This 2018 Ford F-250 Crew Cab Short Box XLT FX4 is stock number 12287Z. We are here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. You're new and used heavy-duty truck headquarters. This 2018 Ford F-250 has the 6.2 liter V8 engine, 385 horsepower. This truck has been fully safe and inspected by our service shop. It has a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off. It has four brand new tires, and it is 100% ready to go. We're going to go inside all the way around, start it up under the hood in this video. Oxford White is the color. We shoot all of our videos in 1080p, 60 frames per second. So if you have HD capabilities on your computer, tablet, smartphone, or television, turn them on right now. Because it is definitely your best way to check out the quality and condition of the truck before seeing it in person. And if you like the video and want to subscribe to our YouTube channel where we upload videos of our new and used inventory each and every day here at Summit Auto, and the upper right-hand part of the screen is a subscribe button. Click that, and then click the bell notifications. You'll get updates every time we do videos here at Summit Auto. This one comes with the 18-inch chromed alloy rims, and it has brand new Firestone TransForce HT LT27570R18 tires. These tires are brand new. You can still see the little wear knobs on them. We put those on in our state of Wisconsin safety inspection process. The frame, yes, this is a 2018. It looks like it's rolled off the assembly line yesterday. The frame is extremely clean. Front fender is in excellent condition. I didn't see any dents or dings on there. Headlight lenses are crystal clear. It comes with the factory fog lights. Front bumper and lower valance are all in very nice condition as well. No major dents or dings on there. You do get the chrome trimmed grille, and the hood is in very nice condition. Looks really good. Passenger side front fender, excellent condition as well. No dents or dings on there, and the passenger side rim, no scuffs or scrapes. As you go down this side of the truck, take note of how clean the body is, how reflective and mirror-like that paint is. We take these HD videos, so if you are far away, or even if you're close by and just cannot make the trip down, but you're still interested in purchasing the truck, you can see the truck, hear the truck, and have confidence in the vehicle that you're looking at before you even get here. So when you do get here, there's absolutely no surprises, and you can make a smart and informed buying decision from wherever you're at. And if this video helps you out, helps you make that decision, let your salesmen know that you saw the video, and that you enjoyed the video, and that Brett sent you. Back rim is in excellent shape as well, and the back tires are brand new too. Once again, look at how clean that frame and underbody is. Looks really good all the way underneath. Little rockers and cab corners look really good. Comes with the factory chrome step bars. The bed is in nice shape. It does have the FX4 off-road suspension package, the chrome tipped exhaust. Back up parking sensors, full towing package, which includes the receiver hitch four pin and seven pin wiring. And the tailgate is in very nice condition as well. Does have a backup camera, spray in bed liner. Beds in pretty nice shape. Has the tailgate step assist as well. Tailgate shuts nice and solidly. And going down to the driver side, just as clean as that passenger side. No dents or dings on there. Looks really, really good. And for full disclosure, this back rim is in excellent condition as well, and that tire is brand new as well. Down the rest of this side looks really good. It does have the driver side door code entry. We do have the code for this truck. And if you ever wanted to find out what your door code is for your 17 to 21 Super Duty in the upper right hand part of the screen is a link to watch that video to find your own personal door code on your truck. Heated mirrors, directional signals. These mirrors, power fold in. I always like showing both sides so that you know that both sides are working properly. Power fold out. And they do power telescope out and in. Once again, I always like showing both sides so that you know that both sides are working properly. Power windows, power locks, power mirrors. This one has the gray cloth interior. No rips or tears on the seats. They're in really nice shape. Power driver seat with lumbar has the factory floor mats. Power pedals, auto headlamps, telescopic steering wheel. We'll hop inside, take a look at the ignition radio and everything that this truck has to offer on the interior. You can see that this one has 34,556 miles. And yes, we are going to be putting some fuel in this truck right after this video. Instrument cluster is very nice and clean. Steering wheel is in excellent shape. Cruise controls and information center controls on the right. Audio and Bluetooth controls on, well that's on the right. The cruise controls are on the left, my bad. Has the six speed automatic transmission with the optional tap shift. You get these sync eight inch radio AM FM capabilities on here. It also has serious capabilities and a CD player. This is also where your backup camera shows up and that's working nicely. It does have stability control and downhill assist control. Right there is your turn dial for a little drive, factory brake controller.  Does have the sync system for your Bluetooth cell phone. And you get audio controls right there. 12 volt power point, 110 volt 400 watt plug-in, passenger side floor mat and seat. And carpeting is in excellent shape. No rips or tears on there. The headliner is very clean on this truck. And you do get six upfitter switches right there. You can hook up auxiliary lights or whatever needs power to the truck and then connect them to these switches and they're just like light switches. We'll take a quick look at the back seats and then we'll start it up and take a look under the hood. Back seats are just as clean as the front seats, no rips or tears back here. Does have the latch-child safety system for any child car seats you may have. Power slide and rear window with the built-in rear defrost. This truck spells very clean inside. I don't think it's ever been smoked in. Get the factory floor mats down here. You have a load floor or a storage bin back here. This does fold down flat, so there's a little piece right there. And then that goes down like so. And these seats lock into place. You can unlock them like so. Back doors have child safety locks on them and the bottoms of the doors are all in very nice clean condition. We'll start it up. Take a quick look under the hood. Starts right up. No check engine lights or anything like that. I would personally like to thank you for checking out the video today and hopefully from this HD video. You have been able to verify the quality and condition of the truck inside and out. Under the hood we have the 6.2 liter V8 engine. Engine bay is exceptionally clean. Runs very smooth. Once again, this truck has been fully safety and inspected by our service shop as a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off. It has four brand new tires. Here's your emissions sticker. And this truck is 100%. Ready to go. I would highly recommend this truck from a quality and condition standpoint. 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Think Tech Hawaii. Civil engagement lives here. Welcome back to Think Tech. I'm Jay Fidel and it's a given Friday. And we're going to have a very interesting show today about 5.0 and casting. You will be interested. Before we do that though, I just want to say our hearts go out to the people who were killed in their families in the Maryland gun escapade yesterday. And we're listening to other media and we have, you know, sounds of the decedents, stories of the decedents and their families and what happened. But you know what? Until now, we don't have any sound at all about gun control. And the silence is actually deafening. The silence about gun control seems to be the new normal. Okay? That's my only statement on it. Now let's get to work. Sandy Elisi, thank you for coming down. You're from the casting company Sandy Elisi casting company which casts for 5.0. You're now studio. Yes. Thank you for being here. And Magnum PI. And Magnum PI. Thank you so much for having me. I am thrilled to be here. Were you an actress? No, I was not an actress. But got you into this business. You know, I worked in the music industry and I decided that I wanted to get into film. So I started working as an extra and I did it for about a year when I was on set, I would ask everyone, what is your job? How much do you make? And do you have to work all night in the rain? Tell me about your position. Are you lugging cables? All the questions I wanted to know. So it took me a little while to figure that casting was the thing for me because I could do it from my office and I could have a normal semi-normal life. You know, it's like they were talking about the judges that are being appointed in the federal district court around the country. You know, he's appointed like 42 judges. It's huge. More than any other president that we can think of.  All these conservative judges. Well, how about you? How much influence do you have on the production? 5.0 or the other one? Magnum PI. Magnum PI. How much influence do you have? And it seems to me you have tons of influence. I do. You know, we can create a texture and a flavor. You know, we do add a lot. So, for example, the Pirates of the Caribbean films, on those films I made sure that all of the pirates were very, very short or very, very tall. There were all different heights, varied heights. And then for the sailors, I wanted them to all be the same height. It wasn't a requirement but that's what I wanted. So when they run together and they're marching, they look very uniform, very different than the pirates. And so maybe nobody noticed that. But that's what I had to add. Did the producer, director know you were doing this? I don't think so. With the pirates, we wanted them, you know, definitely to be very varied. But for the sailors, I had my own standards. But I, you know, I think it came out well. So in order to do that, in order to make a decision like that, which impresses me greatly, especially in the thought that they might not know what you would do. It's independence, creative independence. You read the script, do you know the story, do you know enough to know and make these subtle nuanced decisions? Yes, we do. So I read the script and you decide. Just like crewing up ships for Pirates of the Caribbean, where is Jack Sparrow when he's crewing up a ship? Does he have a lot of time? Is he rushing?  Or does he have able-bodied, hearty men?  