I'm Marsha Joyner, and this is Community Matters. We at ThinkTech are doing a series of shows. ThinkTech is introducing our public to the candidates that are running for the various offices in Hawaii. From the tip of the big island all the way to Nihihau and everything in between. And today we are visiting with Senator Donna Ricardo Kim. Aloha. Aloha. Nice to see you. Donna is, well, what can I say? She is a big part of Hawaii for as long as I can remember anyway. And so she has decided to desert us. She wants to go to D.C. And so she's running for the House seat that Congresswoman Honobusa is giving up to run for governor. So, welcome. Thank you. Welcome, Senator. Thank you. I just want to say that I'm not deserting you or my district. I told my district that I'm just expanding the boundaries and that I will always represent them and everyone else. I'm thinking of D.C. in the cold. It is a bit much. Yes, it is a bit much. I went to school in Washington State University on the east side of Washington where it snowed a lot. And so I have some experience of living in the snow. Well, okay. Not that you get used to it, but. Hanna was born in Kali and Donna Kim has served the people of Hawaii for 34 years. She has served every level of the state and local government from Honolulu City Council, Hawaii State House of Representatives, and currently the Hawaii State Senate. And you just told us you were a graduate of Washington State University and. Barrington High School. Absolutely. And Kali. Go governors. He loves. I have so much school spirit and so much aloha for Farrington High School, and you know the motto there is enter to learn, go forth to serve, and obviously I absorbed it all and I went forth and served. Oh, wonderful. Well, you have been a very strong voice at every level that you have served in. And in this day of the Me Too movement and women of showing, there was a time when women didn't show the strength. But now we appreciate, we honor that strength. And so I am. Thank you. Very proud to have known you all of those 34 years, oh my God. Let me just interject right there if I may, Marcia. You know, four years ago I did run for Congress as well. And at that time my team and all of my advisors said, you know, you're too tough and a lot of people feel that you need to soften, we need to soften you, and all of that.  And so this time around I said, you know what, I have to be me. I have to be authentic to who I am. And you know, and it's not so much that I'm tough, but I am just so passionate about the issues and about helping Hawaii and seeing the frustration on people and the hard times that they have that it really makes you want to get to the bottom of why we can't fix things. And so that's what drives me. Well, there's a, the state government, not so much in the legislature, but the state government, there's a lethargy.  And go along together. Yeah. Right? It's whatnot. So to have you and people like you in the legislature that get things done, that don't have it sitting on their desk and, oh, we'll get to it kind of thing. But then you get labeled with the B word, right? I mean. Well, yes. We understand that. Yes. But you know, when I first ran in 1982, it was a time when you really didn't talk about women issues. There weren't a lot of women role models back then. Patsy Mink was my role model. But there weren't a lot. And so it was difficult because you didn't talk about women issues. You didn't talk about reproductive rights, even though Roe vs. Wade had passed about eight, nine years prior to that. You still never talked about it in public and even in your families. Your families didn't talk about it. And so it wasn't, it was a difficult time because to be accepted and to be successful with your male peers, they didn't want to hear about a whole lot of women issues. No. And when you mentioned Patsy Mink, that was the strongest woman ever. And I think that's what people loved about her, that she refused to take a seat behind. You know, I was so fortunate because when I went to the City Council in 1985, Patsy was on the City Council. Remember, she had lost her race for Senate and then she was out of it for a while. And then she decided to come back and she went on the City Council. And so I ended up being one of nine with Patsy and I ended up being in committees with her. And I really learned a lot. I watched her and I would watch how she would read all of the testimony and underline it with this black ink pen and how she would vigorously battle and fight for things. And then when it was done, it was done. And she put it on the side and moved on to the next issue. And she never hold it and pout it about it. She just handled it with so much professionalism. And that's something that I learned from her. Well, I think, yes, of course, and that's, well, she was just dynamite. And I think of you in the same light, this strong dynamite. Thank you. Because now you were president of the Senate. How did you get to be that if you were strong? Well, part of being Senate president is working with everybody. And I always feel that the president is not the one that is supposed