Good evening! Welcome back. I'm Mark, up to grow the director of the LBJ Presidential Library. I want to welcome you all to another season of great programming at this fine institution. This year marks the 50th anniversary of perhaps the most remarkable legislative year in our nation's history, as Lyndon Johnson signed a flurry of laws that transformed our nation, and in many ways created the foundation for modern America. Those laws include the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, the Higher Education Act, Medicare and Medicaid, the Voting Rights Act, the Immigration Act, perhaps the most sweeping immigration reform in the history of our country, the creation of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Endowment for the Arts, the Clean Air Act, the Older Americans Act, and the Highway Beautification Act. And on September 9th, on this day, a half a century ago, he signed a bill that created the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Tonight, I know President Johnson would be honored that his fellow Texan, Helene Castro, the Secretary of HUD, is at his presidential library to celebrate HUD's golden anniversary. I much look forward to having a conversation with Secretary Castro on this stage in a moment. But before I bring up President Johnson's daughter, our own Lucy Baines Johnson, who will introduce the Secretary, I want to share this short film on HUD and its history as part of the American story. Very rare and very proud occasion. We are bringing into being today a very new and needed instrument to serve all the people of America. This legislation establishes the 11th Department of our federal government, the Department of Housing and Urban Development. He knew what he wanted to do. He lived it. You know, remember, he was elected to Congress in 1938. In 1938, there was no running water and there was no electricity in the hill country where he grew up for the first 20 years of his life. We can argue or talk about voting rights and we can talk about school rights and employment rights. But one of the things that touches Americans most deeply was housing. Where do people live? A great deal of emphasis was placed on the unrest in cities because there were riots in Detroit, there were riots in Washington, D.C. Cities were burning. So it was a difficult period through which this country moved. HUD is more than just housing. It's education and transportation. It's economic development and a clean environment. It's about giving folks the tools they need to build a brighter future. Fair housing for all, all human beings who live in this country is now a part of the American way of life. I think the Fair Housing Act has taught a couple of generations of Americans, at least leaders, that this is part of the American dream. I mean, it seems so elementary to have fair housing. But HUD is out there day in and day out trying to enforce our fair housing laws and trying to make sure that people get treated fairly when they go ran or by. Well, I came into HUD at a pretty explosive period of time, right? The housing market was blowing up. The world was in the middle of a financial crisis. And HUD's place in history was very important at that time. Without FHA, the devastation that we saw in our communities and our housing market would have been dramatically worse. I have no doubt about that. The men and women that live on our street, it's not them and us, but it's we. It's not therefore, but the grace of God go I, but rather there go I. It's really important to reflect on 50 years of the incredible work of HUD. And the reason I'm saying that is previously, before there was a HUD, it was unimaginable in our country that men, women and children would be homeless. We're just unthinkable. Thanks to President Johnson, the Congress of that era, some of the experts and leaders across the country, they took to assemble all of the disparate pieces that might exist out there, such as FHA leading the way. But then all of the other things we were doing related to urban renewal and community development and rental housing and mortgages and pulled it all together in a department that I think has proven it is an important part of the American story. HUD is the Department of Opportunity. Everything that we do, everything that we do, whether it's working with our local communities to revitalize them or helping to ensure the responsible borrowers can get their first home or helping after a disaster has struck, we ensure that Americans can reach their American dream. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Lucy Baines Johnson. Some of us are exhausted by the great society's 50th anniversary celebrations this year. Can you imagine the energy it took to make these great dreams actually acts of Congress? Today is the 50th anniversary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. There could be no better way to celebrate than with Julian Castro, HUD's 16th Secretary. Julian's family and my own have so many ties that bind. In 1920, Julian's grandmother came to South Texas as a young Latina orphan seeking opportunity. In 1929, daddy needed money to continue his college education and he found his opportunity in South Texas teaching at a poor Mexican school in Catula. Both Julian's family and daddy saw South Texas racial injustice and poverty at early ages and were determined to right the wrong. Julian's mother dedicated her life to creating La Raza Unita, a vibrant voice for Latinos in the American political process and daddy's experience at Catula inspired his lifelong fight for social justice. As head of Texas's national youth administration and later as a young congressman, daddy provided job training for unemployed youth, brought electricity to the rural poor and supported the creation of Austin's first minority public housing. As a young mayor, Julian Castro became a national leader in urban development, attracting $350 million in private sector investment and producing more than four 2400 housing units for his decade of downtown initiative. The creation of HUD was historic, establishing a new department of the government headed by Robert Weaver, America's first African-American member of the cabinet. And 50 years later, HUD Secretary is a descendant of poor Mexican Americans like the ones who inspired my father's commitment to social justice. HUD was formed because of an insufficient affordable housing and segregation's denial of capital for construction and mortgages for minorities. Daddy told the nation, and I quote, our society will never be great until our cities are great. We must seek and we must find ways to preserve and to perpetuate in the city the individuality, the human dignity, the respect for individual rights, the devotion to individual responsibility that has been a part of the American character and strength of the American system. With 8,000 employees and a $46 billion budget, Secretary Castro uses a performance-driven management style to fulfill his mission of creating opportunity for all. Secretary Castro is a supporter of affirmative action. He graciously acknowledges that without it, maybe his SAT scores might have been denied him the access to Stanford. His acceptance proved to be a springboard to remarkable career at Harvard Law and in public life that has benefited us all. After graduation, Julian joined the law firm of Aiken Gump founded by Ambassador Bob Strauss, a magnificent public servant and a member of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation until the day he died. Another young associate at that firm was Daddy's only grandson, my son, Lyndon Nugent. So you can see the ties that bind the Castro's and the Johnson's go on for generations. Secretary Castro's education took him to success in the IVs. My father's chance at education was found at Southwest Texas State Teachers College, now known as Texas State University. Daddy loved to tell the story of a joint chiefs of staff meeting when he looked around the room and he saw graduates of West Point, the Naval Academy, the Air Force Academy, Harvard, Yale, Stanford, and one lone graduate from Southwest Texas State Teachers College. Then the president, the sole Texas State graduate, Riley smiled and said, gentlemen, the nation's work demands our best. Let the best get to it. Whether a graduate of Texas State or Stanford, the creator and the present secretary of HUD have been united by a lifelong passion to make a difference for those in need. As Lyndon Johnson's daughter and the grandmother of 13, I am honored and proud to introduce Secretary Julian Castro, Daddy's hope for tomorrow and mine. Mr. Secretary, welcome. Thank you very much. It's been about a year and a half since you were last on this stage as part of the Civil Rights Summit and since that time you've become our secretary of HUD. Congratulations on that appointment. Welcome back. We're delighted to have you here. So we saw in the video you describe HUD as the Department of Opportunity. So for those of us who don't know the Department of Housing and Urban Development, how does it create opportunity for Americans? In so many ways. First of all, Mark, thank you so much. Thank you to Lucy. Thank you to the entire board, everybody here at the LBJ Library. Before I took on the role, one of the things that I told myself was that HUD has created so much opportunity over the years that it needs a narrative, I guess in a word