on the line right now, with Spike Lee. All right, here you go. This is what we need. Is this because I need to get some of the shirts that he's selling on his Shopify store? Yeah, they look very nice. Spike, what's going on, man? How are you guys doing? More importantly, how are you? Yeah. You know, this is some BF, and it's so unavoidable. I've been going into employees' entrants for the last 30 to 30 weeks, over 28 years. In 28 years, no one's ever told me not to go to that entrance. The last time I went to that entrance, ladies and gentlemen, this is Ronald Reo, here's Tien, not 8.7, was Wednesday. Wednesday was a historic event at the World's Most Famous Arena. Wednesday, there was a matinee on the Broadway play, The Killer Mockingbird. 18,000 New York City kids, public school kids, who probably seen a Broadway play for the first time. I introduced the play. I went through the same exit I've been going through for over 28 years. No one has ever told me in my mother's grave. No one, my late mother's grave, when she died when I was in South Park, Browns College, she was 41. No one's ever told me ever not to come through the point entrance. I never asked a garden to produce email saying such, no one's ever called me from the garden. They called me when I'm a day late for deposit on the astronomical season ticket price. They had my number, they had my email yesterday. And also, listen to this, if that entrance, which I've been going through for 28 years, is only for employees, why was a guy there taking scanning tickets? My ticket got scanned along with other people. I was not the only people who went through with me. Yes, they were the ticket scanned. I'm glad you brought that up, Spike. Oh, let me think, let me think anything. So my ticket, that's not a point entrance, that's just a point entrance. Why has somebody had taken scanning tickets? Because no one has ever told me, not, they're goddamn liars saying they were clearly told me. I want them to produce one person, the look in the eye, and told me they said, Spike, you can't use the entrance. It never happened, ever. Now this is the entrance where they just put in like you're going through the airport, right? It's got the, it's skidged. No, that's been never, I've been going there for 28 years. All right, so this isn't the same entrance. The only thing they did, they put like the plastic thing over for the weather. I've been going there for 28 years. The same entrance. Because it's like going through an airport. Now you gotta put your bag through. Yes, I went through that. All right, yeah, I've never seen, honestly, I've never seen tickets being scanned. I said on my keys, my iPhone, my BlackBerry, I know it's good. Then I went inside, they scanned my ticket. I'm going to the elevator with a bunch of people, got the ticket scan also, and the elevator is not moving. And I'm standing next to the guy, the elevator operator, and has the airpiece. And he's listening, and the guy comes up to me, I'm in the elevator, he comes to the front of the elevator, and says, Spike, you need to get off the elevator. Mr. Lee, excuse me, Mr. Lee, you need to get off the elevator. I said, I'm not getting off the elevator. He said, Mr. Lee, you have to get off the elevator. I said, where, why did you get off the elevator? Once you get off the elevator, I'll tell you, so I'm not getting off the elevator. So finally, the door closed. As you know, for people who don't know the garden, the floor is on the fifth floor. Get the ticket out, the elevator's on the ground floor, 338,000, you take the elevator up to the fifth floor where the court is. I've been doing this for 28 plus years. The door, the elevator opens, and it's like they were there, like out of some cat, the man out of Macy's stealing stuff. Now, Spike, the statement that they released today. It's a lie. They said that we have repeatedly asked them not to. It's a lie, it's a bold-faced lie. My mother's grave, it's a lie. No one has ever told me that you cannot use a poised entrance. I used it Wednesday. So if somebody- They introduced the killer Mockingbird.  You wouldn't have a problem with going to the VIP entrance. Not at all.  You repeatedly hear me say, no one told me. Right. The garden has my number. When you fill out a season ticket application, they want the world. Social security, birthday date, business number, reach me, they know how to reach me. What's the deal with the photo of you shaking hands with Jim Dolan that the Knicks sent out? So Dolan always has to go by my seat, my court-sized seat to go to where he goes during the half time. So my head was down, I was on my phone, and he came up to me and he said, we've gotta talk. I said, talk about what? He said, we've gotta talk. I said, Mr. Dolan, no one's ever told me. And I was not irate, I was very respectful. I had not used the vanity. I said, Mr. Dolan, no one's ever told me not to use employee interest. And they said, well, now you know.  I've never had this happen to me ever by the garden. So I didn't even realize that, you know, when we were speaking and I don't remember shaking his hand, but she didn't want to say, I'm a filmmaker. That picture, when you look at the picture, is taken from the roof of the garden because at 23, set the clock, that's over the backboard, is in the shot. That was a set up. They set that photograph up so they could use it. That whole thing was arranged. Look at that picture, it's from the roof. Do you believe that this has? The clock above, the back is in the shot. Does this have anything to do with your support of Charles Oakley, you think? Michael, I love you, but I cannot, I mean, I gotta keep saying this. I cannot speak for Mr. Dolan, I won't say this. And I demonstrated clearly on first take. When I went out and leave, I put my hands behind my back and said, arrest me like you did Charles Oakley. Kids would like to say, this could be very simple. Spike, can you just, which eventually happened? Because what they wanted me to do first was to leave the garden, go take it back and elevate it, go down back to Empire, excuse me, employee interest. Well, get outside, walk all the way around the Fort Penn Plaza, push on 31st Street. Then they'll have to re-scan my ticket. Number one, you can't scan a ticket twice. Number two, when you leave a sport arena, if you leave, you can't come back in. I was not going for the double thing, the dope thing, double cross. I was not leaving.  Who will you be, who will be acceptable to you if we get in the elevator? We go one floor to sixth floor and we'll walk you to your court side, Steve. I said, fine. And that was it. Now, they can have said that from the beginning, but they want to need to leave the garden and walk around the block. Now, I want to go back to the Dolan Conversations. You were on first take today and you said you didn't want to talk about it. You were upset and you didn't have a conversation that didn't sound like, but here- I mean, it was, it was not acceptable, you know, I don't want to look you, what can you say to me? Well, I was just trying to figure out was he going to come over to apologize? If he could have apologized. All right, so if, but the opportunity was there, if he wanted to apologize, he could have. I have a question. Yes. When has anybody ever heard Mr. James Dolan apologize? True, so far. What I'm saying is, is he coming over to you? Last night would have been the first. Right, all right, but, but my point was it, I was just trying to get all the facts here that like you kind of shoot them away. It sounded like, like I don't want to talk about it, but there was an opportunity that if he wanted to apologize, he could have apologized. Oh, he could have. He made him, he came directly to my side. See, row AA, C20, court side, the world's most famous arena. He came to me, I wasn't looking for him. It came, they also, it came to me because they said, that phone, that photo, now they're set up. Does he ever walk by you before? I mean, because he has to go that way when he comes out of that part of the garden, does he stop? He walks by me, but we also ain't nothing. We also ain't, we don't even know each other. Oh really, interesting. And Spike, what's your yearly bill at the garden when they hit you up for, to pay? What are you paying every year? Well, it's over $300,000. Are you rethinking that?   Over 10 million they say, Spike? Well, we are just meant for inflation. It's a funny line, they say, that's how, like, Michael Kaye, you enjoy this. That's how, like, I want to score a senior show, I'ma, I'ma look it in. So, and it sounded like he kind of reprimanded you that he said, don't do it again. So. I'm not gonna say that, I'm not gonna say that. Oh no, so you just, he shook hands with you. He said, well, now you know. Now you know. Now you know. I would be, my hand was so spinning, I don't even remember shaking hands with him. I just wanted to be alone. What's your, what's your take, Spike, in the statement when he says that, would they say the idea that Spike Lee is a victim is laughable? First of all, they should not use, New York NYX organization, they should not use the word laughable. Agreed. They're making me laugh. And also, also, Mike, you know me, I'm a really good guy. I just wanted to come to the game that as you know, Western Conference teams only come once a year. I want to see my brother, Rosa, I want to see James and me with the miracle. Here's the thing, the next one, nobody was talking about the game. Yeah. I'd not come, I'd not wake up in the morning and say, and playing this. This has, this is not, this is not of my doing. This, this thing, it should never happen. Did it? Let me finish. If there was a policy that somehow they'd been installed since Wednesday when I use the employee entrance, can somebody let me know? Is that too much? If the next has said spike, we don't use, you've been using this, let me know how you use it, but there's no plan going, I would say, okay. And I also have to say a month ago, they told me I cannot leave the garden going down the ramp. Oh, you tried to leave down the regular ramp and they said you can't do it? You can't leave down the ramp for 20 years also. And a month ago, I was given a leave that despite the new policy, I said, you can't go up, I said, why? There's new policy. So that is the first time it happened. I'm being harassed. So they need to tell me by email or whatever that I can go down the ramp. So what happened? You went a different way or you just continued to go down the ramp? I went there, now I got away, you got to go out. Now I got three people escorting me out the game now. It's crazy. Now, when you first arrived to the entrance at 33rd and eighth, the media entrance, did someone, when you walked up to that door, go, hey, Mr. Lee, we're sorry, you can't even come in this door? Or they let you get through and you made it all the way to the elevator? Sir, if that would have happened, why would my ticket be scanned? Right. My ticket was scanned on the elevator. Then, then another thing, I think they got me on surveillance because they're looking for me. They pulled me up the elevator after my ticket was scanned with other people at the ticket scan. I was the only one that pulled off. I was not an elevator alone. People, I came with people that tickets were scanned too. It's pretty amazing, Spike, that Reggie Miller is supporting you. Have you heard from any other NBA people today? All right, that was Reggie, me and Reggie, that was about 20 years ago. Me and Reggie are tight. Okay. He hit me up during the game, opened me up. There's more to her, but more Cuban. My friend used to say, Spike, you've come in the game, come in any airs you want.  