john fortt, what are key nuggets we are looking for?key nugget that you want to look for is the core google units operating income. just to give you a sense of the numbers that we're expecting from alphabet overall revenue just over $22 billion. earnings per share $8.63. you have overall alphabet and then the core google business. the core google numbers are important because pretty much all of the revenue comes from there. it's the nongap operating income of core google which should be around $8.7 billion. google spent probably around a billion dollars on other things so overall alphabet's overall operating income is going to be lower. you want to see core googles profitability high enough that google can afford to spend on other things and hopefully that is not too much. >> we'll talk to you soon about that. >>> we have the dow still down about 28 points. dealing with a bit of uptick. joined here on the floor by kevin nicholson. how are you navigating here? >> we have been in the range for three or four months. different groups doing

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john, i love jon fortt, but i don't care where i'm going to eat, i enjoy human interaction.only one? i'm not pushing an ipad to order anything. >> it's good service versus like when people know what they're doing versus the ones that -- >> the problem is i got two little humans 8 and 5 years old who are enter being aing with me in the restaurant. i don't need anybody else. i just want to order the food, keep the kids under control. >> guy is the by you don't want to be standing next to in line. >> you don't want to stand next to me in any line. >> let's get to pandora. put a little music on to the chat. julia boorstin, how did they do? >> disappointed both top and bottom lines. a loss of 7 cents per share you c can, would be cent worse than expected. expectations of $366 million. perhaps more concerning is the outlook lighter than expected. the key number are the listener hours annum and number of acti listeners. it grew, but that is less than the 5.5 billion hours that was expected. and ending number of active listeners was 77.9 million. and it's actually down from the year