host of Journeys of the Mind, and today we are so pleased to have Kumu Hula, Carol Lee Nishi with us today to talk about her over half a century working with the wonderful organization HHK at the New On A Why, but let's begin a little bit before that. This is Kumu Carol Lee. This is the show about journey, and so perhaps you could tell us a little about your background. I mean where you went to school and what you did before you joined, and I've not joined but founded HHK. Yeah, that's an interesting question. I have to think about that. I think Hula has been a part of my life since I was nine years old, and the teacher that I took lived in Kaimaki, and we lived in Kailua. When I first met my teacher, her concern was she said, well, you live so far away, will you be able to come and always be there and the kids that were there lived right around the neighborhood. I mean like two houses away was Leslie and then the block down and everybody was neighborhood, and so they would get together a lot more, and if they just decided to do something, I was way over in Kailua. It took us at that time. We didn't even have the hairpin turn. It took an hour and a half just to get there, but eventually the years went by and my mom was very dedicated in making sure I got there on time, and 11 years old, 12, I became very active when I was in high school. Prior to that, my family, myself, my sister, even cousins, we had no background in Hawaiian music or the Hula, so I became the one and only representative of the Hawaiian culture, and it was not a big deal. I don't think anybody needed to be involved, but I was just kind of a lone soul in our family unit, but people were very interested, but I was the only one in the family, so there was, like other the kids, every brother and sister, uncle and auntie, they were all playing the ukulele and dancing and everything, and for me, my background was just me and myself only, but it turned to be just the opposite now that I'm really involved, but I'm 80 years old, and that's quite a distance from my background, but I can't say that I was surrounded, like many of my other students say, they're surrounded by the culture and the song and the dance, and everything that I know today, I taught myself or learned maybe from one person, because we were very good friends, and she was a very popular community person, Genoa Keavi, most people would recognize her name, and it was, I would say from the time I was in college, kind of because I was available and I drove and she didn't, it became a situation where she needed a ride and I could drive, and so it became a kind of a twosome, you know, if she had to be there, I was there too, and if I couldn't be there, she just never showed up, and it's not like she didn't have 12 children, but they were often running and I just became the go-to person, so I learned a lot from her, without really trying to learn, it was just, you know, when you're just with someone all the time, you pick up whatever they say, and I think that's where I majorly became perhaps what I am today, because, and I think back, it's kind of what would Genoa say, kind of a thing, you know, but yeah, for a long time, she was my only connection to the world of, you know, history and music especially, and this is really interesting, but I learned how to play the loop over the telephone.  And so when I tell people, I never had a person to first and less than, they just said, no way, you know, but it's kind of interesting. I wanted to learn and when you want to do something, it doesn't matter how you just learn, you know, but this is, this is true.  Did you work for other airlines? Let's see. Now, why was I there? I went to the mainland right after I graduated high school for summer vacation, not to go to school. And we had very dear friends that lived in Oregon, and they were saying that, you know, the University of Oregon is in Eugene, Oregon, and they were kind of like encouraging me, oh, come up here. You can stay with us. And, you know, they just enjoyed the friendship of who is now my husband, but Ron was their friend first because they, school teachers came to Hawaii for their summer vacations and met my husband and his, you know, Beach Boy gang. And then they couldn't believe that he had a girlfriend. And they were so anxious to meet me because they just didn't believe that he really had a girlfriend. And it was as silly as that. But after we met, we became very good friends. And I would have to say at this point in my life, they were a huge, huge influence at the age of 18, 19, 20. And although I stayed at the University of Hawaii for a little while, I did go to the mainland right shortly after that. And yeah, I think I didn't do anything about elaborating the, you know, my background in Hawaiian music or anything. It was after I came home from college and, and just became not by my request or desire, but I lived on a street in Hawaii with my mom. And there were three girls that were ages like nine, 10, 11, and they wanted to learn the hula. So I did teach them at my mom's self, not even thinking to become a hula teacher or anything. But at the same time, I was at the university and came back to UH and just took up the Hawaiian language with Larry Kimura, who ended up sitting next to me as the, what do they call that? What's that award we have? Living Legend or something like that. Anyway, he was one of them. But about my work with the United Airlines, I started when I went to the mainland, and it was not anything of a desire or a consideration. I spent the summer there just because my husband was going to school too. And I just applied and they just gave me a job, three jobs right away because of my printing. As silly as that, they wanted somebody who could write nicely. And so I did. I accepted the job. And the department I was first entered at United was POA, Performance Operations Analysis. We would take all the information daily from the aircraft and I would keep charts. And of course, it was all printed, very fancy. And the entire maintenance base of about 4,000 people would refer back to that board. And it was all my work. And so that's how I started. And yeah, that's all history after that. Well, that's wonderful because as preparing for this wonderful interview, you have two children, you have a husband. And then you tell us about the founding of HHK. And I'm going to ask you some questions after you tell us about your founding. Because my understanding is that you worked in developing this Huey for over 50 years. And you did such a wonderful job.  But I'm going to let you do the talking. So how did you found this organization and tell us the story? Okay, actually, I wasn't at the point where we actually did start. And when I did develop, I was not interested in starting a hula group. I was just taking notes from somebody who was asking me, can you do this? Can you do that? Can you teach the girls a number because we're going to go to a place called Expo 70 in Japan? And I said, I can teach them a number. I didn't have a lot of things at the time going on. But the people who see because my work in San Francisco where I first started with United, they sent me home for the summer in Hawaii. And the only in order to be involved with the company, they put me into a position was just called red carpet room. And of the four hostesses, one lady who was kind of the leader of the four people who worked in there asked me to teach her daughter. And that was my first experience in teaching and starting HHK. She lived in Kapuna Hala. Within three months, my father who was the Attorney General for Expo 70, it was a World's Fair in Osaka. He just came, I mean, a real casual conversation. He said, can you go to Japan next week and do a put together a small hula show? And I said, I don't do shows, but I have four girls that I've been teaching for about two months and I can bring them. And so that's what it was. That's how it started. Hula, they, the first thing they, the MCs are wonderful MCs and they were right out there, you know, and all the way from Hawaii, you know, and they're talking in Japanese. And, and, and she said in Japanese, which I understood, she said, I'm not going to know what I'm talking about. That means what is the name of your group? And I went, well, they all go to Kapuna Hala Elementary School. So it's the, it's Kapuna Hala Hula Club. So when I came home after that interesting experience of entertaining before we were even able to entertain, my friend, you know, he said, you don't want to call it Kapuna Hala Hula Club. Use the Hawaiian words, hula, hui, o Kapuna Hala. And so that's how we got our name. And I've never changed it. Now, that was so many, that was Expo 70. The view can, if this is 23, that is like 53 years ago. And that's how we got our name. And that's where we started because I just had those four girls. And the house that I was teaching at, which was my friend from the red carpet room, Masako's right side, the left side, the house in the back of her and the person across the street. So with the four sides, and the girl that lived in there, Masako's daughter, there were five girls, and they were the ones who first started. And it was just like, Oh, anti Carol is here. So everybody come, you know, and they wouldn't even phone call. They just scream and want to cross the street, run over and have one next course, which is so we were all within this sense, you know, of a kind of a star like group. And that's how we got started, actually. And you know, I can't even say we can look back because we just went forward the whole time. And here we are. Gosh, I mean, what is this 19, this is 19, 2000, but it's been 50 something years. And, and we never stopped. We never took a break. Yeah. So from that, I'm glad I got the half century ride. Although I missed the airline. So I'm glad you corrected me in terms of United and United is still is still big. And forgive me, my father flew for Ben American. So it just came to the brain. But of course, it was united. So for the fool who we all the Puna Hala, the biggest question I have for you is, what as a teacher, were you trying to impart to these, everyone from a toddler to people who receive social security.  