And welcome to Lillian's Vegan World, I'm your host Lillian Cumick and this is the show where we talk about veganism and the plant-based diet. Awesome guest for you today, someone who is no stranger on the show and one of my dear friends here on the island, vegan chef Paul Onishi. Welcome. It could be back again. Aloha chef, how are you? Very good, very busy. Yes, I hear you're getting up to a lot of new and exciting things here on the island that we do really want to talk about, so what are you getting up to? Well, I'm teaching a lot of cooking classes for a kahi ornish down to earth. And also at this very moment we're doing a blind taste test for 200 people, somewhere on the island I can't say where, but I made a vegan, local style chicken curry. Okay, a vegan chicken curry, and there are people that are going to be passing around little questionnaires to see what mystery diners felt that they were going to be. Awesome, so this group of 200 people don't know that it's vegan? No. And you said chicken, vegan chicken curry, what is it that you're using to mimic the It's a soy base, it's called soy curls, and it is a product that's becoming very popular because it has that texture of chicken breast. Incredible, and are you dealing with some of these products? I believe that you're now affiliated with a distributor here. Another very interesting situation I got myself into. Very exciting really, but I'm a sales rep for a company called Vegco. Vegco. Vegco is a vegan distributor. We have quite a number of very interesting and innovative products. Great. So my job is to go around and try to veganize chefs that I worked with when I used to be on the other side. Okay, the other side being the... Before veganism. Before veganism came and slapped you in the face. More than slapped. Knocked me over. Knocked you over, yeah. And so how are they reacting when you talk to these chefs that you previously worked with in a different manner? It's not like approaching a vegetarian restaurant or a vegetarian grocery store. You're talking about people who are very used to making their money in animal-based protein menus. When you approach them about it, they're kind of skeptical because they only get a few bites here and there. Right. They're not from vegans that visit or local. And really a lot of my friends don't have a clue. There's still a lot of people that say vegan this or vegetarian this and they use chicken broth. But I think it's okay because they put it in vegetables. But I think people are more knowledgeable. They're even refusing to say, does that have regular mayonnaise or is that a vegan mayonnaise? My friends are going, well, what's a vegan mayonnaise? I didn't even know it was there. Is there vegan butters or vegan cheese? Right. And definitely there is and it tastes great. I know. It tastes like the real thing. We're very lucky here in Hawaii to have a lot of vegan products here in the supermarkets for anyone to try. In particular, what you just mentioned now, the cheese mayonnaise, the butters, vegan butters, the non-dairy milks. Honestly, if you don't tell people they're vegan, I find it hard to believe they would actually know. My favorite is the product that I got introduced about a month ago called NadaMu. NadaMu, okay. N-A-D-A, meaning in Spanish, no mu or cow. So no cow in this. Nice. And excellent product. It fooled me. I ate the whole pint by myself. I've done it several times. I would never do anything like that. The whole pint by yourself, like while you're watching a really good movie called Game Changer. Smiling the whole time I enjoyed it. Everybody. Yes. Kind of know how you feel. NadaMu, so that is available at Down to Earth. I believe they do have a range. I am always surprised when I go into Down to Earth and look at the ice cream section or when I'm buying it for other people. There's not just one. It's just humongous now. There's such a huge array of consumers. There's so many choices now. Just in the hot dog section. There are about 10 different hot dogs. It's incredible. Chef Paul, you have brought in some photos for us to take a look at. So let's have a look at a few that you have prepared. This is a very, very, I would say it's a great product. We demoed this for some of my people I called Hold On. And they were very surprised at the gluten-free bread. We did the hamburger buns. I made a vegan bacon and egg sandwich with vigenaise. And they couldn't tell the difference. The bread was soft. It didn't taste like what they call vegan bread, vegetarian type bread. So technology has really come a long way. Definitely.  Amazing texture. And after you toast it, outside gets crispy, inside still soft. Still fluffy and soft. And it maintains that texture. Nice. Where can we get a hold of some of these products? Well, a lot of them are sold locally here. But the company I work for, Vegco, also has a warehouse you can visit during Kapa'a Kori. I don't have the address with me offhand. But you can call me on my cell number and we'll get you connected. Yeah, definitely. Sure. People can call you at your number, which is<PHONE_NUMBER>. Exactly. And get a hold of you. Not only if they're interested in the products, but if they're interested in maybe taking one of your vegan cooking classes or demos or hooking up with you to do some fun stuff. I think that's where a lot of people, they need to be in control. You can't always go shopping at a vegan grocery store or eat at vegan restaurants. Right. You need to be able to do it at home and technology, as you know, allows us to do that now. Yes. With a lot more control. And the cooking classes are just to show people that it's very easy to use like a vegan egg, for example. Right. You can divide it out, pour it into a pan. You can use vegan butter if you want to flavor it a little more. And the bacon I've tried recently, this vegan bacon, you put it in the oven for 20 minutes. Okay. It comes crispy. It doesn't crinkle up. If you kind of back off on the time a little bit, you get that soft texture. And we put it in bacon and lettuce and tomato sandwiches. It has that crispy texture. It tastes just like bacon. People would love something like that. And all of that sort of stuff you can try here on the island, too, or in most countries. Let's take a look at another photo you have for us. This is exciting. This is a pretty wild product. It comes out of India. Now, the interesting thing out of it about this product is you can see on the right side, it says 25 minutes in hot soup. I know. Which means you can hold it in your hand and you can see on the above that it says peppercorn, Indian masala, chocolate. Obviously, the chocolate spoons are very interesting for people who do high-end desserts. Right. They're a little bit pricey, however, if you have a market that is into innovative things.  Yes. Excellent idea. Fantastic. I definitely want to get a hold of some of those. I've been waiting for them to come to Hawaii. Are they a new product here? It just got previewed down to Earth last Friday, I believe. Right. And the other thing that's really a hot topic in town here is the ban on plastics that they're trying to push through at 2021, I believe. We also carry a product called birchwood cutlery. Okay. This is not a biodegradable product. This is a compostable product. So in 90 days, this product will disintegrate on its own, which is a very interesting thing. A lot of people don't know that Hawaii does not have a biodegradable facility, so you can't process that. So this compostable, if it goes on itself and just throw it in your yard and it turns into mold. Wow. That's very exciting and very important to share that kind of information. So definitely steer away from plastic when you can. And yeah, use some of these products. What else have we got, Paul? Oh, these ones are some bacon. The top two products are, once we carry them, the jerky is unbelievable. And they also sell these carne asada, which is a flavored soy meat that you can add to any kind of Mexican dish. They have about five different versions. Okay. The lower couple of products I found in Portland when I went there, the bacon I tried recently are quite a bit better than the