This is an essential part of the intellectual property of the movie. This is really right in there. You're shaping, toning it, doing it. Yes, exactly. That's fabulous. And then I try to go as far as I can with sending people who are on the edge of completely not being right, but it's fun. I like to put something new in front of the director. Yeah, well, like Marty. Somebody surprises them. Like Marty, he's a little person, bald little person, he was one of the crew members. I can relate to that. Yeah, I was able to get him in. Maybe there's a job in it for me, okay? I'm too late to move in with this. That one's sorry. There'll be others. For the remake, maybe. Yeah. Or, you know, there were a couple of men that I put on. They ended up being in Davy Jones' crew. And they were probably about 120 pounds at 6'5", maybe with giant noses and just bulbous eyes, very piratey looking. And the director, Gore Verbinski, saw them and he just thought it was so delicious. And he said, let's stick them together, conjoined twins. And I love conjoined twins. So, I was happy to help create a set. So, okay, you're talking about half of it. I mean, half of the sort of the contribution. You know, to know what you want, to decide what you want, to find your role in the creation of this intellect, this content. But the other part is you have to go out and find the people that you envision in your creative, you know, image of them. How do you do that? So there you are sitting at your desk. It's 10 o'clock in the morning. You know you've got it. Now you've got it. Now you know what you want. How do you get it? Well, every day is different. And I think that's why I've been able to do it for 20-something years. Because it's a challenge every day. I can't believe you just started when you were 4. I was 4. I was a good beginning. Yes. With divine inspiration. So, you know, you just start looking. If you need somebody who has a certain skill, then you start looking in that area to find who you can bring in. So, you know, there's a lot of ways that we go out there and find people. But one of the ways is to try to get people to come out of their homes and come to our open casting call because we will see people and say, oh, we need you. And people might not realize that they're perfect for us. We need every single type of person. You will realize. Like, is it immediately? Oh, yeah. Okay. You know, as soon as you see this person, you know, this is the one I need. Yeah. Well, at our open casting call, we'll have many, many people. We have the line moving fast. And I get to see everyone. And we make it fun. We make it a lot of fun. Sometimes we, when we have time, we have anyone who wants to show us their talent. Do a little bit of, you know, they'll do tricks or sing or dance or flips or whatever they have. And I've been adding that to my open call for years in all different locations, all different states. So aside from fun, what does that show you? What does that show you if they come up with a little tap dance for you? Then you know that that person can do that. So it's just good to have in your mind. But there's something else too, isn't there? I mean, they're willing to actually perform for you. Yes. And some people come to the open call and they can't wait to show us something. So I want them to get it out. And they want to distinguish themselves. And you want them to distinguish themselves. I want them to. I want them to get it out. I want them to come from all the other people. And you know, how many people show up at these thousands? Yeah, thousands. But I don't want to scare anyone away because everything moves really fast. You're in and out in 20 minutes. It's not waiting in line for hours. It's not like that. We have a good flow. Flip the switch here. Yes. Okay. So I hear you on this show right now. We'll talk about how they can get in touch with you. You're probably going to be besieged when everybody finds out about this. Okay. I hear about you. And I hear the place, the time, the date. And I come down there. Okay? Yes. A lot of people around me. Yes. There's you, maybe a crew of your colleagues there. My crew? Uh-huh.  Yes. And you only have X seconds for each one, a minute maybe? Yeah. But then we capture their information. So how do you mean? Well, we have everyone read a picture. Well, we do that too. Everyone comes and signs up online. It's very easy. You just go home. We have a database. Yeah. So we've had that since, well, I've been working here in Hawaii for a while. I did Pirates 4 and I did Kong Skull Island here. Okay. So we have lots of files, but we just want more. We just want to see new faces and you know, they come and they can register online. So you don't really have to go to the open casting call as long as you register online. Once you do that, you're in there forever. And then we'll just text you or email you. If you like what's in the database, you may call them. Yes, we will call them. We will, we can search by lots of different criteria and we can just text out and say, would you like to work next week or whatever it is. So it doesn't hurt because you could turn down the job. So you might as well just register to see if we have something. We might have something amazing. Okay. So first, you know, I come and see you and you're sitting in a big room. Yes. There are people there. Everybody sees the action, sees what's going on. So I see all the people who are online before me. I see what they're doing. At least to some extent. What's your advice? Okay. How can I best get this job? What do I have to show you?  Well, you know, it's really pretty easy. Just be nice and just be friendly and nice. There's nothing really you can do.  But I don't, there's nothing you have to do. It's just be, just be yourself. We don't need anything. We need everything. We don't need anything so specifically that we're going to say, oh, you're too something, something. We're not doing that. We just want to see people. So most of them are villain. You know, I'm reminded of a Tosca opera and there's a character by the name of Scarpeo. In fact, he was on the Met and saw it on the Met here a week ago. And you know, he is really evil. Guy is really evil, tricky, deceptive, nasty, nasty guy. And at the end of the performance at the Metropolitan, okay, customarily the audience booze him. Even if they like him, they boo him. They want they like his meanness. Okay, you look for meanness. Oh, of course. That's what I thought when I saw you. Oh, nice. No, I do. We're always looking for that. We're looking for extreme characters and bad guys, villains, heroes, all of it. Okay, let me back up just a little bit. Now I'm filling out the database. I'm putting my smithing down and I have to give you a picture of course. Maybe more than one even. One is fine, but two sometimes could help. And I have to give you my background and I have to give you probably some kind of statement of who I think I am.  All right. How should I approach that? Well, it's not that you have to check boxes. It's going to ask for your skills. You're going to fill in what your skills are and your, your height and height, different things like your sizes. Yeah, and it's because we have a lot of roles that require costumes. Yeah. Yeah. You're, and it's your size from now, not from high school. So your real sizes. Yeah. And I'm sure there are special situations in my life. And I just went to, to see Hunchback of Notre Dame in Seattle. Marvelous, marvelous performance. And the lead character is in fact deaf and dumb. He is in fact deaf and dumb. And they communicate. He communicate by American Sign Language. So he said, well, that's, that's a hard one to cast, isn't it? Yeah. Well, deaf and mute. Deaf and mute. Okay. Okay. No, I have that. We can find that. Yeah. But that's great. I love that, you know, he's an actor. I just did about 23 roles on a film for Gus Van Zamp called Don't Worry He Won't Get Far On Foot with Joaquin Phoenix. And I love this opportunity. They call me for specialty work and this was definitely specialty. It was all, everyone was disabled. So many disabled people to do stunts and so many, so many things. And it's wonderful. And they're there. I mean, the actors are out there. So you don't want to write yourself off here. If you have the slightest interest, go in the database. Yeah, the slightest interest. Put yourself in because you're having a sandy main life. Yeah. For what you are. Exactly, exactly. So there's no, absolutely no experience needed. And every single type is what we're looking for. And you might have the skill. I mean, you might have the one thing that we really, really need. But besides that, we have thousands and thousands of roles to cast because we have two television shows. And then we have more projects coming up here on Wahoo at the end of the year. So we need everyone.  We need everybody. We do. And when we come back from this very short break, we're going to find out what she's looking for now. You know, the specific characters that may be on her desk. And we're also going to find out it'll be a scoop right after this break. You know, she referred to other projects coming up later this year. We're going to ask, we're going to ask her what they are. I'm not telling you. I'm not going to tell you. We'll see if we can do something. We'll be right back. Hello, everyone. I'm DeSoto Brown, the co-host of Human Humane Architecture, which is seen on Think Tech Hawaii every other Tuesday at 4pm. And with the show's host, Martin Desbang, we discuss architecture here in the Hawaiian Islands and how it not only affects the way we live, but other aspects of our life, not only here in Hawaii, but internationally as well. So join us for Human Humane Architecture every other Tuesday at 4pm on Think Tech Hawaii. My name is Stephanie Mock, and I'm one of three hosts of Think Tech Hawaii's Hawaii Food and Farmer Series. Our other hosts are Matt Johnson and Pamai Weigert. And we talk to those who are in the fields and behind the scenes of our local food system. We talk to farmers, chefs, restaurateurs and more to learn more about what goes into sustainable agriculture here in Hawaii. We are on at Thursdays at 4pm, and we hope we'll see you next time. We're back with Sandy Alicia. Yes. Okay. And she is a casting director person. Yeah. Yep. Yeah. What do you think of Harvey Weinstein? He did a lot of casting. Oh boy. Yes. That really affected things, didn't it? Change things. Well, it did. And I am happy for everyone who was able to speak up after that. So, you know. Good for the industry actually. Good for the industry. It creates a sort of a new time, a better time for the industry in general. It really does. You know, the days of the 20s when all this kind of thing began, they're over. We're in a new place. They're much more professional now. No tolerance now. So, okay. I was only kidding when I said I was going to ask you about your projects.  