Aloha YouTube and welcome to another Tink Tech Hawaii afternoon over here on a Friday and I'd like to introduce myself. My name is Micah Moutas, I am the co-host, official co-host now on where the drone leads on Tink Tech Hawaii. I also have our travel team, Ted Walston, Ted Walston, you got me? I'm here bro, how are you today? Micah, we're doing good today and we are going to talk more about exciting things that we can introduce about drones and starting off, Ted, how's the weather out there in Tucson? Well I'm in Tucson as you know, Micah, we were at the conference in Santa Fe on drones and on the way home stopping in Tucson to see the granddaughters but you know just so the folks in Hawaii understand, when you're in the mainland in winter time, even inside the house you've got to wear a jacket because cold is why. Anyway, we're here in Tucson, seeing the family heading home on Tuesday. Yeah, I noticed temperature here was about 66 degrees and even for operations we had a few operations out in the school and even then they noticed that the wind was kind of taking effect on some of the drones today. We'd like to take it to you, Ted, I know you found a video that you'd like to share with our audience, tell me more about that. You bet. Yeah, this conference in New Mexico is one of the four significant conferences in a country regarding drones. It was the University or the New Mexico State University and the top of the FAA is there, the top of the industry and this was on top of academia. It's a very good solid conference without a lot of commercial stuff. It's all basically information and information development policy and doctrine. One gentleman showed up from Rwanda of all places. Actually, he's a Silicon Valley guy but he's got an operation in Rwanda and I think we have a video. It will really give you a real clear and serious view of where drones can go right now. What he has done is developed a medicine and blood supply delivery system, two central locations in Rwanda and they can cover the entire country of Rwanda, which is about 50% larger than Connecticut for reference and take care of getting blood and medicines to people who are otherwise not accessible because of the road conditions and the lack of roads and various environmental issues that show up and generate floods or landslides and block in what roads there are. So just to be clear, Ted, you're saying that this drone can literally drop off blood supply in Rwanda, right? You bet. It can make on a 25 kilometer round trip with 150 kilometers straight line, leaves the central location with perishable supplies in it, including a quart of blood for transfusion, drops it off on a precision drop at some medical site in the forward area, and then returns back to the place it launched from and lands all by itself. Isn't that just fascinating?  Right now, we'd like to show you that video for our audience. We can go ahead and have the studio start that video for us. Rwanda is known as the land of a thousand hills. It is a very difficult country in terms of topography and many areas are hard to reach. Perversing that terrain to get to a rural village can take hours, even though it's a very short distance. Today, if a mother is giving birth and suffers from postpartum hemorrhaging, her life is dependent on getting a blood transfusion. There are many different types of blood types. They have a limited shelf life, and the challenge is when you need blood, you need it immediately, but it is unpredictable which geography that will occur in. Hospitals that are in more remote areas can have a very hard time getting enough reliably supplied blood. The time to order and get the supplies by truck is just too late. There's no way that we can overcome the time that it takes to get anywhere during the rainy season. And people would say, okay, during the rainy season, we're just not going to make it. The best-case scenario would take at least four hours, but with zipline, we are looking at cutting that four hours to something like 15 minutes. It's a team of Rwandese who came together with zipline to groom the project and to make it happen in Rwanda. Their ultimate vision is to put each and every one of those 11 million citizens within a 15 to 35 minute delivery of any essential medical product that they could need. And that's a revolutionary idea for any country in the world. The use of drones to deliver life-saving medical products can overcome the lack of raw infrastructure. We need to let our imagination so. When you have a commodity, rare end supply, that might be an unusual blood type or something like a rabies vaccine, and you need it immediately, the idea that we could use a drone to be able to deliver this to the country is absolutely brilliant. There's nothing else that could do that in that way. It is like we no longer go around the hills, but we fly over the hills. We pull together a team from places like Boeing, SpaceX, Google, Lockheed Martin. And it's an honor for zipline to partner with the governor of Rwanda. We place a hub next to an existing medical warehouse, and it instantly enables that warehouse to make hundreds of deliveries per day to any location within range. The doctor sends us their order by text, by phone call, whatever is convenient. It identifies the need and then prepares the package, puts it on the drone. Then we take that vehicle and we put it through pre-flight tests. It's launched, it flies automatically out to the clinic. The path has been already calculated, it's in the computer. And then they'll receive a text message saying, Zip, it's two minutes away, please walk outside. It drops the package, somebody goes and collects it. It turns around, it flies home, and then we get it ready for the next delivery. Our service not only makes it possible, but also affordable for countries to deliver reliable access to essential medicines for all of their citizens. What you're looking for to see here is saving lives. This isn't a small step forward. This is a transformational change to how we provide medical care to people across the world. Okay, YouTube, I hope you were fascinated and inspired by this one particular video. Ted, thank you so much for sharing that with us. And really, I like to expand this to, especially here in Hawaii, for our followers and our community, our neighbors. Can you just imagine what you can do with this technology? I mean, with this drone, think about it, you can, we deal with so many incidents here in Hawaii. For, I mean, most recently we had a hiker, unfortunately, and, you know, our love goes out to the family and friends out in the community. And you just never know what will happen. And that's why we care about life. And when you use technology for similar situations where you can deliver maybe blood supplies, medical supplies, I mean, our imagination, you know, it all comes down to our imagination. Right, Ted? You bet. And what this group, which is out of Silicon Valley, has done is work for the country that welcomes them, which is Rwanda, as the situation of remote populations with remote medical facilities and very difficult transportation. So the best way to get there is by air. But it's very expensive if you go by traditional manned air. So for small supplies where they can be carried in the two-pound category, a drone system is perfect. This group did not, however, go out and do the usual thing of buy something in the store. They started looking at the problem from a systems perspective, just like Dr. Ken Kanashiro is up in Manoa, understood the problem, understood the restrictions and the barriers, the performance required, the reliability required, and the issues of certification that were required within that country and put together what they call a vertically integrated team in Silicon Valley. So they didn't have to depend on outside suppliers for an autopilot or for systems. They were able to do it all in-house. No frills, no wasting time. Just get the job done and get the medicine and the blood delivered. And that's what they... Ted, I'm glad that you mentioned about Dr. Ken Kanashiro out in UH. Kanoa and I, we were able to go out to UH and meet Dr. Kanashiro and also General Dara Wang. And exactly what you're talking about is what we're striving for here in Hawaii and kind of put that, you know, put that imagination into all the schools, all the people involved, all the drone community, right? You're taking something that you're not just going to take pictures anymore. You're going to do something to save lives, to eradicate mosquitoes, to solve issues here in the Alawai or in our community, in our Aupua'a. It's very important to see that we're bridging our culture, technology and science. And you're bridging it all into one to prove that this particular place, our home, Hawaii, is very unique. And I'm pretty sure you're out there in Tucson and that's what you're sharing to the world. How significant Hawaii is for drones? You bet. In fact, that brings up a really good point, Micah. Hawaii is part of the Pan-Pacific Unmanned Air Systems Test Range Complex, which is four states, Alaska, Henseth has a contract with the FAA with all the protocols and procedures. Oregon, Hawaii and Mississippi now are part of that four state Pui. And the task we've got is to take problems that are defined in our local area that can be solved by the technology of drones and develop partnerships with companies and agencies and such to go explore how drones would actually do that work, in particular beyond the limits of the regulations that we all enjoy today under 107 or under the 333. What does it take to operate at night? What does it take to operate well beyond line of sight? What does it take to operate with a cluster of drones doing the same job, where one's in command and the others are subordinate to it, for example? In the case of this drone for Rwanda, what if we had to have two operated by the same operator just for the economy of scale? So these are the kind of things we've got to write down and take on as challenges that can be tested here in Hawaii. Absolutely. And I have to agree with you as far as having the community, having our YouTube viewers, our followers, really want to take this time to thank you folks for following us on Tink Tech Hawaii and following us Fridays in the afternoon. We like to share you, we have the whole week to work on projects, figure out what we're going to do with drones, what we're going to do with the community and we're really taking on this step-by-step, taking on this journey and we've got to really thank you folks for joining us from all over the state, it's all over the world, right Ted? You bet. Yes. In fact, let's do this, Michael, let's invite anybody out there who would like to come on the show or wants to bring an opinion or resolve or even better yet, state a problem. Come on and show us what the problems are, you'd like drones to take on and we'd like to stand that up and make that something that our state test function can get its arms around because only the community knows the problems better than anybody else. Right. We in the development side only know we know, we don't have that knowledge of the broader community and to the point you made a minute ago, getting total community awareness, involved participation and having the community help us identify the barriers and the issues that we're all going to face, the sooner we can start that process in a whole of community approach, the better off it will be and the easier it will be to take advantage of this technology. Similar to the example we just saw in Rwanda, the whole country is behind that and that's why it worked. Absolutely and I believe it's going to start from, it's going to start small and then work its way out and the best thing about it is that we're starting here from a studio, we have a travel team, Ted, you're out in Tucson, you can believe that we're making a movement here, we're in motion and we're heading out to the community. In fact, I was approached by a father and I can pretty sure any father out there in Hawaii can relate as far as sports or when it comes to their child in athletics