Hey, six mistakes, six mistakes that a lot of agents make. I wonder if you're making them and how to avoid them. So I'm going to start out by letting you know from one to six what those are. And then after letting you know what those are, I'm going to explain how you can avoid them. I hate seeing these. And a lot of agents make these mistakes. The first one is that they want to know everything before they do anything. That's a bad one. When you're a new agent, you want, most people are like, I need to know everything. I want to consume product information. I want to be product knowledgeable, but they want to know too much and they use that as a crushing excuse to not do anything. That's the first one. The second one, not seeing enough people. Pretty common.  Not seeing enough people can't overcome objections or really struggle to overcome objections early in the sales process or over the phone. That's a very common one. Also not training every single day consistently. Well athletes, they train when I was playing high school basketball or college basketball. I trained and worked out and got better every single day. A lot of agents don't. Also trying to be great at this business part-time, trying to be great at this business part-time is very difficult. If you're doing it right now, it's a struggle. I was in college playing basketball, but I was committed to the process. And the last one, this is one of my favorites. They quit just too soon. There's a book out there that talks about literally five feet from gold. Have you ever seen that image of the person hacking away? And then they quit before they get to the diamonds. And that happens a lot with agents. So there's the top six. Now, let me explain in depth on each and every one of those, the things that you can do today, this week, this month, this year, right now to avoid them. The first one again, wanting to know everything before you do anything. This is a very common mistake that agents make. It's easy in sales to think, Cody, I want to know everything. I want to be knowledgeable. I need to consume information before I go do anything. I'm telling you, those type of people struggle in sales. If that's you, and you're like, I don't want to call someone. I don't want to sit down with someone. I don't want to do a presentation until I feel like I know every single thing. The chances of you succeeding are very, very slim.   It drives me nuts. And I do believe that I'm a natural born sales person that could go sell a freaking Ferrari without knowing anything about it. I guarantee it. And so you don't have to know everything. Like I was selling life insurance. I didn't know everything. I still don't know all the ins and outs of every little detail of life insurance. Like when it comes to product knowledge, I'm not the freaking brightest guy on the planet. When it comes to selling it, making money on it, helping people with it, I'm one of the best. So think about that. You don't have to know everything before you do anything to be successful. So if that's you, let's cut that one out, because that does not have to be true. The next one.  If you don't see enough people, if you don't sit down with people, you don't ask enough people to buy, you will absolutely fail. The only reason I had success, and I made 117 grand in my first eight months at 20 years old. The only reason is because I simply sat down and asked 10 people to buy every single week. I put the activity in. I did whatever it took to sit with the people. If you don't sit with enough people, guess what? You're not going to succeed. This is a numbers game at the end of the day, and a lot of agents struggle with sitting in front of and asking enough people to do business with them. That's the biggest reason. When you have bad weeks, I guarantee you you sat with one, two, three, four people, and you didn't sit with more. When you have a bad week, you're just not sitting with enough people. Also, you've got to think about it. It's like me going to play a game, and I'm shooting four shots the entire 48 minutes. Am I going to be in a rhythm? Am I going to have momentum from the last shot that I just shot? When I played basketball, I need to put up some freaking shots, man. I need to get active. I need to get acclimated. I need to be passing the ball, playing defense. I need to go into the rim, shooting three shots. I've got to be involved. The same thing can be said for this business. Most people fail because they do not sit and ask enough people to buy. They don't see enough people as the old adage that's been here for years. The third one is they struggle to overcome objections. Can't overcome objections. It's a big mistake. If that's you right now, I have my three steps that can really help that, that's agree, answer, and ask. It's human nature that people are inherently disagreeable. It's human nature that people are naturally combative.  The way you overcome objections is you use the two Ps, right? Use the three As, but you get super positive and super persistent. No matter what they say that's negative, you're positive. No matter how bad they want you to stop trying, you remain persistent. And I promise you, you're very positive and persistent. No matter what they say, you will overcome whatever you want. Agree, answer, and ask. You have to be agreeable and you've got to finish with a question. You need to be training on how to overcome objections. If you start getting the same objection over and over again, here's a little secret. Start getting the same objection over and over again. Write it down, practice it, role play it, become a master of that specific objection. Also, audio recording your calls, recording your normal appointments, all those kind of things, recording your dial sessions and listening back. Because I'm telling you, you're getting told stuff right now and you're not overcoming it. If I was in your shoes, I would be able to overcome it. But you're not blaming yourself. You're blaming the prospect or the lead or the vendor or the marketing or the script or whatever else you want to blame because the last thing you want to blame is you. But I promise you, you can overcome most objections that you're getting, pretty much all of them. But if you don't have that mindset, it's tougher and you're gonna struggle to overcome them no matter what. And the fourth one, agents do not consistently train enough. Okay, we've got our CA cell system now. So we're 400 modules meant for individuals and teams and it helps you plug in to an online training curriculum, a learning management system, if you will, to where you can actually plug in every single day and say, dude, I want to get better today. If that's you, then go to Kodiaskins.com forward slash cells system or just go to Kodiaskins.com and then click on the link at cell system. It's all over the website. Okay, because what you need to be doing is you need to be plugging into content, learning every single day. Every single day you gotta be getting better. Right, it's a professional athlete. If you're a professional baseball player, you take swings literally almost every day of the week. Okay, you don't take weeks off. Maybe after the season's over, you take a couple weeks off, but then you're right back in it, right? Because you don't want that momentum, that repetition and those skills to diminish over time because you're not as active and into the moment as you know you should be. The great people, great salespeople, they train every single day. The most success people in the world, the greatest salespeople I know, they train and they want to improve and they want to get better every single day. In my office, we talk about the cell system, in my office we make our sales teams train twice a day. It is not optional, it's freaking mandatory because it's mandatory to be successful, it's mandatory to make sales, mandatory to make money and if it helps you, it should be mandatory, right?  Okay, so that's the fourth one. The fifth one, this one drives me insane. I get this question probably as much as any question I get on YouTube, right? If you're thinking about adding a question or commenting, right now's the time. Trying to win part time. A lot of agents want to be successful and they want to win and they want to do it part time. The problem is you can't have a full time committed mindset when you're part time. You can't be fully committed and dominated anything when you're doing it part time. You say, well, Cody, you did it part time. Well, but I put in a full time amount of hours even though I was playing basketball and going to school, I would be at the office till 11 o'clock at night turning in applications. I would go up door knocking at eight, nine o'clock on a Saturday. I would go in and cold call from two to six on a Sunday, right? I'd put in the work, even though I didn't put in office hours per se, it doesn't mean I wasn't fully committed, fully focused and really putting in the time and full time focused, right? It's part time focused versus full time focused. If you're part time focused, you will get part time results. If you have a full time focused and you're fully committed, guess what? You may get some full time freaking results and that's what you want. I'm telling you, it's a mindset shift. You have to be committed. Quit trying to be part time, okay? Quit trying to be part time. Part time means I will try it. We don't try nothing, man. That's a mindset problem. Anything I try to do, I fail at. Anything I commit to doing and actually doing well, I do well, okay? But when I try to do stuff, I tend not to do well because I'm trying instead of really doing, okay? So the last one, this one drives me nuts is that people quit five feet from gold. They're so close to finding the freaking diamond in the rough, right? The gold in the mind, they're right there and then they quit just barely too soon. There's an image of a guy chipping away an axe through this dirt underground and he's so close. He just keeps going and keeps going. He's like, man, I'm almost there. I'm almost there. And he gets there. He's so tired. He's exhausted. He's one foot from all these diamonds. He doesn't know it.  He has no idea. He quits, gives up, goes home. I don't want that to be you.  I'm committed, I'm ready. What should I spend money on? Are you spending money on stuff you shouldn't be? I'm gonna answer that question right there. See you over there. Hey, there's a big question that I hear a lot on our YouTube channel and comments and that's how to spend money. How should I invest? What should I do? What should I have? As an insurance agent, to really...


You can roll your own D20 and build a talking D20 with 3D printing and circuit Python. This is a remake of our classic Arduino project that we respond as a much easier build using the Adafruit RP2040 PropMaker Feather. The two halves are 3D printed and house the all-in-one dev board along with a mini speaker, slide switch, and rechargeable battery. The built-in accelerometer detects when it's been rolled and plays an audio file of the number it's landed on. The RP2040 PropMaker Feather is secured to one half of the D20 and the two snap fit together with neodymium magnets. Philip Berges, a.k.a. Paint Your Dragon, ported his original Arduino code to circuit Python. The face vectors have been remapped to fit the new orientation and features free fall detection using the LIS3DH accelerometer. To learn how to build your own, check out the guide at learn.adafruit.com. The USB-C port is accessible when the D20 is open. Phil B included a nifty feature that tells you when the battery is low, so you know when it's time to recharge. You can 3D print the halves yourself or have a 3D printing service make them for you. The electronics are mounted to one half, so we opted to include a spot for adding a counterweight to balance out the dye. We had a lot of fun working on this and hope it inspires folks to give this unique project a roll.


