Just think as an animal you'll have a second chance to find a companion. But even then you must be careful. You need to choose a companion that is a similar type of animal to you. A wolf and a penguin can never live together, nor could a camel and a hippopotamus. That would be absurd. Think about it. It's not a rock. It's a rock and lobster. Right. Right. Shall we take a crack at this? Let's take a crack at it, at least. Let's do our best. Free roam water. Yeah. So what kind of stuff do we drink? Hey! We know you. Welcome back to Life Lessons and Film. Today we're going to be making sense of life through the lobster as best as humanly possible. As a lot. A bit of an otter film. But I think it's interesting. So it takes place in a dystopian world future. Perhaps not dissimilar from our own. Perhaps not. So this takes place in a dystopian future where being single is not allowed. No. People who are single are not allowed to live in the city. That's what we know. Imagine there's another place outside of the city. The rules where the singles are relegated to in the hopes of them finding love. If you're single, you go to a hotel in the country and you stay there for 45 days. The hope is you will find love. If you find a partner, they put you in a room for... You get two weeks in the bed and then a nice part of the hotel then you get two more weeks on the yacht. So that's how it works. And then after, if you don't find a match, you get turned into an animal of your choice. The whole time you're in a hotel, you're not allowed to do things. The rules, you're not allowed to... Lobster. Can we say that on YouTube? You can't say that. You're not allowed to be handsy with yourself. Have a flamethrower thing. No bean flicking. Yeah. No bean flicking. The hotel staff, however, titillates and teases you. And you're never allowed to actually get to the point of release. So that you crave a partner. So this is supposed to actually encourage you to find a partner. If you want to extend the time you stay there so that you don't get turned into an animal. And then are given the chance to shoot people. Loners. The singletons who made the choice to run away from the hotel and go live in the wild, in the woods near the hotel because they didn't want to get turned into animals. The more loners you shoot, the more time you get at the hotel the more time you can get to find love. So the main character who is played by... Curran Ferrell. Curran Ferrell goes to the hotel because his wife has left him. He's a singleton who cannot live in the city and he has to go find someone there. And he goes there with his brother who has been turned into a dog because he was single, a bad brother. So the story just basically follows him trying to find love and all the other people there. The way that people are matched in this dystopian world is by traits that they share. I think we had a match. Yes, I think so too. So that's why he pretends to be a sociopath. Just like a friend of his pretends that he also has nosebleeds like another woman in the hotel and that's how they are matched. Is he coming out? In this world, not just the hotel. Oh yeah, because thinking about it now it's like the whole world because then when he runs away from the hotel he finds the loners and periodically a couple of the loners will go into the city, pretend that they have couples so that they're not arrested. And so the one loner, the leader of the loners can hang out with the con visitor parents who both play classical guitar. I never really made that connection but I'm like, so that's their thing. Their connection is that. There's so much stuff to tell. I don't even know where to start. The whole trait thing, it is the bare minimum of what people need in order to be said to be compatible. Okay, you have brown eyes. Well, I have brown eyes. Let's have a go at this love thing. I would argue that a lot of people actually kind of approach dating and love that way. It's an exaggerated version so that's what dystopian movies do is they always exaggerate conditions that the world already has so you can take like the dating app thing and just kind of exaggerate it. People are kind of scrolling super quickly being like, not my type, not my type. They're like the same artists that I like. Okay, well then I'm going to swipe right because then maybe we can date. I mean, people do judge stuff on that so they're just exaggerating it to like, oh, I have a limp, I need to find someone with a limp. That's the only, then we can be compatible. If you like movies. Yeah, exactly. That's what people would put down there. Very general stuff because they're just like I like walking. So when I see parts of the movie, like even where they have their awards ceremony for people that find a suitable mate and they're all like, we're happy for you.  I think the whole kind of hotel institution kind of just resembles society in a way you are penalized for being single, right? People don't take you as seriously. You don't have as much cloud. It's like a status thing, a respect thing.  Yeah, like they take you more seriously. Single. What I like about this movie is I think some movies I think you could say they're some pretty obvious metaphors. That doesn't mean they're bad metaphors, but they're obvious metaphors. This one, it's pretty up to interpretation but that's what's fun about it is I'm like maybe they didn't actually intend for this to be a relationship and everyone else who's still single, right? They're all on the hunt. They're all every day desperately trying time is running out. Everyone feels that clock.  It's awful and everyone feels that pressure so when you see your friends, they get into a relationship and they're like, yeah, we're really happy. We're clearly very suitable for each other and everyone's clapping and they're like, we're so happy for you, here's an award. But a lot of people aren't actually happy for them. Parents don't love me. The way that things are set up, we'd have socials that we meet boys from boys' schools, right?  