Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States. Thank you very much. Thank you all very much. It's an honor to be here today with the members of the American Tort Reform Association.  And many thanks to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Chamber President Dick Lecher for permitting us to come here. And I know that you've already heard from the Attorney General and the Secretary of Commerce and a number of others, so I'll try to keep my remarks brief. Given the subject, I wouldn't want anyone to mistake me for a lawyer. But looking out, I can see what a diverse group we make up, from Boy Scouts to businessmen from campers to child care workers. This is an all-American event because this problem affects all of America, every man, woman, and child. Originally, of course, tort law protected innocent people against wrongful damage or injury. Rooted in the Middle Ages, tort law became especially important at the onset of the Industrial Revolution, when ordinary men and women began to find themselves presented with services and products they'd never before encountered. By providing consumers with a measure of protection, tort law enabled them to enter this new marketplace with a certain confidence and ease. Back in the days when toothpaste was a new fangled invention, for example, consumers could purchase it with a much greater sense of assurance when they knew that because of tort law, the manufacturers had to take all reasonable steps to make certain the product was both effective and safe. Maybe some of you will remember a passage in Huckleberry Finn that deals with this very subject. Huck met a swindler who told him that, quote, I'd been selling an article to take the tartar off the teeth, and it does take it off, too, and generally the enamel along with it. Twain never mentions tort law, but it is there in the background, the force that kept this character in the book constantly on the run up and down the Mississippi. And in the real world, it was in large part tort law that reduced such swindlers from an actual presence in our economic life to figures that we remember with laughter. So over the years, tort law has helped us drive the malevolent and negligent out of the marketplace. This, in turn, has permitted legitimate economic innovation to take its course and raise living standards throughout the nation. More recently, however, tort law began to go terribly wrong. Twisted in abuse, tort laws become a pretext for outrageous legal outcomes, outcomes that impede our economic life not promoted. Listen to just a few cases. I hope I won't be repeating some that maybe have already been told to you. In California, a man was using a public telephone booth to place a call, an alleged drunk driver careened down the street, lost control of her car, and crashed into the phone booth. Now it's no surprise that the injured man sued, but you might be startled to hear whom he sued. The telephone company and associated firms. That's right. According to Chief Justice Rose Bird of the California Supreme Court, a jury could find that the companies responsible for the design, location, installation, and maintenance of the telephone booth were liable. In another case, a suit was brought by a man who suffered a heart attack while having some trouble starting a lawnmower. He claimed that pulling the starter rope was the cause of the attack. His award, more than a million dollars. I suppose all this might be amusing if such absurd results only took place occasionally. Yet today they have become all but commonplace. In the past two decades, the number of awards involving a million dollars or more has climbed from just one a year to more than 400 a year. Between 1975 and 1985, the average award in a product liability case more than quadrupled to some 1.8 million dollars. During the same period, the average medical practice verdict, I said average, went up more than 350% to over a million dollars. This expansion of tort liability penalizes virtually every American, manufacturers, doctors, small businessmen, government at all levels, nonprofit organizations, entrepreneurs, and perhaps most severely, the consumer. Again, listen to a few more cases. On one of the Hawaiian islands, all the doctors on that island who had once delivered babies have stopped doing so because their malpractice premiums were outstripping their fees. Pregnant women must now travel elsewhere to another island for their need. In 1984, Konat Laboratories discontinued distribution of an important vaccine for children because it could not obtain liability insurance. It later succeeded in doing so, but only at a very high cost. As a result, in just three years, the cost of this vaccine rose from 11 cents per dose to $4.5. Hundreds of American cities and towns find themselves unable to afford basic liability coverage. The city of Blue Lake, California, has been forced to shut its skating rink, tennis court, and parks. And at New York's famous Coney Island amusement park, they've had to close the roller coaster. Even everyday items contain hidden costs that arise from the expansion of tort liability. It's been estimated, for example, that 20% of the cost of an ordinary stepladder goes to pay for liability insurance, lawyers, and related costs. And because the Boy Scouts of America have been forced to increase their insurance coverage, it's feared that every Boy Scout and Cub Scout troop may have to be assessed some $20, not an insignificant sum in the underprivileged neighborhoods that perhaps need the Boy Scouts most.  My friends, I think you'll agree, there's still such a thing as common sense, and this ain't it. The time has come for action. Earlier this year, I endorsed the report of my domestic policy counsel's tort policy working group. This report contains a number of recommendations, recommendations that include fixed dollar limitations for certain kinds of awards, and the establishment of assurances that liability judgments go to those actually wronged or injured, and not to the lining of their attorney's pockets. Now, one of the report's most important recommendations urged our administration to submit reform legislation to the Congress. This legislation, carefully drafted, has now been introduced in the Congress by Senator Robert Castan and Congressman Hamilton Fish. It restores the fault standard, which requires that actual fault or wrongdoing be established in most cases before liability can be assessed. It limits pain and suffering and punitive damage awards, awards the amount contingency fee lawyers could earn, and restricts the joint and several liability doctrine that can force a single defendant to pay all damages, even if he's only partly to blame. To be sure, much tort law would remain to be reformed by the 50 states, not the federal government. And in our federal system of government, this is only right. Many of the tort policy working group recommendations, for example, would have to be implemented at the state level to be fully effective. This administration's bill represents a much needed overhaul of federal laws governing interstate commerce, one of the fields of authority the federal government is specifically granted by the Constitution, and sets an example of common sense for the rest of the nation to follow. Many here have been following this issue closely. Indeed, there are stalwarts in this hall who've been out front since the beginning, and I'm grateful for your support. Now I ask you to join me in urging the Congress to pass this bill and to do so with dispatch. I said at the outset that tort law is a practical matter that affects us all. But in making the case for reform, I find that I may have had to be a little more technical than I intended.  Boy Scouts know a code by heart, a list of characteristics that they promise they'll try to live up to. And the first word on that list is trustworthy. A scout is trustworthy. That's really what tort reform comes down to. Asking our fellow citizens to be trustworthy. It means writing laws that tell all those who provide us with goods and services, that we expect them to pay attention to their work and to do a good job. But it also means eliminating legal constraints that place upon these same people undue burdens. Trustworthiness, my friends, is, well, let us make this our ideal and let's see to it that our laws reflect that ideal with a good of all. Thank you all for your patience and for being here and God bless you all.


Hi, I'm Sophie and I'll talk about compatibility of other VELEMENTS twistboard antennas and MIMOSA radios. If you wanna know how to connect your MIMOSA radio with other VELEMENTS twistboard antenna, then this is the right video to watch. Twistport is a VELEMENTS proprietary wavecite connector with practically zero signal loss. It has superior mechanics for extremely easy inquiry radio installation. If you're interested in knowing more about the twistboard ecosystem, check out the video here. Currently, we have 14 antennas with twistboard connector working in the 5GHz band. Seven symmetrical horn sector antennas with beam widths from 30 to 90 degrees. Three asymmetrical horn sector antennas with beam widths of 30, 60 and 90 degrees. But remember, you can use beam switch feature and make 30 degree beam width into 20 degree beam width. Ultra horn, a 24 dB again and 15 degree beam with narrow sector or PTP antenna. And finally, ULTRADISH series parabolic dish antennas for PTP and CPE applications with 21, 24 and 27 dB I gain. MIMOSA radios use coaxial connectors as well as their own wavecite connectors, while ARAV elements twistport is strictly a wavecite connector. So, how do you connect radios for MIMOSA with any of these antennas? The simple answer is, you have to use a specific twistboard adapter. Twistboard adapter or simply TPA converts the radio interface into a twistboard male connector. If you're interested in how exactly TPA works and what's inside the product, check the video here. Let's have a closer look on options we offer for connecting MIMOSA radios. TPA AMU is wavecite to wavecite adapter, compatible with two wavecite radios, MIMOSA C5X and B5X. One thing to mention is that you can use either dual slant or HV polarization setup. Just make sure to install it as it's shown in the video for one or another. TPA DAF C5C works with the well-known MIMOSA C5C radio. TPA A5X works with MIMOSA A5X. For the B5C and 4x4 radio A5C, we recommend using TPA SMA, which provides a connectorized interface to be used with pigtails. This is a kind of universal interface, so you have to mount the radio separately from the antenna structure. Speaking of mounting, the installation of all coaxial radios is practically identical. Push the radio into the adapter until a click tells you it's securely connected, then insert it into the antenna twist port, rotate, and another click lets you know that the radio is mounted and connected at the same time. All that within a few seconds. How cool is that? The wavecite radio adapter is composed of four parts easily assembled, converting the radio wavecite to the twist port wavecite, with the same easy installation. Just twist, click, and you're done. Here is the compatibility matrix once again for your reference. Please note that this may evolve with time and new SKUs coming from MIMOSA. For most up-to-date information, click the link to get the compatibility sheet that is ready for print and sharing. If you find this video useful, don't forget to subscribe, like, or if you have any questions, leave a comment below.


