Moongeist beam. It's developed to protect, there's one, that's perfect. It must protect. Hurry on! Hi everyone and welcome back to another episode of our VGC Rotorang 2020 Badass Series. My name is Lee also known as Osiris and today on the channel we're going to be continuing on with this team that we started playing last week on the channel, which is Will's team that he won the Flinch Squad 2019 Invitational Championships with. We had some really up and down games last week. We had some tough matchups, but I feel confident that we're going to finish up with the team today before we come in with a new team tomorrow with a lot of positive behind us, a lot of success behind us as well. There's always a team that's down in the description below. There's a raw pace and a poker pace of the team. If you'd like to try it out and check out the details for yourself and as always if you do enjoy the content please remember to drop a like on the video. Do subscribe to the channel and leave your comments down below about the team, about the matches, about everything. We've got a tachi up as our first opponent today so we'll hop straight into team preview. And this is Monday's episode and I was at an MSS over the weekend, double MSS. So we'll have updates about that in tomorrow's episode and we'll be playing one of the teams that I'll be featuring over the weekend for the rest of this week. So a tachi is playing a team of Groudon, Yveltal, which seems to be everywhere at the minute, Incineroar and Metagross. We've got Tabacoco and Venusol. Potentially Mega Metagross is going to be the Mega on the team. We've got Venusol going to thrive off that chlorophyll ability with the Sun from the Groudon. Rick was doing a nice job to counteract that. Again Tabacoco is going to be quite good for us but we've got to be very careful around the Groudon and that Venusol and also the Mega Metagross because it could potentially and does probably carry Stomp and Tantrum but the Coco is going to be our way and our route to get around the Yveltal here. So we need to manage that situation well enough and maybe Trick Room is a good route for us to try and go down here if we can go down that route with this team. Let's go Coco, let's go Lunala. I think Stax and I think Rekwaza as well. Incineroar could be good but I'm going to go with the trusty four that I've seen will play over time and time again. So we'll see how we do in this first one today. I'm really hoping I can come back onto the channel tomorrow and be like I won, I won the NSS, it was amazing and this is the team that I used and I hope you all like it and everything will be good but as I was saying on Friday's episode it's going to be a really tough tournament and a lot of world-class players are going to be there so it's not going to be very easy. We do see Incineroar and we do see Uvelta come out for my opponent. I think we like that the fake out here is pretty obvious onto Tapa Coco because you've got to protect the Uvelta. I would say Trick Tailwind probably comes out for my opponent. This is where it might have been better to have our own fake out user like Incineroar on the back to bring in one of the things and we could go for the, we could go Trick Room. It's going to be tough though.  Okay so Uvelta going to protect. That's fine. Unless we see U-Turn out onto Lunala. Is that Thunderbolt? Yep, Incineroar U-Turn. It's into Coco, we're probably going to see Groudon come in now I think it's definitely going to be Z-Move I think Uvelta, 100%. But we kind of cover the Uvelta so it's not too bad we are covering our Lunala with this Tapa Coco. Like if it's Z-Move we definitely take it down and it means that the Uvelta has to switch out this next turn if it wants to preserve itself for later in this game which means we could potentially wide guard here and go for the Thunderbolt and if the Incineroar comes onto the field it means that we do just get damage onto the Incineroar but I'm pretty confident that we'll be able to pick up the knockout onto the Uvelta regardless here so the wide guard play makes a lot more sense I think for us with the Thunderbolt which should take down this Uvelta so we will wide guard and we will go for a Thunderbolt. So let's see what my opponent goes for. Itachi as well. If this player is anything like Itachi from Naruto I'm in for a lot of pain in this game and there's no out thinking Itachi. Okay, let's see what my opponent goes for. If Uvelta withdraws we're going to see Incineroar come onto the field yeah it makes a lot of sense I want to preserve that for later on I think there's a lot of things that Lunala can give trouble to on my opponent's team so dealing with the one thing that troubles that makes a lot of sense and Groudon actually going to protect here which is quite interesting we'll get the wide guard reveal that for no good reason but it does put questions in my opponent's mind going for the Presivus Blades the next turn as we are going to get this Thunderbolt out onto the Incineroar here now I think we definitely get Rikwaza out I think it's a good opportunity to get Rei out onto the field do we see it double up into Lunala that's my only worry because we could get Stack Attack on the field but we would lose stacks if we see a Presivus Blades although I think it's unlikely to see a Presivus Blades that's why I'm saying we'll get stacks in now I think Lunala is quite important for us especially if we're going to see like Mega Metagross later in the game Lunala especially with the Shadow Shield intact if we can just check that Yveltal things get so much easier for us so we'll switch out Lunala we'll bring stacks in hopefully it takes the brunt of a Fire Punch Hidden Power No, no, no Hidden Power Ice that is not what we want to see that is a predicting half from my opponent Man, I can't believe that I can't actually believe that Hidden Power Metagross coming in Stomping Tantrum we're in a bit of a spot here aren't we we're definitely in a spot we can Mega Evolve but there's not really much we can do and protect and we can try and be cheeky and get a substitute up I mean if we get a sub up that means that at least we've got a way to potentially throw something into Groudon but I think it's so easy for my opponent just to press to click the Presivus Blades button and stomp in Tantrum this is where we want Lingala back on the field right now Groudon protecting okay the Metagross chases down Rayquaza here yeah it's going for it so we get a substitute up which is quite good okay well this isn't the worst thing in the world because I think you've really got to double in to Stack Attacker and you've got to go Presivus Blades you've got to go Presivus Blades but I've got nothing I really want to switch in so it means losing Rayquaza which is not ideal we could go Extreme Speed because I think we're not going to outspeed the Metagross and we can go Z move or do we do we do we do we go Trick Room and then we're in a way better position I think Trick Room's better you know yeah I do think I think if we can get a Trick Room up Lingala and Stacks can do some work Groudon actually going to switch out Incineroar coming in okay well we've got Extreme Speed off into Incineroar we're probably losing Ray although you might want to get rid of this Sub and go for the Stomping Metagross isn't really too threatened by the Ray at the minute so getting rid of the Sub makes a lot more sense but no we're going to see that so we'll keep our Sub which is perfect because now we can bring a Lingala and we can do some nice work to this Metagross and a Stone Edge will definitely get this Incineroar so I don't know if a Lingos Beam gets Metagross it depends on Bulk it is it's probably EV to survive it but a Stone Edge will definitely get Incineroar so we will go for Z and we want to keep the Z move I think for Valtola Groudon maybe Groudon because Groudon like if we can Z move Lingos Beam into it then that makes things so much easier and that combination will definitely take it down and then we still got Koko to deal with you Veltos so if we're looking at it from that kind of point of view the Groudon will be the one thing that we want to take down with with our two remaining Pokemon we're going to see Groudon come back in so a Stone Edge will do some nice damage to it for sure Metagross just protecting see me do it we get a crit that would be huge for us right I think does the does the Groudon protect though that's the thing I don't know if it does I don't know let's go Lingos Beam into Metagross and go for the continental crush into Groudon I'm hoping because we're not even minus one that we get the Groudon Zineroar coming back in makes a lot of sense probably going to see a press of his blades maybe the Groudon protects to stall out this trick room that does that's a bit of a shame that is a bit of a shame but getting damage onto the Groudon and probably putting it in Lingos Beam range which is the good thing because there's next turn what can my opponent do Zineroar has to go down to a Stone Edge or at least the Metagross comes back in on that slot I think come on do enough to put it in Lingos Beam range please probably not probably not enough I think priority is trying to break this sub on the Stack Attacker is it Procaberry? no okay many turns of trick room got two so that's actually not the worst that is alright Groudon will go Lingos Beam will go Stone Edge into Zineroar yeah Metagross yeah we could have predicted that we definitely could have I'm Groudon going to go back out so Velt will come in I'm going to see a Double Protect I think but the nice thing is what we could potentially do the next turn is go Double Trick Room and predict the Double Protect here okay so we'll get a little bit of damaging okay yeah my opponent is going to definitely there's one turn of Trick Room left so we'll go Trick Room I love this play Trick Room and if you see the Double Protect then my opponent is knackered because they can't get through another five turns of Trick Room with what they've got they just can't this is not going to happen but it's all about the Double Protect here and I think that's what we've got to see if they don't do it if they suspect this play in any kind of form then this is a tachy remember we're playing so you might see through this but I don't know I think you just Double Protect or switch around because I don't think you want to leave your Veltal to take a Stone Edge at this point or the Metagross to take a Mungai's Beam see Veltal Protect there's one that's perfect Metagross Protect putty on come on Trick Room so we'll reset the dimensions and then we'll set the dimensions so there we go and there we go and that's going to be as good as game because my opponent hasn't got hasn't got the ability to get around another another bunch of and we could make some predictions here like we could double into the E-Veltal with a Mungai's Beam and a Stone Edge because I think I'm not really worried about the Metagross at this point because I think you pull oh well you might not pull a Double Switch Incineroar coming out but doubling into the slots now makes a bit more sense the Stone Edge does connect they should pick up the knockout yeah it does okay so we're going to get that one and then Mungai's Beam probably even gets the Incineroar now and we get the Beast Boost the Attack Boost Mungai's Beam I think from the previous damage there's probably enough to get the Incineroar yep and then we've got the Groudon and the Metagross left so we're kind of alright that's a substitute coming in so clutch for us because it prevents my opponent from being able to intimidate Ikel which means that Stack Attacker still stays quite safe and the fake out's not relevant at all when you've got this board position set up so everything quite nice at the moment the Groudon coming in I think probably doubling into the Groudon here because it's the one thing that potentially could cause us a few issues so Mungai's Beam into that and then the do we go Stone Edge? I'm just worried that the Stone Edge might miss it's not the most accurate of attacks even though Stack Attacker's been on point I'd rather just Gyro Ball plus one attack so I mean that little bit of chip from Gyro Ball should be enough to put Groudon in range for Mungai's Beam and then the Metagross is going to be easy to deal with once the Groudon's gone and especially because we've got Tabacoco on the back when this tricking does end should be fine might see Double Protect here my opponent might try and stall this one out but I think we're going to be alright but we just see the forfeit so very good game to my opponent the Double Trick Room pulls through for us there and I think that is the big play and the option on the team that mode of the team is so nice that situation where you know your opponent has to soul out they've done really well to get around that first turn round of Trick Room and then we've got the tools there to set the Trick Room up again and just really punish that passive player to stall out then it doesn't