and DevCon. So this is the outline. Number one, we will introduce our malware scaling system. And number two, we will show you how we design the Dalvik Bico loader. And number three, we will go through two cases of real malware analysis using Quark Engine. And number four, we will share our strategy of generating the detection rules. And the last thing, yes, the future works because we still have a lot of things to do. All right, so let's introduce the malware scoring system. As we know when developing a malware analysis engine, it is important to have a scoring system. However, those systems are either business secrets or just too complicated. Therefore, we decide to create a simple but solid one and take that as a challenge. And since we wanted to decide a novel scoring system, we stopped reading and decoding whatever people do in a field of cybersecurity because we don't want our ideas to be subjected to the existing systems. So we started to find ideas in fields other than cybersecurity, and luckily we found one. Yes, the best practice we found is the criminal law. So when sentenced a penalty for the criminal, the judge weighs the penalties based on the criminal law. And after decoding the law, we find principles behind it and we develop a scoring system for Android malware. There are only eight principles decoded from the criminal law. And I'll go through it in the following slides. Now let's see principle number one. A malware crime consists of action and targets. In the criminal law, the definition of a crime consists of action and targets.  So with this principle in mind, we developed the definition of a crime for Android malware. And the definition is the malware crime consists of action and targets. For example, steal photos or steal your banking account password. Now let's see principle number two. We consider that the loss of fame is greater than the loss of wealth. So in the criminal law, physical body injury is more serious than psychological injury. So the principle we decoded here is when things are hard to recover, we consider it a family. So with this principle decoded, we developed our second principle. We consider the loss of fame is greater than the loss of wealth because it's easier to make money back than rebuild your reputation. Okay, now let's see principle number three. Arithmetic sequence. In the criminal law, when a murderer is sentenced to 20 years in prison and a robber is sentenced seven years in prison for his crime. Why the number, why 27 years? Why the number? We found no obvious principles in the criminal law. So we use arithmetic sequence to weigh the penalty of each crime. For example, the penalty weight of Y1 is 10 and Y2 is 20 and Y3, 30, et cetera. So now let's see the most important part of the scoring system. We create an order theory, which consists of three principles. There are principle number four, five, and number six. Now let's look at principle number four. The later the stage, the more we're sure that a crime is practiced. As mentioned in chapter four of Taiwan criminal law, each crime consists of a sequence of behaviors. Those behaviors can be categorized in the specific order. So let's take murder, for example.  And in stage two, conspiracy, it means he or she started to make a plan for the murder. And in stage three, preparation, it means a fine staffs, for example, weapons or arranging services for a murder plan. And in stage four starts, it means when things are all set, the murderer takes action and is on the way to kill someone. And in stage five, practice, it means the murderer does pull the trigger and shoot someone. So as we can see here, the later the stage, the more we're sure that a crime is practiced. So with this principle in mind, we developed Android malware crime order theory. And in this theory, we also have five stages for the crime. For example, if a malware tries to send out your location data by using SMS in stage one, we will check if related permission is requested by the malware. And then we will check if the key native API is called. And in stage three, we will see if certain combination of native API exist. And then we will check if the APIs are called in a specific order. Finally, we check if the APIs are handling the SAM register. Okay, so now you can see from this picture, this is a two-dimensional map for Android malware crime. For the crimes, we put them in Y-axis. And for each crime, we use X-axis to see the evidence we caught for the crime. So X5, Y1 means in crime number one, we have found a native API that are called in a correct sequence and they're handling the SAM register. And X3, Y5 means in crime number five, we have found certain combinations of native API that is used in this APK. So now let's look at principle number five. The more evidence we caught, the more penalty weight we give. So we give stage two more weights than stage one and stage three more weights than stage two, et cetera. Okay, principle number six, proportional sequence. As we decoded from the criminal law, the later the stage, the more we're sure that the crime is practiced. So we consider proportional sequence, for example, two to the power of N to present such principle in our scoring system. All right, principle number seven, crimes are independence events. For simplicity, we assume crimes are independence events and penalty weights can be added up directly. So this is an example of adding up two crimes in a malware, we find two crimes, there are stealing photos and stealing your banking account password. So the calculation of a total penalty weight is quite simple. For example, for each crime, we use penalty weights of crime to multiply proportion of caught evidence and add up the results of the two. The last principle, principle number eight, thresholds generate system. So after calculating the total penalty weights for a malware, we need to have threat level threshold so that we can tell which threat level does the malware fill in. Unfortunately, we can't find them in criminal law, but we know we need to design a threshold generate system for that, not just give any number by intuition. So we decided that threshold for each level is some of the same proportion of caught evidence multiplies penalty weight of crimes. So we know it's not a perfect one, but we're sure that we build a foundation for future optimization. All right, now let's talk about the design logic of Delphi Bicol loader. And Junwei, he will take care of this part. Hello everyone, my name is Junwei and I will take care of this part. So now let's talk about the design logic of Delphi Bicol loader. Our Delphi Bicol loader is actually the implementation of the Android malware crime order theory. We implement every stage of the theory. There are five stages. The first three stage are easy. We simply use APIs in another open source tool, Android Guard, to implement the first three stages. As I just mentioned, the implementation of the first three stage are easy, but in stage four, we need to do a little bit more. So before the implementation, we need to know what does stage four do? In stage four, we find the calling sequence of native APIs and check if they are code in a specific order.  Normally, native APIs are wrapped in functions. So we trust back to see which function is cross-reference from the native APIs. And we call those functions the parent function. And we will keep tracing back until we find mutual parent function for both the native APIs. Here is the example. SendTestMessage is code by sendSNS, which is the parent function of sendTestMessage. And getCellLocation is code by getLocation, which is the parent function of getCellLocation. And if we keep tracing back, we will see that both sendSNS and getLocation shares the same parent function, sendMessage. And after we find the mutual parent function, we will scan through a small like code of the mutual parent function and check which function is code first. So this is the small like code of sendMessage. We can see that getLocation is code first to get the location data of the cell phone. And sendSNS is code to send out the location data. And in stage four, we found that our design can also overcome the observation techniques used by the malware. When applying observation techniques, function except native APIs are renamed. This has made the decompiled source core hard to read for human. The machine can still run the code because the logic of the code remains the same. Here is the example. When applying observation techniques, native API sendTestMessage is code by function K and function K is code by function F. The alternative API getLocation is code by function E and both function E and F shares the same parent function, which is A. You see, if you start reading the decompiled source core of A, it will be hard to figure out what is going on there. And by the way, since our goal is to find the mutual parent function, so it doesn't matter how many layers the wipers are. Now, let's see the implementation of stage five. Yes, this is the most important part. In stage five, we need to confirm that if the native APIs are handling the same register. Let's use the same example. Send out your location data by using SNS. So when native API getSaleLocation is code, it will return the location data of the cell phone. And what we do in stage five is to check if the alternative API sendTestMessage sends out the location data returned from getSaleLocation. So in stage five, we simulate the CPU operation. We read line by line of the Somali-like source core and operate like CPUs to get two things. First, the value of every register. Second, the information like functions who have operate the same register. To make this happen, we create a self-defined data type. We call it register object. In each register object, we store three kinds of information. Number one, the registerNAN. Number two, the value of register. And number three, the function who use this register. Let's see an example. So the registerNAN is v7 and the value of the register is a string. And the string depends the value of string one and the result of function one. And then we can see that the register is used as the input resource of the function two. By the way, when filling the value of use by which function in the register object, we expand every register by cross-referencing outer register object in the table. So for example, by cross-referencing, we know that vA is a string called userLocation and v3 is a function called getLocation. As you can see in the lower right