coconut bacon that is on the left side. And the cheeses, as you know, you've been a cheese maker. They really come around. They have, yes. Chef Paul, actually you are obviously an amazing chef, but you veganize a lot of local dishes. So anyone who's interested in trying to work with vegan recipes, this should definitely give you a call and take one of your classes. Well, we had a good opportunity a couple of weeks ago before VegFest Oahu to actually go on TV. We went on TV three times on the morning shows and had people sample the vegan loco moco. Nice. That's your signature dish, isn't it? Well, it's become that. I didn't think it was really going to fly, but it's amazing that the gravy and the egg had people fooled. Local celebrities tried it and they said, I could eat this every day. So, you know, that was a pretty good testimony that a lot of people, given the right texture and the right taste, will follow through. You know, you don't have to convert to veganism right away. But a little bit here, a little bit there will kind of help you transition. Yeah, definitely agree. Yeah. How about another one, Paul? What else have you got here for us? All of this looks delicious. This is on my recent trip to Portland, the top. That is a vegan Thai curry. The bottom is a vegan Indian restaurant. Unbelievable food. And on the right side, this is the vegan ramen from Tane, here locally. And they actually have vegan pork curry in their ramen. Wow. It shows actual fat layers, but it's vegan. Interesting. Do you know that Portland was recently voted number one country of the best places to be living in if you're vegetarian or vegan? Hawaii was voted 35 out of 100 U.S. cities. Portland got number one. So definitely on my bucket list of places to go and visit. A lot of things happening on the mainland, even in Las Vegas. Unbelievable. I went to a vegan barbecue restaurant where they had ribs, fried chicken. What's the other one? Black-eyed peas. Okay. You know, all in a lunch, all vegan. And sky's the limit. I definitely agree. I mean, it's just incredible how far we've come. Making life easier to get onto a plant-based diet. And after the break, we are actually going to talk about some useful tips on how you can kickstart a vegan lifestyle and plant-based diet. So stay tuned and see you after the break. Thanks to our think-tech underwriters and grand tours. The Atherton Family Foundation. Carol Mun Lee and the Friends of ThinkTech. The Center for Microbial Oceanography Research and Education. Collateral Analytics. The Cook Foundation. Dwayne Kurisu. The Hawaii Community Foundation. The Hawaii Council of Associations of Abarbon Owners. Hawaii Energy. The Hawaii Energy Policy Forum. Hawaiian Electric Company. Integrated Security Technologies. Galen Ho of BAE Systems. Kamehameha Schools. MW Group. The Shidler Family Foundation. The Sydney Stern Memorial Trust. VOLO Foundation. Yuriko J. Sugimura. Thanks so much to you all. Welcome back everyone to Lillian's Vegan World. I'm your host Lillian Cumick and I'm with my awesome guest, the very famous vegan chef Paul Onishi. Thank you. Welcome back again Paul. We are talking about the vegan lifestyle today and what you've been getting up to on the island. A lot of people ask how do you start a vegan diet or start eating more plant-based. So when it came to your journey and you transitioning from the typical American diet I guess, how did you transition? What made life easier for you and what are some tips you could tell viewers to help them get started? I've tried several times in my life over the past years to get to where I'm now and I'm looking at two years that I've been doing this. It's been hard when you travel because many countries especially in Asia don't support a vegan lifestyle. So you have to compromise here and there. But the products that are available, for example a lot of vegans say, well why do you have to even expose people to meat like bacon and stuff like that because it only tempts you to go back. However these transition devices last year was a $650 million industry just in products for sale that way and it kind of made people wake up and obviously around the country I don't think it's really hit Hawaii yet but every place they've previewed the impossible burger and the alternative burgers people say hey this tastes good, the texture is good, I wonder what else is out there and then it's led to people going back to their favorite restaurants and saying do you have this or that and what I'm seeing and hearing from my coworkers constituents is that I think by spring next year if you're not in place to transition into that way of thinking or at least be open to it you're going to be buried because those that are doing a veganizing or being a little bit more sensitive will be ahead of the game and they'll be the ones people go to for alternative. Yes, I couldn't agree more I think we're at the stage where it's very visible that this is not some fad some fad that just is coming and is going to disappear, you know veganism and the plant-based diet is definitely alive and thriving and becoming you know just more and more people are turning to this diet as a lifestyle so you know you've got to get the options out there in restaurants, I definitely agree because there will come a point when people like myself will just refuse to go to regular restaurants, you know non-vegan restaurants if there are not options and more and more people are curious and ready to taste as you said some of these healthier dishes And you know personally a lot of what's been bothering me lately is the fake news that comes out against these animal alternatives you know plant-based alternatives because they're losing their dollar volume they're losing their hold on the market and just I saw the other day a Burger King took off their vegetarian burger I didn't even know they had a vegetarian burger because the sales of the impossible Whopper were so good that it just said well we don't need to do that anymore Wow that's and that shows that even within that burger industry they're seeing a new product come in there and actually push an old stand-by away because it's gaining so much popularity and then they followed that article with something that they're going to do adding two or three more products like a junior Whopper and an impossible Whopper with cheese of course the question is going to be do they put vegan cheese on there and are they using plant-based mayonnaise and do their buns have eggs in it so I think that's all going to happen eventually but you know they're taking their steps because they want to see who's going to respond to their offerings and so far the offerings are yielding an interest that I don't think a lot of people you know banked on so well said and you are absolutely right like just because for example just because it's an impossible burger doesn't mean the whole burger is vegan this is where you have to be really careful about whether the bread as you mentioned the cheese the mayonnaise you have to make sure all of that's vegan and more than often it is not fully vegan so that's maybe a good thing to remember if you are wanting to transition to a plant-based diet well you know in response to what you just said our company also has a couple of different vegan burgers that have already answered that question so if someone says well that impossible burgers to process you know I don't like all that manipulation we have alternative burgers that haven't hit the market yet visibly that are going to answer that question fantastic has the same texture, the same aroma and it will transition people into a healthier lifestyle and you know it's not like you are going to eat it every day but it's better than having all the fat all the cholesterol all the high blood pressure which I had and the other day I was in a situation where I was at a restaurant I ordered a mushroom burger which I thought was a portobello mushroom burger the waitress made a mistake and she gave me a regular burger with mushrooms on top of it and because I came late and I had to eat it in front of everybody I ate it and you know I didn't want to make a scene about it and you know