that's overused these days and needs a brand. And so we started to call it the Department of Opportunity and it's created opportunity and a lot of it was alluded to in the film in so many ways. First of all, the Federal Housing Administration, the FHA, which is under HUD's purview that has done, has insured 44 million mortgages in its lifespan, made home ownership possible to people of all different backgrounds who are of modest means but responsible families that are trying to get access to credit for their first home. It has helped create millions of affordable housing units through things like community development block grants and home funds. It has meant people being able to go from homeless to housed just in the last several years from 2010 to 2014, for instance. We saw a 10% overall drop in homelessness and a 33% drop in veteran homelessness and Austin is actually leading the way among cities. It's very close to getting to functional zero for veteran homelessness. On top of that, more recently we have begun to invest in things like jobs plus and family self-sufficiency which help not only house but then spark greater opportunity in families' lives so that folks can save money and become self-sufficient. They can get their GED or get job training that is going to make them more employable so they can get a job or get a better job than they have. All of those ways are creating greater opportunity in the lives of millions of Americans. There are over 9 million folks today that are in some form of HUD assisted housing. So you've been in the post for 13 months and you'll be in the post until January of 2017. What do you hope to accomplish during your tenure at HUD? We have several priorities. In fact, one of the things that I've said is that oddly enough, only having a year and a half left is advantageous in the sense that you have to prioritize. It forces you to focus and understand what you can get done and what you can't and what you can lay a foundation for for the future. Some of my priorities at the department include ending veteran homelessness. The president has set that as a marker as part of a plan called Opening Doors to effectively eliminate homelessness by 2020 starting with veteran homelessness. We've seen New Orleans, for instance, reach that milestone in cities like Houston and Salt Lake City and chronic veteran homelessness and getting very close. Same thing here with Austin and a number of other places. So we're starting to see these communities get to where they need to get. We can't wait until the day when the United States ends veteran homelessness. Secondly, very early on in my tenure I said that as much as we had been through a housing crisis and we needed to learn the lessons of the past, we needed to end the stigma of promoting home ownership. In other words, if we're responsible and if we keep safeguards in place that have been put in place over the last several years in response to the housing crisis, so you don't slide back, but you find a strong balance in the middle because whereas a few years ago it used to be too difficult, it used to be too easy to get a home loan for many middle-class families and folks of modest means who have decent credit who under normal times, not in the run-up to 0708, but let's say 15 years ago under normal times would have gotten a home loan, today they can't, they're shut out. And so we want to strike that balance of access to credit and affordability. So in January we just, the president announced a reduction to the mortgage insurance premium at FHA and this year FHA is performing very well compared to the last seven or eight years. And then a third one is what we just accomplished in Fair Housing. We finally put out what's called the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Rule. I know that that sounds very bureaucratic, but folks I know in the audience who follow Housing and specifically Fair Housing and the Fair Housing Act of 68 will remember that this is one of the unfinished pieces of business from then. It essentially tells communities if you get HUD dollars, taxpayer dollars, then we expect that you're going to use those taxpayer dollars in a responsible way to promote equal opportunity and fair housing throughout your community. And this is an unprecedented set of tools of data to help communities understand where the gaps are in their area. And we're going to work with them, collaborate with them to figure out how they can do a better job. And in those cases where communities flagrantly are not doing what they ought to, we're going to enforce the Fair Housing Act. So making progress on creating greater opportunity in cities in their metro areas is another goal that we have for these next 17 months. Another thing you want to do is bring internet access to lower income housing. How do you do that? We just announced something called Connect Home, which is 28 communities and their public housing within those 28 communities, 27 cities and one Native American reservation. Essentially, we struck up a partnership with private internet service providers to hook up folks who live in public housing either for free or very, very low cost because we found that even though the majority of folks have access to a computer and sometimes small mobile devices, many of them do not have full internet access either because it's not affordable or they don't physically get access, we're trying to change that because we know that in this 21st century global economy where knowledge and brain power really drives it, you need everyone to be on a level playing field and hooking up those communities is a big way to start closing that knowledge gap. A clean energy is another one of your goals, bringing clean energy to our urban areas. Where do you start? How do you start? It seems like our energy paradigm is such that it's going to be very difficult to bring clean energy efficiently to our urban areas. What do you do? There's a lot that HUD can do. I'm very proud that the president has embraced this climate action plan that he rolled out 18 months two years ago, a little bit before I came on board, but the climate action plan is not just about the EPA or Department of Energy doing what they can to conserve energy and embrace renewables. It really is about all of the federal departments and all of our partner local communities and the private sector. At HUD, for instance, we have something called the Better Buildings Challenge for multifamily HUD assisted buildings. The goal is that we get 100 of those multifamily building owners. Now, mind you, some of them may have multiple developments in different communities to reduce by 20% their energy waste. So far, I believe we have something like 89 of them signed up. They have committed to reduce their energy waste over the next decade by at least 20%. Just a couple of weeks ago, the president announced something called PACE property-assessed clean energy that folks may be familiar with. There are a number of states, including California, that have begun to look more seriously at this and some of the northeastern states that have actually done it. But essentially, the FHA has said that it will ensure PACE loans, essentially it's a vehicle for folks to wrap in the cost of installing solar or other renewable energy or energy conservation devices into the cost of the home and it makes it more affordable to do for homeowners. Our cities are growing disproportionately in this country. Our rural areas are getting smaller proportionally. What is driving that growth? Why are Americans flocking to cities? I believe that throughout history, the primary reason that people have come to cities is because of opportunity. Economic opportunity, but also cultural opportunities. I remember I used to read the speeches of Henry Cisneros, who may be here today, I'm not sure if he is, who was also a HUD secretary and mayor of San Antonio, and he had this speech where he used to talk about when you encounter the world's great universities and hospitals and art museums and ballet companies and so on and so forth, that you'll find them in cities. I see cities as sort of this flame and you have a moth-the-flame effect throughout history for people of both this economic opportunity, cultural opportunity, and then also the need of people to socialize, to feel a connectedness with each other. It's ironic when you think about it that our cities are growing again and that over the next few decades, by 2050, it's projected that about two-thirds of the growth that we're going to see will be in cities when, in a lot of ways, people live a more solitary existence with their smartphone that they're looking into, or you're on your iPad, maybe you're on Facebook, kind of interacting, or Twitter, but at the same time, this millennial generation, they enjoy the urban lifestyle of downtowns throughout the United States, so it's almost like in some ways I think people are compensating for this new way that we have of solidarily interacting with information, but then wanting to be around other people and how we live, and that's my pop psychology for the night, but I think it's basically different types of opportunity. You're a former mayor as well as being Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. As you look around the country, is there a model American city? Is there one city you think that's doing everything right in today's