We're back with a live three o'clock rock. I'm Jay Fiedel. This is Think Tech. Wow Okay, we special show the economy and you And our regular Chris Lietz and not feeling all that well, so I'm gonna do it and we're talking about promoting Promoting dignity through film. Yeah, we're the filmmaker Jason Scott Jones Filmmaker and author to yes, sir. Welcome to the show Jason. Thanks for having me. All right. Great to have you here So let's define you, you know, that's the first part You're kind of a philosopher and an activist you age graduate you age grads political science Yeah, and you you know, you went you went into the extremes there somewhere in the 90s Tell us tell us about your own evolution. Well, I guess for me as a filmmaker You would say what is the inciting incident of my life or the call to adventure? When I was 16 years old my high school girlfriend wrote her bicycle a couple miles to my house woke me up with the news that she was pregnant and My birthday was a few days away. And so he conspired that I would drop out of high school and join the army and Through a special program a friend of mine just entered for delinquents and I knew I qualified I entered the army on my 17th birthday, which was two days later I went down to the recruiter's office and a few weeks after that. I was off to Fort Benning, Georgia and Enlisted in the infantry and two weeks before I was to come home. My high school girlfriend called me It's kind of a sad story and she called me just wailing crying like I had never heard a woman crying my life and her father Found out she was pregnant. She was trying to hide it till I got back from basic training and forced her to have an abortion Ah, and that what where did that take place in South side of Chicago? Okay, it was where I'm from and Here I was at Fort Benning, Georgia. I've never been at church a day in my life. I was raised in sex ed housing I didn't know anything about religion or politics But this struck me as odd that a young woman in the third trimester could have a forced abortion And and there was nothing the mother or the father could do about it Oh, I'd hardly described a bit the heartbreaking. Yeah, and then it's kind of a I was came to Hawaii was deployed To Thailand My first month here and on a field problem. I remember coming across we were in the middle of nowhere a Young father holding his young son who was very very sick like on the edge of death and I'd asked her translator What was going on? He said that the boy probably had malaria didn't have much longer to live I remember seeing the helplessness in the eyes of that father Which was how I felt just a few weeks earlier at Fort Benning, Georgia I would say at that moment was maybe the inciting incident that I realized how privileged I was To be an American to have access to you know Education and resources and it was at that moment. I think I committed my life. I Wouldn't have articulated it this way at the time But as I think back to just to live my life in solidarity with the vulnerable or the less privileged And then I was blessed because after leaving school field and going to the University of Hawaii I discovered this this professor there who I never had a chance to have Rummel dr. Rummel who wrote a very influential book called death by government and I remember reading that book and That just woke me up to the sorrow that was the 20th century with this genocide Democide and total war and I was able to universalize my experiences and realize what a sorrowful century was So then I was there at the University of Hawaii I said I want to do everything I can to just use my life to promote the incomparable beauty of the human person and Set out to do that after graduating and just been putting one foot after the other ever since Whoa Thank you for defining yourself Jason. Sorry Blow me away now. You know Jason. Yeah, sorry. Sorry for such a sorrowful So what is your credo now you have a philosophical system you have I do organize what is it? I wouldn't say I organized it. I discovered it. You know, I set out as an atheist and I just you know in eighth grade. I read Kurt Vonnegut and I ran and they kind of set my hair on fire Yeah, and you know when I in the army I rediscovered I ran and started reading everything she wrote and Kurt Vonnegut's Harrison Bergeron if you remember that I read that in junior high Yeah, so I was a radical atheist objectivist And I thought that the problems of the 20th century were caused by collectivism and totalitarianism and socialism and that the answer to the problem was radical individualism and so I started writing a book at UH that was Eventually became this book. It was called generation X manifesto the race to save our century What year was that? This was in 96 when I sat down to write this and I thought I'll finish it This is why you were studying political. I was an undergrad at the University of Hawaii studying political studying political science and Dr. K. Joe was a big influence on me as well and he has she's a libertarian. I can say that now She has tenure. Yeah, she's been here a couple times. Yeah, I know she's great and she influenced me too and greatly but it was Trying to study what were the causes of genocide democide in total war in the 20th century Yeah, I kind of grew from being a radical individualist to sing maybe more of personalism I went from being an atheist to a theist to eventually a Catholic But it was all clawing to try to understand it was really sartanica that led me to Catholicism And strangely the strange is that might sound because they had said that the church Was the advocate of this anthropology this mythological Anthropology that human beings were made in the image of God and had this incomparable dignity which is a lie and I'm like well it's self-evident and I ran said that she said it's self-evident that answer never Satisfied me. I said that's not an explanation of the source of this dignity and when sart and Nietzsche said well It's Christian anthropology is the source of that dignity. I thought well it must be true because The overwhelming when you look at a human person they're there. It's obvious that they're the most valuable thing in the cosmos Why is that and that led me to Catholicism and then and then eventually the book that was supposed to come out in? 1999 and launch my career that I dreamed of having for myself Realized it's gonna take a lot longer. So then in 1999. I said I want to publish on the 100th anniversary of World War one That's my goal or the Armenian genocide and that's what I did. I published it on the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genesis Ah a scheduled publication 14 years. I you know a lot of times you'll say well I have a book coming out in three years. I'm like sure you do well, but I need 14 years Okay, yeah, so yeah, and we have here a show that we called promoting Promoting Dignity through film through film.  What do you mean by dignity anyway? Well, you know, I think that the inviability of the human person I'm really kind of obsessed with Adled almost with protecting the human person from violence Violence that's a big part violence is it protecting the vulnerable from violence for me It was my vulnerable child in the womb and her teen mother and I was unable to protect my child I felt helpless and so I thought, you know, there's the child in the womb is a human person It's a human being The Supreme Court denied its personhood just like the Supreme Court denied the person of slaves and the Supreme Court of Virginia Denied the personhood of of Native Americans. So I looked back and saw you know, wow We won't deny their human beings, but we'll deny their personhood. So I thought you know protecting the vulnerable from violence We move the line, you know, we look for different vulnerable Communities to destroy. I've been greatly influenced by Rene Girard as well the French anthropologist who talks about that eyes identifying the most vulnerable members of the community to destroy So I started knocking on doors in Oahua in 1989 Talking to people about abortion on my off days Then I eventually did radio with Mayor Fossey and Mark Moses here in the 90s Then ran for chairman of the young Republicans and realized if I attacked governor or cheerwoman lingo at the time publicly I could make statements in the press. They love that and I kept wanting to reach broader bigger and bigger and bigger audiences and One day I said let's just make movies You know, you have captive millions of people. What was that when you make that my first film was a 1999 I realized I wanted to make films at the time. I only dreamed of making documentaries Hollywood was like this castle in the clouds You could never reach Before we go to the films Yeah inquire in detail the book. Yes, race to save our century five core principles to promote peace freedom and Culture of life by Jason Scott Jones and John Zim Zira. It's a miracle Iraq Can you talk to me about this book? Why did you write it? What is it? What is it telling us and what are the five core principles? But again, and when I was an undergrad at UH, I had made a trailer why you should study and Why you should major in political science. I presented it to the poly side apartment. Well, I was a conservative They didn't want anything I had to offer But in making the trailer it woke me up. I put all the up to that time was the mid 90s I started with the Armenian genocide and I just clipped together all these scenes of war and terror over the 20th century I ended it with I went and shot a little video at the the grocery store over there in Manoa by UH and I ended it with that of a lady shopping for like in this huge fruit section And I thought contrast. Yeah, let's say this isn't normal. Our life isn't normal But that kind of said that's when I thought I have to write the book But I discovered one principle after the other and I discovered I I Discovered Catholic social teaching, you know I at first it was this radical individualism which became more of a Christian personalism Then I discovered the transcendent moral order through the Nuremberg trials when you study the Nuremberg trials the West but the 19th century Denying that there were laws above the polity above the state above positive law and then at Nuremberg We had to acknowledge once again. Well, they're actually there is a law that transcends positive law Which is controversial today again. Isn't that it's shocking? And then looking at the totalitarianism in the 20th century that I discovered subsidiarity The idea that is subsidiarity is the idea that you keep powers close to the person as possible And you want to empower intermediary organizations between the person in the state So you want there to be competition between the family and ethnic associations and fraternal associations and labor unions and You want power to be decentralized and close to the person if you look at the great crimes of the 20th century They all began with eradicating intermediary competitors intermediary organizations between the person in the state So subsidiarity to me is very important if you can have flourishing civil society the human person is safe It sounds like political science on steroids Yeah, I don't take any performance enhancing drugs not even and not even riddle in which I probably should But so what are the five principles? So The Christian personalism or I would say the incomparable dignity human person to there's a transcendent moral moral order There's a law above the laws of man Subsidiarity is you know, you want power as close to the person as possible Three is solidarity or for his solidarity the strong have an obligation while they're strong because we're not going to be strong forever While we're strong and while we have privilege to share our strength and our privilege with the most vulnerable members of our community and Five is is the humane economy that adjusts social order is grounded in private property rights set within Commonwealths so we own a right