Thank you so much Provost Siegel. Thank you all for being here. Today we celebrate this your first day of classes in college. For getting up, finding your classes, and maybe getting your first assignment, let's have a round of applause for all of you class of 2023. Give it up for yourself. The lead up to this day involved much effort and many people and many departures from home. Perhaps Gloria Anzaldoa's words, I am a turtle wherever I go, I carry home on my back, echoed in your minds as you and your families loaded up backpacks, put boxes into vehicles, and came to Fairfield University from your homes to build another home here. Our commuter students will do this each day when they come to campus from home. Our international students traveled from afar leaving their home countries.  We welcome you all and look forward to being welcomed by you. How do we enact this seemingly simple and commonplace gesture of welcoming? Fairfield University's Jesuit tradition offers us a particular way of engaging this question. Radical hospitality. Radical hospitality is the fourth pillar of our diversity and inclusive excellence mission statement, this piece of paper that you just received. Radical hospitality emerges from Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Jesuit tradition. Ignatius advanced the idea of global citizenship long before there was a name for it. He charged his fellow Jesuits to venture out and live in the far reaches of the world. They encountered unknown cultures, languages, and religions from China to India and across Central and South America. Mobility then characterizes Jesuit life. Geronimo Nadal, one of Loyola's lieutenants, embraced the spirit. Instead of hiding behind walls, Nadal believed that we find God in the world through the journey and by this the whole world becomes our house. Nadal may have found a kindred spirit and Gloria Anzaldowa. She wrote that staying home and not venturing out from our own group comes from woundedness and stagnates our growth. This venturing out Anzaldowa tells us is a form of activism that is the courage to risk leaving home.  This move sets you on the path to making the world your home. Hospitality, if one is always on the move, then shifts from the more common practice of welcoming others to your home of receiving to sending. This dynamic relationship involves welcoming others to know you as you are welcomed by them. This moment of knowing and being known is one of shared vulnerability created by the fluid motion of sending and receiving. Hospitality from this view is radical in both ways it is meant in both of its meanings. The first meaning of radical is extreme, even revolutionary. Radical hospitality refers to a fluid dynamic between sender and receiver that equalizes relationships between people. Consider for a moment how many times you welcome someone and were welcomed by others today alone. Now extend that to any given day in your life. This reflects changing power relations that generate the equality that leads to equity as sender and receiver ebb and flow for us all every day. This equalizing factor arising from the dynamic nature of radical hospitality is revolutionary. It challenges the inequity, inequality and exclusivity characterizing our world today. This practice also reflects the second meaning of radical from its Latin meaning the root as it shows how rooted hospitality is in the human experience. One aspect of this rootedness is the vulnerability that emerges from engaging the unknown through the practice of radical hospitality. Each of you experience this moment many times over the past few days. Whether it was when you entered your first college class, started living with a new roommate or walked into the tully for a meal. Perhaps it was your first encounter with one of those turkeys roaming our campus who quite frankly can be a bit confrontational. Shared vulnerability when encountering new people's places and non human beings marks the human experience. Hospitality greeting others sharing a meal enables us to navigate these moments of vulnerability when we may feel alone or fear rejection. When we extend our hand and greeting, we reach beyond what is safe across a divide of difference and into the unknown. We reach for the modus in that moment. Hospitality as a fundamental feature of human life animates the Jesuit impulse to reach for the modus the more. Reaching one's fullest potential entails reaching as far as possible beyond your given context. We reach beyond our current selves with an openness to embracing the unknown. Jesuits enact this through education, literally establishing schools across the globe committed to academic excellence. Pursuing knowledge as essential to membership in a global community grounds radical hospitality in our Jesuit tradition. Education was certainly radical or extreme, even revolutionary over 400 years ago when the Jesuits were founded. At that time, generally only the elite could read and write. Jesuits then and now invite people's globally to learn within their own communities where the Jesuits in turn are invited to learn from that community's cultural practices. This act bridges the boundaries between cultures. This act brings diverse peoples into an educational endeavor marked by shared vulnerability as we reach together into the unknown for the modus. Education as radical hospitality is revolutionary by embracing diversity through the inclusive practice of knowing and being known. In October of 2012, I was invited to go to the East African country of Tanzania to help build Fairfields partnership with Loyola High School, a Jesuit school in Tanzania's largest city, Dara Salam. I had never been to an African nation state. As a political scientist, I studied the United States and I did not have substantive training in African politics. My initial response was like a turtle to pull into my shell and stay home. Yet I am also a political theorist. Theory from the ancient Greek theory means to see. To see is to engage in the modus, to reach for the more through the pursuit of knowledge. One way we do this is to visit other places and engage with diverse cultures to better understand our own as one among many in the global community. I accepted the invitation and began a journey that has led me to think of Tanzania as a home and to know the world quite differently. This pursuit of knowledge drove each of you to have the courage to venture beyond your home out into the world to join this community. Reaching for the modus, the more drives this pursuit at our Jesuit institution. But what does that actually mean? How do we do it? And most importantly, perhaps, why approach your university experience from the perspective of radical hospitality? Radical hospitality involves three steps. Remembering, welcoming, belonging. Let's think about these three steps in terms of building our shared community driven by the pursuit of excellence. Thinking about radical hospitality in this way on this day, the very first day of classes that begins your college career seems an opportune moment in which to do so. Remembering, Bell Hooks invites us to remember our ancestral past that for her took shape at her grandmother's house. There, her family took refuge in a place to recover and renew, to remember slavery as shaping their everyday reality in the United States in order to recharge, to continue to resist and struggle for liberation, for freedom. Like Hooks, we all have family histories, which, like a turtle, we carry on our backs. Remembering that our histories shape who we are today can help us to understand people very different from us. We can recall Dino's story from the Fairfield Slavery Project that suggests that she and Rebecca Jennings formed some bond of friendship despite being slave and master. We remember that Jennings Beach here in Fairfield is named for the slave owning Jennings family. Remembering what came before us allows us to understand our now to move toward a better future. Remembering is also key to learning. It grounds our pursuit of knowledge. There are lots of things to remember, equations, historical figures, anatomical parts. You may ask when your biology professor requires you to memorize all the parts of the human body, why do it when I can Google it? Remembering starts the move from gathering information to co-producing knowledge. You begin to integrate new information into how you understand the world. In that process, you should challenge what you think you already know. You also develop the skills to discern fact from fiction. In a world where facts, data, and evidence are regularly called into question, remembering what you know and being open to challenging it creates a toehold amid the daily deluge of accurate and inaccurate information. Welcoming. Embrace the challenge of learning new ideas from a welcoming posture of understanding rather than judging. Sit next to those ideas that most challenge you, the way like Claudia Rankin who describes taking the seat next to the black man sitting alone on the crowded train. Get comfortable enough with those ideas that you can call them family. As Rankin came to call the man on the train, even though they never said a word to each other. The experience of sitting with those challenging ideas will transform how you know the world. This does not mean you have to believe all perspectives. The goal is to welcome them and to be welcomed by them by exercising intellectual curiosity. Be George Yamazawa, who has a little boy despite his mama telling him to get out of that dining room of their family's Japanese restaurant in Durham, North Carolina, keeps going out there where he encounters stairs from people who do not share the culture of his immigrant family. Notice when you start shutting down fear expressing your viewpoint or asking a question when you stay out of that dining room. Try your best to open up welcome the challenge and invite others into the spaces of shared vulnerability where we engage with difficult ideas. Be that turtle who carries your history on your back as you travel through places that transform who you are while giving you a sure footing in your identity. As George Yamazawa sums it up, I must stay true no matter what I do. Belonging, let's break that term down. Be longing to exist with a desire for the more. We come full circle now to the Modus. Belonging to a university community such as ours welcomes you to reach for the more, not to accept what is known as given to push the boundaries of current ideas and then push past them to speculate and to innovate. Here is where we co-produce knowledge. Here is where imagination is let out to play as we stretch past the known to the unknown. Imagination of function of the soul and Zaldua tells us has the capacity to extend us beyond the confines of our skin, situation and condition so that we can choose our responses. Doing so means that diverse views are not barriers to our way of knowing the world and who we are in it. Diversity is the way to do this through an inclusivity that takes into account the whole planet and embraces our humanist manifest in all its forms. Remembering, welcoming, belonging. These three steps of radical hospitality are critical to engaging in academic communities and the pursuit of knowledge that makes education so central to democracy. Democracy demands engagement grounded in diversity. This is often a chaotic process, one that throughout much of human history made democracy the most dangerous form of government and often the most fragile. Democracy requires natural bridges which are fragile and ever changing yet strong and resilient like those and Zaldua uses to illustrate how we navigate our differences by crossing cultural chasms. Democracy demands that we act as bridge builders and crossers who begin by sharing our stories and listening to those of others with empathy aimed at understanding. When I graduated from college I joined Teach for America. At the age of 20 I was placed as a fifth grade school teacher at St. Alphonse Elementary School in the small rural town of Greenwell Springs, Louisiana. In four days I landed my teaching job an apartment, a roommate and a car while I figured out how to set up a classroom for 30, 11 year olds. I like a turtle wanted to carry my back right home but I stayed. Frequently teachers, parents and even students called me a foreigner because I did not understand their culture. Befuddled, I explained that I was from the United States. They would reply, maybe but you're from the north specifically Detroit. Never before had I known so clearly what it meant to be a stranger in what I thought was my own land. I chose to engage to learn about Louisiana culture, my fellow teachers' talents, my students' lives and how they saw the world. My fifth grade students became their culture's ambassadors. They taught me how to eat crawfish about the baby and the king cake and how to survive weeks of Mardi Gras operates. Okay, that wasn't that hard. We learned from and taught each other each day. We built empathy bridges on shared understandings that empowered us to cross a vast cultural divide between peoples from the same country. This experience illustrates how radical hospitality can empower us to build communities upon difference as necessary to ensuring democracy's future. Radical hospitality is a revolutionary idea necessary for us to live in democratic communities amid an increasingly diversifying globalized world. This practice based on the fundamental human act of welcoming and being welcomed advances democracy by requiring that we reject retreating into our shells and behind walls. Radical hospitality empowers us to engage with the rich diversities that make up human life. Education is a cornerstone for democratic society. Education balances the stability of knowledge with the capacity to navigate difference. Education offers an experience shared among different peoples. Radical hospitality as a groundwork for education pushes us to the horizons of knowing as we experience the pull of tradition. Like the turtle then we move between land and water sending and receiving welcoming and being welcomed all the while carrying our homes on our backs. We in these moments reach for the modest. The more is our shared vulnerability transforms into empowerment for positive engagement advanced by remembering welcoming and belonging. The practice of radical hospitality. Thank you.