America, in terms of being progressive, in terms of being on the mark to grow and prosper? Well, San Antonio, obviously. That's such a layup, that is such a layup question. Actually, and I'm not saying it just because I'm here, you can go back and look at the record, I brag a lot about this city. There's no city that is getting exactly right all the time, and Austin, in my speech today, I addressed, for instance, the issues around people being priced out of East Austin and the challenges that East Austin is having, and that we need to make sure that we invest in older distressed neighborhoods, but we do it for the purpose of the folks who live there being able to enjoy that, and that we maintain this balance between folks being able to live there and newcomers. But I would put Austin among a handful of cities that is doing it most effectively. In other words, now I'm speaking as a former mayor, I was always convinced that you needed to get the economic development right and have the right opportunities. Obviously, Austin is doing that with tech opportunities, now more and more with hospitality, with the perception out there of this is a cool city to those millennials that everyone is after, and then also quality of life. As much as folks complain about Mopac and I35, when you compare the quality of life in this city to a lot of other places, it's very nice. People don't feel like they're on top of each other in terms of the congestion. Affordability is a real challenge, so that is something that needs to be addressed in spades, but it's getting a lot of it right. Other communities that I think are doing that are similar places that have a strong university presence and economic development that is later on top of that, and then artistic and cultural opportunities that go along with it. The third piece of that is getting just the basics of good governance right, having a local government, utilities, water and electric, and then city council that does the basic stuff right. We're half a century away from the creation of HUD. What do you see as the biggest challenge we face in the next 50 years? I'd say the biggest challenge that we face is that you have a congress that simply is disconnected from the reality of an affordable housing crisis out there. You have an affordable housing crisis in Austin, in San Antonio, in Houston, in Dallas, in Portland, in Seattle, in Denver, in Philadelphia, and D.C. In just about every American city, the demand for affordable housing far outstrips the supply. The National Low-Income Housing Coalition a couple of months ago came out with analysis that said in no single community of any size in the United States, if you're a person who's working 40 hours minimum wage, could you afford a two-bedroom apartment?  We have an affordable housing crisis out there. And at the same time, just to give you one example, in this coming year's budget, the governing majority in the Senate, in terms of appropriations, has proposed cutting the home investment fund by 93%. Now, folks who are in housing will know that home is often a gap filler, along with light tech and other means to make development, affordable housing development work, make the numbers work. And without that important tool, it makes it that much harder, not even to keep up, but to chase from so far behind. So that's a big challenge over the next five decades, is when do we come to grips with the fact that there's so many people that are doubling up because they just can't find some place of their own? A lot of people who are in shelters and youth who are staying at another family's house. I don't believe that that Congress has come to grips with that. So if Congress is disconnected, how do you connect them to this issue, this very pressing issue? Well, of course, we do what we can in terms of providing information. The president has been vocal and very straightforward about that and has been a champion for affordable housing. I'm very pleased to say over the years, of course, folks out there, some of the best advocates are folks in the affordable housing development community and in nonprofits and people who are impacted, and mayors, housing authority directors who see these real challenges and have a strong voice in front of Congress. You spoke very movingly today to the students of the LBJ School of Public Affairs about the riots in Watts 50 years ago last summer, this summer. You said today we face a growing gap between rich and poor, between those who have opportunity and those who don't. The issues we saw 50 years ago in Watts are still relevant today, as we've seen in recent events across the nation. So what can we best do to bridge that gap between rich and poor and opportunity and despair?  Housing, affordable housing opportunities are a significant part of the answer, but in my remarks, one of the things I said was that, and quoted the president, we need to look at this as a holistic with a holistic eye and not just work on the housing, but work on better educational opportunities for young people, starting from the very beginning, even fairly mundane things like access to transit so that people save money and it's easier for them to get to gainful employment, making sure that communities are mindful of the opportunity landscape within their community, because if you analyze San Antonio or you analyze Austin or Minneapolis or just about any city, there are policies that over time, and a lot of cities have gotten better about it, but over time have advantaged some neighborhoods or some communities as opposed to others. There's also a role for the federal government, increasing the minimum wage and pursuing tax policies that reward work, and so I think you have to take a holistic approach to it. But that necessitates working with other departments, education. Absolutely, sure. How does that happen in a cabinet?  I'm happy to say that after these last seven years of the Obama administration that that's been institutionalized, so their efforts like sustainable communities, which was a partnership among HUD, the Department of Transportation and the EPA, and competition communities competed for funds to plan around not just affordable housing, but also connection to transit and how they're going to do that in an environment that's healthy for the families who live in those neighborhoods. Another good example are promise zones. San Antonio has a promise zone and the idea is measuring educational improvement there, measuring access to transit, measuring reduction in crime, improving affordable housing options, and all of us at the staff level have staff members who do work together oftentimes on the ground in the same place so that they break down those bureaucratic silos and it's not a matter of waiting for the next meeting or something or making a phone call into the Department of Transportation. Those employees are actually working together. Another good example of that was something called Strong City, Strong Communities, sending these teams out into the field to work together to solve problems for communities. That's how we've basically broken through the silos. What was the greatest adjustment in going from being the mayor of a large metropolitan city to becoming the secretary, to a cabinet secretary position? Well the biggest adjustment was that I can't get good iced tea or good barbecue in DC. Everywhere I go, especially in the south, I make it a point to have one of my meals at a barbecue place. The biggest professional adjustment was that as mayor, first of all, you can get things done a lot more quickly. There's something very rewarding about getting to see the fruits of your labor and the labor of the people you're working with and the community of course. The other thing is as mayor you have, there's no other job like that because you kind of, you know, you're at the pin of the needle in terms of this community identity and whether people are Republican or Democrat, most folks still want you to succeed because they have a community pride and they want to see the city move forward and everybody celebrates when there's an announcement about new jobs that are coming to the city or, you know, some other investment or infrastructure that got done. So you kind of have this tailwind to you. In the cabinet, the reward that you get is that the impact that you can make is much broader. You know, it's not just in San Antonio. It's communities all over the place and the neatest thing has been getting to visit now I think over 50 cities and about 30 states in these last 13 months. But the biggest adjustment for me was that there is more of a bureaucracy. It does take longer to get things done. Having to learn, okay, what are the levers that you pull to get things done? And there is a federal language and a way of thinking and an approach that was completely foreign to me when I got there. Still seems foreign sometimes now. But, you know, I'm enjoying the job 10 times more now as we sit here than I did a month after I got there. You talked about the disconnection of Congress. There's also a dysfunction in Congress. There's a bitter partisan divide. Do you think that that divide will deepen or will abate in the coming years? In the near future? Well, in the near future, I think it'll stay probably about the same. I always hold out hope after each presidential election that whichever party wins and whichever party