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Corey Craig is the breakout men's player of the fall! After two successful seasons at Boston University, the former Patriot League Player of the Year transferred to FSU for his junior season. After transferring, he made the QFs of All-Americans and NCAAs. Corey joins the show to discuss his:Motivation to transfer and DMs from coachesHow he built up his confidence going into the seasonPressure of playing in NCAAs and becoming an All-AmericanHis goals for the spring and pro tennisFollow us on Twitter @JTweetsTennis and Instagram @NoAdNoProblem. Don't forget to rate and subscribe so you never miss an episode!

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DJ Corey Craig joins Minoritea Report to close out the intersection of Pride and Black Music Month! Beyoncé drops her new song “Break My Soul” and breaks the internet and proved Yo AunTeas right about her doing House Music (check out episode 171 for proof). Who gets to dictate what “House” is and isn't? Shout out to Big Freedia! Will there still be a lane for Lizzo, Chloe, and Normani? That's what's brewing today. So, Get Your Cups Ready For Minoritea Report!   Follow Us-   MERCH: MinoriteaReport.com   Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo_xKK1VRhPrVMQxm1SzTCg   Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/minoriteareport/   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MinoriTeaReport/   Twitter: https://twitter.com/MTeaReport   Email Us- AYA@minoriTeaReport.com   Spotify Playlist- https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0rVJtKJmesMkCgVKmJwc46?si=1455491d0a4049b5 Time Stamps: 0:00- DJ Corey Craig 43:18- Beyonce 55:22- Drake 1:02:28- What Is house? 1:10:20- Big Freedia 1:16:42- Lizzo, Chloe, Normani 1:24:44- Kaftko Connection  

Thanks for listening! This week, actor, director, two-time TEDx speaker, and comedy coach Corey Martin Craig joins me to discuss his journey. We talk about the correlation between drive and time management, confidence and stand up comedy, as well as the power in embracing who you are as an individual. As always we concluded with the eternal question, “Are You Okay?” But, spoiler alert… we weren't. xo, Pamela LISTEN/SUBSCRIBE TO THIS PODCAST Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/no-ones-okay/id1495487224 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/71zwoGcKEgZ8FvMVcwPawh?si=85kZIupGTICYMvarnmw0ag Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/show/no-ones-okay NO ONE'S OKAY SCHEDULE New Episodes every Tuesday BASED ON SCHEDULE New Episodes every other Monday CONNECT WITH US Website- http://www.noonesokay.com SOCIAL MEDIA Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/noonesokay @PamelaPortnoy COREY MARTIN CRAIG https://www.instagram.com/coreymartincraig/?hl=en COOL BEANS COMEDY https://www.coolbeanscomedy.com/ #NoOnesOkayPodcast #PamelaPortnoy #CoreyMartinCraig

