We've got the pigment core team here, or our campaigning, but a pigment gear on. We're gonna show you what we eat whilst on tour, and we're gonna show you how to do some creative pigment advertising. So let's do it. Let's do it. Oh, we're going, guys, we're going to eat it. So let's start off in the vegan section. The best vegan cheese.  Don't eat this one. Don't support that industry. Why have they got that up there? That's false advertising. Why would they do that?  That shouldn't be there, man. Should be there. False advertising, dude, eh? Here, we need tofu. Ah, let's go. Ah, dude. Yeah, this is gangsta, have you tried it? Greenless Farms nailed this. I've already grazed it. It's amazing, dude. It's like a sign of a food. It's just like, ah! And where's the meat oil? So this is Jolly Hog. This is a pilgrim supplier. So these are not so Jolly Hogs that go into the gas chamber to be slaughtered at pilgrim's pride. That's what our research shows. So the audacity of this company to use the term Jolly Hog. They're not so jolly when they've been gassed to death, are they? Humane washing.  Watch Pigneren to find out the truth. What's this? How do you live with yourself, Jolly Hog? Propagating this humane fairy tale to the public. Watch Pigneren and Amazon Prime find out the truth. Yeah, they're pilgrims. Yeah. This is pilgrims. Yeah.   Selling this to the public without them knowing. Watch Pigneren to find out the truth.   Stusting animal abuses. I've got to watch Pigneren and Amazon Prime card here. This is like a chunk of someone's body, like literally an individual's body who is gassed at desperate struggle and fear in a gas chamber, which was sickening. Violent treatment of sentient beings, and that's where they ended up in a packet in a supermarket. How sickening.  They weren't comfortable when they were gassed to death in a gas chamber. Red tractor, what does that even mean? Exactly. Find out in Pigneren. Watch Pigneren to find out more. Look at this sweet face. Do you think they wanted to be murdered to be your dinner? And you can have a vegan option that's literally two metres away in a fridge over there. This is a piece of someone. Just think about that.  Two murdered animals nestled together in the same product, didn't it? They both gassed. They can watch Pigneren to find out what actually happens. Shall we go there tonight? Murdered pink rolls. Oh, what about this? Ah, yeah, pork pies. Red tractor. Red tractor certified. Pigs gassed six months old. Servication by farmers, four farmers, made by farmers, bullsh**t. Trusted farmers. Trusted farmers. Millipulating people to fight. Millipulated dead body parts. Propaganda to make good people pay for horrific things of even realising what they're paying for. That old door braid, like, that makes a difference for the gas chambers. It's all f*****g brainwashing.   Yeah. Yeah. They should be ashamed of themselves, really. Every single body part you see in this fridge suffered in the gas chamber. Had their throat slashed open. Put it to a scolding tank. That's six months old.  People's taste pleasure. A sensory pleasure, ten minutes of sensory pleasure. You don't even know the f*****g nightmare is behind purchasing these products. Watch Piggner and find out. Just walk over to here. Come straight over here to the vegan ones. Literally dead pigs over there. You pay for murder in gas chambers to baby innocent animals. Or here, get an amazing taste pleasure without the victim.  Oh, what? I've never had that. Should we do a taste test of it? We tried these. There's 68 grams of protein. How much? £1.85. Wow. You stick that in, like, rice and then some salsa. Mix it up. It's really good. Yeah, and it's so fast. We get it in, like, what, ten minutes? This is the meat-free beef style. The chicken one is tastier, but that's the higher protein. Yeah. Did you want to try the lovey bacon? Yeah, let's go. These are healthier, but these do a version of these that are really, really tasty. And these are also pretty high on protein. Yeah. Pretty tasty as well. And they're not too, not too bad. They're kind of healthy as well. Yeah. So depending on health and taste, I'd go any price. Price is a big, big, big concern for people. £2.15, £2.15. Two steaks for £2.15. Like, it's pretty good. Pound of steak, super cheap. And how much protein's in here? 200 grams. Pretty tasty. 18 grams, 36 grams of protein for two quid. Yeah, that's pretty good. It's cheap. Yeah. Pretty cheap and tasty. I like it. It tastes more like a burger than a steak. Yeah. I like it as a burger. Yeah. This is exactly the same. You're not going to pay for any animals to be exploited by the Trottermans. Yeah. Cool, fine, man. Yeah, people say it's difficult going vegan. It's literally two and a half meters. Yeah. Two and a half meters. Smoothie hands. And education. Yeah. Yeah, smoothie hands. For us, it's such a small, small difference. For the animals, it means a lot of depth as well. It's everything to them. For us, it's minimal effort. Yeah. The least we can do, the least, the bare least we can do is walk two and a half meters. Their life reduced to two pounds and 18. They're in plus the whole entire life.  The same brand, the same brand that murders pigs and gas chambers, do the vegan option. Like, they know. They say, like, great flavor, no compromise. Don't compromise on this, but on this, you compromise.  For a taste pleasure, you can just get here. The brand knows they can just do this instead of this. Simple. They're making a job done. Particularly here, that tastes exactly the same. It's the body part from anyone. This is just made out of soil. It cooks the same in the oven, even got the garlic bottle. But here, no one's suffering from dying in the gas chambers. But that, you wouldn't realize the horror you're going for. This is really, really good, I promise you. We love that one. So good.   It is, yeah. Yeah. Have you got Amazon Prime? Yeah. Check the picture out. I've never seen it. Yeah. Yeah. It's a really good documentary. It's just come out on Amazon Prime. It's on a free view on the doctor entries. Check it out for yourselves. We investigate farms and slaughterhouses, and they trick around the world. Yeah, around the world, and mostly in the UK, but they trick people into buying something that's horrible. That's what it is. It's good to know what you're... Because they don't exist without your support. So, but you don't know what you're supporting because they cover it with advertising. So, the best thing to do would be look at what they do and then make your decision. Yeah, yeah, but don't make decision off there the way they're trying to sell products to people. So far down the line, you miss the animal. What did the animal go through? Yeah, exactly, that steak. I've seen how pigs live in that stein. It's really horrible how they kept them. Thank you so much. Bless you. Take care. Have a good day. Slices. Slices of someone's body are sick. They make it look like it's so far removed from what it is, which is an individual. Yeah, these pizzas are all paparone and s***. Look at what's pigment. Paparone pizza. There you go. This is a pig in here. Sick. Sick. Pigs and blankets. It's literally murdered pig wrapped in...  