loses, there's a message that the American people send that must have some kind of impact, even if it's fleeting. A good example of this was after the 2012 elections, all of a sudden in the Senate, there was very strong bipartisan support for immigration reform because both Democrats and Republicans thought, well, this is what we ought to do. This is what the American people want and what we're going to need for the next cycle. But I believe that the longer term, the challenges, and this is not breaking any new ground, people have described it more sharply than I have and in more depth, is you have a problem with the way that redistricting is done. That's been said over and over. My hope is that we'll see good results. And by good, I mean people that are open-minded coming out of redistricting commissions like California. You're going to be able to study how that's being done and analyze the extent to which other states should adopt that. I think they probably should. That'll never happen in Texas. But that's one thing, redistricting. Another thing I think is just in Joaquin, my brother who's in his second term has a better lock on this part of it. But the whole culture is, he has said that it's designed for folks to fight. You're kind of in your whole camp socially from the very beginning. And he describes going to orientation when he got into Congress. And you have an orientation for the Democrats and one for the Republicans. And then they sit on separate sides of the aisle literally. And now people go home. My joke around town and my brother goes around telling people that the way to tell us apart is that I'm a minute uglier than he is. And I tell folks that, you know, of the Castro brothers, that I'm the one in D.C. with the real job because he's in Congress. Because they're there from like Tuesday to Thursday. And they were in session in 2014, maybe a hundred days out of the year. They're not there enough to form the kind of bonds that we read about, or, you know, that President Johnson famously had when he came up through the House and then the Senate. It feels like that the human aspect, the connection that people have that sort of lubricated the ability to get things done has diminished significantly. And it's a different question than the redistricting. It's not even as much a political question, but a structural question. How do you, you know, how could you go about encouraging a lot more of that? Is there a solution? You're absolutely right. I mean, I mentioned the laws that President Johnson and a very plant Congress passed 50 years ago. It's remarkable. I can't imagine a Congress being able to do that today. And you're right. I think there's, at heart, there is a human element missing. How do you change that? I mean, honestly, what can be done to add that lubricant, in your words, to the process? I think it starts with something as simple as creating more opportunities, more forums for folks to get to know each other, and to relate on a social level, human level, instead of, you know, they're in the committee meeting or subcommittee or they're on the floor and, you know, everybody is going to go to your neutral corner and you're just performing your duties and you're, you kind of have your partisan hat on.  And, you know, person after person who has served, who are former members of Congress, even the ones from relatively recently, will say, will tell you that the biggest difference often was that they had a friendship with someone, that they knew them, they respected them, even if they disagreed with them. And it doesn't mean that every time that all of a sudden somebody that's a hardcore Republican or hardcore Democrat votes the other way, but it means that they may be willing to listen a little bit more on one key element or an amendment or something that makes things more possible. So I would say, you know, not having a grand answer to that, that the beginning would be creating more actual opportunities for people to develop friendships and know each other outside of the time when they're wearing their partisan hat. Right. You mentioned immigration reform a moment ago. And indeed, the last time you were on the stage as part of the Civil Rights Summit, it was on a panel relating to immigration reform. Immigration has now been brought front and center in the presidential race 2016. Donald Trump talked about it as he announced for president. And we see that based on his rising poll numbers that that message is resounding. How do we view Donald Trump's message and how do we view the messenger? Yeah, one of the things, the messenger, not very well. But the message, yeah, I said the other day in an interview that, that I sort of see this on two levels, on one level as someone who has been in politics. It doesn't surprise me at all why he's doing what he's doing. It's no mistake. It's no accident that he's using the issue of immigration to help climb in the Republican primary, because that division sells with that primary base. Jan Brewer did that a few years ago in Arizona. 20 years ago, Pete Wilson did in California. You have Steve King in Iowa, Dan Patrick here in Texas, Chris Kobach in Kansas. So that is a well-worn strategy. My hope is that cooler heads will prevail on both sides of the aisle and most Americans in good polling support some sort of comprehensive immigration reform. Whether that includes a pathway to citizenship or only legal status, polls will tell you different things. But the American people do believe in comprehensive immigration reform. And so my hope is that I don't believe this is necessarily going to happen before the 2016 election, but after the 2016 election that there will be comprehensive immigration reform. And I'm proud of what the president has done in terms of DACA and DAPA. DAPA is tied up in the courts right now. Hopefully that'll get resolved and that executive order will go into effect. And that if the Congress does not address this, that my hope is that the next president will keep both of those executive orders in place until it does get addressed. But the fact that Donald Trump is using this issue, I mean we saw this in Texas with Dan Patrick and that's why I debated him in 2014, because normally I didn't get involved in state issues that way, but I saw somebody that was scapegoating immigrants and doing it with impunity. And I just, I didn't want to let that be the only voice that was speaking on the issue. And I felt like it was one of those times when I had an obligation with somebody in my position as mayor of the second largest city to say something. And so I did. I wish I could say that it had better results in terms of the election, but you do notice that for all of the talk, he actually hasn't done anything. And that's not an accident either. That is not an accident either. And I believe that that's, that's, that move is at the heart of a lot of the frustration that, that, that Mr. Trump represents. That of talking one way to get these folks to vote for him. And then getting into office and, well, we didn't really mean that. That base has that done to them all the time, all the time. And, and that's what Patrick did when he ran. But, but xenophobia seems to me to be an endemic part of the American psyche. We seem to evolve as a society in so many different ways. I mean, look at civil rights. Yes, we might have racial strife today, but we are far advanced from where we once were.  And yet xenophobia still sells in 2015. Why is that in your view? You're right. It's not new to this time. And there are different groups who have been the target. People who have had brown skin, yellow skin, white skin, different groups from different countries. I think it's when, when folks who are already here it's also not unique to America. I mean, look what we're seeing play out right now in Europe when they feel like there's something that threatens how they live and who they are and their culture and the identity of the nation. You know, I mean, on one level, you get why that is. I mean, when things look like they're changing, they're moving away from you of what you feel comfortable with, of the group of people that you feel comfortable with, and how you think of your nation. And I think it's that no matter what group was new, that's the reaction that folks have. You know, Jan Jobba Russell has written a great book about the internment camp in Crystal City that housed Japanese Americans and German Americans, and the reaction during that time to, to folks of Japanese descent and German descent. And I guess the most disappointing thing is that you would have hoped that we would have learned by now. Because the one, the thing that I do believe the United States, and not the only thing, but one thing that I believe the United States is exceptional about is learning from its mistakes and improving, being able somehow to collectively reflect and to improve upon its past mistakes. And so my hope is that we will get past this fever this time period more quickly than we did some of the others. If we can do that, if this can be a much more temporary incitement of these passions, I'll see that as a positive that we got through it without the kind of consequences that you saw earlier on. You head up the Department of Opportunity, but you also talked, as I mentioned earlier, about the growing gap between rich and poor. Will the American dream exist for your children