give your opponent very many options going forward so nice win for us to kick off with today we will go into our next match hopefully again it doesn't take too long to find our next opponent because this is going to be the last game with the team before we give it back to Will and say thank you very much for offering us the time to feature on the channel and we will finish up with the CosmoVision 2 because we just love this track so hopefully it doesn't take too long to find our next opponent as well but our spot seems to be doing a little bit better a little bit better but we'll see I tell you what my friends we'll cut it right now and come back when we bump into our next opponent in the episode so we'll be right back and we've got our second opponent in the episode we've got Lauren from Australia Lauren is bringing only four the big four so big four that we've got as well right stacks how do we deal with stacks on this team actually hmm stack attacker for us seems a bit awkward to do we don't really have a way to hit it for super effective do we I don't think even Incinero has got it does Incinero has got low kick so that makes a lot more sense that makes sense we've got away we definitely need Incinero here so we'll bring Incinero um we need to watch out for the crowd on I think we'll bring our own Lunala we'll bring Rey um did we bring a Moongus because a Moongus could a Moongus is a beast um stacks is amazing but a Moongus is really really strong I'm gonna bring a Moongus we haven't brought it since we started featuring this team and I do love the little mushrooms so we'll go for it so good luck Lauren and we'll get into this one hopefully we can give the team a good send off here for good or will and um that'd be nice won't it just to give them a good send off and then we'll come into tomorrow with a brand new team like I say something to be featured over the weekend at the MSS whichever one I had more success with right Incinero Lunala coming out for us I wouldn't be surprised to see this lead from my opponent okay stacks coming out I don't mind that either um because a Moongus beaming a low kick will probably get the stack attack out of the margin well minus one low kick I don't know if it does will it do 50% probably won't will it so the thing is we could potentially go fake out Moongus beam and then Moongus beam low kick and that will get the stack attack out and that's the one thing I'm really more concerned about than anything here um we'll go for that Moongus beam and we will go for a fake out into the stacks just to stop it doing anything this turn fake out and beam and hopefully another combination of Moongus beam and low kick will be enough to get the stacks so oh we just do that and that that's really unfortunate for my opponent Darker Slayer coming out we will take this up the Intimidate we still got our Shadow Shield intact as well all I'm gonna say is that is really unfortunate Laura and I do apologize for that huh it's not that difficult as well if it's like you're practicing with these four because you don't know the two that you've got you don't know what you want to put in with the the two behind them um a turn like that just kind of ruins the game for you like I said in yesterday's episode I think where oh no a previous episode oh a shiny Lunala okay that's that's super nice isn't it that is really nice we'll go for a snarl I think we switch a Lunala out for why don't we switch Lunala out maybe just protect Lunala maybe I mean one of the things we could do is just go for a U turn and protect our Lunala because I kind of suspect we might still go up here that shiny Lunala is so nice the event hasn't come to the UK yet we haven't got the we haven't got as far as I'm aware right now it might be over this coming weekend which was past weekend pre-recording this but yeah I don't think anywhere has got the codes in the UK yet I don't think any of our game stores are doing it which is a little bit disappointing because I love a shiny Lunala I would love one that's so nice and shiny Suggle Ale is cool as well I'm going on coming in we'll protect Lunala I guess we could have probably maybe taken advantage of this trick during going up but it is moon guys beam so it's not the worst it does mean now we broke the shutter shield on the Lunala we are going to be able to get our Rayquaza onto the field whether I want to do this or not or do I want to bring in Amungus I think Rayquaza is probably better it's just the annoying thing about bringing Rain now is that the intimidates in the back well I think we'll sword stance and I'm going to go for Amungus beam into the opposing Lunala we'll see what my opponent does this could all go downhill pretty rapidly from here we lose our restrictives as he moved from the opposing Lunala it would be pretty bad into Ray and that would mean we're just being greedy if that happens okay well we get Amungus beam off first so there was a little bit of me that did suspect that maybe their Lunala is slower because of the trick room like centric it's going to be centred round trick room isn't it Dragon Claw no it's not powerful enough though okay we just about take it man, Dragon Claw alright well we need to preserve we desperately need Ray to deal with this Groudon my opponent's got all the shiny Pokemon apart from that Groudon we need the complete set shiny Pyro Groudon looks legit as well right we'll protect Ray we will switch Lunala into Incidor we'll get an Intimidate onto both of these Pokemon it gives us that fake out pressure the next turn as well and then we can maybe go for another sword stance although we've got to worry about the Darkest Lariat because I think Darkest Lariat will probably get Ray from this range well a plus we're on Dragon Ascent to get Incidor hmm questionable I don't know we'll get Incidor we'll protect Ray this turn get around this fake out the thing we could have potentially done is not protect it well we can't because I think yeah we get faked out and Dragon Clawed again that's basically what would happen yeah so we just lose Ray just the fake out would proc the berry it's not really worth it when we just lose hmm ok I think the Groudon protects here I'm going to fake out the Groudon I'm going to hope that a Dragon Ascent takes down the Incidor I don't want to leave the Groudon alone for it to Dragon Claw the Ray at this point he just don't want to do that Dragon Claw Groudon is a pain to deal with a real pain to deal with the Groudon you can see why it won the world championships because it's utility becomes a lot better and trick room for beating things like Salamence from Rick Wazel though it's not picking up knockouts it's doing enough damage to really make it all put to oh we get the Incidor ok so that makes things so much easier for us because what we can do now is just pivot out with Incidor Dragon Ascent into Groudon and then at the very worst we've got another Intimidate to cycle onto the Groudon we've got a Moongus Lunala left to kind of do some stuff so we'll Dragon Ascent again into Groudon I mean we could be really patient here we could protect Rick Wazel bring Incidor all in and then we can just go rage powder Dragon Ascent but anyway we get very lucky with a critical one turn one so Lauren apologies about that but we'll end it up there my friends thank you so much for tuning in I hope you've enjoyed today's episode as always leave your comments down below leave a like on the video do subscribe to the channel and I'll see you all tomorrow with an update from the MSS over the weekend and a brand new team that will be playing going forward for the rest of the week so big shout out to Will once again give him a follow it is at Dempsey VGC over on Twitter the handle will be down in the description for the next one so until then take care and bye bye


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I'd like to introduce this morning, Jeanette Manfraux, with the talk, Securing Our Nation's Election Infrastructure. Enjoy! Thank you so much and good morning. I was I was hoping you all would sleep in and I could do this with maybe just 10 people. Not terrifying at all to stand up here and see you. So first, thank you so much for coming both to DEF CON and to the speech. I wanted to just spend about 15-20 minutes talk to you about how we think of election security and also you know sort of extrapolate a little bit about how that relates to our approach to critical infrastructure overall. I also want to point out that this is my son's first DEF CON. He's very excited. He's six. So we'll bring him by the voting village later. So for the little closer. Sorry, I'm a wanderer when I speak. We'll try to stay still. So for those of you who don't know what DHS does and I do apologize up front. I can't help myself. I'm going to say cyber and cybersecurity probably a lot. It's just the way we talk in DC. So just accept it. I have. So in DHS, my organization, we're the Office of Cyber Security and Communications. And we stood up about 11 years ago to focus on the purely defensive side of cybersecurity. And we have two main roles and maybe about three we can talk about. The first one which we spend a lot of time on is protecting federal civilian networks. So the way the government runs it naturally it's somewhat complicated. We don't do IT governance particularly well and we've made it particularly complicated for ourselves. But I will spend 30 seconds and explain it because it may be useful in a trivia game at some point in your future. So the DOD, they've got their network. They're protecting that. The intelligence community has their networks. They're protecting that. And DHS is left with the 99-ish federal agencies. And yes, there are 99 federal agencies. And what we do is we work with them to deploy technologies and capability to better protect our networks. And what we're evolving towards on the federal side is thinking about instead of individual risk, every agency thinking about themselves is owning one part in their own part, much like many companies think about just themselves as individual risk. We're trying to get to think about enterprise risk and think about the government as a whole. We have a lot of technologies and shared platforms and we have a lot of adversaries that are trying to get our information, whether that's to steal citizen information or whether that's to get information about policies or other capabilities that we're thinking about. So we have to think differently about how we defend those systems within our federal government and we're doing a lot of work. We've been issuing a lot of directives to improve the security and take advantage of different capabilities that the private sector has developed. So that's enough about the federal side. The second part is critical infrastructure. So while I have the authority and the resources to deploy technologies to tell other federal agencies what they should do and importantly to measure them on their progress, with the private sector it's purely voluntary. And I think that's important. I think that's the only way that we can be truly successful. And I'm using the term private sector very broadly and that includes all of you in this room, whether you're in a big company or working for yourself. It also includes academic institutions. It includes seat and locals as well. So we have a broad public-private partnership that we refer to it that it has to work together to figure out how we're going to secure and defend our critical infrastructure. So if you think about, you know, one of the most fundamental roles of government is to provide for the security and the defense of its citizens, right? But the internet has challenged everything when it comes to how we think about the role of government in defending and securing its citizens and its infrastructure. And for all the amazing benefits and the economic development and the social benefits that has come with the development of the internet and the technologies that leverage it, it does create, of course, a lot of vulnerabilities. But I think most interestingly for policy people, it really challenges how you think about what the role of government is. The role of government, we have typically had the best advantage when it comes to defending our country. We don't have that anymore. We have some capability and it is unique for those of you who maybe took an international trade class once upon a time, the concept of comparative advantage, it applies here but in a different way. So the government, right, we can go places and we can do things and invest in places that either the private sector or other entities are not allowed to or they don't have the incentives to. And that can be useful when we're talking about bringing everything together. But we don't have that unique advantage and we don't have all the information. And so what we've been talking a lot, and I'll get to elections in a second, is the concept of collective defense. And what this means, and there's a lot of different analogies that people talk about, best athlete, comparative advantage, but the concept of that the government is just one player in a community of organizations and individuals that all have some capability that they can bring, some of which are better than what the government can bring. And so for the first time in a national security space, the government is not on the front lines.  