because read by today's title, we are gonna be giving you guys our Airbnb house tour.  We have furniture, we have decorations, we have lighting, we got fans, we got all modern luxury beach theme ambiance in this place and I cannot wait to show all of you what we did with the place. All I just, I wanna say this, I have no credit in any of this decorating. Bill went above and beyond. I am so freaking proud of him. It looks so good. I was like, once you see it, I was like, babe, you didn't even design our house this cute.  Thank you. It's super exciting. I've never decorated a house just me myself and I kinda surprised myself when I came to this place and I'm glad cause like I see a lot of people online are actually really liking it and like what I did with the place so it just makes me feel even better that I put all this work into a place and I'm able to show it off to people who are awesome and care about the space and what I did. And I think it'll be really, I think it is so homey for guests and I'm just so excited to show you guys. If you guys haven't seen our one video where we said we bought a new house, make sure you guys go look at that cause we gave you guys a house tour on that. Oh my gosh, you can see the before. And it looks so different. It looks so much different and nothing like it does now. Well Bill, I'm gonna film you and I'm gonna have you show them because this is yours. Oh, this is my house. This is yours. This is everything that you made. It's all that you did so. Remember, before we start this video, first of all, thank you guys so much for watching. Make sure to give it a thumbs up. I appreciate all of your support but I did all of this for the sake of the guests. I want guests to have an awesome experience. I wanna be the best host possible and I wanna give them just a homey vibe. So when you're watching this video, just think modern, beachy themed and just homey. Like you just stepped into another Anne's house or something. All right, baby. So let's just start off with what you did over here. All right, so we got the entrance way, the door. This is the entry way. Got a little good vibes only. Good vibes only. It's like kind of beachy but it keeps you like up.  If you're traveling to Florida, you want the beach, right? Yeah, you want the beach. Why are you coming to Florida? Okay, we can't show it too much to the side. Oh yeah, be careful. I know. So really quick, I just have this whole beach kind of, you know, entry way table ambiance with this nice modern picture, photo frames, whatever. And actually I found this at Target. So if you do like anything in this video, comment down below and I will tell you where I got everything. Most of it's just Target and Amazon. But you know, and this is the Wi-Fi. Obviously I'm not going to show that on camera but for the people that do book, when you turn this around it says, you know, the Wi-Fi is on us. Yeah. This is the guest slash laundry wing of the house. And I also want you to know that while we walk around, like every single light fixture, every fan and every curtain rod, they're all different in their white, modern, gray's, whites box. So okay, this I got from Amazon and it worked out perfect because I was able to perfectly make it into the thermostat. And not only that, but not only that, but it still stays center with the wall. So it just, it worked out awesome. I don't know, I take a lot of pride in like little things like that. But let's show them the- Oh, a little clock right here. Oh yeah, a little modern clock. Cute. So this is the guest room. This is a two bedroom, two bathroom. And this is the first room that I'm going to be showing.  Mixed with like a beach vibe ambiance. And if you do see anything dirty with the place, I haven't fully deep cleaned it yet. We haven't had anyone stay here yet. So I haven't done a deep clean but I will get rid of all of like the, if you see anything in the house- You got a TV, which is so luxury. I feel like to have a TV in the- Let's Florida plants. And this actually, if you did not notice or you don't follow along with our channel, this I've resembled off of our bedroom. We have two plants like this hanging. And that's kind of where I got the inspiration to do the same in here. I think it worked perfect. It does look really good. All right, so we got two closets. They don't do anything except hotels. Here's the first bathroom. We got some nice new sink, nice new faucet, lights, because you have to have like good lighting everywhere. We're all about lighting obviously. Some signs- Can we all look at the little palm trees? I know, isn't that so cute?  Looks good and the lighting looks bomb. I know, I told you. Come on, look at yourself. Oh my God, I can do a video in here. I know, for real. You know us, we're all about our lighting. So I wanted to hand that down to the people that stay here. So if you want to take a selfie, you know, go to the beach. Yeah. Staying in Florida, you know. Okay. Perfect. So I called this the laundry room but it's really the garage that has the laundry in it. But it works out perfect because it gives it so much space. There's so much room in here. It looks small on camera. I have so many plans to do with this house. Just haven't done it yet because there's so much to do. But this is like where they're gonna be doing their, you know, their laundry. I have an iron that's coming in and like low ironing. Look at him guys. You know ironing. Oh, who's me or is that for? This came with the bed set and we never used it. So I just put it in here. I can always hang it somewhere. You can try this into like a workout area. I know. I have a mirror right here. What do people who work out stuff work on them? I guess you're right. No people would want to work out. You're right. You're right. What do we not do? You're right. Work out. Work out. Because we don't have anywhere to go. You're right. You're right. Okay. All right. This is for the outdoor furniture which obviously I don't want to keep outside so it doesn't get all dirty and stuff. All right. So that is an awesome part of the house but this is where it gets even better. Now you'll open up into an open layout and a kitchen. I do want to get a new table in the future but I'm working with this and it is cute for the time being. So I love it. I think I made it look really good. And then he did this cute little home sign. I guess he's getting in a desk right here for people who want to work. Yeah. There's no area to kind of like work. You can work up on the kitchen counter but like I'm getting like it's going to be a desk with a nice like chair and it has I have a clock and like a lamp that's going to go there. It's like something like cute for people on the go business. Oh and look at it. You forgot my new fixture. I showed the fixture. Look at how nice. I got you boo. And your curtains. He changed the curtains from a nasty blue to white. You'll see the curtains are all white in here but the kitchen. Oh my gosh. This kitchen is so beautiful. Even though we don't usually like the brown theme. Yeah. I don't like the brown cabinets but I feel like it feels homey. It feels homey for like guests. It feels homey. It's super bright. Like if you look at me right now. Ooh. How do you like that? Look at that. Put some little succulent things up on there. Yeah. Bill. Look at that coral. Oh and look at this. I threw this in above the stove. Relax. Cause I want to give you that little theme. And then over here. I want to make this better and better as I get better and better with like renting this out. But I have a mini coffee bar. That's like kind of a full coffee bar. It has like cups and like the sugars and stuff. Coffee. And I want to get like better and better with this to make it like a whole like cool coffee bar. Like the more I learn about coffee. Yeah. I feel like people love that right? Yeah. Look at all these glasses. Hold up. Oh my gosh. We got plates in there. That's silverware. Silverware all in here. I have to unpack some of this. And obviously I'm going to be cleaning everything. Haven't cleaned anything yet. But this is just, you know, a mock fit of everything goes. That was really loud. Guess this is what it kind of looks like from here. Like into the living room. Like I look so cute from this angle. I love it. It does get better. All right. So this is where everyone's going to be doing all the hangout. We have the full like, like I said, open layout that relays over to here. Here's a little entrance way bench because like when you're putting your shoes on or you're waiting for people to hurry up, like I didn't know what to put here. So I feel like this is perfect. It is perfect. It looks nice. Doesn't this couch look familiar? Isn't that weird? Right? If you're wondering, no, this is not the couch that is at our house, but this is the exact same couch that is at our house. Just a second one. Look how stinking cute this is. Bill, you outdid yourself for real for real. Like all the throw pillows. Yes. And the cool part about this is not only is this a two bedroom, two bathroom, but you can actually sleep five people without an air mattress. Because if you did not know, this couch is so big right here. When you take this off, it's equivalent to a twin size bed. Did you say that on the website? Do you see how big this is? Did you say that? I probably should explain more about it, but they see like it's like a sleeper sofa. Yeah. And it's super comfy. Look at this. It's like a mattress. New fans in the house. You gotta have them. Got these plants. And also I went to Home Depot and filled it with actual nice rock. It's like real landscaping rock. See it in there? Cute. It's nice. Yeah, I like that. You look real. This, we have it in our bedroom at home, but I didn't paint this one silver. I kind of like the gold. I do like the gold. It goes along. I'm tying, okay. If you haven't noticed, I'm tying a little bit of brown in because the kitchen is so brown. I don't want it to just be gray. I love the browns. It's cute. So I tied the brown in to match the kitchen. So it looks kind of like more, you know, even. Here is my favorite bedroom wall. Obviously the master bedroom comes with a full king bed. Like I said, I haven't washed any of the sheets yet. So they might be all scrambled, but I did just throw it all up to make sure I have everything and everything's like, you know, ready to go. Oh, I didn't even notice these. Oh yeah, these are new too. It came with three. The other one's out the thermostat. You know what I'm talking about? Yeah, let me show you guys from like this angle. Ooh, nice. Okay. I haven't put anything here yet. I don't know. Yeah, we need to put something there. Do you think a mirror maybe? Oh, that would work, right? Yeah, because you need a mirror in here. Yeah. Did that mirror in the garage would fit in here? Oh no, I kind of want something more cute. Yeah. The mirror in the garage is kind of big and bulky, but. I mean, it might look cute though. If you're wondering why I don't have like dressers everywhere, first of all, when you're traveling, like who uses a dresser? Not really. Would you ever use the hotel dresser? No. And even if you do, I have a huge closet, walking closet that they could put anything in. Like all of their luggage, times 10 here, walking here. Show them how big it is. Look at this. This is just shows how big, you can fit at least what? You could probably fit like 20 Mariahs in there. Yeah, you probably could for real.  