to Hawaii together on the Think Tech Hawaii Broadcasting Network. I'm Joe Kent, Executive Vice President at the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii, and I'm filling in today for Kele Iakina. He's the president and CEO of the Grassroot Institute. Well, Hawaii has a goal of making 100% of its electricity from renewable energy by the year 2045. But is that feasible? Well, if you were sitting in the blackouts like me earlier in January, you might be puzzled as to whether or not the state can actually hit that goal. And that's the topic of this show. Isaac Orr is my guest. He's a policy fellow in energy and environment policy at the Center for the American Experiment in Minnesota. And he holds degrees in political science and geology from the University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire. Thanks for joining me, Isaac. Hey, Joe. Thanks for having me on the show. Happy to be here. So how did you get involved with the topic of energy policy? Yeah, yeah, it goes back to my environmental geology class. Well, it goes back further than that. So I grew up in a small family dairy farm in Wisconsin. And every summer when it would get really hot, the cows would get thirsty and they'd basically drink down the water pressure in our well. So I'd get done like cleaning peg pens or bailing hay. And I wouldn't be able to take a shower in the house because there was no water pressure.  And I always knew that there was a, you know, very political aspect to the way that our energy decisions get made, and our, you know, mining decisions, landfill permitting stuff. So it really kind of, you know, was a sweet spot for both of my interests. And here I am today. Well, that's awesome. And you're from my neck of the woods. I grew up in Minnesota. And actually, I remember in college, they started building a bunch of wind farms and solar farms. And so I went around and asked, you know, a lot of questions about whether or not these things were feasible. And the answer that I kept getting over and over from every source was, well, it only is feasible because of government handouts. And that's, so do you, do you, is that still the case? That was a long time ago, but is that still the case generally, do you think? Yeah, it still is the case, Joe. And it's going to be really tough for that to not be the case. Warren Buffett said, the only reason that we build wind turbines is because we get the wind production tax credit, which is a subsidy, right? And ultimately, a tax credit, Joe, is better than cash because if you got direct cash transfer, you'd have to pay taxes on that. So the tax credit just cancels out your taxable or income or liability, sorry. So the inflation reduction act that was passed, reestablished this tax credit for wind turbines and solar panels. It had a whole bunch of other goodies in there, too, for electric vehicles. So essentially, all of the, quote unquote, green technologies that we use or we see on the roads or in the field every day is basically underwritten by the taxpayer. And if those supports were to go away, I think that we would see a lot less wind, a lot less solar and a lot fewer electric vehicles on the road. Well, I was thinking about all of that during the blackouts in January. My family and I were just sitting in the dark wondering when the lights would come out. We're looking for candles and along with the rest of Honolulu. Now, according to Hawaiian Electric Company, which is the state's monopoly utility company, the reasons for the blackouts were, let's see, cloudy conditions and light winds that caused the solar and wind power sources to stop producing energy. And then the electric company's backup batteries also ran out and couldn't be repowered. Then you've got the company's two oil fired generators, which went offline. And then the island's waste incinerator power plant had less power than expected. So with all of that, what sort of questions should Hawaii's Public Utilities Commission and state lawmakers be asking about this goal to reach 100% reliance on renewable energy by the year 2045? Yeah, they should really be asking what will it cost and at what price in terms of reliability. So the AES coal plant that was shut down very recently was 185 megawatts. If that plant had still been online, would you have had the blackouts? And we don't know the answer to that question because Hawaiian Electric didn't tell us. We asked them a few questions via email. And they didn't say how deep the blackout was in terms of how many megawatts was the shortfall. But we can't know whether that plant would have been on outage. So December is typically January and December are typically times when there isn't a lot of electricity demand in Hawaii. So the power company makes the very rational decision to do maintenance on the plants that they depend on to keep the lights on. What you're saying is that we all switch our air conditioners off in January and December. So we should have a lot of extra reserve. Yeah, absolutely. The demand isn't as high and that reserve got taken away by the weather not cooperating. I think that that is number one A, a problem that Hawaii needs to think good and hard about. But also you have to plan for your plants to be down at some point. And if you are depending on the whims of the weather, it's kind of like dirty, hairy energy policy. You just have to ask yourself, do you feel lucky? And eventually you're going to get unlucky. That's just the way that it works. Well, but don't we try to mitigate against that luck by having a buffer? I read somewhere that Hawaii is supposed to have a 30% buffer for reserve power just in case anything happens. But now renewables are making up around 30% of the grid on Oahu at least. So if the renewables go out because it's a cloudy day or there's no wind, then does that eat into the buffer? So the main reason the buffer was gone during the storm was there was a short circuit and one of the oil fired plants and then the transmission line to another one was down. So every utility has their own different way that they plan for that reserve margin that you were talking about, that buffer. So in the Midwest where I live, the utility company says, well, we think that the wind is going to be about 18% reliable when we need it most. And we think that solar will be available 50% of the time when we have a summer peak, right? Because here we have air conditioning, that's when we have the most power demand. And it's really going to boil down to how Hawaiian Electric evaluates the reliability of its wind, solar, and battery storage facilities. So one of the things that happened was it had been cloudy or rainy for a series of days. So that battery that was supposed to replace the reliability of the coal plant that got shut down was only about 80% charged. And we also have to keep in mind that that battery can only discharge its maximum amount of 185 megawatts. So basically you can only floor that battery for three hours before it's completely drained, whereas a coal plant has probably a month or two worth of fuel on site. So you could go for days, weeks, maybe months without having to ramp it down if you have the demand there. So we need to recognize that these these different technologies do not have the same reliability value to the grid. And more and more the grid and technologies like batteries are relying on renewables, which are weather sensitive. And so as we get more and more of our grid and power make up coming from weather dependent sources, then we're going to be even more sensitive or vulnerable towards, you know, inclement weather.  And so and it couldn't be increased because the solar power wasn't there to to put in more power to the batteries, right? So, you know, is this even feasible is my is my bigger question. Is it even feasible to increase the percentage of renewables that Hawaii is dependent upon? Yeah, I'm sure that you would be able to increase it to some extent, right? You could build offshore wind facilities. You know, you have more land that you could use to put solar panels on. It's just a question of how much is that going to cost and how reliable is that going to be even after you build all of that stuff, right? Like the problem with wind and solar is that zero times anything is still zero. And sometimes the wind will be producing no power and the sun goes down every night. So you have these challenges, you can either build a lot of battery storage, which is very, very expensive. Or you can have something that's reliable and carbon free. You could go nuclear. You could go geothermal. Those would offer superior reliability attributes. And in the long run, they would be lower cost as a result of that higher reliability value. What about other states in Hawaii isn't the only state we were the first state to be 100% to have 100% mandate by the year 2045, but other states have that too. So are they also having problems with rolling blackouts? Some of them are, right? California is. California was having blackouts until the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission said that they could siphon power away from the Northwest that was supposed to be headed down to Arizona. So California has been very aggressive with their mandates for, quote, unquote, renewable energy. And they were actually going to be shutting down Diablo Canyon, their large nuclear facility there, until public out basically public pressure after the blackout said, look, this is carbon free electricity. Why are you shutting this down? So California has wised up a little bit. They're actually keeping some of their oil burning plants and their natural gas peaking plants that were scheduled to be shut down previously online because they realized that the politicians there don't like angry voters and not having power is one way to get a very angry voter. But Texas is having this same problem, right? So it doesn't matter what party is in power. It doesn't matter because this stuff doesn't necessarily work. It's based on the weather. So it doesn't matter if it's Republicans who are doing it or Democrats who are doing it. If you're relying on the whims of the weather for reliable electricity, eventually you're going to get snake eyes and you're going to have a blackout. So snake eyes meaning you're putting your state's energy at risk. So what do other states do then when their energy is jeopardized? Let's say they have a power plant go down and they might have to think about doing rolling blackouts just like we did. Do they have tools that we don't have? And how do they deal with that? Yeah, absolutely. That's a great question, Joe. So Hawaii has the misfortune of being an island and you don't have the ability to import power from neighbors, right? Texas is kind of like that in the same way. There's very limited transmission lines between Texas and the rest of the grid. So that's why Texas is also especially vulnerable to rolling blackouts, especially the parts in the Electric Reliability Council of Texas or ERCOT. So you can't just call up the neighbors. California says that they've reached a certain amount of renewable electricity, but when you look at the data, about a third of their electricity is imports. So when the sun goes down or the wind isn't blowing, they call up Arizona and Nevada and they say, hey, do you have any coal fire power or any natural gas fire power? We could really use some right now. And because Hawaii is far away from the mainland, it would be insanely expensive to build a transmission line out there. I don't even know if that's possible, frankly. So when it comes to having reliable power, you guys are kind of on your own out there. Hawaiian Electric, our state's monopoly utility company, has released some plans to provide Oahu with firm renewable energy. And I guess that's the big problem with renewable energy is you can't, it's not necessarily reliable, but there is one source at least of reliable firm power that's renewable and that's biofuel. And so apparently the electric company is considering converting some of its oil fired power plants to biofuel. So what's your take on that? Yeah, I mean, ultimately the cost of the biofuel plant and the reliability is going to be about the same as an oil plant. But how much is it going to cost to get the fuel for it? And ultimately, if that's higher than the diesel fuel or fuel oil that they're burning right now, I'd imagine it's not diesel. I imagine