One, bingo, I'm back. He said, she said, our Monday show with Marianne Sasaki and me, where we kick it back and forth. And since I just spent three weeks in change in Europe and in New York, there's plenty to kick around. The first thing I'd like to throw at you, Marianne, is the conditions of the airports. You know? Our third world airports? Yeah.  Now there's been some commentary about, can they really afford that? Well, they find a way. It's there. It's beautiful.  And what I found, for example, in Lisbon, it's so interesting, is that on the way out of the country, or in the country for that matter, but mostly out of the country, there's restaurants. Really first class. There's shopping, like you'd find in Palm Court in Alamoana. Really? International stores all around, you could buy things at any price. And how'd you find JFK? Did you go to JFK or LaGuardia? No, Newark. Newark is nice. I like Newark.  Right. They're good, great restaurants. It's all very high tech. Food is pretty good. The prices are a little high because it's the airport and all that. But it suggests that Honolulu is not only behind in the physical structure, because we were saying at the early part of Linda Lingle's administration in 2002 that there was a billion dollar project to fix it up. They haven't spent anything close, they haven't spent anything on it. The airport here is, it really is, I can't get out of there in less than a half an hour. There's so much money in the left on the table. So much money. You could sell things to tourists coming in and out. You could food, waiting for the plane, all the stores in Alamoana, you know, that kind of thing. We have an incredible number of tourists and well-heeled tourists coming in here and we don't have any real opportunities for them. It's a completely unavailable, I think, the airport. If the airport would have these stores, somebody could make a lot of money. Somebody could make a lot of money. Listen, I advocate that because, you know, I think it's, well, I think JFK is a terrible airport, too. So, I mean, I'm very picky about it. I don't shop there. They have nice stores there. They have nice stores there. But here, it's just a completely counterintuitive, I mean, there's no clear way the things work. It's not well laid out. It's like a jumble. It's like a jumble of landing places and I don't understand. Why is it like that, Jay? Government. Because it's old? Government is stuck. You know, it's the same thing as the roads and all kinds of infrastructure. It's a can't, nobody's in charge, everybody sort of blends into the background. I mean, you find people who are just doing bureaucratic knee-jerk all day for careers that last too long. You know, I think we could use a new airport even more than we can use a train and you know how much I think we can use the train. But a new airport, because we were just talking about this, somebody I was talking with about petroleum. And the highest use of petroleum in Hawaii is not on car gas, but jet fuel, because there's so many flights coming in and out.  It's not like we can get on the highway and go to another state or whatever. So the airport is integral to the functioning island. You know what I mean? I mean, everything comes into there. Yeah. We should have multimodal transportation there, we should have, that wiki bus thing is ridiculous. Yeah, what is that? I can never understand where that goes. Where does it go? And then year after year until we all get old, I mean, after a while we're just going to pop, waiting for something to happen on the wiki bus. But nothing happens. And the physical structure is still the same and the way it's set up for security and for shops and shopping and eating, still the same. So I mean, I hope there's somebody out there. Director Ford, are you listening? We need a real boost on the airport. It would be great to have a new airport. We are not keeping up. We're supposed to be a hospitality industry of, you know, of excellence. There's no excellence at the airport at all. And it's sort of like a moribund welcome of like, you know, hello, welcome to Hawaii. Right. It's exactly true. Nobody's cheerful.  Compare that to when I first arrived here, that's got to be 50 plus years ago. You got out of the plane, you had to walk down a little gangway, right? I love that. With no security. Like the Beatles. And there were dancing girls with hula skirts serving you as much pineapple juice as you could possibly imagine. And they were happy and smiling and loving and kissing, putting lays on every passenger. I mean, now that's an arrival. I think that... It's not like that today. No, no. But I think a little of that would be nice. A little theater at the airport, I think people would like. It's true. There is no theater there. No.  There should be some theater, right? There should be a little bit of romance and mystery. What's wrong with putting a Kodak hula show kind of thing in? When people arrive, they hear some live music. How hard is that? I know. How much could that cost? Give me a break. I'm going to go to another thing. Okay, go ahead. What? Bathrooms. In the world or where? Well, we're called comparative bathroom analysis. You know, I wanted to do a book on bathrooms all over the world. I think it's a book there. I think it's a book. I suggest to you that there are not enough bathrooms in Hawaii and the bathrooms that are public bathrooms and the bathrooms that are available. In fact, also private bathrooms, that's another discussion. But the public bathrooms, really, there aren't enough and the ones you find are awful. You don't blame it on the homeless, blame it on people who abuse the bathrooms. But that's not an excuse. Everybody has to go. Let me assure you of this. It's part of the human condition. And if you take the bathrooms away from them, or you don't maintain the bathrooms, you're doing everyone a huge disservice. I do not understand what it is in the Hawaii culture that dumps, excuse the term, dumps on bathrooms. Have you had a recent traumatic event with a bathroom, or that agendas this? Not a recent, good events. Oh, in Europe. It's amazing, isn't it? In Europe, that's not a matter in New York. And when I grew up in New York, and you too, the bathrooms, public bathrooms weren't all that good. No. They're better now. Yeah. And they're everywhere. You can find them in every kind of establishment. They're always there. And they're clean. And they have paper. They have paper. Paper. That's the acid test paper. They know that. They have no paper. Oh, bad thing. Oh, doors on the stalls. They don't even have doors on the stalls here on the bathrooms. Terrible. Even the women's bathrooms. There's no excuse for that.  So you put better doors on. You need somebody to do that. So you put security. But you need somebody to do that. You need money to do that. You need money to do that. I need political will. What do you think of the New York? Well, since when? So fancy, though.  New York is hopping. New York is hopping. I wanted to talk to you about that. I mean, we're both from New York originally. And it's hopping. You know, Broadway is just, the whole world is there.  Right. Well, it seems to be true. I know. It's really unbelievable.  