My name is Selvakin. I am the author of Malignan Self-Love, Narcissism Revisited. Pueva Aeternus, the Eternal Adolescent. The St. Paternal Peter Pan. It is a phenomena often associated with pathological narcissism, this refusal to grow up. People who will grow up strike others as self-centered and aloof, petulant and brattish, haughty and demanding, in short as childish and infantile. The narcissist is a partial adult. He seeks to avoid adulthood. Infantilization is the discrepancy between one's advanced chronological age and one's retarded behavior, cognition and emotional development. And this is the narcissist's staple, his favorite art form. Some narcissists even use a childish tone of voice on certain occasions, or adopt a toddler's body language. But most narcissists resort to more subtle means. They reject or avoid adult chores and functions. They refrain from acquiring adult skills, such as driving, or an adult's formal education. These narcissists evade adult responsibilities towards others, including and especially towards the nearest and nearest. They hold no steady chores. They never get married. They raise no family. They cultivate no roots. They are dead-bed fathers. They maintain no real friendships or meaningful relationships. This way, they avoid entering the realm of adulthood, the adult world. Many a narcissist remains attached to his or her family of origin. By clinging to his parents, the narcissist continues to act in the role of a child. He thus avoids the need to make adult decisions and potentially painful choices. He transfers all other chores and responsibilities from laundry to babysitting, to his parents, to his siblings, to his spouse, to other relatives. Such a narcissist feels unshackled, a free spirit, ready to take on the world. In other words, omnipotent or powerful, an omniscient or knowing. Such delayed adulthood is very common in many poor and developing countries, especially those with patriarchal societies. In there, it may not necessarily be connected to narcissism. It may be a cultural thing. But in Western society, this delayed adulthood and pathological narcissism go hand in hand. Some narcissists act as surrogate caregivers to their siblings or parents. In this way, the narcissist displaces his adult into a fuzzier and less demanding territory. The social expectations from a husband and a father are clear cut, not so from a substitute, mock or results parent. By investing his efforts, resources and emotions in his family of origin, the narcissist avoids having to establish a new family of his own and face the world as an adult. By constantly giving care to his parents or disabled siblings or poor relations, this narcissist avoids going out into the world, getting married, having a family, finding a job, competing. The adulthood of such a narcissist is adulthood by proxy of a vicarious imitation of the real thing. The ultimate in dodging adulthood is finding God. God is long recognized as a father substitute. If when the narcissist commits himself to God or to some other higher cause, he allows the doctrine and the social institutions that enforce this doctrine to make decisions for him and thus relieve him of responsibility. He succumbs the narcissist to the parental power of the collective and surrenders his personal autonomy. In other words, he is a child once more. Hence the allure of faith in the lure of dogmas such as nationalism or communism, they provide substitute adulthood, replacement adulthood. The narcissist can relegate, farm out, outsource his adult chores and responsibilities to someone or something else, God, the church, the army, the nation, the police force. But why does the narcissist refuse to grow up? Why does he postpone the inevitable and regard the doubtful as a painful experience to be avoided at a great cost to personal growth and self-realization? Why this fear? Because remaining essentially a toddler caters to all his narcissistic needs and defenses and nicely tallies with a narcissist's inner psychodynamic landscape. Let me explain. Pathological narcissism is an infantile defense against abuse and trauma, usually occurring in early childhood or early adolescence. Thus, narcissism is inextricably intertwined with the abused child's or adolescent's emotional makeup, cognitive deficits and worldview. To say narcissist is to say thwarted, tortured child. It is important to remember that overwinning, smothering, spoiling, overvaluing, doting and idolizing the child, they're all forms of parental abuse. There is nothing more narcissistically gratifying than the admiration and adulation gathered by precocious child prodigies. Parents live through these children vicariously by proxy as it were. Narcissists who are the said outcomes of excessive pampering and sheltering become a dictitude. And by refusing to grow up, they try to preserve and maintain their status as a child who is entitled to further pampering, sheltering, spoiling. In a paper published in Quadrant in 1980 and titled Where Our Aeternus, The Narcissistic Relation to the Self, Jeffrey Satinover, a Jungian analyst, offers these astute observations. The individual narcissistically bound to the image or archetype of the divine child can experience satisfaction from a concrete achievement only if it matches the grandeur of his archetypal image. This achievement must have the qualities of greatness, absolute uniqueness of being the best and prodigiously precocious. This latter quality explains the enormous fascination of child prodigies and also explains why even a great success yields no permanent satisfaction from the poor. Being an adult, no accomplishment is precocious unless he stays artificially young or equates his accomplishments with those of old age. The simple truth is that children get away with narcissistic traits and behaviors while adults don't. Narcissists know that, they envy children, they hate them, they try to emulate them and thus compete with them for scarce narcissistic supply. Children are forgiven for feeling grandiose and self-important. They are even encouraged to develop such emotions as part of building up their self-esteem. Kids frequently exaggerate with impunity. Their accomplishments, their talents, their skills, their contacts, their personality traits. And that's exactly the kind of conduct that narcissists are criticized for and chastised for. So the narcissist says to himself, if I remain a child, I can indulge in these behaviors, perpetuate my misconduct and not be punished for it. As part of a normal and healthy development trajectory, young children are as obsessed as narcissists are with fantasies of unlimited success, fame, fearsome power, or omnipotence, and unequal brilliance.  