Good afternoon and thank you for joining us for another episode of Kondo Insider. My name is Jane Sugimura and I'm your host today and today we are going to be talking about something that is kind of near and dear to my heart mainly because I have to appear before the state legislature and the city council and testify and advocate on behalf of all of you guys you know who live and work and have anything to do with condos. Anyway the issue today is condos and the political process or why condo residents need to actively participate in the electoral process and we got a general election coming up on November 6th and so that's what this show is going to be concentrating on because I've had so many people who run for elected office tell me that they one of their their challenges is they can't get into condominiums to talk to the residents and so I have with me today as our guest Sharon Moriwaki who's running for the state Senate Senate District 12. Correct. Sharon thank you for joining us. Thank you Jane for having me on. This also is an area that's near and dear to me so thank you for having this show. Okay why don't you tell us about your background. Okay I grew up in the Kakaako who has shared an area so I'm in the district Senate district I went to Kaimaki High School most of my life has been in public service so I was the Labor Deputy Director and the Personnel Director for the state under the Waihe administration I was the Administrative Director for the courts under CJ Moon and that administration most recently I've been with the University of Hawaii both as initially as the Assistant Vice President for the University System and then more recently with the Public Policy Center. Okay and are you a condo resident by the way? I certainly am I've been for many years so condo and condo living is very important and I think that this is why another area that I'm really concerned about. In fact you're on the board of directors aren't you? I am. You're on the board of directors. So tell me what you're you know so you are familiar with condo issues. I am I am we're on the board in a Kakaako condo I'm a vice president we have a nine member board and and all of the problems of the condo come before the board as you know yeah is being on the board herself so we take care of all the association problems looking after the maintenance the operations the working with the property and the general manager for for a condo. Dealing with things is buying the new planters to the gantry and making sure that our building is safe and sound so yeah we deal with everyday problems as well as problems that are coming up from the homeowners as well. Okay and you're currently running for the state senate district number 12. I am. Why are you running? For me it all started with Kakaako about five years ago we saw all the building coming up in Kakaako we learned about it through Andrew Gomes picture of you know oh wow what was happening and being in condos as you stated earlier you really aren't involved so you don't know what's going around around you and so when we started looking and studying the law this being governed by the community development board we found that they were building too close too high not following the rules or the plans building residential where it should have been zone commercial and so a small group can make a difference our neighbors got together formed a group called Kakaako united and we took on the board we took on the governor at the time and we actually changed the law so now that board has representatives who come from the community and today we have a very good board that listens to everyone makes decisions for the people and and that's the kind of government I want to see in our district but really for the state you know a board that listens to everyone and when they make decisions each one tells you why they're voting the way they are and when you guys got together informed Kakaako united you basically had to learn what the political process was all about it we did we did and we had to not only learn the political process and who's who's on first what's on second but also had to read all those project development applications that came in and the plans and the rules so it was a lot of work by volunteers but but it was it was important for us to know that there were people in office that we could start nudging and you guys were able to make a difference we did and you did change all what hcda did in terms of approving condominiums for approval the board changed and and it changed the whole complexion of that board and the way they operate so it's very important to get involved for the for our listening audience for the people because these are all condominiums and your your district is oh 70% 70% condominiums 70% condominiums okay and I think we've got a map yes your district somewhere and if we can show it on on the screen while we're talking so what areas are in Senate district this is really your central urban Honolulu so it's Kakaako, Makali Mo'ili'ili, Alamoana, Sheridan and Waikiki so it's like that big chunk along the coastline and also intruding into Makali Mo'ili'ili are those condos and apartments so I see our urban district as kind of the canary in the whole mind that what happens in Kakaako or Waikiki really will infiltrate other areas although they say oh you know build densely downtown and and you know keep the country country that's not going to happen if we're not vigilant and we're not involved and we don't see what's good for Hawaii okay and you know in your campaign with all these condominiums what kind of challenges have you encountered well I think the biggest challenge is that condos are secure they and for good reason you want to have a secure place to live especially when some of these condos have 500 people in them you know so so they are secure so you can't really get into them but what I've done in my campaign is that build relationships so I know people in different condos or we meet people when I do coffee hours or when I do when I go to meetings and you find people who are interested in the cause we want good government we want to have people who are accessible to us okay so then they will have a coffee hour or they will send it out to their friends in the condo and you start educating condo members so you can get into condos but you have to do it relation person by person relationship a relationship remember the one that we had why Lana the couple was very gracious in having actually all the legislators are all the candidates there for the area and you you then get to meet firsthand and hear firsthand the issues and the people who will represent you and you know this this challenge about getting access to condominiums do you think that's a bad thing well yes and no I think it it's it I don't I don't think that it's a bad thing if you're trying to protect your residents it is a bad thing because condo dwellers stay within their unit sometimes not even within their building and so you're isolated from what's going around around you so then all of a sudden you see why is that homeless shelter or homeless building coming up across the street I didn't even know about I had to read it in the paper or why is it that that this condo is being built right across the street with lights shining and glaring in my my condo when I didn't know about it so so things happen around you and you're not aware because you're so isolated so it is a bad thing that you can't get informed about your environment and what affects you and one of the things to you know with with condo people or condo residents is it appears that you know a lot of them don't know their elected officials who their elected officials are so they really don't know who to call if something happens like like you mentioned the condo goes up across the street and somehow that building affects you know your quality of life in your building so it's like who do you call right right right and I and I think that's why the condo dwellers don't get their fair share but thanks to you you're there representing us at the Capitol but very few legislators live in condos and really don't represent the interest of condo dwellers so so you've got to educate them only way to do it is by being more involved and calling your legislator and legislators in condo dense districts like mine should really represent condo owners so you know you need to to really be in touch with them and if they're not doing the work of the district then you should be looking for other people to to run and and so your message to condo dwellers is that they need to know who who represents them yes and they need to be talking to their elected yes about their concerns yes and not waiting until something happens that you know like a building goes up and then it's kind of too late yes and and and this is how I believe the relationship should be between the constituents and the elected official is that you form a relationship so when you don't have to wait for the condo to come up next door your elected official should be aware of they see plans they see stuff coming before them on their desk they should be having your your number or your email and say hey this is coming up when you think about this so it's a two-way street not waiting just for the problem to come but if they don't know who you are kind of hard to get in touch with you and and that's the isolation of being in private condos where you have no contact with the elected official so part of it in getting engaged and finding out is now when it's campaign season go find out who's running and and put them to be accountable to you and then just like I guess one example is the fire sprinkler law that's right when the Marco Polo fire happened in July of 2017 the mayor immediately decided that all high-rise residential buildings had to be retrofitted with fire sprinklers and that created a huge uproar for you know about 300 buildings in Oahu yes and and a lot of the older buildings that didn't have fire sprinklers that are the residents are older so I'm fixed income so it was even more threatening to these people and you know luckily you know we were able to you know mobilize these people get them into the into the city council thanks to you and and and you know and and we have a champion there we have two champions we have council member Fuku Naga and council member and Kobayashi I mean who have a lot of condos and in fact their districts overlap yours right right and and and so I mean they decided that they were going to have this community conversation and then they dragged in council member Trevor Ozawa who was 100% in favor of that bill and after turning around right he listened to he listened for hours to these people and he testified at one of the council hearings you know I changed my you know he had to change his mind these were his constituents and and and and so that was what one of the lessons of you need to get involved because if you don't get involved bad things can happen to you and you know luckily we were able to change that was really a good example Trevor around but really good example that example and also the Alamona Beach Park where 1400 people swarmed and said we don't want all this this planning of the mayors and and do something about it and don't change it just fix the bathrooms thank you you know okay well you know we're going to take a break right now and then we're going to come back and we're going to talk about why you know condo residents should be involved in what happens in the state legislature where you're right okay okay this is think tech Hawaii raising public awareness if you're not in control of how 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state correct Senate and and there is a state law that governs all condos chapter 514 B correct yes and so a lot of the stuff that we deal with you know our changes to 514 B so you're you would you would be our go-to-person now right you get elected that's right and I hope that that any change to 514 B really will help the residents and owners of condos and not just change change it for change sake which many bills I've seen in the past have been you know knee-jerk reaction oh we don't like this and somebody gets after somebody but it really making it easier for people to live together in