And that sounds easy to say, but when you start to really think about that, that it just challenges everything you think about. Well, what does that mean, the role of DOD? What does that mean about the intelligence community? What does that mean about the role of the private sector? And so what it does mean, though, is that we have to get past our traditional incentives. In the government, our incentive is to collect information and to protect that information in order to be able to execute our security and defense missions. But we can't do that. We have to be able to share that information, and we have to be able to be transparent, and we have to build a level of trust with a wide variety of individuals, organizations, and entities that we've never had to do before. On the flip side, on the company side, the idea is to monetize information and capability, which is fine. I'm a capitalist. I want us to be a strong, economically powerful country. But in this space, if we're going to truly be able to hold the adversaries at the same level of risk that they're holding us, we have to be able to move past that. We have to be able to find other ways to cooperate, and we have to think differently about what are the capabilities that each of us needs to bring to bear to this fight. So that sort of thinking is how we think about the entire fight overall, if you will. Our adversaries have been taking advantage of us for a long time. They've been taking advantage of our traditional principles for a really long time, and we've got to figure out a way to turn it back on them. And again, that means the government's got to think differently, and that means everybody's got to think differently. So I want to talk to you specifically about elections, though I'm happy to talk about anything from medical devices to our electric grid after the event if you're interested. So the slide that we've pulled together, and this is my first talk I've ever done with a slide, so we'll see how it goes. This is how we think about elections. And elections is more than just the voting machines. I didn't know a whole lot about how our voting system worked before DHS got involved, and I'll tell you it's tremendously complex. The complexity is actually a benefit. But so what we started to look at is, and going back to 2016, when we first started to understand that the Russians were attempting to undermine and sow chaos and discord and undermine our democracy in general, which by the way they've been trying to do this for decades. It's just the technology has allowed them to do it at a better scale. So we stepped back. We talked with a lot of election experts, and we said, okay, explain how the system actually works. And then we worked with the intelligence communities and others, and we said, okay, well now if an adversary wants to undermine our democratic process, how could they do that? And so this is, and you know, don't think we have some stuff here that's on election day. It doesn't necessarily happen on the day of election. But the concept of you've got everything from voters trying to register, to actually casting the ballots, to counting and tallying, to distributing those unofficial vote results on election night, to the final tally. And what we did through this very comprehensive risk assessment is we found that it's actually really, really difficult to try to manipulate the actual vote count itself. And there's a lot of reasons for that. The voting machines are physically secured. We've got, you know, thousands of jurisdictions across the country that all use different sorts of things. And so while you may be able to get into some voting machines, and I know a lot of you may be working in the voting village, you can't really affect that at scale without detection. And it would be really hard. So we said, okay, well what are they trying to do? They're trying to undermine our democratic process and the confidence that we have in their democratic process. And there's a lot of ways to do that without actually trying to manipulate the vote. And that's what we expect that they will continue to do. So what we look at is, and this is how we define election infrastructure. There's a lot of other efforts about thinking about social media companies and the role that they play in campaigns. But what we're very much focused on is the state and local run process that you and I all participate in, I hope, all the time. And so this is what we're focused on securing. And again, to take an example, voter registration. It's not so much the data itself. It's actually fairly easy to get the data. In most states you can buy the data. So it's not that we're worried about losing the data. What we're worried about is maybe manipulation of the data. So somebody comes to vote.  But say a bunch of people show up, and you're told, well, you're not supposed to vote here, but we'll give you a provisional ballot. And then the lines start to back up. And then a lot of people say something must be wrong here. There's a lot of people not on this list. They're in the wrong list. And so the data itself has just been either manipulated or lost or something like that. So that's what we're concerned about. So we've talked a lot about how we can secure those voter registration processes. In the actual tallying of the votes, thinking about the systems that run the voting machines, the election management systems, the tallying process, all of those, making sure that those are secure. And many of those all say, state and local communities that run elections, they are not the most resourced organizations in this country. And now it's not a surprise to you. So they're often dealing with old software, old technologies, and they do the best that they can. But how can we help them as a community? Again, this is all of us in this room. How can we help them ensure that those systems are secure, that they understand best practices, that they know how to prioritize what they need to be doing? And then finally, thinking about, say, the submission on election night. This was an interesting concept, right, is that these are not the official election results, but say a bunch of states issued, you know, here's who won the presidential election, our unofficial tally. And then a couple of weeks later, the official tally comes out. It's completely different. So the official tally is correct, but the unofficial one was manipulated. Now you have another situation where the confidence in the process has been undermined. So I want to put this out to you. This is a public document. You can get it online on our website. But I wanted you all to think about bigger than just the voting machines themselves. This is a bigger process. There's more to think about. There's more work to do with the private sector, the vendors of these systems who are working with the state and local secretaries of state, the election directors, helping them understand how we work together on this. So I wanted to close before I bring up one of my folks here who is running a lot of this activity for us with, you know, really thinking about kind of where we started. The election issue has brought the concept of cyber security to the fore in a way that nothing else had. I yearn for the days when we were just worried about the electric rate going down. And so as frustrating as it may be for us constantly talking about it, it has had the power of getting people involved in this space and thinking about these questions about the role of government, the role of the private sector, the role of researchers, the role of the international community when we start to think that we have adversaries that are trying to undermine our traditional concepts within our country, our concepts of democracy, our concepts of intellectual property, our concepts of privacy, our concepts of ability to do business and to run our government. And if we don't come together and we, again, we aren't able to get past our traditional cultures, our traditional incentives and figure out how do we come and collectively defend against these adversaries, they're going to turn the internet into the model that best suits their concepts, which is not free expression, which does not protect intellectual property, which does not allow the level of discourse and progress that we have made in our country. So it's not just an American issue, it is definitely a global issue. And while elections are just one part of it, we still have to think about all the rest. I encourage you, as you all are thinking about the technology itself and how do we make the technology better, think about the policy side of it and participate in that debate. We need more people who understand the actual technology to participate in the policy debate because shockers, not everybody knows how the internet works in DC. So with that, I wanted to just close, I would like to, we were in the voting village last year. Not everybody knew, but we've got our team of pen testers and red teamers here that they're the ones that are doing all of these vulnerability assessments across the country. They do it for critical infrastructure. We've gone to Ukraine. We've been everywhere. Rob, come on up. And I just wanted to introduce him to you. They are all proudly wearing, I think they're all proudly wearing DHS shirts. Some of them are pretty obvious that they're government officials. But we want to make sure that you get a chance to talk with them. And like I said, importantly, that you engage in both the technology and the policy side because we can't just be having this debate in DC. So Rob, I'll let you close. All right. Yeah, thank you. So, yeah, there's about 20 of them down here and there's some of the brightest and smartest people that I've worked with. So please make sure you find them out. What I'd like to reiterate, though, is we do have a national mission and elections is one part of that. So under the assessments program, we have three different programs. We have cyber hygiene, which is basically vulnerability scanning. We have risk and vulnerability assessment, which is pentesting. And then we have operational assurance, which is more of a blue team kind of style look. Under cyber hygiene, we have 850 customers under there of which 95 are election related. And so what's great about this is we're able to get this data and analyze this data and look at it and say, hey, we see trends here. So we saw trends in the federal government where critical vulnerabilities weren't being closed. And we worked with that. We issued some binding operational directives to take care of that. The statistics that we're seeing on elections are right in line with our other customers. So they're no better. They're no worse than the other customers. They have the same issues. And the main issues are that we're seeing old software out on the internet, unsupported software, PHP that's outdated. It's the same issue. One thing that we are able to see in a little of our analysis is that the election officials are a little slower than the government and other people on fixing and patching those issues. So we're going to work with them and get the word out and let them know how critical it is. And hopefully they'll be able to get the resources to work and fix that. So it's a resource issue game, right? So on the penetration testing side, it's the same issues. When these guys start their campaign, the first thing that they do, they do a little background investigation and they send a phishing email. Bingo, they're in election places and they're in non-election places, financial water. It's the same. So we're working on educating people and educating people and getting the word out there. And the final thing that I want to say before we wrap this up is we just started a Pied Vulnerability Assessment where we're getting election machines in and other critical infrastructure machines in. We're tearing apart the firmware. We're looking at that and we're working with the vendors. We're going to issue some guidance to them and find issues on those. And hopefully we'll make this more secure. So we're here to help and make sure you see these guys. They're a lot of good guys. Thank you. And ladies, yes. Okay. So with that, again, please find us. We'd like, we'd love if you worked for us, but if you're not willing to work for us, we would love you to work with us. Like I said, we're the only part of the government that has a purely defensive mission. And as you can see, it's a big one. And we're just so happy that you're here, that you chose to come to listen to us talk and that you're, you're willing to invest your time and your talents in solving these really critical problems. So thank you.