to the extent that it did for you? I believe that it can, that fundamentally it will if we do the right things. If all of us work, certainly those of us who are in policymaking positions, but people in their everyday lives to create and sustain what my brother calls this infrastructure of opportunity. So that folks can go to school, public school in the west side of San Antonio like he and I did, and still be able to graduate from high school and then go on to a good college and become professionals. As long as you have that infrastructure of opportunity, good public schools, good universities, a chance for folks to be able to have decent middle-class jobs, I believe in many ways that we need strong labor, strong unions more than we have in a long time in the United States. As long as you can sustain that infrastructure of opportunity, then the answer is yes, that my children or anybody's children and grandchildren will have that opportunity. If we don't, if that infrastructure of opportunity is allowed to crumble and people really just can't reach up anymore, then I think it's a bleaker future. Sure, but the great thing is that every single day and every week and month and year, we have the opportunity as Americans through elections, through the people that represent us to decide which way are we going to go? Are you going to invest in that infrastructure of opportunity and keep that American dream alive or not? Yeah. Mr.  Would the Democratic Party benefit from having more challenges for the Democratic nomination? That's a very clever way to ask the question. Well, I told the press earlier that I wasn't going to talk about 2016 presidential politics, but I might as well. I'm just kidding. No, I would just say that, you know, I believe fundamentally that on both sides of the aisle that they ought to have a good, healthy primary. I believe that was helpful in 08. It could be helpful in 2016. And the great thing is that we have the better qualified candidates on the Democratic side this time. I'll be diplomatic. It's a shocking revelation, Mr. Secretary. Shocking revelation for me. Made in such a conservative town like Austin, Texas. The Obama administration will fold up its tent in January in 2017, as I mentioned earlier. What's in your future? I don't know. Honestly, I'm at a point, you know, when I was going through law school, I had this map up on my dorm wall of District 7 in San Antonio, which is where I had grown up and where I wanted to come back and run for city council. Henry had gotten elected when he was 27 and I was proud that I got elected at the age of 26 right after I got out of law school. And then I ran for mayor and I lost the first time and just practiced law and then ran again and served those five years before going to HUD. And for the first time since I was in school, the next few years are not clear in terms of what I'm going to be doing. So I legitimately don't know. We sit in the presidential library of a former president, but also a former vice president. You know where this question is going? Is that subtle enough for you, Mr. Secretary? Although, you know, his time as vice president was not described in the best, you know, that he would have had time. Would you consider a bid if asked to be the vice presidential candidate? Oh, yeah, I've said over and over that I don't believe that that's going to happen, that who wouldn't be flattered by that. But you know, I don't think it's going to happen. And what I do know is that whatever I do after this that I have learned in my life, and I'm sure that the folks in this room have as well, that the best way to create a great future for yourself is not to forget about what's in front of you right now and to do a great job with what's in front of you. And so I'm trying to do a great job at HUD and then we'll see what happens. Right. Mr. Secretary, my guess is while you believe that might not happen, they believe that it is abundantly possible. I will tell you that Mayor Julian Castro was a member of the LBJ Foundation Board for a cup of coffee, I think, just a very, very brief period before he became the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. And I can speak for the Foundation's President, Larry Temple, sitting on the front row when I say that we hated to lose you on the LBJ Foundation, but we sure were glad about the reasons. And I want to thank you, too, for the service you're rendering to our country at HUD and for being here with us tonight. This has been a great pleasure for us. Thank you so much. Thank you, all of you. Appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you.


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Welcome to Think Tech. We're raising public awareness on technology, energy, diversity, and globalism. This show is center stage I am your host Donna Blanchard, proud managing director of Kumakuhua Theater And we are coming to you live from Pioneer Plaza in the heart of downtown Honolulu, very near Kumakuhua Theater I am excited to let you know that my guest today makes things happen all over this island and you finally get a chance to hear from the man himself His name is Mark Turone. He's an event producer here in Hawaii. Welcome, Mark. Great to be here. Thanks for having me Yeah, I'm really you do a lot of very cool things. I didn't realize how far you're reach you reach all the way up to the North Shore. That's right That's a new project working with the Hawaii Polo Club this year and so we have great polo matches every Sunday That's out in Mokolia So there's two polo fields that people are aware of here in Hawaii the ones in Waimanalo and we're up in Mokolia on the North Shore really beautiful area. So I started working with them this summer and it's been great. I Saw some of the pictures on the website polo dash. What is it polo? Yes a white polo.com And I had no idea You know, I know there's a history of Piano Panayolos and Hawaii and I didn't realize how popular a sport Polo is here that we have to polo It's a great point a lot of people Don't realize that but it is popular here and it actually dates back polo was in Hawaii before it was in America in the mainland goes back in the 1800s originally a sport from India and It's been here since I believe the mid 1800s and one of the players Shared some stats about how many horses how big the equestrian lifestyle is here in Hawaii And it's something like 20 30,000 horses in Hawaii Which you know driving around a while who you wouldn't certainly only a million people on the whole island So that's yes, I would imagine there's probably a good number on the big guy But anyways yet so great equestrian culture here actually on this island a little hidden But we've got that whole area Dillingham Ranch is right across the street from Hawaii polo and You feel it when you drive up, you know There's no traffic on that side of the island and so you get there so quickly and once you pass You know you get into Wailua and that area it becomes the big open ranch lands and it just has this impact You can't miss it's it's really the country and when you get to our property We're right on the beach beautiful view out towards, you know we're looking out at Waimea Bay and up at Kuhugu Point and You know really really great view and then on the other side when you're standing Next on the ocean side you're looking up at the Waianae Mountains And it's actually the tallest mountain range on a while who the one peak is almost a mile high It's over 4,000 feet high. So it's it's stunning. It literally is like that. That's It's a big project and I was I was had my concerns about making that level of commitment about 20 weeks of years this season and And the reason we're really drove me is just what absolutely wonderful special place it is there Oh, so this goes through Labor Day the season goes through Labor Day exactly So it's every Sunday the gate opens at 11 Matches start at 1 30 and they go till about five o'clock and immediately after every week We've got live entertainment. We had Barry Flanagan out in June this weekend. Jeff Peterson is playing You know, he's been on he's had songs on two Grammy award-winning albums Six Hoku Awards, you know, one of the best acoustic guitar players really in America It's played with Eric Clapton and Boss Gags and Super special so he's performing Susan Polo matches in this Sunday and we're doing a tribute To the first lady of Hawaii polo. It's Elizabeth Murph daily and she is a former player herself We have great photo here. That's this weekend and I love that. It's that energy She you know one of the great ambassadors of polo here in Hawaii So her husband and her found in the club over 50 years ago. So they've been having consecutive every year there's been a polo season for 53 years now And so we're doing a tribute to she's affection known as Murph to her family and friends she you know still a prominent member at the clubhouse and you know still holds court every just about every week and So excited about that celebration. We've got the highest The fastest polo this season. There's a tournament this weekend So there's gonna be to the semi-finals on Friday That's not a public event, but they'll have that to see who ends up in the finals And we'll feature the finals on Sunday. We've got a Polo players are ranked up to 10 goals the highest is about 10 goals I think it's less than 50 people in the ever in the history