condos which are very dense kind of building multi in the last you know the last two years last two legislative sessions a form a form of this ombudsman bill was introduced and debated and I guess to boil it down the ombudsman bill is it would have been a process where a condo owner could complain to the ombudsman or to the ombudsman agency and that entity or that person would then resolve the problem and make the bad board of directors or associations somehow comply I mean and and although if I think if that was something that could be done I would probably have been in favor of it but one thing I think the legislature and and and now that you know hopefully if you make you know if you get elected you need to remember 514 B is based on the the principle of self-governance which means that the owners vote for the board the board runs the building and the legislature does not act as big brother to the associations and but you know there but there are issues that need to be resolved and and so I mean what have you got to say about you know the bills that might come on come to you on your desk well I think that I think that there is that on the books already the condo education fund and I don't think that it's been tapped enough and I don't think there's been enough I think this is a good program that should be continued but others like that and looking at educating residents I think people don't know that 514 B is self-governance run for run governance for multi dwelling multi multi unit dwellings and really it is people getting along with each other it's like having a big family in one building and and how do we get along so a lot of these going to third parties or ombudsman or anything else outside or to court a lot of people you know say we're gonna sue you we don't like what you're doing we're gonna sue you but it they don't realize that all of that money is coming out of their association budget which really should be there to build or maintain their their building and their property grounds and and pay their staff that that's depleting their supply of making their building a really nice place to live right and those people say I'm gonna sue you obviously don't know what the law says because the law basically says if you sue the association and don't go through the alternative dispute resolution process that's in the statute you may not recover your attorney's fees because a judge can look at your lawsuit and say hey you know there's a statute that says you got to go to mediation first and you got to go to arbitration and you come to the courts if neither one of those things work yeah and we need to educate residents that you can't just go really nearly and sue anybody you want because you don't get your way and that's a real big problem in condos I think right and and there is you know something called a condo specialist up at the you know and and their state employee they're with the DCCA under the real estate commission and I think there's a number and there's a website the website is a terrific website the state of Hawaii DCCC real estate commission and it has articles it has the whole 514 be it has and it has seminars they have tape seminars on and you know on on on different topics that are on that website and and I mean there's just a huge resource in fact one year as a as some for the realtors they taught them there was a whole seminar on my 14 be chapter by you know you know they went through the entire chapter and that is all on the DCCA website so anybody who says that that they can't you know they don't there's no resource they have not been to the DCCA real estate and this is free do you have one of your shows that does that so that you know at least like an intro if you're coming on the board this is an intro here's what you need to know I mean is there's something like that that they can get these we haven't quite done a show on that and that's one thing maybe Richard and I should think about but I know when we did our seminar on you know now you're on the board mm-hmm what do you do yeah one of those kind yeah yeah we did talk about resources we spent the whole maybe first 15 minutes talking about resources that is available online that's great you know so that you it's not like you have to go out and get a book or you have to go someplace you can just sit there in the computer if you don't have a computer go to the library right all of this stuff is online and you know the things that you know we need to you know teach me teach the residents is that they can't keep hiding behind things like well I don't know or I'm gonna sue you I mean because that shows that they don't know what you know what what their remedies are and one of the things the mediation the evaluative mediation is you paid for that you you have a you you you fall for that of mediation and you have a retired judge who is the neutral and you pay for one hour of that person's professional time and the state of Hawaii will subsidize the balance because it's important to resolve these disputes cheaply and quickly because you don't want people fighting with each other living in the same building right that I mean that's a problem when you when you have people who are mad at each other and and and they live in the building and it just festers and they and if it isn't resolved one way or the other it gets worse it does I mean it's very awkward for people who live in the building and and to deal with that so does DCCA have monies or can they use part of that condo fund to actually send out to all the condo resident managers or board presidents once a year then here are the resources is the website here's the link at least send it out so that they know because I kind of like to think that you know and we've been working with the property managers for you know quite a while and so they should you know have they should know about the access they may know but they're not giving it to like right that that's what I what my concern was because you know there was in fact there was this this thing that was in the newspaper about the one point nine million dollar lawsuit in Maui about a disabled person yes I was not allowed to keep his wood floor yeah you know and I'm thinking how why did that go to court and when I talked to the lawyer he did not know about the evaluative mediation program and you know so I'm thinking okay we have failed you know and and he says he will look at that the next time you know and and it's all the lawyer the lawyer the lawyer didn't know about so it's on the website on the DCCA website the whole thing about evaluative mediation you pick up the phone and you call dispute prevention resolution or any of the contractors that are listed on the DCCA who do that it means it's a contract with the state of Hawaii okay and they're listed there and if you want to do evaluative mediation you all you do is you pick up the phone and you call them and they will arrange if you're the unit owner and you want to do mediation with your evative mediation with your association you call the contractor and that contractor will notify the association that you've contacted them and they contact the DCCA to arrange for the payment so you don't want to make one phone call so easy and so few no and there's no paperwork involved you know and so it's you know so anyway we have to keep doing these shows and trying to get the word out you know and and the legislators all know about the value of me and because we we had to pitch it to the legislators saying you got to approve this and and because they have to approve using the condo and fun to pay for the mediators yeah right so we had to pitch the money we said look you know you don't know what it's like living in a condominium when you're fighting with your owners I mean it's a living hell it is because you see them in the elevator you see them in the hallway and they get they give you stink eye and then they're talking to their neighbors and you know and everybody's you know it doesn't make living very very enjoyable yeah it's a big mess yeah and so yeah we need to we need to try to get the word out about this and but we're getting kind of close to the end of our show how can condo residents get involved in the electoral process well I think number one be be engaged look through candidate forums and see who's running find out who's running call them I I have my walking card it has my email address my phone number my website go to the website check them out and in fact it's it's appearing on the screen I just saw you did oh yeah the office of elections and then you can find out who the candidates are going to office of elections but you should know it's in the papers but go find out who is your find out where you live and what your district is and if you go to the office of elections they have a they have this put your address in and they'll tell you where you're precinct or your representative district your state district your council district and those are three different representatives you have to tap all the time so get to know them get to know who's running if you you know haven't had your legislator in or your senator or your representative in your district call them and say I want to find out more about about who you are what you're doing you know and make contact and if they're not responsive keep looking at the other candidates the whole thing I think democracy is exciting we should get more people running because it should be competitive so that you know you have choices right now there's too few running so you don't have the choice but make make them a count of make people in office accountable and if not find other people it's okay now I want to make the announcement that October 9th is a deadline for people to register to vote and on that website that link you can register online October 9th is the last day that you can register for the general election but there's also walk you can walk on the day of you can go in with your ID and you can register that day but the October 9th date is if you want to have ballot mail to you but the walk in on the day of you can take your ID and register okay well we're running out of time so we're going to have to end this program thank you very much for coming thank you good luck on your campaign thank you very much and and next week we're going to be talking about how to run a meeting and and and to deal with you know the crazy people who come in and and try to disrupt your meeting but anyway please join us for con another episode of condo and cider for people who live work and deal with condos thank you very much for joining us great thank you


