Hello and welcome back to another GCSE revision video. Now guys, this video today is going to be a first for this channel. For those of you that follow this channel, you've subscribed, you've watched the videos, you will know that this channel focuses on trying to get you guys those grades 7, 8 and 9, okay? Trying to get you guys into ideally model English students who get those grades 8 and 9 in your final GCSE. Whilst lots of you guys have really benefited from those lessons, the model answers and so on. There's also been quite a number of you guys who've put in the comments, who've messaged me, who've even emailed me and said, okay, it's really useful to know what it takes to get that grade 8 and grade 9. However, for me, I actually just want to pass English and be done, okay? I just want to get these English GCSEs. I want to get my grade 4, my grade 5, simply just pass my GCSEs and then I'm out of here. Then I'm going to move on to do exactly what I want. So when it comes to those of you who simply just want to see what it takes to get a pass, okay? A grade 4. What a grade 4 response looks like. What I'm going to do in today's lesson is literally tell you guys my top three tips. When it comes to just trying to secure that grade 4 slash grade 5, follow these tips and you will be absolutely fine for your upcoming exams. But then also what I want to do towards the end of that video or this video is show you guys what a grade 4 paragraph looks like so that you can kind of also see in the actual real time what it, you know, what goes into a grade 4 and a grade 5 paragraph, okay? And actually this is taken from AQA's examiner responses, okay? So I literally scoured the internet, found some really interesting and marked AQA responses which show a grade 4 response. And what I also want to do is juxtapose it with also a real student response which got a grade 8, okay? Just to show you guys, especially for those of you that want to get a grade 4 or grade 5, this is what your paragraphs should look like by the time your GCSEs come round. But also guys, I want to show you in case, for example, you're currently on a grade 3, grade 4 or grade 5 and you just want to maybe budge up your marks just a little bit. You're not interested in the grade 8, grade 9, but you want to maybe see, can I incorporate some elements from say a grade 8 response and maybe include that? I want to show you a model response to the same question, okay? So when it comes to those of you guys who have heavily requested for this video and you just simply want to know, okay, what are the three main things I need to do between now and my final GCSE English exams that's going to get me that grade 4? These are the three things of my three top suggestions. Number one, you want to almost play with the mark scheme and think, okay, what is the easiest way to get as many marks as possible in just the simplest way? And in all honesty, guys, I've noted or written SPAG is half the battle. SPAG means spelling punctuation and grammar. Guys, bear in mind that when it comes to your GCSE exams, okay, so GCSE language and GCSE literature, SPAG points are worth 20% of marks available for these exam questions, meaning if you literally just focus on making sure that your spelling punctuation and grammar is on point, you literally are securing 20% of the marks available for your language and literature paper, okay? So literally, you've literally fought most of the battle simply by focusing on writing in a way that is accurate in terms of spelling, punctuation and grammar. That's the first thing, okay? So pay attention to your SPAG. The second thing that you should do between now and your final exams, if you want to secure that grade four, grade five is always see English GCSEs as a memory game. Remember that when it comes to English, and this is both for language as well as literature. It's all about what you can remember when it comes to techniques, the language and structure, when it comes to quotes, when it even comes to storytelling and also the nonfiction aspect. So guys, a great way to secure that grade four slash grade five in your final GCSEs is literally memorize, number one, a really powerful story plan. Don't memorize like a whole actual story, okay? Because you want to memorize a story plan, which you can then kind of twist and use in different story ideas, okay? That's for question number one or rather question number five of language paper one. But also for language paper two, try to make sure you memorize some interesting made up anecdotes or statistics, okay? So you can say, you know, I'm going to go in and say, if I'm supporting an idea, I'm going to say 75% of students interviewed by Oxford University believe that, keywords in the question for question number five for language paper two, okay? And of course also this memory game applies to literature, okay? For literature paper one, paper two, this is Shakespeare, Christmas Carol, whatever. Memorise at least one quotation and one context point and you're absolutely fine for your language and literature exams. And the third and final thing to do if you want to secure that grade four and grade five in your final GCSE exams is make sure you try every question, a minimum of one paragraph per question. Now, a really common mistake that students make, they assume that English is negative marking, right? So for example, if you write a paragraph and maybe some of the ideas that you've put in the paragraph don't directly answer the question, oh, you know, you might as well have not written it because you're now going to start losing marks. There is no negative marking in English, okay? In fact, with English, it's all about how much you can write, okay? Because even if you write something that roughly maybe 30% of it is actually answering the question, well, you're getting at least those 30% of marks, right? As opposed to say math, science, whatever, it's either right or wrong, okay? So if you at least write one paragraph per question, well, you're maximizing your chances of collecting marks as you go along with each question within the exam, okay? So try your best to make sure you answer every single question. Now, what I want to now present to you is especially when you're thinking, okay, this is great. This is super useful. What would my paragraphs need to look like if I'm literally just trying to get that grade four? So as I said, I have selected an actual student response, in fact, two student responses that AQA examiners marked, and then this is public information, okay? So if you literally want to download this, you can just go and google and find this. And the question, this is a language paper one question two response, okay? This is language question. And this was the question for this particular paper is how does it write to use language to describe the storm? By the way, this was the paper, it's called a mock paper. And the main story was to do with Alex Colt, okay? Again, you can find this available online if you want to practice that paper, okay? Now, I want to first go over a grade four response to of course remember the keywords in this question is language. So you're talking about techniques and also when you're considering the other keyword, the storm. Let's have a look at a graded response by AQA. What does a grade four paragraph look like, okay? So the student and also of course, as you can see, there's different colors to this paragraph because basically it's been laid out in a point evidence explanation structure, okay? So the opening point in this grade four response was in line six to 11, the writer uses language to describe the storm by being descriptive. What have they done? That's good. Firstly, they've used keywords from the question, language and storm. And of course, they've just launched straight into the answer by answering that question, okay? Then they move into the evidence, okay? So this is how they, this is the quotation they've chosen. The readers in the reader's head wind lashing the trees. This gives us a good image in our head. Again, what has the student done really well in this part of their evidence? They have obviously selected evidence from the text, okay? Again, lots of students literally forget this, okay?  