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About CraigCraig McLuckie is a VP of R&D at VMware in the Modern Applications Business Unit.  He joined VMware through the Heptio acquisition where he was CEO and co-founder. Heptio was a startup that supported the enterprise adoption of open source technologies like Kubernetes.  He previously worked at Google where he co-founded the Kubernetes project, was responsible for the formation of CNCF, and was the original product lead for Google Compute Engine.Links: VMware: https://www.vmware.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/cmcluck LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/craigmcluckie/ TranscriptAnnouncer: Hello, and welcome to Screaming in the Cloud with your host, Chief Cloud Economist at the Duckbill Group, Corey Quinn. This weekly show features conversations with people doing interesting work in the world of cloud, thoughtful commentary on the state of the technical world, and ridiculous titles for which Corey refuses to apologize. This is Screaming in the Cloud.Corey: This episode is sponsored in part my Cribl Logstream. Cirbl Logstream is an observability pipeline that lets you collect, reduce, transform, and route machine data from anywhere, to anywhere. Simple right? As a nice bonus it not only helps you improve visibility into what the hell is going on, but also helps you save money almost by accident. Kind of like not putting a whole bunch of vowels and other letters that would be easier to spell in a company name. To learn more visit: cribl.ioCorey: This episode is sponsored in part by Thinkst. This is going to take a minute to explain, so bear with me. I linked against an early version of their tool, canarytokens.org in the very early days of my newsletter, and what it does is relatively simple and straightforward. It winds up embedding credentials, files, that sort of thing in various parts of your environment, wherever you want to; it gives you fake AWS API credentials, for example. And the only thing that these things do is alert you whenever someone attempts to use those things. It's an awesome approach. I've used something similar for years. Check them out. But wait, there's more. They also have an enterprise option that you should be very much aware of canary.tools. You can take a look at this, but what it does is it provides an enterprise approach to drive these things throughout your entire environment. You can get a physical device that hangs out on your network and impersonates whatever you want to. When it gets Nmap scanned, or someone attempts to log into it, or access files on it, you get instant alerts. It's awesome. If you don't do something like this, you're likely to find out that you've gotten breached, the hard way. Take a look at this. It's one of those few things that I look at and say, “Wow, that is an amazing idea. I love it.” That's canarytokens.org and canary.tools. The first one is free. The second one is enterprise-y. Take a look. I'm a big fan of this. More from them in the coming weeks.Corey: Welcome to Screaming in the Cloud. I'm Corey Quinn. My guest today is Craig McLuckie, who's a VP of R&D at VMware, specifically in their modern applications business unit. Craig, thanks for joining me. VP of R&D sounds almost like it's what's sponsoring a Sesame Street episode. What do you do exactly?Craig: Hey, Corey, it's great to be on with you. So, I'm obviously working within the VMware company, and my charter is really looking at modern applications. So, the modern application platform business unit is really grounded in the work that we're doing to make technologies like Kubernetes and containers, and a lot of developer-centric technologies like Spring, more accessible to developers to make sure that as developers are using those technologies, they shine through on the VMware infrastructure technologies that we are working on.Corey: Before we get into, I guess, the depths of what you're focusing on these days, let's look a little bit backwards into the past. Once upon a time, in the dawn of the modern cloud era—I guess we'll call it—you were the original product lead for Google Compute Engine or GCE. How did you get there? That seems like a very strange thing to be—something that, “Well, what am I going to build? Well, that's right; basically a VM service for a giant company that is just starting down the cloud path,” back when that was not an obvious thing for a company to do.Craig: Yeah, I mean, it was as much luck and serendipity as anything else, if I'm going to be completely honest. I spent a lot of time working at Microsoft, building enterprise technology, and one of the things I was extremely excited about was, obviously, the emergence of cloud. I saw this as being a fascinating disrupter. And I was also highly motivated at a personal level to just make IT simpler and more accessible. I spent a fair amount of time building systems within Microsoft, and then even a very small amount of time running systems within a hedge fund.So, I got, kind of, both of those perspectives. And I just saw this cloud thing as being an extraordinarily exciting way to drive out the cost of operations, to enable organizations to just focus on what really mattered to them which was getting those production systems deployed, getting them updated and maintained, and just having to worry a little bit less about infrastructure. And so when that opportunity arose, I jumped with both feet. Google obviously had a reputation as a company that was born in the cloud, it had a reputation of being extraordinarily strong from a technical perspective, so having a chance to bridge the gap between enterprise technology and that cloud was very exciting to me.Corey: This was back in an era when, in my own technical evolution, I was basically tired of working with Puppet as much as I had been, and I was one of the very early developers behind SaltStack, once upon a time—which since then you folks have purchased, which shows that someone didn't do their due diligence because something like 41 lines of code in the current release version is still assigned to me as per git-blame. So, you know, nothing is perfect. And right around then, then I started hearing about this thing that was at one point leveraging SaltStack, kind of, called Kubernetes, which, “I can't even pronounce that, so I'm just going to ignore it. Surely, this is never going to be something that I'm going to have to hear about once this fad passes.” It turns out that the world moved on a little bit differently.And you were also one of the co-founders of the Kubernetes project, which means that it seems like we have been passing each other in weird ways for the past decade or so. So, you're working on GCE, and then one day you want to, what, sitting up and deciding, “I know, we're going to build a container orchestration system because I want to have something that's going to take me 20 minutes to explain to someone who's never heard of these concepts before.” How did this come to be?Craig: It's really interesting, and a lot of it was driven by necessity, driven by a view that to make a technology like Google Compute Engine successful, we needed to go a little bit further. When you look at a technology like Google Compute Engine, we'd built something that was fabulous and Google's infrastructure is world-class, but there's so much more to building a successful cloud business than just having a great infrastructure technology. There's obviously everything that goes with that in terms of being able to meet enterprises where they are and all the—Corey: Oh, yeah. And everything at Google is designed for Google scale. It's, “We built this thing and we can use it to stand up something that is world-scale and get 10 million customers on the first day that it launches.” And, “That's great. I'm trying to get a Hello World page up and maybe, if I shoot for the moon, it can also run WordPress.” There's a very different scale of problem.Craig: It's just a very different thing. When you look at what an organization needs to use a technology, it's nice that you can take that, sort of, science-fiction data center and carve it up into smaller pieces and offer it as a virtual machine to someone. But you also need to look at the ISV ecosystem, the people that are building the software, making sure that it's qualified. You need to make sure that you have the ability to engage with the enterprise customer and support them through a variety of different functions. And so, as we were looking at what it would take to really succeed, it became clear that we needed a little more; we needed to, kind of, go a little bit further.And around that time, Docker was really coming into its full. You know, Docker solved some of the problems that organizations had always struggled with. Virtual machine is great, but it's difficult to think about. And inside Google, containers we're a thing.Corey: Oh, containers have a long and storied history in different areas. From my perspective, Docker solves the problem of, “Well, it works on my machine,” because before something like Docker, the only answer was, “Well, backup your email because your laptop's about to be in production.”Craig: [laugh]. Yeah, that's exactly right. You know, I think when I look at what Docker did, and it was this moment of clarity because a lot of us had been talking about this and thinking about it. I remember turning to Joe while we were building Compute Engine and basically said, “Whoever solves the packaging the way that Google did internally, and makes that accessible to the world is ultimately going to walk away with a game.” And I think Docker put lightning in a bottle.They really just focused on making some of these technologies that underpinned the hyperscalers, that underpinned the way that, like, a Google, or a Facebook, or a Twitter tended to operate, just accessible to developers. And they solved one very specific thing which was that packaging problem. You could take a piece of software and you could now package it up and deploy it as an immutable thing. So, in some ways, back to your own origins with SaltStack and some of the technologies you've worked on, it really was an epoch of DevOps; let's give developers tools so that they can code something up that renders a production system. And now with Docker, you're able to shift that all left. So, what you produced was the actual deployable artifact, but that obviously wasn't enough by itself.Corey: No, there needed to be something else. And according to your biography, not only it says here that, I quote, “You were responsible for the formation of the CNCF, or Cloud Native Computing Foundation,” and I'm trying to understand is that something that you're taking credit for or being blamed for? It really seems like it could go either way, given the very careful wording there.Craig: [laugh]. Yeah, it could go either way. It certainly got away from us a little bit in terms of just the scope and scale of what was going on. But the whole thesis behind Kubernetes, if you just step back a little bit, was we didn't need to own it; Google didn't need to own it. We just needed to move the innovation boundary forwards into an area that we had some very strong advantages.And if you look at the way that Google runs, it kind of felt like when people were working with Docker, and you had technologies like Mesos and all these other things, they were trying to put together a puzzle, and we already had the puzzle box in front of us because we saw how that technology worked. So, we didn't need to control it, we just needed people to embrace it, and we were confident that we could run it better. But for people to embrace it, it couldn't be seen as just a Google thing. It had to be a Google thing, and a Red Hat thing, and an Amazon thing, and a Microsoft thing, and something that was really owned by the community. So, the inspiration behind CNCF was to really put the technology forwards to build a collaborative community around it and to enable and foster this disruption.Corey: At some point after Kubernetes was established, and it was no longer an internal Google project but something that was handed over to a foundation, something new started to become fairly clear in the larger ecosystem. And it's sort of a microcosm of my observation that the things that startups are doing today are what enterprises are going to be doing five years from now. Every enterprise likes to imagine itself a startup; the inverse is not particularly commonly heard. You left Google to go found Heptio, where you were focusing on enterprise adoption of open-source technologies, specifically Kubernetes, but it also felt like it was more of a cultural shift in many respects, which is odd because there aren't that many startups, at least in that era, that were focused on bringing startup technologies to the enterprise, and sneaking in—or at least that's how it felt—the idea of culture change as well.Craig: You know, it's really interesting. Every enterprise has to innovate, and people tend to look at startups as being a source of innovation or a source of incubation. What we were trying to do with Heptio was to go the other way a little bit, which was, when you look at what West Coast tech companies were doing, and you look at a technology like Kubernetes—or any new technology: Kubernetes, or KNative, or there's some of these new observability capabilities that are starting to emerge in this ecosystem—there's this sort of trickle-across effect, where it's starts with the West Coast tech companies that build something, and then it trickles across to a lot of the progressive forward-leaning enterprise organizations that have the scale to consume those technologies. And then over time, it becomes mainstream. And when I looked at a technology like Kubernetes, and certainly through the lens of a company like Google, there was an opportunity to step back a little bit and think about, well, Google's really this West Coast tech company, and it's producing this technology, and it's working to make that more enterprise-centric, but how about going the other way?How about meeting enterprise organizations where they are—enterprise organizations that aspire to adopt some of these practices—and build a startup that's really about just walking the journey with customers, advocating for their needs, through the lens of these open-source communities, making these open-source technologies more accessible. And that was really the thesis around what we were doing with Heptio. And we worked very hard to do exactly as you said which is, it's not just about the tech, it's about how you use it, it's about how you operate it, how you set yourself up to manage it. And that was really the core thesis around what we were pursuing there. And it worked out quite well.Corey: Sitting here in 2021, if I were going to build something from scratch, I would almost certainly not use Kubernetes to do it. I'd probably pick a bunch of serverless primitives and go from there, but what I respect and admire about the Kubernetes approach is companies can't generally do that with existing workloads; you have to meet them where they are, as you said. ‘Legacy' is a condescending engineering phrase for ‘it makes money.' It's, “Oh, what does that piece of crap do?” “Oh, about $4 billion a year.” So yeah, we're going to be a little delicate with what it does.Craig: I love that observation. I always prefer the word ‘heritage' over the word legacy. You got to—Corey: Yeah.Craig: —have a little respect. This is the stuff that's running the world. This is the stuff that every transaction is flowing through.And it's funny, when you start looking at it, often you follow the train along and eventually you'll find a mainframe somewhere, right? It is definitely something that we need to be a little bit more thoughtful about.Corey: Right. And as cloud continues to eat the world well, as of the time of this recording, there is no AWS/400, so there is no direct mainframe option in most cloud providers, so there has to be a migration path; there has to be a path forward, that doesn't include, “Oh, and by the way, take 18 months to rewrite everything that you've built.” And containers, particularly with an orchestration model, solve that problem in a way that serverless primitives, frankly, don't.Craig: I agree with you. And it's really interesting to me as I work with enterprise organizations. I look at that modernization path as a journey. Cloud isn't just a destination: there's a lot of different permutations and steps that need to be taken. And every one of those has a return on investment.If you're an enterprise organization, you don't modernize for modernization's sake, you don't embrace cloud for cloud's sake. You have a specific outcome in mind, “Hey, I want to drive down this cost,” or, “Hey, I want to accelerate my innovation here,” “Hey, I want to be able to set my teams up to scale better this way.” And so a lot of these technologies, whether it's Kubernetes, or even serverless is becoming increasingly important, is a capability that enables a business outcome at the end of the day. And when I think about something like Kubernetes, it really has, in a way, emerged as a Goldilocks abstraction. It's low enough level that you can run pretty much anything, it's high enough level that it hides away the specifics of the environment that you want to deploy it into. And ultimately, it renders up what I think is economies of scope for an organization. I don't know if that makes sense. Like, you have these economies of scale and economies of scope.Corey: Given how down I am on Kubernetes across the board and—at least, as it's presented—and don't take that personally; I'm down on most modern technologies. I'm the person that said the cloud was a passing fad, that virtualization was only going to see limited uptake, that containers were never going to eat the world. And I finally decided to skip ahead of the Kubernetes thing for a minute and now I'm actually going to be positive about serverless. Given how wrong I am on these things, that almost certainly dooms it. But great, I was down on Kubernetes for a long time because I kept seeing these enterprises and other companies talking about their Kubernetes strategy.It always felt like Kubernetes was a means to an end, not an end in and of itself. And I want to be clear, I'm not talking about vendors here because if you are a software provider to a bunch of companies and providing Kubernetes is part and parcel of what you do, yeah, you need a Kubernetes strategy. But the blue-chip manufacturing company that is modernizing its entire IT estate, doesn't need a Kubernetes strategy as such. Am I completely off base with that assessment?Craig: No, I think you're pointing at something which I feel as well. I mean, I'll be honest, I've been talking about [laugh] Kubernetes since day one, and I'm kind of tired of talking about Kubernetes. It should just be something that's there; you shouldn't have to worry about it, you shouldn't have to worry about operationalizing it. It's just an infrastructure abstraction. It's not in and of itself an end, it's simply a means to an end, which is being able to start looking at the destination you're deploying your software into as being more favorable for building distributed systems, not having to worry about the mechanics of what happens if a single node fails? What happens if I have to scale this thing? What happens if I have to update this thing?So, it's really not intended—and it never was intended—to be an end unto itself. It was really just intended to raise the waterline and provide an environment into which distributed applications can be deployed that felt entirely consistent, whether you're building those on-premises, in the public cloud, and increasingly out to the edge.Corey: I wound up making a tweet, couple years back, specifically in 2019, that the nuclear hot take: “Nobody will care about Kubernetes in five years.” And I stand by it, but I also think that's been wildly misinterpreted because I am not suggesting in any way that it's going to go away and no one is going to use it anymore. But I think it's going to matter in the same way as the operating system is starting to, the way that the Linux virtual memory management subsystem does now. Yes, a few people in specific places absolutely care a lot about those things, but most companies don't because they don't have to. It's just the way things are. It's almost an operating system for the data center, or the cloud environment, for lack of a better term. But is that assessment accurate? And if you don't wildly disagree with it, what do you think of the timeline?Craig: I think the assessment is accurate. The way I always think about this is you want to present your engineers, your developers, the people that are actually taking a business problem and solving it with code, you want to deliver to them the highest possible abstraction. The less they have to worry about the infrastructure, the less they have to worry about setting up their environment, the less they have to worry about the DevOps or DevSecOps pipeline, the better off they're going to be. And so if we as an industry do our job right, Kubernetes is just the water in which IT swims. You know, like the fish doesn't see the water; it's just there.We shouldn't be pushing the complexity of the system—because it is a fancy and complex system—directly to developers. They shouldn't necessarily have to think like, “Oh, I need to understand all of the XYZ is about how this thing works to be able to build a system.” There will be some engineers that benefit from it, but there are going to be other engineers that don't. The one thing that I think is going to—you know, is a potential change on what you said is, we're going to see people starting to program Kubernetes more directly, whether they know it or not. I don't know if that makes sense, but things like the ability for Kubernetes to offer up a way for organizations to describe the desired state of something and then using some of the patterns of Kubernetes to make the world into that shape is going to be quite pervasive, and I'm really seeing signs that we're seeing it.So yes, most developers are going to be working with higher abstractions. Yes, technologies like Knative and all of the work that we at VMware are doing within the ecosystem will render those higher abstractions to developers. But there's going to be some really interesting opportunities to take what made Kubernetes great beyond just, “Hey, I can put a Docker container down on a virtual machine,” and start to think about reconciler-driven IT: being able to describe what you want to have happen in the world, and then having a really smart system that just makes the world into that shape.Corey: This episode is sponsored by our friends at Oracle HeatWave is a new high-performance accelerator for the Oracle MySQL Database Service. Although I insist on calling it “my squirrel.” While MySQL has long been the worlds most popular open source database, shifting from transacting to analytics required way too much overhead and, ya know, work. With HeatWave you can run your OLTP and OLAP, don't ask me to ever say those acronyms again, workloads directly from your MySQL database and eliminate the time consuming data movement and integration work, while also performing 1100X faster than Amazon Aurora, and 2.5X faster than Amazon Redshift, at a third of the cost. My thanks again to Oracle Cloud for sponsoring this ridiculous nonsense. Corey: So, you went from driving Kubernetes adoption into the enterprise as the founder and CEO of Heptio, to effectively, acquired by one of the most enterprise-y of enterprise companies, in some respects, VMware, and your world changed. So, I understand what Heptio does because, to my mind, a big company is one that is 200 people. VMware has slightly more than that at last count, and I sort of lose track of all the threads of the different things that VMware does and how it operates. I could understand what Heptio does. What I don't understand is what, I guess, your corner of VMware does. Modern applications means an awful lot of things to an awful lot of people. I prefer to speak it with a condescending accent when making fun of those legacy things that make money—not a popular take, but it's there—how do you define what you do now?Craig: So, for me, when you talk about modern application platform, you can look at it one of two ways. You can say it's a platform for modern applications, and when people have modern applications, they have a whole variety of different ideas in the head: okay, well, it's microservices-based, or it's API-fronted, it's event-driven, it's supporting stream-based processing, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. There's all kinds of fun, cool, hip new patterns that are happening in the segment. The other way you could look at it is it's a modern platform for applications of any kind. So, it's really about how do we make sense of going from where you are today to where you need to be in the future?How do we position the set of tools that you can use, as they make sense, as your organization evolves, as your organization changes? And so I tend to look at my role as being bringing these capabilities to our existing product line, which is, obviously, the vSphere product line, and it's almost a hyperscale unto itself, but it's really about that private cloud experience historically, and making those capabilities accessible in that environment. But there's another part to this as well, which is, it's not just about running technologies on vSphere. It's also about how can we make a lot of different public clouds look and feel consistent without hiding the things that they are particularly great at. So, every public cloud has its own set of capabilities, its own price-performance profile, its own service ecosystem, and richness around that.So, what can we do to make it so that as you're thinking about your journey from taking an existing system, one of those heritage systems, and thinking through the evolution of that system to meet your business requirements, to be able to evolve quickly, to be able to go through that digital transformation journey, and package it up and deliver the right tools at the right time in the right environment, so that we can walk the journey with our customers?Corey: Does this tie into Tanzu, or is that a different VMware initiative slash division? And my apologies on that one, just because it's difficult for me to wrap my head around where Tanzu starts and stops. If I'm being frank.Craig: So, [unintelligible 00:21:49] is the heart of Tanzu. So Tanzu, in a way, is a new branch, a new direction for VMware. It's about bringing this richness of capabilities to developers running in any cloud environment. It's an amalgamation of a lot of great technologies that people aren't even aware of that VMware has been building, or that VMware has gained through acquisition, certainly Heptio and the ability to bring Kubernetes to an enterprise organization is part of that. But we're also responsible for things like Spring.Spring is a critical anchor for Java developers. If you look at the Spring community, we participate in one and a half million new application starts a month. And you wouldn't necessarily associate VMware with that, but we're absolutely driving critical innovation in that space. Things, like full-stack observability, being able to not only deploy these container-packaged applications, but being able to actually deal with the day two operations, and how to deal with the APM considerations, et cetera. So, Tanzu is an all-in push from VMware to bring the technologies like Kubernetes and everything that exists above Kubernetes to our customers, but also to new customers in the public cloud that are really looking for consistency across those environments.Corey: When I look at what you've been doing for the past decade or so, it really tells a story of transitions, where you went from product lead on GCE, to working on Kubernetes. You took Kubernetes from an internal Google reimagining of Borg into an open-source project that has been given over to the CNCF. You went from running Heptio, which was a startup, to working at one of the least startup-y-like companies, by some measures, in the world.s you seem to have gone from transiting from one thing to almost its exact opposite, repeatedly, throughout your career. What's up with that theme?Craig: I think if you look back on the transitions and those key steps, the one thing that I've consistently held in my head, and I think my personal motivation was really grounded in this view that IT is too hard, right? IT is just too challenging. So, the transition from Microsoft, where I was responsible building package software, to Google, which was about cloud, was really marking that transition of, “Hey, we just need to do better for the enterprise organization.” The transition from focusing on a virtual machine-based system, which was the state of the art at the time to unlocking these modern orchestrated container-based system was in service of that need, which was, “Hey, you know, if you can start to just treat a number of virtual machines as a destination that has a distributed operating system on top of it, we're going to be better off.” The need to transition to a community-centric outcome because while Google is amazing in so many ways, being able to benefit from the perspective that traditional enterprise organizations brought to the table was significant to transitioning into a startup where we were really serving enterprise organizations and providing that interface back into the community to ultimately joining VMware because at the end of the day, there's a lot of work to be done here.And when you're selling a startup, it's—you're either selling out or you're buying in, and I'm not big on the idea of selling out. In this case, having access to the breadth of VMware, having access to the place where most of the customers are really cared about were living, and all of those heritage systems that are just running the world's business. So, for me, it's really been about walking that journey on behalf of that individual that's just trying to make ends meet; just trying to make sure that their IT systems stay lit; that are trying to make sure that the debt that they're creating today in the IT environment isn't payday loan debt, it's more like a mortgage. I can get into an environment that's going to serve me and my family well. And so, each of those transitions has really just been marked by need.And I tend to look at the needs of that enterprise organization that's walking this journey as being an anchor for me. And I'm pleased with every transition I've made. Like, at every point we've—sort of, Joe and myself, who's been on this journey for a while, have been able to better serve that individual.Corey: Now, I know that it's always challenging to talk about the future, but do you think you're done with those radical transitions, as you continue to look forward to what's coming? I mean, it's impossible to predict the future, but you're clearly where you are for a reason, and I'm assuming part of that reason is because you see an opportunity; you see a transformation that is currently unfolding. What does that look like from where you sit?Craig: Well, I mean, my work in VMware [laugh] is very far from done. There's just an amazing amount of continued opportunity to deliver value not only to those existing customers where they're running on-prem but to make the public cloud more intrinsically accessible and to increasingly solve the problems as more computational resources fanning back out to the edge. So, I'm extremely excited about the opportunity ahead of us from the VMware perspective. I think we have some incredible advantages because, at the end of the day, we're both a neutral party—you know, we're not a hyperscaler. We're not here to compete with the hyperscalers on the economies of scale that they render.But we're also working to make sure that as the hyperscalers are offering up these new services and everything else, that we can help the enterprise organization make best use of that. We can help them make best use of that infrastructure environment, we can help them navigate the complexities of things like concentration risk, or being able to manage through the luck and potential that some of these things represent. So, I don't want to see the world collapse back into the mainframe era. I think that's the thing that really motivates me, I think, the transition from mainframe to client-server, the work that Wintel did—the Windows-Intel consortium—to unlock that ecosystem just created massive efficiencies and massive benefits from everyone. And I do feel like with the combination of technologies like Kubernetes and everything that's happening on top of that, and the opportunity that an organization like VMware has to be a neutral party, to really bridge the gap between enterprises and those technologies, we're in a situation where we can create just tremendous value in the world: making it so that modernization is a journey rather than a destination, helping customers modernize at a pace that's reasonable to them, and ultimately serving both the cloud providers in terms of bringing some critical workloads to the cloud, but also serving customers so that as they live with the harsh realities of a multi-cloud universe where I don't know one enterprise organization that's just all-in on one cloud, we can provide some really useful capabilities and technologies to make them feel more consistent, more familiar, without hiding what's great about each of them.Corey: Craig, thank you so much for taking the time to speak with me today about where you sit, how you see the world, where you've been, and little bits of where we're going. If people want to learn more, where can they find you?Craig: Well, I'm on Twitter, @cmcluck, and obviously, on LinkedIn. And we'll continue to invite folks to attend a lot of our events, whether that's the Spring conferences that VMware sponsors, or VMWorld. And I'm really excited to have an opportunity to talk more about what we're doing and some of the great things we're up to.Corey: I will certainly be following up as the year continues to unfold. Thanks so much for your time. I really appreciate it.Craig: Thank you so much for your time as well.Corey: Craig McLuckie, Vice President of R&D at VMware in their modern applications business unit. I'm Cloud Economist Corey Quinn, and this is Screaming in the Cloud. If you've enjoyed this podcast, please leave a five-star review on your podcast platform of choice, whereas if you've hated this podcast, please leave a five-star review on your podcast platform of choice along with a comment that I won't bother to read before designating it legacy or heritage.Corey: If your AWS bill keeps rising and your blood pressure is doing the same, then you need the Duckbill Group. We help companies fix their AWS bill by making it smaller and less horrifying. The Duckbill Group works for you, not AWS. We tailor recommendations to your business and we get to the point. Visit duckbillgroup.com to get started.Announcer: This has been a HumblePod production. Stay humble.