Now it's still a working progress and I want to like add a little more stuff in here, but we replaced the fixtures, all of these, to nice silver ones, because they were kind of all brown.  Marvel Squad. Okay. So cute. This is between us. I don't want to show the guests, but should I have this side? Or should I have this side? Bill! So, I mean, I can't like that. No, no, no, no, no, no. No, no, no, no, no. Probably this, this looks a little better. Yeah. Hello sweet cheeks. I cannot believe you got that on the bag. Babe. Only y'all would know.  Oh, shoot! Stop this thing or what? I don't want to go in there. Oh my God. I feel like they want to close it on me. Like I said, this house literally sat for like five months before I bought it. So, a deep cleaning is necessary. Also, I do have past control that is like doing the whole place, just like they do our main house. So, any like bugs that were like ants, like Florida is known for ants and stuff.  This? Oh, no, I am. I was thinking about that too. It's like I could either clean it, but like you already know if you hire a cleaner, they're gonna be way more in depth and know exactly what to do. Because like I clean, but not amazingly, I guess. That's about it Mama Squad. I also want you guys to know that you were a big help. I don't know if you knew, but like the last video that we filmed, we asked a lot of you guys like for inspiration on what we should do to the house. So, a lot of this is coming from you. A lot of people said like add plants, a lot of people were just saying like paint the wall and doing everything. Oh yeah, I didn't even tell you this. I forgot, these walls used to be dark blue. Yeah, I know. Oh my God. It was so ugly. So ugly, like I would never do that to my house just because like it didn't match anything. Everything else was white in here and that was just dark blue. But comment down below how you think about the place, if we should do anything different, anything more, if we should add anything to the walls. I honestly think it's perfect and like I'm just so happy with it. I can't wait to just like make a good marking, good experiences for people coming down here.  No, I love it. It's like been a dream to like just renovate house. I feel like if I wasn't doing like, if I wasn't able to film I would be like doing something like this. Cause next year we're planning to move after we get married to our like, kind of like our dream house and we're gonna end up Airbnbing our actual house. Our current house, yeah, I mean that's the goal. Or renting, we don't know yet. That's the goal, so we don't know for sure but like most likely it's gonna be an Airbnb. Cause we wanna, obviously before we have kids we wanna move out of our house that we're in now. Yeah, I feel like having like our main house once we have kids would be best because like moving while we have kids, like I feel like there's just so much more. We just want more, we need more room, we need more space, we need more storage place. Cause like actually like we're shoving everything in our guest room closet and imagine we have a kid, we only have room for that. That's the thing about living in Florida is the only bad part is you don't have basements and we used to have basements in Chicago where you had like all the room in the world now.  Yeah, so we gotta upgrade that. We gotta get like a storage like shed. Yeah, we do. But you guys, I hope you enjoyed today's video. Make sure you give it a big thumbs up and make sure you guys send Bill a lot of love in the comments. Tell him congrats cause he did so good. Thank you. We could try to cheat, but I'm so proud of you. And I feel like you did the best job ever, so. Thanks, that means a lot cause I did work my butt off on this place. Bye you guys, we will see you in the next video. But until then, peace, love you guys.


What is this? These are my two ICN-6211 DSi to TTL display breakouts. This is the RevV. Even though it says A on it, ignore that. It's RevV. DSi connector in and then you've got the TFT display out. This is square and this says TTL. That's because there are actually kind of two standards-ish for displays. So this is like your standard TTL display.  But I've got some other cool displays and these all weird-shaped displays have a different 40-pin standard. So this is a 2.1 inch with capacitive and you can see on the back, it's got like a bezel. This big one is a, this is interesting. I'll have you back up a little bit. There's a 4-inch round, a nice big 4-inch round. And then this is a half round.  This one doesn't have a touch and this one does have touch. And then 4-inch square with touch, 4-inch square without touch. I think this is 3.4-inch square with touch screen. Let's see the touch screen over here. And then these kind of funky bar displays. So like these are 960x120 or 960x300 or so. This one has capacitive touch. You can see this one is the same size but without the capacitive touch. There you go. And this one, and you're wondering like, wow, this looks familiar. What shape does this remind you of? Yeah, that's right. It's a 5.25 inch floppy. Yeah, we're going to do a project with that. Almost exactly the same size, same height. So some cool funky displays and a big, big stepper motor there.


Astronomers developed a mosaic of the distant universe from nearly 7,500 individual exposures called the Hubble Legacy Field. It documents 16 years of observations from NASA ESA Hubble Space Telescope. This image contains 200,000 galaxies that stretch back through 13.3 billion years to just 500 million years after the Big Bang.


Welcome. I'm John Caldera, president of the Independence Institute and your devil's advocate. We've talked to him on and off over the years, but I find what he promotes to be so fascinating. He's here again. You're on Brooks. Glad to have you. I think it's good to be here. All right. You're associated, of course, with the Einrand Institute, and I love people who are scared about Einrand. Yes. I mean, there are all these other authors. There are all these other philosophers, even people who dabble in economics and morality and stuff. None of them get the hatred. All you need to do is go into any American college campus and go, well, what about that Einrand? And I do that all the time. You do that for a living. Why is this author who did Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, We the Living Anthem, and a whole bunch of philosophy books that I've got to be honest, I cannot read her nonfiction. I can't. It's just too dry for me. I can't do it. Why does she get such a hateful reaction? Well, because she challenges our most fundamental beliefs, and she challenges people left, right, center. It doesn't matter. She challenges the entire political spectrum, not just on the politics, not just on the economics. There are lots of people who do that, right? But she challenges us on ethics. She challenges us in epistemology and how we know stuff. She challenges our metaphysics. She challenges religion. So she really takes on everything. She takes on 2,500 years of thinking in the West, and she says, most of you have been wrong, and here's an alternative way of looking at the world. And that's a challenge. That's a challenge. There's lots of people who say you're wrong. There's lots of people who come up with different ... I love them bolder. There are fruit cakes there who say the world is not what you think it is all the time. There is something threatening. There is something dangerous about Ayn Rand's philosophy. Because she's not only saying you're wrong, she's saying what she thinks is the truth.  You have to live a different life personally, or she suggests you live a different life personally. And the way you look at the world would be completely different. So if you take, for example, the new atheists, right? The new atheists became very prominent in arguing faithism. But when you actually look at their politics and economics, what are new atheists? Sounds like a rock group. Yeah, you remember, they should have become a rock group. Sam Harris and Dawkins and Hitchens. Oh, Richard Dawkins and Hitchens. Those guys, they called themselves the new atheists, because they had a shtick going. And it was very, it was quite profitable for them. And they were, okay, so they challenged everybody on the religion stuff. But then when you look at the morality, you look at politics, you look at the economics, standard middle of the road, nothing, right, bland. Ayn Rand challenged you on the religion, challenged you on what the purpose of life is and what you should live for, challenges you on, well, what kind of political structure we should have and how does the economy work, even challenges you on what is art and what is good on what is bad on. So, and every major question that people have, she comes up with an answer that people are not expecting and it forces you to either think- But it's different. Or act differently. It's different than just that. And it's hostile. Okay, so what do you think? Let's go to the hostile part of that. Mean. All right, it's not just greedy, all right? Not just greedy, but her philosophy is downright cruel. Yes. You know, in her world, there are no children there. You know, there is no charity. It is doggy dog. You are judged and you will judge.  It is very easy to lampoon as cruel. It is, but some of the things you said are true to her philosophy and so the things you said are not and to her novel. So, nothing in her philosophy is anti-charity. It's just not particularly pro-charity in terms of being the most important model of virtue. Nothing, it's children. I have children, almost all the people I know who advocate for philosophy have children. They're children in Atlas Shrugged. They're just minor characters in the book because she was writing a book about something else and children didn't fit into the story she was writing. And she didn't have children. That's true. But none of that, so, but it is true that what she says to people is, you should live for yourself. You should live for your own flourishing, for your own success, for your own happiness. That should be your moral purpose. And the reason it's lampooned is because for 2,000 years we've been taught that the reason, the purpose of life, is sacrifice. What's noble is to live for other people. It's their well-being that's important. The whole morality, the conventional morality is about other people. Oh, the ultimate virtue is being selfless. And in order to make that credible to people, because nobody actually wants to live to other people, nobody actually is selfless. So in order to make that credible, we create this pretense of the only alternative to being selfless is to being a lying, cheating SOB, right? And then Ayn Rand comes and says, wait a minute, there's a third alternative. You can be rationally long-term self-interested. And lying is not in your self-interest. Cheating is not in your self-interest. And you could live for yourself without being that monster that people like to portray. People have a very hard time with that idea. Very hard time with that idea. Let's throw in what economists would euphemistically call externalities. All right, so, you know, I'm living for myself, and I'm digging for gold and gulch gulch, because man, it's all about my satisfaction. And I'm just digging away, and I'm blowing up hills, and I'm using chemicals. And all this stuff flows into the river, which then goes downstream. And that's somebody else's world. But I'm living for myself. The guys downstream, they can live for themselves too. You know, therefore, the philosophy is bankrupt because it doesn't take into account those people living downstream, living in the wasteland you've created while you're seeking your own selfless, selfish satisfaction. So it's exactly the opposite, right? It's systems of government and systems of morality that tell you that you have to care about others and sacrifice for others and be selfless. That are the filthiest, dirtiest places on planet Earth. It's actually systems of government that encourage people through property rights to pursue their own self-interest and to exploit their piece of land, the way they see fit, that are actually the cleanest places on planet Earth. And the reason for that is, that the reason for that is, well, but that's because politics is a manifestation of a particular ethics. We get socialism when we have a selfless ethic. We get capitalism when people are focused on the pursuit of their own happiness. There's not an accident that that is in the Declaration of Independence and the country we've got as a consequence is the United States of America. It's those selfish founding fathers who are focused on people's right to their own life. Not to the common good, there's no common good in the Declaration or the Constitution.  