I'm going to go ahead and get started. My name is Dan Kahn. I'm the executive director of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. I want to absolutely thank you from the bottom of my heart for staying so late on a Friday afternoon and not rushing out to try and catch your airplane or your train home or more time with the kids or whatever. It is very nice of you to come and see this talk and hopefully I will not bore you or waste your time on it. For what it's worth, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation will talk about host Kubernetes, a number of other projects. As executive director, I sort of have to come up with something new, interesting to say, hopefully interesting to say, in this space every six months or so, and this is my talk for the next six months. So you guys are my virgin audience getting to try it out and I'll see whether I'm on track or not. Just as a quick reminder, so we are about 18 months old. We're now hosting nine projects. The best known is Kubernetes, but I think a lot of folks have also heard of Prometheus. So when you have a Kubernetes or a Swarm or Mazers cluster, you often need monitoring and tracing and logging. Prometheus, Open Tracing, Fluent D are great ways for those. LinkerD and Core DNS are our two earlier inception level projects. GRPC is a really amazing remote procedure call framework, a replacement for JSON REST that's much higher performance. And then just a month ago, we had our two newest projects, ContainerD, which is the core upstream runtime from Docker, and Rocket, which came in from Core OS. And we are part of the Linux Foundation, we're a non-profit, just like OpenStack is, and we have a number of Platinum members, including some overlaps with OpenStack and a lot of other similar members. So the Linux Foundation, just what I was told not to do, the Linux Foundation, you probably know it because we host Linus Torvolds and Greg Krill Hartman, the Linux kernel maintainers. But we've actually expanded dramatically in the last decade into a lot of new areas. So Let's Encrypt is the largest certificate authority in the world. It gives out free HBS TLS certificates. ONAP is a major new networking initiative. CNCF in the cloud. We have an amazing automotive grade Linux program that's putting Linux into tons of cars and accessories. And then Hyperledger is a blockchain system that's gaining a ton of traction. OK, so this is the summary from my last six months of talk, which is sort of how I envisioned CNCF, which is to say that this is my very brief history of the cloud that you had the application building block when it was back in 2000. You had Sun selling you server hardware. Then VMware came along and said, no, you can use these virtual machines, share multiple applications all on the same server. Then you had AWS popularize the concept of infrastructure as a service. And then Heroku came along with this platform as a service and the magic of being able to get push Heroku and deploy a new version. All four of those steps were closed source proprietary companies. Then the four new steps, OpenStack, which is of course why we're here, which was essentially an open source version of both AWS and VMware, Cloud Foundry, an open source version of Heroku. Then Docker came along with the fastest uptake of a developer technology ever to popularize and create an easy user interface around containers. And then in 2015, we launched and with Kubernetes, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.  There's 448 different projects and companies on here but at the very bottom of it is github.com slash CNCF slash landscape. And if you're curious, I encourage you to download and take a look at the higher res version. And if your project or company is missing, please feel free to open an issue and we'll add it to the next version. But here is in green the nine CNCF projects and in blue are some additional projects we're talking to and considering hosting. And again, all these are on that same URL, github.com slash CNCF slash landscape. Okay, so just a quick reminder, I keep saying Cloud Native, what do I mean by that? We think of it as having three main components, microservices that you divide up your application into multiple pieces, you wrap each of those in its own container and then you orchestrate those containers dynamically in order to optimize your resource utilization. So why are businesses going Cloud Native? Obviously for an OpenStack conference, it's amazing that there's like 30 different Kubernetes talks here. And the big ones are avoiding vendor lock-in, that's the same value proposition of OpenStack, obviously to have the value of open source. Enable unlimited scalability, so there's a statistic that Google starts two billion containers per week. This is actually as of three years ago, which is about 3,300 a second on average, but of course their peak is much higher than that. And increasing agility and maintainability, this is, I have so much respect for these pirates who are able to get the containers into these rickety boats, but this is the concept of microservices that you have different containers that are all talking to each other. Improving efficiency and resource utilization, so here's our orchestration slide, and resiliency so that your individual container can fail, a machine, even entire data center, and you can adjust dynamically to varying levels of demand. So what are the results that folks are seeing about this? This is statistic from a puppet talking about high performance teams, and what they've been able to show is that those teams can deploy 200 times more frequently, over 2,000 times, shorter lead time, and they have fewer failures, recover faster from failures, three times lower failure rate, and so just this idea of going from a lot of organizations that are maybe on a one month deployment model or every two week deployment model and trying to get into a model where they can be doing dozens of deployments per day, and that kind of modern continuous integration, continuous deployment. Okay, so the message from all of this is cloud native application architectures are the default choice for new green field applications. If you're building something up from scratch, this is a fantastic architecture to go with, and I'll just mention that the leading choice for cloud native orchestration is a project that we host called Kubernetes, and so we have a lot of partners and members and folks we work with like Phillips, Ticketmaster, Box, Zalando, Nordstrom, eBay, New York Times. I mean, there's a list of hundreds and hundreds that have chosen this architecture, and when you look at Kubernetes, it's one of the highest development velocity projects in the history of open source, has just an incredible collection of about 1,300 developers who've worked on it in the last year, amazing group of technology giants and startups that are working together. And so with all that, you can say, except for one thing, and this brings me to one of my favorite quotes from John Maynard Keynes. In the long run, we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task. If in tempestuous seasons, they can only tell us that when the storms long past, the ocean is flat again. And so the phrase I love from that is too easy, too useless a task. And so I wanna make an argument to you that that story that I just told a second ago about Greenfield applications is not remotely interesting enough story. And the reason is that the real world consists of Brownfield applications. So if you look at the gross world product, it's about $100 trillion, and well more than 99% of that flows through a set of Brownfield applications. And even if you go look at some of the most forward-looking companies like a Google or Azure or some of these other folks, if you actually looked at where a lot of their money flows through and say, hey, they're probably still using ADP for their payroll and they're still doing wire transfers through a bank, and that money is still in a large way going through a ton of legacy Brownfield applications out there. Those applications are generally monoliths. They're the exact opposite of everything that I've been talking about here. So CloudNative hasn't been around that long. You have, this is the 2001 image folks hopefully have seen the movie. They're large integrated units, they're not containerized, they're not microservices. So the question is you have a monolith, what do you do with that? Are you just stuck with it? And one simple, one answer that a lot of companies try is, oh, well, we'll just rewrite it. It's used, maybe it's in COBOL, maybe it's in Java, but it's not in one of these new trendy languages like Go or Node.js with JavaScript. So we'll rewrite it. And the answer is that that almost always fails and there's a specific term call for it, the second system syndrome, which was invented, which was described by Frederick Brooks about 40 years ago. And the idea is that when you try to rewrite a system that's in production, you have real needs in production that have to get fixed. So you continue to be adding features and fixing bugs and making enhancements. And what you find is that that second system almost never catches up. It