I am in a weird bend diagram of people who know a lot of what's there across the web assembly. So let me know if you know anyone else who fits in the middle there. And I'm a demo enthusiast. You're going to see a little bit of a demo, but I don't have a ton of stuff to show you today. So I like to start off by saying what I'm going to talk about, start with what is assembly, then talk about what this was and talk about the nightmare, which is what we ran into with distributed applications, and then open telemetry, implementation, and talk about what's next for us and what's next for what we've seen for our observability. Now, before we get into this, I'm actually pretty curious, who has heard of bug assembly before. Nice. That's a pretty good amount. Who has heard of bug assembly in the context of running on the server, not in a web assembly? Kind of a smaller amount of people. So today, we're going to be talking about what is assembly on the server side, not specifically running in the browser. So it's like, okay, I need to open that. Is that fun? All right. Cool. So we have this kind of in this way of introducing bug assembly as neither web assembly because what it started as is a way to run native code like a C program in the browser. Needed to be small, needed to be efficient, needed to be fast, and we want to be able to reuse a bunch of code that we have in current C libraries. But when you look at those aspects for deployment target, there's a lot of things that are even staying on the server side. We want our services to be rapidly scalable. We want them to be small. And when I say small, a typical web assembly model is 20 kilobytes to 200, 300 kilobytes. And we want it to be secure. We want it to run in a denied by default sandbox that gives us security in a way that a lot of popular platforms don't give you today. There aren't very many, you know, we need to avoid things in an always in a container. There are lots of things that you can kind of pack on top of that like set com, like security policies. But when the assembly starts that in the beginning, everything is denied by default. It's an open W-increasing standard, so this is supported by the same organization, and kind of just forward HTML, CSS, JavaScript, you know, the development of the spec is still supported by them. And notably is polyglot. So the whole native web or assembly is, you know, first model for web, but then the assembly is, it's not really like the assembly language that you would write. You write code in the language of your choice, and you compile it to an assembly. So, and sitting at analogy is like the way that Java works. And I know that, you know, some people may take events for that analogy, but like you write code in Java, you compile it to Java by code, and you run that on the Java VM, right? For web assembly, write code in the language of your choice. The language's list is constantly growing.  So the web assembly part itself is completely architecture and operating system like that. But even with all the promise, all the great things that I'm saying, there are still three large gaps in running web assembly along the server side. The language support is really great for some languages, Rust, C, Grain, you know, some things like assembly script, but it's still pretty limited. Things like Java, scripting languages, some other languages don't really work quite well with it. But it's still quickly growing. I came from Plot. It was a day a little bit earlier today, and there's constant language talks about, like Python support, Ruby support, things like that. Networking was a huge problem for a while, but it's still, you know, even though you can technically open a socket with web assembly, it's still pretty rough around the edges. And when you interact with a web assembly module from outside, the interaction model is like importing and exporting functions. So it's still pretty rough. When you get down to trying to write a web assembly module and you want to write a hello world, right? But you add to your feeling great.  As soon as you have to take a string and pass a pointer and a link to read an array of bytes to write a string, you go like, all right, obviously, but this is not the thing that I would be writing. But everything else is so complicated. You know, all of this is leading up to what I and my co-maintenors have been working on in the Wasm Cloud for the past two to three years. The way that we see the modern computing environment is things are getting smaller and smaller, and the more and more complexity is abstracted away from the developer, you know, starting from everything tightly coupled to a PC, to the public cloud, the virtual machines, and then what much of the world runs on today, which is containers, we're further and further abstracting things away and reducing developer responsibility on these aspects. And of course there's some nuance to that. But the status quo is you're not worrying about the underlying kernel when you're running a doc container. You still do have to kind of compile for Linux, and if you want to cross-compile like the new AWS traffic lines, since it's coming out, and you weren't doing build-nets before, you do have to compile the harm for those, right? The way that we see WebAssembly is that it creates a completely platform-like non-stake target, so that now developers, they write their code, compile it to WebAssembly, they can run it anywhere, and that reduces their responsibility and management burden for people who are actually doing DevOps or other platform work. Now, Wasm Cloud, the project, this is an application run plan. It's focused on distributed computing. So running these WebAssembly modules wherever and seamlessly connecting them, we have to do with a technology called NAS. You may have heard that you may have used it as an SD broker. We're also abstracting away non-functional requirements for what we call capabilities. So when you think of an application you want to write, like a to-do application, your functional requirements are you want to create, read, update, delete, to-do, right? That's the code that, you know, business logic, the code that you as a developer want to get down and writing. It's not the non-functional requirements that you need for your after work, but it's not code that you're ultimately writing. Your HTTP server library, make sure that you're getting with us your key value connector, the library that you're sending key value requests back and forth. These are open source projects that you import and then you have to manage, but you haven't actually done it. And so, you know, this is what and this actually works really fine for a long time and it's not that complex. But when you see things like vulnerabilities coming out of open source libraries, when a vulnerability happens in a library that isn't your own, you know, in the source, you still have to go and update that and see, recompile your container, redeploy as a product from all those things. There are automated tools that certainly make that easier, but wouldn't it be better if I like that in the beginning? Now, I've talked about Web Summit a little bit and I'm going to talk about Wasm Cloud and our five different layers of architecture and I'm just going to preface this that my goal of this talk is not to completely just sell you on the product that's working on. This is all open source in any ways, but I want to lay the foundation because when I talk about the way that we've implemented open elementary and tracing across our entire stack, it's important because there are a lot of complicated layers. So the base level, we're running Web Summit. We run Rebson Lee, developers write it, so we're taking advantage of all that platforming mastic on the aspect of Wasm. The Wasm Cloud application runtime is written in Elixir and Rust and it kind of deals with the orchestration of each Web Summit modules and connecting them to those non-functional requirements that we call capabilities. And capabilities is kind of a loaded term. People talk about capabilities in a purely academic sense, like access to a single file or access to a single socket as a capability. We get it in a more broad contract sense. You are coding your application in terms of an abstract contract, something like a simple store or a mastic broker or an event source system. But you don't actually mention a vendor. You don't mention the runtime implementation because you actually have to take that. On your local machine, you can code it with Redis. You can deploy it abroad in whatever enterprise cloud, whatever you use that key value store instead. It doesn't have to be a Redis one. It can be like an object store that implements key value functionality. This is really important because the move from development to production is still a hugely painful story. I previously worked at a really large company, a large U.S. financial institution and the often needed developers are waiting 15 minutes in the development loop because they make a change in their container. They push to get up, Jenkins picks it up, it builds, it deploys the dev, and then you see if your code actually changed. That's a huge pain in the butt on Season On, so I know that people just made it. The composable app here is these are our web assembly modules where you implement the functionality of your app. This is what developers are writing and what's really important for us to experience is needs to be crisp and painless experience. I'll show you a good example to hopefully know this one. The last part is the lattice network. This is what seemingly joins all the compute together no matter where it's physically running and then this is all enabled by NAS under the hood. So messages, RPC calls are passed back and forth with NAS. It doesn't matter where it's actually running. Now Cosmonic, company I work for, building a distributed platform on top of the Wasm Cloud. We actually diluted our whole product. I'm giving another talk about that on Wednesday at the main conference, which is fun. Please let me know if you're interested in that and hope to see you there. But the whole goal is a painless experience for people developing applications. And when you think about tracing and open supplementary and metrics and logging, those all fit into the non-functional requirement piece of an application. So you don't actually need tracing to run your to-do app. But if something goes wrong, sure would be nice to know where that thing went wrong and how long things are taking to your system. So when we're thinking about this from the perspective of the user, it's a non-functional requirement and we don't want people to have to deal with that. So a simple Wasm Cloud application, I said it to do the app and another popular thing to do is a key value counter. So receive HTTP requests, increment value in key value store, returning HTTP value. Pretty basic. The key value counter, this is your WebSimly module. You write the code like get HTTP requests, return HTTP response, increment value in