The boys from the different schools would send flowers over to the girls' school. The nuns would read out whosoever the flower was meant for. Know that the rose is coming. Sometimes you just have to wait for longer. The best rose take longer to come around. The best rose take longer to bloom. Isn't it? Yes. Super young teens, and as much as nobody's saying you've got to start dating, but society's already grooming you for the idea of you needing to find a suitor. Just because you're at girls' school, you can't be out here, lotty gagging. You've still got to get on that dating. You're separating you so you don't get distracted from boys, but you still have to be distracted by boys. Obviously it's not everybody who went to girls' school and had those kinds of experiences, but I feel like if you went to school, you had those kinds of experiences all the time. The way that this is all set up, it takes the meaning out of love. The thing that makes love special, the thing that makes you actually want to fall in love, society just the way that it pushes you into it and the way that it forces you into it and craves these kinds of... Who the devil did that to you? Who the devil? Society grooms you from a very young age that you need to get your act together and find a suitor. I do understand the value in finding a partner that people need for us to populate. By that thinking, when you have to actually have babies, this community doesn't fizzle out. So I get that, but at the same time I feel like the obsession with getting people to find each other is so incessant that we have strayed, I feel, so far from allowing things to happen organically. That's a big part of the theme is people feeling that pressure. The guy that hit the one friend, he's the first one to find a mate, is nosebleeds. Which is another thing that people a lot of times do, they will change themselves they will adopt a whole new personality or look or face or all these kinds of things values about themselves because they think that would make them more compatible with someone they would like to be with and of course inevitably a lot of times that falls apart but people don't think about that, they just like I want to be in a relationship, that's the person I have deemed that I've decided so I now have to figure out a way to seem compatible. And I feel like this movie speaks to the superficiality of that. I remember I told you about this one guy who was like, you're the perfect height for me look at us, look at us, we look good together you know what I mean? And I'm just like what height? I was just perfectly short and he was perfectly tall there is also that element of mystery to love where you're drawn to someone without really understanding why it is if you're drawn to them and then when you're in the relationship you're actually realizing oh this is why, you know? So in this whole movie that's where the leader of the loners decides to strip the woman that David falls in love with, right? Because their compatibility was that they were both short-sighted.   Would you still be compatible? Those are the kinds of questions so if you are in a relationship right now have a chat if you're funny you went blind, would it still work? If one of you wasn't as attractive would you still be interested?  Yeah David in the end decides he's going to gouge his eyes out or however he's going to blind himself so that they're compatible in this world that requires you to be superficially physically compatible so he decides to do that but we never see whether or not he does it. That's true I forgot that they actually leave that up so maybe he doesn't so that's kind of like to keep these compatibilities with you it's kind of like maybe how much you fight to if you start to grow apart in different ways or start to develop in different ways with your partner how much do you fight and how much do you just accept oh we've become different people and now this person changed ideologies this person has now gotten into a rabbit hole of a totally different way of thinking and now we don't feel compatible anymore how much do you join them in that or do you just say I guess they're a different person now that was the first time I saw him he was hiding behind a tree close to mine he seemed quite presentable the next day in the city he found out that I was short-sighted too there was that whole kind of love at first sight and so their relationship felt much more organic in my mind there's the chance that he could have done that because he's doing that for that special part of love the inexplicable thing that draws us to love the thing that will make you gouse your eyes out so there's that but there's your view as well that maybe he just didn't they like the rest of the movie they kind of leave it up to you to decide I feel like he probably did also the whole thing that makes me think of the loner camp makes me kind of feel like why the two main characters relationship is actually more genuine than anything else you see in the movie is because it's maybe that philosophy of you first need to be comfortable alone before you can actually be in a good relationship so all these people that are rushing these relationships just forcing it you got 45 days they're doing all these things they're trying to meet people in all kinds of ways because they have this whole resort so they play golf and try to meet people that way they do these other activities and try to meet people that way dances and they're trying all these different activities to just find someone where they have like hey you kind of find me attractive let's get married and have some kids and maybe that will kind of distract us from us actually not being that compatible let's have a baby which in the movie right they're like okay well if you're fighting throw in a kid that usually fixes things right like that's another play on the fact that a lot of people are marriages just you know I don't know the course of your relationship will be monitored closely by our staff and by me personally if you encounter any problems any tensions any arguing that you cannot resolve yourselves you will be assigned children that usually helps a lot I don't want to give up this thing now that people see us as together they see me differently now and I like them seeing me this way so I want to maintain that so let's have a kid so maybe that can kind of let's have a baby and then they'll bring us together bring us together or it'll distract us or something they both found themselves as loners accepting that that was the lifestyle they'd rather take so I kind of look at that as the the philosophy of which I feel like generally is true is like first you have to be okay with being on your own so that