Thank you all for inviting me to your board meeting here today, although upon later reflection none of you will remember actually having extended an invitation. Don't worry, I won't be stopping to take questions. You probably have seen my company scattered around in airports around the world advertising with statements that make no sense. That's fine. No one is buying anything from a billboard. It builds brand recognition, so when I identify myself as being with a company here in this conversation, you smile and nod rather than asking who the hell we are. This is the plan. Let me throw up a diagram of how my system works.  I will not expand my acronyms, I will not talk about how any of it works, and frankly that's why we have enterprise grade slides. I'm not here to give you a 10,000 foot view.  I'm here to give you an orbital view. Take a look at the broader strategic landscape of your problems and how I can potentially solve them for you. That's why I'm here. That's why I dress like this. You may or may not agree with what I'm selling, but that's okay. Later I will take the man or woman out to play golf and make the actual who to make the decision and then sell them. That was a joke. This is a Fortune 500 company board meeting. Of course the decision maker is a man. Why would we value diversity in this constant? Now my system is probably not going to solve your actual problem.  Because when the finger of blame comes to point at people, it's not going to be landing on you. Realistically, it's not landing on me either because you're doing all the right things by going with my company. You're in the good part of the Gartner Magic Quadrant. This is why we advertise it in flight magazines. This is a way to outsource decision making around things that used to be hard and confusing. This is why we write large checks to Gartner. What's your alternative to hire some unwashed open source hippie who can solve your problem technically in 20 minutes or a team of well-dressed MBA graduates who we can work 120 hours a week, bill you for 40 hours, and they are wizards with Excel. It's really up to you, but which is the more defensible if it doesn't work? What those open source hippies fail to grasp is that the reason that this sale is going to work isn't just my clever airport advertisements, but it's because of personal relationships. We're all friends on a board level. That is how it works in the halls of power. This is how decisions get made at enterprise scale. One group of people understand that. The other one doesn't. Food for thought.  If you want to do that, terrific, go work for Greenpeace. They're not on my client list. The point here is that making a sale today is good for my company, and it's good for your company. We all come out of this looking good as a direct result of this. The time is meow. There has never been a better time to partner one large enterprise company to one large enterprise service provider. Unfortunately, I will not be staying to take questions. I found another prospect that desperately needs the thing that my company provides, but that's okay. I will remember you fondly. In fact, I'll name my yacht after you when I get home at the end of the day. Out of respect for your business and as a constant, pernicious reminder to myself that as board members of a company like this, you are all C-level executives.


This paper proposes a novel approach to regional rainfall runoff modeling by utilizing long short-term memory networks, LSTMs. This approach was tested against other hydrological models and demonstrated improved performance. Additionally, the authors proposed an adaptation to the standard LSTM architecture called Entity Aware LSTM, ELSTM, which allowed for learning catchment similarities as a feature layer in a deep learning model. These learned catchment similarities corresponded well with prior hydrological understanding. This article was authored by F. Krotzert, D. Klotz, G. Shalev, and others.


Hello and good morning everyone. See you morning. Well, Feilong and I are from New Zealand and In New Zealand right now, it's 11.50 p.m. I just arrived a couple of days ago So if I feel a bit jet-lagged You guys will certainly understand what I'm going through here Look, it's Excellent to be here with you all very nice To see a bunch of familiar faces in the audience and meet you all again This is my friend Feilong my name is Bruno we work for a company called careless cloud and we are a public cloud provider down in New Zealand on the Little corner of the world map sometimes I just learned that people leave New Zealand out of the world map So there is a bit of a movement going on in New Zealand asking people to reintroduce New Zealand to the world map in case So please check your books and if we're missing there, please at us again We run three public cloud regions in New Zealand one in Hamilton one in Puerto one in Wellington, right three separate regions completely isolated from each other Each one with one availability zone and different means for high availability The topic of our presentation today is a bit of a journey that we've been going on for About a year or a year and a half. I would say almost one year And this is about us introducing New Zealand's first certified Kubernetes platform service running on top of OpenStack with the When when we're talking about the certification We're talking about the certification done by the cloud native computing foundation and making sure that the Kubernetes is offering on top of OpenStack Passes all the API tests to certify that open step that Kubernetes works as expected But also to guarantee application portability, right? one of the biggest benefits that our customers in New Zealand are looking for when running Kubernetes is is really that Guaranteed application portability between public cloud providers. A lot of our customers have you know are mostly targeting Their customers base in New Zealand, but some of them are also exporting their services to other countries They have a presence in Australia. They have a presence in Europe And what we really want to do for them is to allow them to use any public cloud provider And so long that public cloud provider has a CNCF certified Kubernetes offering that they have through application portability between cloud providers, right to me That's the biggest one of the biggest benefits of Kubernetes it is that real dream of through application portability that I think as Cloud providers many of us have miss at that infrastructure as a service layer With APIs that are not always compatible. Maybe for us in the room. That's excellent because we all run OpenStack I hope and we have a degree of portability But when I'm talking to customers in New Zealand who also have a presence in Australia, maybe with Google or Azure or something in Europe They they really need to make sure that without changing anything at all their application will just run so the Journey was about Making Kubernetes is on top of OpenStack production ready in Pretty much everything that we do at catalyst We only use open-source software all the development we do is upstream We never retain any of that code for ourselves. There's no secret sauce. There's nothing that we keep for us And of course we also acknowledge the fact that we have Gained a lot from the OpenStack and Kubernetes community So in terms of making Kubernetes production ready There were four elements that we were taking consideration one of them was strong data security Elaborate on each one of those later. The other one was high availability and resiliency Good performance and scalability and finally easy of use So when we talk about strong data security One thing we wanted to make sure is that if customers are using in our case We built a solution using Magnum and if they are deploying Kubernetes That is being orchestrated by Magnum. We wanted to make sure that Kubernetes could use Keystone as it identity an access management provider so that we had role-based access control to Kubernetes using the same Username and passwords that people have already created in our public cloud, right? It doesn't Doesn't make much sense if we give them The ability to add more users to define roles and permissions in our OpenStack Infrastructure if nothing is inherited into Kubernetes itself and in Kubernetes lens We only gave them an admin username and password and off they go and in there they create their own users Etc. So the intention here was they should be able to use their keystone username and password Not only that they should have different roles in Keystone Maybe an admin role a developer role where you can create containers and a read-only role, right? and That that was part of the work that was done by Feilong and a few other people in the community And that integration exists now and it works and there was a post by a friend of us called Ling Shen on the OpenStack super user blog where he explains that integration step by step And there is a bit of a demo there showing how that works. I highly recommend reading that blog post by the way The next one is when in New Zealand, we also help customers to run private clouds, right? We actually don't don't sell OpenStack as a product. We allow them to run OpenStack From upstream but we manage that private cloud infrastructure for them as if it was one of our regions We use the same software the same team of people the same experience that we Developed over the last five years running a public cloud based on OpenStack We apply that to their private cloud infrastructure and from a lot of our private cloud customers one of their biggest requests was network policies inside Kubernetes right For those of you that are not familiar with network policies They are akin to security groups in OpenStack where you're pretty much saying this pod can talk to that pod Right, but using the native Kubernetes constructs and to implement network policies you need a network back-end that supports network policies and Work that Feilong has done Recently is to introduce support for Calico in Magnum So when you deploy Kubernetes with with Magnum now you have in our case It's the default choice on the catalyst cloud use the Calico network back-end and with the Calico network back-end You have support for network policies I'll skip ahead a little bit That will touch a bit on performance later But another reason for using Calico is because when we ran some tests with the the full Flannel network overlay that Magnum was using just to give you an idea in terms of performance We were doing a test where From a hypervisor to another hypervisor. We were getting 6.5 gigabits per second of network performance When we did the same tests from a pod to another pod that performance dropped to 400 megabits per second, right? We were losing a lot of our network performance With the standard setup that came out of Magnum So part of the work that Feilong was doing as well with the implementation of Calico was to make sure that the network performance Was as close as possible to the neutral networks, right? And after doing that work, I believe we've got to something like 6.3 gigabits per second Which was very very close to the maximum performance We were getting from the hypervisors themselves and at that point we said this is good that this will scale, right? So those were the two reasons for choosing Calico as a network back-end And finally a feature that is really important if we are managing hundreds of Kubernetes clusters on behalf of customers is Rolling upgrades and patching, right? We need to make sure that we can keep on patching that Kubernetes is infrastructure and that we can do major upgrades as well So this is a feature that is a seal being actively developed upstream Yeah, Sparrows from CERN is working on that and I think the patch is currently is in good shape Probably could be merged in in this release So in our case, we are currently working with the Kubernetes service in tech preview with our customers. So we made it clear to them That currently if you deploy Kubernetes, you'll be stuck on that version We don't have the ability yet to upgrade to the next major release or easily upgrade to the next major release And it's one of the features that