When I first came to the new one, a Y and I saw there were like 50 to 100 people in your in your room. So very huge. So what were, what were the main principles that you were trying to impart to your students? Okay, I would have to admit that when I first started, and even when I went to the Y, because it was pretty much beginning years, I was not a developed teacher at all. It's just that our very my husband's closest friend had a brother, Bob Masuda, who ran the YMCA. And he just knew I was a dancer. And oh, you can teach, you know, hula here. And so I started with his secretary. Anyway, key people within that new one, a YMCA, like the Gallup, the front desk, the president's wife, our branch manager's wife, you know, it was people they tried to screw up. I wasn't looking for anybody. But they so thought that, well, we have a hula teacher. So let's get somebody in there. And every one of those ladies that they recruited on their own, who all did not want to learn hula, turned out to be extremely successful and lots of fun. And I think for Robert, who thought, wow, she can, you know, take these five ladies who were really non interested at all. We should start, you know, hula group here. And so they advertise very little response in the beginning. And I think in any organization, when you start, you need to take those starters, work with them closely, make sure they're successful. And they're the ones that are going to attract people to come into the group, not you as a teacher, for sure. They don't know you. They never heard of you. What's the product? What's the end product? And these ladies were the ones, I think, in any organization are the ones who drew people in. And they were popular people within the community. It's been so long, maybe about 55 years ago when we started. And but I would say they recruited maybe about 15 people at the most, mainly relatives and people who were close to the membership there. And from there, we just grew. And I don't know how it grew. It's just I worked so hard. I don't remember. In the beginning, it was just really people recruiting people. I had nothing to do with it because it wasn't my ambition to start a hula group nor create a big halau or anything like that. I was just teaching people. I mean, I was also working full time at United Airlines at the time. And I had two children to take care of in their younger years. And teaching hula was not a large amount of time because I would just put in a Saturday morning, maybe two hours. And then it started to grow after that because then I had this children's group and an adult group. And then you had teenagers and it just maybe in about a process I would say in about five years. And I never was absent. It was never, never late, never absent, never without a full lesson. And I think even though I was young, I didn't know that that was a good thing. I do know now and I tell people, if you're going to do anything, you've got to run the gamut.  Don't try to build on nothing. Yeah. And you've really got to be true to your students and really help them. I would stay over time and pretty soon we did shows like Aloha Week right on Kalakaua and close the streets up in Aloha Week. We did things like that. Never got paid. I mean, until this day, we don't get paid, but now I think they would pay us, but we don't gravitate to any of those kind of jobs. We do pretty much everything community affairs. Yeah. But you do, I've seen your huge Christmas concerts at Waikiki Hotels and also at Kahala Mall and what used to be called the Kahala Hilton and so you got done all over the community. I was, I'm in wonderment about you going and collecting tea leaves from a farm that you have and getting all the materials and having people make their own hula skirts, et cetera, et cetera. But the question I have for you now is, and because my youngest daughter was so fortunate to be in your, who are you from at the age of three to the age of 18, so many years, but she can get up and dance hula at any point in her life and for the rest of her life. But what I'm interested in, especially in this time where students get trophies just for participating in a sport, you had a sense of discipline, especially for young people, which I think is lacking in today's American society. And let me just preface this by saying you would have the children eat after the adult, which is not what we used to do in AYSO soccer. So if you could just expound a little bit about your relationship to the youth because it seems so wonderful and a refreshing reminder of how children can be well trained. That's, you know, you throughout, you know, my tour with the Y and with HHK, and now it's been 50-something years, I think you have to give them the responsibility to take care of themselves. But I noticed that the one thing that works really quickly is if you take a child that has never been disciplined and is known to be really super rascal and to disrupt class and everything, all you need to do is bust out the compliments.  So whatever you do, you're the role model. And I really appreciate that. You know, when they think that you think of them in a very good way, they become good. They don't want to be the real, I don't know what they're like, but I kind of remind them, even when they leave class, I'd say, thank you so much for being a great role model. Everybody is so disciplined in this class. And I think it's because of you, and maybe not so. But then that's okay, because that was just me and that person, whether they really were disciplined or not. Nobody else would hear that conversation. I would just make them feel like they were really the leader. And I think that's a guarantee when a person, even if it's an adult, when you tell them how important they are and how helpful they were to your goal, they deliver. Boy, I mean, they even start to act the role, which they never were in before. I don't think it was, I never thought of it as a trick, but I thought of it as a way to keep them in place. And I have a lot of leaders today, and I'm not even there full-time since the pandemic, you know, opened up and Robin's kind of taken over massively. And when I go, I just really kind of watch. And the only thing that I can do now is to make sure that the language and, you know, the motions are all kind of, I guess, does well to the industry and not to just teach things that are fake, you know, but to do the real thing and make sure that everybody understands the language and the motions and everything that they do. So my participation now is quite limited, but it's very nice for me to observe what's going on and that everybody's doing a nice job. You know, interesting to see how some of them are so dedicated, never absent, and still, you know, Robin and Dara were very close friends, started at three years old, and now they're 55, I think. I don't know, something like that. And then there's Joy Quincell and her sister and Crystal. And anyway, many of the members who started young, they're still there. And it's interesting to see, I have to say that they will copy whatever I did. They just, they don't ask, they just say, well, that's what Andy Carolee did. And so I have to be really careful to make sure that what I'm passing on is, you know, is it effective and, you know, helpful to the children that are brand new students, but we're very lucky that way. You would address them. I always liked the fact that you addressed them by last name. Ms. Ackerman, Ms. Winneke, stop talking. You know, Puma was talking.  And you kept people in line. And, you know, this is what I was talking about in terms of the youth of today who often are not disciplined. And you did the great discipline in a very kind way, I may add. But let me ask you a question about continuity, because you're, as you said, and by the way, for our audience that does not know, I mean, it wasn't just dance. It was music learning the ukulele, learning Hawaiian words and meaning, which is so critical for the culture. But what made you hand the mantle off to your wonderful daughter, Robin Boroka, formerly Robin Nishi? Because, you know, with your exacting personality and with your love of Hawaiian culture, I'm sure that you thought deeply about this. And I'm going to ask Robin at the end to sort of poke her head in so people can see her. But what made you pass on the torch to your daughter? Well, actually, I don't even know that I even approach them. I think through the years, you know, they would sub for me or there were too many students and we would hand off this group to them. And we did a lot of outside things like Keiki Hula, a lot of performances. And it was absolutely required that they help, because I couldn't do it all. By that point, there were just too many children, I mean, and levels. You know, you can't teach somebody who's been there for a year, who's been there. The other one's been there for 18 years.  And I think without planning or developing any kind of structure, it just fell into place. You know, we have the Quincell sisters. I have Lordy, I don't even know how old they are, maybe close to 40, 50, I don't know. But Joy is a doctor today. She has her own following. And her sister, I guess, has achieved a couple of master's degrees and very, they're very accomplished. I think that's the bottom line. And you know, when you, you know, in life, you need role models, you need good people to surround you so that other people who join the Huey just kind of like enjoy seeing or meeting people within the Huey and kind of follow, you know, like, I don't want to be derogatory, but there are certain economic groups and geographical areas where the children play together and they're not necessarily talking about going to college.  But those same people who belong to the Huey, it's wonderful because they are exposed to another group of people who are accomplished, not necessarily their friends, not necessarily their teachers or their kumu koku, but just looking and working together, whether it's performance, rehearsals or what, there is a great deal of influence within Huey's, within clubs. You walk in there, oh, that's so-and-so.  And so there's no question. But then that's not going to be the DNA for these kids who grew up in parks and stay out all night and parents don't care. And I think we kind of took care of a lot of that, you know? You did. And let me just-Robin, can you put your head in so we can speak as our time is up? But I want people to-there she is, okay? That's the two beautiful women together. And of course, Robin's husband and Carolee's husband, Ron and Lance, help also. Let me finish with Journeys of the Mind by saying this. We were so impressed at Pune Ho School in the Pueo program with both you, Carolee and Robin, that we would reserve-that we only reserved for principals at the DOE, spots where they could nominate people for Pueo, but there were two people in the community that we allowed to do this. One was Matt Levi and his program, martial arts program, and the other was Carolee Nishi and Robin Nishi for the Pueo program. So I'm going to leave you guys with the last words. So thank you very much for participating in this interview. So any words to wrap up, both of you, Carolee and Robin? Thank you. No, we appreciate it. And, you know, we really appreciate you letting us be a part of that Pueo program because that has been so wonderful for the students. And I think everything that mom does and we do is it's really all about providing opportunities for the students that we have. And then we leave it up to them to kind of take those opportunities and make the most of it. But we just want to make sure that those opportunities are available for them. And it's wonderful what kids can do when they have the opportunity to become better people. The final comment will be mine. Thank you for teaching Jennifer Shin Ackerman. And I will leave you with this. She just got accepted to veterinarian school and the discipline that she received was not just from mom and dad and not from her school. And I have to say that I taught Robin at Iolani school, one of the best schools in America, not just Hawaii. But the discipline that she had, I credit to HHK. So anyway, but anyway, thank you very much. A hui hou and aloha to both of you. Yeah, mahalo. If you liked this show, why don't you give us a like or subscribe to our channel. Thanks so much.