All right, everyone, it's our Christmas special. Is it that camera? I'm looking at and we, we kind of got here and we say, yeah, have one bomb.   Police, Navi. Look at how high we all are and Matt can't. Oh, no, I can't. Oh, my work comes first. Everyone, seriously, it's all I care about. Concrete. So Matt, sitting is sober and us three are stoned out of our minds. And it's a Christmas special. So you don't know what will happen. And we're going to call it the High-Mess, High-Mess. Mary High-Mess, the High-Mess special. The High-Mess special. All right, there is a drink of green stuff there and there's that there. And I give it only about 10 minutes before Michael attacks this and that goes. Well, thank you very much, Matt.  You haven't even said Connors here. Look, everybody. Hey, don't.   Yeah, Michael vomited on it. He's my new chair. I'm on a mat. It's good I can lean against the wall, but covered in vomit. But my nose doesn't smell it. Yeah, well, that was on at our finale of our last podcast.   We gave Matt his new chair and it's a play mat from imagine like you're the doctors and you're waiting in the waiting area and then there's like toys. By the way, before we continue, everyone, this is I don't know how this podcast is going to go. There's very little structure to this and we feel like you should probably get high as well.  I don't know if we should have one. Maybe. Connor, come back in now, as I was saying, where's my baby? Connor's here. But he's also going to be editing and we're back. Yeah, like I was saying, we're going to get super high so we don't know what's going to happen. So and you know how sometimes when you're high, things are funny and then you're sober and then you're like, oh, that wasn't that funny. So I reckon make sure you have make multiple bongs. Yeah, have a few bongs rather than a sit back, get ready. Let's talk about the live show.  And what happened to you, Connor?  Yeah, I mean, I just walk into the audience is like about to start.    Come on, come on.     And then they start touching my head. Is that why you didn't come out? Yeah. I was like, fuck, come on, come here. I'm feeling that I know I wasn't upset. I was just like, I feel like it's old. I was like, OK, yeah. What did you what did you think of the live show? You're someone who's just very funny.  We wasn't like a bit nerve wracking before. And then when we got out there, it was fine. Yeah, I think Matt was was a little bit quieter than usually. No, it's good. But it was it was fun. We had Shooter there. Yeah, shoot it, man.  I couldn't believe. Yeah, what I was seeing it before he came. I was like, wow, I'll be sweet. I'll be sweet. Yeah. Oh, man. He was he was. Yeah, it's crazy seeing him now after seeing him like watching him in 2012. Yeah.  Yeah, that's right. It's wild. He hasn't changed much. Yeah. Oh, man. Fun night. Yeah. What else happened in the show? Yeah, I feel like there's.  So come on, my God, you're watching. No, it's due. There's been so much going on. All right, but I've remembered. Look, I'm remembering right now. The amount of fake so that came forward. Yeah, yeah. That also is. No, but we know who I was though, right? We know it doesn't we know who was one of them.  I think Julian knows the anyway. Anyway, comment winners. If you're watching this, I'm not going to say what to do, but just comment on this YouTube video. OK, just comment your own personal email. Now everyone's going to do it. Yeah, now we get around this. How do we get around? We're in a conundrum. There's one guy who has called me on my phone number zero four. I had about four people try and spell one of the names. The guys are all different and they all sent me messages going, hey, man, I'm here to claim my money. We're going to. This is what we'll do tomorrow. We'll rewatch the comment winners and then and Julian knows who one is. So yeah, we'll just figure it out tomorrow. Don't worry, comment winners. We are still paying you. I'm so sorry it's taken so long. We have let's horrific of us disgusting. I hate myself. You must be so excited to get a thousand dollars and then day after day, you don't want to be in the morning. They budgeted their Christmas shopping. Oh, my holiday bills coming up, boys. Wow, we have to do it. Yeah, we have to do it tomorrow. Electricity bills due.  Also, we went out with with a lot of you guys after that.  Yeah, we met. Yeah, it was good hanging out with the fans because they all have the same sense of humor.  Everyone was just so happy to see and meet. Oh, man, no, I'm wrestling arm wrestlers. Arm wrestling, yeah, I'm not snorting.  Yeah, it was a we snort.  It was a good night. One money and there was another guy. He got us to carve our initials into his arm with a with a razor. Dude, what the M plus M we did. You carved them into his arm. I did one M and then went plus.  Not like Dave or anything. It was so weird. Like did anyone film that? Yeah, yeah, we filmed it. But we I don't think we can use that though. It was it was like too dark. It could be promoting like self-mutilation. OK, but yeah. Well, which yeah, it is. And even us talking about it now is because we were like, wow, this is so cool, man. This is so cool.   Let's just go with that name. It's because it's a weird thing to ask someone. Hey, man, do you mind?  Oh, man. Look how long my neck is before we continue. Go there. You need to get closer to this. Yeah, it's incredible. Are people listening on Spotify? My neck's like 70 centimetres long. Surely it's a benefit. It's like an evolutionary. Yeah, but think of the whiplash that I suffer. From running, just from simply running, severe whiplash. And if I have to sprint, there's a danger I could snap my neck clean. I'd change direction too quickly. Like a sloppy giraffe. Yeah.  And we're, yeah, we're definitely going to do it again next year.  So lots of people wanted to come. Bigger venue. Yeah. Yeah, 100 percent. We're going to get Brisbane Entertainment Center. Actually, like, how many seats? Two hundred.  Yeah, I thought so. Yeah, we didn't know it would sell out so quickly. So, yeah, next time we'll maybe go like 500. I reckon let's do, yeah, the Entertainment Center. Brisbane. The Entertainment Center is like 20,000 people. I'll make a call at Suncorb Stadium. Can't... Oh, dude. How's that, Matt? At least the Gabba. And then there'll be 500 people scattered around Suncorb to watch us. Only 500 tickets will sell, but we'll book out Suncorb. Without any projectors there, so it's just... And they can't hear us. And they can still have seats at the back. And they're facing the other way. Sorry. That was good. That'll be a good prank. What were we just talking about? What's been... What have you guys been filming? Oh, man. We haven't spoken to anyone.  We're like 14 weeks ahead on the website. You guys, well done. Which is huge. That's a great effort. Well, we've got like two days of work left.  And so we couldn't work. Then James got it like two days ago. And James does his work for us. So again, we just had to like... It's just been fucked, man. It's such a scramble at the end of the year.   We did the How Many Layers of Christmas paper to stop Santa.   That'll do. Santa can always get through. He wouldn't think that he could get through 69 layers. That's quite a lot. Yeah. Because 40 was like rough. A little bit. But like, I broke through it.  We just didn't have the time or resources.  We got another YouTube strike for sexual... For what? For sexual behavior. There's one of our videos, the best of, where I just recycle an old clip of Michael holding a cloth on his dick and asking, you can't see his privates at all. And it's funny because the original video is still up and monetized. Half a million views. No one cared. But now we get a strike for it. We recycle it.  There is no nudity. A girl walking on the beach in a G-string is showing far more skin than Michael was. And like, even if you upload it, they give you the strike. It's not just... Yeah, it was scheduled. It wasn't even out. It was scheduled. When it was scheduled. Yeah. Yeah, that's frustrating for you.  Why not just remove it? Why not just be like... Yeah, or just say, hey, this is the way... You know, it gives a warning. Did you challenge that? Yeah, yeah, I appealed. But they're not getting the... Usually they get back to you like pretty quickly, but they're not getting back to me this time. I feel like something's gone wrong. Yeah. Anyway, that's our problems. Yeah. I had the Christmas party on for the office. Oh yeah, we're going to have our Christmas party soon, boys.  Wait, what? We're having a Christmas party here. I think so. I thought we were playing golf. Oh, that's right. Yeah, golf. I don't think we'll have... I'm thinking about the boys' trip. Boys' trip will be here. The boys' trip will be at the brownery this year. And we'll film a bit of it. And if I can... Yeah. A Christmas party. Can you guys give us some good Christmas party ideas? It's going to be in between Christmas and New Year's. So an after Christmas party. I don't know. Bowling. Yeah, like what can we do? Bowling. Aspley bowling. Last year we went to a fight night. It was fun, but there's no, like, fight nights on. Bowling. Imagine it just go bowling. Bowling, dude. Matt loves bowling.  Whitewater rafting. He picks up his women. Whitewater rafting. That would be fun. And Obi-Wan. Yeah, we're from Brisbane, though. There are no boats. We're not allowed to use boats. We can just float down the Brisbane River. Yeah. In life jackets. In life jackets. Asking for help. We could definitely, we could do a blow up down the creek style sort of vid. Yeah. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. I'm so sorry. I'm so unbelievable. We've gone far too high for this. By the way, before we get even higher, you guys, you need to start buying athletic greens, all right? All right, that's the sponsors done. Is this the drink? No, no, seriously. We love athletic greens. We've been drinking it. We still drink it every day. And you do feel a burst of energy, literally like five minutes. It's like having a coffee, but like not a, you don't get that crash. And it's insanely healthy. 75 nutrients.  Yeah. Michael's spilling it all over the floor. And this is the powder.  This is Connor's first time trying it. Just make sure you rinse the cups. And he doesn't quite trust that we haven't done something to the cups. And Mark had to have a sip first. It's a fair. Yeah. He thought that we would have fucked with it. I get it. I don't think that you would just do something fucked with it and do that just so I would do it and then enjoy that. I guess I sold it more like it was a prank then. It's all right. Think about what I showed you before. Oh. That's it. Think about it. It's beautiful. It's literally delicious. And you wait. If you skull the whole thing, you'll literally will feel an energy burst. And your gut feels better.   