and do you want to critique your kid and one thing was interesting, I was approached because I do drone work, because we do drone work here and he was asking, well what if we record my daughter with her particular swing to critique and to get her better at figuring out how to perfect her swing and that's the best part about drones is because it gets you to think outside the box. You have particular situations where you're figuring out how to handle the mosquito pandemic, how to figure out, how to videotape a Makahiki or how to, I know Iolani High School, Dr. Ken was speaking about how important it was to build a drone and use it to solve problems of figuring out the water out in the alawai and running tests for scientists. I mean it's just all outside the box and we would love to have anyone out there especially here in Hawaii who would be interested in sharing their knowledge or sharing their opinion about what you can use a drone for. We invite anybody out in the public and Ted and I would be more than happy to even go out to you. We have a travel team, correct Ted? Part of us is in Tucson right now on travel, right? Okay right now we're going to go ahead and take a quick break and we'll go talk to more about what we can do with the community and really sharing our appreciation and showing where the drone leads with all this excitement. Aloha, my name is Carl Campania. I am the host of Think Tech Hawaii's Movers, Shakers and Reformers. I hope you join us as we take a deep dive into biofuels in Hawaii over the coming weeks and the alternative fuel supply chains necessary for the local and global transition towards transportation fuel sustainability. We are going to invite in and we will have significant interviews with various stakeholders including our producers which are our farmers and our scientists, our conversion technologies including Terra Viva, who we'll see in two weeks, as well as our consumers. Within there we're also going to have the investor groups necessary to make sure that this can advance. So I do hope you join us as we explore our deep dive into biofuels in Hawaii. Aloha everyone and welcome back. It's a Think Tech Hawaii and it's a Friday afternoon Mahalo for tuning in and we have myself, Michael Motas, co-host of Where the Drone Leads and we have our original host Ted Wolstein out in Tucson. How are you doing Ted? Pretty good, Michael. How are you? I'm doing really good. I'm doing great in fact. I wanted to talk more about what we've been doing here in our show and what we've been reaching out to the community and how exactly are we going to reach out to the community and how long are we staying here?  We're here to stay. That's right. We are. To do is always make sure it's not an assertion but as an invitation. Rather than inserting ourselves on the community we've got to have the community invite us and I refer to the collective us in this domain. That is absolutely essential. What I sensed on this particular conference in Santa Fe at New Mexico State University was how rapid the technology is emerging and how rapid, even though it seems slow, how rapidly the FAA is moving forward in permissive regulations and I will say that whereas everybody used to beat up on the FAA, favorite whipping boy for not making any progress, they have made incredible progress and it continues to accelerate. So two things are going to happen. The technology and the capability is expanding very fast, faster than the users, such as you and I, such as our communities, such as our schools, such as our local infrastructure and companies, faster than they can sit down and write requirements. So we're going to have this conflict between the manufacturers who want to go make things but what they make may not fit what the users actually want. So that's one thing that we're going to see here. A second thing I think, Mike, and this is really important to both you and I, I know, is the definite and absolute need for a trained workforce. It's a critical thinking workforce. Yes, absolutely. And I think my hats off to you for the work you've done up on Anuinui and you're going to do it in the, while only charter school, the Haikul, Haikipu, the Haikipu Learning Center. With that gang out there and other schools. Yes, absolutely. In fact, bringing all the schools on Oahu together into a common understanding of the rules, regulations and what they can do.  Every time we come together on Friday, Mike, we take on more and more obligations. We need to duplicate ourselves and have enough workforce to go do this, but we're short a critical workforce. We truly are and we'll need that going forward here. But it can't say enough how important it is for the community to be part of this. The community is the workforce. The community is also where the work will be done and where the benefits will ensure and ensue. And so collectively, and we have to get, we have to start generating community events like you're doing up on Anuinui, you're going to do it on Akuli traffic. Yes. And we're going to work with Kent Connoisseur and do the mosquitoes and things like that. So a structured approach next year, maybe 2017, Micah, is the year of the community in drones. How would that be? Yeah, absolutely. I have to agree with you, Ted, because you know, it's going to take a lot of action and a massive amount of action. And you know, like you and I, that's what we're doing. You know, you're out in Tucson, we're out here in the studio, all of this little things that we're doing, getting involved with the community, getting involved with Anuinui schools, OIA schools or public schools, rather than you know, getting involved with UH. It's a, it's that kind of action, that little motion just enough to persevere from having the results that we're looking for. And really the community is something that's going to benefit. And all of us in a whole can benefit from using this type of technology. And of course, making sure that we have it in the right hands and having it with the right people. It's very important that we search for the right people. You know, we, we announce here on the show that we've done everything we could. We followed with the FAA created that relationship of talking with them, understanding the rules and regulations, obtaining the certificates, obtaining the exemptions. I mean, there's a group of people, there's a solid group of people out here in Hawaii that's really pushing for safe, you know, eliminating that risk and liability. And that's what we're all about. That's what we're pushing for. And that's, that's what we're bringing to the table to the community. And, you know, we humbly ask all of you to please join us and share some or not all or some thoughts of what we can do to solve problems that everybody can persevere from that can benefit from. And like we said, we're not only here in the studio or here in Hawaii, we're traveling around the world. And we're more than happy to take people from Hawaii and showing that this is possible. One step at a time, of course. You know, another thought I'd like to lay on the table in regard to the community and the future. The video we saw was delivering blood supplies, which is obviously a life critical function in Rwanda. Yes, it is. Whatever that function may be, whether it's delivering blood or taking care of the mosquitoes or examining the albezia up in Upper Manoa to identify when to take them down, looking at the power structure for HECO, whatever it may be, if we start depending on this capability, it has to be robust and thorough and not fail. Having something that might fly away, might fail, might not work, doesn't work in the rain. Those are the critical things we have to have our kids think about. If they took a look at, if the kids took a look at that Rwanda video and began imagining how they could use that functionality here, and then began thinking about how once you start depending on it, it better work. That changes how you look at sign. And that's where the interesting piece comes in, in terms of what standards you're going to adhere to in the design, the development, and the operation. And interestingly enough, the industry is thinking about that itself. And at the Spedicator Conference, there were actually three sets of conferences taking place simultaneously. And they were the research people coming up with what they've been developing in the last couple of years in terms of operational research and threats and lethality. And there was big military people coming up thinking about how they're going to manage standards and such. So the business is beginning to mature. When you start thinking about standards, you start thinking about a mature business, but our kids have to be ready to be part of that. And the sooner we can get them interested in beyond the Lego blocks stage of critical thinking and how to use the system and how to make sure it's totally functional. That's where we've, that's success. Absolutely. Yeah. Success is definitely one step at a time. You know, when you have a belief, and that's what we believe in, right, Ted? We believe that this technology can change the world, you know, one step at a time. And we take as much action as possible here in the state of Hawaii with the right mentality. You know, when we, especially here in Hawaii, you can't just walk into somebody's yard and start filming or start doing a project without asking permission, real simple protocol that even in Hawaiian culture, you know, you would have to ask, you'd have to ask anyone that you're approaching. May I come here and may I film? May I do a project? What is this project for? This is a project that was simple. Solve a problem that we're dealing with here in Hawaii. And, you know, when you take out all that action, it turns into a result that will build even a bigger belief. And like you said, critical thinking. I love that our students in Hawaii, you know, especially here in Iraq, in the middle of the sea, you always have to think outside the box. You're always on that survival mode. You're in the middle of the ocean. And that's what I believe even our Hawaiian ancestors were thinking. That's why we mastered how to navigate around the world. Very similar where when it comes to technology, watch us master technology using drones. You know, it's a good model. In fact, throughout all of our work, we should probably use that Voyager model. That pulls together science and culture and a vision of the future and a protection of the past all at once. And I'd like to tell you about the experience we had in I think in 1995 when hopefully I visited the West Coast and we had NASA come down and the space voyagers and deal with the ocean voyagers. We all had them on the same stage at the same time and found out there was a lot of common thinking between them. And that whole solving the whole problem is how we really have to think of ourselves, Michael. So next year, 2017 on this show, think takeaways, where the drone leads. We'll talk about community involvement. Let's make that our principal motivation for next year in every dimension. And that's setting that's putting the concrete down and laying the base for a good solid benefit to society and a good solid educational program in Hawaii starting in 2017. All right, we can we can absolutely do that. I mean, where the drone leads, especially for the community here in Hawaii, this this community is a strong base, you know, re bridging culture, technology, engineering, science, mathematics, English, just about everything and anything and putting it all into this canoe and we're taking a voyage out into the world and showing how we can benefit using this aircraft or this drone, where the drone leads. I love it. Okay. Yeah. So this concludes our show. And thank you very much for tuning in. We look forward to seeing all of you next week Friday. Ted Mahalo Nui from out in Tucson. And we will you have a final message out for the community. Community involvement, man. That's that's that's drones one on one in Hawaii community involvement. Okay, Mahalo, Mahalo Ted and Aloha to you folks and thank you again and see you next week Friday. Aloha.