Tracklist: 1. Gold (Jason Nevins club mix) - Britt Nicole 2. C'mon (Shahaf Moran extended) - Ke$ha 3. Rest of my life (David Guetta club mix) - Ludacris feat. David Guetta & Usher 4. Shake that (Paperchaser club mix) - Gimm & Icky 5. Pointing fingers (Dave Aude club mix) - Stacey Jackson 6. Fly away (Jump Smokers remix) - Guinevere 7. Overload (Barona & Hull remix) - Julissa Veloz 8. Ay mama mia (Carlos Melange remix) - Mayra Veronica 9. Gimme all (Ralph Rosario Vox mix) - Princess X 10. Know your name tonight (Original club mix) - Scotty Boy feat Ajay 11. Acid rain (Corey Craig club mix) - Alexis Jordan 12. Beat don't stop (Gustavo Scorpio club mix) - C-Rod feat Jason Walker 13. Glowing (Steve Watt & Jukebox club mix) - Nikki Williams 14. Finally found you (7th Heaven remix) - Enrique Iglesias 15. Sorry (DJ Kue club mix) - Ciara 16. Heaven (Freemasons club mix) - Depeche Mode 17. Everybody's beautiful (Rauhofer remix) - Miasha 18. Ready to love (Stonebridge remix) - Katrina 19. One & Only (7th Heaven club mix) - Cherry Cherry Boom Boom