So athletic greens. We use it because we like to party on the weekends. And then we go healthy with it on the weekdays. It's so true. Yeah. It's really easy to drink. Yeah.  Yeah. So go to athletic greens slash fully actual. I think I'm going to go ahead and say that. A link will be in the description. All right. And just it's like a monthly subscription. I'll send it to you every month. You don't even have to think about it. We get a discount. And it's very healthy. Yeah.  Some pack for free. Yeah. A pack of vitamin D.  Seriously. A little dropper. A vitamin D dropper. It's good. Yeah. Yeah.  It's sick. It's pretty good. Anyway, athletic greens.   All right.  Come on. Show me. You have athletic greens.  Come on. Form a line. Form a line. Form a line and squirm your cocks in my mouth. Come on.   What? Use me. No, we're going too far.     No matter how far we've come on the podcast.  Conor said it's like Eric Andre before. So you go pretty big podcast now or get, you know, gotten a lot bigger and it's just always such. Oh, we couldn't build something but it's always sort of. Which brings us to next season.  Season five. We're going to redo the set.  Maybe get some air conditioning in here. I don't know yet man. And we're also going to do, you know, that trailer that we did for season four. Promotional trailer. Yeah. We'll do that again this year as well. And we were talking about some segments and we need your help guys to come up with these segments. All right. So comment some segments that you would like to see in season five.  Like personally, the comment, comment, competition segment was really hard to get through. And I created that. Maybe that's why. Cause I just have a deep resentment for that segment. After comment numbers, like after episode seven, the board became. Yeah. People would have just skipped that.   Cut it off the segment.  We've had a few ideas and let us know what you think of these. So we want to wait. We can't tell them a few segments. We want to run a few by them. Okay. Go for it. So one of them is like finding other Browns. So finding other people with the last name Brown and connecting them to Brown. Yeah. So we create like a Brown army. How do you connect them? So we both call them. We call both of them and we don't say anything. And then they're like, Hey, it's Jay. Oh, Jay. Oh, Jay. Who is that? Jay Brown. Oh, Brown. Oh, my last name is Brown. And then. Connect. Yeah. And then they connect naturally. The one thing you say is Brown. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. To open the conversation. Brown. That's me. Brown. Did you say Brown? Yeah. That's the Brown segment. Yeah. I just wanted about the, if we can sustain that. Yeah.  That's a lot of going through. And if I can get numbers, can't exactly. If you have any relatives or your name is Brown, put your numbers in the phone or send it into message. Yeah. DM us your numbers. Don't comment them publicly. Otherwise you're stuck. Yeah. Browns. Hey, Browns. No, no. Do you DM us? All right. DM us your numbers. It's a common last name. So there'd be heaps. Not. Yeah. There is. And Smithers. Smithers. Smith. Smith. Yeah. That is like. A bit of anger towards Greg then. Cause I just realized the plural of Smith is Smiths. Oh, it's Smiths. It's so hard to say. The. Greg Smith. It is so difficult. Yes. Fuck! Smiths. Smiths. Smiths. Smiths. Smiths. Smiths. Yuck.   Someone send that to me. I've already decided. I'm going to clip that and make it a reel. Oh, well, Greg, now you know. Don't be around too smiths. Yeah, don't ever, like... Like yeah, but in public fuck. Oh, yeah, we're just with the Smith.  They wouldn't get served.  Okay. Yeah, it's happening And the winner gets to do that to the loser at the end of all 40 episodes next season. Yeah, it's wild So, so that'll be crazy. All right, everybody Anyway, let's move along now.  Is it comfy? I've got a bad sense of smell.  How's cracker more gone? We see all the vids pop on up. Yeah, it's good fun It's lots of fun. We've been working. What are you? How many subscribers you guys are now? 356 and you guys that's like the massive growth in the last couple of months. Yeah, it's like down a bit now, but it's um It's kind of like just finally been able to Work like Elias and give him work full-time.   Yeah, it helps. It is good Should we um not for us, but just make sure everyone stays on track I'll have some all right.  Let's have a little drizzle Snizzle whistle in a bong Matt Brown No, no more This is a low point We got to tell people about some of the website videos. We've been filming and are coming out That's what I was referring to I saw our camping one came out. Yeah. Yeah, can be one came out We've got who who's a better shitter we filmed the other day connoisseur some of the footage Fuck me Is Elias came home happy Did a light film it yeah, oh that's so good that he filmed it that's so funny He was so excited.  Oh, that's right. Yeah, bong off.  It was it was a rough day The little man five-year-old puzzles are the hardest thing ever Yeah, we did a puzzle for a fight for five-year-olds and it took us like 20 minutes. I gave up Yeah, we're going Connor used to film for us we'd yeah, Michael and I were bloody right into the bloody partying and like Sometimes we'd have leftover stuff and if like Connor was like a minute late We're gonna have to Yeah, your punishment would be forcing force to do in a way We're like rewarding him and we're into doing bad. What I don't know how much Much of me doing I might just believe it. Oh, yeah, okay. We'll call it marijuana. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.   I think which one the first one.  I was like, oh, yeah, see you kind of I remember me and mainland barricaded the door to our room so he couldn't get in that's smart It's a party going on Michael and Marty paid for the house and Michael walking. It's hang on I paid for this now you have to come and enjoy it Like five in the morning. Oh man, it was I think I kept lucky round with me for the longest And he I remember there was one point. We went down to like the pool at like 11 a.m. And we just was sort of done sipping on the drinks Lying there and all of these bugs are in the pool, but he just didn't mind and he was just swimming in the pool What what what were we saying to lucky was there something we kept saying to him we tried to convince him to become a baker Did it work? No, he got like it was starting again. It wasn't that way where um and seen came from Oh, that's right Like acting you'd be doing a normal chart and then he and then just go and seen We thought that was so funny for like a good couple of hours.  We're doing like acting.   That's right yours. We can't speak of yeah, we can't speak a mile.  Yeah, that's good comedy Mine was harry potter very lazy. I was in the morph suit What was the song though, it was just the x-files theme I was Oh, that's all right. You went alien. That's right. Yeah, matthew brown But oh, he was the the japanese oh, wow. Yeah, you had makeup on it was amazing. Yeah, and michael I just kept I stayed in character for a while and my to got to a point where mark goes. I just I just want my friend back Just my friend back remember locky he was in a Thunderbirds That was the costume of the trip well done. Yeah. Yeah 100 that was amazing. I mean that oh and it means performance We can't speak of it, but because it's hatred towards somebody, but yeah, it's a mill's performance with locky was very good Oh, yeah, we we put it. We pulled a joke on locky, but can't say what it is But it was very very good. Well done a mill. Yeah, that was funny. Yeah cut that corner I want to touch you. All right Let's lie to locky. He was chased into like a stool when he was like Oh 12 years old Like a toilet stool who was We won't say who but like it was the prank that was played on anyway Imagine a tongue flicking through the crack Oh, yeah, that's the story. Oh, yeah, look now. We're just teasing the audience again with these cool stories that we're not telling them Oh, sorry, it's not even our scene and Scene. All right, we're gonna lie to locky now, right? He won't be expecting it because the podcast is over He's he I guarantee he's forgotten about our Christmas special So fucking, you know what?  It's gonna be a marion. No, it's a top golf because it's at the Gold Coast So it's close to him It'll tempt him and and we'll say that we've got two booths or like two sort of stools Where you hit from and will sparks is DJing. No, no, we won't say that also say that it's um Free piss on us and we've got a AIDS We've got a we've got aids. So like don't I feel like we should tell him like somebody famous is coming. No, I reckon we say we got an ounce of cocaine Tracy Grimshaw's coming. No, you won't believe that though. Thank you I feel like Gordon Talis is gonna enjoy He'd know that's to him. What about No, what does tell him that we've got bulk cocaine? Yeah, we've got we've gotten some dark web cocaine Zio says his phone on do not disturb.  I'm just doing the rounds inviting the boys.  Well, we're inviting there's a well, there's probably like 15 people But these like there's no way we'll get through dude.   That was so easy locky Wow Now I thought you were finished. I thought you were done for you.  I know dude.    See you soon. Hey Lie to him.   It was like an excursion I was tempted to like end the conversation not let him know Oh, dude, and then like like and just what about and then call back and say that That was a lie that we lied. No, and and then we say Um, we let him go to top golf at 11 and just keep saying yeah, boys. I'm here. I'm here Here level two and then I'll call him like, why can't you find us while he's at top golf?  But I No, that's so I'd be so angry, dude. It's funny. I remember one time you yeah I did that to Dan one time and I accidentally did it. I genuinely forgot. I was like, yeah, dude We're all gone on the movies at like 3 p.m. At South Bank.    No, we're not at the movies. It was so annoyed. Oh, man. Well, I reckon we bring Well, it's with lucky to be fine because it had to be worth it. But what if he's like Cancels things and we'll only be able to pull that off once maybe twice because there's like because just then he thought Oh, it's Christmas special.  I reckon next season will have to be so good Cut that Connor Look, we're gonna get into some questions now from you guys.     