corner, the result of getLocation is appended to the string which is userLocation. And the new string is sent out by using function sendSNS. In other words, the value of register v7 is generated by using function getLocation which has native API one in it. And the value is used as a input for function sendSNS which has native API two in it. So now we prove that by using the register object, we can check if the APIs are handling the same register. So after we scan through the source code, we produce dots of register objects. And those register objects will be organized when the two-dimensional Python list. This is a similar idea like hash table. We use it to boost out the read and write of the list. So now let's see the table. As you can see here, register v4 has three register objects. That's mean in the source code we scan v4 was used three times. And every time when it was used, we store the present value of register and the function who use it if there is one. So basically the whole table is the history of the registers. So when we finish constructing the table, we then scan through all register objects in the table to check if the native APIs are handling the same registers. So now let's see how to use quark engine to analyze the malware. Now let's get back to Qoongi. Okay, in this section, we prepare two malware. One is non-obfuscated and the other one is obfuscated. And for each malware, we will show how we detect the behavior of the malware with the detection rule. Now let's look at the first malware. This is a non-obfuscated one. We will use the rule in quark engine to detect whether if the malware send out a cell phone location data by using SMS. So this is the detailed report of quark engine. In this report, the engine shows the detection results of one single malware behavior or you can say one single malware crime. For example, we try to find if the malware sends out your location data by using SMS. So in this report, we list out the evidence we found in each stage of the Android malware crime order theory and this report shows we find evidence in every stage, which means we have 100% of confidence that the malware has this behavior. So let's see, in stage one, permissions like send SMS, access course location and find locations are requested. And the second stage, the key native APIs like get cell location and send text messages are used. And in stage three, we find certain combinations of native API exist. And in stage four, we found out that in functions like send message and do bytes, the APIs are called in the right sequence. And in stage five, in function, send message, we find out that those APIs are handling the same register. So now let's think if you're analyzing this malware and you want to trace the compiler source code to see the evidence, how do you do it? Our suggestion is you start the backwards. That means you start from stage five. For example, in stage five, we know that inside a function of send message, it has two functions that contains the two native APIs respectively and you're handling the same register. So you start to locate function, send message in the decompiled source code. And in stage four, we know that those two functions are called in the right sequence. So we can start to find the functions that contains the native APIs and check if they're really caught in the right sequence. The information of the two functions and the sequence will be shown in the next version of Quark Engine. So now let's look at a real example. Let's locate the function, send message. And we found out that two functions that contains the two native APIs respectively there are send SMS and get location. And if we dive into the function of get location, we will see that it contains native API, get location. And if we dive in this function of send message, send SMS, we will see that it contains native API, send text message. So the code here means it first collect your cell phone location data and send it out through SMS. So now let's dive into the source code of get location. As you can see in the source code, it tries to call native API, get cell location and return this information at the end of the code. And now let's dive into the source code of send SMS. Native API send text message is used to send out the location information. So quite simple, isn't it? Now let's look at the second malware. This is an obfuscated one. We will use the rule in quack engine to find whether if the malware detects Wi-Fi hotspot by gathering information like active network info and cell phone location. Okay, so as a malware analyst, we read the report backwards. As you can see in stage five, there are functions like p.a at view.c and af.run. And those functions has two functions that contains native APIs respectively and they're handling the same register. And in stage four, those two functions are also called in the right sequence in functions like p.a at view.c and af.run. So according to the reports, we can see that the malware has the behavior of Wi-Fi hotspot detection in three parts of the source code. And we can pick any parts for further analysis. So we just pick function p.a. So now let's look in, now let's see the source code. Let's first locate the function p.a. And we found out that two functions that contains the two native APIs respectively, they're ap.a and f.f. And if we dive into the source code of function ap.a, we will see that it contains native API, get active network info. And if we dive into the function of f.f, we will see that it contains native API, get cell location. So this code here means after collecting information from function ap.a and f.f, they sent the information as an input for function am.a. So now let's dive into the source code of function ap.a. As you can see in the source code, it tries to call native API, get active network info, and return the related information at some points. So now let's dive into the source code of f.f. Native API gets cell location is used to get the cell phone location data. And this information is processed with some other strings. And at the end of this function, it returns the strings with the information. As mentioned earlier, after collecting information from function ap.a and f.f, they use the information as an input for function am.a. So, and we noticed one thing, the function am.a used by a rate output stream as one of its input parameter. And we know when seeing by the rate output stream, it means the function is probably trying to write the data into a file. This is amazing, isn't it? So with quack engine, malware analysis can really boost up your productivity. Okay, so now I will introduce our detection rule generate strategy. So why do we need to develop the detection rule generate strategy? Because to make our engine practical and easy to use, we have to, we need to have more detection rules. However, the speed of rule generated by human is quite slow. And human generated rules is subjected to his or her experiences of malware analysis. So we developed that rule generate strategy to boost up the production of detection rules. And since our goal is to find all kinds of behaviors in the malware, so that if we use permissions and native APIs to generate all possible rules, we will have an amazing amounts of rules. After generating the rules, we then use quack engine to find the intersection between those amazing amounts of rules and the malware we prepared. In other words, we find rules that match the malware behaviors. However, this is not a good way to generate detection rules because it's time and resource consuming. So we developed a seven step generate strategy. Step one, we curl down all native API information on Android official API reference. For example, this is the native API information of send text message. You can see the input parameters, return value and the description of this API. Okay, step two, we did a little bit modification to our engine. We ignore the permission checks in stage one of the Android malware crime order theory. And in step three, we find all kinds of API combination and generate rules without permission information. And in stage four, we use the modified quack engine to find the intersections of the rules and the malware. We call the rules, we call rules in intersection the first stage verified rules. In other words, these rules need to be verified again. And since we don't need to generate rules with permission and verified permissions in quack engine, the whole process of rule production speed up. And in stage five, we try to generate rules with permissions. So inside the intersection, we have first stage verified rules matched with malware. We then use the first stage rules and permission in the matched malware to generate rules with permissions, which is the second stage rules. And in step six, we then use the quack engine. Yes, the four function version to find again the intersection of the second stage rules, which are the one with permission and the malware we prepared. So after that, for each rule, we label the number of matched malware. For example, the behavior of rule number one can be found in a hundred malware, et cetera. And in step seven, after labeling the rules, we then sort the rules by number of matched malware we will review the rules from the highest matched one to the lowest one. All right, the last part, future works. As I mentioned earlier, we still have a lot of things to do. For example, we need to have more detection rules. And we also need to deal with the data so files and the packed APKs. And we want to have more features of Dalvik biker loader, for example, the downloader. And we will also want to apply the scoring system to other binary formats. Yeah, it is in order to the list. And we notice that API changes in different versions of Android. So we will also take care of this problem in the next version of quack. Oh, we probably would change the core library since Andrew God is quite inactive recently. And one more thing. Actually, we're trying to make quack itself easier to be integrated to other tools. For example, users can import quack as in Python library and output the analysis result as a JSON file. So now quack is collected in black arc Linux and will soon be integrated to a threat intelligence analysis tool, Intel all. And there's one nugget that I would like to share. We work at the limits of our tools. When new tools come along, new things are possible. Okay, so that's all for today. And if you have any question, please feel free to DM our Twitter accounts. Thank you.