It's... Watch, pig. Very, very interesting, isn't it? Everywhere. I actually am shocked at just how many... Pigs are murdered. Yeah, yeah. In the dog food section, they're feeding murdered animals to the dogs. Pigs and blankets for dogs. Here. Got a dog? A lovely dog? Watch, pig. No.  Oh, look, babe. Can we get this?  Just love vegan cake. Hee hee hee. Yeah. That looks so good. Go on then. Right, that's good stuff, isn't it? Nice. Yeah. Watch, Pignoran. Excuse me. Have you seen this? Do you have Amazon Prime? I do. Watch this movie called Pignoran on Amazon Prime. Okay. Pignoran. Pigs. Is that on YouTube? Pig. No, right. Yeah, but share it with people who do. So if you watch it, then you can share it with people. About the dangers of eating pig. Nah, like, how pigs are treated in the UK. They're terrible. Yeah, yeah, they put...  I just know that they're not treated very well. They're killed in gas chambers, and that's what the film's about. See, people don't know. And you don't know because they don't tell you. What do you mean? Yeah, because they want people to buy the product. Is that why they slaughter them? Yeah, they slaughter them in a gas chamber. And we investigated the first one ever in the UK, ever to be exposed. And I went into the gas with a mask on and put the cameras in there to get the footage because it's never been seen before. Yeah. But the whole film just documents that. Okay. And then you can just show, like, I don't know if you've got Ben's a family or like that, still eat meat. Show it to them and see what they think. Because I used to watch years ago, it was, I think, kill it, or kill it and eat it. Eat it, yeah, yeah. Is that what made you stop eating meat? I was in tears. Yeah. I was just like... It was a scene, I'll never forget it. And the lamb, saw the lamb before getting shot. So I... I stunned. The other lamb watched. Yeah, because they're all like in a conveyor belt. And then, like, literally, saw it and started to shuffle back and they all started to shuffle. Because they're like, no, they get scared. It's empathy. The animals have it. And meat industry, no, they can't show people this. Even the, like, humane slaughterhouses. Animals are scared. They don't want to die. And if they show people, they'd stop eating meat. So that's bad for the customers. Yeah. So we have to, obviously. So... Anyway, bless you. There you go. So you'll never forget. Bless you. Take care. See ya. Love you, Bob. You're so handsome.  A happy boy. Well, I've been here for... Ten months. Ten months. Thanks for letting us say hi. I hope you've played your part. Bless you, my brother. Take care, mate. See ya.


What's up everyone, Takedown here. Welcome back to another video. Today I'm going to be sharing my thoughts and predictions on this year's Stanley Cup playoffs. I am pretty excited, even though my team is not making the playoffs this year. In fact, out of 31 teams that are ranked number 31, it was a terrible season for them. Even though they're not making the playoffs, I can still be pretty excited for the playoffs because I wasn't only following my team this year. I was following a whole bunch of other teams, seeing what's up with them, who is doing really good, what players they have, what players are doing really good. And to me, that is what the sport is about. It's not only that you have to follow one team. Even though I'm a huge fan of the Ottawa Senators, doesn't mean I can only watch them, doesn't mean I can only follow them. I follow a lot of other teams as well. This year's Stanley Cup playoffs, honestly, is going to be pretty intense. I just have that funny feeling right now because all the matchups are pretty interesting. And the first round, especially, I could see them going either way. But let's get right into this. So I'm going to start with the Western Conference. Up first, we have Nashville Predators versus Dallas Stars. This one here to me, I could see going either way. Dallas Stars has been doing some pretty good things this year. I'm pretty excited. I haven't been following them closely, but I do acknowledge that they've been doing some pretty great things. But Nashville, on the other hand, I am a huge fan of. I've been following them pretty closely, and they have a lot of pretty good players on their team. And I'm pretty excited to see how far they can get in the playoffs this year. So for this matchup for me, I think it could go honestly either way. But my prediction is going to be Nashville. I think Nashville is going to beat Dallas Stars. And if I had to guess, I'm going to say it's going to be around 4-2. I don't think that Dallas is going to be able to bring it to the last game and be tied. I don't think they're going to be able to do that. I think it's going to be 4-2 for Nashville. Next, we have Winnipeg Jets versus St. Louis Blues. This one's another one I'm pretty excited for. As you guys know, I am Canadian, and mostly Canadians from what I can tell, they always cheer for Canadian teams because it's been quite a long time since a Canadian team has won the Stanley Cup.  For the Winnipeg Jets, they've been doing some pretty great things this year. I'm pretty excited. They have some pretty great players. I haven't been watching them closely, but I have been watching them. And for St. Louis Blues, they do have some pretty good players as well, but they have a goalie this year that had a tremendous winning streak. He's been on a roll, and I'm hoping that they will use him for the playoffs because it'd be pretty exciting. If they decide to use him for the playoffs, I could see it going either way, either the Blues or the Jets advancing. But for this one here, I'm going to say Winnipeg Jets, and I'm going to say it's going to be 4-3. I think it's going to be right down to the very last game, and it's going to be pretty intense the entire way. Next is going to be Calgary Flames versus Colorado Avalanche. If you guys seen my video, I posted back in February, where at the time I predicted who I think is going to advance and win the playoffs. I said that Calgary is going to advance, and to me, I think they will. I think they might be able to make it to the finals, but in this matchup here, Calgary has been on a roll most of the season. They've been dominating. They've been proving themselves, which is what I love to see. I've been watching them very closely. Colorado, at one point a couple of weeks ago, I didn't think they were going to make the playoffs. I think they were just under where they needed to be to be able to make the playoffs, but the fact that they clutched it, they were able to make the playoffs. I think that's pretty exciting to see. They have some great players, but against Calgary, I'm a huge supporter of Calgary this year. I think they're definitely going to advance. So for this match here, honestly, I