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Condo, condo, condo, condo, condo, Lizo Rice. What?  Back to a Super Ram and it's up Corbin. Oh, hi, everybody. He false it. Instagram, Twitter, Twitter. Twitter, more juicy, juicy, juicy, juicy. It's shows, it's juicy, juicy. Back! But first need to challenge. Oh, it's still going up. That's what you say? This is a children's channel. Not anymore. The intro just says Mother. What's wrong with that? Yeah, what was it? It's true. I get an email from like an angry person every day. I know, all the time. Do you know what? They said, would you take that out? I said, fuck, no, no. Anyway, today we are doing a movie review of the, it says 2018, but I'm pretty sure this came out in 2020. I thought it was 2022. I think it came out in 2020. I agree. Just at the end of last year. I hope you think so. But it's the film, Sir, on Netflix. It's directed and written by and produced, Rohanna Guerra, is that right? Yeah. And starring Telo Thama. Yes, Telo Thama, showman. I believe there's a right pronunciation for that. And then Vivek Gomber. Vivek Gomber. Yeah. And those are the two main people. Interesting. Do me a favor, click on Vivek, because I see obviously IMDB does not show any kind of a head shot in there. Looks like. Okay, yeah. Producer, he's in a short film. Producer, producer. Right. And he was in court. What was he? Was he the lawyer? Most of it's something small. Was he the lawyer in court? I'd have to go back and look. Anyways, regardless. Anyway, so this could be a spoiler review. It's 90 minutes. It's on Netflix. Go watch it. Come back if you don't want to be spoiled. But the premise essentially is... Say that? A prosperous young Indian man falls in love with his servant, a widow, with the dream of becoming a fashion designer. That is, that's what it's about. Yeah. That's, that's... You just saw the movie. All right, so Rick, your initial thoughts, please. I liked it. I wanted to love it based... I remember watching the trailer. There were some expectations I had based on the trailer. It's definitely worth watching, especially for her. She told Thomas Chomei, she clearly, I have not looked at her resume, but I can tell from what she does on screen that she is an experienced actress. I'll be shocked if she's not, and it's just a joy to watch her be this person. Part of my challenge is I'll get into with you after the initial outset. I just, based on the trailer and some other things, I thought we were gonna get... I thought we'd halfway through get into the love story and spend at least half of the film watching them struggle to survive in the midst of a society that says you can't be together. The trailer kind of gave me that expectation. Yeah, it did. So the fact that it didn't do that, as well as some other things we'll talk about, made it be something where I think if you watch it, you'll like it, but it's not something that you love. And it hurts, because the script is so good that it had the potential. Even without the middle thing I was hoping for, there's some other things we'll get into that I think could have made this a film I would have loved in its current state. Yeah, I liked it as well. I didn't love it. I could have. Just like you said, I absolutely could have. There was some stuff that definitely got in the way of that, but it definitely wasn't her. She's a shining star. She's, I'm excited to know her. I'd love to see more of her, cause she's phenomenal. She believed every single moment she was on screen. Every moment. And yeah, so she never really had a false moment. I actually didn't have a problem, even though they did give me that interpretation. I was like, oh, I thought this was, we were like three, fours the way through. And I was like, I thought this was almost a love story. Me too. And I didn't see the tension of the struggle. And so actually I didn't mind that, even though that's what I was expecting, I didn't mind it so much because I like those endings. I personally was okay. My wife actually, she was like, ah, I prefer them to show their relationship. I was like, the struggle. I don't. I actually preferred that ending with just actually, I would have been actually okay if they never saw each other again. And she got what she was looking for and then he moved on, which actually that might been of what happened. We don't actually know. They left it open to interpretation at the end with her saying his name, which was a indication of maybe she's ready to move forward, but also he's not there anymore. Right. So he could be in America and he could just be calling to be like, I hope you have a great life. Or they could have started up. So I actually do enjoy that part of it, of leaving the opportunity to interpretation. But I do get what you're saying. It totally led me to believe that this was gonna be a struggling love story of what are they gonna say in terms of his family and also what are they gonna say in terms of her friends and associates? Exactly. The cast system and all that. And I agree with you. That's the smaller reason for me not loving the film because I do think there's some things that could have been different that would have made me love it. And here's the main thing. I could tell, which is why I asked you to look at his IMDb page. I could tell the difference between our two leads and their capacity to carry a film. And had this been her with someone like a, obviously Irfan. So let's say Irfan is kind of like saying, yeah, sure, let's get a pink diamond. Yeah, Daniel Day-Lewis, it probably would have been good. But of our current crop of actors, the two people that came to mind immediately, the first one was Rajkumar Rao. Yeah, he did. And then the other person I could have seen in this role and would have given the, we'll talk about this, would have been Ranbeer. Ranbeer, or BG Varma as well. He was my third. Yeah, yeah. I thought about VJ as well. He could have absolutely done this role with it. So he wasn't, he wasn't awful. No, no. Okay, he wasn't awful. But he, especially the moments when he was speaking English. And I don't know why it was mostly when he was speaking English that it, even though the entire time you could see he wasn't as strong as she was. But it was especially, almost all the scenes, I don't know if you felt this way, that were English in terms of him talking to his mom, him talking to his friend, him at the party. And where everybody was speaking cause they were all rich or they were all speaking English. All those scenes felt very weird to me. And I don't, I don't really know why. I've seen Indian films with English before, but those entire scenes all felt very strange to me and like very like, but forced.  They were that part. I think he got much better when he was speaking in Hindi, but he still, he wasn't a strong actor by any means. So for example, I believed, and it was really obvious, it's funny when you're a part of Indian culture at an intimate level. Keep going. The, the, are they here? I don't know. Oh, keep going. The, no. Okay. When you're a part of Indian culture and you know what's going on with, for example, saying thank you and please, that doesn't happen very often. It's considered very strange to say thank you, especially in the realm of having a household servant. So the moment when he first said thank you to her and Johnny watched it with me, he said thank you to her. And I said, okay, wow, that's weird. And she said, yeah. She said, he's probably been to America. And then when it turned out later, after he said thank you and please, you're like, that's interesting. Yeah, he's been to America. And I believed, I believed. I wouldn't have picked up on that. Right. Yeah, we both did. It was like, the thank you and please here. I mean, we know that Mumbai is a bit more close to LA, but this guy for sure. So I believed that this character had been to the States and back. But the larger aspect for me was twofold for him in the portrayal of the character. The first one was just the, every time we were on screen, there was just the gravity being carried by Tillitthama with her capacity as an actor. Everything going on with her internally. And luckily, she was the main person most of this film. Right. Much of the time I found, and this may have been something where, and I've done this myself as an actor, where every decision you're making internally, you think is becoming part of the character. But when you watch it on screen, you're like, oh wow, that didn't translate at all. I wonder if he feels that way watching this because what I wanted and didn't have was this. I didn't care about their relationship. I didn't necessarily believe that they were desperately in love with each other, especially with him. It felt like he was just rebounding after the girl had left him. I didn't find him to be particularly charismatic. I didn't see any, when they finally get to the point where he's gonna give her a kiss, I would have hoped that in the script and in everything, the feeling would have been, the tension is so palpable, you can cut it with a knife and the audience is going, finally. We are finally getting the kiss from them because it's so obvious these guys are in love and the only thing keeping them apart is this class thing that they know they have to live in he doesn't wanna cross a line and she doesn't wanna cross a line. I didn't, none of that was palpable for me. Even on the rooftop, I didn't feel like he was holding back from if you're with the woman you love and wanna be with, I just felt like he was up there having a conversation with her. Maybe that was the point, I guess. But yeah, I definitely felt that he was the part of the film and I don't know what you mean, but he was the part that really kept me from loving the film as opposed to me. I liked the film, but keeping me from loving it. And that's the thing, this is one of those weird ones where you can't just point to it and go, okay, that was bad acting because for the most part, he didn't have anything that was glaringly bad. We're talking about these added elements and it's, again, not fair to say if you have an Irfan or a Ranbir or a Vijay or a Rajkumar Rao, they're gonna bring a level of connectivity to it that she brings, she's that level of screen presence. So it sounds like we're ripping on the poor guy. And I think it does come from experience as well, the incarnating of the character in a way that makes it palpable in the way that she did because as much as I didn't love the film, if this was on television, if I'm flipping through the channels, looking for something to watch and it's on, I would watch just so I get to watch her axiomally. I really enjoyed every single scene that she was the one that was, every single scene that she was in and she was the main one acting, I really, really enjoyed it because I thought she is such great screen presence, she's beautiful and also the way that it was written as well in terms of, it was so sad, some of these scenes. Absolutely, they were. When she was, she, obviously all of his family and the friends were extremely rude and then him trying to be like, she means what?  Right, right.  If you treat your servants that way. Yeah.  People are people, everybody deserves to be treated with respect. Exactly. Except for Rick. That's true. But no, like especially the party scene where she was serving, no one looked at her. Yeah, I know. Not like, not even treating her like a human. But that's, and that's true. Yeah. Andrani specifically pointed that out to me. She said, I paused it and she was waving at me and I paused it through the phone and she said, that is absolutely, she said, you guys don't have that in the United States. You have classism and you definitely have the racism aspect. Oh, for sure. But the whole cast and class issue where a servant is not treated with respect that is absolutely 100% true. Like when she was thrown out of the fashion shop. Yes, she said specifically, that happens. Or when she tripped over and that designer was a major dick to her. And then she was the nice one in the end. They gave her a job. Right. Okay, whatever. Well, and I didn't appreciate it. A shout out as well. Again, this is why I was so wanting to love the film. I thought the, I think the story in the script is strong. Very strong. I think the cinematography was gorgeous in some of those shots. I loved her dancing scene. I did too. I loved, like she just let loose. She let loose. And it was wonderful. And I loved some of those establishing shots of Mumbai beautiful to see the city. And so sad that there's a point. Again, a cultural thing. Halfway, not even halfway through the film. I said to Andrani, I said, why is he living all by himself? That's so odd in Indian culture. To be, and Andrani pointed out. Yeah, she got, he was supposed to be married. He was supposed to be getting married. So they were going to be together.  So this extra sense of isolation does convey something particularly to an Indian audience of how empty and alone he would feel with not only he's been cheated on, he's not going to marry her. And he's also choosing to stay there. So he clearly doesn't have close enough family relations which is very Western. And so I wish I could have loved the film. And this just happened before where we really wanted to love a film and we just ended up liking it. That's happened before. But it's definitely, I think it's worth a watch. It is worth a watch. And I think I'd give it a B minus. Overall, a B, right? I might even give it a B solely because I think the story is good enough. She's great. She is all the reason in the world you want to watch it. She just is a beautiful actress to watch on screen. It was just a few things that I think could have taken it from being a good film to a great film. Agreed. But yeah, so let us know what you thought about this film and why we're idiots. I'm sure you will. You always do. So let us know what's the next film we should watch down below.


Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States and Mrs. Reagan, accompanied by Governor and Mrs. Kit Bond. You may be seated. From that point, gentlemen, it is indeed a great personal honor and high privilege for me to present to you the President of the United States. Thank you all very much. You did that. Thank you very much. Governor Ashcroft represented at Bill Emerson, Carolyn and Kit Bond. Ladies and gentlemen, it's great to be back in Missouri and it's great to be in America's heartland. I've come here to ask Missouri for a favor. I, well, we need to borrow one of your best and brightest. We need you to send an individual to the United States Senate who will be a strong voice for a prosperous, free and secure America. Can I count on you to send Kit Bond to Washington? Thank you. I've made my day. Some of you may be aware that I met Kit when he was just a youngster. That, of course, was during his first term as governor. Seriously, though, Kit is still a young man, but he's also a man with a proven track record of leadership and responsibility, a Missourian of whom you are rightly proud. And in 1986, as never before, we Republicans need to put forth our top-of-the-line candidates like Kit Bond. This election will determine whether or not our country keeps moving forward with economic growth, expanding opportunity, and freedom for all our citizens, or slips back into the morass of tax and tax and spend and spend. The bad old days of runaway inflation, economic decline, and national despair are long gone. But the crowd of big spenders and big taxers who created that miss are still lurking in the wings. They held out the dream that big government could solve every problem, that federal money was somehow free money, that the American economy was a horn of plenty which could be taken for granted. Usually when people grow up, they quit believing in the tooth fairy. Predictably, the liberal dream turned into our country's economic nightmare. Putting America back on the right track has been a team effort, and I want to point out that your senator, Jack Danforth, has been an indispensable member of the team. Here in Missouri, you've got a great senator, 1986, let's make it two for two. Speaking of two for two is great to hear the globe Democrat will be keeping St. Louis at two newspaper towns, two fine newspapers they are. Together, with outstanding individuals like Kit Bond at the state and local level, and with active support of the American people, much has been accomplished. America has enjoyed 38 months of growth and confidence. Almost 10 million new jobs have been created, 9,800,000 of them in just over three years. We've got a higher percentage of the total potential work pool working today than has ever been true in our history. Our formula for success has been trust in the people, and we have an entirely different set of goals than our liberal friends in the Democratic Party. Instead of bigger government and higher taxes, we're looking for higher growth and more take-home pay. Instead of welfare and handouts, we'd rather people have jobs and opportunity. I think Kit Bond said it well in his second inaugural address. We have learned in the last two decades that greater government encroachment in our lives has not provided the answers we expected. The people have sensed this failure. Across this nation and in Missouri, they have presented a mandate for better government, not bigger government. So said Kit Bond. Missouri, Missouri is the show me state. So after making that speech, Kit went out and proved to you that he meant what he said. Under his leadership, Missouri was one of the first states to establish enterprise zones. He fostered a pro-growth environment, and by the time he was done, well over 100,000 more Missourians had jobs than when he started. He broke out of old moles and established patterns to find new ways of making state government leaner and more efficient. He had the courage to say no to the multitude of special interests that pound on every elected official's door. And in the process, as Governor Ashcroft has told us, he did take a $270 million budget deficit that he'd inherited and turned it into an almost $300 million surplus. I don't know whether you had the same reaction, Kit, that I had once in California. We had had to raise taxes because we had inherited a massive deficit, and our constitution said we couldn't have a deficit. But I promised that as soon as we could, we'd give that money back. And we did. And the first time we were out of the deficit and showed a surplus, somebody said to me, well, now what are we going to do with it? I said, let's give it back. And we did. We told them when they figured out the state income tax to just deduct 10% and keep that and send us the 90% and the surplus would take care of the rest. Well, that went on until we got up to an $850 million surplus, and we gave that back. But before we did, to show you what the difference is between the two parties, a leading Democratic senator stomped into my office, and he said giving that money back to the people was an unnecessary expenditure of public funds. But Kit did it without raising taxes. Kit, we really need you in Washington. The issues we face in the nation's capital and the answers we come up with will determine our country's future for decades to come. We're literally charting America's course into the 21st century.  The gloom and doomers are talking as though it will close down the entire federal government. Hmm. You know that? At times that doesn't seem like such a bad idea. Seriously, though, Graham Rudman Hollings is not a threat. It's a tremendous opportunity for all of us to finally get rid of unnecessary federal programs and dramatically reduce the level of deficit spending. And don't let anyone tell you it can't be done. It already has been done. We've submitted to the Congress a budget that meets the Graham Rudman Hollings targets without touching social security, damaging central programs for the less fortunate, or gutting defense. It is a fair and reasonable alternative. Whatever happens in the courts, Congress has made a commitment to reduce the deficit. And the Congress should adopt our budget and meet the Graham Rudman Hollings targets. Our criteria should be the same as that expressed by A. Blinken, whose birthday we celebrate today. He said that in all that the people can individually do as well for themselves, government ought not to interfere. The great emancipator also said to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as nearly as possible, is a most worthy object of any good government. Working people keeping the product of their labor is not what some politicians have in mind. Our opponents would rather raise your taxes than reduce spending. They'd rather take money out of your family budget than out of the federal budget. They claim you're undertaxed. Let me ask you, are you undertaxed? You want your taxes raised? I hope they can hear you in Washington. During the last election, the people of every state but one said the same thing. And it is about time the Congress got the message. One way you can help them understand is by sending them kit-bombed. He'll deliver your message, like your fellow Missourian Mark Twain once wrote. Thunder is good, thunder is impressive, but it's lightning that does the work. America doesn't need higher taxes. It needs less deficit spending. Raising taxes would knock the legs out from under-economic growth, leaving us with higher taxes and higher spending. Those members of Congress who were pushing for higher taxes had better take their eyes off the special interest in the gallery and start looking to the folks back home. There's a step members of Congress can take right now that will make a contribution. And as I said in the State of the Union message, if they can't say no to the special interest, well, let somebody else, let me take the heat, as you've just been told. And as Governor Rashcroft said, give me what I once had in California and what your governors have had here, a line item veto. 43 governors in the nation have the line item veto effectively to protect the taxpayers. You know, here in Missouri, Kit tells me that with the impoundment of the line item veto, he saved you hundreds of millions of dollars in his last term. We need the same tool for responsible government at the federal level. Why should we be saddled with spending measures that are sneaked into other legislative bills because they can't stand on their own merit? Today, with the line item veto, vetoed 943 such bills. And not once was the veto overridden. The difference was, because in California it takes a two-thirds vote to pass the budget, the difference was that they didn't mind voting for them when they were hidden in the entire budget. But when they had to vote on them standing out there all on their own, they couldn't get the two-thirds vote to override my veto. That's why we needed it at the federal level. There's also a crowd in Washington who, as usual, is suggesting that the easy way to reduce deficit spending is to slash the defense budget. Well, we're still making up for the folly of a decade ago when our defensive strength was permitted to erode. When we got to Washington on any given day, half of our military planes could not fly for lack of spare parts or fuel. Half of our naval vessels could not leave port for lack of either crew or spare parts. We must never permit that to happen again. Strength is the greatest guarantor of peace, and keeping our country's security at peace is the highest responsibility of the federal government.  Let me tell you that is pure propaganda. The Defense Department has instituted initiatives and improvements in management to the point that most of our weapons systems now are coming in ahead of schedule and under the original asking price instead of coming in with a cost override. The young men and women in our military, more than 90% of high school graduates, the highest percentage we've ever known in the history of American military. But all those stories you heard about $400 hammers and $6,000 or $3,000 coffee pots, they just aren't true. First of all, the $400 hammer, we'd bought 22,000 hammers between $6.75 and $7.50. And this one hammer was in an invoice submitted to the Navy with a whole list of things and a bright-eyed Navy fellow saw that $400 hammer and it was never bought. They adjusted the invoice. And this is the type of thing you've been hearing and about that $3,000 coffee pot. No, that's an entire hot food system for those transport planes of ours that we'll be carrying in times of emergency 365 military personnel. And it's the same kind of thing that is in all of the commercial planes that we ride in today and we're getting them for about $100 less than the commercial airlines are paying for them. So if you've been listening to the propaganda, believe us when we say, we need to keep on doing what we're doing. There are no easy ways to meet the challenges we face. I know, for example, of the rugged times that many of America's farmers are having. Those farmers who are in trouble are, by and large, the victims of the inflation that the rest of us have managed to escape. They bought land and equipment during those times when prices were rising, often encouraged by government to do so. When inflation stopped, they were left holding the bag.  