Alexandra Catalano joins the podcast this week. She talks about how stand up comedy has helped her with professional speaking experiences as Alexandra is a two time TedX speaker and the host of the wildly popular Eat Cute brand on Instagram AND she's super-producer Corey Craig's very special girlfriend. She is amazing! You are going to learn amazing tidbits on how you can take comedy and infuse it into anything that you are working on. With that, let's listen in on Alexandra Catalano. And if you want to join our Cool Beans Stand Up Comedy Intensive, we have a few spots remaining for our final 2019 class. CoolBeanComedy/class for details and to sign up! Okay, now officially, let's listen in on Alexandra Catalano.

This week, spend some time with Cool Beans Comedy producer Corey Craig as he talks with two of the writers on Grownish, Sara Lukasiewicz and Brady Morphy. They are amazing! They talk about the journey of becoming writers on a hit tv show AND they talk about their very first episode of produced television and the following premiere party. Corey was there first-hand, and he can vouch for the fact that it's a very funny story. Hey, if you have a funny story, our next stand up comedy intensive starts August 18th at the Ice House Comedy Club. A few spots are still available Sign up at CoolBeansComedy.com/class https://www.coolbeanscomedy.com/class With that, let's listen in to Sara Lukasiewicz and Brady Morphy, writers on Grownish.

Cool Beans Comedy's very own Corey Craig and his dog Juan Carlos intro this week's incredible podcast interview with Fuller House writer Nick Fascitelli. Nick is hilarious and he dishes on all things Fuller House as this will be the fifth and final season when it releases on Netflix later this year. We had a few of our Cool Beans community join us for some questions and you are going to love it.

WELCOME TO 2019

Our guest this week is Hillina Jarso who is on her third Cool Beans U session and is preparing fro her NBC Diversity Showcase callback!  She's a mother of three hilarious boys and is a goldmine of comedy.  She'll be performing in the Cool Beans Comedy show on the main stage of the ice House Comedy Club in Pasadena next Sunday.  That's April 28th, where Lina will perform with comedians Jesus Trejo (Comedy Central), Francisco Ramos (NBC), KT Tatara (FOX), with hosts Corey Craig and Matthew Moore.  All with a surprise celebrity guest! Get your free tickets while you can:  https://www.coolbeanscomedy.com/tickets With that, let's listen in on the incredible Hillina Jarso!

We are introducing video to our podcast!  Head over to YouTube.com --our episode this week is with Kiki Melendez, a multi-hyphenate extraordinaire and the next Oprah.  We talk about her journey into comedy and discuss her upcoming Omnicultural TV Fest in association with NATPE, the National Association of Television Program Executives, happening May 1st at the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood.  Get your tickets now!  Producer Jack Sullivan and Cool Beans Comedy's very own Corey Craig will be there.  With that, let's listen in to the positively radiant Kiki Melendez!

What a year! happy Holidays from everyoe at Cool Beans Comedy. This episode, Corey Craig and Matthew Moore reflect on a tremendous 2018 with our incredible producer Jack Sullivan. And we look forward to a prosperous 2019. Quick note, our January 6 stand up comedy intensive afternoon class has already filled up, and there are a few spots remaining in the morning class. CoolBeansComedy.com/class With that, thank YOU for helping us have our best year yet and here's to continuing that trend in 2019. Much love to all. *Music provided by bensound.com #ChanukahORHanukkah #Kwanzaa #Christmas #NewYearsEve #DecemberSolstice #WrightBrothersDay #PanAmericanAviationDay #BillOfRightsDay #NationalGuardBirthday #FeastOfourLadyOfGuadalupe #FeatOfTheImmaculateConception #PearlHarborRemembranceDay #StNicholasDay #FirstSundayOfAdvent #RosaParksDay #CyberMonday #AmericanIndianHeritageDay #BlackFriday #AcadaianDay #FamilyDay #LincolnsBirthday #PresidentsDay

Happy Holidays from everyone at Cool Beans Comedy. This week, we are super-stoaked to have Corey Craig's good friend, Delanie Fischer! Corey had the pleaure to direct her docu-comedy special, "Love At First Cousin," which is available now at DelanieFischer.com. It's hilarious and heartfelt. We talk about the origin of the idea, execution of the speical including casting, and Delanie's new venture: Dick Mugs! DicksByDelanie.com if anyone is a dick to you this holiday season! *Music provided by bensound.com DelanieFischer.com DicksByDelanie.com #DelanieFischer #LoveAtFirstCousin #DicksByDelanie #PenisAnger #DickHate #AssholeManagement

