um managing playbooks I mean it's a good platform for engineers to work together uh we can manage credentials without I mean we can let the other engineers to use some credentials without letting them know the credentials themselves they just they can just use it but they cannot see it uh we cannot so use cloud phones for the UI it's very easy to prepare intelligence service dialogues and can be simplified tailor made to the user experience so if a user is from department X and it only needs to see certain operations it will only see that operations and nothing else at the same time other people from other department will see other things and of course we should use some infrastructure to test mean to to do automated testing this is to make sure that when we do changes they don't break the existing the existing workflow so automation is actually very good but um we you all we should always make sure that is well planned and how do I mean with that is that basically if you start to automate in some somewhere in which you have no automation no pre-existing automation you have to plan what are the tasks and you have to have a vision on how those tasks should look like because if you don't have that vision you're going to do just something that probably is not going to work together with with the rest of the infrastructure so targeting solve a problem go to the next and automate whatever possible uh basically I mean the aim would should be that you touch you press a button everything spins and everything is automated because you definitely want to go out of the blaming circle so you don't want to have uh you know engineers that touch the things and they don't know what they're doing and then they break it for another team and they maybe use the same logging credential to get in so automating would solve this problem so basically the mindset should be there either either is automated or it's it's not happening so um Ansible in my opinion it's a great tool for that um because it's very easy to onboard people so if you compare it with for instance puppet which I mean we're not comparing apples with apple because uh puppet is a much more complicated thing but Ansible is very easy to onboard because it's just you know it's just some bunch of yaml files there are a lot of um a lot of uh prepare packages on the Ansible galaxy so it's it's it's a great tool for that and um well the the most important thing is that we have to do is basically convincing people that the best thing to go would would be automate test check repeat and this this is normally gonna work pretty well but it takes a lot of time to to actually um make it so uh we we used to have a demo but unfortunately internet is very slow so basically every time we click it takes about 10 minutes so I guess we're gonna skip that because there is a lot of clicking around and that's a bit of a pity and yeah so another important thing is uh to provide a simple user interface so the I mean if people can request what they want with a simple user interface instead of having to send emails or fill forms I mean long forms and contact people and so there will be much more happy and willing to to to do it I mean to use it and also one thing is that when you create a user interface it needs to be uh difficult for people to to to do work around so you should use you should be using like uh verify the inputs and also providing letting the user choose only what they should use and not everything else is also prevents them from selecting the wrong thing and having all wrong and then you know going back to to step one um keeping it simple is also very important because when things get too complex people especially people who are new to it they will they will become just uh I don't want to I don't want to do this I want somebody to do it for me and yeah well as I say validate the inputs don't leave rooms for mistake there is one for them all but adding something to to the to the to the to the above it's like it's basically if you make stuff very complicated it's like uh when you try to uh close the cat in in the room and then you start to put small even smaller uh you know uh crates to to make the cat pass it will it will go around what I want to say is that if you make stuff very complicated people are not going to use it so the simple it is the more people will be will be using this uh this and one very important thing is that every step you do no matter how simple it is it it it has to be replicable so basically you you have to um you have to do like some kind of automation that helps you replicate the steps at any point it is expensive because it takes normally a lot of time uh it scares away people at the beginning because if they're used to uh just do the stuff normally when they start to automate they say ah why should I spend half an hour to automate this because I can make it in five minutes uh the problem is that what we try to make them understand is that basically those five minutes replicated for the entire data center which you have maybe 500 servers is much more than half an hour and the testing of all this is is is expensive too because basically you have to replicate your infrastructure so now you have tools like uh creo or talker or vagrant boxes um that you can you know easily spin and destroy it's never gonna be exactly the same kind of thing that you have in the data center but it's it's really it's uh can can get pretty close and it's absolutely necessary because when you test a lot you avoid the mess so uh as much as we can approach the problem from a technical standpoint if people are not willing to to do it I mean there's no nothing you can do so you need to change the attitudes of people so basically yeah I mean throwing technology at the problem is not only the is not the only solution you have because uh there is something more needed because basically if you do not communicate if you do not do not build standards if you don't make people feel responsible and that's very very important uh nothing is gonna happen like uh having the people being accountable for what they do it's actually the most important thing you can do in your company because when people feel responsible for what they do they try to care about it and if they care about it the performance are growing sky high and um standardization helps a lot with that because if you find a common ground among those people uh to collaborate and you know being able to read what someone else writes uh actually helps a lot and standardization is indispensable for this and open communication is also something that is very very important not only in terms of you know like the buzzword of the open communication framework but really being able to communicate with the team is core it's absolutely important because there is no agile process there is no DevOps if if you do not communicate and this in this kind of companies it's it's basically the main