We're gonna have an honest conversation about NBA 2k18 for switch, and again, I apologize.  It was my number one goal to do today and I put a lot of work into it actually I recorded a ton of gameplayer. You're seeing some of it right now And I realized that I don't feel it's appropriate to review this game because I spent Over half of my written review just talking about getting the game working And then just about differences between it and the other consoles and then we realized that I don't think it's appropriate to review this game on switch Because there isn't a prior version of the game released on the platform or even released on the Wii U Unless you want to date back to 2k13 To really review it as this is an annualized franchise. It makes more sense to Review it based on the predecessor. So again, if there's an NBA 2k19 on switch next year That game to me makes more sense to review than this one. However, I did still want to talk about it because some new details came out today and obviously I did some my own experimenting and It's It's hard to recommend NBA 2k18 unless you're like me and you love sports and you love sports simulation games You love the NBA and you want to take it on the go and I say that because the switch is quickly becoming not an ideal platform now my experience installing the game which I bought the digital version at midnight is Interesting you can technically download and install it on the internal storage However, you cannot you know load the game up because you need 5.1 gigabytes allotted for save files Okay, fine. So I put an SD card in hoping that or micro SD card hoping that that I could put my save file in there Nope, you have to install to the SD card and put your save file on the system. It's a really dumb setup I don't know if that's the fault of Nintendo or the fault of 2k Somewhere along the lines People should be able to choose pick and choose where they want their save files and where they want the game because I would love the game on The internal storage to reduce load times versus having it on an SD card that can't keep up Well, that's besides the point What's interesting is that each save file takes 5.1 gigabytes and that's each save file So every time you start a new profile every time you start a new You know my career a new season 5.1 5.1 5.1 that can add up in a hurry You have five save files as 25 gigs. There goes all of your internal storage just for save files. So I Don't know if that's the way it is on other platforms. I don't remember it being that way on my Xbox one last year, but Kind of interesting. I'm hoping that that gets patched. I don't think they need 5.1 gigabytes per save file Maybe 5.1 allotted total for as many saves as people want 5.1's a lot for the data that it has to save I don't think that that's really necessary. I'm hoping that that gets fixed, but There were things about this game that I applauded in the past I talked about how NBA 2k 18 is the ideal Way that third-party ports should happen on switch and I made a big video about it It did pretty well And it seemed that a lot of people were interested in how 2k 18 handled their switch port and let me say this right now Barring, you know visual aesthetic choices or Personal preferences in different art styles NBA 2k 18 on switch is quite literally the most visually impressive game in the switches library It is beyond a doubt Fantastic. Yes. It's lacking in some anti-aliasing. Yes. It doesn't run at native 1080p Yes There is some Downgrades in the shadows that are very noticeable at times especially in the my career mode, but That aside it is stunning Here I'm showing some some gameplay back and forth of the Xbox one version and the PlayStation 4 version and the switch version in the beginning of my career and You'll notice that the switch version visually is Mmm, like it's right there when they said they were pushing the switch to its absolute maximum I can kind of believe it my switch when I was playing this game The fan was blasting at full blast the entire time I was in any sort of gameplay or cutscene situation Not so much on the menus. Of course, of course menus don't take up that much so it yeah, it pushes the switch hardcore and The fact that outside of anti-aliasing some shadow work that it's almost I you know an obviously resolution It's almost identical to the Xbox one of PlayStation 4 visually is just an impressive feat And that's a lot of what I was basing my praise for 2k on is that you know what? Yeah, they sacrificed in frame rates, but they went for the visual aspect that's going to appeal to to a broader audience and I Was all up on that train and now I've played it and I admit it's playable. It's fine. I've gotten a use to it But the dip in FPS from 60 to 30 is quite noticeable and while I don't have a way to measure frame rates right now on switch I swear that there are a few times. I've noticed in gameplay where the frame rates actually dip We'll have to wait for digital foundries full analysis of the switch version to see But I don't know that it actually holds a constant 30 FPS So that's part of the problem is that I don't think it holds a constant 30 in gameplay Another part of the problem is like as I was recording the Xbox one footage And then I switched over to switch It was quickly apparent how jarring the drop in FPS was and I'm usually not someone on consoles anyways That is big and all it has to be locked 60 FPS has to be you know unlock 30 FPS or whatever, but It was very jarring to me and I played a lot of NBA 2k 17 on Xbox one So I was used to 60 FPS with the with the NBA 2k franchise so it was pretty jarring and I realized that I'm trying to look at this switch version in a bubble because it was obviously gonna have some sacrifices Personally and I said this in my video when I was praising 2k. I would have preferred a lower visual fidelity but Higher frame rates and that's not what they did and I still think it was probably the right choice because it is playable Unless it you know, I'm not imagining this and the frame rate drops aren't real But it's playable playing it portably is where it really shines because obviously I can't help when it's docked to compare it directly To other home consoles, but when you're portable, there's no experience like this for NBA The NBA 2k 18 app on the phone is an embarrassment compared to what you get on switch here And the fact that's fully feature parody online play works fine You're probably watching a bit of a game. I played online I sucked and I know I sucked and that's just because I need to play around more with the controls there are some slight differences control wise between the Xbox one and the And the switch so I got to get used to my audible is my play calling I couldn't even get a screen called at the top of the key, which you know Really baffled me. Anyways, the controls are all there. I just have to play some tutorials and get used to it, but It's it's one of those things that I feel like There almost might be too many sacrifices for me to stand by my stance that this is out there party board should happen because You had that the download issue and the digital issue between the micro SD's and everything and then you have to consider Now we heard the physical version Is only like six point two gigabytes on the cartridge Otherwise you download sixteen point two gigabytes When you buy physical that means that 2k not only didn't opt to go with a 32 gigabyte cartridge Which could have held the entire game and made it so you only needed say file room. They Didn't even go for the standard 16 gigabyte size they literally went for the eight gigabyte size they went for the smallest cartridge size possible to save as much money as they possibly can and Part of me wants to get mad at 2k for that decision because Really couldn't go with the standard size and just take a little less per unit sold and then there's Nintendo side of things where because of the cartridges Nintendo can't eat the cost and But publishers not have to play a premium to have those cartridges it's fine balancing behind the scenes and I don't know who to blame. I don't know if it's 2k is fault or Nintendo's fault Obviously we have plenty of third-party games using the 16 gig cards. We have Dragon Quest out in Japan using the 32 gig So the options are there and obviously I'm upset with 2k for choosing an option that led to this entire issue I mean having to download 16 gigs and you didn't buy it virtually to me is ridiculous I thought it was only gonna be like 10 gigs. Maybe they could put 16 of it on the cartridge or whatever But no, then that's not what happened. So it's a bit of a frustrating situation and 2k 18 itself It makes me question my stance on whether it is better than the FIFA port now I'm gonna have to play FIFA for myself, but I Think I still think the 2k 18 is a Stunning game the fact that they got the full console version running on switch as is is impressive It's visually stunning. I I literally and blow my mind even when I'm watching the between quarter things Where I have bango out there shooting t-shirts up into the crowd walking through the BMO Harris Bradley Center and It's great. I think it looks fantastic and stunning. There's a little pop-in with some of the cheerleaders hair I noticed at times that was a little jarring, but whatever a little bit of pop-in in the in-between scenes that don't involve gameplay is fine but it's It's just a an interesting experience and if any of you guys own NBA 2k 18 out there plan to get it I'd love to know what you think about how 2k approaches because I still think overall. I think 2k made all the right decisions Again, my personal preference now is definitely they should have went 60 FPS, but again They made a game that's visually on par I didn't even think that was possible even at 30 FPS and they did it So You guys let me know what you think I'm still frustrated with really frustrated with the install of the digital version. I'm really frustrated with how they're handling the physical version I was Really happy about getting a day-in-date game From 2k that was on par with the rest, but man, they made it pretty difficult as a switch owner Yeah, that's all I got to say anyways folks I'm just having an honest conversation here about my experience of NBA 2k 18.  I love being a GM I love managing my Milwaukee bucks and trying to take them to the title every single year with Yanis out of catumbo just leading the way but you guys let me know your feelings on this whole situation and Thanks for joining. Hopefully my voice was a little better today than yesterday and Like this video if you like it dislike give you dislike it Subscribe for more videos like this and I'll just see you in the next one