Adolescents are also expected to be preoccupied with ideal, everlasting, or contrary love or passion. What is normal in the first 16 years of life is labored a pathology later on. Children are firmly convinced that they are unique and being special can only be understood by, should only be treated by or associated with other special or unique or high status people. In time, through the process of socialization, young adults learn the benefits of collaboration and acknowledge the innate value of each and every person. Narcissists never do. Their socialization process is defective. They remain fixated in this earlier stage. Preteens in teenagers require excessive admiration, adjuration, attention, and affirmation. It is a transient phase that gives place to the self-regulation of one's self-sense of inner worth. Narcissists, however, remain dependent on others for their self-esteem and self-confidence. They are fragile and fragmented and disorganized, and thus very susceptible to criticism, even if it is merely implied or imagined. Well into pubescence, children feel entitled. As toddlers, they demand automatic and full compliance with their unreasonable expectations for special, favorable priority treatment. They grow out of it as they develop empathy and respect for the boundaries, needs, and wishes of other people. Again, narcissists never mature in this sense. Children, like adult narcissists, are interpersonally exploitative. In other words, they use others to achieve their own ends. During the formative years, 0 to 6, children are devoid of empathy. They are unable to identify with, acknowledge, or accept the feelings, needs, preferences, priorities, and choices of others. And in this sense, they are narcissists. Both adult narcissists and young children are envious of others, sometimes seek to hurt or destroy the causes of their frustration. Both types of people, children and narcissists, behave arrogantly and hotly, feel superior, omnipotent, omniscient, invincible, immune, above the law, and omnipresent. This is called magical thinking. Both narcissists and children rage when frustrated, when contradicted, challenged, or confronted. The narcissist seeks to legitimize his childlike conduct and his infantile mental world by actually remaining a child, by refusing to mature and to grow up, by avoiding the hallmarks of adulthood, and by forcing others to accept him as the poor itemus, the eternal youth, a worry-free, unbounded, pit-a-pen. If I remain a child, he says, the narcissist says to himself, and if others accept me as a child, I could indulge myself in childish behaviors and be accepted and not punished, exactly as I am, unchanged forever, a Dorian grade.


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So I joined the military to get out of a small town that I was from for my whole life I was bouncing back and forth from basically dead-end jobs just to make money and I went to school for a few years realized that what I was majoring in wasn't really the path I wanted to take in life. I joined to hopefully get a career and Get something with sustenance that I could Pursue for the rest of my life. Hopefully currently I've been in for right around three years and I'm an E4 senior. The name of my job is a fusion analyst At least that was when I joined it might be called a SIGN analyst or a signals intelligence analyst and The AFSC shout-out is one in four. So one N is intel and the four is the shred which is signals I got the job by Looking through the depth job list that was listed and it was a high-priority job that they wanted to fill and I signed the contract in depth and it went from there I got the job. It was something that I wanted to do I wanted to pursue a career in intelligence from what I looked at online I enjoyed the Analytics side of it and I realized that it would take some brainpower and it wasn't just a job where you could walk into it and be successful with something you had to really learn and Constantly think every day at and that's about all I knew going in Was that this job was something that requires a certain level of thought and every day It's something new. I I really didn't want to do any other job Mostly wanted to focus on the Intel career set. As I said, I was looking to pursue a career not really Have something dead end not necessarily saying that most jobs in the Air Force are dead end, but there are some jobs that kind of put you into a Corner when you get out of the military because at some point everybody gets out of the military and I did I didn't want that I wanted something that I could take and Use on the outside this job comes with a six-year contract. I believe it's mandatory six-year contract at least when I joined it was mostly because of the longer tech school and of course the clearance requirements So you have to qualify for a top-secret clearance with this job The tech school location is at Goodfellow Air Force Base, which is northwest of San Antonio so you get on a bus and drive right into the desert and You're pretty much in a little town in the desert for a decent amount of time The average time is about six months that you're there. It's a pretty intensive course I enjoyed the tech school because as I said the tech school takes a lot of a lot of thought It's a firehose of information essentially you really have to think on a different scale and Think outside the box of what you're used to to learn this job and learn the essentials of what this job is In terms of bases we could be stationed at We are limited. It's not a job where you could go everywhere in the entire world I believe it's at 14 bases. It could be more it could be less but Overseas locations are limited So if you're looking for overseas you are limited to a couple overseas locations and it's possible the main bases are stateside so my job in a nutshell is to be a Secret level Journalists essentially there are a lot of different routes and avenues your career could take over the course of being a 1-4 But right now I'm at the spot where I get out information to the warfighter Basically getting information where it needs to be higher-scale levels. So we put out information that can possibly be read by the president we do a lot of briefings and Look into things more in-depth