just requires an insane level of resources to try and both maintain the primary system and rewrite it. And I've actually suffered through this and definitely will say never again. So the argument is that monoliths are the antithesis of cloud native. They're inflexible, they're tightly coupled, they're brittle. How do you evolve? And the main idea that I wanna get across to you is a metaphor. All metaphors are a little limited, but I want you to think about this ice block and say that the first step is lifting and shifting your monolith. And so this is the idea that however archaic your existing system is, maybe it's a Java virtual machine that needs eight gigabytes of RAM. But whatever it looks like, you absolutely can run that inside of a container. People think of containers as these very spelt, easy to manipulate little objects and that's the goal, that's what you're trying to get to. But to start out with, there is an immediate value of containerizing your application and in particular, trying to set up a CI CD process around it so that you can make changes to it, have immutable infrastructure, have some of the other advantages there. But we've even seen folks on Kubernetes who have a mainframe interpreter running inside a mainframe emulator, excuse me, running inside of a container and a running old mainframe code or old PDP code, PDP emulator, et cetera. So you start with that monolith and then you can put it up either in the public cloud or on your own private cloud. And if you decide to use Kubernetes as the infrastructure is the platform for that, there's a very useful tool called Stateful Sets which essentially can just pin that container to a specific machine with a sufficient RAM, sufficient capabilities to meet your needs on it. That's been available since 1.5 in the version before it was called PetSets but Stateful Sets is the official name. And now the concept is that you start shipping away at the monolith. And so your product people, your sales people come in and say, hey, we need to add OAuth to this application. We need to add SAML authentication of the application. Instead of continuing to enhance the monolith, you add an API to it, which you probably already have even if it just is emulating a web kind of request. And then now you can put that new functionality into a separate application. And that separate application, that separate microservice can be optimized for your team for the language. So maybe you decide that Node.js is a really great tool because there's wonderful OAuth libraries for it. You write that separately and have it communicate back to the monolith. The same thing, maybe a higher performance requirement you wanna use Go or you have a set of teams that have a library, have a framework that they prefer. Now you're no longer coupled entirely to all being working on the monolith simultaneously. And you can start getting the benefits of having your different teams evolve at different lengths. So sometimes you can't just chip away at it and you need a chainsaw. And so it's absolutely the case as you go forward that you decide there's certain parts of your monolith that are so painful or causing so much problem that you can reimplement aspects of it without trying to rewrite the whole thing. So Node.js, the performance sensitive tasks. And then you keep progressing hopefully. And then part of the lesson is to start with stateless services. And so the argument is that Kubernetes in particular delivers the largest immediate value today for those front end application servers where the database that need the resiliency, the load balancing, auto scaling, et cetera. Trying to store a database, trying to have all those services that can have stateful backing is still a challenging issue, a challenging problem. There's a ton of solutions for it. So you can look at a distributed file system like a SEF or a Gluster or new one ones like Rook. You can look at these new cloud databases. If you're in a public cloud, you can make use of their services like an RDS from Amazon or a Spanner from Google, the new distributed one that Azure just announced this week. But the idea is that there's a real value to starting with stateless services. And as an example here, and then you transition your data stores last. So an example here is MediaWiki, which is for Wikipedia where they are putting all of their PHP MediaWiki application servers onto Kubernetes and running that as a cluster. But the MySQL backend that hosts their database, they're still just keeping it on bare metal servers that they administer and expect to for the continuing future. And there are interesting projects out there. In fact, there's one that's talking to CNCF right now called Vitas, which is a MySQL fork that was created by YouTube and is used at scale. And there's interesting things along those lines to look at, but for today for production services, you definitely want to transition those data stores last. And then the other message I would say is to consider complimentary projects. So when you look at Kubernetes, it solves a lot of issues around orchestration, around scheduling, around resiliency, authentication. But as I mentioned, monitoring, tracing, logging, Prometheus, open tracing, Fluent D. And then when you have more complex applications, Linker D is a really interesting one where it allows you to provide errors, information and information about servers that are overloaded and provide that through so that you can dynamically route your traffic to the nodes that are best able to handle it. Core DNS is another very powerful service for platform or project for service discovery. And finally, when you've carved enough, hopefully you have created your beautiful microservice. Now, probably a better image here would be like a series of different little ice sculptures that are next to each other. But the main message that I want to get across to you is that just thinking about Kubernetes and cloud native technologies as being suitable for Greenfield is what I call the software, what's been referred to as the soft bigotry of low expectations, that to say that you need a greenfield rewrite in order to get the benefits of cloud native. But I would definitely say that Kubernetes loves brownfield applications. And when you look at the majority of them out there, I think the vast majority of folks running on Kubernetes are not doing it with completely new apps. So that is the main story that I wanted to tell you and talk about. I would be very happy though to answer just kind of a range of questions about CNCF, about Kubernetes, about some of our other projects. And I would also encourage you to follow up with me here at, here's my email address and my Twitter that you're very welcome to reach out to me. And I'm kind of happy to talk to you about any of these spaces. So any questions? I guess I would also even more, the other piece that I will mention to you is if you're in this talk, you should please definitely consider coming to KubeCon, cloud native con, which CNCF just had our European one in Berlin a month ago, but our biggest event will be in Austin and that's December 6th through 8th. So there's still plenty of time left five months away, but it's really gonna be an extraordinary event. We're gonna have probably triple the attendance that we had in Seattle six months ago. Kelsey Hightower is one of our co-chairs and we'll be keynoting. And so we're gonna be bringing together all the core developers within the community, developers from a lot of end users and others and we're really pretty excited about it. So Austin, December 6th through 8th. Sorry, I left that out. Any thoughts or questions? Yeah, if you don't mind walking up to the mic though. Hi, my name is Fabian Salamanca I'm a cloud architect for Huawei. Oh, great. Do you have any real life example with lessons learned of transitioning monolithic application to microservices? Sure, so like I'm sorry I sort of slid by a few of those. One of the great ones is KeyBank in North Carolina and if you just Google KeyBank monolith there's a nice write up from Red Hat with OpenShift where they walk through their experience with it. But that was just a very nice one where it was a huge monolithic Java app and in order to get the performance and in particular just the CI and the CD experience that they wanted, they added a Node.js layer as a front end and moved their existing Java app to be more of a back level app. But they walked through some of the experiences on there. And yeah. Right, no, thanks. Sure, absolutely. You had any experience? Sorry, could you just do it right into the microphone though? And sorry, also who are you? Christine Olefrangues, I'm a systems administrator for Data Direct Networks. Have you had any experience working with containerizing and splitting up Windows workloads? So for going from a Windows environment to a more containerized environment for Windows on Kubernetes or... So the answer is that Kubernetes now definitely does support Windows workloads. Microsoft has made a huge investment into this and one of the three co-founders of Kubernetes left Google nine months ago, Brendan Burns, and is now a top architect at Azure. And so Windows capabilities are in