draw attention to the fact well he's a vegan and all this kind of stuff however I went home last night that night and then the next day because my lifestyle has maintained itself pretty good my blood pressure was even lower than it usually is so it was 117 over 72 which is really good I would think it would spike just because of that because of that patty but you know if you maintain that lifestyle you have something in motion that has set you on a healthy track so even if you are forced to compromise and you know part of me is just like you know I kind of struggle with that socially and a lot of vegans do because of the pressure yeah certainly you know you can't really go into this lifestyle absolutely stress free there are going to be times where you're going to be put in a little bit of a rut and you know you're going to have to work it out that's why a lot of people fall off the wagon and in my classes everyone has a story like that New Year's Day they had to compromise because at the end of the Thanksgiving party everybody took home the sashimi that was sitting out there for four hours past its prime but they took it home and they probably ate it the next day too but she took home her falafel because nobody ate it and she put it back in her container that's kind of sad but you know with Thanksgiving coming up in the next couple of weeks I think this is where a lot of people are going to be tested they really you know really want to be on the vegan diet but then they're surrounded by all of these comfort foods that they were brought up eating and brought up to believe were perfectly okay for you to eat so you know don't stress out don't you know don't don't let it get to you if you fall off the wagon a bit it's okay jump back on and you know get back to what it is you really want to do eat healthier I guess and be a healthier you you just reminded me last Thanksgiving they ordered a full on meal from one of the best Turkish stuff in gravy the whole 9 yards they said oh my goodness what am I going to eat I made a little casserole dish I made a Thanksgiving shepherd's pie I made my own mashed potatoes from scratch used soy milk, vegan butter and I layered the inside with seitan that I marinated in sage but it tasted like turkey had the texture of turkey and I'm vegan gravy and I put it sandwiched in between my mashed potato I didn't say anything I thought well that's mine they're not going to eat it because they know where I'm coming from people started going through the line and dipped into mine and when I went through it was half gone nobody said anything basically didn't so I thought maybe it tasted good but they feel confident don't advertise don't go on about what's in it just leave it sit it there and watch people go for it alright let's have a look at some more photos that we have beautiful I'm guessing these are also from Portland and the next one have a look at another one vegan sushi where are these at Tane the Japanese the right side is a product that we carry called ahimi it is a plant based sashimi alternative and this picture appeared in Forbes magazine couple beautiful I think it was last year and before we even got a hold of it and I thought that's not too good everybody has it except us and once again it's how to introduce it to the public so you know it's not like walking in the door and saying hey chef I got a brand new product for you to try I have to literally make it up for them take them a sample and have them say hey this tastes pretty good you know and then I have to do a tasting where I go into their restaurant and I work in the kitchen with them the other day I had to make the chicken curry to be served for the 200 people for that line taste test it's really thank you for what you're doing it's going to be a while but I believe and I think it's worth it definitely worth it of course I appreciate everything that you're doing I want to show a couple more photos chef this is what I have been playing around with vegan spam and it's made with cauliflower some corn meal spices some celery onion and you put it in the little empty cans boil it for two hours slice fry stir fry a little bit and it's tastes exactly like the real stuff next one is my cauliflower buffalo wings I thought I was chicken and vegan ranch it looks like chicken crispy on the outside really delicious on the inside made from cauliflower or healthy stuff believe it or not there's no oil I like your girl marks yeah again vegan food can be delicious so if you are looking to start a vegan diet I did quickly have seven tips that I would like to mention so the first one you can agree transition slowly it's not going to happen overnight I mean some people do it overnight and have a lot of willpower but you know transition slowly try some vegan things and the second thing is find your motivation why is it that you want to start a plant based diet get motivated watch videos documentaries swap animal products for healthier vegan alternatives surround your kitchen with plenty of vegan foods and healthy foods ready to go slowly create new habits swap one meal a day make it vegan on a daily basis keep going and keep things fun and exciting go to down to earth try some of those vegan ice creams I do have another one to add to that community is very important too absolutely and I've seen that in the cooking classes where people who feel so lonely in their journey together with other lonely people and all of a sudden we have a group of people in the room that are excited to be with each other because they share the same frustration support is important Chef Paul we've come to the end of another show thank you so much for joining us good luck with everything and do contact Paul if you are interested in any of his vegan products I'll see you again next month have a wonderful Thanksgiving


I'm starting off with the reveal, you guys. Welcome to my new bedroom! I'm just kidding. I'm actually in Palm Springs this week celebrating a friend's birthday, which is so exciting, but I went to my memory card this morning to put the intro in the video. Totally forgot to film the audio for the intro, which is pretty necessary for an intro, you know, but you guys, look at this bedroom. How pretty is this? I love that artwork up there in the bed, too. I love the bed frame, but besides the point, let's not focus on this bedroom because we are focusing on my bedroom today. I am sharing with you guys a full bedroom makeover of my own bedroom. And I know some of you guys are probably like, didn't you just do a makeover? Like, I feel like I've seen your room a bunch. And I mean, like, that's kind of true, but it's also kind of not. I did a makeover of my room about two years ago where I did the entire room makeover and refresh. And then this past November, I did a little refresh where I updated the pink color and just changed some of the bedding and some of the decor in the space, but I've been really dying to do, like, a full refresh in my bedroom because I always see how much potential my bedroom has and I'm so grateful to have such an incredible room, like the arched window, all of the windows, the flooring, the size, and the inspo really was drawn from a rug that Lloy actually sent me, and it is incredible. They sent me two new rugs and I was gonna put one in my living room and maybe use one somewhere else, but when I saw this one for my bedroom, I was like, I need this in my room. It is so, so pretty, but there is a lot in today's video. So I hope that you guys enjoy it and grab some inspo, maybe for a DIY project, a color palette, bed styling, wall molding, there's a lot. But we should probably go ahead and dive on in and I'm gonna share with you guys what the space looked like before. So here is my bedroom in its current state. I absolutely love my bedroom, like, I am so grateful. I have a room like this, it is large, it has beautiful lighting, it has tall ceilings, this window, which I also just got it tattooed on my arm. It's the same exact window, you guys. Check out my Instagram for close-ups if you're curious. This is what my room's current kind of state looks like and the biggest change that we did last time was