They're hopping with people. The police are good. They caught that guy who did the bomb on 25th Street. The one thing that I have to say is a problem. And it's a problem for Hawai'i and the traffic. Traffic is really hard. And you know, there are a lot of cabs, but the cabs are all locked up. And we have the subway. And New York has the subway. Can you imagine if there's no subway? Oh, gosh. But, you know, some people don't like the subway. I like the subway. Oh, the subway is very efficient. And if you didn't, you're right. Two-and-a-half bucks or whatever is $2.75. But that is no argument for rail here. That's no argument for rail. Well, I disagree with you. You think it is an argument for rail? Yes. Okay. I think it's just the argument for rail. You have a deep pocketbook, I think. And the problem, though, is when you have all these taxi cabs lined up and you have—everybody wants to travel by taxi cab because, you know, it's the safest, cleanest way to get around. The price of a given ride goes up. It's expensive. And I was—sometimes it was, you know, breathtaking how expensive a taxi cab is. Uber. You have to Uber. So I get in to Honolulu yesterday. And I get a taxi cab because my wife insisted on taking a taxi cab. And we had parked downtown. So this was a ride of about three miles, okay, to get from the airport to downtown. It was actually a bad decision because the first thing is we had to wait nearly half an hour for a taxi cab. What's the problem? A lot of taxi cabs can't go out there. They're politically barred from going out there. It's not a security issue. It's just politics. They can't go out there. Then you finally get a taxi cab after a lot of really crazy things, you get a taxi cab, and now you drive three miles to downtown, 30 bucks. That rate per mile is way higher than any place on my trip, including Manhattan. Yeah, I think so. I think so because I'm always shocked whenever I take a little quick trip. Like, sometimes I go from my house to Alamano, which is probably half a mile. And it's just—it's like 12 bucks or something. It's just crazy. The same guys who were charging the 30 bucks are fighting against Uber and Lyft in the city council and winning with the politicians— I know they can't go to the airport. No sense of how important it is that we have that one multimodal mode available to people. This could be a great town for taxis. It used to be a better town for taxis. Is that true, really? I think so. You don't have to have a car. You just spend the money. Well, you know what they did in New York? They banned cars so many places.  There's a whole big stretch of Broadway that there are chairs and tables now. And I mean— Yeah, that's true. 6th Avenue between—oh, gee—between, like, 34th Street and maybe 59th Street a couple days ago. It was Sunday, Monday, Saturday. It was Saturday. No traffic.  They had food stands and trinket stands and people came in by the thousands just to hang around. And that would work here, too, because there's a lot of bicyclists here. A lot of bicycles in New York, believe it or not. Yeah, now there are. There are definitely a lot of bicycles. But I mean, closing the roads here would work. It would work, I think, you know. But people aren't—they're just not thinking in that—that's kind of an avant-garde public space kind of Jane Addams way of thinking, right? We don't have that consciousness. We don't. We don't have— The public would be up in pitchforks about public bathrooms, about the airport and about public spaces in general. New York has been very good about developing quality of life public spaces for people to share and have lunch at. They have greenery. They have waterfalls. They have things that people—you know, that people in a city don't get to see very often. They've—they've done—they've really done—I'd say over the past 20 years really, really changed things. So it's a fabulous city. You walk down the street and see all these people, you never hear the same language twice. They're all smart. I'm telling you, they're all smart. They're all hustling. It's true. And they're friendly. And you can talk to them. But they have so many languages, so many places, they come from everywhere. I know. And they all— Live together. Live together in not only harmony, but in excited harmony. No, it's true. It's true. Like, you know, you go to the deli and there's like maybe an Indian guy at the deli and he's got an opinion about the election and the guy behind you is from China also has a question about—he also has an opinion about the election. You're standing, you're getting your morning coffee, all of a sudden you're engaged in a political debate, you're talking about the mayor or the bombings or whatever. Everybody talks about it. They're all informed. Everybody's informed. They're all informed. It's not just TV, because TV there is about the same as what we have here. Somehow they're otherwise informed. I think people still read the paper. I think they do. A lot of papers there. And we'll take a short break and when we come back, we're going to hear about Mary Ann's latest thinking and my latest thinking about the Trump-Clinton campaign. Oh, my favorite subject. We've got a minute or two, even though we don't want to. We're going to force ourselves to come right back. Oh, we want to. 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I went around in Portugal and I asked people whether the day after the debate last Monday, what do you think, you know, and people understand that whether they speak English or not, I would say Trump on the one hand or Clinton on the other. Oh, they know. And I was sort of the gestures and I'd say 90% of them, you know, liked Clinton. That's because they didn't like Trump. And the ones who articulated, you know, why they didn't like Trump is they thought he was crazy. They thought he was mentally crazy. And that scared them because they looked to the U.S. for leadership. I mean, it's the most influential. We are the most influential country. And they care who is our leader. You miss the debate, right? Did you see the debate? I would say I saw it in detail the middle of the night. I would say to them who you're going to vote for, Trump or Clinton. These people are American citizens. They can't vote. But they have a vested interest. They have a vested interest and they would answer the question in a serious way. I'm going to vote for Trump or Clinton. I said, what? You can't vote. Well, it's a state of mind. Voting is a state of mind. I think if you allowed them to vote, the percentage would be higher than in Hawaii. The ones who did like Trump, there were a few, was usually on the lines. He's very macho. He's strong. He's macho. But there was no, as there is in those... I think she's more macho than he is. But that's just my opinion.  