I think we'll all go over in front of the, I'll get in a minute. How about that? Oh, I broke an iron in the hall. Can't be any for push. For tonight, I'm doing it. Sad pleasure. Thank you. Don't drop it, that's good. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Well, listen, I'm looking forward to tonight. Yes. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. It's a great pleasure to see you. Bye-bye. You know what? Yes. Thank you. Thank you. That's great. Yes. It's great. Bye-bye. President, you know our Secretary of the Air for the Air Force. Yes, sir. We've got a great football team to show you. I know. I'm looking forward to it, yeah. Well, I'm Charlie Hanna, Superintendent of the Air Force. Thank you. President, have a hello there, and I'll see you. Greetings, Senator Barberston. Hello there. Mr. President, Mr. President, good to see you, sir. Is that everybody there? Yes, I'll press it. Bring your stills in. How are you? Bishop de Berries. Good to see you, sir. We appreciate you. Thank you so much. Mighty proud of these guys. Thank you very much. Hello, nice to see you. Greg Marshall, nice to talk to you, nice to meet you. Sir, it's Governor Roberts. Hello, nice to see you. Hello, nice to see you. Hello, nice to see you. Sir, that wasn't a fist-off, was it? That was jumping out of an airplane. Hi, yeah, that's there. So, nice to see you. Nice to see you. Good to see you. Good to see you. Good to see you. This is our graduate. We're going to bring half the team over to this side now. Yes, because this is right here. Nice to meet you. Why do I suspect they changed some of the rules of physical science? Mr. President, now you know why we have to build our airplanes. I had quit. I'm asking you a few bigger players. We're going to have a lot of fun in that next moment. So, Greg, I've got a little presentation to make. Welcome to the Air Force Academy. Thank you with our team travel splits. Hey, well, thank you very much. Very good. Thank you. Oh, they have a nice diesel turn up at the presidential library. One of the platform, 10,000 people watching Moose Crows came up to the platform and handed me a football. I thought maybe it was autographed or something, and I'm looking, and he turned then and he said, no, no, and he pointed, and there was a team out there in the audience.  Oh, no. And I hit him dead center. I'm sure he didn't catch it though. And I was aligned when I'm not supposed to be able to pass. Well, listen, I just got a few notes that there's some things that I think ought to be mentioned in connection with this. Congratulations on this, and that is that your offensive team rushed for 4,635 yards, which is a comfort record. And your quarterback, D. Dallas, where are you? He's a sophomore, sir. Oh, man. Well, he rushed for 1,315 yards, set him an NCAA record for a quarterback in a single-season school mark. And then there was the 386.3 rushing yards per game, that was a WAC record and ranked second in the nation behind Oklahoma. And my mother is here with us. She's a member of the National Security Council. I already am. Yes. Chad Hennings was the... Where's Chad? I haven't understand it now. I'm just an anonymous first-team all-american. And during your career, you established school records with 48 quarterback sacks, 76 total tackles for losses and a minus of 473 yards of losses. And you all made your fifth bowl appearance in six years. You know, you lost Arizona State in this one. It was a close game, but five bowl appearances in six years, I think is quite a score. Well, I'm very proud to have this and proud to have you all here and to present you with that. We're proud to be here, sir. Thank you. Mr. President, I was wondering if I could get you to sign my cast. Yep. I felt it. That way, you know, a girl comes in. Sir, all these young men are going to be outstanding leaders for our nation and outstanding Air Force officers. I started my military career as a reserve officer in the horse cavalry, and then wound up flying the desk of the Army Air Corps in the four years of World War II. And if you need an explanation about that, as it turns out, I wear contact lenses. I have been quite near sighted on my flight. And I found out then, when it was called up to active duty, that the cavalry will not permit you on active duty if you are in marked limited service. And I was marked limited in service. So for the next four years, every time some of the fly boys would come in and tease me a little bit about the horse cavalry, I would remind them that I was not physically capable of serving with the cavalry, but I was pretty good enough. I brought the desk in every afternoon for a landing that I lost. Thank you very much, Mr. President. It's great to see you all. The seniors would sure love to see you on 1 June if you could make their graduation, sir. I know you have a tough schedule. We'd be delighted to have you. Thank you very much. I found out that one thing in this job, I don't have a devil of a lot to say about this. They tell me where I'm going. I'll put in a lick for that, though. I've got one more chance to go. Graduation to go. That would be great. We appreciate that. Thank you, sir. Thank you, sir. Thank you, sir. Blake. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you all. I run on hard hill. Kevin, I see you. Thank you, sir. Thank you, sir. We all found out. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you.


In the last class we had talked about how the plug nozzle would have a better performance of design performance let us look at it in this graph if we have PC by PE on the x-axis and CF on the y-axis this is a log scale if you have a nozzle design for some high altitude conditions somewhere here a conventional nozzle or a conical nozzle will go like this whereas a plug nozzle will have a superior performance throughout this is so the conical nozzle has a much inferior altitude at conditions other than the design conditions its performance is not as good as a plug nozzle or an aerospike nozzle so next we move on to the other topic that is thrust vectoring right thrust vectoring is something that is used by all missiles as well as launch vehicles if you look at the tactical missiles that is these are small rockets and if you look at what is the level of thrust that they produce the accelerations that they have initially is of the order of 10g so they very quickly go to a very high velocity so which is why you do not need any control in the boost phase they usually have something known as a boost phase wherein the thrust is very very large and it goes to very high accelerations due to gravity the acceleration achieved a very high and after which they will have a sustained phase which will essentially keep it at that particular Mach number okay. So for such rockets or tactical missiles aerodynamics is a very good aerodynamics offers very good way to control the motion of this as in if you wanted to wear around to a target and other things you can have fins and you can make it make it go towards the target very easily but if you look at launch vehicles and strategic missiles that is long range missiles when they take off their accelerations are very very small typically of the order of 1.6g to 2g right they are not very large so as they are going up they are going up very slowly and cross wins can take them in a direction that is not intended if you have strong cross wins launch vehicle you can put off the launch by a few hours you can say till the weather gets into some kind of reasonable conditions you are not going to launch it and you will wait for that time to launch it but missiles you cannot afford to do that because you need to be ready every time okay. Even in launch vehicles you would still want some kind of control in this period of launch wherein the velocities are very small up to it the time that it reaches a Mach number of around 0.5 aerodynamic control will not be very very effective right. So it is unlike aircrafts where unlike aircrafts will have a very large surface area right the wingspan is very large so it can produce substantial lift here you do not want it to have so much drag associated with any control surfaces you want it to be minimal so you will have very small things. So a for under these conditions you would need something known as thrust victory that is can you change the direction of the thrust itself says to take the vehicle in the direction that you wanted to go in. In addition if you have looked at launch vehicles let us say PSLV or something like that you will find that it has a main core and on the side it has small strap-ons right PSLV has 6 strap-on motors. Now the nozzle of all these boosters are in such a way that they are canted away that is the thrust that it produces is at some angle to the vertical axis right. So if this is the axis then the thrust produced is not parallel to it but at some angle right. So if all of the thrust vectors meet at some common point on the axis then it is perfectly balanced otherwise there is some imbalance and you need to have a counter force to overcome this right. You need to have a control force capable of overcoming this otherwise the vehicle could wear in a direction that is not intended. So for all these things you need this thrust vectoring okay now thrust vectoring can do all this that is it can allow the vehicle to rule yeah and pitch in this class we will concentrate on what are the ways in which we can vector this thrust what are the means that are available and what is it that is practiced and what can also be done okay. Now typically thrust vectoring there are three modes that are usually followed one is jamboling of thrust chamber or nozzle or introducing mechanical control surfaces or second wave fluid injection in the exit cone we will look at each of them in a little more detail in this class. Now firstly jamboling the thrust chamber or the nozzle if you look at a liquid engine liquid engines typically the propellants are not stored in the engine or in the chamber where it produces thrust that is the fuel and oxidizer makes an burn so it is stored in a separate chamber so the engine it is as itself will be very small so you can look at moving the engine in two different planes to get the control force that you require okay that is possible in a liquid engine that is if the engine were hinged on this you could move it around by an angle alpha in either direction and if you have something known as a universal joint is nothing but if you have two hinges right if you have two hinges like this using one of them you can move it in one plane using the other one you can move it in the other plane right so using both of them you can move it in two different planes that is what is a universal joint if you have the entire engine mounted on a universal joint then you can move it in this plane by alpha and also in the plane perpendicular to the board by an angle alpha okay so that is what a jambolar hinge will do as you can see if the engine is moved overall engine is itself moved by an angle then the thrust produced will be the cause of this angle right so it will be lesser than the actual thrust so you are going to lose some amount of thrust by vectoring the thrust itself so you can using this move the entire vector the thrust by plus minus 12 degrees and there will be a small thrust loss and this is typically used in only liquid engines that is because as I said earlier if you look at solid engines the entire propellant is also inside the motor so it would be very difficult to move the entire motor because the weight of the propellant is also there whereas in a liquid engine the propellant is stored elsewhere and only thing is you need to have flexible hosing otherwise it will not allow this kind of movement okay so you need and you need also large actuators to move this okay and the critical thing is if you look at this the entire thrust of the engine is transferred through this hinge or the jambolar so this needs to be very carefully designed because this is a very critical parameter I mean very critical element because the entire thrust is transferred through this element to the rest of the vehicle okay so this needs to be carefully designed instead of jamboling the entire engine the other option is can we just move the nozzle itself and