In today's video, we're opening up the new Pharaoh's Servant 25th Anniversary Booster Box until we pull every foil. Pharaoh's Servant is the fourth set ever released to the Yu-Gi-Oh TCG. It premiered in North America on October 20th, 2002. This set was a combination of the Japanese sets Curse of Anubis and Thousand Eyes Bible. Prominent cards in this set include Magical Hats, a trap card used by Yu-Gi that always got him out of the diciest situations. Buster Blader, the Dragon Destroyer. This card is used by Yu-Gi against Strings and Slyther the Sky Dragon's inaugural anime duel. Thousand Eyes Restrict, Pegasus Ace Monster. This horrifying monster immobilizes every monster on the field, besides itself, making it a formidable monster to deal with in goat format. Finally, Genzo. This iconic machine monster was won by Joey Wheeler in a duel against Esperoba. It is considered one of the best secret rares in Yu-Gi-Oh history in terms of collectability and it was a very strong card in the TCG for many years. What's up guys? We're back with another opening. Until we pull every foil, we have Pharaoh's Servant today. This is going to be a fun one because obviously Genzo. And we've done three of these already. LOB, MRD and SRL are all available on the channel. Go check them out if you guys haven't seen them yet. They were fun videos. Let's see if we can beat our fastest time, which was seven boxes to pull the entire hollow set with Pharaoh's Servant. But before we happen to it, we have a giveaway. We have been waiting to boost your box. All you have to do is like the video, be subscribed, turn on notifications. Let me know down below what's your favorite card for Pharaoh's Servant that we pull or your favorite legacy card that's come out from these boxes. Alright, let's get right into it because we know these are longer videos. It's going to take at least five boxes. The minimum we've had is seven so far. We would like to beat that. At some point, only tank ruckson 34. We will be looking for as many of those as possible because that is a classic card right there. The only tank ruckson 34. Here we go. We have a dust tornado. Starting off with a super already. Our first hit is a super rare. One out of 22 down, 21 to go. Our final episode of this series we have going on, which is basically Legacy Week 25th Anniversary Edition out of Playlist. If you guys haven't seen the others, go check out the playlist. I will have it at the end card and it can pop up on the screen. If you guys haven't seen it, it'll be on my channel. But we have Invasion of Chaos tomorrow. So that's our final episode. Then we have a live stream on Tuesday. So I hope to see you guys there. Don't know exactly what we're doing yet because we're going to have pulled every foil. I'm going to try to think of something fun. Like maybe we'll go for Exodia out of LOB, but it'll, you know, it might have a little twist to it. Premature burial. Starting off with an ultra rare. Very nice. All right. One ultra, one super already off to a great start. The question is how early will we pull Genzo? How many Genzos will we pull? Will we get one every box or a secret or every box that we have been on average? We'll have to find out. There's a couple that, well, there's a couple that didn't have a secret. Make two total. And then there's one that had two secrets in our past view openings. We have a mirror wall. Another super rare has been pulled. Three out of 22 down. Keep it going. Genzo, I am looking for you. Wouldn't be a pharaoh servant opening a rucksack video without pulling Genzo, right? I mean, we're pulling all the foils today. Unless it was like yesterday where we almost didn't pull every foil. That was a borderline. We got it on the last box. We have dimension hole. We have a drill bug. Very cool. Let's do this. We need some luck today. Hopefully you guys have been enjoying this series, enjoying the booster boxes. If you guys have not ordered any yet, Sasiato does have a link down below in the description. You can use my code for 5% off if you want to grab some. Also, we have just released the Duelist Nexus Discounts, which is coming out in a little bit less than two weeks at the time of seeing this. Duelist Nexus is the next set. It has 25 quarter century secret rears in it. One of them being that special one. It's like the magician's soul thing. I don't remember what it's called. Super rare parasite, parasite. That is in the next three sets, but it has a different background color, which is pretty interesting. They've never done anything like that before. So if you guys want to pre-order either of, well, you don't have to pre-order these. These are available now, but if you want to pre-order Duelist Nexus, that will be available down below. Also, the Tins are probably going to be available at the time of recording this as well. We're going to have a pre-order up with the discount code for the Mega Tins, which is going to be insane this year. So if you want to see those, there's an only 10 crux and 34 second one of the day. So if you want any of that stuff, go check it out. It is an affiliate link with me, so it supports the channel. It helps out Sasiato as well, because he is the seller and he is a good friend of the channel. He sponsored our 200k specials and stuff. So he's a legend. So it's a win-win-win. Then you get awesome products. So go check it out down below. We have Beast of Tawar Ultra Rare. That's five out of 22. The first box always gets you the best value, because it's all new cards. You haven't told me a thing yet. Unless you get a double sum out of one box, I don't know how that would happen, but maybe it would. Gravity Bind. So many crazy cards in Ferris Serven. Playable, nostalgic, anime reference. I mean, it's just a great, great set. We have a Limiter Removal. That's another new one. We are four out of 10 on the supers already. Good start. Can we pull a secret? We have not done that yet. Still looking for a secret rare. We have a Morphin Jar. New and Odin. Lots of packs to potentially pull everything that we want. Imperial Order. So no Genzo in the first box. That's okay. Secret Rare. We have our seven out of 22 that comes in the first box. It's basically guaranteed, unless you don't get a secret or something. Or get one Ultra, which is possible. I had one box like that yesterday, I think. Okay. It might have been two videos ago. Not sure. All right. Let's go. DNA Surgery. We have a Vampire Baby. Sodom Wishes and Respect Play. Good stuff. Good, good stuff. Hopefully you guys are having a great day watching this and enjoying the long video. Hopefully you have your popcorn. Popcorn time. Maybe lunch. It might be lunchtime for a lot of you guys. It's when I release it. Lunchtime around my time, at least. I know there's a lot of people watching from around the world. We have Nobleman of Crossout. Which is always pretty cool. People watching from Australia. You know, Europe. Germany is a big one. A lot of you guys in Germany. Shout out to you guys. The Germans watching the Ruckson 34 content. I appreciate you guys. Onitank Ruckson 34. Lots of packs to go. We have pulled already a bunch of different foils. We've got eight different ones so far. Out of 22. Maybe Pharaoh's Sermon can be our absolute fastest. We've always had great luck with Pharaoh's Sermon. So maybe this can be it. Chain Destruction. Usually one that you don't want to pull. But I am super happy to pull it for the first time and hopefully never again in this opening. We want to pull it one time. We don't want any doubles of that card. Now we're still looking for that Ginzo. We're looking for that Buster Blader. That Thousand Eyes Restrict. We haven't pulled any of those. Grave Robber. Another unique one. Wow. Good start right now. We're already up to 10 out of 22 and we have just barely started. I think we're on the second box. So if we can get the right RNG, we can potentially, that's another new one, Fairy Meteor Crush. That's already seven of the supers. And the first couple of boxes, no repeats yet. I'm going to jinx this for sure. We're definitely about to get one. Monster Recovery and Sword Hunter. Good stuff. Good stuff. But what a great start. We just need that Ginzo. We need another Ultra here and we are looking real good. We have a Insect Imitation. Another awesome card. Let's keep it going. We have three added Gido. We have a Vampire Baby and the Baby Vampire. All right. Next pack. Let's see. Will it have the Ginzo inside? Let's see. No. Skull Imitation. Okay. Maybe the next time. Can we get that Secret Rare Ginzo? We have a Limited Removal. That's our first double of the day. Okay. It took 11 foils to get a double. That's not bad. We need a Ginzo. We pulled 11 foils without a Ginzo so far. That's pretty insane. We pulled so few double. I mean, we've got one double right now. We definitely jinxed it earlier right before. But we can do this. We can pull another Ultra that we need. Come on. We have a Insect Barrier. Come on. Give it to us. Oh, a Thousand Eyes Restrict Ultra Rare. One of the best cards you can pull. And a unique Ultra. So we are on a really good pace right now with 12 unique foils already. All right. Next pack. Here we go. Can we get that Ginzo? We're halfway through. No Ginzo yet. Only tank ruckson 34. Good to see that already. Feral Servant is starting off with great luck. Will they be able to beat L.O.B. with the... Oh, a double Imperial Order. No, that's not a Ginzo. Will they be able to beat L.O.B. seven boxes? That's been the best one so far. Dark Fire number two. Major Riot. Okay. We're still looking. We still need three Supers. We need six Ultras. We need one Secret. Still a lot that we need to complete this set. We have Dokuro Yaiba. All right. Double's not bad for 14 total foils. 