Yes. Why not continue to go? I mean, what's this band for the rest of the year? I mean- Three or four games. Yeah, but you're gonna miss the 50th anniversary of 70? Wow, what happened? Huh? March 21st.  And again, you know what, to the million times I'll say it again, I was there May 8th, 1970. I was at that game. I was 13 years old. It's a scene in Crooklyn. Yes, my father to concert. I said, leave my father to concert. I'm going to the game.  You don't spend $10 million on something that you don't love. This is really important to you. I know you love the Knicks. You've suffered through a lot of losing.  Well, look, here's the thing. And last week, I was at L.A. the Stable Center for Colby's Memorial and Johnny, other people. Life is too short. Tomorrow is not guaranteed. And the B in the Knicks of some DS, based upon DS, is sad, is really sad. Do you think Jim Dolan's the reason why the Knicks don't win? You gotta go to the top. Do you think incidents like this are the reason why free agents don't wanna come here? Yes, and all deference to Mr. K.D., Kevin Durand, we talked about why free agents will not come play for New York Knicks and Boxers in World's Most Famous Arena. The one thing, the biggest thing you left out, the biggest thing you left out, which was Charles Oakley being arrested for letting out the handcuffs, that I feel the Knicks still not go over that when you talk to the players. All these guys know each other, they have to give each other's numbers on speed dial. And I bet everybody was on their phones saying, did you see that? You know what? Like at that, I'm not going to New York, well, I'll go there once or twice a year, as a business team, that I still feel is the biggest reason why. Can you imagine, I mean, you think about players, think about just players that exemplify the heart and the soul of the team.  So there'll be never any breaking point for you. Like this is still going to be your team, no matter how, no matter what happens. I just hope I see another third man on before I go to the upper room. I just heard from an agent, I just heard from an insider who knows a lot about things that happen in local sports, who said, they 1,000% have security following him.  They want new blood like a Drake type ambassador. Do you think there's any chance that you're being targeted here, Spike? Yes, I've said it several times, probably. I'm being harassed by James Dolan. I do not know the reason why I'm being harassed. I mean, that's quite a chance. It's got, let's just let this go. I know everyone at the garden, the usher's security, ushers who've been, who've seen my children go up. My boy's 24, my son's 22. We would bring our kids crazy, because Oakley was playing, but we had more hymns in our arms. These guys have the lookalike, I don't even speak to them, because I know they get in trouble if they're speaking to me.   Spike, thanks for checking in, man. I'm glad that, you know, we know that you swore on your mother's grave that you were never told that it's a different entrance, and if they had told you, you would have gone in at different entrance. The same way I stopped going down the ramp a month ago. Amazing. Spike, thanks. Let's say no. I'm telling the truth versus the garden spinner. Thank you for having me. You got it, Spike.


Hello, citizens of Earth and welcome to Station 204. So glad to have you aboard with us for this episode of Tomorrow News. Ryan's gonna be doing some hops. We're gonna talk about pops tomorrow. And I'm gonna be talking about NASA wanting a little bit of money. I mean, you need that to make spaceflight work. We've also got a Martian and Space Weather Update from Dr. Tammethascove, and I'll have a little Venanza to wrap it all up. Just wanna let all of our viewers know that tomorrow, on tomorrow, we are gonna be putting out a special about the recent discovery of the signature possibility of life on Venus. So if you wanna know everything about it, prepare yourself, because we have got quite an in-depth video coming out about that tomorrow. Also, just wanna remind you if you like what we do here tomorrow, don't forget, you can subscribe to us. You can set up notifications. You can like our videos. You can comment below. You can share us everywhere that you can. It is all appreciated. So let's go ahead and get started with your doubleheader for this weekend with tomorrow news for September 26, 2020. Ryan, what's happening? So the weather in the area where the drone ship is currently located means that Starlink 12 was not able to launch, which I believe is the first time we've had a scrub because of the recovery hardware not being safe enough to land on. SpaceX have also contacted the FCC to ask them if they can add 10 Starlink user terminals to its fleet of boats. If this goes ahead, it would give them more platforms to test on in turn, speeding up the progress of learning the system and shrinking the amount of time before I could get my hands on some sweet, sweet, super fast bandwidth. As well as asking the FCC for permission to test Starlink, SpaceX have also filed for a 20 kilometer hop with a net date of October 11th. This means that one of these beasts, SN8, could be flying up to 60,000 feet in under one month's time. Elon has confirmed via Twitter that the flaps and nose cone should be complete in around one week's time. So all that is needed after that is a static fire, some checkouts, another static fire and fly. The Boca Chica team tried to burst SN7.1 the other day, but it just wouldn't budge. So after some venting and some very poor weather, SN5 and SN6 were moved into the high bay where the super heavy booster will be built when Starship is heading straight for orbit. Thanks, Ryan. I'm especially excited for those really high hops. I just really wanted to see Starship flying up super high and coming back down. Now, another thing that excites me is money. And I noticed that the more money I have, the more excited I get. And not only that, I get even more excited when I'm allowed to spend that money, say, on a nice watch or some sweet shoes for my current collection or a black market TVR Sagras. Now, I mean, who doesn't like money, right? NASA definitely wants to have some money. That's kind of how you make things work. And we've been waiting to hear about how much Artemis is actually going to end up costing. And finally, the transparency is revealed as to how much it will be, $28 billion. With the current plans, NASA has to return to the moon by the end of 2024. That chunk of change will carry the Artemis program through to fiscal year 2025, which starts October 1st, 2024. NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine was very forthcoming to the Commerce, Justice and Science Subcommittee of the Senate Appropriations Committee, noting that the House did provide $600 million for the human landing system in a spending bill past in July, but that amount fell short of the requested $3.2 billion. And Jim was able to make sure to emphasize that it was actually needed to keep Artemis on schedule. The committee then spoke no more on the potential budgetary shortfall that could cost Artemis landing on schedule in 2024. Instead, they started talking about other things, such as the zeroing of NASA's education department and asking if that was an okay thing. Now, it's important to note that a lot of the things they asked about were requests from the executive branch's budget, and they ended up getting overturned by Congress later when it was put up to them. One nice thing to see, though, was a bipartisan effort to make this happen. Senator Jerry Moran, a Republican from Kansas, who's the chairman of the subcommittee, and Senator Gene Shaheen, a Democrat from New Hampshire, who's the ranking member of the subcommittee, complimented each other's efforts to move the funding bill forward together and both expressed mutual frustration at its stalling. Spaceflight is one of the few policy points here in the United States that has enjoyed universal bipartisan support since its inception. But just because the United States is currently at a budget impasse does not mean things are stalled. Lunar Gateway is currently moving ahead on schedule, and they are beginning to look for landing sites for Artemis III under the gaze of Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter's telescope. Assembly of the Lunar Gateway sees its power and propulsion element along with the habitation and logistics outpost launched together in 2023 to potentially support Artemis III in 2024. But it's not a requirement. Artemis III, which is the mission that will land on the Moon for the first time, may very well move ahead without using Lunar Gateway, just a straight descent to the surface of the Moon for Artemis' first landing. There were some murmurs as to moving the potential landing site for Artemis III, shifting away from the Southern Polar area to somewhere near an Apollo landing site, maybe going and looking at the equipment and seeing how it handled that time in the lunar environment. But NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine quashed that. He said, nope, we're gonna stay right where we wanna go at, which is the Southern Polar regions on the Moon. However, that's all bupkus if the budget gets held up. Jim Bridenstine has made it very clear that funding for the human landing system can't just be the full $3.2 billion. That money needs to show up on time. And that means before the end of 2020. He did say that they could potentially push that as late as March, 2021 and still not impact the schedule, but obviously that would be less than ideal. Even though Artemis is kinda getting juggled around right now due to the big question mark called budget, that's still not stopping the three companies that are working on their proposals for the human landing system. SpaceX is presently not saying much. They're probably in head down work hard mode for designing a version of Starship for Lunar use. The national team, which involves Blue Origin, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and Draper delivered a full-size mockup of their lander at NASA's Johnson Space Center for Evaluation. The third company, Dynetics, announced something very cool, both figuratively and literally about their lander proposal. It's gonna be gunning for one of the holy grails of spaceflight, which is in space cryogenic propellant refueling. Dynetics and lander being able to refuel would be a huge advantage. After all, it only drops a few propellant tanks on descent. And I mean, it's no SpaceX Lunar Starship reusing everything, but it's certainly serviceable. Dynetics has even said that you could harvest something such as oxygen, fill the tanks with that so they have liquid oxygen, and not head back to orbit but just hop to other locations on the lunar surface. That's a pretty cool feature. And not everyone is thrilled about current parts of lunar exploration that are underway. NASA's Office of the Inspector General has some grievances with the Commercial Lunar Payload Services Program. Using the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services Program as a basis in 2018, NASA began the Commercial Lunar Payload Services Program to assist several aerospace companies in developing small landers to carry payloads to the moon on a relatively fast time scale and at a relatively low budget, accepting the risks that come with that and attempting to push the technology forward in both landers and payloads, such as testing in situ resource utilization concepts. Admittedly, those kinds of goals are going to be ruffling the feathers of people who have to deal with the fallout of potential failures, but it's not just people being sensitive about things. There