that is called as flexible nozzle so if you have an actuator and move this nozzle alone right then you can get the same desired effect of vectoring the thrust only thing is this joint needs to be flexible here and allow for movement okay this can also give plus minus 12 degrees and again there will be a small thrust loss because you are anyway vectoring the thrust so the cause of the thrust is the only one that is available in the axis along the axis this has also been used in both solids and liquid rockets here you can use it in solid rockets primarily because you do not have to move the entire motor you are only moving the nozzle but still the actuation force required here is also quite significant you need the last of this variety is again if you have something like a ball and a socket joint instead of this one you can move the nozzle if you have it mounted on a bearing then you can move it and therefore get the required thrust vectoring now in both these methods the nozzle in some sense is submerged inside the motor and this leads to something known as submergence loss primarily if you look at the gases coming out they need to you would also have propellant stored in this direction if it is coming in this direction it is a lot easier otherwise the propeller the gases coming from burning of the propellant in this region will have to turn through a large angle and that will lead to some losses because the flow will now have to turn through a large angle to get to the nozzle and that is given by something like it varies between 0.4 to 1.2 % loss in ISP and if you remember the discussions that we had in the morning that is if this propellant were aluminized propellant right then we discussed that the particles do not or condensed particles do not expand and they cause loss right this gets coupled with that and depending on the percentage of aluminum present in the propellant and the amount that the nozzle is submerged the loss could be higher I mean this it is within this range it could be higher if it is more submerged lesser if it is less submerged okay the next set of control that we can get is from mechanical control surfaces here if you are using mechanical control surfaces what you will have is something jetting into the exit flow and therefore you are going to obstruct the flow and cause the require thrust it okay jetter waiters are something like this if you have a rocket motor this at its normal position it is something like this and if you want to have a side force you could change its position to something like this so this does not protrude into the flow in its normal position but when you change its position on one side you get over expansion and on the other side you get a little bit of under expansion this causes a side force okay so you are going to get small amount of thrust vectoring if you are using this you will get something like plus-7 degrees of thrust vectoring and compared to the previous ones this is a lot better in that sense that firstly it does not require a very large actuation actuation power right because you are only looking to actuate a small surface and therefore the power required is smaller here these are used in solid rockets yeah this small portion this dotted line it is it is in line with the nozzle when it is not doing anything right you can then rotate it and on one side it will it will be flush with the nozzle so it will act as on one side it will over expand and on the other side it will under expand and therefore give you the required side force okay then there are some things known as jet tabs now if we were looking at it from the bottom it would look like this now you could move this into the flow as per requirement okay and depending on the amount this up steps the flow you will get the thrust force proportional to that okay so as such this does both these do not obstruct the flow in their normal position so they did not add to any loss in their normal operation but when they are used they will lead to a small loss with this you can get plus-14 degrees of change in the thrust and whenever this is in use it leads to something like 1% loss and thrust per degree of deflection and the actuation power here is also very small because you are only trying to actuate a small tab so the actuation power required is smaller here the last in the mechanical control surfaces is something known as a jet vane these jet vanes are in the exhaust gas flow so because they are present in the exhaust gas flow itself even without actuation they are going to lead to some kind of thrust loss okay so they are going to have you are going to have some thrust loss you can get thrust vectoring of the order of plus-9 degrees and the thrust loss will be more when it is actuated okay it will it is there even without actuation in this case and it will be more when it is actuated so this needs pretty good heat resistant material because it is always in the exhaust flow right what is usually done in the case of jet vanes is you might need this for a small period of time during takeoff or during some critical operation after which you can throw them away okay so these are used in some examples where in your launching something from a ship or launching a missile from a ship or something like that then it has to turn by a large angle so you can use this and then throw this away and for the rest of the flight this is not useful okay so it is used for a very small period of time okay now the last thing that is used actually in rockets is the liquid injection remember in a earlier class we said if you have an oblique shock the flow separates and it will introduce a side force right in this method of controlling or thrust vectoring we actually make use of that and we inject a liquid at some known point in the divergent portion that is let us say if we inject the liquid at this portion because of the liquid coming out here the an oblique shock develops upstream of this liquid injection point and because of this you will get a side force right because in this portion it actually acts as a nozzle being cut off and after some length and therefore it get gets you the required side force okay SIT VC is used in PSL is stage one motor for thrust vector control in this case because of the liquid injection there is a small amount of thrust augmentation that is happening the liquid that is used is strontium work flow rate now the reason for using such a liquid is if you look at the momentum of the jet that is coming through if you are injecting this jet this jet needs to have a higher momentum than the jet okay so rho j vj square must be comparable to rho g vg square now if you notice here the density of the gas is very small and but the velocity is a very large and that is squared right whereas here the liquid velocities are not going to be so large so you need to make it up with a higher density liquid which is why this strontium per chlorate is used people have also thought about using a fraction of the exhaust gases themselves taking a certain bleed from the combustion chamber and using it but the trouble with that is you have to have leak proof valves that operate not only at high temperature but also at high pressure which is not very easy okay otherwise if there is a leak there will be always a side force so you do not want that and therefore this kind of taking a certain bleed from the combustion chamber has not been pursued so therefore you have to have a large tank containing this strontium per chlorate primarily because if it needs to be injected at some velocity the pressure here of the jet must be greater than the pressure here so this tank needs to be pressurized okay and then the liquid has to be expelled under pressure so that makes it a little more bulkier as I said if you want to use gas injection then hot gas handling is not very easy in liquid engines in some of the liquid engines you usually have something known as a gas generator which is used to run the turbine which in turn runs the pumps okay this gas generator also has an exhaust which can be used in auxiliary nozzles to provide the kind of thrust vectoring that we want so you will have small motors for that if this is the main engine you could have small engines that can be moved okay you could have these small thrust chambers which you can control and move it move the entire thrust chamber that will give you the required side force that is required okay but in this case the thrust vectoring that is possible is very small not very large okay so the only other thing that people have kind of thought of using but not yet looked at is in this case instead of using a liquid it is a one has a liquid rocket motor a small liquid rocket motor and inject the exhaust gases here that could also give you the required side force primarily because you will have a very high jet velocity okay and if you want to switch off and switch on this it is not very difficult because you are only going to operate the liquids right switching on and switching off a liquid rocket motor is not a problem but this is something that has not been pursued and probably could be pursued sometime later there is also another method wherein if you have four rocket motors okay and the exhaust coming out through canted nozzles right something like this let us say you had four rocket motors liquid rocket motors that are providing you the thrust then you could have a situation wherein if you look at it from the bottom let us say these are the exhaust ports of these four motors you could increase the thrust and decrease the thrust in two of them to get your required control force that is let us say if you want to pitch up and pitch down right so you could actually increase the thrust of this to pitch up and reduce the thrust in this so that it will this will cause a this will make the pitch which if you are looking into the board this will cause pitch pitch down okay if you are looking into the board this will cause the vehicle to pitch down okay and similarly you can have this is for pitch for yeah increase the thrust in these two or the other two to get the required yeah motion and you could also have rule using two of them in this fashion if you increase the thrust in these two then you can have this is only possible if you have a liquid rocket motor and if you have four of them okay if you have this is canted nozzle so the thrust vectors will not be parallel I mean perpendicular to the board it is at an angle so you will have that role till now we have looked at this rocket propulsion course in this fashion that is we have not looked at what is the thing that is there in the thrust chamber right we have looked at nozzle we have tried to derive equations to get the specific impulse of the nozzle we have not bothered ourselves about what is the kind of engine that is there liquid solid or hybrid now let us look at in the next class we will start looking at the different kinds of engines that is solid liquid and hybrid motor okay thank you