Well, you haven't used evidence, okay? And essentially simple as including this. Now let's look at the explanation. I'm going to read it and then kind of tell you guys what has been done that's strong, but also something to bear in mind, especially even if you're aiming for a four or a five, what to pay attention to, okay? Wind lashing makes us feel that the storm is very violent. Picture the roaring pacific ocean. This emphasizes that the sea is very aggressive and angry. Roaring this personification, the writer has used this to represent the sea as massive aggressive and as unhappy. Tangled suggests that he is struggling to forget about the storm. Now, again, this grade four response is great in so far as in the explanation part, adding and kind of analyzing interesting quotations, okay? So they first talk about, you know, this quotation that they've used, then they add another quotation and also they've mentioned interesting subject terminology, the word personification, okay? And that means, obviously, they're getting the A02 marks. However, what they've maybe confused themselves through doing, okay? So they've written a lot, okay? They've literally written 13 lines and this is a grade four paragraph. What they have done is they've gone off from this one quotation, which in your explanation, your pill paragraph, you just want to unpack and go into detail, maybe zoom in a little bit on. And they've just added lots and lots of different quotations, which means that their analysis is a little bit fragmented, they don't go into a lot of detail. And literally, they've added and they've written in so many lines, but the, so they've worked really hard. In fact, they've worked just as hard as a grade eight student, okay? So the grade eight student did one extra line, 14 lines. So this person has actually written just as much, okay? But they've added lots of different quotations rather than doing one quote and then a deep dive, okay? So if you just are aiming for a grade four or grade five, try to also pay attention to the quality of your analysis. It's good to add your quotation, but rather than adding a bunch of different quotations, literally take that one quote, take the word, identify and label it and then go into detail what images it paint in our minds. Now, I want to also present the grade eight response. Of course, if you're aiming for a grade four, grade five, grade eight might not be just something that you're interested in, okay? It doesn't fit into your overall goals and that's okay. However, what I wanted to present to you with this grade eight paragraph is so that in case, for example, you're in a grade four, but you may be thinking, okay, how can I just make it slightly better, okay? How can I tweak it to at least try and get to the grade five or even the grade six? Pay attention to, you know, the language that's used in this paragraph and then also see, okay, when I look at my own paragraphs, can I incorporate those elements, okay? So this is the same question, how the writer's language has described this storm. So this is the opening point. Pay attention to the fact that the opening point is literally the same amount as the grade four students. So literally working in the same amount of work has been put into this grade eight response as this grade four response. In fact, a lot of students always think, oh, if you get in a grade eight, grade nine, you've got to write, like, you know, a whole novel in exam conditions. You don't. It's more so the quality of your analysis, okay? So this is the opening point, okay, because it's even written out as a pure paragraph, okay? Point evidence, explanation, and then link. So the opening point says, the writer describes an aggressive image of the storm. Great, they're answering the question, they're using keywords from the question. Here's their evidence. The writer describes the water as spilling inferior waves. Great, just one piece of evidence taken from the extract. Now pay attention to the explanation, okay? You don't have to use all of this stuff. Just take what works for you and then see, okay, if I compare it to the grade four, is there maybe one or two things I can add to my own responses that could be helpful, okay? So this is the explanation. This personification portrays aggression as vicious connotations come to mind. Connotations is the associations of a word that we have in our mind, okay? As the waves are described as furious, so now they're zooming in, they're doing some word-level analysis in this response, okay? Same quotation. As the waves are described as furious, this adjective describes a storm as having an emotion which makes it act so aggressively as if it's taking its anger out on the rocks. This adjective also comes across as exaggerated as it is a high level of anger. So in this response we have just one word, so you had one quotation and then the student has then just zoomed in on one word as opposed to, here we've got lots and lots of words and lots of different quotes but there hasn't been that same level of zooming in, okay? And on top of that, obviously they mentioned the word personification as well as adjective to do the word-level analysis and then this is the link back to the question. So they also add one extra step linking back to the question. Therefore, we can see the aggression of this storm as it's depicted as having extreme rage.  What I want to show you guys is actually a grade eight student has written almost just as much with just one extra line as a grade four students. They're literally working just as hard as each other. The only thing is, if, for example, you're aiming for a grade four, actually work less hard to find different quotations, select one quote but then now do a deep dive into that quotation. If you're able to do that and you're currently a grade four and you produce something like this, but literally you only focus on just the quotation, the original quotation you're given, this paragraph, if it was just focusing on that original quotation, probably would have gone up to grade five, okay? I'm also showing this and just supposing this to show you guys, okay, is there also anything else that's been mentioned in this response, for example, the word connotations, associations, that maybe I can borrow in my paragraphs, okay? Can I maybe focus on just one quotation rather than having a bunch of different quotations and include that in my response, okay? So again, all of this just budges you up in terms of mocks because you're now collecting other mocks, right? So your examiner's like, okay, they're going into more detail. Great, I'm going to give them a grade five, maybe as opposed to grade four. However, of course, if you just want a grade four, this is what a grade four response looks like. So of course, make sure you then compare what you're doing currently in your mocks, in your essays, and if it's falling short of that, well, follow this structure, okay? So that's really it when it comes to how to secure a grade four for your final GCSEs. And as I said, make sure you just implement those three steps and by the time, you know, you're done with your GCSEs, you can walk out and say, I will never think about English ever again.


and the GTK application development on OpenMoco. And well, so I have to switch here to my first slide. So what am I going to talk about? I'm going to give you a quick overview about the platform, the software platform and the hardware platform of OpenMoco. It's quite often a bit difficult to get the information because currently it is still spread out across emailing, across the wiki and across different websites. This is currently in the state of change. OpenMoco has hired a couple of people who are going to maintain full-time the wiki and the technical documentation. They have hired a community manager whose name is Michael Schiello, who is there to make the communication between the community and the developers. So I'm myself an independent developer. And oops, I'm just playing here. Sorry for that. That's the wrong direction. I'm always playing with things that I have my fingers. Obviously a bad habit, I think. So the platform, so I'm myself an independent developer and the reason or the idea of talking here is simply to explain how easy it actually is to make development for a mobile phone, for an embedded device. Because I felt for me like I have been doing some GTK development before and I felt that the hurdle to actually get into development for OpenMoco seemed to be really high until we have figured out how it actually works. And once you know how it works, it is really easy. So giving you the overview