Okay. I am Major General Abdul Khalifa Ibrahim. I am the first commander of the multinational joint tax force. My headquarters is in Jammena, Chad. And the multinational joint tax force is a coalition of about five countries fighting the Boko Haram in the Chad Basin Wing job. Yes, it has been a great privilege and a great honor also to attend the African Land Forces Summit for the year 2022 here in the United States and specifically in Columbus, Georgia. And then to also visit the Manuva Center of Excellence. That's for Benin. My horizon has been widened. The concepts I saw here, the training facilities, the methodology, I think added together will impact positively on my command and then also on training and other aspects of military in my country in Nigeria. So I am very grateful to the United States Army, the Chief of Staff and other senior officers who made it possible for me to come and attend. We've been well taken care of right from the first day we came. And I think I look forward to coming another time or to have other senior officers from the MAJTF or from Nigeria coming. I think it's a good one. Absolutely, absolutely. You know, Africa is a continent with about 54 countries and sadly we have this division between French-speaking African countries, English-speaking African countries, Portuguese and here all of us are here together. So we've been able to network, to share experiences and some of the commanders have also invited them. We can come over and see what we are doing and then we are Africans. So we look at issues, how do we resolve these issues? So it has been worldwide, the networking, the camaraderie, the friendship, it has all been worldwide. Yes, to thank the United States military for hosting this and I think it's a brilliant idea. And I love the idea that we don't stay in the class the whole day. We spend part of the day in the plenary and then we come out to the field. I think that's what it should be. And that was a great demonstration and also my ride in the helicopter was very nice, very interesting. And I think I need to have these certificates because I've been in for five days. Thank you so much. We go general in Tel Avon, I'm from Australia and the commander joined us in the group of Australia in the process. Sounds good. Alright, so we've been here almost a week. A lot of different nations coming together. How has your experience been here? Quite awesome, quite remarkable. Of course, this is my first time attending this service, so I'm quite impressed. But everything in the organization, the planning and the kind of efforts that have been put into it, I'm quite impressed. What would you have, have you got to meet the different partners here? How has your experience been? Yes, it has been about networking and since this is my first time attending this summit, I've had the opportunity to meet new commanders from across Africa, made new friends, networked a lot. It has been very impressive and remarkable. In regards to one of the themes that talked about the NCO for, the non-commissioned officer for, what did you take out? Remember the NCOs, the non-commissioned officers called, those are the building blocks, the building foundation of any army you think about. So I think I like that aspect that was included in this summit because without them actually, you cannot have a good army. We have to rely on them to do the work for us.  So it was good that the packages included in this program. And you think you'll be coming next year maybe? That I don't know, that's going to be political because maybe by next year I might not be in post, but if at all I'm around then I'll stick around. And so if you were to go back in, what are you going to take back to your soldiers and your leadership? I have a lot, a lot actually. First, it has been an impressive moment for all of us, the interactions, the networking, and the resilience part of, because I like even the team that was crafted, that resilient, resilient leaders. So those kind of teams I will take along and pass on to my colleagues and their soldiers. All right. Well, is there anything else you would like to add? I want to thank the organizers of the program, but quite the general rolling and the rest of the crew, the rest of the team, that has been an awesome moment for all of us. And also the United States government for giving us the opportunity to be around. We look forward to having such, some useful shots for us in the future. Thank you very much. Let me get the microphone. Okay, my name is Brigadier General Nguyen Viennese, from Lundi, from the Red Force commander of the Lundi Red Force. All right. So you've been here for almost a week, five days. How has it helped in your experience? Thank you for that question. One week here in Africa and for Summit, I have many things. I have the experience on how to train the Norwegian officer according their role, the very important role in army. All these issues, I can tell that it's the same in our country. Because we train Norwegian officer from time, because we know they're important. How they will train others, so they are trainers. For example, in our country, we train Norwegian officer, the basic is two years. And for those who have specialty, for example, engineer, on the level, we will train them again for two years. For the others, four years. For example, the Norwegian officer in the Air Force is trained eight years to be appointed or now in some services in the Air Force. In the summer, it will take care to train Norwegian officer because we know they are very important for they will train the others. I've seen the issue of SBAR. I have a very good experience with these issues of SBAR. I've been contingent commander in Somalia. At that time, I have some advisors, officers come from USA Army. It was not easy, this operation, but having advisors from USA Army, officers, in logistics, for example, how to organize the transmission at the engineer, I have succeeded and I know the importance of SBAR. I noted this summit. I can see, I can say that it is very important for me. And I will share, I will share with my headquarter, head Air Force in the room, I will share with this experience with the headquarter. The headquarter, Air Force, the head, the general headquarter, because I have to do this experience. Said, the issue of the command institution, it is very important, the experience is that we have to prepare the command institution. We know that they will be very convinced. They will have a problem now, not to be surprised, to prepare us, to prepare our leader for the future project. If we know the future project, if we plan, if we know what is, what can we face in the future. We prepare how we command our soldiers. That is very important. I can tell that these summits have been very important for me as the land force command in Burundi. And, for example, it is very important to think and emphasize on the future. Because the complex situation will happen. We have to prepare on. Thank you very much. Anything else you want to add? For the rest, I need, I hope, I hope, I hope we will meet again in these summits and think again, think again for our armies, our different countries. We have different problems because different countries, but the basic is to think, is to prepare, not to be surprised by them.


Fundamentally, we should start with a very clearly defined purpose. Most of the stuff that ends up making it to the world are things that are good to do, are cool to do, but they're often solutions looking for a problem. I think fundamentally, it really, really always helps to have a very, very clearly defined sense of purpose. In fact, everything else is secondary in my opinion. I strongly disagree with this. I don't think content marketing is a cheaper alternative to advertising. The way we look at content, at least in WaveMaker, is it's communication beyond advertising. It could be a tweet, it could be a post on Facebook, it could be a video, it could be an activation, it could be a rural campaign, all of them are pretty much different stops in the content journey for a brand. So, to say that it is essentially cheaper than mainline advertising or any other form of advertising is to completely misunderstand and even disrespect the possibilities of content marketing. I think the big change is that content creation as a function has been democratized. Five, six years back, we were still talking about large creative houses, brands, broadcasters and publishers as the custodians of content. Today, I think the democratization of the creative ecosystem, that has been the biggest difference. Second, I think what we can do today in terms of measurement, what we can do today in terms of social listening, what we can do today in terms of applying neuroscience to content effectiveness, applying brand lift to content effectiveness, all of that has significantly changed. I think these two are the biggest changes in my opinion. I think native is one of those things that's been there for a fairly long time, whether it is advertorials or whether it is brand integrated into a long form content as a sponsored article. They're not new things, but I feel somehow it has never reached the tipping point. Let me explain. Today, when there is a launch, when there is a campaign, I think brands use native fairly intuitively. You'll always see an accompanying article, you know, in economic times or in first post or something like that. But to me, the power of native is actually between campaigns. It gives brands a very unique ability to continue to keep telling their stories between campaigns. And it should be a continuous, always-on piece. A brand can easily create about 60-70 different stories about itself in a given year, in my opinion.