from an intelligence point of view It's hard to talk about this job because it is classified, but it's mostly analytic thought and Thinking outside the box. You need to be comfortable with speaking in front of people You need to be comfortable with briefing getting used to being in a controlled environment Which is a skiff. That's a secret compartmented information facility Which is a windowless building that you may spend upwards of 12 to 14 hours in you will work Many different schedules over the course of a short amount of time things change all the time in the world and we are actively participating in that so you are Almost always going to be on a different schedule You need to be flexible and either you need to realize that what you're doing has a greater purpose if I had any advice to anyone who's looking into this job or To someone new to this career field I would say that you need to constantly be flexible and adaptable and realize that What you're doing has a greater impact and if you don't know that greater impact You need to look deeper and ask your NCOs and ask your senior NCOs and don't be scared to put yourself out there to better yourself and of course better others around you because in the end what you're doing in this job is Getting information to other people So if you could articulate just like these videos do if you could articulate information properly You can think analytically then you'll be successful at this job The other thing I would mention is that no matter what you're not really going to know what this job entails until you sign That contract you go to basic and you go to the tech school because as I said this job Is classified you really need to go in with an open mind and enjoy this job because you want to do it if you're not Comfortable with that you need to look into another career field that has more defined Skill sets or defined hands-on work or something that isn't as broad and open as the Intel career field is the different Shredouts of Intel they are mostly linked, but you need to find something that Pertains to you. So if you are looking for something that requires analytic thought and Thinking outside the box and really using your brain every day this this job will be right for you and you could succeed at it


So big idea by definition is a big blank space right and we as human beings are very uncomfortable With big white spaces because it's really hard to figure out. Where do you start? Sometimes the execution can be where the team stumbles and we need to show them ways Making sure that you repeat the message over and over a new idea is looks Exciting at the beginning, but it can become so hard when you don't see the results happening So taking an idea from a state where you're just discussing it in a meeting to actually Implementing the idea takes a series of steps number one really you have to get everyone on your side when you as a leader can Create an environment where you're comfortable knowing that there's going to be failures along the way You have to course correct and that's okay. So I think there's a power in Keeping focus and knowing where you're going and keeping your people in it


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Okay, are you ready? Okay. Take three. Take three. Are you ready now? Okay, are you ready now? Yeah Welcome ad I'm disney's but I can't Welcome to my closet tour the long-awaited closet tour I have been waiting months and months to film this But I felt like I hadn't finished it and I still haven't because this light As you can see literally my art nemesis I've never hated anything as much as I've actually know number one that light number two whoever made a lie about the holiday sequel That's a they're tired. Honestly. This is getting replaced next week. So I don't know why I didn't wait a week I needed a vlog miss a lot.   You can't even see it. That's what you say Moving into my closet. I converted a bedroom in my house into a closet Obviously this closet system is from IKEA. You can go in and like you build it custom. It sounds a lot fancier than it is It's also Shockingly way cheaper than you'd think Um, and because I obviously didn't have enough storage. I also have another closet that has my like sweats pants What was that? Um, I also have another closet that has all like my sweats and stuff And then I still have this clothing rack which normally This clothing rack I have things that like I need to shoot or Things that I'm gonna wear like for my birthday party this week So I've got like four options and then it ends up just being like where I put everything because I'm too lazy to put It away and then it becomes too much. It's just like a never-ending thing Oh Whoa, well you guys found a light switch We were actually just about to ask I actually don't know why I have this hanging. I have my coach pillowed tabby bag Which actually looks really great with my outfit. Um, but I'm oh, you know what? I've changed my outfit for tonight because this is not matching anyways The old kind under a hundred dollars best bag ever great christmas gift this all person product placement It's really natural, right? Moving over. Oh my god Okay, as if this closet wasn't extra enough Why isn't it working? Oh, it's working. Okay. We have to go over here as if this closet wasn't extra enough I also turned the closet into a Um into a cowboy boot closet. I had this built very recently The bottom are not those are boots that I basically need to give back to friends and stuff, but I have all of these Cowboy boots. It's gonna be a lot more organized than it is now. I have that jeffy camo box I know I have so many I keep them for everything because every note anyone's ever written me is in there Isn't that sweet you guys? Maybe if you want an exclusive closet tour reading what's in that box We can we can ask her because there's no it's in there. No, you know what I was thinking about I think I have like accidentally I would like to burn all these like I noticed from my ex-boyfriends and stuff because I've never like gone through and like Thread it out. That's so drama, but we're like five in you know So anyways, I have all my cowboy boots here on display because um, I love I wear cowboy boots I've never seen what I was wearing them before we just came over and then I changed so Thought it could be a little more normal today moving over here. We have this makeup vanity, which oh Okay, seriously, it's about me Really? this Vanity from impressions vanities. Listen. I