I know. Do we need to know more? Two more debate. Two more debate. It's a passion play that goes on and on and on. And just as you think that all the television is full of this stuff here and on the East Coast, all across the country, it is full of this stuff. It's full of this stuff in Portugal, too. Yeah. I know. We had... Yeah. I've spoken to many Europeans who are fascinated by this. They just don't understand how the election got to this point. But I want to tell you that this is October 1st. I said this. Andrew and I did a talk... We did a... He said, she said on Friday. And I said this on Friday, and I say this now. October 1st marked the beginning of the plummet, the dissent of Donald Trump. I think that she's going to win a spectacularly large number now. I really do. Because between his taxes and the things he said about women and his attitude... At the debate, his demeanor was, like, fascinating. Didn't you think his demeanor was fascinating? But we are in real time, Marianne. And that will go away? Anything could happen any day. That's the crazy thing. It's like you don't know whether some strange new factor, some strange new thing, if she got sick, for example, that would change it. If he got sick, that would change it. Some remarkable event that requires new opinions from them, and they take an opinion... Right. That's true. A terrorist event or something like that could happen. And that will change it, too. And of course, and I mean to talk about this in other programs, it's a revelation that Vladimir Putin is going to manipulate or try to manipulate the election on the Internet. And this is really scary. And frankly, the one revelation I'll give you about that is that even if he doesn't, even if he does nothing about it, people will wonder if he is doing something. You think so, really? Sure. He's planted that seed. He's already planted the seeds of, you know, lack of confidence.  Well, he monkeyed around in the DNC, right? Didn't he hack like the DNC, the Russians hacked the DNC? And Trump invited him to hack Hillary. How nice.   Fat ladies, all ladies, no lady wants to be, you shouldn't even notice about their way. The poor little plump, she was sort of plump, Miss Universe. Well, I want to close with some stuff that you know or don't know about Portugal. Tell me Portugal facts. We had a great flight. You can fly from Honolulu to Newark, stay overnight to rest. And then you can fly from Newark directly to Lisbon, Lisboa, if you want. I love Lisboa, I love that. And we just, it was relatively painless to get there. And once there, we stumbled into this great hotel, which was really, 1892, it was built and it was kept in meticulous condition. And every night there was a concert in the salon, the great hall there as you walked in. And the public was invited and they came and they listened. Some of them were coming like for years to hear the music that emanated from this hotel. Isn't that nice? Yes, really nice. What's it called in the hotel? Do you remember what you did? Yeah, Avenida, which is the word for avenue. Right. Liberdad. Okay. Avenida, Liberdad. I have to look it up. On various revolutions and tumultuous events in Portugal over the past hundred years, including some recent things, and Liberdad is, I guess that's instead of the way it was before. The way it was before was this avenue, a beautiful avenue with tree-lined streets and everything, was more like for the royalty. The royalty were there for hundreds of years. The other revelation about Portugal, which you didn't know and I didn't know either, is that it was the lead discovering power for a hundred years, from, say, 1450 to 1550. Yeah, it was really, really influential, right? It was really influential. It was sending its ships out everywhere. It was doing high-tech ropes and high-tech masts and high-tech sails and all. What was some of the big discovers? Was Vasco de Gamo from Portugal? He's the great hero. Yeah. He's the great hero. Everybody loves Vasco de Gamo. Remember, Columbus did not come from Portugal. He came from Spain. No. Yeah, he came from Genoa. He came from Italy. Of course, I thought you'd say something. But he came under the flag of Spain, yes, under Queen Isabella. But Portugal was ahead of Spain. Portugal was discovering all these places. I know they were very powerful. I didn't know they were the top... South America, Brazil, of course, South America in various places in the Caribbean and South America. I think they went to Nova Scotia. They discovered Nova Scotia way back when. They had ships going everywhere, all through Africa, India. They discovered India. I mean, we didn't know. I didn't know this. They were, of course, Macau and other places in that area. And they were the first ones to actually visit Japan. Really? And I'm going to tell you something. I didn't know this. Are you ready? Are you sitting down? I'm never ready. The word for thank you in Portuguese, which is an odd variation on Spanish, it's not the same. In fact, the Spaniards can't understand the Portuguese, but the Portuguese can understand the Spaniards. The word for thanks in Portuguese is obligato. Oh, like arigato. Sounds like arigato. The reason is, are you sitting down? The Japanese got it from the Portuguese. Really? Is that really true? Really? It's absolutely true. Arigato is the Japanese pronunciation of obligato. They came in the, I think it was 15s, 30s sometime. They found Japan. They were the first howlies there. That's amazing. Yeah. I would have never thought that. That's amazing. Yeah. That's amazing. And what there was an exchange of culture, too, because tempura, tempura, which is the big Japanese food, that was originally, let me think, whether tempura came from Japan and went to Portugal or whether it was in Portugal or went to Japan, but there was an exchange of tempura, too. So a lot of the cultural points, interesting points were exchanged between Portugal and Japan. That's fascinating. It is fascinating. They have a map that takes a city block for this map where they have it all laid out on what year they discovered this and what year discovered that. They were world travelers. They were the most active, aggressive world travelers, world discoverers of any country in Europe. Now I want to read a book about that period in Portugal's history because it's probably really, really interesting. It's probably fascinating. It is fascinating. Portugal is fascinating. People are very layback, very friendly. Food is very good. They're into fish. I told you the break. When you tell them you're from Hawaii, do they know where that is or do they? Yeah, they give you the same reaction that all of Europe does. Oh, Hawaii. Oh, we love to go to Hawaii. I said, well, you have a lot of the elements of Hawaii. Yeah, right, exactly. Don't get too excited. Yeah, exactly. We have to work for a living. So I would go again. I mean, I don't say that about a lot of countries. Really? I would go again. And Portugal is finding, it's very attractive now to people in Europe. It's safer than other places in Europe. There's not any terrorism there. It's very welcoming. There are people, it's like New York, and every language is spoken. And people are very friendly and engaging and easy to get along with. Don't you think it's fascinating that it could have once been a world power? It was. It was a world power with Spain and the Netherlands. Well, Spain took away some of their holdings. The Dutch took away some of their holdings, and ultimately the British took away a lot of their holdings. Right. The history of imperialism, I guess, had countries like, you know, even England. Great, the sun never sets on the British Empire.  