Hey everybody, Roy Azic here from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan You're watching TJV Trucker Josh on YouTube So literally it is a good morning here at the Flying J in London, Ontario And we're gonna get moving today. It's Saturday I could do the whole thing tomorrow, but I don't want to risk it because I have a 5 a.m. appointment on Monday morning So I'm gonna go a little ways today as far as I want to then I don't have very far to go to moral Which is Sunday and then I can get a good sleep and be at my customer for 5 a.m. The next day. I'm not gonna be late Thinking see always thinking So I'm fully reset now. I took a day off. I didn't film anything yesterday Just got all my videos up on patreon for those of you who want to see them early. They're there early The whole week is up there and then I released them one at a time on YouTube So if you want to see them early, they're over there link is down below in the description of all my videos to that It's patreon.com slash TJV, but if you don't want to do that, you can watch them right here every day And let's get to trucking. How about that? Let's get the trucking. We've been sitting here long enough Off we go crossing from Sarnia, Ontario into Port Huron, Michigan And we're about 900 kilometers away from our destination 550 miles or so We'll see how far we get tonight. We'll drive too late. Otherwise, we won't find a parking spot But again, Rock Island, Illinois is right across the river from Davenport, Iowa So it's way on the other side of Illinois We less traffic in that part of the state and usually parking at some of the truck stops I guess we'll we'll see how we feel It's already like 2 30 in the afternoon now So I don't think I'm going to be driving like way into the night that I'll mess up my schedule And it'll be hard for me to get up for 5 a.m. When I have to deliver on Monday Let's go a few hours today. Make it easier for us tomorrow. We'll just see what happens Life is full of mysteries. Where will Trucker Josh stop tonight? It's one of those mysteries A little shout out to Michigan here. Your roads actually aren't that bad Impressed. You know all the bolts after I leave Detroit here. This isn't too bad Guys have been making frauds. It's very not the smoothest road I've ever been on But I make much to impress me when it comes to roads It's a beautiful sunset here Not sure exactly where here is but Here is home tonight I've still got my pants drying all over the place here because they take forever to dry in the truck Gotta keep constant air blowing on them for those of you who don't know and who care There's one or two of you out there. I know I'll let you know that I don't dry any of my clothes I've had a bad experience Many of them where my clothes shrink and then they don't fit And I got mad so I vowed never to use the dryer again for anything other than like socks and Other meaningless things. I don't I don't use the dryer much. I hang dry everything Plus, I don't know from an environmental standpoint Saves energy right save in the polar bears That's me Told you I cared Didn't believe me one dryer load at a time So I'd I hang everything to dry so in the truck. It's a little more difficult when I do laundry So I try not to do it in here too often, but It works whatever It works. I should turn on the lights up here close the curtains We have shut down for the night. Let me check to see where we are diesel. You know where we are You know where we are good, buddy Let's uh Oh fine, you're out. Well just cuz I sit down you jump. That's kind of insulting man. That hurts my feelings Huh? He's got a little buddy few trucks down there. They keep staring at each other. I think it's a chihuahua or something That's not lunch diesel It looks like a little snack.  I know Hey, where are we here? There's a TA across the road. I stopped at the pilot We are in let's just click right on the address pilot travel center Uh 15901 11 mile road battle Creek, Michigan. That's where we're at tonight And I could sleep in tomorrow I've got five and a half more hours to go right to the destination and we won't be going right to the destination because I can't sleep There anyways, so we'll be going close by so I'm guessing I got about another five hours of driving to do tomorrow And I've got to be there early enough so I can shut down and be at my customer for like 430 445 a.m. Because they want me there for five means I got to shut down by like Let's say if I want to get going by like four. I got shut down by six So I got five hours of driving. I have to leave here by 1 p.m. So that shouldn't be a problem.  Maybe go for a walk Yeah, man You heard that right. I said the W word.  Oh boy. Can we take my little buddy with us over there? Is he looking at you right now? Is he looking at you? He's down there in that white truck. Oh, yeah, he's staring right at you. I Don't know if I can zoom in the camera's pretty bright right now Little guy just sitting there staring at him staring staring at you diesel. He's staring. He likes you. He thinks you're good looking Maybe it's a girl. That's probably a girl.  You're embarrassing me She's kind of kind of pretty though, you'll get here No stop looking at don't look. Oh, oh, I think mom's calling.


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I know many strange tales Hidden in the heart that men and women who have stepped into the shadows Yeah, I know the nameless terrors of which they dare not speak Yes friends, it's time for the signal oil program the whistler Rated by independent research the most popular West Coast program in radio history and Signal gasoline is top two tops in quality It takes extra quality, you know to give you extra mileage and signal is the famous go farther gasoline So look for the signal circle sign in yellow and black that identifies friendly dealer owned signal stations from Canada to Mexico And now the whistler strange story Murder in haste Albert Taylor was two people to the cafe society crowd in Miami He was the charming young husband of a silver fortune from Denver to his wife Helen aged 45 Amply mature the silver fortune He was something else again an unpleasant little boy whose Unpleasantness had a tendency to make the large fortune into a smaller one. This made for friction, of course After three years of marriage Helen was heartily sick of both And Albert too would reach the saturation boy as a matter of fact the unpleasant little boy was on the verge of a tantrum Albert is that you yeah But I'm awfully upset. Oh what now my bracelet the diamond and emerald one I put it in a drawer of my vanity last night after the party. Well, what about it? It's gone. I've questioned the servant. You call the police. No good What do you mean? I told you I wanted to buy some things And what did you do with it? I sold it of course you sold That's very interesting Didn't occur to you of course to consult me. It occurred to me. I Rejected the idea after due deliberation. Why I don't want to scene about it Helen I took it I sold it period and through consulting you about anything. You understand.  It's enough. I'm sick of it. I'm through with being your favorite charity You don't know how right you are. What do you think you're doing?  Give me that phone Now I told you what I'm going to do with it. Let's go you want to watch me jump You want to crack the whip and watch me jump but don't please well, I'm through with that Helen I'm through with you and you're cracking all through Helen I'm sorry. Why don't you do something Albert?  So very still because she's dead With the prologue of murder in haste the signal oil company is bringing you another strange story By the whistler, you know friends while watching some Christmas shoppers this morning the thought occurred to me if People would only choose their gasoline as carefully as they pick out Christmas gift a lot more drivers would be using signal gasoline And for good reason if you travel the West much at all You already know that from Canada to Mexico signal is famous as the go farther gasoline But even more important to you is the quality in signal gasoline of which that mileage is your best proof For after all in order for a gasoline to give you better mileage it has to make your engine run more efficiently and When your engine runs more efficiently you naturally enjoy quicker starting faster pickup smoother knock-free power The kind of superior performance you expect of a superior quality gasoline That's why we say to be sure of the tops in gasoline quality.  Oh I didn't hear you come out. Sorry. I said it's a nice night. Yeah So you're running for the train when we were pulling out just made it didn't you yeah, they're kind of close Mm-hmm No, I've been fishing off the keys just a week or so I see My name is Rick it's glad to know you I'm a brown Richard Brown Going up in New York Brown. Yeah Well, I I guess I'll be getting inside Rick. It's good idea and a breezy out here. I'll go with you You knew at the minute he opened his mouth didn't you Albert? Ricketts is a plaincloth cup and there can be only one reason why he's so interested in you He's right behind you as you walk back through the train to your seat And you're wondering if he'll sit beside you when you stop there And then when you're 10 feet from your seat it hits you You realize why he's following you your luggage with your initials ET on it is in the baggage rack over the seat And Ricketts is just waiting for you to stop there.  Well, yeah, no, I have a compartment of the head. Oh I see Well, good night brown tonight There's only one place to go the club car and the bar where you can sit for a minute and think Make it a Manhattan dry Manhattan This your magazine. Oh, no, no go right ahead You're going New York. Yeah, it ought to be cold up there this time of the year a lot of snow and all that Yeah, I suppose so. Yeah I'm as excited as a kid. I haven't seen snow for an age Matter of fact, I haven't said foot in America for five years. So it's great to be back I get a kick out of just talking to an American again. Yeah, I was sitting in my compartment a few minutes ago You got a compartment. Yeah a couple of cars ahead My name is Brown. Mr. Jameson Leslie Jameson James. Yeah, wait a minute. You're not the mystery writer. Oh, I'm afraid I am Thanks, well, here's to you. What's the matter? Nothing Say Jameson, why don't we go to your compartment be quieter there? You can have the drink set in well, of course. Well, it's a good idea Yes, Albert the compartment would be quieter and you'd feel a little more comfortable Particularly since you noticed your friend mr. Rick it stroll into the bar and sit down Still hunting for the occupant of your seat. No doubt. Mr. Jameson finds this compartment pleasant It was a man can't stay forever in Buenos Aires and continue to write for the American public It's got to keep in touch. Don't you think so? Huh? Oh, yes. Yes, of course So, uh, you say you left Buenos Aires. Yeah, I'd plan to anyway But I I made it a little early on a kind of that nasty business of my assistant. Oh, I see. I'll probably go back in a year So say Brown. Did you ever read anything in mind? I can't say I've done much reading in the detective storyline You have a serial running in one of the magazines right now, don't you? Yeah murder and haste. I Don't suppose you've read it. No I'm sorry. I'd known I was gonna meet the author. I'd have boned up on it Don't apologize Brown What nightcap before we turn in huh? It's early at Jameson. Surely you're not gonna give up the ship so soon Oh, I've got to confess I'm a little bush Tell me more about your agent in New York. You were saying you were you've never met him personally. Oh, oh, you mean Farrell You're always a great agent. I've often wondered what he looks like Sometimes I think he must be a magician with a long beard way pulls royalties out of a hat Sold my leading character to a radio You've never even been to New York. No never. I'm probably the only man in the business who can say that Well, Brad is close to midnight and I Jameson. What about this cereal? You're running Maybe you could bring me up to date on it, and I'll tell you about it tomorrow right now. I'm awfully tired Surely a James look here. I don't want to be rude, but I'll have to ask you Hey An open switch a signal down and the southbound local is suddenly there on the same track without warning It's over in a split second Then you open your eyes, Elbert. You're all right Miraculously safe and the tangled network of steel and splintered wood that used to be a Pullman car and there's Leslie Jameson He wasn't so lucky Elbert There's nothing you can do for him now the other end of the coach is in flames, and they're moving towards you If I can make it out this window There All right, yeah, I think so I'm a little dizzy scratched up against I see you. Oh, it's you mr. Brown, huh?  