Hello I want to share with you from a reading that happens during Advent almost every year during the season leading up to the celebration of the birth of Christ. It comes from the Gospel of St. Luke the first chapter beginning with a 46th verse it is called the magnificat and Mary said my soul magnifies the Lord and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior for He has looked with favor on the lowliness of His servant and surely from now on all generations will call me blessed for the mighty one has done great things for me and holy is his name his mercy is for those who fear him from generation to generation and he has shown strength with his arm and he scattered the proud in the thoughts of their hearts he has brought down the powerful from their thrones and lifted up the lowly he has filled the hungry with good things and sent the rich away empty he has helped his servant Israel in remembrance of his mercy according to the promise he made to our ancestors to Abraham and to his descendants forever truly I like and really appreciate this magnificat the song that Mary sings after she has met Elizabeth and after she has been visited by the angel telling her that she will carry God's child know that she as a human being is entrusted with this very good gift of God and for that she recognizes that she is blessed even though she comes from what many would call lowly origins even though she is just a peasant girl God has chosen her and acted favorably within her you know we use the word blessed so many times through the year we're blessed because of the things we have or something really good that happens to us but the truth is when God blesses people who dress blesses those who are the lowly those who are wanting those who live on the margins and God also calls those blessed who pays attention and ministers sacrificially to those who have little we will celebrate Christmas and many of us will have a wonderful celebration with families there will be those people who will not because they are alone that day there will be those who are continuing to struggle because of things that are happening in their own personal lives or even because of they lost a job or they've lost members of their family if you really want to be blessed this Christmas season which begins on the 25th day and continues for 12 days make it a part of your life that you will reach out to someone who who may not experience the kind of blessings that you sometimes call the things that happen to you but instead be the blessing that God wants you to be not only to those who are around you but also to the world it's a good way to start the year even to think about how you and I are going to live into this likeness of the image of God in which we're created how you and I have been blessed by the descendants of Abraham who prepared away how you and I have been blessed by this gift of Messiah and that it means not just for us individually but for the whole world and so this is a great time of celebration and I pray and hope that you have a wonderful Christmas Eve and Christmas day and my prayer for all of us is that we will continue and even more deeply bless those who not only need to hear the word of God but to experience God's favor and love from the very kindness and faithfulness of Christian people. Merry Christmas and may you be a blessing in this coming year. Amen.


Runnin' through the rain, seein' through the smoke Facing all my goals, I know Rise today, ain't no easy way To get through what we say I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna Gonna, gonna get by When the going down's swingin' I still smilein' and my heart still sinkin' And if I go down, then I go down swingin' I still smilein' and my heart still sinkin' How's everyone doin' tonight? Hey, my name's Mattali Bonda This place called Boston, Massachusetts I live in this place called Brooklyn, New York And I grew up in this place called Atlanta, Georgia So when I wrote this music I was writing about home And for me, home means so many things It means Massachusetts It means New York It means Atlanta It means the Midwest where I also grew up But more importantly than that, it means where my family's from And that's Malawi And so when I wrote this song and this music I was writing about home and I was writing about when I went home And I was writing about what home could tell this story But I wanted to tell this story Without saying the why Why did I feel like I needed to be home Why did I feel like I needed to be saved Why did I feel like I needed to be changed And why did I feel like home needed to give me something And I wondered why was I scared to do that right Why was I scared to address the why And I realized because the why's scared I realized I was running from that why And I realized what those why's were The why's were ghosts Right And a lot of those ghosts weren't just my ghosts But I didn't know it at the time And when I say ghosts I don't mean What we see in the movies Or in ghost stories But what I mean is the pain Trauma Abuse All these things that we deal with All this pain All this negativity that stays with us Until we address it And so for me What my ghosts were I was starting to come into terms with that Sometimes ghosts they stick with us Sometimes they leave us And come back and return to us And we keep thinking we can outrun them We can keep thinking we can not address them But that's not how it works, right And so I was realizing There was some real things That I had to come to terms with As a young adult A young black man coming into this world And that was what were my ghosts And some of those ghosts Were from my father In his actions In his inaction And then how that impacted me How they impacted my sisters Our family His marriage, right His own life And so at the age of 24 I sat him down And I told him what I was battling And I told him I had ghosts And I told him some of those ghosts Were his ghosts And that there's We might have moved past A lot of things We might have been at a good place At that moment But at the same time I had to get past some certain things And so he looked at me And he told me it was time And so the next month I'm on a plane to Malawi For the first time And when I went there I started to see what Malawi meant for him And my family I started to see the influence That they had In the Malawian independence And I started to see The things that they went through then And the things that they were going through now And I started to understand My dad had ghosts And he was doing his best To get rid of them But I needed to know What the origins of that story was For me to fully feel like I could keep living And keep moving And so originally That's what I wrote this music for It's about going home Right And it's about What that might mean And so all these songs Are inspired by Growing up And all the different places That I feel like are home What are we doing With the lights right now What's going on Y'all gonna stop Messing up my vibe today Alright I need everyone to just relax Just chill Alright That's it Alright So I'm getting my PhD From UMass Amherst In African American studies We're with a concentration In auto ethnography And performance theory And a part of that Is understanding that There's no way you can Discuss other cultures Without first looking Inward at yourself And so when I Wrote this music I was like How do I talk about Malawi But also talk about the fact That I'm a black American That grew up here Right And so a lot of this music It's meant to look at Malawi It's meant to look At that culture And how I perceive it But it's also meant to be About all these other places That shaped me And inspired me So I hope y'all enjoy So now I'm going to Stop talking real quick What I want to do is Y'all look like you can sing Can y'all sing Repeat after me Oh Realize y'all can't go as low as me Oh Let's try that Oh Oh Just this side now Oh But y'all gonna have to be strong With it with your chest Oh There's too many in this room Not to feel it That's still a little Mm We got close to a A close to a stack in here Alright keep that going Now this side Pay attention Alright watch this Oh Oh Let me hear y'all Oh I used to be a chorus director I'm going nice and strong I'm gonna get by When the going gets rough I'm gonna love life Till I'm done growing up And if I go down Then I go down swinging I still smiling And my heart still singing I'm gonna get by When the going gets rough Down swinging I still smiling And my heart still singing Give me more Last time I got funky reeds So that's why I'm like That's the worst If you're a reed player You know what I'm talking about That's how my aunt in here Modi greeted me With me, my father My auntie, Sakane They took me back To the village in Malawi Hit a little more With my vocals At least in the monitors Please, thank you And so this is in Shatuka village In the Inkata Bay region of Malawi I think it's the best region In Malawi I'm a little biased And in this region The Tonga people, my people They played for generations And generations And so welcome home That's how my auntie Nea Modi greeted me Go up and you see all the stars Today we woke up And we go to the wrestling place Of my grandfather Who I'm actually named after I'm Tali Kabanda Flowers And we said prayers As we were walking away My auntie turns to me And she goes full circle You've come home You've paid your respect To the ancestors The lost The circle is complete I wrote this song I wrote this song about That Right, it's called Blackboard Fairytales This whole stuff is called Blackboard Fairytales Because for me this Felt like a fairytale This idea of going back home To Malawi Never seemed possible to me And I was a poor black So this idea of going there Was like I didn't know I didn't know I could go there And so spring 2019 At the very end of the Baha'i Fast I was getting ready to Perform all this music That I had I That I thought was finished And I was actually in Washington, DC at the time And I know she's somewhere in here Is Nicole Best in here? Nah Where's Nicole? What's up girl? So I was playing music with her And I was going to perform This very song about going home And I got this call from my moms And it was my go-go My grandfather Her father And he was sick He was 96 years old And although he had always been sick For a long time And in and out of the hospital This time felt different This voice that there wasn't much time And so this song specifically Just had me thinking about What does it mean to go home? You know, what does this idea of Home going mean, right? You saw that in the title, right? And it's this phrase about Going to a place you've never been before That's always been home Right, so that could be Malawi But it could also be so much more You know, maybe it's not somewhere physical And so when I went to see him As soon as I got back And the doctor said he had six months Right, and I saw him on Tuesday And we talked And he told me so many beautiful things That I still take with me And I don't really share But it's so much a part of my life What I do right now And he told me he loved me He believed in me And he wanted me to stand on this music And do something beautiful with it And I remember when I was leaving the room You know, when he was sitting there And it felt like he was looking At something across the way But no one else could see it Now my grandfather was blind So that's what makes this even more Surreal Now this was on a Tuesday Doctors gave him six months to live He passed away that Thursday A day before I was going to play this music And so it just had me thinking About what this means And this idea of home going That we're all on, right? I think we're all on this idea And preparing for this next world, right? Because I know he was You know Some of y'all might have known In Raymond Elliott And he was ten toes down From how he embraced the next journey It was so beautiful And then I think about four years later Just this past July My grandmother transitioned And I remember how she embraced it And how when the doctors said You know, you have a