I would like to, but I am not allowed to. Okay. Would you like to a lot? I would like to a lot because then people would be really excited and get into my database in preparation for those projects. Okay. Well, and sometimes when the projects are very, very big, I'm never allowed to talk about them. So, I won't know until we're closer to shooting, but I might not be able to talk about them at all and still try to get people to sign up. So, just believe me. Ever. Ever. Wow. During the whole shoot, we're not allowed to say what film we're on. And everyone, especially here on Oahu, knows what we're shooting, but sometimes I am not allowed to say it at all. This is great. They'll give us a fake name and we'll go with that. Sometimes we just say it's a mayonnaise commercial. Mayonnaise. Yes. Just something as boring as it could be. footage. Some of the thing is, I mean, I believe you and they do. Those people out there, they believe you that these are big projects. Yeah. These are important projects. So, all the more reason to put their names in the database. Do it now and just be in because once you're in your in forever, as long as your phone number and your email works, you will remain in there. Okay. Fabulous. And so, and it's not just for one. No, you put your name in the database. It's not just for one that we know you're doing like 5-0. Or Magnum PI. That's two. Okay. It's two. Right. But it's for all kinds of other stuff. And it can be for multiple stuff. Multiple stuff, absolutely. And for years to come. As long as your phone number works you'll be in there. Well, can you sort of draw a person as he gets older? In other words, say, well, we know what he looked like in 2018. Now, we're looking at the database in 2025. Yes. Well, we do have to add me. Yeah. Because not everyone updates their photos. So, we can see the day that they registered or updated. So, we can, you know, use our own mental age progression to determine. Yeah. Okay. So, let's talk about 5-0 for a minute. And we, you know, talk about all of them. But for 5-0, what are you looking for? Well, on both shows, we're looking for basically the same not really, you know, this is the thing. I have to tell you, we're not starting for a few weeks and we don't have scripts and breakdowns yet. So, I don't have exactly what we're looking for. But based on our experience with this type of show we know that we're looking for so many different types. We're looking for surfers and military types and people with great beach bodies and beautiful women and people with real world skills. And, you know, we need people in cars. We need people at restaurants. We need, you know, maybe some bad guys. We need some first responder types. You know, bartenders, nurses.  There's so many things. We love to put real in a real slot. We love to have the real thing. Different between 5-0 and Magnum PI. Or is it looking the same character types? You know, if I had a breakdown of the shows, I could tell you, but I don't have it yet. We can't wait to get it, but we just haven't seen it yet. Yeah, so we know broadly what we're looking for and that's why we need everyone to show up. So, if it shows up on my breakdown, then I'll already have it. I've been through a program with the retirement of one of the, in fact, the lady who ran OC-16, which is one of the cable shows, the top local cable show. And the thing was, they asked, how many people in this room, you know, there's like 300 people in a room instead of her retirement line, how many people in this room got their break from Mitzi? And like, you know, three quarters of the room raised their hands. They got their break from Mitzi. That's really something. Yeah.  Yeah. What about you? Do you give big breaks to people? Well, I've given millions of jobs. So, I know some of them really, you know, took off and yeah, I could say. Speaking roles. Yeah. Speaking roles. Yeah. But not lead roles. Those are handled at the top of the pyramid, right? Right, but, you know, plenty of great roles. And I have someone who is a Lego that I cast and now he's a Lego. That's pretty good. That's pretty good. This goes in your book. I mean, I've been doing it a long time. So, people have, I get to see people, you know, make their way through the business and then never take a job from me again because they're doing the big roles. But that's great. Yeah. I love to see it. And when I first started practicing law here, and that was 50, almost 50 years ago, one of my, one of the partners in my firm got a role in Hawaii 50. And it was the old version. It was, you know, the previous one. Yes.   He had no speaking role at all. So, the car came and the shots were fired and he fell down in front of a hotel in Waikiki somewhere and played dead. And he was on screen for maybe 30 seconds. Okay? It defined him. Really? He talked about that for the rest of his life. Right? You know? Yes. This kind of thing affects people to their core. It does. It really does. It absolutely does. I see it all the time. People get really excited. It depends on where we are. You know, when you're in a smaller town and you make that call, I'd like to see if you want to be in our film. And the whole family is screaming. And it's very exciting. It is. And sometimes you make the call and people are like, what time? So, it just depends. But yeah, you can have that one life-defining extra role. It happens a lot. You know, I was an extra when I was coming up in the movie. You don't select yourself. No, I can't do that. No. It's a concept of interest. Yes. No. And I make sure that I'm not selected if asked. But I worked as a waitress on Seinfeld. So I was a waitress in the gold uniform in the coffee shop. And I was a very bad extra because I would try to get on camera as much as I could. I'm not an actress at all. But I would, you know, George was speaking so I would lean down and like pretend I was getting napkins just to get in the shot. Yeah. You got the footage. I'd like to see it. Yeah, well, I was on for many years. So I'm in lots of episodes. Like the soup Nazi, I'm in that one. But then I think about the girl. Everybody knows the soup Nazi. Yeah. I think about the girl who was his assistant who takes the soup and gives the money back. And she, I'm pretty sure she's signing autographs somewhere. I'm telling you. Okay, now there's, of course, the opportunity is always there to screw it up. In other words, you call me I go down there. I start, you know, getting into the frame. Yeah, making a nuisance. Right. I said, well, I didn't show up in time or who knows what. It's not good to do. No.  Oh, yeah. Well, we send our information out in a very, in a way that you get a lot, you get a lot of information. So we make sure that, you know, don't approach the actors. They're working.  Plan on working a long day. You can't leave early to go to class and that type thing. Don't look into the camera. That's one. Yeah. Oh, looking into the camera would be gross. Yeah, I think so. Just show to show you what I mean.  Oh, okay. Okay, so let's talk about where and when and how you're going to do this and how can I get in on it. And I hope the staff here in Sing Tech is not listening because we don't want to lose them to, you know, any of your shows. Yes. Okay. So if you go to our website, it's www.sandyaleasy. It says here below, sandyaleasycasting.com. And then you click on the button that says register and just have a selfie ready to upload. That's all you need. I don't need a professional picture. You don't have to go get your hair and makeup done. Just make sure you don't have sunglasses on and hat on and just let us see what you look like. We love it when you take it in front of a white background just because then when we present pictures to the director, they look really nice and then if we have to print them out, it doesn't take as much ink. So we like that white background. We like to save ink. Yes. So if you do that, if you go through those steps and make sure you put in your cell phone and whatever information you have, then that's all we really need. If you want to, the next option is this, come down and see us, then we would love that too. But we still want you to get into the database. When you come to see us, it gives us another hard copy that we work with. And this is another way that we like to save ink is by using those hard copies to show pictures. So we're pulling from those before we start printing. So that's why we have the two options. And the third thing that you would need to do is go to our Facebook page at Sandy Alisi Casting Hawaii and just like us. And from there, you'll see all of our casting notices. So we'll post on there because we have a big team working on these shows. So all of us will be accessing and posting what we need. Sometimes we'll post a picture of an actor and we'll say, because we don't like to mention names, it starts to get into a Google publicity type thing. So we'll just put the picture up and we'll say we need someone who looks like this fine actor. Smart. Really smart.  Or we'll say we need people with bicycles to ride at the beach. We need people with surfboards. We need upscale people to come to a restaurant. Or we need children. Whatever it is, we post that on our Facebook page. And we make it really easy for you to respond. You can just click, respond, and then we'll see that you're interested and we'll know that you're available.  Thousands of jobs. Okay, I got a couple of three questions. One is, you said you had a big team. How big is the team? We have a big team. We have one, two, three, four, five, six, six-ish. And then, you know, if we need more, we bring them in. So after you have this line of people past. Seven. Seven. Yes. Oh, no, our team tomorrow is going to be giant. We're going to have probably 20 or more. Plus our team. So maybe 27 we'll have. And the location one more time. I didn't tell you the location, but I'd like to tell you now. Okay. Okay. Saturday, June 30th. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. And when I say that, I mean that's when we'll be there. So don't come at 9 because it's busy. Everyone thinks that they should be there first. It's great to come at lunchtime. There's no line, you know, come in the afternoon. So anyway, don't come at 9. So, but we'll be there from 9 to 5. And it's at the Word Center shops at, it's a restaurant that used to be Ryan's Grill, but now it's empty. So we're going to be inside there. And there's parking in the garage and surrounding areas. So Ryan's Grill tomorrow around lunchtime. Wow, Sandy, I know you'll have a good day. Yeah, I think it'll be a good day. It'll be great. Because people in Hawaii love at least, they love both of those shows. And they want to come down and they want to participate and they want to have all their friends see them on a national level. And my wife, you can't pull her away from the tube when 5 o'clock is on, you know. Oh, that's so good. It doesn't matter what's happening. She just needs to, it's like an infusion thing. Anyway, I'm so happy that you came down today. Thank you. I am so happy.  Oh, that's nice. And I have a role for you. We'll see you after. We're going to have a conversation. Thank you, Sandy. Thank you so much. It was wonderful. Thank you.