Well, the farm bill I signed recently was about the best thing we could get through the Congress. Tom Coleman and Bill Emerson worked closely with me on this one and now all of us are going to have to work together to straighten the situation out. We have to maintain those responsible policies that help bring down the prime interest rate from 21.5% that we inherited to less than half of that, 9.5% now. Low interest rates help the farmer and so does the drop in the price of fuel, bringing down the cost of doing business and spurring growth in a wide range of basic industries. And there's one tax especially harmful to men and women of the land. In 1987, however, the federal estate tax exemption will increase to $600,000, which will prevent children from losing farms that have been in their families for generations. They won't have to sell them to pay the inheritance tax. Even better, there will be no estate tax for surviving spouses. And in case... And in case the big spenders have any ideas about taking this away under the guise of budget balancing, just like any other tax increase, my answer is no way. No way, that's spelled, D-E-T-O. Finally, let me say the most effective thing we can now do for the American farmers is to fight against so-called domestic protectionism. It isn't really protecting anything. It's the number one threat faced by American agriculture. Protectionist measures would only raise the price of what farmers and all of us buy and would likely result in retaliatory trade barriers against the export of our farm products overseas. And the way to correct the trade imbalance is not to decrease imports, but to increase exports. Rather than erect trade barriers of our own, let's go to work dismantling those obstacles in other countries. Let's balance up and not down, and that way everyone is better off. I know that Kit Bond is a leader in this area. Our administration has honored him for his promotion of American exports. What we must do is nurture that bold spirit of enterprise that has always been so much a part of the American character. I have little doubt that if the rules are fair, we Americans can out-produce and out-compete anyone anywhere in the world. Thank you. St. Louis was the departure point for those who conquered the American frontier. Today we're at the jumping off point for the 21st century. Americans, we must be as bold as those who went before us. One thing that amazed the pundits during the last election was the large number of young people who flocked to our cause. Well, it shouldn't have surprised anyone. We are making tough decisions. We are building a better tomorrow. We're building an America as filled with opportunity as the freedom that was once passed on to us. And that is our sacred responsibility to those younger people. And I think that they've recognized now that that is taking place. And they're going to step out and into the ranks and help us in the future with that. I have just one last thing I want to say. I know that it's very easy for people to think in our system of checks and balances. Well, we have two senators for each state. Why shouldn't we have one for each party? That might look good on the surface, but analyze something if you support and believe in the things that we're trying to do. Shouldn't you have two senators there voting to make this happen instead of having one senator there to cancel out the vote of your other senator? All of the things that I've told you about and more that we've accomplished in the few years we've been there, I tell you frankly could not have been accomplished if we did not have, for the first time in years and years, a majority, a small majority but a majority in the one house, the Senate. If the both houses were, as they've been most of the last 50 years in the hands of the other party, none of the things that have been accomplished would be taking place. So you send Bill Emerson back to Washington and please you send us Kit Von that we can maintain that majority we have in the United States Senate and make more of these good things happen. Thank you and God bless you all.


Hey friends tonight. We are celebrating New Year's Eve in Epcot, and I am so excited for 2024 I want to end 2023 by having a great night in Disney and every time I tell people like Disney world throws one of the best New Year's Eve party ever They're always in shock But we're gonna go hang out in world showcase and we're gonna celebrate in each country because they have a separate like party going on in Each country, you know what I mean? They have a fire breathing DJ like dragon in China They have a rave in Italy and a silent disco in the United Kingdom And it's so cool because at 7 p.m.  We wanted to celebrate a little bit So we got ourselves a nice little room at Disney's yacht club This is a two-minute walk from Epcot and we're gonna be able to go in and out and celebrate all night long And it's gonna be great cuz it's kind of like a long night. The park is open super late I think the park's open till 1 a.m. When I tell you everybody comes to Epcot on New Year's Eve I mean it it is so busy and it's gonna be super crowded tonight So we're happy that we're gonna be staying here at the yacht club because that way we don't have to worry about Ubering home because it takes a long time to get ubers from Epcot, especially on New Year's Eve But the prices of the resorts are a little bit pricey right now I think this room is going for like $800. Well, that's for tomorrow, but I figure tonight might be even more I Don't want to spend a lot of time inside of our room here because we're gonna be Hanging out in Epcot later on, but I love the yacht club. Look at this.  Look at this. This is a room for fancy people. I feel fancy This is the way to bring in New Year's Eve. I am going on the record and saying 2023 was the best year of my life. I got to travel the world and see places beyond my Imagination I got to go to so many cool events and share all of my experiences with you And I really feel like I came out of 2023 happier stronger smarter and excited excited that Maybe I could say the same thing this time next year for 2024 I mean, I think that's what we always want to do is thrive to be better and Yeah, keep growing and learning so cheers to 2024 and I'm excited to Bring you guys the end of my 2023. It is just about 6 p.m. Now And like I said, we want to make our way into Epcot because we don't want to miss The United Kingdom at 7 p.m. Because in that time zone, it's officially 2024 So we're gonna be in the United Kingdom Pavilion at 7 p.m. And we're gonna be bringing in 2024 Are you dancing in the sand? Look at us This is gonna be great Yep, it is so convenient to be staying at Yacht Club right now and being able to come over Because like we walked in at international gateway That's where you actually get into the park and to the left is the United Kingdom and then Canada So since we want to kind of celebrate in all countries We're gonna start in Canada and then make our way to the United Kingdom at 7 o'clock so that we could celebrate in you know, I mean that time zone and Maybe then walk back to the Yacht Club. It's like it's like right perfectly in between Because they're having the gigantic New Year's Eve Fireworks show they are doing the regular fireworks show It's 6 30. Look at that In Canada they have Perseco. Look at this. I think I'm gonna start the night off with a little Perseco Fancy with the fireworks. Look at this Canada Wow Cheers guys Perseco Pinky up pinky up The fireworks are ending and it is getting very crowded Oh, yes That's a smart thing to do with the flashlight. I love that Wow, this is actually I don't think I've seen at this crowded in a long time We got to go right to the center post that's the spot to be All right, we have to go make our way kind of in the center of the United Kingdom Right at 7 p.m. It'll be officially 2024 there And a lot of the cast members come out and they have flags and they do a big celebration and it's pretty amazing Oh boy, it's starting 2024 in the united kingdom how amazing with that those cast members have so much energy and happiness It made my night. It was so cool hearing everybody sing and celebrate and now the silent disco has started So I think we're going to check out the silent disco, but we have to continue making our way around the country So I think they you know the countries. So we've got france, morocco Japan and then america, italy, germany, china and mexico all still to come Yo, look at the music Wow, it reminds me of halloween horror nights. I know I feel like I'm in line for the house I've been on my own for long enough Look at this the weekend at ebcot Hey, have you know the silent dj or silent disco Is right in the back of the united kingdom pavilion and it's so cool because there's no music back there And everybody has headphones on so they're just dancing But like in their head they're using like here in the music It's so fun. So I can't wait to get in but there's a huge line Look at that.  