since 1.5 and they're supported by Docker. I actually, I would love to find a great case study for it because I don't have as clear as one. Although, I mean, and I would say that all of the same messages apply around, I would much more want to see a .NET or an ASP application move first and SQL server to be the very last thing that you would consider moving over or maybe moving to a cloud SQL kind of capability. Now, the other option, of course, since Microsoft made this enormous investment to open sourcing .NET is that you can run a lot of those applications on Linux, but that actually shouldn't be necessary if you're able to containerize it as a Windows app, as a Windows server app, which you can today with Docker, then you absolutely should be able to administer it with Kubernetes. And I think a key message is the heterogeneous concept that you, and I will make a quick pitch here again for GRPC where as things become more performance sensitive, instead of having a JSON rest as the API that's connecting together the different parts of your containers, but let's say you started with a ASP running on Windows server as your front end, and then you wanted to add in some extra piece of functionality, maybe like a React kind of front end to it. You could definitely look at doing that in Node.js on Linux, but there are great, very well-debugged GRPC libraries for every library, every framework that work on both Linux and Windows, and would definitely be worth looking into. Thanks. So it's down to me. Hi, Dan, Scott Fulton from the new stack. Hi. Good to see you again. When the concept of cloud native software architecture was first brought up, it was described to me like this, an application that is designed for the cloud on a cloud platform will not only work better on that cloud platform, but will work better than the applications that were not designed for that cloud platform, and that was the distinction between, hey, let's build things in the green field versus everything that was still stuck on the brown field. Besides the observation that you made, to paraphrase Paul Simon, look around, fields are brown, there's a patch of snow on the ground. We're gonna add that quote into the next version. Yeah. What is the rationale for transfiguring and moving and immigrating an entire planet full of very old applications onto the same platform where stuff was born to work better, and then, if I may say so, pretending that there equals. So the idea is that you are chiseling away on the old one until it does get small enough. And maybe someday, as Grover Norquist says about the federal government, he wants to shrink it down to the size that he can drown it in the bathtub. But I absolutely stand by the idea that you can evolve networks to cloud native, that trying to say, oh, you need to go rewrite it is just going to marginalize cloud native into such a small market. I mean, it's wonderful, obviously, to have all the startups out there super excited about Kubernetes, super excited about these technologies, and the Newstack writes an article on Kubernetes, and we post it to Hacker News, and it pops right up to the top. That's great, but I really do stand by this concept that we need to be bringing these advantages to big enterprises as well, or we're just wasting our time. It's just such a small, those startups are such a small percentage of the total IT market, and the number of folks that we can be helping. And so, I mean, when, so I would say Craig McLucky, when he decided to bring Kubernetes outside of Google and brought him to the Linux Foundation, he was very clear on not calling the Kubernetes Foundation, having it be the cloud native computing Foundation, had these three definitions of cloud native, microservices, containerization, and orchestration. And my argument to you is that it just doesn't take that much work to get those three things. It takes work. It is a completely doable task to apply those three core components of cloud native to legacy monolithic apps. That containerization, although we think of it, and in a lot of ways it works best with tiny apps, you absolutely can containerize huge ones. And then all of these apps already have APIs. I mean, maybe it's like a 50 year old mainframe app and the API is a taxed interface to it. Like for, I think, Amadeus as an example in Europe with their, the airplane ticket network, they still have a bunch of mainframe stuff. Same with Ticketmaster, where they have 50 years of systems including a bunch of mainframe code that they work. But as long as any API to it, you absolutely can build a microservice that connects it together. And then containerization, microservices, orchestration, you're gonna have all three of those pieces. So I do agree with you that cutting it down to size, trying not to dig your hole deeper by making your monolith bigger and bigger has a huge advantage. But I mean, the other, I think one of the most important parts of the story is that the cloud native architecture enables and in a lot of ways forces you to have a continuous integration and continuous deployment story. And for me, for a lot of organizations, it's that CICD is the most magical part because it helps fix all of these bureaucratic processes of saying, oh, I need a two month cycle and I need to have all this change control and everything else. And then it starts encouraging to say, no, for this little piece here, like I said, maybe it's the OAuth segment, I have tests for that. I now feel confident that I can roll out new versions of it constantly and can evolve from there. And so yeah, I've been through this process myself in a startup and essentially went the wrong way of trying to do the second system syndrome. And I guess the other part of my message is that that doesn't work. Yeah, you have another one? Uh-huh. OK, but I'm only saying lift and shift is the first step. My argument is that they're going to wind up in the same place because what's going to happen is that at each point along the way, they're going to look at their monolith and it's going to be wrapped in a container and they're going to say, this aspect of it needs to be rewritten. Should we rewrite in the monolith or should we rewrite it outside? And the answer, once it's lifted and shifted, is almost always to do it outside. I will also quote Joel Spolsky, who has a great series of essays about trying to do rewrites. And he talks about, oh, you look at this code and there's all of these if statements here that are all these strange little conditional loops and you're not really sure why they're there. And the answer is every line of that statement of that code was answering someone's bug over the last 20 years. And yes, it's probably not documented well. I mean, it would be great if it says this is to fix this regression bug number, so and so, that links back into GitHub. And you probably don't have that in your legacy system. But the idea of, oh, I'm going to throw that out and now I'm going to have this nice new clean code base. And now I need to go find all of those bugs again and upset all of those customers and deal with it again and essentially re-implement a ton of business logic that's never been documented anywhere other than the code is super problematic. As opposed to saying, OK, over time. And I mean, there's a ton of examples of this. So another one would be Twitter, which started out as a monolithic Ruby on Rails application. And at last, they were able to evolve it to over 1,000 services. They invented Meizos and then open sourced it, but it's exactly the same thing. Another one, a statistic I love is Uber, where I think the claim is that they have 1,200 engineers and 4,000 microservices. But again, they started with really very simple app. And just over time, I think one of the biggest benefits is just the bureaucratic one of there's a limit to how big of a team can cooperate on the same code base. So just that ability of not having people step on each other's toes and being able to go off and have somewhat of an API and a guarantee of how the different teams can interact I think has a massive benefit. Could I answer anyone else's? I'm happy to get in a longer debate with Scott here about. I'd love to see the new stack argument for we should all stick with our monoliths. But no, you're arguing for the rewrite. Yeah, and my point is it's not economic.  Yeah, essentially that's right. But as you can whittle it down, then hopefully you can do that. I mean, there's a ton of subtleties here as well, where if you're on a really archaic data store, eventually you'd like to evolve onto a modern one. But yeah, eventually the principle is that most monoliths probably can evolve. And then maybe someday you can actually shut it down. But maybe not. I mean, maybe it just needs to continue forever. Well, I think I'm going to end it there then. I really appreciate everyone's time. And please do consider reaching out to me if you'd like to hear more about CNCF. Want to tell your story and also comments or suggestions on improving this deck, because I am hoping to get a few more months out of it. I have presentations coming up in Tokyo and Beijing and a few other places over the next several months. Thank you all very much.