How's it going? I'm sure we've had tons of awesome conversations and discord and even questions from other sessions and all that good stuff. So excited for another one. Very, very fun. Yeah, awesome. So we're gonna talk about long-term account planning and account management, which includes working through the future of your domain name or domain of one zone. Sorry, domain name. Wow. Domain of one zone and into your account cleanup processes and how to make it sustainable for your school as well. So we've got all that good stuff going on. Yeah. So just thinking through questions for management, like Meredith said, you really wanna make sure that this is sustainable. You don't wanna end up accidentally building in tons of work for yourself. Making sure that your project can scale in a way that's manageable and reach a sort of nice resting point. So thinking about how you wanna scale, how many long-term users do you wanna maintain? And that's not something you necessarily have to decide upfront. Again, you can sort of find that nice resting point and say, all right, we're gonna stick with this. But also thinking about what policies you'd like to set. So for example, saying the default account has one gigabyte of storage, that's the maximum quota.  But once it goes past that quota, once you start needing 10 gigabytes or something like that, in order to make sure resources are distributed fairly, we need to talk about other options for managing those sorts of things. And thinking through your support offerings. So what applications are people gonna use regularly? You don't wanna dedicate yourself to, or you don't wanna commit yourself to saying, yeah, I can support everything and install a Tron. That's gonna be easy, no problem. Because you can't, or at the very least, you really don't want to. And you'll quickly find yourself like supporting like a chatbot software or something like that that you have no idea what it is. So definitely understanding which applications for projects that folks are gonna use on that side. Yeah, so setting your policies upfront. And maybe you revisit them down the road if they're not working, but having something in place that you can reference and you can say, no, it's in the rules. We wrote it down. You can read them here. There's always just a good outlet to have, I find. Yeah, so thinking about planning, we talked about that sort of natural cycle figuring out sort of where you want to rest what the sweet spot is. We can, sorry, just a second. Yeah. Basically, there are a couple of different ways to think through what decommissioning is. Decommissioning is the regular sort of cleanup of your server to look at accounts and say, you have lived on this server for long enough because we want to stay at a nice balance of account numbers. We wanna make sure that the server is serving people as we want it to. It's maybe time for this account to be migrated off or to be deleted if it's no longer being used or something like that. And thinking through that cycle, it'll probably be based on your use cases. So for portfolios, people will probably wanna keep those as long as they're at the institution, but for coursework, coursework happens on a much shorter and much more cyclical basis. So maybe you're taking a look at that every year or something like that every semester. For an academic project, that may want to need to live on even past when a person departs the institution because they hand it off to somebody else, something like that. So in general, looking at your use cases and then thinking through, it's probably better to plan for a longer-term use case than it is for a shorter-term use case just to make sure that people aren't accidentally getting caught up in that net and to make sure that you're not doing more work than you need to. And as you'll figure it out, again, thinking through those policies, what makes sense for you and then testing it out and saying, all right, here's how we're gonna make adjustments. On those policies, you get to set them. You get to, as I said, tailor them to your specific project, to your use cases. And there are a couple of common policies. Generally, some schools say, all right, you can have account access up to one year after you leave the institution. And we also offer you the option to migrate elsewhere, to pick up your account and move it to any other hosting company that uses C-Panel and C-Panel is industry standards. So that's a lot of them. Reclaim is one such company. Move to reclaim. We have no bias here. Totally, totally objective. Another option that we've seen is you keep it for up to one year or period of your choice after signing up, which would be appropriate for those coursework based use cases or for a sandbox space where you say, hey, you have one year from the time of sign up. And after that point, we're going to clear you off. You have one year to do what you want and then you can pick up and go as with the previous example. If you like what you've done and you want to keep it, but you can't stay, you don't have to go home but you can't stay here essentially. Or you might align it with single sign on and this would sort of dovetail with the account access thing. If your institution has a policy of your single sign on access expires six months, eight months, a year after you leave the institution, then because single sign on is used in order to access your domain of one's own account, a user who no longer has single sign on options won't be able to get it. So that's also a good touchstone for if you're saying, all right, you get to keep it for X amount of time after you leave. Well, if people can't sign in six months after they leave, then that's a pretty good place to start determining your timeline for how long you would keep an account for them. Absolutely, we've seen a lot of schools work with the SSO option for deprovisioning accounts. A lot of times the timeline is long enough for folks to communicate to the users to let them know what's going on and the students have time to prepare their account to move to another service to maintain their domain and identity from there for sure. Yeah, definitely. Meredith, did you wanna talk through this policy? Yeah, of course. So within the indefinitely policy, this means you're not maintaining, removing accounts after a certain amount of time, you're just kind of keeping them in place on the server based on the options there, but you can see an infinite growth happen pretty quickly where as the project continues on, it grows larger and larger, more media is embedded in the site and more visitors coming to the site itself. So a lot of times this indefinite policy isn't recommended because you can see quickly that account management can be a bear and you can see impact to other accounts on the larger accounts. And we're talking, we're getting up into the gigabyte's worth of space. So kind of setting that package limit also helps with the indefinite option because that way you can kind of track how large an account grows and put a stop to it if needed on that side. It is good to maintain any longer term projects if needed as well. Yeah, I would also say that just thinking back to that idea of what applications you're willing to support, are you continuing to offer support for these accounts indefinitely and how does that scale if you're potentially going to have infinite accounts on your servers don't recommend that, what kind of strain is that gonna put on you when you try and just support users with those accounts? Absolutely, for sure. For sure. All right, so in addition to the indefinite policy there's what's called the unused policy and this is based on information gathering that you create that you add through either logins or disk usage on that side. So the WordPress portal has a last login plugin that we set up that tracks based on the sign-in to the WordPress portal itself. It also is generated in what we have a script that generates a CSV file with this option. It tracks based on your SSO sign-in as well so you can see when a user last logged in. So if they signed up maybe in January of this year and you're tracking over the summer but they haven't logged in since January it's probably a good tell-tale that the account isn't necessarily used on that side. You can also look at the disk space. So account, like if account has megabytes worth of data on it it's more than likely just a blank account that you can remove. Yeah, exactly. And the last login script in addition to that sort of last time they logged in does include some data on how large an account is. So it's particularly useful for being able to filter through that data. And if you have multiple criteria that you want to apply that helps as well. Absolutely, awesome. So now that you've set all of your policies now when do you check them to make sure that your accounts are tracked to remove from the server? If you're working with the graduation or departure workflow you can either do this once or twice a year based on the graduation schedule during slower times of the year. So throughout the summer or throughout the winter break that's a good point. One year after creation you can say hey we're gonna remove any account in July. That is close to a year old. You can also use the account creation dates in WHMCS as a good tell. And you can even make that like a monthly sort of workflow if you'd like or quarterly, quarterly is more recommended. So you're not making too much work for yourself on that side. So maybe quarterly. The unused option is a little bit more consistent or needs a little bit more attention in consistency where you set times to check in. So again that maybe once or twice a year quarterly whatever you feel works best based on the account numbers you have definitely recommend setting a specific schedule for the unused option for sure. Absolutely. Cool. And with this workflow you can kind of get a sense of how accounts kind of end up like what size the accounts end up being and that sort of thing. So typically like is a WordPress site hovering around two gigabytes, three gigabytes. And then occasionally you'll find that you have a larger account that could be a larger project longstanding project and that sort of thing. Some like if you find that there are accounts that are becoming increasingly large you can track that through maybe like support requests or any of your disk usage checks. Good tell tell sign is that if the bandwidth usage increases that means a lot more visitors are going to the site. The best recommendation there is to offer migrating to another service through reclaimed shared hosting or a virtual server, all that good stuff. And even optimizing the website to help bring the size down to maintain the account. You can offload images to another service like through Flickr or Amazon web services that's three storage, all that stuff is good. And a caching plugin is gonna be your best friend at that point that will help speed things up for users when they're loading or visiting the site. Also help decrease the impact to other accounts on the server. 