could see it going either way, and I would be okay if either one were to win, but I'm going to predict that Calgary is going to advance, because I would like to see them get to the finals and hopefully win the cup. So I'm going to say this one here is going to be for two. That is my final prediction for this matchup. Next is San Jose Sharks versus Vegas Golden Knights. We lost to players this past season and last offseason to both teams. Eric Carlson went to the Sharks, Mark Stone went and got traded to the Golden Knights. So it's going to be pretty intense. I think, honestly, Vegas this year, last year, their first season, they did some pretty great things. And the fact that they made it so far into the playoffs, made it to the finals, I think is awesome. However, this year, their team, I think is way better than last year. They have a lot more stars on their team than they did. Not saying anything bad about last year's Vegas team, but this year they've really stepped it up. And I think they have a way better chance than they did last year. The Sharks, however, they have a lot of great players as well. And I could see them advancing too. But in this matchup here, I would be okay if it went either way. Honestly, they both deserve it. They've both been proving themselves this year. But because of what Vegas has this year especially, and they also have Flurry, which I'm a huge fan of Flurry, I think that Vegas is going to do it. And I honestly think they're going to have what they did last year, and they're going to clean sweep some of these series. So this one here, I'm just going to guess, I'm going to say it's going to be 4-0. I honestly think it might be different. I think it might be right down to the last game. I might think it might go to 4-3 for Vegas. But I'm going to predict that they're going to clean sweep it because they did a great job in the playoffs last year. I think that's going to happen this year as well. So now I'm going to share my thoughts on the Eastern Conference. Up first, we have Tampa Bay Lightning versus Columbus Blue Jackets. Honestly, Tampa Bay, I've never really been a fan of. I haven't been following this year, but it's hard to miss them because they've been doing top things this whole year. They've been the top team for most of the season, most points doing great things. And I can honestly respect that even though I'm not a fan of Tampa Bay Lightning, I can respect of how much hard work they've done this year. But they're going against Columbus Blue Jackets, which I think they have a lot of good guys on their team, a lot of great players. I hear that their goalie might be leaving. He might be wanting to switch teams after this season. So it might be interesting to see what happens and to see if he is the cause that they might get eliminated. I don't know. I think that they're going to do great. And Matt Duchain is on the team. I'm a huge fan of Matt Duchain. It was sad to see him leave Ottawa, but going to Columbus Blue Jackets, I think he has great things in his future and that is exactly what he needs right now. So this one here, personally, I would like to see Columbus Blue Jackets advance. And if that were to happen, I would be happy with that. But given what Tampa Bay has done this year, I respect them. I'm not a fan of Tampa Bay, but I respect them. And I think they're going to advance in this matchup for Tampa Bay. I think it's going to be for three. I think this one's going to be boiled down to the very last game. I hope that happens. That would be very exciting to see. But I would be happy if Columbus moved on. In fact, I would rather have Columbus move on because I'm more of a fan of them. I support them a little bit more. But you can't argue that Tampa Bay is doing great things this year. And I respect that. Next is Boston Bruins versus Toronto Maple Leafs. This is the same matchup that happened last year. And in my opinion, I've never been a fan of Toronto. I used to always hate them. But this year, they are proving themselves. This year, I respect them. I may not like the team, but at least I can respect them and respect what they have done this season. They've been doing tremendous things dominating. And that is what I think they needed to do this year. However, with the playoffs, in my opinion, I think Toronto Maple Leafs usually always choke. That's what I seen last year whenever they faced Boston Bruins because they faced Bruins last year. So in my opinion, I think they may choke, even though they have a great opportunity and they did great this entire season, it would be nice to see them advance. I don't know necessarily if I would want to see them as the Stanley Cup champions, but I would like to see them advance. However, I think it is going to come down to them choking once again in the playoffs. And I think Boston Bruins are going to advance. Boston has been doing tremendous things as well. They have great players. And I think that's going to happen. I think it's going to be four or two. That is what my prediction is right now. So we shall see what is going to happen. Next up is Washington Capitals versus Next up is Washington Capitals versus Carolina Hurricanes. Honestly, the Hurricanes have proved themselves to get into the playoffs, but they're going against last year's champions. They're going against Washington Capitals. They have a veteran on the team. They've been doing great things to Capitals. And I think that the Capitals are going to clean sweep this series. I think it's going to happen. I don't care for Carolina too much. But I do respect that they made it into the playoffs. I do respect that they were determined to do it. So it would be nice to see them at least win a couple games. But against last year's champions, I honestly don't see it happening. I think it's going to be four zero for the Capitals. And the last match up here is New York Islanders versus Pittsburgh Penguins. I honestly thought that Pittsburgh was going to not make the playoffs this year. And to me, I wouldn't have cared if they made the playoffs. I would have been okay if they were to miss the playoffs, because I have been seeing them in the playoffs for years now. And it would be nice to see other teams advance and make it into the playoffs and get opportunities. But the Penguins definitely prove themselves. And that is why they're in the playoffs. But they are going against New York Islanders, which I've been a fan of this year. I haven't been watching them closely, but I've been keeping up with the news about the team. And I could see it going either way. Honestly, on one hand, Pittsburgh Penguins have Sidney Crosby. They have Malcolm. They have Phil Kessel, who I'm a fan of. They do have some other great players as well. But the Islanders also have some pretty great players. And the Islanders have Robin Leonard. Honestly, I never was a fan of Robin Leonard. He was on the Ottawa Senators and I was glad that they traded him away, because in my opinion, he had anger issues. Then he went to Buffalo and