key value store. The actual code for this is going to look pretty similar to what you may have seen the light function as a service offering because it's a reactive piece of compute as a single function like I said, receive HTTP requests, return HTTP response and even if you haven't seen the rest before, hopefully this isn't too difficult to grok you're getting a key value center no mention of if this is Redis or you know what app you have and you're incrementing it in a key value store returning the new values as bytes. So we talk about tracing for users of the open source or users of our product. We don't want them to have to come in here and had all these like macros derived traits and things to just add a span or make sure that they know what's happening with their workloads. So lots of background I'll keep going, but this is all just a service of showing you the developer experience for Watson Cloud and some of the what it looks like to write a web assembly app that's not too wacky. Now, I like to talk about what we call the distributed systems nightmare. We send a complicated request across multiple different systems we expect something to happen it does not happen, we go find the log and what does the law say? Right? What? Where is that actually happening? There's nothing it doesn't give me information and so to give a concrete example one of the things that we do is a platform Cosmonic Space Team is we open wormholes for people you can think of this like an interest point when people have like a second fit amount like a network space they need to be able to get HTTP requests you open a wormhole interest point into their network space. So whenever we do one of these things, we have our API that sends a network request to a web assembly module that sends another network request to another web assembly module to actually do the work another web assembly module picks up that event, we use an event source system but I'm trying to go down that route and it actually projects that so that we know the state of the entire system and when you look at something like this which to be fair is actually not even super complicated there are a lot of places that get error or timeout it could have come from right and all of these things could be running on the same machine all these things could be running on different means, different containers you have no idea where something went wrong and so you know trying to get some mileage out of some means that I enjoy lately right but getting the timeout or getting the over responders is so unhelpful and you know spent us took us multiple hours debugging which time has happened just to nail down the core issue. What we want is just this, what we just want when we send an operation, if it fails, where did it fail and you know sounds simple right, sounds like we would have designed this from the beginning but we didn't and here we are. So implementing this as I mentioned the Cosmomic platform runs on top of the on top of Wazel Cloud which is our open source experience and so when we implement it for our platform we actually go to implement it in the open source and that's the same thing which is a great consequence of us downloading our own products because we need that back right at the end. So there are three different kind of components that I talk about for a long time, the capability providers of the actual implementation of services and then the web assembly modules so you know I just took some great shots on a few pages. In Elitzer traces are stable and for us traces are stable web simply and it's because web assembly modules can actually interact with an outside environment without exclusive permission so we can make that work request for traces to a URL or even read a file on disk without exclusive permission not to mention that the web assembly modules are what our developers are right we don't want them, we want them to automatically be able to have tracing if they want it and not have them themselves. So just a little bit of a closer view into the host architecture we have our Wazel Cloud OTP Elitzer OTP host that's the thing about web assembly, we have implementations of services called providers, those are Rust binary so that's actually great support for our tracing and Rust so the host itself can be traced the actual provider we can trace the code that developers are writing is a web assembly module and can actually export that so what we actually did we have a really big wrapper which is in a Berlin or Elitzer process which is super lightweight and not an OS process that actually kind of inspired when Gover teams are today so very lightweight that wraps the web assembly module listens for our PC calls and traces it on the way in and the way out so when we implement this in the open source developers actually get that tracing for free so as soon as we implemented it developers can flip the hotel switch provide an exporter and they get all their workloads traced which is great going back to the a few slides this piece of code this is something a developer would write they upgrade to a lot of version 50 whatever and then it's automatic none of this code actually is changed which is our home goal our home goal with how computing should be is that to change your non functional requirements your logic shouldn't have to change should have just included that again you know I was talking about a specific trace what we're creating and what we're creating and first point to somebody's face right this is the trace so we implemented it across all of our different services you can see like what does this one have six different services each change in color here is a network hop and all the way down the stack we have an internal provider built in SAR and it kind of sees everything and you can see the entire flow actually down to the bottom that one is probably the small but that one has actually collapsed this trace has a depth of 81 states so when something happens you go over yourself and you see this you get angry you can come back all the way down you can see that this request failed because of a no responders issue of maps which means there wasn't a service listening on the other side super helpful immediately to get down to the source of the issue I know I'm preaching to the choir here because this is open observability day but we're just so really excited about it we didn't have this from the beginning and now I wonder how we ever lived without it right not to mention that this is exactly what people who are developing apps we wasn't about to get automatically out of the box so when we talk about the amazing trace the kind of inspiration for this talk there is this is the amazing trace when somebody comes to our platform and clicks login we're in open developer preview anybody can come and sign up and try it out we provisioned them a new and that includes like giving them a key value bucket giving them a segment to network space setting a lot of things up for them so that when they hit big ground and this is a heck of a trace we're using Honeycomb Honeycomb has been great I'm not saying that we are doing everything perfectly as much as I'm here to talk I'm also here to learn so please feel free to offer suggestions on how to make our own trace and things better but when you look at this like we're overflowing the CSS of this actual product just the provision a new user Honeycomb you know and I like to chat but this is the kind of thing that if a new person comes on to try our platform and they say hey my account didn't like work like I didn't get an account and I signed up who's going to want to go to find where this is we don't need to raise it so we had a lot of I had something that really goes to the say here and different services and it has a depth of 342 traces big not seconds ideal but it's what we do when we're provisioning a new person so like I said I'm going to try to get some mileage out of a company means while I'm here I'm going to get some mileage out of some means I think this is probably the last year that I'm going to be able to use this one before it becomes overused but talk a lot of good things and was it all great on the implementation side no, it was actually kind of painful when we got down to doing that and part of that is because we're retroactively implementing something in our system and let this be a lesson that I'm going to continue to preach the wire here you can start with those are ability it's a little easier than doing it later on so the kind of difficulties that we had in implementation I saw people who were speaking here from Krippana this is not a fault of you I think I actually, we probably missed it but we're using tempo at the time because it's free, it has an open source container it's really easy to just start up and get working and at the time it didn't support the scout portal traces so like if I could do something and it fails I had to go back in my logs find the trace ID and search it through that I couldn't actually search through the list of things that happened recently but someone actually came in from our community and said hey that thing actually does have this newer version and so I probably would come back and update these slides before coming here now, on the elixir side it's actually kind of a surprise it's all one kind of module on the REST side we needed tracing, tracing futures to deal with asynchoade boundaries and tracing subscriber to deal with like wall padding and using this finding the correct indication of the correct spell to use across the different libraries is actually pretty difficult and when you think about preserving traces when you go into asynblocks or tasks that are pushed off in the background it's kind of unintuitive and it takes very good effort to do that correctly another pain point is linking spans and traces together across network boundaries is difficult across language boundaries is difficult and doing both at the same time requires a lot of consistent checking especially across elixir which is a dynamically typed language like free crawl and rust which is a statically typed and very scripted language on the compiler so linking them together like that kb counter app that I showed you a little earlier getting htdp request trace starts as a network request over nas to go to the web assembly module and then exit the web assembly module to go to the key value provider which is written in rust so what two or three network hops and two language boundaries even just as simple as the case is complicated of course we took on the complexity and it works it was just something that we had to put a little consistent effort into now things are great but there's no tracing within web assembly modules at this time and I think that's next keeping the developer experience pure for developers so that when they come in and they want tracing they provide an export and done but there are legitimate reasons within a single piece of code to want to add as full span as we do it at the 5.0 level developers should have