Welcome folks, we have the Dow Industries trading up at $289, Nasdaq's up $157, S&P's are up $41, Gold, Gold contract up $8.30, trading out at $1810 an ounce, we have Silver up $13, $22.93 an ounce, LightSuite Crude, up a buck, $73.81, a barrel, notes and bonds, the Tenia note, down 6 ticks, trading $137, 30 year off $26 at $168 and $Kingdala, $Kingdala's down $61 ticks, trading out at $96 flat, Euro is $138, $139, $139, $139, $139, $139, $139, $139, $139, $139, $139, $139, $139, $139, $139, $139, $139, $139, $139, $139, $139, $139 $139, $139, $139, $139, $139, $139, $114.55 and the British pound is that $134 to $1 US dollar. We look at the market here folks and this is no doubt a classic man I mean you get the bounce you get lighter volume you get the whole baller wax as we're coming up to these highs you know the spy last three days so check it out sixty nine million on Tuesday, let's see what day it is, yeah, 69 million Tuesday, yesterday 58 million, today we're probably going to do 40. Bottom line though, you're up at the highs, we'll see how this baby shakes out, the high tick out here is 473.54, and I do expect we're going to go after it. We can take a look at the NDX100, the same type of setup actually, the difference is that the NDX100, the last highs up there, the consolidation highs are like a 401. We hit 398 today, the contractions are monster, you know, Tuesday we did the 48 million, yesterday we did 37 million, we won't do, we'll do like 25 million today, if we do 25 million. Gold, gold contract out here, trading above the little consolidation here, 97,000 contracts traded, not bad, not great. Bottom line though, it's over this little consolidation, so we'll see how this baby shakes into coming into next week, right now you're trading at 1810, and good old King Dala, we go over to King Dala, and this, King Dala is really still at highs, that being said, what we did get out here today is that it couldn't hold price at 96277, so we'll see if we can get something going on the downside, and it looks to me like it's the British pound that lifted its head up here today, let's just look at this, yeah it did, oh this is this well, this is cool man, okay the British pound saying now it wants to go to 138, and we're at 134, 13412, yeah you're inside the larger range again, this is this is gonna be intriguing watching this whole baby shake out, stay right there folks, come right back.


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How do we promote our one to one services on social media if we've been hopefully consistent in putting up content like videos or articles or something like that. So the first thing I'll say is to start noticing how others do it and what you like and don't like about how they're doing it.   Notice what is attractive to you. And, and what is maybe what feels pushy or something like that. So, and everybody has their own style so like, for example, for me, it's really natural when I'm promoting something to buy. I will do, I'll do two things. I'll do an Instagram video about it. Well, basically there's only two things on Instagram and video and posts and images. So I'll do both I'll do Instagram video, usually a pretty short one usually. I'll do stories, but yeah, like a really short one's like, you know, and maybe a couple of segments like hey upcoming upcoming course but you could do this one on one. Hey everyone just want to remind you that I offer the one on one service for doing this if you know you've been seeing me talk about it and if you want to work on this. You know, message me and then we'll talk about whether it's a good fit for you that kind of thing. And then the what I do secondarily I do my carousel posts, which basically is not necessarily doesn't have to be 10 slides but it's multiple slides where, you know, the first slide is the title of the service or the, you know, the product. And then the second slide just kind of gives a very brief summary of who like who it's for. And then maybe the third slide is what it's about fourth slide. The mix of the slides basically I put in a testimony or two. And then the final slide is well where do they contact me about it or how do they go and find out. I, you know, I think on Instagram link in bio is a very common thing so you have to put it on into your checklist when you're promoting a service the first change the link, the bio link and then you know when you're posting it maybe have the have the promotional bio link for for the next two weeks because you know you're going to be promoting your thing for two weeks or something like that, or for a week. So, yeah, so basically, I would say, I guess maybe the takeaway for me is, I do my promotions in a similar way to how I do my content, because I do carousels on my content so I think my audience is used to that and so when you see a promotional carousel it's not too odd, compared to my regular posts, and I also do longer videos so sometimes I will do a longer video about the offer. So I do hope you'll try out. Well what's natural for you for on Instagram and also take a look, which of your content is getting more engagement. In terms of format video or carousels or image with caption. Do the one that's the most the best format that's with the best engagement do that for your offer, and see how that turns out. But yes also pay attention to your colleagues and how they're doing it and try try that out as well. So, let me know that helps. And in terms of talking about your offer on video. Most of my videos are are kind of off the cuff, I mean I have a topic in mind and I have maybe a few points in mind, but I just kind of go right when it comes to an offer video. Given that remember people have to have a bit more patience to watch you talk about your offer on video it's not a piece of content. I do think an offer video deserves a bit more scripting. Not that we have to memorize things, but we should probably be more thoughtful about okay well first of all how long is it going to be. Let's say three minutes, probably a good length, maybe maybe up to five minutes but I think up to three minutes probably good length. It's gonna be three minutes. What must I say in those three minutes. Like what are maybe like the first 30 seconds, basically, I'll, I'll mention, you know who this is for something like that and then. Okay the next minute. I'll talk about my passion for and why I love helping this kind of person and then. So we're meant to have in and maybe one more minute where I talk about what to expect. When you, when you start working or how do you know it's time to contact me about this or something like that or, or maybe what what some of the experiences clients have had with this and then final 30 seconds. And just to say okay this is the next step if you're interested. Contact me will do a will do a free coaching session or do a discovery call to make sure it's a good fit you know kind of. So like kind of script out a little bit, not to not to because if you memorize it it's it's becomes very stressful and, but, but just it's like okay 30 about 30 seconds about 30 seconds and about a minute about me. Do that, if you're going to do a video. Then, then it'll come across better and hopefully if you keep doing this, these kinds of practices, at least once, you know, once a month I think it's very reasonable, maybe sometimes twice a month. Right, remember what one out of every five to 10 posts can be a direct offer to your audience invitation to work with you. So it's probably going to be twice a month that you do this. If you do a video, you'll get plenty of practice over over the months. So, what that helps. I want to thank mirror for writing mirror says I basically do a tile and actually mirror by tile do you mean carousel or do you mean a single image. I'm not sure what you meant.  Yeah. Okay, so you so you do a single image and you basically say that spots are available, or you might write a client story with an outcome and straight straight up say hey I'm offering one to one to help with this kind of thing. Great. Yes, I also also want to mention. Check out the Instagram profile of Jonah Richmond. He's a former master heart member who really took on the market research idea that I was talking about and like really took when run with him he's been quite successful with it so his offer is a market research conversation and he basically tells me that's what he does on a regular basis he basically says hey everyone. I'm trying to get to 100 market research conversations do you want to be, you want to help me out and be one of them and you know during the conversation half the time I'll ask you market research questions half the time. I get to answer whatever questions you have you know coach you if you like on on an issue that I can help you with kind of things will split up the time. He's been doing great with it that's been. He's put those out and people have inquired and then he's had those conversations and some of those I guess enough of those I've turned into clients where he loves doing them on a regular basis so consider that method as well.