Let's get to externalities. It's very simple. If the world is divided into private property, which it should be, this should be, you know, people ask me about the problem of the commons. The solution there is not to have any commons. The solution to that is to privatize everything we can privatize. It's a problem with the air, but other than the air, you can pretty much privatize everything.  I'll sue you and I'll bankrupt you, and that's it. And the law's about this, and these are laws that protect property rights. I cannot pollute a river if you own the river. When the river's public property, then it becomes a problem because it's owned by nobody. But if the river's privately owned, which in the West, and we're in the West right now, there was the beginning of law to define private property over rivers in the 19th century. We stopped doing that once the government came in and took over all the land in the West. But if we actually have respect for private property, externalities, all these negative externalities wouldn't exist. And of course what people really don't talk about is all the positive externalities created by my selfish pursuit of my own well-being. It's that selfish pursuit of people's own well-being that creates all the goodies that we have around us. I'm going to keep pushing you on this. All right. That's good. There are some externalities you don't see for a while. There are some externalities that even in that private world, we're not going to get to the land being privatized, not in my lifetime. Not in my life to me, though, but that's the world we should be striving towards. I'm there. But my nuclear reactor, when I dumped the waste on my land, you might not notice the damage for a long time. But there's an assumption here. The pollutants I put in the air, it is distributed across the globe, and therefore it's not my neighbor next door, but it's the world in general.  I can imagine in a world of laissez-fait capitalism, I can imagine non-for-profits that go around and say, you know what, we're going to monitor a quality, and we're going to find who's polluting the air, and we're going to sue them on your behalf. So there are wonderful, voluntary ways without creating a massive governmental infrastructure and government agencies and regulations up the kazoo in order to make sure that people have the kind of information they need to make sure that you are not harming me. But it also is an underlying assumption there. And that assumption is that I live, I'm producing, and I don't care about the rest of the world. I don't care about my children because they're breathing the air as well. And I don't care about my grandchildren because they're going to be radioactive. And that's bizarre, right? If you're self-interested, if you're selfish, you care about your life.    I am much more generous. I am much more caring as a selfish human being than I would if I were selfless. Because I find selfless people resenting the fact that morality only gives them stars, only gives them credit when they don't think about themselves and only when they help other. Now, I, because I know what my life is worth, when I see somebody, I don't want to hurt other people. Why would I hurt other people? Put aside the politics of it and the right issues and the legal stuff. I want to trade with other people. I see the enormous value. And this is true of most people. When we look at businessmen, what we see are greedy, selfish people. And that's why we regulate them. That's why we control them. Not because they've done anything bad. Indeed, 99.9% of businessmen would not pollute, would not steal, would not cheat, would not do any of these things in pursuit of profit. The great one panel cartoon, guys' houses are flier, flames are burning everywhere, firemen are coming with hoses and ladders and buckets and they're all rushing to the door and the guy owns the house goes, no, no, no, no, guys, I'm a libertarian, don't come and help me. Yeah, but that's nonsense. That's a caricature, right? That's a caricature, but in the real world, in the real world, self-interested people want to compete, want to compete, we gain huge benefits from other people. But in the real world, where we are today, today, I still need the police. I still need... I'm not an anarchist. Let's be very clear. I am not an anarchist. I believe government is a necessary good. Let's use that term very carefully because people use anarchist as a complete epithet. It's a bad thing. I agree with him. But there are economic anarchists. There are capitalistic anarchists out there who believe that over time, we're going to get fire departments, we're going to be private. I think they're nuts. So say that again because I think it's private.  You can have private fire departments. You can deal with fire departments without government. But you cannot deal with police. You cannot deal with the military. You cannot deal with the court system outside of government. So the only purpose of government... What about disputes? You're on my property. That's a court. That's a court. And that's government too? Absolutely. The final arbitrator of those kind of disputes has to be government because otherwise how are we going to resolve it? Well, like in the wild west, I'm going to carry, you're going to carry, we're going to go out at high noon and duel it out, not a good society to live in. So force is the one thing that it's the job of government to monopolize. It's the only thing that the government should be doing. It should be there to protect our rights. And what is a right? A right is to be free, a right is a freedom from coercion. The only job of government is to protect me from coercion. It's to protect me from people polluting my river, my river. It's to protect me from people destroying my property. It's to protect me from people who want to loot me and... What about polluting, what about polluting our air? Yeah, so air is another way in which I personally had damaged. If I'm putting stuff into the air and you can't show me damage, then, you know, by what way do you stop me from doing what I'm doing? You have to be able to show damages. If you can show damages, sure you can stop me from doing it. Let's talk morality and business in that, you know, capitalism and corporatism are really two different things.   But there's also a lot of truth when they scream about the cronyism that happens among that world. I see it every day here in Colorado. I see it in business. I see it with tax increment financing. I see it with corporate welfare and regulations that you can't have this, but you'll get no more credit if you buy this battery operated something. And so it and that is evil. It is. But that's not capitalism. Is it? No, no.  No, capitalism is not crony. Statism is crony. So what drives cronyism is state power. When you give the state authority over people's business, when you give the state the ability to regulate and control, people are going to fight back. And when they fight back, they're going to hire lawyers and they're going to get enmeshed in politics and they're going to try to manipulate the system in their favor. My favorite story here is the Microsoft story, you know, Microsoft early 90s. Microsoft. I don't know if you know this, but you've got an accent. I do have an accent. I'm sorry. Microsoft. So Microsoft was the largest company in the world at the time. All right, right. How much money did this spend on lobbying in Washington, DC? Zero. Arvin Hatch, a Republican senator from Utah, brings them in front of the Senate Senate committee and he yells at them. You guys have got to start spending money here. You guys got to build a building here. You got to have a presidency. You got to hire lawyers here. In other words, he says, you got to bribe me, but we don't do that in America. So we call it lobby. Microsoft says at the end of the shearing, yeah, you leave us alone. We'll leave you alone. We're not interested. We don't need Washington. We're running the largest company in the world. We're actually producing values here. We don't need to mess with you guys. The only thing we create are ones and zeros. Yes, yes, it happens in the ether. It happens on hard drives. Yeah, you know, what are we here to lobby? Yeah, exactly. So six months later, not going to do. We're here from the Justice Department and we're here to go after you because you're violating the antitrust laws. What did we do? You're giving away a product for free. I don't know. The audience probably doesn't remember, but we used to buy Netscape for 70 bucks. You had to download it, a browser. You had to pay for it. In order to get on the Internet, you needed a browser, which you paid for for Netscape. And Microsoft said, oh, we'll give you one for free. If you buy DOS, you'll get Internet Explorer for that, for that. They got harassed by the Justice Department for over 10 years. Their business was almost destroyed. Guess how much money they spent today on lobby? How much? Tens of millions of dollars. They've got a beautiful building. You know the Cato Institute? Oh, yeah. Building right behind the Cato Institute is a Microsoft building. It's a beautiful modern building, all glass about equal distance from the House of Representatives and the White House. And now they manipulate the system. They go off to Google. They do this. But who brought them in? I mean, the power we give government, the only way to get rid of cronyism, in other words, is to make politics impotent. That is to separate state from economics. So we need a separation of state of economics. The smaller the government, the less regulations, the less