The 250 million kids on the planet who don't have access to learning, it's as simple as that. It's really expensive to shipbooks. It's really expensive to do teacher training. It's really expensive to do all of these things that help education. We don't have the ability to build all the schools and hire all the teachers that we need to teach children the world over. It's really such a shame if we're not using innovation and technology to do something about that. Technology allows us to reach children at the scale that's needed, that they deserve. How can you use technology to help them learn faster and more effectively? To me that seems like a perfect challenge. If we can do that, if we can give this generation 250 million children around the world the ability to read, it opens up a new world for them. And the Global Learning XPRIZE is the platform we need to run this grand experiment to see if this is truly possible. The competition is a challenge to teams to develop software and content in both Swahili and English that is designed to bring children from zero literacy to literacy in 18 months in reading, writing and math. The prize is the releasing of the potential of probably 50 million, possibly 100, hopefully 250 million children who are not functionally literate. This competition is really important for the world because to reach equality the first step is to educate everybody. Every person must have the right to basic education from day one. Education and literacy are so important because without literacy what can you do? If someone is illiterate despite all the content out there they cannot benefit from it. So we have to help people unlock level one before they can move on to all the other levels that life has to offer. We come from South Africa. We see the children who need this app around us every day. That's why we continue with what we are doing. We really think about it in terms of closing that literacy gap that exists for not just the children in Tanzania, in a remote village, but ultimately in urban areas of Detroit, Chicago, LA, even New York. So it's not something that is somebody else's problem. Billion has a rather grand ambition. We want to see a billion children reading with confidence and basically numerate as well to serve as a foundation for their education. And we believe XPRIZE is going to be a catalyst for this scalable quality education. 25 years, 50 years down the lane, someone is going to look back and say, this is when learning changed. Even if the penetration of smartphone and tablets devices is not yet perfect, it's just a matter of time. The cost of tablets is coming down to a point where the computational horsepower is affordable on a massive scale. If not right now, then certainly by the time the competition adds. Everyone who's brought technology to third world country, it doesn't take kids a second to just get engaged even if they've never seen a device. We spent quite a bit of time in Tanzania and Kenya testing our apps in all sorts of environments, meeting all these kids, and it was really wonderful to see what happens when they had this tablet in their hands and the joy that that can bring to children who are so eager for learning opportunities. It was really, really encouraging and heartwarming to see. I'm so excited what the Global Learning XPRIZE is doing because what happens when you unlock minds that learn to read and I'm so excited to see what these kids are going to be able to contribute to the world because they can read, because they can write, and because they can do basic numeracy. It's like the yes time for global learning.


If you studied the book of Daniel, you'll know that Daniel receives many mystical visions. He has many visions, dreams, very symbolic, and we know that Daniel himself often has a very difficult time understanding the significance and the meaning of his dreams, of his visions. So the seventh chapter in the book of Daniel, he has a vision of four beasts, four beasts, and almost all commentaries will explain that these four beasts that he sees represent four kingdoms that will subjugate the Jewish people, the Babylonians, the Persians, the Greeks, and the Romans. So he has this very, very dramatic vision of these four kingdoms, these four beasts, and then he has an addendum, an addendum to this vision, and here we'll begin with verse 13. In verse 13, Daniel says, I was watching in night visions. I was having dream at night, and behold, with the clouds of heaven, one like a man came, someone like a man came.  His dominion would be an everlasting dominion that would never pass and his kingship would never be destroyed. Now the way Christian missionaries read this passage is to insist, without any real proof, there's nothing in the passage itself that tells you it's speaking about Jesus, but the standard Christian reading of this passage is that this one like a man, this son of man, they insist is speaking about Jesus, and they say that he comes with the clouds of heaven, so their reading of this is that he therefore must be divine, he must be supernatural, and he's given dominion and honor and kingship, etc. That's the missionary reading of this passage. Now again, it's important to understand, there's nothing in the passage that points to Jesus. This is simply an assertion, it's an assertion, it's an assumption that the Christian makes. Our question is going to be, who is it really speaking about? Now what's fascinating is that this is one of the chapters in the book of Daniel where Daniel is puzzled by the vision. Daniel himself is just puzzled by the vision, he doesn't understand it, and in verse 15 he says, as for me, Daniel, my spirit became uneasy in its sheath, and the visions of my head bewildered me. He's telling us here, these visions disturbed me and they bewildered me. I approached one of the standing ones and I asked him for the truth concerning all of this. It's interesting that we know from the book of Zechariah, from the prophet Zechariah, that angels are referred to as the standing ones. In our literature, angels are contrasted to human beings. Human beings are called mehalchim, we go, we walk. Angels are called omdim, they stand, because angels ultimately are static. Angels have no free will, they are programmed, they do exactly what God tells them, and therefore they don't grow. An angel can't become a greater angel. Human beings, on the other hand, have free will, and therefore we are able to grow and become bigger and greater people, so the human being is described as omdim, those who walk, as opposed to angels who are those who stand still. And so Daniel here appeals to one of the standing ones. Daniel appeals to one of the angels and he asks him for the truth concerning all of this. By the way, it's possible that the vision itself was revealed to him by an angel, that's what often happens in the book of Daniel. So he spoke to me, so Daniel writes here in verse 16, making the interpretation of the matter known to me. So again, Daniel's telling you here, I didn't understand the vision, you see the Christians are very able to understand it, right? They're much smarter than Daniel. Daniel didn't understand it. So Daniel appeals to the angel, please explain it to me. And he says that's what happened, the angel came and explained it to me, so I should understand what it means. And the angel said, these immense beasts that came up earlier in the passage, which are four, four kingdoms will arise from the earth. So here the angel tells him, don't wonder about what those four beasts were, those four beasts of four kingdoms. But the holy supreme ones will receive the kingship and they will inherit the kingship forever, forever and ever. Very interesting. What the angel is telling him is that this one like a man is not a person. It's a people. The angel tells him here, who is going to be the one to inherit everlasting dominion and kingship? It's going to be the holy supreme ones, the holy supreme ones. Hold on to your hats for a few moments. It'll