like I want to change these like knobs I don't think this is like the cutest thing by any means, but like their vanities are just very practical It was the smallest one I could find with storage with that being said I ordered Oh, I ordered organizers and even those don't like fit makeup So you can tell this is very unorganized right now I just want to say I got ready for the first time here and it's very practical It is very every part about this like it made me feel famous. So oh, I love that. Yeah, we always want to feel famous No, exactly. That's the goal. That's the goal. That was the goal of this closet. Yeah, actually, I'm Hannah Montana. Thank you um, this Light is obviously supposed to be here But like the stands that came with it never came and I've emailed them 14 times asking where I can buy Like the stands for it And they like are no not helping me at all. So if anyone from the impressions team sees this I'm literally begging you to let me buy new stands that never came with my my mirror because it doesn't work And I'm sorry for spamming you. I really am you can just understand now. Yeah, once you see this why I'm spamming you So let's get into the details here. I'll get the details. Okay. Um, we see was the word so My favorite candle ever marshmallow fireside dibs obviously even though I don't really use these right now I use them more in the summer. They're really good. And then obviously just dolly part. That's what I really want to This is like an Ikea cannon. Oh, I have that here. I have these are also from impressions. Like again, it's just so practical Um, most of my makeup. Well, I can do a whole other video makeup But it's not just strange out this for now. Yeah the drapes right here. They're for curtain city Well, they're from anthropology and the best thing in this closet I actually got a call the other day saying can see I love you grow up Please get rid of the curtains. Really? They're so ugly.  No, I really like those. Like I literally obsessed with them Yeah, so anyways interesting. I'm I'm gonna decide that they're not ugly. So yeah, yeah, exactly shout out to my haters So moving on. Um, oh this little thing again, not saying it's a cute async ever But it's practical from amazon this I put off buying for so long But it was like the best decision ever and it's great for the vlog. So that's what I say when I do my makeup Um, it's from amazon. Also the clothing rack is also from amazon. I think I forgot to say that We'll have everything linked. Coco is literally paid off No, like she really is oh the rug by the way is readable. It's actually not cocos for yeah No, it's not don't worry does not include the dog either. But um, okay grand reveal Okay, so this is not organized and normally it's organized, but again, it's not organized. It's crazy That's how bad I needed a vlogmas video. You guys this is just like a real influencer Yeah, it's just really I'm not covering in the mic, right? I hope not like I've been holding it like this And then you're fine. Okay. So oh, that's a bra Can't deal with with where it's bra. It's crazy. Okay. So like normally this is organized more by like oh, this is organized But like it's a little bit crazier and I've been going through it and that I just have like random stuff here I just have too much stuff and I go through it all the time. This is where a lot of my jewelry is It's not the most organized ever but like I'm one of those people who wears the same jewelry every single day So I don't even like I wish that I this is actually cute. I should wear that with this um I wish that I like went to this more, but I wear the same jewelry mainly all the time Like for a jewelry tour Yeah, I'm like a thing. I'm like really I need to like I don't need to branch out here. I have like socks underwear bras Not opening that drawer Um, I have two drawers of athletic wear and this is again normally a little more organized But it's just stuffed with stuff right now I have um more athletic wear and then all my swimsuits down here And these are just two drawers of like pr stuff So And these are not pr things. I just keep them here because I use them when I record podcasts anyways moving on to You know what? This would be good to put my puff back moving on To the next one. Oh that light. So this is oh, yeah notice the light to the nikea feature So I have all of my like matching sets up here So the rye and tuck it out a set all my juicy sets where I actually have a lot more I don't know where they went. I think I've moved them to the other closet I have so many pants down here and then randomly two sweater sets that I put down there for like literally no good reason Um, and I've gone through the pants so many times and I really only wear probably like 10 of them And I'm just for whatever reason afraid because like the second I get rid of these pants I just know I'm gonna need them No, and I can't get rid of clothes because you're like, what if I have a beach picnic Yeah on the 4th of july and I need to wear them Exactly. I'm actually pretty good about getting rid of clothes. Just not my pants You know what it is it's because I need to try them on. Yeah, and I'm not gonna do that Like the lion this one, uh never went on for some reason but up here I have a ton of sweaters and for whatever reason my knee or zeef Outfit which really I don't know why it's here. Oh because it's underneath this brown. Have you worn it yet? No, obviously this is for Paris For New Year's Eve, so we'll move this here Did you ever watch mr. Rogers growing up?  Yeah. Yeah Um, and then I have more sweaters down here and I have a bunch of vest Actually, I'm a big vest girl these days clearly Clearly where's your one from now? H them, um, that's where I get most of my best. Actually, they have really good affordable fuss Um, okay moving over here. I have a lot of outerwear my outerwear collection Is what I care the most about my life. Do you think you don't want vanilla? This is well, here's a thing.  