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my personal life what I'm watching on TV what I'm watching on YouTube a lot has been going on I am hella busy with my jobs but with my husband being out all of the picking up JB and you know just extra stuff on with the child is on me JB's allergies have my poor baby oh this is cute girl I look like Don Canelius JB's allergies I've gotten a little bad for the past few days and it's all environmental right and also with the cooler air here in the cooler weather in Texas so he basically just has been coughing that horrible asthmatic sounding like a wet seal cough and it started when was it it started on Saturday night well y'all get my nerves get my nerves all right so let me go ahead and take this apart and do what was I talking about y'all I had to do a little bit of walk on their work um oh JB he's doing okay I actually he was home for a good two days recently because he was just coughing so much and so I just kept him home to monitor him yeah I hate to say this but that Cresce O'Pello product really just I don't know I'm not I wouldn't recommend that now because it did something crazy to my hair it was just not a good experience for me and so no we won't be able to yeah anyway so what am I talking about now girls so these student loans so I'm one of the people that unfortunately did not get my student loan what do you call it basically approve to where I don't have to pay a certain amount they literally stopped at the Republican Party stopped it right before it was approved so now that the repayment options are available you know what I did way back in last year it's been almost a year and a half no no a little over a year I applied for what's called a borrower's defense and that's for that's for people who have loans with colleges that are no longer up and running and my college is no longer up and running that is WIU Western University they went out a while back and so I did the application when I was supposed to and it's still in review so me I'm on my I'm on my game I'm like okay I need to make sure since you guys are telling me that now we have to go back and start repaying these loans what's going on how much do I owe so I've been going to my portal way back in August nothing's available and I'm like okay what's going on again I have an information I go to the student girl site and I'm like what's going on you know have an information and I saw some literature they basically stated if you have applied for a borrower's defense whatever whatever your loans will automatically go into a forbearance and I'm like okay so I go a step further and I'm like okay I didn't know what's going on log into my account the student girl site I see some dates that say that my loans have been in a forbearance until 2032 and I'm thinking what thank you but what the hell is going on so at this point I'm thinking somebody I messed up the number somebody transposed the numbers instead of 2023 they wrote 2032 so I waited a couple of days to see if they were autocorrect it doesn't and since I'm still like now you ain't gonna catch me slipping not in when you owe the government money so I call the people that manage my loans and I'm like look I'm trying to set up my payments and it's showing that I can't even set up automatic payments he's like well since you applied for the borrower's defense application your loans have been in a forbearance until 2032 I say what so that's true he's a hopefully it'll be approved by now I said I hope it will be too because that's a long ass time the interest is gonna he said well you can't pay it but if it if it comes that if we find out that we actually are going to wipe your loans clean then we'll send you a check and he kind of as soon as he's like but you really don't have to do anything so the fact that he added that at least we believe you may want to keep your money so anyway enough of that girl anybody gonna be paying these loans so the holidays are coming my parents are coming for Thanksgiving the day after Thanksgiving so I'm going to do something little and probably gonna make dressing my mama was getting I have to surprise her and let her know I don't eat turkey let me know correction I will eat turkey I will but I'm not a fan of turkey which is sacrilegious here in the south because everyone's about the turkey legs and I don't do that I don't do turkey look there's a lot of meats I don't eat I don't do turkey I don't do an ox tail my husband them they do go I don't do goat my family they do deer venison I do none of that now I'll do ground turkey I will I'll do ground turkey over ground hamburger but I'm not a big fan of turkey so my mom's I'm a while I'm gonna try to get down there and not to get the turkey and I will I let her say her house bill and when she was done I said well you know um you don't have to do that mama because you know what I don't mind I said well no no no you don't have to do that because I don't really care for turkey she's a she got quiet she didn't say anything hmm well I really don't y'all but anyway she's gonna come my best friend invited me and J bill for her house for Thanksgiving shot is her and her family they're all Nigerian Ebo specifically so and we were over there last year and so we will go over there I'll bring a bottle of shortening and all of that to spend some time over there in the day after my my parents gonna be here and then I would have head and booked a reservation for JB and I to go to the Anatole for the holidays girl we're just gonna be there for one day at first I did two days but look after I would do two days there and then they do like a Christmas you can buy Christmas um they have like a little event there we can do everything Christmas you have breakfast with Santa J but I don't even believe in Santa but I ain't so we ain't doing all that so we're just gonna do the event and then just eat in there for one day everything is gonna cost me a little over $500 which it is what it is you know um so we're gonna do that the week before Thanksgiving and then he's super excited about that what else you guys so look Teresa realize I don't have time you know she's been asking me about vlogmas I really don't have the the energy and bandwidth bandwidth to record every day and load up every day I really don't and and the sad thing about it is that I'm actually am recording more but just taking the time to load it up and stuff like for example this past weekend because JB was was not feeling well I couldn't even edit any of that footage I couldn't even video another review I had planned for y'all so I'm sorry honey I can't do vlogmas I haven't done vlogmas vlogmas is so long you guys but it was so much fun whenever we did it so enough of that oh um yeah enough of that so what I'm watching on YouTube Joe not a lot it's just so much going on what do I have here two women and child let me tell you something I don't really watch much on YouTube anymore but there was somebody I was seeing there was there's like a couple of people that I'm seeing that have been gone for years and they made a video like there was one girl I think she was she's a woman actually I'm sorry she was on the weight loss journey I think her video was like her username excuse me it's like tears no more tears something like that she has dreads and she hasn't posted in two years and she did a video now I will say this I get it that one that's a pet peeve of mine mine meaning it's a pet peeve of mine when you two were saying I'm back this is what's going on after they're gone for so long and then they leave it they leave again and they're going for a long stretch on the flip side I get it everybody's busy you know stuff but you don't always anything girl I get it in life can be busy but there's so many youtubers that have done that in a past and it's just so disappointing like what's going on what are they doing like it is what it is I was watching some of Linda's video Linda land from Louisiana I feel so bad for Linda you guys she is going through so much with her ex husband he's moved on with another woman and he's just been acting an absolute fool I know people like well that's why you got to be careful who you have kids with I agree with that but it looks like to me it seems like Linda's husband just maybe she didn't see the red the red flags you know or maybe it was something that he changed and then now all of a sudden he's acting this way I feel so bad for her just just it's ridiculous what's going on and just to have you know CPS involved in all of this it's just unnecessary drama like it's unnecessary like it really is so I'm just praying for her in her situation I really am looks like she's locking her hair she's had her hair locked now for a month and y'all I was on the bandwagon of what to get my hair locked but I like to wear my hair in so many different styles and I know you can still do that with locks I do know that and my husband likes my hair loose he does he likes my hair loose yeah yeah this look at this this is all mad shit I may go ahead it's locked up right now I was just looking at some other stuff with other celebrity not necessarily gossip of celebrity news but apparently Bruce Willis y'all his huh his cuz he has frontal dementia if I remember correctly he's gotten worse I think to the point to where it's really hard for him to even talk now that is so sad that's somebody else who has dementia too he's older than Bruce Willis and they're just really sad to see someone that is that you know so vibrant and an actor someone like that to decline the way that he is it's really really sad really really sad what else is going on not much else I'm been watching on there we ain't gonna go into the stuff where that crazy Yuck Mack girl was fighting at Tamar's I don't know if I believe I'm just gonna say this like I said I just said I'm gonna get to the gossip I don't know if I 100% believe that Tamar is okay I don't know if I believe that Tamar is a hundred percent innocent because Tamar is so messy or she could be messy you know what I mean and she's just disrespectful in her own right but that girl that little girl you would think that after she had a baby she would like settle down and not act a plumb fool and think about her child instead of going around and punching somebody in the face are you are you watch a thing on mind she needs to be careful she really does because anybody can go in and create contact CPS and get your kids taken away like you don't want that to happen absolutely look I just said I wasn't gonna be talking about God something stuff and celebrity gospel we don't move on we're gonna move on y'all there was something I wanted to bring up and that's