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Sneakerheads around the world have been debating on which Am I Air Jordan sneaker is the best from the set. And honestly, I'm having a hard time figuring it out right now. So I posted a poll here on YouTube to see what you guys think and we had over 20,000 votes. I also reached out to some of your favorite sneaker content creators to see what they think as well. My favorite Am I Minier sneaker has got to be the threes and I'm actually wearing them today. I just happen to be wearing them, but I had all of them so far. I've sold all of the other ones because I didn't like them as much. The threes voted. Love these. Best one. So I know it's been talked about a lot, man. I literally just had this conversation the other day. What's the best Air Jordan Am I Minier silhouette that has released so far?  And my personal opinion, I got to keep it real with you guys. I have to go with the Air Jordan four Am I Minier. I think they made this colorway just pop a lot more than the other three silhouette. And it's one of my favorite pickups this year. And I love it. In my opinion, the best Am I Minier Jordan is 1000% the Jordan three. Check these out. These, they literally go with everything. This shoe literally reminds me of like a Bentley dude. These are like luxury fire. You can't go wrong. This is it for me. This is it. I had the other ones. I ended up selling them. This is the only one I kept. The Am I Minier three best one, baby. I mean, look, look at that leather. Come on. It don't get much better than that. What's up, DJ? So out of all the Am I Minier Jordans, I think the best one is the Jordan four because I'm currently doing a 30 day wear test on them and I'm literally wearing them every day and I love them. Otherwise, I think a close second is the Jordan three. So we got a couple of people saying the fours and a couple of people saying the threes. And again, don't get me wrong. All of these shoes are clean, but I'm excited to see what the poll results say at the end of the video because I got a feeling it's going to be a really, really close one when it comes to these two right here. But before we do all that, we got to talk about the history and why we're even making this video in the first place. So for those that don't know, James Wittner is the creator and designer of the Am I Air Jordan collection and store. And with that, we have gotten this series of shoes over the past couple years now, creating a lot of hype behind their collaborations. And we've seen other models like the airships and the Air Jordan 12 set to come out in the future. But when it comes to actual Jordan releases that have come out so far, we have these four models right here. We originally saw the Air Jordan 3 release and there was a lot of mayhem behind this shoe because it was a women's release, but luckily it came out in extended sizes and allowed other people to still have their opportunity to get this shoe. And I was a happy camper because I was able to get these two. I ended up actually wearing these on my wedding day. This shoe is covered in premium materials and I have done a full review on these in the past. If you want to refer to that later, the link will be down below in the description. But here's a quick in-hand shot of the shoe just to give you guys a better look if you haven't seen these in person yet. This gives you guys a better look at the shoe. Now looking at the Air Jordan 1, that's the next release that had came out and we saw this one right here and there was a lot of hype and anticipation behind the Air Jordan 1, which caused a good demand for this shoe. But people were kind of surprised when they saw the resale value of this sneaker. Don't get me wrong, it's still going for more than the retail value. Maybe around double that price, but at the end of the day a lot more people thought these would be more expensive than they currently are. Again I have done a full extensive review on this sneaker as well in the past, which I will have the link for you down below, but basically these are covered in a cracked type leather all throughout the upper. You got your brown hits through there and then you got that same type of quilted satin sock liner that you will see on all four of these models. This shoe is very subtle but has a lot of details and a very clean shoe and easy to wear with a lot of different outfits, so I could understand why this might be high on people's list. But again this is tough competition right here. Next up right here we have the Amai Air Jordan 2, which came out this summer and this was a shoe that a lot of people were anticipating before when they saw the leaked images and we were saying, you know, this is the Air Jordan 2 year and a lot of the agenda behind it and there's a lot of people that still don't like the Air Jordan 2, so there's going to be a huge debate around this shoe and yes we've done a full review with comparisons and all those things as well on these if you want to check that out, but overall I love this sneaker. As you can see I've been wearing these. I accidentally messed them up on the upper a little bit because my jeans kind of died a little bit, but either way I love this shoe. I love rocking these right here. Definitely a nice addition to the collection. I love the details on the midsole and you have very similar upper materials as you do as the Air Jordan 1 right here with that kind of cracked leather vibe and then the wax laces, the premium hits and the all black sock liner. Definitely a very clean shoe. And last but not least we have one of the considered to be sneakers of the year or most anticipated shoes of the year, the Air Jordan 4 Amamin year. So these ones right here, these recently just came out a couple weeks ago. A lot of people have been going after them. I think the resell prices don't reflect as much of the demand, but we understand that the market is very interesting right now so I can get that too. But either way, a lot of people are saying this is the best shoe from this whole set and other people are saying this is the best shoe of the whole set when it comes to the 3s and 4s. So that's kind of what rooted this video and I wanted to make sure that you guys had good in-depth clean shots of the shoes so you can make your decisions down below in the comments section and I'll make sure that I give you guys what I feel at the end of this video as well. But for right now let's kick it over to some of the other creators and see what they think about these shoes and then we got to go ask my dad because I'm very interested to see what he says. All right, so what is good everybody should boy be bulled RC back with yet another Collapse to lose DJ to lose DNA show. Appreciate you for having me. Now he did ask me what is my favorite I'm on my year Jordan and why as far as retros go it's got to be the three followed by the four right here behind me. Then you got the one and the two. I'm sorry to the two fans out there. Y'all get a lot of slander. Just Jordan twos and Jim get a lot of slander, but that'll be my ranking as far as why the three is number one. First off, it was the OG as far as the retros go. It was the OG is probably the most easy to wear to. I mean the fours is not too bad, but the threes is all white with the sale with the Vila or to me is just the best one. And it was the first one. So if you ask me, that's how I rank them. Y'all let me know down below in the comments. So let's appreciate y'all. I personally think that the best I'm on the Air Jordan is the Air Jordan three mainly because the colorway is sick, but also because it's just one of the best Jordan three collaborations in my opinion. I know a lot of you guys will disagree with me on that, but it's up there. All right, so these are the four sneakers from the AMA collection. Everybody's been having the debate. Which one is the best out of this set? What do you think? Well, I'll tell you, I like these and I like these, but I'm leaning to this. The four. The four I'm telling you, the four is the shoe. For me, it's gonna be the shoe of the year. You say the shoe of the year. I'm still- Why do you think shoe of the year? Now you've seen all the shoes that came out. We then sat down and talked about sneakers, everything like that. I think this is the shoe of the year. I said that, yes, I think these is even better than the callets. The materials and everything? Yes. And it got the nice, look at the inside, everything. What do you call that material on the inside? It's like silk. It's like silk? It's like silk. Okay, what about the outside? What do you call that material? That's butter. That's butter? Okay.  