I used to have it more organized It's like color cream black but No, and then I had to like I didn't have room for my scarf. Yeah, that's what happened there This is like a ton of outerwear that I have And like this is my favorite. These are like my two favorite coats ever. They're both from H&M outerwear. H&M is unreal Um, and I wear these all the time. So down here. I have Boots and stuff. I normally have like this one. Look at this. It like comes out. You used to have cowboy boots here I just moved them. Is that cool? Um, and then I just have more shoes here. There's really no ramps because it doesn't even make sense I'll do close-ups later. Moving on This is a very cool area as well So these again are really really not organized because I've been moving shoes Between this cause and the other cause it because I don't know What makes sense where but like again needs to pull out. I never really pulled them out That would be honest with you and I don't know why these are freezing this way These are supposed to like my most worn shoes and these are like my least worn shoes I actually don't even know if I've worn them those type of shoes And I was like I have to buy them for months was like, oh, we're the whole time the product the dunks Oh, and I barely wear them I really don't even get enough wear on these because honestly I'm just an ugg girl. I wear uggs every single day. Uggs are cowboy boots. So it's what I've learned. I dig it by layflats I love some adamant shoes actually me too. Those are like my favorite shoes ever Have I obviously have oh, I don't know why that's there not really genuinely. I didn't mean for that Yeah, this room in that one. I was like this I'll zoom in. Um, I've got some cowboy boots and then I have these I just keep like merged stuff in So I always have it there and then down here. I don't even think I have oh, oh some words Ugg slippers. Good to know. Okay. Well back here That is it. Oh, it goes all the way up and there's more heels and stuff. I just it's hard to I don't I have too many shoes More cowboy hats up there. That's a cowboy hat that I got in Fort Worth, Macy Ah cute. They did the fire and everything and it's custom Okay, well, I hope you guys enjoyed this Closet tour if you guys want more like fashion related videos or like collection videos Let me know. I will honestly hate filming them, but I'll do them for you Especially outerwear Athletic wear year of r skims all that stuff and cowboy boots, whatever Let me know but I love you guys so much and I will see you guys in the next video. Bye


What's the word y'all welcome back to Kenny for real today. We're talking about the conference finals I think this is the first time I've actually done a video on the conference finals But here it is. I've been having so so much fun here on Kenny for real I've made it a priority to try to upload as much as is possible Because though the main channel is amazing. I love doing what I do over there talking basketball It's like my passion So I don't know why it took me so long to really transition this channel into that But you guys have been showing a lot of love yesterday Uploaded the video of me reacting to the Billy Donovan news is a bulls fan and that was fun So if you if you miss any of the videos a lot of them are still relevant Like the NBA has been happening so fast in this bubble that sometimes topics like this like this topic today May not be relevant two days from now because we got the next game in the series You know I'm saying so I do want to talk about Lakers Nuggets Because game three was incredible. It had the It looked like it wasn't gonna be and then the Lakers put together that run and it ultimately We saw Jamal Murray just be Amazing to like Jamal Murray had three plays where he had a three-pointer He had the dip down the dust down to to Paul Millsap who was hiding in a dunker spot And then he had the three over Alice Caruso three amazingly clutch clutch clutch plays to secure his win for them because the tables were turning man you know I'm saying the Lakers were looking like the comeback kids and not the other way around and one of the main things I want to talk about in today's video is kind of like I don't watch the talking heads on the ESPNs or the Fox sports or all of these other platforms that do You know sports talk because at the end of the day I see them It's like people that are concerned about the ratings above all and then there you know There's a little disconnect there because I can understand why the ratings are the ratings are significant I mean your show doesn't continue unless people are watching it So you see some of those people may have opinions that aren't really their opinions But they say it because they get people talking and it works because even though I don't watch the shows I'm gonna talk about some of the shows in this moment right here. You know I'm saying and if I was on TV Ratings will be a priority, but not to that extent ladies and gentlemen. I'm not saying crazy stuff just for the sake of ratings It's just not who I am. I mean we're getting a hundred thousand views per video here Me just being myself and not having to say anything outlandish. So you know I'm saying so when the Clippers blew that 3-1 lead to the nuggets I saw a lot of the talking heads on Twitter or what like if it's gonna be a 30-second clip on Twitter of their show I'm gonna click it. I'm not gonna watch the whole show, but I'll click the 30 seconds and I'm not saying names, but I saw a few people basically saying congratulations to LeBron for securing your championship cake walk Clippers let us down no competition type thing like the Lakers are going to just sweep sweep sweep to covers finals sweep the finals nothing really matters and Then I also see people on Twitter with that same opinion and I don't know if people on Twitter are getting their opinion from those shows or whatever But it's just not true The nuggets are real like I like what do the what do the nuggets have to do to be considered real in your eyes You win the series and then we can start talking about them being real after game one versus the Utah Jazz On the Ramble if you remember to ramble one of the things I said about them I had a whole like 10 minute segment about the nuggets and one of the thing I said was like Other than like the box, which is wrong other than the box the Lakers and the Clippers if there was a team that was like fourth in my eyes But if I would have money if I was a better man I would put it on the nuggets and I laid it all out. They're like, hey, they have the best center of basketball I can say that confidently at this point the best center and basketball They have an emerging superstar in Jamal Murray who's making that contract They gave him look like a good contract because I remember when he was given out I was one of the people like yo Jamal Murray ain't even ain't even showed us that much He has glimpses. He has shown glimpses, but he hasn't been able to do it consistently now He's