I'm having so much fun, but I definitely worked up a sweat in there I was dancing a lot, but now I want to make it over to france to get some francy champagne I mean fancy champagne francy champagne. I like that They've got a special uh champagne stand here The fancy champagne dollum parion Wow, it's only 54 dollars for five ounces Ugh fancy Take care. Oh my lordy it's spilling Look at that Oh Wow, I'm loving this music I've got the dom parion and now I decided to bring it over to japan France and Morocco were both very busy and there's a nice little dance party happening over here. So cheers Look at japan spaceship birth in the big dance stage In the japan pavilion right now playing the muppets in the japan pavilion right now This is insane. I just want to have a good night. Hold up I love this one snacks snacks Ain't no river why if you need me call me no matter where you are No matter atmosphere, but you haven't seen anything yet Wait till we get to italy in fact I think we're going to just jump right to italy because I really want to just like get everything accomplished and The dj is actually a friend of mine and she's amazing. So I can't wait to show you guys Yo, italy is probably the busiest spot in ebcom right now. Look at this Unenjoying time with my friends bringing in 2024 But uh the atomic blonde dj look her up She is up on the stage in italy and that's who you just saw and she's amazing and it was awesome But now I think we're going to actually start making our way uh towards china My foot is actually standing on this light creating light for me to actually make this video and it's kind of cool So I want to show it to you As I was just standing here before my foot is standing on a light. So watch yo, what is going on in china? This is Impressive It's fun Holy moly, but now I think we're going to make our way back to mexico and now it's almost 10 30 almost 11 So only one more hour of 2023 I feel like we're doing good The night is creeping up on us fast and you know, I'm kind of only sticking to champagne or prosecco tonight I really don't want to do anything heavy or anything like that because I'm staying here at the yacht club And I kind of want to enjoy the resort tomorrow You know me take it all in the room was like very expensive like I said And everyone else all have places on property summer staying over at the swanin reserve And a couple of people are at the boardwalk actually so it's real cool that we're all hanging out together And yeah, I think next we're going to move to maybe mexico and see we get some chips and block Like the night is still young. We still have like an hour and a half until 2024 just about and uh, the fireworks are going to be amazing There usually is a very long line again to la cava and I was expecting a lot more for new year's eve But this isn't too bad fancy Oh We got some topochicos over at la cava a little sparkling water and then chips and guac and it's so spicy tonight Spicy chips and guac Now it's the best guac ever Oh and look it. I love it It's nice to come inside because uh, there is a zero minute wait for a grand fiesta tour Everybody's outside party and and we got to get ready to find a spot for the fireworks soon I never thought a million years. I'd be hanging outside the messical pavilion Listening to this song that tonight's gonna be a good night that tonight's gonna be a good good night Look at how amazing that is. Wow Do do Cheers to the new year's is an amazing firework show And it's always been like the highlight of the year for me I get so excited because you just feel the fireworks the vibrations literally shake you and uh, yeah I can't wait to do it again this year. I'll do it again next year or two if I can I want to keep coming and uh I mean, I don't know what to expect with the new firework show You know, I mean to have like a new firework show. So I wonder if it changed at all. So we'll see Wow, look at the fireworks are actually like they have to close the walkway because the firework viewing is that far back Oh, something's happening We should know Those fireworks were amazing happy new year everyone I called my mom and sister And now we're gonna hang out around the resort. We got out of the congestion It was crazy getting out of there and I think I'm losing my voice from You like singing and laughing and having a great time tonight has been a blast And it's great to be in the company of some amazing friends And now we're gonna keep the nut going and kind of hang around the boardwalk a little bit and uh, maybe dance hall Like I said, it's so convenient just to be able to hop out of Epcot and just walk over to your room They got the dance hall over there the boardwalk We're staying right here where the lighthouse is at yacht club and they're having a beach party over at beach club There's parties happening all over the boardwalk It is 12 30 look at the line for the pizza window This is the busiest you'll ever see the boardwalk at 12 30 at night This is awesome. I love it We got jelly rolls right here And then the dance hall Hi is so packed right now. I need it's very loud in there I mean that's it's a dance hall, but the thing that I love about coming here is the view from outside. It is stunning Just look at how beautiful this is Man, I love it here. You can still see they got kind of the spotlights from Epcot Epcot's right there You can see uh spaceship berth So cool though At I think we are done here. I'm calling and I just heading back to the room. I had so much fun Thank you guys for an amazing 2023. I like I said, it was the best year of my life And uh, the only thing I have to look forward to in 2024 is to keep doing exactly what I am doing now because I really think I'm living my dream. So Onto the next I can't wait. I hope you enjoyed the video. I enjoyed making it There is a boat driving by right now. How beautiful is that? What a great new year. See you 2024 Bye. See you guys next time Did we just close down the dance hall? Amazing is amazing. This is a good look at it with the lights on wow dance hall Beautiful all bars were open today Look at how crazy busy it's going to be outside right now. Oh my lord What time is it? It's almost 1 30 in the morning


We talk tire rolling resistance, we talk drivetrain efficiency. And today I'm back with Josh Portner for the final part of our conversation on aerodynamics. This is arguably the most important marginal gain that you can make. And in fact, some of the speed differences that you get from making a few quick changes are so significant that I wouldn't even classify them as marginal gains. They're just gains. Josh goes into detail about how much of a difference aero socks make, aero helmets, where aero frames versus aero wheels, may be more or less beneficial, the most cost effective aero upgrades and more. I saved the best for last in this series. I hope you all enjoy. Your cheapest aero savings is your position. And of course, that can become quite high cost, right? You know, professional fitting, especially one with a, you know, motion capture and frontal area analysis and all that can be a lot of money.  How do I make myself smaller? The eyeball wind tunnel, as we call it, is not always right, but it's often right. And it's certainly, I would say good at finding things that are just outright bad. You know, it's hard to find that last 2% with your eyeball wind tunnel, but it's certainly pretty easy to find a locked elbows or something, it's like, stop doing that. You can tweak your position for free. You know, that's an easy one. Going up, it's funny, I feel like I sound self-promoting, but typically in areas where we see advantage we'll make a product.  Pretty much every pro rider I've ever put aerosocks on in the wind tunnel, we found watts of saving. You know, and in some cases, I mean, a good pair of aerosocks can be three or four times the savings of that oversized pulley setup, right?  So that's another cheap one. Sometimes people may roll their eyes when you start talking about aerosocks. And I think also people roll their eyes when the UCI is mandating a certain sock length, but I think if they didn't do that, everybody would be wearing knee-high socks because it makes that big a difference. Unless, you know, I mean, there are more traditionalists that probably wouldn't, but maybe you could explain to people why the socks are so important, just the shape of the leg and the texture on the socks, why that's making your leg more aerodynamic and what kind of watt savings people are seeing with switching socks. It's kind of crazy. I mean, it really is the dimples on the golf ball thing, right? So, you know, if I've got a Starbucks cup, you know, if I look at this end on, you know, the air is gonna flow around and it's pretty much generally gonna separate kind of at like 12 and six. And so it's gonna leave a wake behind the cup that's about the width of the cup. If this were a cylinder or a leg, it's leaving a wake behind it that's about its surface area. And, you know, that air is all turbulent and spinning and swirling and dirty. As we add some texture to that, what happens is that airflow locally that's right on like the surface of the cup wants to stay adhered. And so instead of separating it at 12 and six, maybe now it separates more at like 11 and seven and leaves a wake that big. Well, you start to do the surface area, kind of the math, the simple math on that and you realize, oh, wow, that is actually quite a bit smaller. Well, the smarter we get with our texture and with our boundary layer, we would call it tripping or turbo-lating the boundary layer, the smarter we get with that, the longer we can trick the air into holding on to that surface. And the longer it holds onto the surface, the smaller the wake behind it. And you think of the socks and the height of the socks become an issue because you think of your lower leg is actually not that unerodynamic of a surface, but you get up into like your calf with the muscle and it's a terrible aerodynamic surface. And so the higher the sock, the more effective this tripping of the boundary layer can be. And so that's where, and of course, you know, the UCI doesn't want knee-high socks. And quite frankly, I don't want knee-high socks either. I think that would just look silly. We've done enough silly-looking things in cycling and other sports, triathlon to, you know, we don't need anymore. But it's a huge effect. And, you know, at 30 miles an hour, I mean, the best aero socks can be worth like 12 to 15 watts, depending on the rider. I mean, it's like, I remember the first time I ever saw that, I was with Steve Smith from Castelli and one of the, I don't even remember what team we were with now. It might have been, it might have been Sky. But we put these things on and it was like 15 watts and we're just standing there in the wind tunnel like, you've got to be kidding me.  And then, you know, every time we do it, it works. And like, well, okay, I guess we're all gonna do aero socks, you know? And of course the challenge with the aero socks and where I tried to find a spot in the market with our product was, because they're made from this sort of ribbed Lycra material that doesn't have a lot of compressive stiffness to it. And so as soon as they get sufficiently wet or it starts raining, they fall. And, you know, I got into a bit of a pickle with one of our teams a couple of years ago. We pushed hard to get the team on to speed play aero pedals and aero socks. And we found all these amazing gains in the wind tunnel. And I think we were like five or six races into the year. And one of the riders had a win at one of the, I would say not minor, middle, one of the middle ranking kind of early season races. And I still have the email from the director of the rider crossing the line, arms in the air, one sock up, one sock down. And he just said like, you know, it's a little embarrassing. And the riders frustrated, you know?   But yeah, the clothing is just huge. And, you know, another type of affordable marginal gains.  