you get a sense of yourself who you are at your core and then you can meet someone who's in a similar situation sometimes being single is the best thing especially when you're in a bad relationship everybody in this world is in a bad relationship because they're like well it's that or I'm going to be an animal yeah yeah it's very rare that you're finding actual love yeah I think someone asked David the main character when it's like so when you know how is it he's like oh I like it I like being a loner it's really nice to be on your own there's no one tying you down you listen to music whenever you like you masturbate whenever you want go for walks whenever you like I don't miss companionship at all I just miss you because you were my one true friend are you gonna shoot me? I'm afraid so there's also a lot of rules that come with being in this loner camp you can't really talk to anyone in a 40-way there's repercussions you're not allowed to fall in love not allowed to touch yeah and so it could kind of symbolize where you think oh we should go the exact the other direction because this thing is not working but oh that isn't necessarily the solution whether it's like a system of people organizing living in a certain way versus another way but also just looking at single life versus like couplehood is that there are upsides and downsides to both it's like yeah in some ways you have more freedom being single but then in other ways you don't and then the loner leader who eventually is envious of the two loners finding love genuine love blinds the woman racial wisest character there's a lot of people that are like no I like being a loner one of their friends actually that challenges their convictions I guess on those things do you actually like being a loner or would you actually like that but you just say that because you haven't worked on yourself enough you refuse to look at why you're still a loner when he approaches the sociopath I think it was I guess and he's trying to flirt with her wow that's going on stories out they're kind of just like oh maybe another time I can't really hear you because this woman is screaming as she's dying you know like does kind of make me think of how that kind of environment of outside there's suffering and there's homelessness or there's people yelling at each other or there's accidents happening and then inside you know people are like trying to date or they're at a club or they're trying to you know talk up someone or people are just having a delightful dinner and then there's like a car crash or something and people are like oh you just kind of like switch back to like yes but my priority is meeting someone because that is the rat race I find myself in right now for me it reminded me of how society kind of forces you to distort yourself I think a lot of people have had this experience where you're in a group of people and some of them aren't the best people let's say you know one of the people they're oh hey how's it going friend and then friend is not really nice to you as nice as she usually is when you are alone maybe is mean to you even because she knows where she is the people here are cool and we can be like chummy and also because like you're not looking too good right now and like all these people I don't want to associate with you and so I need to pander to kind of behavior and then they start kind of being mean or snooty or whatever or you see that the guy that you're interested in has a certain kind of personality and so then you also adjust yourself accordingly I don't know instead of like going over and helping that person out you know you're thinking oh no but I've committed to you know I need to seem cool in front of the sociopath so I can't be worried about that person in pain especially in groups it's easier to lose yourself whoever people kind of senses the most confident one or the leader of the pack makes you think of like when my college days and apparently the year right before when I joined seemed like generally the cool people of that year were all very kind of rude and mean and bully-ish and that kind of thing and so then everyone kind of tried to do that but just didn't do it as well as the main hauncho's right then my year at least as far as it seemed like some people were saying and far as I observed the people that seemed to be whatever the coolest or the people that the others aspired to be more like were people that liked were into comedy and bits and sketches and jokes and entertaining and humor like that stuff so then everyone was trying like there were people that would come up to other people I knew in the program that we're seen as as the cool ones and they would just try and make them laugh and there was like this thing where people would come up and they would try and make this person laugh and if they did you know they'd feel like hey I made that person laugh you know it was very interesting so it's like they can switch from year to year of just like people seeing oh now these values are valued the way the world is set up is like every single time you're adapting who do I have to be today one thing that I thought about as well when you think about cancel culture I think I completely understand the reason cancel culture is so prevalent there's a lot of people in the world who really care and want equity, equality all the good stuff but for me I think this movie kind of says well yes we understand that you want society to be good but then you're orchestrating certain things like okay you can't say these words anymore you can't go here anymore these spaces have to be a certain way now with our desire to create communities of understanding and empathy where people can move freely really I think it's primarily an altruistic desire but sometimes we want it so much that we're willing just to make the biggest sacrifices and we don't really realize how badly these are impacting us for example you know there are still people living in the Amazon jungle somewhere they see a trap like an animal footprint and they touch it and they're like oh this animal is actually limping on the left side or the animal is pregnant or they're injured us orchestrating all the time it's becoming more and more intellect and we're losing senses just like that connectedness in that biology exactly so this movie I was like oh my god is this where we're going because