issue you go to a company in which you know the infrastructure or the organization is very tight you can't actually talk with the people uh you can't talk with your boss you can't tell your boss that you're failed that you failed and that's that's very important because if you can do that then the stuff gets much much easier and so to have a clear structure process is helpful because it avoids misunderstandings um so people should know what they they should do and uh and so people should participate in this in defining these processes I mean when it's uh when things are not clear is the worst because people just can divert and then you you get a single process becomes something that it depends to who you talk with yeah standardization again uh when when you define the standards you avoid ambiguity and if you avoid that you um you avoid the guesswork so if everything is standard there is no reason to argue because you can just follow what what you said is a standard and it normally guarantees a very high quality and very high productivity and if the productivity is high the morale will be high as well so people will be happy because they see that the stuff actually works and it works good because having stuff that doesn't work is extremely frustrated frustrating well the problem is who owns the topics and how do we deal with this ownership problems so one simple thing you can do is to to see where I mean where the complexity is so if if the I mean if to generate the inputs you need to have a lot of inside knowledge of the product or area and this inside knowledge is only on for example here on team b then team b should take the responsibility for this part but unfortunately sometimes it's not so simple so well sometimes there are multiple teams involved and then what you can do is just to to split into different in the different parts so for example if you use ansible you can create different labels for each purpose and that's it and it's very important to be nice to to talk with people and not be mean but to other teams because this is this happens often that again the human part some people don't like other people and then they try to kind of sabotage so it's important to have a good environment or at least somebody who is making sure that to diffuse all this animosity between the teams so at the end how did we implement that how do we normally implement the CICD model how can you actually test infrastructure and avoid failing when you go in production so that's you know it's just an example but I found out that it actually works pretty good so for automation you know we work for that so we use ansible and ansible has this very fancy thing that is a sort of a GUI that is called ansible tower that actually can automate automation processes and in there is the concept of the team and you can actually connect it to your LDAP so you have an LDAP directory you have different teams those teams have different permissions and what what I normally try to do is map those permissions to the same permission in in the git repository so so that each team owns is on modules can contribute to others but you always know who is touching what and that's absolutely um super important now when you write ansible roles stuff can can get pretty complicated to test because normally you know yamal linting is not enough so what we use is molecule molecule is a python library that which is extremely cool in which um in which basically you can define what kind of test the infrastructure should do and it uses um it uses some kind of testing frameworks that are written in python in which you can actually assert what you did example you're installing nginx you want nginx to listen on port 80 and you've write a playbook for that so basically what you do is writing a python script that says connect to this machine check if port 80 is open and this if this happens and your guys can actually use it on their laptop so we normally enforce it with a you know without with a post commit check but a pre-commit check but the cool thing about it is that it's written in python uses the same libraries as ansible so basically you can test on your laptop whether this stuff is going to work or not and the cool thing is that it works with docker and it works with vagrant so you can actually test on both cases if you're using containers or virtual machines and um well the the other tool we use quite a lot is Jenkins Jenkins is pretty much everywhere so I believe that most of you are confident with it and what we use Jenkins for is basically for triggering two different things one is satellite that can be connected to rev or whatever to spin linux virtual machine dual testing try all the roles try all the playbooks because molecule can't test playbooks can only test actually actual roles so basically to to check everything we we spin up a virtual machine we test all the all we wrote and in the ansible roles and then we use molecule to check everything on docker so for sanity check so that basically each dock at each ansible role is that it tested individually and then all together and there is this one tool that uh not a lot of people I I found out actually know it's it's called service pack that's a great thing in which basically you can define how your machine should look like after you do automation has been written by the guys at sef uh no sorry uh chef the the other automation platform uh can work pretty well with puppet too in one of our customers we had both puppet and ansible so basically what he does is describing uh how the the the machine should look like so you've write your server specifications you test all your playbooks against this you take the result and you check with service pack if it's what you were expecting that you get so basically you can loop in this thing and try to find out if all the servers will be on the same state because ansible is not a state machine so it doesn't enforce the state it just applies the playbooks one after the other it's that puppet um uh generates a state so basically it compiles the state and then applies the whole state to the machine and in these they are substantially different so sometimes it's very easy to use ansible because you know it just does the stuff one after the other but on the other end you can't really check if what you get is what you were expecting because it's hard to test this guy solves the problem because you can actually generate uh gathering facts and check how the server looks like and check if it's what you were expecting so in case in which uh you also have like something else running there like puppet for instance or chef that is a pre-existing uh automation model you can still use service pack to compare the results so it's an extremely powerful thing and you can integrate it with um with a ruby c i c d software that is called kitchen c i unfortunately it's not in the in the schema but you can use kitchen c i to automate