I mean, it's just huge. You know, think of every wrinkle in your clothing is a lot. I mean, they're maybe not literally, but probably not far from it. You know, you think of every single wrinkle is penalizing you in some small way. And, you know, you look at some of the skin suit advances and the race day suit advances that we've seen. I mean, today's clothing can be 30, 40 watts of savings over the clothing of just 10 years ago. But a lot of that, even if you can't afford the $800 hub, you know, watt bike, watt shop, skin suit thing, or bi-racer, whatever, you know, just buying the clothing that you can afford at a size and a cut that really fits you well can make a huge difference. Yeah, definitely. It's pretty amazing the thought that is going into skin suits nowadays. I remember watching, I think Alex Dowsett had a video that's just dedicated to his skin suit. They've got different skin suits for different speeds. I think he was saying that because he was doing his hour record on the track, because they're turning one side of the skin suit had different texture than the other side. It's pretty amazing. Moving on from that, what other aerodynamic gains can people get cheaply? And once we've exhausted that, what are the more expensive aerogains that are worth it? Oh, gosh, you know, one, and this is so true of drivetrain as well, but a cheap aero savings that can also be a frictional savings is to clean your bike.  Like a dirty drivetrain can cost you six, seven, eight, literally additional watts, right? And so, you know, you might be buying the fastest, best chain lube on the market, but if you're not cleaning your bike frequently enough, you can be throwing that away. And the same is true with aero. You know, that dust, dirt buildup, the little wormy things, the worms that stick to your down tube. You know, I mean, all that stuff can start to penalize you and particularly dirt and mud buildup over time. You know, it just changes the shape of the tubing and it really can affect the way the air flows around it. And it's generally not in a, you know, I've had people joke that, oh, it's the, you know, that mud is like dimples, but it's generally not working that way. And largely because it's usually on, it's the same surfaces that are getting muddy are the surfaces that the air is impinging directly upon where you really want the surface to be smooth and clean. And they're generally not on the parts of the surface where you actually wanna like trip the airflow into turbulence. And so, you know, just cleaning your bike can be lots of difference.  But if you're not on one of those, you know, aero water bottles actually can make a really positive difference. The aero gloves, like if you're gonna wear gloves, get the aero ones because traditional cycling gloves are actually quite on aero, much less so than no gloves at all. And so I would look there and then as we start to get into, you know, spending money, like so many cool things to spend money on, you know, I would say for, as I'm saying road, the wheels are generally a little more important than the frame. In gravel, it's the opposite because nobody's making rims that are really wide enough to truly solve the aero challenges that the wide tires play. So an aero frame can, you know, really do you some favors there. So, you know, I think of like the stuff that 3T has done and a number of brands, those can make some big savings. You know, the cockpit, aero, flat top handlebars, huge difference. I mean, you know, some of the road testing we do, you know, 30 mile an hour wind tunnel test, a good aero top handlebar can be 25, 28 watts of savings. I mean, it's a shocking number over a round bar.  You know, every few inches of exposed cable housing or wire is a water too. You know, we talked about that on the podcast, you know, the difference between the Le Mans, Fignon 89 tour time trial was essentially the aerodynamic equivalent of a cable housing the length of a pencil. Yeah.  There's a lot of things he could have done, but. So many, yeah. I mean, had he just worn the helmet that he had access to, right? Had he tucked the ponytail and worn the helmet, he wins the tour.  But what do you generally see when people step up to an aero helmet in terms of savings? Helmets can be very dependent. You know, if we're talking like true full on time trial helmet, I mean, the savings can be really quite large. I mean, for a cost per savings, that really can be one of the biggest, you know, a $300 aero helmet might save you 30 or more watts over a road helmet. The aero road helmets can be quite good. I mean, we've seen 12, 15 watt savings on some of the aero road helmets. You know, one of the, I think kind of dirty industry secrets is that typically cheaper helmets are more aero than the most expensive helmets because, you know, the most expensive helmets for so long had been so focused on like the number of vents and weight. And so, you know, you end up with helmets that are more holes than helmet. And, you know, the less expensive helmets with fewer vents actually, in a lot of cases, end up being, you know, quite aero. I laugh at, you know, Giro continues to sell the air attack that LeMond wore in 90. I think I actually have pictures of him, I actually have pictures of him on this bike with that helmet. And they still sell that helmet today for like 60 bucks. And it's like the third most aero helmet in their line.   But yeah, it's an extremely aero helmet because it's just a simple kind of teardrop-y shape. And it's got, you know, nine vents or something.  And I think Cask has one as well. But the aero helmet that has like a sliding feature, so you can kind of like open and close the vent. If you saw the podcast, when we worked with Ronan McLaughlin on his Everesting attempt, we got him, I think, on the laser version of that helmet, right? Where it was the opportunity to essentially open the vent, do the climb, make the turnaround, close the vent, do the tuck.   It's non-zero. Yeah, he really took aerodynamics seriously. He took weight savings seriously, as you would expect. I think when most people think of Everesting, you know, if they're trying to shave time, first thing they think of is weight. But you gotta turn around and you gotta go back down the hill and go at a pretty high speed. So, aerodynamics is obviously important. Moving on, we talked about rolling resistance, drivetrain efficiency, and aerodynamics. That's kind of the three things that I think of. When I think of marginal gains, I think you could throw all the weight-weaning stuff in with that, but to me, that's obvious. Everybody thinks of weight savings. Maybe to put into perspective, how important would having an efficient drivetrain, an aerodynamic bike, and low rolling resistance, tires be versus having the lightest bike you can buy? You know, the climbing bike versus the aero bike. Of course, it all depends on what you're doing. You know, the truly lightest bike scenarios really only work out in pure hill climbing-type scenarios. So, which, you know, is a thing. Our friends in the UK are mad for hill climbing and it's a very cool area of the sport that I really enjoy because it's just so crazy. And people have a ton of fun with that. But yeah, I mean, generally, for, you know, if we start off thinking flat, weight really kind of doesn't matter. And, you know, even as we start to get into rolling, it starts to matter little. And then, you know, as we get to the true climbing and elevation gain and steepness, it absolutely plays a part. But working with Alex Dowsett on his hour record, you know, there was some calculations done that were like, well, essentially, we could add about five kilograms to this bike before it starts to really have an effect relative to some of the aero stuff, you know? And I mean, we've got these beautiful computer models that you can play with. And, you know, you can literally just keep ticking the weight up and up and up. And it's like the time isn't changing. You know, almost at all, right? You know, you're having these slight effects and rolling resistance and some other things. But you really want to optimize your setup for aero and efficiency. And then from that setup, figure out how to make it as light as it can be without giving things up. Is there a gradient at which weight starts to matter more than aerodynamics? The rule of thumb there is somewhere around that, like, seven and a half, eight percent. You know, it really depends on rider power.  But you know, I would say for most of us in our fitness, it's probably somewhere between seven and eight percent. Which I think is probably steeper than most people realize. I think it's steeper than where you feel like you can feel it. The mental thing about weight is that we immediately, when we set off from the parking lot, can feel weight in the bike. Generally, because that starting from a dead stop is like one of the biggest accelerations that happens when riding a bike.  You know, even at the world tour level, you know, launching a sprint, I mean, it looks amazing in those top-down views, but I mean, the actual amount of acceleration is quite small compared to what you would find in motor racing or some other sports.  That's a higher acceleration than you're getting elsewhere.  And then of course, we take that and we just process that through into all these other scenarios where it may or may not actually be true. But again, I think it's what gets in your head really continues to play and affect your thinking kind of at all times and all places. All right, so to kind of bring everything together, take your average club rider, doesn't think too much about aerodynamics, has a baggy jersey, maybe cleans their chain occasionally through whatever tires the bike shop recommended on their bike, what kind of savings can this person make if they make all the right choices that we're talking about here?  It's really the benchmark of where you're coming from. You know, if you're in, yeah, your baggy clothes on a Cannondale Cad 9 with armadillos, right? A bike that I grew up training on. We can probably on the same power input, we can probably get you another couple kilometers an hour, like call it two to three with the right tires, the right clothes, and then probably push that a little bit further if we start really investing some money in equipment.  You know, I've got a calculation somewhere, the Campanerts hour, he probably left around 500 meters on the table through maybe four or five changes that could have been made. I mean, you think that's the pinnacle of the sport, right? So I think a slightly different frame, a different chain treatment, some other frictional related things. I won't say more than that. But yeah, to think, I mean, even at that level, we could find another 400, 500 meters is, I think, pretty crazy. Thanks for watching. This is my first time doing a series of interview style videos on this channel and it's something I could see myself doing more of in the future. If there's a guest that you think I should try to get on the show, let me know down in the comments. If you enjoyed this video, be sure to give it a like, subscribe and share this video with your cycling friends. I'll see you in the next one.