choice, right? You can keep doing this In and out of the hospital You can keep coming back here Or you can make peace with where you're at At 91 years And welcome it And she looked at me And she looked at my sister And she goes, what do I have to be scared of When I know what's on the other side? Let me say that one more time Because when I play in front of all black people They know how to respond to that What do I have to be scared of When I know what's on the other side? You know, she talked about praying For the people that she loved That were over there You know, but there's only so much praying She could do, she told me They're further and further and further and right And she's like They're living their lives on that end, right? And it might be time for me to join Right, that was in Mac And I was fortunate enough To where I got to be with her In those last breaths Now there's a caveat I'm leaving out of this, right? Last August, my mother went To the family house on Cape Cod Right, and there's this house That my family owns on my mother's side And it's been on our family Since my great-great-grandmother Purchased it in 1954 And she turned it into a bed and breakfast Not just any bed and breakfast But a bed breakfast on the Green Book route Right, the route that African-Americans would take Because they didn't know where they could stop And Massachusetts was no exception To racism in the world Right, if you're from Massachusetts You know what I'm talking about And if you don't, look and work You know, and so my grandmother My great-grandmother Opened up this bed and breakfast So black people Regardless of where they were from They knew where they were on Cape Cod Close to Bourne, Massachusetts There was a place where they called home Call home Now this is a house that I remember going in my whole life And it was a refuge We do Thanksgiving It was Christmas there And it was filled with so much life And so much joy And so it wasn't too far From where we lived in Brockton So my mother decided She liked to go there And so she met up with her cousin Some of y'all might know her Donna Denise My aunt And they went They had a whole weekend planned And they walked up the canal They saw the sunset Walked back And this is beautiful You never get the chance Go to Bourne, Massachusetts I promise you won't be disappointed And they came back They had dinner They made jokes Donna went to bed My mom Martha Elliott went to bed Their other cousin went to bed But my mom didn't wake up And the reason why I'm here right now And I'm doing this set right now Is because of her Because for a lot of y'all know Right, we're my ATL family Y'all might have remembered us When we was here You know, she sang in the choir You know, and she loved What Atlanta did for us Me and her, we hopped in a U-Haul band From Madison, Wisconsin And drove down just me and her Solo dolo And what we found here was so beautiful I'm gonna play the sax If it wasn't for Atlanta Right And so I dedicate this song to her Martha Elliott I dedicate this song to my grandmother Mary Elliott I dedicate this song to my grandfather Raymond Elliott I dedicate this to my father Kenny Bonda To my other grandfather Metallica Bonda To Jeannie Bonda To the ancestors To my auntie Rose Who also recently passed I dedicate this song to everybody That's trying to find a home Because what is home Right, but where Where the love and the light is Alright, so now we're gonna play the song How'd that sound? Wake up, I hear your voice It pains me you're not here And every time I close my eyes I know that you are near It pains me to know I can't hold you Yes, I gotta spread my wings The world can be lonely without you And now I gotta find my way home Oh And every time I close my eyes I'm looking for the way up I know it's been a year But you're weighing on my mind And I don't know what to say You gave me all my dreams You taught me how to hope And I hope I make you proud But I I don't know what to do here I'm still here Being here if you hear Gotta go, wanna go Home is home So you know it's safe Oh And every time I wake up And every time I close my eyes Then you go and cross my mind Can we just give it up for this band one time Wanna keep it a buck one hundred with y'all I just met them today Never done this before Think it's going good, right? And I wanna introduce them But like I said I just met them So normally like I got people's names on lock, right? But I'm meeting a lot of new people today And I'm gonna keep knowing the name Cause this ain't the last time We're playing together, right? Y'all wanna play with me again too, right? So like don't be weird with them afterwards Like they just meeting the friends of the fade Like don't, don't, you know, just be cool Just be cool, all right I wanna keep coming to Atlanta So I'm keys We got Danny Everett Like I said I just met Danny today So I don't know much more Usually with my band mates I got a fun fact or a fun little tidbit You single Danny? So are they Worst thing y'all gave me a mic All right, next up We got Shayna Jenkins Shayna Jenkins My phone locked And she funky on that bass Shayna you got any fun facts you wanna share?  So Last but not least We got Darian Ware on guitar So Darian actually is the person That helped me put this whole group together Originally I had You know, I live in New York I have my New York connection Musicians And something that's cool About the music world Is it's kind of like Our world of high faith Where like We kind of just all know each other And like when you go to a city Like you end up doing a gig And you're like Oh, you know this guy You know that guy What's up? So when I did this I was like I did the bird call Right, who do y'all know In Atlanta And so they put me In contact with somebody And I had a whole band lined up And then Homie got married And his mother-in-law Decided to give him A surprise honeymoon That extended A couple of days And what he thought So Homie's chilling right now Living his best life And I love that for him I do I love that for him But I still needed a band And so he put me In contact with Darian And then Darian was About that life And then he just like Did the busy work So I'm really appreciative of that Right, you're not single No, no His girl might be able to fight too So Y'all just need to chill Just chill We got a keys player I might be single too But ain't nobody asking about me Alright, jokes aside Jokes aside This next piece So when I went When I went back to Malawi You know there was There was really a A main theme that I knew That I was going to have to Address And that was me and my father Having a real honest conversation In ways that I don't think too many people Have with their fathers Especially black men Right, when I was 6 years old I had a half sister Who was 16 Right, now to a 6 year old That's awesome Right, who doesn't love A mid-season casting You know So I was like I've done scene These other people Like that we Let's bring someone else Into the pod This is dope And for the next 10 years I was like this is awesome I got a half sister But then I started to Connect the dots And do the math Right, so if my half sister Is 16 Or 10 years older than me And my older sister Full sister Is 8 years older than me But I know My parents met in college And they stayed together They'll get where I'm going at with this Right, we're doing The math is mathin Or it's not mathin Depending on How you like to look At the glass Half full, half empty Right, so when I was 14 years old This was when me And my mom's was in Atlanta I remember just being like Yo, like, what's up? Like, did this go down? They're divorced by this time So there's a whole lot of things And she kind of tells me the story And she gives me the context As to how my half sister Came to be Right, Malawi was Formed its independence in 1964 Right, this is where My Ph.D. hat comes out And for the first From 1964 to 1993 There was only one president Hastings Kamuzubanda Dr. Hastings Kamuzubanda No relation to me I know we got the same last name We don't claim him Alright, he from a different Part of the country I don't know, we don't No connections, right?  You know, he didn't want To kill these people Because he knew what that Might cause in a civil war Because it was about North and South Kamuzubanda was from The South My family was from the North And then I had my great Uncle As well who Formed him Malawi Newspaper And if you've ever been That's my uncle's newspaper, right? And they were very critical Of what Kamuzubanda was doing And they were very honest, right? And so Kamuzubanda got put In jail And so when my dad Came back to Malawi in 1977 He was 22 years old Had just graduated From UMass Amherst And was hired to be The Olympic coach for Malawi But when he got there It was a completely different Malawi Than when he left in 1966 You know, Kamuzubanda's Dictatorship was now At its full swing And anyone that was doing Anything that was in Contradiction to Kamuzubanda Could be killed Could be put in jail You know, my dad Was harassed for playing Tennis one day When Kamuzubanda was Giving a rally And so when him and my Mom met Right And I got a song about That too But we're not doing that Tonight But when him and my Mom met Their plan was to get married And move to Malawi And start a family there And that's what they began to do Now anyone that met My mother knows She's a tall, beautiful Light-skinned woman Now in the 70s She had a big old Afro Who else was tall Light-skinned with a big Old Afro in the 70s? Angela Davis You know what I'm saying? This is the peak of On the talent of black power And so here's someone My dad who's connected To somebody that Kamuzubanda doesn't like And here's this new Light-skinned woman From America With a fro And so they barged into his home And they told her She has 24 hours to leave And so my dad thinks He's never gonna see her again He thinks he's never gonna Leave Malawi again And so it was in that time That he starts putting on a front Has to go party Has to have a smile on his face Because any act of anger Aggression might be seen As an act against Kamuzubanda And so he meets a woman Has a kid with that woman But then something changes And my mother gets in touch with him And I don't know all those details But she said, We gotta wait for you to get out But you gotta take it now And now my dad didn't Know what no if he stayed or go And so my grandfather Was pleading with him not to leave But he didn't know what to do He loved my mother And he didn't feel like There was anything in Malawi for him And so he left And he didn't go back again For a long time When I was in Malawi I needed to hear what that story was from him I knew my mom did the most To put it into context And to be forgiven towards him But I needed to hear What that meant for him And he told me And his story And my mother's story Matched up from start to finish And I'm so grateful For what these moments are Because I think as men As black men especially We don't usually have this Open dialogue with our fathers We don't have that connection And I think a lot of us see Sometimes at least with mine Sort of him walking around Living this half-life This life where dreams Weren't always fully realized This life where the things he wanted And the things he was working for Didn't always get realized Because over there He had to deal with what He had to deal with Kamuzu And then when he came back here They're