He's like no, I just kind of like see where it goes Like if someone's too upset, I'll cut it if someone seems like they can handle it. I'll leave it in It's like they're like cut it cut it and everyone's like Do you get to the boy you love the the times when Marty goes Connor we'll leave it up to you But if I ever get a message like if he anyone says that and and like someone messages me I'll cut it So I've messaged you one time I said to do I think we should really cut that I'm not comfortable about it. And then you turn around and I do we're gonna leave it in I was like I can't even get the but it was really funny like I promise you it was coming what it was but yeah It was really good. Don't worry. That's good a girlfriend now. It's all right. Everything's worked out. You know what I mean Matt it literally the bachelor brand literally worked man is is dating Leo the one who came was on bachelor brand it literally worked Anyway, Matt's got a bloody girlfriend because of us because we rekindled that spark it worked You were wrong Matt.  I had to do it all myself With what with bachelor brown and then you forced me to continue seeing other women Well, we had to wait till the season was over and we had to test the strength of the relationship And then you broke the hearts of ethan and um and isla Well, look you did that matt that was you guys broke their hearts by you need to sit down giving them a false hope Sit down. Okay, because you are getting out of control right is on my side.  Yeah, well fair enough You shouldn't have well. Oh, no, you're happy now. Sorry. You should have But you should have given it a chance because that was isla was before Clearly look, we're just trying to give you as many options as possible Trying to be very good friends giving you date after date after date and it worked And what I remember pining for you every week they were pining and you would just brush them up Ethan was willing to pass you everyone would kill for someone that their friends who know them the best to set them up with 40 women and then I didn't get 40 women I gotta go like 31 women or something. Yeah, like six freaks. I think there was I think there was like the single mums The single mums are not freaks, man.  You said that Cancelled it is now the matthew fully actual show But yeah, we gave you heaps of options And now you're throwing it in our face, but you're in love. You guys you're you're the winner at the end Look, yeah, we you can see you went too far You can be as vindictive as you want at the end of the day You're in a happy relationship and that makes us happy. Thank you. Don't use that word Happy no vindictive vindictive. It's like I don't even mean it's from Vin Diesel. Yeah, he said it fast and furious The first man to say it I think I think that I'm vindictive.  I mean Oh I'm a bit grateful. Yeah, there you go. You can't let me go like there it is He's pulled these walls down 10 centimetres and then they rifled back up Um, but yeah, what else what is this question time?  Yeah, that's so true immediately when you hear the stomping Watch a card It of the year Of the All right, that's gonna read out some questions If you would like us to answer your questions, please comment them on the mighty Michael fully actual youtube channel We answer the most liked questions first. So after you've commented your question, I scroll through and like the questions that you want to answer That was flaklion there, huh?  I don't really know much about it But look it up do it yourself and then you'll see I'll do it myself Would you do it matt? Yeah, because that doesn't come up. Would you do it on? The podcast. Oh, I know about on the podcast. There's too much anxiety of getting filmed I don't like that that scenario you told me about hey, we'll film it as you're going out What about okay, what about if we do it just Before the podcast and when you come back No, okay, sorry We'll get a shaman in We'll get a shaman in too. Yeah, coral your shaman. Can it be your shaman? No, no I stand up here like this you smoke it. I'll do this The curly head a little bit Or he just pulls up a knife Oh, that would be terrifying Oh What's the question there's a lot of people saying how funny or the life show was Of this was a good fun. You gotta come next time guys. So it was pretty good fun. Hey, we'll go out again with everyone Um, so anyway, yeah, what else do we have to talk about ask kona a question. Hey kona Hey, all right kona. What's it like living by the sea? It's nice in marie in marie. Sorry. Do you ever walk down to the the big river thing and look at it? That's good. I like when it's nice.  I saw a jugon I didn't even know that they were real. I saw a seal the other day I like five weeks ago At foster it was on the ocean All right, we've got a question. All right, let's hear brown. It's from victor calvo 4404 All right, I'll believe you. I don't believe you need to watch your feet in the corner All right question is Marty, would you mind singing? I Sorry He wanted me to sing I son, okay, try it again Would you mind singing a christmas song first ring learns if you guys do a christmas special this it's the most wonderful time Man if you honestly just sing that for like two days, you know everything goes black Three minutes it'll catch everyone in the room's attention. Yeah, that's true. You will everyone will look at you Or they'll start singing the song. It's addictive It's addictive Um, who cares bro, which looks like it's dakota um Had every intention of asking a question at the live show being the social justice warrior dakota when she asked the question Oh, that would have been good, but um, but she blanked and panicked. Yeah, that would have been funny That would have been good. Yeah, so dakota Next time Uh, donut films were said he wish you could be there boys. Yeah same dude. Yeah You know who I didn't see at the live show who I thought would show up conna conna. Where did we get to be to spoke about this? Do you know who I thought would show up and didn't was the uh code I'm the code guy is cool. We call it code guy Magnum Magnum The magnums is his own soul. That's too good. You have to meet him. Yeah, that would imagine if he did come Maybe maybe yeah, magic. He was there in the crowd and he shot me or something Mad come on. Stop putting that out there.  Can't You just keep walking at him taking the hits laughing a bit at the start But then slowly just start to go Oh, and we see and we're never right after it and it's we we sort of our lives spiral out of control after it Um becomes not so fully actual the simulator guy 428 said he would have loved to have seen the The after-party meet and greet. We did film it. We did vlog a bit of it So there will be on the website Some some interactions with the fans in the after party.  I'm seeing you seeing a something about being blue and doing a pill on the floor slapping the boo, but like I've never seen you do that ever. Yeah, that's what I've never done it before. That was my first time That's incredible. Yeah. Well, yeah, it's different It was weird like mixing it with the wee anyway Anyway, I haven't even seen it Yeah, we've got to show that one tomorrow. I showed sky that by the way. I had to show Sorry, um, what does she do? Dale 7695 said you should come to a show in Perth And um, we had another person asked if uh, josh, if we'd go to america and do a live show Yeah, one day maybe in the future when it gets bigger We've got a huge world tour. I think in maybe three months Yeah, we'll move to america. I think we're moving there. Marnie and michael said where should we do our next live show? Do you want to see the replies to that? Yeah Did you guys move to america? I've got europe Perth. Somebody said cyborg Somebody said kibbutcha train station Dude, that'll be pretty fun. And gnarl escape bowl Yeah, very good.  We have done that.   So that's happening in like five weeks So we'll get a point of meth get a thousand dollars cash and we'll see if we can get the brown to do a bit of meth Yeah, I told you that would happen. Just hold the top bit. Just move on. You just gotta adapt You unclipped yourself So you unclipped that how did you do that? I just get frustrated with stoners It's okay Concrete toys. Look at that next to you. You play with that. It's very good. The adicus will relax you All right, next question is from from kelly forster forster forster eight one double zero marty What does flügel hauser mean in english? flügel in german flügel flügel hauser You have to see this.  Yeah Flügel zaksida flügel Yeah Yeah, I guess so Is that what is that what that is zaksa? Is that that? Is that what you're saying? Is that that that's what he thinks?  I don't know. I don't think that that's where we can't answer. Flüger is a a wing And what were you saying before that vizase klar? No, wait flüger. Wait, I'm blanking. Oh, I'm so high. I've forgotten german Flüger your homeland and what was the other word hauser Hauser is like house. Sorry. Sorry about that. Somebody commented greg stage Yeah, that's a very good comment. That was a great comment.  I was so annoyed we missed out on doing that We had to get it fixed.  All right, let's do some sorry about that the questions.  You've got a beautiful a beautiful part eyes. You've got beautiful eyes. You have eyes Bulging out of your skull like that. It's very endearing Do you know how long I used spring grabs of your face as the background? Is it always made me laugh? You know how group animated you Oh, yeah, that's very good. Oh, that was a great animation The one where it goes from like weird looking mean and then boom it uses my photo. That's like an animate. That's very good You know, you're the girl in it. Have you noticed that? No, you've never noticed. Have you go back and watch it? I've never noticed at all. Oh, wow. I'm excited now. Fuck. I can't pretend to be the cops anymore. Can I?  It gets to this point Say that he you struck her you struck the old lady. She's claimed that you struck her Hello, good day, mate. Um, it's just comfortable pjax in here. I was just wondering if I could have a moment of your time Sure Um, is your name kyle leaper carry is that correct? Is that what I'm speaking? Yeah Yeah, I'm just calling from the maitland police station. Um, we've just had a report From your neighbor that you've been harassing her. So, um, we just sort of have to follow that up Oh, yeah, hi guy Uh, so she's been saying that you've been Destroying her plants And also abusing her And if that's the case, we're gonna have to get you to come in and make a statement. Oh, well It's two sides to every story man. Yeah, I don't know mate. Yeah, that's why we're calling So I just thought I'd get a quick quick statement off you now over the phone Um, and then we might get to come in to get a two to a formal complaint Yeah, I'm on a holiday at the moment though. Oh, I'm sorry, man. Um, I haven't even been there for a week Yeah, right um, but yeah, I can give you a quick rundown like So what did she say? Uh, she said that you've been destroying her plants and, um, abusing her and very specifically making reference to the fact that she's morbidly obese Okay, um Well, I haven't ever said that And Also, I don't have any interest in her plants Um, never destroyed any of her plants. So you're saying that she's just made that up? No, no, I'm not saying she's made it up. Um, there's a bit of a bit of a story behind it. Yeah, um Anyway, she's been intimidating my partner and My child anyway at the one point she met she was going off at me for saying, uh I needed to trim her weeds back under the fence. She needs a mower lawn right And she went off at me.  