of polo I've ever had a 10 goal rating and one of our visiting players from New Zealand is a five-goal player, which is really That's near all-star level at the pro level. Oh, okay, so some really exciting polo this weekend got Jeff Peterson the tribute to Murph we've got I believe some some roles convertibles another really nice car is coming out to help with that celebration They're always fun to see you encourage tailgating. Yeah tailgating is absolutely welcome It's kind of bring your own anything if you'd like coolers grills beverages really whatever you wish really one of the best tailgate properties in Hawaii because you have that We actually get one eye weather. So I don't I don't want to jinx us, but traditionally Very dry out there. So the whole rest of the North Shore can be rainy and we'll be dry out on that side of peninsula. So Great weather. He's great views trade wins. Yes tailgating the gentleman on the right. He insists that he's the older gentleman there that last picture His folks say that he makes sure we you know insist that we come out every single weekend That's one of our biggest polo fans right there on the right. It's a really diverse wonderful audience We have a lot of young folks as well That's Mike daily his father stuck started the club. He was a GM After his father and now his son is the general manager Devon daily and Charlie will do in there Just so happens He not only is basically the rules commissioner for us polo. He's also one of my best friends from high school We came fell into that Naturally, didn't you? Yes, there's a couple ties there. It's helped me. I was it was meant to be Will you a fan of polo before you started working with I grew up in Palm Beach, Florida? And just west of us is really the polo capital of the world, Argentina is you know has the best polo ponies And it's the biggest part of it's more ingrained in the culture there than anywhere else but the biggest polo events in the world happened at Wellington, which is Basically grew out of my hometown So that's kind of an offshoot of Palm Beach.  That was my sport from elementary school through college And I ran a club program here and this this Used to run an international tournament every year And what's unique about Hawaii is With the lacrosse it trans I see the same thing with polo and that is you've got some literally some of the best players in the world That are often on the field and but they're not they're not doing it here for flash They're really doing it the love of the game is the driving force And so these polo matches that you see on Sunday, you know, it gets heated, but it's not you know when the game's off You know everyone's You know sharing stories and having a good time together and it was it really is the love of polo at the root of it You can feel it you can see it. Oh very cool So let me ask you this because I I know we have a lot of other things that we need to talk about that you do So you're encouraged to tailgate See the match and then stay for the music which is awesome in God's country exactly No, you hit it nail on the head. So There's different times that come out some people like to come out early, you know and go back earlier I love coming out, you know before I was there, you know from the crack of dawn till the last person was not quite the crack of Dawn, but they're pretty long days. I like that kind of later shift You come for the last match starts around 3 30 So you come in around 3 you catch that the full you know all the last match Which is the fastest match of the day and then you've got great entertainment from 5 to 7 We go all the way to sunset So you're there from like 3 to 7 which is you know a nice period of time and we're right on the beach We've got great swimming. There's a huge beautiful channel It's great for swimming. We've got outdoor shower. So really, you know, oh our our tagline is Sunday in the country And that's because it really is this this full day experience You know you can you know bring it a lot of people bring their I don't know the formal name But it's that cornhole, you know that game where you toss the hole in the board I'm a big bachi fan in those great areas for playing bachi, you know fishing diving It's really all there. It's it's a full experience. How much does it cost to get in great question? It's free for cakey under 16. So 15 and under is totally free So for a family it's cheaper than going in the movies because general mission is $12 And then there's a discount two-dollar discount for military and lifeguards and And cakey's free. So literally it's it's less expensive than going to movie And you could bring anything you want if you want to go that route We'd also have great vendors on site Lulu's Mexican Grill is there every single week and really it's good the best Mexican There's some Mexican restaurants that I feel are on par with her, but there's no one I think that's better. Oh, and so she has a very diplomatic of you.  Oh, yeah, I love the love the family and I love their food Lulu's is is is fantastic and she mixes up every week She has something different and then we have a food that an additional vendor food vendor every week last week It was square barrels. They came out and they did the asado style grilling right on site with with a kiave wood and you know They do gourmet burgers and all kinds of wonderful things. So It's also easy. You don't have to pack things you just just come out and we have everything right there for you We have a bar on site With with everything you could ever want And good fun and we do themes so our Junthin was summer breeze kicking off the summer and then this month is Paniolo, Poina and next month is sustainable harvest So we're gonna have all kinds of different sustainability entities including some merchants There's some boutiques that you know with the fabrics that they use and that the way that You know, they the kind of that the way they handle the textile rather than working a sweatshop It's you know, it's a sustainable way to do things So we're gonna be showcasing that throughout August and our season finale Labor Day weekend Awesome, okay So it is a mouthful. There's a lot going on.  So you want to do that? Let's let's talk about what it is that you actually do So you're booking did they already do this they had before you got on board? Yes, you had the music and all of that music was a lot of fundamentals were there So yeah, the music's been going ever since I've been familiar with Polo. They've always had the music right after So my focus was to to build on the eight They really had a great product to begin with and try to see how we could polish that and and make it a bigger more Bigger creator experience. So, you know, my ideas that I brought to the table are the themes. It's a long season and so You know, you know business There's there's a lot of reasons why we do this But the end of the day you have to pay the bills, you know, we've got someone out there, you know They got a huge polo field is 350 yards long So just make just the water to keep that that alive in a dry region out there Oh, yeah, there's a lot and then your maintenance staff and and all that and all the ponies obviously Each match a six-trucker match would use each player would have six different ponies. So and there's four players on a team So that's 24 polo 24 ponies on a side. So 48 got 48 horses involved in a full polo match So there's obviously a lot that you have to invest there So when you're looking at the business, you're saying you know, if I just There's one of the you know effective promoting is you work pretty hard and you're handing people flyers and you're you know You'd figure out ways to have people see your brand and see the experience that you're offered But if you just pound the pavement like that every week Everybody goes deaf and you know, you're not going to break through. So on the business side The themes help you have something new and fresh every month So that's I brought that concept out and it's been great because we with the program When you make that commitment, you're not exactly sure how to you know if you're gonna get the program you envisioned and Been really happy with I'm biased because I put the program together But I think it speaks for itself on paper if you go to white polo.com and you look at what we did in June What we're doing this month next week. We'll be announcing the details of our August sustainable harvest theme but we had a great program and So those are the things that I brought that bringing the themes. We also Some at the entertainment we you know We were able to invest some more in the entertainment and have some some artist names that people are more familiar with and And some people that really focused on on music as a full-time profession And you know next month we've got one artist. I'm not allowed to announce yet But he's one of the most popular artists in Hawaii We'll be announcing that next week and our season finale is with Taimani who's you know really Wonderful musician, you know of household name for with most households here in Hawaii and And just someone with a great career and it's nice to have her to a big showcase there For our season finale Before we go to break if I've never seen I've never seen a polo match before never in my life. It's time. All right Am I gonna be able to understand what's going on? Is it basically