We should be aware of that. America should be aware. We should learn from what happened. They went down the slippery slope sometime after, I guess, 1550, and when their holdings were taken from them, because they didn't prevail in sea battles and the like. And they had a bad earthquake, by the way. Oh, really? Okay. 1755, that really wrecked them, and they took a long time to fix things up. Those days it was harder to fix things up. But I think the lesson that I would leave people with now as we approach the end of the show is if you have trade, if you have connections with other countries, if you engage with them, you buy and sell, manufacture, you know, if you have commercial engagement with them, and people engagement, your economy is better. You have to engage. If you don't engage, you know, you slide down that slope. I think in so many ways, yeah.  I just think it's very healthy for people to explore and have others come to their country. And that's one thing that makes New York so exciting, right? I agree. They're out there. So things like Brexit, you know, very disturbing. So disturbing. Yeah. And I just heard on the radio that there was a similar referendum in Hungary. Hungary's population of 10 million. And for comparison, Portugal has a population of 12 million. Three million of whom live in Lisbon. Oh, really? So you know the relative population. Anyway, Hungary had a referendum on whether they should permit any further immigrants to come in. And the percentage of people that voted in favor of continued immigration was 90 percent. However, the terms of the referendum were that you had to have a turnout of over 50 percent, a quorum. Oh, okay. Okay. They didn't reach the quorum. Oh, what? So the vote doesn't count. Okay.  Are they going to do it again? Vote again? I hope so. I hope so. But I mean, you can see there's a sweeping nationalism now in the EU. And... Yeah, you can see it. Yeah. And these referendum... Referendai? Right. These referendum is starting with Brexit, but also look at Scotland last year. You know, it's really interesting how many politicians will cop out and put it out in a referendum instead of making the decision themselves, which they could do. And then it's interesting to see how people more and more seem to want to fold in on their own. Yeah, xenophobia. There's xenophobic. But you're right. It's... That will cause a culture to languish. It will cause an economy to languish. And they think it's going to be good in England for the economy, but I don't think it will be. I think the permeability of the borders and the working, being able to work across Europe is a huge thing. So what happened in Portugal to close up on that? What happened in Portugal was that if you could get out there and discover and trade with all these faraway places, your economy was going to be significantly better. Now just trying to put that forward, take it a sort of jump it forward and see how that works now, I think the reality is if you have an ability to compete within the new global context, and that means not xenophobia, it means trading with everyone. It means opening your borders, not closing them. If you can compete with that, much more sophisticated competition. But if you can compete with that and reach out, you will do better. You will be a better economic power. I think that's right. I think that's right. But we'll see how the trend, where the trend goes, it doesn't seem to be trending in that direction. No, no, no. Okay, well... But I think you're right. We're going to do this again. So glad you're back. Oh, I miss you so much. Oh, I miss you so much. That's Mary and Sasaki. He said, she said, we enjoy doing this. My God. Yes, we will do this.


What's up, how are you guys today? If anything positive came from me getting that eye surgery It was this because an unusual series of events occurred when I was in California where I had to try different supplements from Whole Foods and Also a few ideas talking to the nurses. I ended up coming up with these So for those of you that don't know we've launched Oregon supplements a couple years ago now with these vitamin and mineral blends to provide natural and safe dosages of supplements because even now you cannot find Certains most supplements in safe dosages, you know be vitamins at hundreds of times to thousands of times the daily value Basically toxic doses of mineral supplements It's not regulated guys. The supplement industry is not regulated FDA doesn't really do much which is Is kind of good for business owners, but kind of bad for the health of most people because there's so much Misinformation disinformation out there. Those are two different things which I can talk about another time but basically people don't know what could be hurting them and When money's there a lot of snake oil so we have a Multivitamin multi-mineral Zinc complex and magnesium complex now before we were selling stuff like you know, we still have the B complex on the website We have all the individualized Minerals and B vitamins that you can buy but I figured that wasn't that convenient for a lot of people And they don't want to take eight or nine different mineral supplements every morning and it's confusing for a lot of people so I figured it was best that I just combine everything to a multivitamin and multi-mineral and also doing a little more research on mineral chelations Magnesium complexes Have been a little popular and no one's ever really come out with a zinc complex Which is kind of relevant to me recently with my copper toxicity So this is actually called although I couldn't fit it on the label Natural ratios multi-vitamin natural ratios multi-mineral and I'm going to read what I put here on the label On these new labels Natural safe dosage We formulate all of our supplements to be in line with what you can get naturally from food on a daily basis Both the amounts and ratios of nutrients are balanced Whereas most supplements on the market have high even toxic doses that can cause more harm than good Another thing I want to touch on is the affordability. I never really understood why supplement companies would charge like $60-70-80 for certain supplement blends I'm not going to name them, but there's another company that sells a Multivitamin that is not really that different from any of the other ones for about $80 And it cannot possibly cost them more than five to ten dollars per bottle to manufacture I don't really want to get into this either, but the problem is These US based manufacturing companies they price couch people because all the powders Regardless of what supplement you buy every single powder on this planet is manufactured in China It's just sometimes they bring it to the US and then the cost to manufacture in the USA is much higher It's not necessarily better. So that could be one reason for it, but Let's focus on the supplements here. So The multi-vitamin and multi-mineral were things I wanted to make so that the average person or someone just getting into health and Especially for you guys that are very well-versed. You've watched a lot of my videos you watch a lot of other people's health videos You're very like ingrained in the health and nutrition community You guys are probably buying all different types of stuff and experimenting But if you have friends or family or relatives and you're just trying to get them something to be healthy Especially your parents your siblings This is this is easy to say. Hey, this is a safe multi vitamin. This is a safe multi mineral Just give them this to take that. That's