become clearer. But they are the ones, not the one. They are the ones that will receive kingship and they will inherit. They will inherit the kingship forever, forever and ever. If you go to verse 22, you'll see the angel clarifies this. The one of ancient days, by the way, in this passage, ancient of days, atik yomin is a reference to God himself. So the one like a man approaches God in this vision. And in verse 22, the one of ancient days came and again, the holy supreme ones were granted justice and the time came and the holy ones inherited the kingship. And now to make it totally clear, just jump down to verse 27. And the kingship, the dominion and the grandeur of the kingdoms under all the heavens will be given to the holy supreme nation. Its kingdom will be an everlasting kingdom and all rulers will serve and obey it. Now who in the Bible is described as a holy nation? We know that if you go back to the book of Exodus chapter 19, verse 6, Israel, the people of Israel are described as a goi kadosh, a holy nation. And so what's taking place in this chapter of Daniel is this incredible mystical vision of four kingships, four kingdoms that will subjugate Israel. But ultimately what Daniel is told is that the holy nation will ultimately prevail over all of them and they at the end of history will be given dominion and honor and kingship and glory, etc. So the one like a man, again, is not a person, it's a people. However, I want to share with you one further insight here. Rashi's commentary, Rashi is the great biblical commentator lived in France about a thousand years ago. Rashi says that this one like a man is referring to the Messiah. Rashi says that one like a man is a reference to the Messiah. Now how could Rashi say that? Didn't the angel tell Daniel that the one like a man is a people, the holy nation? So it's important and critical to understand that the Jewish concept of Messiah is radically different than the Christian concept of Messiah. You see it right here in this passage. The Christian concept of Messiah is that he is basically a pre-existent supernatural being who comes down to earth from the heavens. He's not a regular human being and the Christian concept of Messiah, he really has no connection to the people of Israel. He is a divine being. The Jewish concept of Messiah is he's the king of Israel. He's the king of the Jewish people. He's the leader of a nation. He's part of the nation. The king of a nation is very connected to the people. So what Rashi is basically saying here is the following. If the book of Daniel here is prophesying that one day the nation of Israel is going to have dominion and glory and honor in the world, well when is that going to happen? We know that that's only going to take place when the Messiah comes and when the Messiah is at the helm, when the Messiah is at the helm of the Jewish people. So here Rashi is basically telling you that this vision of the Jewish people being rulers and having dominion, the Messiah is part of that. At the very tip of the iceberg is the Messiah at the head of the Jewish people. So what Rashi is basically telling you is that this vision of Daniel where the people, the nation will be an honored nation having dominion over the entire world, Rashi's saying and you know what that's going to happen? That's going to happen when the Messiah is here at the helm leading the Jewish people as part of our people, as part of our nation. They are umbilically connected. They're not separate. They're connected to the point where the Messiah basically simply is the representative of the nation. Just to recap, just to summarize. Daniel has an incredible vision of four beasts, four creatures that represent, he's told, four kingdoms. And then Daniel is told that there's going to be a one like a man who approaches God, the ancient of days, and he will be given dominion and rulership and honor. And Daniel is told by the angel that this one like a man is not a person. It's a people. It's a nation.  And this is a prophecy that's repeated many times throughout the Bible. The prophet Zacharias says in the eighth chapter that in those days, 10 people from every nation of the world are going to grab hold of the clothing of a Jewish person. And they're going to say, we want to follow you because we know we've heard that God is with you. So this is the age. This is the time that Daniel is being told about when the Jewish people will have honor. The whole world is going to come to us, respect us and honor us. And that will take place in the messianic age when the Messiah is ruling Israel at our helm.


Hey everybody, I'm Lance Goyke. Today, we're gonna continue our discussion on writing your own workouts. I'm gonna talk about the pieces of the workout. And first up is volume. So I'm trying to introduce you to some of the jargon that we use, which makes it easier for us to communicate the ideas that we are trying to convey during our programs. First up is volume. That basically means how many reps am I doing? So the easiest way to control volume is to do more sets. Because if I wanna do a set of six, because I'm looking for some strength hypertrophy kind of gains, then the easiest way to increase volume is I can increase volume by one rep by squeezing out an extra rep. And that rep is very important if I do do that. It's not that this is not important, but if the goal is more volume, I'm probably gonna put another set on because that'll give me a whole six more reps instead of just one more rep. Now I can tinker around with this. The thing that I would say is volume is probably the thing that fatigues people the most. So if I'm training over a long period of time and I'm not really sleeping very well or eating very well, I tend to get really worn down if I have a lot of training volume. It's hard to recover because then I'm always in this fatigued state. So I may want to actually dial the training volume back a little bit. An example, so if somebody comes into me and they just look like crap, they say, man, I got insomnia, I slept two hours last night, I have a project due at four o'clock and I have to go back to work after this. Then I just say, you know, let's have your volume and let's just get through the workout, right? It's not about setting PRs, it's about just kind of stimulating the body so that it knows that it can still move around but not accumulating more fatigue, right? Just reminding it that it is a fit organism but not throwing more fatigue on that you're then going to have to recover from because at that point, that person's recovery ability is limited. So volume, basically the sets and the reps that you do. Now, higher volume workouts are generally gonna be more cardiovascular. If I'm doing a strength workout, maybe let's say I'm doing eight sets of three, that's 24 reps. I can do two sets of 12 for 24 reps. So from a general volume standpoint, if I'm only tracking volume, it's not really telling me what kinds of adaptations that I'm getting and that's what we're gonna talk about next time.


e entrance to the main plaza. They had already thrown up a part of a breastwork. Meanwhile, the Texan sharpshooters were waiting for a chance. Ned took no part in it except that of a spectator but Crockett, Bowie, and a dozen others were crouched on the wall with the rifles. Presently an unconscious Mexican showed above the earthwork. It was Crockett who slew him but Bowie took the next. Then the other rifles flashed fast. Eight or 10 Mexicans were slain and the rest fled. Once more the deadly Texan rifles had triumphed. Ned wondered why Santa Ana had endeavored to place the battery there in the daytime. It could be done at night when it was impossible for the Texans to aim their rifles so well. He did not know that the pride of Santa Ana unable to brook delay in the face of so small a force had pushed him forward. Knowing now what might be done at night Ned passed the day in anxiety and with the coming of the twilight his anxiety increased. End of chapter nine recording by Edmunds.