actually are some very valid criticisms. There's a policy in the United States called the Federal Acquisition Regulation, FAR, which essentially says NASA needs to exercise due diligence on all fronts with contractors. Two months in the clips, one of the nine companies selected, orbit beyond, bowed out of the program, citing internal corporate challenges, the kicker of which was licensing intellectual property for their lander to Axiom Research Labs, a company in India, in exchange for Axiom owning a majority share in the company. That in and of itself isn't nefarious, but under NASA's clips contract requirements, companies selected must have majority ownership with a United States affiliation. There were other legit problems as well noted by the OIG report. There were some companies that just weren't financially stable. There were actually two companies within clips that were suing each other. And there was one company that went bankrupt after getting a million dollars and they only paid back about a thousand of that million that they got. But there are some things in the OIG report that you look at and you kind of go, hmm, that sounds a little bit more like old space complaining. Clips is a program designed to drive innovation, which means you're taking a big risk, which should be distributed between multiple companies. OIG took issue with that. And frankly, that misses the point. When you're trying to push the edge, things will fail. As long as people and major payloads aren't consumed in those failures, so what? The payloads aren't the point. Developing ease of access and lowering the cost is. And you don't do that with a cost plus contract and letting the coin roll in. You do that with fixed price contracts and companies that move fast and break stuff. It feels like NASA's Office of the Inspector General is just being stuffy and they don't want to move beyond the traditional aerospace ways we've done in the past and we should now continue to do in the future. And frankly, that just leaves a bad taste in the mouth. Alas, NASA has accepted OIG's report and said that they are gonna implement all the changes that were requested of NASA by next summer. Let's move it a little bit because we wanna sort of bring it up and get happy again after reading the report like that. There were two launches since our last Tomorrow News episode, so we're gonna go ahead and stick around in China for our space traffic. A four-stage, all-solid propellant Long March 11 began its Ascent to Orbit at 01-23 Universal Time on September 15th. Nine small Earth observation satellites were successfully placed into a Polar Sun synchronous orbit for the Changyong Satellite Technology Company Limited, a Chinese commercial remote sensing company. All nine will be used for imaging and high-definition video of the Earth's surface. Changyong is ramping up in-house satellite production so that way they can have a constellation of 138 satellites to take daily high-resolution imagery of the Earth. Liftenau from the Jiquan Satellite Launch Center, a single-stick Long March 4B went on the uphill at 05-40 Universal Time on September 21st, delivering Haiyang-2C successfully to low Earth orbit. Haiyang-2C will monitor ocean wave height and maritime winds and carries a payload to track weather data from buoys and ships that can then be used in meteorological forecasting. And it's time for a little fire-walking as we look at this week's upcoming launches. And for this week's space weather, here's Dr. Tamatha Sco. Although it is official we are in Solar Cycle 25, the solar activity sure is taking a while to ramp up. As we switch to our front-side sun, you can see there aren't a lot of active regions on the Earth-facing disc right now. We do have a region in the Southern Hemisphere, but it's getting to fizzle out a little bit. It hasn't given us all that much. However, we do have a remnant coronal hole that's gonna be rotating into the Earth strike zone here over the next couple of days. It could give us a small burst of fast solar wind that could bring Aurora down to high latitudes, but not much else. And it doesn't look like there's a lot else going on on the front-side. However, as we switch to our far-sided sun, now this is Stereo A and it's looking at the sun pretty much from the side. You can see the sun looks pretty bland, except in that eastern limb in the Northern Hemisphere, oh my goodness, look at that bright region that's beginning to rotate into Stereo's view. This is the region that we believe was shot that massive solar storm off of the sun's west limb a short while ago. And as it rotates into Stereo view, we're gonna be checking to see if it's flare active and if it's giving us any activity at all to know whether or not it might be a solar storm producer. Meanwhile, it's definitely going to boost the solar flux for amateur radio operators and emergency responders here over the next couple of days as it rotates into Earth view, but it doesn't look like it's going to give us any radio bursts and that's good news for radio comms for space traffic. And now for your Martian Minute. It's been about a month since we checked in at the Red Planet and thankfully, as we've moved past the winter solstice, the dust storm seemed to be finally calming down. As we take a look at the Martian atmosphere over the past month, using the Femus imager aboard Mars Odyssey, we see at the beginning of August, we were still getting some strong dust ups in the plains of Asperia, which is southeast of Jezero crater. And remember, Jezero crater is where we plan to land the Perseverance rover sometime next year. Then in the second week and the third week of August, we got multiple dust ups in Gale crater near Curiosity and also in the Isdus Planitia, which is just right in where Jezero crater is. So that area has been a little bit of a problem for a while. But luckily, as we started moving into September, things at least near Jezero crater have begun to die down and calm down. We are still having issues in Gale crater, which is expected because it's much closer to the equator. So it takes a little bit longer for things like dust storms to kind of die down a little bit. And hopefully as we continue moving in through September, we will see those areas calm down as well, because we definitely don't want to see a lot of dust storms anywhere near either Insight or Curiosity rover. And speaking of in Gale crater, right now Curiosity is enjoying a balmy minus three decrease Celsius. The low is a minus 69 Celsius. And at Elysium Planitia, which is just a little bit higher latitude where Insight is, Insight is seeing a high of minus 14 Celsius, a low of minus 96 Celsius. And the winds are out of the West Northwest at six meters a second. For more details on this week's space weather, including when and where you can see Aurora or how that bright region on the sun's far side might affect you, come check out my channel or see me at space weatherwoman.com. Time to get ourselves into that wheelhouse of knowledge with this week's space flight bonanza. The COVID-19 pandemic continues to wreak havoc on schedules for upcoming NASA missions as present workforce sizes are limited due to social distancing. The Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer spacecraft has seen its launch slip four months due to Marshall Space Flight Center being closed for months as well. And several other similar Explorer class missions have seen their launch dates slip. One that hasn't slipped any further though, the James Webb Space Telescope. What? Yeah, that's right. It's still on track for a launch in October of next year. The International Space Station had to do some fast moves on Tuesday to avoid a piece of space debris. US Space Command and NASA predicted the object to come within 1.4 kilometers of the station, roughly one-fifth of a second apart from occupying the same location at orbital speeds. Way too close for comfort. So a Progress vehicle docked to the International Space Station fired its engines for about 150 seconds, moving to a much more comfortable distance. All three astronauts presently aboard Anatoli Ivanishin, Ivan Wagner and Chris Cassidy did board their Soyuz out of an abundance of caution. This was the third time this year the ISS has had to perform a debris avoidance maneuver, a number, which is increasing. Blue Origin is looking at potentially developing commercial space stations. NASA has recently expressed an interest not just in privately developed modules at the International Space Station, but also free-flying private space stations as destinations for NASA astronauts and experiments. A new job opening on Blue Origin's website has somewhat given this away. They're looking for an orbital habitat formulation lead. So if you've got the chops to enable Blue Origin's goal of millions of people in space, go for it. Of course, Blue Origin's notoriously secretive nature means that we know next to nothing about the plants, but it sounds like they're working to make the dreams of Gerard K. O'Neill and a litany of O'Neillian disciples, such as myself, a reality. As we wrap up this episode of Tomorrow News, I wanna thank all of you citizens who helped make all of the shows of Tomorrow possible. Even though I've been here for the better part of half a decade, I'm still stunned at the support that we get from all of you. 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Alright thanks for staying with us now on the 3rd of February is the day that honors the path that female doctors have paid since 1849 as we recognize National Women Physician Day. I mean I think this is one profession that every time you think doctor you think a man. So if there's a day like this that respects women in the field is a day that is worth celebrating. I've had fantastic doctors. I remember my very first child when I had him 16 years ago. Now I'm feeling like a G. I remember when so I had a tear and a cut and all of that and he was the doctor. She was a female doctor that examined me and then said no, we can't leave her like this. We have to do a suture and all of that. So she called in the gynae. But again because she's a woman she paid that extra attention. So it was later guess what and I found out that some women were left like that. And when they now wanted to carry the second pregnancy they had issues with. So they would not have to do the what's that procedure called which he helped me that they sutured the woman to be on bed rest. Because guess what the pelvic the whatever area cervix is now weakened because they did not you know so that woman saved me. Because she's a woman she paid extra attention. I didn't know the importance of that thing until I started experiencing women that have had their first babies with no stress. So they're having weak cervix and all of that. For women you know women pay more attention and you know because I feel I never even say I feel like women are actually gods. So there's just this extra sixth sense that a woman feels when you know when she's a doctor because women have the power to multitask. So we can do too many things at the same time. So what a man would miss women hardly miss. So yes let's celebrate them. Absolutely. Alright so Uti what did you find for us in the news? Okay so my headline says the president Mubarak asks for seven days for a major decision on currency redesign. So this statement has been told the president's appointment with the former government who paid him a visit to discuss the hardships in their relevant respective states around the cash shortages and the new cash design policies. And the president has essentially assured them that their hearts are in the right places, that the policy was