to be front and center. You need to prop up your committee chairs. You need to support them. You need to support the majority. And I remember saying that if you want to, because in the City Council, I never wanted to be council chair. It's because you have to set aside your own agenda. You almost have to set aside even your district's agenda, because you need to then support and represent the agenda of the collective body. And it's not always easy. As Senate president, I had to stand on that podium and vote yes on every single measure that came out of committee from my committee chairs, because that's my role, to support my committee chairs, even though I may not have liked or wanted any of those measures. But before that, you were what, Chair Ways and Means, for anybody that doesn't know, tell us what Ways and Means. Ways and Means handles the budget, basically. And so the entire state budget has to go through the House for approval, and have to come to the Senate for approval, and then we have to meet, and we have to have the meeting of the minds, and it goes up to the governor. It starts off with the governor's budget. And so the House works it, and they take things out and put things in, and then they take it over to us, and we put things in and take things out. And I was Ways and Means at a time where the economy, we had a downturn, and we had to do a lot of cutting. Now, it's very easy to be in charge of the budget when you have a lot of money, and you can be Santa Claus and say yes to everybody. But when you don't have a lot of money and you have to cut, and you have to say no to a lot of people, people got upset. And that was the time we had Furlough Fridays, remember? And we had all kinds of cuts going on. And didn't you have a Republican governor? Yes, we did have a Republican governor. You had a Republican governor. We did. But we tried to look at the budget and how we balance the budget. And mind you now, none of the legislators are experts in every field, and clearly we're not experts in budget. But you have to understand, you have to study, you have to do your homework. And I put in a lot of time. It was more than full-time and on weekends and late into the night to make sure that I understand the budget, that I knew what we're doing, that I could see where the cuts can come from, where the overtime, where the vacant positions are, how do we balance everything together. In the meantime, you have your members in your house that want certain things in the budget. They want certain bills. They want certain CIP to take back to their district, they're out for reelection. And so you have to balance all of that. One of the things that I'm very passionate about is government transparency and accountability. And so I want an incentive to be more transparent. I want the public to be able to see our worksheets, to be able to see our decision-making and understand why we're doing it. I even did not like gut and replace. And we passed a measure for our rules to say that all new things that are put into the bill after certain readings need to have a public hearing, that you can't just enter it. And you can't gut a bill, put something else in you, which they tried to do this past session again, even though it's in our rules. Because the fallacy with our rules is that you can waive the rules. If you have the majority of the members, you can waive the rule. Oh, my. Well, you can waive any rule. How long did you have 13 members? Is that in the Senate or the House or both? Both. The House would need 26. And so a lot of times go notwithstanding the rules or notwithstanding whatever it is that a law, as long as you have the majority, you can do it. So you could pull a bill out of... Yes, the majority can do almost anything. Oh, okay. Do you know that? No. No, but who knows the rules? Well, that's one thing I learned when I got into city councils. You have to know the rules, read the rules backward and forward so you can understand that. Yeah. Now, here's the question that comes up almost with every candidate, because they're from different parts. Right. And you served in tourism. Yes. What is your take? How do you feel about where tourism is now? What can we do? What should we do? Have we reached the tipping point? Can we take more people? What do you feel about that? That's always been the perennial question. What is the carrying capacity of our islands? What is the carrying capacity of Oahu? And I know Senator Hemings used to always say, you know, and introduce measures to do a carrying capacity study. When I came to the Senate in 2001, I had my choice of committees. I had supported Bobby Bundy. He became president. So I had my choice of committees. And I said, I want a tourism committee. And they said, why tourism? Because it was like economic development in tourism or public works in tourism. It was always like a stepchild, I called it. And I said, I want committee on tourism by itself. I said, because tourism is so important to our state and it needs to have the focus. And someone said, well, you know, they only get like two, three, four bills a year. You don't do very much. And