Good day fellow investors. As I do a lot of research I produce also a lot of videos. So there are so many videos that you can miss the woods from the trees and therefore in this video I will especially show the core of my investment thesis, the meaningful, the purpose of all those videos that I make so that you can put things much better into perspective. The topics for today are the big pictures from valuations, markets, volatility, deep research for value, long-term tailwinds, productivity, GDP per capita, one simple example, core investment approach, how I focus on business returns, look at the value, risk reward and take advantage of volatility, then what's my current portfolio position, what do I do, where do I see my portfolio going in the next year and then I'll conclude on all of the above. So I really believe this will give you a better perspective on the whole channel, on all videos and a better understanding of what I do, why I do it and how much am I exposed to a video. One video is just one part in time made that day but investing is really a process that happens over a long time. Let's start with the big picture. The big picture is pretty simple. Stocks are generally expensive, especially American stocks. The K-pratio is above 40 and that will probably lead to zero or negative returns in a decade or two. Plus we are in the late part of the economic cycle which means a recession is around the corner and we don't know what kind of a recession we will have and we are also in the late part of the long-term debt cycle where currencies start breaking. So those are the risks when investing. Now in such an environment I find myself investing which means that I have to prepare myself for whatever can happen and simultaneously achieve satisfying especially I always target great investing returns. How do I do it? I look for the places that are not over expensive, overweight that are again cheap in relation to other things and that are cheap from a business perspective and this gives me the advantage. I am not afraid to look, I don't know, in China. You have seen a lot of videos about China a month, two months ago so I look at that and then I carefully expose my portfolio to that. I bought some Chinese stocks in September as those dipped in October. I bought a little bit more and now I'm already break even on the portfolio because I take advantage of the volatility and this is perhaps what you miss on YouTube. Perhaps I make a video somewhere in August saying China is a buy but then the volatility allows me for better investment opportunities, my patience, my distribution across sectors and then I perhaps buy just a little bit later end of October of something like that. So that is always the problem with YouTube. You cannot have timely videos on whatever happened is happening out there across all sectors and what I do I put all my research into Excel tables and I carefully core follow them, adjust them when something happens, when earnings happen I see if I have to adjust my earnings model on the stocks I cover and I watch and then when the stock hits okay first buying range, second buying range, third buying range or even fourth buying range I buy more and add a little bit to the portfolio. When it hits higher levels again I rebalance accordingly. This is something unfortunately YouTube can never show. Consequently if you look at my channel or research platform you will see that I spoke about solar in May, Brazil, Argentina in July and June, China in August, September and I'm on discussing miners, gold miners, copper miners October November. So as you can see most of those sectors have been or have become relatively cheap. Argentina, Brazil were cheap now they are a little bit more expensive, China was cheap also still there and except for solar, solar was still a bit expensive in May when I looked at it but I had the research and I didn't buy anything when it crashed so that's also something YouTube is missing. I bought one solar stock but that has a different business model and that unfortunately didn't crash so I wasn't able to buy more. When I finish with gold miners and copper miners I'll do uranium, Russia and consequently I'm expanding my research, I'm expanding my views and I have the possibility to okay this is now cheap let's see into my research oh this was a good buy this was a quality business let's buy that. For example this is my table on gold miners for the first round of research overview there are 91 names on the list and from those 91 I have selected 15 that I will make in that analysis on and you will see my analysis I make I'll make a video this weekend probably on Newcrest mining and the valuation and what's my valuation of Newcrest mining which I later bring to a comparison with all the other stocks that I have made the valuation model on. So this is what I do do a lot of research across sectors that are relatively cheap or about could possibly become cheap and then invest when something gives me a business return of around 15% or more. If you look across the world you can find such business returns and as Buffett would say stock market performance is perfectly correlated with business returns on top of everything I like to take advantage of long-term structural trends long-term tailwinds that rise the tide for my stocks which means that whatever I buy if there is a rising tide they will make they will be profitable and therefore that's the tailwind for my investments for example I like to look at productivity GDP per capita potential growth and this is the table from Ray Dalio which consequently leads also to tailwinds when it comes to investing as you can see India China is growing Singapore Mexico Thailand Argentina Korea Brazil and then comes the United States Russia and then come all the European countries so I am overweight looking to be overweight to the exposure there in Asia where 4.5 billion people and what's going on and because I think Asia will be the continent of the 21st century on a specific case this is the demand supply for copper and you can see how demand is expected to grow especially as emerging markets develop but the supply coming in from mines over the next 10 20 years is declining also the average industry or grade is declining which means that it will be more and more expensive to mine copper so this is a structural positive trend over the next 10 years and that is why I am currently looking at copper miners a bit towards the end of this month but I also made some videos already so on the big picture I like to get those tailwinds and also focus on the small sectors be it copper be it solar be it something else so that is what I do and this is the bigger picture I hope it gives you a better perspective core investment approach I said investing is in businesses is key finding great businesses finding quality businesses over the long term taking advantage of the markets volatility the markets are always volatile because 99% of the people on the markets are focused on the short term and not on the long term so the best advantage we have is having a long term view on businesses which allows you to okay see this is now cheap it will be more expensive in the future that is your advantage if you can stomach the volatility volatility is an value investor's best friend further my target is 15% return from business over the long term there is usually again as I said hyperbolic discounting future returns are discounted much more by the market because they look at the short term and that's my advantage if you are willing to patiently wait in the meantime you take advantage of the volatility to gain some returns patiently wait for the unlocking of value then you'll do fine and the third pillar is of course value beating earnings cash flows book value whatever that allows me to buy more of a company if the stock price drops and consequently increase my long term returns also something that I like to do here and there is a positive asymmetric risk reward approach where okay I can lose one but I can gain five or ten and then I have some smaller portfolio exposures to such stocks which have done really well for me in the past so let's look at my current portfolio this is what I have up till now cash is 64% gold 2% latin america 8 developed markets just 2.43 base metals 7.61 china 11% and solar 4% I'm still in the building phase of the portfolio my target is to get to about 30 sectors and about 100 stocks that I cover watch meticulously and then find the best businesses to invest the goal for the portfolio is to have cash around 20 4 opportunities gold depending on the situation in the cycle latin america developed markets commodities china other asia russia a lot of sectors for me to work on and another key principle to the portfolio is I'm adding 1000 euros dollars whatever to the portfolio every month this allows me