of the hardware platform, what's currently happening, what's happening in future, then talking a bit about the software platform and then what you need actually for the development environment, how you're going to set that up. And I again pressed, no, I pressed on the wrong button here, development environment and then actually my favorite, how you get started in 15 minutes from sitting down on your computer having the first application running on the device. I'm going to talk a bit about the GPS application that I have been developing, which is called Tango GPS. Okay, so getting the right button here this time. So the hardware platform, and that always needs some explanation, so finally they figured out how they're going to call it. The first edition of the phone is called the Neo 1973. It's this one here and this is now out of stock. And the next edition is going to be called the Neo Free Render and is hopefully coming into sale in about April, about April is the idea. And what is the platform? And the really important thing is actually, don't look at it like a phone, look at it as a complete mobile computer, a Linux computer in this tiny form factor. I don't think like about how I have to develop for a phone. We have now a little computer in this size with everything with a screen on it, which is actually as performed as a computer probably six, seven years ago. So you have 120 megabytes of RAM inside of it. You have a screen here on this phone of 48640. You have, and that's why I say you have additionally have a GSM modem, so it makes it a phone tool. You have a GPS and on the next version of the phone of the free runner, you will have a Wi-Fi inside, so you can connect wherever you have wireless network. And last, not least, a very cool thing of the phone is you do have USB networking, a USB connector, and you have Bose, you have device mode and host mode. And that actually means that you can connect a printer to the phone. You can actually connect everything that is USB onto this phone. This is just cool. It's not a computer. It's not a phone, it's a computer. And yeah, so get some more ideas about far beyond of being on a phone because you have USB. Next phone actually, the free runner will have host mode which is powered. The current phone here does not have electricity, so you need to have a powered USB hub for actually doing something of it. Okay, I'll go one. Okay, the software platform here. And this is really the stripped down version because if you go on the website, you have these great little charts with all the components. But actually, the phone, the most important software components that you need to know about is the X. You have X running on it. Currently you have GTK running and you're using Open Embedded. Anybody here who has been using Open Embedded before? Some people, some few ones. Open Embedded, a word about Open Embedded. Open Embedded actually is some kind of Gen2. You have all heard, I guess, a lot, the Gen2 Linux distribution. And what Open Embedded is doing for you, you have the recipes and the recipes actually just grab the software from wherever it is, take it into your cross-compiling environment and just compiles everything for you and packages it. So the whole pain that you had like five, six, seven years ago developing for Open Embedded always having the development environment setting up the cross-compile tool chain. All that is gone now.  So I want to, one more time, I want to say that what definitely is, it's always difficult with Open Mocha to figure out what they really are going to do. It's a bit difficult to get all the information. What Open Mocha says they really want to do is they want to stick with X. They are going currently to port even Qtopia to X. You have even other platforms that I've seen outside. I think NewStep is developing for you too. So it will definitely be X applications. Everything that's currently running on the X you actually can easily port over to Open Mocha. GTK is something that will stay definitely in the open mobile world too because the Limo Foundation with all the big players intent to support GTK and what Open Embedded is a whole system by itself and for sure is going to stay for long. Okay, yeah. Here are two more words about Open Embedded. So it is Open Embedded is a built environment including cross-compiler. And the great thing is, again, that you have something that is called the mocha mail file which is doing an automatic setup. So what you do is you just get the mocha mail file from the web. You just make Open, make make file and then it just starts to get everything from the web fully automatic. It just sets up all your cross-compiling environment and it takes a bit more than 50 minutes that I have to admit actually it takes about eight, nine hours so you have to do something in between.  Okay, next. Yeah, how to get started in 15 minutes once you have done the eight hours. Okay, so here I have that written. So what you do, you get the mocha mail file, make stack up, get more than one cup of coffee because it now takes eight hours or maybe even 10, 12 hours, but it works absolutely well. It is perfectly well maintained and then what you do afterwards you make Open mocha development image which just gets the whole image compiled for you ready for flashing onto the device. And you have nothing to do, it's absolutely no brainer. That's the interesting, the important thing here to say. That's it. That's it. Just three steps and you can go. Okay, what have I been using here for the software I've been using Unyuta, Esma, IDE, and Glade because it just makes it so easy and the auto tools. And actually whatever kind of IDE you want to use, Unyuta simply produces for you the source code and you just can go later on. You build your distribution. So Unyuta makes for you the tab all and then you have in the next step the BitBake recipe and that goes again for Open Embedded. You have a recipe like this and in the recipe you just put into the location of your tab all and it just takes the tab all, automatically compiles it and produces a package out of it. That's it. So once again, in order to develop for this device what you have to do is you set up the Open Embedded build environment by the three steps that I just told you. You just get the local make file, make setup, make development image and in the next step you develop your application exactly like on the desktop. It's an application that runs on the desktop. You set up this BitBake file, actually this is just all that you need here and in the next step you do just execute the command BitBake here for me that is Tango GPS and then you have a ready-made package already. So like when you have your normal distribution for SUSE you would have the RPM or for Red Hat if you have the RPM for Dibby and you have the depths. So you come to this point and you have it ready-made there just for installing it on your phone. Okay, so few words about Tango GPS. It's actually just a mapping application which is designed for the Neo and it uses GConf, Dibo, SlipCurl and GDK PigsBuff so just to give you an idea of what I'm using in it and I'm developing on the desktop and just making the cross-compiler later on. So without anything I just develop on Unutor, make my distribution, have my tab all and open embedded just all does the rest for you. So nothing big. This is just a picture here of it and what I'm usually using here the upper part is just a normal menu. I have normal GDK buttons here that is just GDK buttons. I have a GDK slider, I have labels here and the bigger part is just a big GDK PigsBuff and what I'm using here for Tango GPS I'm using the maps from the OpenStreetMac project. I don't know if you've heard about that. OpenStreetMac is user-developed, user-made card data on OpenStreetMac. So actually we have no problems here with any copyright restrictions taking Google Maps or something like that because we can just use them for free and you see they have in many places already a perfect state. Okay, so future development what am I going to for sure and the next things that are going to come is a friend finder and that is so interesting again why not just having a phone here but it is a Linux computer plus a GPS and the idea is simply that you can go and you can find where your friends you can set up actually who can see you or who cannot see you so you have the choice for doing that then next thing that always goes together with