That's butter. Okay, so everybody's been saying that the Jordan three is the best one because this is the first one that came out and it started everything for these shoes. I know it. And the greatest debate right here is between these two. Do you know what the percentages are? No, I don't. Okay, well, I'll tell you off camera because I'm about to tell everybody what the percentages are on which one is the best out of these four right here. What do you think is the ranking in order from best to worst out of these four? I would say this is gonna be number one. This is number two. Okay. This is three and that's four. Really? So the twos over the ones, the two, you got this shoe. Yeah. You got this one. But what I'm saying that is because when you get to the more white like that, that bright color or my size of 14 is gonna look even bigger. Right? So that's me on that. This material don't seem as nice as this material. Okay, okay. Right? And so for me, it got the same sock liner, everything else like that similar, but the material I like this material better. Okay, so one, two, three, four in that order. That's how you do it. Yeah, in that order. All right. Well, tell the people to subscribe and we'll see you later. Subscribe to my channel. All right, we're out. All right you guys, the results are in from the community post. And I wanted to see what you guys thought. We had over 20,000 people vote. I'm excited about this. I think we're gonna have to do more polls like this in the future because I think this is a great scale and representation of the sneaker community to say what they like the most. To see that we had over 20,000 people in these votes was just super dope to me alone. And you guys might be interested by these poll results right here. So right now, when it comes to last place at 3%, we have the Air Jordan 2 AMAM in here. So I'm sure everybody knew this one was gonna come in last place, but with only 3% vote, sheesh, I was thinking they would at least pass 5%. Like, you know what I'm saying? They sure ain't that bad. But I get it. There were definitely three other great options on this list. And the next one, I thought might have gone a little bit higher simply because we have so much demand around the model in general, but it's kind of been slowly dying down over the past year. So I get that as well. And at 18%, we have the AMAM Air Jordan 1. Now these right here kind of make sense. I was thinking maybe that 20, 25%, so it's a little bit lower. But again, I'm sure a lot of people were voting for the threes or the four. So this one was a nail biter, you guys. So coming in at third place right here with 38%, we have the AMAM Air Jordan 4s. I'm sure a lot of people said this was best on their list and I completely understand why something different, something we have never seen for Air Jordan 4, for a collaboration type sneaker or for a release that we've just seen that's not a PE or anything like that. So at the end of the day, it's a clean shoe, but we know it's number one. Let's talk about that shoe. With 40% of the vote, we have the AMAM Air Jordan 3, completely make sense. I think every time it's an OG, I think Bull said that earlier too, but it's just naturally how it goes. But every time it's an OG or the first thing of something, it creates that kind of, that legendary sense behind it and it continues to have success. You see that always be the best one, the most expensive one, the most desired one, because that's the one that always is the one that started that fire. It's usually, it's pretty rare that you'll see like a sneaker come out after that and then like that takes the throne. So this shoe, they just bodied the collaboration. The materials are A1. This one's a little bit different. I know the fours are different as well, but the ones and twos are really similar. But I think overall with this release, they just did a really, really good job. And again, like I said, I wore this sneaker to my wedding. I thought it was a great shoe. I love rocking this sneaker. I had to double up honestly. I doubled up on all these shoes from this set. So I got pairs that are rock and then pairs that I'm holding on to because I know I'm going to be continually rocking them and I don't want to mess them up and then not have another pair sitting on ice. So for me in particular, this whole set was a double up, but let me know what you guys think down below in the comment section. What did you think about the votes? Did you participate in the vote? If you missed out, make sure you hit the community tab on the channel right here. You'll be able to see more votes in the future and I'll try to get more of this stuff for you guys out. I appreciate you guys as always. See you in another one. Peace. Yo, before you go, I just launched my sneaker head Academy where we got everything on the inside. I teach you all the stuff that I learned over the past 15 years. When it comes to sneakers, scaling, real estate, you name it, we talk about all of it in there.  I give away shoes literally way too much honestly. But either way, I'll see you guys on the inside. Hit the link down below in my description or pinned in the comment section for DJ sneaker head Academy. And I'll see you guys over there. What's good y'all? So if you made it to the end of the video, comment down below. What is your favorite Jordan model of all time? For me, it's easily the Jordan Ford.


And when Biggie said I'm in danger us and you too many of them hang with us labor. Look listen to the Rage scheme 7 00 p.m. Fly love to them in a BM sipping seed grim I'm in danger us hang with us They know angel does so listen to the Rage scheme It's a drug man, I think like like when I when I look back and I look at the city man You guys up here. It's a totally different ball game man, but you guys are so influential that I remember Biggie name biggie sample something and I did something that was kind of close to something y'all had done Yeah, what was that all about? Let's talk about that. That was a RP to be here.  He's spelled Bentley B. E. N. T. L. E. Y. I said Wait a minute rewind that oh so And when biggie said I'm in danger us and you too many of them hang with us labor. Look Listen to the Rage scheme On the dangerous ain't too many give bang with us straight up. We know angel does 700 p.m. Flying love to them in a BM sipping seed grim. I'm in danger of us hang with us They know angel does so listen to the Rage scheme and if you listen, it's a three scheme Rage scheme And that's what that's what Chicago brought to the table We was we was rhyming with three words two words instead of just one he used your style That was the style that was soup. That was so dope. Oh, it's been dangerous. Now do that other part again So it's seven up a little p.m. Flying love to them. It's in a BM sipping seed grim Two and a wee stem touching on my full film. All that was rhymes Got it double Rage scheme I'm in danger us came too many of them hang with us That's the style man But it did he hear it it was y'all what how did he end up was it something y'all was it working together? No, so so here um Now I don't I don't like saying here say but I remember uh when we was talking to Kanye Okay Yay was uh trying to get in tune with us Because um biggie he said biggie wanted to do a song Okay, you know I'm saying so I'm pretty sure Man, pope him was one of the bigger and this let me know pope didn't one of the biggest songs in the hip hop was because we was We was in new york Fam we was in new york and you know new york. Yeah, and bt No, we doing the bt thing, but it was walking paths like this These niggas man That's how they do it, but it but it was funny to it was funny to us because No, as as as young guys in the hip hop game.   None of this y'all doing right now is is not No messing without and all steam period. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, but but it was it was a time when it was, you know, like I said I'm a old-school rap type nigga now, you know when it was d nice And uh, uh, boogie down production I'm in junior high with a pate and that and eric being rocky.  So I dig it to my pocket Cause it wasn't nothing else competing with that.  These a big daddy cane of the vapors. There's marquis Can you feel it Nothing can save you but this is the season a catch in the vapors. Come on. This was the era, man These are phases, bro. Yeah, but then that phase hit In the midwest that phase hit in the south. He didn't the west verse After they left that gangster music man.  Yeah, they went straight over there.  You know already what time it was And we can't forget e42 but but shout out man, man, I was a shout out fan, bro. Yeah, short hat man You talk about speakers way Some speakers blowing out the car Man, come on, man. That's what we that band got right when you put that drop in there.  Come on. So I get it That was that phase but then when you talking about when you get to new york, it's shifting Yeah, because it's shifting because now The south because you got to remember Jay j prince no went down to new york and stayed down there for us months Yeah, I remember him saying that and um, they didn't take a liking to what was going on And jason man, let me go back down here to uh, my city man and do it for my city And here they come with mad playing tricks on me killed them and killed them You know i'm saying and that just let you know you don't have to go anywhere All you have to do is focus and refocus again when you're on you know on what you really want Yeah, what you focus and you believe in yourself Everything else is a plus. Did y'all ever perform in new york and stuff? No We never perform Other than bt, you know that we never perform in new york. You can pick it up, baby. It's all right. Uh, we did uh That boy will want to hear that stuff of that. We did uh, uh, what's that's called? Um The hip hop award with j prince They uh, j prince jamane the pre we did that. Yeah. Yeah, you know what i'm saying came out on that and that was big too Man because that was for the south and it was just crazy man how uh, the south was being represented that way man And i was i was like, yeah, we a part of this We actually a part of the hip hop world for the south That's made it dope for me man. Like man, we could we get a chance to represent two cities at one time We loved it. We loved it.    They they they have some charisma to where they can finesse the words to the point where they're not even saying nothing But the same thing over for two minutes But you gonna they jam it but they jam and you Move it to yeah, it's like wait a minute. This is two minutes two minutes Um, no more than two two minutes and 30 seconds. Think about it. They said a hook twice Eight bars and they get out of there.  No, he going in there Make it happen then put the money on the will make the bag go good No, y'all because it's just and it's just man. It's talent bro People are talented man. Yeah, and it hands down people are talented And I don't think they get the credit sometimes people deserve and that goes for them to credit dope dope What do you do?   He feel what I be doing but I can fool in that truck I'm gonna put you on without any lack of food But look, bro It'd be things it'd be music like that That help you through your uh, what they call that and help you through your lifetime Yeah, you know I'm saying you could put something in man. You'd be feeling like man I really don't want to do but put that music in it's going down You up it's going down man