we are waiting for Before we can call that service beta and start engaging a bit more with customers or more serious workloads Now the next one is high availability and resiliency, right? When we looked at Magnum originally the concept of highly available master nodes and highly available worker nodes was not present yet Right and of course if we want customers to run something serious on top of this Kubernetes offering We need to make sure that if a single hypervisor goes down that it doesn't take multiple master nodes or multiple worker nodes down at the same time Right in the case of the master nodes That's because you have an hcg cluster and a bunch of Things in there that rely on have rely on having a certain number of nodes present to be available And in the case of the worker nodes if customers are deploying something where they say I would like a replica set of X They don't expect that a single virtual machine being affected by an incident to impact their application, right? So Feilong did some work on that as well And now there is support in Magnum for highly available master nodes When you do that it creates a load balancer in front of those master nodes and that load balancer It's another feature introduced there with a support for Octavia using open stacks a native load balancer and also for the worker nodes what we've done is by the way what we've done is just use at the moment the Server groups with anti affinity So the master nodes they are in an anti affinity server group and the worker nodes are in a separate anti affinity server group Right there is some work being discussed with sparrows from CERN as well in terms of adding support for Availability zones so that you can use different availability zones to isolate the master nodes, right? And finally a feature that we are currently working on is auto healing So the idea that the you guys probably know that Magnum uses heat And in orchestration templates heat orchestration templates to deploy Kubernetes and manage Kubernetes At that point heat has got a feature to do health checks on your master nodes on your worker nodes And the intent there is that we'll have those health checks going on all the time Regularly and if we detect that a given master node or given worker node is not healthy that we would rebuild that node as fast as possible All right just to keep the the service always available always in shape Now in terms of performance and scalability I have already touched on network performance But the other one was storage performance in to our benefit here. There wasn't much we had to do in this space so Magnum already supported that integration between Kubernetes and Cinder So if if a customer is asking for persistent volume is doing a persistent volume claim There was already support for Cinder to create that volume in that volume to be attached To the pod that needs that persistent volume and based on our tests the performance that you were getting there as expected It's pretty much the raw performance that you get out of the volume if you were mounting that same volume on the virtual machine So that was pretty good. I don't think we did any changes to that. Have we cool So a thing that we're working on right now is the time it takes to deploy the Kubernetes clusters We went live really early with with the Kubernetes service on on the Catalyst cloud In in New Zealand as far as I can tell we're definitely the first public cloud provider to offer a Kubernetes platform, but I know that even in Australia some of the Global public cloud providers don't have Kubernetes is available yet on their clouds in Australia, right? So we went live really early on and that's because we wanted to encourage a Quite close feedback loop with our New Zealand customers So we could understand what they need and how we can shape that service to fit our unique needs there in New Zealand and I guess the trade-off there is that in the process of doing so We produced our images our container images upstream And they are currently on Docker hub they are using the open stack Upstream infrastructure, but what it means is that every time a customer is deploying their Kubernetes cluster in New Zealand currently they are going all the way to whatever Docker hub is hosting their images And back to New Zealand and that takes a long time, right? It's one of the issues that we have being so far away from from other places is that network latency is A big deal in in our country and the result of that is that currently it takes if you're deploying What we call the development Kubernetes template which has One master node and one worker node that's taking about five minutes to deploy But if you're doing the production template which has three worker nodes at least and three master nodes at least That's currently taking 15 minutes to deploy And and honestly that feels like ages nowadays, right? It is several coffees for some people So we definitely want to reduce that to no more than five minutes ideally three minutes, right? We're being realistic here. We know that we are deploying and building all those master nodes When when customers ask for provision Kubernetes But in parts that the process of doing so is actually making sure that we have a local Docker registry And a few optimizations that we want to do that would make the whole bootstrapping process faster And finally when it comes to horizontal scalability There is a feature that we haven't worked on yet And I'm really interested to know if anyone here is actively working on it And that's the ability for Kubernetes is to add additional worker nodes based on its own knowledge of The capacity of the cluster right so Kubernetes is aware of how many pods we have deployed What resources are being currently utilized and it could tell us hey I cannot schedule pods anymore because I ran out of compute resources, right? So the intention there is to say when I get to 80% add another worker node on my behalf And customers can put a limit to that on how many additional worker nodes could I could I add so this is a feature that is See you being developed To be more clear currently in my kingdom you can scale up or down manually But Bruno is mostly talking about auto auto scaling as opposed to someone going there It's absolutely possible for people to go in there do a single API call and say go from three worker nodes So 10 worker nodes or back to three that's easy, right? What I'm talking about is the proper auto scaling where Kubernetes itself is adding more compute capacity as needed and finally the last one is easy of use so The patterns that we are motivating people to use in New Zealand are definitely to you know drive drive it via the API's Use your preferred infrastructure DevOps tools to drive your cloud infrastructure And our customers over there. They really enjoy using Terraform. They really enjoy using Ansible those are the two primary tools that most of our customers using production So part of the work that we've been doing is to introduce that support to Magnum API's in this case to Terraform and Ansible. So Phelon developed module most of work How down is for Ansible and I think most of work for Terraform has been done by Blizzard. Oh, yeah, true. Blizzard did the work on Terraform, which is wonderful, right? It's all about that international collaboration that we want to see happening on this stuff And Finally the last one that I want to touch on easy of use is the close integration with the open stack infrastructure layer, right? So what we have learned in While running Kubernetes deployed by ourselves, not by Magnum in the Catalyst cloud for the last two or three years is that What makes Kubernetes is really awesome on a public cloud environment is that it can actually orchestrate actions on the Infrastructure layer on your behalf.  So part of the work we've been doing is and that was also work by done by Lin Shen I'm not sure if Lin Shen is in the audience here But part of what we've been doing is to work on the cloud provider for open stack with the Kubernetes community So that there is better and broader Support for all the open stack services, right? So just a quick Explanation of how far that work has been done so far the load balancing integration with Octavia It's pretty solid right now As I said with block storage It was already solid when we touched it with object storage in case customers want to use object storage as their registry They're their container registry for for their images that is pretty good as well Virtual machines for additional worker nodes all done the network integration with Neutron It's solid and finally the integration with Keystone for access control There will be probably more touch points later, but what we wanted was that really Smooth integration between Kubernetes is an open stack, right? Now would you like to cover next steps Yes, Bruno mentioned we are using microme open stack microme. So We we are talking about the production ready journey, but as you can see it's still not really So, I mean, there's still some work need to be improved So for upstream what we will do need to do next is The health check and auto healing Bruno mentioned there is one solution use The the heat health check and there is another solution. We are talking about is using the node problem detector plus The the Drino and auto scaler to to fix the to Kubernetes cluster automatically and The rolling upgrades and for results clean up on deletion that one a little bit tricky We we have seen some customer complain open TKs for us I can't delete our Kubernetes cluster is because user has created load balancer load balancer service on top of Kubernetes cluster, but Magnum has no idea which one because the load balancer is created in the same network and Magnum has no idea which load balancer I I can delete We have currently we have solution for that, but that probably needs a chair peak in Kubernetes from from current master branch to I Think we want dot 11 dot 12 Another not to have five and we have tested working. So Yeah, probably could happen in the next couple weeks or months I don't know. Yeah, just to be clear on that one We already have some code that is doing that clean up It will probably evolve. It's just a starting point But at least now Kubernetes can tag whatever resources he created saying this belongs to this specific Magnum cluster with the IG there so that later on they can clean up prior to the leaching the resources And the next one is a ingress controller integration with design it We as a brand mentioned we have done some work for the Octavia ingress controller and probably the next big atom is integration with designer and That's for our stream for downstream for catalyst specific We probably need a dedicated container registry currently. We're still using doc hop in yeah for performance Issue. Yeah, we need a dedicated one just for for catalyst cloud and Another one is dedicated discovery service because in my room the default discovery service is the discovery dot Etcd dot IO and that one is not designed for production use just for demo and the maintainer is It's talking it's not Really actively maintained so we probably need at least deployed local version for that one because there is a container image for that to deploy it dedicated for for catalyst cloud and we probably Proposed a patch in Magnum so Magnum can support a cluster at least a list of discovery service So by default you can use the public one and if the public one is done you can just use another one in the list And we also need a pipeline automated pipeline to quick create test and release the whole The whole work that the one need to be done as soon I think as soon as possible It's that one is a bit tricky because recently we we ran into a problem in Incombinates v1.11 with that With that release you probably losing the the internal and external IP address for your Worker knows that the bug in culminates and it has been chart pick To it's fixed in the v1.twire, but it has been Really merged in the v1.11 Yeah, and this one is quite important, right? It's not that we are planning to have our own internal pipeline where we have stuff that hasn't been developed upstream It's just about the velocity that we need