Yeah, just got out in time Say that fellow you were drinking with at the bar one to your compartment with you. Is he still in there? My compartment I'm pretty sure he's Elbert E. Taylor murdered his wife in Miami. He's still there. Why yeah, I Know he left a few minutes before the crash. Oh, well, you better get on ahead mr. Brown I got to get my hand here you make it up to the crossing. Yeah, I guess so I'll take it easy. There's a highway restaurant up there. Sure. I'm okay. Thanks. Okay, Brown Take it easy. Oh, Elbert you stand there days for a minute watching the fire move closer Then you decide to take a chance Crawl back to Leslie Jameson's body take his wallet his ring and watch Exchange them for your ring and watch engraved to Elbert with all my love Helen Then as the flames move close you find his briefcase and bag and crawl out with them Ten minutes later you stagger into the highway restaurant at the great crossing Say I uh, I wonder if you can help me. I yeah hurt mr. We got a dock in the back room. Come on. No, no, no, I'm all right I just want to get out of here. I thought I could hire a car get a bus to your you were in the wreck mr Yes, well look, I I'm the news correspondent here. Could you give me your name, please? I'm uh, I'm Leslie James. Uh-huh Leslie James Hey, wait a minute. Aren't you the fellow who writes those murder mysteries? Yeah, yeah, that's right. Well if that ain't a coincidence Frank. Yeah only last night you and me made that bet Well, sure now we can settle it once and for all Yeah, we was betting which one had turned out to be the murder in that magazine cereal you're running. Yeah, well That's very flattering say I I wonder if you could help me about the bus I mean we'll say mr. Jameson could you give us an advanced tip on the murder? Yeah, then I won't have to wait for the magazine to come out tomorrow to collect from this guy It says you who was it mr. Jameson who? Well, I don't think it would be fair to reveal being you give me a fast coffee William. Yeah, sure Griggins.  Well, I gotta stand by this counter. Yeah, and I'm a reporter pal. This is where they're bringing them This is where I get my stories. Yeah, and I was getting the story of it How do you feel brown brown? Well, that's Leslie Jameson the writer. I thought your name was brown well, uh, of course I Yeah, you know how it is. Here's your coffee. Thanks No, mr. Brown. I don't know how it is. How is it Jameson famous mystery story writer Traveling incognito Narrowly escaped death when you see Rick. It's I yeah, I didn't want people to know. Oh I get we've been reading mr. Jameson serial murder and haste.  Yeah, sure got to the new stand in Miami Oh, we ain't got it here yet. Well, come on mr. Jameson. Who done? Yeah, well, uh, I don't want to spoil the story for you You gotta finish it. Uh-huh, right. We won't buy another copy of that magazine, huh? Yeah, come on Jameson Well, you see gentlemen, it's a It's a matter of ethics a writer. What do you mean ethics? I know how it is sure Jameson sure I can tell the boys I got a space from the author's mouth. Oh, come on What go well? I don't want to review. I got you a car lieutenant.  I got some unfinished business up there I'm hiring a car. I'd like to get somebody sharing the driving but Jameson sure you said you were going to New York Didn't you Jameson? Well as a matter of fact the bus. Come on. Give me a hand in the driving, huh? Well All right good But first give the boys a break tell them who the murderer. Yeah, I'm sorry. It's against my principles Well, it's your business. Come on That was the old lady who did it. I know it. Hey me You got a hotel space in New York Jameson. Well, not yet. I I thought I'd arrange when I arrived. Oh Haven't been around much lately. I see probably in the room to be at that bed worst Well, I think I might be able to fix it up for you at the midtown. I know the manager there Oh, I couldn't possibly forget it Jameson. It's glad to help you out Can you fix them up water? I think so just signed the register mr. Jameson Leslie Jameson the writer. Well, why didn't you say so? Look, I don't want to put you on I'm since we're honored mr. Jameson. I'm a mystery fan myself I want to tell you that murder and haste had me fooled right up to the last page Peters ever this is mr. Leslie Jameson yet the boys over want to take a few pictures right pictures now wait a minute I don't want any pictures towards mr. Jameson just a couple of boys from the papers I know you're tired, but it won't take long and oh Peters. Yeah, I have some flowers set up to mr. Jameson's room. We'll have the pictures taken there Peters is our press agent mr. Jameson. He'll take care of you. Well, mr. Jameson right this way Now look here Peters You look like a reasonable man. I never have my picture taken and I don't intend to stand for it now I you don't know New York newspaper photographers mr. Jameson is much easier if you give in What'll happen if I refuse you'll find out And you did find out didn't you Elton you were helpless. There was nothing you could do They came they saw they took pictures and all you could do was rage and try to keep your face covered And that only made a better story for them. They were delighted Elbert The next day there are pictures of you and the tabloids hiding your face under the caption Leslie Jameson mystery author stages publicity scene in the room at Midtown Hotel The second page of the same paper carries news that you Elbert Taylor wanted for the murder of your wife in Miami perished in the train wreck But you're all mixed up now aren't you Elbert? You almost wish Helen was with you again to make the decisions for you like she used to and then suddenly there's nothing for you To do the decision is all made Yes Yes, mr. Jameson's on her way up All right, your wife, I assumed it would be all right to tell her. Oh, oh, yes Leslie Well What are you? Maybe I'd better come in Well Well, what? What are you gonna do about it?  Aren't you mr. Whatever your name is. I suppose I am how did you expect to get away with it after all the publicity? Where is he? What have you done to him now? Wait a minute. This is Jameson. I can explain everything maybe you'd better Your husband was killed in that train wreck in Florida. I Yeah, I had reasons for wanting to disappear. So I took his identity. I Never meant to keep it up If you'll just just what? Look, there's nothing we can do for your husband now. He was killed in the wreck Believe that don't I don't know Look, I'm gonna believe town I Asked us that you forget you ever saw me. Oh What are you going to do well, I couldn't go to the police of course. Oh wait a minute. I I can make it worth your while Stop tempering Does anyone know you're here in New York? No, that's very fortunate You see Leslie and I didn't get along the matter of fact. We've been separated for some time He said he was cutting me out of his will It's Leslie dead. I don't get anything at all But it's Leslie alive. Wait a minute you wouldn't why not he could retire right now and live on his royalties without doing another lick You mean you want me to keep this up?  I know his signature I can imitate it perfectly. I know his background like a book You may as well get used to it Mr. Jameson, I tell you I won't do it It's It's the most fantastic thing I've ever heard of the lieutenant Ricketts down in the lobby He seemed quite interested in our relationship if you like of course.  Look at these bills. Just look at them. I haven't got a penny. Are you all through? There's your quarterly royalty check to tomorrow. Well, that'll only pay part of the bills It's not paying anything darling. That's going into my account. I see Maybe you've got a fast way of getting out from under these bills That's you Not mine Well, what is it now? I'm afraid it's the same old thing dear. I just can't seem to hold on to money How much this time quite a bit I'm afraid I Want $25,000? What are you talking? I have an obligation to meet I need the money this afternoon before the banks close And don't tell me it isn't there because the check covering movie rights to stolen murder was deposited yesterday You know You make very good sense. You'd better hurry down to the bank. It's after two Be honest with me How long do you intend to carry on with this? Indefinitely dear, I know when I have a good thing There's no end. There is if you want one I Could be decent about it, you know I could have been plenty without bleeding me to I think I've been pretty fair with you six months Getting nowhere afraid all the time dagger hanging over my head what's happened to you get hold of yourself. No way out now is there Trapped run into a corner. No way to turn. Albert. What are you doing? Albert get away from me Yeah Just a minute. I'm sorry. I'm in a hurry Jamison aren't you? Yes, and I hurry. I yeah, I'm on my way to the bank. It closes in a few minutes Take your time as always tomorrow, you know, but but I can't I've got a wife's upstairs, isn't she? Well, I saw her go up a few minutes ago. I'm Sergeant Lake Jamison. I want to see her and I like to have you along After you The whistler will return in just a moment with the strange ending to tonight's story Meantime a message especially for you drivers who have new cars or expect to be getting one Just any motor oil won't do, you know for today's high efficiency motors. No sir They need special protection against corrosion wear and carbon if they're to give you the long trouble-free service You have a right to expect That's why signal has brought out a new and finer motor oil Especially created to give modern motors this extra protection Of course signal premium has 100% pure paraffin base But in addition a total of five scientific new compounds have been added to signal premium motor oil As a result actual tests prove that this new type signal oil keeps motors six times cleaner and reduces cylinder Wear one-third get that motors actually stay six times cleaner and cylinder wear is reduced one-third with signal premium motor oil So if you want to keep the performance of your car young make your next oil change a change for the better Switch to the new type signal oil that you're guarantee of a sweeter running motor signal premium motor oil Now back to the quistler And that's how it ended Elbert with the two of you you and Sergeant Lake Standing over Ruth's body where you left it on the floor of your apartment upstairs It's over now and somehow you feel relieved the hounding the fear the dagger hanging over your head They're gone now and you lean back in the chair and Sergeant Lake's office at police headquarters and tell them the whole thing I couldn't take any more. I Know what it go on for the rest of my life Day after day year after year.  