I said, you don't need a bill. I said, you can have hearings and you can have any kind of forum to bring out the issues you don't necessarily have to have a bill. And so I was given the tourism committee. And back then it was Hawaii Tourism Authority and it was the Hawaii Visitor Bureau. And there was a lot of issues there. But to make the story really short was that I did a lot of oversight. We overhauled Hawaii Tourism Authority. We cut the budget. And I made sure that they were accountable before we raised the budget again. But back in those days they had a strategic plan. And one of the plans was that we're going to attract a higher spending visitor. And we had, we had 7 million visitors back then. The higher visitor, higher spending visitor and the business visitor. That way we would still have the same amount of money coming in or more, but not as many people and it wouldn't tax our environment. It wouldn't impact our beaches and impact our local residents. And somewhere along the line that strategic element got put on the side burner. And now we're just all about numbers and we're up to 9 million plus visitors. And Waikiki looks like any other big city. The charm of Waikiki and the beauty, the magic is gone. And that's one of the other things that the industry did not like about me. In fact, I have to tell us a little story, is that when I became the chair of tourism I started making all of these inquiries and passing audits. They went to the president and said, you need to take her out, you need to take her out. And of course Bobby didn't take me out, Senator Bunda didn't take me out. Then they threatened and said, well we're going to campaign against her and we're going to, you know, in the next election and take her out. Because they did not want change to take place. In the industry they wanted that way. And I said, no, you know, we need to make these changes. This industry is just too important to the whole economy of Hawaii. Well, it is and yet it's lost its beauty, it's lost its charm. And the budget, you know, the budget, the majority of the budget went to marketing. And I kept saying, you need to put some of that money into the experience, into the environment. So I mandated a million dollars that went from the HTA funds, special funds, into DLNR. And over the years it's now, I believe, three million or five million near that amount. Because you know, I said, you're going to market this place, people are going to come and they're not going to have a good experience and they're never going to come back. So I don't care how much you market, you have to take care of our island. You need to take care of our environment and our island. Well, we need to take a break and we'll be right back. Hi, I'm Pete McGinnis-Mark and every Monday at one o'clock I'm the host of Think Tech Hawaii's Research in Munna. And at that program we bring to you a whole range of new scientific results from the university ranging from everything from exploring the solar system to looking at the earth from space, going underwater, talking about earthquakes and volcanoes, and other things which have a direct relevance not only to Hawaii, but also to our economy. So please try and join me one o'clock on a Monday afternoon to Think Tech Hawaii's Research in Munna and see you then. And Aloha, my name is Calvin Griffin, the host of Hawaii in Uniform. And every Friday at 11 o'clock here on Think Tech Hawaii we bring in the latest in what's happening within the military community and we also invite all of your response to things that's happening here. For those of you who haven't seen the program before, again we invite your participation. We're here to give information, not disinformation, and we always enjoy response from the public. But join us here at Hawaii in Uniform, Fridays, 11 a.m. here on Think Tech Hawaii. Aloha. Aloha. I'm Marcia Joyner and today we are talking to Senator Donna Ricardo Kim who is running for the seat that Congresswoman Colleen Honabusa has resigned from. Well, she hasn't resigned yet. Oh, she hasn't resigned yet. No, because she is at the end of her term. So she just terms out, ah, very good, okay. And so you want to go to Washington. Well, before you go, before you go, let's talk about education here in Hawaii and what do you think we can do to keep our students and our people home? All of my sons went away to school and haven't come back. What you, you were part of or are part of the higher education. Yes. What do you think that we can do? Well, first Marcia, let me just say that I am a product of the public school system, you know, from elementary school to high school. And if it's not for public school, I don't believe I would be where I'm at today. I want to save all children a winter public school. Yes.  