Today we got a short video about a long drink that you should probably avoid Hey there njrude22.com here with a another little quick product review of a booze drink called the long drink or The long version of that long drink name is the Finnish long drink legend of 1952 and they're getting they're getting a big it's a gin-based drink and I thought it was a Like a seltzer because we saw this at a local liquor store It's all zero sugar and then you look on the side and it says There's some little chart here servicing facts not even nutrition facts says zero carbohydrates I'm like, oh, let me buy this this will be great And they had another can which looked exactly the same and I thought maybe that they It was just some weird marketing thing. I couldn't really you can't read it really Understand it at you know in a quick glance what's going on. This is a sugary based drinks They don't list ingredients or nutrition facts like calories or or carbs or anything like that. I Bought them anyway. I was like in a hurry. So I bought them And I didn't drink them as you can see and I'm not going to drink them Someone in my family might drink this if they're desperate This one we're gonna probably throw out or try and return to the store. It says Gin with a natural grapefruit and juniper berry flavor flavors and Artificial sweetener. I'm thinking how maybe it is a rith or tall even though those are natural sweeteners I went on their website didn't List anything they just shows their social media accounts and all these fancy images and marketing That's what goes into any new product these days they have to make it look all great and make people people feel great for drinking it and they probably Donated this to hundreds or if not thousands of influencers online to make it seem like such a great thing I've never tasted it and never will but So they don't list any ingredients or anything anything on their website either like that. That's extremely suspicious anytime a Business does that it's a warning sign and it's a red flag. You should avoid them at that point I should have just stopped looking because I don't like when companies do that. They're not transparent.  I hate going on social media and Someone asked well what kind of sweetener is it and they write back? sucralose and that basically closed the door on this company because sucralose is one of the worst artificial sweeteners just like aspartame or any one of those saccharines sucralose Also makes you feel hungry after you consume it and I've read articles that say that they are associated with Diabetes, they're just not a not a not a good drink Artificial sweetener and a half so this one bad artificial sweetener even though it's low zero carb and this one God knows why it could be more carbs and calories than a can of soda So we'll stick to our seltzers and they're expensive too by the way three bucks a can Whereas these natural lights, which I've been drinking lately. They're six percent Alcohol and only three grams of carbs. These are these are pretty good. They're a buck a can So that's it avoid the long drink and have a good week ahead


Aloha, everyone. Welcome back to Talk Story with John Waihei, and today I have another great program for you. And before I begin, I want to make a disclaimer. I always do this when I feel that it ought to be said.  But so, having done that, got that out of the way, I want to tell you why and what we're doing on this show today. I have for the last few months been a member of the Charter Commission for the city and county of Honolulu. And during that time, I've learned a lot about what the city does for all of us on Oahu. And I thought it would be fun if we could actually talk to some of the people who are doing the work there, separately from any kind of political statement or marketing. So this would be talking to two individuals, I've got two guests today, who are hands-on. The ins and outs of the city and county of Honolulu are with us this afternoon. First of all, we have the Mayor's Managing Director. This is the guy that's better than the Vice President. Vice President doesn't have regular jobs, but he's sort of the Vice President of Honolulu. So he's the Managing Director, Roy Amimea. Welcome, Roy. Welcome. Thank you for having us. Yeah, let's do that. And we have with us Ray Soon. And Ray is the Mayor's Chief of Staff. So you do all the things that the Mayor is supposed to do that he then waves at people for doing. No, no, you better not stay there. Well, we're great to have both of you here today. And so why don't you just tell us a little bit about yourself, Roy. You know, before you became Managing Director, how did you this journey end up where it is? Just for the sake of your guests before we get to that, I guess the Managing Director, it's kind of like if you look at a corporate structure, it's like the chief operating officer. So I kind of handle the day-to-day operations of the city, the mayor being the CEO, the big picture guy. And Ray supports the administration by working with the mayor to help devise policy. And that's a major part of what he helps get done. Well, that's great. And so that's what you do. But how do you get to where you are so that you're now the CEO of the city and county of Honolulu? So my background is quite diverse. I started off in banking. I was at the Bank of Hawaii for 20 years. Then I took a position with a former mayor as the Budget and Fiscal Services Director for one term for four years, went back into banking for another 10 years, and then became the CEO of O'Leilow Community Television, which was quite different again. Five years into that job, mayor called and said, and asked if I'd be interested. So from public television to back to the city? Back to the city. Wow, that's terrific. And what about you, Ray? Well, like Roy, I've been around for a while. So the journey is me and you're in there. A lot of private entrepreneurial work, a number of companies which I still have and I'm still alive. I also put in 12 years at the state. In fact, I came back because you invited me back. I was in Boston. I was having a great time in Boston. I've been waiting for you to say that. You twisted my arm to come back to Hawaii. That was in 1991 and I've been home since. Oh, fantastic. And a lot of public service in there and enjoying it a lot. So folks, these are the two individuals we have. If you have any questions for them, please call us at<PHONE_NUMBER>.<PHONE_NUMBER>. You can also tweet, TinkTechHI. So, okay, can't talk about the city and county of Honolulu without getting into the biggest public public project in the history of the state. So, obviously, Mass Transit. Mass Transit is the issue that everybody talks about no matter where. So, you know, what's up? I mean, where are we? Tell us. Well, we're well on our way. As you know, the people of this community voted for a steel on steel rail project five years ago and construction is well underway. It's moved from East Kapolei through the Ewa Plain through Waipahu, Pro City. And now it's in the middle of IAEA and heading on its way to the halfway point, which is the stadium. You also have contracted to purchase a number of the cars. Right. 80 and all, I believe, as well as have built a operation center over by Leeward Community College. That is some 90 percent of the way completed. So, rail is on its way. It's pretty exciting. You have your challenges, obviously, but the message is that rail is on the way. Yes. And the biggest challenge, of course, is that construction costs continue to accelerate and that's put a crimp on the revenues versus the expenditures that we need to expand to complete the project. Isn't there some kind of relationship between success and the rising costs in this sense that one of the reasons why construction costs are going up is because there's a lot of construction work. Wouldn't you say that? There's a limit to the amount of rebar, to the amount of concrete, the amount of labor that's on the island and the more pressure there is on construction and development, the higher the costs go. It's the marketplace. Right. And so, yes, we're caught up in that. Quite a bit of it is caught up. I think everyone who watches the economy, though, expects a little bit of a tail off in the next few years. And hopefully, that'll mean dropping the last segment, which we're still struggling with, how we're going to finance, how we're going to do it. The mayor is totally committed to getting that last segment done all the way to Alamoana. But it'll be a challenge.  You know, he wanted to, and he really should, air conditioned classrooms right across the state. And when they finally went out to bid, they realized that the cost had gone up because everybody's, you know, working. You know, I had to go through that. And it's tough. But you seem to be facing the challenges. The mayor, one of the things that I learned as I worked with the city on, as I said, during the charter, was that the mayor was not satisfied, in my opinion, with, wasn't satisfied with the management of this project. And he seems to be, seems to have taken control of that, you know, with the appointment of former Congresswoman Hanabusa. And, you know, it seemed that there were some structural challenges, and she seems to have stepped right in there. And there's a kind of different air. I mean, is this true? I mean, is this the feeling? Don't discount the appointment of Cobra Matsumoto as well. Oh, Cobra. Cobra brings a discipline, a business discipline that's absolutely necessary. And it's hard to say that the mayor was reaching in to improve the management because, you know, during the charter, he doesn't have the authority to make those kinds of decisions. Right. He can only do it by influence. So the appointments under the board were really important for appointments. And then Mike Formby has also stepped up. Yeah, Mike, Mike, your transportation director, excellent person, by the way. And, you know, you've got really good staff at the city and county. If there's anything that I've noticed. But, yeah, I know, and people ought to be real clear about that. And as I discovered, and that is that the way that the project is structured, that the mayor actually doesn't directly run the mass transit project. So he can only, in a sense, be our guardian by appointing the right people there. And actually, frankly, he's done a really good job. But, you know, the rail is not the only project that we have. No, in fact, I tell you what, driving to work every morning, I run into your other projects, at least one of them. And you seem to be fixing every street in the city and county of Honolulu. Tell me a little bit about that. Well, you know, the survey was done a number of years back and more than 40% of the roads on this island were basically substandard. And so the mayor made it a priority for us to pave 300 lane miles a year. First goal was for five years for 1500 lane miles. It now has up that to 2,000 lane miles that he wants to do. And it's making an impact. I mean, instead of fixing potholes, we're repaving roads, and hopefully we won't have to be navigating across potholes too much longer. People should understand that, you know, potholes and repaving are totally different. Potholes are very temporary, and they come and go, and the rain can disrupt them. Yeah, what good rain, and you've got to go back and fix it again. But repaving is often reconstructing the road, which the 1,100 that Roy is talking about is repaving, is actually reconstructing those roads, sometimes rather dramatically, sometimes just the surface. But those roads should last us five to seven years. And then the mayor's also brought in a new technology to extend that life a couple more years as well. You know, it's amazing because I had the chance to do something like that. And it seems like the public always wants you to do, like, pave roads and things, but then they don't really like to go through it while you're doing it. But when it's done, it's noticeably different. It's noticeably different. I don't know any other time that the city and county spent so much time working on infrastructure like you folks have in the last few years. Not only paving roads, but also dealing with sewage and water construction and all of that. And it's all related. We do have a problem with affordable housing. Yes. And you won't be able to get affordable housing if you can't provide the infrastructure in a way of adequate sewer, adequate water. And to even an extent that bus and rail connects our communities, it's all related to infrastructure and the need to improve upon that because for many decades, really, we've neglected to upkeep what we have. And so now we're playing a lot of catch up. Yeah. Well, it seems like, it just seems like it's basic common sense that you ought to take care of what you have. But oftentimes it's more exciting to put funds into a new project than it is to take care of something else. Deferred maintenance is the death knell of public infrastructure. If you keep deferring it, it'll go down so badly that you have to replace it. You don't want to be there. Running the city is a complex place though. It's a lot of these different infrastructures from parks to streets to sidewalks to sewage and water. A lot of it is infrastructure. You know, I remember the reason why I recruited you years ago, it was to build houses. And you sort of mentioned that, you know, and we are going to go on a break. But just so you know, when we come back, I want to talk about the city's commitment to, first of all, it's commitment to affordable housing, what you're doing. And