trying a bunch of people trying to get a thing into a net? That's a great question on Yes, and for it boils down to there's the goal is to post so you have to you're hitting the ball in between two posts and it's four on four and The the number one rule is and it's it goes to safety And you can as long as you know this rule we talk about the rules every week So we've got a full you know full PA system and announcing going on during the match So if you come to polo, you know, you know, we have some rules pamphlets and things like that So we're ready for people that have never seen polo before and the one major rule is when you hit your shot You have a clear line to that ball where no one's allowed to cross that line Within reason if it's really far ahead then you can cross the line But for there's a good distance where you have a direct line that ball no one's allowed to cross And that's it's for safety because you've got you know polo polo pony's going at full speed And if you take a tumble, you know, the fatalities are not, you know, they happen unfortunately polo from time to time in August we're actually celebrating a former white polo player who Who lost his life at at at playing at our fields in the 80s out of pocket Very successful local entertainer. He was on a lot of he had leading well, he had support great supporting roles in some of the original high 5-0's and He was in the cocktail singer in Don Hosevain and very successful here And one of the greatest players ever in Hawaii is a five goal rated player Which is the highest any Hawaii players ever been rated And there's an accident in a fall and so that's why you know, the rules are critical. I was critically important And that's the one so you understand like okay, why is it someone running in like that and but easy to pick up Okay, good, and it's the sport of Kings. Didn't I learn that in trivial pursuit? Okay, we're gonna go to our break now. Thank you very much for that explanation We're gonna talk about Now we're gonna get into all of the other things There are a lot of stuff that you do down in Chinatown and why why you do those I'm so happy about that. I'm glad we're getting that look forward to it. Okay, we're gonna take a little break Please stay put we'll see you on the other side Aloha, this is Reg Baker with business in Hawaii We're a show that broadcasts every Thursday at 2 o'clock We would love to hear from you and you can reach us in several different ways We have a hotline that you can call in at<PHONE_NUMBER> Or you can email us at think tech Hawaii calm or you can tweet us at think tech H I Looking forward to hearing from you and seeing you on our next show Aloha Aloha everyone, I'm Maria Mera and I'm here to invite you to my bilingual so Viva Hawaii on think tech Hawaii Every other Monday at 3 p.m. We are here to talk about news issues and events local and around the world Join me Aloha Jackal University of Hawaii football team under Rolovich is gonna kick butt this season in case you didn't understand me University of Hawaii football team is gonna kick butt under Rolovich this season So be sure to follow us on think tech Hawaii and he bought you top. I'll be at every game and remember aloha Hi, welcome back. This is center stage on the think tech Hawaii digital series If you would like to ask us a question while we're talking or add to the conversation You may do so on Twitter just tweet to at think tech H I and we will see you on the screen right here Also, if you would ever like to join us in the studio audience, you can do that just email J That's J. A Y at think tech Hawaii comm and he will hook you up. Okay. We're talking with event producer Mark Tarone So I know you foremost from hallow blue. Yes Did you is that your baby? Did you invent? The perfect description that is my baby Okay, that's how I've been what I've called it from the get-go and I did did create that so that was Going to Lahaina and seeing the Halloween celebration. They have a huge Halloween celebration for it's they've kind of had some They cancelled it not too long ago and they brought to trying to bring it back But for many years they had about 20 30,000 people on Halloween night in Lahaina huge event so I was there in In the 90s three times and the costumes were amazing that the energy that people were amazing and there's but there's nothing else There was no programming You know just just getting a drink was like a battle, you know so it was just not other than the costumes the experience was was disappointing for me and so a lot of hallow blue came out of wanting to Inspire people and give them something to be proud of their community and have this this, you know this arts and and celebratory experience That they they were proud of you know and and and made them I don't put a smile on them face But so many could plan on for the year and say this is one of the reasons why I love living in Hollywood. Oh, cool So it involves there's costumes. There's a fun run. Yes. So we have the whole blue marathon Raising money for our art stop profits So we got to work with Kumakua theater the first year We did that which was two years ago for the whole hallow blue marathon and it's that's not really marathon It's just like a round of black. Yes. We now it's again. It's a little longer, but very short. Absolutely It's a joke of a name and every runner raises money for local arts and culture nonprofit So that's what great something new that we added and it's really two stages. We have We start about about five o'clock this year might move it up to 430 and now we're down in the regal section of historic Honolulu, so our main stage is on the front lawn of the white star art museum to move there last year We loved it everyone that came down loved it and the white star museum loved it So it's really a match made in heaven and we'll be back there this year So we start everything off down there and we close Richard Street and Hotel Street between Richard and Alakaya So you have the big lawn in the white star art museum. We do a VIP section inside the museum Which is amazing work they've done there with their the courtyard that they have in the back I don't know if you've seen that and actually at a night. It's really beautiful really really well done and Multiple stages in the street So the entertainment that that you that I didn't see in Lahaina that you see here is you know last year We had Booker T. Jones. He's a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winner and he was our headliner, you know and we also had Taimani performed and Mike Love one of a Local artist who was really having breakout success recently and that's going to continue because he's so talented so Great local artists and also at least one national headliner every year So that's the street festival from the music goes from about five to ten and you know we've got great food vending and lots of things there and Then we moved to clubs afterwards. So usually there's about eight to ten clubs people want to go later then they'll go to about two in the morning if you'd like to go that route and We have the section on Hotel Street between Newt Wano and Smith Street Which is kind of the town square for for that section of Chinatown and so that's closed to vehicles so it's a nice congregation area to meet friends and branch off from there and So all the clubs there and some other ones that participate and great entertainment there And we're likely going to be adding a new location as well as part of that We were at capacity last year and we're looking at partnering with a great property here in downtown Honolulu that will expand our capacity also Even add a great piece to our story because you know now we're we could something once we switch to the new location last year Something that I really love personally and it is valuable to I believe all of Hawaii is we're celebrating Just about all of historic Honolulu, you know So we go from that regal section, which is right next to Ilani Palace and the White State Art Museum You know the YWCA there the state Capitol Those are you know the you know historic properties and that you know, literally the Kings King and Queens area So we start there and we finish in Chinatown Which is really the blue collar part of historic Honolulu that supported, you know all of that supported the rest of the island So there's it's the only event that I know of that incorporates both of those and that's that's a huge piece of our history You know and How blue is not just some big crazy party. It's it's it's Halloween aloha is really the root of it and Folks who've been there. I think we'll nod their head that that is a good description and And you haven't been here come down. You'll feel that It's a great diverse group that comes You know over half of the people last year were over 35 years old So if you look at other street festival events in Honolulu except unless you're like at a high-end food event But if you do ones that are focused on music and you know costumes You usually have a not as diverse of a demographic So we do surveys every year and actually last year over 90% of our attendees had a two-year degree or higher So people aren't just coming for the big crowd or you know to drink a beer in the street They really love the energy Interaction with the people in the costumes and you know the music programming that we have and the whole experience so very