if you're orchestrating all the time you're arresting people's development effectively so you're not having human beings anymore who are organically growing I think that's why in the movie they're also robotic a basketball weighs between 550 and 650 grams did you know that? no I didn't know that yes the weight's different for men's and women's games but that's roughly how much it weighs do you know how much of a body it weighs no but I'd like to find out because that's where people are reduced to at the end yeah you're reduced to that like you're not a person anymore we were talking before we started recording I was saying like it seems like people are taught a lot of good stuff they just forget it look at the intro to the original Arthur cartoon series one of the lyrics is everybody that you meet will have the original point of view and that's a good thing and I see each other but I mean I disagree I think when people feel that cancel culture is a new thing I think it's always been a thing I think it's just before it was the church cancelling Galileo Galileo Galileo so cancelling has always been a thing now I think it's just I mean I still think people in positions of power do cancelling as well but you have you also have people on the internet that can also cancel so I think that's why people just think it's a new thing it's more it's not as a new thing it's just that there is more of it why is there more of it because you have people in power that have been cancelling and always will cancel and have been doing so and then you have actually you can get people together a lot easier so you'd say it's more democratic cancelling so you have two types of cancelling now so just one and I think that's why it feels like there's more of it going on yeah but it's always been going on I hear a lot of people online saying there's this new thing now where you just can't like it's it's harder to express things and why I think it's not necessarily a good idea to say this is a new thing because then people would say oh well then we should like revert back to I'm like it's always been a thing yeah groups of people have always wanted their in group beliefs to be a thing and they're always kind of want to convert everyone else it's fear that causes it how do we get relieve everyone of that fear you know for people to feel comfortable just having everyone else disagree with them right because people have been programmed over generations thousands of years to feel the need to conform and fit in and feel safe that way yeah how do you break people out of that I think there's just about the same level of cancer if anything I would still argue actually that there's less canceling going on now at it only because it feels like there's more but I actually feel like people generally are freer to express themselves than than ever before 1960 or something you could get arrested for just giving a pacifist speech Eugene Debs you know as a politician in the states got arrested just for having a speech that was against the war World War one or whatever there's a lot more freedom now you can make pacifist speeches now and not get arrested but you just have more availability for people that disagree with you to point out they disagree with you that's all I think that it really is but yeah I mean that's some stuff that we thought about the lobster and also some stuff that we just I guess thought about not even really related to the lobster but we just thought about so either way let us know yeah let us know what you thought yeah you see that let us know as well comments yeah share your thoughts on our thoughts on everything that we covered here today but till next time thanks for watching though that's a wrap I'm wearing dark blue trousers and a tight cream blouse and he took my clothes off and fucked me up the arse and as he was fucking me a thug came into the kitchen and took the steak knives from the second drawer and attacked us stabbing the knives into our bellies one by one I woke up terrified


We started a phenomenon, the phenomenon of localization, which is a typical thing that deals with the solid state physics using the language of gauge theories, which is instead a language typical of particle physics. And the merging of these two concepts on physical phenomenon and language allow us to, from the one end, understand the fact that using these concepts is actually very useful to understand physical phenomena. But beyond that, it even allowed direct insight on these physical phenomena by employing numerical simulations that otherwise would have been very hard. Ron Brennes was a student at the Master in Performance Computing, which is a joint initiative of many institutions here in Trieste. Marlon came from Costa Rica with a fellowship directly sponsored by CDP. In this thesis he developed a tool which was very useful then for us, and when Marlon decided to stay few more months to perform research at CDP, this tool that he developed during this thesis allowed us to perform simulations that would have been otherwise impossible. I think it was late January 2017, beginning of February. After having some chats with Antonio, we realized that there was a problem that was extremely interesting, but at that time we left the methods to study. But Marlon was the guy that actually could do it, because he developed some of these methods with his thesis. So after talking to him, we convinced him through the support of Nando Kevedo, the director of CDP, to stay few more months with us until the end of July. And then we started our collaboration. It was actually quite quick. I mean Marlon kept all the concepts very quickly, and in the range of three months we had all the calculations done. We understood the physics and then we wrote the master. The master on his own is an initiative which is partly sponsored by CDP. There are many people that are directly involved into that. From the other hand, this is not only an institutional teaching initiative, it's also something where the mission of CDP becomes very clear, because for instance we support students that come from developed countries directly to get the kind of education that will be otherwise very hard to get. A specific profile in high-performance computing that can be useful to both continue new computational studies in physics or computer science, or to just move to industry for instance.