controls. If we had a copper tax of zero, then there'd be no cronyism. But short of that, nothing you do will solve the problem. You're also missing a simple market reality here. When I try to get into the market, even in your world where I can get into the marketplace easily, there's no barrier, I'm going to have to compete in order to get a market share. Now, if I already have a market share, I can either compete with you, upstart, but I don't want to do that. Then I've got to convince the millions of people who are my potential customers to choose me over you. It's so much easier to go to City Hall and convince five sitting calcium men to regulate the taxi industry and make sure that nobody else is involved in it. But this is why the Constitution should be written in a way that they can't regulate the taxi industry, right? So if you, this is my point, as long as politicians have power, people will go and seek to try to get favor of small politicians, whether it's unions, whether it's businesses, whether it's all kinds of people were voted there. And my point is the only way to stop that process. There's no other way. There's just no other way. It's to say to city council, you know what? I'm not sure exactly why you exist, but the one thing you cannot do, you cannot regulate businesses. You cannot tell them where they can be. You cannot zone. You cannot interfere in the lives of individual citizens. Maybe we don't need you or maybe we just need you to oversee the police and that's it. All right, stop there, stop there. Love it. Which unicorn is going to ride in with the magic wand and get us from here to there? Iron man. Iron man. Iron man. I mean, this is about education. This is about education, education, education. These are shortcuts. There's no unicorn that's going to ride in. It's our job to get us there, right? It's your job, my job. It's our job to go out there and teach and educate and promote. And if we don't, then we're never going to get there. And even if we do, there's no guarantee that we get there. But even if we do, and listen, you've dedicated your career, I've dedicated mine to fighting for this ideal. And I work in a world of Democrats and liberals and unaffiliated and bills that come by and lobbying and this and that. And I try to weigh in my voice towards this idea of freedom. All right, but I'm up against guys who own the Taxicab Company, the government-run agencies that don't want to see any competition. They can afford the lobbyists. They can afford that beautiful new Microsoft building. And they can play that game. And we're sitting here shooting rubber bands at the moon saying, you know what, if we just put out a nice little paper, we're going to see all this thing crumble. This is why I don't do policy, because I would be unbelievably frustrated if I did, because you're describing the world as it really is. I believe at the end of the day, everything is driven by fundamental ideas. We would not have had a United States of America if not for Enlightenment thinkers, if not for Spinoza, Locke, ultimately Adam Smith, and everybody in between, Voltaire and Montesquieu and all of their French Enlightenment. Without those thinkers, there's no America. That's where the action is. The action, and we're losing there too, let's be clear, but the action is at our universities. The action is philosophy departments. The action is econ. The action is where fundamental ideas are being discussed and debated. And if we can't swing that, all the policy work won't help us, because people vote against their self-interest all the time, against their long-term self-interest. They show it to their self-interest. I don't consider that self-interest. I consider that suicide. But they show it to their satisfaction. You used that word earlier, which I would never use. They show it to their satisfaction. They work all the time. They're against their long-term self-interest. Liberty and freedom is in everybody's long-term self-interest. That's something nobody realizes, nobody cares about, nobody works towards, and unless we can instill those ideas at the very basis of society, we lose. And we're losing. The fact is we're losing. We've got an administration in Washington that's supposed to be on the right, which wants to tell me who I can buy stuff from and who I can't buy something from. You also have an administration on the right that's saying, hey, California, you can't make your own crazy-ass regulations. That's a step this way. You've got an administration that's pulling back not all these, but a lot of the regulations that you're railing about.  It's not the trade war that's bad. An attitude towards trade, particularly international trade, that says trade is a zero-sum game. That attitude, if that attitude is incockated into the American public's mind and into the Republican Party's DNA, then we're in for a long ride towards hell. The frustration is, you priests, because that's what you are.  I am an evangelical, even a nominatious. I'm an evangelical.   Well, as I told you earlier in the show, I'm not talking about you personally. I'm just talking about philosophers. Yeah, but the fact is, philosophy changed the world. You would not be here. We would not be here if not for John Locke. I agree. We would not be here. Economics would be here not for Adam Smith. That's where the action ultimately is. I'm not just agreeing with you, but I am adding something. The addition is this. Not only do we need to fund the priests and philosophers to teach the next generation, we have completely surrendered the political battle to engage those ideas. You mentioned the... Hang on. Yeah, I know. I can't. I'm just visually... No, it's in Israeli things. We can't let other people talk. We have to talk over them. No, that's Italian. That's Italian, my friend. Middle East. Mediterranean. It's all the same. So, but we are not equipping our foot soldiers to go out there and do it. We're not translating this into politics. We have surrendered that, which means our educational systems are nothing more than propaganda. Organizations are higher ed especially. And so, there needs to be a marriage of the philosophy with the political. And this is where it gets messy. And a lot of people over here would rather be right than win. Yeah. I mean, I agree with that. I don't disagree with that. I mean, I mentioned... I teach here in Colorado at the Leisure Program. The Rocky's regularly. So, we're teaching the people who actually go out into the trenches. You know, we do policy. I mean, I make fun of policy. But you have to do policy. Because you have to survive to win another day. You have to push back anywhere you can push back. All I'm saying is, you've got to have it all. You've got to talk about the fundamental ideas and you've got to talk about how they apply. And you've got to... I wish people did this. You've got to project an ideal, particularly to young people. Young people want to be idealistic. Young people want to believe in something. And the socialists are very, very good at this. They're not timid about telling them what they want. We want communism. And they rally them up. They don't call it communism.  Yes. And we're going to save the planet through socialism. Yes. Through democratic socialism. Yes. We're going to save the planet. And therefore you can be part of something much, much larger than yourself. And we need to do the same. We don't do that at all.  I want to save humanity. I want to save mankind. And you do that through capitalism. It's the only system that has ever brought anybody out of poverty. And it's the only system that has created the kind of wealth we have today. And it's the only system that can actually promote human well-being in the long run. That's the message I have to hear. And when I talk about capitalism, I'm not talking about the system we have today, which is Crony. With Crony, I'm talking about this capitalist ideal, this laissez-faire capitalism. And I push them in that direction. Now, are all of them going to convince? No. But we got to stop pushing in that direction. Got about a minute and a half. So let me lead them to the trough here then. All right. So somebody's listening. This guy's crazy. He's worshiping some broad who's also crazy and mean and all the rest. But I tell you what, because I'm so superior, I'm going to read something on this. Not a whole lot, because nobody can pick up Atlas Shrugged and everybody should put it that way. And they do, right? They do. Half a million copies sold in 2009. That's not a pamphlet. That's not... I'm getting curious. To help them get from there to here, what's the next step? Where should somebody go to look to learn? Nobody's going to re-block. How do you get them to tempt them in that direction? What is the sales that you're going to do? Well, I mean... By the way, this is a way to plug your site. No, no, no. I get it. I get it. Inman.org. That's the website of the institute. Spelled A-Y-N. A-Y-N-R-A-N-D dot O-R-G. And go follow me on YouTube. I do podcasts almost daily. I release videos, short videos, long videos, all kinds of videos. And you'll learn a lot about the world around us, at least my perspective on the world around us. And, you know, sometimes I'm entertaining as well. Certainly I'm radical. If nothing else, I'm consistent and radical. So you're on brookshow.com, Y-A-R-O-N, brookshow.com. All right. If somebody was going to pick up one pamphlet, one quick read, one comic book, what would it be? Oh, my God. Pamphlets. I would say Inman has these short two essays. One is called Man's Right, and the other called The Nature of Government. They used to come into Pamphlet together. Man's Right and The Nature of Government. You can find them online for free in Inman.org. Got it. Always fun, Your Honor. Hey, read me in the Dead for Post. Listen for me on K-How Radio. Check out the Independence Institute at thinkfreedom.org. We'll see you next week.


We're here to support the mission and support the Capitol and in doing that, you know, we're doing what all National Guardsmen do. We support our country. We support the states that we live in and that's our duty. At our height, we have members from all 54 states, territories and the district. So the first time where we had support from every state, territory and the District of Columbia. We had a peaceful transfer of power without a single problem. So our presence, the National Guard's presence on the Capitol and in the city during this period has been an absolute success. You know, for our soldiers in the airmen who have their civilian life and they have to juggle both a civilian job, civilian career, as well as their military life and their military career, it's very difficult, but it shows the dedication that the National Guard has. It's kind of a drop-and-go situation where you just have to be ready. I guess the main thing is just making sure that the people inside the Capitol are as well protected as the building itself. The most challenging days out here are the days when it's cold and then adding rain on top of that is even worse. But it also gives you an inner sense of pride because you know that you're doing good. Overall, I think it's been a success. The challenges are probably not as bad as what they could possibly be. Overall, it's been a good experience.