No, that's I'm just direct quotes here from what she said. She was very specific Yeah, okay. Yeah. No, I haven't said that. Okay, great. All right. Well, um, I understand Neighbors can be frustrating sometimes but unfortunately, um, that doesn't warrant abuse and uh, you know, um Destroying someone's plants. Um Yeah, so you know and her looking over your fence and not engaging with you. Unfortunately, that is not illegal. So there's nothing we can really do about that. You could maybe No, that's why I haven't thought of it is any you could throw something at her Look, we can um, we can help sort of, um, intimidate right back If you like, um, we can send some of the uh, a couple of patrols cars around and Do a welfare check at like 3 a.m Um, and and sort of just whatever you want to do just start sort of, you know, giving it back a little bit Because to be honest, um in a lot of occasions, that's the only thing that's worked It's just given her right back and if she's staring at you guys, maybe just toss an apple at her Like man, it's come to the point where if I start my car up And I go to leave out the driveway and she would come to her front door Open like open the big like the solid door and look at the stranger and watch me reverse out the driveway and drive away Like yeah, see that's get a lot. Honestly, you know what I mean? Yeah. Well, look you could um, Personally, I would it's not illegal for you to walk around your front yard with a knife in hand So I would suggest maybe if you've caught her attention Going out. Yeah doing circling just your front lawn and not breaking eye contact with her. Um, he's one that does work I've seen that. Yeah. Um, so give that a go and um, but yeah, mate. I would um I wouldn't worry. Well, I think we're gonna We're gonna help we're gonna help you sort this. Um, I'll I'll send a patrol car down at about 3 a.m And even when she answers the door, we might um Ruffer up a bit Um Okay. All right, mate. Well, um, thanks for the call. We'll throw this um complaint in the bin And yeah, just if you hear her that screaming or anything just sort of turn the other cheek, you know, um, wait, what I'm gonna I'm gonna just let her have it.   Um, enjoy your holiday dude.   That sounds like a Something at a I throw an apple. It was a great idea. Yeah, that's what I would do I think and would it be kind of good to have them as a neighbor for you guys?  Do you miss hercules? Oh, no, hercules could die too close But it's like maybe if they're on our fence over here.  Oh, wow, it really was.  That's right Yeah, how we do we were like, man that is look how far we've come come. That's where the podcast was born Yeah in those filthy conditions.  Yeah 100% They're like 10 dollars It's like the same price is a that's that's fair. Sorry. Sorry. Oh very good All right guys, that is the end of our christmas special We will look to be back at first episode back.  It might be the not the sorry the 6th of february or the 13th of february Probably the 13th of february Did you find the cum bottle did you find that?


Alrighty, so I have a carolins construction update for you guys You guys have been asking for quite some time now, and I haven't been able to do it mainly because the carolins cameras are dirty And I can't do construction updates based off of really blurry footage, so I apologize guys but looks like The the flyers here are moving along nicely nothing really new from what I saw at the end You guys can correct me down below if I'm wrong in any aspect again when I'm commenting on a park That's not mine I'm probably gonna make a mistake, but it looks like not much has been going on other than aesthetics, but wow What is going on at Copperhead strike is absolutely insane. The station is taking form. I mean You have the station taking form you have supports going up like there is no tomorrow There's supports everywhere. It's absolutely insane. In fact, I've never seen so many supports not connected to track Just sitting up there. So definitely a great use of time going on at carolins Supports going up everywhere. It looks like they got a lot of water main work left to do as well or electrical Whatever they use that for but lots of track work has been completed over at carolins So these videos were provided by carolins fans only huge. Thank you to them. Go check them out on Facebook Definitely Huge help in terms of keeping me updated now. These next photos are provided by Dirk diggler 1992 on Instagram and Twitter. I'm huge. Thank you to him. You got some really nice HD shots of Copperhead strike and he is more on his Instagram. Absolutely stunning photos. This guy takes I just recently discovered him And I mean I scrolled through this guy's Instagram account like there was no tomorrow because he takes such amazing photos I just had to insert that because I actually Really enjoyed his account. So you definitely have to go check him out. I'm gonna link it in the video as well and down below But it's just track is everywhere this photo is Blessed because I mean you look at it and it's just track entangled in track And I mean you can even in see the you can even see them installing a piece of track here with the crane connected to it It's just absolutely amazing. I bet you this coaster is gonna be done, you know in the next 30 days as well I'm guessing maybe even sooner. I'm not talking coaster. I'm talking about track work And before winterfest is over, you're probably gonna have a really good idea of what this area is gonna look like again, just some absolutely stunning shots from this guy got to go check him out and I'm loving all the tight turns in this I know this coaster has a pretty low speed compared to other high-thrilled coasters But again, you got to take into account the really tight turns twists and maneuvers that Copperhead strike is going to do I Also realized in the overhead shots that there's a lot of theming in the queue line So the queue line starts up near where it looks like a cornfield is gonna be located and you pass through three to four barns on your way to the station And then you have the station building itself that look is going to look absolutely stunning Just based off of this picture alone and then you have the the show building before the launch which is probably gonna have some sort of Snake and the granny catching you in her barn. You're gonna run like it does in the teaser trailer But yeah, absolutely amazing shots. I can't believe how quickly Copperhead strike is coming along Absolutely look forward to seeing this thing completed probably within the next month track work and a lot of the buildings are probably gonna be Framework done as well. So it's gonna be awesome to see that before winterfest is done at carolins Anyways, hopefully you guys really enjoyed this construction update Again, I will do construction updates on the specific attractions around North America and across the pond when big things are happening Or I can get footage that actually I can make something out of anyways Hope you guys enjoyed this give the video like subscribe if you haven't and share this video for others to enjoy Thanks so much for watching guys. Have a good one. 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host Kelea Keena, president of the Grassroot Institute. Hawaii, sadly, is losing some of its greatest talent as thousands of individuals and families leave the islands every year. At the Grassroot Institute, we've chronologued their stories in a series entitled Why We Left Hawaii. Many people are leaving because of the cost of living, and one of the things we hear most often is the price of housing. Many are also leaving because of government policies, regulations, and taxation. It's my privilege today to welcome back to think tech Hawaii a dear friend who has been on the program many times in the past. Today's guest is Dr. Panos Privedoris, one of Hawaii's leading public intellectuals. In October of 2022, he left Honolulu. Let me say that again. In October of 2021, he left Honolulu, which has been his home of 31 years for, shall we say, potentially greener pastures. Panos is the former chairman of the University of Hawaii's civil engineering department. He's an expert and leading critic on the Honolulu Rail and other transportation matters. And he's even run for mayor of Honolulu. That's been the level of his commitment to build a better Hawaii. We welcome Panos to the program again. Panos saw all the way from Reno, Nevada, Aloha, and welcome back to the program. Aloha, good to be here. Well, it's good to see you. How are you faring up there in Reno? So far, so good. We like it. The kids are liking their schools. My daughter is a student at the University of Nevada, Reno, and my son is in a private school to switch from mid-pack. He was at the mid-pack in Honolulu. We're quite happy the winter wasn't severe, at least at the 2021-2022 winter. So far, so good. Now, Panos, you lived in Hawaii for 30 years or more, and your spouse is the lifelong resident of the island. What is it that took you away from Hawaii? Actually, I was quite engaged with political and the happenings in Hawaii, political life and the happenings, and for the last 15 years of the 30, I became increasingly disillusioned, not by the rail. We can talk about the rail, obviously, that was, to me, a very obvious wrong decision. But then one wrong decision does not really change the whole picture. There were so many wrong decisions, a litany of which that actually, after that, I said, enough, it's enough. What is an example? We're an island state, and as you know, originally, I come from Greece. We have hundreds of islands. We have hundreds of ferries. We established the super ferry, and we killed it. In my opinion, we have one of the best energy production solutions, geothermal. The Philippines does, Iceland does, mainland does, actually, literally, where I am right now at home, 15 miles from here, there is a big geothermal plant, actual plant producing about 60 megawatt, twice the size of the Puna plant and the same company, I think, four months. So that's as a beginning of, you know, many of their, many, many reasons. And the big umbrella is actually, again, the poor energy policies that I believe will affect the long-term health of Hawaii. And what scared me as a resident in Pacific Heights, I have seen several hurricanes come for 31 years, and actually, I should say for 100 plus years, Oahu has been so lucky. We have never had