that control initially if that's what they want to do open telemetry logging metrics are things that are kind of like in alpha or not implemented stage in elixir and rust and so that's next for us as soon as those things come out we're already tracing saturday logging metrics that too and just to note I know that some products have kind of done this recently like they release a version of their product and you run your workload using it or it's a new terminal they're actually tracing what you do and that can make people pretty uncomfortable and it makes me personally uncomfortable we don't actually trace customers for cosmetic we have the ability to supply an export URL the next for us is allowing people to bring their own exporter so that when they run their workloads they can have their own individual things traced and exported but it's something that we actually see like we're launching a compute for them but we don't enable tracing we don't watch over their workloads things like that I think it's really important we love to set up a learning this is probably the capability and the income but alerting for failed traces and of course sampling where at the beginning of our product phase we're already generating like 200 billion events now 20 million events which is a ton alright that is about all that so for some references all of the Wasm cloud is open source feel free to join our Slack if you're interested in what we can do on the server side check it out we're pretty proud of our developer experience and the capability providers are like implementations where we have traces and this is kind of a final note kind of a shameless plug Cloud Made of Wasm Day is today and my actual whole company is here we're really excited about Wasm we're hosting an event tonight with one of our contemporaries and tomorrow kind of a web assembly crash course if anyone is interested in these things it's free to attend we will be there and happy to come and ask any questions about Wasm I think I have a few like 2-3 minutes so any questions? thank you first it's really amazing to see where also probably two of the same standards that goes typical language course servers build into a system such as Wasm is pretty interesting for me any questions? thank you comment on the large tracing we'll talk about that later it's funny I'm curious about your experience with the hotel box and specifically when you were learning how to do tracing with Rust what's the hotel let's be a little like 1-10 you don't want to use a hotel anymore and 10 is everything's perfect so how would you rate the experience and what are some things that could have improved if you had the ability to just wave a magic wand and make them yeah so every language does and with Rust what I commonly do I've been a Rust developer for a couple of years is I go to the crate or library for the same thing and I feel like tracing on crace.io comes up right away click on it and what I expect personally is that in that crate documentation is a quick start guide the things that you need to know and where to go from there maybe not central to the github but at least if all the quick start and how this works isn't going to be all contained better than linking out some more else the fact that the functionality we needed to span three different crates is not ideal but not awful there are other things that do that probably say what was one was bad and ten was a beautiful place I think the whole experience probably left us all in like a six or seven the discoverability of what we need to do specifically around like a single wave which is if you have rarely been used for us as kind of a pain point for the ecosystem that was the big thing because we would implement what we saw tracing shoot off an indication and like you get disconnected traces and wanting like the right function to call for that was difficult great, any other question I can probably do a fast question I got up one minute more question from Isaac for such less traces how much what you're paying for honeycomb to ingest what was mistaken I don't know I don't know but ok so what are the questions like what's your plan for such big trades do you what's your future plan yeah so we implemented tracing right great but that whole like 342 that like it's obviously not very affordable is better if we get a lot more observability but for our whole platform we need a little bit more specific we need to be able to point to places better than dropping the span and like each place where it could fail and tagging from there um you know other than that it's down to feedback from the community people who use wasm cloud and are used to using tracing so this is some really you know you guys have it I believe what I'm used to it's really up to that one more question this is to get an opinion I mentioned at the start that like people don't want to have to write traces but we've also always intentionally written lots and metrics I'm just curious about like why people think they don't want to use this because they think traces are something people don't want to write them so I'll maybe is it okay to answer this question about this topic yeah I kind of want to clarify what I meant I don't think that people don't want to write traces I think they don't want to have to set up the entire system and do the things that we did like setting up the specific the right invocation for traces to be exported and connected and all of that I think people want tracing on their functions but if they're going to do it then it should just be a single line like how they do an error it should just be like a new span and calling it this, attaching these fields things like that so now that we have that that's not a capability for them to be able to use but like I said that's on kind of our what's next list the logs that they're using should be attached to the traces and not just kind of freeform which is up to like a hotel logging but is that going to help clarify what I meant and to be fair if we had automatic traces yeah whatever it's going to end up with traces like we have a huge thing because if we just trace every function call it's not useful information sounds like some balance it's a high resolution thank you very much


Aloha and welcome to another episode of Hawaii Food and Farmer's Series. I'm your co-host Matt Johnson and we are here every other Thursday talking to Hawaii's movers and shakers in local agriculture and food. So this is our holiday edition, so Merry Christmas and also happy winter solstice. So also with me today is a co-host, Pomei Weigert, who is new to the show, but you'll be seeing a lot more of her. So welcome, Pomei. Hi, everyone. Thank you for joining the Think Tech and Hawaii Food and Farmer's Series team. Here to help. Yeah, you are. Even more than you know. Yeah. Thanks for having me. Of course. As always, you can join the conversation by tweeting at ThinkTechHI and you can even call in if you're not into the online social media at<PHONE_NUMBER>. So Pomei, why don't we go ahead and get started and have you introduce our guests? Sure. Everyone, this is Jessica Rohr, but we just call her Jess for short. And she has a business that deals with local meats, so I'm going to pass it over to her and she's going to tell us a little bit about what she's been doing, what she's been up to. Yeah. Thank you guys for having me. So I sell local meats at Farmer's Markets. We have three markets so far. We do the Aloha Farm Lovers at Kaka Ako and then Kailua. And then we also have one at Waianae on Saturdays as well. So I sell grass fed beef, 100% grass fed beef, wild Maui Nui Venison. We have Niihau Lamb and Niihau Analope, which are pretty much wild. There's no fences. Yeah. And then we also have Mikilua Pork from Two Lady Farmers. Oh. Yeah, we occasionally sell fish and a few other things and spices, but primarily just focusing on local meats and trying to increase the availability of that. So should we talk about how you got to this point? Yeah. Is that kind of what's next on the agenda? Let's go there. Okay. So I started out with a food truck, not really wanting to do a food truck, but I didn't want to get stuck in a hot box all day. But what I really wanted to do was to get people to eat more venison because I just thought it's such a great meat that we have. It's sustainable. It's invasive. It's delicious and it's really good for you. So I was also fishing at the time, so we had a lot of fish. And I just wanted to get it out there. So a friend of mine had a food truck. And so we were selling food out of the food truck. I was not super stoked about being stuck in a food truck all day. It was kind of hot. And then I just wanted it. I wasn't feeling like I was reaching enough people with the venison and whatnot. And then I also realized that we're not selling that. At the time, we weren't really selling it. Retail, like nobody could get their hands on it besides maybe a restaurant. So that's where I created our first little pop-up meat market at Kakaako. And it started out really slow. And that was about a year ago in October. But now we do about 1,000 pounds a month of various meats. Yeah. And hoping to do more and hoping to reach more people with a pasture-to-door delivery service. Yeah. Hopefully by next month. OK. So what's the experience like? So if we came and saw you at Aloha Farm Lovers market, what would we expect? Yeah, so we have a variety of cuts, depending on what's in stock. And we also do special orders. But everything comes vacuum sealed USDA inspected and fresh frozen. And I have an example. Oh, you're going to show us. Yay. So it's getting a little frosty here. But this is some Maui Nui venison. So it's packed just like that. I want to see. Yeah. You have to thaw it out. But all our customers have been really happy with the quality. Maui Nui does a really great job with the venison. This is a pack of stew meat. And also on my Instagram story, I do a lot of cooking with these meats. And I have a venison taco recipe up on there on the Instagram. And then I'm going to continue to create more recipes, because a lot of people, they get the meat, and then they want to know how to cook it. So that's how it comes. You can purchase anything from the beef, different cuts. We have ground beef. We have steaks. We have stew meats and sliced meats. And then venison racks, or venison loin, or ground venison, lamb loin, ground lamb, and a variety of other cuts. And then we also do sausages. So that's going to. Are you a one man show? Or? I've got some helpers. Yeah, it's been a lot of work in the last year to try and get it going. And it's not as hard as the food truck. So anybody who's got a food truck up there can give you a lot of credit. Yeah, so that's what we're selling so far. And then we're hoping to get chickens eventually, too, in the mix. So Jess, talk a little bit about these different kinds of meats, because if somebody isn't familiar, they probably don't quite appreciate just, I guess, some of the inherent challenges that comes with all