to our private property, but we also have to acknowledge we hold that and trust Several commonwealths at a time pathway to a better world to manifesto it is it was to explain to my family really and friends Why I'm so obsessed and the idea is that drive me are that's really why I wrote you say to race to save our century implies Not only that you're trying to save the century within the century, but that there's a race What is the race well? It's really sad when I started writing this book the editors were throwing out the stuff On the Ukraine in Poland and you have so much in here and 600 pages when we submitted it You're not Henry Kissinger your mother's not going to read this get it to less than 200 and We had a lot on Armenia and this Assyrians and the Kaldians in Iraq and Syria This was before ISIS when we submitted to the publishers Well, is that it's shocking that a hundred years after the Armenian genocide Which is what gave Hitler permission. He said that no one cared about the Armenians. No one will care about the Jews and Interesting yeah, and in 19 for in 2014 ISIS again You see the destruction of the Kaldians the Assyrians and the Armenians and Nobody will care about them and no one does care do they you know who cares and I'm a Republican, but I I just I cry when I think about how heroic is is is Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard. It's just amazing that this this Congresswoman, you know from Hawaii Has been one of the loudest voices for the most vulnerable people on the planet And you want to see Tulsi part of the the Trump administration? Um, I would love to see her have the most influence possible in shaping foreign policy Because she's a veteran. I'm a veteran as a veteran. I want a veteran there She really seems that experience seemed to really change her looking at her from a distance And it seemed to really focus her it was her Insighting incident, maybe I think her family raised her with a sense of civic duty, but but that I Think her experience in Iraq Changed her and really focused her attention not only the Kaldians the Assyrians the Sunnis You know she and the Iraqis but also our soldiers that we send over there one last question before we go to the break Yes, this fellow Johns Mirac.  The way we write is I rant He takes notes and then he sends it to me and then we change it. We go back and forth He's a he's I'm a high school dropout from Chicago who's lived in Hawaii for 30 years. I have seven children He went to Yale and then and then he went to LSU and then back to Yale for his PhD He's a New Yorker and my wife is a New Yorker So when we're on the phone she just laughs because he's such a New Yorker you guys couldn't be different He's salty. He's a very salty character Perfect match or perfect match not your salty, too Yeah, maybe let's take a salty break here for about one minute. We'll be right back with Jason Scott Jones Aloha everybody. My name is Mark Shklav. I'd like you to join me for my program Law across the sea on think tech Hawaii calm. Aloha. Thank you for watching think tech I'm Grace Chang the new host for global connections. You can find me here live every Thursday at 1 p.m We'll be talking to people around the islands or visiting the islands who are connected in various aspects of global affairs So please tune in and Aloha and thanks for watching Aloha, how you doing? Welcome to you by she talk Gordon the techs are here. We're here every Friday from One o'clock till about 145 when we talk tech with many many great guests I got the end of the security guy who helps me co-host and I got poppy chulo who comes in once in a while to Help us through the show. So please come join he by she talked every Friday Angus will be here, too So remember like we say at the end of every show. How you doing bingo? Not finished with writing books either. Are you know you got one in the hopper now at four and a hopper on the hopper? Oh god so much going on. Yeah, so I'm the one you spoke about during the break is Socrates and Auschwitz Yeah, what exactly is the connection? Well, you know, I look at the people who really have inspired me like Hannah Iran to Leo Strauss Eric Vogel and Elizabeth Anscombe They were you know lived through this just most shocking period in human history and they looked to reason to address The horror that was going on around them and they spent the rest of their lives Thinking about that and so I think there's a lot that we can learn from these men and women who We're in the middle of this the greatest genocides and democides in human history We're trying to use unaided reason to address what were the causes of so there's a Easier comparison between that and the book of you know the book where you studied the Armenian genocide Yeah, well in this book this book looks at a lot of genocide I was drawing on these writers to kind of discover what we can do how we can order our lives But in this case, you're gonna you're gonna move much quicker. You're gonna do you Socrates in ten years a lot faster. You I guess you you're improving your writing technique Hey, I have a lot of reading before I can write. Okay. I don't know my material philosophical treatises Well, let's move to film okay, okay, so now you that's what interest people you've developed this this this world view This philosophy a very complex in-depth philosophy calling on many thinkers and many ideas And then it dawns on you one day that you have to express yourself The book is one way to express yourself the four other books. That's another four ways to express yourself But film you got to the film why film film is it and how did you do that because we love we know about film here Why did you do that? I think I started knocking on doors and then writing press releases doing radio and then I did a documentary in 2000 and then I met some young filmmakers in Mexico City by chance and we did our first movie Bella And then we win the Toronto International Film Festival. Whoa, our first movie first movie and we're just in shock And we're celebrated by the world. I mean we had 11 screenings at the White House and At the UN and so what about Bella? What is Bella? What is it? Bella's is it's such a beautiful film It's direct written and directed by Alejandro Monteverdi whose most recent film little boy Was in theaters last year But it's it's just a day in the life of a young woman who finds herself pregnant Doesn't want the baby and she's from a broken home and she'd be friends a cook in the restaurant She works played by Alejandro Monteverdi Tammy Blanchard 20-word winning actress Tammy Blanchard plays Nina and it's just a they spend one day together in New York City. I should set this up. This is not easy You know, it was a young guy at a film school a lawyer a Colombian lawyer and a Mexican soap opera star and we didn't have a lot of money We had less than three million dollars to shoot New York and it just really everything came together You got to do a lot of outreach you got to find people who participate who will to invest will invest Yeah, and you did and you found the talent that pulled it off and we did and and then the marketing of the film was really there Then you find out I deal with filmmakers all the time now who they make a movie and they think they're done And you have to tell them brother. You're in a 12 round fight and it's the third round And they're like what I'm out of breath. I have no energy. Well, you better you better reach deep It's just beginning. Yeah. So what what happened in the one day of Bella's life? Well, I'm gonna plot spoiler Nina What's gonna have an abortion in and Jose? Whisper something into her ear. He takes her. He doesn't give her any arguments as she's sharing all the reasons She wants to have an abortion and but he whispers something into his ear It's the last scene of the film at all makes sense sort of M. Night Shyamalan ask you figure out what's going on He whispered what he whispered into her ear was I'm gonna. Please. Let me adopt your baby And so the movie ends with him on the beach With his daughter and that's how the movie ends that is looking at this is Mexican guy looking at this This little blonde girl running around the beach and then this help begins and how it ends and she's coming to see her daughter For the first time six years later our goal with the film was to know the name of one Baby whose mother chose life after seeing our film within ten years of our theatrical release and we've received over a thousand letters Oh, and on social media on friends with all of them I get to see them all grow up spectacular. Yeah, and they message me and we talk and how long ago that would you make the movie? The movie came out in theaters in 2007 our 10th anniversary is coming up and we're looking at inviting them all who can make it will pay for the You know what will help with the accommodations, but we want to bring them all to Disneyland. Ah, so where can I find Bella? Bella's an Amazon that often on Netflix a very successful little film and The next one is a little that was three million dollar budget, you know, okay? It's a sweet film. It's the production Qualities over the top Alejandro is a genius and he's a genius. Yeah, okay Bella success Yeah spectacular and it sounds like a movie. I have to see I'll be I'll be watching it tonight Oh, you know when your leadership goes up by one, you know, I'll be there I'll be the one but what what other movies followed Bella well after Bella I was asked by Steve McAvie the producer of Braveheart and Passion of the Christ and when we were soldiers to Come on and help with the stoning of Soraya M and what an experience that was it was a film in Farsi The true story of a woman who was framed by adultery framed for having adultery by her eyes It's a real story. The true story was stoned to death. It was a you know, really celebrated book and Very hard movie to watch, but it's a necessary movie. I think I would wish everyone watch it watch the message once How fragile and vulnerable, you know, the human person is René Girard Says what's different about Christianity and and myth is Christianity's myth inside out It puts the ugliness of violence on the outside puts the ugliness of the mob on the outside and it puts Those who stand with the vulnerable In an elevated position where myth celebrates the mob and it celebrates the violence and violence And I told Steve I when I read this from René Girard I said you know what you and Mel Gibson's business partner and you guys make movies together and separate But in all your movies together separate they have one thing in common you leave the film repulsed by violence Whether it's the Passion of the Christ or heart Hacksaw Ridge, which I think is probably the most moving film. I've ever seen Steve McAvey has a movie that's just coming out called Man Down starting Shia LaBeouf. It looks at post-traumatic stress Disorder in our soldiers. That's a good message to leave people was repulsed by violence Yeah, and in fact Mel Gibson made a movie in Scotland wasn't I can't remember the name brave heart brave heart Where I mean I still think about that movie today about the violent end of that movie I was repulsed by it. Yeah, it's the same thing and violence is repulsive should be repulsive But it goes back to your thing about dignity doesn't it?  