completely forgot what it was um yeah I'm really gonna take the time to just moisturize my hair now cuz it's it's matted I'm gonna use a buttercream too and I'm just gonna keep my hair up because it feels horrible and I know exactly what I'm gonna do to remedy this I'm going to get my steamer out use my Queen Helen with my oils for my next deep conditioner that's one would have to do child moving on what I'm watching on TV I've been watching a lot of different stuff mostly like interviews with celebrities and all of that but some stuff I did watch I finally watch reptile with what's his name he still sounds like he's 15 years old what goes around goes around goes around comes Bob lay back around Justin Timberlake girl Justin Timberlake and Benicio del Tarro you know he's in it too he is so good looking to me he's in it too very good very very interesting not what you expect also saw a movie on Netflix called Cut Bank with Billy Bob Crazy Thornton and John Malkovich yeah I had a crush on John John Malkovich for the longest I know I'm weird as hell receding heroin and all child he weird too but it was a good movie a good movie not what I expected but a good movie I saw one of the most disturbing move I saw one of the most disturbing movies ever that I literally had to pause it and go back and be like what I just watch the killing of a sacred deer the killing of a sacred deer and not to get into too much it has Nicole Kidman and that would see from Irish guy I don't know y'all but anyway it's about a married couple who the father is a cardiologist and this weird-ass teenager has befriended their family and the father had operated on the teen's father and unfortunately the father passed away well things keep getting weirder and weirder and I knew the movie was gonna be weird when it cut to a scene where Nicole Kidman is laying on the bed and the father is like well she says something like what did she say y'all basically what the medication they give you when you need to go under for surgery and he's like yes and she falls limp sleep and he proceeds to get on her take off on underwear and so he has a fetish for having sex with people who are nearly dead was that called necrophilia that Ted Bundy had that he had that where he actually one of his girlfriends he told him to sit there and pretend like you not not it's not funny that's disgusting and weird as hell it really is that there's something wrong with that but in the movie that happened I'm like okay I'm a G let me continue it so it goes on weird-ass kid eating his spaghetti and stuff and so basically what overall what happens is that I'm not gonna give too much but the kids start getting sick and the father has to make a decision that he doesn't want to make in order to save the family weird as hell weird I have no feelings but it's so one of those type of movies I probably will never watch again I don't think I recommended but is where killing of a sacred air with much aware people apparently Phaedra is on married to medicine I'm very shocked that anybody would allow Phaedra on nerds show with the false allegations that she did on married excuse me on the real highs wise of Atlanta to my opinion she would be so it would be such a liability to have her but she's good for ratings you know I mean it's sad to say that but she's good for she's good for ratings so she's on their quads ex husband got another girl I feel bad for a quad I just come before I came on here I was looking at I was on Instagram and I saw a Mariah had did something real quick on it on Instagram Mariah is is we're all getting older but she looked like she's life is hitting her hard it looks like it is it looks like life is hitting her pretty hard so whatever she's going through I hope it gets better but that's it you guys now I'm yapping away I need to continue to moisturize my hair and really really give us some TLC I'm gonna I'm gonna have to definitely take my time this next wash day and more than like me detangle in the shower no I'm gonna detangle beforehand using fresh Oliveira and oil just really get in there in there just fresh Oliveira and oil that is it so alright you guys that is it thank you so much for watching take care bye


all right guys part three we're going to get that transfer case up in there hopefully pretty quick i want to at least get it up in there and bolt it in it's supposed to rain on and off all day today so let me get you under here and uh i want to try to use the jack i don't know how well that's going to work out for me but i'm going to try it if not i may just have to lift it up in there manually so let's get under there whoo what's in is it yeah where you at mom would do me a favor will you do me a favor what will you uh grab my camera and stop recording for me please where is it right by bruno bruno get away from the camera yeah easy okay where that thing be together all right guys it's done other than the two bolts on that flex pipe and the uh the fluids but i can start it up for you real quick since the oh two sensors let's hear it see what it sounds like since they were two sensors are hooked up pop the hood you don't have to pop the brake okay haven't had the hood up on this the whole time how do you release that i guess you got to put it in gear never set it oh go all the way down and then back up there it goes all right let me see if i can find a way up to get the fluids and then uh then we'll take it put fluids in it we'll take it for a drive if not i'll come back on and tell you that this is the end of this video so stick around let me see what's happening there we go it's too quiet thank god if it was mine that exhaust would have been done two hours ago that guy i gave this guy okay guys listen where's the guy broke down right here pulling a trailer big old dodge broke down here he ran out of gas then i went out and checked on he said he had a buddy coming then he coasted it down here thinking maybe you know if he could get it at an angle we could get it to the gas station well that didn't work so he came rang the doorbell and came out and said hey man can you run me down here to the gas station i said sure you know no problem so i ran him down gas station remember this he got in here i started this thing up he goes wow this thing's quiet and he looked around goes too quiet i said well in my in my profession i have to be quiet he goes oh okay say no more all right take her for a drive monk let's let's see if we can hear anything that's good because usually when she goes up this way hear a clunking in the rear end and i don't hear it that could have been it already took us guys i'm not sending her off on her own i already took her for a drive and i'm not hearing that clunking because usually when she backs out of here and pulls out especially right there you hear a thumb thumb thumb thumb thumb so that might have been the problem now look at this mess i can't wait to get this thing apart and see exactly what happened i'm pretty sure because it was pretty dry under there guys other than what was coming out the bottom and my way of thinking is i think it may have been empty i don't know we didn't have to buy this stuff i still got some ordered but my neighbor right next door there he gave her a ride up to the parts store he said i got some 90 weight he said well that worked i said that's fine it's 80w and 90 it's fine it's a gearbox you know um i like to put what's supposed to be in them but remember this car is not under warranty anymore so i can run whatever the hell i want in it so that'll be fine and there's about a half a gallon there so there's probably about two quarts there and um i still got about three fours of a quart there so i've got enough and then i've got some coming thursday another quart coming thursday i'm not gonna send it back i'll eventually use it that's got a differential this got a differential you know the chevy's got a differential so yeah we'll see see what she thinks of it when she gets back how you doing good so hang tell you guys yes i've been working with my hat off because it's in the way under there i just can't you know i got it done a day early and i just can't get you know it's one thing to be without a car we can just walk right down here at the gas station right down there at the end of the street maybe you've seen that car go past that's where the gas station is so you know it's not like i couldn't we couldn't walk down there i would just drive the tractor down there but her mom in the hospital having issues if something happens i want her to be able to get in that car and go still making that noise in the rear end no how's it feel good yeah it feels like it did like it's supposed no noises because usually when you pull out of here i was telling them that i can hear it right i didn't hear it when i backed out or when you backed out and you made some turns yeah i went all the way around and it didn't make any noise because it it sounded like it was the rear end yeah but i think the noise was coming from the transfer case and transferring the sound down the drive shaft yeah it's not unheard of i've had i had a muncie rock cruiser four speed do that yeah had a bad gear it sounded like the rear end so yeah i rebuilt the rear end still making a howling noise well first thing i did was replace the rear wheel bearings that didn't do it so i thought man the rear end seemed to be good yeah you know there's a pause the track rebuilt in any way that wasn't it and then one day it just didn't want to go into fourth gear fourth gear was out and that's what it was doing it was traveling down the drive shaft and sound like it was coming from the rear end right so what do you think did you drive it enough to know you want to take it down there i think i'll take it down there right around all right good no exhaust leak here you hear an exhaust leak you don't see it oh well then i didn't hear anything is it quiet too quiet no it's quiet the way it's no it's not too quiet it's yeah it's too quiet all right so anyway guys there it is um yeah like i was saying her mom's having difficulties uh tomorrow they're going to she's got water around her heart so tomorrow they're going to drain that and i don't if something happens i don't want her yeah that didn't make that clinking noise usually every time you hear that thump thump thump i think i mentioned it a couple times in a video i'm like you guys hear that so that could be what it was doing was just traveling down the drive line making it sound like the room but regardless i'm going to go ahead and just change the uh i've got enough i've got enough gear loom i'm going to go ahead and change the gear loom in the uh in the rear differential just