100%. Yeah, this is part of what we were talking about at the beginning with regards to like the policies that you set of once you hit five gigabytes if you really need to go larger, you can't. You need to, we'll figure out a place for your project to live, but it's not fair to the other users on the server or you better have a really good reason. This is a major academic project at the institution, something like that. And even then, Meredith, as you were saying, the bandwidth for a particular account, the more traffic that it's getting, the more that can impact the user experience both for the particular account in question and for other users. So sometimes having it live in its own home means it can get more resources as it needs. Absolutely. Awesome. So when you shift into the removal process, you're gonna start with your gathering of information and you wanna look for a list of your accounts that are on the server. You can work with us to get this list or through the last login script. We do also have an installation on application script that we can set up and run for you on request on that side. And then there's also a general CSV file that you can get from WHM. You can export a list of accounts through the list accounts page on your root access. So let us know if you need any help on that side on getting a list, we're happy to help out there and we're gonna share resources on the last login script, general best practices and all that stuff as well. So it'll be really helpful. Yeah. And once you have your list, we do have some recommendations on managing, the managing this to pair down as much as possible based on what you wanna remove. We do have an automated script that is based out of the CSV file. So we wanna make sure that we're saving that as a CSV. Also using the email address associated with the account, but making sure to note that if the account has multiple accounts or if that email address has multiple accounts associated with it, you wanna make sure to note those because our script does not differentiate between multiple accounts. It wipes based on the email address. Yeah. The idea of being, if a user is leaving, then well, their emails going away. So that sort of thing. Absolutely. So that's important to make sure to flag if needed. So that way if like a longer research project is happening or a club account, like a student club has an account on the server, that way it's maintained and they don't have to rebuild the site once the semester starts again from there. So once you have the list set up and you have it organized based on the email address and noted the accounts that you don't need or the email address that has multiple accounts, send the CSV file our way. At that point, you can set a timeline for how long you want the process to go. We recommend suspending the account first and then terminate the account from the server after a couple of weeks, months, how long you wanna maintain that. So typically we see sometimes two weeks, sometimes one month suspension and then I'll terminate. This way if for whatever reason there's an error in the script or the student comes back to the school or whatever policy you set and the user notices their account is suspended, they can reach back to you and let us know that the account is still active. That way we can save the account if needed. Once the account is removed from the server, we keep backups for 30 days through Jet backup. So within that window, we have time to restore the account. So it's important to let us know what the timeline is that you'd like in regards to suspension and termination on that side. Then you'll also wanna communicate to the users on the list using the mass email tool in WHMCS with client groups is actually really handy and really helpful to knock it out right away versus sending an email individually to each user. And let us know if you need help with any client groups or anything like that. We have scripts. We do have scripts. Absolutely, so we can help you set up those and then the email tool will be very handy. We use that a lot. In that email, we definitely recommend that you send them resources on what to do. So that includes like moving to reclaim if you wanted to continue your domain name, what backup options you have, if you wanna just keep a copy of your account locally or you wanna take it to another hosting company and all that good stuff. So we have a guide on the language to use when you're writing this email to the student. So it's really helpful to have a good base template if you need to on that side. And we'll be able to share that at the end of the slides and then I believe again in chat, probably. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, and if you do have any other questions during this premiere as we're talking, definitely let us know in Discord that we can take a look for sure and keep the chat going. Once we have that list and you determine that timeframe, the magical script comes in that our infrastructure team has created and we process that list through WHM. And then we set our timelines internally so we can follow up and make sure that the list that you have is still correct within the ticket and then we process from there. If you find that the list is very small and you wanna maybe take this on yourself, first of all, don't feel like you have to, we can definitely help you with all of this. If you have like one or two accounts you wanna remove from the server, we highly recommend that you use WHMCS for this. That is gonna be what communicates to your WordPress portal and WHM. So that way one, if the user ever signs in for whatever reason, they're prompted to the right spot and move to the right spot to restart their account or know to reach out to you for more help on that side. And leave the record of WHMCS in the account if needed, that will help us track down where it could have gone. But if you have any questions about the process of removing accounts on a one-off basis, definitely let us know too. But don't feel like you have to do this all on your own with our scripts, it's so easy, for sure. Awesome, so we just have some more information on resources, our general account cleanup category within our Hope Center, how we gather data within the unused policy setup and more migration information and the language used to send account notifications when we're removing accounts. This will all be posted in Discord so we can share the resources there, for sure. Yeah, so I'm just thinking through, it looks like we have maybe a couple of minutes, so I'm gonna keep you here, Meredith, you're my prisoner. And just talk about those communication timelines in terms of what a shorter timeline versus a longer timeline might look like. So that suspending accounts for two weeks and then terminating, suspending them for a month and then terminating is, I think, often what we see used with schools that are using that sort of unused method, the idea of, hey, if you're not using this, we'll send out an email that says, by the way, we're getting rid of this and if you don't notice after a month, that's kind of on you. Whereas for schools that are deprovisioning with people graduating, they might start a couple months in advance communicating and saying, all right, if you're graduating in June, we're sending out an email in March to tell you, if you're graduating in June and you want your account, you gotta take it with you. And then we all know that people don't read their emails and so you send another email in April and then you send another email at the start of May, I said graduating in June, but you send maybe a couple of emails that says, here's how you take your account with you if you wanna take it. Reminder that we will not keep it for you after this point. Here's what your timeline is. And so depending on what policy you have in place, different communication styles and timelines may be more appropriate. Absolutely, yeah. And it does take a couple of cycles of account removal to kind of get that base down. So again, like all of these policies are definitely really customizable to what makes sense for your institution, your domain of one's own instance. So we don't like to necessarily say, this is the way to go. And we've seen with other schools, the longer that they've been around, they've changed their policies to allow them to adapt to any need that they might have throughout the termination process or removal process for sure. Yeah, absolutely. We never wanna be prescriptive about this, really the whole point of this conversation is like, there's so many options. And even within those options, there's a lot of different ways to customize what you're doing and think through what makes sense for you. We don't have a set way of doing it because we know that everyone's got a different situation and a different management style that they wanna go with. Absolutely, yeah. Awesome. So as we've got the couple of minutes left, keep adding those questions into Discord and we'll keep chatting through the process and any questions there. But as sort of like a kind of a final thought process, having a little bit of policy upfront will definitely help you keep track of accounts and make sure that the account management side of things is a little bit easier for you as you grow. It helps you keep the project scalable and manageable within your group so you're not taking on too much at once. Take advantage of reclaim automations. We have our CSV scripts that help remove accounts from the server, mass mail tools, adding client groups. We're here to help you go through the base of getting accounts removed. So as you're getting set up and all of that good stuff and also putting out there, keep talking in Discord again, we can always go through examples of different timelines, different policies that schools have set up. So let us know what you've got for your school and we can definitely highlight those as well. Yeah, and if you ever write in and say, I think it's time, but I don't know what to do, you can just send us a support ticket and we can talk through your options with you again just think through in your particular case, what sounds good? What sounds reasonable? We're happy to have those conversations. For sure, awesome. That was account management and cleanup and we'll keep chatting in Discord for sure. See you at Discord. See ya. Bye.


Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the channel. My name is Jack the Buster. I should know be today we episode 72 and 73 of our one piece Watch through now on the last one We were introduced to this little garden island and the battle between The Dory and Brogy something along those lines these two giants They are destined to fight and there hasn't been a winner for over a hundred years now with that being said the Baroque Works have kind of gotten into the mix and now they're on the island So it'll be interesting to see what goes down if you knew the channel drop a sub and hit that big boy bell Let's get started with the episodes kicking off a listen if the title cards at the beat wait 480 How am I not realized that I've been This is max 480p this entire time the early 2000s were a different time. I Like the sheer scale of this fight though. It's cool I was gonna say how is no one ever won but they look as evenly matched as it gets There's like one blow to one blow to one blow to one blow who stop things the world's ending It's almost like I have a feeling that like they don't kill each other like they don't finish each other off for reason Like they both want to keep fighting like they've like learned each other's moves and everything That they always block it. That's why I There's just no way that one of them hasn't gone lucky in those hundred years like they will they love this That's why they've even forgotten the reason they're there who stops like Luffy's like so enthralled by this They're just quite spectacular Who's up like you respect this Warriors flag That's what it was off once is to be like that not to be scared About as proud as it gets not even knowing why The start contrast it's gonna interest her as soon as she knows who's on the island with them Yeah, this is what he wants to be So adorable just like the the innocence in his eyes searching for that She's a guy. I don't get it his smile He wants to go So there's just a village of these Giants, bro. Oh No, she wants she wants the bounty man. Is she just gonna drop on one of them? Oh, man Interrupting this sacred battle So that's a lot mr. Three gonna be involved in all I thought he wanted all of them to work together They they speak like it's they're like up like fourth or fifth day there Oh Wait, that was exact. I thought that was her coming in like gonna land on them. Just blow for blow even times bro That's what I'm saying. It's it just that goofy that like they just tie every time It's just how it is. They're not even meaning to all the duals over, but I think they're gonna swoop in It's just such a wholesomeness to them like they're just friends, bro Zoro and a Sanji are very out of the loop now. Oh, they're actually sharing it He's got the barrels between his fingers, bro Yeah, they won an adventure I feel like there's gonna be some secret or something. Oh, maybe not. I would imagine if you stay that long, yeah Good thing could be none of them attack the Giants I don't think it would be for this crew, but it is a long time to watch There's no time. Yeah, you can't just get here and then stay for your the guy's more more the grand line. Oh shoot Lovie's like That's where they don't need to go I mean depends how close is that island to where they need to alabasta? I guess there's no way in knowing That is also an option just go Lovie's like I didn't think about that. I didn't either That's pure adventure There was someone there left before the log was stored who else has been here They've you just worried man like she does this chance They may never even make it back if they just straight up leave I'm just worried about this group attacking though. I don't want anything to happen to the Giants I know our crew can kind of handle themselves, but the two million two hundred million very bounty is huge Lovie's is tiny compared to that Not tiny, but very small compared to that Oh Why it was up is so wholesome man Purpose like their culture and ill-buff his eyes He's gonna train him.   Oh No No, no, no, it wasn't the out. I think it was just a coincidence and he just thinks it's the alcohol Oh, no He's like that's not pride like there's no reason did they actually plant something in the alcohol? He's gonna think it was them man. Oh my god, brother. It's not what it looks like I'm pretty sure the dude flicked the booger and that's what exploded.  