Adversity you see the Baltimore Ravens of the past they've dealt with adversity, but they didn't deal with it in the best way We remember even last year They were going to these fourth quarters and have leads sometimes even double-digit leads and for a lot of those games They would crumble they would implode from within and they were loose and it was like what is going on with this? And they would do it so consistently last year and in previous years before last year to Injuries they faced so much adversity with injuries and they just could not overcome it at all But this year they faced some of those same challenges and hey There was some games where they did give up leaves because I believe there's a stat that says the Ravens in every game this year They've been leading in the fourth quarter at some point But of course to the Steelers to the Colts and then to the Browns they lost all super super close games But they lost nonetheless, but that's happened three times There's been ten times that the Baltimore Ravens have won so they are clearly doing something right Especially when it comes to closing out games We see this game against the Rams last week so many times in years past the Baltimore Ravens if it was last year's Ravens They probably would have lost that game But you see games like they had against the Cardinals where they had a big lead But the Cardinals they start creeping back they start creeping back But the Ravens they end up shutting the door. You see against the Chargers ugly game throughout low-scoring game throughout Game is close at the very end in the Ravens. They close it out So this Baltimore Ravens team is much better equipped to deal with Adversity and that leads us to our very first question that came from Kenyari Suggs adversity say what's up in Graven first off congratulations on another blessing to the family It's always a joy to hear that as news. Hey, I appreciate that. Thank you Kenyari said also did you know This is the only reason why I added the last name to this question from subscriber said to rail sucks is my cousin long story Hey, that's what's up a shout out to your cousin. By the way, tell him. Thanks for everything But let's talk I know a lot of teams are questioning our offense and our offense in play calling it etc. Lately, however, I'm a glass half full kind of guy. We lost to teams. We shouldn't have early in the season Adversity we have lost close games by two points to the Browns OT lost versus coach also a close game to the Cardinals No, who wasn't a top team at the moment being loose no Cardinals. No, no, no, we ain't lose to the car We lost to the Steelers. I think you might you must have felt like we lost to the Cardinals because that game Like it was a lot closer than it should have been at the end But now it was a stealer But anyway, I'm sure that was just a type of anyway and he said now on to the back end of the season We have won close games by field goals over time We have faced adversity this year and I like to say we have done well now Let's figure this old line situation out and let's get excited about this playoff run or should I say? Super Bowl run PS and oh, yeah, get well soon Kyle Hamilton prayers. Oh, yeah for sure So yes, you spot on spot on the Ravens have done a much better job this year of dealing with Adversity a much better job of handling it head-on taking it on because again adversity is something that's gonna happen And you think about life. We're gonna face adversity in life We don't like to we don't want to but if you just go through life and everything you just coasting You just surfing through everything's great And we love that if you hit a bump in the road you ain't gonna know what to do if you haven't been through adversity before but see adversity it prepared you for those moments and Just like with the Baltimore Ravens had they just been blowing every team out this year Like they did in 2019 had they just been beating everybody down and we would love that but then at the same time They wouldn't really have been battle tested But they are truly battle tested to this point of the season and they will have some more tough battles You got the Jaguars coming up. You got the 49ers. You got the dolphins. You got the stealer So you got some tough games coming up So the Ravens but going into the end of the season this very last part of the season the Ravens have definitely Dealt with their fair share of adversity. They'll have some more But this prepares them even better for the playoffs team can be clean before we continue with this episode of question from subscribers Make sure you subscribe to the channel turn your notifications on so you do not miss not one single video Not one single update not one single question from subscriber and also leave a like on the video because it helps out a whole lot The buy next question came from my god Oreo cookie said hello engraving. I'm conflicted now I just saw what the Ravens look like after a buy and we looked a bit rusty So now I don't know if we want to buy or not. I would like to know your thoughts after the game after that game Now I'm still with getting to buy all day every day. I know a lot of Ravens fans like no We don't want to buy that we look rusty like you just said and they think about 2019. Let it go. Let it go It is okay It is up to the Baltimore Ravens to be a top thing like think about this too Do you not want to be in the Super Bowl? Think about that because if you make it through the division around through the AFC championship Through the and if you win that to get to the Super Bowl is the Super Bowl the week after the AFC championship No, you have two weeks you have a bye week in between that so I don't want to hear people So we don't want to buy but you want to get to the Super Bowl because it just doesn't make sense Take the buy if you get it great if you don't get it Okay, great. You still know what you got to do It's up to the Baltimore Ravens to be as fully prepared as they possibly can to make their playoff Excuse me to make their Super Bowl run So it's up to the coaching staff to have them guys ready and it's up for the players to execute and go out there and do Their thing on the field so I don't want to hear that being scared about the buy and all that and hey Everybody in time to tell on the P. So I respect it. I don't agree with it But I respect it but They just got to be ready stay ready.  Get ready next question came from my god more and who's a team keeping clean patient appreciated If any wall y'all would like to become a team keeping clean patron You know patreon.com slash engraving vids and if you don't want to that is fine as well Now you said it's been a minute since I sent a question or commenting It's been a busy season, but I just want to give a shout out to Gino Stone your David Clowney and Calvin No, I'm so happy the Ravens didn't do their usual We like our guys when it comes to the edge rusher position Well, I think they did like their guys But they knew that their guys were dealing with some injuries like Bowser wasn't the same David a job Oh, he was dealing with his little thing, but he played through it for a little bit But it just wasn't enough. But yeah, it worked out He said shout out to Gino stone for hard for showing hard work pays off from practice to starter He's been amazing really the whole team has minus some coaching miscues great job Oh Hey, man, yeah shout out to I think one of the biggest things I've seen from Gino stone Specifically just patience patience. Just wait him Um, he was a late-round pick and ain't really get much time to shine it And he he was he kept being behind some safeties were really good He was behind Earl Thomas, then he was behind Marcus Williams. So he just his tie He said maybe he felt like his time was coming Maybe he didn't but when he was in the games any games that he played and he made the most of them So happy for Gino stone. It's he has been phenomenal I just really wish that and I get it's tough because they they fight like a report paying Marcus Williams All this money to be a free safety and Gino stone He came out of nowhere, but and now he's playing strong safety. He's not playing free safety anymore I wish they would just have left him at free safety, but it's not my call Hardball's