Welcome to Perspectives on Global Justice in Pekawa'i. This is your host, Beatrice Cantomo. For today's episode, we are graced with a very special guest, Anne Webber. When I think of women of great influence and who have the gift of inspiring others to do good things, I think of her. Anne is a teacher and also community director of Impact Hub Honolulu. We'll hear her perspectives on what it means to lead with Aloha, the importance of what it means to do good and well in our work, in our community and with each other. And of course, we will be talking about the implications of an interconnected and interdependent Hava'i to a global network such as Impact Hub. On that note, thank you and welcome. Thank you. It's great to be here. I am very excited to have you here. I know this is not your first time in our studio, but it's been a few years.   Of course, of course. So I was raised in Los Angeles. I grew up in Historic West Adams, which if you're a USC fan, it's right there. I went to Loyola Marymount University. So I actually, I was raised at Jesuit schools through my whole education. And so this idea of service in education is incredibly important. It always has been in my life. So after I graduated from university, I was working, you know, I had a job after college and I was so excited, but it wasn't meaningful. I wasn't helping anyone that really needed it. And so that's how I came into education. So my parents were both educators. They were both public school educators in the University of LA. And I always knew the value of education. They would always communicate that to me. And I knew that that was a way that I could really give back. Right. Make such an impactful difference in people's lives. Yeah. So I joined Teach for America in 2013 and taught out at Ma'ili Elementary in Waianae for four years, third grade. Is that what brought you to Hawaii? It is. Amazing. So Teach for America in Hawaii. And what was your perspective of Hawaii before you moved here? And now almost six years later? Yeah, I had I had never visited before. So I agreed to move absolutely knowing nothing beyond the research I had done. And I knew that I wanted to teach on the Leeward Coast. I'm Native American. I'm Cherokee and Choctaw. So I thought I knew that I wanted to be in an area that was rural, serving an underserved community. And I loved it. It was the perfect match. I learned so much. And you served. And that is an area that I think Hawaii really needs a lot of additional booster and help with, which is our educational system. And so grateful that you have landed on this island with that kind of ticket. Yeah. But I'm grateful to have been in the position as well. So I mean, I'm no one's savior by any means. So it was just a meaningful way for me to serve. Which grades did you teach? I taught third grade. Oh, third grade. They're great grades. It's a wonderful age. They're intellectual. They can have conversations. But you know, I'm not an old lady yet. So they still liked me. Hey, old ladies can be really hip and cool as teachers too. Well, they didn't see me of that yet. That's a good thing, you know. So, okay. So from being a teacher to community director of Impact Hub, tell us about that transition. And also to our viewers who don't know what Impact Hub is, just give it a little blur. But you know, what is amazing place is all about. So Impact Hub Honolulu is a place where you can do good and do well. We have co-working space, which is a collaborative workspace. We have offices. We have meeting rooms. We have event space. But in essence, we're a community space for social impact. So you can come in. You can be with a motivated and productive community. You can get your work done. And you can hopefully learn a little bit in the meantime. That's what I'm really passionate about the education side because it shouldn't end after school. So we were talking about the social impact of Impact Hub. Not only for the community, but for the state at large. But also if we think in terms of micro perspective, because Impact Hub is all over the world, right? And how do you see all of that walking together, you know, not only for our members, but for the community who are not members here, but also in this microcosm that we call, you know, with Impact Hub being spread out, you know, so many different places. It's really like Teach for America. It's a global organization with very ambitious vision. So the idea of everyone's working locally and trans-locally to make social impact happen. And that can be felt globally. So that's the way that we focus our work, is we want to make an impact in our community, in our local community throughout the state. Our vision is to connect all of the islands so that we can be a real beacon of a lot of the examples of Impact that we have here. Hawaii is doing incredible things in climate justice, in education. And most of the stories you hear, unfortunately, are the negative sides of that. But I think that we also have the opportunity to be leaders in that front. And I'm sure lots of people would agree with that as well. So we're not working alone. And it's very easy to feel isolated. You know, I can attest to the power of a believer of Impact Hub because I've been a member since I moved here. And actually my first friends, you know, were made in Hawaii through Impact Hub community. And it used to be in a different location and right across the street from Kakaako Park. And I did a lot of work with house-less families and children. And I will never forget the part of Social Impact that Impact Hub at the time had in the lives of these children, not only in terms of opening spaces for them to come in, when the space was not being utilized by members to welcome people who traditionally have their doors shut for them all the time, but also the part of right before Christmas to open the doors. I was there for that. Yeah, and we saw so many children walking with their parents. It was like over 40 people. To watch a movie, eat popcorn and just a regular meal and just have a sense of normalcy and belonging. That really was very impactful. I think, you know, not only to me as a servant leader, but as a member of Impact Hub, but in this community. And I think the most beautiful thing about it is that it happened, it did not make the news. It was just a normal thing to do, you know. It was really beautiful. And there's so many other things too, like people connecting and helping each other. There's so many beautiful stories. So in terms of, you know, your vision right now with Impact Hub, what are you all working with? Like which direction does Impact Hub Honolulu is taking with regards to social justice and service? Sure, I'll tell you a story that starts with the first time I went to the Impact Hub Global Gathering this past year. So it was in Montreal, and I had the pleasure of meeting all of the other North American makers as well. So this was my first interaction with Global. And one of the stories that was shared was from Impact Hub Oakland, where they're doing a lot of work in houselessness as well. And that's an issue here locally. Or it's something that invites solutions. The term that David, the founder there used, was they're trying to cultivate in their community a sense of radical belonging. So for people that, you know, typically don't even get your attention, it's important to bring them into solving problems. So I think that that's what really sets us apart. Every Saturday we are involved in a cleanup at Kakaako Waterfront Park. So it's the only, the point of the cleanup is obviously to beautify the park, but also to just build community. Yes, exposure. We're neighbors. We're all part of the same community. And if you can just build those relationships and humanize and bring people together over a meal, then I think that anything can really be built from there. That's how you really come up with solutions. When you have respect there, when you have relationships, when you can listen to each other and not just, you know, solve a problem to someone or at someone, but with someone. Yes, absolutely. And I think like when you're talking about social impact and the importance of interconnectedness in this process, it's quite crucial to make it happen. But also for the sustainability of it, and where everybody is an equal partner and community builder and solution-oriented. It's not us, it's them, no hand-downs, you know. It's somewhat equalized, I think, level, not only of thinking, but of leading also. And like, you know, I've been in Hawaii for almost five years now. And one of the things I feel that we need more spaces where and if you really want to change Hawaii, you're going to have to really work together and recognize and do things where the most vulnerable are, you know, not only seeing, but dealt with the proper reverence and value and care that it deserves. So I know the homelessness is one of the many issues, you know, we know about education, health, and so forth. So are there any events in our community as Impact Hub that's going on that are addressing and inviting the community to be a part of this knowledge and of this movement? Thank you for asking. So a lot of the programs that we put on as Impact Hub are to increase impact throughout the community, but also to increase education. So a couple of the upcoming programs we have, one of them is called Oceans, the Human Impact, and that's going to be on April 11th in the evening. And it's a free talk story between Paul LeCompt, who his brother swam from Japan to Honolulu, and every three minutes saw microplastics on his swim. So it's, he's going to share that journey and also a message about, you know, what the plastics are actually doing to our ocean. And Dan Kinzer, who is a National Geographic Educator Fellow who got the opportunity to go down to Antarctica and see exactly what's happening with the Polar Ice Caps. So having these, or with the Antarctic Ice Caps, excuse me, so having these two, these two stories alongside of each other and then them having conversation with each other. That's one of the upcoming events. And so that's going to be all around climate justice. And then the next one is a partnership that we have with PBS Hawaii. It's called Indie Lens Pop-Up. And these are films, there's a series of six films, but we have, the next one is going to be Won't You Be My Neighbor, Mr. Rogers. I don't know if you watch.  