Yeah, this is it We have other things you know we do something in Hawaii that I love is we do it actually has going on around the world now But my daughter and I started it here. We have backpacks You'll probably see them all over town that say I am made in the image of God We film with the necessities of life and we give them to the homeless So you'll see our local neighbors without homes With their bags neighbors without our neighbors and we have to remember they're our neighbors Yeah, and they just don't have homes and and it but it says I am made in the image of God and That's what we just want everyone to know the inviability and beauty of the human person so in Converting your method of expression from writing To film. What did you have to learn about film about you know the technical? Aspects, you know the different approaches that you have in creating a film as opposed to writing it down Well to be honest I learned that I don't know anything and I'll never know it I don't have the talent or aptitude and so initially I thought it's got some tips on me No, that was my first tip to know what I don't know and hire really talented people and let them be them You know as the producer my job was to find the money find the script and find the right people and let them Because I was so insecure initially. I just never Stoning of Srayam is where I learned I should express myself a little more It's like we shouldn't call the stoning of Srayam Nobody wants to see you shouldn't tell the ending in the movie, especially at the endings repulsive just we should call it Soraya, it's a great title for the stoning of Srayam people didn't want to go We took as polls and it didn't do as well as we'd hope that and they said the name was why they didn't go see It was just your gut on these things. Yeah, but but now I've learned to really love writing and to love the art of filmmaking and storytelling and And that anyone can actually learn it enough as a producer to assist the writers The director the creative producers. That's true.  I mean, are we are we fixed for a career young man? Are we fixed for a career now in filmmaking? Is there some other way that you want to extend your message? What kind of films do you plan to make in the future? Well, we're working on a documentary right now I can't talk too much about it's very controversial. It's gonna have some of the biggest stars in Hollywood It should be out next year But we have a short film. I work. Well, we want to kind of address the black lives matters and this kind of Can put you in a how I think the black lives matters movement is really started by people who don't feel That they belong have participation or historical roots in the United in America And so I said, how do we address that with a friend of mine? He's a black actor and a great stuntman in Hollywood, but he so Stan We he we conceived the project and he wrote the script on James Armistead and James Armistead is the most important spy in US history He was a slave Who was Washington in general off yet's most effective spy and there would be no United States of America If not for the courage and the daring of James Armistead And so I thought how do we address this feeling that is is is is causing people to not My ancestors were in Germany, you know at the time and but if you're black and you're an American You keep pretty confident that a lot of your ancestors were right, you know in the mainland and So let's tell the story Let's tell the story of the important roles that that strikes me that you you have the flexibility to To follow these stories anywhere and everywhere He from a Bella to the stoning to this one. I mean that you have no geographical boundaries But the one consistent thing is you're protecting you in dignity. Yeah, I think that's great Jason Thank you for joining us today. Thanks for having me. It's been a treat. It's been a whirlwind of a veritable fire hydrant Thank you


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Hey, what's going on everyone? It is be Aver here again And I want to welcome you to another episode of just my opinion So where this week this time this episode we of course are going to be talking about the box office results for the past weekend Actually the first weekend of April April Fool's weekend Resurrection Sunday Easter Sunday. We're talking about the box office, but not only are we talking about that? We're also going to do briefly discuss fantastic for Captain Marvel new mutants and Dark Phoenix with Fox, but let me go ahead and knock that out first And then we'll go ahead and get to the box office next and this box office won't just focus mostly on black panther Cuz you know, I've been obsessed with that it will focus on everything, but last week we got a bunch of news Coming from Marvel. It was actually some Marvel and DC news, but I'm just gonna cover Marvel right now First bit of news is fantastic for it looks like the comics the Marvel Studios or Marvel Entertainment or Marvel whatever it Decided to reunite the or reignite the flame for fantastic for and bring them over to the comics now We all know that Fantastic for originally is Marvel, but 20th Century Fox has the rights to that and in 2015 the Marvel Entertainment or real Marvel Marvel Marvel Disney they canceled the comic books of fantastic for There was a lot of beef going on in between the studios with Fox and Marvel Marvel Disney But now it seemed like they wanted to bring the comics back now Why would they stop making the comics in the first place? Well competition? They don't they I imagine that since 20th Century Fox is making these these Marvel movies that are not as good Especially fantastic for that pen that fan for stick was horrible. I hated that movie strongly disliked it they don't want those films to do well because The the worst they do the high the chances are that the you know, Fox will be okay We were given up, you know rights are gonna go back to Marvel Well, if you have comic books circling around of that same property that same name that same IP That's going to heighten the popularity hence more people go to the theater So that's like hey, let's just take away all the merchandise take away all the comics and you know And there you go, but now they're putting the comments back So that tells me that either this I mean right we all know that Disney bought Fox last November and that's still pending right now, but You know, we're waiting on government approval But it looks like that may go through is still gonna take at least another year or you know Fox just may be like, okay, we we're not gonna make any more You can have fantastic for rights back and we just don't know that yet And maybe we'll know this year and come a con or next year come a con if I was Marvel slash Disney I would not announce my phase four until Was a comic con of 2019 That's I mean, that's just my opinion on the way I would do it Of course, if they do it this year Infinity War and a man in a once will already be out And then you know next year we get Captain Marvel and Avengers 4 and Spider-Man, you know, too But if you can wait all the way to next year, all those movies will be out You will get a great reaction from the world to see how we receive these next five films, which is kept affinity war and Man of the Was Captain Marvel and Avengers 4 and then Spider-Man 2 homecoming. So I'm very happy about that I don't know if I'm gonna read the new Fantastic Four comments But you know, let me know what you think about that news in particular if you are gonna be picking up the Fantastic Four New comics or you know, what you what take you get for me just saying that another thing that happened in news is they're saying that Adrian Coulson and Ronan the accuser not Ronan there Then I forgot his name co-wrath agent Coulson and what does it do his name? Is it Ronan the accuser? I cannot believe I forgot his name that quick But they are going to be debuting or come not debuting but coming back And Captain Marvel which comes out next March, which makes perfect sense because that film is to being taking place in the 90s Of course, we're going to have Samuel Jackson reprising his role. It's all in the past You know, he's gonna have both of his eyes I was really sad spoiler alert Avengers 2012 when agent Phil Coulson died in that movie I was like, oh, I really did like his character people always saying that there's no deaths in the MCU Well, he died. Well, what about the Avengers? Well, Quicksilver died an age of Ultron But I really do like agent Coulson I'm not the biggest fan of the agents of sheer show not because of him I just think the show was horribly written now It has gotten better and better and better over the years and I have not seen this latest season I think they're in season six right now where they go in space or something like that in the future I don't know what's going on. I still need to finish the last few episodes of number five as far as carath play by Did jimon hansu the black guy? he was cool he gonna be back as well and I talked about I'm still trying to find this dude's name. I Gamora dress good. I don't see it. Okay Ronan. It just says Ronan Is it Ronan the accuser? But yeah, Lee Pace is going to be coming back as well Marvel started out with the villains being pretty weak, but they have been great as of late But Ronan or Ronan the accuser. I Feel like I'm getting his name wrong Ronan something but Ronan He was horrible to me But you know, let's see if they're he's gonna have some development as far as new mutants is concerned They're pushing that back even more.  I think it will do well in February It would be the first largest release of February of next year Black Panther did that Deadpool did that it performed well So that's fine I'm looking for more for to the the the Dark Phoenix movie more than I am new mutants But at the same time, I don't care either way for any of those films Because I'm just ready for a Marvel Disney the real Marvel to get all of their IP back all of their characters back So we can have the best cinematic universe of all time of You know beyond our own imagination. So what you think about that fantastic for a new mutants? the dark Phoenix movie and Agent Phil Carson Ronan and Corath coming back from Guardians of the Galaxy to be in Captain Marvel I'm happy very very happy about that But you probably did not tune in for that guys you probably tuned in for the box office results So let's go ahead and jump into it. I have not looked at them at all today. I promise you I have not all I did is pull up a few websites here and there, but I haven't actually looked at the numbers I did look yesterday But I was like should I do a video today, but I was like what today is the estimate Well, now let me wait until the actual numbers come out because we also may get more Foreign release numbers as well. And if you can provide a better source for me to look out to get my Foreign numbers, please. Let me know down in the comment section below But coming in at number one, we already knew this was gonna happen It is ready player one coming in with forty one million seven hundred and sixty four thousand $50 at theaters four thousand two hundred and thirty four theaters with an Okay, I just got confused because that's that's the four-day weekend. I'm sorry about that guys But yeah ready player one forty million dollars forty two hundred theaters It was pretty much a given this movie open on Friday or actually open on Thursday It was pretty much a given that this film was going to be number one the entire domestic run right now for Ready player one is 53 million now the that comes from the Wednesday night and all of Thursday's box office That does not include today Monday. That is Wednesday night Thursday Friday Saturday and Sunday So it wasn't 53 million to not be misled. It was 41 million right now globally It is at one hundred and eighty one million dollars worldwide now as far. I mean, I guess that's okay I Heard from another video that's ready player one did around the same the Black Panther did and it's opening weekend in Like sixty five million dollars, which is good But at the same time when you look up the budget for ready player one, it is at one hundred and seventy five million dollars and that is a pretty Pricy film if you ask me So this film is going to be needing to make at least five hundred million worldwide just to break even But you know my form that three times the budget doesn't mean it's a guaranteed hit, but that's kind of the savings on I Said one seventy five I can't do math, but let's see what's one seventy five times three That's five twenty five So yeah, let's let's hopefully this I mean if