any kind of GPS implications the point of interest so that you can put in your own point of interest you can share them with other people back and forth there's lots of development going on inside of OpenMorgo 2 and the real idea here is to use the Java protocol which actually supports XMPP2 so the XMPP protocol of Java supports GPS location data this way around so that you have both the possibility of doing communication, instant messaging and you can exchange your position with a well-known protocol which is supported by Google and others track management and for sure the last thing the interesting thing is OSM integration OpenStreetMap integration so for those that are actively tracking streets they have the chance of using Tango GPS for making streets for OpenStreetMap projects okay why to develop for OpenMorgo my last minute here it's fun I tell you I've seen that I did my test out before like with people putting it into the hands and everybody loves to walk around and see the red dot walking over the little map and see how many meters you have been walking it's really I just can tell you get one of the phones and enjoy it most open platform for now Google Android somebody where is the code hmm not open not open okay many things to be done for OpenMorgo you can easily get into it because there are many many little things where you just have immediate success like even just things like a lamp clock or lots of configuration things are still missing then why GTK it's still a good option for the future there are some most likely OpenMorgo is going to use the EFL to the Enlightenment Foundation libraries but with GTK you still have a good track into the future and for example Nokia is using some kind of GTK2 on their Mimo platform and last but not least I simply believe it's a great opportunity for us developing for an open form because we are now in the right position to make a difference for the future thanks a lot for listening applause


Good afternoon. This is the first or inaugural show of Hawaii Nikkei Now. It's going to be entirely done in the Japanese language from the Think Tech Hawaii Studio at Suite 888, Pioneer Plaza downtown Honolulu. So we're going to be doing this with two hosts, myself, Rei Tsujiyama, and to my left, Russell Honma. And we're going to be diving into all kinds of ideas, history, culture of Japan, and intersection with Hawaii, the US, and the world in many, many ways. So this is the first show. This is called Hawaii Nikkei Now. This show is 100% in Japanese. It's called Koho's, but my name is Rei Tsujiyama. Koho's and my left is Russell Honma. Today, we're going to talk about the first Japanese immigrant from Japan in 1868, Meijishin. Naseka, to be exact, in 2018, is a huge celebration of 150 years of history. It's Hawaii. In the history of Nikkei, I think it's a huge celebration of history, but this is Russell. Welcome to the show. What does it mean for the immigrant? Thank you very much, Tsujiyama. I'm sorry to interrupt, but I'm a Japanese immigrant. I'm Russell Honma, the host of the show. This time, I'm a immigrant. I was born in Japan, and I was born in Nikkei, but my grandfather, Hioji, came from Niigata prefecture. I bought land from Hawaii Island and won 100 awards, but my grandfather was born there, and my father was born there. My father was born in Nikkei, Sansei prefecture. That's how I was born. The most interesting thing about me was the immigrant. After that, the immigrants came later. In fact, in 1986, on June 19th, 1986, I came from Yokohama Island, England, and it took about 33 days. In the past, the immigrants were on a boat, and it took about a month to arrive in Hawaii. So, they all took a boat and went on a boat, and finally arrived in Hawaii in a month. Among them, there were 149 immigrants who came to Hawaii. Of course, the 149 immigrants came to Hawaii. At that time, they were still in Hawaii Empire. What job did they do at that time? What was the first 149 immigrants? In Hawaii, there was a sugarcane, and they needed a laborer. For example, Chinese people came to Hawaii at that time. The US federal government changed the law, and it took about 1862. The federal government did not allow Chinese people to enter the country. In fact, after 1966, the US Congress of Treaty and Immigration made an agreement between Japan and the US. That's how it became possible to immigrate. When I look at the history of Japan, Bakufu, the Tokugawa era, started in 1868. So, the new era started in Japan. One of the immigrants from the Meiji era came to Hawaii, and the Japanese history began. Of course, my ancestors came to Maui Island in 1907. They came from Kumamoto prefecture, and my father was born in Wailuku in 1915. That's how my Japanese history began. I'm from the native island of Maui Island, the Maui Island. The Japanese people came back to Japan at the first time. My son came to Hawaii and my son had 4 children. The fact that my grandfather lived in Hawaii for a long time means that he was a three-year-old. When did your father go to Japan? Actually, I was born and raised in Japan. My father was born in Hawaii and was born in Wokeino. When my grandfather was born, he was a farmer. At that time, he was my first family. When my father was raised, there were only about 50 villages in Wokeino. At that time, I was finally able to go to a Japanese school and learn Japanese. At that time, my father was about 18 or 19 years old. At that time, Japanese people had their eyes closed. It was time to see whether or not to trust them. Among them, there was one-year-old and one-year-old Sura-chi. My father and two-year-old Sura-chi made a two-year-old Sura-chi. Before that, there were 100 battalions. My grandfather was a two-year-old. At that time, my father was a member of the Air Force. At that time, I was working as a ground-keeper. That's why I didn't have to work in the army or air corps. After the war ended, the Maccassar Gensura was still in 1945. At that time, I was happy to work in Japan. My father and two-year-old Sura-chi made a two-year-old Sura-chi. I went to Yokohama by boat from Honolulu. It was the opposite. I'm talking about the opposite. At that time, I was working as a ground-keeper. At that time, I was working as a ground-keeper. I got married to my mother and two-year-old Sura-chi. That's how I was born. How long did your father stay in Japan? It was quite a long time. It was about 45 years ago. How long did you return to Hawaii? I returned to Hawaii in 1989. It was about 45 years ago. In my case, I went to the American school. I was a ground-keeper. My father was a ground-keeper. After that, I went to Yokotakichi. I went to Yokotakichi's high school in Beigun. After that, I graduated from Washington University. I was born and raised in Japan. My father was a student of two-year-old American nationality. After I grew up in Japan, my mother spoke Japanese every day. I'm in Hawaii now. I speak Japanese. I'm a ground-keeper. I'm not a ground-keeper. I'm 70, 80, 90 years old. I'm in my 3rd or 4th or 5th grade. I'm a ground-keeper. I'm a ground-keeper. I was born and raised in Japan. I was born and raised in Kanto Hospital in Tokyo. I'm a ground-keeper. I was born and raised in the U.S. My father was born in Maui. I was born in Kibainisei. I grew up in Kumamoto. I was born and raised in Kibainisei. I was born and raised in Kibainisei. I graduated from Maui High School in 1937. I was born in Hawaii, like my father. My father went to Detroit and Michigan. He wanted to study in the world of cars. I was born and raised in the U.S. and the U.S. and went to Europe. I was born in Hokkaido. My mother was born in Hokkaido. I was born in 8th grade in Aomori. I was born and raised in Hawaii. I was born in Yokohama in 1960. I was born and raised in Hawaii when I was 10 years old. I was born and raised in Hawaii when I was 18 years old. My father and my parents spoke Japanese. I lived in Japan since 1991. I worked in Tokyo for 21 years. You were born and raised in Japan. No, I was born and raised in Tokyo. My parents were born and raised in Tokyo. I was born and raised in Ganden Mono. What happened in Hawaii in 2018? It was yesterday's Saturday newspaper. It was a special edition of Star Blunt. It was a year-end edition of Star Blunt in 2015. There are a lot of events in New York City. There are a lot of historical events in New York City. In fact, there were 149 people who came to Hawaii. There were people from the