YouTube, what's up, man? So I'm at 3rd Street Barbells, second Saturday, open gym, D-Lo day. Big pull, going for like an opener, and then we're gonna go check out a meet with the homies. We've got a bunch of lifters here. I am no sane, I'm no angel, but I try to support when I can, so we've got some 3rd Street lifters competing semi-local. We're gonna go check that out, but house is bumping. I'm deadlifting in the corner with the rats, but we're gonna get it done. Definitely in a bodybuilder, but training for aesthetics seems to be what's trending.  I've also seen comments about like, how superficial training for aesthetics may be, like no one cares about you, like, you know, it's a beauty pageant, why are you so obsessed with your looks and your body? And I do think there's an aspect of that in fitness. There's definitely a type of personality that gets blown up, and ego get blown up by how they look. But I think for the majority of us, at least for me, I feel like working out, not only besides the health factors, which are always in the back of my head, you know, my dad died a little young from like heart stuff. I can just have heart failure running in my blood. So one, so I could be here a little longer and hopefully help more people. But two, I want to look a certain way or I feel better about myself when I'm a certain lead in this. And I actually think, you know, not to boost myself up, but I'm probably the best one representative of this conversation because I don't really take my shirt off. I'm not walking around in stringers, I'm flexing on people, I'm posing all day, I'm not in the mirrors, but I still see a benefit when I feel that I look a certain way. And I've talked about it a little bit, but that goes the same way as why I design clothes and why I've been into sneakers and clothes my whole life. In sports and basketball and other things, you dress a certain way to feel a certain way, to perform a certain way. And if it takes sneakers or a new haircut or new jewelry or whatever it might be to build that confidence that then you can do something positive with it, I see no net negative. If you're literally just building muscle, taking steroids, getting lean, to try to show off, to try to get a girl, to try to write, we need to look at and take the aspects that are training small improvements over weeks, months, years and take that into our mentality. I think that training for aesthetics for yourself, right? External motivation versus internal motivation can be a positive. And so for me, as we know, in a week, I'm gonna start a cut, I'm gonna go purely hypertrophy training, you guys can follow along. Be sure to give this thing a thumbs up and a like, subscribe. But I think there's a huge benefit there. If I feel better, I'm gonna be in a better mood, I'm gonna be a better boss, I'm gonna be a better leader, I'm gonna be a better coach and I'll be able to express my gifts and share my gym and my talents better with the world. If I walk around all day feeling bad about myself, how am I supposed to represent and put my best foot forward? So that's not everyone. Sure, some people take different routes and have some mature, some lessons of maturity to grow up to, but I think in the big picture, training is what matters and doing the type of training that makes you feel good is what matters most. Really starts with self-awareness, right? Like contemplating, thinking about yourself, looking, internalizing, thinking about your thoughts, thinking about how you act, how you move throughout the day through the weeks of the month, because when it comes to like motivation, I'm a fan of the barbell and strength training because again, what it can translate into the rest of your life, right? Doing something small every single day to reach a bigger goal and no amount of work in a singular day will get me to that goal. It's about work spread out. But I also think there's a mentality and something about self-awareness that you should know what type of training, I don't wanna get all hippie-dippy Rafiki on you, but like feeds your soul. And so what I found out, and I was even just thinking about this about myself last night when I was kind of meditating, is that powerlifting found me because of athletics or I found powerlifting because of athletics, I wanted to perform, I wanted to see what my body could do and push it to its limits. But the difference between basketball and this is one, the teamwork aspect, although community can be a part, but it isn't always a part of powerlifting, so that's obviously why I built this place. But the type of work in powerlifting, the feeling I get, some people really enjoy the incremental progress. A rep PR, RPE PR, right? You did 500 for RPE 8 last week, but this week or next week you move it for a seven. That feels good, because you can see the physical progress or a five pound PR as an incremental, visual, substantial progress. But for me, what I found is what I like is hard work. And so I despise cardio, I'll never be a cardio guy, but something about bodybuilding, style of training makes me feel like I worked harder. And that's not, don't misquote me. Powerlifting and bodybuilding are different. It's not one's harder than the other. But for me, like leaving exhausted is good for my mental. With powerlifting you work hard, but you don't always feel exhausted, right? Like today I did five working reps, right? A top single and then three sets of two at the bottom. I guess six, right? But it's not like the same where if I can leave totally dripping and sweat, something about my mental likes that.  So that's one reason I'm making the switch. I say all of that basically for you to find your motivation.  Some people like big projects, huge projects, the build up, the build up, the progress, the work, and then get there. Some people, like a barber, I've talked about this with my barber, some people like to see a project, fix a project, and the project's done quickly. Right, like construction's similar. Oh man, we gotta fix this window, we do it, we work on it, and that was done. Some people really get fulfillment from project, or issue, project fix, where building a gym in a community, right, it's never done. The progress is always there. There's always things to improve, there's always ways to improve the membership relationship, the membership experience, the community, and the culture. Some people really get off on that, right, the big picture stuff. So you just gotta find out what it is that drives you and really fulfills Rafiki feeds your soul. Understand for me, I'm not a power lifter, but what I do love to do is like, kind of cultivate some community and culture, and so that's what we try to do in our clothing, we're a good company, we talk about losing weight, and methods to train, and kind of build confidence education through lifestyle change, and that's kind of the ultimate goal here, right, reach as many people as I can. What's really cool, and I thought about this the other day is like, some things I've done in the past, whether it be podcasts or YouTube, we're on a bigger scale than what I do and move now, but the impact I have I think is deeper and a wider net now, and I know those are like cliche ass words, y'all, if you guys create, you've maybe seen other life coaches or business folks, and people talk about impact or helping your community and giving value and all these words, and sometimes when they're regurgitated so much, they lose value, I think. To be able to build a gym of lifters that are having fun, getting healthier, and helping give back to each other is the ultimate goal, so I wanna continue to try to lead by that as much as I can. Now, you may or may not believe it or may or may not know, but I'm insanely introverted. I don't like crowds, I don't like being social. A lot of my energy goes into my employees, my work and business, and then being social in these doors because I want people to be welcome, and you can call that fake if you want, but it's me, it's just, I want people to feel welcome. So we got a group of young cats, they were all competing today, and so me and the crew decided to go say what's up, show them a little bit of support, you know? I think, I don't know, you know, because I was never very sentimental in certain instances, but I do know for some people, a little support goes a long way, and so we couldn't make the whole day, Abby had stuff to do, we had to bring her back here to get to her car, but being able to show up for the guys, just say what's up, see a couple of their bench press attempts, give them a fist bump, hopefully made their day a little bit better, and there's a lot of ways you can give back to the sport, and I think that's one of them.  Like we had to pay to get into that gym to watch that meet, and that goes towards, I guess, hypothetically a competitor, a third street, but the truth is, it goes to lifters, so hopefully that money's being used to help support the sport, more competitions, and the lifters within that gym and that community, and so little things like that, if you kind of switch how you think, rather than like, damn man, I gotta pay money to just watch lifting, like, no man, that money's going towards other lifters, new equipment, or keeping their facility clean, or building the community events that are going on, so I have no issues with stuff like that, and that's what we try to do to give back, and the impact of, you know, February 4th and 5th, having our meet here, hopefully is gonna be a similar thing, where we're having 200 plus lifters, hopefully have one of the greatest meets and fun of their life. Now, what makes a great meet? Just run smooth, safe, and have a good time, and that's all we're trying to do, there's no magic.   You can do something small, and just showing up is enough, but not showing up, or not paying, or not being supportive of an individual, or being grumpy, or giving someone a mean look in the gym can take away from that adventure so much.  It was cool to go to another gym, again, getting my face in the powerlifting scene a little bit, trying to support as much as we can. We will be at the Arnold, if you all are gonna be at the Arnold, say what's up, Abby's competing, we're basically just going to support her, but I'm sure we'll walk around and see a bunch of old friends and vlog, and so you guys can see that adventure with us, that's in about a month, so stay tuned, be sure to give this thing a thumbs up, subscribe, and I hope you guys are enjoying the video. Selling the mic, I'm outta here, man.


I law you have to bet all three games cuz you don't want to be sitting around at the table and not have any Routing interest. Come on. No, at least a pic if you're not in a state where Fandals available at least a pic like I'm here And then go ahead and just see if you're incredibly intelligent for when Fandal comes to your state or you know, just be like I I don't know what's gonna happen to a lot of us. That's right. Go ahead time. It's obligated that you pick every single game Probably should pick the total and the and aside, honestly, are you calling on gum? Did you did you? These glasses in this chain from not picking He's got Jesus hanging from


Abstract machine learning, ML, models have traditionally ignored the idea of innateness, which is the encoding of complex behaviors in the early stages of brain development. This paper proposes a new approach that takes into account this concept, by considering the weight matrix of a neural network to be emergent from well-studied rules of neuronal compatibility. The authors then use these rules to update the network's weights, resulting in a more efficient representation of data with fewer parameters. Additionally, they found that their model could act as a regularizer, selecting simple circuits that provided stable and adapted performance on metal-earning tasks. By incorporating neurodevelopmentally considerations into ML frameworks, the authors were able to model the emergence of innate behaviors and discover structures that promote complex computations. This article was authored by Daniel L. Barabasi, Taliesin Baynon, Adam Katona, and others.