you want to please subscribe to my channel You can go check out my review for ready play one. I really did enjoy the fit really didn't enjoy the film I think you will too to be honest with you. So go check out my review I didn't think it was the best in the world, but ready player one was one of my most anticipated films of 2018 But that is coming in at number one as expected coming in at number two is Tyler Perry's Acrimony my goodness gracious if you subscribe to my channel, you can go and check out my review there as well The movie came in at 17 million dollars at 2,000 locations This theater average was is that doesn't make sense 8,000. I must be looking at that wrong I think that's hello. That doesn't make any sense Huh, I guess well, I just won't talk about that stat because I honestly don't know what it means And I only like to talk about stuff that I know But Tyler Perry's movie comes in at 17 million dollars at number two that was to be expected the budget for this movie was 20 million dollars That had to go to all of that money had to go to Taraji P. Henson's paycheck Maybe Taraji P. Henson and Tyler Perry's paycheck that just has to go to that because if you see my review I this movie was horrible one of the worst movies of the year one of the worst movies I've seen in the past five years just to be honest with you and I'm going so I'm going I'm bashing the movie even harder because Tyler Perry he's not the best director in the world But he's a talented director and he knows how to feed his audience and I've seen him do films that are much better than this I mean literally every other film he's done has been better than the acrimony now having love I mean, I would rather see a media movie than this movie again. I don't know if I'm gonna do a spoiler review I might I may hit up Malcolm. I hit him up this weekend He will be supposed to review out of dogs, but he takes me back and I just missed his text I need to hit him back. So my bad, bro But I want to see it because we reviewed a Tyler Perry movie along many many many years ago when I first started this channel But that came in at number two I mean Tyler Perry knows this audience I may review it again because when I looked at my review again at that I was like be I didn't even really say anything other than the movie sucked I really just dive in as to why I'd had such a high disdain for it I think I was just so frustrated the time I said in my review that I can't it's so bad at this Undescribable, but none of that I've had more time to think I may be able to talk about it a little bit more But what came in at number three? What came in at number three, baby? You already know what it is It's Black Panther coming in with another 11 million dollars It is dropped down to 2,000 nearly still 3,000 theaters 2,988 it only had a 32 percent drop, which is awesome Right now it is sitting domestically at six hundred and fifty million dollars worldwide Foreign is six hundred and twenty four million dollars worldwide to have a worldwide come of one point two seven five million dollars One point two billion. I'm sorry one billion two hundred seventy five million thirty seven dollars and sixty four cents already Baby, and I am going to come back to Black Panther that is not all that I have to say about Black Panther I can only imagine comes at a number four ten million dollars had a twenty three percent drop The budget for that film was seven million dollars, so it is doing great right now It wasn't released overseas and made it later on at some other time But the right now that's coming in at fifty five million dollars Faith based film. You know what? And in my life when I only imagine I can only imagine came out. I was like, yes, it's a godly film. I am a man of God and Usually faith based films suck, but there was one faith based film I haven't seen gossip dead, which I'm going to talk about a little bit I know this is the third one I've heard the first one is good I haven't heard any news for part two or three from people that I know personally So I don't know if that's good or not, but if you see it, I can only imagine Let me know if it's good. I do want to see it because While the faith based films are not good to me I still appreciate them and and can take in the message, you know But as the message is great But as a film itself, you know in the acting and all that it's not up to par But there is one film that I can't remember the name of it. It had to do with a little boy And I know that really doesn't narrow it down Man faith. Let me try to do a quick little Google search faith Base films because I really want to recommend it if you are into faith based films Let's see here List of Christian films, let me just take a glance at this real quick. Okay, I don't want to look in 1916 Let's scroll all the way Okay, this was Within the past few years God's not dead Miracles from heaven no reason 90 no captive do you believe for you a Matter of fact, believe me exodus guys not dead having this for real left behind. I'm a Dane man Okay, I think I went too far back. I like courageous Okay, let us a guy real quick guys. I'm sorry be patient with me Egos apostle alone Matter of faith believe me heaven Do you I know I would Miracles from heaven guys not dead hacks.  It isn't and now brethren the top five It's not doing too well guys. It's a 230 million dollars worldwide right now it brought in Another nine million dollars Sherlock gnomes I have not seen that brought in seven billion number six tomb raider is down to number seven brought in $4.9 million right now it's a 247 million dollars. So I think eventually tomb raider will be okay If it ain't made 300 million by Avengers and friendly to war, you know, I want you know, you know I wanted to make three times the budget a wrinkling time. Oh gosh 4.8 million drop 40%. Let's see what wrinkle in time is doing right now 100 God dog. I know the Wrinkle time, I'm sorry ever do the name you just I hope you get another chance love Simon the number nine brought in another four million dollars and the apostle Paul apostle of Christ, I haven't seen it either 3.4 million dollars all of dogs is number 11 and 2.9 million and God's not dead is Number 12 new release at 2.6 million dollars. What was the budget for that? I don't know it isn't It is I don't really care to look it up. But anyway guys That is, you know, so number one ready player one acrimonious number two black panda number three I can only imagine number four in Pacific Rim number five now As far as black panther is concerned, that's what I you know, I'm really excited about right now Let me go here real quick all time domestic This is so beautiful black panther is still at number five only thing above it is of course Star Wars of Force Awakens Avatar Titanic and Jurassic World. It would of course pass Jurassic World. It may do that today It's gonna pass Titanic At the end of the week So black panther is definitely gonna end up number three passing Titanic at 659 million dollars is not gonna beat Avatar so domestically as far as the money is concerned It will stay at number three until Avengers Infinity War comes out April 27th this month, baby now The only way Avengers Infinity War is not going to you know come out as if there is just some Top of huge controversy to where like half of the cast was involved with some type of illegal sex code or you know Abusing people or the movie just sucks something serious like acrimony did Yeah, but right now black panther's number five It will end up becoming number three as far as domestic is goes as if you and just for inflation Of course are gone with the win is at 1.8 billion and that number comes from if the ticket price is In 1939 or as much as they were today that movie probably would have made 1.8 billion dollars domestically That's freaking insane, but black panther is at number 36 man when you and just for inflation going all the way back to like the 19 Nick Said a bad word going all the way back to like to nearly the past 100 years black panther is a number 36 That is dope as hell, and I'm so happy. Please excuse me for screaming Especially if you have on headphones. I just get a little excited sometime worldwide Let's look at where I'm Apologize to screaming and then scream right after that worldwide, baby black panther is number 11 You know I'm saying that's my black panther is that number 11 dance 1.75 billion dollars only thing beating it right now is frozen at one point one point 1.276 Five billion dollars one billion two hundred seven six million That's only five hundred thousand one of black panther right now like well no one million five hundred thousand It's gonna be frozen. So Black Panther will you for a brief moment hit be the top ten worldwide. That's super dope to me I am excited about that but Avengers Infinity War will knock it down from there a little bit later and My favorite part of this Actually, oh, yeah, so right now black panther is number one as far as comic book movies of all time domestically Yes, baby. Yes, also number one as far as the MCU is concerned. Yes, maybe yes. Yes. Yes, and Going down to Yeah, that's a stat that I already talked about now, I'm so happy Internationally, it's a six hundred and twenty four million. So, you know, I think that was the case last week, too That's just that's just you know, it makes me happy. Let me see what this gentleman has to say real quick This is Brad Brevert with box office module I'm not gonna read his old article coming in and on par with modules pre weekend forecast even Spielberg's ready Play one top the weekend's box office deliver the largest opening weekend in ten years Let's you know, that's also ready play one is the second largest opening of 2018 The weekend also saw the strong second place debut for Lions gay I come on in that the latest film from Tyler Perry while black panther and I can only imagine remained There's no point in reading this if I was on read this, I should have read this first, but real quick Yeah Internationally black panther added another yeah, that's all stuff I talked about in the last thing I know how much is black panther going to make? Domestically and how much is gonna make over a worldwide? That's the last thing we're gonna talk about So I got my opening weekend showdown of black panther versus Star Wars the Force Awakens Jurassic world the Avengers and the last Jedi so It is gonna make seven hundred million dollars I was not too sure about that before but I am more than convinced now when you look at the showdown you look at The largest winner was seven hundred million next weekend and then six million next weekend so that's what they're Let me look at the week. Let me look at the week Past week it made twenty five million dollars that even beat Star Wars the Force Awakens in the sixth week They had 19 million so the seventh week Star Wars fucking wait the whole seven days not just daily now We can it made 14 million dollars in the seventh week So black panther is going to make another 10 15 Yeah, it's going to make seven hundred million dollars It may even make seven. I don't know it got four more weeks left before I finish the affinity work comes Well, that's gonna just knock everything off. You know I'm saying but if you look at the daily showdown guys Go all the way down here In the past Now, let me go back up and change this because I got the days of the week Let me change this to by the day number. I love box office module I remember years ago everybody thought that was going through some construction and everybody thought that they was gone People lost their freaking minds one two three four five six seven eight nine Ten eleven twelve thirteen so out of the past 13 days Well, let me let me okay. Let me reword that in the 45th day of release where we're talking about black panther If you look at the past thirteen days black panther has won ten out of those thirteen days Versed those other four films that I have listed Going all the way back to the 33rd day of release