those different types of meats that you're talking about. So you said the venison, beef, pork, is it antelope? Yeah, even antelope. Antelope and also lamb, which are coming from Niihau. So basically you're sourcing all these meats from different islands. And just talk a little bit about maybe a couple of those meats, because I know there's interesting stories, especially with the venison. Yeah, and that's something that I wish I could share more of when we're at the market. We're usually kind of busy. But what I really want to do is tell the story of the hard work behind it that these ranchers or hunters do. And the stories are really the most phenomenal part. And I like to say it's beyond organic. We have an animal that's just completely in pasture. They don't eat any other feed. And they really attest to the health of the animal. And it is a little bit pricier, but the animal has a better life. It's been raised humanely. And it's local. So yeah, there are some challenges, I'm sure, with the economics of everything, because they require a lot of land. So I think the ranches that we source from, they do have a backbone in that. And I hope that as the demand grows, that they'll be able to see more economic feasibility from that stance. What do you think people buy most of? And then what do you think is a harder thing to sell, even though it's really good? Yeah, definitely the beef is our number one seller. And I love that they're raised 100% grass-fed. And they have 25,000 acres to roam on. And I love beef. But yeah, I'd love to see more people eating the venison. Definitely. That's where my heart is in all of this. And that's why I started it. And it's delicious. So that's, I guess, where the program comes in, that I need to spend a little bit more time on creating recipes. Because when it's done well, people don't even notice it. Like in my food truck, we did beer-braised venison tacos. And people would just order the beer. It was like, how? Just the beer-braised. Well, I was like, can I get the beer? And I'm like, you mean the venison? They're like, what's that? So yeah, I mean, I'm learning from that, too, that I got to sample more and that sort of thing. But the sausages are easy because most people are willing to try the sausages. Yeah, but it is tricky in terms of getting it to market. But we've come up with a pretty good system. And now I think we can expand on that, especially with being able to deliver to people's homes in the next year. So no delivery quite yet? We have a beta version going. If I get an order over $100, then we'll work it out. And I just did a delivery actually right before I came here. But yeah, so that's kind of the end goal and online ordering and that sort of thing. So right now, most of my customers just come to the market and pick up there. But it's great because it's all vacuum sealed. It's good for three to four months or more. And you can just load up, have it in your freezer. I mean, when you thought out, it can be in the fridge for up to two weeks because it's vacuum sealed. So that's something you don't get really from the store for most cuts. Yeah. Great. So you have any thoughts. So is your background in cooking or is it hunting? I mean, how? A little bit of both. How did you kind of this all get started? Yeah, yeah. They call it a multi-potential aid, I think, is the word. So you do too many things in all different directions. But before I started doing the food truck, I had been working on a fishing boat for five years. And that's kind of where the food truck was. It was like venison and fish. We wanted to sell this wild stuff. And I guess going hunting with friends and eating the venison and going fishing and catching my own fish and eating that, it was like this meal that was kind of like our ancestors would eat, was like a privilege. And I just felt like this shouldn't be a privilege. You should all be able to eat like this. You know, it costs money. But yeah, some of my background, I mean, I've done a lot of different things. But the fishing, I dabbled in agriculture with aquaponics. You know, basically I just wanted to eat fish and I couldn't afford it. I was like, OK, I'm going to go fish. I'm going to raise fish. I'm going to raise food. But from the get-go, as soon as I had to buy my own food, I've always been into farmer's markets and eating local and sourcing local. And then I love hunting and fishing and all of that. And actually, even the farm process of slaughter and that sort of things I'm interested in, yeah. Great. So thanks for the future. I know you said you want to do some online. You want to do a little bit more delivery. Any different kinds of meats other than chicken that you're looking at? Yeah, so the chicken, we should actually have some next week, actually. But there's a really neat project going on a Maui with Maui Nui, the people who source our venison. So it's a team of hunters. And basically they're trying to create value from feral populations. So they haven't stopped at venison. They're actually going on to wild cattle. So they're literally helicoptering cattle off the mountains of Kahikinui. And it's all Hawaiian homeland, so a lot of the meat will go back to the Hawaiian communities, but then also to recoup some of the costs of helicoptering cattle off a mountain. They will be selling some. So we look forward to that this coming year. And we'll also, through them, have some venison jerky that's really good. I've had samples. And I think they have a program as well with some kind of schools program where they'll make jerky out of the wild cattle and give it to kids for school. And so they've got a really amazing program over there. And I've been on the hunt with them for the venison. And it's top-notch. I mean, it's just phenomenal. Yeah, and it's amazing that they even got the USDA certification for it in the first place. But they got it because they do such a good job. And they have everything dialed in. And the safety of everything is top-notch for duration. And cleanliness is, I mean, it's superb. Yeah, because the process to be able to harvest wild venison is pretty ridiculous. I mean, from what I know, correct me if I'm wrong, this is one of the only USDA-certified operations for wild animals in the country.  Yeah, I believe, I'm not sure if it's only wild. I know it's the only wild venison because all other venison from the mainland is farmed or penned. But there's also the wild antelope on Niihau that we get. But yeah, I believe it was like a three-year process. I speak with, I've spoken with the hunter and owner of Keohua'i, who sources the deer. And I mean, the amount of money and the process that they went through was, it's a miracle that they were able to do it. But they kind of attribute it to their inspector being more agreeable than maybe others. Because they have to have an inspector on site when they're actually going out and hunting. Right, and that guy's got the gun. So you don't just go out with the gun and just start shooting, it's a planned process. Yeah, that guy's definitely got the best job out of any inspector, right? He gets to go out and hunting. I think it's time for another hunt. Yeah, it's really cool. They have permits and they use military-grade night vision. And so one of the requirements is that they're harvested humanely. And so the animals don't get spooked or freaked out, and then their meat is gonna even taste better because it won't have the stress and the hormones. And they have to get a perfect shot so the animal dies instantly. So it's a perfect head shot, right? Yes, perfect head shot. And this is at night. It's so cool. And sometimes do they hunt from a helicopter or is it just strictly on land? No, the state has, I believe, done some harvesting that way. But these guys actually just go out on ATVs. There's four of them. They go at night. They work really, really hard. And then they have a mobile slaughter unit. And that's how they do it. Did you post a picture of them on your Instagram? Yeah, yeah. Okay, so those are the cool guys.  Yeah, yeah. I'm lucky enough to have gone with them, which was really cool to see. And is there training? They were trained. They just grew up doing that. Yeah, I mean, I think, I know a couple of them are from Molokai. Oh, okay, great. That's like, they're not when you're born, right? But, yeah, they're really good. Yeah, they have to be good at it. So I'm not sure if they've been trained, but they were looking for another person, I think, to join the team. But it's a really hard, yeah, it's a really hard job to fulfill. Yeah, well, because you have to be that good. You have to be as good as them. And I guess that's why my passion kind of lies so much with the venison, because to me it's so cool. But I really do love that we've got such a top-notch beef program, and the lamb, and the antelope, and the chicken, and the pig, so. Okay. Well, that's super exciting. Unfortunately, we have to take a quick break, and then we're gonna come back and talk more about that, and also your cooking. Oh, yeah. Yeah, just give us one minute, and we'll be right back. Good afternoon, my name is Howard Wigg. I am the proud host of Code Green, a program on Think Tech Hawaii. We show at three o'clock in the afternoon every other Monday. My guests are specialists, both from here and the mainland, on energy efficiency, which means you do more for less electricity, and you're generally safer and more comfortable while you're keeping dollars in your pocket. You can be the greatest, you can be the best. You can be the king, come playin' on your chest. You can be the, you can talk to God, don't bangin' on his door. You can buy your hands up, you can be the... Back to Life Food and Farmers series, where we meet every Thursday, talking to Hawaii's agriculture and food movers and shakers. So with me today is my co-host, is Pomew Weigert. Pomew, you wanna introduce our guest again? Yes, we have Jess Rohr from Forage Hawaii. She's talking to us about local meats on many different levels. We just sort of went through her past, present, we're kind of getting to sort of the future, and we wanted to talk, why I wanted you to be here is because you started these cooking demos on your social, on your social media, which really helps. I think people who don't cook with these kinds of meats, not feel so intimidated, you know, I, you make it really, really simple.  