My choice! My choice! My choice! My choice! My choice! My choice! My choice! My choice! That was a video of protesters demonstrating outside of the home of Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Now there was about a hundred people reportedly and they also walked about a half mile to Chief Justice John Roberts House as well. Apparently they live relatively close so it was easy. So I have a lot to talk about with regard to this but before you do that, I've got one more video for you. You love to see it. Now what came next was predictable. Pearl clutching. Lots and lots of pearl clutching. Of course Republicans are all up in arms and they're claiming that the violent mob is trying to bully the Supreme Court. I mean this is exactly what we'd expect them to talk about. They're going to shift the outrage from the leaker to this because they definitely do not want to talk about the substance of what the Supreme Court did. But one thing that is more irritating to me is the pearl clutching from liberals. For example, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki tweeted, the president strongly believes in the constitutional right to protest but that should never include violence, threats or vandalism. Judges perform an incredibly important function in our society and they must be able to do their jobs without concern for their personal safety. In other words they should be able to impose their minoritarian views on all of us. Views that are so extreme and barbaric that they literally will lead to women dying but make sure that when you speak out against these unelected tyrants you're incredibly civil and polite. Don't show up at their homes ever in protest even though what they're doing is going to kill people. Yeah, no thanks. But what's interesting is that that sentiment is very widespread with members of the Senate apparently because they are so concerned about the safety of the Supreme Court justices that Republican John Cornyn and Democrat Chris Coons teamed up for a bipartisan bill and they're going to try to rush this through and this bill would essentially provide all Supreme Court justices with around the clock security and this also includes security for their families. How much is this going to cost and how are we going to pay for that? Because I'm told that we can't afford to do anything that helps Americans. We can't ameliorate poverty.  We can't cancel student debt. So how are we going to pay for this? Where are we going to get the money for this? Also isn't it a little bit stunning how quickly they'll move when it's an issue that affects them? Biden ally and Democrat Chris Coons is teaming up with a Republican to pass a law that protects Supreme Court justices and gives them security. Oh well what about the security for abortion providers? Women getting abortions. What about the security of women who are going to be forced to deal with back alley coat hanger abortions again? Do you not care about them at all or just the elites? Well I mean I think that we all know the answer to that. We all know the answer to that.  Don't speak up too much. Don't be too loud. Don't use any naughty words otherwise the civility police is going to come for you and that includes Democrats as well. Rather than fighting for you currently this is what is being prioritized. Let's give Supreme Court justices around the clock security. They're not the ones who are insecure right now. They're not. It's women. It's marginalized communities. It's immigrants. LGBTQ plus people. They're the ones who need security. Not these elites. Not these tyrants because as Caitlyn Burns put it, Brett Kavanaugh is safer in his own home during these protests than any abortion clinic worker in this country on a daily basis. And that's exactly correct. We have no way of choosing who's on the Supreme Court. We don't get to elect justices.  So people have no other way of making their voices heard so they protest and they're protesting in front of these houses peacefully. They weren't threatening violence in front of these houses, but yet all of a sudden just the mere presence of protesters in front of their houses is going to warrant this immediate action to give them around the clock security. It's truly unbelievable. Listen, as far as I see it, this is absolutely good. And the only critique that I have of the protests is that they weren't there for longer and there weren't more people and they weren't at every Supreme Court justices House who did this. Because let's be clear here. They are imposing what they want, their minority views on all of society. So we have no way to hold them accountable. So they should expect to be heckled at every public event they speak at.  Everywhere they go, every restaurant that they show up to, they should be ashamed to show their faces in public because people will heckle them as soon as they see them because that's how bad these tyrants are. We have no accountability over them, no way to get them out of office. We can't even hold an insurrectionist on the Supreme Court accountable.  Just sit down and take it? I don't think so. These protesters who showed up are heroes in my opinion. Now I want to get to some reactions here. As Shannon Coulter writes, Christine Blasey Ford has had to move four times since the Kavanaugh hearing and I'm supposed to feel bad he has some protesters outside his house? Exactly. And in response to Jen Psaki, Brie Newsom adds, everything comes back to the bipartisan white power structure asserting its own monopoly over violence. We must accept the premise there is a proper civilized way to engage in mass violence and that is solely through institutions established and controlled by the ruling white elite, an undemocratic body of judges first established by colonizers and slaveholders currently includes justices who are arguably unqualified, were forced in against the will of voters, face accusations of sexual assault and or are implicated in an attempt to overthrow the 2020 election. Yet we must pretend this collection of individuals stripping millions of their bodily autonomy is civilized simply because they don formal black robes and call themselves honorable. It's just another example of how brutal state violence is normalized every day in this country with the seemingly mundane processes of government and Brie is exactly right there as they ignore crises that kill us as they impose their will on all of us that kills women. We're supposed to be polite. We're supposed to be civilized, never speak out. The way that you address this is by voting.  Okay, sure, we'll vote, but understand that our power to affect change via the vote is waning and Democrats currently in control of both branches of Congress have not passed voting rights. So our ability to affect change democratically through institutions, it's limited and it's going to get worse as time goes on. So the only way that citizens can actually make their voices heard is by showing up to the homes of the Supreme Court justices and making their lives uncomfortable. I'm not saying that they go to their homes and do violence against them. That's not what I'm advocating for. I'm saying they go to their homes and they protest every single day to make them as miserable as they're making everyone else in society.   I'm done. If you want effect change in this country, it's very clear that you have to make the lives of these elites hell and these protesters are doing just that. And for that reason, I think that they're heroes in my opinion.