it's something lower grade than that. Then you're going to have higher electricity prices, right? So there's always, there's no solution. There's only tradeoffs. So if you go to biofuel, I don't know if you're going to be able to generate all of that fuel on Hawaii or whether you're going to have to be importing that from somewhere else. So ultimately, there's a lot of factors at play. I'm not aware of the specific proposals, but that's one option. And that's a better option, I think, than pretending battery storage is going to be able to get you through the cloudy and not very windy periods that will inevitably show up. But you mentioned it's the price. And that is the problem, I guess, with all of this is we have goals to have it be reliable and renewable, but also reasonable, reasonably priced anyways. It's hard to get all three of those things at the same time. Now, when it comes to batteries, we've got the Kapolei battery facility that you mentioned. And it's replaced supposedly the coal plant. But is it a long term solution? And what would be the problem of creating more of these coal plants? Or maybe that's a good idea. Or excuse me, more of these battery plants. Yeah. Yeah, I understood what you meant there. So battery storage facilities are good for smoothing out some of the dips and frequencies that happen on the grid. I think that Hawaii is going to be a really good test case for whether they are able to maintain grid reliability if you start to really depend on them more. And as far as long term solution, the expected useful life per lithium ion batteries is anywhere between 10 and 20 years. A lot of people say 15. So that is that's a big question mark right there. Because theoretically, you will have to replace that battery before the coal plant would have needed to get torn down, right? Because coal plants can last anywhere between 30 and 60 years if you take care of the plant. And that plant that was there, the 185 megawatt facility, was only 30 years old, right? It was a relatively young, healthy plant. And it was actually generating some of the lowest cost power on the island. It was much cheaper than the oil plants that stepped up to replace it. So I think that the jury is very much out on battery storage as a long term solution. I am skeptical. But you'll see, and we will be watching with baited breath. Well, but wouldn't it be better though for us to see what they do on the mainland over the next decade or two with all of these new renewable technologies, how they work out instead of doing it here first, and also being the first to deal with all the problems associated with it? Yeah, that would be a good way to look at it. You know, you could also look at Japan, right? Japan is restarting the nuclear reactors that they shut down in the wake of Fukushima. South Korea has a very robust nuclear sector, right? They build nuclear power plants for different countries all over the world. So, you know, there are options out there, realistic ones, but they all involve like having a reliable dispatchable power plant, right? And that's not what wind and solar provide.  But you basically have rising prices, declining reliability, and then you have increased risk or susceptibility to rising prices. So electricity prices in Hawaii in 2022 are super high because oil prices went through the roof, right? So, I think that, you know, if you can use more geothermal out there, awesome. That sounds like a really good, I mean, Iceland has a lot of geothermal and they're also on a volcano. So, like there are options out there. I just, I think that, yes, Hawaii would be best served by wait and see with heavily wind and solar grids because, you know, you guys are on your own out there. Well, that's interesting. You say that about geothermal. I mean, I was on the big island and I toured the geothermal plant there. And interesting, it was built a long time ago. It's really old technology, but it works pretty efficiently though. It powers a big chunk of the big island's energy makeup.  But, you know, right now, the politicians are really pushing solar. And there's a push to get people to add more solar to their roofs. The state's been encouraging this for a long time. And now they're changing, they're actually kind of changing the money or rates that solar panels can get for producing electricity. So, how does rooftop solar affect the grid? I mean, is there anything? We're talking really negatively about solar. There's nothing negative per se about solar. It's just that the mandate that there's be so much of it is the problem, would you say? Yeah, there are a lot of, so there's no free market for electricity and there never has been and there probably never will be, right? Unless we have some sort of wireless transmission of electricity from a power plant provider straight to your house, right? So, we have to kind of work within that framework or that mindset. And one of the problems with rooftop solar, not so much rooftop solar, but, you know, it's more expensive to produce electricity from a rooftop system than a utility scale system. Because you have a lot more smaller components, you have to work on somebody's roof, it's more hazardous in that way. You can't just have a large field where you have economies of scale, right? So, there's just certain things that make rooftop solar more expensive and it becomes kind of so expensive that it's not attractive as an investment. So, what utility companies and politicians have done in order to incentivize solar is generally a program called net metering, which allows you to sell your electricity back to the grid for the retail cost of it. And that's great if you own the solar panels on the top of your home, but that's not great if you don't because there are a whole bunch of different costs that go into maintaining the entire electric grid. So, you have to have the backup plants, right? So, what if it's not sunny? Then you have to have, you know, investment in the oil plants, the battery, the transmission lines, pay the employees and the distribution system. If you are getting the retail rate instead of the wholesale rate, you're not paying for any of that additional infrastructure that is necessary to make sure that you can buy power from the grid when the sun isn't shining and that you can sell it back to the grid when you're producing more than you need. So, ultimately, so you're saying that, let's say I'm a homeowner, I put solar panels on my house, on my roof, and I generate more, let's say I don't use my AC much, I keep the lights off in my house and I have all this extra power that I'm generating. I can sell that back to the grid and I get money and the rate, the money that I get is high compared to what I'm producing. Yeah, absolutely. So, the cost of generating, like, I'm just going to use Minnesota numbers because I'm more familiar with them. Like, just like, keep in mind everybody that the numbers will be different. But in Minnesota, we have a coal plant that produces electricity for about $30 a megawatt hour and $20 of that is the coal. So, the retail electricity rates in Minnesota are, let's just say that they're 10 cents a kilowatt hour to keep everything nice and even. So, I think that people who have solar panels on the roof should get paid the avoided fuel cost, right? So, they should get two cents per kilowatt hour back for the power that they're selling because you didn't have to burn coal, you saved money on fuel as a result of your solar panel, but you didn't get rid of the need to maintain the coal plant, you didn't get rid of the employees, you didn't get rid of the need to maintain all of that other infrastructure that pipes that power to your house when you need it. So, in order to be fair, you should have to pay for, pay your fair share of that investment too. And unfortunately, that's not what happens with net metering solar, which is why you had California come out and say, look, we really need to re-evaluate the way that we compensate rooftop solar owners because we are foisting a whole bunch of these extra costs onto low-income households and that's not what we want. Yeah, you said something earlier about the free market. There's no free market in energy and it reminds me of Ludwig von Mises, this famous economist once said that it's hard to run an economy without prices. And the price system tells you a lot of information about which things are more productive, more efficient than others. In the energy space though, since we don't really have a free market, we're kind of blindly picking winners and losers in the energy space. So, how do you know which ones should have been picked? Yeah, absolutely. So, what we'd like to do in Minnesota, because we have an existing grid, like none of this stuff happens in a vacuum, you can look at federal energy regulatory commission data that tells you how much each power plant is producing electricity for and you can compare that to what you would potentially replace it with, right? So, they have metrics called the levelized cost of energy, which are interesting, but they're not complete, right? Because you can't really compare the cost of an oil burning plant to a solar panel because you're going to have a much lower fuel cost and maybe it's a lower overall cost for the solar panel while it's generating, but when it's nighttime, you still need that extra capacity online. So, you really have to be making sure that you're looking at the apples to apples comparison, like do these provide the same reliability value to the grid? And that's kind of where you need to start, which is always why I say, go nuclear, set it and forget it, it's Ron Popiel and then you can reach your carbon goals while also having electricity at night. You know, there was a commentary recently in the Honolulu Star Advertiser that said that climate change creates disproportionately greater negative social, economic and health impacts on underprivileged groups and that our solutions must not only solve climate change, but also address these disparities, the disparities on underprivileged groups. But does the statements like that suggest that the writers are ignoring the benefits of fossil fuel energy sources though? I mean, in other words, there are some benefits to, even though fossil fuel might have some negatives, there's some pluses too, right? Oh, absolutely. It's reliable, affordable electricity around the clock, right? So, when you look at the policies that the folks who want to transition to renewable energy are implementing, those costs basically are going to be borne disproportionately by those same low income families that they were talking about in terms of climate change, right? So, if you're going to be increasing the cost of heating your house, running your air conditioner by going all wind and solar, or if you're a low income household and you lose an entire refrigerator worth of food because there was a blackout, that is going to impact a low income household far more than some wealthy people that live in a gated community. So, ultimately, they need to be worried about the impacts of the climate policies that they are implementing because they are essentially raising prices on those who can least afford it and putting them most at risk of feeling the negative consequences of blackouts. But that commentary actually also was calling for a carbon tax and there are people at the legislature right now calling for a carbon tax. Now, assuming that eliminating carbon is truly like a really good desirable goal, is a carbon tax the best way to achieve that? In a vacuum, maybe, right? But that's never where we actually live. There's always going to be a subsidy. There's always going to be a mandate. There's always going to be somebody that wants to basically phase out one fuel or promote another. So, like, I think in a perfect world, maybe that would be an acceptable way to go about it, but we don't live in that perfect world. So, I would say no. And let's not forget that Hawaii has among the highest energy bills in the nation. I think we are the highest, actually, about three or four times what they pay on the mainland. So, any carbon tax, I assume, would be passed on. But we'll have to leave it there. Isaac, or thanks so much for joining us today. Yeah, thanks for having me. I appreciate it. And thanks to all the viewers for watching this episode of Hawaii Together. We'll be back in a couple weeks. I'm Joe Kent. Aloha.