actually update the color of the Bordenbatten. So the first color it was when I did it was a dark green, then it ended up going to this kind of charcoal-y, dark, dark purple color for fall and now I wanna change it again. But I'm also gonna be adding some additional elements to the Bordenbatten. So this morning I actually ended up heading to Lowe's and picking up some shoe molding. Now this is what it looks like. I will link below the exact one that I got for you guys because it was a challenge figuring out which one I wanted and which one I needed for the space, but this is a three-quarter inch shoe molding and the thickness of the boards on the Bordenbatten are also three-quarters of an inch. So this is gonna be able to essentially be nailed right into the Bordenbatten and we're gonna cut them at 45 degree angle so it looks like a picture frame on the insets of the Bordenbatten and then once it's all wood-filled and painted it's gonna look seamless and I am so excited and I also wanna bring the paint this time, whatever color I choose, up to the window frames as well because I love how I did that in my bathroom and I feel like it just elevates the ceiling even more. I also picked up a new miter saw this morning and here she is in all of her glories. So my other miter saw that I have is a huge one and it's like I leave it outside, it's really big, it's really heavy and I wanted a small one that I can just use in door for like trim projects. So I picked this one up this morning at Home Depot, $100. I am gonna get the most use out of this ever. So this is what we're using to cut all of our molding and let's get started. We're going to essentially start over here.  If you've been around for a while and saw my first bedroom makeover we actually ended up doing a DIY Bordenbatten wall which I'll definitely put this on a card above if you guys wanna watch how I did this but after I created the Bordenbatten wall I ended up painting it two different colors. I did the first one a dark green and then I did like a dark purpley black wedge just shared with you guys but now what I'm going to do is actually add molding pieces onto our already done Bordenbatten wall to turn it into a completely new look. Now all I'm doing is going through and using the shoe molding and cutting it at 45 degree angles to fit on the inset of each of the Bordenbatten sections that I created. So I'm actually measuring every single element that I'm adding and just going over to my miter saw which is just in my bedroom cutting them at a 45 degree angle and using my brad nailer to nail them directly into the boards that I had already applied to the wall and I know that that was a mouthful there but I feel like it's pretty self-explanatory once you see what I'm actually doing. The only tricky part is just making sure you're cutting it at the proper 45 degree but once you do a couple of them you're totally gonna get it down you guys. Like this is not a hard process at all and I really love how I was able to turn a Bordenbatten wall into almost that kind of French picture frame molding look as well without having to fully de-mold the wall. So you're kind of getting two looks out of one. We have a little bit of a mess going on here but not too bad honestly. I'm just gonna vacuum that up and you guys wanna know something crazy is I purchased 12 trim boards and these are the remaining pieces. I used absolutely everything and I got the perfect amount because we have covered the whole wall in our trim sections. Now what I'm gonna go ahead and do now is just go through and fill any cracks or nail holes with some wood filler and then I'm gonna head to Lowe's. I am in the mood to get this all painted today as well. Very ambitious doing the trim and painting today but you know what, we are gonna do it so let's get to filling the nail holes. Hey guys, it is a venti coffee kind of a day today. If you know what I mean. But I got the pleasure of seeing the wall in natural light this morning and you guys, it is absolutely beautiful. I love the color. Lambs ear came through in this bedroom. It is such a pretty neutral shade. The molding turned out incredible. It was actually a very, very simple and easy process. It was just really repetitive. Now we need to go ahead and put the new rug in the space today. It is going to be probably the biggest change in here because it takes up quite a large area on the floor and I ended up picking up two different options from Lowe. They are my absolute favorite rugs. I'm gonna share them with you guys in just a minute here but I've had so many Lowe rugs throughout my apartment. I've done a couple in the living room. I've done a few in the dining room. You guys have seen them countless times. My favorite, favorite brand for rugs but let's go ahead and bring them in. I wanna share with you guys the two that I ended up selecting between. I already went ahead and unrolled these rugs last night because I was just so curious. Whenever I get a rug like this, it's like honestly correct. Let's go and see you guys. So let's see. I'm just gonna lay it out on my bed. Oh, I haven't seen any natural light yet. It is so pretty, you guys. Look at that. This is the Billy 01. Honestly, like, should we put this as a do-die? Yeah, I think we should. I don't even think it needs to be like the rug because it's kind of state-mini.  Like it's so soft. Ink and salmon is the colorway and this is the Billy 01. I'll link both these rugs for you guys in the description box below but I actually got two rugs for my favorite collections by them which is the Billy Collection and the Georgie Collection which let me go ahead and bring in the other rug. Okay, so here is the other rug. Now this one's a bit lighter. So then we have this rug here from the Georgie Collection and it is so beautiful as well. It has these kind of like dark maroon tones in it but it also has a lot of warmth which I love because our wall's a little bit of a warm tone so I actually don't know which one I wanna go between. I actually wanna pop both under the bed and see them because the bed's gonna take up a majority of the rug so let's do that first. Here is our first rug. This is the one from the Billy Collection and I love it. It is so beautiful in here you guys. Look how stunning that looks. This is the first option from the loy but let's go ahead and try the second. And this one right here is the Georgie rug. I love like the Bordeaux color in here and also the light tan which ties back to our wall over there. Now of course some of the furniture in here doesn't match the style but we are gonna be changing out the headboard. So for now the rug is looking amazing. We're gonna keep that in place but I do wanna go ahead and swap out our headboard because you guys look, I broke my headboard. I don't know if you can tell but I actually broke the spindles on this right side. When I was filming a TikTok where I remove everything from my room, I broke it. And ever since it has not been the same it is higher on this side, lower on the right side. It bothers me every single day you guys and I got a new headboard at the thrift store actually when I was back home with my parents and I wanna bring it in here, remove this old one and set it up. You guys look at my broken spindle. Like this is so, it's so broken. The headboard is up. It's fastened to the bed really nice and securely. I know it doesn't look secure but it is. Do not worry and I just love it you guys. I do wish ideally it was maybe like two inches shorter so a little bit more of the top of our molding showed. However, I can't be sad about it. It was a $20 vintage brass headboard. I've been talking about how I've needed new bedding for my bedroom for like months on my Instagram and I'm never able to find anything that I love because I've had the same bedding since I moved into this apartment. Same exact bedding as the first makeover in this room so I got some new stuff finally and we're going to add it to the bed. I've actually had this humongous CV2 Rotan pendant light ever since I did my parents' kitchen makeover if you guys remember. I ordered both the lights because they were on a major sale and I didn't know which one I wanted to utilize in their kitchen, was gonna return the one I didn't want but I loved this pendant so much I had to bring it home and it's been in my room for like a month or in my little like studio prop room and I'm kind of thinking about adding it to this space you guys, like I feel like it would add such a unique vibe and I think this one just has so much more style. Good morning guys. I have had quite the morning. It is now 2.30 and I've been working on this room since about 8 a.m. Nothing has really worked out as planned. Let me give you a rundown of my day. So I've had a real tree in my room for a while and I wanted to get a new one for this area here but I went to two different nurseries this morning and couldn't find anything that I liked you guys which was so sad. However, I did find this great pot at Lowe's. It was $30 and I thought, you know what? I could paint this. It's not my favorite color to start. I'm gonna keep the olive tree because it's what fills the space. Nice is the best at the moment and I did go ahead and style the bed yesterday as well which I love so much with the headboard. I did a little bit of different styling this morning.  