I'm scared man guys, please Figure it out He's huge Actually, Luffy might be like be in the the better position here because he is so small be hard to track now imagine. He's slower. Oh No, he is in rough shape. He's just straight up bleeding. Oh Maybe not. I mean he doesn't seem to be that slow Yeah, he's slowly dying. He needs to stop man Oh When Luffy's challenge like that like his honor is challenged like he would do something like that. I think it cuts to him He apologized Dude, it's like he knew this would really hurt him. He did know it would really hurt him But I think that's gonna kill him. Oh, no, maybe not No, Luffy's fine. I feel like that's gonna be a lot of this show. It's like oh, he's probably okay Maybe it's it's totally cool. Oh cool. He's dead. Oh, dude If Luffy does find out that it was I mean it's inevitable that he will but as soon as he realizes who did it He's going to be so mad Dude, I don't think he is he's sped up blood and then fell And you can't think it's someone else from the from the ship. Yeah, like part of the crew got to start looking And they're probably watching you right now Okay, so he's sort of like a manipulator.   At least you can admit their cheap tricks then this is very shameless this guy's Sleazy should he drink it all? I don't I don't I don't respect it I mean the others like I don't like but I can respect because they fight fight this guy's just sleazy. Oh No, I I Still have a bet I still have a bad feeling that's something like like the volcano is going to erupt and it's gonna be like like the Dinosaurs there's kind of alluding to that. Well, they both haven't found one.  Oh my god. He's up No shot. I gotta get to the fight. He's gonna go and he's not gonna be able to keep up his pride Well, here comes round number two. I'm guessing actually he doesn't even need to do anything cuz Dory'll die in a fight This is so sad I almost can't watch this because I have a feeling it's going to slowly get to him dying and it's going to shift the Entire dynamic of this island because the entire island is sort of built around them battling until the end of time Or until they eventually die and since something's probably going to kind of erupt that pun Not really intended. I don't know how how the other giant is even going to remotely react. All right episode 73. Let's run it He's barely gonna make it to the fight let alone survive the fight. He is he looks like a zombie What? Why? What is he doing? And how did he pick that up? Okay, but why did he trap Luffy too? They think he was gonna interrupt or stop him. Does he know it wasn't him? Yeah true the giant's gonna be under the assumption that he's in the shade he is under the assumption that he's in the same shape as him He said, you know nothing child. I mean from his perspective.  It's like his number is like his fan club now, bro It's number one fan. Not me is bored. Yep. I have to go somewhere He's speaking very matter-of-fact now and very about it That's kind of what the giant said is like you lose everything when you die I like this like sense of of courage and I don't know like he's it the other the giant has kind of inspired Who saw even more than he was? I'm so scared man.  It just is he can tell he is Please don't worry.  Oh, but this was three might interfere again even now Also, we'll be literally needs one of the Giants to be able to get out Seems like a lot of situations of the show thus far. Oh, you're getting to know Luffy Maybe she's starting to realize the perspective of pirates and whatnot too and not all are bad No, oh he ran away.  Oh That's convenient. I don't think that's not me. I yeah, that's not not me This is mr. Three. He's being deceptive. I Also, cuz Usob wasn't there. Oh That is creepy. Oh, this is terrifying dog.  Oh No, what did it do a trap or in a bubble? And now it's like, oh, hey Sanji or something. It's like you only needed to know their faces He ain't kind of anxious like how alone he is He can be fast when he wants to things were going downhill so quickly Luffy's trapped under a giant skull People are getting abducted by mr. Three. One of the Giants is on the brink. How do is being kidnapped wait? He actually found them nice I love how he doesn't even know he's just kind of under that assumption I What kind of madman would actually make sure that she got eaten That's true actually Because he wasn't there whenever they saw him. Oh He's starting to put the pieces together. He's like, I don't know what alcohol you're talking about With those no, I guess if they exploded his stomach they had to have tampered it couldn't have been the boogers Yeah, mr. Three is just like a mastermind He's falling. Oh no I'm so worried true Did not even know why Usopp is very worried about the integrity of this fight. I I know it's coming and I'm scared They're just having a picnic That's so loud the chewing sound Stop. Aye. Aye Oh, here he goes That is so shameless Just to be Third-partied bro What does he look like that? It's over. Oh my god Dude, Broggy has to be like kind of sad, right? Or maybe even a little confused as to how he did win Oh, I guess. Yeah, they see it as the judgment. That's they have that worldview Broggy doesn't even know that the fight was tampered with and I think that's going to drive him crazy if he finds out Luffy is mad Bro if he finds them, okay, but they also need Broggy to lift the the skull now if Dory is dead She heard hear Luffy yelling That's how many fights it took And it's over that means he can return home I think he's going to find out very soon that it was tampered with. Oh man.  Oh, so that's paint he uses It's that it's strong enough to trap him bro. Really? That is absurd Why are the chewing sounds so loud? Okay, he's trapped too. So that means Luffy's trap trap guys Just start digging at the grass all around Luffy, please Oh no, it's gonna be up to Usopp and Vivi and I don't think they can take Those two down did they hurt him if he said you bastards will pay Yeah I mean can't Luffy technically also stretch from there Dude, he literally wouldn't oh my gosh. Kadoo is cold-blooded. What a beast. Oh my gosh Dude Usopp I think that's safe to assume right now Oh, he's gonna he might be madder than Luffy, bro Oh, here we go. Vivi's fine with passion too. Yeah, I don't know man But like I said they are fighting with passion bro. Look at them run They're just going in Thing is she can only like come up drop down.  Oh, it's wax not paint Okay, that makes way more sense a candle man. Oh, that's why the hair lights on fire. It's like the oh, okay It's like a candle Oh, dude Tell me while I was like low-key getting emotional that kadu was like holding out for them and wouldn't wouldn't squeal Like actually though that is that is man's best friend. That is vivi's best friend right there It was so sad that broggy Well, like I thought he was shedding tears of the end actually because he was emotional about it But then it brought in the whole the whole thing about how they were so it was the divine Protection and how he just didn't have it in that fight But it actually did confirm it after that he he was crying for his friend who had just fallen I mean it makes sense. They've been there for over a hundred years had over 73 000 fights Of course, you would be emotional by striking him down You could see their interaction after the last fight how it was just like a casual thing for them It was almost as if they thought they'd be there forever and that they were okay with that because they're warriors They fight for their pride if they were to just fight their entire lives for their pride and then die like that They would have been perfectly happy But now a broggy finds out that that it was all kind of manipulated. I think he's going to in the next episode I think he's really going to pop off and these are going to get quite hectic But again, I think it's kind of cheesy how they how they are able to get luffy out of these fights by sticking him under stuff But I guess luffy's such a strong emcee that there's not a ton of options You have in terms of limiting him because that's been it from 72 and 73 of our one piece watch through Be sure to drop a sub on the channel if you are new and I'll catch you guys in the next one his pace


Okay, we're back live. It's our last show of the week. It's the 4 o'clock on a Friday. Wow, exciting. Marcia Joyner is here to act as my co-host, and I'm acting as her co-host, okay? We are honored today to have Kaniyia Ying, and he is representative, state representative from Maui. Welcome to the show, Kaniyia. No, thanks for having me. Yeah, great to have you here. We have important things to discuss. We do, but I just want to make one caveat for people that usually watch the 4 o'clock show on Friday. Beatrice is in California, who have treatments, and she will be back this week. The plane arrives late today, so we said, yes, we would absolutely be here in her stead. So here we are. So for all of her viewers, give her your prayers, and she will be back. We're sitting in for her today, and I hope her plane does not get jammed up at the airport because of your president, Donald Trump, who is here today. But don't even leave him home. Don't even talk about it. We've got a nice, young, beautiful man who is starting out in politics. Kaniyia, she called you beautiful. Well, okay. Listen, at my age, I can do that. Come on. But he's starting out this whole new... It's hopeful for me to see young people like this to take a step forward in politics. We need this. The next generation kind of thing. We need to see this. Yes, we need to see this. We don't need any more warmed-over politicians. We don't need glass ceilings. So you might run for office. Can you talk about it just a little? Well, I'm in office. I mean, another office aside. Well, I mean, I'm sort of an unlikely politician. I don't come from money or power. My mom worked at Liberty House. My dad went to tables out of a new member at a hotel. So, you know, when I first ran for office at 22, people... I could count the amount of folks who thought I had a chance with one hand and half of them at my mom's house, actually. But, you know, we had this idea that if you actually listen to people, it doesn't matter. It was on the other side. So I knocked on $15,000 personally in a Republican district against Tea Party incumbent. And we won by 26%. And so since then, I've just been trying to, you know, not let the influx of money in politics affect my decisions, kind of keep that grassroots feel. We do engage a lot on social media and stuff, which, you know, sort of a lot of folks my age do. But it is really old school and the fact that we're actually going door to door and making that personal connection. So I think that's how it's been. It's been six years, though, in the state house. And the things I want to do for my district, I've accomplished. And now I serve as majority policy leader, issues of statewide importance. But what is majority policy? What does that mean? So in the house, thanks for asking. So in the house and the Senate, we both have our priorities. And so it's not just like a bunch of ideas thrown against the wall and see what sticks in the beginning of the session. We have a majority policy leader that brings the different chairs together and tries to figure out where we have common ground and where we can push forward a package together. And it has to be issues of statewide importance. So climate change, global warming, sea level rise. If Waikiki goes underwater, the whole state's economy is pretty much wiped out. I'm glad you're thinking about that. Yeah, so it's how we really don't have time on our side. And that's what the scientists yesterday really revealed that we need to act now. And for folks like me, the future is not an abstraction. Like this is our survival on the line. So you might consider another office. Yeah, so with the vacating of Colleen Hanabusa, who's looking to run for governor, it leaves a sort of vacuum in Hawaii politics. And I know Mark Dukai who held the seat before her. He was actually the first legislator I met. I was ASUH president at the time, UH student body president. Linda Lingo cut our university about $130 million. So I sent this email to the legislator saying, you know, can you meet with students going to discuss this? He was the only one who met with me. And he told me, because he was the ASUH president too. Yeah, and he was the ASUH president as well. So he showed me what he did as president and through his time in the legislature. And I really got the bug. I'm like, well, you can really accomplish a lot through public service. Unfortunately, Mark wasn't able to serve about the 20 years that he committed to the job. So, you know, as he was a mentor to me and the shoes that really can't be filled. But I really like to, you know, continue on that legacy and get in there, commit decades and really gain the seniority we need because this Trump thing will come and go. But what's going to change is the, you know, the makeup of the house. There's going to be a democratic majority eventually. And what we need is seniority in order for our small state to really connect. So that's why I'm considering taking a shot at me. Now, you graduated commandment school, did you? I did, yeah. And then UH, my dad went to Kaimuki High School. My mom went to HCC, didn't finish. They fell in love and started a family really early. So, you know, our first generation college graduate, my dad passed away when I was around 12. So we relied on government programs and our community and teachers and coaches and our church.  