in case that way i can see what it looks like so yeah that's all right guys appreciate you watching thanks for watching it i wasn't expecting to get this done today but it rained all day but a couple times i just came out here sorry i didn't film much but i came out here a couple times and pour them down rain and just got up and clear up underneath it and i put the exhaust on and the driveshaft and crossmember i did everything i could underneath it that way i could stay underneath it and i laid on my little mat there so that way step out of the water and uh i just wanted to get it done for so thanks for watching guys appreciate it anything else i'll bring in along with me on the uh when we change the differential gear loom um i gotta find some i think i got some empty jugs over there in the back of that truck we used to keep watering um so i think i'm gonna use that because uh you know to get rid of that stuff you just take it in to like it like auto zone or whatever they'll dispose of it for you for free so as long as there's no water in it but okay she's coming back and usually you could hear it when you're pulling in here too if you guys ever had a front axle go out of something on a front wheel drive that's what it would sound like i did it too that cord because it's wet so it's all right then yeah all i hear is a click in that steering room that's funny i didn't touch the steering i know you didn't but i had that maybe is it what it was always doing right here yeah oh well then shut up she's trying to add stuff on to me that plastic it's done it since we've got it because that plastic yeah right there clicking thank you when you turn it doesn't need an alignment though or it will need one well it needed one begin with i could tell by the way around the tires yeah but since i had to change the tires around no i want to get this done for you i know i know i mean i was out here underneath this thing all the way underneath pouring down rain i know and i appreciate it you know i do i love you for it all right tell them bye mom my man don't buy hi y'all all right guys say very myth man legend gone for now thanks for watching appreciate it guys we'll see you in the next one bye bye guys take care stay safe


Today, as throughout our history, we bear faithful responsibilities in the world. In times past, it has often been our strength and our resolve, which have tipped the scales of conflict against aggressors, our would-be aggressors. That role has never been an easy one. It has always required not only strength, but patience and sacrifice, the tragic price that we pay for our commitment to ideals. Ushered in by some of the fiercest fighting of the war, the month of May brought American forces in South Vietnam some of their heaviest casualties of the year. Debate at home and abroad focused on Southeast Asia, yet no sign of willingness to seek an end to the bloody impasse came out of North Vietnam. Soon, all debate and attention would shift to another impasse on the deserts of the Middle East. The month of May would close with President Johnson's and the world's determination to avoid new aggressions between nations. His attention is often forced on problems abroad, yet Lyndon B. Johnson desires, perhaps more fervently than any other president, to leave with the American people a new and greater quality in their society. A noon ceremony on May 1st added further substance to this desire. There is still much more to be done, and Betty Furness has agreed to help us do it. These efforts may not seem so dramatic as many great foreign and domestic programs that we have had, but they are, I think, absolutely vital to the health and safety and to the security of the American family. Mrs. Furness was appointed Special Assistant for Consumer Affairs and Chairman of the President's Committee on Consumer Interest. Recognizing that every American is a consumer, President Johnson brought consumer representation into the highest levels of government. Also represented in the highest level of government that evening were the nation's youth. Under a program originated in 1964 by President Johnson, academically selected youths will serve one year throughout the top echelons of government as White House fellows. We must guard every man's right to speak, but we must also defend every man's right to answer.  A young American who engaged one of those problems yet to be solved was honored the next afternoon. Staff Sergeant Peter S. Connor was awarded posthumously the Medal of Honor. The following afternoon, the president met the men who call young Americans into the armed forces, the state directors of the Selective Service. By executive order, he expanded appeal procedures and provided more detailed explanations of individual rights under the system. He also established a task force to seek overall improvement of the system. Selective Service, as you know, has been an essential part of our nation's security system and a part of the system of security for the free world. It's been that for more than a generation, and it still is as we meet here in the Rose Garden this afternoon. The system was founded on the conviction that qualified men should share equally the responsibilities of service. That principle of fairness must prevail, particularly at a time when only some are called upon, as they are today, to fight to defend our freedom. When asked about young people being urged to ignore their draft call, the president expressed the nation's sentiment by saying, we regret when any person asked the young people of the country to refuse to serve what we believe to be the needs of the country. At a dinner that evening, some 1,200 persons, led by President Johnson, paid honor and homage to an American who has answered the call to serve a state and country for over 40 years. Speaker McCormick came to the House of Representatives 39 years ago. He is now serving his 20th term. And if ever an American could say with pride that his life had been devoted to the creative use of politics, that American is John W. McCormick. Look at the record just over the past 22 years since World War II alone. The Marshall Bill, the NATO, and highway construction, the space program, and food for peace, and the GI Bill, the aid to education, Medicare, the war on poverty. That is what politics is. That is what politics does. That is the living memorial and the living record of John W. McCormick of Massachusetts. Early in the week, President Johnson signed legislation extending a no-strike period and a current rail dispute. Throughout frequent meetings with his Labor Management Policy Council, he continued to seek an equitable solution to the problem. On May 4th, the president submitted to Congress a proposal, soon to be criticized by the disputants, which hopefully would bridge the gap of disagreement while preserving traditional collective bargaining processes. Being the overriding public interest in averting a nationwide rail tie-up, he recommended a special Board of Labor Management and public members to intensively mediate the issues. One of the more compelling reasons for settlement was expressed by an opponent of the war in Vietnam when he said, the war is taking place and men are dying in it and shipments to those men must not be upset. That evening, the White House moved to the LBJ Ranch in Texas, where the president's been a working weekend clearing off the busiest desk in the nation. Saturday afternoon, the 6th, the first family attended ceremonies at the Austin, Texas Municipal Auditorium, honoring former Mayor Tom Miller. He was the champion of Negroes' rights in this city when no other man would really take the leadership and speak up for him. In the field of conservation and housing, the field of education and health, in the field of all that concerned his people, this man gave all that he had. An early associate and longtime family friend, the late Mayor Miller and young Lyndon Johnson pioneered progressive programs in Texas. The following Monday, President Johnson told a Washington Conference on Women in the War on Poverty that the dimensions of poverty are not new. He emphasized that what is new is the all-out efforts to break poverty's grip on millions of Americans. These efforts are epitomized in his latest budget request. If Congress approves, under his administration, the government will be adding to the economy two-and-one-half times more for social programs than was spent in the early 60s. He answered those hesitant about massive anti-poverty programs. They cannot logically oppose the effects of poverty, he said, and at the same time resist the efforts to eliminate poverty. Dedicated to his goal that every American shall have the opportunity to be a productive responsible citizen in the society, President Johnson, possibly more than any other American, is convinced that poverty must and can be cured in America. The Clark School for the Deaf of Northampton, Massachusetts, represents a 100-year effort to alleviate human afflictions. On the morning of May 9th, President Johnson met United States Senator Edward Brook and seven students from Clark in the White House. He was presented mementos of the school's centennial anniversary. Clark is one of the oldest schools of its kind in the country. Other visitors that day were Vice President and Madam C.K. Yen of the Republic of China. A world-renowned economist, Yen has played a leading role in the economic success of Taiwan, a success that permitted President Johnson to announce in 1965 that free China no longer needed American economic assistance. Mr. Vice President, we are delighted that you and Ms. Yen could be with us, both for personal reasons, and because your presence is symbolic of a long and cherished bond between our two peoples. But our alliance goes far deeper. It is an alliance that's been tested in time of war. It's been tempered by our struggle against forces that would have wished to destroy both of us. Mr. Yen reaffirmed the Chinese people's ancient affection for America. He also paid special tribute to President Johnson's war on poverty. He proposed that it be the model for a universal program to relieve the poverty of almost three billion peoples of the world. President Johnson told Yen that China's total progress as a free nation sets an example of hope for all countries around the world. But the Republic of China has gone far beyond any selfish concern with its own fortunes. You have helped many other countries to help themselves as valiant soldiers in the war against hunger and want, the war on which the future of civilization really depends, farmers and technicians from Taiwan have traveled to other countries and other continents to offer their help and their knowledge and their technical ability to less fortunate peoples. At night, President Johnson was welcomed to the annual Democratic Congressional Dinner honoring the congressmen and senators of his party. These men, representing almost 200 million Americans and the president, reaffirmed their pledge of continued service to American society. All are convinced that their party is the instrument through which the American people can best manage their government. President Johnson talked about what it means to him to be leader of his party. It has been our proud task to take a set of aspirations and then bring them home to reality. We have seen the great abstractions education and health and conservation begin to come true. We have seen them translated into happier lives.  