Bismillah al-Rahman al-Raheem and Islamic in Pakistan. Welcome back to corporate governance. We are having some very interesting sessions in the comparison of corporate governance codes in the countries of Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka and Pakistan. We've been seeing how the board of directors, how the audit committee, how the remuneration committee and also the nomination committee have a difference between all four countries. In many areas, we see that there are gray areas and ambiguity even in Pakistan. And what we can learn is that through this comparison, maybe those gray areas should be covered in our corporate governance codes learning from India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. So again, it is a cross-learning process. It is also a process of ensuring better implementation and better governance. So that is what we are looking at today. We're going to go on to part three, which is going to basically look at the rights of shareholders, disclosure and some other miscellaneous issues. Now, when we look at the participation in the decision regarding fundamental corporate change, then in Bangladesh and Pakistan, it is not specifically covered while in India and Sri Lanka it is covered. And again, we see that the rights of this shareholder is extremely important. Voting rights, not specifically covered in Bangladesh amazingly, but properly covered in India, Sri Lanka and Pakistan and asking questions in the annual general meeting is not covered in Bangladesh again, giving a lot of gray area while in India, Sri Lanka and Pakistan, we see that it is adequately covered protection regarding whistleblowers not covered in Bangladesh and not covered in Sri Lanka, but adequately covered in Pakistan and India. Actually, I would like to mention over here that when we're talking about whistleblowers, then whistleblowing is basically when someone tends to highlight some corruption, some nepotism, some favoritism, some unnecessary wastage, some dereliction of duty or something wrong which is being done within the company and that goes against the ethical codes and the values and the different code of conduct of that particular organization. Now, again, what we see is that when we're talking about protection, then in Pakistan, it is even covered through the NAB laws and it is also covered through the different company laws that exist within Pakistan and therefore, what we see is that now a new law has also been drafted and that law is specifically called the protection of whistleblower. So again, what we see is that very adequately covered in Pakistan and therefore, this is something good and this is a very important instrument to ensure good governance and also eradication of corruption. Ladies and gentlemen, moving a little bit ahead in the comparison, employee participation not specifically covered in Bangladesh but adequately covered in India, Sri Lanka and Pakistan obtaining a certificate of compliance status. Well, it's affirmative across all four countries disclosure to significant material change. Again, it is covered across Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka and Pakistan disclosure related to internal control. It's the same across all four countries and it is adequately covered and then disclosure related to party transactions. It is adequately covered between all four countries. So ladies and gentlemen, what we see is is that when we talked about the board of directors when we talked about the audit committee and the demuneration committee and the nomination committee and then we move towards the shareholders and disclosure and other related issues then we see in Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka and Pakistan there are more similarities than there are differences. The differences are very small, minute and in some areas insignificant but definitely there is a lot which all of us can learn from each other. There is a similar culture. There's a similar texture of doing business. There's a similar mindset of doing business. So therefore, all four countries Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka and Pakistan can learn from each other and especially Pakistan can adopt those different guidelines in which it has not covered something or it is partially covered or there is some gray area or some ambiguity. We can learn from all of them and then a very important area is that we develop case studies all four countries and then we can share them between ourselves so that they can be more protection which is given to the stakeholders and to the shareholders and then also most importantly to the company so that they can do good business and they can be fair competition and they can be the value of meritocracy and honesty and truthfulness in the corporate sectors of Pakistan, Sri Lanka, India and Bangladesh. Thank you so much.


Run it up, do run it back, yeah.  Run it up, do run it back. Really, you guys love me. Chandler. You're there. OK, fine. Thank you, Shoms. Shoms is my only friend. Happy Monday. This is Run It Back. And yes, everyone is in studio. Can you even believe it? Stadium insider, Shoms Harania. Chandler Parsons. And Lou Will. NBA legend, Lou Will, back on the end over there. Yeah, we saw you all weekend long out in Vegas. Did you like that on the Shack Cam and all that good stuff? I had a good time. It was cool. Did you have fun being a trader? Yeah. I missed you guys. Say that I missed you guys. Shoms, you never do anything wrong. I have nothing to pick. Actually, no, maybe you did, depending on who you ask. How did you break the Ohtani news? How? I think, you know, a lot of big stuff happens around sports. So we stay tuned.  Do people get territorial? Because I was dying. Baseball, football, you know. You did a football trend, too, right? A lot of upset people, for sure. You love it, so. What can't he do? He quicker than that. They got a good look. Sorry. This fall, he's good at his job. He's on here. All right. So yeah, if you don't know, we are going to start just really, really quickly, because the amount of money is astronomical. Chandler money. He got Chandler money. He really did. She guys are so sweet. Lou, that money. 10 years, $700 million is the richest contract ever in North American sports. I can't stop smiling at any of my money. Can we, all of our, all your kids are going to start playing baseball, right? Oh, my son's taking grounders right now in the backyard. This is the sport to play. Yes, indeed. Can you believe it? Hey, he's got them doing ground ball right now. Turning two. 6 AM, 7 AM stints. You better believe he's going to be on it. Here's the thing, because I, the joke of media, it was like, what about taxes? Yeah, we get it. They're really bad. I mean, I even made the joke, because they are really bad out here. But he could have, I guess, gone to a state without taxes. Is that ever, we always wonder, is that a consideration when you guys are looking at deals and what's available? Somewhat, but we were having a discussion off-camera. You play in certain markets, or you look at certain markets, no amount of money is worth being there, being miserable, losing, snowing, cold. And so you tend to deal with those tax breaks. Call some out, Lou. Call some out, Lou, real quick. Like, we're naming three. We got enough small markets that hate this show as it is. That's a great point. All right, I'll tell you, I signed a deal on Memphis, and it was the most miserable I've ever been and the most money I've ever made. So, no, I would rather him be in LA, make the bread, be happy, because your life matters more than the money. And if you could thug it out, and then, now your life, now my life is great. But those three years, ooh, brutal, Michelle. I mean, I hope he can piece it all together for 700. And he doesn't have to move? It just goes to the other city straight there. That we've said something crazy about Memphis. They gonna hate us for sure. Oh, too. That's my hometown. What if you have to go to Memphis for a second? You're dead. I have to go. See, you have to go, but you should bring. I'll never go again. Oh, look, I'm like, hey, I'll never go again. Blackout. OK, fine. Let's get to the game over the weekend that we got really serious for a second. Man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man.  This was a dominant performance, 41, 25, and four. LeBron, of course, was ageless, 24, 30, for Austin Reeves just went ahead and threw 28 points in there, 22 of those coming in the first half. It was a bit of a bummer for the Pacers. They had a moment where they could have done it. But, man, when Andy is having that kind of a game, first of all, it makes you realize, like, when he doesn't have those games, how much we missed that. But who can beat him if he's like this? It's tough. And when he plays that level, it automatically makes them a contender, right? The way he dominated both ends of the floor, the way he just neutralized Miles Turner and got him in foul trouble early, it does. It makes you scratch your head because you want to see this more, right? You want this more consistent. And you can see this wasn't just a normal game for him. And he was getting the crowd hyped up. He was beaten on his chest. He was all over the offensive glass, like that. I mean, again, kudos to Adam for the end season tournament. But that intensity that he has, we want more of that. We want more of that because they are a real contender. And he is a top, top elite player in this league when he gives that effort. We just want it more often. He looked motivated. He looked really motivated. And I get, in a sense of that, the end season tournament works, right? So it got these guys to play at a high level. We got to see A.D. beating on his chest, being excited 20 games into this season. But there are other guys that we see do that a lot. Joellen Beat is one of those guys. Carl Anthony Towns is one of those guys. Obviously, Yoke is just one of those guys. And A.D. is one of those guys as well. And so we just want to see him do it consistently. We want to see that fire at all times when he plays. So this is a good to see. It's almost frustrating a little bit too, because you know he can. And then you see this game and you're like, that's, that is the guy. Why is this so hard? Don't you see the guy? It's not dependent on who they play. You're like, Miles Turner is a great defender, shop locker, physical, tough matchup the way he plays and picks and pops. So it's not like Anthony Davis is picking his games to kind of play harder. It's just, we just want to see it more consistent. And obviously the Lakers do too, because they're a completely different team when he gives this kind of effort. And you also notice that he's also a veteran guy that's used to deep playoff runs. The more you play deep into the playoffs, the less excited you become about regular season basketball. And I think sometimes we see that from Anthony Davis. And so putting this tournament in there, putting some incentive in it. I think we saw a great version of him. So it was super entertaining and it was fun to watch. And he's healthy. He played 40 minutes. Like that's the huge key to this. He came up limping at one point. I was like, uh-oh. Yeah, uh-oh. But you got a factor in one or two of those at game for sure. That's going to happen. He's going to be on the court. That's the fact that the world stops every time. I don't know how I'm like... Oh, he's fine, he's fine, he's fine. He had a stretch last year too, though.  There was a stretch in D.C. I think he scored 50 points against the Wizards. So it's not like Anthony Davis hasn't shown it. It's just every time he has, there's an injury. There's a setback. There's maybe downplay. We all know what he's capable of.  