Yeah, so this one, it's a free film, but the whole point of watching the film is to then have conversation about the film. And the theme of this year is perfect for what we've been talking about, because it's all about being a good neighbor. Yeah, we'll constitute a good neighbor, you know, and what is our role as neighbors, and how do we make a better? Exactly. That's really great. We need to take a minute break. We'll be right back on this. Hey, Loja. My name is Andrew Lanning. I'm the host of Security Matters Hawaii, airing every Wednesday here on Think Tech Hawaii, live from the studios. I'll bring you guests. I'll bring you information about the things in security that matter to keeping you safe, your co-workers safe, your family safe, to keep our community safe. We want to teach you about those things in our industry that, you know, may be a little outside of your experience. So please join me, because security matters. Aloha. Aloha and Mabuhay. My name is Amy Ortega Anderson, inviting you to join us every Tuesday here on Pinoy Power Hawaii. With Think Tech Hawaii, we come to your home at 12 noon every Tuesday. We invite you to listen, watch for our mission of empowerment. We aim to enrich, enlighten, educate, entertain, and we hope to empower. Again, Maraming, Salamat Po, Mabuhay, and Aloha. Welcome back to Perspectives on Global Justice, Think Tech Hawaii. This is your host, Beatrice Contavo, and we are here with Anne Wehboham. So, Anne, so we were talking about the next lens series with... With PBS Hawaii. With PBS Hawaii, yes. The indie lens pop-up films are all about getting people together to watch a film and talk about social justice issues following the film. So all of them are linked by this theme of being a good neighbor. But what is our relationship in that? What is our responsibility as a neighbor? Not just in receiving, but in also giving. And fostering, you know, in strengthening relationships, too, or engaging. So I'm really excited about that. But in terms of... Those are just a couple of the events that we have, and you can see the full list on impacthubhnel.com. We have multiple events a week. Some of them are Amnesty International films, so we're happy to partner with all types of local organizations because we want to be that community space where all are welcome, where you feel like you belong, and you can also have a really productive, motivated community of people if you weren't done. Because I think a lot stems from exposure and education. I mean, you can create a grassroots movement and a sense of deep investment in civic engagement. You don't feel inspired, I would say, or if it doesn't hit your radar. And I think most people, I mean, they're so busy. They're walking, taking care of life, family, and having these opportunities, these glimpses, you know, where you go. Gee, you know, maybe there are more things I can do and adjust in my own daily life and invite my co-workers and friends to, you know, and family to think similarly, or at least to take some action, you know, makes a big difference. You were mentioning about social justice being one of the cornerstones of what Impact Hub stands for all over the globe on here in Hawaii. So what are the plans for Hawaii and the upcoming years, perhaps? I don't know if you guys have a vision for five years or 10 years or whatever time it is. So all of the Impact Hubs are joined in a commitment to the UN Sustainable Development Goals. These are 17 very ambitious goals by 2030. So we're getting closer and closer to that mark. And so as we have been progressing toward them, we've been focusing a lot on education, sustainability, and also technology. We think that those are three very interrelated and also very important for Hawaii. Absolutely. So in terms of sustainability, what are the areas that your members and community partners in their lives are looking at? So it's not just environmental sustainability, which I think is, you know, making, it's huge here. It's very important to any island. But also sustainability as a community. So resilience. How are we, you know, ensuring that our communities are growing responsibly and that we're allocating resources responsibly as well? But what I was... So compatibility is a big part of this process too. Exactly. So we're hoping by the end of this year to have the first voluntary local review in Hawaii for the UN SDGs. So we've convened a working group of different organizations that are working around the SDGs to really think about how do we let the public know what's going on? What are these goals? Because as a teacher, I know that if you don't tell someone what the goal is, then they're not going to know to work towards it. Exactly. And 2030 is really around the corner. It is. It goes like a noobling governor eye. So we've been doing programs around like sharing the local successes and then that's all building toward programs about, okay, so where are we at in terms of all of the goals? Where do we need to focus our energy? Where are the opportunities? Exactly. And so that's really exciting. And I like that approach too. I just came back from a shared leadership retreat through MNIST International USA in Washington D.C. February and that we had people from all over the country coming together to work with vision and mission, you know, for MNIST in the upcoming five, 10 years. And we already know the problems. And I think it's important to, you know, give its proper value in space to it. But so much of the energy is a lot of time stagnant or it stops there, you know, that there has to be more of this movement of what is the vision? And let's dream outside the box. Let's dream as if there are no barriers. And let's come up with plans based on that. And then you walk out with the constraints and then with the elimination of the constraints too, you know. You're absolutely talking my language. I think it's the- That's why we're good friends. The educator and me loves this idea of like, okay, we have these ambitious goals. What's the roadmap? How are we going to get there? As a team, we've been thinking a lot about our mission and vision. And that's something that we look at every single year. Is it still true to where we're headed? And our goals are the actual actions in alignment with that mission that we want to create. So we recently updated it. It's to connect, inspire, and engage to make the world a better place. It's very broad. So we were torn between like, how do we make it specific enough, but also broad enough to give it the room that it needs. But the idea there is that one of the actions for that is we need to have a network of impact hubs that are accessible all over the state of Hawaii. So that it's not just you're in town, you have access to this community. I think it's not so Honolulu century. Right, exactly. And everything happens so much here. This is so beautiful that you are having this vision of expanding and making it more accessible. So are there any plans for growth and expansion in different parts of the island, or perhaps older islands across the state? Absolutely. So we're hoping for three more spaces on Oahu within the next year or so. And then also the plans are to expand to other islands as well because we can learn a lot from the other islands. And I mean, just imagine what could be possible if we really truly did have a community that was connected like that. So it doesn't matter where you are. It doesn't matter, you know, if you're flying to another island, you still have your people, your community. And every island has its own beat and stories. And, you know, I travel a lot for work. And it's quite night and day difference between, for example, here, Moloka'ila, Na'i, Maui, Kauai, even the weather. Big islands. So, you know, but we do need those differences and that kind of diversity to make it truly inclusive. Absolutely. That's what's kind of awesome about the Impact Hub Global Network as well, is they're all independently owned and operated. So you walk into, unlike a lot of the larger co-working chains, you walk into one and it's going to be exactly the same, whether you're in Atlanta, whether you're in LA, whether you're in Berlin, you know what you're going to get. But with an Impact Hub, you're very locally based. So you walk in and you, it's going to be the flavor of the place and the community and the people because it's the people that are making the place. It's not the walls. It's not the space. It's the people that are there talking with each other. How do you get, you know, that beat? It's really nice. Like, when I travel to a different state, I always make a point of visiting a local Impact Hub and just get that feel. You know, it's instant ohana. Yeah, exactly. You know, it's a great way to connect this way. And I also think, you know, that in terms of entrepreneurship opportunities, you know, cool walking spaces is the way to go, not only from a cost efficient, you know, sustainable way of being able to even dream of doing something as an entrepreneur, but also that part of collaborative efforts and those connections that stem from being a part of, you know, this kind of environment. Do you have any like stories, like favorite stories that you'd like to share? Well, one of my favorites is you and Isoai. But that just speaks to the unexpected collaboration that you can see. And it's really beautiful. So yeah, I'll tell you a little bit about it. Yeah, I did know he was just gazing through the window. You know, you could see he was really troubled that day. And I had no idea what he was walking on there. What the challenges were. I said, what's going on there? You know, you're very pensive. And he's like, yeah, I'm thinking about how this, you know, ice business is going to, you know, flow and I don't have many connections out there in the community. And those that I had is just not flowing. You know, as we started brainstorming, like I wanted to learn where he's been and those that he had knocked and the nose and the barriers and all of that. And then they just downed it to me. I said, you know, how about the fishing industry in parks? You know, he's like, oh, I guess I didn't think about that. And so I connected him with then Dean, Dean Sensui, who is a wonderful cinematographer. And I said, he connects really well with the fishing industry. Why don't you go talk about ride with him and see what happens. I guess you can finalize what the end of the story was. Yeah, you gave him the introduction and he made it happen. Yeah. And now it's actually, what's awesome is that it's the ice machine, the ice business there and the Wainae Boat Harbor is like the water supply for Puhonua, Wainae. Yes. So there's a whole community there that gets to be served by this, this introduction. And I'm so happy about, because the older talk we had was, you know, think about the houseless communities and how they could benefit from having access to water, clean water supply, and ice. I wasn't quite sure about that. But I think, you know, it kind of, it kind of evolved very organically. Exactly. And now it's like, what's the next step, you know? Well, and that's the beauty of, you know, you take this idea of doing good and doing well and you can do both. They're not mutually exclusive.  