12 being unique. That's not bad at all. We have a Armored Glass. Salamwee Shits. Let's go. We have Gift of the Miscal Elf. We have a Sword Hunter. Keys of Tyre with that little finger. Can we get a Ceasefire? That is a new Ultrarare as well. All right. We'll take it halfway through. And then an Only Tank Ruckson 34. Not a bad pack there. Okay. So we are up to 13 out of 22 foils with half of the Ultras down. Very good start today. Very, very good start. Let's see if we can continue and keep pulling awesome stuff. We have a Magical Hats. Another new one. This is insane. We already have 14 foils out of 22. We basically just started, it feels like. Incredible luck, but will it turn at some point or will we continue to get this lucky? And just keep pulling the cards that we need. Enchanted Javelin. Magic Drain. That is nothing. Can we pull an awesome Jinzo? What? We're really holding off though. We've pulled all these other foils. I've not pulled Jinzo yet. We've got a Double Imperial Order so far, which you don't really love to see. And we have a Insect Barrier and Insect Barrier, I should say. Come on. We need this luck to continue. Prohibition. Very nice garden. Can we beat LOB's seven boxes? Gear-free the Iron Knight. Another new Super Rare. I think we only need one more. Nine Supers. Five Ultras. One secret. Wow. That gives us 15 out of 22. We need one more Super. That is insane already. Been really lucky with the Ultras as well. The only repeats we've really gotten. One Super. One secret. Can we get a nice Ultra? Unique to... Oh, a backup soldier. That's all the Supers. No way. All the Supers already. It's been like two and a half boxes. We haven't even pulled three boxes worth of Supers. We have all the Supers already. That is almost the best possible luck. The only way it could have been better is if we didn't get a Double Limiter removal. We could have gotten it one Super ago. That is impressively awesome. Will the Ultras be unique as well? And will we get lucky and get them very quickly? Let's find out. We have Mubonic Vermin. Pure order. Still no Genzo though. That could be interesting if we got everything besides the Genzo. That would be some crazy. Oh, Legendary Fisherman. Another one that we don't have. We are now at 6 out of 10 Ultras. Only 10 grucks and 34. That puts us at 17 out of 22 on like the third box. This is crazy. This luck has been really crazy. But the question is will it turn around? Because all it takes is, you know, pulling doubles and it can really slow you down. No Genzo yet still. That's crazy. That's usually the secret rares. There's some of the easier ones to pull. Mirror wall. Obviously that's going to be a double because we have all of them already. All the supers now we're going to be, you know, we're going to have doubles of those. Can we get a Genzo? There it is. Our first Genzo secret rare of the opening. That puts us at, oh my, we are almost at 18 out of 22 already. So literally three boxes and we have 18 out of 22 foils. That's insane. Now we just got to get lucky with the Ultras. We could finish this in the minimum five boxes if we get extremely lucky. I don't think it's going to happen, but it could happen. I think the absolute minimum if you're pulling two Ultras is five boxes. If you do get a three Ultra, that could speed it up a little bit. But then you would also still need two, three Ultra boxes. Because one Ultra isn't going to help you enough to not have to open the fifth box. Okay. Morphing jar number two. Let's keep it going. Some been some great luck today actually. Really, really good luck. And Shannon Javelin. I mean, I'm going to be amazed if we could beat LLB. That was already a really fast time getting, you know, get in seven boxes. But if we can get in five, that would be pretty impressive. This is a new speed running challenge. Let's see if we can get. Oh, Fiend Mega Cyber. Let's go. Another Ultra Rare. Let's go. We're at 19 out of 22. There's no way this happens. There is no way we don't pull a double Ultra Rare. That is impossible. That is impossible. Zero percent chance this happens. Parasite Parasite. Of course that's a double. We already have 10. Absolutely no possible way. By the way, we haven't pulled Buster Blader yet. Just throwing that out there. That is one of the big ones that we have not pulled. What else have we not pulled? We've already pulled Premat. We haven't pulled Call of the Haunted. So we need Call of the Haunted. We need Buster Blader. And then I feel like there's a, there's like a terrible one. We haven't pulled yet. I can't think of what it is. I don't remember. Maybe we'll find out. I mean, there's no way. There's no way. We're not open another box. There's no way. That would just be too insane. We have a Sword Hunter. Okay. That's a nice scout. Could be the greatest opening of all time in terms of quickness and like getting the cards that you need in the minimum amount of opening, but it's not going to happen. It's not going to happen. Dust Runeo is a double. Very few doubles in the double stack at the moment. I'm sure that will change soon. Now that we're down to only needing three Ultra Rares backup soldier. Okay. Yeah. Getting supers there obviously going to be doubles. Let's see. We have a Numinous Healer. Awesome. Can we get those last three Ultra Rares? We have a Infinite Dismissal.  Probably going to come down to one and we're just going to open like five boxes searching for the last one. Probably the Buster Blader, you know, without the series is gone. We got this. We have a Call of the Haunted. There's one. We need it. Oh my God. No. There's no way. There is no way. We are at 20 out of 22 foils. It is impossible for us to pull all unique Ultras. There's a 90 tank rucks and 34. Should have been an Ultra to be honest. So we need Buster Blader and we need one other card. What is the other card? Limiter removal. Is there any more? We've already got 1,000 eyes. I don't think there's another fusion. Is there could be a spell? But I think premature burial is the only one. Maybe it is a trap. Another trap. Why do I feel like it's another like kind of garbage trap? But I can't remember what it is. We've already had chain destruction and that might have been the one I was kind of thinking of. Hmm. I don't know actually what that is. Maybe we'll figure it out. Genzo again. All right. Another Genzo. That's awesome. We got our four secret so far. Will we get five and get, you know, one in every box in this opening? Find out. Only tank rucks in 34. Here we go. Send us that luck. We have driving snow, mad sword beast, Mr. Volcano and his flaming finger. We have Geruchin Kuwagata. Great, Robert. Okay. I'm just waiting for that double ultra to come. I know what's going to happen in this box. Here it comes. Cold wave. Propriate. Here it comes. Double thousand eyes restrict or legendary fishmender or premat please. If it's going to be anything. Dokuro Yaiba. Or call it on. It wouldn't be bad either. Solomon's Law Book. We have a nobleman of extermination. Only tank rucks in 34. That's always at the end of the pack for some reason. I always almost miss it. This is the last card. We have a goblin attack force. That was the other one. Goblin attack force. We're literally one away. We are one away with our fifth box ringer. All we have to pull is a buster blader, which I have already pulled in our first opening. And of course now I need it. It's always one of the best cards at the end. It's insane. If there is a buster blader in this box, this is insane. We just picked the perfect box as magical hats. Cool. Wow. Hopefully another Genzo too. We have two Genzos. Two Imperial Orders right now. It'd be nice to get three Genzos. Flame Champ. Now bless us with an epic pull. If we get it in five boxes, this is literally insane. Hopefully you guys have enjoyed this so far. It's been one of the craziest openings of these five so far, for sure. Our fourth overall. We have Invasion of Chaos tomorrow. Now Invasion of Chaos is going to take us like forever. It's going to take like two hours to pull all of them probably. Based on how well this is going, Will there be a buster blader? I don't know. There's going to be one more Ultra. I'm starting to believe, guys. I'm starting to believe in the heart of the cards here. At first I was like, no way. There's no possible way. We're going to get doubles. And now it just seems like fate. Will it be, will it be the case? Or will it smack us in the face? With some double. We have a Numinous Healer, only 10 crocs and 34. All right. Here we go. Steel or Gregorado. We have a buster blader. I knew it. I had the feeling this is insane. That is officially it. Easily our fastest video to all the foils. We opened the minimum number of box. We didn't even finish the fifth box. And we opened all the foil cards in the set. That was absolutely insane. If you guys enjoyed the video, make sure to subscribe and go check out the other videos from this series. They are right here and there will be a new one tomorrow and then a live stream Tuesday. So hope to see you there. Shout out to Tomfoshow, Daxer, JT Cho, Puffins of Doom, Ernesto D&M, Nicycle, America Doyster, Supreme Stage 21, another Thai show, Ian Musa, Junior Barting, and Mimic Echo. Thank you guys for supporting the channel and I'll see you guys in the next one. Peace.