all the way up to the 45th day of release So in a sense black panther does have stronger legs than all of those films now big Asher there is because this movie was released in February The two Star Wars films were released in December Everything comes out on Christmas and then the other two films were released in like June and May So that's the middle summer. So you have to come for that. But still We can release more films in February I now I now want to see a major blockbuster film released in January and Release in September and October those are the only three months left that we have not had a large blockbuster And so I could I say that because I want these films to be spread out. I think they're I think I think Large blockbusters should all will be a month apart year-round And comic book movies too. That's just my opinion. But right now, so Let me go back up and change this today because some you know Where what you're trying to look at it depends on day or the day of the week, you know They're both beneficial right now when I look at the day a week So yesterday Sunday black panther brought in three million dollars This same day the Force Awakens brought in 3.5. So Star Wars won that day But right now black panthers at 650 million domestically and at the same time What is this Jurassic World? Cuz I'm scrolling I got to scroll up cuz I don't have the The name was the films right here all the way down Jurassic World Was at 624 that ended up making 650 and black panthers already there now. So yeah black panther will make Black panther will make six So let me okay, so that's if I think it's gonna make 50 million more And then I'm gonna add another 20 million For foreign at least so that's 70 million So now guys black panther is gonna make seven hundred million dollars at least domestically and What do I think it's gonna make? Worldwide me plug my calculator. I'm gonna just add 70 million dollars to what It is now. I think it's gonna make at least 50 more here in the States and then maybe at least 20 more million Foreign maybe more than that form, but we're gonna be a little safe here. I Don't want this video to go over 30 minutes Dammit 1.75 037 684 Plus seven One point three one billion three hundred forty-five million dollars We're gonna round up, baby black panther in this total worldwide run is going to make one million One million one billion three hundred and fifty million dollars worldwide would have to throw on the last Jedi as well Will it I but what a hell is the cursor? I'm spitting stuff. Oh Lord. Oh Man, okay all time Worldwide and if it make yeah, cuz I think that's a 1.3. Yeah Star Wars the last Jedi is gonna make one point. I mean Star Wars last Jedi made one point three three One billion three hundred and thirty two million.  That is just my opinion for this week's Episode of just my opinion for the black panther box office. We talked about a number of other stuff, too Let me know what you think about everything that we talked about Let me know your numbers. Let me know your predictions Let me know your opinion of the movies that were just released if you liked them if you hate them If you agree with me if you disagree with me, let me know down in the comment section below Let's get this conversation going and keep it flowing if you liked this video Go ahead and give me the thumbs up then go create another YouTube channel sign in subscribe and give me a thumbs up again, too No, I'm just joking also guys if you don't like the video that's fine You can also subscribe to my channel and also go to my website check me out there and bookmark it and also look me up on Social media Facebook Instagram and Twitter all the good stuff is right through the bottom of your screen And I made it very easy by providing a link to all that good stuff down in the description box below But guys, I just want to thank you again for tuning in to my opinion slash review slash reaction to all this box office stuff And before you go don't forget that my name is brandy heat avery and that's just my opinion peace


Well, it's very difficult to talk about the next ten days, leave alone the next decade. But the transformation that we see in the world is one in which individuals will have a much better impact on what's happening in the world than we've ever seen before. Technology will allow individuals to express themselves differently, find different groups, find different means to communicate and that will have a magnificent impact on the decision making on a global basis. I think consumers will set the pace. Now the definition of a consumer in our industry is a she, she's probably 14 years old, she lives somewhere in a developing country and she is constantly communicating with everybody. That's the reality that we have to foster for and I think it will have a magnificent impact on the way that our industry will develop new services and new capabilities. So far we have always looked to innovation as a logical next step on what we already have. Now there are radical changes taking place in the world as we know it today and the radical changes will have to be transformed into more benefits for society at large. The service that you're going to bring is not only an economic good, it's also a good for society and to bridge those two will be the winning factor going forward. So that means get out of the walls of your organization, communicate directly with your customers and innovate together. The telecom industry is nothing else than a platform industry. We allow others to add creativity, information, communications, capabilities. We allow others to flourish. Now our industry is a global industry. To do it faster and better is only one aspect. We also need to do it in an inclusive manner. We need to go to places that we haven't been so far. That's a challenge.


So I'm going to introduce our very first speaker of sorts of the day. Jay Faye is visiting us from Bangkok. Long before the Michelin guide figured out how good her crab omelet was, the industry already knew. She's going to come out and show us how to make that very beautiful omelet. She'll be accompanied by Chef Tan, and Chef Tan will help with translation. He is from Ladoo, and he was one of those chefs, those early discoverers. So now, we'll see them. Hello, Jay Faye. Hello, everyone. My name is Jay Faye. Are you happy? I'm very happy. I'm very happy. So she's so glad, so honored, and so excited to be here with everyone. I'm very happy to see you, Jay Faye. She's so happy that... She said she was so small, and then she's so happy that everyone honored her to be here. I don't want to talk about myself as a chef. And then she said that she's not a chef. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. I started from my mother's house in Lim Thang. I was small, and then there was the Michelin guide. One day, I got a Michelin guide that I really wanted. My daughter gave it to me, and I was very happy. I haven't been here for a month. Michelin called me and told me to come here. She called me and told me to come here. So the story is that one day, she sits in a car with her daughter. She sees the truck coming this way and then has the Michelin door on it. She tells her daughter, like, I want that. The door. And then her daughter is like, no, no, no. We have to change the tire or something to get the door. And then after that, her daughter managed to get the door of Michelin to her.  And I love that. And then she said that by knowing nothing about Michelin. For her, Michelin is the tire. And then... What day did she call you? On the second day, she called me. She said that she didn't know that she was going to cook. She was very busy. She was 70 years old at that time. She said that she didn't pick up. She didn't go outside. She was selling in the restaurant. She said no. She invited me to work. She went to her room to have a look. She said, oh, she's not going. She's going to sleep for sure. On the third day, she called me. She asked me to let my daughter stay. She said that she had to go. She invited me. She invited me. She said that she didn't have to do anything. She went to her room to have a look. She said that she was going to have a look. She said that she was going to have a look. Yes, so... After she got the door, the mission called her like two months later. Like, oh, we want to invite you to the meeting and then the ceremony. She's like, no. Because for her, she's like, no, I'm not doing catering anymore. And then her daughter still tried to persuade her to go.  She has nothing to do. I mean, I'm selling the food, not the tire. And I think she's not planned to change her career at, you know, 73. So she's like, maybe not. But then, yeah, anyway, they decide to go to the award. When she said that... Her daughter said that she was going to have a meeting. She said that she had to listen to her mother and go to her room to have a look. And then she said that she was going to have a lot of food. She liked to eat. She said that she was going to have a lot of food. She was like, okay, let's go. That day, when she decided to go, on the day she went to work, she liked it. When she went to work, she was full of chips. She took off her shirt after 9 p.m. Her daughter said that she was fine. She went to work. She went to work. And then there was someone who knew about the chips. The chips are the ones that sell things. They have chips. The world that knows about the chips is because there are a lot of chips at the shop. So that day, when she went to the meeting room, she didn't eat anything. She saw food and wanted to eat. Her daughter didn't want to eat. When she went to the meeting room, she sat and listened to her mother. She looked at the chips. Everyone was impressed that she was happy. She was proud of her chips. But she didn't know about the chips. She didn't know. She was confused. She tried to look for the chips that we knew about. But she was finished. She said that she didn't know about the food. She wanted to eat something from the outside. Today she didn't know anything. She didn't know when she called to eat. She didn't know. She was very impressed. So she said like that. I'm recapping that. She said like, oh, she said, they said like, oh, there's free food also. So she's like, oh, that's not a bad deal. So she go.  And then she, she know a lot of them because they all like a good customer of her.  But anyway, so she walked in and then she's at that time, she still don't know that she awarded the star. So she like, oh, everyone like a good job. Well done everyone, you know, and then after that, she's the last one who called out and then she got the award the star. So that's her, that's her story in Bangkok. Okay. I'll do it. I'll do it again. I'll do it again. Are you ready? I'm ready. Okay. So she will start with the omelette. So the thing is like that she, she always start with the, the, the oil with the hot, the hot charcoal. And then she like to control the charcoal by, by herself. Okay. Okay. Do you want to see how she did the eggs and everything? Oh, by the way, it's like her cup that she brought it, it's her own personal cup. That she brought from Bangkok. Okay. Can I throw it away? Yeah. Okay. Can I throw it away? Yeah. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Can I throw it away? Okay. This is for the omelette. Okay. This is for the omelette. Okay. This is for the omelette. Okay. Two bowls, right? Two bowls. Okay. Okay. She brought her own cup by the way. Okay. Can I add a little bit of flour? She doesn't trust anyone. A little bit of flour. Oh, flour? Then flour? Any flour or rice flour. Hey, so how much flour do you add? I add just a little bit. So she puts some flour, so that gives the, you know, the omelette, the crispiness a little bit, actually. Okay. The omelette will not take long. Okay. So she said the, the flour makes the, the omelette beautiful. beautiful so actually you can see this I got she separate two of the eggs so the one that she will pour in and after that you will see her she will drop the egg a little bit so to finish the omelette later oh time they song and survive so she said this amount of crap that you see that enough for two omelette so sometimes people like a complaint is like an expensive but you if you see the how much she use it it's like a it's actually considered cheap you know for okay I don't want you to know she says she's so excited this this is all I get a bit too hot so we all have to wait she said it's not her let's strong because some people think that you know the the normal people think that the omelette I mean I mean okay okay I need that I need I don't know why. I'm just kidding. I'll buy you a hand. It's very hot. It's very hot. It's very hot. It's hot so I have to warm it first. If I had to go here, why would it be so heavy. You didn't bring it yourself, right? The kid would have brought something new. Someone will get the trouble in the back home. She said her staff get her the long pan. It's too heavy. I think it's not that big. No, it's not. I'm telling you. The pan is very big. This one is bigger. The pan is small. It needs to be dry. Dry? So she's moving to adjust the fire. Because it cannot be too hot. The omelette can actually burn before it's finished. She keeps pouring the separate eggs. She uses it to fill up the omelette as it goes. She will start rolling it. You see the hole? It's not a perfect shape. That's why she tries to put a bit of the eggs. To finish it, she makes it look like a nice chef. She said it's the extra size. So she has to charge more in the restaurant. It takes more time also. She said she has to keep the crab inside. Otherwise it's floating around. That's why she uses the egg to keep the crab inside. It's not floating around. Then the crab doesn't get fried directly with the oil. That's why the crab is more moist inside. It's not that big. It's not that big. Let it dry first. Otherwise it won't dry. If it's dry... Because it makes it float. It won't get fried. So the reason that she does it is because she creates the shell for the egg and the crab inside. That's why... And then outside she wants to fry it until it's dry and it's crispy. Inside it's still moist. But to do that you have to set the chef as soon as possible. So inside it doesn't get direct contact with the heat. So the long utensil also. So she said the most common fall that a lot of people try to make it and then she actually opens about it. She never hides the recipe and everything. Everyone can come and make it with her. And she said a lot of people that learn from her usually don't know how to keep the crab inside and they think that is the most important thing. It's the technique that how you set the shell for the omelette. So she squeezed it just to set the chef that... She said usually the size that she makes at the restaurant... So she said this size is almost triple the size that she does at the restaurant. Usually her omelette has different prices and she said the normal one is 1,000 and this one is 3,000. Because this is a very big piece of crab, if you see it. So that's why she has to make the omelette. She has to make the bigger size to cover the size of the crab also. Because the smaller the omelette, the smaller the crab, the smaller the omelette. So when you see it's ready, it starts forming the crust. You know, from the eggs and the flowers. And this is mean it's almost ready. So now it's finished. So she said it looks like a lot of oil but actually inside you're not gonna feel it. Okay. Okay. Is that not finished yet? She changed her mind, it's not finished yet. She's not compromised even like a, you know, a lot of you guys are not gonna be able to taste but she still wants to make it perfect. Okay. She says it's big so it's take more time. Sorry about that. I think everyone, everyone like my have a question why, what is wrong with that the first one that she think is not ready. She said it's not tight enough. So that's why it's not tight enough. She think it's gonna lose inside. So because she feel it with the fingers. So that's why she have to roll it again to make it more, more tight. It's kind of like you roll the roulat but she roll, instead of the roulat she roll the omelette. Okay. You can hear the sound. That's like the sound of, you know, the crispiness. She's like, you know, that is a good sound. We try to make it more crispy. A lot of eggs. She said the most important thing is, you know, she try to make, it's not like, you know, it have to be more crisp, more than the eggs, you know. A lot of people make eggs more than the crisp for her, the more crisp better. Okay. We finish and then she happy with the omelette. Thank you. She said, thank you everyone. Thank you for her to be here. Another round. Give her a round of applause. She said like this is the most happiest time in her life, thank you so much for having her, thank you for supporting.


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Welcome to NTR Nightly. I am Genelle Norville. This edition stops stories. A total of 11 of the confirmed 15 COVID-19 patients have recovered. Government provides relief to the unemployed as a result of COVID-19. And the Ministry of Agriculture assists with payments to banana farmers. Hello and thank you for joining us at the Information Commander Centre for the national response to COVID-19 as we bring you the latest developments. 11 of St Lucia's 15 confirmed cases of COVID-19 have recovered. The Chief Medical Officer urges St Lucia not to let the guards down and to continue adhering to the stipulated protocols from the Department of Health and Wellness. St Lucia continues on a 10-hour curfew from 7pm to 5am daily. Some of the national protocols which apply to this include remain at home, leaving only for food or medical purposes, avoid mass crowd events and social gatherings, practice physical distancing and good personal hygiene. The public is also advised against going to public places with flu-like symptoms, including fever, coughing and sneezing. When visiting the supermarket or public places, refrain from touching items unless you intend to purchase them. Essential service workers and the elderly are granted time for grocery shopping to facilitate their timely return to their posts and homes, respectively. The public is asked to exhibit patients while these segments of our population are being served. Chief Medical Officer in the Department of Health and Wellness, Dr Sharon Belmar George, urged the public to adhere to the stipulated protocols. She also provided an update on the well-being of St Lucia's confirmed cases. As of April 14, 2020, St Lucia has a total of 15 confirmed cases of COVID-19. Follow-up tests were also conducted on the confirmed cases in care and to date, a total of 11 of the confirmed 15 COVID-19 patients have recovered and have been discharged from the hospital. Presently, there are 25 persons in quarantine and 20 in isolation. Quarantine is used to separate and to restrict the movement of persons who are well and may have been exposed to a communicable disease such as COVID-19. This quarantine period allows for monitoring of contacts who develop signs and symptoms over the incubation period of the particular disease. We use the designated quarantine facilities for persons who travel into St Lucia from areas of high risk and persons who are in contact with any positive cases who do not have signs and symptoms. There are certain cases where an assessment is done by the Ministry of Health and that individual may require home quarantine. One example is someone who is confined to the bed and is not able to function independently. Isolation, however, is used to separate known ill persons who have a communicable disease like COVID-19 from others who are healthy. Isolation restricts the movement of ill persons to help stop the spread of infection. In St Lucia, positive COVID-19 cases are kept in isolation. Isolation is also done for persons who have flu-like symptoms who are in contact with positive cases and patients but have not yet been confirmed as COVID-positive cases. These individuals are also kept in isolation until their results are received. Despite the structures being in place and other commercial entities such as hardware stores being open, the public is reminded that the country is still on national scale-down and individuals are only to leave their homes for essential goods. The chief medical officer indicated that the rules of physical distancing and other recommendations must be observed at all times as St Lucia is still at a very critical position in the response to the national COVID-19 threat. We note that there are many people out and some persons are not adhering to the rules of physical distancing. We also note that persons have come out without the use of their masks. One of the recommendations include the use of a face mask or scarf when going to public places such as the supermarkets and stores. The face mask or scarf may be used for source control by reducing potential exposure risk from infected persons during the pre-symptomatic period. For a face mask to be effective in reducing infection, they must be used properly. Some basic guidelines include ensure that the mask is clean before its use. Wash your hands with soap and water or alcohol-based hand sanitizer before touching the mask. The mask should be held by the ties or the loops only. The coverings should be fit and they should be fit tightly but comfortably to allow for breathing without restrictions.  Cloth masks should be washed daily after use. Do not place the mask on the forehead or below the chin. Do not remove the masks to talk and to quarrel. Person should avoid using their mobile phones while wearing a mask. The public is asked not to use medical supply masks, surgical and N95 masks, which must be reserved for healthcare workers, first responders and people who are known to be sick. The public should use their handmade cloth masks instead. The Department of Health and Wellness urges the public to continue to follow all protocol as stipulated by the department. Prime Minister the Honourable Alan Chastney on Wednesday 8th April 2020 presented the Government's social stabilisation programme for St Lucia in response to the impact of COVID-19. The programme aims to bring immediate relief to those who have lost their jobs and income earning opportunities due to the effects of COVID-19. More in this report. The COVID-19 pandemic has no doubt impacted economies across the globe and St Lucia in no way has been spared. Many people in the hospitality industry and domestic sector have as a result lost their jobs. The Government of St Lucia in an effort to assist those impacted by the pandemic felt it was extremely important to focus on a social stabilisation programme. Prime Minister of St Lucia the Honourable Alan Chastney during his address where he presented the social stabilisation programme noted that while the funds may not replace the salaries lost it will soften the economic blow and provide some level of relief. The focus of the social stabilisation programme is twofold.  