questionable challenge flag next question came from my guy Trevor J He said what's up in gravy and hope you and a fam are doing well. We are doing great I appreciate it Trevor. He said so apparently on Sunday's game John Harbaugh said he was gonna call the time out anyway To make sure they stopped the two-point conversion, which they did. Yeah, it did work out So he threw the challenge flag instead to see if they could get anything out of it because why not smart move or no Yeah, he did say that he threw the challenge flag so he could prepare them for the two-point conversion Like you said in mentioned that they did stop so it ended up being a genius move because it was like calling an extra long Time out because usually the timeouts either 30 seconds or a minute But um it since they reviewed it and then they were like, oh, well, we actually can't review that play We can't challenge that play I mean because it's a review but it's all touchdowns and scores and all turn touchdowns and turnovers are reviewed automatically So they were like, oh, well the Baltimore Ravens will be charged a timeout But that sequence was so long and that gave the Ravens with a whole lot of time to prepare So yeah, it ended up working out next questions came from my guy Howard. He said what's happening in Raven? I'm not a fan of seeing EDC always roaming the sidelines during the games Ozzy never did that It's just something about the way that looks to me. Am I tripping your thoughts? I'm like I can't tell you how to feel about anything that's completely up to you, but I think that's something that's so like My new it's something that's just To me in my opinion again all opinions could differ I think that's something that's just not worth complaining over like what what impact is EDC Roaming the field. What does that have to do with anything? Is EDC out there calling plays? Is he getting in the players way or something? Like if anything like that says a lot to me about EDC like the fact that because I know um I know Falcons their owner a GM. He did the same thing But it to me it shows like are you willing to be out there in the elements where the players are on stuff? It could be cold. It could be windy you could be out of but you could be up in a press box You could be up in a nice fancy suite But you're actually being out there where the coaches and the players are that says a lot that that says a lot of good to Me that that says a lot about being humble and humility to me the fact that this big money guy the guy cutting the checks Or no the guy right signing the checks So it's this bishat he cut the check But this says a lot to me that EDC in his position that he would be willing to be down there with them So I do not think that that's a bad thing at all. I feel like that's like nitpicking but again To each his own he also said going into that charges game The Ravens had a good rotation in the running game with Gus Edwards and Keaton Mitchell then in the charges game They throw a monkey wrench with force-feeding justice heel phasing out gust of bus which makes no sense to me Is it me? It doesn't seem like ever since her balls been here the Ravens always do something off the wall I don't know where just my thoughts curious to hear yours Yeah, Ravens are a very interesting team when it comes to patterns when it comes to strategies Sometimes they can outthink themselves But there can be sometimes when they can outthink all of us because we'll be seeing something and then be like What what is going on? But there's a method to their madness. So as far as the running backs I know they did talk about it with it with Keaton Mitchell Maybe they just some they don't want to put so much on his plate because again, he's an undrafted rookie free agent So it wasn't like it was the Ravens plans to have Keaton Mitchell here But he just didn't get drafted in it worked out So they don't want to throw everything on his plate at once but as the season goes along You can give him more and more responsibility. You know us fans. We we want to see him out there all the time Hey, Keaton Mitchell, let's go But and then there's playoffs coming up, too You just want to have your guys fresh as that as fresh as they can possibly be But you want to have more guys be able to do more like Justice Hill That's like a third down guy catching passes out of the backfield I mean all of them are catching passes out of the backfield now, but Justice Hill now past protector He was probably the one that they trust the most in past protection Back there between him Gus Edwards and Keaton Mitchell. So that's another thing you got to think of so the rotation It all just depends on context it depends on the situation and it depends on the circumstance to help me understand Next question came from my guy Ray Shinies. I was up in grave in the team. Keep it clean I need help understanding this number one seed debate This might be long So let's just get right into it from my understanding of people that do not want the number one seed are the people that are Traumatized from us getting in it getting into 2019 and that's not being prepared and being one and done The argument is that when we got the number one seed in 2019 We should not have rested our starters in the last dealers game, which is a valid point We also came in unprepared in my opinion had a poor game playing on both sides of the ball with absolutely No adjustments at any point in the game, but isn't that something we can fix if we were to have the number one seed again? It sure is it really is and remember to in that game. Do you remember all the drops? Had all those drops been catches even half of them been catches Completely different ball game. Let's continue. He said if we were to get the number one seed again How about we play our starters instead of resting them at least for a half? I agree We may need to play our starters anyway if it comes to winning the Steelers game in a week 18 to even get the Number one seed that's true as well He said how about this next time? We come in with a better game plan and be prepared to make adjustments early and stick to what's working Finally our coaches need to make sure during the buy that our team is fully prepared to get to work to make it to the AFC Championship and then the Super Bowl right preparation is everything man And I agree with that like the starters still getting some time in now If you need to win that Steelers game to get the number one seed, okay Stardust play that full game try to close that thing out But if you don't need it Hey, let the starters at least play a half or something let them still try to get in rhythm and whatnot And then in the season on a high note and then go from there So he said personally I am for the number one seed because instead of needing to win three playoff games We only need to before 2021 both the number one seed and the number two seed got to buy and the majority of Playoff teams that had to buy not only went to the Super Bowl But one the Super Bowl that is not the case for lower C playoff teams and is the 2019 year the only time that we went Oh one and done in a playoffs, especially after having a number one or two seed We can't be scared from just one mishap. This is the NFL is any given Sunday You just have to learn from it and move on. You can't expect the same scenario is going to happen Every time you get the number one seed Especially if it's not even a pattern. Hmm. That's true Because that's been only time Ravens had that number one seed with this team He said anyway, sorry for the long run But what do you think engraving the team keep it clean? I'm looking forward to getting your perspective And just like we won't be at any point in the playoffs. I'm out. I love that ending because that's perfect and same thing I said earlier man, I'm with the number one seed all day every day and People who are like, no, we don't want the number one seed again I take you back to the AFC championship Ravens when the AFC championship Next week they're gonna have about a week So they're gonna be right back in the same situation. That's so many people are scared of what no that they'll be fine, man They'll be fine, man, and it's up to them to just again stay ready. So you ain't got to get ready number one seed Give it to me next question came from Java. He said to answer your question about Ravens wired Yes, they still do it after a loss. Okay, cuz he had asked me before like, um, if I watch Ravens wired And I told him I don't and I don't got nothing against I just don't be watching it I've seen it before but I just I just don't be watching it And then when I think the days at it I know it obviously stays up on YouTube and stuff, but the days that it comes out I'm not home and I just never circle back around to a watching it We just get so busy and so but anyway He said my question for you is but I do I do appreciate that though that because you said that they Still do Ravens wired even after a loss. I respect that a lot and I love that He said my question for you is not Ravens related but more about your channel question number one Is how many episodes do you think you have done so far lol? No clue? Because I mean it's on here. I think they um, I don't know if it's public But I know I can look to see how many videos there are This is a lot And he said my last question is what was your thought process from when you first started doing this until where you're at now With your channel. Oh, that's a really