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Welcome to Toffy TV, it is the three things from the game today, Liverpool 1-0, what can you do? I mean I could make one of the things, how unlucky we are in these derby matches, but we know we are. Let's start with Andre Gomez, what a player, another excellent performance today against the good side. You know people have been questioning, you know, can he do it in the heat of the battle in the derby match, and he waltzed on that pitch, he was quite far the best midfielder on the park, comfortably hands down. He was fantastic, great feet, quick, strong, can get above the pitch, can pick a pass, can get forward, beat a man. He should have scored, let's be honest, he should have put us ahead with the header. And I think he just needs a goal, a goal will really boost his confidence, but this is a player who is absolutely key to however he can play. And I know there's been lots of positive noises this week about keeping him, and we simply have to keep him. There's no way, you know, we can allow him to slip away, we have to get behind him, and I know obviously the decision ultimately isn't ours to make. You know, we want him and we've said we want him, but we need to convince him that this is the place for him to come and be happy. And by all accounts he is happy, but what a performance today, stood up and was counted today and was excellent.  And Everton played some fantastic stuff at times and really controlled the game and where he faced and continued to try to be brave. And defensively he was there helping out and getting his foot in and getting headers in. Just a really good performance by him and should really eradicate any question marks that people have about him because he's a fantastic footballer. So he, you know, what a player, let's try and get him sorted as quickly as we can because he's an excellent player. A second thing I want to talk about is the ritualism thing, the ritualism experiment as a centre forward. What do we do? What do we do? Do we just leave it the way it is? Because I think for him he wants to be involved more so he comes out and tries to get involved in the game, but then we almost suffered the same kind of thing we did when Rooney was up there. Once they come and want to get involved in the game, there's nobody in the middle. And a few times near the end, at nil nil, we break brilliantly. And Dane and Bernard had a bit in the challenge and it would be over there. And there's nobody in the box to pick out because he wants to be involved in the game. The flip side to that is who then do we replace and what kind of three make-up are front three because Bernard was fabulous today. Thought he had an excellent game against the good side. He tore Alexander Arnold apart all over the place. Welcott didn't have a great game, but then there's luck when coming in there or they'll be pushed with Charlottes and Wyden if we do. Who plays through the middle? It's a Calvert Llewman who's not established yet. He's a jeng totian who hasn't got the same pace so the counter attack wouldn't be as quick. It's a tough one. It's a tough one. We definitely need another pace he's entered forward. And then it'll be interesting to see what we do with the Charlottes and to be thrown back on the left and push Bernard to the right or there's luck when coming. Obviously these are all things that we need to do anyway because to get better and better and better you have to keep improving your side and we've seen it this season. The team is way ahead of schedule really probably where people thought it would be. Even us as Blues, I think this is ahead of where we thought. We were just hoping. I think that this season we'd see some good displays and we'd just play better football and we had to give the manager time and he still needs time of course he does and we are only playing 14 games. But 14 games is good enough to get a feel of how the team is and the way the team plays. And I think I love watching Everton. Now I really do it. Yes there's a couple of things we need to improve of course we do but it's good to watch everything and the games can't come quick enough. That game finished, my best mate said to me can't wait for Wednesday. Now yes that's falling on because you want to get that result out of your system but it's also because you know how we play at home and if we can continue to play like this we're going to improve anyway. And that's the thing I think at the end. I think the Evertonians and the Anni-Rhoden were clapping the players off and everything now in the past. We didn't mean devastated and you know walked out and whatever but singing you know songs and clapping the players off and all because we feel this team we're all in it together and you know it's so it's a case of Wither the Charleston thing and I've gone slightly off topic there but Wither the Charleston thing what do we do with that? I think the only way we resolve it for me is you had to go with Calvert Llewman because he's got the pace or we'd go and buy a centre forward in January or Llewman someone who's going to give us those legs as well who's quick and we can swap in and out with the Charleston but for now I think I just leave him where he is and just hope that he improves because he's not in the right areas for a number nine at the moment. He is a time and another time he's on the wing but we've already got people on the wing and he needs to be centre but that's something I suppose for another day. The third thing is I'm going to talk about referee because I thought I thought he had a good game I thought he had a very good game for a referee I don't like referees as it's well known now but I thought he handled the occasion very well they had a couple of incidents where their players went down you know the dive by storage was embarrassing imagine thinking you're in a race for the Premier League and your players are throwing themselves on the floor like that it's embarrassing and Salah dive and throwing himself down because he's got you know the dummies out of the pram because he can't score you know couldn't score on the throttle today woeful but the referee handled all of that I thought in general he got all of the bookings like the only one he probably should have booked was Manei Eyleon for the hand deliverer that's it handball end the story there's no question about it for being out of the way with a couple but then it's one of them isn't he can't book them for every single tackle but I thought in general overall I thought he'd done a good job and you won't hear me saying that very often but I thought he'd done well today considering he was a knobhead in the game he should have done it well today so there you go there are my three things agree disagree do whatever but enjoy your night no matter what make sure you subscribe make if you want video more videos get over to Peyton check out all the aftermatch stuff and we'll be in the studio tomorrow we'll have to see those rebastards first obviously by me walking but we're in the studio tomorrow looking at this in more detail yeah thanks for watching see you later


Aloha. Welcome to another discussion episode on show called Hospitality Hawaii. I'm your host, John Konching, and it gives me great pleasure every other week to bring in individuals, leaders, difference makers, and others who are engaged in our number one industry for the state of Hawaii, the visitor industry. So I am so happy that our guests agreed to be on our discussion today. His name is Eric Takahara. He's the managing director for Hawaii Tourism Japan. Eric's been a longtime friend and supporter of me and of the industry through many, many years during my time with the various companies I've been involved with. He's a key force in our largest international marketplace, the Japan marketplace, and there's nobody more knowledgeable about the Japan visitor in the market to Hawaii than Eric Takahara and his team at the Hawaii Tourism Japan. So without further ado, I'd like to introduce and welcome Mr. Takahara. Eric. Wow. Aloha, John. Thank you for that kind introduction. I just want to say thank you to you for the past probably almost 30 years that I've known you. You've guided us and you've given us great leadership when you were in your roles, in your previous roles, and we're just so thankful to have people like you that led us in the industry, and we look forward to a nice future with you as well. I appreciate those comments and I'll tell you, nobody in this industry can do anything good unless they have great people working besides them and great partners like you and all the others. So we've got a quick, probably 27, 28 minutes, so I won't take up too much of my time talking, but maybe we can kind of set the stage. So free COVID 2019 was probably, aside from obviously the peak years back in the late 90s, it was a great year for Japanese visitors coming to Hawaii. I think you probably had 1.4, 1.5, 1.6 million Japanese visitors who arrived in state in Hawaii in 2019. Kind of fast forward. We went down to almost zero or maybe zero in 2020. There's some tricklers of small numbers of people coming in. They still have some flights. The good news is that there's more flights being added. So maybe you can tell us where we are now and what you think is going to happen with your special crystal ball, stay in the next three, four months. Thanks, John. Yes, man, 2019 was a great year for tourism overall into Hawaii. We had about 10.4 million total visitors into the state. Japan accounted for about 1.5, 6 million of those visitors in 2019. We were churning like full steam ahead into 2020. Olympics was going to happen. We were going to feature surfing. First time ever surfing, the Hawaiian sport got included in the summer Olympics. We had a press conference in February. I mean, highly attended, highly widely covered in Japan on all major TV stations about surfing. And we were so excited for 2020 and what happened, COVID. And all of a sudden, like you mentioned, that 1.5, 6 million Japanese visitors went down to almost zero. You're correct. As soon as March, April of last year, we were down to no flights coming in for the various situations. And we got through 2020 pretty much like that. There were stop, go kind of scenarios where Japan was going to open up. We had worked very hard with the Japanese government and our Hawaii government on a couple of key people, Governor Nige, House Speaker Saiki, Ray Instrumental, on helping us to negotiate a travel corridor or a travel bubble with Japan. And we had gotten it to a place where right around August of last year, we were going to be able to set something up with Japan in a travel corridor kind of scenario. But what happened? The numbers started spiking right in the US. And then the numbers started spiking in Japan. And that kind of rolled us into Q4 of last year. And the numbers went crazy as we all know globally. And the travel quarter discussion went away. And we had to postpone. And there were several stop, go kind of situations like that in 2020. What's happened this year in the first quarter, we were hopeful that a lot of things with the vaccine and pretesting and all that safe travels with Hawaii and Japan would be pretty much starting to roll in a significant pace. But as we see