Thank you. Thank you very much for this introduction. Let me express my deepest gratitude to all the organizers who invited me to this Marvellous event. And it's a honor to have a floor, or I don't know, a screen here. You know, I'm, as Ali just said, in a cold Moscow, and the workshop is in Trieste. So I can imagine, see the sun. By the way, the sun is the subject, is a topic of my today's talk. My plan is quite simple. First, I'll introduce a brief, but I hope exciting description of the sun as a complex system. And then I'll take an advantage of this full lecture, and not just 20-minute talk, to give you an example of a solved problem, a problem of sudden desynchronization of the components of the solar magnetic field. I'll show you the complete way from the formulation of the problem to a possible solution. So we'll discuss even some technical details. I have a computer code, which I cannot share in the format of the lecture, because it is impossible to follow the code. But the code is written for everybody with full explanations. So I can send it to anybody who is interested in. The mathematical component deals with the so-called Kuramoto model of cow-pulled oscillators. And we discuss the simplest case when there are just two differential equations, but not independent. They are cow-pulled. And we will see what is this and how to use this model, these two equations. So the first part, the sun is a complex system. You will see a lot of pictures. And so this part, I hope, is really very exciting, because we can see the sun from different points of view. First of all, the first picture is the sun itself in different scales.  And I know, look at it at the picture. These black areas are called sunspots. They are visible with a telescope. And these black areas, these sunspots is an input of many, many models, looking at them, observing them, processing them, collecting information, and, in fact, can reveal a lot about the sun. But just now, using these marvelous pictures from the NASA websites, both of them show us these sunspots. And you see that the sun is extremely heterogeneous. The sun gives us also an example of regularity breaking. Because the sun is rotating as the Earth does. But you know the period of rotation of the Earth. It's one day and day, night, day, night. So we are accustomed to this rotation. At the first sight, it is difficult to believe that the sun exhibits differential rotation. The period of the rotation depends on the latitude. And you see the picture, which represents different periods, as I said, depending on the latitude. The period varies from 25 to 32 days, depending on the location. And the average period, the number that you can see everywhere, it is approximately 27 days, as it is observed from the Earth. Let us return to the sunspots, which will be the main character of my today's presentation. And return to heterogeneity, heterogeneous observations. Because the sun is an example of heterogeneous observations. Now you see the sun at, I don't remember when.  And now you know that these areas represent sunspots. And some of them are clustered. Scientists call each cluster as a group of sunspots, or sunspot group. And you see two sunspot groups in this picture. But two and not two. Probably three to four weeks later, the sun is a little bit different. The activity increases. And as a result, the number of the groups, not two, but four now. And you see that these black areas are larger than at the left. And these areas, these sunspots, generate a solar index, index of solar activity in early days called the wolf number after wolf who proposed this index. It is computed. It is defined as the number of groups four at the right multiplied by 10 plus the number of sunspots and multiplied by a specific coefficient, so-called observer coefficient. We will look at this proxy at wolf numbers as a proxy to solar activity many times during today's lecture. By the way, the name, which was the wolf numbers, changed. And now scientists address to it as international sunspot numbers, ISSN, this notation will appear later. But now let me give a historical note. It was Ludovic XIV, the sun king, Rudi Soleil, who declared to observe sunspots. And what happened at the time, almost immediately after the sun king, do not forget the sun king, declared to observe them, they disappeared. They disappeared. And the poh, called the Mounder minimum, or Mounder pose, started. It's really very interesting that, at some moment, solar activity was very, very small. It lasted for almost 100 years. And to see it, you have to look at this graph, in this graph, at the red curve, which is almost invisible, because it almost coincides with the horizontal axis. This is the level of activity. So it dropped in the beginning of 70th century, almost to zero. And some values were recovered only in the end of the century. You can say, well, it was closed because no one observed, even despite the king declared to observe. But it is not the case, because there were observations. And the number of observations is shown as a background. So we see that people, a lot of people, here is a number of observations that was made, that is in blue. And despite these observations, almost nothing was observed. So you can look at the sun as an example of numerous observations. The sun is an example of cyclicity. And it's not just a picture of a butterfly. This is another thing. Each vertical line represents a lot of dots. And these dots are observed sunspots. Sunspots observed along, this is the misprint, along the logit, logit. So the vertical axis represents the location along the logit. And for example, as the very left, the sunspots were observed, well, somewhere in the middle latitudes. Here, I hope that my mouse is visible. The sunspots were observed close to the equator. At some time, because the horizontal axis represents time. So some time, as for instance, I don't know, but for instance, here where is my mouse, the sunspots were observed in order, let me say, like this. So let me collect many regularities of this picture. Well, first of all, it is Sasha. You know, we have a problem with your lecture because it's interrupts. Maybe you have a low internet activity right now at your place. But is it possible to switch off your video? Now you are muted. Please unmute. Yes, but still I have a problem. I don't hear you. I don't know others. Could you write in the chat? Do you hear Professor Shupaval? OK, now unmute please yourself. I'm sorry for this. Yes, now it's OK. Fine. It's very strange because I understood the problem. But all the time, well, OK, the connection is nice. But anyway, now it's fine. Yes, now it's fine. Let's follow. So let me share the screen. Wait for a moment. I'll have a look at chat one moment. So my plan is to start with this slide. So let me go backward. Previously, I discussed this picture and tried to say that the sun is an example of numerous observations. And I stressed your retention on the mountain pose when the sunspots was almost absent. And it is shown by the red cube. And now I'm going to show you the proposal to look at the sun as an example of cyclicity. What is here? The horizontal axis is time. The vertical axis is the location of sunspots at a given day along the longitude. This is a misprint. It is not a latitude. It must be longitude. And you see that at different time moments, sunspots are located at different latitudes. For example, they are almost never located at high latitudes close to the poles. Then you see the equator world drift of sunspots as the cycle proceeds. Let me recall that from the left to the right, the time goes on. And you see the equator world shift from left to right. You also see that, well, at the first sight, that the picture is symmetrical with respect to the solar equator. But sometimes, for example, here, where my mouse is, you see a clear asymmetry. So we could expect the symmetry with respect to the equator. Still, the astrophysicist is interested in symmetry breaking. The goal is to explain why the symmetry is broken from time to time. And we will return to, well, reasons. Let me say reasoned episode of asymmetry, which happened in 1960s to 1970s in so-called 20s cycle. And interestingly, that frequently at solar minima, the sunspots of both cycles are visible. Solar minima means that the solar activity is in its minimum. And during the minima, the sunspots of both cycles are visible. Sports of a new cycle appear far from the equator, like here. And at the same time, you see the sunspots close to the equator. And they are the sunspots of the ending cycle. And, well, you can guess the name of this picture. It is called butterfly diagram, because it reminds us a butterfly. I talked about cyclicity. And you see this quasi-cycle from minima to minima, from minima to minima. And it's approximately 11 years. It's called solar cycle. It lasts approximately 11 years. And this is, let me say, the main regularity of solar activity. But because of change of polarity, the magnetic cycle consists of two sequential solar cycles. And that is why we have another regularity related to the solar magnetic field, which is approximately two solar cycles or 22 years. It is called hail cycle. So let's return to wolf numbers that were improved, let me say, like this, by different teams. And now they are called international sunspot numbers. They are observed daily from more than 100 years, from 1870, we have regular observations without gaps. As you remember, these observations started at the time of Ludovic of Louis XIV. And from 1870, we have daily observation without gaps. And you see these daily observations, a number of cycles. And you can guess where are minimized maxima. And we can smooth the data with four-year moving window. And then you see a wave. And it's a good question. How similar is this wave to a sine wave? And we will return to this question later. And 11-year cycle is quite visible. But let me stress that it's not a cycle. It's not the exact regularity. It's quasi-regularity. It's quasi-cycle because the period in quotes and amplitude vary from cycle to cycle. And you can even see that from the beginning of the 20th century, the cycles are in general larger. So we see a long wave. And this is indeed another regularity called Gleisberg cycle. Cycles, it lasts. Well, it's called secular cycle. The length is not extremely clear. It's like four sequential solar cycles. So up to 8 multiplied by 11 is 88. So it's up to 100 years. Now we can look at solar cycle and other cycles with different scale. Now you see the observations, the proxy of solar activity, another proxy group number. And I explained what is the group of sunspots. And you see this index from the time of Louis XIV. And here, in addition to the solar cycle, which is clearly observed, we see the Mounder minimum or the Mounder pose at the left, another minimum not so strong, which is called Dalton minimum. And you can guess this large secular wave.  