deep question. Um, I remember when I first started especially when I I Just did the just talking about Ravens My goal was to and this is still a goal of mine that I still want to make happen But my goal of mine was to be able to take people away from their problems for about 10 15 and have a longer video is Just so we talk about football talk about whatever and we just have a good time doing it We enjoy ourselves doing it and hopefully The people that are watching and commenting and leaving like a and subscribe all that stuff the people that are supporting Hopefully they enjoy it as well because that was that was my biggest thing because it's so many Problems that go on on a daily basis so many issues that people face on a day-to-day basis people face issues all the time And I'm sure somebody out there right now watching this video That's going through something that has really just been bothering them that's been frustrating them that they stressed out like crazy from But I wanted to be able to try and I know we can't alleviate any stress from anybody anything like that I get that but I wanted to just Try to put people at ease just for a little bit Every day that we made a video so that that had been my goal from the jump and that's still my goal every day No matter what it is that we're talking about no matter what's going on if we're watching the game together Doing a question from subscribers like this doing an update video, whatever it is is that hopefully Whoever's watching this could give them a little break from whatever issues whatever problems that they got going on in their personal lives Oh, well, this is interesting. Let's this next question came from my god. Cooper. He said hey, man I'm just starting up my radio Ravens YouTube channel main reason why I did this is because you have inspired me Thank you for all that you do. Oh, no, you ain't got to thank me for nothing I think y'all though because y'all y'all helped keep this thing moving y'all really do so I appreciate y'all He said anyway, my question is how do you start up a YouTube channel? I know that's a stupid question to ask but this the first time I've done a full Ravens channel Hope you read this and have a wonderful day. Let's fly. How you start up a YouTube channel. Just go for it That's it. Just go for it. Get a camera. I'm sure you got a phone You can use your phone because the cameras on phones are amazing nowadays. I don't know if you got air pods or not You got headphones or that though those could be your mics for now, but I think I'm One of the biggest things we're starting up is not waiting for the perfect situation You don't have to because I know a lot of people they they like all right I know and I get it because you want your stuff to look good. You want it to be Maybe professional if you want it, but it don't got to be professional my opinion But you you want your stuff to be on point. So some people like oh, I gotta have this camera I gotta have this mic. I gotta have these lights. I gotta have this computer I gotta have this this that in the third. I gotta have all this stuff and then I'll start and then when they wait for all that stuff They could either wait and not get everything and then they'll be all know what I ain't gonna do it no more or They could get all that stuff. They could have all the stuff It could be looking perfect or whatnot and then if it ain't jumping quick If the channel ain't going off quick, then they'd be like, oh man, this was all a waste. I'm done I ain't doing it no more so my advice in my opinion Don't wait till everything's perfect. Don't wait till everything's perfect If there's something that you want to do go for it and just build as you go along and also you got to have the utmost Patience passing the torch next question came from my guy D3. He said, what's up in gravy in the team? Keep it clean. Hope all is well with you and yours. I got a question for you How does JK Dobbins fit into the Ravens plans that running back next year? He doesn't in my opinion He died. I think he's done with the Ravens. I think the Ravens are done with him Not I know like bad blood type of way But I think it's just no if he does come back I can see them doing a one-year deal that with no guaranteed money But I think it's done between him and the Ravens. But anyway, he continued He said hypothetically if Gus is RB one Gus contract is up after this year, too So yeah, anyway, he said hypothetically if Gus is RB one and Mitchell is running back to the only two on the outside Looking in our Justice Hill and JK Justice Hill has a two-year contract. So he's under contract next year Gus is not only Ravens running backs on the contract next year. Keep Mitchell Justice Hill JK Dobbins Gus Edwards. They are not So we'll see what I can see them coming to an agreement with Gus Edwards, but JK Dobbins I just I don't see him fitting in. He said, what say you again? Thank you for the insight and keep up the great work. Now. I appreciate you man. Thank you Yeah, I think that Justice, I'm excuse me not Justice Hill I think that JK Dobbins is done with the Ravens Gus Edwards hmm That's a tricky one. Um, I can see that one going either way Because with what they do um I feel like JK Dobbins. He's like the perfect running back for their offense. Um, but just the injuries the injuries Gus Edwards, they I think they love Gus Edwards Um, and I I could see them trying to be like, hey Gus stay for the low Stay stay stay for the low.  So when it came to contract time, they could be like, oh, look at your numbers They were like this that that that yeah, you had a high average and whatnot But your carries were low your yards or the so that I feel like they they held him down So when it came to pay him they could be like, oh Now we don't want to pay you that much and it worked out worked out for them So now um, I could see them trying to do that again Um, because I think moving forward like next year. I think Keith Mitchell. I think it'll be his time I I really do Um, but yeah, we'll see but as far as JK, I think he's out of there Uh, Gus on offense, uh, justice. He'll he will have one year left at that point So I think they may actually keep him and last well not even comment I mean not even question muscle a comment or a story Came from my guy Aaron. He said the girl who changed everything In my life. He said, hey man. Hope all is well join your family I want to share a story about the girl who had made a big impact in my life More than anyone else besides family and friends. She is such an inspiration She's an Indian girl and I love her since 2018. That's the same year. Lamar debuted She's been my favorite superstar since that year then on september 27 2020 She talked to me and I was inspired by her call because I was in the 10th grade I kept grinding and grinding until my senior year of high school It was the first call outside countrywide. It made me feel so much better now in college both Lamar and swore That's her name have been my favorite character since 2018 years later. They only got better and better They are both very different characters, but they are both My personal special superstars of the call made me feel special because I just took calculus one in high school Oh, that sounds scary. I never even took that in my school And he said uh, and it almost changed classes because it was hard, but as time goes on I got better and better Uh, and he said go ravens and sorry for the longest story of your life. Well, no, it's all good So I appreciate you sharing this and shout out to to you for sharing it shout out to swore For being an inspiration shout out to Lamar Jackson for being an inspiration and shout out to you for being an inspiration with even sharing that story because um You talked about facing like challenges and stuff and that's important and again That's what this episode of question from subscribers.  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Yes, so would you like to introduce yourself, what's your name, your title and what you are facilitating here during the symposium? Hi, I'm Caroline Fogail, I'm the Regional Resource Mobilization and Partnership Officer and I will be facilitating the private sector session in the symposium. Okay, that's great. So would you like to share with us the takeaway message that you may have from this forum and especially from your area of expertise? Yes, so all in all it's super important that we are including everybody, it has to be very inclusive, otherwise we can't transform the agri-food systems. And especially for the private sector, the private sector is a very wide range, it's not one type of people, it is a very wide range. And we have to make sure that they are all included and since private sector are many businesses and they are focused on businesses, we have to enable and entice them to also contribute to the social aspect of agri-food systems transformation. And that means also to include family farmers who are feeding our Asian Pacific region. We have to economically empower women and we have to make sure that everybody is included. That really, I would like to repeat that again, inclusion is the most important point here. Thank you. So do you have any other message that you would like to share with us? Can I repeat that inclusion is the most important message? Thank you. Give us the tagline and then we can add it. Oh, that was already. So do you want to go again on this? I'm fine with that. Yeah? Yeah. You said short. Perfect.