even this so the result gathering and the test with service pack so if everything works service pack or kitchen c i in that case or Jenkins or whatever you're using gives you the thumbs up it's fine ansible ansible core which will be triggered by ansible tower will go through the server farm and apply all the changes like this you preserve the ownership of each of each role you know we're touching what the checks are enforced on your laptop and after the commit on git Jenkins will take care of the rest service pack will check that what you did is actually what you wanted to do and then ansible will do the rest and these i found out that actually i did it for initially for one customer and i figure out that actually it's pretty it's pretty good it's a pretty general model and it normally works pretty well so try it out just one one one thing is that many ansible modules that they were stateful and you can also do testing into the into the playbook so well what what did we learn for all this first technology only it's it's not going to solve the problem so before you apply any technology change in a company especially old school companies because you know if you have 10 people in your startup you normally i mean you should be able to talk and come up with a solution and technology change won't fix anything if there is a culture if there isn't a culture change within it and to achieve results you have to achieve both you have to to kind of grow the culture of your company with the technology and normally using an open collaboration framework can make technologies much more effective the the open collaboration framework would say that is a is a system for you know innovating now with this i'm i'm not saying that you should go by the book and just follow what they say in the in the open collaboration framework but having a look at it it's it's pretty good because there is a lot of good ideas to implement stuff also investing time in making things goes move between the different teams because again if people don't want to work together it's very difficult to achieve things i mean there will be a lot of sabotage and also i mean you when you go to work for a company you you want to have a bad time right i mean you want to to enjoy what you do and so on so it's it's good to to try to make people settle their differences and so well to settle those difference you have to you have to be fair basically if you want so what what we're seeing is that uh if if the company or the management wasn't fair with the employees they were they would have sabotage it so if you want to avoid this you should be kind of fair with with the guys are working with you and again try to automate as much as possible because if you automate your task and and not only your task i mean you participate in automating the whole process then you will have more time to do engineering so i think most people don't enjoy doing repetitive tasks i mean most people are in this job to to create new things and do i mean think and create solutions and not doing copy paste and things like that so if you if you automate you can you can focus more on this kind of work instead of repetitive things and so the if you leave the you make your users easy to request your services without having to contact you and send emails to people and so on i mean if you also make it easy with a user interface also you will get less disruption on your daily work so saving times automating means that you don't only have more time to build better things but this time should be invested in training because even if it's i mean it doesn't need to be like you know that you go in a super expensive training or whatever but gathering the teams together and having them talk about what they're doing and the technology they're using and all the kind of stuff they do even if it's you know completely unrelated it's normally very beneficial for everybody because again uh you can't achieve any kind of goal if you don't have communication inside a company and uh this is uh something that uh in my opinion uh was like the most important learning in in all those companies we went through that if the people are not nice to each other if the people don't want to share what they do have people do not communicate nothing is gonna happen and the you know like the stuff will remain dead basically thank you a lot and do you have any question uh well some of them yes i mean it's it's not a specific company it's it's more like you know a generic kind of thing but uh some some of them they try some some of them they actually claim to be agile but in practice they are not i mean it's just for the checklist they basically use gyra that's as agile as they get any other question you talk with the people it's so a lot of companies they so we have some frameworks in reddit to to talk to people and um but uh normally uh companies in in companies like i found very effective workshopping stuff so if you go there and you want to to pitch your idea showing what is your idea it's actually very very effective so just you know gather people together try to workshop something uh well if people get along they get along otherwise you know you can't change people mind that much uh but uh normally you know being nice to people and uh try to try to pitch your ideas is actually an effective way or that's what they found to be effective usually when you are a consultant you go there and you start meeting people and you start getting the feeling of how they how's the politics inside the company basically and based on that you need to well you can talk to people you can talk to management and try to make them understand that if basically if they don't work together this project maybe is going to take ages and it's not going to work at the end so basically just talking and and seeing observing what happens inside the company any other question sorry say it again well that's a tough one so i don't have i don't have a very you know good way to to actually motivate people or i don't have a solution for that i don't think there there is a thing like one size fit for all i think it depends on people uh again again i think uh you know like investing on their education for instance is one thing so i like a lot to be you know to to learn new things for instance so i'm very motivated when the company allows me to um get more knowledge another thing could be you know team building events this is also a great thing i mean some people like it some people don't but at the end uh i mean i have pretty good memories of companies that made made us do like some kind of cool team events i also i mean um you can let them get more involved and like get them to participate if they want i mean allow them to be able to raise their voice and to to feed not not just uh i mean like if you're a manager and you are like this has to be my way or no way this this will make people like very like very demotivated