While I was gone and Marie kindly taped off my door area and also my closet door, I'm gonna actually go through and paint both of these the same color as the wall that lambs ear color because I feel like it'll bring some continuity to the space. I actually ended up removing the sconces that we had up here just to change up the vibes in here. I've had the sconces of course since doing my room. I haven't really changed it very much. And I got these two table lamps for $5 each at a thrift store. However, I think the blue and the high gloss of them just make them look way too modern and just not as organic as this space is feeling to me. So I'm gonna go ahead and spray paint them. I actually have this spray paint color here. It's a matte dark sage color and I thought that would add some color still but matte it and hopefully it'll change the appearance but I love the shape of them. Better actually look bright blue on camera. I swear in person they are the perfect shade of like a darker matted down teal. They are perfect. Yesterday I realized that I never shared with you guys which rug I opted for which was the Billy rug from the Amber Interiors Collection. This rug is just stunning you guys. It looks like an authentic vintage rug. It has such pretty colors in it. The color way of this one is ink and salmon and I'm actually using this as like the inspo for the whole space. And I kept that in mind when I was out shopping yesterday for bedding. So I got this beautiful like golden brown duvet cover. It's such a nice color and it's linen. So pretty. And I mixed it up with this great blanket that I got on Etsy. A couple of really cute throw pillows and that's kind of the bedding styling that I have so far. Of course this may change in a bit but that is where we're at. A little later it's 7.43 at the moment and I am driving to Cerritos, California. Keep in mind I have a birthday dinner at 8.30. I am racing to Cerritos because you guys I ended up finding two accent chairs on offer up to replace the two that are in my room currently which I'm definitely keeping. I love the shape of those and how comfortable they are. I do want to reupholster them in the future though. However, I found two accent chairs on offer up from Target, new and box, Studio McGee Collection with a pattern on them that will fit perfectly in the space for $180 and I messaged a guy and he still has them in his storage set. He said if I can get there before eight I can have them for 180 which is so exciting. $90 a chair and they retail for 2.99 each. So I'm driving there to get them right now and then I'm gonna just be a little late to the birthday dinner because priorities, priorities. We got them. Do not look at majority trunk. This is a life of Lone Fox but we have the chairs and they look so pretty. We even opened them. The guy was so cool, 180 for both of these you guys and they're gonna look so good. Just did some super simple dresser styling. Now I wanted to keep it really simple because last time I allowed myself to have a basket down here and I just overfilled it with junk. So I'm like I'm not letting myself put anything on top of the dresser. Now this right here is actually a brand for cattle. Like it's a cattle brander and then I just ended up using it as a candlestick holder though because I really like the twisted base of it. Did some books here with a little bust, a candle. Now this is actually a stone bowl and I picked this up at Rolling Greens. It was only $40 and it's like 40 pounds.  I actually saw Amber Interiors do that and I thought it was such a clever idea and then of course Amber Interiors book right here and these really cute little candles and sage. So that is our dresser. And of course I have a frame on my TV which I've had on here for quite a while. A lot of you guys know that I have a real plant. I have this one for quite a while and I really like it. It's still so cute and I've kept it alive for two years. So I thought I'd give it a new home by putting it in this basket here. I have this African stool that I got at the flea market a while back as well. Maybe I'll just elevate it to kind of increase the height of my plant a little bit. Look how cute that looks. And you guys, I think we are all done with my bedroom. I am so, so happy with the outcome of it. I am looking at it right now and I cannot wait to reveal it to you guys. I went for just a brighter, airier color palette in here but I did still want something grounding and depthy in this space. So that's why I added the loy rug. I just think this one is perfect for the space. If you guys have never had one of these loy rugs in your life, you have to check them out. I'm gonna link both the ones that I shared with you guys in this video and I'll also link some of my other favorite ones in the description box below. But I really pulled my color palette from the rug. I think that is such a great starting point. If you don't really know what vibe or what style you want for your space, but that is something I love doing is starting with the rug as my base and this one was perfect. So I cannot wait to share this with you guys and I'm going to reveal to you the bedroom in three. I do that every time, two, one. Just kidding, I thought of one more thing to do. I woke up this morning and the height of the headboard is bothering me so much. It's covering all of our beautiful trim work. So I went to my tool bag and my dad got me this Ryobi saw thing. Don't know exactly what it's called. Reciprocating saw, that's what it's called. He got me this saw for Christmas. I got this blade this morning for cutting metal and we're going to chop the bottom of the headboard off and I probably should stop waving this around my head.  I've gotten the opportunity to sleep in the space a couple of times before coming to Palm Springs and it is just such a vibe in there at night. You guys, like seeing the round Rotan pendant light in the air and just the dresser styling and the bedding color and we cannot forget about the rug. That really grounds the space. It adds so much visual interest and I really use it as the entire color palette for the space as well and kind of like the vibe I was going for, sort of that vintage aesthetic. And if you're in the market for a new rug, I highly suggest checking out LaLoi you guys. I'll link below the two I shared in today's video in the description box, but they have them all over Amazon, super affordable and such high quality and their designs are always impeccable. So I highly recommend them. But I'm gonna go ahead and let you guys go. I should probably go ahead out and jump in the pool with everyone because they are currently out there, but I will catch you all in my next video. Have an amazing rest of your day and do not forget to subscribe to my channel. I post brand new home decor and DIY content every single week and you can follow me over on Instagram and TikTok. It is just Lone Fox Home for a bunch more behind the scenes content. So I'll catch you guys next time. Bye.