That was my first paycheck. So I understand that when I talk to my grandmother, if she didn't stand up against the corporate establishment of her time, or at least the political establishment at the time, I might still be on the plantation. So how do we honor those roots that really created the middle class here in Hawaii to rebuild their middle class, which is sort of getting pushed out by, you know, the international investors coming in.  Or more. Or more. Literally adjacent to veterans and native Hawaiians living on the streets. Yeah. And it's just, we're asking like, you just got to ask like, who are we building for? Yeah. And what can we do about it? I think that's what's frustrating a lot of everyday folks when I talk to them is, you know, can we build their way out of this? Probably not with an insatiable demand coming from the mainland. We're going to have to do some controls for probably tax, luxury homes, empty units, and actually subsidize workforce and affordable housing. So those are the sort of things we're focusing on now through the house. And federally, we definitely could use more infrastructure funds. I think we need to spearhead really bold infrastructure spending to the tune of trillions, actually, instead of just throwing that to the military and elsewhere. And then in turn, that would create thousands of jobs, move us to a readable energy future. And, you know, if another rail situation happens, it won't fall on the backs of white residents if we have that massive amount of federal funding. Yeah. Wow. Great points, Kamiella. This resonates with my whole world view. Thank you. Thank you. I don't know if it's probably for, like, big tech. Let's go back to the priorities then, based on what you just said. Now, you say the name of the committee again? So the committee I chair is Ocean Marine Resources. No, I'm at the priority committee. Oh, so I serve as majority policy leader. Majority policy leader. And the chair of this ocean committee. So what are those projects, the ones that have had priority? Can you tell us or have you decided yet? We're working on it now. So we had a retreat for the first time this happened in about at least 20 years under the leadership of Scott Psyche. He just came in. He decided that rather than just having everyone submit their priorities and then having the majority leaders trying to just sift through them. We actually bring all the subject matter chairs into the room and we discuss our priorities, our red flags for our communities that they don't like and our committee goals. So we all went around and did that and then that way we could work out the kinks. That's a very good idea. And it was probably the most substantive policy discussion I've seen in my six years in legislature. And some of the more veteran folks, 12, 20 years, said similar things. Actually, I know folks get like this heart and they think that we just act politically and expediently. But everyone that gets involved in public service, even the ones that can seem jaded at times, they're really ma. Like they really understand the policy behind the things they're doing and their hearts aren't coming from the right place. So it was sort of a, this was just last week. It was a real encouraging meeting. So I'm looking forward to falling through and hopefully we can come up with a better policy. It's all about policy. And a lot of legislators say, bring me your issues, bring me your suggestions and I will sign bills or whatever it is. But really it should be, we think about this all day. We have policy priorities. We will deliver ideas to you and then you can react to us. And then we will adopt legislation based on our perception of those policy points. This is a better way to do government. It's wonderful. I've never, in all the years I've been a handmaiden to power. I have never heard this happening. Never. And it's a wonderful idea. The Democratic Party in its platform said these are our priorities. They sent all these priorities to the legislature. 80 were not even acted upon. 80 of those priorities weren't even acted upon. So this is a great time way to look at, okay, the party sent this. Let's look at this. What out of this can we really have? Did you say that you're a handmaiden to government? No, a handmaiden to power. A handmaiden to power? Yeah. Okay. You heard it here on Think Tech. Handmaiden to power. Let's go on. Let's go on to this conference on yesterday at the Capitol on our reefs. Let's talk about that. Big environmental question. What is it? Reef madness. Reef madness. Reef madness. Great title. Yeah. Not to be confused with the 1970s propaganda piece. No, no, no. We're not going there. This was about the ocean. What happened? Oh, so the idea was, I don't know a lot of people, a lot of people watch that Netflix documentary chasing corals. It's been on the four of folks consciousness over the last few months. So we thought this was a good opportunity. Starvertizer did a great article about the state of our reefs and overfishing. So we started contacting researchers, community groups and the department. Me meaning your committee? Your policy group. Me and just my office staff. Okay. That session I only have one office staff. Your chair of which committee? The ocean marine resources and Hawaiian affairs. Oh, so that's a perfect place for this to be. Yeah. Okay. So then we worked with Chris Lee from Kailua through his committee in energy and environmental protection. Sure. We did a joint hearing. And the idea was often when you go through the session, the department is saying we don't have enough data and the scientists are saying we need to take action here, but they're taking like the politics for granted. The politicians are taking the science for granted. And there's like this disconnect between the three parties. Yeah. So we figure if we bring the researchers from NOAA and UH and the DNR and Dar and policy makers into the same room, then we can sort of hold each other accountable and create that synergy or stop any chasms that might come up. And that's actually what happened. So we broke it up to three, three sessions for the first on coral bleaching, which has kind of been on the really big issue in the last few years, the Great Bear Reef, the biggest reef in the world outside Australia is effectively dead due to a catastrophic coral bleaching event. What was the event? They call it bleaching events. It just happens. It's almost spontaneously. The sea level temperature goes up a couple of degrees and all of a sudden environmental changes. Yeah. This happens. That's a dead reef. That's a dead reef. Yeah. Well, that one might not. Yeah. That one's actually dead. So at first it turns white and then. Can we go back? Even though it's bleached, it can still recover. But after a certain point. Like that. Yeah. Right there. That's dead. That might still have a chance. So they bleach and then they can come back because like reefs are made of so much different living creatures and polyps. So it's like a, it's not necessarily one creature. So it's like an ecosystem in itself. So it's, we don't have exact science of, you know, how quickly or resilient they can recover. So what happened in Australia that could happen here? Could happen here. And actually there's been a couple really bad bleaching events in the last few years. And it's interesting that if we don't act now, then it's likely that our reefs will actually be devastated. Big question though. So why do we care? Why do we care if the reef dies? How does it affect you and me and even Marsha? Well, first is recreation. So I don't know. I haven't been snorkeling much. So that's the first thing, but that affects the tourism market because they rely on, you know, selling snorkels and their tours. But, and secondly, probably much more importantly is our local food supply and like the long line fishing industry and near shore fishing industries. And lastly, just generally, if an economist did a study on Hawaii's reefs and I think the estimate was around $7 billion value to our economy. And that's very conservative. So if our reefs were to be devastated, our entire economy would take, would probably fall into a statewide recession. Yeah. Yeah. Let me add a thought though. And I'm sure this came up in your discussion is that the reefs are, we don't know the full extent of the effect of the decline of the reefs on our environment, our greater environment. So changes in sea water temperature, that affects the reef. But then if the reef dies, part of the ecology is gone. It's out of the picture and you don't know what happens after that. What other forms of life are affected? What other effects there are in the ocean in general and on the land for that matter. So I mean, we don't know the whole story yet. We only know it's a bad story if we lose the reefs. Yes. Yeah. Tell me about this suntan lotion. The bill was before the legislature last year and didn't pass. But that has an effect on the reef, the suntan, whatever that chemical is in the suntan lotion. So what happens now with that? Okay. So the hearing is broken up to three parts. The first was coral bleaching. The second was overfishing. And the third was water quality and toxins and pollution. And then we had community groups, researchers, and the department weigh in for all three. Now in regards to coral bleaching, the number one effect or number one cause is actually carbon emissions. So anything we can do to move towards our 100% renewable energy goal is welcome. But we can't do that alone. It needs to be global action. President Trump's decision to pull out of the Paris agreement is a horrible step backwards for our renewable energy goals and reducing emissions, but particularly in the way it affects our reefs. So that was the most... I mean, if we had scientists on the show, they probably did a much better job explaining this, but that was the main takeaway point was that carbon emissions is the number one thing for coral bleaching. For the fish populations, we need more marine protected areas. So Governor Ige came out with his initiative protecting 30% of nearest shore fisheries by 2030. I think it's a great initiative. There's no teeth to it. So what does that mean? What is it? It's aspirational. So if you look at West Hawaii, there's... But to their credit, the department seems to be a lot more open to it. And in yesterday's hearing, we got them to agree to support a mandate for 2030. So it's not just an aspirational goal. It's a mandate. And then they can actually make a case for funding because it's a legislative mandate. So how do you accomplish this? How do you implement the goal, the aspirational goal? Yeah, so we need to map out... For me, my ideal reef management or fishery management system would encompass fully protected marine protected areas with no take, but just in small areas because even if you have like a small bay that's protected, it kind of trickles out like a nuclear fish populations. And then you expect fish to be able to fish right outside of it. And that's not a bad thing. That's the point, right? So there's more fish. So it actually encourages fishing. And then more like urban bore replenishment areas for like aquarium populations at Uuhu, which is really a threat, the parrot fish that make our sand. And then community-based fisheries, like we've seen in Oomomi and Haina, where you actually go to the community and the people that use that area as their icebox, the kupuna and the subsistence fishers who know the tides and breeding patterns better than any like bureaucrat or politician, they make the rules themselves and they do it through the O&R. And that's a model that's been really successful across the world and we're finally catching on here. So that's a... They'll map it out and then work with the department and it's just a matter of how quickly they can do it and whether or not they have enough resources. And then of course enforcement and funding they'll care. This is a big subject. It is. And actually we're going to take a short break. Okay. We're going to regroup and when we come back, we're going to let Marcia ask her question which is driving her. It is. She's the handmaiden of power. Yeah, power. And I hear you. I just... The Vapi Venzone will get through. Yeah, that will get through. We'll be right back after a short break. You too, Marcia. It's nice to know you're going to get home alive. For every game day, a sign a designated driver. Guys, don't forget to check me out right here, the Prince of Investments. I'm your host, Prince Dykes. Each and every Tuesdays at 11 a.m. Hawaii time. I'm going to be right here. Stop by here from some of the best investment minds across the globe. And real estate, finances, stocks, hedge funds, managers, all that great stuff. Thank you. Guess what? This is Think Tech. And we're here late on Friday afternoon. And gee, it's our four o'clock show with Kaniella Ng, state representative. And he is the majority policy leader of the state legislature. Is that right? State House. Of the state house in majority policy leader of the state house. This is very important. Because they identify issues and determine priorities. Very important for coordinating all the committees, especially in environment. Okay. And you had a conference just yesterday at the state capitol involving the, what is it, the reefs? The reef madness, as you will, to examine with appropriate experts from UH and otherwise, and legislators and anyone interested, I suppose, came down to participate in discussion about what the problem is with the reefs, what the direction of that problem is and how we fix it. And this program is called Solutions to Overfishing, but it's not only overfishing. It's suntan lotion, either. Suntan lotion. And also, and we were talking about that during the break.  