And subsequently had a child and put him through college. And so I understand how difficult it is that college tuition costs have just skyrocketed and many families cannot afford. Well, you know, we didn't go to an Ivy League college. I went to a state college, but it was still very expensive. And so I would like to see us have affordable college tuition. I'd like to see the federal government give grants or tax credits to colleges that will keep their tuition down. I'd like to see us give more support. I'd like to look at how we can cap the interest rates or zero interest rates for student loans so that people can go to school and then pay back their loans, but not have the escalating interest rates that cause things to just, you know, be paid back for the lifetime. Forever. Forever. And then get in the way of them. Yes. But what can we do about creating an industry or several industries here other than tourism and, you know, the federal government, of course, that children can grow into right here? Well, we need to attract the businesses. And that's the problem. Hawaii has a bad track record. We are often rated that we are not business friendly, that we have a lot of government regulations on small businesses as well as big businesses. And so we need to look at how do we, you know, other states will look at businesses and attract them and give them tax credits to get them to come to their state. But Hawaii, you know, we're a paradise and so the land prices are so high and businesses have a hard time getting start up as far as bricks and motors. It's very expensive.  And it's very hard to sustain oneself here in Hawaii. Well, now we have to assume that you're going to go off to D.C. Now, I have something that I think everyone in the Congress should be looking at and that includes Hawaii and that is rural health across the country, not just us, but, you know, when you get out of urban Honolulu and you look at the neighbor islands, tell me, once you go to the Congress, what is it we can do to deal, not just having an Obama card, but the facilities, the ambulance, all of the things that go in to what can we do with rural health? First of all, we have to be able to attract the doctors and the physicians into these areas. A lot of times there is a shortage because these physicians or these doctors don't want to live there. So there has to be some kind of incentive to get them to the rural areas. And then once they get to the rural areas, then we need to supplement their income or supplement maybe not that so far the income, but their practices and how it is that we can enhance that. It's always a challenge when you look at how much we actually put for health care. And that's what the legislature has to look at. Where are our priorities? And I tell that to everybody, Marcia, that comes to see me, that government can't be all things to all people. And so we need to really prioritize and see what are the mandates, K through 12, health care, human services, there are certain things that should be our mandates. But, you know, the legislature love to add programs and we add on so many different programs that we cannot sustain over the years. Healthy Start was one of them. It started at 3 million. Then it went up to 21 million. And during bad times we couldn't sustain it, it's back down. So you know, we want to put on these feel-good type of programs and yet we can't sustain that. So we really have to look at sustainability. But across the country, I'm assuming that you're going to be one of the 218- 400? Okay. 435. Yeah. Well, we're not up to 218 yet. Just in case, the best step you don't understand, that to get a bill on the floor of the Congress, you have to have 218 people. So the Democrats need 218. Right. Anyway, that's a side track. But to look at the facilities for rural health and all of the things, I saw a documentary on West Virginia and it was so sad because they don't have the facilities. They don't have the doctors. They just don't have. And you know, if you try to take an ambulance up to the Hunter Road, what, wow. So that's what I'm looking at overall. But you know, those things fall under the counties and then the state. And so a lot of times, as far as the federal government, they would become in the form of grants to supplement these programs. But the actual program itself, it does fall under the county government and the state government. So we're always talking about home rule and more control at the local level. And so those are the kinds of things that local government has to start to prioritize these ambulances. In fact, I just signed a letter asking for ambulances in our area. And on the other islands? Well, I mean, you know, I represent the Moana Loa Salt Lake, so the legislators there got together and we need one in our area as well. So each of the legislators are looking after their district as to, I know, Kalani English for Maui has requested that as well and health centers and so forth. So each legislator, look at their district and see what are their needs. Well, I would imagine now the Big Island has lots of needs. Oh, absolutely. We want to support them. And Russell Ruderman, my colleague in the Senate, certainly we are looking at him for guidance as to what we can do. Well, now, OK. So we know that with you, the state is in good hands. Now, why do you want to go to Congress? Well, I want to put our country in good hands as well. That's a start. And you know, I can't stand and watch anymore, Marcia, the partisan