so if you make more make them buy more more participative between all the people then i think they most people they will feel more motivated to work anyone else um so what uh what i normally do it's again taking like you know the responsibles for for the team get them together in a room make them stick the red together come up with a standard and again it's it's all about talking i mean at the end you have to communicate the things yeah definitely i wouldn't say blame but just let them know that is not right i mean not too much because if you if you i mean if you blame people too much they at the end may they may feel like oh this is not for me and you know they yeah they won't they won't get to the learning curve i mean they will pass they will pass so normally what happens is that i have to lower quite a bit the the strict the strictness of the checks but you know like at least sanity check and this kind of stuff you know this this is easy to do and again uh i mean if you write ansible code i firmly recommend using molecule because it's it does does basically yamalinting ansible linting testing and all this kind of stuff it's pretty good at that um yeah you you always have to set the bar at a certain point because otherwise you know people go crazy uh it's like when you write c code then you uh you put dash dash warning goal and pedantic you're not gonna compile anything right so i i normally speak with them very clearly and i tell them how much time do you spend a day to do the same task wouldn't you rather do it once properly and uh one thing is so and this is the nice way there is a bad way which is enforcing that everything is not automated it's scratched by the automation itself so like puppet for instance is very good at this because you can't define look the machine has to look like this if you touch it elsewhere puppet run scratched again and you also need to have the management to be on board because if they i mean some people will be motivated but all people will think okay i'm management is pushing me to do this and i have to automate i don't have time so there has to be also management support because at the end you know they control last question anyone so it's i mean in my experience it's normally the network team that has uh that doesn't want to automate much because uh it's very hard to test for instance i mean if you want to apply rules on a firewall and you do it in an automated way the rule is wrong you kick your company out right so i i normally advise to start with small things and if it's very a very difficult area like networking for example firewalling then it might it might even make sense that they keep doing some stuff manually because they want the double checks because if it is if it is really uh at that at that particular area in which you can get uh pretty bad you know like um it can get pretty bad if if you uh automated wrong i think that um it's probably easier to tell them like look take your time but do it proper of course i mean you should you know push them a bit but uh in some specific areas i can understand that it's actually pretty complicated yeah it's um it has to be i mean management has to consider that as the long-term goal to get everybody to be used to automate and also i think it's useful if there is a dedicated team or or yeah to be like um educating people on the automating and also like make them i mean make make people understand that i mean normally what i see in it is that everybody's super loaded with things and uh automating actually is not gonna replace your job because it changes constantly and if you it's better if you are like less stressed and uh you you can like do engineering as as i mentioned before then if you are manually doing things and you know it's i think it's it takes time well i guess we're done uh thanks a lot again thank you and uh have a good lunch


Hey friends today we are hanging out at Epcot for the International Festival of the Arts 2022. We're gonna give you the grand tour and I plan on going around and trying something from every single booth at World Showcase and also show you all the other festival activities that they have to offer this year. Any hoos let's go do this! First things first we have to grab ourselves a festival passport and other than some amazing food and some awesome art that you can purchase. There is a lot of cool activities here. One thing is the paint by number mural where everybody gets that like paint by number and it creates an awesome mural that they'll actually showcase throughout the festival of the arts and then also over here they have a little chalk area where you can make your own art with some chalk so I think we're actually gonna do some of that right now. The chalk area over here by the land is basically for kids like you get to actually draw with chalk and I think that's really fun but adults can do it too so I would like to actually make a little something maybe I'll write my name I don't know I haven't wrote on the pavement with chalk in such a long time. So you grab yourself a little caddy right here there we go I think I did good I think I did a good job but my fingers are all chalky now and there was no line to actually do that but to do the paint by number there is a pretty long line right here is the design that everybody's painting and once it's complete this is what it's gonna look like it's gonna be amazing but like I said the line is a little bit long so we might actually have to come back and do this but I do want to do it because I feel like it's a tradition here for festival of the arts. Probably the most popular thing for the festival of the arts this year is the figment popcorn bucket.  The line is wrapping all the way around the front entrance of world showcase and this is almost halfway through right here and wow like I gotta say I wasn't expecting this many people but figment is kind of like the icon of Epcot and the icon of festival of the arts. The sad thing is is the popcorn buckets are being sold at an actual festival booth pop eats so if you want to get any of the food items you have to wait in the two to four hour line. Since they're selling the figment popcorn bucket at the pop eats stand if you want to get a line to get a tomato soup with grilled cheese then you're gonna have to wait in the four hour line. That is so crazy isn't it? So I don't think anyone's gonna be getting any of the food unless they're here for the figment popcorn bucket and we're gonna swing back later on to see if the line goes down. I said that they only have 300 cases so they're gonna sell out eventually and I'm sure once we come back we're gonna be able to get some food from here without having to wait four hours. Another thing that I like that they do at the festival of the arts is they have all these great like photo opportunities around world showcase and of course all the Disney fine art so I'm gonna show you some of the