Bishop. Oh man. Get ready, get ready, get ready. Get ready, get ready, get ready.  Boss talk one-on-one, one-on-one. That was the night that being an alcoholic saved my life and my booty hole. Cause you knew how to get on out of there.  Who was there? I don't want to name a name. Okay, I sure was going to ask.  There was a lot of people there though. In 2015, that's what was weird. So it felt like, have you ever seen that movie, um, Rosemary's Baby? Rosemary, go back to bed. You know you're not supposed to be up and around is the moza. No. Where it's like they're like all talking. Like it's a, they're having a dinner party, but everybody's like talking. And you don't, you're talking, but everybody's talking. But everybody's looking at you. That's where it felt. That's where it felt. You're the meat of the night. I was like, I was like, oh they were, they were about to put me on the grill.  And I saw, I called, I asked my boy, I said, because after all this stuff about Diddy came out being coming out recently, I called my boy, I said, man, now it all making sense. I said, what was they going to do? What was, what was going to happen if I, you know, if I had stayed over there and I was drunk. He said, hey man, you was going to be caught on tape with a triple glizzy. I said, what's a triple glizzy? I'll let you guys decide what the triple glizzy is. All right, man. And I'm like, man, I would have been black man over and over and over again. Then I would have been under the toe, you know what I mean? And then you're looking at, you're looking at a bishop. Oh man. Get ready, get ready, get ready. Get ready, get ready, get ready.  Yo, hey, your boy Brandon G. Jackson said they had the power of bottom spirit on my show. He was like, I can't help it if somebody got the power of bottom spirit. Like it could be bad. He's talking about his pray for them. You know, it's like this. I'm praying for Diddy. Wow. Diddy has shown me nothing but love in the past. I don't like to see our brothers fall. I'm praying for Diddy, Jakes. I'm praying for our brothers. Like, if you got a power of bottom spirit, then we're going to ask God to do it. Power of bottom spirit. I don't know what it means for you. This dude just said power of bottom spirit. I'm saying that if you do, I still forgive you. And I pray that God deliver you from the power of bottom spirit. This dude's tripping. He's the power of bottom spirit. I'll just tell you the truth. If he do got a power of bottom spirit. What they do this at? I'm just saying that the internet is crazy. If he got a power of bottom spirit. The internet takes stuff and just it crams it in your face. That's what I'm saying. We don't know if T.D. Jakes did any of this stuff. That's what I'm saying. Do you believe that it's not everything you hear? 100% true. 100% true.   Wait a minute. How do you come up with that? 100% true. The only way I'm saying that is if you can see. If you saw something. If you guys, boss talk, they got a heist ring on the load. They go from city to city heist. They rob banks. You have to see me to say that. I heard boss talk. But then they're like, oh, but Columbus, you always on boss talk though. But do you know about this ring? Every time they come to town. Every time they in town, somebody get robbed. But you might not know. Every time they in town, somebody booty all getting blasted out. Damn. Oh, wait a minute. I got caught. I know what a power bottom was. I'm praying for Diddy. Wow. Diddy hasn't shown me nothing but love in the past. I don't like to see our brothers fall. I'm praying for Diddy Jakes. I'm praying for our brothers. Like, if you got a power bottom spirit, then we're going to ask God to do with power bottom spirit. I don't know what it means. This dude just said power bottom spirit. So I had to flip through my phone.  I said, what is a power bottom? They said, oh Columbus, you don't know what a power bottom is? I thought he made that up. I thought Brandon just made that up. It's a real thing and they were like, oh yeah, it's been around for years. A power bottom is a larger technically hairy man, could be of any ethnicity that gets his back blown out. I did not know that. A powerful, bigger man. Power body. Yeah, power, power, power bottom. He described me trying to describe somebody. I'm bigger man.