now he was on New York Islanders. And then this past season, we found out the reason why he had anger issues and what was going on. And now he's managing them better. So I can respect what he has done. And that is the reason he had anger issues. So I can't honestly hold that against him. I view him a little bit differently now because I respect that he got the help that he needed. Upon returning from rehab and taking care of himself, he has been dominating for the Islanders this season. He's been on a roll. If he can keep the ball rolling and keep on kicking ass, I think that they have a really good chance beating the Penguins. And honestly, I would like to see that not necessarily that I think that they're going to advance pretty far in the playoffs. But I think they have a pretty good chance of beating the Penguins. And given what Robin Leonard can do now that he is focused and he's doing what he knows he can do, I see great things from the Islanders. Honestly, again, I think it could go either way and I would be okay with it. I would like to see Penguins eliminated, but I could see them advancing. Honestly, I feel that if the Islanders let the Penguins go down to the last game and make it tied 3-3 and go into the seventh game, the last game, I think at that point, the Penguins will win. But if the Islanders can keep up and keep on top of the Penguins and kind of keep being in front of them the entire time and beat them, I think that is how they're going to beat them. If they go down to the last game, I think the Penguins are going to have it. But I hope that doesn't happen. So I'm going to say it's going to be 4-2 for this matchup. So these are my first round predictions on the 2019 Stanley Cup playoffs. I'm pretty excited to see what happens. And once again, even though my team did not make the playoffs, they were dead last, I can still be excited for the playoffs. And I definitely am. I can't wait to see what happens. Hopefully some of my predictions come true. If not all of them, I would like to see that. But I would be okay if some of my predictions didn't come true, because a lot of the teams this year do deserve to be in the playoffs. And I do think that they do have a great possibility of advancing. So I am going to leave this video here, comment down below your predictions, and I will see you guys in the next video. Please take care. Peace.


Hi everyone, my name is Katie, and I am on a COVID gap year. Felt like this video could be helpful to people trying to plan a gap year for this coming year because really the world is, it's not like super ready for planning right now. Before I made my decision to take a gap year, I had not thought about what I would do on my gap year for like literally one second. So by watching this video, you're already just like a little bit ahead, right? Love that for you. From what I have, I started making this YouTube channel because I was like, let's talk about gap year.  But what happens if there are still travel restrictions next year? Like what are you supposed to do? And hopefully this video will allow you to see some of your other options when planning a gap year and how to just like be like mentally prepared for it, but also like actually prepared for it. So I feel like I have personally maximized this year to, you know, it's, it's fullest potential in a way because let's be honest, this year has, it's not been super cute this winter. And like the rest of the whole entire year, like not, not the cutest. And right around like probably June, July, I was sitting looking at my class list. I was all registered for classes and I was like, you know what? I just can't do online school. Like it had, I had only done online school for about two months and it was too much. I wasn't good at it. It just made me frustrated and it, I felt like I was like missing out. So I was just like, you know what? I need to give the world some time to heal itself before I go back because I'm sure that a lot of people are feeling this way that, you know, this pandemic has really taken a toll on a lot of people, young people's lives and everyone's lives.  So in July, I decided to drop all my classes and it was the right decision for me. And if you want to hear more about how I made that decision and why and like, were my like emotions about it and like the feelings, I have a bunch of more videos on my channel and I will link a playlist up here and down below in the description. All right. So first step of planning your gap year is obviously make a decision so you can make a plan. So in July, I thankfully dropped my classes in enough time to secure an internship for the fall. And that was pretty much my only option at the time because like, there was no way I was going to travel or volunteer this fall. Like that just wasn't going to happen with all the COVID restrictions and it just wasn't safe. So the first thing that I did, and this will be a big help is if you have some extra time and you're maybe not even thinking about deferring your year yet, brush up your resume. This will be really helpful for when you start maybe applying for internships or trying to get a job. Having your resume ready so you can just, you know, give it to people is a really great way to do that. So I brushed up my resume in the summertime. Well, no, actually I sat next to my brother who knows about graphic design and he made my resume for me while I sat at the same table. So technically I helped. Number two, make sure you understand your academic plan. So if you're thinking about taking this gap year specifically for people who are hoping to take their gap year before college or if you're during college like I am, like maybe you just need to break from the year that was 2020, like look at your academic plan. So when I was planning for study abroad, I learned my school's like major requirements and my requirements literally inside and out. I can like redo the amount of credits that I have left like on my hand. Like I swear to God. And that really helped me make like a very educated decision on what the rest of my college career would look like. So in that same summer, I applied for a bunch of internships and I ended up getting one, which was very cool.  