now in Japan, what's happening now, the vaccine rollout a little slow currently. Right now, just about 1.6% of the Japanese population vaccinated. But that's stepping up. It's continuing to step up on the vaccine rollout. The procuring more vaccine, we see good news moving forward into the summer and into the fall of this year for vaccination for the Japanese population and travel along with that. So right now, the flights are what it is. The travel companies are where they're at right now gearing up for when the Japanese will be able to more freely come back and forth between mainly Japan and Hawaii. So a ramp up kind of period right now. And we're looking at Q3, Q4 to really start seeing the numbers start to come back in from Japan again to Hawaii. So you would say that the two key factors in the Japan business coming back, one's got to be more Japanese consumers being vaccinated, right? And as you mentioned, the procurement of the vaccines itself seems to be stepping up as maybe a lot of the European countries and the U.S. have already got a good number of people that are being vaccinated. So I guess there's more vaccines available for other countries. So that maybe number one, number two is probably got to be that 14-day quarantine, right? The Japanese government themselves feel a bit more comfortable with the rest of the world having a lot of vaccines, a large percentage of the population being vaccinated. Say America, let's say example, you've got 60% or 50% of Americans being vaccinated above the age of 16. You know, it's probably conceivable that Americans could travel to Japan in the not too distant future, right? Agreed, agreed. And, man, boy, John, you hit the nail right on the head. The main deterrent for the Japanese visitor coming back to Hawaii in any significant type of numbers is that 14-day quarantine that they're subjected to when they return to Japan, right? Now, what's important to understand here, and would like to point out about the Japanese market, is that they want, okay, vaccine is rolling up, but for specific to Hawaii travel, a lot of Japanese don't care if they're vaccinated or not. They will go through the pre-travel testing and save travels and adhere to that. And as long as they don't have to do the two-week quarantine, the 14-day quarantine when they return to Japan, all the surveys that we've taken in this last year show that a significant number of Japanese would come back if they didn't have to do the 14-day quarantine. So, yes, vaccine is important. As a nation, it's important for them, but it's not necessarily the main deterrent for them coming back to Hawaii. The main deterrent for the Japanese coming back to Hawaii is the 14-day quarantine that they're subjected to. So what do you think is the biggest hurdle with regard to getting that either waived or reduced? You know, Korea, I think, as you mentioned, and it was in the news lately, with returning Korean residents, I don't know if it's May or June, but soon they'll be exempt from needing to quarantine as long as they can show proof of a negative test, right? Yes, so interestingly enough, they chose Cinco de Mayo, right, May 5th to be the day that actually fully vaccinated Korean residents that traveled abroad would be able to return to Korea from traveling abroad without the 14-day quarantine. And they also have to produce a negative PCR test as well, right? So two things for the Koreans. If they're fully vaccinated and they produce a negative PCR test upon arrival, they get exempted out of their 14-day quarantine. So that started on May 5th of this year.  The travel ministry is also working very closely with the Japan government to be able to start bringing back Japanese tours and Japanese back to Korea in a big way, because Korea is a very popular destination for Japanese to travel to. And the Korean government is now working very, very hand in hand with the Japanese government to make that happen sooner than later. Okay, so Eric, you mentioned earlier about, you know, that you felt there were a lot of Japanese customers or consumers that were willing to travel to Hawaii, but they, you know, they're concerned about the 14-day quarantine. So what's your backup? How do you know that that's the case? So I think there's different surveys that were done. Maybe you can share some of that information with us. Sure. I'd love to flash up the latest JTB survey on traveler sentiment or travel from Japan to Hawaii. Okay, 20% of the respondents, now this is a survey we've taken surveys during the whole year, last year, every other month for traveler sentiment. And it's very reflective of this set of data, which was from JTB research. And JTB is the largest travel company in the world, right? So their numbers show that 20% of the respondents would return back their choice, the destination of choice, once they're able to travel abroad again is Hawaii. And then when you look across the board, we take the same data and we slice it up by gender and age category. You see the same type of numbers across the board that unequivocally, Hawaii is the destination of choice for Japanese. Now this data is very reflective of the surveys that we were taking over the last year. This is the thing about a sample size of about 2,200 respondents. Our sample size for our own surveys that we have through our databases is probably well over 10,000 respondents. But the numbers are the same as what I'm trying to say. And really encouraging to see that the traveler, Japanese traveler sentiment towards coming back to Hawaii is very high. And we are the destination of choice for them to come back to first. So in your conversations with Japanese travel companies and in the few conversations I've had with them, I think the sentiment is that once things governmental-wise become open with respect to the quarantine waiver or reduction, they think that the business is going to come back pretty quick. Do you feel that way as well? Oh, absolutely. And then when you look back at history, historically for the Japanese traveler, every kind of disaster that we've had in the Japanese market, starting, we had SARS, we had bird flu, we had 9-11. We had the great Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in 2011. We had the stock market, world global financial markets crash in 2000. After all those disasters or tragedies, we see the following year the Japanese market just rebounds pretty quickly. And as we're seeing now, we do see the domestic market coming back in a nice way. But I would tell you that many of the hoteliers and stakeholders in Waikiki and the neighbor islands will tell you that until that international piece of business of Japan being the biggest market internationally, until that returns, and they're going to have a hard time returning back to full staff, so on and so forth reopening in any significant way. So yeah, Japanese need to come back and to your question, we have historical data, we have current data from all of our airline partners, travel companies that yes, they believe that once the restriction is lifted, that 14-day quarantine, that there will be a significant spike in Japanese travel demand. You had a couple or you have a couple more slides, right? And wasn't one of them about the airline seats or the airline schedule? Yes, so currently, this is what your current airlift looks like right now. So I can tell you through our research, HDA research, as well as D-Bed research, we get about just about 1500, like you said at the opening of this time, right? You said that it's tricklers of Japanese coming in. So the tricklers that are coming in represent about 1500 Japanese coming in on any month now recently. When you look at the air lift situation, you see the airlines are providing 34-35 flights a month with 8,400 to about 8,500, 8,600 seats per month. So that tells you the airlines are very committed to Hawaii. Hawaii is in their route networks, one of the best profitable routes that they have. So financially, economically, and as well as just because a lot of them have such a deep and long connection with Hawaii, they remain committed to this market, even though it only represents 1500 Japanese visitors coming in now, they believe about on average 8,500 seats in the market every month. So that kind of shows you their commitment as well. Yeah, that's amazing. And as a destination, we're lucky to have partners like Japan Airlines, ANA, and all the other carriers that continue to have those flights, even though they aren't the passengers there. So you know, Eric, one of the things that's really important, and we didn't talk about this a little bit earlier, but I know you're involved in it, each county is doing their destination management activity or action plan, right? And a lot of it has to do with the, you know, what they call regenerative or sustainable tourism. In other words, making sure that the visitors that we have that are coming into the island, that we don't hit that 10 and a half million visitor mark in 2019, but the visitors that we do get are more sensitive, more culturally aware of the environment and the fragile nature of our resource. Can you talk a little bit about that and your feelings with respect to the Japanese visitor and how they might fit in with that, that direction? Sure. You know, ever since John DeFries came on board as the new president CEO at HDA late last year, the whole direction that regenerative tourism has really been, you know, umped up or amped up, and the team at HDA there, they work very hard, you know, and this is in response, John, to a resident sentiment survey that we are very aware of, where it's a survey taken, I think now once or, oh no, more than once, twice, twice a year now at least by HTA, and it shows, you know, resident sentiment towards tourism. And that sentiment is no big secret it's been dropping, right? The residents that are not happy with this many visitors in their home, you know, their home, this is where they live, work and play, they're not happy. So, you know, that just prompted HTA to think about regenerative tourism, responsible tourism, what we like to call an HTA malama. So the malama initiative was introduced by John and adapted by all of us, the, you know, global contractors and every market. And it is, it does speak to what you say, we want to bring back the visitor. Yes, we need visitors to come back in a strong way, but we need to bring the visitor back in a hono way, right? In Hawaii, we say hono. We want them to come back in the right way. So that is kind of, if I had to boil it down to this essence, the malama initiative that's being initiated right now by HTA. The DMAP plans that you're talking about is an extension of malama. It is one thing that we are trying to do to actively engage each county, each island, to have resident community feedback into things that we do as HTA. And when I say we, it means the mothership HTA, as well as all of their contractors, right globally, to make sure that we are sensitive when we do market this beautiful, wonderful place to our markets, that we're doing it in a very responsible way, a malama way to take care. And we want to form, for example, Japan, we say we want to, we want to create a more polo travel. And Japanese historically have been very respective of the Hawaiian