later when the portfolio will be bigger to if something gets cheaper and there is no risk of permanent capital loss to simply buy more so such a dollar cost averaging into the portfolio allows for extraordinary returns and you are actually happy when a stock drops because you're buying businesses and you can buy more so if you are interested in the details of what do I do if you want to see the big picture please check my stock market research platform the link is in the description below there is a 30 day money back guarantee no questions asked so I think it's really important to understand better this youtube channel to check what I do really with my portfolio and with my money as talib would say skin in the game so check it out if you don't like it after a month if it doesn't fit your investment portfolio criteria whatever simply ask your money back you have practically nothing to lose so it's a no risk high upside investment also to note as I do so much research as I'm adding a lot of value adding a lot of sectors adding a lot of stocks from 2019 the price of the platform will go up probably to 499 dollars per year so lock in 249 dollars per year less than a dollar per day forever for whatever I do if you buy now every year for the next 50 years that's the price for you so please please check it out to give to have a better picture of this youtube channel to conclude I hope I have given you a little bit of perspective check my stock market research platform for even more perspective and I'll try to do these videos once a month to give you a better overview of what's the point of I don't know 20 Chinese stock videos in a month on youtube thank you for watching looking forward to your comments and I'll see you in the next video


to this live edition of Out and About, a forum where we discuss events, organizations, and people who influence things in our city, state, and world. And today we are delighted to have a group represented by the McCready family, although they are not the only folks who are interested in this. They are representing a group called SaveKanayohay.org. If you'd like to go online and look at the topic, SaveKanayohay.org, we're going to be talking about the proposed Hawaiian Memorial Park expansion and community opposition therein. So our guests today are Rich, Julianne, and Sean McCready. So welcome to you all, and thanks for being on the show. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks for having me on. Yeah. You know, we've been looking here that Hawaiian Memorial Park is petitioned to change 31 acres of Kanayohay land, which is near where you all live. It's classified now under the status conservation land in the Kava Watershed region. And they're looking at adding about 30,000 burial plots over there. And they bought this in 19—it's been in operation since 1958. They tried to do this 13 years ago. What happened 13 years ago, and why is this issue coming up again? Who wants to take it? Want me to take it? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Well, basically the developer owns the land. They bought it knowing it's conservation land, but they're trying to get reclassified as urban. And they came in with a much bigger project last time, but essentially not much has changed this time. The same factors of the environment are there. They did downsize the size of the project a bit. But beyond that, it's pretty much the same problems as before. Same problems as before, but they've come back and said something's different now, and let's take a look at it again. And a few things changed. So what changed for them that made this a more favorable project? Well— So they downsized it from 56 acres to 31 acres. And then they had the promise of the Kolaupoko—I mean, the cultural reserve for the Kolaupoko Hawaiian Civic Club. But the fact still remains that all the findings of fact from 10 years ago are as relevant today as they were back then. As environmental, historical, and scenic issues that are still there. Okay. And is that the findings of fact that you're talking about? That's from the land use commission that they found at that time. And is that link available on your website at SaveKanayoke.org? I believe so. I don't—no, I don't think so. Well, if it's not— Well, we can make it. Okay. Can you tell me then—let's look at the area so that people can understand what we're looking at. We have a few slides here. So if we could get the first slide up—although it's not a slide, we still say slide. I still say slides. This is the area in question, which is in Kaneo-e, near to Pohainani, and off of Kamehameha Highway. So let's see. You see that there. Now, I think that's showing up as our main slide. Is that—all right. So you can see there. You can see up on the top of your screen we've got, or maybe for the folks at home, the area in question. That's the mountain range right there. And is that the Oneava Hills? Is that what that is? Yes. Okay. And so this development here is where a lot of probably the opposition is to this. And the large building on the left was Pohainani. Then on the second slide that we've got, maybe we can see this is a blow-up of the site there and how that is very close to a residential neighborhood as well. And how about the third slide on there? I'm not seeing the slides. It's up in the top corner. It's up in the top. You may not be able to see it depending on what you're looking at. It's a diagram showing the expansion of the Memorial Park and how it would be laid out with the road and the green area that goes right close to the residential area. And then let's look at the final one now as well just while we've got this up. Okay. So that's the area in question there. And the purple area is filled up to 40 feet of dirt and the pink area there, what are we looking at there? Rich, can you tell us? Yes. That's kind of the after of grading when they actually take a lot of slope and bulldoze it down and fill in valleys. So, you know, that's quite a large project and anybody who reads the EIS and that is definitely available online through the land use commission site. It is just a massive project with one of the commissioners that the land use commission recently mentioned that it was going to be an excess of 3,800 dump tuck loads of dirt that they're going to have to haul away and haul somewhere. And one of the concerns is that it would be going to the PBT landfill and they're filling up. And so, you know, it's a massive project with a lot of grading and retaining wall construction, things like that. And then there's going to be excess dirt that has to be hauled away. When you say grading, what does that mean in the context of this? Because grading sounds pretty innocuous to me. What are we talking about here? Well, the hillside is very steep in places and they're going to take as much of 100 feet of hillside and cut it and then try to reorganize the ground to make it more level to be suitable for cemetery use. It's not a good site to make a cemetery. If you were flying around a helicopter in Oahu, you wouldn't choose this place to make a cemetery except for the fact that it has nice views. And it's near the other existing cemetery. You would think you would go someplace like the center of the island and old ag lands that are flat already and you just could develop that easily into a cemetery. This is going to take them by their estimates about $29 million worth of site work to make it into a cemetery. And so now, Sean, did you grow up in this area? Yeah, I did my entire life. And to add to that, it's a really important watershed region. So, you know, me and my family have grown up sort of in the bay and in the hills and honestly, it's really sad even these days to see the small amount of biodiversity even in the water and everything else. So the thought of some runoff or a project like this really affecting our watershed region and affecting the biodiversity of our islands even more is really heartbreaking for someone like me that grew up in such a beautiful place and wants to see that continued for future generations. So you're talking about basically it's behind all of your houses, the mountain being cut down. Well, the trees on the mountain being cut down and probably some of those are 60 feet high or 50 feet high, something like that. Cutting those down and then removing in places up to 100 feet, which is a 10 story building more or less of dirge and moving it around. Do you think that there's a chance that this whole area could be more prone to flooding or to erosion or what are some of the concerns that you're looking at besides the scenic destruction? Absolutely. Yeah, all the above and yeah, my dad can definitely go into more detail about that.  