Yeah, that's why I was following her and she knew it. Oh and incidentally That's why she hit you for that 25,000 bucks this afternoon. It was the last big bite What there were plane tickets in her purse. She was on her way out You'll meet her with the last time. That's right But what I can't figure is why you let her shake you down in the first place After the jam she was in in Buenos Aires Wait, she she was the assistant, of course, she was your assistant down there. What's the matter Jameson the laps of memory or something The train that night just before the wreck. Tell me sergeant. Yeah Down there in Buenos Aires What was it she did you have lost your memory Jameson And was all over Argentina six months ago. That's why I've been following her. I was all ready to pick her up She's wanted down there for murder Let that whistle be your signal for the signal oil program the Whistler eat Wednesday night at the same time Brought to you by the signal oil company marketers of signal gasoline and motor oil and fine quality automotive accessories Signal has asked me to remind you to get the most driving pleasure drive at sensible speeds be courteous and obey traffic regulations It may save a life possibly your own featured in tonight's story were David Ellis and Joan Banks Whistler was produced by George W. Allen with story by Eleanor Beeson and music by Wilbur hatch It was transmitted to our troops overseas by the armed forces radio service Next Wednesday for a full hour of mystery over most of these stations tune in a half hour earlier Enjoy the same as well as the Whistler Marvin Miller speaking This is CBS the Columbia broadcasting system


Wave, listen to me. The stage is Sapporo Hokkaido. One night, Minare Kota spills her heartbroken woes to a radio station worker she meets while out drinking. The next day, she hears a recording of her pitiful grumbling being played live over the air. Minare storms into the station in a rage, only to then be duped by the station director into doing an impromptu talk show explaining her harsh dialogue with just one recording. The many eccentric facets of Minare's life begin to pull every witch direction as she falls ever deeper into the world of radio. Hey everybody, welcome back to a week in geekdom here on YouTube. We're doing another first impressions video, and I am so excited that we finally have not only a manga, because the manga came out a while ago, I think 2014, but we finally have an anime that centers around my line of work. That's something I have been wanting for ages. Ever since I discovered what anime was, or manga, I've always wanted a manga to take place in a radio station. Why? Because this medium that we all love, anime, manga, you know, they're interchangeable, really. I've always been fascinated that the Japanese creators have this uncanny ability to take any subject matter and create a story around it that we're so used to western stuff being more generic and tropey. It's such a breath of fresh air, and ever since I discovered that fact about anime and manga, I've always said, dang, I mean, I want something to do with radio because that's where I work. I've worked in radio stations, so I know my way around that stuff. This story is quite hilarious. It's a Senen series, and I love the animation style. It's so cool to me that it can be taken seriously, and it looks fantastic. The characters are mature looking and refined, and it gives off an elegance to an otherwise wacky, bizarre story. You have the character of Minare, and she, like I said at the beginning, she got dumped and is drunk at a bar and starts spewing out this monologue of her hatred for men and all the rungs that have happened in her life, and you know, she's talking to this radio executive that she doesn't know who he is and barely knows him for a couple hours at this bar. And he, kind of a dickish move, records the whole thing, and then later at the station plays the recording in a segment about ridiculous public encounters of people talking nonsense and public opinion hours, something like that, more of a comedy than anything. And when she hears it, the day after, after getting over on a hangover and getting past the breakup, first we do know that she works at, I believe it was an Italian themed restaurant, I might be wrong on that, but she hears her recording playing in the radio and she storms into the offices of that radio station and demands an explanation, and instead the quick-witted radio team, they put her on live and turn on the mic and she basically starts explaining her thing, life on the air. It's a very simple premise, I practically summarized the entire episode. There are some things added in that will confuse a lot of people who do not know anything about this series, the beginning where she's reading about this deadly encounter with a bear, it makes sense later on that when you find out that she is reading lines, you know, recording lines for a radio thing. So yeah, I mean part of the charm of the series obviously is the character interactions, the character works as I like to mention, and the story beats how it facilitates for one character to interact with another, and it's all done in a really realistic sort of way. It reminded me of watching a rom-com movie or a drama or something, it didn't feel like I was watching an adaptation of a manga, and I liked it, I love that a story can do that and I love that it's animated and it shows the power of animation and what it can do and how you're able to create and craft any story that you want, whether it's an absurd plot like this, you know, radio being the main focus of the story is highly appealing to me, I love it, and it makes me relate to the situation, it makes me relate to the characters. There's just one joke where the mixer obviously, you know, he's mixing the audio and he makes the commentary like, oh man, this is going to be a pain to mix and I get it, I completely understand, I got you bro. But overall the cast of characters is pretty fantastic, Minare is a wonderful character, I love how expressive and the voice actress, which I do not know her name, I think it's Rihosugi Yama, I'm reading off a list here. She does a fantastic job of bringing this character to life and her vocal interactions with the other characters is fantastic, how energetic and expressive she is and it's extremely complimented by the animation. If you would have gotten a subpar team, trust me, it would have not made an impression on me, so I think they really did a good job. The animation is clean, crisp, precise, everybody looks refined and beautiful and in a kooky bizarre kind of way, the story is eccentric enough where I am intrigued and want to continue watching the series and yeah, I made it for the long haul, I'd love the premise and I love the characters and I cannot wait to see what the story takes off, especially with the whole bear scenario, I cannot wait for more. I think Wave Listen to Me is an exceptional usage of anime as a means to give you an otherwise untellable story, if that makes any sense to you guys. I think it's very special or maybe it's just that I'm biased because I love radio, I love audio production and all that stuff. Have you seen Wave Listen to Me the first episode? Let me know down below. If not, tell me what are some of your favorite slice of life unordinary manga, very interesting in finding out. Guys, as always thank you for liking, commenting, subscribing and being a part of what we can geek them. 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Wendy Loh and I'm your Zoom buddy as we journey to take your health back we are coming to you live from isolation from my home office in my apartment and from the studios of Think Tech Hawaii in downtown Honolulu. Today our topic of discussion will be on getting healthy as we grow up with the Tower Gardens and you'll get what I mean when you see it. The Tower Gardens every line in Hawaii and the world should have one. What I would like you to take away from today's discussion is while we remain in isolation and being good stewards in our homes or when these lift the stay at home ban we should all be thinking about how should we take our health back. Okay we got to think about that so by growing at home and controlling everything possible to produce the best vegetables that we can start to take our health back we have the solution for you. Join us with this hashtag grown not flown movement and get involved with the I love local issues Hawaii campaigns. Today we are very blessed to have a special young man his name is Derek Chan and he is from a company called Tower it Up. A company that provides ceilings for those of you that want the perfect ceilings to successful growing. Tower it Up offers a variety of services from maintenance of your towers if you don't have time or if you just a bit lazy call Derek and he'll come and assist you help guide you and as well as once you all are thinking of putting up a tower farm and you just don't know gee I don't know if I can take all that responsibility can somebody help me with that. Yes call Tower it Up and that would be Derek and he is has a wealth of knowledge for this young man and he'll come to your home or to your farms and he'll assess what your situations are and he'll be right there Johnny on the spot so welcome Derek. Thanks for having me back on the show Wendy. Oh yeah it's a pleasure to have you here and you know Derek I know you didn't go to school for egg or for farming where did your desire and your passion come from for planting and planting with the tower gardens. Well just to kind of give everyone a little background on me I moved here to Hawaii about three years ago and really when I came here I just wanted to get a change of scene and you know learn how to surf and kind of everything else after that was just a bonus for me but you know I was lucky enough to be introduced to you through a mutual friend and I remember when I first met you you know you took me in and started teaching me about health and you know at first I was kind of a little confused about what was going on and you showed me the tower gardens and I was like what is this thing and you know I just saw a bunch of little cubes kind of lying around and you know and then over time you know you kind of showed me what it was and I started to learn about it and you know I was lucky enough that my mom was really health-conscious and she