cool So it really is a community event Absolutely, and that's that's that was the vision from that was my hope from the get-go That one in my head was based on I stumbled upon a European Street Festival in the 90s just after I graduated college I get to go to Europe for a bit and Everyone in the whole town was at the event You know it was literally you know tutus that you know Probably 90 years old that we're out and you know part of it to the little cakey to the whole nine yards And there was no exclusiveness. It was it was just everyone This was it was this congregation of the entire community. I mean not every person was there but it was a range of the whole thing and It's powerful one of my one of my personal mantras is Inclusivity there's nothing more powerful than inclusivity You know when you bring people together when you see that that makes happening There's bonds energy that's created that is I really believe that's the most powerful force there is in humanity That's very cool. Did you feel like you were inspired then back in the 90s and thought this is what I want to do No, I obviously I noticed you know it was I I hadn't seen something an event like that before so it stuck in my mind because of that And then when you're you know when I was looking at hobble Lou and Murph has been doing that great St. Patrick's Day celebration every year So I said well look China town. This is this is the perfect placement this type of event and when I say Well, what would be the ideal event? Yeah that that European Gathering came to mind. It was a driving force very cool, and you This is what you do. This is your main form of it is now. Yes, so for many years I had two hats and I'm an attorney a graduate of UH law school here and But I did sales for about 16 17 years with a company called Lexus Nexus, which is a great experience the Great business great company great organization so many good people there And I worked with a lot of my clients are wonderful people that I learned a lot from and so I love it Was great to be in sales for that long to really get it ingrained in what you do And it's just it's a matter of it's a method of communication, you know and you know You are one of our leaders in the arts business, you know the business of the arts community and we can say that That's not just a term I throw out there's there's real substance in that with the success You've had a Kumu Kuhua theater. I've been a partner at the arts at Mars garage for seven years now And you really made a difference there in the last year massive massive difference and so Thanks. Yes. Thank you. That's one of the reasons I'm so happy to be here and you know I'd be comfortable because I felt Really lucky and fortunate to spend some time to get it. Wow. I really appreciate that sunshine blown up Thanks And I'm really glad that you're there Doing this and I absolutely agree when you get people together a Silly little story 4th of July had plans to go do things and it rained, you know Yes, so my friend and I are what do you want to do? What do you want to do? I don't know and we were looking at movies and decided on finding Dory because It's the it's a community thing, you know You can't be outside doing a community thing But at least you go and you know you're gonna be and there were two twos and little kids You know it had that really lovely feel so I would never think of that It's yeah, it's that movie experience and that kind of movie is that's just the ticket to We're literally to bring those people together. Yeah. Yeah, so what do you have on the horizon? What's coming up? You got two minutes left. Yes Well, I'll be just coming up So there's a photo for me from last year that we shot down the White State Art Museum Can tell there but it's a fun and so that's Halloween weekend the main day is October 29th the Saturday before Halloween and There's a couple other there's there's some properties that have opened their doors For some some large-scale concerts that I'm looking at with some people and seeing if something could definitely work there We're just trying to figure out what that's gonna be initially And I've been doing some working on some projects with Ron Artis the second Amazing, you know, that's a big word but but it's apt Extremely talented artist, you know, you made of his family his father Ron Artis and his mother She's a trained trains operatic singer and classical singer And his father was at the highest level of music in LA played with Stevie Wonder and Michael Jackson So they moved their whole family the Hawaii ended up in Hollywood and all were homeschooled all Ron and his ten brothers and sisters And they would play music for the public every day They're right next to coffee gallery was their house So it was open and literally people come in and and they would play music not all day But every day they would do live performance and it were they weren't jam sessions They were it was it was, you know music training their dad's his major dysplinarian their late father great great individual and so I've had a pleasure of doing a number of things with Ron this year and Music is a huge driving force for me as well. And that is the there It's music purity at it at its best, you know, it's it's gone and on about that But that's been great. He's releasing an EP with his trio In August he's gonna be at the blue note here on this island.  So it's been great to see so working with him and you know last year I partnered with Taimani and Did her work with her for her debut at Hawaii theater? So it was her first big major ticketed show She's you know plays lots of great festivals around the whole state and really around the world now but she had done a big ticketed show here in Hawaii and She did a full theatrical production, you know, we She did choreographed different choreography different dancers Narration she wrote all the narration. She wrote seven or eight songs just for that piece Major undertaking so where do people go if they want to hear about everything that you've got going on? Yes, right now It's roots music Hawaii calm


Are you getting at least 15 minutes of direct sunlight every single day, especially in the northern hemisphere countries? Do you live there?  Studies show that exposure to sunlight increases your happiness level, gives you a great source of vitamin D. A lot of people are deficient in vitamin D. So I'm going to go to the office in Australia. Here are the offices. Let's see what the interesting is. Here we go. Say something from my Snapchat. You're on my Snap. What's up Snapchat? It's a power of split testing. We just found a big breakthrough. Doing a business meeting here in Brisbane, top secret, Tristan Michaels is one of my Snapchat followers. Patrick, you came to visit. This is Michael McNich, who does my swanik sleep Facebook ads. He's a killer marketer and he's about to give you one pool marketing tip for online. Here it comes. If your ads not working, if people aren't clicking, if they're not opting in, it means you've got the wrong offer. Change your offer, your ads will work. So one of the biggest mistakes people make is they dump all the keywords into one ad set. You've got to have like one interest or one thing you're targeting in that ad set. So Patrick, how did you come to be here right now? Well I started, I saw James and Snapchats and I reached out to him because I love what he's doing. So Patrick, who's followed me on Snapchat, has given me a ride to the cricket. I'm going to see my old man at the cricket again now. So Patrick, was it cool hanging out with us today? It was awesome. Good to meet James, Tristan, sick. So this is how you get mentors, right? You reach out and you offer value. Patrick reached out and said I'll work for you for free and so I'm going to give him some unpaid work, just an experience. So what's your big problem at the moment Patrick? I don't know my career path at the moment, I'm not sure what I should do for a living.  Also write down on a piece of paper all the things you do not want to do on one side and all the things you think you might want to do on the other side. And the act of writing it down will help you get clear on what you don't want to do and what you do want to do. Also check out my YouTube video, How to Get Unstuck, watch it. Patrick's 18, he doesn't need to be like worrying what am I going to do, what am I going to do. Like a lot of my Snapchat followers are freaking out and they're like 17 and 18. Relax, just go and try a few things. Get mentored, travel, get some experiences. It'll come to you over time. It's all good. And if you don't like something then quit. Stop doing it and do something else. And if you love something then keep doing it. It's pretty simple, right? There it is, there's the Gabba going back to the cricket. Thanks for the ride Patrick. No worries. Appreciate it. Back at the cricket again. Beautiful. Where's my dad? Got to find my dad. Where is he? Can't find him. Where is he? I found him. There he is. There's my dad. Right there. I've been at work with Tristan. Have you? Yeah. All right, I'm going to go watch a movie now called The Founder, the story of Ray A. Crock who started McDonald's. Michael Kitten is playing the main character. Let's go. This is the movie I'm seeing, The Founder with Michael Kitten. It's a true story of McDonald's. It's normally time and under, but for you it will make you accept it.