It already has some water runoff issues and the city's pipe at the end of O'Haha Place is only 24 inches big. That's what all the water that comes up that hillside eventually has to drain into. And so as they have unintended consequences by developing this hillside, it all eventually has to jump into the city's water system and that could be overwhelmed and full of red dirt that'll finally flow into Kaniwa Bay. So yes, flooding is a huge issue and if global warming comes about to be actually having more intense storms, it already is a problem. But if there's even a more intense storm, like a tropical storm, we're to park upon O'ahu for a couple of days and have extreme rainfall, it would definitely have a major problem with flooding. Yeah. Okay, I can see that because just the rain bombs that we had a couple years ago, whether they were on Kauai, how many inches did it rain a day? Fifty inches I think. Fifty inches. Yeah, every system would be overwhelmed, but if something is terraformed, it's going to be a lot more impact probably than the natural environment would be able to absorb. And even the natural environment would have trouble with that. We saw it on East O'ahu, same thing about that time and over in Kilo as well. So I can see a big concern for people right around there. So Julie, there's a HAL complex there. The developers have offered to make some special arrangements for that. Is that a good thing? We support the culture reserve for the Kauai Bay HAL, but not using it as leverage to destroy the adjacent hillside, the 30,000 burial pots. So if this whole petition does not go through, there's no promise of the cultural reserve. So they're using it as leverage. And don't folks have a legal right in Hawaii as cultural descendants to access that land right now anyway? They have, yes, they have as cultural practitioners, they have the right to go up there and use it anyway. Yes. As it is. And I would think that the... As it is. Responsibility to take care of that, the historical sites anyway, just whether they give it away to somebody else or not. So some people, they talk about whether or not this is... Burial is appropriate or not appropriate depending on religions and that sort of thing. And I don't know that that's really the focus here because some people will want to be buried and choose to be buried. And I can appreciate that. Do you know, did they really consider a lot of other sites on the island for other areas to expand in or to move in and maybe have a new cemetery or additional cemeteries in places that are not as ecological sensitive? Let me take that, Joey. Yeah. I mean, I did a lot of research on the capacity of existing cemeteries and the developers had a consultant, CBRE, do a study and they claim that there is future possible sites, but we found errors in that report. The very example is Mililani Memorial Park. They already have 19,000 new plots that have been developed that are available for sale in the proposal and the study of the CBRE analysis. They claim that was future and possible, but the testimony that was last week, they even claimed that, well, we don't know that that will ever come to pass, but they are available right now. So that right off the bat is 19,000 plots available at Mililani Cemetery. Valley of the Temples is a huge cemetery. They still have a lot of land they can expand into. Hawaii Memorial Park itself, that's the biggest misconception about this whole thing. Water Park says that they are running out of space, that when you really look at the numbers, they have a 79,000 total plot capacity. There's 41,000 people buried there now. So they're roughly 52% utilized, 48% unutilized. They keep saying they're out of space, but what they mean to say is they've sold plots. Those plots haven't been filled yet. If you look on Craigslist and other sites that have brokerage for cemetery plots, there's a lot of Hawaii Memorial Park sites available. So there's a lot of misconception about that. And we've tried to point all that out in our letters, and hopefully the Land Use Commission is reading all that and we'll take the time to understand the problem. Before the Land Use Commission now, what does that mean? Where is it going? Where is it at? What are the next steps that are being taken right now? Right. Well, the Land Use Commission is the body that the developer decided to run the EIS, the Environmental Impact Statement in front of, to ask for a boundary amendment. They're trying to get the land changed from conservation to urban. And so the Land Use Commission is the appropriate place for that discussion to occur. And so what the developer is hoping is that they'll get approval to be able to do this type of project from the Land Use Commission, and they still have to apply for permits and dig into more details. Like, right now, the plan is murky, and that has been brought up in the hearings that they haven't really spelled out exactly how they're going to do some of their mitigations and construction techniques. But it's a step in the process. They get the approval from the Land Use Commission that they can move on to try to get permits. Is it too late for the public to get involved in this? Or is there a way that people can make their voices known? Definitely people can still get involved. Before the hearings, they usually ask, is there any public testimony? Now, it has to be short testimony, two-minute testimony. If you want to do, it's a Zoom meeting. If you want to do a Zoom testimony, you can do that for two minutes. But you can still write letters. For sure, anyone can still write a letter and address that to the Land Use Commission. And the Hawaiian Morrill Park issue would be the issue that they're talking about. Because the Land Use Commission has a lot of issues. But the Hawaiian Morrill Park expansion issue, if they address that to the Land Use Commission with that title regarding that, then they could still have written public testimony. Some people will say, oh, this is just a nimby thing. Not in my backyard. I don't want it. Julie, is that the case here?  But is it that this area is somehow special or unique or should be conserved in a way that maybe deserves extra consideration or merit? Well, like Sean said, it is in the Kava watershed region, which flows down to Kanioi Bay, which has been designated as a class AA water body, which should be highly protected under EPA. Like Richard said, too, the hillside is steep and undesirable. And what they need to do to mitigate it in order to make it into a cemetery is they have to, like I said, deforest severely grade and fill in 31 acres of conservation land in Kava watershed. They have to put in seven retaining walls, three detention-retention basins, sub drainage pipes to protect the damselfly, the Hawaiian black line damselfly. And then there has to be rock catchments, sediment catchments. It just goes on and on and on. Like my son, Sean, said, you know, we go to Kanioi Bay quite a bit. It goes sailing, my husband's into sailboats. And we just don't want to see all that sedimentation or chemicals being put into the bay. Yeah, that's fair enough. And it is an environmentally sensitive area of these. And aren't there maybe four streams that feed into this? Or it's at least a Kava watershed. So maybe there's ones that don't exist until it rains. But you mentioned the damselfly habitat there, the black line damselfly. Sean, have you seen that area of what that is? And can you tell us any about that? Yeah, so it's actually a stream sort of head right behind our house. And it's one of the only unique breeding grounds for damselflies on the island. So once again, going back to sort of the conversation about biodiversity in Hawaii and protecting native species that we have here, we should be trying to do our best to make sure that we're providing the right national resources for these organisms and different creatures to live. I mean, there's so many other problems we have on this island between housing problems, food problems, as far as being a sustainable and self-sufficient island. And to me, it just doesn't make any sense to prioritize profit for a Texas-based umbrella company that's not going to keep any of the funds and profits here in the islands itself in exchange for eliminating local species and destroying our environment. So besides the fact that it is a very special place and important for our biodiversity, the trade-off just doesn't really seem worth it. I think maybe even for younger people, the thought of the traditional burial is not as appealing as for older people. And I don't know if you're feeling like that or not, or if you've even thought about that. But as I've seen with the green burial alternatives, there's a lot of different ways that people can choose what they will do with their final remains. And I don't know if the plan addresses that or not, or if that's something that's really not in the scope of this. But you think that's got a lot of room for growth and maybe that should be a