Today, Corey Craig sits down to interview Cool Beans U grads Joseph Haag and Howard Aronin. Joseph is performing this Saturday with Cool Beans at the Pico with Jamie Kennedy, Drew Lynch and Sarah Tiana and Francisco Ramos. That show is at 8PM. https://www.coolbeanscomedy.com/tickets A few tickets are still available, but may be gone by the time of this podcast's publication, so good luck getting the last of a fast selling batch! Come check out Joseph and listen to him and Howard talk about their comedy journies with Cool Bean's own Corey Craig! *Music provided by bensound.com Howard on Facebook Joseph on Facebook #HowardAronin #JosephHaag #ComedyJournies #ThePico #JamieKennedy #DrewLynch #SarahTiana

We are back from Thanksgiving break - hope you enjoyed your long weekend with family and friends! This week we have Justin Foster on the podcast. He is one of our favorites. We talk about his journey from Texas and falling into comedy while working at a comedy club -AND- how his favorite meal of the day is breakfast which he can eat anytime, anywhere! He may (or may not) recount his favorite breakfast spots across this country in this episode. With that, let's listen in on Cool Beans Comedy's very own Matthew Moore and Corey Craig sit-down chat with comedian Justin Foster! *Music provided by bensound.com Justin on Twitter Justin on Weebly Justin on Instagram #JustinFoster #Comedian #BreakfastLover #Texas #ComedyClub #ComedyIsMyFavoriteMeal

This is one of Cool Beans Comedy's very own Corey Craig's favorite people around! Nicole burch is a former Groundlings Sunday Company member, andyou've seen her on ABC, Nickelodeon, and Jimmy Kimmel Live. Corey has the opportunity to direct her comedy special, "Never Been Kissed," at the Ice House Comedy Club in Pasadena this Sunday, November 18th. Joining her will be comedians Alonso Boden & Amir K, and her mother plans on being present, as always, to heckle her (we talk about it in the podcast - so be sure to listen). CoolBeansComedy.com/tickets for free tickets still available for the 11/18 9PM show!  Hope to see you there! *Music provided by bensound.com Nicole on the IMDB Nicole on Twitter Nicole on Instagram Nicole's Website #NeverBeenKissed #NicoleBurch #ABC #Nickelodeon #JimmyKimmelLive #ComedySpecial

Super excited to have Jonny Loquasto on the podcast this week! Cool Beans Comedy's very own Corey Craig has known Jonny since 2008, and he loves to give back through blood drives at RegularHero.org. He's one of the nicest dudes in all of comedy. We talk about wrestling, being the fat kid growning up, his college hoops story, and his upcoming live comedy special taping coming up next Sunday, November 11, at the Brea Improv. Free tickets at jlocomedy.socalcomedy.com or hit him up on the social media! *Music provided by bensound.com Jonny on the IMDB Jonny's Website Jonny on Twitter Jonny on Instagram #JonnyLoquasto #AXSTV #AXSLive #ComicsUnleashed #GothamComedyLive #Standup&Deliver #NUVOTV

P, Jeek, and Trev discuss the firing of Hue Jackson, the Red Sox winning the World Series, and discuss our picks from last week and upcoming picks for this week. We also welcome on Corey Craig from The NBA Podcast to talk some hoops and get his take on NBA news. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/high-altitude-podcast/support

Happy Thursday everyone! Corey Craig and Matthew Moore are celebrating fifty podcasts. Yeas, you read that right. Fifty. As in this is episode number fifty. To celebrate, Matt and Corey talk about the "History of Cool Beans Comedy" while some of their Cool Beans U friends ask questions. It's super informative abolut Matt and Corey's intimate working relationship, the show's history, where they're at right now and what secrets the future holds! Visit Cool beans Comedy on the web! Visit Improv For The People on the web! *Music provided by bensound.com #CoolBeansComedy #CoolBeansU #ImprovForThePeople #ImprovComedy #TheIceHouse #ThePico #StandUpComedy #StandUpShows #StandUpComedyClasses

Listen in as Matthew Moore and Corey Craig interview the hilarious Alonzo Bodden!  We talk about his mom being the funny one in the family, how hanging out out at craft services led to a voice role in Power Rangers, and we talk about his dream of hosting his own CNN show! (If you are an executive anywhere, please hit up Corey at CoolBeansComedy.com so we can make this happen!) We also discuss his diverse musical background and another one of his sure-to-be-upcoming projects:  to record his very own jazz comedy album! You've gotta check out the podcast this week and listen in for the inspiration! Follow Alonzo across the web: Visit Alonzo's Website Visit Alonzo's Twitter Check out Alonzo's Wikipedia page Check out Alonzo on the IMDB Visit Alonzo on Facebook *Music provided by bensound.com #AlonzoBodden #LastComicStanding #GrandPrizeWinner #Comedian #CNN #Actor #Angel #TheTonightShowwithJayLeno #LateNightwithConanOBrien #TheLateLateShowwithCraigFerguson

The hilarious and hard working Hunter Hill is on the podcast this week with Corey Craig! Hunter is a comic based out of Los Angeles CA, who is currently touring internationally and across the country. Hunter discusses growing up in Los Angeles, how anyone could perform at the Jon Lovitz Comedy Club back in the day, maintaining relationships, and keeping your comedy funny in this edition! See him live as part of the nine-year-anniversary of Cool Beans Comedy on Sunday, August 19th! Click here and get tickets now for free!  Hunter's Website Hunter on Twitter Hunter on Instagram *Music provided by bensound.com #HunterHill #Comedian #JonLovitz #CoolBeansComedy #FunnyComedy

This week, the great Matthew Moore and Corey Craig hang out with America's Got Talent's comedian du jour, the amazingly funny and inspiring Vicki Barbolak!  We learn all sorts of dirty this week, like Matt and Vicky knew one another long before this podcast recording.  PLUS we talk about Vicki's morning writing routine, performing at a funeral, her upcoming bio release, and her wedding chapel on wheels. She's incredible!  We love her -- and we're sure you're going to as well! Vicki's Website Vicki on Twitter Vicki on Facebook *Music provided by bensound.com #AmericasGotTalent #VickiBarbolak #AGT #AGTLiveShows #CoolBeansComedy #FuneralComedy

This week, we have a super-special comedy podcast episode prepared for your listening enjoyment!  Hosts Matthew Moore and Corey Craig sit down and duiscuss the current state of comedy with podcast engineer Jack Sullivan.  AND, as a bonus, we're releasing our short interview with Comedian Tim Murdock, Cool Beans U grad and Cool Beans comedy performer.  He's AMAZING!  You're going to love him! Follow Tim Murdock on Instagram! Follow Tim Murdock on Twitter! *Music provided by bensound.com #StateOfComedy #TimMurdock #MeToo #Comedian #CoolBeansComedy #CleaningOutTheComputer

This week, Matthew Moore and Corey Craig sit down with casting director G. Charles Wright.  They discuss some of his most outlandish casting stories, find out some casting secrets, learn about his class (itpreps you for the audition process), Don Adams, being funny at a regular corporate job, the definition of pollyanna AND MORE!!! Download it today and check it out! Stalk G. Charles Wright on Facebook via the G. Charles Wright's Audition Technique Studio *Music provided by bensound.com #GCharlesWright #CoolBeansComedy #CastingDirector #WarnerBrothers #TheMiddle #GCharlesWrightsAuditionTechniqueStudio #Audition

This is an uplifting interview with comic, motivational speaker and all around incredible human being Kathy Buckley. Her story is remarkable and her positivity is infectious. Listen in as hosts Corey Craig and Matthew Moore talk to her about how music connects people, why people misinterpret what love is, and more! "Sharing her unique life experiences, she inspires laughter, breaks down barriers, and empowers change. No matter the audience, Kathy's message will touch each and every person." [Source.] Visit her at https://www.kathybuckley.com/ *Music provided by bensound.com #KathyBuckley #Comedienne #MotivationalSpeaker #Comic

Cool Beans Comedy's Corey Craig and Matthew Moore catch up with YouTube sensation Brandon Rogers!  He shares tales of his struggle for acceptance, why he got into YouTube content creation, what he'd do if he owned a bar, and a delightful story explaining how his diet mirrors our very own Corey Craig's!  This is one hot interview not to be missed!! Brandon Rogers (born on August 3, 1988 [age 29]), formerly known as hotbananastud, is an American YouTuber, actor, director, and artist best known for videos where he impersonates various comedic characters. In the past, he posted vlogs, but now posts mainly sketches and episodes for various web series, only two of which, Theater Class and Stuff & Sam, has been completed. Brandon's YouTube channel has 4 million subscribers and 500 million views. [http://youtube.wikia.com/wiki/Brandon_Rogers] Tour: https://www.brandonrogerslive.com/  IG: @brandonbored FB: www.facebook.com/bananastud SNAPCHAT: fun_brandon TWITTER: BrandonLOVESYOU *Music provided by bensound.com