One of those abstractions brought to reality was self-evident at the Geneva-Switzerland-Kennedy-Round trade negotiations. In a healthy spirit of cooperation, some 53 nations reached general agreements to reduce by one-third thousands of tariffs. Ambassador William Roth, chief United States negotiator, reported to President Johnson that the major issues had been resolved. The details were being put into concrete form by the end of June for the final approval of the governments involved. This extensive removal of tariff barriers will affect billions of dollars in American commerce in free world trade. President Johnson hopes that the economic benefits of greatly stimulated American and world trade expansion will become one of the major accomplishments of his administration. As only he can use it to get things done, President Johnson is certainly the most extensive telephone user to occupy the White House. It was a fitting ceremony on May 11th when he was presented a golden telephone commemorating America's 100 millionth telephone. He is a man who knows the value of quick communications. Literally thousands of calls weekly emanate from his offices, many made personally, to every corner of the earth. Or as in this case, a conference call with some of the nation's governors. The nation's governors were again the president's main interest on May 15th at Hartford, Connecticut. The New England Governor's Conference was one of a growing number of sessions with the state leaders. An innovation of his administration, these working conferences are unique in seeking closer federal state partnership. I want to hear about the problems that exist between us. We all know that the strength of the union is the strength of the states, and we all know that every man at this table wants his state to enjoy peace and the maximum amount of prosperity and the maximum amount of advancement. My job is to work with you in attaining those goals. Frequently his role is to listen and to learn, then to decide which of the many urgent problems shall have priority. The president, the governors, and their aides too often must resolve problems whose solutions are long overdue. Now, why couldn't we today agree who the representatives of the federal government would be in dealing with this problem, the technicians, and new appoint similar ones, and have them come to Washington and say, what do we do, what are the possibilities, what are the alternatives and explore them, and then look at it. It may be we have existing authority, maybe you have to go to your legislatures, maybe we have to go to the commerce, but we at least have a technical group there that would be working. We have that machinery, Mr. President, could meet with any time you want. What about it, Adam? Right sir, we'll have a meeting third of the morning. And you have the federal people there, and you, the new chairman, you're going to arrange to get the others. There'll be major legal problems. Let's get some major solutions, but I don't want to do that. Turn general into a problem. Together, Lyndon Johnson hopes the governors and the president can improve state and federal programs. Together, they can hasten solution of the many problems facing the states and their cities. Their mandate, he believes, is to improve the quality of American life. Three years, we were doing three times as much as we were doing three years ago, and this year we're doing more than's been done in all of the history.  Now, what more wonderful thing can a governor do, or a president do, or a cabinet officer, or any human do, than to take the young and the old and try to make them live better and longer? Federal-state cooperation was furthered on May 19th. Lyndon Johnson signed a bill providing federal participation in construction of a prototype nuclear desalting plant off the coast of California. The urgency of water problems is clear. In America alone, water consumption is increasing at the rate of 25,000 gallons per minute. Today we begin the greatest effort in man's history to produce water and electric power from the sea. Water alone will not suddenly and overnight make our deserts bloom. It does point to the day when lands now dry and empty will sustain life and will feed the people of the world. Yet from those seas he wished to harness to serve humanity came incidents dangerous to world peace. The collision of Russian and American warships in the sea of Japan brought new waves of tension. On the deserts he hoped someday will bloom, armies were preparing for battle over the threatened closing of an international waterway. President Johnson turned to the hard fact that possible new aggressions were on the rise. Still on the morning of May 23rd at the International Water for Peace Conference, President Johnson continued to urge all nations to help each other in solving their common problems rather than fight. He pledged America's total resources to new and greater programs of international cooperation for water resource development. As man faces the next century, one question stands above all others. How well and how long can the earth sustain its ever-growing population? As much as anything, water holds the key to that simple question. For ages past, men have fought wars over water. And without adding one single drop to the world's water supply. But then afternoon peace was brushed aside when threatened blockade became a reality. That evening President Johnson went before the country and the world to talk about conflict in the Middle East. In recent days tension has again risen along the armistice line between Israel and the Arab states. We deploy the recent build-up of military forces and we believe it a matter of urgent importance to reduce the troop concentrations. Closing of the Gulf of Acuba to Israel's shipping has brought a new and a very grave dimension to the crisis. The United States considers the Gulf to be an international waterway. The right of free, innocent passage of the international waterway is a vital interest of the entire international community. We have always opposed the efforts of other nations to resolve their problems with their neighbors by the aggression route. We shall continue to do so. And tonight we appeal to all other peace-loving nations to do likewise. President Johnson led the world's hope that fighting could be avoided. Intensive efforts and appeals for peace were made by his diplomats and emissaries who roamed the globe seeing the statesmen of the world. His message helped find ways to end a confrontation that could lead to world conflagration. On May 25th, personally leading one such effort, the President visited Canada and Prime Minister Pearson. The Prime Minister was an architect of the peace following the 1956 Sinai War. They consulted on the threats and danger local war held for the world. They consulted on ways to seek and keep peace. President Johnson later termed the meeting very agreeable and constructive and characterized the Prime Minister as a distinguished citizen of the world. He expressed his hopes for world stability when he complimented Canada's Expo 67. We of the United States of America consider ourselves blessed. We have much to give thanks for. But the gift of providence that we really cherish is that we were given as our neighbors. On this great wonderful continent, the people and the nation of Canada, you have focused the eyes of the world on the theme of your exhibition, Man and His World. And we hope that among the other lessons to be learned here will be this. That proud and independent peoples can live peacefully side by side. Can live in peace and partnership as good neighbors.  But unconstructive conflict, the destroyer of man's brightest hopes, too often prevails among men. A beloved and respected American who recognized this fact was honored on May 27. Like President Johnson, he realized America's freedom calls not only for goodwill, but also strength for protection from aggression. Next year, 5,000 Americans will put to sea in this giant ship that's named John F. Kennedy. This is the third carrier since the end of the Second World War to bear the name of a man. Its only companions are named for Franklin Delano Roosevelt and James B. Forestall. Each of them understood that whatever the risk, men must defend freedom, the leaven in the bread of life that alone makes true peace possible. Each of them believed in John Kennedy's moving words, it is the fate of this generation to live with the struggle that we did not start in a world that we did not make. And while no nation has ever been faced with such a challenge, no nation has ever been so ready to seize the burden and the glory of freedom. Year 2000 and beyond, this majestic ship that we christen here today may still be sailing the oceans of the world. We pray that her years will be years of peace. But if she must fight, both the flag she flies and the name she bears will carry a profound message to friend and to foe alike. But the message is to this man who sought peace increasingly warned of conflict. Events in the lands of the birthplace of civilization more than ever signaled war. His determination for peace wrapped in a mantle of patience, he sought brief respite among family and friends in the land of Pittsburgh. For the leader of the free world, the anxious days of May drew to a close. President Johnson returned to Washington on May 31st. His attention was now to focus on an impasse in the Middle East. May ended with the world and President Lyndon B. Johnson determined to avoid new aggressions between nations. In times past it has often been our strength and our resolve which have tipped the scales of conflict against aggressors, our would-be aggressors. That role has never been an easy one. It has always required not only strength but patience. The incredible courage to wait where waiting is appropriate, to avoid disastrous results to shortcut history.