I know you had a question and I want to offer you the opportunity to finally, after all this time, express yourself. Okay. This last year, last two sessions, in fact, this issue came up about the suntan lotion and that chemical that's in the suntan lotion. And that is... Oxybenzone. Oxybenzone. Okay.  You smell it. It's there. And they say that one chemical is part of the reason the reefs are dying. I want to know if that's part of the priority, if we can get it past the lobbyists this year, which we haven't been able to do the last two years. So copper tone is owned by Bayer. Bayer just bought Monsanto and, you know, among environments, Monsanto's the dirty word. Can we get it done this year? Personally, I hope so. I'm not speaking on behalf of the entire house right now because that's something... The majority of the policy that things that we push as a body tend to be things that have been worked through, so there's a little bit less kinks.  These more particular issues, I'll definitely be spearheading it through my committee. I know the Chair of Energy and Environmental Protection, who will also be seeing this bill, Representative Chris Lee, has been supportive in the past of finding a way forward. The question is, is it going to be a ban on usage, a ban on sale? Is there some kind of compromise that can be reached? For me, I tend to be more precautionary. If there's data that says that it may be dangerous and there's not enough data and there's no made analysis, then it's better to be safe than sorry. There's no data to say that it's really harmful. In my mind, we need to prove that it's not harmful. And that's actually how most industrialized, especially European nations, handle these sorts of environmental policies. What's the damage about it? There's no damage in passing such a measure, right? Well... Some guys can't sell some kind of suntan lotion. That's it? Yeah. So I think last year we had ABC Store against it. Copper Tone Lobby. Of course. But the raw suntan lotions that are not as destructive, right? Yes. Yeah, so as long as there's an alternative, then there's not much damage for the public. It is... If you use... There are some that rub really well. They're a little bit more expensive, but not drastically. And once they're able to produce some in more bulk, the price might go down. But I think the issue with oxybenzone is not just when it rubs off into the water, but actually it absorbs into your skin. This is what came out of the hearing yesterday. It absorbs into your skin, and then after you... It can enter our sores and their injection wells through urine and then really pollute the water quality that way as well. How about your body? To say nothing of your body. To say nothing of your body.  Can you imagine what this does to little kids on the beach? Right, being exposed to it. No, I'm rubbing it into their skin as they're growing and their immune system and all of those kind of things. And again, if there's unknowns, I don't think it's not necessarily responsible for me to be like, you know, danger, danger. But again, the precautionary principle is we shouldn't wait until there's a sacrificial lamb to take action. Or millions like we did with big tobacco. And okay, if I'm a parent and I do this and I know that you knew and didn't tell us, then I can sue you. You mean the producer of the suntan lotion?  Can I shift gears for a minute? Can we talk about fishing for a minute? Okay, what was the discussion on fishing and did it include aquaculture? I think the biggest takeaway from the scientists or as much as there was a consensus was that people were the problem. And you can control for water quality and whatever else, but the areas that are the most depleted, the fisheries that are most depleted are the areas with the highest populations and the most density. So Oahu is outside, actually the entire Oahu. West and South Maui are just like completely, like the fisheries are almost wiped out. Yeah. And Molokai is right. Is it really in territorial waters or does it extend outside beyond territorial waters? So the focus with Dr. Freelander's research, he's the one that made that front-page star advertiser article last week, or two weeks ago. His research is mostly about near shore fisheries. But there's, NOAA actually came to when they talked a little bit more about like the pelagic fisheries as well. What are the boundaries, the state, how far out of the water? Oh, I forget this. Well, the traditional state boundary is three miles. Three miles. The contiguous zone is 12 miles. Are you a fisher? No, I was in the Coast Guard once. Oh, okay. So that's only 12 miles from Sandy Beach to Molokai's 39 miles. Yeah. Well, that's open water. That's open ocean between the islands. Yeah. So what about those waters? Who determines fishing in those waters? Anybody? Nobody. Nobody? Well, the federal government does. But that's not a state matter, I don't think. Sure it is. Between the islands. Maybe it could be a state matter. It should be. But that would have to... I mean, the fish doesn't know, there's no sign underwater that tells the fish you are now leaving the state. Well, what about that? I mean, it's been an industry in the state for many, many years. A lot of people live on fish that they catch in their small boats. They are overfishing. I mean, local people are overfishing, right? Right. It's not only commercial, it's local people. That's exactly it. And we have to do something to resurrect the fisheries.  So, I mean, to me, this is a critical problem. It's also, and I asked you also, it's a critical problem about aquaculture, especially the big islands around Nellah. What are we going to do to allow aquaculture at the same time resurrect the fisheries? This is not easy. And I, myself, I cannot think of measures that would actually accomplish this. Can you? No.  So, we do try to look at things that we can affect through a policy. But it's sort of irresponsible and naive to think that, you know, being at the 20,000-foot level, we can just tinker with things and things will just fix. A lot of it will come from community action. What we can do is help facilitate education. There was some funding a few years back. I don't even know if you remember that commercial on TV with the guy who was like bragging up. He pulls up on his truck and he's his friend.  And the guy's like, what you're going to do with all that fish? You remember the commercial? Yes. So, that kind of thing to help people know to get back to the indigenous roots and just take what you need and then leave the rest.  How would you know? Especially without probable cause, you can't really infringe on this person. And are there enough DLNR officers to look at the vast majority of fishing? All the fishing. The short answer is no. No. All over the state. And they're overburdened. Their scope of their duties are like, they have to enforce parking and everything. So, we're trying to figure out a way to have just dedicated fishing enforcers fund more. But the issue, like you alluded to, it's not necessarily just the commercial guys. I think the biggest impact on the near-shore fishery is actually more recreational every day. Fisher is one-third of the population claims they fish today. We're the only shoreline state in the entire U.S. that doesn't have recreational fishing permits. When you say that, some people throw their hands in the air, like it's like a draconian thing. But even a nominal fee like $10 a year can really make an impact when you're talking about thousands of fisherfolk and using that money for conservation. That's what I was going to ask with that money. Would that money be dedicated to all of these things, the environment? If you got fishing permits, would that money be dedicated to enforcement, to restocking, to whatever you had to do to make this a viable industry again? Yeah, and the flip side of that, remember I just came back from Nelha, is the aquaculture in cages that the law permits and DLR manages off the Big Island, but also in other possible areas where we can grow a lot of fish for ourselves and even export without actually injuring the fisheries. And we manage that. We regulate that pretty heavily. And I wonder if that's part of the discussion because that kind of takes the pressure off if we can generate good fish populations and good fish production using those techniques. And if we do that, does that limit the mercury that people talk about in the fish? I don't know, because I'm not a fisher person, because if doing aquaculture where you're growing fish in an environment, does that limit the mercury in the fish? Well, I don't think it makes a difference one way or the other. That's an interesting question though. I know mercury compounds over time, but if you're producing more fish as opposed to relying on larger fish, I suppose that's less mercury because it's an exponential increase over years. Yeah, but it has to come from somewhere though. Anyway, we're about out of time. I wanted to ask you for final thoughts. There's Camera One. They're all out there. 1.3 million people watching you at least. So, Connyella, what would you say to them? Is it your message today? Oh, yeah. So, the state of our marine ecosystems in Hawaii is a dire that we need to act now, but it's not without hope. I think if we implement some marine protected areas, not shutting down fishing, but actually creating more fish in certain areas by smart regulation, if we move the recreational fishing permits, we can educate one another about not taking too much. You don't need 200 coli for every graduation party and taking care of invasive species like roi, choosing the right types of sunscreen, and doing what we can to reduce carbon emissions. I think that's the number one. Those are the actions we can take as individuals. If you see bills come up, lobby forum at the state capitol, and when you're going to the ballot, when you're going to elect someone, on the federal level, don't just think about the style and whether or not you have that personal connection. I know it matters, but is this person going to be willing to fight for the environment and our marine ecosystems and our overall well-being despite what lobby is and big money powers on the other side? So, I think that's what we really need is people that are going to not just bring back the Paris agreement and push for 100% renewable energy nationwide, but who's really going to stick it to the people, really take on the forces on the other side, be it Bayer, Monsanto, or anyone else. Yeah, very thoughtful, actually. Thank you, Kaniyia. Great to talk with you. You're up and coming for sure. It's really a pleasure to see this young generation like this. It gives us hope. I love it. Thank you for coming this afternoon. Thanks for this opportunity. You will come back and visit with us again as the session goes on. Anytime. Wonderful. Thank you. Thank you, Marcia. You are indeed the Handmaiden. Thank you so much.