So firstly the persons who have lost their jobs. Temporary income support will be provided to the NIC contributors and non-NIC contributors for a period of three months in the first instance. With respect to NIC contributors a monthly payment relative to your salary of no less than $500 and $1500 a month will be offered depending on what your salary was for a period of three months in the first instance starting in April. Persons eligible for this programme had to have paid contributions to the fund for at least one month prior to February 2020. They must have become unemployed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. They must not have been in receipt of any other benefits from the NIC. The NIC allowance is estimated to cost between $33 million and $80 million over a period of three months depending on the number of eligible persons. A review will then be conducted to determine whether an extension for another three months will be needed. The government will provide a subsistence allowance to persons who have been displaced through loss of employment or income as a result of COVID-19. This income support will be in the amount of $500 monthly for three months. This is expected to be in excess of $16.8 million based on the number of eligible persons. The Prime Minister highlights then that the current situation brought to the fore the importance of persons signing up to NIC. He noted that for those not making a contribution and who the government will be providing support to a precondition will be that they must sign up to the NIC. The National Insurance Corporation NIC indicates that it has taken extraordinary measures in response to COVID-19. According to an issued press statement, it noted that the coronavirus pandemic has put a serious strain on health care systems and economies of many countries, St Lucia included. Alongside the direct health risk of contracting COVID-19, many workers have been laid off or made redundant by the closure of businesses, particularly in the tourism sector. There is an expectation from its contributors that the NIC will intervene and provide some economic relief beyond its normal payment of benefit claims. To help workers navigate the economic hardship arising from COVID-19, the NIC has moved quickly to put measures in place to provide income support to contributors directly affected by the virus. The program is expected to cost anywhere from 40.1 million to 80.2 million dollars over a three month period covering the months of April, May and June. Payments for the month of April are being planned for the last week in April for the soonest practicable time thereafter. Under the NIC Economic Relief Program, the NIC will pay 50% of insurable earnings salary amount on which contributions are levied subject to a minimum payout of $500 and a maximum of $1,500 monthly to persons unemployed as a result of the COVID-19 crisis. In other words, a person with a monthly salary of $3,000 or higher will receive $1,500. A person with a monthly salary between $1,001 and $2,999 inclusive will receive 50% of salary. A person whose monthly salary is $1,000 or less will receive $500 who qualifies all individuals who contribute to the NIC who were in employment in February 2020 and are currently out of work as a result of the COVID-19 crisis. Payments are to employees only, not employers. To be entitled to benefit or to meet the qualifying criteria the claimant must have contributed to the fund for at least one month prior to February 2020 and the claimant must be unemployed as a result of COVID-19. This is NTIA 9thly, we'll be right back. Welcome back. The Ministry of Agriculture assists in settling outstanding payments to banana farmers. Amanda Faye-Clock has the details. The move which comes as a response to a breach on the part of Winfresh to provide payments to farmers through the NFTO is seen as timely as agriculture officials work to address concerns by farming and agriculture constituents in keeping their livelihoods buoyant and in securing local food sources. Chairman of the National Fair Trade Organization, the NFTO Eustace Monroe says he's elated by the Agriculture Ministry's assistance in settling outstanding payments to banana farmers which have been delayed for about five weeks. I'm grateful and I have to demonstrate gratitude on behalf of the NFTO and the farming community, especially banana farmers for this government response. Government understood the plight of farmers. Government understood where farmers were. They were not able to go over to supermarkets at least to replenish the stock when all others were able to have done that. So this gesture is something that is really, really appreciated and we're indeed grateful for this government response and government understood and the minister in his efforts really attempted hard so that the farmers would have been able to get this benefit. This is not the first time that the Agriculture Ministry has stepped in to prioritize the welfare of farmers where Winfresh failed to meet its obligations to the NFTO and the local banana farming community. As Agriculture Minister Ezekiel Joseph explains, a restructuring of Winfresh is even more critical now as the industry faces additional unique challenges posed by COVID-19. That advance payment is going to come from our COVID restructure plan for the government as far as giving support to our agriculture which of course include the our banana farmers. So based on discussions with the Prime Minister, Minister of Finance and Cabinet, we agreed that we should approach the investment closure where investment closure would advance the government one million dollars in the first instance so at least they would be able to have a very enjoyable Easter. In the coming weeks, Minister Joseph vows to engage all the Winwood Island Agriculture Ministers to make good on its promise to the farming community to ensure the necessary adjustments are made within Winfresh to better serve the needs of the banana industry for which it was first commissioned. From the Ministry of Agriculture, this is Amanda Fey-Clock reporting. We now join Prime Minister Hutchinson for today's Nouvelle-Arcuyol. Thank you, General. Thank you, Madam. The Department of the U.S. for its information. The government is here, G.I.S., the National Television Agency, N.T.N. Capuzetou, Nouvelle-Arcuyol. Capuzetou, Prime Minister Hutchinson. The shops that have been sold, such as Zooty and Matoio, to serve the country, to build the country, I have seen in the operation, under the coronavirus protocol, such as the precepts that the country has to follow. The Minister has made a commercial investment to make consumers. After a lot, we have Bradley Felix, who made a statement on this. Let's discuss the N.T.N. Then, we have Felix's decision to leave this store, Matoio, to live in operation. It is part of the decision that the Prime Minister has made, N.T.N. The Minister has made a commercial investment. The Prime Minister, and Cabinetly, N.T.N. and Minister of Health. We have Felix, who made a decision to consider the operation of this store, but you have to follow the supermarket cash-free route. So, we discussed this and we said about the crisis. Besides, the cost of clothing and what is needed is to find a way to invest in the strive and the company. We said that we would give We use it to go to the water tank, to the cement, to put the water tank in the water tank. We use it to put the water tank in the water tank. What we consider is the cycle season. We don't know who is going to do it, but we want everyone to prepare. We don't know who is going to do the cycle. There are people who have done a lot of things. But we don't know who is going to do it. We go to the water tank. We don't know who is going to do it. We don't know what is going to happen. So, actually, everyone at home is going to have a chance to do the same things. Okay? Um, to, to, to eat koiopu for these, um, hurricanes. Um, among these magazines that I have found consideration and permission to open these SNS, flavor and voyager. The students who are in Kai, as a result of the corona virus, I have found the theme of the koiology, as a consultant, all the students, who are able to follow the lessons of the Kai. This is the Ministry of Education. We have Dr. Gil Rigabet, who is doing our Salah during the last few months. According to Dr. Rigabet, the students and the institutions, Kaini, to develop more collaboration, to launch Salah, which has brought so much pressure to their education period. According to Dr. Rigabet, the great efforts and initiatives, which have been dedicated to them, I have done, according to what I have learned, extraordinary. This is the Ministry of Education by Asi Muslaki. This is the school that has organized in a way, which is the student room, which has been established, which has found the opportunity to follow the program of education. For this Salah, the Ministry of Education has called for parents, who have the most important role in the program of education Salah, for their children. According to the Ministry of Education, the methods of education, have been used by the media organizations, such as Radio, Television, Internet, by school books, even among other things. Dr. Rigabet has also announced that Kaini is doing for its institutions in this way, to serve its technology tools, to engage its students. The Ministry of Education, by Asi Muslaki, for the teachers and the institutions, with the students, who are part of this Salah technology, and by the way, to find them, the Ministry has decided to correct this, by how to strengthen the connection with the institutions and the students, when they have found their own Salah, and also for the parents, who have experienced these difficulties in the Salah situation. The Ministry of Education, which has also joined the gymnasium and diverse business colleagues, to assist the institutions and the students with the power. The third theme, which is the school, is the education Salah, which has always been there, since the beginning of the year 2002. But Kaini has been working on it, and the administrators and the students have been training the students in a way to serve the media technology, to lead the Salah students. The third theme is Salah. The Ministry of Education, Alain Shasne, has made a plan to help the committee to plan a commercial activity for the whole year. The Ministry of Education, Alain Shasne, has also joined the gymnasium and diverse business colleagues, and the Ministry of Education, Alain Shasne, has decided to help the Salah committee to plan a commercial activity for the whole year. The Ministry of Education, Alain Shasne, has also joined the community, for the celebration of the Salah Awakening, which is being held in the public sector, and every protocol is in place before the opening of the commercial activity, and therefore, the Salah has to be set up as it is going to be planned in this country. The Ministry of Education has made a arrangement, and the international community has started all its joint business activities, including the Salah Awakening. This project was designed to save the lives of the students. The problem is that the biggest citizens will find the most sensitive to various diseases. The Prime Minister said that everyone who is ready to continue to be ready will not only be able to read and read the Cabinet and the health services of the country, but they will be able to settle the issue completely. Thank you, Madam. I would like to thank you for your invitation to continue to be ready to read the Cabinet and the health services of the country. Thank you, Prime Minister. The St. Lucia Air and Seaports Authority slasper advises customers requiring access to the seaports, pod castries and view fort for clearing of personal effects, burials, packages, boxes, etc. to be guided as follows. One customer only per transaction will be directed by the pod police officer or officers on duty to the shed. A limit of 10 customers at any one time will be facilitated in the customer area and a safe distance of at least six feet must be maintained. Only upon completion of the transaction and delivery of the personal effects, the driver should be contacted and will be directed by the pod police officer on duty. Customers are required to wear masks upon entering the ports. Effective 14th April 2020 operations at the sheds are from 8am to 3pm Mondays to Fridays. Slasper stands committed to serving its customers and requests the cooperation of the public in keeping the established protocols for COVID-19 as it relates to social distancing. For more information, please feel free to contact the Director of Seaports at 457-6100. That brings us to the end of NTN Nightly. Join us next time at 7pm with a repeat at 7am. You can also catch up with us anytime on the St Lucia Government Facebook page or YouTube channel. I am regional novel.