Kanyaku people. There were two people from the Kanyaku people. Tokiyomaru and the one from June 17th, 1859. There were about 943 people. Then there were Yamashiromaru. There were 930 people. Most of them were from Yamaguchi and Hiroshima. That's right. If you come back, let's talk more. We'll be taking a break and coming right back. This is Think Tech Hawaii, raising public awareness. I said I could play, so I had no chance to play at all. That's my life. I love music. So we do it. Language show on Think Tech Hawaii called Konnichiwa, Hawaii. Broadcasting live every other Monday at 2 p.m. Please join us where we discuss important and useful information for the Japanese language community in Hawaii. The show will be all in Japanese. Hope you can join us every other Monday at 2 p.m. Aloha. Welcome back to Hawaii Nikkei now. We're exploring our topic today of Gannemono and today. All about Nikkei collective and personal narratives. This show is entirely Japanese. We have next to me, Russell Honma, who is quite excited and really focused on the medium Gannemono and all the events in Hawaii this year. The Kenjin Kai was a huge hit in the past, but I don't think the 4th or 5th generation is really interested in it. I think there are still strong events and identities, but I think the Okinawa Kenjin Kai is still strong. I think the Okinawa Kenjin Kai is still big, but the Fukuoka and Wakayama, compared to the 50 years ago, I don't think it's that big of a deal. In fact, the Okinawa Kenjin Kai was built in Oterato. It was built in Hiroshima and Fukuoka prefecture. In the past, people came to the Okinawa Kenjin Kai and worked in the Sato-Okiru area, but it was quite lonely. When I look at the Nual Avenue now, there are quite a lot of old people in Japan. In my case, it's a daily practice. My daughter, Ophkola, was quite deep. Back then, old people couldn't get married because they couldn't get married because they couldn't get married because they couldn't get married because they couldn't get married. That's how it was. They were using it as a God. After the law changed, the old women and women got married to the women of samurai. My grandfather got married to the daughter of Minamoto of Genji. It was a very interesting story. I think that I think that lots of the young girls around OKinawa came to the Sato-Okiru area and died in the city. That was interesting. In the old days, they got married to the older women and then they grew up in the city. At that time, MacArthur, Matthew Perry, and, at that time, Harris Townsend. Yes. In 1886, he was the President of the United States, Cleveland. So, Harris Townsend was the President of the United States. So, he wanted to be able to communicate with Japan and America, and to be able to do a little more. Yes, that's a 19th century, but the current language is foreign. Yes, at that time, the Tianneu people, the Satzma people, the Shingo people, and the Nariyaki people, when they were gone, it was 1856. So, at that time, Shingo Tagamorila was the President of the Shingo people. He was the President of the Shingo people. He was the President of the Shingo people. At that time, he had to protect the President of the Shingo people. At that time, he was the Royal Guard of 100 soldiers. He made that, and he was the former President of the Shingo people. He gathered the Daimyo people and made 100 soldiers. At that time, my mother's grandmother's house was in Fukushima. At that time, there was a destroyer, like a destroyer. So, I went to see the President of the Shingo people. He said, this is the origin of Minamoto. So, he became the Royal Guard of the Shingo people and protected the President of the Shingo people. He was the President of the 100 soldiers. That's why my grandfather wanted to marry my grandmother, so he married my grandmother. That's my mother. At that time, there was a temple in Kuwana. I think it's about 34 years old now. It's an interesting story. When I went to summer with my mother, my mother was reading the books of the Shingo people. She was reading the books of the Shingo people. When I was listening to the last story, I think the history of Japan is still interesting than the Japanese people. In the 4th and 3rd century, there are many celebrations and events in 2018. What is the meaning of this? It's about the Japanese culture in the future. How strong is the Japanese culture and culture of Japan? I think there will be a lot of events this year. Of course, we are talking in Japanese now, but there are very few Japanese people who speak Japanese. But the Japanese culture, technology and economy are very strong in the world. The Japanese culture in the future is about how to build the bridge and become stronger. We are talking about various guests in the future. We are not talking about hard things, but we are talking about business, art, education. I think it's very interesting. I think it's rare to be able to speak Japanese in the world where the Japanese people speak Japanese. What do you think? I think it's about the political economy. It's about the Japanese and the American bridge. During the Joseon War, during the 1882 to 1886 war at Albuquerque, there were many Japan-Japan Essentials. You don't speak English. I think it was very annoying when Japan and the United States didn't speak Japanese, so you had to speak Japanese. We had to learn Japanese language, It's been a long time since I started working in the industry. In the past, I had a hard time working in Japan. In the 1980s, 1990s, and after the bubble was over, it's been 2010, 2018. Japanese people understand Japanese culture, and become partners and friends. On the other hand, we respect Japanese people in the future. Both sides. Japanese society and Japanese people in the future. Recently, there is an interesting thing called Alamoa. There is a unique logo at the center. It's a global brand. In the 1980s, Toshika came to Hawaii from Japan. In 2018, I went there. Until 2018, for example, there were various joint research companies, software engineers, developers, Google, and many other Japanese companies. I think there should be more. It's a technology company. It's related to AI, biotech, energy management, renewable energy, and ocean science. There are a lot of experiments, research, and Hawaii. I think we can do it from now on. I think it's a great combination of technology by studying Japanese and learning Japanese. That's a young person. It's a educational problem. In Hawaii, there are people born in Japan. In Japan, there are children. In Japan, there are 4 or 5 people born in Japan. There is a training school. It's an intermediate school. I used to be a soccer team on Sunday. I coached there. I won the state championship. I raised those people. I think we can do it between Japan and Hawaii. We talk about each other. My sister has been teaching Japanese for 25 years. Of course, I'm still interested in Japanese culture. If I worked in a hotel company in Waikiki, if I knew Japanese, I would be able to grow up. Of course, I can do restaurants. From now on, I'm going to teach technology, software, and Japanese. If I study biotech, AI, and science, I will be able to develop a mobile app in Japan. If I knew software and technology, I think this combination is great for business in Japan and Hawaii. Of course, Japanese education is a guest. It's almost 30 minutes. It was fast. I think it was fun. Please take a look at Star Advertiser's special supplement. It's a special event. It's a special event. It's a special event. It's a special event. It's a special event. The six days of the event are free. We have events at the convention center. The day after tomorrow is the day of the event. It's a special event. The day after tomorrow is the day of the event. The day after tomorrow is the day of the event. It's a special event. I think we will get many things from outside Japan. It will be a really important event. I think it will be amazing to be on the rise of the refugee population in Japan and Hawaii. Russell, thank you, very much for coming over. We're at the end of a scintillating conversation in Japanese. We've covered a lot of topics, but we know we have to cover a lot more. If you're interested in being on this program, please send an email to ThinkTech. It's on their website. And give us ideas and commentaries about questions about the show. Thank you very much for today. Thank you very much for today. Thank you very much for today.