the other big issue in people's minds have to do with the number of people in our community that don't have homes. And what do we do with it? What is your responsibility in the scheme of things where, you know, homelessness is concerned? So while you're doing that, the number to call in if you have a question, folks,<PHONE_NUMBER> or you can tweet us at tinktechhi. So we'll be right back with the two very, very important people who make our lives either better or hotter, depending on how committed they are. And fortunately for us, they are committed public servants. Hi, my name is Justine Espiritu. This is my co-host Matthew Johnson. Every Thursday at 4 p.m., we host the Hawaii Food and Farmers series. This is the place you can come to for insight on the perspective and history and passions of Hawaii's farmers and all folks involved in Hawaii's local food system. What kind of folks do we have on? So we have everyone from local farmers, we have foodies, chefs, we also have journalists, researchers, anyone who's actually working to help make Hawaii's local food system that much better. So join us every Thursday and tweet in us and ask us some questions and leave your comments as well. Thank you. Aloha, I'm Carl Campania. I hope you please visit us this summer. It's a wonderful summer. It's actually a cooler summer than we're used to. But I hope that you come back and visit us and watch our show, Education Movers, Shakers and Reformers here on Think Tech Hawaii. It's at noon every Wednesday. See you then. Aloha and welcome back to Talk Story with John Waihei. And again, we are talking today about your city, the city and county of Honolulu, some of the challenges, but more importantly, you are having an opportunity to get to know two very important people at the city and county. Mr. Roy Amemiah, who is the managing director, and Mr. Ray Sun, who is the chief of staff for the mayor. So we left this just about going into the break, talking about the fact that people, one of the big challenges for government in Hawaii and for all of us is housing in Hawaii. And I know that traditionally the city has had this problem to deal with. And so what are we doing now? What are we doing today with respect to, first of all, housing in general? So people need to understand that this whole housing crisis occurred. And it did come up over a long period of time, but there were certain events that just created the perfect storm. Like we had the Great Recession and the housing bubble burst and people lost their jobs with people coming back from the war and they were not able to take care of themselves, like because of war injuries. We also had a big community down in the South Pacific because of sea level rise and health issues. We're coming to Hawaii, perhaps unprepared to the economic challenges that they would face. And there was a whole host of things. And so we spawned ourselves with not just one group that was homeless, but a whole variety of people that. All different categories. Some with mental illness. Is the mental ill population a very large population on the street? It's not a very large population, but those are the people who you see out there yelling at themselves or yelling at people and pushing shopping carts and defecating on themselves. And so they're probably the toughest group that we have to work with, especially since the mental health services have not kept up with... Which is the state function? It is a state function. Which we'll get into right after this. But we work hand in hand with the state. The governor and the mayor have certainly bonded on this issue. And yes, they deliver most of the services. We deliver a lot of the hardware. Okay, when you say hardware, what are you talking about? We're trying to put together homeless encampments and villages and places where you can move the homeless or buying buildings and retrofitting them in order to house the homeless. But it will never be successful without the services that go hand in hand with it.  Oftentimes it's just a matter of difficult times for families. I don't think people, and this may seem like repeating ourselves in a sense, but I don't know of people in general, understand the important relationship between the infrastructure that we were talking about earlier, the idea of transportation and so forth. How important that is to solve the homeless problem. I heard the mayor often talk about the idea that it's not just about fixing roads or building a mass transit system. It's really about the social policy behind people being able to move. Yes. And I think you're saying some of that. And part of the nicity of having a rail system is that you'll be able to build housing around the stations. It can ease the requirements for parking, for example, because people no longer need cars. Right. And we'll build up and they can get to work. And in the long run, it's going to really help create housing for our people. I think we need to be, it's not just about bricks and mortar. We're really talking ultimately about people. And you mentioned something that was really interesting to me, and I'm not sure if the audience really understands that, but you said something about global warming having an impact on our problems regarding the lack of adequate housing. And how's that? I don't know how to... Global warming is going to have an impact on how we settle the land period. Period. Period. What we do, a really, really good example is the Mapuna Puna area, which floods right now, and it floods more dramatically than it did just four or five years ago. Yes. I don't know if people really get that, that this is happening right now. That's not water that comes down from... I mean, part of it is that come out of the valleys, but it's really sea level rise that rises up, and the water table is just almost emerges off of the ground, or at least it's high enough that water can't seep through. So that's a major area of this island, and it's already becoming... I know for a fact that having just gone to Maju in the last year or so, that the water of the Marshall Islands is just overrunning a great part of the islands that they live on. In fact, I think it was in the afternoon that the entire airport would be on the runway, would be underwater. And so that's going to have an impact on people needing someplace to go. And as you pointed out, they may not have been as ready for moving here as the people may have thought, but it also tells us, you know, this perfect storm. You have the great recession. You have global warming. You have all of this happening. You know, also don't forget, there's been a little bit of schizophrenia about the city and housing. We no longer have a housing department. We did not ten years ago. Right. We built a lot of stock. Rental housing, most of it for lower AMI families. And we no longer do that. We got rid of the housing department under Jeremy's administration. Right. And so now when we have this need for more inventory, we don't have the capacity to do that. We don't have the capacity to build. So what we are doing is we're doing a lot more partnering with the state. We're doing more partnering with nonprofits. And we're also talking to private developers about stepping up and increasing their capacity. And how is that working?  The carrot and stick. Right. It's carrot and stick. And so we'd like to increase the requirements for building affordable housing. We're not there yet. We're having conversations. At the same time, we'd really like to see an easing of some of the regulations that limit the capacity of private developers. And we have a caller on the line. Hello? Okay. State your name, please. And where are you from? If you had enough money, you just get, buy, do whatever you have to do. And my question is, are we getting enough money from the federal government? Is there a way to get more money from the federal government, or ever it's being made to get more money from the federal government? And if we don't get money from the federal government, aren't we going to have to spend it out of our own pocket? So doesn't that mean an increase in real property taxes for this and other things? Great question. With money, we can solve the problem, right? Right. So, well, yeah, I guess with money, we can solve any problem. But the question, did you get the question? The question is that in order to really solve the homeless problem, or the lack of really housing stock money, aren't we going to need money? It's really a question of having more money. And if we had more money, we would be more effective with solving it. And is there more money available for us, or any way that there can be more money available for the city and county from the federal government? Will the federal government step up and do this? Well, there are some programs to assist various states and municipalities in dealing with the housing issue. It's certainly not enough. We need not just money, though. We also need land. And in an island like ours where there is a lack of land that's developable, it becomes even much more of a challenge. Oh, boy, that just opened up another door. You know, well, the last part of the call's question was, and if we don't get money from the federal government, does that mean that we're going to have to raise taxes? Well, hopefully not. What we're doing are certain things where we're trying to engage, for example, private homeowners by allowing them to build accessory dwelling units right on their own properties so that you can put up a granny home. And we'll approve it quite quickly now. We'll waive the various fees that you would normally have to pay the city, such as water hookup and sewer hookup and park dedication fees. We're waiving those for a couple of years. And hopefully that will help create inventory of affordable. So the state, the state has been helpful in all of this. I know it's a challenge to be the county government. It's as much a challenge for them as for us in getting funds. I mean, it's not for lack of trying that we're not getting as much. But they got land. They have land. And why can't they cough up some land? And we have been talking to HHFDC about doing exactly that. Yeah, instead of building all those multi-billion dollar condos, wouldn't it be fun if they actually gave up some land for affordable housing? I'm not going to be political today, I promise. But it seems like they could do a little bit more for giving land up for affordable housing. We think that more players have to step up in order to make affordable housing a reality. Because if the market just allows it, if we just allow the market to just function purely, what developer is going to build on the affordable side when they can make as much money as they can? As you can answer that. I mean, that's just common sense. So I've got to tell you though, Governor Ike seems to think that something can be done. And I know that he, I just heard him say that he and the mayor have been working on some kind of joint program. But the city, the state does have land, you know? Yes. And they do have land around our rail stations. And so they do have a group that's working to see how they can best utilize those lands. And make it available for housing? As housing and other. And other activities. Yes.  Well, having worked on both sides. Yeah, that's why I'm looking at you.  You know, the state created the county governments and they treat the county governments like that. Like they created it? Yes. So you're often had in hand with that? Not a very good church. You're going. But there was a time when that was necessary because the counties didn't have the resources of the capacity, the expertise to get the job done. I think that's no longer the case. Well, I'll tell you what. Greatest sharing of responsibility.  And I want to thank you so much for being willing to come under our program and to talk about things that are of interest to the people of Honolulu. We appreciate that. Well, we thank you for your leadership on the charter commission, for example. That's going to help us tremendously. Yeah, it helps. So at this point, when we get to be mutually, you know, that's like an admiration society. Thank you very much, everybody. We look forward to seeing you again with Talk Story, with John Wahe, two weeks from today. Aloha.