gridlock that's going on in Washington. It's really threatening our communities. It's threatening our fundamental rights and it's threatening our future. And I really believe that we need somebody strong to go there and represent Hawaii. Someone that doesn't have a political agenda or a political will to want to climb the political ladder. I'm done doing that. And I just want to go there to fight for Hawaii. And I feel that I have the qualities and I'm able to bring people together. And that's the key, Marcia, that we in Hawaii only have four members in the whole Congress. And in order to get anything passed, we need a majority. And so you have to have people that are able to communicate what it is Hawaii needs, communicate that to your colleagues, so they will support you. And then you have to be a supportive as well of their programs. And so it does require alliances like Senator Inouye had with Senator Stevens from Alaska. And you need to be able to work together and bring people together. Then you need a delegation that is also unified and there's continuity. And unfortunately, since Senator Inouye and Senator Akaka passed away, our delegation has not gotten to that point where they're completely cohesive and there's unity. And I certainly want to be that unifying... Just four people and you can't get... I want to be that unifying force. And one of the problems I think is people are afraid that somebody else is going to run against them. So I have told each of the members that I have no intention of running for Senate, no intention of running for any office. I will stay in the House for as long as the people allow me. And so I want to be able to work with the members so that they don't feel like, you know, someday I'm going to come out to them. And that's a reality. You know, people might be watching and say, what are you talking about? But hey, everybody's human and that's always a factor. And it's happened in the past. You've seen House members run against, you know, Congressman Case ran against Senator Akaka. I mean, so you have those things going on. Oh, I remember that. Yes. Let's don't. So you have my commitment on your show that I will not do that. And I will not go back on my word. And I say something I hold true. This is, well, you know, I'm not, I can't take sides, of course, but I want strong women yes across the board because, like you said, given what we have going on now, it's only when women stand up, take a stand and take back the country. So I would like very much for you to look right over here and tell us why we need to vote for you. For all of the reasons, Marcia, that you said, I think that a woman's perspective on women's issues and it's not just women's issues because women's issues are everyone's issues, family issues. And that is so important in our country today. Until the fact that I believe that women have the ability to be more civil, that we do things but civil discourse, and that's exactly what is needed in Congress today. I am been a fighter for women's rights, for our KK, for our seniors that are so important. They need us so much for veterans. And so we need to be able to support all of these issues and come together. And you need someone there who's not just going to fight all the time, but bring people together. So it's important that when you need to fight, that you can fight, and at the same time when you need to come together and you need to work together with your colleagues that you can do that. And that's the only way that we're going to be able to get Congress to start to be moving forward and come up with some common sense reforms to what it is that we need to get done. And we need to do it now. Thank you. And for everyone else, the primary is August 11th. Please vote. You can begin to vote on July 30, and there will be in the mail. The ballots may be dropping this weekend, or Monday, yes, so watch for it. Yes. And on August 4, there will be a march to vote, and it starts at Alamoana Beach Park and walk to Honolulu-Hawley for early voting. Oh, wonderful. So there's no excuse, absolutely no excuse not to vote. And in Hawaii, the primary is more than the general. Exactly. It's more important. So we're asking you, obviously, to vote for our guest, and everybody that you are interested in, this is how we preserve our democracy is that you must be involved. Thank you so much, and we'll see you next time. Thank you, Masha. Aloha.


Staying with boys hoops, Brainer battling St. Claude Apollo and it was another close game tonight. The Warriors clinging to their lead, Ben Staling gets the ball and shoots a long three to keep the Warriors ahead. Then Michael Russell passes to Joey Sauer who gets the bucket inside. Then finally Brainer's last shot of the night here. A free throw from Mike Beganick who makes the shot. Brainer wins 54-47 over Apollo. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland news, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.


I haven't even started really flexing libertarianism. I'm taking over the term BLM. It's no longer stands for Black Lives Matter. It stands for Black Libertarian Movement.