It's because he does show it. We know what's there. And then it's gone again. So Lakers coach Darvin Ham compared him to Ray Lewis. Don't make any jokes. He anchors the defense, plays middle linebacker in the paint. He's feared. That's really weird, by the way. It's a cross-bord comparison that I did not have on my bingo guard, Chandler. Are we good with this one? I mean, sure. I understand what he's saying, right? Like just having Anthony Davis in the paint and the lane can make the other offense a little more threatened going in there. And he's such a good help side defender. He blocks shots, he rebounds. He is the catalyst on the defense. So that's what he's saying by that. He's vocal. He communicates. He gets guys in position. He's calling out coverages. Things like that is, I think, why he's saying that. And that's important. It's just as important offensively. When you have guys like LeBron and also Reeves that can score the ball, you need that anchor on defense. And that's what Anthony Davis is. I'm not rolling with that particular. Yeah. I'm not rolling with that one. When I think of Ray Lewis, he's the... White suit, right? He is the definition of intensity. And so for Anthony Davis to have that on his name, to have that on his jacket, we got to see the intensity at all times. And I think that's what Ray Lewis always brought to the table. Every game, Ray Lewis. Every single man. That's fair. Every single night. And so in that aspect of it, I'm not rolling. Everything else, I understood he was trying to get across about his player. Now I want to think of the perfect cross sport comparison. I've been working on it all morning. Have you? Okay. I'm gonna start thinking about it. Shoms, for you on the Lakers side of things, what really stood out? What stood out to me is I think they have a formula to win. Obviously it starts with Anthony Davis, starts with LeBron James, but you think about Austin Reeves and the impact that he had coming off the bench. When they, I guess, whatever you want to call it, a big three, when you have LeBron James, Anthony Davis, Austin Reeves, that's really their formula. And LeBron, 24 and 11, D'Angelo Russell even contributed 13.7 assists. They built this team around tremendous depth. They make that trip for Russell Westbrook after winning the championship and after losing the second round to Phoenix. And they went all in on stars. And then at the deadline last year, they doubled down on what got them a championship in 2020, which is a bunch of rotation players depth. You got Ruby Hachimura, Jared Vanderbilt's back in the lineup. Kam Reddish has also played at a high level, especially defensively. So to me, it's the fact that this Lakers team has a lot of depth. And then I also got to say, just being at the end season tournament, I know Lou was there as well, just from the Lakers perspective, the LeBron perspective, the fact that he embraced it. And I think he gave, I think LeBron gave this in-season tournament a lot of credibility because if he took it the other way and gave it this like, I don't care, nonchalant, it doesn't really matter. I think there would have been a domino effect across the league. But the fact that from the beginning, he embraced it, he talked about how much money was involved. So he was on the bench, he was going like this, like near the end of the game, like all he was thinking about was the 500,000 he was branding that money throughout. So the fact that he embraced it, put equity into it, I think it had a domino effect across the league. So he's the first ever in-season tournament MVP. And I think this is a good start for the league, the fact that he has essentially stamped it. Look, I make my own jokes about it as well, but I'm with you. I think if LeBron had not bought it, kind of damned if you do, damned if you don't, right? If the Lakers celebrate too much, we mock them. If they don't celebrate at all, then the whole thing loses credibility. It's kind of a weird place to live on that one. But he did get the first ever MVP, first ever in-season tournament title. What does it do? And immediately the internet was like, well, MJ doesn't have one of these. Legacy-wise, where are we now? You know what? For me, young players take notes. This is a guy that's 39 years old and he took pride in this. This was the first time. We don't know what the legacy of this tournament is gonna be in 10 to 15 years. We know this was the first one. This is the very first season. And so he took a lot of pride in wanting to go out and represent. If you were in Vegas, you knew that this was the Lakers' tournament to lose. This was a home game for them. And he embraced it and he made it so much fun. And so sometimes with our young superstars, they're kind of complacent, kind of nonchalant about things. Too cool. Too cool about things like this. And LeBron went all out and he really wanted this thing. And so I hope that trickles down to the seasons to come and guys can see that intensity and they wanna go out and do the same thing. Yeah, that's what impressed me the most. Like Lou said, this guy is about to turn 39 years old, right? And he was the most conditioned, played the hardest of everybody there. So who knows where this end-season tournament's going to go? I think it's gonna stick around for a while. I think it's been great. I think it's intensified the games. So when you're talking about like hanging the banner, are they gonna do it? Yeah, I think you do do it just because it's simple. You're doing everything else, right? Is it like a half-banner? Like what kind of banner? I think it's definitely smaller. It's definitely on a different area. It's gonna be a version of a banner. It's the skinny one. It can't be the long one. It's gotta be the long one. No, it's gonna be small. It's gotta be small. But listen, you sprayed the champagne, you wore the hats, you wore the shirts, kind of the banner. But I think it's appropriate. Yeah, it's...   And you're gonna put a prize at it. Big prize. Yeah, a big prize at that. You might as well go out and get it. I'm not saying this is the NBA finals, but the fact that there's a champion that's been crying in season. Well, what I enjoyed was, there were guys, they were genuinely excited to have won the cash prize. Because what message do you send? They basically doubled their salary. Yeah, but what message do you send if you win 500 cams like, uh... Right.  And I'll say this, LeBron, you could tell like, he wanted to win this for those guys that don't make as much money, right? I think LeBron wanted to win it for LeBron. 100%, but listen, those kids, like the two-way Alex Fudge and Colin Castan, like those guys just doubled up their salary. That's so impressive. And not to backtrack you, but you talked about Cam Reddish earlier. The fact that he went through everything he went through in New York, right, with all these DMPs, not in the rotation. The Florida Channel? Yeah, in Atlanta, out of Atlanta. Yeah, that's lit. He's found a home, man.  The way he played defense on Tyrese Halburton with his length and getting them passing lanes was unbelievable. So the fact that he's now a starter on the Los Angeles Lakers and couldn't get off the bench in New York is just comedy to me, because Lou knows it's all about opportunity, right? There's so many talented players that just got drafted to do a shitty situation or something, and they're now like in China. They're now overseas playing. That could have happened to Cam Reddish and Obie Toppin on the other side. Oh, yeah. And it didn't, and so I'm super hyped for those two guys. What's your number? The LeBron of it all. Here's if you're a betting person, most of us are at this point. LeBron's MVP odds, they have dropped a little bit. Right now he's at plus 7,500. So 75, I feel like... Take it. Low risk, high reward. I'll take it. Put something on that. Why not? Why not? And he's showing no signs of slowing down. No. And I think the league would want this would be the craziest thing ever in his career. Everything he's done, this would be the most impressive. He can pull off an MVP at 39 years old. Let's be clear, it would be earned. Yeah, oh yeah, no, it wouldn't be earned. Yeah, no, you're right, you're right. His impact is being felt, it will be earned. All right, so Austin Reeves, who's joining us here in a little bit before the game, he reported, right, nailed that. He had flu like, he was sick, how bad was this? He started feeling sick Friday, the day before the game, they played Saturday. He started feeling sick throughout Friday. By Friday night, I'm told he was bedridden, didn't get out of bed Friday night, didn't get out of bed all of Saturday until game time. This is in Vegas? This is in Vegas. I got some questions, I got some questions for him. He was bedridden.  All day Saturday. He did the one thing he did Friday before getting sick, golf. Oh, see? He was golfing all day on Friday, or part of the day on Friday. And then he played through it. I saw him warm-up pre-game on Saturday and you could tell, like, low energy and clearly he was making sure he was good for the game. That challenge is not, he's not buying it. Well, he's gonna be, you can ask. I'm gonna ask him. Well, I'll say this. I was about to say, I'll ask him when he's on camera. I'll look him in his eye and I'll know the truth here in a little bit. Well, listen, the start he had between two points in the first half, that kept him afloat, that kept him in the game, that was huge for them. And sick or not, this kid, he played amazing, right? And he's such a good option alongside Anthony Davis where you can give him the ball and let him post up, you can give LeBron James the ball and transition. So he is that perfect fit. Now that he's off onto the bench, he's found this other role where he's just rocking, going against second string defenders. Darvin Ham has the utmost confidence in this kid. So I'm hyped and I'm, he started off slow, but he had a long summer and now he looks to be in great form. He's a wild car for that team, Swiss Army Knife. Some nights they expect him to score, some nights they expect him to be a lead defender and do that. And every single night, the one thing that I do know about AR-15 is he plays with so much energy. Plays with so much energy on both ends of the floor and just giving them an opportunity to get extra possessions on the offensive end. And you can put him on the best player on the team at sometimes four or certain possessions and he's gonna give you that as well. And so he's so valuable to this group just by how he goes about playing the best. And he's young enough and consistent enough to do this on a nightly basis, right? AD can disappear sometimes, LeBron's gonna have games where he's gonna not do what he did in the tournament.  All right, so we all agreed the Lakers are gonna hang some sort of banner? You should. Have to. I don't know for sure. If not you're belittling the whole idea of the tournament, right? Like if they have to put it in the practice, put it somewhere. Put it in a ring of honor, put where the sweets are. Oh yeah, you can do that. You think if the Pacers had won, it would be a different, like would they have had a whole thing for it? It's huge, I don't know. I think you have to show a little respect for the tournament and what it's gonna grow to be. And I think you have to, right? Indiana's a great, Indiana's a great basketball town. I don't think they go overboard, but they definitely would have celebrated it to some degree. And just that team and where they are right now, that would have been such a huge win for them. We're still talking about a team that's in fifth place in the East, by the way. What, Pacers? Yeah, let's not do too much. Well, hold on, we do need to talk about them a little bit because there were people that probably saw the Pacers play for the first time in this season tournament. They're like, oh, this Hella Burton's very good. What do you think it does for them moving forward, this kind of action? Well, I'll say this. This was valuable experience for this scrappy team that come post-season.  