big consideration here? Honestly, that's kind of our main argument at this point. You know, as a company, the Hawaiian Memorial Park obviously needs to be concerned about how they can continue to grow their revenues. But especially with the fact that the majority, I think there's recently an article I came out in Forbes about how by 2040, nearly 80% of, I guess, the nation will be cremated, and that cremation is growing in popularity. So really the question is if, especially if burial sites and cemeteries need to be revising their plans, why are we even entertaining such a large-scale burial sort of setup when cremation truly is the future and is a lot more space efficient? I mean, even in our own family, we've cremated some of our past generations. And in Hawaiian spirit, we've had beautiful ceremonies out in the ocean or at least the ashes. And to me, that was really beautiful and really a nice way to connect with the land and kind of feel some sort of continuation of energy from past generations. And I don't know. I mean, I think definitely we should be respectful to how different people want to see their loved ones passed on, but these cemeteries really have to adapt to changing times and adapt to new desires of people my age and for future generations. And maybe- And baby boomers. Say it again, Julie. I said, and baby boomers, you know? And baby boomers. Which is my generation. Well, and these, this is not cheap either to get a plot there. I don't know how much is it to buy a nice plot with a forever view? Oh yeah, we've been doing research into that and the cemetery operators claim their prices range up to $30,000. But I have someone who presented us a quote that they had gone up there and inquired about prices and the cheapest option was $34,000 and it climbs up to $60,000 if you get a lot of amenities depending if you do a double internment and a fancy casket and a fancy ceremony. So, you know, and I went to value the temples the same story. A lot of the plots are $50,000 just to do two Ash internments. And if you want to have a whole big family with maybe eight, it could be $100,000. So no, the prices, the one thing about this industry that's a little frustrating for people is they don't disclose a lot of their prices on the internet. You have to go to a sales meeting where they give you the hard sell and then you've come to find out, wow, this is quite expensive. And the one exception to that that I can tell you about in case people really have a need to make use of their services is a Wahu Cemetery. They're a nonprofit. You can get someone cremated for $1,000 there. And so that is for me, the way a lot of local families are gonna wanna go considering the economic downturn from this COVID crisis.  That's a, it's an unfortunate thing. You could think of $50,000 bucks for a couple of plots or a few plots to have a forever view, I suppose, but at what cost to the folks that are still around? It's, I guess, bigger questions that we all need to ask and how, I guess, sustainable we wanna be in life and afterlife. It's a larger question here, but obviously this is a private company. They have a fiduciary responsibility to make a profit. That is, they will be sued by their shareholders if they don't make a profit. You mentioned a Wahu Cemetery is nonprofit. Is that typical and what you found or is a Wahu Cemetery an outlier and things like this? A Wahu Cemetery is the only one that I found that is a nonprofit. Okay, so there's a lot of complex issues here dealing with, you know, green burials, what we want sustainability, endangered species, the Hayao, massive terraforming. When would this project theoretically take place if it were approved? They claim in a newspaper letter to the editor that they're ready, they're shovel ready if they got approved. But I think it's gonna take at least another year because for one thing they said they did not wanna start knocking down trees when a Hori-Bat pumping season is. And so I think they couldn't, if I remember correctly, they wouldn't be able to start until September, October of whatever year they get approved. And so then you start running into the rainy season for doing your grading. You don't wanna be necessarily grading in January, February where the chance of heavy rain occurs. But you know, even in any time hurricane season is around there's chance of heavy rain too. So I don't know exactly what their plan is on all that but they claim they're ready to move forward quickly according to a letter to the editor from the CEO or one of the officers of SCI. SCI is the Service Corporation International, the Texas Corporation. And that's the largest provider of funeral and mortuary and the death services industry in the nation. Yes. Okay, so they have a lot of probably power and influence and it's right now in your backyard because we're looking at the cemetery expansion there. If people wanna follow along, they want more information they go to savekaneohe.org which is S-A-P-E-A-N-E-O-H-E.org and they can find out more information there get some links to testify maybe the link to the environmental impact statement will be there so they can read through and find out more about it and start thinking about also just this particular one but also how they want to be their own plans and start thinking about this and is this the wave of the future or is it more like Sean is saying where we're going to move in a more green burial mode and just let's look at the entire impacts of this before we move forward on something that is a really massive change from the current conservation land which is what they bought it under and what all the neighbors bought it under to having it be changed to a cemetery expansion. It's fair enough some really big issues here important issues and that probably set precedent as well if they were to get an approval. So we have a lot of, our space is very precious here and we need to guard that very carefully and I really applaud all of you for standing up and speaking and you have a bunch of people that have joined you they can sign a petition on your side I believe as well but nothing is as good as a good old fashioned written testimony and stating a heartfelt position of where you are and this is how we keep our state and our city and our nation great is by just local citizen activity so I really thank you for being on the show today and helping people to understand some of this issue and if they find some more we got the very last slide I think that we could pop up and show because it's kind of there it is. Relevant. You know it relevant. Yeah and we're really looking at now living on this planet and we're part of the planet. We've been dominating it for so long we need to figure out how to live with it better in life and in death. So thank you so much to my guests today Bridge, Julianne and Sean McCready of savekaneobe.org about the proposed Hawaii Park expansion. Please visit their website for more information and thank you folks for being here. We're gonna have to wrap it up today so we look forward to you some positive outcomes and anyway I hope everybody out there has a great week. Go to savekaneobe.org for more information and get involved. See you next time. Bye bye. Thanks Vincent. Thank you.


Hi, beautiful. How are we today? You look amazing, ravishing. Thank you so much for being here. Today I'm teaching you how to do a men's haircut. Now I know some of you have boyfriends. I not so much, but I know some of you do. I know some of you have fathers. I know some of you have brothers. I know some of you females have short hair. I know some of you have females in your life with short hair. So I'm here today to show you how to do a beautiful short haircut. A sort of undercut moment. The kind of haircut that I'm always rocking. The very short sides with a bit of a longer top going on. We're gonna go over it all today. I've showed you guys how to do a long haircut. I've showed you guys how to do hair color. It's time for the men's haircut. And I mean, if you have anything else you want me to do, let me know girl. I mean, we can do a bang tutorial. We can do everything. Why don't we just fully transform ourselves while we're locked indoors, huh? Shall we? It'll be fun.  If you're a guy watching, follow along. So first I'll be showing you guys how to do a haircut on Miss Miniquin. And then I'll show you how to do the same haircut but on me and me doing it myself. I'll walk you through both ways. It'll be fun. And hopefully you can do this haircut to somebody else or on yourself and not completely botch your hair. But of course, some people will still botch their hair. And that's okay. Just make sure you film it and make sure you send it to me. Thank you. And with that all said, let's get cutting. Let's do it. All right, I'm excited.  