the main reason. I got this. It's much more approachable It's much more reasonable and even something I would use myself now So the multi vitamin has all the vitamins. We've been selling K2 D3 vitamin C and then all of the B vitamin. So it's literally RB complex is in the multi vitamin, you know the vitamin K2 is in the multi vitamin We have vitamin D3 in here. We have vitamin C So Someone like me who's really trying to critique and fix their health issues. I might not take this every day I might be doing B complex every other day or some other stuff. So You know after you establish a base of nutrition and you're feeling better And then you you can get blood work and know what to target That's why you would move away from this and do other things or maybe Maybe you don't need all of this and you're just deficient in K2. So you would isolate it But that's the basic multi vitamin and then we have the multi minerals separate Most of the time Companies will combine multi vitamin and multi mineral and it's just called the multi vitamin I don't think multi mineral is really a thing It's you know, you could look it up. People don't really make them This might be the only one on the market like this that just has minerals in them. So all of our eight minerals that we sell on organ supplements are in this So we have magnesium zinc manganese on that's for iodine Lidium selenium Did I say eight? So I omitted copper because a lot of people have copper toxicity and I wanted this to be something that people can take safely so This contains the zinc complex and the magnesium complex as the forms of zinc and magnesium in here So you don't have to buy the complexes if you just want the multi mineral The difference is you know when you're taking this obviously, it's only zinc and mag But now you're getting all the other ones too And I'll touch more about the the chelations in a little bit, but the manganese boron iodine and Lidium selenium It's all very very safe dosages. Everything in here is a safe dosage. So yeah when I was taking the vitamins There were like three or four of them So it wasn't that much of a pain to take but for the minerals You know when you have seven eight different minerals in front of you It's it's nice to just be able to take one capsule and and what I'll do is I'll do the multi mineral a few times a week But I'll usually isolate and take different things more consistently. So depending on the mineral There's a lot of different types of chelations with the less popular stuff like Melibidium and selenium There's really only one or two to choose from however in the case of like zinc and especially more popular ones like magnesium It can be kind of overwhelming when there's you know over a dozen different Forms of it that you don't know which ones to choose from but based on my research for this zinc complex We're using zinc carnicine zinc glycinate and zinc methionine to Add up to 15 milligrams of elemental zinc So each capsule is 15 milligrams and that's another thing I wanted to make sure to do because sometimes you'll see Zinc being sold in like 30 milligram or 60 milligram capsules, which It's not easy to to modulate that dosage on a daily basis because you might only want to take 15 milligrams before bed And then like 45 milligrams in the morning. So it's nice to have smaller dose pills That you can just multiply instead So it's it's five milligrams of each of those three chelations and this one is based off amino acids and Protein chelations being more bio available than others as proven in studies carnicine glycinate methionine for the zinc and I put on the website like in the description what each one is good for I'm doing this off the cuff. I didn't put together a script for this video Which I probably should have to be honest But I kind of wanted it to be more informal. So if you I'll put that up here on the screen What each is in carnicine glycinate methionine is good for? But this is unique because This doesn't exist. No one else has done is in complex with different forms of zinc if you search zinc complex You'll see like people combine zinc with like herbs and roots and and non mineral Non-mineral stuff like by and by that I mean like pure mineral extracts so for the magnesium complex which was a Little more difficult to figure out because the zinc the zinc one once I looked them all up It was pretty obvious which ones we should put in there But magnesium a little confusing. So we ended up choosing three forms of magnesium glycinate L3 and 8 and Torate 33 milligrams of each to add up to a hundred milligrams of elementals zinc per capsule Based on my memory Glycinate is known for being relaxing people take it before bed L3 and 8 I believe is for brain benefits brain health and then Torate is for heart health How much truth is there to that? It's kind of hard to say usually what ends up happening is Whatever the mineral is bound to those amino acids or those compounds tend to go to certain areas in the body So that's kind of what's happening here, but from the perspective of which magnesiums you would want to have For those side benefits. These are kind of the three go-tos glycinate L3 and 8 and Torate And I don't think the other magnesium complexes on the market have These three specific ones as the there's a lot of them that just throw every single magnesium form in there Which which isn't good You know you don't want small amounts of 10 different and some of the doses are really really high The nice thing about this is and you have a hundred milligram magnesium Capsule so you could take two or three hundred in the morning and then you can lower the dosage throughout the day And anything higher than a hundred milligrams per capsule is it's hard to modulate what's also very unique about these is That not only did we use a gelatin capsule we used collagen beef collagen as the filler Which has as far as I don't know when does it because it's kind of hard To do on the machines and companies don't really want to do it But I kind of convinced them to do that for me. 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I just wanted to thank the institute for extending the invitation, for welcoming me so warmly, and also for enabling this conversation about defence to continue the one that's stemmed out of the December summit on defence, because it's often, until recently at least, one of those issues that tends to get slightly swept off the agenda, when economic issues and the everyday management of the financial crisis are on most European leaders' agenda. And I suppose even before what happened a couple of weeks ago, it was already becoming one of those long-term issues that defence cooperation isn't really a long-term issue anymore, because it causes a certain amount of short-term headaches. When we first discussed this talk with the institute over the phone a few months ago, we thought the issue was pretty topical to be honest, because of the December summit, because in the wake of the summit and in the run-up to the European elections we thought it might be nice to talk about European defence and European citizens and so on, it comes on the back of 18 months of pretty serious soul searching across the continent, across the capitals in Brussels as well, and it also comes before all the intricate negotiations