running away from those ghosts And the actions he did And the actions he's did As a black man living in the U.S. Also cost him a lot And so I write this song about that About me and him going on a hike In Mount Mulanji in Malawi And having this conversation And I call this song Message to my pops Hope you'll enjoy it And so one thing I remember My father telling me in that moment From the moment he left Malawi He would have these nightmares And I remember being younger one time And I would hear him call out In his sleep And he told me that those dreams Was my grandfather telling him To come home and that he shouldn't Have left So he was wrestling with that That whole time He started going back to Malawi In 2005 And did a nonprofit And started giving back to the village And he told me as soon as he hit home As soon as he started giving back And honoring the tradition Of our family that those ghosts Stop This is a story about the ghosts we face This is a story about the ghosts we face This is a story about the ghosts we face This is a story about the ghosts we face This is a story about the ghosts we face Ways and I've seen how you've grown But I know you still hurt him So I just got to get it off my chest then You paved the way, you let me dream I looked to you for everything If you wasn't perfect I knew that it was worth it Two kings and one dream in the mountains And I know that those walls are behind us And you seem to be free What you've been through Standing you just want to be To be free, to be free This is a story about the ghosts we face And I ain't talking about them usual ways And I've seen how you've grown But I know you still hurt him So I just got to get it off my chest then I think I needed you to tell me How you made it I can't stay unless I make a way To be safe but I know where to stop I guess you had to go I guess I should've known Of all the places old You can always go home These walls are behind us This is a story about the ghosts we face And I ain't talking about them usual ways And I've seen how you've grown But I know you still hurt him So I just got to get it off my chest then We almost over y'all, I promise But y'all having fun, right? This next song, it's kind of like two songs It's called Summer Can't Last And I wrote this The second time I went back to Malawi You know, was for music, right? So I go back now and some people know about me In Malawi with the saxophone Because the musicians I play with In the experiences I had And the first time I went back to play I was playing at this festival called Lake of Stars And people from all over the world were there It's the most white people you'll ever see In Malawi I remember playing on that stage In that year of all years, right? It was in Kata Bay Where my family's from And here's the stage And just to yon the way My great-grandfather was buried Who I'm named after, right? And his family and all these different people And so when I say I was playing for the ancestors You know, we ain't false flexin' We was playing for the ancestors And I remember just being like my cup is full And I could stay here forever But I think we all know right that Summer can't last And we have these lives And these responsibilities And these commitments that we have to live with And those experiences are great But those experiences are great For us to take with us and go where we go Alright, hope y'all enjoy Remember Go to See myself Now when to go to See myself The scars The ghosts They stay Yes, I can go There's a place in my heart And I know it will never known change If you look close enough Yeah You gon' see that I'm listening There's a place in my heart And I know it will never know You gon' see that I'm listening Give them something daring I guess I can go I guess I can go Y'all can stand up too for this one This is a funky one And I leave and I got to I too Hold on for the better days Remember all the things they say Yeah I saw they lived through it And I was going through it And now it's time for me to see If I could hoard bridges I'm tantos for these tongue of people And tradition So slow down for the place Or a time zone So if I got to leave And if I got to go Then I'ma make the solo See me in the never It's too much We got It's too much Can I get this last four One more time for this band Thank y'all so much Thank y'all I know we went over by a lot So I apologize I apologize But please get up for this band Please get up Thank you, thank you, thank you Y'all are both First and foremost They just learned this music It's the audacity for me It's not to say we don't have one in us Are we allowed to? What's the deal? I'm not trying to break no lies in Atlanta I'm trying to come back So we're actually going to do this song And we didn't So let's do that So this is a funny song I wrote I started writing this song In 2018 I went up to Greenacre By high school My boy was out there And I lived close to there So it's not like that much of a journey So no one was there And I liked the piano in Reimer Hall And it's not like I'd be going up there like that This was just extreme circumstances I just broke up with a girl For two and a half years And I was like I just Like most songwriters you You gotta write And so I went up there And I was sitting at the piano in Reimer Hall All alone And I had a cup of coffee And I went up to use the bathroom And as I went up to use the bathroom I hit these notes And I was like there's a song there I hit those notes with my elbow It wasn't on purpose So I was like let's go back to this And I found the chords And I had this idea I don't know Because I think so many times Like we don't know where we are And we don't know what we're doing And so I didn't have too much to this song written And like a lot of my songs Like I'm telling you I start writing them And experiences happen And then you're like This song feels different feels different and I and I say it's like you're writing a song that's still happening and so I had half of this song written for four years and then this past month I was at MCBI in Florida something about these high schools man that just be sparking creativity and I was just like just had this lyrics and they came to me and I was like I think this is about my mom's and you know because when she first passed I didn't know what to do you know and there's so much questioning I was doing you know I woke up on a Sunday morning got back from a gig at like 2 a.m. I was doing my morning stretches and actually she was the first person I called that morning right and so when I got the call from my daughter that my mom passed I didn't know what to do but what I knew was I needed to call my stepbrother who lived in Queens and we're gonna hop in my car and we're gonna drive to born Massachusetts where she passed now there was no fruitful reason for me to go to born Massachusetts other than just I wanted to be in the place in the house where she ascended to and that just felt like the right thing to do and then the next day we leave born and we go to the western part of Massachusetts where most of my family's from right and I remember meeting up with my auntie my auntie Linda who was my mom's best friend and I remember just being so confused as to what do I do because at the time right we had my 91 yo grandmother that we had to take care of so it's like how am I supposed to live this life I'm in New York I'm living my best life in Brooklyn I'm playing with some of the best musicians in the world but I know home is calling and I didn't know what to do but I went on a run and on that run it was crazy was I remember this conversation with moms and it was back in November 2021 and I was in having this conversation with mom on the phone and I was on I was on I was on set for the Whitney Houston movie right I'm in like a snippet of that movie like if you pause it at the right moment you're gonna see a light-skinned brother with a saxophone two-stepping but it's like a millisecond all right and I remember on that set though meeting so many inspiring musicians and at the time I had half foot in New York half foot in Massachusetts I had my apartment in Brooklyn but I had work that was still doing in Massachusetts and I was like I don't know what to do and my mom right y'all know her and she's great but my mom's also from Boston and you know Boston there's a hardened exterior right so so mom wasn't the biggest that given compliments and so what she said next meant so much to me and she told me all these stories about growing up me growing up about music and how she felt like I was always trying to create I was always trying to do something and that I had a valuable story to tell and that the only way I was gonna do that was to go to New York because I had exhausted all my avenues in Massachusetts and I had forgotten that conversation that happened a year prior to that until my run and so for the last year there's been so many moments where I'm just like I don't know but a conversation where they will come up either on my run or a drive or in the shower and so I write this I wrote these lyrics for my mom now these lyrics are fresh so I'm gonna pull up the lyrics on here that's a little tacky but and I don't know let's bring it down just a little for this next part I'm standing on my feet I'm thinking all the things that you said to me that I wish I could see I'm six feet over you and I pray for your soul through but I know you don't need me because it's soaring finally free I'm waking up as if I'll never leave I'm shedding tears because I just can't believe that you're gone and I'm here all alone and I fear that all the things that you was running from gonna catch up to me and I'll never know what to do without you without you I don't know and I don't know and I don't know where I used to run in circles I used to run in circles trying to catch the end of my hometown I used to run away now all I do is pray now trying to understand the words we're in because it's pain and this greed but this love that I need if I hear maybe I can finally know is it's hard but I fight through the scar this new and the six parts of sing along try this out with me and I just want to be I just want to be can y'all try that one this is our last song I just want to be I just want to be I just want to be I just want to be want to hear y'all do that do that with me this is our last moment right here we go I just want to be I just want to be I just want to be I just want to be I just want to be I just want to be I just want to be I just want to be let's do that one last time I just want to be I just want to be I just want to be I just want to be free all right y'all thank you so much my name is Matali Bonda and I hope y'all enjoyed