But for my internship, I actually ended up staying with the company for the whole entire year. So you know, it's, it's flexible. So if I had wanted to and especially this is for people going into this year. So maybe the fall, you're a little wary about traveling or volunteering or you're not sure what to do yet, you know, try getting an internship or a job that's flexible or has an end date so that maybe you can choose to make the decision to spend the rest of your year doing something else. So number two, and this is what I would say it was sort of going off the other point is allow for some flexibilities. There are definitely programs that you can sign up for for gap years. I don't know a whole lot about those. I know that they can be kind of expensive, but you know, should check out your options, see what you like. But I think keeping your options open for the year is a really good idea. Like I was saying earlier, my internship definitely had an end date if I wanted to, I ended up staying if you wanted to take the rest of the time off to travel, or that's definitely something to keep in mind. Number three is set your own goals because my, I have two extra days in the work week to just kind of like do whatever I want. I decided to start a YouTube channel because it was something that I had always wanted to do. Like I just, I always knew that I wanted to start a YouTube channel. So that was what I decided, you know, to allot those two days for it. Oh my god. Hi, I'm Kate and good-bye. You are new workloads. Hey everyone, welcome to VOO! But you know, if you're not into YouTube, try some stuff. A gap year is a great opportunity to like teach yourself some skills. Or if you're not into doing that, like take up a hobby because honestly, if this year has taught me anything, like just do the things that you want to do, if you can, because you just, you never know when the whole world is going to shut down and everything's going to be terrible.  You know, learn how to paint, learn graphic design, teach yourself like the Adobe creative stuff. I just worked on learning Premiere this year and that was like a task in and of itself. You know, create a blog. These are all creative ideas.  Like look up like a list of like the best books of all time and try and read all of them or like read, you know, a book a week or whatever your goal is. That sounds like a lot actually. And number four is, you know, I think for next year, especially if you're thinking of taking a gap year, set loose expectations. I think the beauty of a gap year in its like entirety is just this open slate of time. And I've talked about this before. So rarely, like I remember when I first thought about doing a gap year, the idea of it was like truly kind of troubling. Why is that troubling? I don't know. I'm going to tell you why it's troubling. Okay, I have like, and I know that other people relate to this, like I have just always gone to school, like you just, I've never like stopped.  And when you have that like very like open slate, like very, very open, it's very daunting. And like I said, that kind of funny, I'm sorry. So I think that the beauty of like this video is, you know, choose, if you're going to choose a gap year, you know, I think choose it and like really choose it and you know, leave yourself open to like whatever the next year may bring because hopefully, you know, we'll be getting out of our houses this next year. And I would like that. I would really like that. But I think for me, like having just a little plan to start with and making that initial decision to take a gap year weirdly gave me more control over it. If you have made it all the way to the end, thank you so much for watching and give this video a like if you liked it and subscribe because I've host new videos every Thursday and sometimes Monday. Yeah, and leave any questions you have down below because I'm really, I probably will answer it. So


Aloha, and welcome to Talk Story with John Wahee. We are following up on our last show where we had a Mr. Stanley Lau, and our discussion was about the Constitutional Amendment, which will be on the ballot this November, which will allow the state-to-tax investment property for education. Mr. Lau presented the view opposing the amendment. This morning I thought it would be only fair to have someone who was in favor of the Constitutional Amendment. And so we have a special guest, Mr. Corey Rosen Lee, and he is the president of the Hawaii State Teachers Association, which represents all of the hard-working people in our schools. So Corey, welcome. Thank you. Before we go any further, I have to declare, in terms of total disclosure, that I am not necessarily in favor of this, but I do believe in what you're trying to do. And so I guess why don't you maybe start off by explaining the amendment as you said, and I really want to know why you think it's needed. So I saw the show, and one of the important things is I heard your opinion at the time. And one of the things is I find that if we can have a five-minute conversation with people usually about this and why it's needed, that most people do support it. And that's what we're trying to do, is we just feel like if we can cut through all the clutter and a lot of the fear that's being used around it, I think at the end of the day we get a lot of support. Yeah, because I want to talk really about why we have it and not just about how terrible it would be to see property taxes raised. So let's, you know, what does it do? So let's start off with the problem, okay? And what we're trying to solve. And let's, I'd like to, someone in this conversation today, talk about the problem in Hawaii, but specifically for Native Hawaiian children. Okay, great. Because I think that it's very important that, you know, I think that Native Hawaiians should be one of the biggest proponents of this bill. But the first problem is this. So the question is what's going on currently in our schools? And what we've seen right now is the most important factor in how a student does in the classroom is the teacher. Right. Absolutely. We've seen over the last six years that the amount of teachers leaving Hawaii to go teach on the mainland has increased by, I think, nearly over 80%. And what's the main cause for that, if you don't mind me asking? There's no one cause, okay? You cannot solve this through one bullet here. One of the biggest problems we have, of course, is funding. Right. When you adjust for cost of living, our teachers are the lowest paid in the nation. There is a study that came out today from Wallet Hub that says Hawaii is the worst state to teach in the nation. Because of the cost of living? Cost of living and, yes, primarily. So you and Stanley are actually on the same side when it comes to cost of living. Both of you. But a lot of people in this argument are trying to say, no, don't adjust for cost of living. And that's a ridiculous thing because everything in Hawaii is adjusted for cost of living. So because of this, we have this over 1,000 classrooms that don't have a qualified teacher. And what that means is, and I've seen this firsthand, is these kids go to school and they can have an emergency hire or they have a substitute. Right. But the substitute does not have to know the content of that classroom. And so you will have it. So they just show up and babysit. Exactly. Yeah. What we've seen then is that, and so we have 1,000 classrooms and we want to think that, so we estimate that somewhere about a third of our students, a third of our public school students on a daily basis go to school and at least one of their teachers is not qualified. But the reality is this, some of our students probably go their entire career without having one substitute emergency hire. And some children, primarily those come from poor communities or rural commercial communities. Like native Hawaiian communities. Native Hawaiian communities. Or communities with a lot of immigrant children or the like, right? So they're more likely to have unqualified at a field and an experienced teacher. So there was a study done by the U.S. Department of Education in 2015. And they were looking to see was there specifically certain areas where you would have this problem and where there's certain ethnic groups that had it. And so one of the things they looked at was the Nanakuli Waianae area. Where it's 81% title one or high poverty. 