Kupatu dushiniwa okaun kuoutoke, but kapa tu umeskiliwa mugu kuja apa. Now we are together. Now you don't think you are going to be depressed or lash out at other people? No, before reaching a decision, it's tough on the mind you have to plan. If I'm doing this, what are the repercussions? So you have to prepare for it. Because all men are just working under preparation. Help me here. Belina na na tpe mawe. Kwa tpende kupema wukum? That's why you say, mostly you know sometimes you say, what kind of manayin? So when you have an expectant lady or you don't say it is just butter from the blues, you prepare for it, is not an experiment? You want to jump Kevin Badao mpendangu wa yand just mruke? Now the question comes in, why this particular season? Why didn't it happen before people were confined in a house? So you find yourself some of these things as much as you want to pretend that we planned for them. But no, we found ourselves them and now that they have already happened or they are happening in our lives, we have to accept them before the way out of them. Because maybe sometimes you are like a man, you are preparing maybe to marry in 2022 when other people take over.  So unaji pata sasa, inyatu kwa kwa nyuomba. The only thing you can do is to chat, baby kwa api. Ani kwa api, I'm just sitting around, oh can you hook up? Then you find yourself doing things that you planned to do in 2022. So as much as you want to pretend that maybe we planned for these things. So some of them I think it is just an accident that we have to accommodate. At what? I think I would like to say Belen, the thing is it's not that when you plan 2022, because of the pandemic you are now, I don't know, the thing is maybe I planned, I hope to marry 2021 or 2020. And we are not sure if this pandemic will be there. So we'll let it go and do it. We'll let it go and do it. Because the pandemic is there, I have to avoid it.  That is it. Those are the positive changes. COVID-19 also came with positive changes. We are not trying to pull you down here. What I'm saying is that we also have to accept the negative and the positives. So in this case, I think it is an ad. It is a plot. Literally. In addition, anyway. I think when the girl child will come, we will take corona. Oh, wait. I could let it be. COVID-19. Let's focus. When we posed the question on our social media, we were asking how to identify that someone has lived into depression. But I don't think it's that hard. Kama mtua me kwa mbea mahalze, sina job bimesha dwevo. Intercontinental leotima sumakwa gazeti, ina funga, kenya mzima. Kwanza Nairobi is in five days, alafu the rest of kenya piya inenda kame. Funga kame. How many jobs are those? Namutua kwa mbea, anya have lost my job bro. Lagin kosa. Onia nengia mahalze, si poa. How do you just be severed? That's what I was saying. There are a lot of pretends. People do pretend that all is well. When all is not well, the repercussion is whereby you will come up with something like you find somebody committed suicide. But he was telling all is well. The only way you can identify that, immediately you hear that somebody has lost his or her job. Obviously something has happened. Don't pretend that it's all normal. There's nothing that is normal about losing a job. So as a friend, some of them will come up with characters like now it turns into a motivational speaker. Now is when he wants to pronounce the word of God. You know, dania mungu, if you check their profile, onia una, umutua mbea li kwa na penda mamba na bions, tesa mikuja na mamba yalazaraz in the Bible. So onia sama, ah ah, something is wrong somewhere. And it needed to be addressed. Mokulari ni hasbue baturu, hana nibamba. Before we get to you, sir, let me just read this comment that we have on our page that is at Waitufa for on Fisi Buku, Waitufa channel on Twitter and same thing on YouTube. So we have, some are sure, I think, says hello, good morning. I'm getting you live from, eyi, gidiyoho, mayakos. Depression presents itself in different many ways depending on who it affects. But there are of course the common sense that implies someone is suppressed. We have reduced hygiene, mood variation and mostly it's uncontrollable. For example, anger. Outburst even when the reason is too minute. Continuous stress, headaches, reduced appetite in most people. Reduce activity, feeling weak or reduced energy. Insomnia that's often and or too much sleeping. Reduce concentration and decision making. We have anxiety, agitation at all. Clear throat. In severe cases, we have death or suicidal thoughts. So treatment, it's either through medicine therapy or psychotherapy. Psychotherapy has proved to be more efficient on the other antidepressants can be used to reduce depression. But with a combination of both, the outcome is very pleasing. Eh, Samuel, what did you have for breakfast? Eh, yes, speaking with them. Jackie Jackie says yao yao, lock straight out of shags. Makuyu Muranga County representing teenagers. Eh, sending a lot of big ups to tola. Toloma salmana Jackie Jackie. Then we have Amima Amima Amima to go out to all the ladies with mother nature, play Kenyan music. I agree. Pa va ro. Says I think people need to be together and please join your fellow fellows in church groups. Maybe chaama or family groups that in case your problem is easy to help. And again we should be good friends and keep our friendships and let it be of benefit. See yao yao udaku. Mngi kwa na DJ itungi kupigiya po wa wa ka dushnyao. Okay, and the rest has disappeared just like that. So at what for Facebook, at what for channel, Twitter hashtag is what in the morning. And I wanted to ask you, sir. Mauna. And this is, this is a, a story we answered a little bit before. So two weeks ago, we set up a question and we asked, why are suicide rates in Kenya rising? Nasa na sana ni wanome. Wanome over a certain age bracket wakampas kampas and assuming that's like from 20, maybe to 25, let's just say 30 up to capital 30. Mbona, why do you think it's happening? Is it because society ya Africa, sana sana Kenya mkwambia manome anafaku angumu, anafaku provide, hafaikulia. In fact at ofaikulia mbelia mstana junyu mama. You can't talk about your feelings. Is that why it's happening? Is that why more men are committing suicide than women? That's why our ratio say it na chiza gambia sana. Women were very many. So I try to know that men, the thing is maybe for men they are committing suicide because of one negligence. You know, but then when you look at the government, it is fighting for the girl child. Forgetting about the boy child. Why? What is he doing yet? Because long time ago they want to treat unknown disease and leaving the unknown. That cannot happen. You know when you look at a man, he cannot express himself as a lady. For example, when I talk to him I don't know him, but for me I cannot. So that one will eat me inside. Are you looking that? But who told you We are different. So I might come to you and say you are not doing it. You can buy it. And I feel buy it out and you will be here. Take it easy. You can do it and you will know maybe you are not around. But you will happen next. Maybe you are the only person I trust. Who can help you? Then you are not available. What can I do? So I agree actually first with the first one that the girl child yes is empowered and yes I am so for the girl child empowerment but I also believe that boy child should be empowered too. Then I was continuing saying that sometimes it is because of someone let me not use stupidity. It is because of us not being that you don't appreciate yourself who you are. You want to compare yourself with maybe they have a class or maybe you are dating let's take for example the campus boys and girls they are dating then you can your fiance or your girlfriend she says any pizza every Friday or every Tuesday na pizza ni bae yasimeti man bag mojas evo takwadi how will you do it? One thing wudema rapuja I don't want to lose this I don't want to lose this I don't want to lose this girl what should I do? na staki tena kufani atajulizai na ni bae amani fanyaji anona dewa na mambiya hei usko ni pao lai atu ziliwa want so what you can see to someone's mind and say kumwacha tena so because you see kumwacha we are ending now but if we end this morning I will just not have anyone to see them I will just not have anyone to see them that way round since I end the shoka yeah I end the shoka this is not your I think you had a bit actually that was what I was referring to so they leave they want to say I am spending it on you and me na kutafuja na kutafuja but what should we do? we are in Chesa they want to say but I am not in Chesa tell me where this anger is coming from I don't really agree with my brother because for one in the beginning God gave these people the authority and all the domain they were given that authority to rule everything in earth and everything therein where did they lose this thing such that now women can command them and then they start being now is like you say that which culture is being empowered who is empowering them they got their power right from God and nobody can challenge the authority of God so where did they go wrong the moment a man started saying that what a woman can do man can do better and they agreed with us that's why they lost it all now you find a man saying that you deal with the rent this time I am going to deal with the school fees they lost it to the women there is nothing like culture is being empowered they attend the same class the same lectures where they being confined and then taught other things that men are not told my brother we are being assassinated your points here I would like to disagree with because of one thing let us take an example campuses why am I saying that ladies or girls are being empowered okay when you look at the cutoff points one thing why is it that a boy child has 61 points where the girl has 51 I get you a point then when you go to these maybe politics seats why is it that ladies are being told let us push to have two-third gender or gender-based so that we bring this equalization who is pushing that thing your argument sounds like the root of all man's problems is women is that true? because we are talking about depression and how to identify it so basically what we are saying most of them most of the