art we're gonna eat some of the food and yeah just enjoy a day at festival of the arts. Our first stop of the day is gonna be here at the Mexico stand and my friend Lily has her own margarita hair so I had to come out and try it and I'm so excited to see what it tastes like and we're also gonna get a couple of the food items too because Mexico is like always my first stop. I always start in Mexico and then make my way around world showcase. First things first we're gonna be getting my friends margarita the Lily and I love it. Look at it. Exo Lily that's her signature on there and I can't wait to try it so here we go. Oh that is so good. I can really taste the rose petal of the core in there. I love it. She did a great job. She actually designed this drink so I'm really happy to try it. I wanted to show you guys the ingredients to the Lily and it comes with Lily's favorite tequila and then right there is the rose petal of the core that's what I tasted like kind of off the bat and then cranberry and lime juice and it's a fire stick garnish and I don't know if the fire stick is edible but maybe we'll try a little bit later especially after we have the taco de chocolate which I'm probably most excited for. Seriously this is probably gonna be my favorite drink of the day and I don't even know if I'm gonna get many more drinks but this one right here I'm definitely gonna come back and get another one. Here is a look at all the food items from the Mexico booth and they have so many amazing things like I am pumped for the carne asada and then also the taco de chocolate and it's a little chocolate candy shell filled with Mexican chocolate mousse and a touch of chili and some seasonal fruit and it looks so fancy look it's like a little mini choco taco. I think I'm gonna dive into the carne asada and I'm gonna grab myself some steak look at this this looks so good right and a little bit of the cheese right here the griddle cheese wow I'm pumped. You guys know how much I love my steak so I'm excited to have a little steak option here in the Mexico booth so here we go mm-hmm now I'm gonna dive in to the what I like to call the choco taco and we're gonna cut it up though because I want to share it with some friends there we go that's the way teamwork make stream work yep get a little of that sauce a little of that fresh fruit all in one bite and perfect now it's time for the choco taco oh wow that is good now of course I did say I want to try the fire stick because I do believe every single flower is edible but it's whether or not it tastes good so we're gonna get a little of the lily on the top there so here we go a little fire stick hopefully it's edible I don't know it's actually really nice it is not like the lavender I like this of course hanging out at an opening day event we're gonna run into a lot of friends and it's been fun so far we have Kristen and write down Main Street then we've got Shannon with the second star collective Jojo Jojo's world and then dating in Disney so I'm so excited and we are just gonna hang out have fun all day long that's a good vibe my friend Trevor actually ended up getting a popcorn figment bucket I think I said that backwards a popcorn figment bucket should it be figment popcorn bucket but how long did you have to wait about three hours three hours but it's worth it look it you look great and you wore a purple shirt to match excellent I love it well thank you Trevor now it's time to move along and I was just talking about how I never see a festival booth in Norway they had one a long time ago but I haven't seen any recently so the next stop is gonna be China and they have some good things on the menu here is the painted panda and they have a lot of good offerings they have the General Sal's chicken shumi and at first I called it tsunami but I think I'm saying it right now and then they also have the pork bun and I think I'm gonna get myself a pork bun or maybe try the General Sal's out because I do love that so I decided I'm getting the General Sal's shumai which before I was kind of calling it shumi and also tsunami and I also got myself the pork bun so I'm excited there's a lot of good food to offer and we've only made it to our second booth oh my lord look at this thank you wow we're gonna start off by trying the pork bun here and this looks so so good and I think this was here last year I'm not too sure but I remember having something like this so we're gonna try it here this is so good but it does cost $8.50 so $8.50 for one and I feel like that's a lot like I do feel like it's expensive and it's not worth the value like it's not very I mean the price is high but you don't get a lot for it you know I mean there's a lot of better items here and I'm afraid to see what the prices are like when we get to the Italy booth those are usually the largest like price scales actually so now we're gonna try the shumai here and it looks actually really really good how do you guys like my hack with the chopsticks if you don't know how to use chopsticks just don't break them yeah if you don't break them they kind of just work as folks but I do know how to use chopsticks but I think this is really fun this also was super expensive but at least you get three of them and it was over $10 so I'm excited to try it though here we go oh wow that is amazing wow there is definitely a little spice in there but I did like it a lot and I think this is probably my preferable one I would get this again the general solution my and now I guess we're gonna try the drink and the drink looks so fancy doesn't it now it's time to try the sea butterfly and I'm not the biggest fan of boba drinks but I don't like the texture of them you know what I mean but we're gonna give it a go this is really good I like this a lot actually I sipped it from the top at first and I didn't like it but if you actually get a good sip of everything so so good this is definitely a very pretty pretty drink and a lot of people are walking around drinking it so it is popular and I'm glad we got to try it but I think we're gonna move along from here we've come across our first artist booth and it's the pop gallery and this one actually might seem a little familiar to you because it is terribly odd and he is the artist that actually does all of the Gideon's artwork how cool is that so you can buy custom Gideon's artwork right here so some of these are actually only sold here but I love it I think that is so cool and a lot of people don't even know that this exists but it even be cool to come meet him because he's actually here meeting and greeting so you can bring some of your favorite Gideon's cards and he'll probably sign them for you you guys know I'm a big fan of Gideon so it's really awesome to be able to see the artist here and I wish I could buy something right now I didn't get to look at the prices too much and I'm also very cautious whenever I show art some of the boots here they