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Two professional comics, Francisco Ramos and Erica Rhodes, stopped by Cool Beans U's previous cycle of students to discuss the realities of being a professional comic and answer questions from the classroom.  Recorded on location in Stage B at the Ice House Comedy Club. Are you hankering to try your hand at stand up comedy? Five weeks of training includes a professional comic Q & A, a Business of Comedy overview, and your five-class intensive concludes with YOU performing in a real, professionally produced stand-up comedy show at the world famous Ice House Comedy Club in Pasadena, CA! Learn how to make your life experiences the subject of a “killer” stand-up set! Work each and every week onstage with individualized attention and observation! Learn the secrets of stand-up and gain the confidence to perform your “killer” set from Cool Beans Comedy host Matthew Moore and producer Corey Craig! Register Today*! Limited class size. Sundays starting May 20 from 2:00 PM-4:30 PM (May 20, 27, June 3, 10, 17. PLUS a Grad Show in June) Cool Beans U Comedy Classes & Coaching *Music provided by bensound.com

This week, hosts Matthew moore and Corey Craig sit down with the comedy writing team of Josh Lee Kirby & Jon Veles from Fresh Off The Boat & The Real O'Neals and discuss their fascinating journey! *Music provided by bensound.com

What an exciting and refreshing interview with Corey Craig, a Queens NY Realtor with Keller Williams Liberty. Corey masters the art and science of contacting and prospecting for new customers as does not purchase real estate leads. Corey meets all of his real estate prospects through talking to everyone he meets. Whether the person he is speaking with is a strong real estate prospect or not, Corey knows that people have connections with other people. It is needless to say that Corey is very effective in communicating with people in public. It's obvious. We hope you enjoy the show. Corey Craig on Instagram - www.instagram.com/kwrealtornyc Clarence Nappier on Instagram - www.instagram.com/321bizdev 321 Set Appointments, LLC on the Internet - www.321sallc.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/321bizdevelopment/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/321bizdevelopment/support

Comedy writer Will Griffin just completed his first year as a staff writer for the #1 Netflix comedy, Fuller House.  He shares insider secrets, telling you what it takes to become a writer on a hit show!  Take an hour out of your day and find out what the life of a staff writer entails as hosts Matthew Moore and Corey Craig ask all the questions you'd want answers to yourself! Learn more about Will Griffin on the IMDB and click here! *Music provided by bensound.com

Corey Craig and matthew Moore sit down for over an hour to talk one-on-one-on-one with The Comedy Bureau's very own Jake Kroeger.  Jake shares his insight into the L.A. Stand Up Scene, what it's like to curate the most comprehensive listing of comedy open mics and shows in the Los Angeles area in existence, and shares a few stories of the strangest places he's ever performed. The Comedy Bureau is, above all, committed to advancing the art form of Comedy in the Greater Los Angeles Metropolitan Area and beyond as well as enlightening the general population about the funniest and most creative Los Angeles based comedic performers. We maintain an open submission policy as well as take any and all inquiries at thecomedybureau@gmail.com. Source. Visit The Comedy Bureau, the go-to source for L.A. Stand-Up Comedy, open mics and comedy shows!  You've gotta go to be in the know! Read more about Jake Kroeger at L.A. Weekly.com. *Music provided by bensound.com

She's got more funny online than your average comic packs into a tight ten, it's comedian Audrey Stewart!  In this very special episode, Corey Craig and Jack Sullivan sit down with the Cool Beans U alum and discover what she's been up to since embracing the world of stand up comedy ... including starting the Hollywood Palladium Comedy Club! Visit her website, check out her set at the Laugh Factory while you're there and get in touch with her.  Click here!   *Source. *Music by bensound.com

Corey Craig and Cool Beans Comedy catch up with the hilarious Tony Baker backstage at the Ice House Comedy Club in Pasadena, CA - where magic happens!   Born Anthony C. Baker in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Tony and his family quickly moved back to the city of Chicago where he was raised on the south side. His passion for film started at a very early age and stayed with him throughout his life. While attending New Mexico State University his creative ideas were brought to the forefront while writing and directing films with his colleagues just for the love of it. His comedic skills developed while hosting pageants, talent shows, and fund-raising events on the NMSU campus. His love for theater developed when he made his stage debut in the University production of “Of Mice & Men” in which he received his first acting award. After bringing his acting talents to the stage he knew that it was time to make the dream a reality and uprooted his family to California to pursue a career in acting and stand up comedy.* Source.* **Music provided by bensound.com.  Cool Beans Comedy show this Sunday!  Free tickets!  Click here! ABC's Dustin Ybarra MADtv's Amir K HBO's Jen Kober Netflix's Brett Goldstein With your hosts Matthew Moore and Corey Craig  Ice House Comedy Club 24 N Mentor Ave, Pasadena 6 PM Red Carpet • 7 PM Show • Post-Show After-Party + Happy Hour at Dusit Hotel Every audience member receives jelly beans, and has the chance to win prizes, such as Warner Bros. VIP Tour passes!   All ages welcome (15+ recommended).  

Comedian Stevie Rae Dominguez, a Cool Beans U Stand Up Comedy Intensive graduate, talks to Corey Craig and Matthew Moore about high school and the arts, her experience with the Cool Beans U Stand up Comedy Intensive, her need and desire to perform, and the mindset it takes to finally perform on the main stage at the Ice house Comedy Club in Pasadena, California! Want to be a comic?   Want to learn how to make your life experiences the subject of a “killer” stand-up set?  Want to jump start your work each and every week onstage with individualized attention and observation? Click here and register today for the February 8th cycle of Cool Beans U's Stand-Up Comedy Intensive.  Five weeks of training, a grad show in March, and a video recording of your set. *Music provided by bensound.com

Corey Craig and Matthew Moore sit down for ten minutes with the hilarious Thomas Dale to talk about finding your voice as a comedian as using your inner truth in art! Thomas Dale is a native New Yorker unlike any comedian you've ever seen before. His honesty and constant quest for truth and "realness" makes for an unforgettable experience and a night of laughter. He was a regular on E! Chelsea Lately and has done his comedy on Comedy Central's Adam Devine's House Party, The Late Show with Craig Ferguson and HBO's Funny as Hell. He joined the panel on Craig's show Join or Die on history channel. Thomas was recently a featured comic on The Nasty Show for the Just For Laughs Comedy Festival 2016 in Montreal as well as a New Face in 2012. This year Thomas will be on the new season of "This is Not Happening" on Comedy Central. Thomas has also had a guest spot on Fox's New Girl and multiple talking head shows on VH1. Thomas also has an album on iTunes and Amazon called "Love, Me." *Music provided by bensound.com

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Cool Beans Comedy's very own Corey Craig and Matthew Moore catch up with comedians Taylor Tomlinson and Kelsey Cook in the greenroom after their sets at the Ice House Comedy Club in Pasadena, California. Taylor Tomlinson started doing stand up comedy at just sixteen years old, when she realized that her quiet, sarcastic asides were not being adequately appreciated by her peers. Her self-deprecating charm and conversational wit have made her a favorite at comedy clubs, colleges, corporate events, and other suspicious, rented spaces across the country. She was featured in her own regular segment ("Young as Hell") on Laughs on FOX season 1 and can now be seen hosting the show every week. She was a top ten finalist on season 9 of NBC's Last Comic Standing and can be seen on the upcoming season of Adam Devine's House Party on Comedy Central.¹ Kelsey Cook’s quick wit and relatable observations create an easy connection with her audiences. She’s the daughter of an International Yo-Yo Champion and a Professional Foosball player, which made for a humor-filled life at a young age.  She moved to Los Angeles from Seattle and has spent the last year touring 50+ dates with Jim Norton. She recently started splitting her time with New York, where she is a paid regular at The Comedy Cellar, The Stand, Gotham Comedy Club and New York Comedy Club. She regularly appears as a guest on "Opie and Jimmy" and "The Sam Roberts Show" on Sirius.² ¹Source: elle Model Agency ²Source: Laugh Factory *Music provided by bensound.com

Cool Beans Comedy's very own Corey Craig and Matthew Moore catch up with comedian Drew Lynch before his show at the Ice House Comedy Club in Pasadena, California. Drew Lynch is a stand-up comedian known for his severe stutter. He appeared on the tenth season of America's Got Talent and finished in second place. He is a regular content contributor to YouTube—often featuring his service dog Stella in his videos—with his channel having over 1 million subscribers and 43 million views.* *Source:  Wikipedia *Music by bensound.com