problems that a man goes through because of a lady they are so demanding because you can live you can live are demanding lady but let me ask you maybe you have a boyfriend maybe you have and you are here it's shaggy you tell your man babe you know what I don't have money but I tell you I don't have what is the answer just be sincere what to be the answer I don't have let me be very sincere because you asked me my man when he found me I was looking good I will not stop looking good because he does not have money he found me looking amazing look at the scenario I will continue to look amazing the scenario you don't have kwa ni sese nyo agitwa nga wapa kipara bro we are on setum na takanga nili sometimes if I don't have money you don't have money are we going to start stealing from people will you accept kwa kipara what's wrong with that what's wrong with that you know the thing is maybe when you are found you are plating when you are plating you say oh my god I feel ok ok nga waki nyo agitwa mishta kwa kipara unakapu sii nini how will you feel the first thing umwa na mume niya mifanya mii kanyo agitwa asire na rodi kuake because the guy doesn't have money I don't agree I don't agree who are these criminals stop it stop it stop it waschanana by this gym na takanga nini mimi nikiwa mojawa mojawa enu I don't know what we want but I can hear what you are saying but please also hear me we are not all the same we are not all the same that's the point we are not all the same so you cannot now come tell me at the root of all depression from a boy child's point of view that's what I say the most sasa most jamani hadi ina kupush hadi kwa suicide surely won't we feel bad I'm talking this because I had a friend a book was anipayu story awa ha a good friend of mine so this person hadi kwa na date by that kwa na date bizuri kwa na kanda kwa kwa na goni help kwa na chocha kwa na having help kwa na chocha kwa na pesa kwa na pileka sigi wapi na pileka vacation wapi ila fika maali de maka maza shule kwa na yodo No dema mezaizuwe You know what happened? Dema lima mbiya You're not my class You're not my class But when the guy hid money He was her class Okay, two things Two things You want me to feel bad because CNJ has decided she has a type But weo kini yambe unapenda Ostaname beba nami mi flat screen I'm supposed to feel how It's okay for you to have a type Unapenda dark skin Unapenda light skin Unapenda wa rafu Unapenda wa fupi You like them with hips You like them curvy But dema kisema na takatu Mwenyakuna pesa Apondosh denengia Mbona mwenza kwa Angeta Fremstan Apendi pesa Awako That there Mwenyu nezambaya Chippo muitu Kipendachorobu nidawa Sasas kia Kipendachorobu nidawa Why are you fronting? Why are you putting? Why are you putting? Infact that is another course of depression Kwanza tu Look at me No, you fueled the jet You were fueled and it's taking off Sasas uhu Tua kwa susa mejifanya Apwa mejifanya Kona pesa Mejifanya Mejifanya Kona pesa Mejifanya Pesa kakuja kui Zeriata zikwa zaki Infact well he would have just begun Humbly baby baby baby Baby ni kuevi Siu niya mi ni tu am working hard Kama eski basi siu tafta mingine Siu You've told us women are more than you Sindio Okay, angoja I said you fueled the jet Sa itu me fika social media Aya unengia Instagramu Sijuifesibuku Sijui Twitter Unona apu watu ame pose namagari Hei Sijui VK Ayambu Vacation What beach Weya Now Senje You want to start looking for someone's husband to take you there Eh Pesa kaya ni koneiba Na you want to You want to get depressed Ata mimi ata kwa patu Wey Kwa kaya ni mimi si Iku jifanya tu kona viitu Ata mimi mi igni kiamua ni kina jifanya tiyo Nikwa TV Ni nye nye nye nye Na ila si kuhu life ita ni pea slap ita bidi Son manzuk piga deki apan Son ni jihue Nita asa kusasa mosa na uta ni ambi iakitu Aa ule ni ule Ali kwa weitifu Yes Uta kula mauku li bro Wey Ila fya kujifanya nye iku peliki maali Yabu no yourself Wey Na you Na you are depressed Na what It's not piquen It's not piquen You know Sometimes Okimbo okweli Okakubali Mbona hi We have a few minutes left guys Okimbo okweli Tumitu Most of you Most of you But we have already decided It's not that in Nasewa Women are more than men It's not that in Nasewa Even if they are more than Out of five Ata moja Ata moja Atakua says iako Mbona sumbwa na umingine Now you want me You want me to start renting a wig Ati because I'm on TV It is better It is better the devil that you know Than an angel that you know You don't have to get depression For the poor Mtunges na Nasewa wani pressed The thing is We have already decided To do it To mulete Maybe I'm in town To mulete And the first thing Who came to campus First year we went to Vadi First year we went to Vadi We went to Nafikapi Second year We went to Kido It's the higher you go The cooler to be done That is it now That is it So when you bring that one from Nyalugunga To the city Nasewa wani uku Nyalugunga Muka uku Upani kwao Then you don't say that You crook the woman in your house Giving her your principles We need to revisit this topic We need to revisit this topic My friend We need to revisit this topic Kwao We have 1 minu I don't know where the time has gone We need to revisit this topic In a part too Because I don't think we can help you The way we should In conclusion Just give me a sentence please Our time is done We can do anything about it So In conclusion Give wisdom to your fellow boy child So let me represent the boy child So, the thing is, we should not be down so that we beg more, but we should come out of the cocoon and say that we know and we are willing to continue the life, either with them or without them, and life continues. Because you remember, God first created a man. So we are the ones who own the earth first before these ladies. That has nothing to do with the pressure but we forgive you because class time is over. Be yourself, be real. If you feel that something is really depressing, at least have a confident. Get somebody, get Val, tell him my mazei, he may putteza job. E kitu na nipeleka vibhaya, please just help me. Val, or me, Belin, wajani fungu ataka was that group. At least kuchangetile a kwanzei, I have the first month. At least kufe, because kufa, there is no honor in the death.  We value when you are alive. Ataka wuku juu, akunamu na kutaka, wuku depressed, wataka kukik, abra na abra mataka kukik. So the thing here, please just share it out, don't die alone. Napia, as a friend okia na muna? Porafiki, kwa mihaza ma muna? Motivational speech, say, nania nda sa za na ta kutu. Di wa kumbi kitu kime? Kime fanyi kua? Just reach out to her or him. Ataka mani, estetama, just form some group and say, ataka mani shilingetano, wacha tumsa edie. Naka mani, mabia na ataka tu acetu. Ya, covid will come and go. Bua lakene mani twinnt. HIV's also like... Sata nita? HIV wul ko wuli. Wee? Yes usikufe? 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hello hello how are you good good all good it's uh it's it's it's lovely to meet you is it it's it's morning there right yeah it is well good morning good morning to you i'm a very very early morning person that's why i'm a nice hit that's how the meeting in the morning yeah absolutely um well thank you so much for sitting down with us we've uh we've been an admirer since the first film we saw of yours which was actually Jalitaku uh i apologize if i'm mispronouncing your names i mispronounce every thing we've seen from india uh so i apologize um but we were uh immediately a fan after we saw that that film and we are ecstatic that it is uh india's official submission for the oscars uh this year because we uh we want everyone to be able to um one see that film and also just realize the talent that's coming out of india so i just want to ask you how does it how does it feel to be the official entry uh for for india this year i'm i'm really thankful to god that this is happening and i would say this is uh i'm i'm really glad that this is happening uh for the team uh it is it is mostly because uh you know uh i have realized uh in the recent times that it is not just the director making the film it is the entire entire team especially a film like this which is like an effort of uh a thousand odd people uh running as you have seen running behind the bull behind in front inside on top so to make that happen uh it was like a huge effort from the team behind so i'm really glad uh for everyone who worked behind from the producer uh thomas panika too uh you know there there was uh there's an art assistant uh sanhoj who always got into the the shell of the the dummy bull whenever i had to take a retake uh so it is like it it weighed around more than 80 kgs so you know how of uh how difficult it was each time because when uh so he had to like uh almost bend down and get inside uh get on i like catch on a handle inside and uh he can hardly see because when uh we couldn't uh make holes uh in in the laser vice instead of that we had cameras uh so he had to catch uh uh cc uh monitor and was it was it was it on like a motorcycle or was it what was it no no no no it's it was just legs functioning as motorcycle wow so anyways these these are all back stories uh behind it but i'm happy that this is happening yeah yeah which we say all the time on the channel that that film is is you know people who haven't been around film don't appreciate what a collaborative effort emotion picture is and and oftentimes the name actor or the name director are the ones who get primary credit and a director should obviously because it's the director's vision but none of that comes to pass unless you have a team like that and those are the unsung heroes the ones that we never get to see yeah yeah yeah so so like i like i explained it is like so every department like worked hand in hand for the film to happen like each department had their own role to do so i'm i'm really glad for all of them actually because like i always like whenever they asked me what was my first reaction i said i'm really happy for all the people who ran behind the bull yeah so more of it i would say yeah yeah and it's also representative not just obviously of the fact that it's all of india but the very specific industry where you do something that's in malayalam that's got to have a level of pride and i bet you've gotten a lot of positive feedback about that as