It all looks really fancy, but you make it at home. So I kind of just wanted a free to talk to us about how you started doing those and how you do them, why you do them, and what you plan to do with that. Yeah, so I mean, one of the reasons I stopped in the food truck was because I wasn't loving cooking as much as I had been, you know, cooking the same thing over and over and kind of being stuck in a truck. And I almost took like a break from cooking for, I mean, almost, I took a break from cooking and then realized through that my passion is home cooking. Like I'm a home chef. I'm not, you know, it's, there's a reason I didn't get a culinary degree and I love the food science. I love nutrition. And then, and just doing recipes and cooking simply and, you know, meal prep and that sort of thing. So I only recently started doing these Instagram stories of my cooking because I was kind of inspired by a couple of people that I watch on Instagram that cook. And I was like, wow, this is really fun. And I'll have to sit and watch a whole program of food network, you know, so I don't have time for that. So I just click through it. And then I started getting good responses about it coming back and, you know, I don't really have a huge background in cooking besides just loving to cook. So from when I was a kid, like one of my Christmas presents when I was like four was a pan and a spatula and a stool so that I could reach the stove and make scrambled eggs. So I just love it. And it's, I mean, I kind of actually procrastinate with it when you see me doing that. It's more of me just like procrastinating stuff. But it works out because a lot of the people do need ideas, they need recipes and they need to feel like it's not a giant headache. I also noticed that you source a lot of things from a lot of other local purveyors. And are there any favorite local purveyors that you like or new recipes that you've been kind of doing that you've been using an ingredient from a certain farm or a, I feel like what I really like about your template is that it doesn't just help your business. It's helping all these other little businesses. So can you share with us maybe another agricultural business or other businesses that you've been liking recently? Yeah, I mean, I don't prepare, I don't plan recipes ahead of time. I go to the market, I grab a bunch of things and then I open the fridge and like, what am I gonna make? But yeah, there's a new vendor at our market, it's called De La Mesa. And they're part of your GoPro program. Yeah, so they make awesome salsas and then they grow these beautiful little sprouts and microgreens. And so yeah, one of the clips I did recently of our beer-braised tacos, I used some of their products and I mean everything. I love getting the fresh eggs and I've done a lot with Kalamana organic farms so I really like to use their products but Ma'au too, I've lived on the west side for the last five years. So using the farms out there and Chocomore or Kalamana's eggs, Naked Cow Dairy cheese and butter. So kind of trying to incorporate everything where I can make an entire meal with just local produce. And it really isn't as hard as it sounds, besides pepper. Pepper's a hard one. Ok, so you're talking about that gram response you get. So basically you're putting these cooking demonstrations on Instagram and just kind of showing like, Hey, here's a recipe you can do with venison. Actually I think we had even a couple of clips. We can check out here in a minute. So talk a little bit about that. So like, we were talking about earlier like some of the challenges, like yet people are very familiar with beef and porpoise and sometimes you say, Hey, here's venison. People aren't as used to it. Maybe they think it's too gamey. Maybe you think it's bambi. What, I mean what, like what's kind of going on with that and what's the reaction you've been getting? Yeah, I actually have to educate not just about the venison, but even the beef because 100% grass-fed beef, it cooks faster, you know. It requires a little bit more care and you do have to do things differently. So, and one of the things I want to develop as this next year goes on is a recipe program. Cause right now it's really just me being like, Oh, this is how I do it. You know, I'm not like a measuring type of person, but I am working on that. And so yeah, it's good cause I can like get little pieces in there of, you know, this is a good tip for this or this is a good technique. So I guess eventually that'll all be, you know, put onto my website, but the recipes themselves have yet to been right to be written down formally. But yeah, like all the meat requires a little bit of help in terms of learning how to cook it unless you have that culinary background. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And is this anything you've ever like actually, are you showing these videos at the farmers markets or is that something you've ever thought about doing? No, no, this has just happened. This just like, I'm getting messages on Instagram. Like, I love your thing and I love your thing. So now I want to- I do want to be on Think Tech Hawaii cause I really like your cooking clips. Yeah, right. So you start just that. No, no, I knew her from before. She was making me aware that she was going to start going in that direction. And again, made it look so easy. And I really think that that component of opening the fridge and trying to find things that are already in there is also what people are challenged with. You know, like, what do you have? Because I think in people's ideas like, oh, it's going to be so expensive, I got to get all these things. But you source a lot of things that like maybe you might throw away. You know what I mean? Like, oh, I have extra kale or I have extra this or I have extra that. And then you kind of just are like, hmm. Yeah, and I want to put it on this meat and eat it. I want people to be able to do that. You know, have the confidence to do that. So if there is anybody that I can inspire to like not waste as much food, I know there's like a lot more media going out about food waste.  So don't waste food, you know, eat it and do something else with it or just make a commitment to that. So I guess that's one of my things to inspire it. But I want to find a good direction on where that's going to go in terms of doing the videos and cooking. But really I think it comes down to just giving people the confidence to cook more from home and meal prep and use more local products. And I think that's kind of the direction. So we'll see where it goes. Any trends that you see out there in food or agriculture and cooking that maybe have not been quite saturated just yet, you know? Just in, and kind of the things that you create, you know, I feel like to cook, you kind of got to be creative or a solution-based. So while you're out at the markets or you're, you know, pervading this business, do you see anything that's like coming as far as business or industry shifts? You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, I've definitely seen a lot of like fresh box, you know, doing these ready to go things.  And I think it's just convenience, but it's funny. It's like we're doing all convenience, but it's kind of coming back to like learn how to cook and do the steps yourself, which even like fresh box will teach you different techniques, even though it'll give you all the stuff. So I think the trends to cook from home are increased, that's just my opinion, but- You're observational statistic, that's what I'm talking about. But in terms of the- You want to get technical. Yeah, in terms of like the beef industry, like grass-fed beef has increased 25% every year for the last 10 years. So we are seeing like people way more concerned about the type of meat we're eating and really that's my slogan is, feel good about the meat you eat because there's so much information out there and some of it's bad and some of it's good, but the animals when waste properly can be good for you and for the environment. And that's gonna be a trend that you'll see is more of that data and research coming out for sure. How about, do you do anything?  Is that anything that you're and kind of go back to food base as well? Is that something that you're looking into with some of the different things that you're preparing?  To get everybody to eat all the different parts. And I really, I'm just trying to get the butchers to do what the customers want, but I'm also trying to get the customers trying to eat other things. It hasn't been a problem so far with in terms of the butchers coming back to me and saying, hey Jess, we have too much of this. But I do have a lot of people asking me for things like beef liver. We sell a lot of beef bones for bone broth. And that's something that I tend to run out of a lot because I have a high demand for the beef bones. I think because that has been kind of a cool thing and they're kind of able to get to sell a lot of those parts like surprisingly. So yeah, I mean, I will make, I definitely make those orders when people ask for them, but it's kind of hard to, you know, say like eat beef liver if people don't want to eat it, but it has been way more popular than I would have expected. Are you cooking any of those weird kind of things yet? I feel like I've only seen really good stuff, but I mean, I could see how you could maybe say, wait, eventually, and to be like, hey, have you ever seen this be cooked? Yeah, that's a good point too. And you know, I guess I'm kind of a little shy of some things, but like the bone marrow, for example, you know, like we do the canoe cut bone marrow where you can roast it and dip it in bread and stuff. And I think I was trying to try that for like four years and had to build up the courage. And when I tried it, I was like, oh, I'm crazy. I should have been eating this the whole time. They call it God's Butter. It's delicious.  So yeah, and then one of the Instagram followers that I did follow did like a meatloaf with liver in it and stuff like that. So I do want to eventually get some of those things in there, but the way that my system is in doing the markets, it's hard to have so much variety, you know, so. So just, we have about one minute left. Let's get into kind of talking about what's the future of how are we going to get more people eating local meat and what's the future of local meat and how do you see yourself being a part of that future? Yeah, I think for one is education. So people understand, you know, why they're paying the price for it and how to make that economical in their family. So you can still spend the same amount of money on food and just eat a little bit less and higher quality meat and not waste so much. And then like for future stuff, just increasing the availability, which is what I'm trying to do, right? Just expand. And so to do the Pasterdor delivery service for these meats is going to really increase the availability. And I think that'll be, you know, the part that we can help with. That's awesome. Yeah, well, Jess, thank you so much for coming on the show. Thank you. It's really exciting to hear everything you're doing. Where can we find you?  You can set up the delivery just through email. And the website is? www.ForgeHawaii.com. And the cooking demos are on Instagram at ForgeHoy. Yes. Not Forge. Not Forge. Yeah, Forge. Forge. Yes, for us. Exactly, for us. Doing some metallurgy out there. Goodness. Palma, thank you so much for coming on as a host and being part of the team. And yeah, so thank you once again and happy holidays. And we will be back in a couple of weeks. Yeah. Yeah, probably in a couple of Thursdays. So thank you a lot.