THE FIRST DEPOSIT OF WAD BLOWING BEATS (THE 15TH WILL BE HOT TOO) FEATURING BIG BUDGET REMIXES FROM KENJI SCAVO, WAYNE G, LFB, MOTO BLANCO, ALEXANNA, CUTMORE, GUY SCHEIMAN, PETER RAUHOFER, ALMIGHTY, STEVEN REDANT, RED TOP, COREY CRAIG, GAUTHREAUX & CUA, CHRIS COX AND JOSH PEACE ALEXIS JORDAN – ACID RAIN MASTERS AT WORK – 1234 WORK (KENJI SCAVO) CARLY RAE JEPSEN – THIS KISS (WAYNE G LFB ANTHEM) THE WANTED – I FOUND YOU (MOTO BLANCO) EMELI SANDE – WONDER (ALEXANNA ) LAWSON – LEARN TO LOVE (CUTMORE) SATURDAYS – WHAT ABOUT US (GUY SCHEIMAN) RIHANNA – DIAMONDS (RAUHOFER) AMELIA LILY – SHUT UP (ALMIGHTY) ICONA POP – I LOVE IT (REDANT) KERLI – THE LUCKY ONES (RED TOP) DAVID DAMEN – WITH NO ONE JUST WITH YOU ZEDD FT FOXES – CLARITY (COREYOGRAPHY) ADELE – SKYFALL (GAUTHREAUX + CUA) WILL.I.AM FT BRITNEY – SCREAM AND SHOUT (CHRIS COX) THE SQUATTERS – WHAT MACHINE AZEALIA BANKS – FIERCE (JOSH PEACE)

CALIENTE MEXICAN RIVIERA MIX FEATURING REMIXES FROM WILLY WILLIAM, LB, CHEW FU, COREY CRAIG, SANNA PATRON, BLUE SLIMS, MATT SMALLWOOD, COUNTRY CLUB MARTINI, GOTSOME, SUBMISSION DJ AND DAPER, CUCARACHAS, SAUL RUIZ, MK , DEVOLUTION , SHADOW CHILD AND WIDEBOYS DAFT PUNK – GET LUCKY JAY – Z – TOM FORD BRITNEY VS XXXY – WORK BITCH MONSEUR ADI FT AME – WHAT’S GOING ON WOOKIE – THE HYPE FT ELIZA DOOLITTLE INNER CITY – GOOD LIFE KATY PERRY – WALKING ON AIR GOTSOME FT JANAI – DON’T WANT YOU BACK KATHY BROWN – TURN ME OUT DISCLOSURE – CONFESS TO ME (JESSIE WARE) PET SHOP BOYS – VOCAL MILEY CYRUS – WRECKING BALL GOTSOME – BASSLINE STORM QUEEN – LOOK RIGHT THROUGH WHITESQUARE – NO SLEEP BREACH – EVERYTHING YOU NEVER HAD WILKINSON – AFTER GLOW HOT NATURED – REVERSE SKYDIVING THE SATURDAYS – DISCO LOVE *** SECRET SPICY CLOSING TRACK ***

MJ – THRILLER IKIN / LOW STEPPA – ABOUT TIME BONTAN – FIREFLY GOT SOME – JUST A FEELING DISCLOSURE - BANG THAT DJ DEEON – FREAK LIKE ME ROBYN FT LA BAGATELLE – LOVE IS FREE FABRICIO PECANHA – DON’T STOP DJ ANNA – SECRET TODD TERRY - HEAR THE MUSIC HERVE TREVOR – JACKIN WITH YOUR MUM PROK & FITCH – RAW CUT MK KANT – EY YO MADONNA – GHOST TOWN SISI EY – DO IT GOOD FORMAT B: - CHUNKY WEISS – I FEEL BETTER CAMELPHAT – GET SICK MY DIGITAL ENEMY – TO DUST B. – HAUNTED.

PUSH IT TO THESE HEATSEEKERS AT THE GYM, THE HOLIDAY PARTY, THE STREET! FEATURING REMIXES FROM JAX JONES, JAMES HYPE, RIVA STARR, MANDAL FORBES, MASSIVE DRUM, RALPHI ROSARIO, COREY CRAIG, DETROIT SWINDLE, YOLANDA BE COOL, MAN WITHOUT A CLUE, SONNY FODERA AND MANY MANY MORE! LION BABE – IMPOSSIBLE (JAX JONES) DRAKE – HOTLINE BLING (JAMES HXPE) SANTE SANSONE ROLAND CLARK – HOUSE NATION (RIVA STARR) DAVID ZOWIE – HOUSE EVERY WEEKEND (MANDAL FORBES) MORILLO & THOENICK – LIVE YOUR LIFE (MASSIVEDRUM) MYLENE FARMER STING – STOLEN CAR (RALPHI ROSARIO) EMANUEL SATIE – GOLD DISCLOSURE – OMEN (MOTEZ) RUSSELL SMALL FT DNO P & VINCENT M – LISTEN (COREY CRAIG) SIGALA – SWEET LOVIN GRACE JONES – PULL UP TO THE BUMPER (MARK BRICKMAN) SEVEN DAVIS JUNIOR – FRIENDS (DETROIT SWINDLE) REDONDO & CAMELPHAT – PATHS LOULOU PLAYERS SHARAM JEY – HUM HUM (YOLANDA BE COOL) DIPLO & SLEEPY TOM – BE RIGHT THERE (MK) MISSY ELLIOTT – WTF (TOMMIE SUNSHINE X USICA) STEVIE NICKS – EDGE OF SEVENTEEN (DANNY BRAMHAM) SOUL DIVIDE – CATCH THE LIGHT (MAN WITHOUT A CLUE) DESTINY’S CHILD – JUMPIN JUMPIN (NICK HENTON) DUKE DUMONT – OCEAN DRIVE (SHAUN FRANK) RUDIMENTAL FT WILL HEARD – I WILL FOR LOVE (SONNY FODERA) ADELE – SEND MY LOVE (SUNDANCE PAPER PLANES MX)

HAPPY LGBT PRIDE! I was thrilled to make my NYC debut this year for Furball NYC PRIDE Rooftop Party at Space Ibiza. I played with Corey Craig, Jack Chang and Matt Effect; Rocking the rooftop and making a great start to a memorable weekend. This is my live set. I hope you enjoy!

DJ / Producer Corey Craig continues to redefine the current sound of dance music and electrify the club scene. Live from SCORE| Pride Edition 2014.

On Sunday May 26th, Memordal Weekend, DJ Corey Craig from NYC rocked the house!!! Corey Craig spins a mix of high energy unreleased pop remixes and mashups! For more infor check out facebook.com/richssd

I have to confess, I'm not someone who can just sit down and whip out a podcast. A lot of thought and consideration goes into the selection of music, and I was well into this one a few weeks back when our friend Peter decided to carefully and very deliberately execute an early departure from this world. And we all miss him terribly. In the days and weeks after -- I heard from other friends, all of them seemingly happy people -- that they, too, were sometimes depressed, and had occasionally given thought to the unthinkable. I don't want to be maudlin, God knows that's not what my podcasts are about. I've been near that ledge myself, and cast more than one furtive glance into the darkness below. My original plan was to close out the podcast with Boomerang, metaphorically whipping us back to the beginning, but instead I added one more song. To my friends out there, especially the ones who've recently let me see their darker side (you know who you are): people like us, we need to stick together. And hey, let's do lunch. Give me a call. Special thanks to Corey Craig and Richard Cutmore. You guys really rock. SO HIGH (Hoxton Whores Club Mix) Jay Sean | LET THERE BE LOVE (Cutmore Club Mix) Christina Aguilera | NEXT TO ME (Manhattan Clique Club Mix) Emeli Sande | STAY (Bass King Vs. X-vertigo Loveshacks Re-edit) Rihanna feat. Mikky Ekko | ADDICTED 2 THE BASS (Hi Def Remix) Wideboys | ANYTHING COULD HAPPEN (Chris Henry Extended Mix) Ellie Goulding | FEEDBACK (Jeremy Word Remix) Janet Jackson | TRY (Dark Intensity Remix) P!nk | DAYLIGHT (Joe Maz Remix) Maroon 5 | IS THIS LOVE? de Datsu Remix) Alex Gaudino feat. Jordin Sparks | CLARITY (Tiesto Remix) ZEDD feat. Foxes | ACID RAIN (Corey Craig Edit) Alexis Jordan | WE ARE FREE (Bodybangers Remix) Klaas | DANZA KUDURO (Mark Pride Remix) Don Omar feat. Lucenzo | DON'T STOP THE PARTY (Jump Smokers Remix Extended) Pitbull | C'mon (Cosmic Dawn Club Mix) Ke$ha | MUST BE THE LOVE (Dannic Remix) Arty, Nadia Ali & BT | FOOLISH GAMES (Cutmore Club Mix) Jewel | BOOMERANG (Cahill Club Mix) Nicole Scherzinger | PEOPLE LIKE US (Show & Tell Remix) Kelly Clarkson