doing it consistently so that contract looks cool. So they have a superstar. Yo kids I know he doesn't look the traditional fit the traditional superstar, but it is what it is He is a superstar in an extremely good playoff player and Jamal Murray who's an emerging superstar And I don't know how things look for him next year or the year after that If you ever get an all-star appearance, but as he do if he's playing the way he's playing right now He is an emerging superstar and then the role players fit well. They play well We haven't seen a lot of great Jeremy Grant offense in this series until game three But defensively he's always gonna be that guy Michael Porter, Jr. Is a guy that could occasionally go out there I mean, this is really his first NBA season. Sometimes he can be like the X factor They have all the things to be considered a very good team and they're coached very very well So I don't understand the notion that LeBron and the Lakers have this cakewalk again Of course, the Lakers are still the favorite, but there's no way people that are watching That watched any of the last couple series can just say that this is a cakewalk And I know LeBron and the rest of the team don't see it is that because they've watched it LeBron to keep referring to them as the comeback kids because he's aware of what they can do when they're back against the wall You know I'm saying so I don't really understand the notion that this is a cakewalk for LeBron again I would I'm still picking them to win this series, but if the nuggets ended up winning I don't think it's that much of a of an upset because we just saw what they did for the past couple rounds We know that what they're capable of They didn't just come back on the 3-1 against a normal team They came back on the 3-1 against the team that a lot of the people consider the heavy favorite to win it all So it's not it's not this cakewalk, but other than that And do you want to talk about some of the things I've seen from this series? And some of the things I think are interesting Like I mentioned Yoko is his best center of basketball Some of the shots that he is hitting and attempting is ridiculous Other than that one very very late last game where he just kind of threw it up and hit the opposite side of the backboard There was a wild one But Jamal Murray had three straight possessions to close out this game You're like bro He stopped the bleeding because the Lakers were there and that veterans ship that that the vets the vets the rondos Of the team were coming out and bringing them back, but he had the The three the first three Then he finds paul milsap sitting in the dunker spot The Lakers were running his zone and completely forgot about the dunker smite and paul milsap being the veteran that he is Veteran savvy player because that's ever that's they say that every time paul milsap does anything The veteran savvy player finds the dunker spot jamal murray No luck to him dunk and then the three on alice caruso to To completely get it done And I think yoko's in his post games like I don't care what anybody says He's a superstar and I'm not going to say he is a superstar But the way he has been playing in the past last round You got to give it to the clippers. They kind of neutralized him to some extent You got to think about they were throwing paul george. They were throwing kawai They were throwing pat bev. They were throwing every perimeter defender they had of him. So he struggled to some extent I mean, he still had a couple big games But um, the Lakers don't really have that level of perimeter play. So perimeter defense. So Jamal murray can do what he does And the Lakers again, they had this run Well, I was like, let's let's go because at this point before the run it was born It wasn't it wasn't a very good game. I mean the nuggets were looking amazing and the Lakers looked like they didn't want to play You know, I'm saying if you're a nuggets fan, that's a recipe for a great game But it just is a casual not a casual but like a neutral fan It wasn't looking very good until the Lakers put together this run But one thing that really bothered me throughout the entirety of this game And I want to take a look at some stats here to see if okay So anthony davis finished with two rebounds this game And I promise you he had zero until like the last minute or two in a game That is literally unacceptable from our all NBA first team center Because that's that's what he was this season playing 42 minutes There's no world where he should end up with two rebounds Kind of kind of makes you want to go through like his game log of this entire season Like there has to be like one of the lowest rebounded games of the of his career It's just because he's always been a double double guy I mean this season he'd technically average a double double because he's playing with lebron and lebron's going to get his rebounds Two but he's always been a guy that's going to get eight nine rebounds a game and going through this game log wise He had one game this season where he had one rebound that was against the the atlanta hawks or they won by 20 But other than that, he's he's never put up these type of numbers ever Like ever On the rebounded tip and not even just that jevel McGee didn't play that many minutes But he ended up with one rebound and the white howard Ended up with one rebound And while i'm talking about the white howard, uh, if y'all don't know these are all unscripted I don't have like a key bullet points. I'm kind of just talking off the dome Game one the white howard looked amazing. He was a energy guy It looked like he was kind of getting under yokich's skin He was in the the huddles of the nuggets just trying to be a pest and he was doing that very well But yokich and the different nuggets have adjusted and in the last two games He hasn't done anything but foul literally. He hasn't done anything but foul in his minutes He went from a guy from game one. I was like, oh snap the white might legit be a x-factor going against a guy Like yokich he might be an x-factor than after that yokich is like he's not even there. He does nothing but foul Right, he does nothing but foul and one of the reasons why jevel McGee hasn't really got that many minutes And I guess last series because of the small ball and in this series is because He would be guarding the focal point of the offense and though jevel McGee is a solid defender He's not guard the focal point of the offense good defender and a playoff game type player You know I'm saying but the four fouls from the white this game I don't know how many he had last game But it just seems like the only thing he does other than game one is to kind of clapping people's face and foul And I want to take a look at the numbers here Yeah, the eye test does not serve me wrong the nuggets destroyed the lakers on the glass I mean that's that is crazy to think about because they may simply did not get minutes this game I mean he may have got a couple but like he didn't play significant minutes.  