designed to boost the economy and that he's promising that in the next seven days which is the last seven days of the ten day extension that a decision will be made. He alluded to the fact that or he's mentioned that the banks are being greedy and inefficient. And that even if a year was added onto the deadline that he does not believe that that would make a difference. But he says that in approving this policy he was promised that no note would be printed in a foreign country. So he along with that he will speak to the CDN and the meeting company to ensure that the shortages in cash are addressed. So if it is to be believed then we have seven days in which everything should be sorted and that will improve. Thank you. We have a lot to say but we will keep it for the conversation. Maliro, let me hear your what's in the news. Okay, so from my what's in the news a man shows the 5k worth of coins here was allegedly given at a bank in Mushi. When I saw this, pardon me for laughing but when I saw this in my head I was like what was the bank thinking? I haven't seen coins in more than 15 years. We don't even spend coins in this country. Things are too expensive. What are you going to buy with that 5k coins? Nobody is going to take that money from that guy. As far as I'm concerned that's maybe like for his coin collection because I'm sorry I'm laughing, it's annoying. Like I'm going to the bank too. Who is he going to give that money to? I'm sure he probably needs that money to buy stuff, buy food, buy petrol. Who is going to collect that coins? It's actually very hilarious that a bank is giving out coins in 5k not even 100 naira change or 200 naira change in coins. They're giving you 5000 naira worth of coins. I feel like this is, this is, I'm thinking of the right words to use because I don't want to insult that cashier. Forgive that guy. It's a cashier's fault. I mean why are they giving us? We don't have notes now. It's the coins. What's the difference, what's the difference between this coin and the people that were counting debt in 2020 naira that I saw? Why are they giving us that? I also saw the 5000 naira that the government used. They don't have 5000 naira to do Aguada, Abesuta and Chausa. You wanted to say something? No, I just want to say that look the reality of it is that you who, once you want to say why would a cashier do that? You must understand the desperation it takes to bring out coins that you haven't seen in 15 years. People are not crazy. If the notes are available, they don't pay it. Or is the cashier himself that has looked for money to come to work that day. Is he also not in Nigeria? Let's be clear as we're saying this thing well, it's crazy out there. At some point, people are saying that they're not going to collect 100 naira, they're not going to collect 15 naira. We're pushing them to show people collected 5000 naira. So when people start bringing out coins, it should just have that situation is. Because as much as we are all saying, these banking holes, these stuff are the banks that are being used by today. They still have to get to work and trust me, it's cash they spend. So everybody's in it. Okay. That's my what's in the news. Barely 22 days to the general elections used in their numbers termed the street of Ibadan. The oil state capital on Friday to protest the current state of the nation. Nigerians have been contending with fuel, with new naira, scarcity and erratic past supply for weeks across the nation. So I would just come back to what you said about you buying fuel at 3.15. I had a colleague that bought at 3.35. And in fact, the police station attendant was saying that it's going to be like that. It's going to be increasing on a daily basis. So I also think that we Nigerians sometimes like we are not pitying ourselves at all. Even the fact that things are bad, yes. But we are also aggravating the whole situation. I think we should take pity on ourselves, like have that empathy for another person. Because in this situation now they are the ones actually increasing it because they are seeing the demand and the scarcity and how people are really struggling to get it. So they are continually increasing. Talking about electricity too. Personally, I think as of December, I noticed that the electricity units we used for one month suddenly in the week got finished. I had to like call my whole team what's going on. For the first time, I really took note because we're pain and pain. What's going on? And they said they've dropped the unit and increased the tariff. So just it gives a picture of fuel. We're having fuel scarcity. There is a naira note. There is the electricity. Everything is going down. What is going on? I'm almost screaming in my head. How can this be resolved? I have people that were saying they were really good patriotic. Will I say patriot in the sense that when people are saying we are going, we are leaving. I'm trying to say we'll be here, we'll solve it. Suddenly they are the ones saying this situation is like we too are going to leave. So it's really getting stuck. I have a lot of people that have their passports ready and they are leaving. But just to take a cue from what you said. My story is actually just a video because I saw this very troubling and disturbing. For me, it's really scary. That's part of all the conversations we're going to have. There was a fuel station. I don't even know where that fuel station was located. Somewhere in, maybe, I don't know. But it was really bad. People throwing things at each other, stoning each other. We're talking about the impact of one thing. How it's spiraling. If they can just quickly play that video, then we'll take a break. They will come back again for that. So as you can see, now this is also attacking each other. What I'm afraid of now. I'm actually afraid of driving on the road. Because now any little thing can just agitate it. Yesterday for the first time. When Beggas, those small boys came to my window, I was genuinely looking for money to give them.  Even if I don't give them, I'm so sure somebody else will give them. Now, where is the cash? So if there's any little agitation, we are all going to be in trouble. Although we take a break. Because once we continue the conversation we started yesterday, how the scarcity of this Naira is affecting every other thing. It's affecting Nigerians. Stay with us, we'll be right back.


s listening to Joel chudel Then the convergence was extremely close because we're interested as in well and as using a qualitative Methodologies to gauge how effective interventions can be and in particular you were talking about this called the most significant change methodology For those of you who don't know it's basically asking people To to give in a series of interviews to give narratives or stories about how their lives have changed How an intervention or an addition of something new has impacted their life and For us that's extremely important because we want to know What does a person what does a community think peace is and the only way to do that is to do that One if you intervene or become involved with a community you have an ethical responsibility to stay involved You can't just go in and leave But also it's important to see How what a sustained impact is and what people think it is so when I hear you're talking about constitution making in kenya that that really that really Suck with me When I was listening to the presentation by union simo I was really interested to learn about patanimole language and its role in People's identity But also because one of the things that I've observed in our role in Peace building and we use peace building as one word not two. It's basically a coalition of best practices Is that oftentimes one of the ways to build effective peace in divided societies Is really to focus on people's overlapping identities And one of the ways that we can focus on people's overlapping identities is particularly their language or linguistic culture We appeal to other things whether or not for people might have a shared culture of of womanhood a shared culture of motherhood For example, people might have a shared identity as as grieving relatives if they're coming from different groups But one of the things where people have commonalities is their language They might have a different script They but they might have a common script and it's a point of convergence And that's a way to bring people together and focus on Commonalities and differences and say that they can coexist and it's the way to begin a discussion I've seen this done in many other parts of the world. So when I heard you talking about that and really it really spoke to me And I found it really interesting Cecilia Ochoa I totally agree and my colleagues and I totally agree that equity in educational outcomes is crucible crucial to equitable peace And it's also true that education is a double-edged sword It can contribute to peace or aggravate conflict Particularly if people want to promote a particular narrative of history or a particular version of history or promote a particular Language or dialect which causes tension But one of the things that I have found in many parts of the world where I've been working with Partnering with local organizations is that a key aspect of peacebuilding is what we call reframing Not necessarily rebranding coming up with a new name for something but reframing fundamentally Coming up with a new understanding to explain something in a way that appeals to people It speaks to their worldview, but is a small Introduction of change but enough to shift the discussion away and education is often the best platform to do that So I totally agree Finally, uh, mikaio olsen. Thank you for not falling asleep on your feet I commend you One of the most challenging things that I have to face in my work is to Travel internationally and then give a presentation when I've sleep deprived so I can really appreciate what you've done I uh, I very much, uh, uh, took to hard what you said about life skills being inherent in ethnolinguistic minorities and the question is should we draw them out or try to give them something External because a lot of things that my colleagues do when they are partnering with communities that have asked for help And I should say that the institute of peace will only go somewhere if we're asked for help and if we're asked to leave We will but one of the first things that my colleagues always do is a best practice and say what traditionally has your community done What resources what practices does your community do? How can we? Inform you about practices elsewhere that might enrich this so it really very much, uh seemed to resonate with what you were saying And for me as someone who works in this field, but knows less about your profession Application particularly linguistics. It was really exciting and affirming to hear about this I like to now, uh, take several questions from the audience I think I like to follow the precedent started by My colleague George Lopez and take several questions at once I'd also say when you do come up, uh, please introduce yourself and say what organization You may be representing Please ma'am I am Marilyn Cifocla and i'm a professor of language at Howard university I would like to have some of the panel's thoughts about The handling of language in the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti The vast majority of the people in Haiti, I would say between 90 80 percent and 90 percent of them speak Haitian Creole yet most of the international Help and most of the international meetings That took place the conferences were held in either French Or English There was no international conference