Welcome to Church of the Chair, where we stan Holly Gibney. I'm your host E, and today, we're heading straight for a crowd of people with a Mercedes. No. No. No. Just, just no. If you're new around here, I need to give you a warning. I will be spoiling all of Stephen King's work in this series. There's no way around it. So if you haven't read all of his stuff, including the novels, novellas, short stories, collaborations, if you haven't read it all, I'd click away now. You've been warned. Okay, we're talking about the Bill Hodges Trilogy by Stephen King, including Mr. Mercedes, Finder's Keepers, and End of Watch. So how does the Bill Hodges Trilogy tie into the Stephen King universe and the Dark Tower series? Let's get into that. First off, I'm going to start off with a slam dunk. Holly Gibney is in all three of these books. She's also in The Outsider and If It Bleeds and the upcoming titular named Holly. So she tied, I've tied in The Outsider, I've tied in If It Bleeds. I can even tie these in, which we'll get to in a second, but that's, that's the slam dunk right there. That's the easiest one. But first, before we go into the rest of it, I want to share a clip from the original Theorist video that gives a shout out to one of the viewers, one of the fans of this series, John Greenleaf. Take it away. Another way that you can put it here, and I really, really like this, this theory. John Greenleaf in the comments section of one of my videos, John, hopefully you're watching this, please put it, um, say hello down there in the comments. He says, technically, everything Stephen King writes is Dark Tower related because Stephen King wrote himself into the Dark Tower. It's something I've never thought of, even, we're on like episode 32 right now, I never even crossed my mind that you can literally tie in anything he writes just because he wrote himself into the novel. He wrote himself into the song of Susanna, um, and I get the entire Dark Tower series as it is. I love that theory, and John Greenleaf, you get all the credit for it, so please say hello, everybody thank John down there. Now there is only one problem I see with John Greenleaf's theory, and that is you can only tie in Stephen King to the Dark Tower, not just because he wrote the book, but if he mentions something that he wrote or an adaptation of something that he wrote in that story which we have here, because both Pennywise from the, what, 1995 version with Tim Curry, the adaptation, that adaptation is mentioned, and also the adaptation John Carpenter's adaptation of Christine is mentioned in this book as well. So using John's theory, we can tie anything back into the Dark Tower easily if Stephen King references himself, and I've already done that with, I believe, the outsider, or maybe it was, let's see here, Fairytale, I've already done that several times, but just to remind you, those original videos were shot years ago, so I have been using John's theory this entire time, and I really do appreciate him bringing that up, because it helped a lot, it's also helping a lot with the connections to some of his short stories. Finally, we have the theme, once again, this is used over and over again in Stephen King's universe, a traumatic event bringing on psychic powers. If you don't know, hopefully you're not still here if you haven't read this series, but Brady Hartsfield does not have psychic powers or telepathic powers or whatever he has, he does not have those in Mr. Mercedes. We see a little bit of it toward the end of the book. In the very last pages of the book, we see Brady, after he's been hit with, what is it, a roll of quarters and a sock, something along that line. After that happens, we see him in the hospital room move something with his mind. That of course comes more into play later on in the final book, End of Watch, because he has fully embraced his powers and is able to control people using a video game, I believe it was, with the fish. It's been a while since I read these, I definitely need to go back and read them. I've read them three times so far, once in audiobook and twice with the text. I also re-read each one of the books as the books came out, but it's been a while since they came out. One last thing that I will mention, I normally don't do this, I think I've only done this one time in this series, but there are no comments from viewers who had any further theories from the original video, but I did get this and saw my response and thought it was funny, no shade to the person who left the comment, I thought it was funny and wanted to share with you guys. But that's all the time I have for you today. Did I miss anything? Do you have any corrections of anything I said in this video? Or do you have theories of your own and how the Bell Hodges trilogy ties in to the Stephen King universe and the Dark Tower series? Let me know down there in the comments. But until next time, I'm your host E and today, we're heading straight for a crowd of people with the Mercedes. No, no, no, just, just no. I'll hail the chair.