Good to have you back to our show big take for wise human humane architecture, and this is our 253rd episode and you are around our 13,500 viewer and our means us at the contrary ends or beginnings of the world ever since I guess The Enlightenment we know that the globe is round So we are with you the solo Brown in your Bishop Museum. Hi Good day, everyone and We are with me here in your Munich Germany, and if we can get the first slide up We're still operating in unprecedented we like to rightly so call it circumstances and This is a very special show because I caught something that is around which is COVID and don't worry it's not contagious to the internet and Thankfully, I believe to think that my second booster shot. So if you guys all get your shots that was still performed by the Wife of my German general console, then it's subtle Nadine up at Queen's Hospital That's why I'm thinking my symptoms are relatively okay But if you hear me sneezing or coughing then I apologize for that So what else do we have going on in the world? Obviously, we have wars going on one pretty close to me in the Ukraine and we have climate change and There's still some people who deny climate change here is your weekly German lesson the solo So what is this gentleman with the orange hair one to tell us? He is saying and I'm just quoting from what you told me beforehand because I can't really understand it or Real estate on the beach or on the shoreline And then he is denying climate change. Is that what that says the black guy? He's he's belittling it from needless ties belittling and very cynically what you said before He's saying oh we get more beachfront property, which you say is very it's not just cynical as stupid as he is Because he is now a Floridian by choice and he lives at Mar-a-Lago, which as the name indicates is beachfront And you might say well these rich people they have the money in the world and they can do something to bump up their building or whatever, right?  There is our former president Gerhard Schröder, who isn't any more smart because he was ever since and still is supporting Putin Cutting the corner to a positive angle and the female Is that also the final line our commission president of the european union is also from My home state and she is the daughter of the former governor And our foreign minister who we see in the middle and to the right here Annalena Baerbach is also from my hometown. So that makes up for it But again, we don't want to make it any discrimination certainly not reverse gender discrimination Because there's also good guys right who can lead us in in in a good way And one we will always remember well Let's stay with Annalena for a little bit and you share with me How you felt about the news that I was sharing with you that we see you here in the middle and on the right Where did she go and why? Well, she is being quoted here and shown As having as visiting palau And palau was formerly part of the german empire before world war one And this is as you told me she's the first high-ranking german official to revisit palau since the After world war one germany lost all of its overseas territories But she is here to hear the story from firsthand for people who are affected in the pacific ocean Living on coral atolls that are not much above The level of the ocean How the ocean is literally creeping up and swallowing their homes and you pointed out and I think this was her conscious choice That she is a member of the green party and in these photos You can see that she's wearing a green dress and I don't think that was just by chance I think that she is promoting her party in this particular situation because She's pulling a spotlight on to The effects of climate change on people who are going to feel it very quickly more so and more Permanently than people for example who live on continents Everybody's going to be affected by changing weather But people in germany for example are not going to find their homes underwater quite as soon as people in palau and other pacific places Yeah, I like Hawaii is one by the way as well just to remind us right That's exactly why we make that connection here and again while some not so smart people want to basically distract and Say why did she as the green party member fly all around the world and burning kerosene? She was by the way On the way to the g20 summit That was in Bali. So that was only a few flight hours away and in the in the centerpiece that Slogan there or that title there. I don't make you do more german than necessary.  But they somehow their mindset is little and some things happened and their childhood that is in their way in both cases But we also have someone who is the opposite and that's all our favorite president jimmy carter show quoted at the top in the middle Who has always had and continues to have up into his 90s, which is now Hard for the little people because he was one as you told me He was the only president who ever lived in social housing And he also lived on the island in the barracks when he was serving, right? so he knows and that's why he goes for Habitat for humanity and builds houses for the little people and the poor people So along these lines, we're pointing out to someone who in 2020 show called top right Was offering to run for president and we would like to remind him of that And that is our island boy dwayne johnson with whom we concluded the show Next last week and go to the next slide. That's the one that we showed very briefly and that link up there That we wanted you to watch and if you haven't please do it after this show here Because it's fascinating because dwayne is Doing this selfie movie on on his phone And he says i'm sitting in this tinted window escalate Cadillac And looking like a creep and probably the police are gonna stop by and call me out on that And he says but the reason why i'm here is that i'm when i'm always back on the island my island that i grew up on I go to the place where I lived and and go and feel again how it was To be a little person with Parents with a little paycheck And that little that one day we got evicted We had an eviction note on the door and out we were and that basically had them Leave the island because they couldn't afford it anymore So that made us being the tech tech tips We sometimes need to be and here's our publicly investigating mobile that we Pull out for these reasons and we drove by because you Based upon that little glimpse of a of a of a moment here that you see uh under uh diagonally Below his his face there that little fraction of a Second uh was enough for you to identify the building right so tell us more about the building Well, the building is located in what's called the capillani business district And it is called the leona apartments because it's on leona street It was one of a series of buildings that were all built by the same developer designed by the same architect In the early 19 late fifties and early 1960s which ended with the pagoda hotel and restaurant Which is just down the street directly ahead uh in the picture where we are looking