But you can believe in this large wave of approximately 100 years old Gleisberg cycle. If you look further in the past, you can see even larger cycles. We know cycles, quasi cycles that last for millennium, cycles that last for approximately 2,000 years called Holstadt cycle. And you see that it looks like you have periods. The periods are doubled from 11 to 24, 22 years, from 22 to 88, eight cycles in a row, from 1,000 years to 2,000 years. And you know that this is a trace of low dimensional chaos. So you can treat the sun as an example of a low dimensional chaos. It's not a single trace, which I just shown you. There are many related to well-known characteristics of chaotic systems like Laponoff exponent or fractal dimension of related proxies. But just to give you intuition, I show this simple picture. And I'm not going to go beyond that. Again, just to give you an example of synchronization, which is observed with solar proxies. And now we can look at the sun as a system with the sun as an example of synchronization. I presented a lot of different time series related to solar activity. And I'm not going to quantify them right now. But you see one, two, three, five different series. They are, their definition are absolutely different. But because they are related to the sun, they are related to one another, and they follow one another. You see almost, well, you see very similar pattern exhibited by each of these series. So the sun is an example of synchronization. Now I want to say that the sun is an example of de-synchronization. And as a first sight, well, it looks that I'm cheating because these two series are nicely synchronized. You see almost exact anti-correlation, almost exact anti-correlation. So you look, it's almost as if it were a mirror between two series as the scale which is presented. But if we change the scale, if we consider the scale of several years, you can see, and I will show where, these two nicely synchronized proxies suddenly exhibited de-synchronization. For example, last points, it's very right. You see that the both curves go downward, go to the same direction. And this is not a single anomaly. Let's look at the minima of the lower curve and the oscillation around some level between 1970 and almost 1980 where this anti-correlation suddenly disappeared. And as a result, you see the change in the scale. You see that even nicely synchronized series could lose de-synchronization. You see an example of sudden de-synchronization, example of anomalies that have to be explained and understood. And the sun is an example of one of those predictions. And this is very interesting and exciting and intriguing picture. Well, if you know a lot about a system, you could try to predict its future. It's very interesting if you think about the sun. Regarding the solar cycle, you could try to predict the time of the next solar maximum and the amplitude at the maximum. This picture summarizes a lot of predictions of the maximal amplitude of the previous cycle, cycle 24. Now we are in cycle 25. The predictions are summarized according to their methods. So each rectangle represents a range of predictions, roughly speaking, done with the same method. And black dots show you the average obtained with each method. The area shows the variation of the prediction, the variation of this black dot, if you allow me such speaking. The black dashed line is the global average, the average of all these predictions. The blue line is the real value. And you see that the majority of predictions are larger than the true value. So we can conclude that even despite the scientists know a lot about the sun and are raised successful in understanding the solar dynamo mechanism, we have a lot of work. So we should not avoid working with the solar data because everything is known. No, not everything. Our predictions can be significantly improved. To conclude this part, I would say that the sun is a simple, natural example of a complex system with continuous development of knowledge, huge data volume, non-linear modeling, and non-trivial prediction. Well, the part with a lot of pictures is over. And now I am going to introduce an example of an inverse problem when we will try to identify of episodes of desynchronization. To start, I recall you the butterfly diagram. And you remember this marvelous story about equator word drift of sunspots as solar cycles proceed. And now let's think about some explanation about physical mechanism that stays, that underlies this drift. First of all, we can think that there are different components of solar magnetic field. There is so-called toroidal component of the solar magnetic field related to the equator. There is a poloidal component related to the poles. And magnetic field performs a transformation. I answer if it leads, if you don't mind. And so the last, the minimum was OK. So there is a question, you said, OK. You said amplitude vary from cycle to cycle, which is very clear. Can we also call that solar activity level? I'm not sure that I understand this question. I think that during the question and answer session, you'd better explain a bit more. But the last, the minimum was in the beginning of 2009. It's regarding your second question in the chat. So let me now return to toroidal and poloidal components of the solar magnetic field and describe very roughly, very, very roughly, the transformation between how magnetic field transforms from toroidal magnetic field to poloidal and then back. You can think about a flow, a flow which is sketched in white in this figure. So it's done with my hand, with my pen. And this brief and rough presentation, to some extent, correct. Indeed, the transformation from toroidal to poloidal components is performed in the solar surface. And the backward transformation happens in deeper layers of the sun. Recently, some observations with satellites become possible. And we know the speed. We better know the speed in the upper layers than in deeper layers of the sun. But still, there are estimates of booths. And this part of the flow is characterized by larger speed. And the motion is very, very slow in deeper layers. In what follows, we will need proxies to both components of the solar magnetic field. And we have them. One of the proxies is sunspot numbers, wolf numbers, international sunspot numbers. So the series I have already shown. The second proxy is called magnetic AA index. And it corresponds to the poloidal component. What is important, now we see the picture, the graph of the two proxies, where sunspot numbers, ISSN, is in red. And the second index is in blue. These two smoothed indices exhibit a phase shift almost everywhere. So we see that the blue curve go a little bit ahead. Not everywhere. You see clear exception at the beginning, at the very beginning, then, but probably it's relatively short period of time, but still, then, as the second, full maximum. And this phase of synchronization lasts probably for a cycle up to the next, almost to the next maximum. And then blue curve goes ahead. And in the 1960s, you see another moment, first of the synchronization of the both indices. And then, even a disaster, because the blue curve for a moment stopped following a solar cycle. So let me repeat. The red curve, which is quite smooth, follow the solar cycle everywhere. It's not surprising, because this is a proxy to solar activity. And you see this wave everywhere. It's not the case for geomagnetic index in the 1960s, because you see, this is a wave, then it goes down, then up. And instead of going down after a short stop, it continues upward moving. So something happened during the 20s cycle, during the 1960s. And it is, you can see it with innate eye. And there was, and probably still is, a discussion of what happened at that time. And let me stress your attention that nowadays, you do not see something like 100 years ago, something like in the beginning of the 20th century, or in the 1960s. I need a minute or two to pose the problem, and then we'll make a break, 10 minute break. What I'm going to show you is a story about the period of solar cycle. We understood, it's clear, that it varies from cycle to cycle. We can, and probably this is another attempt to answer the question from the chart, we can give value. We can compute the period. We can compute the instantaneous period of solar cycle using Fourier transform. I'll postpone details to the second part, how to compute. So let's assume that we are able to perform the computation. And the instantaneous period computed with ISSN is in orange, with AA in blue. And the average, let's also postpone what doesn't mean the average in green. And you see the oscillation around 11 years, which is expected because the period is approximately 11 years. But then you see at least two exceptions. In the beginning of the century, in the 1970s, it's the peak, so in the 1960s and 1970s. And it's the very end, which corresponds to nowadays. And let me recall that with this graph, we see nothing interesting at the right. And the main question is, will anomalous growth in the instantaneous period results in desynchronization of toroidal and poloidal components of the solar magnetic field? I am going to start my second part exactly with this slide. And probably, first of all, I answer questions.  Yes, fine. Yeah, thank you very much, Alexander. It actually is a fantastic knowledge, at least for me, about the desynchronization and desynchronization. Indeed, we are talking about the complex Earth, but some, I think, will give us more and more surprises with time of the gathering information and data from this. And indeed, the socialization of this data and analysis of this data and the understanding through the inverse problem, it's very important. Thank you very much. Now, 10 minutes break. And then we will.


Welcome to another episode of The Developer Show. This is a program where we showcase up-and-coming developments, talk investments, and show you how you can find yourself living in the heart of Sampson. Behind me, you see Wedgewood, which is Baldwin's latest offering into the market, so follow me while we go inside and show you how you can find yourself living in this absolutely exclusive property. We're going to speak to the guys, we're going to give you some real solid advice, and I think you're going to find this whole episode very exciting. Let's go. Good afternoon and welcome to the latest episode of The Developer Show. Today, we are sitting in Sampson, and we have got a very, very special guest, who is Stephen Boertzer, who is the director of Rainmaker Marketing. My name is Chad, and I'll be your host. And, Stephen, thank you so much for taking some time out on this very busy day. It looks like judging by the cars and the parking lot. Yeah. So, have a good interview with me. No, thanks, Chad. Thanks for being here.  We're saying it's probably the most anticipated residential launch in the country scene, and today the guys have queued through the night for the release of Wedgewood Sampson, which is happening today at 8 o'clock. So, I think we've got 45 minutes to go, and yeah, I've really pumped it together here. And we are starting. So, like you'd mentioned, Wedgewood Sampson, that's the development of the hour. But what I'd like to start off with is a question I tend to ask all of the guys on the show, and that is, can you introduce us to yourself, introduce us to your team, and also what a client can expect if they decide to go down this journey with Rainmaker Media? Yeah, sure. So, I think a bit of context, so, I mean, behind you, which you'll probably see during the course of this, there's a fully integrated team here, which is, people have arrived for the day, the big demand has been in terms of price points, and there's price points that have never been seen in Sampson before, and I think the whole process here is the fact that guys have had the ability to pre-qualify themselves as a bond. We've had over 450 people who've actually been pre-qualified through mortgage market who are the mortgage origination partners, and I think you're going to chat to Tim at some stage, and then the whole idea to get people here on a first come, first of basis and get them through, we've got a whole interactive element, and people have the ability to purchase online, so I think we'll see a hybrid between people purchasing online and virtually, and a huge influx of people who expect here today, and then done pretty smoothly in terms of, from there, in terms of your mortgage application, your $10,000 in deposit, which is quite unique to Baldwin in terms of the special and the product in Sampson, and then how all the transfer costs, et cetera, include into your purchase process. The whole integrated system, which is something that Baldwin have rolled out really successfully. I mean, what you guys have done here today is absolutely incredible, but let's talk about