Don't make it weird. Hey, she's going to be weird. I'm telling you, don't make it weird. He didn't trust me and go on the right internet. Hey, if they know you, introduce yourself. We're going to talk about five tips of fat loss. Just say you're on the right place, but. Hi, I'm Dana Isinger. I'm from Kalamazoo, Michigan. And we are sitting in my backyard right now. Kalamazoo, Michigan. Where is Kalamazoo? Is it this way or is it this way? Where's Kalamazoo, Michigan? It's right there. All right, that's Michigan. All right. Where are you from? Where are you all from? Come on. Where are you from? Tell us. Post in here where you're from. What are we talking about?  And this guy right here, I know you're watching him on my page on his page. I talk loud all the time, you guys. Five tips for fat loss and you guys want to learn from him. If you haven't learned from him before, you have to. This guy is the bomb. So we're going to hear from him on the five best tips for fat loss and for some of these cool people that you're going to see, too. Look at Facebook users on from Iowa. Like that's her name. There's my oh, yeah, look at that. Wolverines. Yes. Hey, really quick. So I don't know.  Is it something you want to learn or just maybe kind of learn? You can own spark and talk. What's up, Sarah? Hey, if you want to share, if you know anybody that like to lose a pound or two. I know a ton of people that want to lose a pound or two. And in Michigan, it's beautiful today, but it hasn't meant so people are starting to think about putting their swimsuits on. I know that I want to look a little bit better in my swimsuit. All right. So if you're game for a little five, five tips to fat loss, these five tips we've used now for 20 some years, and they've been they work every time as much as you're willing to do them. That's a secret. But hey, hey, what's up? A Wolverine snuck up on me. Kicking them, kicking them, kicking them. Hey, really quick though. But I may know what to say. I have a little bit of like the science behind it all. But there's five individuals here that have lost a total of, I'm doing the math, over 500 pounds of fat. That's crazy. In the last two years. That's crazy. That's not crazy? It's amazing. Not amazing. Yeah. So it's like just over 5'10", I think. I did the math really quick. And I'm pretty good at math. So y'all want to hear, so I'm going to give you the five tips though. But would you just, would you like to hear maybe a little bit of maybe their story? Just like a little bit of what they did or how long they've been doing it. If you'd like to hear that, let me know. 500 pounds of fat loss in the last two years. About right? Total? Almost? A little bit less for some, a little bit more for others. But yeah, 500 pounds. I got some hearts over here on Instagram. What about you, Facebook? Come on, Facebook. Who's Judy? That's my mother-in-law. Hi, mother-in-law. I hope you're well. I hope you're well. I think we're intruding your space a little bit. But I hope you're well. Please take care of yourself. Hi, mom. He's right there. All right, yes, please. Summer, what's up? Summer back in California, I hope.  Summer's up, 55 pounds. 55 pounds. Hey, if you've had a benefit from Keto, put it down in the chat. What's your benefit? We're going to get to the five tips here in just a second. Share this out. Invite people. But who would like to go first? We'll have you go last because, well, that's a pretty big story. Mr. Universe, get over here. Get over here. Get over here. All right, here's the first story. I mean, we're going to keep it. Let's stay there. Stay there. I want you to stay right here. Otherwise, it's going to turn into like a four hours live. I want to do that. OK, what's your name? Where are you from? My name is Diana Ortega, and I'm here from Kalamazoo, Michigan. All right, say something. This is where I live now. Say something really awesome in Spanish. Me encantan las etonas. This is so cool. All right, how much have you dropped? 50 pounds. What's one other tip you give somebody that wants to drop some body fat? Drink your water. Water? Hey, drink water. That's a tip. 50 pounds down, and you're still on a journey, right? Yes. What's next? At least 30, 30 or 40 more pounds. You got it, girl. All right, Kirby.  Kirby's going to have to slouch to get it. Fat loss for sure. I burpee video now 10 months ago. That's super awesome. Shannon's down 30 pounds. Shannon's down 30 pounds with ketones. Way to go, Shannon. Congratulations. Kelly's down 45 last four years. Lost four years ago. No more. Oh, no more. I can't say that word. All right, Mr. Ben Kirby. He's six four, so he has to stand down here. That's true. I look really small and short. Just so I can make you look bigger. All right, here. How much have you dropped over the last couple of years? 130. 130 pounds. 130 pounds. That's a child, a large child, or a small. That's a middle schooler. That's a middle schooler in Minnesota, and that is a mom in Southern California. All right, so what's 130 pounds? Congratulations. Thank you. You feel better, right? Oh, 100%. 100%. Why did you start? I was a fatty boom, fatty, big butter pants. My health was awful. I can't spell any of that. Your health was awful. Yeah. My liver enzymes are out of control. My blood pressure is out of control. So you have a three and a five-year-old, three and a six-year-old. Six and a three-year-old. Six and a three-year-old, and wow. Wow. I mean, that's awesome to be a dad that takes that initiative. What's one tip you'd give somebody that wants to make a transition? Keep it simple, meaning don't get overwhelmed with a bunch of recipes that you're never going to actually follow through with. Just keep it simple with some meats, green vegetables, some cheeses. Just keep it simple. Awesome. Well, thank you so much. Appreciate it. I'm going to give those five, so stay tuned. We're going to keep this really short. How much did you drop? Oh, like 10 pounds, but I got my six-pack back. I don't even know what that means. I saw her carry a six-pack of Truley's, Truley's white claws earlier, so she got her six-pack back. I'm just kidding. Hey, if you're not in Michigan, then shh. Michigan's just that way. They're kind of like Minnesotans in Wisconsin and Ohydians. That's a word I mean. 18 pounds in five weeks. Oh my goodness. Anne-Marie, stop it. Anne-Marie, that's awesome. Way to go, Anne-Marie. OK, so what's one benefit that you have and what's one tip you'd give? Benefit for me has been energy and focus. I mean, for sure. I was an executive level position, and I really struggled in the afternoon. So energy and focus, and then being able to come home and take care of, like, actually be a mom, be a wife, has been huge for me. Squirrel. Squirrel, yeah. And a tip for me is have fun with it and share it with people. Have people that you do it with. Don't be secretive about it. So if you're on a journey, tell people what you're doing and get people to join with you. Nobody wants to go alone. Go with somebody else. OK, awesome. All right, you ready? Come on over. I'm coming, I'm coming. All right, here y'all. Is this helpful, y'all? I hope it's really helpful. We're going to give you the five tips, and the five tips will take literally one minute. That'll be real fast, but that's OK. Antipag doesn't like Michigan. Antipag doesn't like Michigan. What's from Ohio? It's like you just have this one picture. You want to know something? You want to know why all the trees lean towards Ohio? I know exactly why. Because why?  You're so mean. You're so mean. All right, talk to me. How much have you dropped over the last, how long? Nine months, but I dropped 50 in the first four months. Oh, man. 50 LBs. That's nice work. How do you feel? Great. So much better. So when you got started, why did you even start? Energy and fat loss.  And then how did you learn about this? Through a coworker that was under Dana that said try this. And I just saw her. And I approached her and said, what have you been doing? You look great. You seem like you feel great. Now, do you follow a strict, strict diet? Oh, no, absolutely not. I do. No, I like my chocolate and pizza a little bit too much. But yeah, no, I do low carb.  I have. I hit a plateau though. So I'm going to jump into my tip and it's don't give up. Keep with it. There's support. If you need to know how to get out of that plateau, there's people that can help you. So stick with it. It's definitely worth it. Wonderful. All right, we got one more coming at you. She just broke the 251 marker. She just took a pee. So she hit the 251, maybe 25. But Steve's down 50 pounds. Right now, 50 pounds over two years. Going for 72 next month. Is that 72 years old? I was just wondering, we had a guest. Should we just color it on the spot and make her come up with a tip? Yeah. I know, I think so. One of your guests, they're going to have to wait for 250. You're going to wait for the 250 pounder, 250. That's like, that's like, that's a, I mean. We'll graduate at high school. That's what Kirby graduate, that's a high schooler in Michigan. Get over here. Y'all, give it up for Jolie. All right, she has no idea we're even doing this. This is a surprise. Everybody hide. So I was really big into keto when I first seen this. And one of the best blessings is I no longer have to track my food in a tracker. And I can just simply eat low carb, 80% of the time, 20% of the time, I can eat whatever I want. I can now enjoy ice cream with my kids without stressing about getting back in ketosis. I can eat a bun on my burger if I want to. So it's just been very life shifting in that way that I no longer have that anxiety and muscle preservation. And all those things that I wanted has just popped. And so I absolutely love it. So my tip is to just move your body. So whether that is taking a walk, anything to just elevate that heart rate just a little bit, whether it's taking a walk, maybe do it. I do 30 pushups every day regardless if I work out or not. So just something that can get you moving, make you feel good. It's a really good mental relief. And it just overall just helps in so many levels. That's awesome. That's a cool shirt. Where'd you get that? What does that mean? It's going to level up. So it can mean anything to anybody. Raise your stand. So yeah, you're going to raise your standards, whatever that is. So for health and quality of life, and proof has benefited me in both of us. Awesome. Appreciate it. Get it. All right, y'all. I had a little slow. We're back. Instagram. Sorry, Instagram. Don't get mad. All right, last one. We have Ms. Kathy Berry, Boss Berry. Y'all, it's been an amazing watching her journey. 251 pounds. I can't even fathom that. Bonus tip, what is it? Quit weighing yourself. That's Luisa's. How much are you down? Like 30 pounds. 