at the building And this building although it is very modest Does have very positive attributes that we really like and in the first place I have to point out that the owners have continued to keep it up Even though again, it is a modest building. It is not run down And I really admire that but also it's very easy breezy. It saw the walls of the apartments are composed of jealousies which could be opened and closed And it is not taking up a great deal of room It's not taking up a great deal of energy to keep it going And even though it is low cost It is actually a desirable place to live based on its condition and its design. And so that's admirable And as we have just said Dwayne Johnson the rock is now incredibly wealthy man Incredibly famous man. He's one of possibly the highest paid movie star in the world at the moment But he came from these very modest this very uh small inexpensive building And that's one of that's the that's the point of why he did this little video that we are referring to Saying I came from this we got evicted and yet I have become very successful If you are in similar situation don't feel down and out There is the possibility through hard work To get to a place where you are successful And even though he looks back on this and says this is uh again Some place that's mixed memories absolutely and he's gotten much beyond that But still from our standpoint from architect surely looking at things This is not a Shabby little building. It's something that's got very admirable treats It's exactly the point. It's it's his circumstances He was in that he couldn't see the the other dimension that we want to point out and probably should set this to him To talk to him about this and maybe get him on a show And we did our research about the The the price point of units you can still snap a studio bottom left from a realtors page For a little bit just under a thousand bucks. And that's a steal. You can hardly find that anywhere anywhere on the island and So we're now basically saying education is key, right? You should you should again what we're doing Is edutainment and the educational part in there Next slide is one of our best educators edutainers kurt sandburn had once been Featuring it in a civil beat article that he wrote here about the area that we're talking about and the building is in there And the architect you mentioned He's takashi anbi who has quite some robust body of work on the island. However, he's not recognized as much as he should and since we're Asked to write a book about Honolulu's architecture. We will try to make up for that. And we just started the list and It's it's pretty impressive. So these are the leona apartments by takashi anbi from 1961 And this picture he was taken by david franson. It was one of our best photographers about especially mid sentry architect here and next slide Um is pointing out top left again than dwayne parents' camera to This only for another fraction of a second and basically says well here. I was in this building where I felt little and poor because my parents income wasn't sufficient And I was looking to the other side of the street and I saw this gorgeous high rise. He calls it And he wished he Would have been there and then as you said, you know, he's The highest paid actor also for the women in the house. He is Jq elected sexiest man on earth He's all of that But what makes him special and we believe qualifies him to be president just like jimmy carter He kept his humbleness And he basically says well today. I'm doing okay, which is an understatement of course and um and he shares that with us and and this is really interesting because um here We took this picture where you see both you see the leona apartments Which is sort of the horizontal high rise and then he's this vertical high rise behind and next slide Is doing research on that building. That's by the architect norman laktaio And we thought that's why we put in this image of delis the delis tv series, which is the embodiment of the 80s of the ronal regan era of the fossil you pump it out What the heck and the buildings basically show that so this is a grandedly nicely sort of tailored and grooved Glass high rise, but it's still a glass high rise with little to no connection to the tropical exotic outdoors which basically Takashi anbi has been promoting through all his projects and a good end of this story here norman laktaio did as well in the next decade In the 90s, which we see at the bottom right with harbour court Which is lanai again, which is basically good news So next slide staying with takashi anbi a little bit more One of our favorite buildings of him of his is the contessa apartments And you always have nice background stories that only you know Please share that with us on what what's with a spot it stands on. Yeah, this is this is an interesting story Which would not be repeated today This is built on the site of what had been a small church Protestant church a chapel actually but with a graveyard as part of the grounds And the church was associated with kawaii how a church which is in downtown hornelulu and as its Members gradually moved away or died off it no longer was in use And so the property was sold For this development in the early 1970s Now the ironic thing or the thing which today people would be Not pleased about is that The remains of the people buried in the graveyard were exhumed And taken to kawaii how a church can be buried in their graveyard. Well today We wouldn't be able to do that legally people would object to it and Spiritually and socially people would find it very offensive and it wouldn't happen And in fact, there were rumors and they may still be around today That the area was haunted because the people had been exhumed for the construction of the building I don't know if any of that is ever actually been proven true But certainly that is the fact of where the building is It's also very prominent because even at the time, of course, there was nothing around it and even today There aren't any other high rises nearby to distract from it So you really can see it very clearly standing by itself even today many decades after it was constructed And ironically and interestingly in the photograph that we have of it There is a very tall skinny cook island pine or no fork pine next to it to emphasize that it too Is very tall skinny and prominent That's from my collection the soda because that's from my bicycle way to work along the golf course In Waikiki when a bicycle there and across the bridge where Yolani school then is when you take a left turn and this is when you have that And we always use it as an as an ancestor for our primitivas Because when Takashi Andi was really about louvering things and the Contessa is horizontally louvered There's Lanai's You know Of significant depth to sit on there But even all the other windows have a shallow Lanai in front of it that you can clean the window and even you know Take a breath there and hopefully not smoke a cigarette. I hope you don't do that Talking being haunted. There is a show quote of President Nixon