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Son, he's okay. Here we go. We're back. We are back. Are you surprised? We're back. Of course. We're back. We live here I'm Jay Fidel. This is think tech here. It is the one o'clock block Here on think tech on a Thursday afternoon, and we have a very very very very very special guest here. Dr. Turnboy He is a professor and has been a professor for some time the Mattson professor at the Schuyler College of Business Let me tell you his basic roles in life He is the Mattson navigation endowed chair professor of global business And he's the chair of the Department of Information and Technology Management He's director of Pacific Research Institute for Information Systems Management and the director of the Apex Studies Center We've been talking about that. He's the director and CEO of the UH Vietnam Executive MBA programs in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City He's the chair of the Hawaii International Conference on System Science HCSS.org And he's at it's all at the Schuyler College of Business University of Hawaii at Manoa and I am so happy to have him here. Welcome to the show yet again wonderful to have you here, Turnboy. Thank you, Jay. Thank you for having me back. So we're going to talk today about, you know, the things that fall within your ambit What's going on in business in Asia Pacific? What's going on with Trump and how Trump affects business through his Diplomatic machinations and his business maneuvers where he steps on things And so I want to get a handle on the real effect of this and I know you can help me You've thought about this and I'd like to propose some propositions to you and see what you have to say about them These are very interesting and you gave me these propositions. I'm interested These are observations, okay First Let's see First Asian countries and for that matter most of the trade partners of the US around the world are concerned about the Isolation isolationism of the US administration Why they're concerned and how deep a problem is US isolationism? Okay, I think a major problem from the perspective of Asian countries is the fact that most Asian economies They rely their growth on a export driven economy If you look at the past Japan China South Korea And other countries they rely so much on exporting their production to Major economies and particularly the United States in order to grow the economy and For the last decades or so we have a number of the Tigers country like Vietnam the Philippines and Indonesia and those countries actually are also trying to duplicate as the same model and now With a Trump's policy trying to reduce the trade deficit Therefore, it's a major concern and quite a few businesses in Asia are getting very anxious about Looking at the US as a limitation to export their products. Yeah, so can you throw in the? Dicotomy between sales of goods and sales of services. Do we have an advantage in services or an advantage of goods or both? And how does isolationism affect our ability to sell services and goods? Yes, and actually this is a great question that we need to think more deeply but the economy of today is not a economy of a producer and The buyer or a seller or a buyer But basically we are living in an economy where integration is so important And then you are my buyer, but I am also your buyer as well Let me give you an example iPhone for example is my technology from Samsung to produce its iPhone and Samsung is buying technologies from Apple in order to build its Samsung Galaxy, so you cannot say that the South Korea has a trade Excellent visa with the US, but it just is the accounting doesn't work anymore So this is something that using the concept of trade deficit to engage in a trade war No, no doesn't seem to work anymore. Yeah trade wars are Old yeah, they're they're gone and forgotten but let's take the Asia Pacific region at least and Talk about how it has been how it has been under Obama how it has been in terms of developing robust Relationships under the existing arrangements including the TPP which didn't didn't actually survive for us anyway How has it been are we are we being successful these days? Are we doing the things we you know could have should have done before Trump? Let me talk about two things the reality of the economy and the politics of it The reality of the economy is that the world is not living in the context of his sub of the international supply chain network So we buy a lot of we Americans we buy a lot of stuff from Asia in order to produce our stuff For example, China has been known to be the factory of American companies for Walmart and Apple and so on and Vietnam is now catching up as well most of Interestingly enough if when people think about Vietnam they think about exporting rice or fish or all these things but in fact the major work of export from Vietnam actually are High-tech products made for by American companies. Yeah, how about Chinese companies Chinese companies are outsourcing to Vietnam, too Little bit but not as much because they are still competitors between them as a producers of Basic parts, but then so if you look at Vietnam, which is currently in the blacklist of the Trump administration as one of those 20 Countries that cause trade deficit to the US But in fact these countries are supporting the production of American products So the supply chain context is much more complicated than just looking as you mentioned a little bit earlier The relationship between the borders of two economies. There is not such a thing anymore in this context Now, let me talk a little bit about the TPP by Restoring from TPP. I think we are basically denying our opportunity to me. I think it is an opportunity loss Just last month in Hanoi, there was a TPP meeting of 11 countries without the US Not there at all not at all and they were discussing about what to do without the US and now Japan has decided to take the lead to replace the United States and there is another thing that is going on right now the regional comprehensive partnership between China and other Asian countries and now China is Going to take the lead on that issue and now they are also developing the silk world to do business Europe, so certainly in the international business if you try to disappear Then it doesn't work. So my understanding from the Trump administration is that they would like to get rid of collective bargaining But I get you into a bilateral Negotiation so instead of going through TPP instead of going through WTO What they would like to do is they like to go one by one But one by one favors the larger partner and if you want to try to dominate You can dominate better in a one in a one-on-one you know lateral agreement No, so I guess this is a point the point is not because of the fact that the US is still the number one economy in the world And by getting into a bilateral negotiation Like sample US Vietnam US South Korea US Japan and so on The law the jungle is not the stronger would prevail But the problem is this is a fully globally integrated world You cannot just engage into a bilateral negotiation Because what happens if I negotiate with Japan and Japan negotiate with China and China negotiate with Vietnam Vietnam Was the Philippines and so on you you end up to have a big mess and this is what WTO and TPP accept there for that matter Yeah, that's so interesting. So We're in the past. I think this kind of arrangement was Largely unilateral or bilateral I should say You try that today and you run into trouble and it sounds like that's this administration's strategy to go from multilateral to Bilateral and then have separate agreements on the thought that they'll that the administration will be more powerful with anybody On a one-to-one basis and on a one-to-many basis, but the problem and I'd like to identify the problem So let's assume we try to do that. Let's assume we try to have a multi I mean bilateral agreements with all the countries in the world a couple of hundred countries What happens you said it unravels, but how does it unravel? How does it how does it come back to bite us? So, you know about it a negotiation would might work if you weren't in business So assuming you produce Let's say computers and then you are trying to negotiate between different suppliers like memory chips For example, then you can play that game a little bit So you negotiate with one guy and you try to counteroffer with another guy. It might work as a business But this is a government and government do not have full control on International businesses. You are talking about more than nationals.  This is the essence of entrepreneurship. They don't care And they will find a way to circumvent the situation and therefore I don't think the concept is going to work my my view of the government especially the leadership of the u.s. is to set a Fundamentals of the global business standards human rights labor law Fair trade so that we can have a fair playground for businesses to run to do international competition and competitiveness And this is not the matter of saying that you have a trick deficit against me Then I'm going to kill you and it's not going to work But this is this is a second observation that I would have to share with you written bit Asia is trying to figure out how to counteract with the new administration Washington DC So the easiest policy is to do wait and see and I think this is actually a fairly fair strategy because Honestly, we still do not know yet. What Washington DC is thinking nowadays Second so you have got to figure out if they have a consistent policy to do anything about global trade but One thing that is so stunning to me is the outcome of the negotiation between President Trump and China Before presidency came to Washington DC he really Treaden China quite a bit about the trade deficit about currency depreciation and so on But then after a few days of meeting Basically, he forgot about all of these things and he even gave quite a bit of trade concessions For the sake of security against North Korea, right? So what is the point? So certainly what what it means is that? starting from a very simplistic view of business looking at reducing trade Deficits and getting more jobs to the US now we are putting a lot of factors that were not considered at the very beginning Yeah, so basically my strategy that I would think Asian countries would be doing is that they would create all kind of Possibly artificial arguments in order to counter the benefit of trade deficits against the USA This is it sounds fairly tumultuous And it must be a real train on the people the rank and file in the State Department the State Department officials And as far as the as you said as the multinational corporations are concerned Okay, do whatever you want. We're gonna handle it on a business basis by ourselves So this is precisely the point that I'm thinking Because that the new administration in in Washington is relatively new It's really like more than four months. So people are still trying to figure out what is happening there But at the end of the day, I would argue That the impact from the Trump policy would be much smaller than we expect That could be a lot of noise That would obviously cause a lot of concern and anxiety it has been But at the end of the day the force of integration globalization the impact by those multinational those global companies The flow of money the flow of ideas the flow of people to support the sustainable economy is going to prevail so We might be we might have a lot of things to talk about what is happening in the Trump administration But I think at the end of the day life would go on Wouldn't take a short break to avoid We're gonna Kind of integrate what you're saying. It's really wonderful and then we'll be right back Aloha, my name is Steven Philip Katz. I'm a licensed marriage and family therapist And I'm the host of shrink wrap Hawaii where I talk to other shrinks. Did you ever want to get your head shrunk? 