a direct hurricane hit. But it is a matter of time. Of course, it may have happened this summer, but it may happen a thousand years from now. We never know. However, we're not prepared. As an engineer, I have seen this situation, Oahu, and I'm quite scared about the lack of preparation to deal with it. And what is that going to mean for the health and well-being of our residents? Something like what happened in Kauai, copy-pasted to Oahu. By God, I mean, the consequences can be tremendous. Well, you have gone through quite a litany of public policy decisions that you evaluate as not being optimal and having great harm upon the people. What is at the root of all of this? Is this a case of people in power trying to do evil? Or is there some deeper issue really at stake? Why is it, in your opinion, that Hawaii over and over makes bad decisions when it comes to public policy issues that affect the masses? I think the types of politics we have is not amenable to a technocratic solution. Clearly, both of the parties are not really particularly technocratic. But particularly when we turn leaning towards the left, technology solutions are not seen as particularly when they are more individual in nature, such as a tall road versus rail. In the area of energy, thanks to Al Gore and that type of thinking, which is in many ways appropriate. I mean, there are climate issues that we need to address. However, Hawaii is so tiny and so small that it needs to have an energy policy that is reliable. Because unlike where I am now in Nevada that we can connect to Utah or California in case of emergency and get some extra power, there is no such connection for Hawaii. So again, if a hurricane happens, by another emergency happens, our energy supply has to be of the nature of high reliability. And we all know that wind and solar is not highly reliable systems, particularly under adverse weather conditions. And you know, our mandate is to go 100% renewable. I cannot think of a more suicidal decision than that. We often hear the word sustainable, sustainable energy, energy from the sun, energy from the wind, energy from the ocean. But you're using a word that doesn't appear in the media very often or doesn't come from the lips of our public policy makers, which is reliable. And obviously, there's some tension there between sustainable energy and reliable energy. How do we resolve that tension? Certainly, there are virtues to pursuing sustainable energy. But we also need the pragmatism of having a reliable energy source according to the kinds of things that you've just cited. How do you resolve that tension?  And he says, he said that, you know, well, we're going to look for them if they are reliable. However, the rest of the politicians, they did not understand his engineering conservatism and the fact that reliability should be in number one priority, like transportation safety is the number one priority. Same thing, reliability. Our hospitals need to have reliable electricity for 10, 15, 20 days, whatever it takes for the military and external help to come help O'ahu or Maui, but highly populated islands with a major disaster happens in the form of, you know, tremendous inundation of hard plants from a tsunami or a major hurricane, a heat, etc. So I don't see this preparation. I don't see the plants being hardened. They are talking about, you know, disbanding the coal plant. Clearly, on the earth, if you are China, if you are India, if you are US mainland, yes, we need to start phasing out of coal. But Hawaii needs reliable baseload. And if coal is affordable, I mean, yes, you have to turn a blind eye and have a good reliability number one and maintain coal as a way of having reliable electricity, instead of doing a solar farm or a wind farm that actually could be almost totally destroyed by strong wind. So it's not only that you have it and then the batteries are not going to last more than 10 hours, the actual plant, because of the way that it's made, will clap. And then we're not going to have the energy need to provide for the health and safety of our population. It sounds as though you're saying our government leaders have not been responsible in ensuring the welfare of the public as we go forward in terms of the safety of the island. That's right. That's correct. Well, that's a significant charge. Is that one of the reasons that motivated you to leave? Perhaps. Absolutely. Between the combination of the wrong energy decisions combined with the risk of a major natural disaster in Hawaii, it's a big threat for me. I saw risk and they don't try to mitigate it. So when you don't mitigate risk, eventually it might hit you and that it may be terrible. Well, that's very interesting. So you left the islands in part out of concern for the safety of your family. That's correct. That is correct. And serial decisions are going in the wrong direction all of the time. I mean, even as I mentioned, the super ferry is actually, particularly if we had two or three or four of them, it is a vehicle of reliability because, well, Hawaii is a small place. It's the various islands we have. Well, like it happened in the past, we're probably going to be lucky enough when we are unlucky to have a hurricane that only one island will be hit, the other will be nice and healthy. Well, if you had a healthy ferry system, then the outer islands or whatever, the healthy island will help the sick island. It's actually a reliability and an alternative mass transportation means it could really go to mainland and bring critical supplies along with military ships, et cetera. So one evidence of government doing nothing is our harbor. Our harbors are absolutely not prepared to deal with a major surge from a hurricane or a major surge from a tsunami. Our harbors will be a complete mess. There will be cranes that they toppled and there will be containers all over the place. So when the Navy arrives and ready to heal after a couple of weeks from San Diego, there will be nowhere for them to dock to come and heal. Nobody is preparing cranes to have resilience in our harbor. Similar things about the earth, very basic things. They are doing the basics. They have the telephone codes and all that, but really what needs to be done is not done. I talked with several folks from Guam. I mean the level of preparation of Guam and the level of preparation of Hawaii is like one. One is at one and the other is at 10. It's just, you know, we need to get a lot of lessons from elsewhere and we're not getting them, we're not investing in minimizing the risk of natural disasters in Hawaii. It would seem logical that we would be concerned about natural disaster here in Hawaii. We are the most isolated island archipelago on the planet. We have special assets, of course, the beauty of the land, the ocean, the people, but we also have certain liabilities that you don't have elsewhere on the planet. Why is it that our government leaders are not focused on this as an issue? What's going on in our political system that prevents the kind of focus that is necessary for the safety of the people? Well, that's a malaise that exists almost everywhere politically because politicians really do not take one to two percent risk very seriously and plan to invest big money in that. However, unfortunately, but like that really catches up with these things and we really need to protect the population. So obviously, we cannot only invest in a wall, put a giant wall around Hawaii, et cetera, but a prudent preparation to be made and hardening of the harbor, for example, in the airport, should exist. And what we have is extremely basic and an additional level of investment has to be there. We need to have significant retrofitting inspections of our houses because we cannot even, we cannot even, what do you call it, evacuate.  You leave the area where the disaster has happened, like it happened at Yellowstone a week ago. The population was evacuated. You cannot evacuate Hawaii. It's a very special situation.  Typically, the population on earth, when there is a fire, goes away from the fire. On a ship, when there is a fire, everybody goes on to the fire to get it out because it's going to sink the ship. That's what it is. In Hawaii, the conditions are so special, and we keep talking about the special situation we have in Hawaii, but the politics are very mainland style. The level of risk is not the same. We really need to adapt our politics and our priorities to the fragile situation we have in Hawaii. The risk is small, but it's non-zero, and there is no redundancy at all because there is nobody around. When you were in Hawaii, one of the issues about which you were the most vocal is the Honolulu Rail. We have done programs on this issue and talked about it quite a bit. I'm not so much interested in going through all of that right now. I want to ask you something very specific. In light of what you have just been saying about Hawaii's lack of preparation for potential catastrophic disaster, how does that factor into the rail and its future construction and operation? That's an excellent question, and I should tell our audience. I never send you questions or anything because you get it spot on. Actually, the both times that I ran for May or 2008 and 2010, I did have a bullet addressing that question. What is the difference between the rail and the reversible high-autopancy and tall lanes? 20 lanes of 20 miles of rail versus 10 miles of what I was proposing, the reversible high-autopancy and tall lane. Well, in case of a disaster, the high-autopancy tall lanes immediately they can serve as a backbone for emergency services to reach the various places on offer, from central Honolulu all the way to central O'ahu and beyond. We were the rail. Well, every hurricane we had in Florida and Texas, the rail systems, either they did okay, but in their majority they shut down for several days or weeks.  