actually have a sign that says no photography or no video so we're gonna actually keep our eye out for that because we don't want people to like you know like we don't want to show off people's custom art this is like the thing that they make and it's a living so we'll look out for that but that right there is so cool the line seems so long today though I don't know if we're gonna be able to get something from each stand but I'm gonna try right here at the refreshment outpost I know they have some special things I think they have a plant-based brought worse but look at the line to actually get something from there and this isn't even in like a festival booth here is the Germany booth and they have a lot of good offerings to including the red wine braised beef short rib now this was my favorite I think last year it was so so good and then also they have the Alper cake and this is also a really good cake and it's kind of like a coffee like buttercream kind of like a Terama's soup cake and I don't know if I'm gonna get anything this time because it does look like the line is like like I said they're very very long but we're gonna assess the situation usually the lines aren't like this this is just like a opening day kind of thing I mean during peak season but as we get later into the day I'm sure the lines are gonna go down a little bit so if we have to make two laps we will and I'll try to try a little bit of everything and for now I think we're gonna hop over to Italy gonna go to the Italy pavilion which I told you before they have like the highest prices out of any of the food booths here so it'd be interesting to see what they got going on over there sadly we come upon the Italy stand and the line is worse than Germany now before you remember I was telling you that the items were the most expensive of the festival and holy moly it's not stopping people like they're here to get their stuff as you can see the air and Chinese $14 the raviolis $13 and I think you only get three raviolis maybe so you're getting three raviolis for $13 so it's it and wow I'm shocked they also have multiple registers too so it's not like just one register there's three registers there and holy moly another really awesome thing that actually happens during the festival the arts is all the joffery stands has like a special drink and this year they're doing cereal coffees and they're all different ones so we're coming up to the jofferies by the American adventure and it's called the rainbow dreams and it's kind of like a lucky charms coffee or lucky charms cold brew and I need to get it so we're gonna hop in line for that and hopefully it's not gonna be as long as Italy and Germany and then we're gonna move along to Japan and there's a lot of other good like stops to get some good food items here it is right here the rainbow dreams cold brew and it looks like lucky charms on top and I'm so excited this looks so so good and here it is look at this bad boy this is so fun looking here we go it's time to try it and I want to eventually try all the cereal coffees here at Epcot now that's gonna be something I'm probably gonna have to spread out luckily this festival is going on for some time so we're gonna have the opportunity to try them but here we go the rainbow dreams oh it's good I mean it's just like a regular cold brew coffee it just tastes like cold brew and I'm sure you just get this added benefit of like eating cereal afterwards so it's kind of like coffee and cereal just conveniently in one cup I would assume that once you actually drink a lot of the coffee and the whipped cream and the cereal gets down there I bet you it's gonna taste really good but the coffee itself don't taste like lucky charms it just is like the regular joffreys cold brew but it's still very very good and I'm excited I'm excited to get it all finished up so now we're mixing it around that's the way look at it looks like a bowl of cereal I think you're on to something here I think you unlock something wait a second I gotta do this maybe I gotta take a step first all right we're gonna try mixing it around here that was the trick I think there we go get those marshmallows down there all right now we're gonna give it a sip now we're gonna try it all mixed together much better mixed all together mm-hmm now we're coming up on our first artist photo opportunity and that's here in the American Pavilion and I think we're actually gonna do it as a big group and we actually joined up with more friends Jackie super enthused and promise promise hope so we got we got a big group growing here happy festival the art day another thing you have to be on the lookout for is some Disney art in each of the pavilions and usually has to relate to the actual movie or movies that have to relate to that pavilion so we're in Italy and they actually have some Luca art by a water fountain and I kind of think that's a little clever if you haven't seen the movie Luca I suggest you do I actually really do love this movie and they have all this artwork right here by the waterfall and I think I'm gonna take a sip I'm gonna have a little Luca water no Bruno no Bruno our next stop is gonna be here at the Japan stand and I'm gonna try the sushi doughnut now this isn't something new it's been on the menu for a while and I'm not the biggest fan of sushi but I really do want to experiment and try different things and I figured if I'm gonna experiment with sushi might as well try it while it's a doughnut so we're gonna get that and then also maybe one of the drinks I am a little bit nervous about trying the sushi doughnut but I'm so excited to try it and we're sushi but not sushi doughnut not sushi doughnut I have tried it before and I was like not the biggest fan but to get something to drink with the sushi doughnut they have the personalized wooden cups that you get talking in it so I had to do it I'm so excited there it is that's mine and it says paging mr. Maro look at that I love it oh yeah and we're gonna get this full of sake oh and here they go they're going up for sake cups I love it so is this promise that's you Jackie super enthused oh look how she put mini ears for you guys and then Mickey for me I am so excited so so cool and here's our sushi doughnut and now it's time to enjoy some sake we're drinking out of a wooden box oh this is good this right here was only $13 and you get a nice personalized box and it comes with the miso sake I think that's what they called it and I like it I'm like really excited about this I get it every single year so this is like my fifth box or how many festival the arts have there been five or four so four right or five the fifth one yeah fifth year so I five boxes I think and I will cherish every single one of them I do have to say it is a little difficult to drink out of though because like you're drinking out of a corner of a box yeah like you're yet to hit the corner yeah so you'll definitely