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We're here with tongue boy a professor of match and professor of global business and many other things at the Schradler College of Business We have the honor of having him in the studio today to talk about Asia pacific and business and all the things the trump administration is doing and how that affects it and how it affects us I guess ultimately, but you know, I wanted to Explore with you the you know the the kind of policies that the trump administration putting out the kind of isolationist policies trade war type of policies Bilateral instead of multilateral approaches things This is costing us in some way It may not have as profound an effect on trade and business as we think perhaps because Trade and business is conducted by business partners who may not care what the governments do at any given moment in time I'm telling you that was a harbour professor of business out here a couple years ago And she pointed out that You you measure influence by the amount of money that passes hands and the amount of money that passes hands between Multinational corporations is far greater than between governments and therefore if you measure it that way These businesses have greater influence than the governments do But I'm wondering about the geopolitical aspect and how that affects business, you know So you can say well, it doesn't affect business that much But we we have to agree that when everyone in the world is ticked off at the us for things that he's done And the isolationist positions that he's taken That affects our image our reputation our influence nationally and geopolitically, but doesn't it ultimately also affect business Well It certainly has an impact. I don't think we could deny it We we have already seen a slight decrease in People tourists visit in the USA We have seen quite a few contracts being delayed because people like to see what is the impact on trade policies On tax on import tax and so on So no denial There is an impact but again as I mentioned in a global economy with a global supply chain network People are so creative And then there are certain states in the u.s. Who finds way to who are finding ways to circumvent the policy in Washington DC At the end of the day as I mentioned earlier We don't know yet the impact but I hope and I suspect That the impact is not going to be that big at the end of the day As far as the geopolitical situation Obviously, you might have heard the tension between Mr. Trump and the leaders in the world including The prime minister of england and then the newly elected French president But and then is there anybody who's not being disregarded the story about the chancellor of Germany So so so the story goes on and goes and goes on But I think people are smart and in the world of diplomacy at the end of the day people reason and the language of The reason is going to prevail I think And the hope that we all have about our president is that He is finally a businessman at heart And business people successful business people tend to be very pragmatic And if a pragmatic person tend to come down to reason I think the real situation that we are having right now is that the view from the American administration is so simplistic And the word is by far much more complicated than that simplistic view of the world But then I think The work the work goes on And one message that I would like to share to the administration is that If you go back to the wisdom by Aristotle Aristotle, you know, I want you to know on think tech we we spare No, no possibility. We talked about Aristotle. Have you talked about Aristotle lately? Never mind But but this is actually coming wisdom nowadays The whole is actually much greater than the sum of its parts So what it means is that we live in a global economy Then we have many individual nations that are working together So we can come up with a global concept of working together to co-create value to all the citizens of the world It is much better than isolating ourselves in our own Corner of the world and try to do the best we can So I don't think the model would work anymore and this wisdom actually is more Greater than today than ever. Yeah, yeah Well, I mean what's interesting is that some of these leaders are much more akamai than the the trump administration is akamai about these things And they're sophisticated. They understand and I wonder When you say that in inheriting that is that well, he may want to do a trade war But people I mean leaders in other countries. I'm not going to respond in kind They're going to be more akamai than that because if they responded in kind, we'd have this As you said trade wars are over. That's that's that's done and gone So how will they respond even if he becomes more isolationist and more, you know Multilateral even unilateral and engaged in trade war but In the short term, I expect nothing is going to happen everything in the global world Especially from in terms of international negotiation is moving extremely slow. So maybe when Maybe if trump stays for the second term these things might happen But I don't think his ideas is going to be carried over immediately And then in the second observation, which is actually a bit more scary to me Is that that's by the fact that the us is still the number one economy in the world? We are no longer The most important factor The word actually technically Could go by without us They need us we are a very important country for special for Asia Yeah, but then without us they can still survive So basically the message is that should we be Part of it or we are of it. Yeah, but I think the word will move on Yeah, like in tpp other people will take our role. We will no longer be a leader in that We will no longer be a trade leader going back to the tpp. I think this is truly a opportunity loss To me the economy of the 21st century is moving and it has already moved in The service economy And this is where the usa has lots of competitive advantage. You're talking about Software technology. You're talking about tourism. You're talking about education. You're talking about healthcare So we are leading the world in those areas And then the whole world is looking up to us in order to do the leadership in international trade by withdrawing from those Partnerships because of the fact that we are losing In certain economic sectors like like the production And these technologies and then then we are Trying to protect something that we are losing anyway And we are foregoing opportunities on something that is much bigger Which is a service industry. Yeah, it's the wrong way to go So what is the right way to go? I mean, for example, you know, if you had tpp tpp is what a dozen or so nations 12 um and um, you know a peck, which is 11 A peck is like 21 nations and so forth and Although a peck is not so much a trade agreement as a sort of border economic kind of agreement But I'm I'm just wondering what is the optimal solution because you can have 12 Why not have 200? Why not have the model of tpp and a peck prevail for world relations World trade for everyone to be involved on an equal basis is is that does it reach a tipping point where it's no longer productive?  Actually, the best of all words would be to keep working on the word trade organization Which is a large body That embraces The most of the nations on earth The problem is not like a big family If you have a big family then you expect to have more internal fight Yes So have a smaller group of people then it tend to be a little bit easier to manage So actually the concept of tpp is so wonderful because you are dealing with 12 countries Yet they occupy 40 of the trade of the of the GDP of the world and one third of global trade And then the beauty about the tpp is that you are dealing with a strong economy which is d us And the fact about other countries that are supporting american economies in the context of supply chain economy South korea, vietnam, the philippines, indonesia all these countries actually are our Suppliers and therefore it is nice to work within that smaller set of family It's a practical thing Exactly as opposed to a WTO that is way too big. Yeah, so it's a matter of practical considerations for easy management If you have a 200 member organization, it's very hard to manage it and and people will be unruly and sometimes difficult So it's better to have it small and let them ask to come in and then maybe we take them in Shrinking this down to hawaii, okay It strikes me that there was a time maybe there still is a time when hawaii can be A trade leader a place for mediation a place A sort of market center if you will and right now we have signs of that at the convention center With all these scientific conferences that are happening Right now there's one going on this week 8 000 people coming and talk about microwave technology There was one not too long ago. There'll be a lot more in the future involving hundreds of thousands of people to come in Then millions and millions even billions of dollars come in by way of tourism Now that in itself is not a big deal except that It seems to me that hawaii has a prospect as a state of the union to be a trade center Do you agree and do you think that the trump administration is undermining that possibility? To my personal knowledge, I haven't seen anything happening yet again, I think Hawaii is a bit too small of the radar of what the trump administration is thinking right now As I mentioned earlier, the world Goes on so Tourism in hawaii is still good and healthy Because of the fact that we are still one of the best destinations in the world And given a more insecure world nowadays, hawaii has Been recognized as a safer place to travel and visit And then thanks to the university of hawaii, we do have we do attract quite a bit of scientific Conferences in the country in the state. So I think we are at least for now Still doing okay And again, I don't think that what is happening in russian to deceive but impact us too too much On a bright on a bright spot Uh The trump administration is increased is increasing significantly The military budget By a huge Percentage 54 billion or something. I know so I think if he can if he can obviously and if he can Then I expect that it would benefit hawaii a little bit as well. Yeah And one more thought before we close is that um, I understand in november of this year They'll have the apex meeting in um in vietnam And trump has said is and this is seems counter to some of the other things he's done Trump has said he's going to attend You have any thoughts about why he's going to attend? What kind of a presence he's going to create there and what kind of benefit if at all We will have the united states will have from that The benefit by effect versus the major meetings like that are called in paris or the uto meeting Is that a pick is basically a non-binding meeting? so We Participating countries don't have to sign anything And therefore it is just a it's a hobby a hobby A photo op To light up and then take pictures and smile so I think No interpreted me. I don't think he but this that's opportunity. It's perfect. That is perfect opportunity for a photo op The better meetings are the ones where you actually get down to business Make deals write it up, but you have all the necessary authorities back home actually approve it It's nothing to happen. There's no no Thank you, tongue boy. It's been great to talk to you. I know we have miles to go And maybe we can do this again soon. Thank you for having me and thank you again