Wedgewood-Santon. When I say Santon, I'm not talking about four-way Santon or we are close to Santon, we are literally standing in Santon. There's a beautiful view over the Leonardo from the site, and Santon City is just around the corner from us, within easy walking distance, strolling distance. You could probably have this conversation on the way there. No, no, no. So, tell me a bit about Wedgewood and what a client can expect if they decide to purchase within Wedgewood. Okay, so I think the biggest thing, as Mark said, we always use the term Sanson very loosely. Sanson can be 20 Ks on either side, and it's really unique. I know when Steve Brooks came to us from 401 and said, listen, we sort of say it's like, can it really be that you knew within 200 meters of the half-chain and literally right next, I mean, as you guys know, the red is in the corner, old mutual across the road. So, I think Baldwin's got a very unique element in terms of they have the ability to bring in price points that no one else can bring in. I think it's got a lot to do with scale. It's a huge development. It's probably the biggest sexual-class development in the North of the country's history, 1,348 apartments, and we're large architects who are internationally award-winning architects. We've done a lot of stuff with Baldwin before. They've been geniuses, they've had a creative product where they've created small living spaces which are economically done and to try to get into a right price point. I think we started 27,000 a square, where I think most developments in Tintin are starting at 45,000 to 50,000 a square, and it's done because of that and then supersizing with facilities. Starting with your motherland coffee in terms of how these structures are going to work all the way through to your co-working spaces, through your restaurants, through your recreational pool areas, and then they've stepped up all the recreational areas step by step. So, they've got the artful cinema, they've got the Texas Art Soccer pictures, they've got the, it's just, it's a whole new way of living and to bring that into sense. And I think the whole passion behind this product has been how to allow more people from outside areas to have the ability to own within sense and I think that's where there's such a big thing today that the first unit, the 38 units from 719 are only reserved for people who are going to be living here permanently that haven't been opened up to the better than the whole big massive thing. I know, I know, you funny, for example, who many of you know, he's a brand ambassador born in his whole thing the whole time is how do you allow more people to own property and to stand the property purchasing process is why we try to integrate everything and to get them into prime locations and this is, it's not more prime than this. Absolutely. And we've had three or almost 4,000 inquiries to date. I've been going ballistic and we really are speaking to break record today, which is very exciting for the top market as a whole, especially considering that there's so much other factors around the economy and all the rest. So it's really exciting for the market as a whole.  It's a massive relationship. How do you know you're purchasing quality? And with Baldwin, they've got a history of providing quality development and with this development specifically, how have you managed to get that price point that you're offering it for? So let's say, let me actually phrase it like this. What unit types have you got available and what are the price points they're going for? Yeah, so there's a combination. So what's quite interesting is that 80, I think 70% of the units with an entire developer are under 1.2 million. 40% are under 1 million. And that in itself is pretty unique. So there's a huge combination of these units are studios. They're a couple of different combinations of studios. And yeah, so there's a small complex basis. But last, they've done a really good job in terms of how they've created those spaces and privacy. Each one's got balconies, which is really important. And it goes up 19 stories from the building. So people have got the ability to either face northeast, south, and west. So those studios start from $799,000 and I think with interest rates being as low as they are currently, those bond repayments started about $6,100 and I think $20,000. Our marketing is how do you own Samsung from <IP_ADDRESS>. And then there are one bed which starts from $299,000 and then the two beds go up from about 1.5 upwards. And obviously, the higher you go in the building. And it's quite unique. I mean, from the 8th floor up, you're going to have uninterrupted views over Samsung, which will never change face. So it's pretty exciting. I think that's all done based on scale. And I think the big thing is what's included. So what's quite unique is all your big appliances are included down to your microwave and all the rest, which is this fast point is unheard of. And then the biggest thing from an investment perspective that I always say is look at certain things. Who's the developer? What are your barriers to entry into what's your deposit amount? For us, the $10,000 deposit is a huge thing. You're not paying a 10% deposit, which is often the case. And then looking at your cost prior to purchase. So the big thing here is that if you go through mortgage market, you get all your transfer and bond registration costs included, which is a huge thing. That probably saves you about another $25,000.  So there are a lot of those that would add on elements. But we've got a green bond structure where you get between 0.25 and 0.5% off your bond. So when you stack all those things together, I know a lot of guys are talking about a unicorn product, but it is very unique. And I think that's why the demand has been off the charts is because I think people understand this kind of thing won't come around again. Now I absolutely agree with you in you saying it's unique because like you've mentioned, the pricing is so good in your year in Samsung and tying that in with where the interest rate is, there's absolutely no way first time home buyers and the people you've marketed this product to aren't going to make a brilliant investment through the course of it. Tell me what other amenities, you've got Wedgewood right there in the back, it looks beautiful. What other amenities can people expect if they decide to purchase in Wedgewood? Within the building itself. Yeah, so I think, obviously they've done a big thing in terms of, I don't know if you know the brand Training Science. The Training Science is, we're not calling it a gym because it's almost like a new age way of things.  That's a huge component of the space. So that's on the ground floor with the pool and the recreational areas. Lots of back access routes, et cetera, et cetera. We've done a partnership with the Glasgow Park app. Then Park app are next level in terms of how they've created a flexible parking solution app where you have the ability to be able to utilize parking within the building but also in surrounding areas and for visitors and all that kind of stuff, which is really quite unique in itself. And then as you go up in terms of the flexible work spaces, it's a huge work, sort of central work area with workspaces and conferencing rooms and all the rest.  Well, it looks like there's a soccer pitch right on the roof there. There's a soccer pitch right on the roof. So soccer pitch and then the art or cinema above that, there's a massive art or chess area. And then the steps up into different chill road zones and relaxation zones. So yeah, I mean, the architects, I can't even give them too much credit, but they've worked so much, but they've got an incredible job in terms of how they've structured it. I think if you're living in a house with a soccer pitch on the roof, you are living in an apartment with that pit and you'll cool. No, absolutely. And I think where the big thing is here is you're going to have your first-time buyers or your guys who just want to live in Santon. There's a huge opportunity there. And then naturally, you're going to see the investor market is going to be a huge thing. And then there's going to be a very, the huge component of a building of the site is that the rental management solution, making sure that it's all controlled, where it'll be short-term, all-long-term. And the rental yield is a huge thing from a basic perspective. So we are projecting that pretty much all the unit types should be cash flow positive from year one, based on the fact that if you take into account what your bond repayments are versus what the rental income that our research team have projected versus the very low levies, which is also a huge component. And the levies are 16 round-of-screen meters, where probably anywhere in Alston, Sanford, you're probably looking for about 30 round-of-screen meters. So in a studio, you're paying about 450 round-of-month levies. So, yeah, so I think that's a huge component. So those facilities are so cool to making sure that whether it's a short-term or long-term later, whether it's a permanent residence that it's all catered for. Down to all the bike stations, motorbike stations, there's a whole host of different things that's coming through. If you move into Westwood, it seems like you'll never need to leave, I'd say, about a couple of hundred meters around the apartment. You wouldn't need to leave. I think that was the version. And I think there's obviously, I think this is revolutionary in its time in terms of you need to develop these bold enough to be able to put something like this together. And where we see a huge amount of this is if you look at a huge component of the target market, which is coming from outlying areas, we did a huge sort of market research survey beforehand in terms of where a lot of those guys who want to live here currently live and where they work. And a huge amount of the people are living outside the center, the 35% of working inside the center. And if you start taking the ability to be able to save on things like travel, even when it comes in future, I believe guys will Uber and do various different things, it will save costs. And when you start doing that and understanding what this can offer to just to the property market as a whole and to people who want to get into the market, it's massive. And I think there's a far greater impact to this country the whole when guys are having the vision and the guts to pull them like this all. I think this is the only development that brings real New York living to Khartin, where you don't need a car because you could possibly work just up the road. I mean, your shopping centers are right here. You've got your gym in the house, you've got your workspace in the house, you've got your activities in the house, a movie set in the house. I mean, you can have date nights on the roof. So there's no real reason to leave. And I think that brings that real beauty and the romance of living in New York right here in Khartin. Yeah, absolutely. And I mean, just the design itself, I mean, we're obviously standing next to the model and we've got Khartin right here and we've got our mutual costs right. But just the dance, the virtual landscaping, it's a green building so it's age certified, which is why you actually get a saving on your bond. And that's also like, how do you bring down your carbon footprint, how do you, it's just, it is a, this concept was inspired and credit to Steve Brooks and credit to the architects in terms of stuff that's happening in New York, London, the leading destination of the world where this whole macro living, I wouldn't call it macro living, but this whole lifestyle, apartment style has really, really sort of taken off the guard to just super fast facilities in the building, which you can do through scale and you can do it through creating both buildings of pretty much big magnitude. So you guys are breaking ground here. We've just arrived on the site.  