If there is a critical bug or if there is a critical security issue What we have found is that in trying to work with the Kubernetes community upstream Something that was really critical took too long to be merged and to be Available for us to use so we'll definitely need to have that ability just to make sure that if there's something critical We get it sorted as quickly as possible while we are working Upstream to get those images sorted upstream, right? Yeah, we would like to use as much as possible the upstream public images as possible but for Some case you think the bug is critical, but the reviewer thing is not critical So yeah, yeah, we we are very very aware of producing or running any code that we haven't developed upstream and Merged upstream first, right? We are very aware of that risk. Yeah, we Very rarely do that with OpenStack itself Sometimes it's needed and what we've learned is that the same thing is needed for Kubernetes, right? But we are not going to use that bullet very often. Hopefully. Yeah So there are some tips Like lesson learned we learned from the the technical preview when we run Migrant so currently there are some limitation so don't use overlight or overlight tool as the the story Docker started driver we is Docker volume side so with that Combination you'll probably run into some problem And the problem is you can't create any container So if you want to use overlay or overlay tool, just leave the the Docker volume size is empty and another one is Limitation we have mentioned that make them is not aware of the resources created by communities But I think it should be fixed in the next couple weeks And there is a bug. Yeah, I just mentioned and you can take a look in Cloud provider OpenStack issues 280 for more details and versions I Would suggest using Magnum low key, but at least use Magnum quince and for heat I would suggest use stable quince as well because there is a multi-region problem multi-region bug in heat So if you don't use that Yeah, it doesn't work for yeah, if you are running a multi-region So that was a pretty interesting one for us to learn right because As a public cloud provider like many of you we have a pre-production Environment now in our case one of the current limitations we have with our pre-production environment is that we cannot fully Emulate yet that the actual behavior that we have with three production regions in New Zealand and the interesting thing is Up to pre-production whatever work we've done with Magnum and Kubernetes was working really well And as soon as we roll out to production this bug came comes up, right? Magnum doesn't work with multiple regions and that's because of a bug in heat. So That was a very interesting surprise because to be honest. We thought there were people already running Magnum and Kubernetes is in multiple regions before so we were surprised that we were the first ones to stumble on the bug and have to fix it But it's sorted now. Yeah, just use the latest version. Yeah So that's all is any question If you could use the microphone for the recording, that will be good. So you mentioned the Integration between Kubernetes and Keystone. Yeah, and with a solution by FANG, I think And the solution by that you mentioned the blog from FANG, I think And we did a little bit further went a little bit further because instead of using passwords We introduced the application credentials, which is the new features in in pike So we produced a an upgraded to the gopher cloud library So you can use the cube KTK cube KCL cube control with the with application credentials So you can create your own application credential and use them to I mean to deploy applications on Kubernetes without going through passwords Because we don't use password. We use Federated applications so we have no understood understood So the the important thing is the work we've done is pretty clean in terms of the interfaces used We're just using the the Keystone API and if you have a valid token be it from an application or from Regular user with username and password that valid token will be accepted so long It has one of the roles that give you access to magnet right and in our case There are three different roles as I said admin Developer and read only right, but there's no reason as far as I can tell why application credentials wouldn't work Actually, that's also something that we would like to do Very much want to move on to the next version of Keystone to use application credentials Thank you in our case just to let you know there is a presentation being done by a friend of mine called Adrian on new open stack projects that just became part of the Official open stack projects recently called edge agent and edge agent is something that for us as a public cloud provider helps us to streamline business process workflows, right? I'll broadly say business process workflows So what I mean by that is a customer signing up a customer terminating their account a Customer inviting someone else to join their project in open stack and that process of sending the email with a Link to validate their email that expires automatically and so on Edutant will automate these workflows And the interesting thing in our case is that via Edutant our customers can already create fake application Credentials right It's not that it's a clean feature like proper application credentials But they definitely have the ability to create additional accounts that they can use for applications only and they have the ability to say this Application account has got only this role. So It's not that we are as impacted as you probably are Because we are running Edutant, but we certainly want to use application credentials as well Had you considered using Kuru Kubernetes, which is CNI plugin that is using Neutron to network pods I'm not sure if I'm familiar with it Okay, so it's it's an open stack project Are you familiar with it? Kuru. Yes. Oh, okay. I just didn't understand. Yes. I have actually we have very much so Okay, so we got in touch with the career community This was about a year ago right when we went when we were going this journey And I don't know if you remember but a big feature for us or for our customers was network policies, right? And network policies were already fully supported by Calico when we Started doing this work not to mention that in the Calico community what we have found was about We're about 50 Developers that were really active working on Calico right and developers from multiple companies the source of healthy Open-source collaboration that we want to see lots of developers from multiple companies truly looking at it as an independent project And we didn't find that same level of traction or agility in career I Understand that there are some things we could do even better with career because the integration would be even closer to open Stack itself But a year ago. It was not ready, right? I one of the things I want to do at the conference this time is to check how career is doing go to the Update session there. Yeah, we have it today Yeah, 222 I think and and the intention is to understand how far we we have the features that we need And at that point it's pretty much looking at the templates and introducing it because one of the nice things with Magnum is that you have Flags that you can pass saying I would like to use this network back end and currently we pass that with Calico, but we could there's nothing preventing us to say use career and introduce support for Korean parallel And then if that becomes better than the Calico back end we can switch to career later, right? Thank you But it has been considered and I would love, you know Hi Do you encounter some troubles by implementing higher availability using Octavia With Octavia specifically yeah specifically with Octavia Look, I guess first the first part of the question have we found some troubles. We found all the troubles you can imagine Lots of troubles, but but it's part of the journey in it's something that we really like a catalyst, right? We are Trailing that you know bleeding edge software and doing things that people haven't done before So if you're not finding troubles and if you're not solving them as fast as you can Then you're probably not doing something that is worth your time Now specific issues with Octavia for high availability Yeah, yeah, there was one bug there was one bug that is probably Worthy to mention it has been fixed already But there was a bug where Octavia lost its connection To the my sequel back end and when it lost that connection it said hey, I don't know the state of this and for us so I'll just Recreate them or delete them and in the process of recreating them Both and for us became completely unavailable and at that point the load balancer just stopped working for the customer impacted, right? In Untangling that bug we found some things that really needed to be improved in Octavia for example Octavia was actually deleting the Load balancer information from the database instead of marking it as Deleted so that we could go back and reconstruct that load balancer with whatever it was done before But all of that has been fixed already And if you're running from stable or from from master you shouldn't be affected by those bugs But other than this one bug no we haven't encountered More so far and if you have something you can share with us to prevent us from hitting As far as I know Octavia is just one VM using using a Lot bouncing technology. No, but yeah, no, no, no, okay Octavia is not just using one VM right depends how you set up Octavia if you set up Octavia properly It will deploy multiple virtual machines in our case with the load balancing service on the carless cloud We deploy at least two virtual machines So you you are using a dedicated lot bouncer on top of that a dedicated Dedicated load balancer technology on top of that. No, no, bye It is just a no dedicated load balancer. No external hardware. It's so implemented in software It's all Octavia open source all the work we've done is always using Nation of OpenStack software, right? So Octavia is deploying to on for us. The on for us have HAProxy running in them And it sets a high availability again server group anti affinity so they don't end up in the same hypervisor And it creates I believe it's using keep alive G to create a cluster between at least two of these VMs So it's highly available So we can actually lose one of the load balancers and it will continue working as expected, right? So that's why I'm saying no high availability issues with Octavia in this regard But by using keep alive you you succeed in in the balance Bouncing the Yeah, okay, great pretty pretty solid. Yeah, the bugs that we found in Octavia were set more subtle than that. Yeah, okay Thank you. No problem. Hello. Yep. Hi. I Want low I want low which kind of ecosystem to us and But the catalyst the cloud users Used to promoting and the delete so they resource in the cloud So so you I'm not sure if understand the question when you say which ecosystem are you talking about a specific open-stack? Yeah, or distribution. Yeah, I think something some tools like a turbo or Open-shift or I'm supposed something like that In in our case as I said before cold that we are running is Vanilla open-stack from upstream. It's not a distribution from any vendor The Kubernetes code that we are running is vanilla Kubernetes from upstream not a distribution from any vendor, right? Okay, and you mentioned I say you you developed the answer module and the telephone provider for the Calis cloud. Yeah Oh for upstream. Oh upstream. Yeah, no upstream. It's all upstream. Oh the upstream all upstream It's not for the catalyst cloud specific, right? The terraform and the Ansible modules that were created in this journey. They are Actually open-stack modules not tell us cloud modules It turns out that the catalyst cloud runs on open-stack So if you use the open-stack modules, it will work with the catalyst cloud, right? But the work that we've done there you guys can use in any open-stack cloud Okay, I understood. Thank you. No problem I'll just assume that we have time to you know until someone interrupts me and says that we no longer have time But so carry