There's still a lot of basketball left, but this was valuable experience for guys that really have never been there, right? This was a playoff atmosphere. These were live national televised games, which I think they ended up getting three or four extra that they weren't supposed to get. So good for them. I love the way they play. And like Lou said, they're the fifth seed of the East. Let's pump the brakes a little bit. They had a great tournament. They played great, and they knocked off the box. They knocked off the Celtics. They gave them that confidence, knowing those are the two teams they probably have to go through. And they have a stud, absolute stud point guard in Tyrese Halliburton. So they're on the right track. They play the right way. They play hard, and the good thing for them is the way they play, teams have to adapt to them. That offense and that pace, that's gonna mess with some teams. So they have a good thing going over there. And on the flip side, they should buckle up because now they are targeted. Oh, no. Teams watch this tournament. They saw the height. They saw Halliburton doing this is his time. And we are in a jealous business. You know, that's the reality of it. We get jealous as players sometime. And so they're gonna get the best shot from everybody, from now on now, based on the success that they've had in that tournament. So we're gonna see if they're the real deal or not. So do the Pistons in the streak tonight against them? That's a... Absolutely not. Somebody's gonna have to at some point. This one seems like it could be.  All right, let me ask you this. Cause Halliburton said he wants to try and recruit star players to the pace. Are they, is that? Okay, you know what? You're asking Shaw? Turn off his mic. Yeah, I'm talking to Shaw. Yeah, that's Shaw. So I'll ask that. Ask him. Do star players want to go to Indiana? Go. No, but again, this helps. Having a coach like Rick Carlisle... You're only me for this. Having a coach like Carlisle and that system, that's fun, right? You're playing up and down. You're playing pick and roll.  And then you have this one lasting real point card that can let you get off and make the game easier for you. It helps, but... This will have to be in trades. Or drafts. Or trades. This type of transaction would be... And they have looked into trades. Like two names I would keep an eye on for the Pacers. Pascal Siakam, Ojean Anubi. Both guys with Toronto. Toronto's going to have decisions to make. Again? The Pacers have had conversations about both players over the last year. So obviously no deals happened. Masayu Jiri, the rappers have kept their core. Scotty Barnes, Pascal Siakam, Ojean Anubi. But they're nine and 13. They've lost three in a row. They're outside of the playing race right now. So we'll see if Toronto finally makes a move. Like Dame just okay to trade to Milwaukee, right? That's true.  Yeah, the idea of that, like, they're going to get these free agents. I mean, can you guys just make a list so all the cities will hate us by the end of the day? I mean, Portland's a treat. Thank God we could take a break right now. Because when we come back, you can grill him yourself, Chandler, and ask him what was up. Fresh off of Championship Week at Austin Reads. Join us this show next. The primal yell. There he is. He's been in the league for three years. You know him. You love him. Coming off of Championship Weekend in Las Vegas, Austin Reads. First of all, I know you're still like a little bit under the weather and that this was your flu game. And LeBron did put it to the press and everyone that was within hearing better flu game, MJ or Austin Reads. Where are we on this? Oh boy.  Everybody takes Brown a little too serious. I love it. I just think being even in the conversation is kind of funny to me. But because you were ill, were you able to? I mean, it's Las Vegas. Did you celebrate? Did you say I'll deal with it next week? Like, what'd we do here? No, right after the game, I went straight to the hotel. Went down to bed. My family stopped by for like two games with us, but I was struggling. Man. So we're giving the edge to MJ because MJ would have went right back down. What a bummer. Fair enough. What a bummer. Austin, there's been a lot of talk about whether there should be a banner raised for this in-season tournament championship. Would you got, what do you say? Would you raise a banner at Crypto.com Arena? I don't know.  It is the first time for anybody to win that tournament. So that's special. So regardless if we do or don't, you know, I'll be happy. But you know, hopefully we can, you know, raise like a real championship banner this year. You got to tell me for that, for your guys group and having the star power that you guys have. What was, what was you guys incentive? Was it the 500K or did you guys just want to go out and say we want to win this thing? What was you guys incentive? I think it was a little bit of everything.  That's something that'll stay in forever. So I think that was really the main thing.  So I think it was really just being the first to do something like that. I think, I think the visual was kind of fun. It was fun as a fan to watch a basketball game where you knew that like there was an actual money amount on the line and it was for everybody. Like that just felt different, I think for us watching. I loved afterwards when the bra was like, the young guys were, hey, when, when do you think we'll get our money? By the way, great question. I'd want to know the answer too. Like, did they get any of it to celebrate in Vegas with? Cause Lou said none of that's leaving Vegas if it was him. I had to lift all my money. Yeah, I'm going home with that. That's funny. I don't think, honestly, I still don't know the answer to that question. Someone told me at the latest, we'd get it January 15th, but I don't know. No, I don't think anybody's gotten any of their money yet, but you know, all the young guys were running around, you know, even before the game, like please win, please win. Two ways were like, this is a $150,000 game for us. We need y'all to win. So I don't know when we get the money, but you know, those guys are super excited. Austin, you mentioned that 500 K that you would possibly use that for a Riviera membership. I think you said, you realize you got a bag this summer and you can already afford the Riviera membership, right?  You know, I don't really have, I didn't have any before now, but yeah, I've kind of realized that this is just, you know, a little, you know, extra.  And so have you played with any of the other golfers? Like, have you played with Steph? Are you the best golfer in the NBA right now? I haven't played with Steph nor anybody else in the NBA. I don't really know anybody personally, but for me, I mean, I believe so. What is your handicap? I'm scratch. Oh, dear. How does that make you feel? I'm getting a solid 10 strokes off you, boss. That's fine, you let me know when and where. All right, I got you. And I just saw also Charles Barkley is trying to challenge you to a match.  He said he needed four on the front, four on the back. That ain't enough. No, that's not enough. I didn't know. That's not enough. I haven't seen a swing in a couple of years. So the last time I remember, he had the horrible hitch in it. So, yeah, I still like my odds regardless. His hitch is so bad, I feel like you have to try to have that hitch. It's that bad. He says he fixed it. He says he fixed the yips. The yips. All right, Hillbilly Kobe. Chandler is offended by that nickname. Where did it come from? Do you love it? How do you feel about it? I actually like it. It was when I was at OU, one of my GA's that I was really close when they come up to me, it was like, I figured it out.  And he was like Hillbilly, like he was kind of whispering to me because we were in the middle of practice. Coach was probably talking, but he was like Hillbilly Kobe. And I just started laughing. And I was like, yeah, whatever. But one of my teammates heard it and basically just ran with it from there. And then it just kind of, you know, caught wind and everybody started using it. And then when I got, when I went undrafted and I sat with the Lakers, you know, it actually become a thing. See, Chandler, not offended. Good. Everyone's so offended by everything these days. I'm glad you're not. Austin, you just signed a new deal with Chinese shoe company, Rigor. You're now a shareholder, part owner in the company. What made Rigor the right brand for you? What led you to this decision and then now being a part owner? Like what goes into that for you? Yeah, I mean, we first off, we signed the two year deal before last year.   And I think, you know, going that direction of, you know, actually joining the organization and trying to make it great and build it was the best opportunity for us to, like I said, do something great. The shoes are great. You know, they have done everything that I've asked for them to do.  Austin, I just saw those shoes had Team USA colors. Are you, is that for Team USA?  Where do you stand on this? If, like I said, I think a couple of months ago, if they called and asked me, I'd be the first one to say yes. You know, if not understand, but I would definitely would love to. What was that moment like for you, literally everything you've been through, lacing up your own signature shoe for the first time? It was special.   You resided with Lakers four years, 56 million dollar deal. What went into your decision? What other options did you have in going back to Lakers? I know you wanted to be in L.A., but what went into your decision to go back?  And we made a push to, you know, the Western Conference finals and obviously got upset by, or not upset, got swept by Denver. You know, like I said, I wanted to be somewhere where I felt comfortable. I knew, you know, kind of what was gonna be asking me and I mean, sorry, sorry, I'm still going through it.  So it kind of made it a little more difficult. And, you know, L.A. did a really good job of putting out there that they were gonna match everything. So teams were kind of reluctant to, you know, tie up their money before the, what's the call between the first and the sixth? Yeah, so at the end of the day, I wanted to be back in L.A., like I said, I wanted to be somewhere where I was super comfortable and knew what was gonna be asking me and obviously, you know, have an opportunity to compete for a championship.  How nuts is that? I know I'm 35 years old, he's my guy growing up. He must have been a huge fan growing up, like how weird and how crazy and surreal is that?   Like anytime you have a guy of that caliber that knows the game that well, you know, it speaks highly about you.    I just one day was like, man, this, I got to stop, you know, I got to stop hating this man's great. You know, I think I was just sitting there watching a regular season game in my dorm, or in my apartment when I was at OU. And I was just like, man, you know, probably never see anything like this again, so let me just appreciate it. And then it comes full circle that I'm teammates with the man and, you know, you can't beat him as a human, always in a good mood. So, you know, I don't have a lot for my career so far. Is there one piece of advice that stuck out to you that LeBron has given you that's really helped? It was really just my first year, you know, my main thing when I first got here is I was like, I'm gonna earn him an 80s respect, like regardless of what I got to do, be in practice outside of practice, like I've earned the respect. And there was obviously a couple of times for my first year where I would, I don't wanna say deferred to him because obviously I should at that point, but there was a couple of times I probably made the wrong play trying to give them the ball. And both of them come up to me and was like, look, you don't have to do that.   All right, Austin, I gotta go back to 2000.  And then fast forward, you're playing on a team with him. So how surreal is that? I'm assuming you guys have like a text thread. Do you save him as LeBron? Does he have like a secret code in it? Like the whole thing kind of blows my mind that fast forward and now you are playing with him. And not just on the same team, but like there's a mutual respect and you have a huge role. How has that been? Oh, it's been crazy.  Like, how's LeBron as a human?    He's always joking, laughing, having a good time. So it is surreal, especially when I go back home and people put it in perspective of, you know, who he actually is.  And that's crazy to say just because, you know, five, six years ago, I was thinking the same way that everybody else was thinking.  