But I think now we really want to share that message of, you can start now. It can be, you know, it's also- The wait until you're 67, you'll retire. Exactly. It's also very marketable. So if you're able to think about social impact as a way to grow your business, then I think that that mindset shift alone is what we're really trying to share with everyone. Because it doesn't have to be, you don't have to be a martyr to do well or to do good in the world. Or to have so much money, you know, I think the social capital is really the new currency of- Absolutely. You know, like a society that we want to see now that's more sustainable and equal, you know, and that thrives. Oh my darling, I can't believe the 30 minutes have flown by this quickly. So we are out of time. But thank you so much for granting us scenarios, you know, your presence and your lovely spirit and energy. Thank you so much for what you do for Impact Hub in our community. I hope to have your back as a, you know, guest many more times. We can get some members here to share. Oh, I would love that. You know, this is what this space is about. It is about an open platform where we get to talk about collective impact and social justice perspectives. And it can be from any part of the world, but we definitely want the flavor of Hawaii. And how much of Hawaii, you know, examples can be emulated in order to the world, too. So it is really about those bridges. So anyone who feels excited to come, you know, you're welcome to. All right, well, this concludes our episode of Perspectives in Global Justice. Thank you for today. Thank you so much, Avias, for watching us. And until next time,


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And some of the lures I'm going to be fishing with today are coming out of one of the pan fish species boxes. So there's a lot of different variety there. And what I find helpful is sometimes I get a lure that it's a new technique and maybe I'm not familiar with that technique and then I go and learn it and I actually provide videos and helpful tips to help you learn how to fish those exact new techniques. Anyway, great product, great service, great company, great people. But let me just say, if you want to get a discount on your first box, link down in the description, use the code Mondo, they'll have you covered. Okay, so I have never used one of their pan fish boxes. I've always used the Pro Box. You guys have seen me fish a ton of the bass stuff. So I thought I'd switch it up today because first of all, look at me. I'm ready for adventure. I might as well be a forest ranger. In fact, I could be mistaken for one today. I have green pants on. I've got serious boots on. I just so happen to be ready for the forest. These are uncertain times, my friends. And there are a lot of boat ramps that have been closed and there's just a lot of general access areas due to flooding corona. It's hard to know where I can go and put my boat in right now. That's not really far away. And I will be faced with a blocked boat ramp or a closed ramp. And I know for sure the lake that is closest to me, everything is closed. There is no one running around on the lake. And in fact, I can hear boat motors from my house normally. It has been silent here. And I have made some videos lately trying to just walk down to the lake and I'm being faced with snakes. And there are tons of animals running around right now. It's great. It's fun. It's good times with the outdoors. I do hate snakes, but I love to fish. I am going stir crazy here and I will not be put off the water today. I'm going and venturing farther into the woods to try to find a creek that is going to have some pan fish in it. So let me show you what I got rigged up in the plan for today's fishing. Just taking one rod, one reel today. Shout out to that guy. 1,000 size reel just pulled it up with six pound test fluoro. And I've got my little ultra light trout rod, my little Gampa. So I'm also going to be carrying a bag. So I've got one of the money bags stuffed with all sorts of pan fish, tackle, including this stuff that was in the box that I got, the kit box. A lot of these lures that I've got in here are tiny, tiny, tiny. I've never used lures this small, y'all. And I'm going to be starting out with one of those tiny jigs. I guess it would be like a 130 second ounce with a little indicator. So a little indicator about a foot above, but I'm also going to carry some little nibblets inside of my pack. I've got a stringer because you just never know when you're going to get that big sack of roux. I do also have some snacks and some green tea, just in case I feel like meditating out there. This is my hunting pack. So there's some various random items in there, obviously. I'm also going to be carrying a machete, knife, and pliers, as you guys know. I always carry those things. And anything that can help us get through the woods to try to access these creeks. If we can actually get to the area that I want to go, I think we'll end up catching some decent-sized bluegill and maybe some other species that are moving up right now to try to spawn. We're in the forest. We've escaped the wind. I'm right by the creek right now, and the water is really high. And I'm already seeing bluegill, like just at the start of the trail. I just want to see how they respond. I haven't seen any big ones yet. I think the bigger ones are going to be way farther down, but I just want to see if they'll respond to my little jig here. So stick that out there. Can you see that? Little tiny little thing right there, that indicator. Got one on it. Thinking about it. Oh, ah, took it.  First one landed. Oh, okay, putting that little pink dill on the end. Definitely made the difference. Just your standard bluegill right there. Put it back. That'd be pretty hard to fillet. Let's just keep walking here. Ooh, bullfrogs. Mighty bullfrog. Oh, gosh, got him, got him. There we go. That was right away. That was green sunfish right there, a very small one. Very small green. Hot action right here. There's another one. Oh yeah, we found the hole. I think that was another greenie. This is the tiniest thing ever. Got it? Okay, I'm gonna try one more cast up in there. My left side. Got him, got him. Splashing, caught on some bark. Little better. Still quite small, but a little better bluegill. Okay, this system is working though. That is like, that is dang near close to flaying. But I can hit this bottom of my way back. So I'm gonna let this one go. See you buddy. That is three so far y'all. Just quick, like five minutes.  I'm gonna keep going downstream towards the main lake and see if I can get some bigger ones. Well y'all, I must say, I have never seen it like this. It is so high. But now what we're left with is, well maybe there's some fish up here. This looks very fishy. That's normally just a trickle.  Okay, nothing doing right there. It is so high right here. I'm gonna have to backtrack and try to find a way across the creek and then continue into the woods so we can get out closer to the main lake. Huge trees sitting there. I fished right around the bases of them. Nothing. There ought to be gills just loaded under that tree but there's not. It's currently looking at some shad that are swimming around in this little hole. This is crazy. I guess they're feeding on this floating deal right here. There's like a bunch of duckweed and different stuff and these shad are all the way up into this creek. Way up. So I just found a pathway across where I can keep going on the trails. I'm going with one of these tungsten woodow makers. This is called catus cane. It glows, I guess. I'm off trail right now and I'm pretty much just walking where the animals walk. This game trail is definitely gonna be some ticks, chiggers. Well, I've reached a point here where I can't cross y'all.  So I'm gonna trek back to where I saw a bunch of those fish at the head of the trail where there actually was a trail. I've been off trail for like an hour. You can see a bedding area right here. That is where a hog slept last night. And there are some bones right here. I'm gonna guess this is a hog. Man, good riddance.  Little baby snake. Hey buddy. I can't tell if you're poisonous or not. You live today. Oh, got one on it. Come on now. Another one. Greeny, greeny. That's four. Now stay low, that's the key. There's a big one in here somewhere. It's all big shadow just flash under it. You gotta come out of this brush right here. Hey, got him. What's up on that brush? Another greeny. That's five fish. Why long quarantine on foot? Oh, I just love fishing, y'all. Trophy of the day right there. Go ahead and... Bluegill, do you have the smell? They have it. Cropy, Bluegill, and Bass all have a similar smell. They're all in the same family of fishes. The son fish family. Centrarchids, I believe. Centrarchidae. Centranilla day. Got him. Got him. On the long pause. A little better. A little better. Oh, did I get him? One more hole, one more sniff. Let's do it. The tiniest. The tiniest of tiniest. Going to get him. Got him. Wah-bam. Literally like fishing a barrel. I think the key is to stay low and to sneak up on a spot. I've noticed if I'm like high up on a ridge, looking down. It doesn't work. Oh, gosh. They are just pounding this little jig. If I'm ever in a survival situation, I hope to have some of these jigs with me. They are the perfect size for Bluegill.  