well yes it it is i would say and see i'm really glad that the film is from one end of the country so as you know i mean you're you're quite familiar with india i know so it is like each state speaks a different language each state has a different food culture yeah so it is like every single thing different about each state of india so our state is like this one one end of the the country and i'm really glad that mean the so it is it is kind of an exposure for the outside world also that mean cinema is like like any other aspect of india cinema is also like so diverse in india and we have this n number of languages in which we all make cinemas and watch cinemas so that's a great news what's been the reception outside of obviously you know in india it's been fantastic internationally that you've got from besides us two have you gotten a positive reception from obviously outside of the official submission itself from what's what's been people's reception to your film that are from like america or different different countries like that to this film see apart from apart from india we have taken it to a few festivals like say toronto or busan or a few festivals like that what i have realized is it is like it was all every single place it was very well received considering the the kind of topic or the the idea was more global i think it is yeah it is like a it's it's not a native a story of a native place yeah it's a human story for sure it's a human story so yes a person from anywhere in the world did connect to the film and i would say that man say definitely this kind of what do you say acceptance will happen only after it being nominated from india as a film otherwise many it was just like a malayalam film which is running apart from the festival attention it it got yeah yeah well it excites us for exactly what you said because it does not just represent india or a specific industry within india the film is universal if i i'm confident that if academy members watch this film they're gonna see that and they're gonna appreciate it and i i know you uh you prefer to let the film speak for themselves and to not tell people what the film is supposed to be about um but if i if i may ask is it safe to say and you can refuse to answer this that obviously one of the driving universal stories that's in this is is the idea of herd mentality the idea of people uh being caught up in a frenzy of just instinctive response not using their minds is that obvious to you uh you know it is obvious from uh any single vision of uh jelica i would say it is for me uh it is more uh uh i had written a recent um like a small write up which i had to write so it was uh i i i just feel that when jelica do is everything that the world should not be yeah so uh so it is like i mean i connect the the film more uh two revelations of bible now or the apocalypse uh yes uh in the bible now because see it is it is uh not because of any reason because when the times are uh moving into such a uh space i feel according to i mean whatever is happening around the the kind of pandemic and the kind of issues happening around the the globe yeah so uh it is uh i would say that when it is time for uh every single person on earth to go back from darkness to light so i would uh say jelica to us uh is more of hinting that uh so and uh as you said when i don't want to explain the whole film and yeah because this is my redo and i don't want to like feed it to any audience audience who watch the film yeah yeah yeah i i fully appreciate that um part of your your filmmaking i i it always frustrates me when when filmmakers spoon feed people uh and as opposed and tell them what the film is about so i really appreciate and there's so much about this film that we absolutely adored um from everything from the the sound design of the entire the way you used sounds in this and obviously the cinematography was just almost mind-blowing that that who i forget who your cinematographers i do apologize yes um he he deserves an oscar himself for for what he did with this film um there were so many night shots basically in this film can you explain um how difficult that was to make it look as beautiful as you made it so tell us your process basically the only the only person to credit uh the whole look of the film is definitely the cinematographer uh and uh like you said so let me just uh put it in a uh put it uh in a easier context like say sound design uh music uh cinematography editing all this uh we had decided uh rather than we discussed and uh decided on a pattern where it start from silence like the the graph uh was like from silence to uh to the the peak of chaos and uh uh pyramid and drop drop back to silence again so uh it is like you can see that graph in all the process uh of the film like say cinematography has the same kind of imagery like say you you start with people uh just waking up from sleep silently like like mild of breaths and uh you uh wake up into a very silent morning early morning and it's the sounds slowly start filing up from there to what you see in the end yep so the music has also uh also has the same kind of uh a structural uh pattern uh in the film like say we we have mostly used uh the uh human voices and uh thumping and stomping i mean uh mostly nothing uh from the instrumentals or digital sounds it's it's mostly human and uh uh more uh manual yeah so basically mean uh the structure is from a dot to a peak yeah where you see the the pyramid in the end so it's it's basically that one of our favorite sounds was actually at the very end with the pyramid and when people were piling on it was basically i don't know what you used for Foley or what it sounded like you had slabs of meat like on top of each other and it was absolutely brilliant so it's like when i would say when it is uh Ranganad Ravi uh who's a sound designer and uh for mixing uh it was Kanan Ganpat so they both uh uh like just get me all the sounds in the world and i mean keep it in such a way that mean i mean i i don't have to do anything so yeah well the accolades we that's we couldn't say enough about how much we appreciated the oscar level work of the visual cinematography of the production design of the sound and even you know Corbin had just mentioned so much of the film takes place at night and again people who don't involve themselves with film don't appreciate how difficult it is to make a beautiful night shot uh tell us a little bit about that process okay sorry i mean i have a habit of just taking diversions no no no how was it in my film like i i take twist and so let me explain that so um it was like a huge team so um things don't happen as easy as uh you think i mean how it happens in hollywood or any other bigger industry because uh it's more of a manual job uh when it comes to uh a small industry like uh my little industry yeah so uh let me uh just explain how uh we get a uh entire space in the night oh please so that is that is that is one example like which i can take uh apart from the the climax scene where we have used the balloon lights uh apart from that a lot of sequences we have uh used these uh um we mimicked the balloon lights with smaller like umbrella like you know this chinese lanterns chinese lantern uh like smaller forms of what the actual balloon lights would be okay so what uh our team does is like our team has in the the lighting unit uh the lighting unit does is uh they uh they fill sand in a uh a small a half litre bottle of pepsi or something and they tie it up so they throw it uh to to the top of a tree so and when it comes down they will pull it uh pull the light up and they have to literally climb up the uh tree each time to fix it fix the light i'm not just one or two small uh pieces i'm talking about 50 or 60 light pieces where uh we will get a entire place lit with the same impact like a moonlit effect basically and so this is a tedious process and uh that is why i'm saying that mean it is for me it is uh all about reimagining what is written uh in the uh script so it is more of uh people really doing their job in this way so i'm uh so this is one uh example which i took so like this each uh place and each uh point we have to uh light uh in a very uh uh it was not that easy uh like it's but when the only thing i am happy about it is uh that we were all like uh happy doing the entire job and uh and i would say that this was the the most fun film we all had it was not uh screaming and uh a loud film like you think behind it it was like a super fun uh film we had it behind the the whole camp that's wonderful the wow so you i i know you've worked with your dp uh quite often is that do you think the most important relationship for director with his dp uh i would say it is not just dp i work uh uh closely with all the technicians yeah just for the reason that um uh as i said i mean uh director is someone who reads uh the script and reimagine the the script for uh screen yeah so uh the reimagining part is what i i do uh so and uh all i do is to explain each technician what i uh reimagined and um so once uh they get it right uh as a as an idea i mean they all work from their own perspective their own ideas so it is like when i would say that it is not just cinematographer i would say but why is cinematographer becomes the most uh is it a sound recurring uh no i'm okay you're you're a little muffled but no i can i i can hear you just fine so uh so it is like um i would say why cinematographer becomes the most important uh a person uh in a set uh is just because uh it's it's more of a visual uh medium what we're we're all working so i have an idea i i narrate the idea in all the explanatory with all the explanatory skills i have so but uh the cinematographer literally have to work uh as my eyes like so it it happened uh i would love when it happens uh i mean when someone was like that and not only uh cinematographer the art director uh the so each each person uh like did uh function like uh uh uh they they literally joined the kind of uh vision uh we all had that's what yeah yeah and i noticed you the editor dipu joseph that you you've worked with dipu joseph on many films is like a part of your team can you tell us a little bit about the editing process is it the same with each film or does it was it different for this film um as far as uh this uh jellie kudu