on questions. Okay, so maybe a quick question Mentioned that you don't really support upgrading the Kubernetes cluster because it's challenging as of now Yeah, so is it isn't easily upgradeable. It is a so the question is it's challenging to upgrade the Kubernetes cluster It's not that challenging, right? Because if you're running with multiple masters and multiple worker nodes one of the nice things about Kubernetes That is it is truly a stateless application, right? So you can actually Queue one worker node at a time and roll the new version of Kubernetes there and you could also do the same for the master nodes The the process that we're going through and by the way behind the scenes. That's running Fedora atomic Computing sense where we deploy a bunch of Docker containers that contain all the Kubernetes components that we're deploying right so it's extremely easy to upgrade What we are doing is the code in Magnum and the code in heat that actually allows you to Orchestrate that upgrade process in a way that will not take applications The customers are running on top of Kubernetes down as we are rolling the upgrade, right? And that orchestration is about taking one master node down at a time one worker node down at a time And as you reintroduce them back to the cluster making sure that they are healthy and making sure that they are working as expected Right and at that point if the applications deployed by customers have Replicas set of two or more then their application shouldn't go down as they do the upgrade And one nice one really nice thing with the upgrade process is that's going to be a very simple API call Where customers can trigger the upgrade themselves and they can say I would like to go to this version of Kubernetes Right very similar to the way people are doing that with the Google Container engine Thank you. I Just wanted to ask you mentioned that integration with sender for persistent volumes is Pretty unproblematic. Do you have a need for RWX read write many storage as well? Do we have a need for for read write many RWX storage as well so so where you have multiple writers To the same volume multiple things writing to the same volume. Yeah, it is curious Is that anything that no so far that need so far the need of? Volumes that are mounted in multiple computing instances and exposed to multiple pods at the same time that hasn't come up with our customers Interesting because I tend to think about that as an Not so good pattern for applications that are running on top of Kubernetes I would expect them to use storage in a different way But no because we don't have that need we haven't Seen that problem or we don't know if that's supported right at this point because Kubernetes is just asking sender for a volume I assume that if your cloud already has support for Volumes that can be mounted to multiple computing instances that that would work right because it's just using this standard sender API and the senior interface So Block devices aren't going to give you that if you do have that need And there are some design patterns. I think where where it does come up For instance, if you have containers collecting data and and writing them to a common area that thing gets aggregated Yeah, so Manila can fill that role complementing complementing sender And I'm just here is Manila PTL to point that out. So if it comes You know that that's a that's a good fit. So and Manila has Since it serves ups it doesn't serve up storage by a hypervisor it just serves over the network So it doesn't care if it's bare metal or container or whatever this I'm assuming it. So just you know, keep it That's what I was going to say when you when you phrase the question originally talking about seeing there The reason I said that's a pattern that I wouldn't encourage people to do is because if we were approaching that with customers The first call would be can your application use object storage and if their application cannot use object storage Then it would be a Manila network fire system You the other aspect is you need right for the case for Manila would be that you need random access rather than working with The whole object coming in and out and So just just just checking Calibrating and because of your interest in Manila We we have plans to roll Manila on the Catalyst cloud as well We run safe as our storage back end for block storage and with Cep FS We pretty much have a pretty decent back in for money. Let's have us and then we have an NFS front-end Cep FS as well. Exactly. So cool. Look, I'm pretty sure we are over time now Thank you for all the questions. It was very interesting hearing your questions. Thank you for having us


Hi everyone, this is Chicho. Welcome to my channel, and welcome to another comic book reading. We are doing a reading for today, live stream reading of Superman, number 37, from 1952. And this is the oldest Superman comic in my collection, one of the oldest comic books in my collection. I believe I do have some comics in the early 1940s, maybe late 1930s. Nothing related to Superman or action comics. So this is the oldest DC superhero comic book that I have in my collection. And I picked this up recently in the last few years. And the person I picked it up from graded this thing at 55.5. So very good, fine, fine minus. And I would tend to agree with them. I did flip through this when I first bought it. So it's a nice book. And I'm glad we're reading it because I'm actually thinking about sending us to be graded. But aside from that little quick little lowdown, let's take a look at the cover. And what I want to do actually, I want to take this off out of the mylar. And just let you know who some of the creators of our that have worked on this. Let's take this out. Now this is DC Comics, right? Obviously. And the cover for this is... Pencils is by Wayne Boring and the inks is by George Rousseau. And this character here is the prankster, I believe. I don't know the prankster. I think this is going to be the first time I'm ever reading a story about the prankster. And I really don't even know what the oldest appearance of the prankster is. It looks like a badass. He puts TNT in a box. What Superman's amazing X-ray vision reveals. Look at that. Superman's not happy about that, but he does have a grin. A gift for me? No thanks, prankster. You keep it. Now I don't know if this is the first appearance of the prankster, but I'm assuming it should be the first appearance of the prankster. And the other people that have worked on this are Alvin Schwartz and Dorotka. George Rousseau, as I said, he's done a lot of inking on this. Dan Carman, Stan K., Whitney Ellsworth, Sam Citron, I wrote all these names down. And Jerry Siegel is supposed to have worked on this, too. And what I found out is weird, I'm not 100% sure on this. But it says here, everything that I found out was Alvin Schwartz was the artist for the first story, and Don Carman was the artist for the second story and whatnot. But they were supposed to be signed as Jerry Siegel and Joe Schuster, the creators of Superman. So what I'm gathering is Alvin Schwartz was probably the ghost artist for this, or writer for this, and then just signed it as Jerry Siegel or Joe Schuster. It's interesting, I'd love to sort of dig down into the golden age of comics a little bit more to dig down into the history, but I think that's going to require reading one, two, three, or five, five books or something on the subject. And this is a nice, great copy. Now we're not going to flip through this thing because we're just going to read the stories, but let's look at the back cover as well. Lighter moments with fresh, everyday batteries by war bonds. Ever ready, not everyday, ever ready. Wow, ever ready was around back then with batteries. Ever ready ignition, dry salad with the battery on that thing. Which one of you guys is cutie pie? Who's cutie pie? Maybe the guy with the red hat. Never ready. What does that say? I'm focusing. There we go. Let's get the job. Let's get the job and get it over. What? Ready. Number six, dry cell continues to provide dependable power for the vital field telephone equipment of our armed forces. But you'll be glad to know they are available in increasing quantities for civilian use. Fresh, full-powered, long-lived, as always. Ask for them at your dealers now. The registered trademark, ever ready and ignition, distinguished products of National Carbon Company Incorporated. Cool. And this is 1945. Coming out of World War II, eh? Very cool.  Insane. 52 page magazine. Nice clean artwork, right? And look at the spine. So if we send this over grading, let's see what this will come back as, right? And tomorrow we're going to do some comic book gradings. And I'm not a professional grader. We'll pull up the page from a website where they say what should be graded is what. And we'll see what we can do about it. So gang, let's go through this. What is this thing up here? B is for beaver who chews trees and bark. But when he's real chewy, he looks for this mark, a Superman publication. Batman. Batman is Batman ad. On the cover of Batman, for example, it's your guarantee of the best of any comic magazine. Batman. It's this seal that they're talking about right there. A Superman publication, DC Comics. And we have that thing here as well, right? There we go. They're talking about this guy right there. A Superman publication. November, December, 10 cents. So this is spanning two months, right? That's why when we did the math, we should double what it's going back as, right? So six years, right? If it's coming out once every two months, Superman comics, I didn't realize that. So 36 divided by 12 is 3. Multiply by 2, that's 6. And this is 1945. So Superman comics came out in 1939. Very cool. Very cool. Let's read this as well. Editorial Avertile Advisory Board. Superman DC Comic Magazine. Dr. Loreta Bender, Associate Professor of Psychiatry. Psychiatry, Psychiatry School of Medicine, New York. Wow, University. Pearl S. Buck, Author. The Good Earth, The Promise, etc. Winner, 1938 Nobel Prize. President, The State and West Association. Joseph Frank, Consultant on Children's Reading. Child Study Association of America. Wow. Bess B Lane, Educational Director, United Parents Association. Dr. C. Bowie Millican, Department of English Literature, New York University. What? They have all these people on their board of directors, advisors. Dr. W. W. D. Sons. They probably just paid him a little bit of money to have him be able to put their names on here, right? Professor of Education and Director of Circulation Study, University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Robert Thorn Dyke, Department of Educational Psychology, Teachers College, Columbia University. Com, I don't know what Com what's that for. Com Gene Tooney, USNR. Former World's Heavyweight Boxing Champion. Member Executive Board, New York Boy Scout Foundation. Wow. Commander, I guess. Commander Gene Tooney. The following magazines all bear the trademark as your guarantee of the best in comic reading. Action Comics, Adventure Comics, All Funny Comics, Batman, Boy Commandoes, Buzzy, Detective Comics, Leading Comics, More Fun Comics, Real Screen Comics, Star Spangled Comics, Superman, World's Finest. So those are all the publications that DC Comics was putting out at that time. Cool. That's super cool. Let's read the fine print on this. Superman, No. 37, November, December, 1945. Published bi-monthly by Superman Incorporated. 430 Lexington Avenue, New York, 17. New York FW Ellsworth Editor. Re-entered a second-class matter June 25, 1940 at the Post Office. At New York, New York, under the act of March 3, 1879. Yearly subscription in the US 75 cents including postage. Entire contents copyright 1945 by Superman Inc. For advertising rates address Richard A. Felden, K.N. Company. 