I don't know if you do this with your friends. Like in my phone, I have Lou as NBA legend, Lou Will. I have Chandler as horse's ass, which is I think like a cute codename. Do you do anything like that for LeBron and company? No, his name in my phone is just LeBron. Just, you don't need a name, it's perfect. I'm looking at you, I thought you were set. I was waiting to see what you have me on, but it's all good.    It's probably not even saved. I only know one shams and there's only one LeBron. I feel like you guys are golden. I'll take that. Austin, so you begin the season as a starter, now you're coming off the bench, you're essentially the sixth man. What was your initial reaction to that move? How do you feel like you've embraced the changing of roles that you've had over the years? I feel like I've embraced it well. My parents' whole thing growing up was, the coaches, the coach respect his decisions and figure out how to be successful around that. And me and Darwin had a conversation at Phoenix the night before we played Phoenix in the first in-season game, that I'd come off the bench for the first time this year. And he laid it out all out on the line for me and was like, this is why we were beat up at that time. And we needed more bench scoring, but more or better, plus, minus, as well as when Brown was off the floor. So I respected that and bought into it because at the end of the day, all I wanted to do was win. Former teammate Pat Beverly, it was on the show not that long ago. And we asked him about the two small celebration. You hit him with that last season in Chicago. Then a few weeks ago in Philly, you guys had a moment.  What was your reaction to that? I laughed. I liked that.  And, you know, me and Pat got along really well. He's super competitor.  And he was like, I love it. You know, it's competition and that's what the game needs. So after the one in Philly, you know, everybody was sending it to him. He was like, he's serious. Like, I was like, to be honest, I don't know. Like he probably, you know, in a sense is serious.  But me and Pat, I mean, I believe have a, you know, mutual respect for one another. And at the end of the day, it's just competition we were talking about. We were talking to each other at halftime. And I sent something to him because he said something about me on his pod, you know, having my back. I was like, yo, appreciate it, bro. He was like, you know, I'm your biggest supporter. Like, keep going basically. And then all that happens that everybody is like sending to me, like I said. So there's so much more that goes on than everybody sees. He's not forgetting that anytime soon though. No one that animal, he's not letting go. He's not letting go. But also last season, you had the legendary Tom Hymn to my beloved Memphis crowd. Were you just wait on the right moment for that? Or, you know, how did that come about? It was just straight adrenaline. Yeah, I don't ever, when I'm playing the game, all I can think about is the game.    So pure emotion and, you know, joy, honestly. Awesome, you're also one of the best players on Team USA this past summer. You had a freeze celebration when you were shooting, you know, making threes on Team USA. Is it true that Steve Kerr outlawed that? Did he ban that? He tried to, he tried to. So I started to try to get everybody else on the team to do it as well. I remember it was very early in the USA stuff and I was just messing around in practice and I hit a three, just shooting around and I did it and Kerr looks at me and I was just like, no, or I've seen this too much in the past, you know, a month and a half or so. He was like, we can't do this for the next couple of months or I'm gonna go crazy. Like I said, so I continued to try to get McKell, Cam and all those guys are doing it with me.  Hey, you've become quite a celebrity in LA and I play for the Clippers and I play for the Lakers and it's definitely two different vibes when you play for both of those groups. What are some of the perks playing with the Lakers?  It's just a, I mean, I believe I haven't played for the Clippers, but I think it's just a different feeling. I think that, you know, it's, I mean, it's just a Lakers town. It's a Lakers city.  I believe everybody's gonna know you wherever you go.  But for me, you know, I stay in the crib. So I don't have to deal with all that, but I think it's just a different feel. Like I said. Austin, there were some stories last year about you and Taylor Swift from my boy, Trav swooped it up. It was, obviously there was no truth to that, but what was your initial reaction to that? Was it crazy? And are you single? What the? Oh, I'm going rogue. What's happening right now? We gotta put my boy on. He's in LA, he's a store of LA. Come on, let's get him out there. Yeah. I'm not single. Oh, there you go. Yeah, I'm good. I'm locked down. And my first initial reaction was like, I was, I was back home in Arkansas. I was playing cards with my friends and one of my friends sent it to me. And I was just like, are you serious? Like as much as I try to stay out of the media, out the way, you know, it's almost impossible to do that.  But as much as, like I said, as much as I try to stay out of the media, I was just like, here's another one. Austin, could you and Taylor Swift even be in a bar and not like, I couldn't even imagine, that was what the report was, that they were together in a bar, like I couldn't even like it for long. Like knowing how famous you two are in your respective rights, like I, you know, obviously her. And knowing how famous she is, she's famous. No. I don't know. Have you ever, have you ever been out and about and somebody's like, you're not a Laker? Like you had to like prove it to somebody? Oh no, I'll tell y'all, even worse. We were in Brooklyn. I don't know if it was my rookie year last year and I was injured at the time. So before the game, I was getting treatment and it went, you know, a little bit into the first quarter, maybe the second quarter and so I jumped into the shower and put on my clothes and I was walking out to the bench and right before I got to the bench, I was about to sit down security like, grab. And it was like, well, what do you do?   So I've gotten that a couple of times.  I was dropped off at the top a couple of times. See, I didn't have a car yet. And I was just trying to walk through to go down the ramp and they would stop me and be like, what's your credentials? Like, you work for the team. That's awesome.  Yeah, it's great to watch them. Get used to it. It's always great to show. For sure. Dude, this has been awesome. We appreciate the time. You know, you're probably exhausted. Go back to sleep, sue to Fed, all that good stuff. That's the plan. Good luck. Best of the way. Appreciate your AR. Yeah, I'm a goal. We'll be back. Oh, the scoops. Okay, this, I don't want to get too positive, but Bradley Beal. Let's, let's cross our fingers. Let's cross our fingers. Bradley Beal is targeting a return tomorrow, Tuesday against the Golden State Warriors, TNT, national TV game. They're hopeful that he's going to be back in the lineup. This has been a stop and go process all season. He's been dealing with literally a nerve irritation in his back, stemming from a disc issue. He's missed the last month. The Suns need to see their big three on the floor. We don't know about Kevin Durant yet. His status is up in the air for Tuesday. Come on. If he doesn't play Tuesday, hopefully he plays Wednesday. They have a back-to-back, so they play the Warriors tomorrow. Nets on Wednesday. Durant did not practice yesterday. We'll see if he practices today. So his status is up in the air, but Bradley Beal, unless barring the setback. Oh my gosh.  So they have to make sure he's in it and he stays in it. I wonder if they would hold him back a game if that's when KD is coming back. And then, no. It doesn't work like that. So it's just whoever's ready to go. It's whoever's ready to go, because they only have a book. I mean, if KD's not playing, they only have Booker in there. Right. So it's like you at least have that support. They're playing on playing the back-to-back. It was his first game back or he'll just play one of those, you think? I mean, given how things have gone. Probably won. Okay, so here's the million-zillion-dollar question. How many games totaled do you think will get the big three out of Phoenix? I hope a lot, right? Because this is the expectation of this team. This has the potential to be the best offense in the NBA. We just haven't seen it yet, right? But the way these three guys play, the way they can shoot the ball, the way they can space the floor, it's got the potential. And like I said many times, the guys that are playing now, getting all these minutes for Phoenix, it's only going to make them better, right? And give them those valuable minutes. It's going to make their team deeper. But they got to start playing, right? Like I don't know a number. Like, I mean, 20, 25 games, I'm sure they would love to get under their belt before going into the postseason. But this is the team that I think most people were that excited to see and we just haven't been able to see it. So I hope it happens this week. 25, that's the over-under. I'm saying 10. Oh, damn, okay. That's all they needed. That's all they'll give us. They need to see this team. But like, seriously. Like to me, given how good offensively these three guys are, you need to see this team for at least 20 games. You have to see these guys play together, get that chemistry. The most extensive time we've seen them is in pre-season in Detroit. They all looked really good, but they haven't played together in like a month and a half.  What are the rotations? Like the coaching staff has a lot to figure out.  Like it's, they got to get going. It's time, 20 is a good sample size. Kairi Irving. How bad is this injury that happened on Friday? This looked scary. I don't know if you saw it. Dwight Powell, their center, he literally landed on Kairi Irving's leg.  And it was a scary looking injury. He underwent an X-ray. He underwent an MRI that night. It looked the worst, but he's been diagnosed with a heel contusion. He's in Dallas right now. The team is in Memphis. He's in Dallas. He stayed back for treatment for rehab. This could be a bit though. They're treating it day to day, but he's going to ramp up. It's got to be cautious. If you're Kairi Irving in your Dallas Mavericks, I would expect this to play out over several days, maybe a week. They dodge the real bullet. That's a heel bruise? Yeah. That looked like it could have been bad. Such a freaky moment too.   All right, quick break. When we come back, something's going to happen. I'm not going to tell you what it is. That is the tease. Oh boy. Lou, I apologize for stealing a question. Too late. Too late. Too late. The live same game parlays are now available for every NBA game on Fandall. America's number one sports book. Live SGPs that you get in on the action after the game has already started. You can choose from the money line, points spread and over under, plus player points, props, or even how many threes a player will make. Best of all, you'll get your winnings as soon as the buzzer sounds. That's what I'm talking about. Make every moment more with Fandall, official sports betting partner of the NBA. So everyone feel good about our Austin Reeves interview? I did. I love them. So just tell the world. He watched it. He watched it. He has watched it. Bachelor in Paradise. I got hooked. And then decided to proceed and ask the jury to feed the single. I feel like it's a valid question. He's the newest guy to LA. You're asking about him. What's changed? The Taylor Swift things. You feel good about it? You were asking all of us. Oh, that's right. We watched. You almost were the bachelor back in the day. Crap, I forgot about that. That's funny. It's true that you passed up on the opportunity to live in Memphis. And then Travis Kelsey took the show. For the love of Kelsey, it was my show. Oh, that would have been great. Breaking news. That's TMZ. Channel Parsons turns down show for Memphis. Love you, Ailey. See you at home.