is concerned i would say uh the editing was um um i would say one of the most important uh spaces to deal with or difficult spaces to handle just for the reason that we had a animatronic bull uh and we had uh and i didn't want to use too much of vfx uh uh on screen uh so combining all of this and to make it look more real uh on screen so uh so an editor had to really pick the shots right uh like guide me where where all we need uh vfx uh addition so uh i would say that when uh dipu joseph uh i mean deserves uh a big applause uh absolutely uh what's the do you know the because once again on the on the oscars what is the um next steps now for for you as the official submission it because we know obviously with the oscars there's a lot of campaigning but obviously this year during a pandemic do you know do you know what the whole process is now for for for you see um i um i had spoken to uh our producers uh thomas panikar and uh naushad who's an executive producer so uh they have taken it in the right very right spirit and uh they have formed a team uh which is like really really strong uh say uh guñit guñit moga who's already experienced uh in uh say i would say winning an oscar for india like last year documentary yeah yeah yeah and yes apart from that somebody like xyc uh films coming on board to support us uh like um so these are all great things happening uh in the campaign front at the same time um they they are moving in the right direction and uh attaching the right kind of people with the with the campaign so like you said the the campaign this year is not like the live campaign yeah it is more of an online campaign so which actually works for our advantage i would say yeah so in a good way yeah and the end of the day i would say that when it it should not be um uh the campaign uh what wins uh uh an award oh never yeah correct of course it should be it should definitely be uh uh the merit of the of the film this film or any film for that matter yeah i understand agree and that's one of the things yeah oh go ahead please and what no that's it so and so i i i'm very uh what do you say i i stay a little away from a lot of sound and uh promotions normally so i i prefer that so and they are allowing me to do that and whenever it is required my uh comment or uh or an interview like this which to to reach people so i am doing that yeah and i think that's the case with most artists they don't really feel the desire to be in the promotion side of things they just want to be in the creative side of things but yeah that what we want to see happen and anything we can do which is one of the reasons we wanted to talk to you uh and we live in los angeles uh we know people in the industry and anybody that we can communicate with we want academy members to see this film because i i believe that if academy members see this film they're going to see the merits that everyone else who's seen it is is going to and right now i would say the best thing that we or anybody could do is just continue to talk about it and post about it and make noise about it online and let it have a you know notoriety with algorithms and things of that nature yes is that the best thing people can do to just promote the film yeah yeah uh what i mean can you can you repeat the last last block of it yeah the best thing that all of us could do to promote the film is to post about it tweet about it talk about it share it with people tell them to watch it yes yeah uh yeah of course when unfortunately i'm i'm away from all this social media activity oh i know i wouldn't say i will not say anyone uh not to do it yeah i would be happy that if you like the film and if you share or uh if you comment on it i will be more than happy to see and listen to it so yeah so you seem like a very sweet genuine kind person what draws you to chaos so much uh in your films so uh i would say that when i uh see the last one year one year definitely has changed me a lot so i would say that when i have definitely shifted from what uh uh the the master of chaos chaos uh title which i had to uh i would stay i would like to be the master of silence so so anyways so but uh see what all i'm saying is that the best uh best uh definition i would give uh why why in my films there is a lot of chaos will be uh see that is what the world uh us mostly most of the times when i when i look at it from a perspective of an artist yeah and uh why i featured it in my films uh us just for the reason that uh i want to take away that chaos from uh from the world and keep it a peaceful place so that's what i would uh i would uh love to say yeah yeah that makes sense another thing we've noticed about you which was one of the many things that impressed us about you as a director is there are some directors and i've used ron howard as an example here in american cinema who don't mind being kind of behind the camera so you know it doesn't necessarily feel like a ron howard film whereas if you see a quintin tarantino film you know you're watching a tarantino film your films have a very definitive dna that is yours we notice that immediately like the people we know you admired like a frances ford coppola or in your retu um is that something that you always wanted to have and it's intentional or is it just a byproduct of your creativity uh these are all like very huge compliments i would say and i'm happy that you're giving it to me but let me say uh these are these are not a planned or signature things what i try to do in each film it is like i all i'm i normally try to do is to make a different film from what i did uh as a earlier one yeah so yeah so in that process when it definitely becomes uh slightly different and uh it will give a uh say for example uh see these kind of crowded shorts or a long uh long take i mean uh if you say that mean that is that is kind of uh my uh signature i'm happy there to agree just for the reason that it is like um uh i have liked uh those those kind of shorts those kind of sequences with someone else uh has really taken that effort and did in a different film say like when i always uh have loved uh something like ran of kurosawa or uh zine of costa gavras so uh i for me as a director these have these sequences have excited me because when uh i really would have liked to know i mean how how how how they how did they do the entire sequence so uh such small small things attached together when uh becomes my uh my way of doing a new film i guess so and uh it has all come from different places different directors different ideas and uh tomorrow if someone uh makes a film uh like what i have done i will be super happy that when someone is taking it from me i mean what uh it should happen yeah and and and and on your love for for tracking shots and you are a master at tracking shots when obviously jolly taco you had a bunch i think the the fight scene with the two the two gentlemen in the river uh that that tracking shot and then obviously um i apologize for mispronouncing this title of this film but agamali diaries right um i can't pronounce anything like i said but obviously that 11 or 12 minute tracking shot um that's almost your signature now and you're absolutely brilliant at it would you ever go as far as birdman essentially a film where it almost looks like it's entirely one shot go the entire next level like i said earlier it is not the shot uh what is designed uh uh is decided before it is like the film first and then if the film demands a shot like that why not right a film was all just one shot yeah no if the film uh i mean film uh the script demands a shot like that i mean i should not cut anywhere so then i mean i go like that otherwise i would i take that do ever take a shot of course yeah exactly which is a beautiful thing that we noticed about you we have felt that you your decisions as a filmmaker always are in alignment with the story we don't think you'd ever make a decision about something just for the sake of it or to do something meet it's always about story for you uh and how much of that do you storyboard and it stays that way when you're filming and how much of it is just inspiration and you're there you realize either we can't do that shot the sun's going down or oh i just have how much of it is just on the fly as you're filming it's uh i would say that it is mostly impulsive uh i mean most of most of the films what we do because the storyboard or the previous such things normally don't happen so almost all the all the films are results of the kind of impulses and like that momentary decisions we we all took are on set but as i said when it it is like the coordination happens on all sides and i am just someone who designs a shot and it is like physically being there taking it in the right way channeling it in the right since like all these people are involved so as i said when it is a lot for me to design it is i would consider an easier job than physically doing it so so it's a combination of all this yeah what's your relationship with i because we know you've been in quite a few of your own films and and other films is acting but you hate acting um but you've also worked with the great like greats like for hot for seal but then you also make films where you have like 80 something actors who acted for the first time is that something you you you enjoy you enjoy finding new actors or what's your whole process with actors see um according to me like every single person is an actor so you just have to tweak them or make them realize one more thing to do and i would uh uh not try to make it a difficult job for anyone i would that is what i i normally uh does so uh when uh the person in front of the the cam when he start feeling that mean what he uh what he's doing uh something really difficult so then it becomes very very uh difficult so otherwise i think when every single person can easily perform in front of camera so you just have to pad and easily make them do it in the right way that's all yeah so i i enjoyed both i would say it is not just uh the new uh actors in front of camera i enjoy working with actors also but uh what matters is mean uh that phase uh literally uh needs to be uh like clean uh on the script of the the character so it is more of the character the look of the character uh decides the person so it could be a a popular actor it could be