made sure that you know we ate our veggies and we were healthy and I didn't really get it growing up but you know after I started you know learning from you it just kind of all started to come together for me. Wow I wish all young men and women were as brilliant as you are Derek that you understood and yeah you know growing up all mom mom mom and dad right but that you were able to put it together and realize the value of what you have in your head because because you were raised that way it was kind of easy for you to make better decisions than starting from scratch like myself at 43 years old I started eating healthier and I said bye-bye to the spam and the Vienna sausage and you know the likes of that but you were really blessed because you didn't have that and you don't desire to have it because that wasn't part of your diet is that correct? Right. So you didn't grow up with Sam Musubis right? I mean you know maybe now and then a little sneak it in there but yeah no but pretty much my mom made sure that we stayed on the Wow how lucky you are and Mrs. Chan bless you for doing such a great job your son is a magnet of health and wealth and so we just enjoy working together because of that upbringing. So Derek I want to talk to you about you know we're in isolation right now and people are calling you I understand you're like busier than heck because people are realizing that they want what you have they want they want to be healthy and they want to understand how do you how do you grow and what do you how do you do it all so where does it all start Derek? So it all starts with the seedlings so I think we have a picture of the seedlings so that was kind of the first my first introduction into the Tower Gardens I just started growing seedlings on my own and experimenting and I was failing a lot at first and my plants weren't growing and they were you know they look kind of flimsy and not so good right but eventually I started to get the hang of it and started to give seedlings to people and giving away some of the stuff that I grew on the Tower Garden to people and over time like I just saw that there was a demand like people people wanted this right they needed help starting seedlings because they were having some of the same troubles that I was having so eventually I thought you know this would be a great business that I could use to help people and eventually make your own. And you know Derek you you spent a lot of hours on the lanai and then planting seeds and I know you were talking to them I could hear you out there and that's what it takes you got to love them because they're gonna give us health and nutrients that our body needs but you really took a liking to these little seeds you know put a seed in the earth and watch it grow as our good friend Stephen Ritz would always say but you've done a you've come a long way I mean we all started where you did the seed and either they don't pop up you get disappointed you get discouraged but you kept at it and you've perfected it and you know I want to I know that you gave us a slide and we want to pull that up next and I tell you not only are your seedlings beautiful but this head of Manoa lettuce everybody on Facebook is raving about it because it not only is so beautiful but I know it's full of all the right nutrients our body needs so are you proud of that little baby there Derek oh yeah definitely you know it's it's hard to believe sometimes that just comes from those little seedlings and a girl's full blown into that but that's how it starts and that's kind of like a metaphor for a lot of things in life right you gotta it all starts with a strong foundation so for a planet all starts with a strong seedling want to make sure that it's growing right from the start and then from there it grows into a big nice head of lettuce wow I mean that's no other than when I go to the market and I see you know I look at the and I compare in fact you know I even have one here right I told you I wanted one and so look at that that's like one that thing is bigger than my head I mean Derek you're like growing it so big you got to get bigger bangs and and check out the roots you know this root system is just beautiful and I often when you give this to me Derek I often think oh my gosh we should actually be able to cut the roots off and stir fry the roots because that's where all the nutrient is absorbed so there must be something we can do with all those roots but you know it looks like it just looks like a beautiful bouquet and one of my girlfriends when you gave it to her she says oh when I get married that's gonna be my bouquet can you imagine I mean walking down the aisle with this bouquet and it's edible so that's the best part you won't waste it right okay so not only are you like growing the best ceilings and the lettuce and you've perfected it but I know that you want the keiki of Hawaii to be engaged with what you're doing so tell me what are some of the projects you're doing with your company towered up yeah we do a lot of talks and demonstrations we go around and we work with different nonprofits like the YMCA or with different schools like Yalani or the Kamehameha school yeah Kamehameha school they're wonderful yeah so that's that's our other that's really our mission is to you know start from providing feedlings and produce to people is to really educate people about the foundations of good health right and the foundation of good health is putting quality food into your body and that's what we have with the tower gardens it's the food that we produce with the tower gardens is the best food that you can put into your body wow you know that is so fabulous and I understand when a child is actively involved with growing it and watching the you know the journey from seedling to sprout you know into the tower and then seeing it become this I mean this is intriguing and unfortunately a lot of the inner city kids don't have this experience and so you know that we can bring this opportunities for them to see it and experience it and then taste it and that's just the beginning for these kids and this is what they're lacking in their diets the fresh food that is the nutrients for our bodies and so thank you Derek for having a passion for the cakey as well as providing a need the quality that you're providing and the level that you're playing at so we're really really proud of you and I know you've been blessed with the endeavors and all the energies and I know that we have some exciting news that we brought to Hawaii I know that there was a contest that we participated in and we brought it home for the people Hawaii and so tell us a little bit about that opportunity that state farm insurance provided for us yeah so last year around mid mid 2019 we actually entered a contest through state farm to win a grant and thanks to everyone out there who voted for us and supported our cause we won the grant from state farm to build Hawaii's first tower farm so we're really really excited really proud about that so a lot of good things to come yeah I mean that's a chunk of change I mean mahalo mahalo to state farm and locally you know I've been a state farm member all my driving life so I partnered with the right company yes I did but then they rewarded us with this opportunity to put your project together where we bring in the kuna and the keiki and we teach them how to grow we're teaching them how to grow up and healthy that's why this whole idea about growing up is so valuable to us because we're encouraging them that this is the direction we all want to go is up and how do we do that with right nutrients and the right food that we're producing in the food that's coming off of the tower garden so I'm so excited that we have that opportunity but you know Derek everyone's thinking you know what the heck are they talking about this tower garden who's towered up what is it so I know we you brought a little video with you and it'll show us basically how does the tower garden work and we have a cartoon rendering so people can understand how simple the tower garden is already tower gardens state-of-the-art aeroponic vertical garden system uses both water and air to produce more colorful better tasting and incredibly nutritious fruits vegetables and herbs tower garden has a 20 gallon reservoir at its base that stores the tower tonic nutrient solution developed by experts in plant and human nutrition tower tonic mineral blend enables superior plant growth and better nutrition from your tower garden produce the process begins once the seedlings have been placed in your tower garden here they will be nourished with tower tonic nutrient solution inside the reservoir is a small low wattage submersible pump the pump pushes the nutrient solution up through the tower to the top from there the nutrient solution drips through the central tower using a special device that evenly cascades the solution over the exposed plant roots on the journey down the tower the nutrient solution feeds the roots and becomes highly oxygenated as it cascades gently down the reservoir this process is continuous providing fresh oxygen water and nutrients to the roots of the plants this patented aeroponic process enables food crops to grow faster than they would in soil so they can be harvested more often and it makes tower garden the healthier easier smarter way to grow your produce wow I want one and that's my thought exactly when I first saw that video and I thought my goodness you mean even somebody like me I mean I'm I don't know about you Derek but I have never grown anything in my life if somebody would give me a pot of orchids when the last flower would drop I would toss it down the chute because it would grow nothing would grow with me I kill everything and have no confidence in growing and actually really no desire to grow anything until they're introduced to the tower garden and it made our lives so easy and made us full of confidence because like you said there put the seed in the little rock will watch it grow two weeks later we put it into the tower and then we have this three weeks later I mean like Derek how easy right yeah doesn't get any easier than this right I can I can relate I had no background in gardening or growing anything I think once I'm at my work I killed like I managed to kill a cactus so yeah so now go figure now I'm starting ceilings and growing lettuce and and you know becoming an urban farmer so if I can do it anyone can do it wow you know and it's so brilliant because you know I own a chocolate factory so the only thing brown in my nails were chocolate and so now I'm growing and I still don't have anything brown in my nails and I'm very excited about that but you know I know that with the $25,000 that we were awarded we have chosen to work with a nonprofit one of the IHS properties and it's called kaho kaho wiki village and the only hard work that I I know we had to do Derek and we did some hard work we sweated but we needed to make sure that the foundation like you mentioned was solid and right and so the only hard work that we had to do basically for this tar farm and we have pictures we have a picture of this where we actually worked with the dirt right Derek so tell us a little bit about that yep so we have evidence here that we in fact got our got our hands dirty and put some sweat equity into