A reversible elevated highway would have no problem at all. It's just a concrete bridge on which ambulances and boondosers and graders and trucks that they were sent by the government or the military to provide cleanup services and what have you. It would have been a major asset in dealing with a disaster. Again, another wrong decision that wouldn't have helped. So both the rail and the super ferry, the super ferry is of course a good alternative, as I said, of supplying islands, etc., but it doesn't exist anymore and the rail is going to be a dead asset in case of an emergency. Remember, of course, if you have an issue that one or more power plants are down, what is going to be your priority? Run the rail? No. Run your hospitals, run your traffic signals, run the basic health and safety infrastructure that we need, and the rail will left to language for weeks until electricity is back up. Well, let's switch back to what we talked about earlier on, your own exodus out of Hawaii. Right. Do you feel safer now, Panos, you and your family? Yes. There is risk everywhere, right? And this, the last summer, we got, well, somewhat of a scare because California had two of its largest historical fires that they really didn't come close to Nevada. But we had a lot of smoke and a lot of pollution and it hit home, but you know, this is the forested area, you know, Lake Tahoe is all the forest. So, unfortunately, because of the drying up of the area and the aridity and the lack of water and precipitation, there is significant risk for fires, not necessarily in my backyard, but in the general area. And of course, we're not too far from Yellowstone, there is earthquakes and there is volcanic activity. So, as we said, there is risk everywhere, but there is so much redundancy here. I mean, and if you see the threat, and it goes with Hawaii too. Hawaii is congested. If you try to evacuate, you know, we had a tsunami, if you try to evacuate out of Waikiki, and the gridlock was unbelievable. People literally got stuck in their car for an hour and couldn't get off of Kapa Hulu or off of Kalakau. Here, the roads do work. I mean, there is a sufficient number of lanes and for the population and the road network works. The level of congestion is tolerable too low. So, that's actually quite pleasant. Panos, how about your quality of life? Now that you live in Reno, Nevada, what are you experiencing in terms of prices, access to commodities, the ability to establish the lifestyle that you want and so forth? In this respect, the difference is very significant, particularly in a few places like Nevada and Texas, for example, come to mind, we don't have income tax at all. So, we don't lose that 10% off of our income, but then the commodities are much more affordable. I was joking with a friend on Facebook that she went to Safeway and got, you know, porn at the price that she mentioned and it was such a great sale to hear. And this is the standard price in Nevada. It's not a sale. That's the same price for the item. And not only the items are cheaper, but particularly for food items and basic clothing, the tax is zero. So, you don't have a sales tax. So, these things begin to pile up and then you save on income taxes and services and of course, you leave the shipping charges and the quickness. Well, we're particularly blessed here in Arizona because Amazon has a lot of warehouses and in fact, it is possible that few items to receive them same day or in the morning of the next day. This is unheard of in Hawaii.  Well, you have to wait sometimes up to a weekend in Hawaii and pay shipping charges. Even if you're a prime member, if the item is very big or it doesn't ship to Hawaii, there's no such limitation. So, these things accumulate. And of course, in Hawaii, if you want to travel, see the world, well, airline tickets are pretty expensive. So, from here, where I am in my household, you know, our big law of destination for Hawaii people Las Vegas. Well, my wife and I just take the car and, you know, we share three hours of driving each and 150 bucks in gasoline and we are in Las Vegas and we have a car to boot. So, we don't even have to rent a car. So, there are things like that that obviously are very pleasant. Well, as you know in Hawaii, a lot of people are finding it difficult to afford the housing that they need, whether it's in the rental market or purchasing a home, talk to me a bit about the housing market where you are. Oh, I'm in a place that it's actually probably worse than that Hawaii. That surprised me very much. Reno is a very strange place. Strange is not probably the right word, but we are neighbors in San Francisco. So, not in San Francisco, as you know, along with a few other spots in the U.S. and Honolulu are among the most expensive. And the problem with San Francisco is that those guys are 45 million people. So, even if 102% of them died to me, it's a lot of people.  Here comes the Californian, 900,000 cash. So, essentially, all the time we kept losing houses under our known with the substantial cash offered from the quite affluent folks in San Francisco and other places. So, Reno is a desirable area, etc. So, we had significant difficulty and the prices are not low. So, a decent house similar to the one I had in Hawaii, let's throw out some numbers of that house was $1.4 billion. The same house here would be $1.1 to $1.2 million. So, it is in the same bracket. This place is not like more than some places in Texas where half a million dollars goes a long way. Half a million dollars here does not buy anything really. Well, not everybody leaving Hawaii is moving to Reno. They're going to Henderson. Henderson is very affordable. That's outside Las Vegas. That's a bargain for a real estate. So, there's the access on the mainland to housing that fits one's budget. Oh, very much. There are so many places. It's not only Henderson. The whole United States, the whole South is quite affordable. Phoenix is very affordable. Quite a few places in Florida. And I'm talking about places with similar climates too. Montana is affordable, but it's very hard probably for a Hawaii person to move to Montana. Well, people are definitely looking at their pocket books and they're voting with their feet. Since 2016, 22,000 people have left the Hawaiian Island. These are locals who otherwise would be here were it not for concerns over the cost of living for the most part. What is the impact of such growing numbers leaving the island? So, in what way does that impact life in Hawaii? It is very deleterious, very negative. Obviously, we have the problem that it's almost nationwide, that we have a labor shortage. So, if you have people moving out, your shortage becomes even worse. But then there are certain professions, particularly out of those 22,000 people, quite a few of them if they're skill construction work, if they're nursing, if they're teaching. My goodness, that is very, very deleterious for the society because people who contribute and they have significant and key jobs, you lose them and then it's very hard to replace them. We've talked about a lot today and I didn't want to talk only about the rail because you have so much more to offer in terms of your insights and observations. But I would be remiss if I didn't ask you just a few questions, if you don't mind before we leave. As a prominent critic of the rail, you made it clear that you were not happy with what you saw and what were your thoughts about the plan to stop short of Alamoana for the purpose of saving on cost? It's definitely a step in the right direction, but it's not enough. They should have had the guts to stop it at Middle Street and they probably will be forced to do something like that because now we have the other inflation, right? So when you budgeted $1 billion for construction, well, that was a year ago. It's probably 1.2 billion already in climate. So they will not be able to go close down, down, although I know Mayor Blangieri really wants to go as, quote, cacao or even finish the line. Unfortunately, international events and particularly the cost of energy have made construction now very expensive and they really, I mean, for the sake of the budget, they need to cut their losses and try to finish the rail around Middle Street for saving the budget and start operating the system so people after paying all these years they can start having some rail service to use. You know, Panos, one of the crucial assumptions behind making the rail project work has been that people will actually ride it, but you've seen what has happened to the projections for ridership. They've fallen in from 2015 at 119,000 weekly to the projection of 84,000 weekly now and the numbers continue to go down. What do you think about these projections? I think they're like their cost estimates, they're optimistic. I have a blog that I posted several years ago estimating that if they open the original line as they established it, they would get about 50 to 60,000 riders and that's the unfortunate thing that eventually our city, the city of Panolulu, will pay 12 billion dollars and then serve only 50 to 60,000 trips a day. What can I tell you, most loads? Well, what do we do now? We drive around the island, we see the structures of the rail lines, we're pretty vested in the project and so forth. What council would you give to our political leaders at this stage as to what to do with regard to the rail? Well, the best thing as I mentioned is to actually, a governor Ige had a pretty brilliant idea of using the old triple C, you know, our prison we have it's a super block that is and the prison we have the jail there is very outdated, it has a lot of issues. So relocating it somewhere and using that super block for revitalizing part of part of collegiate and at the area can use actually the first floor could become a good intermodal center with the rail stopping there and so then it becomes a good working system and then start focusing finally on congestion or who is very congested so they need to work on solutions for actual congestion relief. Yes. Well, we've got about a minute left, Panos and I'd love if you would just address our audience, talk to the individual here, the person in Hawaii who's struggling with the cost of living who's thinking about possibly leaving any any word that you have for the average person here in our state? In my opinion, they shouldn't rush the decision one way or another. It took me two to three years to do it correctly.  It was a deliberate decision. It's not an easy move. They need to find alternative locations, spend time to research if their family and themselves will be happy there and employed or they will have enough income to sustain themselves in the new location. So rush decisions for this type of living Hawaii, traveling away 2,000 miles, spending all this time and money on the move and then the new location is not working out, that would be terrible for the individual. So please spend enough time thinking, asking the right questions and investigating if the new location is appropriate. Because for better or worse Hawaii is a beautiful place and it can't work but if it's not working, the next choice has to be a wise one and not one that was done on a whim because likely it's going to go from one difficult situation to another difficult situation. Well, Panos, thank you very much for those words of wisdom. Thank you for being on the interview today. We miss you here in Hawaii, but through the wonders of telecommunication, we're in touch quite frequently. Much aloha. Aloha to you too, many thanks. My guest today has been Panos Providoris, truly an intellectual who speaks on behalf of the public. We're glad that he was able to join us. Until next time, I'm Kaili Ikeena on the Think Tech Hawaii program, Hawaii together, aloha.