uh a new uh new actor who who wants to get into uh acting or someone who just uh is walking on the street mean so it could be anyone who has a similarity to the kind of character what is written uh in the script i would say so yeah it works always yeah that that was i know satyajit rai chose a lot of his roles that way it was that person is they look like that character and that's who i'm gonna have for that character uh your father was a respected actor so you grew up around theater and film uh when did you want to be a director what made you want to go into directing i don't know the it was like always uh i mean i i um i no that's what i'm i'm seriously thinking when when did i really start thinking about directing very young it was never it was never acting i would say maybe it was um um the moment when um what uh my uh my mother's father used to be a urgent uh film lover so he used to do all the small experiments in which uh we fill water in a bucket and like light a torch and project it on a wall kind of a thing so um the the liking for cinema was always there and i don't know maybe it was like seeing it from behind uh the rehearsal camps of the theater like where i used to go or my father's theater rehearsal camps so such places also used to be like really uh an inspirational uh reason why i mean i mean why i i got into directing i would say but it was all about but mostly it was like just uh i i love stories i love listening to stories i love telling stories and uh the best way to communicate it to a thousand million people is to like bring it on screen so i think that is what that is yeah absolutely um so we've seen quite a few films from malayalam industry and it's one of our absolute favorite industries even though we've seen films from almost every industry in india and seen fantastic great films from each region but malayalam sticks out because almost every single one of them is top notch and almost everything acting directing cinematography everything but i want to ask you what's one thing you would like to change in the malayalam industry if anything uh no i don't want to change anything you see the the place the cinema or the people everything needs to evolve by itself i feel and uh as far as uh the the cinema what is happening in the industry are really inspiring and there are i mean it's like a lot of people coming out with great ideas and the cinema has become more global in their narrative nowadays so it's not just malayalam i would say it does like most other places cinema uh have moved out of that regional box yeah so it is more global so the stories are more global and people just connect to all the stories so that is more important that and it is happening yeah and one of the things we're really passionate about and we were thankful that the academy recognized parasite as the best film because it's the opening of that mindset that there's international cinema it's not just hollywood is that something that you really you just mentioned it i assume you really would love to see more people whether it's americans paying attention to indian cinema spanish cinema french cinema and vice versa that indians are paying attention to other regions that international community i think is very important to you yes so um all i'm saying is that when uh all you have to do is to uh make a film or tell a story in in a way which you think is right and which you think uh is the right sign to tell a story or uh to bring it on on screen and just leave it as it is i mean so if that story needs to be uh like when seen by people the film needs to be seen by people maybe it will uh be uh seen by people so uh all i'm saying is that we don't have to push it too much uh saying that mean okay everyone in the world needs to uh watch this uh cinema so if it uh if it uh has that kind of a quality it will it will slowly reach people so uh i would take like i would take it like that so so and just make your uh narrative honest as possible yeah so that will reach people yeah yes and yes we saw your your trailer for your it was supposed to come out this year i believe was true true true i apologize yes thank you uh do you have any updates on that way if do we know when it's coming out yet at all or see truly uh for me i see i would say that the last three films uh starting from uh in my uh then uh uh jelica too and now uh truly so this um it it it slowly shaped into uh i would say uh uh unexpected uh uh triological format and uh uh truly uh definitely would close the uh the kind of uh triology uh it was uh so uh i'm almost done with the the film it's almost through so uh right so let's see even what does what is in store i don't want to talk more about film i did uh one one thing i didn't know if it was that film or a future film but we did i did read an article that said for a future film of yours you're considering virtual reality uh i would say yes uh because when i i say that it's uh i don't know when it'll happen but then definitely that isn't uh i consider uh that is an idea yeah it's just for the reason that uh i i feel that when uh that is one uh medium which uh which needs to be explored yeah uh agree and uh for a storyteller uh to to narrate a story in 360 degree is always exciting and uh i would say that when uh i was not so familiar with uh uh the medium i recently got introduced like say a six to seven months back so now i am uh definitely thinking of doing something in vr but uh before that definitely after uh truly's work i'm taking a break yeah yeah for good sure sure well as a point of encouragement if there's anybody that we think would be able to do that well absolutely in 360 i think about jolly katsu in that format where you'd be literally in the night and all around are the sounds and the sights that would be an unbelievable experience i want to jump on the right so yeah but one last question as well i wanted to know about jolly katsu the screen the screenplay is forgive me for mispronouncing their names it was our jaya kumar and and uh yes harish yes yes yeah um was that a screenplay they presented to you did you have the concept and then they wrote it how did that happen the the actual idea for the film yes harish is a very popular writer a short story writer he had recently written a novel in the by the name misha which called the moustache so it won the biggest prize for a literature in india the jcb award jcb award so this was a story written by s harish which was titled ma moist but that was more of a satire a social satire in its content and when we sat to create a screenplay for the story like the adapted screenplay so it turned into more of a thriller because when we figured that the the thriller aspect of the story is more interesting when it when it comes to a film i mean even i i thought when it it needs to be approached from a thriller point of view so that is how it slowly turned into what jelica do or was kidding and i would say yeah well we are very excited the at the prospect of of it getting selected as an official selection for the oscars so we were are very hardly rooting for you and your entire team involved and we look forward to the morning when we get the notification that says it's it's going to be official selection to the oscars i do want to finish this interview off a little bit of rapid fire just dumb questions uh nothing nothing too difficult here um but first one do you coffee or chai chai chai all this uh favorite malayalam dish mean mingari like fish curry i would say yeah gotcha um favorite alcoholic beverage if you drink alcohol you know i used to drink now i don't drink anymore water's delicious uh favorite hollywood film um uh 2001 space odc so i have a lot of c if you ask me i mean i would say i would just narrate a hundred films but when i just did something which came into my head uh instantly so i'm just saying it uh favorite indian film any region satya satya i would say yes satya we we we love that film uh favorite hollywood director um stanley kudrick again yeah besides yourself favorite indian director if you can k g gods was okay uh your favorite book the recent uh one is bible the bible what's now i'm reading it what's booked specifically in the bible revelations they got gotcha uh favorite hollywood actor uh bruce willis i would say bruce willis interesting interesting and favorite indian actor if you can say i can say uh i would say feel again sir feel again sir again okay well thank you so much for sitting down and chatting with us sir we we deeply appreciate your time we know you don't do a lot of these so we really appreciate it like i said once again we are we were very excited when we first heard the news that your film was chosen for the official selection of the oscars but we so are excited and rooting for it because we we want people not only in america but around the world to not only see your work but obviously then after they watch your work go explore the rest of indian cinema and what it has to offer so uh we are we are sending all of our love to you and your entire team uh for for for the next month ahead i suppose rick yeah we we really do um you know our passion before we ever started this channel corbin and i were actors we loved i taught theater this is our blood and to talk to you because we really do see you as not just someone who's a present day visionary and directing but we're so excited for what the future holds we consider you to be not just at the forefront of malayalam or indian cinema we consider you to be a pre-eminent director in global cinema right now and we are very much excited we're some of your biggest fans we're rooting for you and again thank you so much for honoring us with your time thank you thank you yeah have a great day man thank you thank you bye