420 Lexington Avenue, New York, New York, 17, New York. Except those who have authorized use of their names. The stories, characters, and incidents mentioned in this pre-article are entirely imaginary and fictitious. And no identification with actual persons living or dead is intended or should be inferred. Printed in the USA. Very cool. That's pretty cool. I don't think we've seen a board of directors editorial advisory board like this. And this is pre-comic code. So they were really trying to make sure their products were G rated. So, gang, should we do a reading of Superman number 37? Let's go through this. There should be four stories in this. Three main ones and a two-pager. So, let's take a look at this thing. It's weird. Just gonna give you this. There's a name right there. Okay. Let's read through this because the names of the stories here from what I could find online are the first one is a dangerous dream. The second one is pranks for profit and then crime in the art studio and then the rubbish robbers. And the name of the story is right there. I thought it was supposed to be up here, but it's not. So let's take a look at this thing. Superman. Superman dream cinema. Now playing illusion in Tibet by Jerry Siegel and Joe Schuster. The mural is tribute. Super fun. Strange indeed is the stuff of dreams, but stranger still is the perilous reality which brings Superman to the endangered dreamers rescue. But when the man of steel turns his Elimitable. Elimitable. Genius. To steal. To... To psych... It's so difficult to read when the lines are going sideways. Where does it say? But when the man of steel turns his Elimitable genius To psychology in order to restore Johnny Frey's shattered morale. It leads to the unexpected trouble for Clark Kent. Nothing but a climatic clash with crime can then dispel the ex-policeman's resentful reaction to the dangerous dream. Is that like Clark Kent in the ticket booth selling tickets? Looks like it. So Superman selling tickets to his own show. Is this the dream sequence? The beginning of the dream sequence? Maybe not. Night Extra Planet. Velvet Gantz gang slips through police net. Police Johnny Frey resigns after Mob escapes him. No reason given for action of former cop hero. Impossible. Why should Johnny Frey resign? The force meant everything to him. Clark thinks. Or says. Frey came out of the hospital only two weeks ago after being wounded in a gun battle. Well, he took three Desperados single-handed. Clark says. Yes, there's no doubt about his courage. He's refused to talk to reporters, but maybe he'll talk to me. We're pretty good friends, Clark says. Well, go see him. There may be a story in it. I'm assuming that's Clark's editor. Boss, that afternoon is Clark Kent Johnny. I'm not talking to the press Clark, but come on in. There's Johnny. How about telling an old friend why you resigned Johnny? I know I can trust you, Clark. Besides, if I don't talk to someone, I'll go crazy. But if you ever blab, Johnny says. He's reading a lot of books. I'm yellow, Clark. Plain yellow. I could have nabbed a valedict gang. But ever since I was hurt in that gun battle, my nerves become gone. My nerves been gone. That's why I didn't want to force to find out. Oh, he lost his nerve. Now, now I lie around reading these adventure books to stimulate my courage. In my sleep, I dream I'm a hero of the stories. Every night I do it. Funny, isn't it? Me, the daring Johnny Frey. I'm sorry, Johnny. Terrible story, Clark says. Is that a picture of himself in the background in a suit? Yeah, looks like it. Afterwards, as Clark leaves, what a tragedy. Reading and dreaming. And too proud to tell the world what's happened to him. If only dreams could come true. And why shouldn't they? Yes, why not? Clark's got an idea. With the help of Superman, he says. There he is, reading a book on Tibetan travels, and half asleep already, eyes on the windowsill. Or outside, anyway. Asleep at last, now. Now, let's run through this book and examine the stuff that dreams are made of. That's what I was reading in the book. 500 pages, reading time, 10 seconds for Superman. It's going to be some jaw setting, the exact scene, and getting the paraphernalia. But I think I know where to go, he says. I've done some pretty big favors for the Metropolis Museum. The curator later be glad to provide me with what's needed. Later, like a Superman grabbing all this stuff. Later, gracious, what a load. Are you sure you have everything? Yes, and thanks to the museum, you've been a great help, Superman says. And this abrupt, as it may seem, is the first part of our story. It ends the first part of the story. It's going to continue after like a... Oh, so he goes assess this up. Look at this, look at this. So we end here, and we black out, and here we go. But we resume our tale two hours later to find a strange beast howling outside the skin hut somewhere in the mysterious recesses of mountainous Tibet. Some animal growling, assuming it's supposed to be a wolf. While inside the hut roused suddenly from slumber is Johnny Frey. That shriek, it was like, huh, where am I? What am I doing here? This tent is vaguely familiar. Of course, that picture of the interior of the explorer's hut in the book I was reading before I fell asleep, surely I'm dreaming. But how real it seems. That shriek again. Why, it's just like the book where the author picked up his rifle and went outside. Holy smoke, the gun is jammed, click. But it happened like that in the book too. Dream or no dream, I've got to act fast. Now I remember, I'll do what the author did. If it fails, I'll know I'm not dreaming. It worked, it worked. So far, funny, it doesn't seem like dreaming at all. He just jumps under the wolf. Next, the author uses his rifle butt this way to apply additional leverage to the dog's lead so that it's own momentum carried it over the edge of the cliff. Oh man, he just killed the dog. It worked. The most harrowing dream I ever had. Still, I seem to get a kick out of it. Don't even want to wake up. There's Superman reading the book referencing it. Well, what is all this dream or reality, perhaps a certain familiar figure crouched watchfully behind the nearby Boulder can provide the answer. Tibet, the book says. So far, he's too confused to be afraid and he's going by his memory of the book believing it's a dream. Lucky I didn't have to interfere. That beast might not have followed the script. Oh, kidding. Yes, it was Superman who set the stage, whisked the sleeping Johnny off to Tibet, jammed the rifle and planted the wild dog exactly reproducing the conditions of the book. But now what? The next danger according to the book would be the landslide that, oof, landslide that, oof, beats. And they're coming this way. Better investigate beats, hoof beats, hoof beats. No sound effects to tell us. There's the hoof beats. Vicious looking lot, probably a robber band headed towards the hut too. Maybe I ought to stop them after all. This is one of the guys from the mural in front of the theater, right? No reason for Johnny's dream to follow the book exactly. This real danger should stimulate his courage as well as the one I intended to plant. And meanwhile, I'll keep watching in case things get too difficult. There's Johnny's little hut. A moment later, wow, I'm being shot at. Lucky I fixed my rifle. Man, so there must be fire coming at him. This didn't happen in the book and that shot seemed real. Still, I must be dreaming. Otherwise, how did I get here? Flies back, fires his rifle. That's funny. They stopped firing. And why are they building fires behind those rocks? From his vantage point above, they're building smoke fires and using the wind to force Johnny into the open have to do something that can't let Johnny see me yet. He's doing fine so far. There's Johnny right there in the smoke, right? And then there's the people right there. What's Superman up to? This vegetation should do the trick. Have to work fast though before that smoke blindsize Johnny and makes him helpless. Quite a job weaving the stuff into a fan. Is that what he's doing? Seconds later, this ought to make those bandits eat some of their own smoke. A fan was blowing the smoke back out to the bandits. While down below, cough, choke can't stand this much longer cough. The wind is changing and the scoundrels are being choked by their own fire. Smoke themselves out and here they come, Johnny says. Oh jeez. Here's to use chum. Dream or no dream. I'm having fun. Oh my god.  Smacking the guy. Okay Johnny, you don't have to worry about being yellow after that exhibition. So I may as well but in now here comes Superman. Prancing Pogodas. Pogodas. Superman. Prancing Paga Pagodas. Pagodas. What is that saying? Prancing. Pagodas. Superman. Too bad you fellows have no nice jails but maybe from now on you'll stay home and be good. Boom. Wait a minute. Now I'm beginning to get it. You brought me here. You did it. You're behind all this. But why? Johnny says. Kent told me everything. Thinking I could help you. So I made your book dreams come true and you showed your old spunk again. You're quite cured of fear now. Yeah. Gee. I guess I am Johnny says. I really did battle that beast, didn't I? And those robbers too. Yeah. It was no dream. So I couldn't be yellow anymore. Could I? No Johnny. You couldn't. Now it's time to take you home again. Superman says. And returning Johnny to his room Superman departs leaving the ex-cop to pass the night in further reflection on his experience. But I wonder am I really cured? Or am I kidding myself? After all I thought it was a dream. How could I have acted if I had known it was real? Why I'd have been scared stiff he says. Of course. I've been a chump. Cured. Baloney Superman made a fool of me. That's all Kent's idea too. And after promising not to talk why I ought to knock that guy silly by gosh I think I will too. Oh he's pissed. Next morning at the planet office Clark the velvet gang's been cornered by the police again the mobs barricaded inside the old construction machine plant only two blocks from here and the cops are waiting outside till dark to push them to rush them. I'm on my way chief Well if it isn't blabbermouth Kent about time you came out Johnny says Johnny why? What do you mean Clark asks? He's pissed. He's chasing him.  Now now Johnny I'm gonna hurry the velvet gang's cornered and well so long what a guy of a certain Johnny's his old self again but how to prove it to him hmm the velvet gang maybe I can prove it if I can decoy him there Clark thinks or says hard to say they're not using any thinking bubbles in this Look at him go like a scared rabbit but he won't get away from me he'll cover the he'll cover the velvet gang story all right in pieces wow the guys Johnny's pissed short temper ah there's a police line hey you get back wanna get your head blown off the cops are saying it Kent the planet reporter he'll be killed all the cops says if I figure these mobsters right they won't try shooting me not if they're clever and they've certainly shown they are a visitor what's he gonna do commit suicide don't shoot your sap can't you see he's alone we got more use for him than bumping him off Johnny Fray what are you doing here the cops ask Clark Kent where is he he asks the crazy fool ran into ran smack into the building as if devils were after him and we can't risk rush rushing the place till dark he'll be a goner sure gosh what did I do I must have scared the poor sap silly his blood's on my hands unless I get him out ok so he's his temper is some dude now he's acting like a friend hey Johnny come back the cops are trying to stop Johnny from running in stay back man I'm not risking any lives no matter how much I like Johnny Fray he's not on the force now and if he wants to play hero it's his business we stay here till it's dark the police chiefs is that a mustache what does Johnny plunges into the gangster's stronghold just keep him up you're gonna be waiting right there in line of fire when them coppers charge that ought to slow them up slow them up some Clark just what I figured they'd do oh check this out so when they want to do thinking they're putting it in brackets right they're still using the line for speaking after this I'm not sure when they started using the round bubbles to portray characters thinking but as soon as it's in brackets it's the thinking happening very cool very cool just what I figured they'd do Superman things and Johnny aha only chance to save him is by pulling a crazy act confuse him Johnny thinks oh Johnny Fray alone too we can we can use a hostage like you even better reach copper I'm no copper anymore sap is this