Now I'm gonna go over a few things that you must have for this. And then we'll go over some additional things I'd highly recommend. First of all, you're gonna definitely need some clippers. This is a cordless one. You don't need something this fancy but a corded one is fine. Anything that'll work like this and cut your hair is good. You're gonna also need the guards that come with it. They just go right on to the clipper. They snap on and it's just like that. You're gonna definitely need these. So if you have old clippers and you can't find these, you need to find them or you need to buy new ones. These are very important in order to do this haircut. That is the most important thing. All right, if you have that, we can work with something. You're gonna also need a comb. You should be able to find these relatively easily. Even in the grocery store, you must have one of these.  These are vital. Kitchen scissors, they just don't cut it. I mean, if you really have to use some kitchen scissors or office scissors, like anything around the house kind of scissors, you can do it. But really not a good idea. You'll probably end up cutting yourself. They don't really cut through hair well. These are good. Onto the additional things I highly recommend. A pair of thinning shears. So these are very similar to these ones. However, they have little tiny teeth that cut through your hair and it makes it much easier to blend your haircuts. You'll see these come into action later. Clips like this are highly recommended, but not essential. However, they make your life a lot easier. These little metal ones. Awesome for short haircuts. And a water bottle to wet down your hair when it gets dry again. Really nice to have, but not essential. And these are the items I recommend having before following this haircut tutorial. And if you don't have any of these tools at home, you can go to your local CVS, Walgreens, your supermarket. Most places have these tools available to buy. And if you would like to purchase some of these items online, I will link a few things below that are more on the relatively inexpensive side. That way you can order them to your home and have them delivered and not leave your house. Okay, let's do this. Welcome Miss Manny Quinn. Oh, she's getting her short haircut today. And I know what you're thinking. Um, Brad, my hair doesn't look like that. I don't get it. Why is this hair so long? I just wanted to show you how long her hair was to start, just because it's more fun that way.  And that way we have something a little more relatable for you guys to follow at home on your own hair. That's probably not this long. Bye, hair. It's so pretty, but it's going. It has to go, it has to go. Oh, let's also put a towel on guys on your necks before you do this. Hair is very itchy or just take a shower after you're done getting a haircut. Welcome to Brad's Barber Shop, where you get haircuts for free. Beautiful. This is not the first step to doing this haircut unless you have hair this length, which is unlikely. But I'm just gonna go ahead and chop the hair off real quick and you can just watch. Oh, it's so fun. Except it kind of sad because the hair is really nice, but oh well, bye. All right, you guys. And we are done with the haircut. This is the final look. What do you think? And you can try it on yourself at home. Good luck. Now that we have the hair all cut up, looking hacked as hell, we're gonna go to step one, which is sectioning. Now I highly recommend you work on dry hair. That is because if you work on wet hair and you try to use clippers on wet hair, it doesn't work very well. It gets all clogged up. Please make sure when you use clippers, you're doing it on dry hair. Let's do sectioning, shall we? Let's rake all the hair back first, just like that.  So typically men's hairlines, even women's, it has that kind of squared off, which is like right there.   So super easy. And if you don't have clips for this portion, you can also just use water, but just make sure you're not wetting the sides too much. Kind of dip your hand in the water and wet the top and just like get it out of the way. Again, clips are very useful, but if you don't have them, use water. Now make sure you're not going up too high.  Now let's move on to the back.  You'll see that if you lay the comb on the head, wherever the comb comes off of the head, that's sort of where you wanna drag that line down too. And I'll finish the other side also. That way I can just show you the shape and you can go from there. All right, and you should have something like this once you're finished sectioning. It is just kind of a horseshoe shape going around the perimeter of the hair near the top of the head. From the part of the hairline that starts to square off, you're going back, following it back, down the curve of the head. Kind of going a little bit downwards in the back and then back around the other side. This is what it looks like. I'll spin it around for you. That's the hardest part. And as you can see, I ended up wetting the top of my hair. That way I could get it out of the way a little bit easier. And that is the sectioning. Please make sure you have that done correctly. It's very, very important. This will be the structure for your haircuts. Now let's move on to the fun part, shaving the head. Now is when the clippers come into play. Let's grab our clippers, plug them in, do whatever you need to do and get them ready to go. We're going to first start off a little bit long. We're going to start off with a three guard. Pop that baby right on there. You're going to hold the comb in one hand, the clippers in the other.  Now what's important with the clippers is to always do this motion. Practice that for me. This motion.    Just repeat that as you're cutting. Up the head, off the head. You got it? It's stuck in your head? Good. So we can begin on this side of the head. Make sure the head is up correctly and we're going to go like this. Turn her on and you can begin. Up the head, off the head. Up the head, off the head. Oh, she's looking like a cheetah now. Up the head, off the head. Up the head, off the head. Up the head, off the head. Up the head, off the head. Now what that is going to do is give you this little bit of a beveled edge up here. You see how it's very short right here and it gets longer up here? That's when you know you did it correctly. That way we can later blend in the top a little bit more to the side and let's continue around the head and do the same thing all over. Up the head, off the head. Super fun, isn't it? Now you should have something that looks a little bit like this or exactly like this. That would be ideal. All right, and now while I'm doing it on my own hair, I like to just feel around in the back and make sure I'm not going up too high. You feel that part where it kind of rounds off on your head, just don't go above that point.  Okay, that motion is very important. You're doing great. Stick with me here. All right, step three, we're gonna move on to the two guard. We're gonna pop off the three, move on to the two. The key here is to not go as high as you just went with the three guard. We're making a gradient. So it's gonna go from very short to a bit longer.  So we ended the last one up here. We're gonna go about to here with the two guard and we're gonna carry that all around the head up to here.  Make sure the head's straight and go for it. Great job. Now you can also check your work by kind of just looking at it from the side and making sure everything is the same length. You can look at it. You can turn the head, look at it, be a hairdresser and you know, really get in there. It looks pretty good to me. That's quite a nice gradient going on. We'll trim up the rest of this stuff after. Now let's move on to the next step, which is the one guard. Things are getting a little short over here, all right? Don't be scared though. It'll be fine. It'll be all good, all right? Now with our one guard, we are doing the same thing again, but only going up about the first inch of the hair. And in the back, we're going up the same. So you're gonna follow the line you made in the front all the way around.   Now we're gonna really get into that gradient and make that gradient really beautiful and perfect. This guard is better when you make little strokes like this, all right?  And the clippers will kind of naturally come off the head and then check your work again. That looks very nice to me. That's a nice round. And there's no hairs poking out. It looks really nice and clean and trimmed up, except this part, of course, we're gonna fix after. Now, for the detail work, you can do this if you want. You don't have to. You can also just stop right here and leave it alone. But if you wanna make it really, really nice and kind of more salon quality, you can completely take your guard off and use it just like this. You can also use trimmers, but I know not everybody has that. So I wanna show you the option to use your just your clippers with no guard.  