have a little spillage all right now it's time to try the sushi doughnut and I pulled out my chopsticks but I think I'm gonna eat it like a doughnut but you kind of have a little bit of a different bite all the way around the doughnut they even have a little sesame seeds here and I was joking around and I said they should call it like a sushi bagel instead but I don't know where to start so I guess I'm just gonna Lord I'm gonna try to pick it up I don't know if this actually works like that I don't know if it works like that but we're gonna find out all right here we go I'm gonna eat it like a doughnut and I'm gonna eat sushi I think that's the biggest shocking big error kind of bite it but once they take a bite it might fall apart oh boy okay we're going for it here we go yeah I think fall apart I'm gonna try the tuna now section and I don't think I can pick it up anymore it will definitely fall apart but yeah it's a one-time pick up and now I'm gonna try some of the different sauces here what are the sauces duck sauce duck sauce and like a wasabi sauce oh wasabi sauce duck sauce okay can I do a little bit of everything and this is kind of where the festival of the arts takes in because it's kind of like painting but all the sauce there we go and also making it fall apart here we go a little bit of everything on one bite well all the sauces and so far it's not that bad like I I don't like sushi I wouldn't get it again but if you do love sushi I can definitely see people liking this a lot my favorite thing has to be though the wooden cups I would pay just for these wooden cups so cheers guys we're the wooden cup sake gang the wooden cup sake gang and this is like the traditional way to drink sake now it's time to move along to my most anticipated food booth and it's the incanto booth here between Morocco and France and if you guys seen the movie I really do love it and they have so many amazing things I'm gonna show you the menu real quick because they have tons they have a house-made chorizo and potato epinata they have some spicy soup a passion fruit mousse and then they also have a frozen pina colada and of passion fruit daiquiri and it comes in a little collectible cup so I'm excited to try these we ended up getting a little bit of everything because they have so many great offerings and I'm just gonna kind of show you it all I get this is really really awesome here is the chorizo and potato epinata and then this is the passion fruit mousse there's so many great things and then the spicy soup and I like a little spoon the festival of the arts spoon that they actually sell and then here are the drinks now I don't know are these the alcoholic version no non-alcoholic yeah here is the Epcot festival the arts cup that you get with the passion fruit smoothie and I'm excited to try it this looks so fusto like very nice now there's no alcohol on this either oh that's good that is good I could taste coconut I don't know why but I like it this is really really good now I'm gonna try the epinata and I'm excited because it looks so so good and I love chorizo too so we're gonna get a little fork full here here we go I hear great things about the epinata here so I kind of expect great things because the way it looks that is great I can honestly say I think this is my favorite food item of the festival this is so good and I'll definitely be back to try some of it the soup looks good too a lot of corn in there and yeah I'm excited and can't so really like hit it out of the park and also we didn't even touch the dessert no we didn't even touch it yet now we're gonna try the passion fruit mousse here and get a little bit add on top this looks so so good and festive it's definitely good for the festival the odds oh what's in the center there it's like a cherry or something red in the middle there that must be the dragon fruit jam so we didn't get a lot on this plate but we'll try it eventually because oh here we go hi how are you she want to know how the dragon fruit tram was heart very heart it is very moosey not so cakey definitely could use a little bit more cake but I do I mean it's okay but it's not my favorite I can tell you that I think at the end of the video I'm gonna try to recap some of my favorite things that I got to try today and it's always good coming to like the opening day of a festival because you get to try a whole bunch of different items and experiments so you know when you come back which ones you want to get and also I want to show a little bit more of the art sometimes like I said you go past the art boots and they're very busy and it's all about the art it's special the arts you know what I mean now it's time for our next booth and it's a festival classic the deconstructed dish and there is a couple of new items on the menu they have a deconstructed key lime pie a deconstructed French onion soup a deconstructed BLT no more deconstructed ruben I know that was very popular and also a deconstructed apple pie drink so I think we have to do it this is like a like classic this is a staple for festival of the arts now I think we're gonna try the deconstructed key lime pie now this one I was super excited to try I do miss the deconstructed cheesecake but this is gonna be good like it looks so so good here it is and I think the best way to do it is try to kind of construct it so we're gonna take a little bit of this a little bit of that maybe a little bit of this like you know I'm trying to I don't know how to actually dig oh this is like a moose so there we go gonna just flop that right there try to get a little bit of that on top of that and I think that'll do it I think now we have constructed a key lime pie I almost feel like I just did a magic trick I took a deconstructed pie and I constructed it back together to have an ultimate bite wow that is good too festival of the arts is hitting it out of the park with the desserts seriously oh my I don't know which one's my favorite though it is so tough something I noticed we've been missing is beer we haven't had any beer here at festival of the arts and they actually have a Neapolitan beer flight so a little bit of vanilla strawberry and chocolate and I think that is so amazing I have to try it because it's so like colorful and then also look at all the amazing desserts they have here too these are so so cool this is such a clever beer flight for the festival of the arts I really do love it a little chocolate a little strawberry a little vanilla and I can't wait to try them I'm gonna actually show you the card too here is the card itself and you can see it goes strawberry blonde nitro and then a vanilla porter and then the milk stout so this is such like I said I really really do love it so I think we're gonna try strawberry first I'm gonna guess that this is the strawberry one but I really can't tell but you figure strawberry be the clearest and the vanilla is a porter or a stout so that's gonna