Ukraine destroyed 18 Russian vessels. Rear Admiral Alexei Nizpapa, the commander of the naval forces of Ukraine, has said that Ukraine has destroyed 18 Russian vessels, including several landing boats and a landing ship, since the beginning of the full-scale invasion. The defense forces have destroyed 18 Russian ships and boats. This includes one large landing ship that was sunk in Burdiansk. Two vessels were damaged. They are still being repaired. The Navy has also destroyed one Serna-class landing ship and several Raptor-class landing boats that were used to capture Zmini Island, he added. Nizpapa said that remaining Russian ships are now in ports controlled by the Russian Federation. He stressed that the Navy ground forces and other units of the defense forces were all involved in destroying these ships. He also said that Ukraine would begin to form the Marine Corps before the end of the full-scale war, as regards the creation of this corps. This is a necessity today. Why? Because Ukraine is a maritime state with an extensive coastline more than 2,700 kilometers long. If we take a look at the sea border, it is about 1,700 kilometers, and all of this is our coast, including the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea. There are many rivers, many estuaries, bays and ports, and all these represent tasks to ensure the security or liberation of these territories. That is the task of the Marine Corps.


A warm welcome to the 21st session of the 2nd module in the core signals and systems. We were talking about the Dirichlet conditions in the last session, essentially conditions that forbid Fourier decomposition that means if the Dirichlet conditions are violated that periodic waveform cannot be decomposed into a Fourier series. I would like just to mention informally these conditions, I am not going too much into formal proofs or formal statements, I just want to mention the situations in which Fourier decomposition is forbidden, some situations in which Fourier decomposition is forbidden. Now I had pointed to one situation the last time, when you have an infinite number of maxima and minima in the period, there is one more situation which forbids Fourier decomposition which I would now like to explain. So let us take one more forbidden situation, the Fourier decomposition, I would best explain it with an example, let us visualize a waveform x of t as follows, it is periodic with period capital T and let us look at it in the period from v0 to t. Let us divide this period into 2, so you have t by 2 here, let us assume that the waveform is to reach its maximum value of 1 ultimately, so the waveform is going to rise, let us say from a very small value here to an ultimate value, an asymptotic value, let us say this value is 0.1, the asymptotic value is 1 at t. Now at t by 2, it overcomes half the gap, so 1 minus 0.1 that is 0.9 divide by 2, so 0.45, so it rises by 0.45 and then this continues until you reach one half of the remaining end. Now again you divide this interval into 2, you get the middle of this interval and once again you cause the waveform to rise by now, so it has come here to 1 minus 0.1 is 0.9 divide by 2 that is 0.45, so 0.45 plus 0.1 is 0.55, so now again it would rise here by 1 minus 0.55 by 2 and this continues until this point if you have identified the middle. And now you can see how I am constructing this phase point, I am taking the midpoint of the remaining interval, I am causing the waveform to rise by one half of what is left up to the asymptotic value of 1 and keeping that persistent up to that midpoint. So each time I am creating a discontinuity at the midpoint and that discontinuity takes you only half the way to the asymptotic value. So how many discontinuities are we going to thus create in the interval from 0 to t and infinite number of them because whatever interval is left, I am going to put a discontinuity in the middle of that interval no matter how small. And that discontinuity is going to take you only half the way to the asymptotic point and therefore it is like steps that rise infinitely slowly but asymptotically towards the asymptotic value. The problem here is an infinite number of discontinuities, let me make that very clear. This has an infinite number of discontinuities in the period and this is also not amenable to Fourier handling. So you know now there are two situations which you see, there are also others as I said I am not formally discussing the traditional condition, I am just making you aware that there are some peculiar signals which you can think of conceptually or theoretically which do not have a Fourier series decomposition. But of course we would seldom encounter such signals in practice. So we are quite on safe grounds to say that most practical periodic signals that we deal with are amenable to Fourier decomposition and we shall use that principle in most practical situations. Now I must say a little bit about Dirichlet actually was again a mathematician and he was trying to explain where there were problems with the Fourier series decomposition. In fact there is something peculiar about a Fourier series at a point of discontinuity. Before I start explaining what it is I would like you to discover what it is. So I am going to give you an exercise. I recommend you work that exercise out, see something for yourself and then we will discuss it. So let me give you a periodic wave. I give you a square wave which occupies only half the period which is 1 between 0 and t by 2 and 0 between t by 2 and t. This is x of t in the interval 0 to t and x of t equal to x of t plus capital T for all t. This is the periodic waveform that you are going to deal with. So a decompose this into its Fourier components. I would recommend you use what is called the sinusoidal decomposition. So construct it of the form k equal to 1 to infinity ak cos 2 pi by tk t plus pi k sum from 1 to infinity plus a0. Part p, finally plot the partial sum. For example, you could take n equal to let us say 2 first then 4, then you could take 10, you could take 12, then you could take 15, perhaps you can go on like that. Plot for a fine grid. So for example, you could take t equal to let us say you know you could take 2048 points you know t divided by 2048 multiplied by n for n going from 0 to 2047. So you will have 2048 points in that fine interval. So essentially we are trying to take as many points as we can. I mean 2048 is just an indicative number but you could as well take large number of points and plot this partial sum. So you know you are plotting it finely because you want to get a feel for the continuous function and you are plotting it as a function of how many terms of the Fourier series you have included. And observe what happens as you increase n. Do you go closer and closer to the periodic waveform that you aspire to reach? Are there problems at some points? Especially look at the point of discontinuity, let me mark that down for you in the exercise. So specially look at the point of discontinuity, look at and around the point of discontinuity and which is that point of discontinuity t equal to capital T by 2. What happens around that time? Do you see something peculiar?  But you know this is what you are going to see when you do this exercise is what you might call a problem with the Fourier series, a problem in the sense that at the points of discontinuity the Fourier series has some issues which need to be dealt with carefully and that is even for very reasonable waveforms like this square wave. Let us go back to the Fourier series of the output that we had and we will make one observation about it. So if you remember the Fourier series decomposition of the output in the RC circuit look like this. Summation T going from minus to plus infinity Ck 1 plus j and you notice that these where the Fourier series coefficients of the output. Now let us compare Ck and C minus k. So for k we will have Ck 1 plus j 2 pi by t times k Cr and for minus k we will have C minus k. Now it is very easy to see that the complex conjugate of this is equal to this that is because denominators are complex conjugates and C minus k is equal to Ck complex conjugate. So that complex conjugate property of the coefficients provided you are dealing with the real input x t is preserved at the output. I want to emphasize this because we have started with a complex exponential decomposition and if you want to convert it into a sinusoidal decomposition we can. We will see more about Fourier analysis in the next session. Thank you.