about the changing of the guard in Brussels in coming months, which hopefully will bring a renewed sense of purpose on these issues included. So we were chatting about this and we thought we were in a pretty good place and it would be nice to have a bit of a shot in the arm before the European elections, and talk about citizens' perception of defence and so on. Little did we know, of course, that these issues would be set against a full-blown international crisis that brings basically all these issues now to a head and completely to the fore, in a manner certainly quite unprecedented since obviously the European defence project came to be and probably for some time before that. Obviously what's happening in the Crimea throws up some pretty searching questions from Vilnius to Lisbon and will continue to do so once the dust has somewhat settled and short-term concerns about Putin's autism and such, start crowding out the long-term ones. It's the recurrent questions if you like about, okay, obviously what should we do about it, but is there any way we can do that? If we can agree on what we should do about it and if we can agree, how do we do it and with what means and can we genuinely do it together and I suppose more profoundly some of the usual existential questions about European defence, what does it stand for, what do we mean by it? I mean, do we agree on the aims, the purpose? What do we want it to stand for? And since we're here in Dublin, I notice this because a 15-minute walk I got completely ported but I got completely drenched in rain so we must be somewhere near Dublin. I believe it's been pointed out in this very place in these hallowed halls that I suppose on this side of the Western world we like to think that the force of law trumps the law of force. But once you've said that, I would tend to ask, you know, how do you uphold the force of law in the face of someone who clearly has absolutely no interest in doing so? He doesn't necessarily play by the book of Western rules. He wasn't part of the gentlemen's club. I mean in this case is the force of law enough to sustain the force of law. I mean it provided you're in this side of the Crimea in a nice switch conference room, I suppose intellectually it's almost like a picture perfect example of how we conceive of and how we apply European values. So I suppose over here you would ask, well, do you sit back, we were talking about this a second ago, do you sit back and assume that Putin is basically shooting himself in the foot in the long term? Invest all you can in the Ukraine and basically wait for liberal democracy and the market economy to be their job. He'd basically assumed the kind of bumpy but teleological tendency of other people to want to become more like Europeans basically and somehow embrace Western values by dent of Europe's soft power alone.  Do you need a range of other means and other instruments to protect the force of law and ultimately does Europe have the means to do so and to deal with such situations? I mean, I know over here I think we prefer the term crisis management to defence proper, which sometimes is, as in a few European countries is sometimes a bit unpalatable. Obviously it's extremely useful to be able to anticipate and to be able to prevent crises. You see that in most cases we don't really anticipate or are able to prevent them still. Obviously it's extremely useful to be able to once a conflict has passed to be able to go in and do the tricky work of rebuilding the justice system, rebuilding the security sector, rebuilding a state. That obviously is something that military force isn't going to enable you to do. However, in crisis management, we also have the aspect which is basically just managing a crisis and sometimes managing a crisis requires other means than trying to prevent it or trying to rebuild after it. The question is, does Europe have the requisite tools to manage such a crisis at its doorstep? Whatever the answers to these questions, I suppose what makes a bit of a difference to people in our line of work is that these questions are being asked and basically they're put on the table. Things are being flashed out at the minute because the usual complaint you hear from people like me is that there's no awareness or interest on the part of European citizens and therefore there's no political will to deal with these things. These issues get so very little visibility. People take peace for granted and forget the lessons of history because prosperity and economic growth have made us forget that there's a price to pay for peace. So on that there's no interest on the part of the Brussels institutions to talk about defence. It's not in their DNA that they always do too late. When defence analysts have finished moaning about all that, they then deplore the fact that there's no external threat that would compel Europeans to get their acts together on defence. Obviously you see where I'm going with this. On all these counts, I suppose first, it's worth noting that defence was put on the squarely on the table two years ago by Brussels institutions that are supposed to be slow and slag-ish. You can hardly complain that Brussels is being behind the curve on defence before this happened. In some respects, quite bravely, they decided to tackle the issues of defence and launch the whole process 18 months ago. From there, I suppose momentum has developed, we have a high-level political mandate that emanates from the December European Council, the highest possible political level in Europe, which is the heads of state and government. We have a calendar. We know what we want to do and when we want to do it. On frankly most of the important issues, and obviously these issues are kept on the radar and we're going to tackle them next year at the highest political level in the EU again. In a way, in this respect, you can't really, I suppose, accuse the EU of being reactive and being behind the curve because in this respect, to my mind, we've shifted from the back to the front foot. We also, of course, have the institutional tools now that hopefully this momentum that's been developing can help appropriate. We haven't yet appropriated the institutional tools of the Lisbon Treaty that we didn't have, for example, when the situation in Georgia broke out. Hopefully this dynamic can help us appropriate institutional tools that we actually have but are not using. Last but not least, well, there's been this basic Deus Ex Machina in this Crimea business in Hallelujah. We finally have this long-awaited external threat that people seem to be pining for. What this means, I suppose, is that, well, automatically there is a certain level of interest on defence matters. I was wandering around this morning and it's not just football on the front pages, but Crimea is in the headlines. There is a keynote, I suppose, interest and perception of Europe's environment, of how, if you like, it fits into its environment, a heightened sense of, I suppose, the European project, how valuable it is because people on the streets fighting for it and also how fragile it is. I would, I hesitate to call it this because I don't want to be flippant about it, but I suppose I would call it Wake Up and Smell the Racky, Racky being an alcohol from the east of Europe. So there's a sense