Beautiful little colors. If you look really hard at a Bluegill, sometimes you'll see some gold and green, like fine dust, fleck. I really like fishing that in a lure. Like little green fleck or gold, purple. It represents Bluegill really well. Okay, show and tell. Over. Put you back. It may be small, but it's still fun. Super aggressive. Actually, one more cast.  I got hit three times right there before I caught that fish. I don't know how many this is now. This is like eight or nine. Oh, Google, Google, Google, got it, got it, got it. Oh, no, shoot, that's a good one. Oh, man, there's more. There we go. There's a big greenie. Gotcha, yatsy. There we go. I think this is gonna be my last one. We have caught over 10 fish. I would keep these, some of these bigger ones.  And I just got a new fryer, and I haven't showed you guys and I'm super excited. Be doing that soon on my next Catch and Cook, but I feel good about myself. Discovered some fish on foot, figured out what they wanted, and I had to walk five miles. I ended up coming back to an area that I started in to catch most of the fish, but, you know, I've never been so happy to catch such a small fish. Any of y'all just wanna have some fun and catch some Bluegill. It doesn't take that much gear, but I'm gonna recommend these little jig heads, and you can put whatever on them.   During this quarantine, I will tell you, I've spent a lot of time in this chair right here watching the run. I am happy to report that no predators have been around the run in the last three, four days checking the cameras, so that's good. Bobcat has not shown its little furry nub tail. Stephanie even started calling me the chicken guy. I don't know how to read that, but if any of y'all do have backyard chickens, you know how fun they are, so let me take you inside, show you the flock. Rackly roosts, where you can lay up and have a good time. I crack myself up. Oh girls, they really wanna come out here in free range. I usually let them free range for like an hour, so a day, but I'm happy to report they're starting to get along a little better now because the chicks are getting bigger and the hens, they still protest, you know, you'll hear them do all that, but it's really because these little guys are so flighty and so excited most of the time, they're sleepy right now, but I think they kinda stress them out too. They're like, what are these little toddlers doing in here? But here is one of our bard rocks. Right here, we had the one we didn't know if it was gonna make it, that's a little wane dot. That's a little gold laced. We got our khaki Campbell, little duck back here, still not sure if it's a boy or a girl. This little guy right here that looks like a bald eagle, that is a dorking, and if you didn't know about dorkings. Dorkings have five little toes instead of four. Every other chicken has three front toes and then they got a back one, and the dorkings have five. But the two little chickens that look like hawks they are Easter Eggers.  Please do not. God, your talons, your talons are so big. This is my coolest chicken, y'all. This is Henny Penny. Henny Penny is basically like a dog. She'll follow me around, she comes when called, and if I'm giving other chickens in here attention and not her, she will literally fly up on my shoulder.   You're frosty about it. So I was supposed to be in California right now doing some bass fishing on the Delta, but obviously that got canceled. So I've spent a lot of my time out here and in here doing things to help my flock and hang out, and I'm going crazy. If they don't find a vaccination soon, I'm just gonna have like, these are gonna become bald eagles. I'm gonna train hawks and eagles just obsessed with birds right now. I don't know. Anyways, I'm gonna put you down, Henny Penny. Those are my birds. I'm gonna leave y'all right here today, but I hope in your quarantine time, you are getting to go in the outdoors. Hopefully you live in a state where they let you do that. I think fishing and hunting has been deemed an essential thing here in Texas. Don't quote me on that, but I'm pretty sure fishing and hunting is considered some sort of hunting gatherer type situation that you could be getting food for your family, which I do quite often.  You know what is a great idea? Go fishing right now on the golf courses while they're shut down, because that's where some of the megatodes are living. Thank y'all for literally coming up the creek with me today and if you wanna stay tuned for more, go ahead and subscribe to the channel. Go ahead and hit the like button for going through vast efforts to catch a fish. I'll see you back here soon on Lake Forgot Channel. God bless you and tight lines. I think that's enough squawking, y'all. Let's put on our special, this is the M94 Turkey Approved Mask right here. This'll block all corona germs when you're out in the turkey fields. Okay, now that we're safe, let's get out there. Get him.


Hi, baby. I think we should go to the left. I'm looking my way. No, we're not. Welcome back to Smoonsville. And today we're covering The Great Beauty. Yeah, Italian film came out The 2010s, I want to say. 2013, I feel like. Yeah, that sounds right. I don't know. It's so good. That might have been nominated for something actually best, best international film. Oh, no. Oh It just, it's one of those that when you need a refilling of your souls kind of been depleted a little bit brings a little of that, you know, heavenly elixir and just fills up your stories a little bit. So new segment to help for those that haven't seen it, but still want to watch us talk about movies. We're gonna try and explain the movie, but we're giving ourselves only 10 seconds so you get a very, very, very, very brief synopsis and then we're gonna dissect it from there. Do you want to go first? Take turns? I don't know. We didn't agree. I would decide on whether or not we're gonna rock, paper, scissors. Okay, fine. Starting now. Okay. It is set in Rome. It is about this journalist called Jep. He's famous for his wonderful journalism and for writing a novel in his 20s and for throwing the best parties. That is too short. Next time we'll start again. Start again? Okay. We'll give you another 10 seconds. That's too short. 15. I have to start again. I can't.  I don't know if this is gonna work. 20 seconds will do. Yeah, okay. That'll give it good. Okay, and go. Okay, so the movie is set in Rome. It is about this guy, Jep. He's a journalist. He's famous for his wonderful journalism and a book, a novel that he wrote in his 20s and for throwing incredible parties. And he's also famous for knowing a lot of, you know, affluent people in Rome. And so, yeah. There you go. It's a good starting point. Yeah, so that's basically, that's the movie. Yeah. And there's no beginning, middle, or end. It's just a day in the life or a week similar to Totoro. Yeah. It's like a week or a month in the life of Jep. Yeah, it's one of those movies. It's a contemplative thing. It really is for, I think, people that really like and think about art a lot or life. Well, the thing for me is a very hurt soggy, if I can say that. There's a lot of essential images I find in that movie. Just every frame could be a painting. You know, like there's just beautiful shots of whether it's the parties or the landscapes or them walking through these kind of off-limit buildings and these sculptures and all these gardens and everything. It's a great setting. You get a chance to get to know a lot of the characters. And even though you're right, there's not so much a beginning, middle, and end, you get invested, I felt. It's interesting. You get to see how people that have a lot of money live. A lot of people who have connections and are just living in complete and utter decadence, basically. It's a good word for a lot of decadence. It's very interesting because you like Jep. He's not the kind of person, which I'm not saying that if you're affluent, you're automatically a bad person. I don't think so at all.  He's incredibly self-aware and he gets along very easily with different people from all walks of life. It was nice for me. I think he's a great depiction of someone who is like that in an affluent setting because I think you find people like that in different settings. Maybe they are someone from a poor background and someone from a much richer background. There isn't anything there that's inaccessible to a certain class. It's accessible to everybody, the conversations that are had. It's just about a person who is just much more self-aware. I would say probably even more empathetic, to be honest, and just much more self-reflective. Non-judgmental. I really like that about him. He's also incredibly confident. He's extremely secure in himself and doesn't care about being judged by the skin-deep affluent friends of his. He has a guy who manages a strip club and then befriends the daughter of that guy and then goes on to take her out to these lavish events. You get people judging him for it. Yeah, you get people judging him and her. What is she wearing? But he honestly doesn't care. I really like that about him. He has that friend of the strip club manager. They've been friends for a very long time. He's the kind of, I think, aging artist type that you would aspire to. He just sees, are you a decent person?  