When you follow the link in this learning activity you should come to a page like this which is the interface to our model So it's pretty simple. There's some buttons. You can click here and so there's a graph here. There are several graph Layers here. You click on this and you'll see there's page two. We'll go back to page one here There's a little thing up here Which is a little slider control that you can move back and forth and you can Return it to its original setting by hitting that you there So here's a little representation of the model diagram. This should look familiar from the learning activity itself it just shows what's behind the scenes here and R of course is that if you go back to here R is that Production rate constant here that that's essentially like the fraction of the proven reserves. It's produced During each time period kind of like the percentage of it, right and then the production which is graphed here is the You know portion of that those proven reserves that are produced on this next page here page two we show The proven reserves in red and then the produced oil that's made by you know drilling and developing produce that oil there So you could hit run here Run the model and there you go You see sure enough proven reserves starts off at a hundred and it drops down to practically nothing after 200 Years here produced oil. It's just the inverse of that it rises up here You notice that as I move the cursor along here that those curves It's telling me the time and the value of produced oil a shift on here to prove proven reserves It does the same thing for that parameter here and go back to the other page Here's the production once again, you can track the amount of Production versus time here in some detail by moving your cursor there So this is this is the typical interface here You know there are buttons you can push that will activate different things you can run it You can stop it. You can't really break it and if you want to reset things you just hit the refresh button of your browser and you'll get the Pristine version of the model if you've done something strange you want to undo it you just can reset that


Welcome to the Everton News Daily. Everton are apparently two million euros away from meeting Leeds's valuation for young forward Wilfred Nonto. That is according to reports in Italy. Everton have been in negotiation with Leeds for a few weeks trying to get this deal done and apparently two clubs like I said are two million euros away from agreeing the deal. Leeds United season does kick off this weekend in the championship. Nonto scored four goals last time for Leeds and has been a target for Everton this summer so hopefully that can get sorted soon. Y Eusef Chimitty has been left out of sporting squad for the game against Everton this weekend. According to reports in Portugal, that is it. He's not going to be involved for them because he's ready to complete his move to Godderson Park. The report says that the 19 year old will fly over to Merseyside in the next day or so then complete a medical before completing his move, 12 and a half million pound move from sporting to the Toffees. So yeah he's not going to be involved for sporting tomorrow. Deli has trained ahead of that game tomorrow at Godderson Park. There are still tickets available for it if you're interested in going. Get down and see one of the last ever friendlies at Godderson Park. That's the best way to put it. Deli also confirmed this week that he's been given the number 20 shares again. That had been won by Neil Mopai last season but it is back as Deli's number. And I reckon that he may well be involved tomorrow in the game. Certainly things have seemed to be pointing towards that and stepped up his first team training seems to be fit again. So yeah he, we may wait to see him tomorrow in the game. Everton Golgibyr Djavir Djingir has said that he has been assured he is evidence number two for the season to Jordan Pickford and that is why he was happy to commit to the club for another couple of seasons. He spent last season on loan at SC Canberra. He has come back to Godderson the opportunity to work with Jordan Pickford who is England's number one international Golgibyr, top Golgibyr. But he's been assured he'll get more opportunities and he will be the number two this season for Everton. That is following. Ask me at Begavitch who left the club in the summer and has since completed. They moved to Queens Park Rangers. And another young goalkeeper, Zann-Luc Leban has moved on loan to join Farsley Celtic for the season. Leban has signed a new deal with Everton in February. Has moved there to get more experience and obviously regular game time. So good luck to him there. That is it for the news daily. Give the video a thumbs up and subscribe if you haven't. Thanks for watching. See you later.


The program here at Oskai High School is one that is a culturally responsive program. We infuse culture throughout our entire curriculum, throughout the environment here, and through really anything we can get our hands on. It's been a program though that's been in the making since the early 80s, so it's not new to us that are in the current building. It's been something that's been carried on for quite some time and the intention is to continue the program. From your perspective, what is Indigenous education? Education has traditionally followed a teach first then student model, which we can all agree has not proven very effective.  Pedagogies such as inquiry, problem, and project-based learning have been slowly increasing in popularity and have proved to be more inclusive. Additionally, more and more schools are implementing relational teachings such as following their voices. Not only are these ways to engage learners, they are also ways that naturally indigenize education. Indigenous education is one that, as Verna Kirkness would say, respects who people are that is relevant to their worldview, that gives them responsibility over their own lives and gives them reciprocity in their relationship with others. Unlike the teacher first then student model, it is a holistic approach which benefits all learners, not just Indigenous students. Ministries of education, school divisions, schools and teachers themselves are actively creating awareness, initiating and holding accountable the indigenization of curriculum. This may be through board action plans, school learning improvement plans, and professional growth plans, or by investing in division F and MI teams to lead professional development focused on indigenizing curriculum. By encouraging teachers to infuse Indigenous knowledge and ways of knowing throughout all elements of their classroom, be it content or environment, let's not forget the increasing number of Indigenous representation and voice within our colonial structures, especially that of the elders. The interconnectedness has been nurtured and is growing throughout all aspects of education. This inevitably lends to an inclusive environment where all people feel safe to be themselves and learn in a way that reflects who they are as individuals. When the history of Indigenous people is taught truthfully and consistently throughout all content areas, it leaves Indigenous people with a sense of pride. In turn, it leaves others with an accurate information that will aid in forging new relationships where all learners can thrive. We have much more growing and reconciling to do, which will take time, but we are headed in the right direction. I look forward to the next decade of Indigenous education.


In terms of glass being all over the floor, it's going to be a difficult process in order to clean up and it's going to take a few weeks. Free skip bins will help us so much dumping the glass and reducing our expenses in order to try to rebuild our infrastructure. Growers have to be ready in terms of the glass being able to collect and put into the skip bin before the skip bin arrives. The work ethic around Virginia and the workers around here are very, very hard working, so I think we'll be able to pull it all off.


I swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign, and domestic. Who among us is not familiar with these words? Whether you have taken an oath of office or an oath of enlistment, these words lead into your willingness to give of yourself and to serve your nation. For many of us, NMCB 24 has been the means through which we have served our nation, this battalion. NMCB 24 served with distinction in World War II, our battalion, which was mobilized in November of 1990 for Operation Desert Storm and most recently was recalled to active duty not once but twice for service in Iraq. Our battalion, which has been awarded the Battle E or Best of Type ten times and which has honed the leadership skills of five officers to the point where they were selected as admirals in the United States Navy and three of those gentlemen are here today. Let there be no doubt that the men and women of NMCB 24 have served their nation. Through the CB veterans of America, I have met World War II veterans who in their lifetime have seen this battalion created, decommissioned, recommissioned, and now decommissioned a second time. I think they are in a better position than I to remind you that we are not here to say goodbye to NMCB 24. We are really here to say my friend, Godspeed, until we meet again.


Hey guys, Thundee here and today we're taking a look at the brand new Dell XPS 13 Plus. Now I've got to check this out before CES and honestly I was quite impressed with what Dell had to offer. Now besides me sitting down and them explaining different things, the one thing I'll tell you with this device is that once you get it in your hands it feels really comfortable and really nice. It's got that CNC premium machine build to it so you've got something that feels and looks just as good as you would expect. Now let's look at the keyboard. This thing has edge-to-edge keyboard, nice key travel, nice typing surface. You've also got a glass touchpad which they've also had the glass cover from one edge to the other. So you've got something that feels comfortable with haptic feedback as well on there and this is of course Gorilla Glass so of course you're not going to have something that breaks quite easily. Now that's a lot packed into this device. Let's not forget though, it does come with a brand new Intel 12-gen processor and of course you do have DDR5 options with this as well as DDR4 and other specs you find is that of course with a Dell XPS there is an OLED display model as well as also a full HD model all the way through. It comes in about 2.73 pounds, really light and comfortable all the way through. Now you've got two USB-C ports here on this device and you also have a 60 watt charger. Now they've gone ahead and changed the design of the charger so it's more portable and of course you can use your PD charger if you wanted to go ahead and charge the device. Now the device comes with Dolby Vision and the two USB type-C ports are Thunderbolt. In terms of your processor configuration you will have at least four configurations. You will have a Core i5 at 4.4, a Core i7 at 4.7 and then you have two more Core i7s at 4.8 and 4.8 respectively. In terms of RAM you're looking at up to 32 gigabytes of RAM at DDR5 and of course you do have up to two terabytes of storage in NVMe. Now I think overall a lot of people will find this brand new Dell XPS Plus to be something more comfortable to use and also having just more of that premium finish. And finally one thing you did notice on this device is that the capacitive buttons are there in place of course your traditional media keys and num lock keys and it's quite effective you can set it to whatever you want to and it works pretty well at least from my use case with the Dell XPS 13 Plus. So if you guys have any questions or any comments about the XPS 13 Plus let me know otherwise don't forget to like, share, subscribe and always enjoy your entertainment.