that, I suppose, before this, Europe had been slightly, I suppose, navigating a strategic mist and it needed to wake up to the world around it and, if you like, to its purpose inside it. So I suppose, with Crimea, what's happened is there's maybe a heightened sense of self, maybe that's the abstract way to put it, but a better sense of how Europe fits into its environment and of what's happening at its gates and its neighbourhood. So anyway, long story short, there's a distinct sense here that all these boxes are being ticked. What everyone was moaning about suddenly, all these factors seem to be a conjunction of these various things. I think the Greek, we call it Kyros, seems to me that all the hurdles that were in front of us when we tried, when we were always pushing for more defence cooperation and more European defence and for more awareness of the facts by European citizens, are basically, all these hurdles are somehow fading. I mean, obviously it's early stages and we'll see what happens, but the idea then basically behind our research, what we were trying to do on European citizens and on European strategic cultures and such, was that the day that people were ready to take on these issues and to think about a more strategic role for Europe in its environment and in the world, then we'd have some basic facts for them, some reliable data, some solid stats that you could draw upon. Well, when the opportunity arose that all these hurdles might be clear, that we at least have some useful empirical data and I must remind you that it's going to depend a lot on I suppose the personality of the new high representative, but there is in the pipeline a strategic drive, a strategic effort which is going to be, we'll see how it works and it's not going to happen until the end of this year, but there is a debate that's in the pipeline about Europe I suppose ultimately rolled in the world. So, I'll briefly present some of the data we've had a look at, which mostly I suppose confirms and substantiates the contradictions and divergencies that I mentioned earlier over Crimea. Well, as you mentioned there are several strands of comparative data which we've tried to work on. I'll start with what we found on European citizens but actually that data also feeds into a broader effort which if I have time at the end I'll say a few words about because it's fairly unhelpful to look at these layers or strands in isolation because European defence is a kind of big pyramid of interdependent I suppose levers or stuff that needs to be considered as a hop. So in terms of I suppose what European citizens think about defence, the first astonishing fact for me because I hadn't looked into this data was actually how I suppose how high and how consistent the support for a common foreign policy and b common European defence actually was. If you have a look at the polls, basically the support for common foreign policy is anywhere between 60% and 70% in the last 20 years since the end of the Cold War and the support for common defence policy actually registers even higher between 70% and 80% consistently over the last 20 years. Obviously with some discrepancy between the member states which we've tried to log into in this paper here. You can have a closer look at the figures but basically what we concluded was that the numbers, so that's the first conclusion is that the level of support is surprisingly high. However when you kind of dig into what that means suddenly things get a bit more complicated. So when you ask whether European citizens want a European foreign policy that's independent of the United States, everyone says yes. And when you ask them do you want to invest more or cut less in defence which makes it possible to have a more independent foreign policy, people say no. I think that's become a bit more apparent over recent months with the cyber scandals and some of this stuff is extremely expensive. Unless you have drones that don't depend on basically American captors or whatever, unless you have independent cyber systems then it's very hard to have to lead an autonomous foreign policy. In the same way, when you ask European citizens and you have a look at the polls, everyone thinks that an enhanced European security and defence policy would provide you with a greater leadership role in the world. So basically everyone wants a common European security and defence policy and then when you ask them if in parallel they would like a common defence organisation which implies obviously that there's I suppose some constraints. It's not just the policy but there's an actual organisation then suddenly no one wants it anymore. They want the policies but they do want the constraints. If you ask them if we want a strong leadership for European world affairs, everyone says yes. We want a free, prosperous, powerful European Union that's able to influence world events. But then again there's some internal variation in the figures that I'm just talking about, consolidated European figures here. And then when you ask them, well sometimes are you prepared to for example brandish a credible threat of force in order to influence events without necessarily using force but for example using force to advance diplomatic means or sorry using the threat of force to advance diplomatic means credible, then there's basically 80% of Europeans oppose that. So there's a wise bed of version to using even the suggestion that you might use force. So the way we sum this up is basically saying that European citizens are keen to have a common defence but without the associated constraints. They're happy for the perks of global leadership to fall their way but without some of the unpalatable responsibilities that come with it. They strongly support strategic autonomy but not the costs it might incur. So in a few words, Europeans want in the abstract, they want increased global leadership and increased strategic autonomy with fewer common means, less investment, no conceivable recourse to force and no dedicated institutions or structures. So then it's a case of understanding what these discrepancies are all about and obviously to a certain extent there is a lack of awareness of I suppose what European defence actually involves and the costs it implies even just to ensuring the conditions of peace and prosperity in a given country. Sometimes that's basically the bread and butter of security and sometimes it's usually, even though it's the bread and butter, it usually doesn't come cheap. And one of the figures that we used to show that was that basically when you ask people what the level of spending for defence is in their national states, some people say 15%. So I know that when you look at budgets every day and stuff it seems completely outlandish considering that I think the only, depending on how you count these things, the only country who spends more than 2% of GDP on defence is probably Greece. 