again. Folks, this is Jacob Shoof. I'm filling in for Tom O'Brien again. He is all good. He'll be back next week. Let's take a look at what we got going on. We do have a caller on the line, but let me just get through the kind of what's going on in the market currently. Pretty phenomenal. Yes, many up 1.25%. I mean, we're almost 40 points here in the in the spy.  Russell about 0.94% and cues up nearly 2% tech roaring. Dow futures up 1.12% trading right up above that $38,000 level. We're looking at that. We were talking a little bit last week. We had this kind of consolidation going a little bit down and we were looking for a trade above 38,000. Let's see if we can settle there for the rest of the day. Gold contract trading at 2031 up modestly today. Silver lagging behind a little bit. Our boy copper copper futures that is at up about 1.2%. Man, what can we say about the crude oil futures, right? A volatile kind of trading range that we're in right now from that 70 to 75 mark. A lot of really interesting news going on with it. That's kind of adding to volatility. Let's take a look. We have Tesla trading about 212. Maybe we could see a little comeback in it. We'll have to wait really, I would say for next week to see what the move is going to be in that steel dynamics back up in that 113 level the dollar still kind of strong at 103 28, but trading a little bit to the downside to accuse up 1.98% Google 1.92 Meta. Let's see. We'll talk a little bit about why the texts are kind of soaring right now. JP Morgan really blowing up about 1.58% Bank of America of about 1.43% lose it coming back up for some reason about 7.17% still don't think the company is really set. And then we have the Bitcoin ETFs are actually doing okay today after a few days of a sell off. So to begin the show, we actually have a caller on the line. Costa, are you there? Sure am. How are you, sir? How are you doing all right, Costa? How are you doing? I'm doing good. It's cold in Massachusetts. I imagine it is. I think we're getting a freeze over the weekend in Florida by that. I mean, it's going to be something about 40 degrees or something. So probably not as cold. So what are we taking a look at today, Costa? No more in mind the NEM. I put it as a stop loss like Tommy said that 38 and a half. I got back in 1935, about 500 shares. Now I'd like to know where's it going from here? And can I buy another 500 lower? Yeah, so I think we're right. We were talking about New Montt a little bit last week, a caller called for the same kind of thing. Obviously we have downward trend going on. A lot of these miners are having some issues that one of the things I think is at least good about Newmont currently is, you know, we're still kind of on a downwards trajectory, but it is on lighter volume. Sometimes that can suggest, a lot of times I can suggest that we're going to have a, you know, kind of a movement to the opposite way. The thing for me with mining right now, and this is my take, and if you want Tom's take, he'll be back Tuesday as well. I just don't know what the catalyst is going to be for it, right? How much lower can we really go down? I'm not sure. You know, we're testing really kind of this low of the year, which is 3359. And I mean that by like a year to date kind of deal. So we're right back there again. Again, on lower volume. So it seems like there's going to be kind of a run out of sellers, essentially, right? It's just about when do you have that kind of trend reversal that we're seeing? And I think at least right now that's kind of a little hard to say when we're going to see that take off. Of course, a lot of the miners are having issues right now, kind of just a little bit of, you know, Tim Hort was on yesterday, at least talking about the GDX in its total, and it's just kind of this slump activity we've been seeing. So I was saying to the caller last week about Newmont that I don't anticipate this going down much, much lower, but I just don't know on what time frame we're going to see a reversal that, you know, we can get back up to something around the forties. That's kind of my take on it right now, Costa. OK. So yeah, absolutely. And again, Tom will be back Tuesday as well. If you want to get his, of course, you know, Tom goes over so much. So regarding these kind of minor. So thank you very much for calling in. Thank you. All right. Let's take a look what we got going on. Hmm. Had the. OK. I wanted to talk about Celsius, right? Because I actually, one of my sinful habits is I drink these energy drinks. And I'd really like to get away from that. I got off caffeine for a while and stress just gets here, I guess. Celsius, huge drop down today. It got downgraded essentially just to a neutral, you know, not a cell or anything. That's from Bank of America. Why? The idea is Celsius has actually skyrocketed over the time, right? It is a newcomer to this energy market. It has really knocked out. I've noticed on shelves in a bunch of different stores. It has really dominated the main space, right? And that's what you want to see with these kind of products. What the analysts were looking at is that Celsius has exploded in growth, but the question is is how much longer can that go? And I think that's at least from the guy over here at Bank of America. He was saying he seems that this triple-digit growth that they've been experiencing. Let's look at this. In 2021, it was up 140% in revenue. In 2022, up 108%. And in the first quarter of 2023, up 104%. I mean, that is pretty significant growth, okay? And I think what they're saying is that you're going to see kind of a slow down in this. So how do we reprice this equity here? One of the things I will say about Celsius is I don't think that they have big market share outside of the U.S. So going forward, that's decent for the company regarding potential for growth. What I'll also say is that they've released a line of drinks. I think they're called Live Fit. And I'm not a big fan of the normal Celsius, but people love them. And it definitely has a kind of like, like it's a signal, right? A social signal, right? Like I drink Celsius. This is kind of like the fit, you know, kind of pretty people drink this stuff, right? And they're expanding out to some of the more, you know, Jim Brose or fit activity. And earlier today they were positioning on the shelf and it actually was pretty good. And I think they've, they're tweaking the recipe, at least for right now, you know, this is some pretty significant volume to the downside. We'll see how much Laura Liz can go. But I do think going forward, Celsius is still kind of a decent company, right? They have everything situated, financially speaking, pretty good. Folks, stay tuned. We'll be right back.