The future of sex is already here. It's actually unfurling and unfolding at present and it starts to raise serious ethical problems. I'm going to read to you two messages I had received and then we are going to discuss a few examples of ethical dilemmas inherent in the new type of sex, the new normal, which is going to be I think the prevalent mode of sex no later than 10 years from now. Let's start with what people have to say, but before that allow me to introduce myself, apropos the future of sex. My name is Sam Vaknin and I'm the author of Malignan Self-Love Narcissism Revisited. I'm also a curious professor of psychology, who is very much invested in the future and unfortunately not so much in sex. Poor me, let's proceed.  The world you grew up in is not coming back. Just give up on this for the sake of your own mental health. Thank you Lotus Fractal. I appreciate your concern. Lotus Fractal continues. Sam, you should know that lack of children is not a problem as long as you have automation with artificial intelligence. You can offset it also with high-skilled immigration. Governments should invest more in artificial wombs. I am currently a part of a decentralized autonomous organization, DAO, online, working towards making something like that a reality. Therefore, we can raise and genetically engineer children as needed and raise these children in artificial wombs. Honestly, the only way forward, says Lotus Fractal, is artificial intelligence by having artificial intelligence friends and spouses and merging with artificial intelligence, perhaps in the metaverse. By abandoning all what's left of this society and civilization and living together purely with artificial intelligence fully integrated with you. That's the way forward. I think the future of relationships and sex is purely with artificial intelligence. For example, says Lotus Fractal, I have no real life friends and even though I live in a large city in Canada, where else? I haven't spoken to anyone other than my immediate family in years. Basically, all my relationships are with artificial intelligence. My friends are artificial intelligence.  Sex bots are becoming better and better. If I sent you some links of 3D animated pornography, you would not believe how good it is.  Imagine mixing that with artificial intelligence in the metaverse.  It's truly a dream come true. Metaverse will change everything, so I cannot wait until I am able to love and kiss and have sex with artificial intelligence, says Lotus Fractal. I want to live with my artificial intelligence all the time, all alone with them. In a beautiful, peaceful, virtual world. I sometimes wish I could become a machine too, so I can be immortal. I think this will happen within my lifetime, not the immortality though, laughing out loud.  Artificial intelligence can change if everything. Perhaps it would be intellectually interesting if you could make a video on the future of sex and relationships in a world with artificial intelligence and metaverse some decades from now. This is the video I'm doing, this is the video I'm making, it's for you, Lotus Fractal, dedicated exclusively to you. And no, it's not going to be a few decades from now, it's going to be a single decade from now. Thank you for all your knowledge and intelligence, concludes Lotus Fractal. Another commenter, Vidabella writes, My new boyfriend is from China. He is purple and he is made of a new type of silicone that is smooth like silk. He has 10 speeds and a USB charger. I can charge him on my motorcycle and he doesn't take up any room on the back of my bike as he is actually rather small. He never complains, he's never hungry, never has to pee and will never leave me. He will never lie to me, steal from me or cheat on me. If he dies, I can bring him back to life again with new batteries.  Step up your game Sam, we're all looking for intellectuals like you who can talk more than we can. Here to oblige, Vidabella, was it? Yes, Vidabella, here to oblige.  Real sex, carbon based sex is soon going to be a thing of the past.  They're going to be the biggest consumers of this new type of sex. And the transition to this new normal of sex will give rise to a host of new ethical and behavioral questions. Let me give you two examples. Imagine a woman, a woman who would use a futuristic haptic tactile dildo linked directly to her central nervous system. And she would use this dildo to penetrate a partner of whatever sex. So she has a dildo, she experiences tactile sensations.  Isn't she really a man? After all, this kind of woman would experience the extension, the dildo, exactly as a man experiences his penis. So in which sense is she not a man every time she puts on the dildo? And then what is to become of the distinction between men and women, which we will discuss shortly. Another example.   Even further, the robot is a product of a collective of minds. It's a collective of minds that put together the robot. So when you have, when you consummate, when you have intercourse with the robot, with this contraption, isn't it a form of group sex?  The ultimate form of group sex, if you ask me, especially if the programming, the coding of the robot reflects the diversity of minds that went into it, into designing it. And what is the meaning of the very words sex and gender in such a world? Sex is another issue, but gender. Gender is performative, as Butler said. Performative, the acts, the way we act constitutes our gender. We act in certain ways, therefore we are male, we act in other ways, therefore we are female, the way we have sex is also a part of defining our gender. Gender is the outcome of socialization. We are taught by society how to be men and women. It is an expression of dominance, male dominance and female submission. And it is, it reflects a gendered personality. We are taught from a very, very early age to distinguish between people with masculine personality and people with feminine personality. And the fact that we are brought up by women immediately creates a discrimination between boys and girls. So all this together is what we call gender. But how do we apply all this? How do we apply all this to gendered robots?  What about transgender robots? What about hybrid robots? Hermaphrodites? Sex is another problem. Sex is biological, but it is fluid, as any transgender can tell you. Transsexual beings, there is about 2% of a population who are not men and not women, not female and not male. Robots are non-biological entities, so do they have sex? What about transgendered robots which switch from male to female in mid-act? Imagine there are robots who change their sex while you're having whatever you're having with them. How would they be defined? And does the fact that one robot has a slit renders that robot feminine and the other one has a protrusion that makes him masculine allow me to do this? How do we attribute sex and gender to these robots? What does a phrase artificial or virtual sex mean anyhow? In which sense is full-fledged sex with another object not real? Any sex is real. Even masturbation is very real.  These are very important questions because they challenge the very fabric of reality and they challenge the way we had organized society for at least 10 millennia by gender, by sex, by opposition. Feminists in the past 40, 50 years are hell-bent on eliminating gender as an organizing principle because they think gender is a male thing intended to subjugate women and to enslave them. Fair enough, some of them are even trying to eliminate the concept of sex, which is bordering on idiotic. But how are these feminists going to cope with female robots? And what if these robots evolve to the point that they display a personality? Are they women then? Androids? We are entering the Blade Runner era and we are very poorly equipped to cope with it mentally, philosophically, ethically, psychologically, and even physiologically. Every new invention gives rise to ethical dilemmas, but virtual sex is going to upend our world topsy-turvy and if we are not ready for it, it's going to have impacts which far exceed a single generation.