Hi, I'm Jim Michaels and welcome to your new home. The next few minutes are going to be about a very important component of your new home, one to which initially you may not have given too much thought, your septic system. If you've ever lived in a home with a septic system before, a septic system is simply a device designed to handle the wastewater your home generates when city sewers are not available. A septic system breaks down the impurities of the wastewater then allows the water to re-enter the ground. So come on in. Now with us are various experts who will help illustrate what a septic system is, what it does, where it is, and how it got there. And finally we're going to tell you what you can do as the homeowner just to make sure it functions as efficiently as possible. Now at one point your home looked like this, it was probably at this stage of construction that the septic system was installed. System sizing as well as the permit were both obtained from the local health department prior to construction. We're going to start with the house plumbing which is the path to the septic system from the drains to the toilets. And who knows more about drains and toilets than a plumber. Let's go visit one. Joining us now is John Edwards of Edwards Plumbing and Heating. Hello John. Thanks for helping us. We all know John that when we flush a toilet or put things down in the drain it just seemed to go away. Is that a little naive? Well it isn't and isn't Jim. Things do go away but what happens when they do get there can be a problem. How so? Well let me show you, I'm installing this bathroom drain right now. If you follow the drain pipe you'll see it joins up with pipes from all the other drains in the house, sinks, tubs, washing machines, and toilets. They all join up here at the main pipe going out of the house to the septic system. All these drains individually and combined as I'm sure the man outside the house is going to tell you can handle a lot of water which can overload your septic system if you're not careful. Try to space out your water use, don't do your laundry, take a shower, and run the dishwasher all at the same time. All that can overload the septic system and cause problems. Not to mention the fact that that would be one cold shower but I get the point. John, what else do we need to know about what can go into and what should not go into the septic system? These drains can take a lot Jim but just because you can put it down the drain doesn't mean you should.  Especially those Jim, it's even a bad idea to flush facial tissue down the toilet once again because it doesn't break down as easily. It's good to know John. Now what about the kitchen sink? Just plain old white toilet paper there too? Very funny Jim, but if the kitchen sink has a garbage disposal that is tricky. I mean the whole purpose of the septic tank is to send wastewater from your home to a place where it can break down quickly. If you're putting things down in your garbage disposal they eventually get into the septic system.  You don't want that, so use good judgment. If it doesn't appear to be something that will break down quickly, then just wrap it up and put it in the trash. Got it. Any other advice? Remember it just takes three. Well okay John, listen we're going to let you get back to work now, appreciate your taking the time. No problem Jim, glad it could help. Alright, let's go outside. Okay we're out back now and here to fill us in on what happens outside the wall is Phil Shibano from Earthworks Excavating. Hello Phil. Hi Jim.  We sure do. Most septic systems are completely buried under the ground because the soil is such an important part of the system. Now what part of the system are we standing at? This is the first stop out of the house for all wastewater. This is a septic tank. And what's its function? As I said everything flows through here. The solid waste settles to the bottom, begins to break down, and the liquid flows through this pipe into stage two, the distribution box. Now I'm going to take a guess here and figure that the water gets distributed from this distribution box. You're catching on. Distributed to what? To these pipes out here in the yard. They're sometimes called fingers and they make up the next stage of the septic system known as the absorption field. They're supposed to do exactly what they say, absorb. If you'll notice all these pipes have little holes in them that allow water to trickle out into the ground. And the soil itself becomes the final stage of the septic system. The ground then filters the water as it finds its way back into the soil. That sounds pretty simple. Well it is. As a homeowner you have to be careful what you put in your septic system. And it's also important to note that certain soil conditions may require even more treatment or a more complicated system. But for the most part a septic system can be a simple means for getting rid of all wastewater. Right. Now John was just telling us about that and you were saying don't use too many water sources at once and be careful what you flush down the drains in the toilets. Limit your laundry loads and be sure to fix those leaky fixtures because all that stuff contributes the extra water to a septic system may not be able to handle it. Good advice because if you allow too many solids to build up too quickly they'll get out of the septic tank and out into the field where they'll block those little holes that we just looked at. And that's a problem. You also need to be careful when using harsh cleaning agents, chemicals, petroleum products or any other toxins that you put in your drains or your toilets. Why not?  Well for one thing these chemical compounds are poisonous and they may stop or slow down the natural breakdown of the wastewater. It's a fairly delicate balance down in the septic system and if it's poisonous to you it's probably bad for the septic system. Once again if the natural breakdown doesn't occur in the septic tank it may cause problems out in the absorption field which is not a good thing. So Phil what do you recommend people do with this stuff? Well there are a number of household hazardous waste collection points in the area that specialize in the safe disposal of this stuff. Just look up in your phone book contact the county health department or waste management district in your area. So bottom line you take good care of your septic system it'll take good care of you. Very nicely put Jim. Thank you. But can't you just buy one of those septic enzyme additives that they sell at the stores and flush it down the toilet to make the system work better? Many experts don't recommend it. Plain old household wastewater is all that's needed for the natural breakdown process. You're better off to take care and not to mess with the balance that already exists. Let nature take its course, pay attention to proper maintenance. That'll keep your septic system running efficiently. Alright Phil, well I sure appreciate the advice. Now if that's all you've got for us why don't you go back to your installation so the health department can come out and do its inspection. Thanks. Just one more word of advice Jim. What's that? It just takes three. Okay, we've made it through the drains as well as the septic system and now we're going to visit with an expert in the area of septic system maintenance. He's the guy you should call regularly to have your septic tank pumped. Our expert today is Roger Bates from Bates Septic Service and here he is now. Roger how's it going? Great Jim, how you doing? Super. Since we're under construction here let's just do a walkthrough of what your job's all about and then be sure to give us any tips or recommendations you might have. Sure. What my company does is pretty straightforward. Over a period of time, solids will build up in the septic tank system that either won't break down or broken down as far as they can based upon the environment they're in. Just come out, remove the cap or the lid off of the septic tank system, pump out all the contents of the septic tank system with one of our big pump trucks. So how do you know when it's time to drain the septic system? Great question. You know there's really no way to gauge whether or not a septic tank is almost filled to capacity. So what we suggest is that you have it pumped prior to moving into a pre-existing home. Good idea. And one year after that, just to get off for starters. After that, a reputable septic company will come out and give you an idea of how often based upon your water use the tank is filling and predict how often in the future you should have it pumped. So what's typical? Well, you know, let me show you. A number of factors can affect how quickly solids build up. For example? The size of the tank, how old the septic system is, the soil, the number of people in a household, how much water they use. All these things have a direct effect on the septic system. But typically every two years. But if you have a big household and use quite a bit of water and your garbage disposal a lot, now it might be wiser to have it pumped out annually. Roger, the old garbage disposal again. So you're saying that you can have some control over how frequently the septic tank needs to be pumped by being conscientious about what you put down into it and how much water you use? Oh, absolutely. What happens if you just simply forget to have it pumped? Well, over time the septic system solids will fill up backing into the house. You know, through your bathtub, through the drain, it can get to be a real mess. Ew, that does not sound good. There's a lot you wouldn't like about that. Another thing that happens is the solids make their way into the fill system and reduce the ability of the septic system and the soil to disperse the water. What happens there is that the area over the fill septic system becomes wet and soggy. If it gets to that point, it's very expensive damage has been done to the septic fill system. So the old saying is true, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. It couldn't be more true. All right, Roger. Thanks for the inside scoop on all this. Let me give you one more bit of advice. What would that be? It only takes three, Jim. All right already. Three what? What are we talking about? It only takes the three simple rules. Ah, got you. Good advice. So that's it in a nutshell. Really it boils down to these three simple rules. One, be careful how much you put into the septic system at one time. Two, be careful what you put into the septic system. And three, keep a regular schedule for having your septic system pumped. It's really that simple. If you have questions we haven't answered or you notice a problem developing with your septic system, the best idea is to call your local health department. A little advice early on can go a long way to preventing major problems. Good luck and enjoy your new home.