Hey, what's up? This is Nestrunk back at the Invention Center thing for Robotrek, and I forgot something last time. Let's check it out. I forgot to command some attacks for my robot. What you do is you command either R, L, or X for your commands for your guy. And what you want to do is, in my opinion anyway, for this game, you want to have one spam attack. It's called R, R, R. And that's just sword, sword, sword, basically.  Because that's what it is.  And it just has a backup attack. I think you want to do... let me think. Shit. Let's just do L, L, R. Yeah, I think that's right. There's two attacks you want to do. I know R, R, R is one, and then L, L, R. That works. Whatever. I don't care. It doesn't matter. Let's name this one Crash, I guess.  That works. That's fine. Good for me. Yeah, you need at least two to auto spam anytime you face an enemy. So that way, anytime you see an enemy, you can just, instead of going through the process of just freaking, you know, spamming an attack and going to, like, whatever, you can just press a button and do it that way. Well, I'll show you when we get there.  Oh. No, I don't want to save. Oh, fine. Whatever. I'll save anyway. Whoops. Let's go. Come on. There we go. All right, so those kids are in trouble, so let's go save those kids and see what's going on over at my dad's house in the quote unquote suburbs, which is about 14 steps away. Father and nicely named father's house. He has nothing in his mailbox. Uh-oh. Shit. There's a bad guy there. Oh no. My dad is dealing evil with evil people. So much trumpet sounds like. Well, whatever. That's cool. Nice job, dad. I did that already. Oh, okay. Oh, cool. Thanks. Now we have a surprise horn. It sounds like an explosion crossed with a fart, which is also an explosion, I guess.  See, this game does a decent job explaining stuff to a certain extent, but sometimes it's just kind of confusing because the translation is just a little bit off.   You can power them up. Okay. Okay. And I have free stuff here. Back here. And yeah, there's more books back here. In fact, there's a level one back here. There's an invention room back here, too. Cool. But we don't need that at all. So let's get out of here.  Nope. Don't need anything more from you. Too bad, so sad. What? What does that mean? Okay. Uh-oh. Wait a minute. What's going on here? No, I don't want to come with you. Well, too bad, so sad. We're going to fight. That's right. It's the first battle of the game.  And yeah, you see what he did there? He rolled out his robot in a ball like it was a Pokemon. And you see what it, yeah. It's a long explanation there. If you want to start, do it one bit at a time there. Yeah, soldier, go run away. Go run to your home to your mama. But yeah, what you do there is you just roll out your robot and he fights for you. Yeah, let's go visit our frickin' family at the cemetery. Okay, that's where they are.  This game is weird sometimes. I don't get it. Whatever. Okay. Let's move it along. Let's go back to Rococo real quick. See if anything's happened. Whoa. Uh-oh.  Uh-oh. No.  You expect me to help them after they were talking smack? Well, let's go home. Well, you have no useful information. Yeah, whatever. Okay. What do I do next? Okay, so after talking to them, does that unlock the next spot on the map? Okay, it does. Never mind. Okay. I thought I had to do something else to unlock that. Okay, let's go to the forest and let's... Oh, goodness. That's right. Hacker monsters are looking about. Oh, there's one right there. Here we go. It's our second battle of the game. And he rolls out his monster. Let's go down and let's get this guy. And in order to get anybody from a distance, you have to shoot a distance weapon, which is a bomb. And you see the meter right there underneath him? You got to wait until that's full to attack again. Kind of like Chrono Trigger. Once that's full, yeah, you're at the mercy of this guy. There we go. And the mechs of data there that appear underneath him at the end of a battle. The mechs of data are towards leveling up. Okay, let's face this next mushroom thing here. So there aren't random battles, but there are battles. Oh, yeah. And see the Pokeballs right there? The Proto Pokeballs, I should say. If you get those, you get more mechs of data which go more towards leveling up. Wow, okay, this is happening very quickly. And this guy attacked me from behind, so he gets to... yeah. A lot is happening at once, and hopefully I'll have some time to explain what the hell is going on. Anyway, if you come... wow, a thousand gold pieces at that point. Okay, that's cool. But yeah, let's attack this guy. As you can already tell, the music is already super annoying. And yeah, there's three planes on a battle screen. Top, middle, and bottom. And you have close range attacks, short range attacks, and long range attacks. In order to do long range, you'll have to do pretty much every time to get these guys on a first point. On the first screen, or when you first get there, on the first battle screen, you have to do the bomb attack. After that, you do a digested there, which is a sword, and most of the time you just press the R button to get that. Sometimes enemies will leave a pocket ball there, a pocket ball looking thing there for money. That's cool. Here's another battle. I'm going to edit most of these out in the other episodes. Sometimes when you hit the pocket balls, they explode, so sometimes they don't always have something on them. This is going really fast, by the way. I didn't expect this game to go this fast. So yeah, wow. Okay, so there we go. I hope to be more prepared for the next Let's Play. Sorry about that. Thanks for watching. I hope you have a great rest of your day. See you next time.