So, you created a YouTube channel and after a few years you have this large catalog of high quality videos that you've produced and you've gained a massive amount of followers and you're getting millions and millions of views and you're earning a rather nice living with the ad revenue from your YouTube videos and then one day you wake up and YouTube has deleted your channel. They've removed all of your videos and you don't even know why and then you appeal the decision and you hope that a real human being actually takes a look at your case and reinstates you but you never know. This is what's going on right now with Nick over at the Linux experiment. He had his channel recently deleted. He was doing a product giveaway on a live stream and I guess that was the problem that YouTube had, that product giveaway. But he thinks he followed all the rules for that product giveaway but they gave his channel a strike. They actually just deleted his entire channel and right now he's appealing the decision and trying to get his channel back up. Hopefully that will happen soon. Heck, by the time I edit this video and upload it today they may already have him back online but this is a real problem. This happens actually all the time, way too frequently. There are many, many instances of YouTube channels just being deleted sometimes for no reason, sometimes because of false trips of the algorithm where the algorithm thinks a YouTube creator violated the rules, the code of conduct, things like that but they really didn't. It's just a false flag but the YouTube channel gets deleted anyway then the creator has to appeal and hope somebody listens and then reinstates the channel. This unfortunately, again, it happens all the time and this isn't a free speech kind of issue because Google is a company, YouTube is a company and it's one of those things where when you're in somebody else's house you have to play by their rules. You know, you're in YouTube's house. You have to play by whatever set of rules they come up with and they can make you leave the house. They ask you to leave. You have to leave and that's one of the things that's unfortunate about these kinds of platforms, these centralized platforms. It's one of the reasons why I so heavily promote things like Odyssey, you know, as far as a decentralized video platform. You guys know I have an Odyssey channel and decentralized social networks like Mastodon and Diaspora and Lemmy and you got PeerTube also for a decentralized video platform. There's many of these things out there. There's dozens, hundreds of them, many of them I'm not associated with in any way but I do think those are the way forward especially for content creators because you never want to be able to be canceled. Any time you're in somebody else's house you can be canceled because you know you go to somebody's house. They can ask you to leave anytime they want for any reason they want. It doesn't matter what you did. If they say, hey, you got to go, you got to go. And what Nick over at the Linux experiment is he's experiencing right now. I feel sorry for the guy because I've dealt with it. I have had situations where my channel has been striped, falsely striped and I've had to appeal and they reverse it. I've never actually been striped. I've never had any issue with YouTube as far as anything legitimate. I have been flagged several times falsely and I've had to appeal and had to get it reversed. But I, you know, even though I've never had anything weird like that with my channel that I didn't get reversed, I do actually have two or three videos of mine that are demonetized right now that I've appealed the decision why these videos are demonetized. I can't get an answer. I can't get anybody at Google to look at it. So I've got some videos about Qtile. I think I got a video about Xmoned that have, you know, tens of thousands of views on it. I never got monetized for it. You know, it was probably several hundred dollars worth of revenue on those videos that I never received because they're not monetized because for some reason, YouTube decided that me opening up my Qtile config.pi and showing you guys a little bit of how to code in Python is somehow against their code of conduct, right? That's, you know, these are videos really like benign videos of me just bracing a tiling window manager and they're demonetized and they shouldn't be like there's no way these videos are against YouTube's policies in any way. There is just not possible. So I appeal and I'm assuming a real person is actually going to overturn the decision. No, I don't even know if a real person ever looked at it. The only thing I get is a second email saying, no, sorry. Like, yeah, they don't even tell me what is the problem with the videos. And that's the that's the thing is you have no recourse here, right?  So one of the things I really want to talk about today, I know we've got a lot of new viewers on the channel here in the last few months. And I know I haven't promoted it as much here recently, even though I'm one of the largest creators over on Odyssey. You guys, you really need to be over on Odyssey.com. Odyssey.com is a front end to the library protocol. And I've been on this platform for nearly two years now. And it is actually a rather large platform now. There are many, many content creators on this platform, many Linux creators, many tech creators, a lot of the big names you know, we're all over there. Why are we all over there? It's because, you know, many of us are kind of hedging our bets.  YouTube, again, can just delete a channel any time for any reason or for no reason, right? And again, you don't want to be in a situation where you can be canceled. You don't want to be in a situation where one day your channel is deleted, all your videos are deleted and they're not a mirrored somewhere else on the internet. Make sure that your content is always on some other platform other than YouTube. Because if it's just on YouTube, guess what? You're in for a big surprise one day. So I've been on Odyssey really since the early, early days of it. I'm one of the bigger channels actually on the platform. I've got over 35,000 followers over there. And I do get views on my videos over there because I promoted it heavily, especially in the early days. It's one of the things, you know, that I was on that early. And the Linux experiment, Nick, he does have a Odyssey channel. So he is singing his content over to Odyssey, too. So you guys, if you're wanting to check out his content, for some reason, he doesn't get his YouTube channel back. Of course, he does have an Odyssey channel. He has actually mentioned, I was checking out his Twitter feed that the reason he doesn't promote Odyssey that much is because he can't really monetize it. He can't make the kind of revenue he makes on YouTube, which I can understand that, especially these days. The price of LBC, the LBC credits that you get from donations over on Odyssey from your your fans, the price of LBC is just through the floor right now. It's worth like five percent of what it was at his highs a few months ago. And at its highs a few months ago, I actually could make a OK living if I really wanted to strictly on Odyssey now, because LBC is just practically worthless. You can't but still I'm really even if I would never make a dime off of LBC donations, I have created enough of a following. Enough people know me over on Odyssey. I could still leverage all of those followers, all of those views into monetizing through PayPal and Patreon and Merch and sponsorships, even if I wanted to go that route. Like, that's the point is, you know, don't put all your eggs in one basket. Make sure, you know, I get that YouTube is YouTube. It's got the most views. It's got that sense revenue and everyone loves it. So obviously, they don't want to spend time promoting stuff that there doesn't really make them any money, but you need to. You need to get on this early. So you guys, if you got YouTube channels and you're not on Odyssey, start sinking your content on Odyssey, start telling people about it. Tell them about it all the time because you want to be able to gain enough traction to where the time comes one day. You know, they just nicks my channel, right? Hey, I've got somewhere else. And you know, all my content is still up. I can still upload my videos on a regular basis just and never miss a beat. Yeah, I'll miss some of the views I was getting on YouTube. I'll miss that AdSense revenue, but I will be in a little bit better situation than if I didn't have this at all. Now, Nick, I will say that the giveaway he was doing, the product giveaway, that's a tricky situation. I would just advise people not to do those kinds of things. Anything Google, of course, is a US company, YouTube is a US company. So they got to abide by US law, especially when it comes to laws regarding gambling and lotteries, raffles, you know, these product giveaways kind of fall into that category. They got to be really careful what they allow you to do on their platform. And that's why they're really quick to ban people. So I would just avoid those kinds of product giveaways. I would also avoid any other tricky legal topics and topics that you know, YouTube is is going hard after a few months ago. They went really hard after financial channels, cryptocurrency channels, and they were banning just mass deleting a lot of those channels, those channels in that space. And the reason is because that space is filled with a lot of scammers. So a lot of innocent people, of course, got tripped up in the mass deletion. But again, what can you do? You don't really have a recourse if they delete you and you appeal and they reject your appeal. You're just out of luck. You definitely don't want to make any kind of crazy content that YouTube would have a hard time monetizing. Like if YouTube can't show ads on your videos because they're a little bit racy, off color, whatever it is you're doing, they can't show ads on your videos. Why would they want you on their platform? You're not making them any money because ultimately, you know, the few cents that they give you for those ads, you know, Google is making like 97 percent of that ad revenue. Google makes a ton of money off of you, the content creator. If they can't show ads on your videos, you're practically worthless to them.  