culture. They are very compliant in general. You tell them we're a mask, they wear a mask, you tell them don't do this, don't do that. And as you know, through your long career, you've seen that upfront and personally too, that they're quite compliant. So as far as the market goes, you want the Japanese visitor to come back as quick as possible because they're already kind of your polo traveler. It just takes now a little more education on maybe more natural resources and how to be a little bit more responsible when they come back. But for our market, it's something that's kind of an easy pitch. And you know, they are the regenerative tourists that we, you know, visitors that we want back in Hawaii, they're higher spending, they respect our Hawaiian culture and respectful of our natural resources as well. Well said. You know, very well said because you know, I remember reading pre-pandemic that even in Japan, there were a lot of issues there. There were growing resident sentiment against visitors from all over the world because places like Kyoto and some of the other maybe less traveled places in Japan were now being overrun by visitors from all over the world. And a lot of it became, you know, as a result of the popularity of all the different social media channels. And so I know different places in Japan and elsewhere around the world were starting to put restrictions against visitors or kind of like what state of Hawaii did with Hanama Bay and what they want to do with some of the other hot spot, you know, resources around the islands. But hey, let's switch gears a little bit. Maybe you can talk about during this last 12 months or six months, what type of activities have you and your team been engaged with to keep Hawaii top of mind, even though obviously we know people can't travel. And then what are some of your thoughts about once things start going, what do you have in the pipeline to really hit the market, you know, hard and fast to make sure we're maximizing our coverage and people know that, hey, it's safe to travel to Hawaii. There's lots of flights and so forth and so on. Right. So during the lockdown, right, during that whole last year, what we were doing was really important for any other destination as well, was to keep engaged with the Japan market. And Japanese don't forget so quickly. They know people who want them and people who do not want them. And you know what I'm talking about. But so for us, it was very important as a destination as Hawaii as the top destination to remain the top destination in Japanese, you know, consumer psyche right in their mind. So we relied heavily on digital. We attacked it from one, the travel trade. So we were constantly engaged with the travel trade, our GPDs, our HISs, our Japan Airlines, our ANAs. And we had weekly almost get together seminars, seminars would last anywhere from 30 to minutes to two hours. We would do updates on COVID on what was happening with the pandemic here in Hawaii, specific to Japan. We created a whole very, very robust website called within our AllHawaii.jp website about COVID. And really we're asked by a lot of even Japanese government organizations if they were able to use that for Hawaii, you know, to kind of show Japanese consumer what it's like if they need to come to Hawaii or what it's like right now in Hawaii. And we were happy to share that with them. So, you know, engagement with Japanese markets is highly important and you have to stay top of mind, right? So we use a lot of digital platforms. Social media was through the roof, right? And we relied on a lot of digital platforms. So we'll continue that. Digital is, I don't care what any market is super important for engagement. And once, you know, once we start turning what everybody's going to start, the travel companies, the airlines are going to start marketing now on about Q3, right, to try to capture the year end. We hope to be hand in hand with them for the recovery of the market because, you know, they're all asking us to be with them to message the Japanese consumers, you know, the HDA, the HDJ is a vital part of what they do. You know, the bureau, what they call us in Japan, the bureau, they need the bureau with them on this. And as a destination, we couldn't agree more. So we have some things in the works right now. We're right now kind of in a holding pattern on what we can do. And, you know, we're working through that with HDA and everyone else. But once that's worked through, we hope to be able to be hand in hand with the stakeholders in Japan to welcome Japanese back towards Q3, Q4 this year. Yeah, well, I'll tell you, you know, the Waikiki and Oahu desperately need the Japanese visitors. You know, maybe not so much the neighbor islands. And, you know, while Japanese visitors did go to the neighbor islands and different travel companies made concerted efforts to get more people to travel to islands or spend some time in the big island or Maui, you know, and they've had growing success. The numbers are well, well below the numbers that actually come and stay in Oahu. And I think we know the reason why, because they're shopping, the diversity, so forth, all the action and all the activities that are available on this island. You know, just a small tidbit here. You know, I just had lunch the other day at a very popular restaurant and in the Royal Horn Shopping Center and normally pre-COVID time would, I was talking to a waiter, he said we would have 450 people a day from different Japanese travel companies having lunch. And on any given night, they would have 850 dinners at this popular restaurant at night. And there were only two tables occupied during lunch. So it just shows how important having the Japanese customer in because the American customer who obviously everyone loves to have and we're glad to have as many of them as we can, they kind of tend to just disappear, right? They'll stay in the hotel, check in, and then a lot of times they're traveling all around the island where that Japanese customer I think does more to patronize a lot of the different shops, restaurants, other activities in and around Honolulu and Waikiki, so for Waikiki it is tremendously important. What was that other slide that you had, Eric? You had one more slide, didn't you? Yeah, I think people were wondering, we get this asked all the time, so what are other people doing? What are other destinations doing in Japan to grab this very desirable traveler, right, from Japan? And this is what we were able to gather for our last marketing meeting, last month's marketing meeting. But we see now and just recently we heard rumblings out of Korea as as as close as yesterday that they're going to go full bore after the Japanese and they want the Japanese to come back to Korea full force. So the Japanese government is going to do a lot of initiatives, they're going to do a heavy marketing campaigns in Japan, they're also going to work with the various travel companies and incentivize them as well. So they're wanting that Japanese visitor to come back pretty quick. Just this mattering of what other destinations are doing, big promotions, we weren't able to get a lot of the budget numbers except for Hong Kong, which is going to pour in about 145 million into marketing to Japan and the situation in Hong Kong, right? I mean, not the most positive things happening in Hong Kong with the protests and all of that, all the bad press they were getting, but they understand that Japanese visitor for them is highly important. And at one time, they had a large share of Japanese visitors going to Hong Kong, but for them to come out and say they're going to spend 145 million to go get the Japanese back is a pretty bold move by them. And these other destinations are really just spending big money and marketing back to the Japanese to get them back. And they won't tell us to our face, but we know and it go to we that they're trying to steal them away from us, right? I noticed you didn't have Guam on that list. Guam obviously is a very, very popular maybe shorter haul vacation spot for Japanese customers, right? They weren't on the list at the time because they were just completely not doing anything. But we did, we recently, last week, found out that Guam Visitors Bureau is going to launch some major promotions and campaigns in Japan. Like you said, shorter haul about three and a half hour flight from Tokyo to Guam, right? Less than half, right? That it takes to flight to Hawaii. And, you know, they've always been competing with us on the sand and surf and the retail is pretty good too in Guam too. So, you know, definitely all these other destinations are after the job. Yeah. Well, well, I know you can't speak to it, Eric. And I won't, I won't put you on the hot seat. But, you know, lately, if anyone's been listening to the news or reading the newspaper, and anybody who's involved in the in our visitor industry know that there's been a lot of press about about the Hawaii tourism authority budget. Different bills are passed, et cetera. And now I know it's on Governor Igay's desk waiting for it to either be signed or vetoed or whatever the case might be. And however, it turns out, we just need to make sure that the Hawaii tourism authority, and especially Hawaii tourism Japan, where you have one of your highest spending visitors that's coming to the state and also a very respectful and sustainable visitor, the ideal customer that we want, that that organ the marketing teams, whether it be Hawaii tourism Japan or HTA total has the necessary funds to be able to make the impactful marketing and promotion in Japan and be able to plan long term. And I think that's one of the bigger issues about the HTA, you know, the funding issue is that if every year the Hawaii tourism authority has to go to the legislative to get funding for that next year, very difficult to make long term plans. And we know that in the travel market, you have to be able to make long term plans in order for it to be successful. So so on that note, you know, I won't put you on the spot, but just know that there are a lot of people that are supporting not just Hawaii tourism Japan, but all the market, make sure that we have the right amount of funds. And there's accountability involved as well, which is a key point. But I want to thank Eric Takahata, the managing director for Hawaii tourism Japan, for sharing 30 minutes of his time, his Manao, his his experience, his knowledge on that Japan market. I think that that market is going to come back very strong. Now it might take six months or it might take a little bit more, or it might be less, you just never know. But it'll be good overall for economy, it'll get a lot of people back working. So thank you very much for your time, Eric, we really appreciate it. And I'd love to have you back, maybe six months from now, when things have happened, and we get a better perspective over, now what, right? How do we manage this thing moving forward? So thank you, Eric, I appreciate it. So for everybody here, it's been great having everybody on another episode of Hospitality Hawaii. We look forward to our next guest, whoever that might be in the next two weeks. Until then, hui hou, be safe, and thank you very much. Aloha.


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