it it was it was a lot of hard work and digging out the weeds but again that's kind of a it's a good metaphor for for just life and improving wanting to improve yourself whether it's your health just taking out the weeds and removing all the old bad habits and and bad information and making way for for a new group new growth which is what we're doing with this our farm is taking out the weeds and so now the next step is to lay down the foundation for our farm that's that's so valuable and you know like for you coming from you and you had a very young age learning and seeing you know visually seen life right there you know like you said putting on the best foundation so that we can have the best farm you know from the very get go and basically what you were doing were we were just clearing away the weeds like you said flattening the earth and then now we're going to create a box right so it like a growing pad and that would be so wonderful that the target is can go on to the growing pad of gravel or whatever choice we decide on and that we can make sure the main thing is that we can shimmy it so it's lays a level and that's the most important part about the target and is that it lays level you know so the water has even flow up if it's at an angle one side has more water dripping than the other and that's not the best situation for the Tower Farm so one step at a time Derek and yeah it's taken taking some time but you know we had to we had to do it right right there's a lot of audience to make sure that we had covid and we had covid we went and we were six feet apart and we died and we didn't smell each other's sweat we kept our distance so so the the most important thing is that the base work is done I mean I know that we travel to many different tower garden farms to look see how easy or how difficult this whole thing was and we stumble apart upon a couple universities in California and the next slide will show us one of the university properties and maybe you should share a little bit about this Derek right so this was at the UCLA campus on the rooftop so this Tower Farm grows enough produce to feed the students in the cafeteria which is literally 10 feet away so those students they're getting the best produce possible right I mean most food travels thousands of miles to get to the final destination and here with the Tower Farms what they allow us to do is I like to call it hyper local farming so even better than local farm is hyper local the food doesn't even travel one mile before it gets to its final destination so here at UCLA I mean these these kids are getting the best of the best quality food and that's what we want to provide for the people of Hawaii with our Tower Farm is gonna be right in the middle of Honolulu and it's not it's not gonna travel even five miles by the time that it gets to the people that end up eating it and you know the other part too Derek like you mentioned you know less hands would have touched the food it's gonna be your hand and your hand alone and then putting it into a bag or to a container and off it'll go even to the restaurants or to the stores and the next person who touches it will be grabbing a bag with their lettuce in it so again COVID or no COVID that matters because our hands will be clean and it will be in the bag and no one else should touch your food yeah I think I heard that on average the produce that you buy at the grocery store is touched on average 11 times before it just gets to the store and then you have everyone who goes into the store and touches your food and picks up the lettuce puts it back down so you can just imagine how many people have touched it but again like you said with our Tower Farm we know exactly who's touching it and it's it's me and just me so wow that's exciting that I mean every step of the way makes a lot of sense and you know I know that you mentioned the Tower Garden itself is made of food grade plastic and it's not made with PVC so there's no real toxins that would float around in the water into the plants into our bodies so that's a main component I know you also mentioned if I'm correct it's ultraviolet protected twice so that means this thing won't cracker chip in the heat of Makaha or in the heat of a desert so your Tower Gardens should last you a lifetime as long as you maintain it you wipe it down and you just show it a lot of love so the system itself is so beautiful and simple and I know when I watched the video it has a drip system instead of a sprayer when I know before in the past when we use sprayers the sprayers would get clogged with all the residue and you know the mineral built up and so using a drip system we my towers are sitting on my balcony for the last eight years never got stuck up so all these little aspects just make for a perfect you know vehicle to grow great food and you know you spoke of UCLA and I know that Hawaii has always been a place where we want to just let it thrive and the one of the good opportunities is that we get to work with the CIP which is the Culinary Institute of the Pacific and they're very proactive there the Dean there is like he saw it in the mainland and he came back he says I want this and then we were introducing it to him he says oh my gosh the heavens there is a heaven and my dream has been answered and then what what happened after that Derek right so they they took a liking to the tower gardens they thought it was great and they still have one it's still there now and they they loved it so much that they decided to create a class just for it well it was called the farm the table and we we were there me and you to help out with that class and show people how they can literally go from seed to growing the produce to cooking with it so that's so empowering to be able to literally go from seed to your table and be able to control the entire cycle of where your food comes from I mean it doesn't get any better than that you know and in that slide the target and in the kitchen and with the students around it so yes they did go about and they clip most of the veg and you know reminded me so much of when I had my very excellent meal at the French laundry and the chef would go across the street and pick from the farm all the little gourmet little you know tender seeds or berries or shoots and he put in his basket and he come and of course it costed us an arm and a leg but worth every bit of it so everybody here in Hawaii can get that farm to table right on their balcony and it's just so simple and that's what intrigued me a lot is when I did experience the French laundry cuisine and so as I said I have that every morning for the last eight years Derek fresh kale smoothies five minutes owed into my body it is the ultimate best I couldn't ask for anything further so I'm excited that we are going to continue the journey with the KCC culinary Institute of the Pacific and the best is yet to come with them we're very wise to have figured it out and we're just excited yeah I also want to add to in the picture I don't know it's still up but it there was grow lights so for anyone who doesn't have an eye doesn't have a backyard and thinks that they can't grow big well now they can right these new LED lights are great the lettuce and herbs and you can even do tomatoes and cucumbers and other fruit and crops inside if you really wanted to as well so this eliminates the excuse for it for not being able to grow on your own everyone can can grow Wow exciting and you know Derek I remember when I we posted that slide of the groundbreaking at the Kahuiki village somebody was very inspired and this is what it's all about if we can inspire someone to want to be healthier and want to grow then we have accomplished our mission and this young man he lives in Hilo he lives in Hilo and he's actually the one-time poster boy for muscular dystrophy he was born and has never walked and he's on a wheelchair and he has the desire to start a tower garden farm in their front yard in Hilo and after they saw what we were doing Derek he was so inspired and he said mom you got that check right you got that check in the mail from them from the president can we put it to good use and so they invested it and they now are going to be one of the first tower garden farms in Hilo inspire but by what we were doing here and there was this idea came about only ten days ago it was dirt it was a raw dirt and weeds and then they dug it up and then the family invested in the cement they poured their slab already and they have like nine tower gardens or is it eight right there I think I thought they had nine oh they have nine so they have nine tower gardens and it's gonna go it's up already and they're waiting for the seeds to get sprouted and when it does then the people on that island who are so deadly afraid of the rat lung worm because it's just all over in Hilo and on that side of the island it's just crazy wild and disgusting but they're figuring out how they are allowing no rat lung worm into their little farm into the the food source that they're going to create for the people there so I'm so proud of you Jax and Jessica and the family their brothers so this would be one of the first special needs farms he is on a wheelchair and he's determined to make this happen of course with his family his mom and his dad and his brothers they're going to help him do harvest the upper levels and he will be able to grow the seedlings and the lower ones that he can reach while on his wheelchair so to shave for you Jax we're so proud of you and we're gonna watch you grow so that's the kind of stories Derek you are inspired and by what what you're doing you know creating all these different classes with the kids if we can inspire one we inspire Jax we inspire one more one more that means one more healthy child one more healthy family at a time and if we have to do one at a time that's exactly what we're going to do right Derek right yeah this is I mean that's exactly what we what we got into this for is to inspire and to educate people and the fact that someone saw what we were doing and was inspired enough to put up a farm I mean they put that up in like what a few days and then it's already up I mean that's amazing that's amazing we're really reaching people and really gives gives me a lot of hope and it keeps me going and is keeping me excited for the future yeah Derek and you know what I'm gonna show off your lettuce again this is my no lettuce guys with the roots Derek you should be very proud of yourself because you created this and there's much more to come this is just the beginning and I'm really really excited that people can if they want just you know private message Derek on tower it up and they can get this as well and he's gonna be right there hands-on to teach you and to provide you with seedlings so don't be shy okay I know everyone hasn't been so this is really a good opportunity to want more and to have more so for now Hawaii for now Derek Mahalo for joining us Mahalo for your inspiration and your diligence on wanting more for the people who might eat Mahalo to you and everybody stay safe all right this is all gonna pass and we'll all we're all in it together we're gonna come out with flying colors because everything there's a rainbow at every at every end of the rain at every end of the storm so just hang in there guys hello everyone