create create potential future genocides thank you who wants to take that i'm happy to start um it's a great question as many of these are and i guess my view on this has changed over time and so just to start where the question ended i think we should recognize how difficult reconciliation is and even in societies that have lived well beyond episodes of violence uh uh sometimes more than a century it's very difficult to come to terms with the past if you look at the united in germany in some ways is an outlier in terms of our models if you look at the united states and its inability to i think have a mature conversation about slavery or what happened to native populations or or what have you as just an indicator and so i think we should the reason i'm saying that is i think the transitional justice literature which focused on justice as a mechanism to promote reconciliation in my view kind of oversold the ability of either truth commissions or forms of you know public narrations of the past or what the specific question was which was on criminal accountability to bring populations together and i think we've seen in some cases that criminal accountability can also further polarize and the sense that the justice process is not even handed and so forth as my example from rwanda showed um so at the same time i do think accountability is really important i think it does send a message and i think it's very difficult to um not have it and because i think there is a sense of thirst for justice that remains so my view is that it's a kind of minimum not a maximum it's it's something that's an it's a you know criminal accountability for past mass human rights crimes is is really important but that number one we should recognize that that's not where the process ends and number two we should also be open to the ways in which it can be have negative effects in the kinds of ways i was talking about in my presentation thank you anyone else dr themy and then dr kirman i would i would just very quickly add to exactly what scott just said um i actually had my family sit down and watch the recent movie on on eichman you know and it led to a pretty vibrant discussion about you know is it legal to illegally kidnap somebody from another sovereign nation and bring them back to jerusalem um where as hard as you try it's going to sort of be hard and jerusalem less than 20 years after the end of world war two to get a truly non-biased jury trial but it's really really important for the families um and for the children and for the grandchildren so i i can tell you and listening to some friends of mine who were truly world-class scholars in this entire field um there there are generations of damage um because there is no closure and it is really hard to get past so i i think scott is is absolutely bang on that you can seek a minimum but it's like an expanding black hole there there is no maximum it's never completely over all right um and you know for those of us that grew up in the american south um you know 1865 evidently was just a few months ago so i mean these these things they take time but the only way out is to have as many discussions as absolutely possible about all of them and i i think that whether you call it a truth and reconciliation commission you you know you you've got the different processes that took place in south africa um you've had many many different processes take place in germany um germany is in some ways an outlier but if you're to stomp tish late enough at night it's not as much an outlier as you might think it is um you know so there are good trends there but as i said at the very beginning humans are humans okay and there's a depth of the human soul and memory um it's not like taking your car to the mechanic and getting fixed i can just add a few points about accountability and reconciliation in cambodia of course reconciliation and many different things in different societies and a buddhist society like cambodia there is a lot of emphasis on forgiveness and so um a number of buddhist leaders and uh the cambodian king noradam sianu for a time at least emphasized forgiveness at one point the cambodian prime minister once he had obtained the surrender of the Khmer Rouge leaders even said we're going to dig a hole and bury the past for which he was uh rightly criticized but uh he did end up uh putting those two Khmer Rouge leaders nuanchir and kusumpon on trial there uh they were convicted of crimes against humanity and and genocide and nuanchir in fact died in jail last year kusumpon is still serving a life sentence for those two crimes polpot himself died in his sleep in 1998 so it was never brought to justice and on the other hand perhaps tens of thousands i would say perhaps 40 000 other rank and file Khmer Rouge officials and military officers captured in the civil war after the overthrow of the Khmer Rouge regime did serve time they were not put on trial in a fair trial they were captured put in re-education camps or jails mostly camps and served time varying from months to years one case seven years i know of the uh large number of these people have now long been released and they're back in their villages living side by side sometimes with some of their victims so there's an element of injustice about that but of course they've been punished already and can't be retried or punished again for the same crime although their first trial can't be considered to have been a fair one if there was a trial at all so there are difficult issues involved in punishing all the perpetrators of the Khmer Rouge period but the very big top leaders apart from polpot himself have been brought to justice some of them died during their trial or in the case of mock the military commander died while awaiting trial in jail one deputy military commander surrendered and defected to the government and was never jailed but nearly all the others who surrendered did end up serving time in jail or being put on trial but there are others who have been charged second rank but criminal offenders who committed major crimes who have not been brought to justice and the Hun Sen government appears to be allowing them to avoid trial but they were if you're like the deputy commanders of the genocide three at least of those who the UN prosecutors wanted to put on trial but have not been able to get it past the Cambodian co-prosecutors who are under the control of the Cambodian government so it looks like the top ranking people have been brought to justice if they're alive in in everyone but polpot and one other the second rank not but large numbers tens of thousands of others have served time in jail and and or re-education camps and there is a large society-wide sense of Buddhist reconciliation so it's a very mixed picture. Thank you. I think we have time just for one more question. Who's asking that? Is that okay? Professor Royce go ahead. A question addressed to Dr. Ibrahim but I believe several may have valuable input. You spoke of the warning signs displayed by Prime Minister Modi through Hindu nationalism and exclusionary policies. In your assessment what is Modi's next step given his high fever rate? Is there a viable opposition or moderating force against these potentially dangerous policies? Thanks so much for that Peter so very quickly I'm what's Modi's next step? I would imagine considering the economic situation and considering the situation of mismanagement of the COVID crisis that he will continue to try to exacerbate the situation with minority groups particularly the Muslims but also he's targeting other ones as well he's targeting the low-caste Dalits and Christians as well and so you continue to do that to try to distract from his record. He is enjoying quite high poll numbers at the moment but one of the things that we can certainly try to do is to try to hold him to account in terms of normalizing relationships with him. Earlier I mentioned about creating a global democratic alliance. Such an alliance you know even with my limited conversations with various policymakers has indicated that India would have to be a key component in that and this is once again just normalizing his undermining of democracy when he actually does that. In terms of opposition you know one of the reasons we're in this difficulty in India is because the Congress party itself it just became complacent for so long they got involved and written down the road of dynastic politics. Some people from the dynastic family were simply not fit for leadership roles but that's the mechanism that they chose and they just became complacent, they became corrupt. So I think one of the best solutions to this would be to actually for the Congress party itself to you know to figure out to re-empower themselves and figure out with new leadership in terms of how to take back the reins of power from the BJP party which at this moment doesn't seem likely but it seems to me that this is probably one of the only or the or the best way to actually do it but I think Dr. Mudassar could probably talk more upon that. Dr. Kumar do you want to comment? I don't think we really have a lot of time but I'll add the point that you know as far as the Congress party is concerned it really needs to go back to grassroots. It has really kind of kept itself so far away from the grassroots, from the local you know villages that it has completely distanced itself you know from the ground and that has led to a gradual decline. Obviously the dynastic politics has played a very significant role you know I mean when it comes to the political organization and when one goes to the villages and talks to the people on the ground India still is a very you know syncretic society and you know you will find people of different faiths if sometimes even different cards there are problems obviously but living in the same village you know in the same community so there is certainly hope but obviously there needs to be political organizations which can you know leverage these issues and counter the ideology which is currently in power very effectively that needs to be done. Thank you that's it folks so we are out of time sorry for going over a little bit. I want to sincerely thank the panelists our esteemed scholars for your presentations. I want to thank also the volunteers that helped me my fellow faculty colleagues Andrea Cameron, Linda Specht and Peter Norris for helping with the Q&A so thank you for that and I'm very appreciative to everyone who helped make this happen. It has been recorded I will send out links once I receive them for the recording and you will be welcome to share them with whomever you wish. Thank you all very much very very sincerely and hope to see you next year. Stay safe and thank you again have a wonderful day.