Hi, I'm Jerry Mikulski and I'd like to talk about scarcity versus abundance in our schools as an example of how we tend to think scarcely when we could be seeing abundantly instead. So picture yourself in math class. Now math class is nominally an hour but really there's 10 minutes between classes so you're trying to get to and from the class. It takes 10 minutes to quiet down, maybe 5 minutes to take a roll, 10 minutes to go over the homework and other kinds of stuff. Maybe your lesson is actually 25 minutes if you're lucky and that's when you get to study math and that's about the essence of the lesson. Now you have to take it from a credentialed teacher, that means they have to have passed certain things, they have qualifications to meet. Your kid may not like this teacher and if they don't it's pretty hard to move around. They're probably not being paid very much, they probably need to have a partner of some kind who's got a better salary so this isn't really a great career path. Then they're teaching with an approved textbook that probably costs too much that shows one particular learning style and involves a lot of politics and how it was created which means it excludes a few things. There's all kinds of battles being done just sometime ask me about the Texas School Board but we're putting these kids in one-year cohorts artificially. We're separating the sixth graders from the seventh graders from the fifth graders so there's no cross-generational influences, there's no mentoring across grades, they're not able to actually contact each other and they can use whatever resources the school has on hand as their materials and there's no budget left so that isn't very much stuff these days. So school itself separates kids from real life, they're not only separated into one-year cohorts, they're actually separated from real-life stuff that's happening outside, it's like a petri dish. Schools are also designed like penitentiaries, you can't go off school grounds without permission in many schools especially in the more dangerous areas, there are fences and barbed wire and security and all kinds of stuff. If you want to get mad about this see the war on kids and we've got this weird lottery system to get into good ones unless you have plenty of money and I mean serious plenty of money to get into a good private school but otherwise it's kind of up to lottery and if you're in a bad school, bad luck. So here's a close-up on that war on kids documentary. Outside schools the world is different, outside schools there are things like danger and liability and controversy and consequence like when you're outside school your actions have consequences and they can have a consequence on your environment, you can actually affect the place that you live in the world. So that was all about scarcity and I'll come back and highlight it. So let's look at the abundance model, this scary term unschooling. Now you're probably familiar with homeschooling, you may associate it with fundamentalist Christians who thought that regular school was too secular but it's actually more interesting than that and it actually has a lot of different aspects to it. Unschooling is a bit of a scary term, people are also calling this free-range kids or edgy punks, there's a lot of different words for it. The gentlest term of all might be informal learning where formal learning with a capital F is, you know, texts, curriculum, teacher with a capital T, schools with a capital S. If you want to read really interesting stuff on this read John Holt's book instead of Education. But informal learning and hold this thought for a second doesn't just have to be about grade school, it can be lifelong. Everything we're talking about here is really lifelong. So informal learning, homeschooling, unschooling, free-range kids, all these they're learning from any object or question. Anything that comes up is in fact material to learn from. The cup of coffee in front of you right now can be a lesson for a year or for five minutes. You can learn at any time, you don't have to wait for math class, those 25 minutes aren't when you're going to pay attention to math. You can learn from anyone, your average cash year can teach you how to make change. All different people have different levels of knowledge and that you don't need to learn from some of this way far ahead of you. In fact, often that's the worst way to learn. You can learn any place, obviously, and when you're learning, you're connected to real life and its consequences. The entire universe is your text and your school. You can work with any objects that are in that world. And by the way, you can travel. You can go places. You can actually leave home and go find out what's going on. Your actions can have consequences in the world. You can fix your neighborhood. You can teach other people how to read. You can do whatever it is you want. That's all learning. So let's compare the two models. In the school model, teachers are scarce. Money is scarce. The subject matter actually is remarkably scarce. The curriculum is scarce because there are only these approved texts. Your time is scarce because you're constantly moving between things, bouncing around like a pachinko ball. And curiosity is scarce. We're constantly talking about how kids are incurious, how we have to stimulate curiosity. Is there any wonder that curiosity is scarce in this environment? In an unschool, everybody can teach money. Money helps, but it's less necessary. Actually, subject matter is everything. Curriculum can be any place in the world. Look at the Khan Academy. Look at everything else. Your time actually becomes abundant. And guess what? Curiosity is abundant because kids are actually really interested in figuring out how things work. Just watch your child before the age of five when you send them off to school. They learn all kinds of cool stuff without lessons, right? Kind of cool. So what are the problems? In the school system, there are legions of problems. The scores are down, morale is low in every part of the system, violence is rising, kids are depressed, they're under pressure. The way we try to fix this problem is that we actually turn up the volume to 11. We increase the school year, we add homework, we add punishment, we do all kinds of stuff that don't really seem to work. No child left behind is a perfect example of what doesn't work. In unschooling, the problem seemed to be socialization of kids. What's going to happen when they're all alone? Are they going to learn to get along with their colleagues? Control. Who's in charge of the kids? Who's telling them what they need to learn? How are they actually going to learn everything they need to learn? Responsibility. How are they going to learn responsibility? What's going on here? How are we going to measure quality if they're not being graded if we don't know what they're doing? These are all red herrings, really. And I can give you plenty of materials that'll convince you that these are red herrings. Unschooled kids turn out to be really good at human interactions. They turn out to learn self-control and responsibility in a way that hardly any student in the normal school system learns. The quality of their education is excellent. And what if we treated this as a norm and then started thinking about how to make it better? What if we gave kids tools and capabilities and places and tutors and all kinds of stuff if they wanted them that would take them new and wonderful places? That's a school system I'd like. So the assumptions behind these two school systems, and there are many really wonderful people in the official school system doing their best inside a system that is congenitally flawed, that cannot teach our kids well.  I kind of made it through. But you made it through with your curiosity intact as an exception because the system is designed to beat that curiosity out of you.  They can't be let down the hall without a hall pass. That's a lesson that's coming to you. And in school, the fundamental belief that parents have is that kids are good, curious and smart. Not that they're exceptional geniuses, not that they're standouts, just that they will be interested in things and will want to go learn. So which of these worlds would you rather inhabit? Which world do you want to be in? Which world would you like your kids to grow up in? This is all part of a series called Seeing Abundantly, Thoughts about Scarcity and Abundance as we navigate the new millennium, which is a re-expedition part of the relationship economy expedition. Again, I'm Jerry Mikulski and thanks for listening.