So many people don't realize this. If you're not able to be monetized, you're actually costing YouTube money. And why would they want a whole bunch of people on their platform that are costing them money? Right? It's in their best interest that then get rid of those people. So it's one of these things where you've got to be careful on platforms like YouTube, these private platforms. But ultimately, what I suggest you guys do, you content creators, check out decentralized video platforms. Right now, Odyssey is definitely the biggest challenger to YouTube. If you're not on Odyssey, go sign up. It's very easy to sync your YouTube channel to Odyssey, where when you upload to YouTube, it automatically gets pulled over to Odyssey as well. It takes like five minutes to sign up. So there's no reason for anybody that has a YouTube channel not to be on Odyssey. You guys that consume video content, if your content creators are over on Odyssey, watch them on Odyssey, support them on Odyssey, donate LBC credits to them because we need more creators and we need more viewers on the Odyssey platform. That way, when YouTube finally does just completely go under and one day it's going to happen, everything ends at some point. One day, YouTube is going to cease to exist and everyone on the platform, not just the few people that got screwed over because of false flags and the algorithms, all of us will eventually need to go somewhere else other than YouTube. And we need to start working that out right now. Now, obviously, Nick over at the Linux experiment, he needs some support right now. Right. So you guys, if you want to give him words of encouragement or see what he needs as far as support from the community, obviously as an Odyssey channel. So I guess you could try to message him or respond to videos over on there. I don't know if he reads messages on Odyssey. I know he has a Twitter account and it looks like it's very active. I don't have a Twitter account. So I can't really talk to him on Twitter because I have issues with Twitter. I actually had major issues with the powers that be over at Twitter because they allowed or still allowing actually fake distro tube accounts over on Twitter and I actually threatened legal action against Twitter at one point I I've had serious issues with Twitter. So I can't be on that platform. I refuse to be on that platform. But those of you that are, yeah, goes giving him some words of encouragement and see what he needs from you guys to maybe help get this thing reversed and hopefully get him back on YouTube soon. Now, before I go, let me thank a few special people. I want to thank the producers of this episode. Absi gave James Mitchell, Paul, Scott West, Akami, Alan, Chuck, Kurt, David, Dylan, Gregory, Hico, Mike, Erion, Alexander, Peace, Archon, Fodor, Polytech, River, Red Prophet, Steven and Willie. These guys, they're my has tiered patrons over on Patreon. These guys really help make it so that my channel isn't able to be canceled. Each and every one of these ladies and gentlemen as well. These are all my supporters over on Patreon because I don't have any corporate sponsors. It's just me and you guys, the community. You like my work and want to support me, please subscribe to Distro Tube over on Patreon. All right, guys, peace. Subscribe to Distro Tube on Odyssey, too.


Hi, it's Pritit. Welcome to Above Life Channel. The purpose here is to inspire your spirit and to fill you up with hope. Today, we are going to be having a conversation with an icon, a comedy icon. We will be talking with Ms. Lucille Ball, and it is my pleasure to be able to introduce you to her energy and vibration in the afterlife. So, thank you so much for being here, Lucille. Right. First of all, the first thing I want to ask you is, I know I love Lucille show. I know you're incredibly well-known as a comedian, and I want to ask you, is Lucille Ball your name? She says, in part, it's part of a family name, but it's not my birth name or my given name. Okay. All right. And so you, iconically known for your red hair, is it all natural? I'm going to ask, because people ask me all the time about my hair, which it is natural, platinum blonde. Like, you can't dye hair to look like this. And she says, what do you think? She says, what do you think? I think it is naturally red, but I do think that perhaps at times it was helped to maintain that vibrant, vivid color. And she says, I'm not going to tell. Like, okay, I'm not going to tell. She said, and she's smoking, like I see with a cigarette. Did you smoke? Oh, yes, everyone did. She said, everyone did. Back in the, those days, you know, she says, you have to, you have to recognize everyone did, everyone did. You have a unique voice. She says, thank you. And I, again, I love Lucille. That's how I know you're just funny comedian. And, and to have a woman that's that successful as a comedian is a huge milestone. What was that like? What was that like? She says, Oh, there are other comedians. She says, Oh, there are many others besides me. She says, I'm just the one that, that maybe that she's kind of saying like became a poster child or something or became a poster girl or whatever became the one that people identified with maybe. And she says, it's a lot of hard work. She says, I want people to understand that it's a lot of hard work to be in Hollywood, especially as a woman. And to declare your status as a comedic actor is was pretty much unheard of.  And that was pretty much the theme that was pretty much the recipe for success in television and in storylines back in those days. And now, of course, today, it's not like that. It's much more volatile and colorful, interesting. And so do you, did you have, I mean, it was a bit of a diverse family, right? With a Ricky Ricardo, so to speak. And I think you guys were actually married in real life. Is that true? Yes. She said, yes, we were volatile. She says, volatile, talk about volatile. So, okay. So she said, he, she alludes to the fact that there was drinking involved. And she says, kind of, she says, on both our parts, she says, I'll take responsibility for my part. And she said, but you know, that was normal for me. She says, I grew up in a family where my dad had a lot of, she says, not my dad had a lot of drinks, you know, he was, she said, I wouldn't go so far as to say he was a drunk. But back in those days, everybody was a drunk. Everyone was. And she's showing me a time like 1929, 30, 1932. I'm not sure what the significance of this, 1929, 1930, 1932. So what that highlights for me, you guys, when I see dates and I see specific days or numbers, usually it's the one that's missing. So 1931. What is significant about 1931 for Lucille Ball? Do you know, if you do, put it in the comments below. Remember, part of our videos here at Above Life Channel is enhancing the experience with your engagement. So fill it in the comments. What's significant about 1931 for Lucille Ball? And she says, you know, I directed. That was part of what I wanted to do. I wanted to be able to put a face on, on production. I wanted to be part of production. She says, I wanted to put a face. She's very like woman, strong woman, opinionated as a woman in awesome, you know, like she's very strong as a woman. And she's got a fiery temper. But, but I don't necessarily think she does. I think that that was just the perception because of her having a voice. Everyone, she says every woman that had an opinion was a big mouth, a loud mouth, and could have been, could have been classified as a troublemaker. And she said, but I didn't let that stop me.  So she wanted to be a producer. She wanted to direct. She wanted to have creative control over some of the experiences there. Okay.  She said many people do and became sort of a, she's like referring to the Charlie Chaplin of television as a woman. So the female version of Charlie Chaplin in television is what she's trying to describe to me.  