Right, welcome to today's Platform Backend Update. This is the 6th of November, 2017, and my name is Dao Man. I am the Platform Backend Lead at GitLab for all of those watching along at home who did not know yet yet. So today, I'm gonna talk to you a little bit about what we, this team specifically, has been working on the last 10 weeks. Normally, we have one of those every five weeks, but five weeks ago, due to poor internet connection quality, I couldn't do the update. So I'm gonna go over everything that happened in the last 10 weeks in kind of a bird's eye overview. First of all, we released GitLab 10.0 on the September 22nd. Of course, there were a lot of notable features in this release that you will be able to read a lot about if you follow that GitLab 10.0 link, if you have the presentation open. Two of the things, or at least one of the things I wanted to specifically point out that our team worked on is object storage for LFS objects. This is something that was built by James Edwards-Jones. And basically, it allows you to use as the name describes, object storage, for example, S3 or an S3-competible storage system or anything else that is supported by carrier wave, in fact, to store these LFS objects. And this means that you will not have to need to store those on your local machine anymore. And especially if you have a lot of GitLab instances that share file storage, this will take all of that traffic away from your NFS, for example, so it will also increase. It will decrease the load on those machines too. So it will be a performance improvement and generally an availability improvement. There's also various performance improvements for that went into 10.0 coming from the platform back inside of things. And I wanted to specifically thank Tiago, Nick and Ruben who spent a lot of time on those kinds of issues for this release. And you can follow those links if you want to know specifically what we did. Then on October 2 and October 9, we welcomed a couple of new people to the team, specifically Fran, Brett and Myra. Brett, about two weeks ago, moved on to the GEO team already, which is working on making GitLab GEO generally available this month. And GEO DR after that with Fran and Myra are on platform and they have already worked on some software 10.2 that you will see in the next slide. Then on October 22, we released GitLab 10.1 with a couple of features coming from platform. First of all, merge requests between forks. Of course, we've had merge requests this feature forever where you could create a merge request from a fork of a repository back to the original, the canonical source. But something that we didn't allow until now is merge request between forks from one fork to another. For example, when a colleague of yours suggests a change to the main code base and you want to suggest a change to their change, you can now create a fork of the main repo and you will still be able to edit that person's merge request or that person's branch and submit a change back to that. And this works very easily. If I open a merge request by someone else and I hit the edit button, it will automatically do all of the pooling behind the scenes to make sure I have that other person's code. And I can suggest changes that will then go back into their branch in their fork. And then when they accept my merge request, it will automatically update the merge request that they had created back to the original source. So thanks, Bob, for working on this for 10.1. Next, we have LDAP group sync filters. We've had LDAP group sync for a while where you can set up a specific LDAP group to be synced with a specific GitLab group so that everyone in that LDAP group will automatically gain access to those projects that fall under that group inside GitLab. What we have added now is the ability to not have group sync depend on a specific group name but have it depend on a specific LDAP filter which might look at other attributes of the LDAP person to decide whether or not they will have access to the GitLab group in question. So for example, you can filter by employee type contractor or role developer or something like that instead of it having to be an existing LDAP group. Thanks, James Lopez, who spent a lot of time working on this. Of course, there was UX and Frontend Evolved too but those will have been covered in the Frontend update. Rejecting on Signed Commits is the third major feature for 10.1 that platform contributed which adds a push rule as we call these where you can say that your project will only accept Signed Commits. So these are commits that have a GPG signature attached so that you can verify that no one's pushing in code that isn't signed to have been committed by a specific person. And this can be configured on the project level but you can also on the global instance level set this setting and it will automatically be enabled for every project on the instance. Next, we have verified secondary emails. We have had secondary emails for a while and these are used, for example, to link commits to your user profile by checking the commit author email or committer email but these couldn't be verified before now. So that's what we added in this merger question, this release 10.1 which means that we can now also use secondary emails to determine whether or not a GPG signature is verified to belong to the same person who committed that commit. Before we would only treat commits as verified if they were actually created with the same email that the GitLab user has set as their primary email on their profile because this is the email that they signed up with. So the email that has been verified or confirmed already and now any email can be verified. So this both enhances GPG and it's just nice in general to know which emails are verified to belong to certain people and which ones they just randomly added to their profile even though they weren't actually there on. So that's it for the last 10 weeks. In the next five weeks, we plan to first of all finalize GitLab 10.2 on November 7th which is tomorrow and release it on the 22nd. Some of the notable features that platform builds are automatic rejection of commits with missing LFS objects. This is something we started working on a couple of months ago but the summit, you know, tell in that period and there were some other things that kind of delayed it a little bit but for 10.2, this is finally gonna ship along with this automatic pruning of unreferenced LFS objects. But this means it becomes a lot easier for you to enforce kind of the integrity of the LFS large file storage that is attached to your project. Instead of missing files and people checking out the project and then getting all of these not found errors when they try to open certain files. To prevent that from happening, you can now ensure that when a user pushes, we immediately validate that all of the LFS objects that are referenced in their push are actually already known to GitLab. And the second of course has to do with file storage which means that if you push an LFS object but then you delete that branch or you force push to kind of remove that commit again, we will eventually clean up that LFS object. This is sort of garbage collection. Right now that only happens when the actual project is deleted entirely which means that if you have a project that does a lot of rebasing and rewriting of history, you will probably have some LFS objects that are still on storage that could have been cleaned up by now and this is what will start happening starting with 10.2. Next we are adding more auto events around the group and project actions. For example, you know, removing or moving or adding people to a group or project. These will be logged and these log audit events will be available from the admin area if you are an admin of the instance. And also if you go to the project settings, you'll also find a page with all of the actions relating to this project specifically. Next, we are adding another push rule kind of that will kind of work in unison with the one I just mentioned that we shipped in 10.1. This is requiring commits to be committed by the pusher. If you have an environment where you wanna be very sure that all the codes someone pushes is actually written by them or at least signed off by them, you can enable this feature and you will not have people pushing in other people's commits whether intentionally or accidentally. Because of course this can be used by attackers to trick someone into pushing their commits into GitHub or into the repo with confidential information that you might have. And with 10.2, we are giving you a way to prevent this from happening. We are also finally getting rid of private tokens. We're not getting rid of personal access tokens. There will still be a way of course to authenticate to the API using a token. We're getting rid specifically of the private token that used to be exposed in your profile on the account page that used to be used in a couple of URLs inside the GitHub web interface for example, the RSS feeds. Because this token was pretty much all powerful and if it leaked or for example, it was stolen using XSS, that meant that everyone could now interact with the API as if they were you. So we are getting rid of private tokens. They will be removed from the profile page or removed from the API user endpoint and all of them have been converted into personal access tokens in the background. So if you've been using them, they will just continue to work as they did, but they will not be exposed in the web interface anymore and they have now been moved to the personal access tokens page where it's still called private token. Next, we are getting improved performance of activity feeds. There's just one thing that I wanted to point out specifically because a lot of you will probably be opening your GitLab to activity feeds all the time when you open the dashboard or you open a group or you open a project. And the time that it takes to load this list to kind of see what's been happening since the last time you saw GitLab is gonna go down significantly. So there will be a nice performance improvement. And of course, there's a lot more that's gonna go into 10.2. Some stuff that the platform backend team worked on and of course, tons of things that were worked on by other teams. You can find that if you follow that little more link which will take you to the issue tracker with the appropriate filters applied. So that's tomorrow, November 7th and all of these features are either already merged or will be merged very shortly. And then of course, after that on November 8th, we will kick off the development of GitLab 10.3. We are still finalizing what exactly the theme is gonna be working on for 10.3, but I invite you all to join the public kickoff which I've also linked to so that you can be the first to know what's gonna be in GitLab in a month and a half time. And of course, if you have any questions, you can ask those then as well. So that's it for this platform backend update. If you have any questions, you can add them to the Zoom group chat. Of course, if you're watching this live, if you are not, then you can find me some other way. I think this is gonna be on the blog and I'm sure there's ways for you to contact us if you have any questions about any of these issues. With no questions having popped up in the Zoom group chat, I would like to thank you for your attention and I wish you a great rest of your day.