30 pounds. That's awesome. And I'll talk about that in a second. So hey, how are you? I'm awesome. Awesome, awesome. So talk to us. 251. How did that feel to hit that this morning? Was it this morning that you did it? I actually had been doing it fast for the week. So I weighed this morning. Erin made me weigh this morning. So 251. So I lost 9.9 on this last five day fast that I did. And that put me at 250 pounds. 251. Congratulations. How does that feel? Euphoric. Euphoric. What weight did you start at? Somewhere in the mid-force. 444 is what I weighed, but I had worked on some at that point. So I really don't know. So around 440 pounds. Now down 250 pounds down. What is that mathematically at? I don't know. I can't do math because I'm so emotional listening to her.  Give her some cheers. And was it a straight line? Was it always easy? Was there obstacles in the way? Absolutely. OK, cool. And it should be expected, right? I mean, it should be expected. What's one tip you give somebody that's looking and watching this right now? Or maybe you shared it with them. What's up, Spartacus? Maybe you shared it with them. Maybe somebody on here shared it with somebody that just maybe needs some love, inspiration, just a step forward. What's the one thing you give them? Don't give up on yourself. Like, no matter where you're at, love yourself where you're at. You're worth it. If I could have went back, I would have loved myself a little harder. I was worthy of love at 40s. I'm worthy of loves now. And don't give up. Don't give up. Every day is going to be a journey. It's a journey. And I call mine a journey because I live it every day. And some days are better and some days aren't. And it's OK because you just get up and his mercies are new each morning. It's powerful. Very, very, very powerful. I appreciate you. Thanks for continuously thriving and going at it and inspiring so many.   Because I couldn't have done it without them. All right, y'all. Thank you. Thank you, Miss Berry. You ready for the five tips? She's crying. Every time. And get me out of this snorted up a tear. She's crying. I can't take you anywhere. I know. What do you do with her? Imagine my husband. What do you do with her? I got to hear Kathy speak earlier, and she moved me. I teared up for quite a while. Michael rather first tried to get me to tear up for a long time, and you did it. He hasn't. Did you tell Michael I did it? Well, I hadn't. I think he was on here. I saw him say, oh, great. His attention span's about this long, so I'm pretty sure he's not on it. Somebody text Michael and tell my teared up. But here's the tips. Y'all ready for the tips? Come on now. Ready for the tips? The five tips. You've kind of already heard them. I'm just going to paint them in a nice little picture. Here's your five tips.  You want to make the changes that you really want to make. If first thing I'm going to say, you deserve to have those.  That's just the way it is. Kathy said it, you deserve it. Be proud of you. Love yourself. And you deserve to make these shifts. And I'm going to give you the five tips. And now this is 20 plus years of studying this. This is working with people all over the world with different backgrounds. We're here in Michigan. We were in Ohio. We were in South Bend. We were in Louisville, Kentucky. It doesn't matter if you're in Singapore, if you're in Australia, if you're in Canada, maybe even matters a little bit if you're in Canada, but outside of Canada, it doesn't matter. Love you Canadians. I love you. Mexico, right? It doesn't matter. So here's your five tips. The number one thing is to drink your ketones every day. If you're right now watching this in your life, what do you mean drink ketones? Why would I do that? It's your insurance policy. It's the thing that's going to carry you through biochemistry when things are just tough. And you need it. You need support. We have a car for a reason because it sucks walking to work.  This is the thing that's going to help carry you along the way in Ireland, right? This is that tip. Number one thing is the biggest breakthrough we've ever seen. So drink your ketones daily. Whoever invited you can get your ketones. We'll talk about it just a little bit at the end. The second thing you want to do, the second thing you want to do is you want to do our 24 fast with us. 24 fast is a way to help reset your system.  It's the second thing you want to do. Now, these other three things are a little different. These other three things are going to help you in a different way, okay? And then last one, the most important one, okay? The only thing you want to do is you want to get your body moving. You got to move. Kathy here is like, I want to work out more. She moves, she works 12 hour days. You got to move. Julie said it.  There's too much science in it. Now, if you're looking at this right now, like, I can't exercise. Well, good, start with the first two and then they'll help with the other one. Start moving your body. Start moving your body. I forgot the number fourth. What did I say earlier? Nutrition? Oh yeah. Hey, you guys want to know what to eat? Kind of the one everybody wants to know the most of. So here's the biggest nutritional dip I've given in my 20 years. And this is the only one that will work.  Do not change this. This is the only way it will work. All right? So here's your nutritional tips. Share. I'm not going to share it. All right. Here's your nutritional tips. And I want you all to write this down. Remember, the last one's the most important. Or type it, if you don't have it. Type it in. Type it in. Yeah, type it down. Yeah, don't write it down. Type it in. So here's the nutritional tip, okay? I want you to go get your five favorite meals. The five things that you always go to when life happens, it could be when you go out to eat. It could be when you're eating at home. When life happens, the things that you want to go to, the things that you love and that you appreciate, five things go make them all natural and make them low carb. Make them as low carb as you can. Because the reality is, is that you're going to go back to those five things anyway. So you might as well find a way to make those five things healthier instead of trying to, like Kirby said, don't complicate it. Don't go try to create a million new recipes that you don't even want to do anyway and you're not conditioned to do.  So if you like spaghetti, make low carb spaghetti. If you like chili, make low carb chili. If you like chicken, make low carb chicken. Sorry to you, low carb. I was gonna say that's pretty low carb. If you do rice, do cauliflower rice. Take what you currently do and make it low carb. If you go to Chili's restaurant, is there, do you guys have Chili's restaurant? We do, yeah. Go find the low carb option there. Whatever it is, that's the secret. That's what will carry you long term and keep you at the results.  Take the bun off the burger. That's the simple way. That's the recipe for success. You can do all the other fancy stuff, but only a little here and there because those basic five things are the secret. I'll give you a couple of other ones. Eat when you're hungry, stop in your fold. Yes. Eat when you're hungry, stop in your fold. I have to think about that, right? Like literally think about that, right? Don't just keep eating because there's food on your plate. Yeah.  No, save it for later.  And then the last one, and we'll do a little recap. The last one is this. Is your wine. Hey, there's low carb wine out there, Shannon.  The last one is community. And probably the most important one.  Scientifically, biochemistry is the biggest breakthrough I've ever seen in my career. So get your ketones. But community is the thing that's gonna hold you together. Most likely you're at home right now and you're going through it. Most likely there's somebody in your family, your coworkers, if you're a nurse, most likely the other nurses are not on the same page as you. Most likely the people around you aren't committing to this journey with you. So find the people around you. That's what makes this community so special. If you're around five or 10 other people that are going through life and proving their life and positively trying to do better things, guess what?   They're gonna take you with you. I don't know about you. It's so much easier for me to give up on myself, but if I know that I have somebody with me.  I'm gonna give up on myself. Just do what she says. Way before I give up on somebody, 100%. So those are your five tips. Drink ketones 24 fast. Eat when you're hungry, stop when you're full. Take your five favorite meals, make them less carbs, carb free, carb friendly, get them down, right?  And that is the recipe. That's what's helped people all of the world transform and change their life forever. That's what helped Kathy Berry lose 250, right? That is unbelievable and you can do it too. Now, if you don't have ketones on your hand, how should they get them? Well, they can ask me or anybody that tagged in here, or Dustin or- I'm gonna drink some while you tell them. Oh, okay. Well, I mean, it was that easy, right? You're gonna, whoever disinvited you to watch this video, whoever tagged you in this video, ask them how they got them. So if you know Dustin, ask Dustin. If you know me, ask me. If you know Kirby, ask Kirby. If you know Kathy, ask Kathy. Any of the people that just came on here and talked, just reach out and we'll help you. Like we said, we're a community and we're here to help each other. We're gonna point you in the right direction and make it easy for you. What if somebody says, hey, that's, am I worth investing in myself at that cost? I'm gonna save it. I mean- Stop it! Yes, you are! Yeah, I mean- So what would you say? I just say, yes, are you serious? Like, you're the most important thing. You are the most important thing, right? If you can't be healthy for you, how can you be healthy for anybody else that you love? Right? If you can't take care of you, how can you take care of anybody else that you love? Like, that's what it boils down to, I think. I can't be a great mom or a great wife or a great employee or a great boss if I don't take care of myself. And that's, so, I mean that, that's what it boils down to, yeah. I like it, I like it. Well, y'all, thanks for having us on. I will, if you get, should we ask if they have any questions or not? Sure, why not? Hey, we got time for a couple of questions. Anybody wanna ask questions? My sister is on the journey with me. It's so much easier because we both are. Trish, that is awesome. Like, you're doing it with somebody that you care about. That's super. And fortunately, you have your sister. Not everybody has a sister to do