You can kind of bend the ear down.   That'll really sharpen up the hairline very nicely and make it a lot more clean. And now for those of you who really wanna risk it all, you can go with no guard on your clippers and just ever so slightly taper the bottom of the hair. That way you get a really short tapered look at the bottom into a little bit more length. So I'm gonna show you that now. We're gonna do the same thing. I'm gonna show you without my clippers on. You're gonna go up and out really quick, up and out. You gotta really flick it or else you're gonna get some weird going on. All right, up and out really quick, up and out really quick and you'll get that really tight tapering right at the edges. This is really scary for me because these mannequins, if you mess up, girl, it shows. Am I breathing while I do this? No, I'm not. I am holding my breath. This is really scary. This hair is not very forgiving. That's enough risking my luck today. That looks pretty good. And that is some beautiful trimmed sides we have going on there. Pretty. Let's move on to some scissor action.  This is where the thinning shears are gonna come into play. If you don't have these, you can kind of skip this step. It should be fine. It's really not gonna like make a huge difference, but it would be nice. Now that we have this kind of weird frayed edge going on, we're gonna clean that up a bit. We're gonna take our comb in one hand and our thinning shears in the other hand. We're gonna put the comb underneath the hair. We're gonna go on top and we're just gonna thin that out and blend it in, all right? This is very simple. You just eyeball it, you go with it. You're just taking that ledge off, all right? You can even bring the comb up the hair as you cut. You can really put a little flare on there once you get comfortable with it. And that's much better looking. See how this is right now, this ledge? Let me show you what it looks like after. See how it's more rounded now? Looks much better like that. And just continue around the perimeter of the hair. Make sure you're always eyeballing it, okay? You're gonna look at the front of the hair, make sure everything's lined up good, everything's looking good and in place. Go back and forth and look at it, okay? You're looking great, babe. You're looking really, really good here. Move on to the top, shall we? This is the fun part and good luck with this. Okay, so take off the clip and brush everything back. Now you're already seeing the style a bit more now. Ooh, yes. Okay, e-boys everywhere are scared of you. Like, hello, we are going to. Part the hair down the center. Doesn't need to be perfect, just get it part.  What you're gonna do is you're gonna take a section. You can take a pretty wide section. We're not going for like total precision here. So your first section will be like that, your next section will be like that. You just wanna section things. It doesn't need to be exactly like how I do it. Just make sure you section in some sort of way. Like that is fine, one, two, three. Let's pull the section out like that and let's cut it off. Okay, you see that angle I have there? Do it exactly like that. Now you can get rid of a lot of length, you can get rid of a little, whatever you're into. Just make sure you're cutting it in kind of a square shape. And now you're gonna take your guide. This is what you call a guide, the first cut you do and you're gonna bring it back into your next sections and cut at that same exact length from the previous section.  So everything is squared off just how I'm doing it and you'll start to get that very nice shape going on that has that kind of pompadour shape going on. And we're just gonna work our way all the way around till we get to the back. And then once we get to the middle of the back, we will separate off that side and then start working from the front of this side and meet the other side. I've gone ahead and cut the first section on this side. Now, once I have the first section cut, I'm gonna take my hand and go like this. I'm gonna see if they're the same length. Now, they're looking very similar, they're looking good to me. They look like exactly the same length. Now I can proceed with cutting the rest of this side. And I'm gonna take my guide and just follow it around like we did in the previous section. And make sure you keep the hair nice and wet at this point. We are shaping up, it's looking good. So let's take the hair, comb it all back and we're almost done, I swear. We're just gonna comb it back, comb up a bit of hair in the center. Just make sure it's all the same length in the middle. There's any high points, cut that off, drag it back, comb it up, cut off the high points until you get to the back and you're good, man. Boom, that's the top all cut. Okay, and the back should look something like that. All right, and for this at-home haircut, we're gonna leave it there.  We're gonna keep it a little bit more simple. And after this is all over, if you want a really good haircut, go to a barber or go to a hairdresser. They'll do a great job for you. I'm gonna go ahead and blow dry this off camera and show you guys the results. Are you ready to see the final look? She looks really cute or whatever she identifies as. I don't know, he, she, they, whatever. I don't care. Ready for the final look in three, two, one. Yo, girl, you look hot. Oh my God. Okay, so ignore the hair color because she does have some highlights on this side. And it makes it look a little cheetah print. But this is the haircut. Wow, it's so easy and it looks so good. She looks amazing. I am obsessed with this cut. All I did to style was use a flat brush, blow-dry it forward, then blow-dry it back, really quick till it's about 90% dry. And then I took, you know, BDSM bomb by Exmondo.  And I took a little bit of my hands. It's this beautiful iridescent hair bomb and took a bit on my palm, just like this, and on my fingertips and got all of that texture, really styles it in place, added a little bit of movement in the front. You don't want it to be too perfect. I don't like that whole like blown out, pompadour look. It seems dated to me, it's boring. I don't know, I like texture. Have fun with it, play with it, add movement. And that is how we got this final look. You can wear it down your face. You can wear it up. You can wear it parted. It's a versatile look. It's a pretty easy haircut and it looks fabulous. This can be for boys, girls, and anything in between. Oh, I'm obsessed. Thank you, Ms. Manny Quinn. You look amazing. You actually can survive another day because I love this haircut on you. I thought I was gonna have to get rid of her after this, but I think she's good. I think she can stay. Sasha, you can stay. You can stay, but you gotta get off my set at this point, all right? Girl, you gotta get off. I'm so sorry, that was really aggressive. Well, I feel refreshed and renewed after giving myself that haircut. That was probably the best I ever did at giving myself a haircut, honestly. I kind of slayed it, like I'm not gonna lie. And I hope you guys slay it at home on yourself or on your significant other, or on your brother, on your dad, or on yourself. If you're a female, I don't know. Whatever you wanna do with this, have fun with it. And the most important thing is be confident, but not too confident. But don't go in there like, oh, like just do it. Go for it. It's fun, hair grows back. Men's haircuts grow back very fast in like two weeks, so you'll be fine, okay? It'll be all good. It'll be really fun. And if you guys end up trying this tutorial out on your own head, or on somebody else's, please send me a picture on Twitter or Instagram or tag me in a photo. I love to see what you guys did. You guys can follow me on Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, at BradMondoMYC, and then I have a Snapchat show and a Facebook channel under BradMondo. And if you guys would like to purchase any of the X-Mondo products in today's video, the links will be below. I showed you guys Electric Rain, our Moisture Cream, and BDSM, my hair bomb. That is my ultimate go-to for styling my hair. And make sure you guys follow us on Instagram, at X-Mondo Hair to stay up with upcoming launches of new products. And that is all for today, guys. Thank you so much for watching. Don't forget to live your extra life and I'll see you next time. Bye, guys. This is Viper Smoothing Oil. This oil is a combination of all of my favorites. It has Bobap Oil, Argan Oil, Carrot Seed Oil. Now, what sets this oil apart is it really penetrates the hair cuticle. It goes deep inside. Instead of just laying on top of the hair and adding a greasy film, it's gonna actually go inside. 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