81%. 81%. And this is the part that's scary right now across the entire state is what we've seen in the last few years is now a majority of our students are now title one. Which means that we have totally created two school systems. Again, I mean, we've gone back to the whole idea of the democratic revolution was to end the idea. But we're going the opposite direction. We are now creating two school systems. One that's well funded, that does everything that education is supposed to do, and another school system that doesn't have teachers or 100-degree classrooms or broken desks. So it's not necessarily just about money. I mean, you need to also use it well. You need to attract teachers. But you need more money to get to those things. So back to the thing. So they looked at the Nanakuli Waianae area and they found that one out of every five teachers had less than one year of teaching experience. I think it was like 9% that were unqualified and another like 8% were out of field, which meant you may have an English teacher doing special education but doesn't know how to do special education. And what's so surprising to me is that despite that, teachers give an awful lot and they try to make the school the best they can. But can you really do that with the shortages that you're describing? Can you actually take a school that is under, I wouldn't say necessarily underfunded or less funded than someplace else, but under staffed or under, it's just not up to par. So we have great teachers at every school. It's not about that we're saying that we have bad teachers. Is that, look, when I first started teaching, teaching is hard. It takes time to learn the craft. When you constantly have these high turnover and it's constantly for the same group of students were basically denying them an education. So this 2015 equity report said that high minority, high native schools are more likely to have unqualified teachers out of field teachers and inexperienced teachers. So you mentioned to me that there was an additional study done on Native Hawaiian children by Kamehameha schools. What does that show? The question is this. If we were to increase funding for our schools, would that have a huge impact for our Native Hawaiian students inside of our public schools and for the Native Hawaiian community? And the answer is yes. And there's two reports that you can look at. One was a Kamehameha schools report and it showed that they looked at both Kamehameha school students and they looked at all Native Hawaiians. And the one thing to look at the all Native Hawaiians is that includes Native Kamehameha school students so the numbers would actually be less if it was public school versus Kamehameha schools. And the first one they said is reading at grade level or higher in grade three. So Kamehameha school students, schools was at 89 percent and the all Native Hawaiian learners was at 62. So there's still a gap. When they start off. Okay, but there's about a 27 percent gap. But then the real important number is to look at this one. Graduated from high school on time and prepared for the next step. That means you can go to college or vacation schools or have a better life, frankly. 92 percent of Kamehameha school students are ready for that next step. All Native Hawaiian students is 25 percent. So between. Wow. Third and twelfth grade, you're losing close to 40 percent of those. You start off under anyway, but what happens is that it actually starts to expand. The number of people that are left behind, I guess you would say. And so you have this large group of students that are either dropping out of school, not going on to college and therefore not having a lot of opportunity. I would assume that in addition to the native Hawaiian students, you might find something very similar happening in other with other ethnic groups or other groups in areas that are poverty stricken. We just don't have a Kamehameha schools to compare them to. But the interesting thing too is this is that we have a racial divide in Hawaii's public schools and Hawaii's schools, I should say, not public schools. Native Hawaiians have the largest percentage of public school students in the state. Really? Despite the fact that they have their own Kamehameha school system. So they're overrepresented in the public schools and underrepresented in the private schools. While Caucasians, Japanese, Chinese and Koreans are overrepresented in the private schools and underrepresented in the public schools. What about Filipinos? So Filipinos are the second largest ethnic group in our schools. Native Hawaiians and Filipinos make up about half of all of our students in our public schools. Just those two ethnic groups. I mean, those two ethnic groups ought to be furious with these statistics. They should absolutely be furious. This is systemic institutional racism and segregation that in order to provide. So you're getting my 60s blood all churning here. But this is the thing is, is that if we invest in some children and our private schools spend two to three times as much and we deny other children basic education. So I'll give you the statistic. So last year there were 19 openings for special education teachers in the Nanakuli Waena area. And they're only able to hire one qualified teacher. Wow. So over three years there were 65 openings and they're only able to five teachers.  You start off behind the eight ballers every single year. What every single year you're denied that qualified teacher. How do we expect them to do well? So native Hawaiian children that are special education at Waenae, 50% are chronically absent. Wow. Because by that time they've been denied an education or they're going to school and have someone that may not be trained. Why do we expect that they keep on going to school? Right, right. Absolutely not. But you know, I actually detected something, also something else, a little subtle. You know, because what we're comparing is the fact that these other groups have access and are in private schools. But it seems that you're also suggesting that within the public school system, they are schools that have, you know, have all the teachers that they need and get a better shake than places like Waenae Nanakuli. So it's not the fact that we're just saying, oh, public schools have these results and private schools have something else. You're also saying within the public school system, there are districts that apparently don't