One bingo. We're back 12 o'clock rock. I'm Jay Fiedel today is a really interesting day And it may be in the Chinese sense too because we have two tsunamis may be coming at us We have rain downtown We have our party at five o'clock at the at the Lonnie akea YWCA and also we have a show today about the Y What is it? MCA okay, and we're gonna distinguish that from the YWCA which we should do We're gonna, you know talk about the history of it and we have two people one Lori Moore She's the executive director of the armed services Why YW? YMCA and we have faith caribous and she is what's your title over there outreach director outreach director writing it down Okay, so we know what your respective areas are Okay, so Lori can you tell us about the why and what's important about the why what's the news? I should say the armed first armed forces why what's the news about the why so the armed services YMCA We've been in Hawaii almost a hundred years now You know anything close to that isn't it? I know. Thank you. I have aged very very well You must love your work. I do love my work. I always say I have the best job anywhere So I guess it shows Yes, thank you. So in 2017 we will be here a hundred years in Hawaii, which we think is amazing so that is the longest serving organization for Hawaii's military and This last year in 2015 we served over 44,110 service people and their families which is very substantial That's a lot of folks. We have a fairly small staff But we're doing great things and providing some great programs and services that really enhance their life in the military It's important to do that. You know, they're serving the country often They risk their lives or give their lives for the country. We need to we need to support them respect them and love them That's right. Yeah, and we're honored to be able to do that. Yeah, I would be too. Yeah, thank you Thank you. So what does outreach mean? I Tell people about the great things that the Armed Services YMCA does I let our military families know what we do Many people don't know about some of our programs. I also oversee What I think is the best program. I'm sure Lori says they're all the best programs But I oversee operation could comfort which is a program that it's supported by Our many local people in the community the Hawaiian quilt guild We have volunteers from there that create Handcrafted personalized quilts with pictures of deployed parents for children Who's who are experiencing sadness because their parents are deployed? So we we do quilts and we also do pillowcases for them. How are you guys funded? To generous donors like you From the public absolutely we do not receive any federal or state funding So it's all individuals who contribute foundations corporations So we're very fortunate to have a good cadre of supporters I'm sure you have a lot of people who want to you know follow what I was talking about namely to support our People in uniform. So what's the hundredth anniversary are you gonna do something special for it? Yeah? We've got a couple things planned. We'd like to Work with some partners and do some real special things probably in the spring I can't divulge all the details quite yet But at bases across the island so we have sites ten different sites across to Wahoo and three of our main sites at joint base Pearl Harbor Hickam Marine Corps Base Hawaii and at Wheeler Schofield and we expect to have some pretty large parties Shall we say at those locations? So what are we talking about when talking about the YMCA? You know and especially the armed forces armed services YMCA what comes to mind is that is that building on? Was it hotel and Richard's is it it's now the the art museum? Before that was the Hemeter building right before that it was you know the the YMCA Which I remember when I first came here was a pretty active place right so kind of an interesting story there because a group of folks here in Hawaii local folks Lauren Thurston and Dillingham got together purchased the original Royal Hawaiian hotel and Opened it as what we were known as the Army Navy YMCA at that time in 1917 that building Well, it was the original Royal Hawaiian. That was the original one. Yes. Yes, it was Then what is that you heard it here and think then move to what is now, you know the art museum and During that time in fact, I can tell you a really fun story that kind of relates to yesterday's events during that time it was so popular with the World War two era servicemen that They had 20,000 people come through through the course of the weekend So they were very very busy and so busy in fact that with as many rooms and cots and Dorms that they had they would still have to add beds to the gym in order to You know have a place for everyone to stay because when those guys wanted to get away That was the place to go. This is R&R. Exactly. That's what you provided You know right on through couple of World Wars and you know Sterling Kale who is a Pearl Harbor survivor You can meet down at the Arizona Memorial Visitor Center. He's down there several times a week He still talks about his time at the arm services YMCA downtown being in his 90s. Yeah, he is I want to say he's 97 Okay, actually he just had a birthday like that's news. Yes. It is big news You want to say something? Oh, I just was just going to say the Royal Hawaiian Hotel It was the original Royal Hawaiian hotel and I actually think that they tore the Royal Hawaiian hotel down because of termites Yeah, we have we have a great photo and you're talking about them sleeping We have a great photo of them sleeping actually on the lanai of the old Royal Hawaiian hotel Even during the 20s. It was so popular then too. Yeah, and it was popular during Vietnam, too I remember it was it was it was a hub of activity and Service men who wanted to get away from there, you know their units and had to leave They would go there and that would give them an opportunity to enjoy Hotel Street Exactly, right and the rest of the city. I mean it was off the basis Yeah, so the other thing that we're doing for the 100 years is gathering stories So all of your listeners out there if they have any stories of their experience with the arm services YMCA or the Army Navy YMCA As it was called formally and we'd love to hear about it We have a lot of stories from 1920s 1930s 1940s 1970s, but we're missing some from the 50s and 60s and would love to hear from people on their Experience and we would too so if you find people like that you want to you know provide Historical legacy let us know we've been right here on the show very important, you know because they're getting older We're gonna lose them. Yeah, we want to catch them before they go. Thank you. So historically now 100 years It was a hub and there were other YMCA's in town, but this was the only You know like in a civilian community the only on services YMCA, right? That's correct That's and that meant that it was it was reserved for military people It was and you know most other YMCA's Operate off a membership program But for the arm services YMCA as long as you were military you were a member and there were no dues to be paid It was just come let us take care of you. Let us offer you this place of refuge Let us help you write a letter home You know get a hot dog a bed a Blanket and a coat for 50 cents a night. What's the difference between that and the USO? So interestingly the arm services YMCA Became the USO so USO was United Services Organization six different organizations that came together during that World War II Period of time and the arm services Y was one of those organizations that joined with Catholic Charities and travelers aid and others To form the USO Interesting. Yeah, so can you give me the the depth and breadth of all your units now so to speak on all the bases What have you got out there? So we're busy Like I said, we've got our three main branches that I mentioned those We've also got Ali Amanu military reservation, which is right in housing over in the Salt Lake area And that actually it used to be Coast Guard housing then it became army But now you'll find just about every branch of service living there, right? we also operate out of tripler and Schofield medical clinic as well and and those particular units we have a children's waiting room So families can go that are receiving medical treatment or perhaps one of their children is receiving medical treatment They can drop off the well child The well child can be well cared for and have a lot of fun while mom or dad or you know siblings at a medical appointment because what you see it like tripler and Schofield is you can't always Take your child with you If you're an adult and you have a lab at any hospital, yeah, you've got to find care and what happens is, you know People move here. They come from the mainland. They don't necessarily have the support system in place You know, they don't have the family here to back them up They don't have perhaps they just moved they haven't made close friends yet And so that's an area where we can help and and of course tripler and Schofield love it because they've seen a 33% increase in the number of medical appointments that are actually attended You know, people don't miss their medical appointment because they can't find child. So what I'm getting out of this is that your organization the armed services YMCA Offers help in various ways. So many it's not limited to a single thing or recipe It's like whatever needs to happen you make it happen. That's right. Well, we were means I expect. No, you're exactly right You're right