That provided Haitian Creole interpretation The donor community was extremely Helpful and they were the the Haitians themselves were very Grateful for this help, but there was one component that was really Missing and that was a language component. So I would like to this is not a situation of Peace or conflict, but it's a situation of emergency And I would like to know what your thoughts are into As far as advising The donor community to really put some effort to reach out to the people when you speak creole Haitian prayer creole as I do and you talk to the people on the street They there is a sense that a lot of what happened in the aftermath of the earthquake sort of Went over their head or bypassed them simply because of the language barrier. Thank you Yes, sorry I should say um, I don't have the good excuse that michael does but I am a new father and I've been up Since the wee hours of the morning Next question, please madam Uh, good afternoon. My name is Sarah McVeigh. I'm here today on behalf of the linguistic society of America But I'm also an undergraduate linguistic student at the University of Maryland And a researcher with the project on children's language learning under dr. Jeffrey lids And so I come to this sort of um as a language scientist and as a syntactician and someone who does some really Different things and it's such a blessing to be here with such a beautiful group of People from different backgrounds and so my question and just hoping to elicit some thoughts about how people like me graduating undergraduate students can find opportunities in peace building and Cultural work because sometimes it feels like we're not slotted for opportunities like this or encouraged to pursue things like this And then secondly, um on the same line as a researcher and a linguist um how we can encourage people in academia To think more about and take up an interest in peace building and the types of things that we've been talking about today um And having more conversations about that Um As as professors and as researchers and as students in institutions. Thank you Great question And please you're in the back row. Yes Um, my name is ellen street and i'm coming to you from the university of missouri Um, my question is inspired by patali malay Um, so it seems to me from what I understand is that patali malay was standardized And so that's why it represents the local pronunciation Um, just as learning in a non-lative language is detrimental to adolescence In languages where standardization doesn't reflect the local dialect Um Do learners that speak drastically different dialects produce the same results Any additional questions at this point? All right. Um, well, then I will um, let the panelists Address these three questions. Um, we'll have someone to begin about the issue with Haitian creole and the intervention after the earthquake I'll be happy to talk about that again. It's I I feel very strongly about uh, about development being uh, dialogic path where We collaborate together and we find the best way forward By pooling our ideas and our insights. So Uh, I don't think there's a solution to any serious development problem without structuring the dialogue in a way That all perspectives are really being heard So, um I deliberately make an attempt to physically structure a process. So who speaks when Uh, is coordinated and that that becomes a multi Linguel context if if a perspective needs to is best Expressed in another language There should be a mechanism for either translating that or if these are Opinions that are being considered and weighed up Actually putting them on paper and putting them on the wall. So they're treated seriously and considered, but there's ways of structuring The process whatever planning process or dialogue is going on so that all parties are heard And can speak in a language. They're most comfortable with It's unacceptable. I think that we bypass that On the Haiti question I absolutely agree that it needed to be a central piece of the response But say the children has actually been working in Haiti for Probably about 30 or 40 years and in our development work We found that we needed to convince parents about the importance of creole Right because a lot of the schools there are um are using French or English for their instruction and we needed to convince parents about programs that we're doing like like this Love me which builds on um creole as a foundation for literacy. So I think there's also an aspect of it where we also need to shore up The importance and credibility of creole as a language among the community members themselves So that it becomes something that's also important for for governments to to be engaging with Gentlemen do you want to weigh in or I would say that um From my perspective here at at usip We have sort of best practices for working with interpreters or for having Working with contracting agencies that can provide interpreters or training staff to be Proficient in languages where we know we're working But one of the the salient issues is also Sometimes there are almost industries of local NGOs who maintain contact with the international community and Are well-meaning, but oftentimes it's it's like a business and if international community is not really Invested in having An impact on the ground and making sure that the aid really goes through all communities and is only working with Middlemen it's possible then to become kind of divorced from reality and be able to work in You know international languages like english and french and then you see these sorts of things going on Responsible leadership that's concerned about Really helping people and doing no harm will raise issues And will incorporate these into sort of the best practices of an organization and mistakes are made But if we see that the same mistakes are repeatedly made Then it's because people were negligent and so I would say you know that That's the way to avoid that kind of practice from occurring in the future With regard to the the second question about Future careers and getting the academic community More involved in kind of a critical awareness of this of these issues I'm wondering if any of you would be interested to to share your perspectives Thus working both conflict effective settings, emergency settings and development settings And we have opportunities like we have a save university partnerships for education research Where we place Graduate students who are particularly focused on an area of interest for a country office So peace building peace and education language and education issues might be things that would be coming up as issues from from country So I'd encourage Students to to look at opportunities such as that provided by international NGOs Well, I can speak out of my own experiences. I'm primarily a researcher in ethnography of language and literacy And as s il became involved in the issues of well, we work in the african context where there's Often the arguments come up Isn't the diversity of language part of the problem? Isn't that a core an issue and we don't believe that to be true We began to work on literature that would speak to that but And we produced some but in my own case I began to wonder wonder what the kenyans think about Language diversity and those who are working towards peace. What do they think and so my My involvement was a practical involvement of a researcher in in language Getting involved what was already there and I guess that that's the experience I have is that there are many many organizations That are working towards peace that People have skills in literacy or linguistics or research Can actually use those skills to serve In other areas and that's what I found myself using my research skills to help them with monitoring and evaluation So there is an area for people have literacy and linguistic skills to serve in other areas I at my former profession. I was a University professor. I was Interested to do more practical and applied work. So I came to the institute six years ago But it often say to My former students to to be patient. It takes time I think it's probably helpful if not to relocate to a place like Washington DC It's easier to find this type of work in a place like DC But also to take kind of a stepping stone approach But also to network amongst your colleagues here And really let them know what you're interested in doing I think also the way we're talking about reframing when it comes to peace Sometimes it's necessary to reframe one when looking for profession and to see really how the skills you have in linguistics can be applied in a lot of Other fields such as a private sector or you know targeted areas of working for the government and about the question about the standardization of Of a language. I wondered if you would want to address this issue given your area of expertise Do you do you need some insistence Would you yes, please come up? I for the question about this standard dicing of the patanimale It is based on the patanim patani dialect dialect, which is the main dialect and Other smaller dialects are not very much different From each other So there are only vocabulary differences and the system is more or less the same So the whole system is the same. So, uh, there's then the patanimale Based on the patanim dialect Which has been said that dice can use for all other small dialects in for writing For writing with that. Is that answered your question or Where is Okay So patanimale from what I understand is a language So, um I'm saying when I studied in spain, uh, the the language that I was learning Writing down was not the same as the language that I was hearing But patanimale how you write is the same as how you pronounce That's what I saw on one of the slides. So If students are speaking one dialect and writing in the standard dialect Do you think that that's detrimental to their learning or is that not a big issue? Does that make sense? Oh, you mean this the student, uh, write in So, um, perhaps if if they want to say the word, um poeder in in the dialect that I learned they'd say poeder And they wouldn't write the last or they would write the last letter But they wouldn't pronounce it when when you're very little I was just curious as to whether that also affects the way that you learn It would make uh, it would be more difficult. But if they, uh, we if they write in, uh Exactly the way this they speak that easier So for, uh, working on, uh, writing system is a new, uh, for developing a new writing system The best way is to, uh, uh, to to to use to write in, uh, exactly the way, uh, the people should is pronounced But, uh, if it's different, you know, the writing and the pronunciation is different It's, uh, but is it systematic? And it's not not too complicated. It's systematic. Uh, that, uh That, uh That should be okay, but it's more difficult than if you have a direct correspondence between the pronunciation and the writing System. Okay. Great. Thank you. Yeah Okay, are there any final questions or comments for the panel? All right. Well, uh, please Hi, um, Don Osborn from Bisharat. I had a quick question for, uh, uh, Joel Trudell That uh, perhaps dovetails a bit with the response that you just gave In the aftermath of the election violence in Kenya I recall seeing, uh Calls in the press and I believe, uh, one of the calls was by former president Moy to prohibit Uh broadcast in any language other than Swahili in English I think that would go along with the idea that one language unites or maybe two languages unite But the other languages I as I understand were being uh, were seen as being used for propagation of hateful or intolerant or even violent messages Uh, but it