15% of GDP is like, well basically it's enormous, it's about 7-8 times what any member state would spend on defence. So basically there's a sense that well we don't really know what European defence means, what a European or common European policy on defence means, but we would like some of the benefits that's associated with it. And then actually when you dig further and when there is a realisation of what it implies, then you realise that when people know what it implies they don't agree on it. So the same divergences that appear in Crimea, for example, some people are more interventionist, some people less interventionist, some people are more Atlanticist, some people are less. So basically I suppose the double aspect of it is that we don't necessarily always know what it means and when we do know what it means we don't agree on it. So to finish up, I suppose I'll give you a very, very quick overview of the other strands that we've explored in parallel to this. I've basically made the fairly bold and autogullant rather silly assumption that European defence sort of looks like a giant bold of lasagna. You know what it is on the outside but you don't quite know what's inside. You can sort of distinguish the crust I suppose which looks nice, I suppose liberal democracy, human rights, market economies and stuff. And you can distinguish some of the lumps and the layers inside so you know that at some point Europe drew up a strategy for its external action. Some people know this. Some people know there's a defence agency that has a defence agency. We're not quite sure what it does and we're not quite sure what the relationship between, for example, its strategic aims and how it implements its defence policy is. But we know, some people even think that we have a drone army that's piloted by the commission president of Russia. This is across the channel so I won't navigate. But I suppose we're not quite sure how all of this holds together and whether these layers are hard or soft. We don't know if it's vegetarian or if there's muscle and meat in there. This makes me think of something I read in the paper yesterday, one of the main Russian newspaper I think, calling European sanctions on Crimea, vegetarian, herbivorous. We don't know whether what's in this lasagna is herbivorous or carnivorous. I suppose when you do know what the ingredients are to make lasagna, you always think you can make a better lasagna. Everyone thinks they can make a better lasagna in the south, in the north, in the east. It's quite apparent when it comes to Russia. If you talk about this with Poles, they will tell you about rationing cards and main battle tanks invading and so on. If you talk European defence with Italians, they will tell you that they see ships coming over from Africa and illegal immigration or whatever. And if you talk about European defence to people in the north, they talk about the Arctic and if you talk about defence in the middle, they'll talk about, we're not quite sure. They haven't quite decided yet. Anyhow, what we set out to do to remedy this kind of confusion and establish some of the hard facts was to have a careful and detailed look at some of these different layers of the lasagna. I do apologise for the metaphor. I have more sophisticated ones, but I quite like the lasagna metaphor. There are basically different layers. Underneath that crust, you'd have strategic cultures, strategic thinking. You'd have then perceptions of risks and threats, budgets, capabilities, operations. The layer, the citizens, is obviously the foundational level in many respects. What we did in a few words, this was a couple of years ago, we looked at strategic thinking across European member states. We looked into all member states' strategic documents and broke them down in one big database, which basically tells you what each country officially thinks about 30 or 40 issues which range from proliferation to terrorism to cyber security and stuff. I should really have a nice PowerPoint that I'm a bit of a dinosaur, so I have it in paper form. We have basically this big database about how European member states see their strategic landscape and what are the risks and threats and actually maybe 30 or 40 different items and then how they define their strategic objectives in return. We're currently extending that to India, Russia and Brazil. We're seeing how they support their strategic thinking. From there, we sought to draw some conclusions as to the different strategic cultures that we have across the EU. This we did with Nick Whitney at ECFR, who was the former head of the European Defence Agency, and we ended up with a kind of mapping all these strategic cultures across the European member states based on the study of their strategic thinking and this sort of database. I hope you can't see so you can't see where Ireland is because then I would have to justify it. Then what we did, I think Michael is here, last month we were in a room and we brought different people from all across the member states, brought them to Paris and asked them how they saw their regional environments, how they saw risks and threats, and to see if we could thrash out a common position with Cloda, who's also here. We compiled all the member states' defence budgets according to, I think for the first time to be honest, according to all the different sources, the main sources to the EDA, the LIWS, NATO and CPE to see some of the divergences and convergences. Again, it's that wish to have some kind of European leaders base their decisions on, make evidence based decisions rather than on moral imperatives that Europe should cooperate more or whatever. Actually when you look at the documents, when you look at the budgets, it's quite clear that Europe cannot, the member states cannot keep doing this, cannot keep having their defence policies so narrowly defined. They have to cooperate more, not because of a moral imperative, but because they can't afford it anymore. Lastly, on the operational front, which is the last layer of the lasagna, we compiled all the, this is quite interesting, all the codes of conduct of EU national member states. And it's quite useful to see the different reflexes, the different operational cultures for national militaries. And we actually asked ourselves what the code of conduct would be for an EU battlegroup, what would it look like. One other thing that should be interesting to compare is the mandates for deployment of national militaries, including in the European context. And comparing the capabilities as countries transform their militaries. So basically, in a word, it's kind of, I suppose it, all this is a bit empirical, sometimes a bit tedious, but it's fairly novel data which gives a nice picture of European defence as it actually works. Of the different layers and how they interact or not. For example, how strategic cultures or strategic thinking actually trickles down to the different, to the other layers, to decisions about spending, to decisions about operations, to decisions about capabilities. So I'm hoping to make this more available, I mean it's a work in progress and make it more systematic, see if we can set up a kind of monitoring mechanism that can be updated over time. And it's just basically so we can get our facts straight about this lasagna that European defence is and keep getting them straight going forward, in particular if you try and draw up a strategy for Europe. The last thing really is I just need to find a name for it. And to my great everlasting regret, I googled lasagna project and it's actually already taken. And what it's more, it's financed by the European Commission. Google it, you'll see. Thank you very much.