She doesn't really know how to explain what she's trying to do, what she's about. But for him, he's like, even though he considers himself a writer, he struggles with other artistic types that are more about just being confusing and weird and novel and different just for the sake of it. And he's like, yeah, but do something honest to yourself. He has his one friend who keeps trying to write something like a theater screenplay. And he's always like, for the theater, and he's always like, yeah, but write something just, I don't know, that you went through. And yeah, and I like that. Like you said, you'll have friends of people that own strip clubs because they just see more real than a lot of actually the artistic people that he runs into. I did like that interview a lot when he's interviewing the artist. There are a lot of artists who realize the confusing who who hold on to confusing people because they know that if people don't understand something, they'll perceive it as really profound must be a profound work of art here. And you have a lot of people who okay, all I have to do is to dress a certain way. And that portrays me as a an artist automatically, or as someone who's deep thinking or who's mysterious, etc. I love that Jeff is the kind of person who sees right through that because everybody else in this in Rome is so mesmerized by this artist. Everybody who's there to see her crazy show is completely in awe of it.   What is a vibration? And she can't even explain it. And in the end, she confesses to the fact that she doesn't even know what she's talking about. And that's where he's coming from, you know, he's the kind of person who doesn't just take things at face value. And he digs deeper. And he understands that people have these masks that they put on. And he's also very much self aware of the fact that he also has his own, he does it to his own flaws. And he does certain things.  And you do ABC, you do all of these things. And, and at the funeral, he does these he performs these things that he was describing to her and she witnesses it. Yeah, he can be honest about his flaws, about the fact that he's not a perfect human being and about the fact that he's sometimes dishonest, because these are all parts of us as human beings, you play to certain things at different points in time. But the people I find that are most insecure, they don't want to point to their flaws. They're not very, they don't talk very easily about their flaws. The scene I definitely remember the most from the first time watching it. And it's still one of my favorites is the one one time where they're having the drinking, it's late on his balcony, his friends over. And the one woman is, you know, kind of criticizing trying to, I think maybe Jep's self confidence annoys her because of her insecurity. So she wants to be like, Oh, you've only written one book and it was hardly even a book. And what are you acting like you're so cool and so sure of yourself and so okay with like, you have all the easy to have all the responses to everything and all the the wisecracks, you know, and then he basically explains you like, Well, first of all, you know, we're getting older, we realize that life is how it is. And there's kind of no need to really pretend more than that. We all know that we've had major screw ups, we all know that we're very fallible and we screw up all the time. And that's okay, that actually makes life more enjoyable. And, you know, and he's like, Well, look at you, he's like, I know the stuff I did, I did isn't really anybody's stuff you did, but you seem to want to portray this very successful, very, like exceptional version of yourself. And then he just kind of goes down the list of ways that she really isn't super perfect. In fact, she kind of gets a lot of extra help, she doesn't mention or a lot of her connections help her with all these successes that she kind of likes to show is just she just did it on her own, you know, which again is like, Well, be honest, be realistic, no one ever does anything on their own, you get help in so many ways from so many people and so many things, you know, with his case, like we talk about true realities, because, you know, we realize we don't have all the information and there's no point in trying to compete anymore, try to be the smartest person in the room, because really, this companionship at the end of the day is what we need, especially at this point in our lives. This is the important thing. That's that's what I was trying, you know, there are a lot of people who who want to hold on to a certain image of themselves, you know, they have this idealized view of what a the kind of person they aspire to be has to be into the kinds of things that they like.  There are people who look down on YouTube and think that, you know, watching it makes them people who watch it are dumb, right? And so I'll just do podcasts. That's all I'll do. And I'll read the New Yorker that is all I'll I do because I am smarter.  So these people will hold on to this ideal sense of themselves, right? And may even be watching YouTube secretly, right? But like you, the person who's openly loves YouTube, which I do, I love YouTube.  There's so many things to learn from there. Like you want to have fun? Go to YouTube. If you want to learn actual deep things, go to YouTube, everything, education, everything is there, right?  If you are maybe kind of like taking the wrong course where you perceive to be the wrong course.  And so you judge it harshly. And I've struggled a lot to find people like Jeff much more, you know, people who don't care about their weaknesses and who are okay to be vulnerable basically about what they maybe can or cannot do and aren't really trying to live according to some kind of yardstick. Yeah, yeah. Just a lot of great interaction, a lot of great characters. I like how in the dinner, the 104 year old, soon to be saint, I guess, she really liked the one book Jeff wrote. So they had dinner at his place. And there was a cardinal there that I think was supposed to become Pope, I think that's what they were saying, but very unpoped like, right? Which is, that's the thing, people are human. And then he was always kind of trying to steal a conversation. You know, he was that classic conversational narcissist that always needed to bring it back to him and talking about just whatever cooking.  Such a juicy movie. Yeah, maybe I like it because it confirms a lot of things, a lot of my world views. It helps when a movie just speaks to you like that. It just relates so much to it. Things like sometimes people become friends with other people because they are artists, right? And that's it. We are both artists. And so we're going to be friends. But that is not enough just because you share in this one thing or this huge thing, maybe you both sell art and you're very good at it. But that does not mean anything in terms of whether or not you can actually be good companions. In reality, the things that you do, what you do doesn't necessarily, it's not the thing that the kind of, it's not a solid glue to a good companionship for me, as far as I'm concerned, because artists are not, you can have two people who are in the same field, but their personalities are very different. You know, like that guy who eventually leaves and is like Rome does not work for me. He's dating this, well not dating, he's pursuing this woman who is a writer and actress and all these things. And she's awful. She's an awful human being. And then everybody else, all the other artists around him, they love partying and they're extremely superficial, but all of them are in the same field. And he in the end realizes that, okay, I do love art. We can both love art. People can love this one thing, but it doesn't, it's not the thing that's going to bring you together. And so which is why I like Jeff because Jeff doesn't only limit his interactions to other journalists. He interacts with people that are just rich and that's it. They don't even have a job and that's that. Or he interacts with, he has, some of his friends are, you know, the strip club owner and the daughter. That is the mark, I think, of a person who's truly living life. You're not restricting yourself. You really, and you understand yourself more than just your title, you know? You understand that there's more to you than just your title. Because I think a lot of times people are very restricted by their title, understanding that if I want to maintain my status within this community, I cannot be converting with the likes of a stripper, you know? Jeff does not care. I love people like that. Yeah. Because, you know, he's surrounded by, you know, well-off dilettants that don't really have to work for a living. You talk, ask one person, what do you do? He's like, I'm rich. I don't do anything. And the person that his friend is pursuing, she just takes up a different artistic field just whenever it suits her, because she's not actually committed to what it takes to be good at any artistic thing. She does it purely for the status of it. I want to be a writer and then she wants to kind of attract this director, I think, who is going to direct a play. Well, now I want to do that, or now I want to act. It all just kind of depends on who she's attracted to at the time to potentially get closer to them, or just what does it serve in terms of attention and things like that. And there are people like that. But then there are people like Jeff that it's just, are you an interesting person? Can I talk, can I connect with you as human to human? That's all it matters. And he does seem to long for something, a more tangible relationship than the passerbys he's encountered throughout his life.  He still finds joy in that. And I think that's something that is really hard for people. That's the good life. There's a lot, there's a lot. It's a great movie, beautiful acting, just great. This is definitely a reflection piece. Yeah, 10 out of 10 reflection piece. Yeah, absolutely fantastic movie. Everything, it's hard. I find for movies to pull off dance or club scenes that really seem real and legit. But the way they did it, I'm like, yeah, I believe that all these people are here actually dancing and trying to escape their lives or their week or, you know, there's so many interesting faces and so much you can get from each person that they show dancing. It was just so easy to watch all the way through because there's so many interesting images and people and events and interactions. So yeah, very yummy, very yummy movie. All right. That's it. That's about it. That's it. That's definitely it. 100% it. Definitively it. Definitively. All right. Bye folks. Bye. Did we give it a rating?