Yeah, it's actually filling up. I'm just actually looking over your shoulder. There's a car streaming at the moment, which is great. So tell me, when somebody arrives here to come speak to you guys, I believe your sales offices are going to be off to this. What do they need to keep in mind when viewing this area and also what type, let our viewers know, when is this going to be completed? When can they expect to move in if they decide to come here and say, Steve, I love this, I want to purchase, when can they expect to move in? So, and I think that's a big thing. So it's that where it is unique is that we do expect to break sales records there in terms of the level of interest and so forth, which means that four are going to be in position to break ground in March, which is pretty unheard of for a development of this scale. And then they've got a 24-month completion, which is also pretty unheard of. They've got ability to get things done pretty quickly. So the first guys will be in here, 28th of February 2023, which is two and a half years from just under two and a half years from maybe an hour. The benefit to that is the off-plan capital appreciation. Guys are paying 10,000 around now. No cost between now and then they just need to get their bond in place to move to market off provided cash guarantee. And then they're going to see the capital appreciation. I think we all know that that capital appreciation at this price is hard. You never want to predict too much, but I think that's where the guys are going to see a huge opportunity. And that's always a benefit of buying off plan. So this sales office is going to be here until pretty much we break ground, which is the next three or four months. So we obviously encourage guys to come in here. The address, you can't miss it. You literally walk down the road and there's 100 meters of hoarding that takes you in here. And this setup we've created here is going to be where the home of Wedge is going to be until the first phase goes into run. So yeah, it's exciting. And yeah, it's an exciting time. Well, Stephen Brutha, thank you very much. Thanks very much. It's a great job, Rainmaker. Yeah, I really appreciate you guys making the time to be here. And we look forward to keeping you updated. It's exciting during your head. Looking forward to it as well. Thank you very much. Finally, all in properties welcomes you to the heart of Santa. To bring you our first high-rise apartment development, Wedgewood. Re-imagine cosmopolitan living in Africa's richest square mile. Reinvent your lifestyle from only 799,000 red. Go to wedgwoodsanton.co.za. Welcome back to The Developer Show. My name is Chad and I'll be your host. And today we are joined by Tim Akinasi, who is the CEO of Mortgage Markets. Tim, thank you so much for taking time to join us. Yeah, good to be with you, Chad. I had a very, very interesting with Stefan. And I thought we'd now sit down with you. So could you tell our viewers what Mortgage Market is and what kind of role it plays in the development of Wedgewood and in the sales of Wedgewood as well? Sure. So quite simply, Mortgage Market is a platform that allows customers to go directly to all of the banks in the country to get a home loan. They'll be able to compare home loans literally from the comfort of wherever they are, with the greatest of transparency. They'll get all the toys. We will guide them through the whole process and negotiate the best deal for them. And that's what the platform is. It's a new technology. It's never been done in South Africa. But we're pretty much a marketplace that's independent where you can get all your home loans in a matter of 20 minutes. Yeah, you also have a really great tool.  In the case of Wedgwood, we expect people to do a pre-approval fairly quickly to then understand exactly what property and what price range that they can buy in this development. Working within the industry for such a long time, I'm sure you've seen customers come in and say, look, I've spoken to my bank, and this is what they've offered me. Why is it so important to apply to all the banks and not just one, and run through a mortgage and originator like yourself? Yeah, so I think the first thing to say is that you can never really say you've gotten the best deal when you only have one bank, right? You need to be able to compare apples to apples. That's when you know you're getting the best deal. So what we do is that we actually go to the same banks, right? And that then allows you to be able to make sure that you get in the best deal. You will know for sure because you're seeing the entire suite of all the banks. So without platform, we already work with all the banks, so we will go to the banks on your behalf. And you just need to sit back, make a choice, knowing that there's the greatest transparency and that you're empowered to know that you're getting the best deal in RJ. And for customers interested in purchasing within Wedgewood, if they decide to arrive here or if they can do it over the phone, how do they get in touch with your services? So we have QR codes on our platform that can go on to Wedgewood Santander Cozar. And of course, come up here because here is where you actually get the full experience of what Wedwood is about. You will get to choose all the units. You'll get to be spoken through what to expect in the next two years until the development actually comes on stream. And you can reach us on our website, mortgagemarket.co.zde, and we'll be able to share with you any information you have about that entire buying journey. And most importantly, why this development and not anywhere else. So me and Stefan spoke at, I'd say at length, about why Wedgewood is such a good investment opportunity. Could you go from the financial perspective and expand on why it is a good investment opportunity and just touch on not only the capital gains, but on the initial cost that a customer has to lay down to start off with? So for first time home buyers, buying in a development is a perfect way to break into the market because all of your costs are included. So using our platform, when we go to the banks, you actually don't pay any transfer duties. You don't pay any registration costs. All of that is handled through us. The most important thing is that when you're buying a development like Wedgewood, you're not just buying intent, which is obviously the richest square mile in Africa, but you're also buying a development that has all of the amenities, right? So you have a soccer pitch on top. You've got motherland coffee that's coming. You've got a state of the art gym facility. You've got co-working spaces. And you're right on the doorstep of all the schools, the major corporate, and Stanton City. So all of those amenities, what's going to give this property its true influence and value. That's what's going to make sure that the investment will continue to grow into the future. Scarcity is the name of the game.  So that literally means at this price point, this is the lowest price point that you will get in the property sector within Stanton. And that's what makes this a true unit hand in terms of property investment. I like that. It's unicorn. So for customers tuning in, what costs do they need to look at if they decide to purchase into Wedgewood? Obviously, there's a price of what unit they choose, but what other costs do they need to this budget for? And also, let's talk a bit about transfer duty. I think so many customers like to tune in. And their year's developments are great because you don't have to pay their transfer duty.  So what is transfer duty and why don't you have to pay for development? OK. So in this case, the transfer duty is the tax that the government levies. So basically, you will, for any development, you actually won't pay any transfer duties for a property that's below a million. But you will be paying transfer costs and the bond registration costs. We absorb that as part of the development team, so you don't have to pay that. The other thing is that you will come here, obviously, pay $10,000 to secure the unit. And what we'll then do is that we will go to the bank on your behalf and get the bond in place. Now, that's critical because your bond will be in place, you don't have to service that facility until the unit is actually built in 2023. And you don't then have to be involved in any other cost, except repaying your bond. And then, of course, there's the levies. There's the levies raising taxes. This is probably going to attract the levy cost of about under $500 a month, which is the lowest we've ever seen. I'm sure Stefan spoke to you about the per unit cost. This is about $26,000 per square meter. The majority of other places around the same area, within 100 meters, are going for $60,000 to $80,000 square meter. So value for money-wise, this is never going to be repeated anywhere else again. I would say to customers, after they've made their purchase, keep your credit profile clean and save up. Because by the time the unit is actually built, you want to be able to put more money into your bond in the form of an access bond facility. And that's a great thing for you, when you just get into equity into the bond very early on. That's also something I wanted to talk about, in that when customers are purchasing, they don't have their transfer duty. But tell me, what else is a selling point for customers looking to purchase into their development? And specifically, those development, if they've watched the show and they say, wedge wood sounds great, they can leverage your services so they don't need to be nervous about possibly finding a bond. But maybe they've also seen that house on private property that they really like. Why go for this development over another house somewhere? So somebody gave me some good advice the other day and he said it's always best to buy the cheapest house in the best area versus going to buy the most expensive house in the worst area. So the trend is your friend over here. Because when you're buying in here, you're getting in at a price point that will never be repeated again. So your property can only appreciate in value. And I'm pretty sure that by the time wedge wood is completely built in 2023, the property value would have increased significantly as well. So you'll really get some capital appreciation, which is a great thing for investors. So first I'm homebuyers as well as investors. This is the investment for 2020 that you want to get into. So if I'm correct in saying this, essentially I'm going to sit down here and I'm going to possibly purchase a home in wedge wood. And all I need to lay down initially is a $10,000 rent deposit. And secure a bond. And secure a bond. And from then, from there, I'm immediately getting the benefit of that capital gain while the development is being built. But I'm also not paying anything on my bond until the development is completed. Is that correct? Absolutely. Absolutely. So if the win-win for you, like I said, all you would need to do is obviously be able to afford the bond now and start saving. Because by the time you need to be committed to the repayment, you no longer have to worry about a deposit that you would have really saved up enough money to put into the bond. So visit us. Come to you. You will get to know about the entire journey, what to expect in this whole process, and over the next two years as well. Well, there you have it, ladies and gentlemen. Tim McKennethy, the CEO of Mortgage Market. Tim, thank you so much for lending us some of your expertise. It was a pleasure chatting with you. Thanks, Chad. Finally, all in properties welcomes you to the heart of Santa. To bring you our first high-rise apartment development, Wedgewood. Re-imagine cosmopolitan living in Africa's richest square mile. Re-invent your lifestyle from only 799,000 rent. Go to wedgwoodsanton.co.za.