occurred that that uh, maybe an alternative to that I mean, I was thinking as I was reading that not having been to Kenya Uh, that it might make a lot of sense to try to use those very languages in which negative messages were used to, uh, convey more positive messages and the question I have really is, uh, are you aware of any effort to do that sort of thing in the media? Or has the the idea that the uh, multi-language broadcasts should be, uh, suppressed or eliminated? This is a very kind, this is a very hot topic in Kenyan society right now. Um, The role of local languages and in society the role of whether they can even be used in district offices has come up and and the The background on that is one of the people indicted for in the ICC international criminal court was also using FM radio for local Hate speech so that that Precedent exists that or that practice exists. The question is where does where do you know? rights human rights and rights to use their language and the rights to promote local languages and use them as media for Uh instruction where we're you know, where did where did how do those? um Those conflicting issues come out and it's it's still a hot topic in the in the press They're just before I left Friends of mine were were on a talk television talk show to promote the use of local languages For children's education. So they were Clearly speaking that this that there's the other sides to using media local language in in various media And they want to make sure that side gets heard But there is this the background view that local languages Uh the diversity of languages actually divisive for nation nation building is still one of the issues there And so it's it's a hot topic. It hasn't been resolved If they're still trying to figure out how to to do that the problem is is Many of the people outside of urban areas do not speak English or quise wahili and so what are their options? What are their options for communication? What are their options for radio? What are their options for for children's education? So that that's one of the things that has to be brought back into the conversation is that there are many people who don't speak languages of wider communication Are they excluded? From media. Are they excluded from children's education? That's Of course, you can see I have an opinion on that but that's one of the challenges is there's this history of use of language for hate And then there's the desire to see more peaceful use as well fascinating point Any any further questions for our house? Yes, please ma'am Hi, elissa visher from world hope international We've talked a lot about early childhood education and how important that is for building Language and peace. I'm curious in light of the fact that parents are so Vital to that process as well as that communities and cultures as a whole Play a role in holding the answers and the keys to peace what are What are the processes of adult education and how important are they in learning learning and teaching language in order to build peace? So in our work in early childhood education We engage deliberately with parents from from the outset So we have programs at work from zero to three where parents are absolutely the most fundamental Influenced at a child has so we do work with them And we don't see whether they're not they're formally literate or not to be a barrier Because as I was saying our language development is a critical part of child's cognitive development And we need to underscore to parents that Their their own lack of formal literacy needs not be a may not be a barrier to their being able to engage With children on on that level. So we do a lot of work with parents to provide them with With messages and activities that they can do with children at home And then we want that to be sustained as they Bring children through the early childhood development cycle and on to the primary school. So Community mobilization parental involvement. That's absolutely fundamental to the work that we do because we we want To sustain the the ability of the community to be supporting children's development even after organizations such as ours exit from from the community That would be the same motivation as well With with any age group. There's parent awareness building discussions and input and dialogue around the learning And in terms of their participation in planning and the sustainability of those programs, it's important that They have input and understand the the background issues that may not immediately be apparent one other thing that we're contemplating is Because of the high rates of functional illiteracy with parents Is is having adult child literacy going on at the same time Where parents literacy skills are being improved Along with the child. So, uh, they can do reinforcing activities in the home that that both Participate in but we haven't initiated those programs yet Thank you for your interest any any further questions Well with my strained eyes I see no further hands And I wanted to thank the panelists for coming A long way to sharing their perspective with us. It was an excellent presentation


Scott? When he said, who is the real Galane? She laughs and she smiles. When she smiles real big, she starts flushing out. She starts getting red. And this thing called the super trucklier vein, which is, which comes down right here. When those pop out like that, that means your blood pressure's gone up a little bit. That's what makes them quite often, not every time. But that's one of the main reasons that it bulges. So this is an embarrassing thing for her, I think, because he asks her that sort of puts her on the spot. I guess they thought for an interview that should, that need to be one of the questions asked because she sort of defends herself. But I think she's embarrassed by that. And that's why I see her blood pressure go up and she flushes.


What is up guys and welcome back to the Johnny Q daily vlog. Thanks so much for watching. First of all, you guys are awesome. All the support, the encouragement, all the comments. I know that you guys like these videos, so I'm gonna keep making them for you guys. For today's video, we're gonna be doing some different sizes, different colors. Let's get started with some Johnny Q spinner. So for this piece, the people of TikTok Live, and yes, I'm on TikTok Live again, I'd like to consult with my audience to just make sure what pieces they want me to use.  So it's gonna look pretty, pretty cool. And I just gotta unwrap this and get to it. All right, we got our canvases. Hello, whoever are you guys who are joining on the TikTok Live, thank you for coming. Missed the trash. It's okay. All right, Peaks, we're good to go. We got my 18 by 24 black canvas, no rips, no tears, perfectly clean. I got my colors. I got one, two, three, four, five, six, nine. I got 11, 12 colors on here that I'm about to use. So let's get this. I'm gonna start with a magenta and a blue base. So here we go. Just like that. Ooh, looks so good already. Ooh, ooh mama. Let's get this. Check it out, yo. Oh, that's so good. You want it? Lincoln bio. All right, guys, here, check this piece out. It's an 18 by 24, Johnny Q Galaxy-esque painting. Pretty sick, huh? Look at that. This is incredible. This is what I love doing this stuff. Just, it's just so colorful and so many things happen, like all these different cell creations, all these complex things going on within the paint. I mean, that's Johnny Q out right there. I love this piece. I love it. This one right here officially called it Whirlpool Galaxy 82. Pretty pumped about it. Not sure if you guys have seen these, but on TikTok and on my YouTube channel, I've been posting videos of comments and pretty much I call them JQ stories. Pretty much someone leaves a comment of something happened in their life, something tragic, something sad, and I'll reply to that comment via TikTok video, but I'll make a Johnny Q spinner piece for that come. And so I'm about to do that right now on TikTok, so let's get it. So Susan chose the color purple, and then she said, what everybody else wants, let's go with it. So we finally went with blue, yellow, black, and gold, and I'm gonna make that TikTok right now in a video response, so let's get this. You are taking away my anxiety and pain, your art is the best. Susan, that's so awesome to hear. Thank you. Thank you for the support. This was going out to you. Hope you like it. Let's get this. Hope you like it. Thank you. So here's this piece. Susan had commented that she loves watching my art and it actually soothes her anxiety and it kind of takes away that pain. And honestly, really pumped to hear stuff like that. My breath has taken away. I never knew doing this fin art could help so many people. I'm so pumped that I could be doing this. And Susan, hope you like this piece. That's awesome, man. Like, that's incredible. For this next painting, I'm actually trying to go with this color palette right here and I got the colors right here. So I think I nailed it pretty well and now I gotta put my drill on the canvas and then we're gonna get it. Let's get this. Here's my 18 by 24 and now we're gonna get it on there. So we're gonna start with this teal and then go to the dark. Oh, hold on, I gotta set up the TikTok video. What am I doing? I gotta set up the TikTok video. Give me one sec, one second.  All right, here we go. And we gotta go the white metallic gray now with the dark blue, maybe blue. Oh, yo, yo, I'm feeling good about this piece. Yo, let's go. The more teal, let it kind of just fall over itself like this, but letting it run down so it creates cells as it spins. I want it to run into each other versus kind of just spreading out. You know what I mean? So that's currently what I'm doing. I love it. Let's get this. Here we go. Yup, I'm feeling it. All right, so here it is, the 18 by 24. See, you let all the paint flow down and that creates all these different little cells and textures within the piece. And that's why Johnny Q-Art stands out from the crowd because of the way I mix my paint. Mixing the paint, something that I pride myself on, kind of a mixologist, but paint mixologist. And so that's how these pieces just turn out. Mega, mega cool. I love it. I love this piece. So the one that I just showed you is called Aqua Celeste 54. And just like that, I put it on my Shopify website. And so now people on my TikTok Live can go to my website and boom, there it is, johnnyqart.com. Aqua Celeste 54, available. Boom, let's go. I love it. No other place on TikTok can this happen. You don't find that anywhere else. Johnny Q-Art, like that. Let's go, let's get it. Let's get this. I love it. All right, so for the final piece of today's video, we're doing a 10 by 20 with a black, red, gold, metallic silver and white on this beautiful 10 by 20 canvas. So let's get this. I just fly away. All right, there it is, guys. Ooh, yo, whoa. That's sick, bro. Let me bring it over here. Let's click this 10 by 20. Red, gold, black, white. Very classy. I dig it. All right, guys, let me know what you guys think in the comments below. Do you guys want to see more of these Johnny Q-Spinner videos? And if there's anything else you guys want to see, any of the behind the scenes, like packaging and more art creation, let me know in the comments below. Once again, guys, thank you so much for all the support for the DMs, the comments, the emails. All the support you guys give me, honestly, just makes me so happy and so pumped. I'm able to do this even more and I love it. Thank you guys for all the support.  And with that being said, guys, thanks so much for watching today's Johnny Q daily vlog and I'll catch you in the next one. Peace.