it with, so you have to find strangers. I'm here with strangers in Michigan. Have any more than they will. So, all right, if there's any questions, we'll answer questions. If not, we'll let y'all go, get your key tones and start your journey today. What do you think? Should we do like a challenge this month? Maybe we'll do a June challenge. If you guys wanna do a challenge with everybody, let us know, we'll make something up. Or we get some challenges. We're gonna have a challenge. We're gonna have some kind of summer slim down. Okay, well. Everybody wants to slim down for a summer break. That's a great idea. Yeah. Well, maybe we'll put something together. I don't know if you're interested, we can put something together, but it's only if you want to. Would you guys like a challenge? Yeah. We talked about community. Yeah. And how much easier it is to do with people. So, would you guys like to do something with people? I can't hear them. No, I can't either. I don't see any hearts either. Oh, there's one. Michael wants to do a challenge. Maybe they don't want to. Maybe they want. Oh, Sarah's husband's been stealing ketones. That happens. Ladies, give your husband ketones at three o'clock in the afternoon and it'll change your relationship. It's the most remarkable thing. You know what I did? So, I just started making a ketone and handing it to my husband for like two weeks. I didn't tell him what he was doing and he came out of the bedroom. This is great. He came out of the bedroom and he was like, what have you been giving me? Because my belt buckle has gone down two sizes. And I was like, you've been taking ketones. That's a sweet thing to do. That's good. I was told my dog, buh buh buh buh buh buh. Part of my kidneys. We have some videos for you, Tammy. Yeah, got you girl. Yes, lots of videos. Lots of doctor videos for you. So, Tammy, you got, yeah, okay. And you must be, oh, I thought I said KG's. Do you think he's gonna have some new customers up with any specials? Oh yeah. Oh, hey. You're so smart. You're talking about the specials. Okay, you wanna know. I told him how to get started. Hey, did anybody want to, can I buy a new motorcycle? Yes. Joel. Yes, you can. I give you permission. So we, so I got a guy. We got a guy. She's got a guy. Hey, so if you want our special, the month of May, we have a, literally goes from $260 to $202. It's like $58 off. Yeah. And new customers can get a special. Which one? The drink he don't challenge. Well, of course. Well, yeah, you can do that too. So that's going from 260 to 198. To transform and change your life forever. It's under five bucks a pack. That's like a Starbucks a day. You'll replace a meal. Snack less. Energy drinks. Energy drinks. Yeah, you don't need those energy drinks anymore. Pops? Hey, do we say pops or sodas? Soda, pop, pop, pop. I saw us me ask. So, hey, how are you? What can you mix it with? You can mix with anything, right? Most people drink with water, ice. But if you want to get creative, I mean, we have people in Missouri drinking with beer, which is, I don't understand it. But they do what they do. There's that thing called T-tosis. T-tosis. I've heard. I've heard. It's like T-tos? Yeah. T-tos. T-tos and ketones. T-tos and ketones. Hey, whatever floats your boat, as long as you get ketones in your system or life good seems to get better. Replace them. Jennifer, that's kind of mean. Yes, you energy drinkers. Stop it. It's not good for you. Honestly, this is real healthy for you. So this is good. But it rains all the time in Ireland. Trisha, I don't care if it rains or not. Like, stop it. Trisha, do it inside. Do it anyway.  Yeah, do burpees. Do it anyway. I used to be nice. I'm like, oh, that's so bad. Well, I don't care. Do you want to change your life? Let's go. Shake that. Shake your butt. Get out Richard Simmons and do Simmons. I did that on Wednesday. That was kind of fun. All right. I think we're good. Yeah. Fizzy water. Yes, you can make it with Fizzy water. Have fun, Sarah. Iowa. I'll be in Iowa soon. Anybody, nobody, anybody in Iowa, I'm coming to town. May, July. Hawkeye? No, Hawkeyes. Hawkeyes. Hawkeye Pierce. I just pulled my daughter's first tooth guy. Hey, Carly, that's awesome. I like there's a question in there. I'm like, I don't know if ketones will preserve the tooth at all, but that'd be kind of weird. Apparently your sister likes to go into t-tosas? Apparently she does. That's what made somebody else start drinking ketones again. There you go. There you go. Yes, me. I love it. Oh, Laura, you're amazing. Y'all, we're gonna go. We have some mastermind to do here. And so thanks for being on anybody in Michigan. We love you. It was amazing. You're amazing individuals. Thanks for having me.  I don't care, Trish. Do them anyway. Trish. Do them anyway. Trish, you're killing us. Trish. Do them anyway. Come on. And figure out what you can do. She's been amazing. And then do those. See, we're doing good cop, bad cop. Yes, yeah. Normally it's the other way around. Normally I'm the good cop, and she's the bad cop. Right? Dull, right? Yeah. Y'all, we are having a great time here at Saturday Night Michigan. Charlotte Smith wants key tones. Charlotte Smith wants to be maybe a promoter. Oh, really? Charlotte, what do you wanna promote? We did a talk last night. It was kind of interesting. And we talked about, nobody's getting off, so we're just gonna keep talking. But we talked about the three truths. And you kind of tell us why that, what are those three truths that you learned by traveling around the world? And... I wasn't taking notes on that one time. I had to run into a guy, so I was like, here. Jump. Jump. Well, no, but I had heard that, how do we view the sign up plans? I mean, Charlotte is on this. She's like ready to go. That's pretty exciting right there. My kids are obsessed with birth. Birthday cake is so good. Yes, key tones are worth it. Irma, yes. Irma is with Diana. Is she really? And she's on my page following me. Hi, Irma. Look who's over here. I love it, I love it. This is what's cool about this, is that we have a community of people that are, oh, I can put the back of my hand. Just take it. Just take it. Don't bother him, it's always the same. God bless Texas. We're way away from Texas. You were talking about some three truths. Oh, the three truths. Anybody wanna know about the three truths? I'm not gonna tell you if you don't wanna know. But if you wanna know, I'll share with you. What's that? I'm so excited. Nick Martinez said it's Dustin Schaefer, W-K-R-E. Yeah, the world, somebody said the world-renowned, the most world-renowned key tone expert, Mitch somehow got it and then he started post-modern. Now it made fun of Ford. I thought it was like Dustin Schaefer, radio. Oh, Carly Jones. Carly Jones wants to know about the three truths are this. Yes, Summer, Banton wants to know. Banton, Banton, Barton, sorry, Samurai, I butchered your name. Hey, sorry, I couldn't get on Diana, but I am here. Well, thank you, Irma, for being on here. So the three truths, I've been very fortunate to travel to exotic, amazing places like Kalamazoo, Michigan and Mont Pleur, Plyer, Pleur, Pleur, dang it. I've only been working on that for like two weeks. And what I've noticed and what I've learned is this, Dana, is that no matter where I go, it doesn't matter if it's Singapore, Australia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Ireland, Breckenridge, California, I made that up. I don't think it actually exists. But no matter where I go, the three truths are this is people are wanting to get healthier. It's like, we're not well, y'all. People need to get better. You have, you have Nikki who just left and she's like, this big, she wasn't well, right? And it's like, you have Nikki this big, Kathy over here at 444, at 44, that's what we heard today. And it's like, why would they both use the same product? People are looking for better. If you're on this right now, you're looking for better in some way. The second truth they found is that people like to help other people. And it's just common. People wanna take care and help other people. But the third one that I found that everybody's afraid to talk to is people are financially trying to improve their life. They're not where they wanna be. And the cool thing about what we get to do is we get to do all those things. And there's always one that seems more important right now for that individual. So whatever it is for you, finds a thing that you can do. Find something that has what you want. Do what they did. It's financial if it's helping other people or if it's getting healthier and we kinda have them all with us. No, it was neat that Dustin said earlier that he heard it from somebody else is like the one of those things that you need the worst is the one of those things that you don't wanna talk about. So that's okay. And if you don't wanna talk about it, tell us you want it for the other reason. Right? If you want it for the financial reason, tell us that you want it because you want more energy or because you wanna help people, right? Just say yes one way or the other because you're gonna be so glad you did. So this is for me.  You guys can't listen to this part. So hey, if you're in Michigan, Kalamazoo area, anywhere in Michigan, you're crazy not to lock arms with this team. I'm just telling you, they have the biggest hearts, the biggest passion they're willing to commit, show up, give everything they can to help support you. If it's for your health, if it's for community, if it's for financial, say yes, Nikki. Say yes, Nikki already said yes. But come join us and just be patient on your process, be patient on your journey and don't quit.  You just won't. I mean, you're nine, what, nine months in, you said, or six months in? Nine.  But she committed to the journey and she just didn't. Stop. Stop. And life is gonna happen. Life's gonna come at you in different ways and be okay with that. But just keep coming.  You have an amazing team. I appreciate you for having me. Thank you. Appreciate you for having me. Appreciate you, appreciate you, appreciate you, appreciate you all. And we gotta go. Thank you. Cheers. Thank you. We appreciate you. Cheers. 30 minutes, that wasn't bad. It wasn't bad. How long did Michael Rutherford stay on? Hold on. 30 seconds. Maybe, maybe. If you know Michael Rutherford, text him.  As much as you can. Please do that. And share this with somebody that you care about. If you're watching this right now, share it with somebody you care about and let them be supported by people that care a lot. So we really gotta go though. Yeah. Honestly, let's go. Bye. Bye. See ya. See ya. Should we say bye? You go first. Bye. You gotta hang up first. You go first. You hang up. No, you hang up. No, you hang up.