FALL 2012 HOLIDAY KICKOFF MIX!!! FEATURING REMIXES BY: TROPICALL, OXFORD HUSTLERS, KRYDER, TODD TERRY, COREY CRAIG, MEPHISTO, SEAMUS HAJI, PETER RAUHOFER, JAY SANTI, DANNY VERDE, RICHARD GREY, GUY SCHEIMAN, BIMBO JONES, GIANNI COLETI, BITROCKA AND AEROPLANE SNAP! – THE POWER CHRISTINA AGUILERA – YOUR BODY VOX HALO FT LADOLLA – CRIMINAL GIANNI COLETTI – ANOTHER STAR ALAIA GALLO – HOUSE MUSIC IS MY SOUND LANA DEL REY – SUMMERTIME SADNESS RIHANNA – DIAMONDS DHP FT SUNDAY GIRL – NOT ALONE SATURDAYS – WHAT ABOUT US GOSSIP – GET A JOB JULIE MCKNIGHT V KRISTINE W - FINALLY FEEL CYNDI LAUPER – SEX IS IN THE HEEL CUBE GUYS – DON’T YOU WANT ME ELLE GOULDING – ANYTHING COULD HAPPEN ZOE BADWI – SHOOT ME DOWN GIANNI COLETI FT GRADA – ROCK STEADY KRISTINE W – THROUGH THE FIRE ** BONUS TRACK ** KIMBRA – TWO WAY STREET (COREYOGRAPHY AEROPLANE INTRO EDIT)

FIRST OF TWO MIXES DEDICATED TO MARRIAGE EQUALITY! LET'S GET EQUAL! Featuring remixes from RYTHYM MASTERS, MYNC, SANNA and PITRON, AYLEM, FUNK AVY, DAVID GUETTA, WIDEBOYS, TOMMIE SUNSHINE , RAZOR N GUIDO, HOXTON WHORES, COREY CRAIG, WESTFUNK, FEVERPITCH AND SEAMUS HAJI WYNTER GORDON – I FEEL LOVE (RHYTHM MASTERS |MYNC) SATURDAYS – 30 DAYS (SANNA PITRON ) AFROJACK FT SHERMANOLOGY – CAN’T STOP ME (AYLEN REMIX) DAVID GUETTA FT WHITNEY – NOT RIGHT TITANIUM (FUNK AVY) GUETTA ROMERO SIA – WILD ONE TWO NELLY FURTADO – BIG HOOPS (BIGGER THE BETTER) WIDEBOYS AZEALIA BANKS FT LAZY JAY – 212 (TOMMIE SUNSHINE) KARMIN – BROKENHEARTED (RAZOR GUIDO) BLUE BOY – REMEMBER ME (HOXTON WHORES) ANGEL STOXX VS SWEET BROWN – AIN’T NOBODY (COREYOGRAPHY MASH) SAM SPARRO – I WISH I NEVER MET YOU (WESTFUNK REMIX) REBECCA FERGUSON – GLITTER AND GOLD (FEVERPITCH) GOSSIP – PERFECT WORLD (SEAMUS HAJI) EMELI SANDE – MY KINDA LOVE (WIDEBOYS)

"A freeze-frame of your eye in the strobelight...I'm indestructible" - Robyn. A return to my style of a great DJ set mix. A wave crest of energy house, then a trough of melodic mellow trance half way in, then build back to the house crest at the end. An emotional journey on an EDM roller coaster. Enjoy the ride! Track List (56:00): Love U More (Oxford Hustlers Club Mix) - Oxford Hustlers feat. Katherine Ellis: A remake of the 1992 top 40 and #1 dance hit by Sunscreem. I loved it back then and am thrilled that Katherine is the voice this time. "You can make the sun turn purple, You can make the sea turn turtle, You can make me dance to order. My sex hung, torn, and quartered, But you know you can never make me love you more." Paradisco (Extended Vocal Mix) - Arno Cost, Norman Doray & Ben Macklin: "I'm smiling on a Monday...I am not myself when I get round you. You bring out the best in me." So right indeed. My fave track on this set. Son Of A Gun (Yuksek Remix) - Oh Land: "But I am burned out on this rush... I want to change my orbit...This time I won’t save you...You son of a gun." Yuksek ruled the vocodor on this mix to great effect. Raining (Extended Mix) - Kaskade & Adam K feat. SunSun: "I'm in the car speeding from the past but it's raining on my windshield tonight. Praying it won't last... tonight." Two of my faves, Kaskade & Adam K, in one fantastic emotional tune. Indestructible (R2C2 Sydney Mix) - Robyn: My Madonna in the past year. "And I never was smart with love, I let the bad ones in and the good ones go, But I'm gonna love you like I've never been hurt before, I'm gonna love you like I'm indestructible." Saul Ruiz and Corey Craig, from NYC (holla!), teamed up a year or so ago and formed R2C2. Thank Saul for providing the remix. I appreciate that they kept the orchestration in their remix. Second fave track on this set. www.saulruiz.com www.coreycraig.com That Day (Myon & Shane 54 Club Mix) - Dresden & Johnston feat. Nadia Ali & Mikael Johnston: We are now at the trough just after the initial drop on our rollercoaster. Once again, two faves, Myon & Shane 54 and Nadia Ali, in one fantastic emotional tune. "We tried so hard, on that day, you left me standing there...I watched you walk away." Always (Sacha M Remix) - Manendra And Eva Kade: "Beautiful dream the eyes, and their drowning me this night, I have always learned their in my heart be sure...worry, don't worry, You are my only love."French producer Sacha M brings a soaring trance take to the equally wonderful original. I've Had Friends (Jean Elan Extended Remix) - Morgan Page feat. Jan Burton: I'm pretty sure you know by now that Morgan Page is God! "You were sensible to the very bitter end, my friend. Don't depend on those friends who pretend and lie." Whew those are some lyrics and Jean Elan mixed a fantastic hard beat to match. We're on our way up that crest on our rollercoaster. Embrace (Fred Falke & Miami Horror Remix) - Pnau: The original was on my January '09 mix set This Disco Doesn't Lie. Thank to fan Dalton Link who suggested it on my Facebook fan page. Starry Eyed (Penguin Prison Remix ft. Theophilus London) - Ellie Goulding: "Next thing we're touching." Finally, a remix of this song that I enjoy. Barbara Streisand (Original Mix) - Duck Sauce: "Barbra Streisand UUUUUUUUUUUUUUU, UUUUUUUUUUUUUUU" LOL. Ride is over. Now go get in line again. 

"Something you can dance to" (track 2). Heavy on the vocal house this time. Your first summer mix is here. Time to dance on gravity! Make sure to vote for your favorite track on the Poll tab on my Facebook fan page. Your votes help determine the upcoming fan favorites summer mix. Track List (58:33): Dancing On My Own - Robyn: Is Robyn about to become the next electonica pop queen? Just maybe. Easily my fave tune on here. From the first of three new albums to be released in 2010. Looking forward to the tune called "Don’t Fucking Tell Me What to Do". Someone has been busy. DJ (I Could Be Dancing) (Fascination Club Mix) - Alphabeat: "Spin my world round like a record now." Something you can definitely dance to. Don't Stop Dancing - Kaskade & EDX feat. Haley: Kaskade returns with a new album. One of the best tracks in my humble opinion. Alligator (Morgan Page Remix) - Tegan & Sara: MORGAN PAGE! 'nuff said. Also, download my tribute mix "Morgan Page is God!" Invisible Light (Kerry Poynter Visible Extension Edit) - Scissor Sisters: Ask me about running into lead singer Jake Shears at Greenhouse in NYC.  Time (Original Mix) - Xpress 2 feat. James Yuill: A break up tune? I love the lyric:"In this trouble time in this time of war it is nasty and rotten." Dust in Gravity (Sultan & Ned Shepard Remix) - Delerium feat. Kreesha Turner: Sultan & Ned have been on fire lately. Welcome back Delerium. My Love (Down By The Sea Remix) - Sunfreakz feat. Dawn Joseph: Forget the other vocal mixes of this tune. This 'sea' mix is meant for summer! Rocket (Grum Remix) - Goldfrapp: The third remix of this fantastic tune. Grum rarely disappoints. Things Can Only Get Better (Club Mix) - Knightshock: The top ten 80's hit by Howard Jones is reborn. Acapella (R2C2 Club Mix) [Ruiz & Craig Club Mix] - Kelis: Fellow New Yorker's Saul Ruiz and Corey Craig breathe new life into Kelis. Check out Saul's web page at http://www.saulruiz.com. Make sure to get his remix of Fight for You by Morgan Page! Alive (Dave Aude Remix) - Goldfrapp: The second Goldfrapp tune on this set. Check out the other mixes 'cause they are just as bangin'.