back to think tech. I'm Jay Fidel. This community matters, but it's really about energy. It's about energy with Veronica Rocha, who I know for many years because she has been in the energy field and now she's running a consultant think tank firm on energy and public policy, which is very important. Welcome to the show Veronica. Nice to have you here. Thank you, Jay. I appreciate the opportunity to be here. So, you know, I'm very curious about the transition. You learned a lot about energy.  Then you became a consultant. Is that because the money's better? No, there is a good question. The reason I became a consultant was because I was quite inspired by the UN's IPCC Update Report in 2018. And unfortunately, it really brought to my attention the situation of climate change and how bad things really are. And it inspired me to not only continue my work in climate change mitigation, helping to advance clean energy, like renewable energy and electricity, but also to pursue a parallel path in climate change adaptation. And so in 2019, I started my own consulting practice called Essentially to have the opportunity to sit at the intersection of private sector and the public sector and work on both climate change mitigation and adaptation. Yeah, well, that's very important in our time. You know, I was going to go through this before the show, before our discussion started, but I think I'd like to just give you my thoughts on that now.  And the first thing he did is pulled us out of the Paris Accord. And then he ran against the environment in every possible way that he possibly could. And in that period, although there were many organizations in the country, in the world that wanted to do climate change, deal with climate change, it wasn't the same thing if the president of the United States doesn't want to do it. It tends to fragment the effort. This is very destructive, actually, to the effort. Now, Joe Biden is here. Joe Biden believes in dealing with climate change. It's a reality for him. He's going to do it. He's going to select the people who will do it. And we're going to be back on track. You know, he said he would join the Paris Accord on day one, January 20th. And I'm sure he'll do a lot more than that. He'll run into trouble, though, from people who oppose dealing with climate change during the four years of the Trump administration. So it's not going to be without some challenges. And I would like to talk to you about, you know, the connection that you have found that you have embraced in, you know, essential leap, was it? Because, you know, that's an important concept. We have to make a leap now. And I really like to know you're thinking about that. I like to know how you feel about getting back into it. Full throttle. What do we do? What does he do? What do you and I do? How do we make this happen? How do we save the world from, you know, another existential threat of great concern to all of us? Maybe we forgot about it. But it will remind us. It is reminding us every day in some way or another. So what is your thinking about that? How important is this? And how important is Joe Biden? Well, certainly I'm a big fan of Joe Biden. And I am thrilled that he is now at the helm of our country. You are asking some very big questions, Jay. I do believe that it is important for our country to have leadership that believes that addressing climate change is a top priority. And also with regards to the parents accord, I'm very happy that Joe Biden has chosen to go back, put the US back into that initiative. I think it's very important. I give Hawaii a lot of credit for never stopping courts, even with an administration that was opposing climate action. And, you know, Hawaii more than ever really stepped up its game, not only with being fully behind 100% renewable energy goal, but also stepping up and saying we are going to continue to follow the goals and the principles of the Paris Accord. At the state level, we have the Hawaii Climate Change Mitigation Adaptation Commission that has been set up and is actively working on both climate change mitigation and adaptation for the county level. The state and county of Honolulu of course has its own climate commission and climate initiative. I understand several other of the neighboring counties are standing up or have stood up similar initiatives. So again, I feel Hawaii has done a tremendous job at continuing its efforts on climate change action. And I'm only excited, more excited to see what we can accomplish with the new federal administration. Well, yeah. Now you did a program on November 18th that you're not, it was a kind of a webinar, and it was about this subject. Can you talk about that? Sure, happy to. So the webinar on November 18th was hosted by my client, Pictor. And I have helped Pictor establish a new pro climate adaptation collective. So climate, of course, refers to climate change adaptation specifically refers to the adaptation side of climate change as opposed to clean energy or clean transportation, which is more of the climate mitigation side of things. And then collective refers really to the collection of challenges, but also opportunities related to working on climate adaptation efforts. Now the November 18th webinar event had to do with the city and county of Honolulu's sea level rise design guidelines. Actually, you're calling it design principles. And these are basically initial design principles on how, on the way that the city and county of Honolulu is looking to adapt to sea level rise and the transit oriented development corridor. And it also provides information and ideas for the private sector to also implement. So it was a really good discussion. We had representatives from the city and county of Honolulu as well as their consultant from SSFM. And we also had a presentation from the city and county of Honolulu on their climate, new climate adaptation effort in which they are seeking community input on it. So it was a really robust discussion. There were about 200 people that signed up and 111 people that participated live. So this tells me that there's quite a bit of interest in the topic and quite a bit of opportunities in the field as well. That's a moment, isn't it? It's been bottled up for four years. People have, I don't know, they haven't focused on it. And now is the time to take all that bottled up energy, if I can use the word energy, and go somewhere with it. But I see challenges here. I see some people, it got bottled up and they don't want to open the bottle anymore. They figure we got along for four years without it. So let's just leave it. And then there are people, well, there's a legislature in the city council that have no money. We're in a dire financial predicament now at both levels with huge deficits. And maybe you don't agree, but I'd like to propose the basic rule is if you want to do climate change mitigation adaptation, you need money. Without money, it's very hard to do it. So that's a real challenge, isn't it? It's a challenge for the government in Hawaii and certainly it's going to be a challenge for Joe Biden too, isn't it? Yes. And I would say that it's a challenge that has existed even before COVID-19. So I can tell you that, for example, one of the ways that climate activists have been looking to find some of these efforts is to put forth lawsuits in Manusutin County, Honolulu is part of this against fossil fuel companies that created the carbon emissions in the first place. So that's one ongoing dispute. We'll see what happens with that, but that could be a source of funding. You know, you'll write the state and the counties are in a very challenging situation because of lost revenues due to COVID-19. I believe that there is strong hope that there is going to be another round of CARES Act funding in the new year and that some of that funding under a new administration is going to be channeled towards both climate change mitigation and adaptation efforts. So we'll see what happens with that. Certainly there's a lot of other creative financing, public partnerships, and other innovative ways that they need to come forth in order to pay for mitigation and adaptation efforts, not only in Hawaii and in the U.S., but worldwide. Well, how emergent is this? A short story, I was having dinner with some friends. This is at a time when we could do that in a restaurant one day, and they told me they had just come out of the Al Gore movie, Inconvenient Truth, and they described the movie to me. And I stood up in the middle of the dinner. I was so troubled by what they were telling me that I skipped dessert. Imagine, I skipped dessert and I went straight to the movie theater. It was the varsity movie house. So I could see this movie. I had to see this movie because I saw this as an existential threat in which there was no time to waste. And yet, Veronica, we have done exactly that. We have wasted decades even knowing just how dangerous this is. And we see it happening all the time. And I don't know. I mean, a storm comes, another storm comes, a third and fourth storm come, and nobody seems to connect it. I mean, maybe you and me, we connect it. But it's a function of climate change. And it's getting worse. How much time do we have? Just how critical is this? How emergent is the situation? I mean, the short answer is we can't wait to address it. Even if we were to, you know, talking about like worldwide, bring, you know, greenhouse gas emissions that are under-progenic, in other words, caused by man to zero tomorrow. We would still be dealing with the impacts of climate change for at least 100 years given how much carbon is already in the atmosphere. So, I've been advocating for this parallel path of climate change mitigation and adaptation. If you look at the UN's IPCC 2018 update report, which I referenced at the beginning of this conversation, it basically says we cannot wait. You know, the impacts are here. And if we do nothing about it, if we go over 1.5 degrees Celsius, which if you look at the data, it looks like we are on a path to overshoot that, the consequences are going to be dire, not only for human existence, but for every type of biological existence. So, what I tell my friends and people when I talk about this is the planet is going to be fine. The folks that are going to be suffering are going to be humans, right? So, it's really like your choice on how we proceed with this. I see climate change as really the most critical issue of humankind today. Yeah, and yet there are people who would oppose wind turbines. There are people who oppose all kinds of projects that are in aid of our attempt to deal with climate change. And we don't have unanimity in the community about it. Some people just stand in the way, and so it slows us down. And then government, let me add that government, COVID is a test of government. It's a test of our community. It's a test of our system, if you will. And so is climate change in the same way. It's asking, can you deal with this? Can you get your act together? Can you take affirmative steps and actually deal? Because if you don't, as you said, Veronica, we're going to pay a terrible price. So, my question to you is, what exactly are the priorities? I would like to make you queen for a day. I would like you to take all your knowledge and your think tank consultation recommendations to government, to industry, to the public. What is first? What is the top priority we should all focus on right now to put our left foot forward and start really dealing with this now? Yeah, that's a really good question. And I wish I had a magic wand to make it come to fruition. And it's not an easy answer, Jay. There's many things that need to happen in parallel. Hawaii is a very good example of a state that set a goal of 100% renewable energy way before other states in the US did that, before California did that, in fact. And so what I would like to see is for that 100% renewable energy policy to not be a state mandate, but instead to be a nationwide mandate and ideally a global mandate. So that would be one thing that I would propose. I'm happy that the United States is reentering the Paris Accord. I would say that the Paris Accord is not going far enough. We need to