We work with the local commands and we fill in gaps because a lot of the military, you know provide services So MWR and others will provide services But there's some things they don't do and they can't do and that's where we can work with commands And we step in and do it so the the YMCA the armed services YMCA as a whole has a set of core programs But then each individual area is allowed to do, you know, what is necessary for their local community Yeah, and on that note local community the operative word if you look back, correct me if I'm wrong But if you look back historically what the armed services YMCA in in Hawaii Honolulu as I knew it Was not just a little island of military people. It was A place for exchange. It was a place where the public was invited Where people could come and meet. I mean, I'm sure there were dances, you know a lot That organization we talked about a minute ago the USO USO it was a place where the Soldiers and sailors could meet people from the community is a place where the community could come and meet people You know and Allah a restaurant something like that or some kind of Economic, you know transactional thing so it wasn't just reserved. It wasn't locked up just for the military It was a place in the community like the one on Richard Street where people could you know meet each other And I and I am concerned that what you're doing is all on the basis So have we lost that with the loss of the of the unit on Richard Street? No We haven't lost that. I think that the local community still cares about Military families who we serve and we still care about the local community and we make We help facilitate some of those transactions we have local volunteers who will come in and care for example with operation to comfort about our kids they they Tell their neighbors about a program actually how operation could comfort got started in Hawaii Was a local volunteer found out about it through her friend She began it. She actually brought the program to To our attention and we were on joint baseball Harvard Hickam But that didn't that did not stop her from saying hey, you know, I know that I'm making these quotes for Fraction at the time for children outside of Hawaii. I know there's tons of military around here I would really like to do something for Hawaii's military children. So she made that happen She told me a story about how her next-door neighbor across the Bay Was really interested in what she was doing and donated she was actually a local artist who had a second home here She donated a lot of her fabrics that had used her artwork to us so that we can make quilts with that fabric and and that's I think the The caring concern that the local community has shown has been steadfast throughout those hundred years One of my favorite stories is from World War two when the bombing occurred The army called us up and said hey We need to find shelter for many of the families and they be evacuated from the various bases that have been bombed Can you do it? And of course we can do it We opened up all of our facilities But we ran out of room as well and it was the local community who said hey We'll open up our bed. So sort of a backup system the connection And what could be more appropriate now with the 75th anniversary of Pearl Harbor when I Imagine that the one on Richter Street was really busy. It was busy Break you guys I'm gonna come back. I want to talk about you know the future of the armed services Y MCA And how it plays with today's military Tomorrow's military We'll be right back Aloha kako. I'm Marsha joiner inviting you to navigate the journey with us We are here every Wednesday morning at 11 a.m. And we really want you to be with us Where we look at the options and choices of end of life care, Aloha Hi, I'm Kili Akina president of the grassroots Institute I'd love you to join us every week Mondays at 2 o'clock p.m. For a Hanukkah co. Let's work together We report every week on the good things going on in our state as well as the better things that can go on in the future We have guests covering everything from the economy the government and society See you Mondays on a Hanukkah co at 2 o'clock p.m. Until then I'm Kili Akina Aloha We're back and we have Laurie Moore she's the executive director of the armed services YMCA in Hawaii and Faith Carbus she's the outreach director of the armed services YMCA in Hawaii So, yeah, so you were talking during the break about different programs and how you were You know dealing with the current configuration of troops here So what is it like talk about it? Well, you know one of the things that really concerns families these days and Studies literally just came out today and showed that both spouses and military members are very concerned about the effect of deployment on their children and legitimate concern, yes Deployment can be months and months. Yeah, absolutely and 37 percent of those surveyed said that was a huge concern for them And how they dealt with that was very very important and we all know that the children are affected by that You know when mom or dad leaves for six seven eight nine ten months at a time That's tough. That's tough on everybody and so some of our programs address that and we talked a little bit about the operation kid Comfort program and that offers some comfort to younger children But I think to address some of the issues that older children have we've got a program that's called Operation hero and that children specifically for elementary age kids and we divided up appropriately age-wise But what we found with some of these kids that are perhaps experiencing difficulty due to you know Mom or dad being deployed is that they're exhibiting social issues as well as academic and so this program addresses both It's a free program. We run it through our elementary schools Across the island and it helps these kids a with homework help right and a little bit of you know one-on-one tutoring as well as we do as well as You know, hey, I'm I'm feeling really anxious about mom or dad being gone. How do I deal with that? How can I address that and we give them skills to do that and a lot of it's self-esteem, you know Really just building their self-esteem and reminding them that hey, this is what mom or dad does Which are kind of the aspects of their job for the most part They're safe you are loved and you are well taken care of by the people that are here so you know fill the gaps so to speak in their lives and families but You know when I was in the service and we're talking Talking yesterday 50 years ago You know that the average enlisted and a lot of the junior officers they didn't have two farlings to rub together They were not well paid And they you know as a result you wouldn't call them middle-class you'd call them struggling And their families obviously was struggling and as soon as they get married the struggle became clear And I wonder if we are still talking about the same thing or it's different I know they're paid more now, and they get benefits maybe that are a little richer now But I'm wondering if you know part of what you do is really a social safety net for people in uniform Because they don't have enough money to be middle-class and you know take care of themselves I mean, can you talk about that? Absolutely. So we operate food Banks basically at all of our branches because we know that sometimes our military end up in a tough spot financially For whatever the reason may be so they can come to us and they can get you know a great meal and You know faith can tell you a really touching story I think that we had recently come up because there are organizations that do that besides us But some on base have very very Strict guidelines as to it has to be reported to the command it has to be for this reason We can be a little bit more broad in scope when we provide services and this is an example We've recently came about and it's it's quite touching. Oh, I can hardly wait We had a young Marine come into our office on Kanyohi Marine Corps Base, Hawaii and She was pregnant with her first child She you know is diligent hard-working like any Marine We we love our Marines especially because Lori's a wife of a Marine so yeah, so Marines are very special to us Anyway, so this young Marine came in pregnant hard-working and she had two other children with her and she told us that she had recently taken custody of her niece and nephew because her brother had Just suddenly passed away. So she she was not prepared to take care of Her young niece and nephew, but like any good US service person. She's she stepped up and said I'll do it I'll take care of them. It just it took a while for the process To go through the courts for her to get custody to get her to get the insurance all that So just boom she has this huge responsibility But we were able to set her up with groceries, but also diapers for her baby that would soon be born Gas cards commissary cards for anything else that she needed and and basically said if you need anything else come back You become the social safety net You know parallel to what's happening outside where the state of the city provides a social you provide a social safety net of sorts Yeah, and I think it's more than just I would hate to use the I Don't say social safety net I'd rather say we really become their family because many of these service members leave their family. So It's it's not just giving somebody a gift card or groceries and saying hey, thank you so much. We'll see you later It's I'll give you a call tomorrow and see see how you're doing or hey I