Item Number – SCP-121 Object Class – Euclid Special Containment Procedures – Containment Site 83 has been established outside SCP-121 to house personnel dedicated to the containment of SCP-121. The perimeter of SCP-121 is to remain fenced off from the surrounding area, with guards stationed along the perimeter at all times. Guards are to don local military uniforms and remain heavily armed at all times. Rotation of guards is to occur every four hours. The surrounding population is to remain informed that SCP-121 is quarantined due to persisting hazardous material. Warning signs are to be placed 75, 50, and 25 km out along roads leading to SCP-121 to deter trespassers. Guards who approach the perimeter of SCP-121 are to be reminded of the quarantine and forced to depart. Those who resist are to be detained for questioning. In the event that approaching civilians witness an active instance of SCP-121-1 or 2, Class A amnestics are to be administered. Any meteorological data regarding SCP-121's anomalous effect is to be censored, and SCP-121 has been labeled a no-flight zone to prevent knowledge of SCP-121, 1, and 2. Site Task Force IOTA-71, home wreckers, has been established and permanently assigned to containment Site-83 in response to the threat of SCP-121-2. They are to escort researchers interested in studying non-hostile instances of SCP-121-2 as well as neutralize any instances that have grown to potentially lethal sizes. In the event of an attempted containment breach, IOTA-71 is to assist perimeter guards in the neutralization of the instance of SCP-121-2. Any buildings within SCP-121 that develop into SCP-121-1 are to be recorded and monitored at all times for transition into SCP-121-2. Places of SCP-121-2 that become innately hostile upon transition are to be neutralized. However, passive instances may continue to dwell within the perimeter of SCP-121 for research purposes until they've grown to a size too dangerous to contain, or become hostile, at which point they are to be neutralized. Description SCP-121 is the region of land occupied by the former town of Colorado. The town was home to roughly 6,800 prior to enactment of current containment protocol, and holds roughly 3,000 buildings, both residential and commercial. Clouds above SCP-121 appear incapable of entering an area roughly 12 kilometers in diameter, instead passing around the area. It is speculated this is related to SCP-121's range of effect, but it is not known how at this time. Buildings in SCP-121 will sporadically, no more than one at a time, with three weeks minimum between manifestation, detach from any foundations, and ascend into the air. At this point, these buildings are identified as SCP-121-1. Instances of SCP-121-1 ascend to a random height of a minimum of 45 meters. Regardless of the previous state of the building, doors and windows become locked in any potential entryways become barricaded by furniture inside. Forced entry has shown an increased ambient temperature of roughly 35 degrees Celsius, and a relative humidity of roughly 65%, but a lack of any further anomalous properties. Instances of SCP-121-1 will cease suspension after a minimum period of 10 weeks, but may remain airborne for no more than 15 weeks afterwards. Instances do not show any abnormal levels of durability, and near total destruction of SCP-121-1 upon impact with the ground is common. After impact, the remains of instances of SCP-121-1 will contain an ovoid object, approximately 1.2 meters by 1.2 meters by 2 meters, composed of materials consistent with furniture found inside the home. Examination of mostly intact instances of SCP-121-1 show an absence of previous furnishings. The object will begin to locomote on its own accord. At this point, it will be referred to as SCP-121-2. SCP-121-2 begin to form a conglomerate with nearby materials, including debris from SCP-121-1, flora, automobiles, and, on rare occasion, other buildings. SCP-121-2 will continue to attract objects until it forms a body of material 9 meters in height, at which point the body will animate and appear to take on levels of sentience. SCP-121-2 may, at this point, begin to simulate ingesting other material, to continue growing at a considerably slower rate. Ingestion appears to be for the sole purpose of continued growth, as instances have gone prolonged periods of time without material. Certain items have been known to attach to SCP-121-2 instantaneously, despite size and the lack of simulated ingestion. Instances of SCP-121-2 normally resemble animals, capable of locomotion on land, but have been known to take on humanoid forms, and forms that do not resemble any known animal. They are primarily docile, and normally do not display hostility towards personnel unless provoked. However, SCP-121-2 instances have been known to form with innate aggressive and territorial behavior. This behavior has also been observed to develop following the accumulation of certain items, including firearms, bladed weapons, and in one example, the taxidermy head of a bear. SCP-121 came to the attention of the Foundation, when local authorities were flooded with reports of a previously abandoned residence suddenly flying in the sky. The town was evacuated, under the guise of a hazardous material spill, and the residence was observed. Once the instance of SCP-121-1 transitioned into SCP-121-2, SCP-121-2 was quickly neutralized. Following the neutralization, another instance of SCP-121-1 developed, and the town was permanently evacuated and contained. This is the only occasion on which the creation of SCP-121-1 has so closely followed the creation of an instance of SCP-121-2. Incident 121A, on 1104-98, a sound, described as a muffled siren, was heard for approximately five minutes. An active instance of SCP-121-1 was suddenly subject to an immense force following the sound, causing the building to prematurely break apart while suspended, before the 10-week minimum. Neighboring towns reported hearing the sound. Local press were informed quarantine staff were being evacuated due to a temporary elevation and toxic levels. The cause of the sound is currently unknown. Further research is recommended. Three weeks following the sound and the destruction of SCP-121-1, the remains finally fell to the ground. Inside the rubble were remnants of the ovoid object found in SCP-121-2, along with traces of aluminum slag. Incident 121B, on 0509-12, a 1991 Dodge Caravan was found suspended 53 meters in the air. Internal surveillance is at this time impossible due to the windows being obscured by what appears to be wool cloth. Further observation of the vehicle is recommended. Lesson complete. If you missed the previous orientation, go watch SCP-120 teleporting paddling pool right now. Or for the complete course, watch this playlist.


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I'm happy to see you. All right. So, well, you're doing that trigger based TV, but we had this one made the national news where, you know, the teacher saying, Well, were these these girls look like to you? Or what is this? What do you see in this picture? And the one kid's like, Oh, I see a couple of girls hanging out. And they said, Well, what else do you see? And he said, Well, they're young. And what else do you see? And he said, Well, they're back to back to each other. And he basically tried to push the kid to the point where he said, you know, what are you trying to ask me? You know, are you trying to ask me if one's a darker skin color than the other? Because that's not the first thing that I saw. And that's, Well, that's the first thing you should see. And so the parents are kind of, they saw that on the national news and they didn't realize that it was actually going on in the school. And now that everybody's been home and they're seeing, you know, everybody's home is past year, they're seeing what's actually being caught in schools. Yeah, wasn't there are some there was a group of teachers that got really upset because what they they didn't want parents like watching what they were teaching. And then they all these stories started to spread about that. And they got really upset about that. And they're like, Oh, well, we can't teach if everybody's going to know what we're teaching them. Yeah, zoom, zoom meetings is a lot of the parents have spotted it in the zoom meetings they do for the zoom classrooms. Right. Yeah, I mean, guys, the public school, somebody earlier said that they think that this is like the beginning of the disbandling of public schools. I totally agree. I got to tell you, I never, ever, ever in a million years considered homeschooling, I'm considering it now. I'm gonna go and fight like the school board here, but I haven't done it yet. But I plan on it. I don't know if it's going on in the schools here. I assume it is. But you could if you watch the media, they're already going after the parents and trying to like, basically docks and ruin them. Your education system is working fine. Just like in the UK, it's exactly the same. What you've got to realize is that the actual system is working how they planned. It's all race theory, all this autism. This is what this is what the schools in the UK. And I'm sure the way you're telling me the schools in the US are doing. And so it's working fine. It's just not working the way you want it to work. Guys, guys, guys, guys, am I in a chat with Sargon right now? With Sargon? No. No, no, no, damn it. Sargon of a cop? Yes.  And I just heard a British accent. Okay, so. Oh, do you know this guy trigger based TV? He does some really good work. Oh, no, not really. He does.  Check him out. Race theory. Why would you support something that's obviously so insidious? Like, I don't get it. You just got to explain that to me. Well, I don't see anything wrong with recognizing that race plays a role in people's lives. You're not recognizing anything.  That's going to cause violence and death. That's what you're doing. I mean, I could say the same thing about like anything that the right wing buys into and like like like like like QAnon, the Trump, the whole Trump, Trump, everything Trump. So I know that's a big boogeyman of the media. What is QAnon done?   Yeah, that's a good comparison. There's a there's a subreddit on there's a subreddit called QQsRT.  QAnon is literally tearing families apart. It's QAnon and being taught in our schools. Is QAnon being trained to people in the government jobs? Wait, why does it have to be doing that in order for it to be a problem? Because CRT is. But it doesn't have to be taught in schools in order for it to be a problem. But CRT is. OK. And every school. It really depends on how CRT is taught in school, whether it makes it a problem or not. Let me that's like you tell you know what?  Like I'm just like what? Well, like why are why are the words I'm hearing out of your mouth? In order for that to be true, CRT would have to be like the same as Naziism, which it's not. Let me ask you something. What is good racism? This define good racism for me, please. But no, nobody's saying that there is good racism. So how do we respond to all of this racism in the United States? Well, Kendi provides a solution.  