guy I'm after well sizzle me he must have this slung nutty he must be slung nutty slung nutty yeah like a fox and here's proof Johnny says he's pulling a fast one look out pasty let me plug him Clark's thinking it worked I knew Johnny tried to save me but now Superman has to make sure Johnny won't get hurt here's Contains for oh Johnny shot him you're too slow rat then there's no sound effects in this interesting I wonder what sound effects got introduced to comics so it's a lead it's a let throwing party you want huh okay let's see how rough the velvet gang can play they're firing blast the guy I can't get him a line on him get a line on him he's hiding behind the machinery look at them scattering like a flock of billiard balls boom he just shot one in the back billiard balls and Clark seems to have gotten away which eases my conscience take cover he thinks he's a one man army bam took one guy down how many of them is there 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 maybe 6 maybe 6 of them so far anyway oh there's a lot more looks like it okay heave this will put the crusher on him so Johnny is way back here back there there he is so there's how many 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 8, 9 and 2 on top of him he's taking on a serious gang but suddenly a mighty ally streaks into the scene of battle Superman we're hashed throw in the towel we're hashed throw in the towel look at this that kind of punch we're gonna take people's heads off Superman and he's taking the joint apart the last shovel full of riffraff and they'll all be over and they're Tommy guns nice Tommy guns kapow someone says let's see what Johnny is doing seconds later sorry I had to bust in on your picnic Johnny but I got a tip that the velvet gang was making a stand here Superman says lucky thing too I couldn't have held out much longer Johnny says I'm only here because of that dizzy Clark Kent threw a scare into him so he lost his head and rushed in here I had to try to save him and you did alright too Superman says and Superman thinking now now to give the cops outside the all clear signal they slip back and then slip back and become Clark again Kent disappeared alright but where'd he go I still want to see him Johnny says the way Superman just took off his leg that's a funny foster hello chief have you seen Clark Kent Johnny says now now now look Johnny I still say I was only trying to help you when so there you are and Clark sees coming out of a barrel check that out he was hiding in a barrel funny shake pal I owe you an apology getting Superman to help me really work only it took this little fracas fracas this little fracas you got me into with the velvet gang to convince me our well well Kent says what a story what a story Clark says and you can also print that I'm rejoining the force it's welcome it's welcome it's welcome you'll be Johnny Frey listen to the thrilling adventures of Superman on your local mutual station so that was what he called it radio show Superman so Superman radio show I guess podcast what's this Wheaties oh wow look at this Wheaties commercial for Wheaties an ad for Wheaties Wheaties breakfast of champions look at that is Wheaties still around with that mascot and Wheaties we couldn't lose a game either there's a mascot and the players they look pretty skinny this is the opposition team I guess should we read this let's read this here's what it takes to build a winning breakfast milk fruit and Wheaties famous breakfast of champions big flakes of rich whole wheat roasted honey brown toasted crispy fresh flavor just right with sweet malt syrup that's Wheaties and that's champion nourishment in mighty delicious form put in your bid for lots of milk fruit and Wheaties breakfast of champions start eating like a real champion starting tomorrow morning what does that say Wheaties and breakfast of champions or registered trademarks or general meals incorporated and here's a caveat they always say breakfast of champions with milk and fruit with milk and fruit you gotta get your fruit in there that's the minerals that's what you need and here's the prankster look at this guy this is the second story Superman Jerry Siegel and Joe Schuster the joke is on you always prankster look at the smile on this guy he's going after the money let's read the little intro to this have you a practical joker in your home in his if his sense of humor is honest and laugh at himself when the tables are turned well well and good but if he even faintly resembles that walking mount gang mount bank of mischief the one and only prankster steady the story of just that begin with laughter and end in wailing perhaps you can borrow some of the tactics of Superman as he invents spectacular surprises to beat the clowning crime king at his own game pranks for profits that was a mouthful what does he got in there money, jewels, coin, bills, pearls there are many odd stories to be called from a great city like metropolis for example Lois Lane's latest nice feature yarn you've written about some of our more prominent practical jokers Lois I've been keeping notes on them for months Clark and I've found all all kinds writing for the daily mail I believe the joke of some of them rough for instance a Alvin a Alvin Arnold's you say you want a ray smith and you've been here 20 years sit down thank you Mr. Arnold he says you can have a $5 ray smith after you've had a let down in my new trick chair haha oh oh he puts on a prank chair and falls down some like Brewster Lin the society's playboy will gladly take you to lunch but I doubt if you'd enjoy it at you smell coming out of everywhere haha I switched salt salt sellers I switched salt sellers sellers that was filled with sneeze powder and yet another dexter dreams for example do the world a service by taking the conceit out of people yes indeed I bag these specimens in the heart of darkness darkest Africa and this personal risk you don't say exhibit number 13 wild boar stuff with self conceit the golden age jokes your partial to bexter beams because he's rushing you and throwing a big party to celebrate your birthday Clark says is that so Lois Lane replies why not spend less time worrying about me and more getting a story on supermans hunt for the most dangerous of all practical jokers the most dangerous of all practical jokers that description fits only one person the prankster haha the prankster laughs how nice of Lois Lane to suggest a new racket for me now that I've gone AWOL from the sheltering walls of state prison escape from prison so it is that a Alvin Arnold receives a visit from an odd looking little man PR prankster professor of practical jokes or so your cart says have a chair the guy says no thanks that's collapsing chair had whiskers before I did haha but I understand that you're giving a big dinner tonight if you care to have me arrange a little prank that would be the talk of the town for months go on you interest me he says the little guy sitting on his desks evening and evening a fashionable guest gather at the Arnold penthouse I can think of assignments I'd like better than covering this party Clark thinks in the background coming in right better shut your eyes the brilliance of the diamonds is blinding Lois says with all the jewelry everything's shining anyway the food looks good remember Arnold's reputation and don't be surprised if you find a frog in the soup serious spread in an all-cove a weird figure watches gleefully the prankster's thinking Arnold thinks I'm using only a mild current to startle them and none of them none of it none at all on him what a surprise he'll get I just want to shock everyone suddenly the hum of high tension electricity fills the air and Arnold at all but one of his guests are literally paralyzed in their chairs Clark's thinking what electricity and too much of it to be funny it's knocked everybody out zapping everyone including the guy who's throwing the party the rich fat cat right the only one unaffected by the current Clark witnesses the start of one of the strangest robberies of all time ha ha ha this will go down in history as one of my most successful Jess that's the prankster Superman thinks Superman I'll pretend to fall under the table she's unconscious and won't see what's happening he's looking at the lowest lane and the sooner I get her and the others away from the that voltage the better let them fall after that jolt they've had they won't come to for an hour now to turn myself into Superman Clark's thinking darting with the speed of a bullet Superman breaks the flow of current and put a stop to all this nonsense quite a card aren't you prankster Superman says Superman oh no he's dropping all his jewellery collected he's jumping out the window trying to escape Superman frankly I half expected you and let me show you something better make it good prankster says oh the next instant even the iron nerves of the man of tomorrow or jolted momentarily a friend of yours I believe oh he's got lowest lane lowest how did she get out there what's he holding that's messing with lowest lanes seriously piss off Superman oh my god he let her on fire what a nasty dude look at that a burst of flame and a slim figure plummets towards the street far below wow that's the rotten stunt you've pulled yet and you'll spend the rest of your life being sorry for it perhaps you'd better forget about me and take care of her oh look at that my god what the hell down plunges Superman in a screaming dive look at him jump I should have kept an eye on her if only I'm in time oh no she must be terribly burnt perhaps killed and then as he smooths smothers the flames he finds himself the victim of what a more diabolical joke huh only a wax dummy but it was a rotten trick just the same oh so glad he didn't light lowest lane on fire so it was a lowest lane dummy wax dummy meanwhile haha nearest getaway I ever plan and Superman will sure be burnt up about it even if lowest lane isn't serious joke the following day in the home of Dexter beams so your Ajax wild an animal trainer what can you do for me knowing how you dislike that phony big game hunter charmer's light lay I thought that tonight at your birthday party for mrs. Lane thought that tonight at your birthday party for mrs. Lane oh he's telling the plans let's see what it is speaking of birthday parties here's Clark a little later shopping for a present for lowest jewelry 37 haha this is Superman number 37 right and there's 37 right there 37 cool Easter egg sort of not really Superman's thinking I can't afford as expensive a present as beams will probably buy but she ought to like one of those compacts and by an odd coincidence the disguise prankster is about to follow suit prankster's thinking there's Clark Kent who has written so many uncomplementary things about me since he's undoubtedly buying a present for the bothersome loss from the bothersome lane girl perhaps I should do so too and get even with both prankster says or thinks that night another gay crowd gathers this time in the beams town house in the beams town house are these the presents for mrs. Lane I'll just put mine with the others wow lowest lane is having a huge birthday party prankster's thinking here's my chance to switch the packages what's he gonna do may I have the next dance mrs. Lane I asked her first she's surrounded by men Clark's in the background thinking I probably won't even get with inhaling distance of her as usual charmer's lane is busy telling heroic stories about himself and as the three tigers leaped through my hunting knife the other guy's yawning knowing that it's all just lies he always hunts from a tower with the natives driving the game past within easy range watch him show watch me show him off that should be interesting Clark says you've all heard about laze prowess now if you'll into the next room I'll show you the big game of bag you a big game hunter preposterous the guy says my trophy room ladies and gentlemen interesting if only you had some trophies the lay person I don't stuff them I bring them back alive and in cage and in case you're thinking leaving, lay the door you came in came in by is locked it's got tiger, lion, or polar bear a lion, a bear a jaguar jaguar the man is insane lion a bear and