have teachers like Waenae Nanakuli or qualified teachers. Sure. So the lack of teachers is not uniform. But what we have seen is, it used to be, like for example, elementary education. There's the idea that you could never get a job if you wanted to be an elementary education teacher. Yeah, it was so... Now we have a huge shortage in elementary education teachers. Really? Yes. Wow. Everything across the field. I never thought they would have an emergency hire for a social studies teacher. We have emergency hires for social studies teachers now. There's no one aspect of our public schools that does not have a vacancy now. But there are some public schools that have better than others. People are cute, so it's better, but it's not like all of a sudden there's a panacea in other places. What we really notice is this, and again, our private schools is not like the teachers are better. A lot of them are actually from our public schools. It's the consistency. I was at Campbell High School, and for your period, we lost 100 teachers out of 200 teacher staff. You can't do that. I mean, how do you... You can't do that. You're staying there. We're going to be right back in a minute. We need to take a small break here. And when we come back, we want to discuss what's the solution, and why is the, in Cory's mind, this constitutional amendment at least something, at least a possible solution. Hi. 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Welcome back to Talk Story with John Wahee and our special guest, Cory Rosen Lee, who is the president of the Hawaii Teacher's Association. By the way, if you'd like to call in with a question for Cory, the number here is<PHONE_NUMBER>. Cory, we were talking about the conditions in the public schools because of the, I guess you would say lack of funding. And how these conditions may have actually gotten worse since I was in office. Well, you're saying not only are special education teaching, teaching slots not, special education teachers not available, qualified, but in a whole number of categories. Is that pretty much the condition? So we know across the board, whether it's special education or English language learners, that a one across the board, our teachers are so frustrated with the current conditions. Just absolute lack of resources and help. That's why they're leaving. This is not a problem that happens everywhere. We have an American problem and then we specifically have a Hawaii problem within the American problem. And there has to be the urgency of now to do something about this. Because this is, everywhere around the world, the clear idea is you've got to invest in your kids. Right. It's basically just one of the smartest things a society can do. It improves the economy, it lowers social costs.  Absolutely. And in the long run, it actually means less tax dollars being paid for a social net. Absolutely. And that's what we have to realize and that's what we have to do. Well, let me ask you, okay. So the proposal on the table, because obviously what you want and what you need is more funding or at least more committed funding. Absolutely. And so tell me about this particular amendment to the Constitution or how it came about and what is it supposed to do? So if we can agree, number one, we need to increase funding for our public schools and the only question is how do we do that? Right. Okay. And if you look at it, there are what we consider the four buckets. Okay. The four buckets that bring in enough revenue to actually make a dent in education. You have the general excise tax. Right. You have the income tax. You have the transient accommodation tax and you have the property tax. Right. Okay. If you look at those four, first of all, three years ago we tried the GET and that went nowhere in the last six years. So you say you tried the GET. We put up a bill. You tried increasing the GET. Yes. Our estimate is that we spend about $6,000 less per pupil than our comparative districts, which when you multiply times the amount of students we have is nearly a billion dollars. Wow. Yeah. So what are you trying to raise? I mean, since you don't know. Okay. So I would have loved to raise a billion dollars. No way to get there. Okay. So our first year what we tried was a 1% increase in the GET. Okay. And that would have brought in about $800 million. Additional funding. Additional funding. And that would have made a huge difference. And there was just no movement in the legislature to do that. Okay. It barely got through a couple committees and that was it. Now that's something, by the way, that the legislature has absolute authority over. Absolutely. I mean, they can do it. They can do it themselves. They don't need to go out for any kind of referendum. They need to show the same passion you showed when you talk about the needs of education. So when we were going around for that, the one conversation I had with a lot of legislators is they were talking about property taxes. And the reason why is Hawaii is the only state in the entire country that does not use property taxes to fund the schools. We have the lowest property tax rate in the entire country. And the third aspect is that our low property tax rates actually are hurting the economy in Hawaii. Okay. So how does that happen? So one third of all property taxes in Hawaii are actually paid by people that don't live in Hawaii. Because of their second home. Second homes. And so I'll give you the biggest examples of Maui right now. Last year about half of all homes, 52% of all homes and 60% of all town homes were bought by people that did not live in Hawaii. I didn't know that. Okay. So when you have all these outside investors coming in buying up that much property, then all the residents of Maui are fighting for the other 48% of the available real estate. And then the other thing is that foreign investors actually spend, I think the statistic was 50% more for the cost. So that's driving up the cost for everyone. So what you have is because the 40% or well a huge percentage of home owners are second home owners that they're actually decreasing the supply of housing on Maui. And because they're willing to pay more money for the homes, it's driving up the cost. So we have these two factors that are impacting housing. And so, and this goes back to last year, more people moved away from Hawaii than moved in. Okay. And same thing applies for native Hawaiians. Well, native Hawaiians don't like to move. They can help. But if you have these two things going on, okay, number one is we know that education is directly tied to income. And the more education you have, the higher your income you have. So when you're denying a group, systemically a quality education. That's a really good point, by the way, that this may be a little bit more than just a lack of funding. It's actually some kind of institutional classification going on. It absolutely is. And it appears, and you're suggesting anyway, that institutionalization of poverty also exists with the housing market as well as in the education market. So the question is, if you ask, why is Hawaii the only state not to use property taxes? Is this by some mistake or is this by design? Okay.  