There's no reason for them to lose the rebounded tip 44 to 25 Absolutely dominated on that and one thing I can say about the Denver nuggets and we've seen this they're resilient And they are a reactionary team It seems like we're like yeah, it may take them three games before they realize what they have to do to win a series But they are good enough to read and react and adjust accordingly And I feel like maybe that's what they've done in game three Again, I'm still picking the lakers to win this series, but I don't think this is a kick walk series um LeBron And sometimes I try to figure out if I expect too much of LeBron to me He is the best player in basketball still at the age of 77 years old or have or oh, he is he is still the best player in basketball Um, but there are moments where like I would love for him to assert himself as the best player in basketball And during this run, he was like a good He was playmaking But I wanted him to snap it from playmaker bronze who's scoring LeBron because he can do that But at the end of the day, he was probably pretty pretty gassed You know LeBron is always going to be a guy that's going to make the right basketball play and pass it to Cal Kuzma in that situation Was the right basketball play, but sometimes as a fan you would like to see him Take over the game and more than this playmaking. I hope I'm making sense here because like When it comes to the right basketball play throwing it to Cal Kuzma in that situation was the right play And if Cal Kuzma hit the shot, we'd be praising LeBron for making the play But the fact that Cal Kuzma didn't hit the shot Makes me want to say like hey, let's drive to the paint a little bit more You know what I'm saying? Somebody said am I recording? That's that's very very weak. How can he tell that? You see that? I don't how does he know that I'm not live on twitter right now. How would he know if I'm I'm recording? I'm so confused on that. All right Well, that's that's spooky Bulls and six 2023 he might legit be for the future And if that's the case that sounds great to me bulls and six w's um What do I expect from game four? I would expect LeBron to come out. You remember that one game he dropped like 20 points in the first half I want to I think LeBron's gonna come out like okay I need to go up three one and I know three one has been a bad place to be if you're going against the different nuggets But I was looking for the stat and I was listening to maybe it was a close podcast and they were trying to figure out What is LeBron's record in a series when he's up 2o? How has LeBron ever blown a 2o series lead? And the consensus they came to without doing any research is no So I don't I don't expect it to happen now Um, but I'm glad that the nuggets put together this game because if they went down 3o obviously it was over But I didn't expect them to go down 3o honestly. I did it All right. Let me know what you think about the series so far. Hopefully game What are we looking for game four of the other conference finals does well tonight? And there's something to talk about because I don't think I've actually even talked about that series on this channel either So maybe you expect another video from me later tonight after that game. I really don't know really don't know But thank you so much for watching like subscribe if you are new i'm out


Live from Las Vegas, it's theCUBE, covering Dell EMC World 2017. Brought to you by Dell EMC. Welcome back to Las Vegas, theCUBE's coverage of Dell EMC World. I'm your host, Rebecca Knight, along with my co-host Keith Townsend. We're joined by Rodney Rogers. He's the CEO of Virtus.Dream. Thanks so much for joining us, Rodney. Oh, awesome to be here. Always is. Cube veteran, a cube guy. Look, you're veteran. Exactly.  All right. You know, March Madness? Yeah. Or the Cube Madness. The Cube Madness, that was awesome. I think I might have made it to the Elite 8. I know it was top. Who knocked you out? Sweet 16. Who knocked you out? I can't say that, man. So it still hurts too much. Oh, sorry. Okay, I didn't mean to bring it up. I know. We didn't mean to bring it up. But before the cameras are rolling, you were talking about how you accomplished the improbable by running these mission critical apps in the cloud. It was a mission impossible and you, to run mission critical. Right. How did you do it? So, you know, when we started Virtustream in early 2009, we, AWS's EC2 was just coming into mainstream IT awareness, I would say. We took a look at what they did. You know, they kind of made a market for creating ubiquitous access to developers to develop cloud native apps to run distributed scale out type of applications. We were venture backed. We were startup. Start from scratch. And, you know, when you're an entrepreneur, you kind of need to build what you know and sell it to whom you know. We were enterprise application guys. So we said, we'd love to take this, you know, kind of unique innovation and apply it to the types of application landscapes that we've grown up knowing and managing and implementing and things of that nature. And so we specifically purpose built software to run a cloud infrastructure as a service that focused on solving the engineering problem of IO intensive scale up applications. And you know, what you have with those types of applications is IO centricity as opposed to compute or distributed points of failure, distributed points of computing challenges that the general purpose public clouds are very well suited for. And so we, you know, kind of invented this software. We kind of melt the cloud into its molecular components so we can control the individual attributes. And it allows us to run public cloud economics because we're not bound by instance sizes, things of that nature. But it allows us to control throughput in a more acute manner to service the application environment. And that makes us the only guys that provide actually an application latency SLA for the apps that run on our cloud.  