definitely stay under 1.5 degrees C, 2 degrees C as scientists are pointing out is not acceptable, and the timeframe needs to be accelerated as well. So that's another major initiative that needs to happen. Transportation, I'm talking about not only ground transportation, but also air and marine, all of that needs to be overhauled. In Hawaii, we have seen quite a bit of an uptick in electric vehicles. Now we're seeing electric buses, but there's a lot more to be had in that department as well. So an overhaul of the transportation sector. And then that's all with regards to mitigation. But let's talk about climate adaptation, helping our communities adapt to the impacts of climate change. I see the city and county of Honolulu making significant strides in that effort, developing what is going to be a climate adaptation strategy. I don't understand why we don't have a statewide mandate to do the same. Sea level rise is going to be affecting all of the counties in Hawaii. Would love to see that happen. To your point about financing, this is going to require tremendous capital, not only in the climate mitigation, but also in the climate adaptation space. So I think Hawaii as a policy needs to figure out the state of Hawaii needs to figure out how it is going to pay. Certainly bringing in the private sector is part of the solution, but it's not the full solution. So should we be looking at some sort of like bonds or, I don't know, another tariff? I think all of that needs to be explored. So this was just some ideas. There's definitely a lot more out there, but hopefully that at least gets the conversation going. Yeah, unfortunately, the conversation among people who are not in high public office is not as effective if the guy in public office, high public office, does not join in it and ask people to follow him on it. So now we have Biden, hopefully, knock wood. I think we do. Today the GSA agreed to further transition, and that was good. I was going to write Emily Murphy such a letter about that, but now I don't have to send my letter. In any event, what we have now is Biden. And Biden has a little trouble under the blanket. He's got the green deal, the new green deal people, and they want something out of the Democratic Party leadership. And other people are more conservative. And of course, the Republicans are very conservative. And if Mitch McConnell has his way in the Senate, they'll block everything he tries. But putting all that aside, your recommendation to Joe Biden, what is it? Should he do the new green deal? Should he stand up there and make this his top priority? I mean, after COVID, of course. Should he take dramatic steps? Should he be a world leader? The title of this show is about leadership on climate change. How does America get to be the leader we want it to be? You and me, anyway. How does it get to establish a new and effective affirmative leadership to make everyone follow along? What should Joe Biden? That's a good question. So one of the things that Joe Biden talked about during one of the debates was how he was the leader that could bring the nations to the table. And to not only have the United States re-enter the Paris Accord, but to go above and beyond in terms of climate action and making it a priority. I believe an initiative at that scale is what is required to truly make progress on climate change. And it has to include China and it has to include India. Otherwise, we're just not going to be successful. And that means foreign policy where you get along with people and you can collaborate with them and get together and do collective things. So he's got his hands full for sure, but I think one thing is he recognizes that he's got to do something if we're going to have some progress on this. The U.S. has been AWOL. And my favorite statement after the election when it appeared that Biden had won was by the mayor of Paris. And what she said in Paris is a symbolic city on this. What she said was, welcome back, America. We've been gone. We've been AWOL. It's time for us to take leadership again. So on that point, and making that the central thread of what you are doing, what are you going to do for the essential leap? Tell me how you got that name and tell me what that name is going to take you and what's it going to do? What are you going to do under that name going forward? Thank you, Jay. I appreciate that opportunity to talk about essential leap. The reason I called my company essential leap is that we will need to take these tremendous transformative steps or leaps that are essential, that are fundamental, so that we can transform our energy systems and also transform the way that we look at our community so that we can be adaptable and resilient to climate change. The types of projects that I'm currently involved in and that I'm excited to participate will do exactly that. So one example is the Climate Adaptation Collective Initiative that I started through my client picture. It seeks to bring really everybody to the table to have meaningful conversations, but also increase capacity and understanding of the challenges and opportunities related to climate change adaptation. It started the initiative. It was very much focused on a local practitioner's type of initiative. And what we found very quickly is that people from all over the world were calling in and wanting to participate. So we have, for example, I won't name specific entities, but I'll just say it's an international entity that have reached out and are interested in figuring out how we can partner in particular because this entity is also an island community. So I think it really opens up the doors for collaboration, transformation in terms of how we adapt to climate change on a system type basis. So I'm excited for that. In general, I'm very excited to support initiatives that will help advance the state's transformation and in the not only electricity sector with energy, but also in transforming our transportation systems so that they are electrified and they are served to do saving of energy resources. Well, part of this is Hawaii. The leadership you're talking about, at least in part, is our leadership. And for at least 10 or 15 years, maybe closer to 10, Hawaii was seen as a leader. It had the resources. It had the goals. It had a lot of people and organizations that were affirmatively advocating for clean energy. And I think the world saw that. And the world was, for a time anyway, beating a path to our door and seeing us as a leader in clean energy and therefore by connection, climate change. However, I'm not sure that that energy is the same as it was using the term in a different way. I'm not sure that we are as much in the mindset of a leader as we used to be. And I'm not sure that the world sees us as the way it used to see us as a leader in energy. I mean, certainly people think that Hawaii has the resources and we know how to do it, but are we a leader in doing it? And so my question to you is, A, are we still the leader we thought they thought we were? And B, if not, or even if that is the case, what do we do to become the undisputed leader or an undisputed leader in dealing with climate change in developing clean energy programs? Sure. So my take is that Hawaii is still very much a leader in clean energy. And for me, this is evidence to the conversations that I have with people day in and day out, entities reaching out wanting to know, these are entities from abroad wanting to know how Hawaii has been able to put forth such aggressive policies. In 10 years, Hawaii has gone from having not a very aggressive policy on renewable energy to having a 100% renewable energy policy goal and interim goals that are being met. So I feel that still puts us at the helm in terms of leadership. That said, I don't think it's enough to be a leader in clean energy. I think that this is an opportunity for Hawaii. If we are going to be leaders in climate change, we really need to further step up and pursue this statewide parallel path of climate change mitigation, clean energy, but also in adaptation. And the state has made good progress in that area by standing up the Hawaii, the state of Hawaii climate change mitigation and adaptation commission and the city and county of Kwanilulu has stood up a similar initiative. But we really need to do this on in terms of having that as I was mentioning to you earlier at each county and ideally led more fully by the state. So I think that there's some opportunities on the adaptation space and with the clean energy space, it's still an evolving space and opportunities in particular in the transportation sector. You know, COVID makes us think about our systems. It makes us, you know, more introspective, more thoughtful. Maybe we shed some of the bureaucracy. We shed some of the, you know, the thinking that doesn't get us anywhere. And we focus, we focus on our goals, we focus on how to get there. And we renew our commitment to various priorities. And it seems to me, you know, that the same kind of analysis applies to COVID.  You know, the threat of not making any progress, that threat. And it seems to me we're in a time where we should be considering new ways of doing things for all of that. I'm reminded of Singapore. Singapore seems to be very smart. They don't make too many mistakes. Their government is attentive to the wishes of the community, but also has a plan and it executes the plan. And it is over the years has been able to do remarkable things to develop a great world city, a great world nation state out of a swamp. And so I think that maybe it's time for us to think along similar lines. We can't wait. We've got to use all of the talent, all of the science, all of the analysis that we possibly can. We can't take no for an answer. And I think we should change. We will need to change our way of doing business on all of those things on COVID, on climate change, and on energy as related to climate change. What do you think? I completely agree. So one of the things that I was thinking you were going to also mention is that with COVID-19, scientists, people saw it coming. I mean, if you just surf the web, there's plenty of examples of, you know, scientists, doctors, philanthropists, all predicting that we were going to have a major pandemic, you know, soon in the next one-hour decade or soon, right? So it was definitely something that was seeing us coming. Did we prepare adequately? Of course we did. Did we have an adequate response? At least at the beginning we did it. Do we have a national response? No, we don't. It's the same thing that we are experiencing with climate change. And my hope, my hope is that leadership, not only at the local level or even at the state or in my national level, but really at the world, global level, are just going to come together and figure out a much better plan that is coordinated for climate change. And it has to include this parallel path of how do we reduce greenhouse gases and at the same time, how do we prepare for the impacts of climate change which are here today and are going to be seen onto the future? You know, a few weeks ago Amazon put the movie of the play Hamilton, you know, on its site and you can watch that now through the Amazon, you know, prime website. And there's a lot of lessons in that play. One of them is why was Hamilton so successful? He came from a very meager background in Caribbean because he knew how to read and write and he wrote and he took positions on political issues and he articulated them in those days in the press. And I think one of the lessons of Hamilton is if you want to have an effect on things, you've got to keep on expressing yourself in public. You've got to keep on writing. You've got to keep on engaging people. And maybe that's the secret here to deal with the energy and the climate change and for that matter COVID. The only thing is that writing is not the exclusive way to express yourself. These days you can express yourself right here on ThinkTech. And that goes a certain distance too. So, Veronica, I want you to come back. I'd like to have other discussions. I want to drill down.  I hope that's okay. Thank you, Jay. Appreciate the opportunity. Thanks so much, Aloha and stay safe.