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Okay, very good morning to you. Hope you're doing well. It is Wednesday 26th of August and before I begin One thing I just want to mention and I will put the link into the description of this video is a new blog from Alex Clark On the Amplify trading team. He's one of our traders and senior mentors And he's written an excellent piece to get you prepared for the Jackson Hole symposium and Powell's Really important speech that he's going to deliver tomorrow afternoon. So do check that out It's been tweeted from himself. I've shared it. It's been shared from the Amplify trading account as well Definitely worth a five-minute read just to get you prepared with just generally the Breaking down making a little bit more digestible how Federal Reserve monetary policy works But more importantly giving you an idea about how asset prices across assets might react to Powell's speech tomorrow It's a really great piece. Do check that out I know also if I could kindly ask if you're new to the channel Don't forget to like and subscribe new content coming every day of the week And actually I've got a special guest who's going to join me to talk a little bit about options trading Get a lot of questions about that So I thought I'd get an expert on who's a former head of a desk at a big US Bank And he's going to join me and for an interview with a video. I'm going to release on Saturday So hopefully you'll enjoy that as well, but let's go straight into things and what's been going on So overall, I would say there is a reflection of relative calm It fills to me almost like the market is waiting for drone power speech if I'm quite honest Yes, there has been some movement, but overall in the currencies Pretty quiet oil's a little higher or just holding on to some of the gains that we've seen yesterday as Hurricane Laura is set to Cause quite a large degree of disruption as it anticipated to make landfall and intensify going forward Inequity markets, we did have a bit of a mixed performance on Wall Street And fairly quiet overnight in Asia the Nasdaq outperformed again Which probably comes as little surprise these days Facebook shares with the standout there up about three and a half percent Anything really that was notable for them yesterday was a broker upgrade coming out of UBS on their price target But I do think that actually that's quite a common theme we've been seeing with these Mega cap tech stocks. Everyone's kind of asking the question You know have they risen too fast too quickly We're too overstretched But all these banks keep coming out like what we saw for apple just the other day Morgan Stanley's British base case looking for near 40 percent further gains on top of where we closed At the end of last week and they're not the first there's been goldman's there's been bank of america all coming out with some real clear Cases for Quite extreme further upside for a number of these stocks And as we know given the composition now how large that they are You can drag the whole market up again to to further more elevated levels Interestingly from a stocks perspective You know remember yesterday we were looking at the Nasdaq the sell-off at the open the recovering the afternoon Exactly the same as the S&P yesterday Sell off at the open recovering the afternoon You know this market at the moment just doesn't want to go down It doesn't matter if we get the odd piece of negative data Say us consumer confidence comes out in the end People are just looking to reestablish long positions lower down and if the market gives that opportunity From a technical point of view I was talking about this with sam with some of our new traders who've started our advance Training program this week and the discussion was not about short here Feeling that that move yesterday was a little bit overdone through the asian session But it was for okay when it comes back down We're going to look to get long again And ultimately a nice level around that 34 24 paid off That was that previous high low support a little bit choppy around that area And then a nice response started to come through as after europe left the market And we finished pretty much scratch on the session eradicating that entire loss So yeah, there's familiar patterns here being seen in us equities and I really do think A lot of this week hinges on what pal says and interestingly from an asset multi asset point of view One thing is currencies as I said, I think are relatively quiet at this point So I'd be a little bit more conservative perhaps and how you should tackle those today unless there is anything unexpected that develops So I think looking at relative ranges So if I was looking at euro here on the upside 180 on the downside then 118 kind of handle 1808 would probably be what I'd watch And then elsewhere in the gold market and then this falls then in in themes with the US yields at the moment. We're just seeing a little bit of downside pressure And we've kind of we have formed a kind of relative range But we seem to be just gravitating towards that the bottom side of that range And around 1999 put us it puts us back down to where we were testing yesterday afternoon That's also on the daily pivots the s1 and also close proximity to the low on the 21st and on the 12th as you can see Any breakdown of these levels then does get quite interesting. You've got the 1900 dollar handle and then you've got that initial Gold route low that we printed Through early part of august, which was around 1875 But interestingly with gold edging a little lower there T-notes have also been doing so see yields have just been edging up ever so slightly and if you look at this on a daily It puts into context that was that Kind of yield real yield increase momentarily that caused a bit of a shock and there was that gold repricing in the market in early august We then had quite a severe bounce But we have started to trend a little lower again in the last couple of sessions in the us 10 year And as you can see we had a pretty sharp bounce that were seen in in yesterday's session Rejection almost of that which does coincide with that 139 handle that 139 handle has been pretty solid before Exing out the break that we had back on the 12th and the 13th There was also a good level of support back on the 13th of july and of course it's that 100 dma that red line there as well so Let's keeping an eye there It does feel like it's lining up though that And as per what alex says in his his written article that if powell if we get a basically a repeat of the recent FMC minutes and basically powell fails to deliver on a fairly Hungry market for more dovish signals in the form of more concrete Conformation of average inflation targeting and then enhanced forward guidance in that respect But should be more erring on more dovish developments or tweaks to policy Failure for that to materialize or then yours are going to Going to pop higher that t-note level could come under threat again and gold You'd expect to come under some pressure and obviously technically sitting around these key levels of support if they get breached We could see some really strong moves on the back of that speech so I definitely do think it's uh It's weight in c mode as far as today is concerned and I don't I do think that that should be Factored into your approach and you're how ambitious any targets for any subsequent trades that get taken today Because people might tend to sit on their hands the latter we get into the day barring anything as I said Unexpecting developing One chart you can see here though is crude oil Has it was pretty choppy yesterday But overall did move higher and if again we look on the daily chart Just to encapsulate a couple of these longer term levels. We've been looking at for a while this then looks at the The period but we were trading in early march before we had that kind of fateful failure of that opent meeting And then the price war outbreak between saudi and russia So we're right back up there again. We briefly got up there and we're rejected back in early august around the fifth of august We're right back there at 43 32 here now in the futures and looking at on the daily chart And so with that little breakout to the upside yesterday We've got above and kind of near-term range that's held through much of the period of august Puts us back at those july highs and we're right back up to the higher Of where we're trading on the second on that support point in the second of march So quite interesting here from a technical perspective for oil Threatening potential then further moves to the upside Now to get you up to speed with laura what is going on? So it's not a case of marco now It's all over to laura And it threatens the u.s. With with basically a major disaster what the national hurricane has said Is that it could well see a storm surge Causing significant inland damage of up to a degree of 30 miles As you can see by the national hurricanes projected wind speed probabilities. So if I look at this here A couple of points to be aware of then so geographically the surge Will large and dangerous waves producing potentially catastrophic damage from san luis pass texas to the mouth of mississippi river Including areas inside the port of ather hurricane flood protection system It could go 30 miles inland hurricane force winds are expected wednesday night and so Yeah, potentially very disruptive here and what that has already led to of course is that as of yesterday upstream operators have shut in about 1.558 million brows per day of oil that equates to around 84.3 of production from a gas A natural gas perspective. It's about 60.94 of offshore production that's being closed some of the u.s Largest refineries are winding down obviously in advance of this laura Actually, if I put my cursor here is right down here at the bottom So this is where it's anticipated to be in the u.s. Time by wednesday evening and then thursday morning We're hitting right in the epicenter of what are the biggest most major oil refining I guess infrastructure of this particular area in the Gulf of mexico So as you can see here refineries facing closure or reduced runs poor arthur mativa poor arthur total poor arthur valero lake charles sipco flip 66 to give you an idea Mativa's Capacity is about six hundred and thirty thousand miles per day Exxon mobiles beumont is three hundred sixty six thousand total poor arthur 225 and a half thousand philip 66 lake charles 250,000 so you know these are significant and hence the reason why you've had a bit of a Movement in oil yesterday and it definitely remains one to watch and again normally whether patterns get priced in pretty early With a kind of a six to ten day lead up given that we can monitor and track these developing weather systems in the atlantic However, I guess in the case of what's happened here with laura is that it's continued to intensify And therefore all the more disruptive it could potentially be The other thing is the republican convention continues It was kind of like the trump family show Yesterday milania coming out and talking a little bit more of an alternate tone to the kind of more assertive husband She was talking about some of the other issues at large namely social issues ongoing in the u.s but one of the things that's come out of this and No doubt again timing politically It looks a little bit like it's being held back for this specific moment So the trump administration according to politico is said to be According to sources weighing accusing china of genocide over ethnic muslim minorities that issue again of human rights In the western side of china that's been an issue Brought to light over the last 12 18 months Now again, I think this type of information comes out how I interpret this it comes out at a politically sensitive moment where the republican party i.e trump can leverage this as part of the kind of unofficial communication so I guess tactfully he looks being very aggressive to china But underlying this of course is still the same fact That china is living up to its side of the bargain already kutlo Like the hyzer they were all speaking yesterday Obviously china talk up the market in the case of kutlo as much as possible Looking over and beyond that with the covid impact But also commenting about the fact that that china are accelerating their importing of us goods in line with the phase one trade deal And this has come out this morning from bloomberg again citing people from limited matter So sources that china is reportedly expecting a record amount of us soybean purchases this year uh, so again, I think what you're going to hear from trump is an over-exaggerated kind of Heat putting on the weight of china in order to politically just make the point To galvanize his base, but ultimately i don't see any real tangible reaction from china on the back of that Because china are fully aware that he's just saying it because of what's going on specifically with that convention happening All right, quick look at the calendar. What have we got for the day ahead? It's very quiet actually in terms of the uk european morning On that note probably one of the the main things i'm quite interested to hear is we've got bank of england governor Bailey speaking on friday that coming up as a bit of a prelude to that event We do have bank of england's chief economist andy helden now He's not speaking till 5 p.m. Actually this evening london time and he's speaking at an international culture Summit so it is off topic. However, a lot of people are awaiting His speech in order to see whether he gives away any more insight as to what the bank of england are thinking They've kind of almost discounted negative rates for the time being however markets have kind of ignored that and we're still a little bit further out Pricing in the potential of negative rates in the uk. So i'm just interested to see whether he gives any further policy kind of hints on forward guidance as to potentially then Increasing qe or any other forms that they might take He does tend to be or has been Happy to be an outlier remember not the last meeting the meeting before he was against Expanding quantitative easing. So he was the one dissenter of the group in the npc So I think of all the people that could potentially say something a bit more interesting Perhaps how dang these your guys so look out for that at 5 p.m. Be aware of that if you're in any sterling FX position Otherwise the afternoon we got dribble goods coming out of the u.s. You get to all different tree numbers Following on from the api's last night. So i'll update you on those closer to what the time so we can take a look at And then from a supply side in fixed income another german auction And then floating rate nor auction coming out the us in a two-year and 51 billion dollars in a five-year no auction So obviously lots of supply coming the way of the us as well and perhaps Again a little bit of short-setting materializing in the treasury market to take on this new supply Could also be a weighing factor on why prices have been declining of late Um, yeah, that is it. So remember to um Subscribe to the channel if you don't already as I said got a really interesting video coming out on saturday about options Uh, and so hopefully that'll be something new for you to digest and and any questions on the briefing just delivered Just feel free to leave a comment and I wish you a good day ahead. See you same time tomorrow. Thanks very much