He actually wrote that. In other words, his book against racism promotes racism. Kendi's book states that capitalism is essentially racist. And Kendi is clear that racism must be eliminated. So yes or no. Do you personally consider advocating for the destruction of American capitalism to be extremist? Here's what I know, Congressman. So yes or no. Racism in the United States Navy. Admiral, you recommended every sailor in the United States Navy read this book. So yes or no question. I'm not forcing anybody to read the book. It's on a recommended reading list. Admiral, did you read the book? I did. Admiral, you said you read this book. What part of this book is redeeming and qualifies as something that every sailor in the United States needs to read it? I think Kendi's self-critical about his own journey as an African-American in this country, what he's experienced. Let me ask you again, Admiral, do you expect that after sailors read this book that says that the United States Navy is racist, that we will increase or decrease morale, cohesion, and recruiting race into the United States Navy? I think we'll be a better Navy from having open, honest conversations about racism. In college, Kendi stated that white people are a different breed of humans and are responsible for the AIDS virus. Yes or no. Do you personally consider the conspiracy that white people started AIDS to be an extremist belief? Sir, I'd have to understand the context. That is a simple question. I'm not going to say that. Admiral, this is a book that you recommended every sailor in the United States Navy would read. The band cherry-picked quotes from somebody's book. I'm not going to do that. That's what CRT is. No, recognizing race as a social phenomenon is not racism. It's just recognizing reality. Recognizing Jewish oppression is not Nazism or something like that. What's that you're saying? No, the Nazis were the ones oppressing.  What do you mean? And CRT, there's an oppressor, correct? And capitalism is part of that, right? Capitalism being an oppressor? Because dismantling capitalism is a central tenet of CRT. No, not CRT. Well, not of CRT itself. Not CRT itself, but all the groups that use CRT as its underpinnings, that's their goal, dismantling capitalism. So the goal of like, which group? Give me a group. Which group? Give me a group. BLM isn't a communist group. Their symbol is literally a communist symbol. Here's the issue with CRT. Clearly, white supremacy is an integral part of critical race theory, right? Yeah, that's true. Listen, real quick, I just want to read this.  I mean, come on, guy. I mean, you think we're just going to fall down? I'm not offended at the idea of white supremacy. You don't understand that you are white supremacist by being white, though. You don't get that for some reason. Well, I mean, it depends on what you mean by that. Because I'm not with the white supremacy either.  You're not. You're not. You're not. But they see you that way. No, no, that's not the way. When somebody talking about CRT is talking about white supremacy, that is not what they are talking about. They are talking about the systemic. They are talking about systemic white supremacy. Whatever. No, they're not. Here, listen real quick.  Every single time a right winger reads out the BLM stuff, they leave out integral parts of it. I know that the whole, are you one of those people that are pretty mad about them wanting to dismantle the nuclear family? Well, yeah, that is also a thing. Yes. It's not a thing. That is not a thing. It is. No, that's not what they said. So that is what they said, dude. I read a million times before they took it down.  Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope. Oh, well, we can actually read it. I'll get it. Well, why would they want to anyway?  How do you not see you're part of a communist revolution? That's what I'm saying. Why would they want to discourage that? I mean, surely, two parents, obviously, Western prescribed nuclear family. That's what they said. Would be the norm.  Not that it's just, you know, it's good to have two parents. What are they trying to say? Have single parents, bringing up kids all around the country? I know, look at our boy, look at our boy, look at our boy, Drone Tech. He looks like he's 119 years old and he has a nuclear family.  Even if it just makes you comfortable with being a person living in this world, why would you want to tear down my world? Just because you don't like it. Exactly, it's like, if it were coming from Nazis, you clearly see it. But here's what they say. We disrupt the Western prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and villages, communes, you might say, that collectively care for one another, especially our children. Hold on, did you miss the word where they said requirement? Western prescribed nuclear family requirements. What does that mean? It means that within the Western society, it is a requirement. Do you like data? Do you like data, liberal fuck? So that's a straw man. Do you know that the list of data shares? It's not exactly what they said. Do you know that the data shows that kids with a father and a father do best? A father do best, yes, yes. And you're saying we require that. We don't require that. Within society, the data shows within this society, the data shows that it's pretty required for kids to grow up successfully. Well, it's not required. That's just the reality of the situation. That's why the data shows that kids that grow up in that situation do best because they've had the best possible factors in their lives that have led to them being the best person that they could be and they have better lives. That's just what the data shows. It's not a requirement.  Wait, no, I have three with the data. Listen, stop, stop for a second. This is like the Smithsonian document that said that white people are, they said white culture is delayed gratification, hard work, the scientific method, things like this. They said that's white culture. That's basically what you're saying. No, it's not white culture. That's just the habits of people who are successful. No, what I'm saying is that within this society, it seems to be a requirement for success for you to grow up and age. It's not a requirement. It's just the good choices that work out well. The data shows that, right? So choices work out well. What are you saying? Are you sure you're not a Chinese spy, liberal club? No, I can't. Can you say that? Can the data not show that? I have black wives that have black children. They were required by their society to have those nuclear families. Why is it a white or black thing? It's just a thing. Right, making good choices leads to good results. Oh my God, it's a white conspiracy. Within societies, historically, has it always been that the nuclear family was like the way that we organized ourselves as families? Pretty much, pretty much every family. It's just natural nature. It's a very recent thing. It's a thing. Yes, it was the fit. It was like in the fifties. Is this a very recent, definitely recent?  I think it was around the fifties when the nuclear family was like a... Fifties? Come on. Yes, I believe it was the fifties. Look, here, DNA extracted from bones and teeth in a 4,600-year-old Stone Age burial in Germany has provided the earliest evidence for the social recognition of a family consisting of two parents with multiple children, which is obvious.


Welcome to the 2017-18 preseason briefing. It's that time of year when we need to get ready. October could see us in the midst of a fire season, so it's time to be ready. And as Chief Officer, I have seven key points that I would like everybody in our organisation to be thinking about going into this summer. So the first one for me is be ready. At every level in the organisation, from firefighter to captain to group officer, with the ops managers, right through to Chief Officer, executives of the organisation, we need to make sure that we are absolutely ready to go. So that is your burn over drills, that is your hazardous tree awareness package, everything that we can to make sure that we're ready to go for this summer. Number two for me is take care of yourself. And in taking care of yourself, it's also about taking care of those underneath you. It's about hydration, it's about keeping out of the heat, it's about taking the breaks when you can. Make sure that you look after the most important person there is, and that is, in my case, me, and in your case, obviously, it's you. Number three for me is connecting with communities, before, during and after an event. It's a real key point for us, and it's something that we really do well and I'd really challenge you to do more of it. So make sure that we're communicating as much as we can to make sure our communities are well aware of what's going on and able to be resilient as far as fires and emergencies are concerned. Number four for me is tell those that need to know and communicate well. So let's communicate. Whether that's up and down the chain, whether you're operational, whether that's across a number of different agencies, whether that's in through different government departments, whether it's across groups or brigades, communication is the lifeline of running any operational incident, about connecting with communities, about saving lives. Communication is a key for us. Number five, do what you can where you are with what you've got. So that means hitting fires hard and hitting them fast with whatever you have. So even if you've got limited resources, be as agile and effective as you can to make sure that we're doing the best possible role in extinguishing that fire and indeed communicating with our communities. Number six, number six is about values. Demonstrate our values with everything we do, particularly given what's occurred in the last 12 months. Now is the time to put safety first. The safety of our people is the most important thing and everybody's ability to come home is absolutely essential.  During the summer season, everything else has forgotten. Now is the time to show respect and act with integrity. It's about demonstrating to the public that we are a professional, dedicated organization that we are. We work as one. We're adaptive. We're agile. When we say we work as one, that's not just about CFA. That's about SES. That's about DELP. That's about MFB. That's about government departments. We cannot do it on our own as an agency. And finally, number seven, everybody is responsible for safety. Safety is the key. And again, I've said it a couple of times, everybody comes home. Speak up, tell people about the issues you see around you. If you see fire coming, if you see something unusual, red flag warnings, anchor spots, make sure you're aware of all the safety issues that are associated for this summer period. In summary, working with communities is important for us and we need to make sure that we work collaboratively across the sector. In other words, we all work together with all our different partner agencies and the like. And leaders, my expectation is our seven key points are followed by every leader. Again, if you're captain, make sure your teams are ready. Make sure that you can work across all the agencies. Make sure safety respect is all there. Whether you're group officer, ops officer, whether you're working in the community, look and present professionally, now is the time for those seven key points to be looked at and discussed and talked about leading into this summer. Every CFA member has a role to play.  That is the role that we have to do. We work together as one organisation and we work together as a multitude of organisations as one team, making sure that Victorians are safe this summer and property is safe this summer. Good luck to you all. Make sure we do our preparedness work and I thank you for what you do. Have a good day.