be a little bit darker so we're gonna try it out here well that's pretty good I like that now we're gonna try the vanilla porter of a little vanilla porter and it's gonna be like vanilla ice cream oh that is good I like the vanilla porter and now for the milk stout little milk stout the vanilla porter is a win yeah that's the one I wish the color scheming would be a little bit more like colorful but what can you do with stouts and porters you really can't really make them like a vanilla color you know what I mean but I really do appreciate this flight just of what it is you know I mean it's not like the best beer flight I've had but it's such a great concept and that's why I love it it's a great concept for festival of the arts and yeah it was fun it's really awesome being with the big group of people because it gives me the opportunity to show you guys some of the desserts and a lot of the food items that we actually had earlier without having to order them so like we can kind of share them but not like actually share them like things I wouldn't normally order I'm able to show you guys and now we can show you some of the desserts that they actually have in that food that I said looked really pretty here are some of those desserts here is the decadent one and this is a dark chocolate mousse a chocolate brownie and molasses and look at that this is so pretty this is like the prettiest dessert I think I've seen and then this is the dulce chocolate mousse and this also looks so good it actually has a little gold flake on there look you can see the gold flake kind of moving in the wind but these are really really fancy and they're kind of so pretty you don't want to ruin them we're gonna dive in and try this one right here and this like I said these look so fancy oh it's got a little crisp to it so here is the gold flake dulce and I can't wait to try it like these look so fancy wow holy moly now we moved on to the Canada booth and they actually have a roasted bone marrow and I've never had bone marrow before and it's always been something I've been interested in trying so it looks like today's a day it's served with an onion marmalade pickled mushrooms some lettuce and bone marrow snow I don't even know what bone marrow snow is but it sounds cool but bone marrow snow and paging mr. Murrow eat some marrow this is truly something else right here I have never had bone marrow before but I'm so excited to try it like look at it it is like a huge bone Sean's gonna try the bone marrow first you're gonna let me know I'm not a big fan of the feeling of me just scraping something in the bone it just feels like I'm in the variables leg or something but it's good it has definitely a good flavor to it but the texture and they're like the experience yeah well I'm gonna I'm gonna try mine now here we go I got it all scooped up on the bread and it's time to try it and I'm excited it like I'm super excited look at it it's kind of just hanging there okay I like it some people don't like the bone marrow I went looking for my bone marrow and Maria like grabbed all the bones Maria grabbed all the bones and she's like hoarding the bones over there after experimenting with bone marrow I kind of liked it I mean after like two or three times it was really really good and now I think we're gonna go catch some Broadway because they do have Broadway performances for the Festival of the Arts back in America so we're gonna make our way back there now and I think it's Aladdin tonight so this is gonna be really interesting because this is Adam Jacobs and the original Jasmine so you have the original Aladdin and the original Jasmine from the Broadway Aladdin and they're gonna be performing some of their best hits here and I'm so happy that we got to come and check it out so they were just playing the music before the Broadway actually starts and I'm getting all pumped up like look at the Disney on Broadway concert I hope you guys know this or her or maybe already know but Ariel here starred as Jasmine and Aladdin on Broadway yeah I'm ready no but Adam created the role of Aladdin truly honored to be a part of the Disney on Broadway family and excited to share a few Disney's hits with you tonight it's really awesome to see the Broadway with the fireworks look at that I can show you the world shiny shimmery splendid tell me princess now when did you last light your heart aside I can only wonder I wonder oversight on a magic musical awesome was that I love the fact that I kind of came in knowing that we'd get a lot of Aladdin songs because you know I mean they were like stars of Aladdin on Broadway but we got a little Lion King high school musical Freaky Friday it was amazing and I loved it so much and we made our way back over to pop eats at the end of the night and it looks like there's still a four hour wait to get the popcorn buckets but they're still selling them though but a lot of people still waiting I would bet it's probably like a two hour wait I wouldn't say it's four hours I'm gonna if we can ask somebody yeah how long you guys been waiting for two hours to yeah just about one hour let's not too bad so an hour wait no and it finally looks like they cut off the line right here and they didn't cut off the line because they ran out of popcorn buckets they cut off the line because the wait would exceed how long the park is open till so they said you can come back tomorrow 9 a.m. they're gonna be opened up and they still have popcorn buckets for tomorrow so it's pretty shocking I'm so happy to see this photo pass opportunity back especially with the new spaceship Earth I'm gonna try to show you guys how those pictures came out and they're so awesome look at this I love it these are my friends right here but isn't it it's the best photo pass opportunity ever so so cool I'm happy they brought it back and with that I think we are done here today I had such an amazing day hanging out with friends getting to try so many different food and drink options it was so amazing and I have to say my favorite drink probably is the lily I loved it it was so good favorite food item of the night probably the chorizo and potato empanada and we're definitely gonna do like around two we didn't get to do a lot of the boots so we did a good fair amount I think we did 50% so there's gonna be definitely a part two for the festival of the arts I'm sure this is gonna be a long video but I had so much fun and once the crowds actually go down a little bit today it was very difficult the lines were like almost 45 minutes just to get food and almost all of them like you know I mean there was a six hour wait for a popcorn bucket and eventually I might get a popcorn bucket tomorrow they said that they're gonna be still available they cut it off today just because of the wait time but maybe a popcorn bucket in the future for me who knows and I hope you enjoyed the video I enjoyed making it we'll see you next time bye