who seemed have been haunted by Some devils and we once just want to point out that this is was built in that time and You know architects really with an attitude and with a heart at the right place didn't get themselves distracted by Intermediate in that case. Luckily, you know bad Leadership's on on again the presidential highest national kind of level they continue to do their things and show quotes at the right there show his different variations of Basically louver and screens That he was always about mitigating the intense sun and the heat and top right The the the red sticker on there is Unfortunately had to be delivered by our tropical computer bill Chapman From his insider news from UH that Kajkendal Hall that which is recently had some hopes back That it would be brought back to its original beauty with its louver That's not going to happen as he said they're going to demolish that and that's something we really have to boo And fight this really bad and we have a good proof of evidence why we think this is so wrong and that gets us to the next page Because there's a precedent for that, right? Well, yeah, there's That snider hall that was there Yeah, and that that's the problem too. Um, we're seeing architecturally distinguishes buildings being demolished And there may be a variety of reasons why buildings are being demolished. Of course, they could be because they are outdated it could be because they have become They're in poor condition, which doesn't mean very doesn't look well for the building not being maintained, but From the standpoint of somebody who's a historian that being me I always am disappointed to see architecturally distinguished buildings from particular time periods being removed and destroyed And this again is part of the mall that was that's located on the grounds of the UH Manawa campus And the buildings that lie in the mall were all built during this post-war period in the mid-century modern period And even though they were very diverse, they are uh, all of that same time period extending from the late 40s into the early 70s even So for that to have been lost with again the attributes that we like to favor the lack of air conditioning the la the Uh acknowledgement and use of the natural air movement in Manawa Valley from the Malka side to the Makai side These are things which are now lost and can't be brought back And as as we point out in the show if you're going to demolish something Replace it with something that's better. Well at the moment there isn't a replacement But is the what's going to come up actually going to be better or is it going to be using more fossil fuel? That's for sure. And strangely as so-called bottom left that sort of ghosty grave picture there is what they Told us what they showed us what's going to replace it. We rub their eyes and say doesn't that look like almost Like the existing building. Why don't you tear something down and replace it something that is not Similarly different, you know, it should be way better. And this is a uh, Takashi Anbi That was a Takashi Anbi building And it's gone. Next slide Um, this is uh saying hi to our friend oran lindgren who we miss because harbour uh square uh by his boss at what killingsworth uh was originally um commissioned to Takashi Anbi And we wish we would have these problems back these great problems to have that two of the best architects, you know And who do you choose? Right? This is a great problem. I want these problems back And next slide is concluding our alamona Area investigation um this situation here We won't see anymore never ever because it's smothered and and and obscured with all these hermetic inclusive High rises as show quote in the middle at the bottom all these green blue ones And to the right of that one the developer even on their website puts a big button Over the alamona building. Uh, that must be a bad accident. Hopefully not intention And you know, we were saying You know, you could say I don't care for blue hawai Show quote second to top right where elvis and miley strategically have their um picnic Up there on tantalus looking at the beacon of the alamona building But show quote top right. We have just been uh reviewing the new elvis movie and you know um the next elvis movie we encourage agarabrica and others to do about elvis's significant area in hawai So these these things they're vintage. They will never get out of style And we should treasure them.  Uh, elfred ye was the engineer on all these marvelous projects And this is me at the very bottom right when I had the chance to meet uh el one only in his life Before he left us and uh, he gave me a crit for primitiva one And based upon that top right show quote We were as if we would have known that the mall owner is going for change of zoning We would put a primitiva up on the parking of the mall as the uh proletarian power tower For all the service people who live in the mall and since primitivas are natural And not architectural then uh, the people living for example in the alamona hotel on the On the thin end wouldn't feel Their view is obstructed because they're just looking at an architectural tree next slide Uh primitivas aren't that easy I'm just saying that with you know, also there is an analogy to bamboo as the structure of primitiva one top left In primitiva two top right we've been looking at another curtain wall replacing the invasive american bias curtain wall by a water curtain wall And the bottom ones are basically looking at uh, so far not tapped into technologies for primitiva three Which is tensegrity and bestowed cables and cores to use as a structure And this is what we believe what l Would do if we would still be with us and that's what he encouraged us to and last and final slide Here is uh the three primitivas in a row And the poster for the exhibit that bunded had put together Here with a slightly different uh inhabitant here from your mizia because this lady here Is one of your ancestors, you know just a hundred years ago, which isn't much On the big marathon of um the time frame of the earth And why wouldn't we want to live like her again? And this is the point we're making So we're at the end of not just the show but of our 17 volumes of mid-pound flunk And so we will see you next week again Because on the way here we discovered that there's a raw model for As it seems as far as high rise and skyline resulting out of high rises development And that is the city of chicago and that's why we had sent us there recently and we promised to investigate more About similarities and differences. So hopefully we see you for that Next week and until then, uh, hopefully you stay Peaceful and healthy at covet free Unlike you. Unlike you. I promise to get over it. You will All right. Bye. Bye. Bye Thank you so much for watching think tech hawaii If you like what we do, please like us and click the subscribe button on youtube and the follow button on vimeo You can also follow us on facebook instagram twitter and linked in and donate to us at think.kawaii.com Mahalo


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