Is that true? Well, yes, she said, yes, yes, absolutely. And she says, you have to be, you have to have thick skin and be willing to poke fun at yourself and be willing to kind of just roll with it.  That's, that's one of the gifts of actually being on television. You actually get to be in people's homes and she says, I realized the importance of that. That was very, very important. So did you ever do stand up? She says like slapstick, like slapstick, she said, would be more appropriate. But Carol Burnett's show, she's showing me Carol Burnett's show. Why are you showing me Carol Burnett's show? Because she says, I love Lucy is sort of like that. It was like the premiere of what came after. She said, it kind of set the stage and set the tone. And she says, she feels like it's very iconic. She says iconic, iconic program and very proud of it. She says, but she's also telling me or showing me that she like Broadway acting, acting on stage in theater, like that's a part of her, her resume. And like New York, she's showing me New York City. And she says, but and then she's showing me, I don't understand why I'm seeing the Midwest Kansas, Kansas. Like I'm seeing, I see California, Hollywood. And then I see New York. And then I see like Kansas, like the in between, like I'm from someplace in between, like not from here, not from there, but I'm from someplace in between. But then she shows me that things were really, were volatile a bit for her growing up. Volatile, maybe not the right word. From her family life, showing me her family life. It looks like her parents were immigrants or one of her parents was an immigrant or something. My parent, somebody was an immigrant. It sounds like she had like a grandfather that would tell her all about culture. I can't, I don't know if it's like Yugoslavia, Russia, or Europe, Eastern Europe or something. And drink, I think just drink a lot. Excuse me. That's what I see. But she shows me smoking a lot herself. And she's like, I played the piano. I also took dance lessons because back in, in those times that was encouraged, you had to really be real well rounded because it was kind of expected that you would have a part in a musical and you needed to be prepared to do all that. And that was what was expected back then. She goes, I played piano. She's like, I play piano. Okay. Oh, so Lucio Ball, what do you think of Betty White? She's still around. She's like in her 90s. She is a wonderful, such a funny comedian and very well known. What do you think of Betty White? And she says, I know Betty. She says, I know her. I'm like, okay, she's saying we did something together. I'm like, I see Lucio Ball, Gilda Radner and Betty White. I don't know if it was on like a Carol Brant show thing, or if it was like a variety show, if they were all on a show together. And then she's showing me, who's that guy with the Ed Sullivan? Ed Sullivan show? She's showing me him. He's the guy that kind of talks when he was smoking, right? I think that's who it is. Then she's showing me beyond like the Gong show. I don't know what that is. I don't remember Gong show or something. She's showing me like television appearances, that kind of thing. And okay, so what do you think of Betty White? She says, I know Betty. I worked with Betty. She said, she's a tuffle broad is what she says. She says, she outlived me. Yeah. Okay. So Lucio, how old were you? If you don't want me asking, she said, it's so rude to ask about your age. Oh please. Sorry.  I gotta ask 80s. It looks like 80, 82, something like that in the 80s, maybe even 86 up there. It looks like in the 80s. I know you didn't die during the 80s. I don't think you did anyway. It looks like late 90s that you actually left. Did you leave in the decade of the 90s or the 2000s right around there? She says like 98 maybe. I see an eight, maybe. But old, quite a bit older. She says, yes, yes. And then she said, I had a stroke is what she's showing me, a kind of a stroke. And it looks like it affected the brain. Obviously, a stroke affects the brain. Okay, all right, Bridget, right. But it looks like her brain was affected or something. And then it was like the beginning of the end. And then she couldn't function anymore kind of thing. But it doesn't look like it, it doesn't look like it was long and drawn out. It looks like, I mean, it wasn't a long time, long time after, but it looks like she had a stroke. It's what it looks like. It could have been a brain pop like an aneurysm or something, but a stroke is what I would say. I would say it's a stroke. A stroke was the initiating circumstance for death. What kind of information would you give us from the afterlife perspective? What do you think she's really connected to Hollywood and all the things that are going on in Hollywood have been going on, you know, what kind of insight do you have from the afterlife perspective about that, all of the stuff that the state of Hollywood today, what kind of insight or perspective do you have on that? She says, to be truthful, it's not all that different than it was before. She said, now everything is just on the outside. Like things are done in back rooms and hidden. She said everything is, she says, for the most part, pretty transparent and but I don't think it's necessarily easier for women to get the kind of roles that they deserve to have and I know that there's sexism and there's ageism and there's all sorts of things that are hurdles for women and I think it's unfair. I think it's unjust and I think women in Hollywood should still make sure that they don't let go of the power that they have.  I'd like to see more plays and productions and television shows and movies that are focused on women characters that that is the primary focus and not women in roles of needing to be saved in the traditional heroine's journey or hero's journey kind of a you know traditional writing recipes I would like to see and there has been she said there's been a lot of great strides but there can always be more we can always do better can always do better so I would encourage Hollywood to remember that the woman is your better half let's be clear on that she says the woman very woman power very woman power kind of expected that from you I kind of felt that initially before we started our conversation that you were kind of like that I like that grit she says and she uses the b-word she said yeah I could have been called that she said but let's just let's just make sure that we recognize that had I been working today had I had I been there now that would have been so they would have just been impressed with me and the way I had my confidence you know she said but back then I was called that b-word quite a few times she said and she says I don't mean Betty which is a reference to beautiful right oh she's so buddy such a buddy hey did you ever meet Marilyn Monroe oh yes she said oh yes yes okay and then she shows me um a couple of other actresses as well Vivian Lee which I think is older than Marilyn and it looks like she was married and divorced at least twice maybe three times even twice for sure maybe three times and then she says that um very volatile relationship with Ricky Ricardo very volatile like physical fights and things with the two of them they both drank um but he drank more she says well he probably drank more not that it was a contest and uh she says and it looks like she was married to someone that was like uh somebody that made either a producer or I don't think it's a director I think it's a producer or has another layer of of a job in the industry in Hollywood in it looks like film I don't think it's theater I think it's film I think it's film I want to say producer or production but it might be something in between that not director so it's producer or something I don't know what else would be in between there but it kind of feels like that almost more on the business side of things definitely behind the camera not in front of the camera that she married somebody that was like that or in a relationship or a long-term relationship with someone like that um a couple of other names pop in stan pops in that name and then Howard as well both of those pop in as well and she says yes and I knew Frank Sinatra and um she said he was a friend is what she says and um even at that time you know the good old boys club and such um she said uh Frank had a beautiful voice really did have a beautiful voice but nothing quite compares to that nothing quite compares to that she said well thank you so much Lucille ball for having a conversation with us here at ad above life channel now it's your turn viewers what questions do you have for Lucille ball I'm sure she's a quite the interesting character she's got many dimensions and levels to her as a person and if there's more that you'd like to know let me know what that is put that in the comments below as always the purpose here is to inspire your spirit and fill you with hope I hope that we've done that today through this video with Lucille ball in the afterlife remember this is your life so live it just live it thank you so much for watching