Okay. Okay. At the time you have relatively few wealthy landowners. You have the big five, the roots of the big five. Right. You have a few wealthy outpouring investors, same problem as we have today, that are buying up vast amounts of land. And they do not want, just like today, the wealthy do not want to share their wealth with the working class. Okay. They basically work with the legislature to make sure that they didn't tax property taxes as it was going on across the United States at the time. But what they did was, they wanted to tax the workers to pay for the schools. Okay. Okay. That's why we use the GET, primarily. All right. But they also said, if you educate them beyond the sixth grade, they become a menace. They knew that if the plantation workers' children got an education, they could leave the plantation, get better jobs, or demand higher wages, or start striking. So the best way to make sure you have a docile, cheap labor force, is to deny the education. You know, that was the cornerstone of the 1954 Democratic Revolution.  Because at one time, Hawaii, all the way up till the 1950s, really had a dual school system. We still have a dual school system. In effect, right? We have the highest rate of private school attendance in the nation. In Honolulu, close to 38% of children go to private school. Wow. There's nothing like that anywhere in the country. And there's nothing wrong. Private school, I mean, when we look for these big mystery, even a lot of public school teachers send their kids to private school, and it's not because they don't trust their front teachers, is that they don't, again, if you don't have, I might, might not... Well, how does that happen? Because these private schools need to be funded, and people that don't make a lot of money seem to be able to afford sending their kids to these schools. No. Well, it's a protocol, for example, spends about $30,000 per pupil. A regular education student in a public school costs $10,000. You mean, we spend one third? Exactly. Well, how do they afford to do $30,000? You have two groups. You have, first, you have, so, on the mainland, parents pick the communities, primarily if they have kids, based on how good the schools are, okay? And if they have good schools, they have high property taxes. Right. Here, they have low property taxes, so they don't have to pay that, so they can make sure that their own children get that quality education, but how about all the other kids? One of the arguments, and I understand the argument about the large landowners and the historical basis for that, but one of the arguments is that today Stanley made this actually very articulately the fact that, yes, you might be taxing a class that may mean very well need to have more higher property taxes, but in the process, you're going to end up making housing for, actually, in effect, more expensive, at least for the short term. So, the opponents of this argument are trying to make the argument that we're going to tax everyone, okay? And you, as a former legislator, know that if you tried to do that, you'd be out of office. Oh, yeah. Okay? Yes, of course. And so, they're just really, just like back then, we don't have the money to compete, so there's recently a Kaka'ako apartment, so the average apartment sold for $3.3 million.  For that $3.3 million, or one townhouse, they can buy out the media market for the next month, and they're going to use that to basically scare everyone, saying they're going to go after your rent, and that's not the truth. Well, let me ask you real quick, because we're running out of time, and I'm really interested in this, assuming that we can get, and I don't know why we wouldn't have consensus on the need for more money for education. If this constitutional amendment doesn't pass, what are some of the other alternatives? Because we really need to do something about funding education. And that's the thing is, is that 78% of people in Hawaii agree that we need to increase funding. Yeah, we ought to, why doesn't our legislature increase funding? Because the problem is, every single time we throw up one idea, there may be some people that support it, don't support it. This is the best chance we've had in decades to do something, and it's not multiple choice. Yeah, it's either yes or no. And if we vote no, then we'll wish back, why are we at 2,000 teachers that are leaving Hawaii now? Well, what's interesting to me is that with the excise tax, clearly a 40% of that's paid by tourists anyway, or 30-something percent. So if you're going to look for, well, I just can't see it. But the thing is this, it's not like if you vote on, it's not on the ballot, okay, vote yes for our schools in the Constitution Amendment, or you have a choice of doing the G.E.T., okay? If we vote no. We vote no, we go back to the time. We go back, and the question's current situation is, so bad that it caused urgency. And I think the interesting thing you were talking about before was, you actually agree that we should be taxing these outside investors, I had- I do, but you know what amazes me is that you actually don't need this Constitution Amendment, you don't need to, you don't need to classify it as a property tax. You can do like extractions, you can, we used to do, I used to do that when I was in office, you know, you want to get this, you want to build these buildings. I mean, why- Is that it? The conveyance tax doesn't bring in enough, okay, and the problem is the property tax really does, and again, you want to target it year after year, not a one-time fee. So this is- This is the best shot that you see right now. It really is. And it's time that people in Hawaii wake up to what the educational crisis may be. And this is why when I saw the show, okay, and I really hope, because there's going to be a lot of misinformation out there, but specifically, you know, we have the largest group of our children are Native Hawaiians. Native Hawaiians should be enraged by those statistics that you showed me, absolutely, absolutely. And also, you have these people that are driving up their cost of living, and it's sending Native Hawaiians to move outside of Hawaii, this is, this will be the chance that we have to really kill- Well, I hope that whatever happens that we end up funding education better than we have, and even if the amendment doesn't pass, the teachers need to be thankful bringing this issue up. Now, if it does pass, you're going to have your hands full working with the legislature doing it, but at least we'll be heading in the right direction. Exactly. All right. Okay, I would thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you very much. Absolutely. We just thought of time. I do appreciate you being here and giving us the other side of the story. Thank you. Aloha.


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