So yeah, we were kind of viewed a bit like we were crazy back then, you know? And we stayed very determined. You know, we were probably the least cool guys in the cloud. Nobody cared what we were doing five years ago. Now as you read in the press, everybody's pivoting towards enterprise. That's where the big adoption cycle is. And we are so confident in our IP and our kind of first mover position for this type of marketplace. We have an architecture that's purpose-built, software that's purpose-built, particularly for these types of apps. So we're quite excited about where it is today. Rodney, I want to get back to that, talking about how you were the least cool guys. But one of your claims to fame is that you helped realize two back-to-back unicorns. These are startups that start from scratch that are then valued at over a billion dollars. What is your secret sauce? How are you able to see so far ahead? You know, I think kind of, it sounds very basic, but one of the things you see in the venture-backed technology community a lot is product-centric initiatives. So building products for the sake of the product, we really focused on where the market demand was, right? So we saw emerging space in cloud automation. We didn't see that automation servicing what large enterprises spend 60 to 70% of their IT budgets on. So we were just like, you know, the big legacy OEM guys that have dedicated hosting, we're kind of more servicing that.  That'll be venture capital suicide. Let's go prosecute this opportunity and bring this automation and compete more with the guys who can't compete with us, you know? And so I think we were, you know, back in, you know, four or five years ago, there's been a lot of religious wars around cloud. It was public versus private. There's API standards that you can adopt at AWS. You know, there's open stack build around things of that nature. And we were, there were many cloud purists. You know, they said, if you can't re-architect, rebuild your app to run on the cloud, then, then, you know, don't run it in the cloud. Hunt, you know, rebuild, re-architect the app. Are you talking about an SAP system and a Fortune 50 company? They've literally spent hundreds of millions of dollars, not billions of dollars. That's not going to get rewritten, at least not in my business lifetime, right? It probably will eventually, and it'll morph into various SaaS models. But there's a core part of the application estate, running any business, especially large enterprises, very well suited for what we did.  You know, my co-founder, Kevin Rina, we're kind of the antithesis of the Silicon Valley hipster, right? We were like East Coast middle-aged guys, right? They focused on enterprise. Like, it couldn't have been less interesting, I think. But we saw a prosecutable opportunity. We brought on some really smart people that wrote softwares. All of it, you know, listen to cloud infrastructure as a service. You think compute storage network. It's not really about that. It's about the software that controls it, runs it, drives your feature sets. So, we furiously wrote code.  You know, you'd go onto Twitter and read 2010, 11, 12. You know, we had no chance of competing with the scale guys. But we did. We created a software reason to exist. We got those economics. We were on a much more utilized hardware estate than anybody in the industry. Much higher memory page utilization. So, we used that compete to compete with a procurement scale. But we found a prosecutable market where we were patient. And we never pivoted, right? You know, in a lot of the Silicon Valley language, pivots are, I think, an over-aggrandized word, you know? When you pivot, you generally made a mistake, you know? And we never pivoted. Let's talk about that focus. You guys were laser focused on SAP. You say it's not sexy. I have SAP rules, so I don't, I don't. He's a geek. Yeah, I'm a geek. Yeah, he's a geek. I like to argue against that. He's a lot of people. I think you're saying that. So, you guys did some amazing things with automating deployment of SAP. I will call you a COE, Cloud of Excellence for SAP. So, talk about the maturity of moving from focused on SAP to what we hear today about virtual streaming being for enterprise applications, not just SAP. Where's the secret sauce or the new advantages that customers can realize? So, we started with SAP because, again, building what we knew with my co-founders and I, they grown up around that ecosystem. So, they knew the application very well. Sort of two levels to our IP. One is the infrastructure automation. And that's actually agnostic to the app. We run thousands of apps. In an SAP, when you go run an SAP environment, the cloud may be 50, 60% of workloads are actually SAP. The rest are all the workloads for the supporting apps that satellite around and interface. The interface management gets quite tricky, things of that nature. Ultimately, the second layer of automation is application control automation that we built. That is very application specific. So, there's a part of our core capability that can run any app. And we do very well with those apps that have that IO centric challenge. That is just a different engineering problem. High IO apps place great degrees of memory burden on the underlying of infrastructure versus compute burden for scale out apps, generally. What we've now done is we kind of built the foundation of the business along a horizontal line. We're kind of associated with SAP because of our heritage and then for the application control that we've built. We've now expanded that to a number of different applications. And today, or this week at Dell EMC World, we announced a healthcare vertical. We've gotten big into the federal and public sector. So we wanted to build a foundation using a horizontal technology. And now, to really scale this, we're going to develop very specific vertical solutions. That's great. Well, Rodney, thanks so much. We're going to see you tomorrow night at the Gwen Stefani concert. You'll be dancing in the sky. Absolutely, absolutely. I wouldn't miss it. We're both seeing, what was that, Hollaback girl. Hollaback girl. Yeah. We'll do a, we'll be on the table. We'll be on the table. Awesome, awesome. Great. Rodney, thanks so much for joining us. Pleasure to be here. It was great to have you on the show. Awesome, thank you guys. Good night. Back a night for Keith Townsend. We will have more from Dell EMCworld. 2017 after this.