know somebody that can help you so, you know this this all raises the issue of Outreach if you will but I wouldn't call it outreach for this it's more like in reach So you have a you know, I don't know how many whether a hundred thousand people here in the military right now 300,000 dependents and Fine Men children all that And you know you have to if you're going to be effective you have to reach them You have to let them know you're here Which they may or may not know about Now that's that's a burden at least as more at least as difficult as doing outreach outside You know the military and the basis What do you do in order to make sure that all these people in in uniform and dependents know about your services? What do you do? Well, I think the Beauty of what we do obviously we reach out to our spouse clubs and and to local commands and and to other Organizations, but when you form those deep bonds with people They end up being the outreach for you as well So many people that I've spoken with and I said hey, how did you hear about us? Oh, I heard about you from my neighbor or heard about you from somebody that I met the playground or Actually, we have a preschool family that came through she found out about us because her sister is stationed here So if you service people well if you become not their social safety net, but but their family safety net They're gonna share with their neighbors with their friends. Yeah Of course, we we do go out and we do outreach, but what is that teaching? lectures we go out and we meet with Various spouse groups that could be officer spouse To help you what I was gonna say we also go to in newcomer briefings So each newcomer briefing we make sure to let people know we're available part of that process One of the things you know in years past. I was a director of the Coast Guard Foundation because I'm coast guard. Yeah Not Marines coast guard. That's all right. I like them. We love the coast guard, too We love the coast guard, too And what they did is they took care of the families of just as you mentioned You know when they went out in deployment when the service member went out in deployment They took care of the families, you know The wife usually who stayed at home with the kids and you know that was stressful and their spouse wasn't around and the coast guard Foundation would help them out sort of like what you're talking about and raises the question in my mind is that there are probably a Number of other organizations that do the same kinds of things for different niches, you know within the military establishment here And I like to know how you deal with them if you deal with them and how you collaborate with them Yeah, so we do partner with Anybody and everybody quite frankly because we believe in the strength of partnerships And our goal is just to meet the needs of our military You know our egos are not it wrapped up in this at all We have a job to do and if we do it well by partnering with someone that's what we want to do So for example Navy Marine Corps relief they do some similar things in terms of financial assistance as to what we do But again, they have I would say stricter guidelines Into what they can and cannot do and it's more direct support to family So for instance this Marine that we spoke about she couldn't we were her only option for assistance in that case becomes Of some of the guidelines that they have to adhere to so we're a little bit again filling in a gap, right? You know, we have a new almost a new president He has different views about many things Mm-hmm including military, you know military bases and assignments around Various places in the world. I think and the world's changing more and and the way the military works is changing Yes, it's no longer the you know the the greatest generation kind of experience. It's different now It's high-tech Maybe fewer people doing more leveraged jobs Traveling quicker and being very mobile and all that and of course diplomacy changes international relations change How can you change to meet that? How can you change? How are you? What's the plan to keep up with what I consider a very fast-moving world a very fast-moving military? I think when you have deep relationships like we do with all the military commands and with our families keeping up with the changes is Simply listening to what they need and then following through and doing that So if they if they need to if we need to tweak a program in order to meet a need in order to fill in a gap We're going to do that. I think we have The staff and the community support that allows us to be flexible and and change as we need to change with the military Yeah, I think you occupy a very interesting spot in the sense that in Hawaii I'm sure you know people are not close to the military they You know, they remember the Massey case back in the 30s You know, although the military has been here for more than a hundred and fifty years the American military You know has been here for more than a hundred and fifty years I think there's a lot of you know We had a program about the military in Hawaii a couple years ago at the Launayakea down the block and there were protesters outside What are they protesting? Well, they're protesting in military. Sure. So it go home kind of thing, you know And that's a great concern to me and it sounds like you know, you are a connection You help the you know, local people people in Hawaii civilian people have nothing to do Any aspect of the military presence here you help them understand what's going on? I think that's very important. It is important and we feel that you know These people are making routine sacrifices on a daily basis and for our community to understand that Makes all the difference in the world and also for our community to understand the economic difference that the military makes for our state So talk to them talk to them now Talk to them Laurie that see that camera with a red light Do you see that camera the red light tell them what they should be thinking and doing about, you know The armed services YMCA and about the military, you know presence establishment here here in Hawaii Well, we're fortunate to have the heroes that we have we're fortunate to have the heroes Representing us fighting for our freedoms, you know taking care of us as a nation and I am the spouse of a retired Marine I'm also the mother of a student at one of our service academies So I do think being a mother of a service member is probably more difficult than being a spouse and I Asked for your support for my family for other families and for all of those that that sacrifice for us and Faith Faith caribou's how much of that do you agree with? Well, I agree with Laurie. I I think in some cases I disagree with you Because I think Many of the Hawaiians that I've met or the citizens of Hawaii are our supportive of our military I have a wonderful story my Father was stationed here as a young child with his family so my grandfather was stationed here and They made great friends with the local family and not a cooling and I actually have an appointment to meet with The daughter so a very young child Back in the 60s. I'm going to meet with her her son also graduated yours hasn't yet, but one from one of the service academies and There are actually deep roots.  Thank you very much


Ukraine begins production of missiles that can hit Russian territory. Many of the missiles Russia has been using to strike Kiev and other cities, along with Ukrainian infrastructure, were originally designed and built in Ukraine. According to Kiev, post-media outlet Elements of the Kh-55 family of cruise missiles were designed by Yusnoi State Design Office in Nipro and, while the complete missile was developed by Moscow's MKB-Raduga Design Bureau, the missiles went into serial production in the 1980s at the Kharkiv Aviation Plant, with engines provided by Motor Seek. It is noted that Ukraine holds all the original technical details of the Kh-55 and its derivatives, as well as probable access to documentation relating to Retters Kh-101 and caliber missiles. In developing new missiles, it will use this information as the basis for two new missiles, the Caution Cruise Missile and the Grom 2 Vertically Launched Tactical Missile. While the exact technical details of the missiles are confidential, it's believed that the Caution will be designed for air, ground and ship launch, and primarily used to attack static land targets using known geolocated coordinates. According to the Kiev Post, based on open-source Schemic Drawings released by Ukro Boronexport, it will have a 480 kg warhead containing high explosive penetrating sub munitions, although a conventional high explosive fragmentation warhead may also be available. The missile will use a solid fuel rocket booster to launch and bring it to cruising speed when a turbojet engine will power it through the rest of the flight. The turbojet, which is a development of the original Kh-55's Soyuz R95-300 motor, is manufactured by MotorSick with the new designation of MS-400. The original 2014 design was for a smaller missile with a range of around 300 km. It seems that the newer version will be much larger, weighing around 1300 kg and, when ground launched, with a range of around 700 km. The Caution is expected to use a guidance system that combines inertial and GPS navigation. Fewer details are known about the Grom 2 Tactical Missile. It will carry the same warhead as the Caution, but on a much larger missile with a weight of around 3000 kg. The maximum range is currently believed to be around 500 km.