Hi everyone, Joe for Jaspy's casebreaks.com. Happy Tuesday, hopefully everyone's being safe out there. 2013, Panini Select Football coming out here, little one box mini break, random team number three, for a chance to sell out the football mixer. So at the very end, we're gonna do the break itself first, but at the very end, we're gonna re-randomize everybody's names. Top six names are gonna be in the football mixer, which is sold out, and which is sold out, and it will be breaking after this. There's that right there. Did you look today, mix up? Let's roll it, let's randomize it. Six and a two, eight times for each list. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, and eight. Remember this is just for the break itself. So after eight, we've got Greg down to Greg. Six and a two, eight times for the teams. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, and eighth and final time. Good luck. Just a quick little mini box break. It's actually half of a select box when they used to just do one, or the two mini boxes inside one box, which I kind of like. I like that format. I don't know about you guys, but I like it. All right, there's the first half of the list right there. There's the second half of the list right there. Really the whole point of this is, you know, everyone just wants to see who's gonna win those mixer spots. Let's sort by column B. Let's do that. Let's print. Let's rip. Let's pop this open right here. We're gonna roll the dice.  I'm gonna select that one right there. One, two, three for the left one, four, five, six for the right one. It's all the way up there. It's five. One, two, three, four, five, six. So this we will save for next time. So this will be for random team. What is this, three? So this will be for random team four. It'll probably be used for another filler break or mini break or something like that. So we'll take care of that. I hope so, mix up. We are, we definitely are pretty close to knocking that out underneath our, there we go. Shoot at the cord there. All right, so that list, same right there as you saw on the previous screen. So we'll rip that open. Also we'll rip this open and then we'll re-randomize the names and see who gets into the mixer which will be going off after this. We got Desmond Truffaut, rookie auto for Brian Zeller. Brian Zeller and the Dirty Birds. It's the Truffaut number to 199. We got a redemption which I'm sure is gonna be expired but you can talk to Panini. They usually either get you the actual redemption or they'll send you some points in return. And it's gonna be Coral Patterson, rookie Jersey autographs for the Vikings. That'll be for Ryan Redman. There we go. It's lucky we're using the purple pen today. And you get a free top loader here. Bam, I don't know why we top load redemptions but there it is. All right, there you go folks. That was your break. Now to the important stuff. Let's see who wins the final spots in the mixer. So everyone from Zach down to Greg and everyone in between. Let's re-randomize your names. Let's roll it. Let's randomize it seven times. One in a six. Top six after seven. One. Good luck everybody. Two. And seven in final time after seven. Now a big thanks to all of these people right here like you see on your screen for getting into the action, for giving this a shot. And congrats to the top six. Brian, Zach, Zach, Tanner, Adam and Tanner. Multiple spots, can't equal multiple wins. There you go. Congrats to the top six here. We'll see you for the mixer. I'm Joe and I'll see you for that next time. Bye bye.


Okay. We've got a round display. Okay. So this big round display, we've actually, it's, and you're like, Hey, I think this sounds familiar. Yes, we had it as a coming soon. And now it is in stock. They've been have a little demo because I've been working on eyeballs code with it. And you can go. Okay, so this is a gigantic. Yeah. So we've got the gigantic eyeball code ported to it. It's a little flickery because this is using IDF for not IDF five. It's also through camera through camera. So there's like three cameras involved. But the the colors is really good looking. Yeah, the colors really good. This is actually pixel double two, by the way. This is 360 by 360 pixel doubled up. We're going to try to port this code to IDF five. So it looks even better. But in circuit Python, it works. And our do we know it works 720 by 720 pixels massive display. I'm also getting a capacitive touch one. It's going to be more expensive. So I think if you just need a display, you don't need that touch capability. This is the biggest round display we could find we went out we use our eyes and we found this. Okay. Okay, we also have a bunch of Raspberry Pi accessories. The active cooler for the PI five is a board that plugs in it like attaches to the PI five you can see like the five the five included. This is the thing that's not. It's like the heat sink plus the fan. It plugs in, you will probably need to use a lifter for the two by 20 connector if you want to connect GPIO on top. But if you're doing like a lot of machine learning stuff or like high intensity CPU things with your Raspberry Pi five. This will help get you the most frequencies, the highest computational capability because otherwise once the Raspberry Pi heats the it'll start throttling itself so that it doesn't keep using as much CPU so like it'll get slower and slower the hotter gets with this you get all that computational power. Okay, and then there's cables. This is the PI display cable so just this is like a demonstration to show so we have both the display cable and the camera cable and they are not the same. Yes, I know it's confusing. Look at these nearly identical things they look identical but they're not about this about this about this they're a little bit different, but this is the display cable showing. So if you have a Raspberry Pi four display or you have any other Raspberry Pi cameras, you're going to be an adapter cable because the the new connectors are four lane and they're much, you know to make space for the PCI connector. They made these point five millimeter pitch you see this like $1 connector and then you know you can use your all your old accessories with the PI five. So yeah, and then the star of the show besides you, Lady Eater, our community, our customers and everybody out there who's being good to one another is the LM66200. This is ideal.  And you want to have your electronics use whichever is like available so sometimes the batteries plugged in use that sometimes a DC plug is powered in or USB or whatever to decide which power supply to use. You can use two diodes and you pick them up it's like a diode or connection, and that will give you whichever is highest that's the current and the voltage supplier. But you have to deal with the dropout of that diode which can be like half a volt which can, you know, like that's a lot of power that you might be losing, especially for low power situations also the diodes are kind of large. Also, you don't have an enable switch which you can do with a transistor. You know, and then maybe you want to know which one is the one that's activated. Because this is kind of like combines about seven transistor diode components together into one, you can connect your two to five volt inputs to the V ins there's one and two, and then ground, and the V out will be whichever one is higher. And there's also a enable pin and you pull that high, by default it's pulled low to turn on, you pull it high and it will disable the voltage and then there's also a status pin they'll tell you which of the two is like the one that's activated. So it's like a very smart version of ideal diodes is an inexpensive small board, but probably very handy I think you do about two and a half yet two and a half amperes out. Just nice also more than most diodes and only 40 milli ohm RDS on so negligible voltage drops so great for low power usage, or just power supplies where you want don't anticipate a bunch of current through a couple of NBR 120s. Yeah.