a jaguar I guess that's a jaguar Clark I'm afraid so am I but I'm glad to note you haven't forgotten me entirely why don't you do something heroic lay the guy is insane it may be a joke but I don't feel like laughing Clark says help police look at this roar everybody's hiding on their tables a moment later Ajax Wilde if you're an animal trainer and these are feeble old circus animals, why are the why all the protection that's his protection from the animals it looks like something is going on right now with plastic coating around it because my friend the laugh is on you these are really wild beasts man killers everyone Clark's like prankster you are climbing bookshelves however if you all toss your valuables down to me I'll leave you this high powered rifle it'll give you a chance what a fool I've been the guy says a shower of jewels and well filled wallets rained down on a grinning villain thank you ladies and gentlemen you're very kind oh Clark, can't you do something me Clark asks and then he's thinking if only I could switch to Superman without giving away the secret of my identity but the grim jest is not yet ended and now to show you my appreciation let my presence a present present you with a beautiful specimen of the rhinoceros family he's got a rhino in there the most dangerous animal alive it's Mer the guy says wait you promised to leave the rifle did I hahaha happy birthday Ms. Lane and good night all you'll pay for this when Superman hears about it lost says alright that's not a Jaguar, that's a tiger most ill tempered of beasts and one of the most powerful the bewildered rhino shakes his head and charges he'll wreck the place kill us all and it's your fault Beams he's thinking I've got to get out and fast that window he's looking at the skyline I didn't mean to have things turn out this way he says Clark Kent if you leave me here I'll never speak to you again sorry Lois but someone has to get help Clark's out the window out the skyline once outside Clark changes in a twinkling to Superman and meets a jeering full man the joke's on you again Superman, whether you know it or not you're needed too badly inside to bother with me just now the prankster says little swirling his mustache laugh why you're able prankster you won't be away far away by the time I finish this little chore a split second later so Clark Kent wasn't kidding when he went down the street yelling that a mangrove was loose in here Superman, I was hoping you'd come and thought you never would that's Lois's silhouette saying that I was hoping you'd come and thought you never would a mountain of bone and muscle hurls towards the man of steel playful fellow isn't he? Superman, as seen then kill elephants pow punches them elephants did you say if there are any around bring them on Superman tosses the stunted animals into their cages and then excuse me but I have a date with a laughing hyena wait for me Superman Lois says high above the city the man's telescopic eyes scan the streets until they spy prankster's car about to enter that garage high time someone played a joke on him for a change moving with the speed of light the man of steel lifts the garage room garage from his foundation haha I could have sworn the garage was there but it isn't the prankster in his car only Superman could do that I'd better get out of sight fast now there's Superman thinking got him worried now but I'm not through yet away he isn't following me if I can only get to oof rams into the telephone pole not a soul in sight I don't like this the prankster thinks it's like a nightmare only I'm afraid it isn't one the prankster is in trouble and he knows it fun isn't a prankster even if I have to repair the damage to property later Superman says I knew it was you all the time haha you didn't fool me for a minute the prankster says Superman postures crazy in the meantime beams guests have quieted down and Lois finally unwraps her presents a compact from Clark wasn't that sweet of him and then the guy who's throwing the party likes Lois I bought her pearls but she's more excited over a simple little gift from that reporter let's see there's a prank in there prankster is prank oh suddenly wonder what's inside boof a trick compact everybody's laughing you don't need a powder puff it explodes in your face haha the police department gets a surprise package also mind if I hang up a bag of worn out tricks sergeant oh I'll be hanged if Superman hasn't caught the prankster drool isn't it haha he's still laughing the prankster obviously he's insane and Clark is on hand to cover the story almost immediately I hear you've got prankster sergeant I'll make a great story for the daily planet if it's true I don't know how new how you newspaper lies find out things so fast can't but you can see for yourself who's hanging around look at prankster he's still laughing haha totally insane the next minute any word on superman's hunt for the prankster what are you that's Lois looks like her face is red maybe that's the coloring she's mad is very mad never mind Lois I've got the story and isn't there too much powder on your nose haha everybody's still laughing you've got a lot of nerve to speak to me after giving me that compact I should have should think you'd had enough of prank practical jokes ah Superman doesn't know what's going on or Clark Kent doesn't prankster's laughing I always managed to have the last laugh haha that's like the Joker in a weird way it'll be a last laugh alright in public but Lois I don't understand the end Clark doesn't know what's going on I wonder who came first I'm pretty sure Joker was around before the prankster like I don't know I haven't looked into the original the first appearance of the prankster and the first appearance of Joker first appearance of Joker happens in detective comics but I believe it's in the 1930s number wise in the 1940s so I'm pretty sure the Joker appeared before 1945 if this is the first appearance of the prankster what's this guy this is a one page story what is this oh this is just an advertisement Volt Volto from Mars Volto another serial look at this Volto from Mars Volto is out of this world magnetic powers conquer a fury inferno in the Timberlands of the great north west save Jimmy save Jimmy and the junior rangers from a tragic fate so little story so Joker was 1940 Elder God looked it up for us in the live stream so Joker was 1940 so the prankster this is 1945 so 5 years later but I don't know if this is the first appearance of the prankster say this is great think I'll take some up to Mars great nut flakes prankster was 1942 Elder God is doing checks for us also so prankster came out 2 years after the joker great nut flakes whole grain general foods again there's a little bit of foxing I believe there's a little bit of foxing right there the browning happening now much and this is the center fold and the staples are really nicely in I don't know if this is going to focus the book is in really good condition and there's a little text story here wow gang we're almost into 2 hours look at this what do we got left here we got another story of Lois Lane and this is we got 2 more stories though I think we're not going to get a chance to read these look at the artwork and that's pretty nice look at this let's just flip through the rest of this let's see so there's one more story which is like a how many page story one and what's this story called girl reporter so this is a Lois Lane story girl reporter nice artwork clean the color is really nice on this here's an advertisement for bite of honey bite of honey need a bit of honey bit of honey I do I want some honey this is no longer around I've never seen it anyway bit of honey too bad I would have bought this when I was a kid when I ate garbage like this daffy and doodle daffy and doodle what is this daffy and doodle let's read daffy and doodle daffy and doodle no daffy and doodle gosh I'll have to shave again you're always crowing about your beard doodle suppose you had to shave 20 or 30 times a day like a man I know 20 or 30 times he says I'd have to see that first to believe it ok then follow me there he is ok that's a funny joke that's a funny joke that's a funny joke that's a funny joke shave 20 to 30 times a day a barber does a barber does and he gets punched for for smarty people like to laugh all funny buying comic books screen comics I don't know screen comics screen comics leading comics buzzy all funny comics cool the symbol of your guarantee of the best in comics so this is DC as well because it's got the Superman publication DC guarantee of the best in comics DC here's another advertisement for weedies Superman garage the rubbish robbers the story is the rubbish robbers the the lowest lane story was written by Whitney Ellsworth and the pencils by Sam Citron and inks by Stan K ok and this one the script is supposed to be Jerry Siegel possibly the pencils by Ed Dubrotka and the inks by Stan K again and Ellsworth was asking how many pages was this I believe this was 52 pages yeah 52 page magazine from 1945 look at all the buzzy's mentioning that you did get your money's worth out of these comics in the golden age and you definitely did get your money's worth out of comics in the golden age right very cool so another story Superman's doing a sketch of the guy lots of dialogue lots of sketchy people like mobsters and gangsters look at that sketchy as hell and they're in behind bars Superman grabs the bad guys and they're blaming each other you had to go mess with Superman I knew we'd wind up here I knew it he says ah shut up I was doing fine in the laundry racket until you swiped that map and got me into all this from now on our partnership is dissolved the thumb macan rescued the doomed liner bazooka joe's bazooka joe's what is this these are shoes I guess are they shoes with his magic bazooka bazooka shoes so it's a shoe advertisement shoes can make you a hero too whoosh look at them go whoo if only you could buy shoes like that thumb macan boys make sure your shoes are thumb macans I don't think this brand is around anymore scuffy scuffy the tramp let's read this little guy too scuffy the tramp what does this say yo what the this is the last straw what's going on oh he was sleeping in the in the straw pile what is that raking hate boop poke them I can't sleep anywhere without being disturbed the drunkard said I think I'll just pretend to toss this rock through that window hey oh he's doing what we read remember in ec comics when we're reading was it ec comics we were reading where the guy was trying to get arrested so he could get a good night's where he could get a meal Christmas meal but this guy which is pretending and he gets arrested thrown in jail and he's sleeping soundly cutting a log cool cool supermen of america secret message oh you gotta decipher the secret message okay you code breakers you can have a snapshot of this and decipher the secret message whatever that says superman's secret message code saturn number 5 and send it here go back in time and send it here superman co care of action comics dear superman please enroll me in a member of the superman of america supermen of america I enclosed 10 cents to cover cost of mailing it is understood that I am to receive my membership certificate emblem and superman code and there's a little bit of you know holes in the thing here that come out through the I guess it was sort of a scratch because there's marks on this side too so rub against something so that would affect the grade as well but yeah I would say this is this is a 5 at least a 5 I would assume because it's in really good condition like intact nothing's loose so that's superman number 37 apologies about not getting to read the last 2 stories but you get your money's worth in the golden age of comics with a 52 page magazine and now we know superman comics both published bi-monthly I don't know why I didn't know that or I didn't remember that so superman comics published bi-monthly right so magazine format really okay aside from that we'll be back we've got more comics to read through your live stream for now I'm gonna go back to the live stream turn on the chat, turn on the cameras and just see how people enjoyed this let's turn these guys on