Hey everyone, Lenny Gale Life is New York. This is a conversation I had with Michelle from the Vitamix Culinary Exploration Center in Solon, Ohio. At the end of this video, hopefully, we'll be able to answer the question, what is so special about the Vitamix? Hi guys, you know who I am. That one's good. Hey, Lenny Gale Life is New York, so we're in the Vitamix Retail Store in Solon, Ohio and I'm with Michelle and I want to have a quick conversation with her because we kind of have a similar job and I'm curious how you help people get to the edge, taking the plunge, pulling the trigger, getting a Vitamix and in the demonstrations that she does, in the shows and in the events that she holds, what do you say when people say things like, so okay I can do all these things in a blender? Great, I'm going to go get a NutriBullet. What I like to point out is that it's really more than just a blender and for me personally, I don't use my food processor nearly as much. Did I get rid of it? No because it doesn't, the Vitamix doesn't shred. So it's like when you want that texture, you still need to have that food processor but I honestly have taken out maybe twice in the last year because I can do everything on the Vitamix. It cleans up so much easier so I don't have like six different parts in my dishwasher and taking up the whole thing. When people will come in here and be like, oh is this going to make me eat healthy and I'm like, well not necessarily because you can make some really delicious decadent delights in your Vitamix, but what it does is it makes it easier to make that healthier choice so you're more likely to do it more often and because when it's easy to do something and you're going to get the result that you're looking for, that's when it pays off for you health wise. Yes, it's easy and you get the results and we say that it lives on your counter so it's a constant reminder of this commitment that you've made to yourself to live a certain lifestyle and to make some changes and to do some things for you and for your family. Absolutely and I always tell people too that it's nice to, I've been in retail my entire career and it's nice to actually sell a product that really does what they say it does. I love that, yeah. And I mean I've seen the competitive blends with Vitamix against like five other brands of blenders and they do the mix very smoothly and they pour it through the sieves and you can see how it cuts through. So when people come in here and they have a competitors blender and they're like well I really like the way this one works and I'm like it's going to do everything you're doing now but it's going to do it better and you're going to be able to do more. Yeah. And that's really, I mean our class that we do here, the basics culinary class, it's an hour and 45 minutes where we show you everything you can do on your blender. And I mean we spend 10 minutes talking about different chopping techniques because that's something I don't do on the Cuisinart anymore. You can create, I mean people are nuts for cauliflower rice, it takes like 10 seconds in the Vitamix. That's right. So I mean there's just all these kind of fun things that you can do that you don't think of the blenders from the tool you use but if you have a Vitamix it'll become the tool you grab. Yeah you mentioned the the NutriVol and you mentioned the blend offs comparing the results of different machines and that for people that do have a NutriVol for example that they actually should be happy because the results you get from that are much better than a Ninja. Which I thought was interesting. I think people see it conceptualize it as the other way around. Right. But you know if you have a NutriVol it's like oh great you're actually you know you're in good shape. The only problem is it lasts with with regular use it lasts a few months. Yeah. And that's and that's great we always say it's a it's a it's a foot in the door it's a way to get started. Yeah it's a way to make the lifestyle change that you're hoping to make and the thing is how many people are here come in here and they're on their third or their fourth one and they're like gosh I could have paid for a Vitamix. Sure. You know right now now that we have the payment plans on the website it makes it very affordable. Yeah. That's what I would like people think about if this is something you're going to do all the time you want that tool that's built to handle that kind of you know abuse on a daily basis and it's going to perform we say they last you know people there's that saying that they last a lifetime and people always say oh does that mean there's a lifetime guarantee we're like no but with proper use it's going to last you 20 30 years people bring them in all the time to trade them in and they're like handing it to me like here you go but it's not broken right here you go oh but it's still blind so maybe I'm going to give this to my sister right I mean they're afraid they don't want a part with it yes you know we get a lot of people that reach out to us and say we've had our machine for 15 20 25 years I heard a stat that I think something like less than half of 1% of these machines get sent in for service right like you get the warranty and it's nice to have five seven ten years well what we find out here in the store because you can always drop off your repairs here so we see a lot come through but what we find out is nine out of ten times it's brand new users that are have the wrong technique okay so that they're like a great example as I tell everyone when you're using your tamper don't put your other hand on the handle because you don't even realize that you're oh so slightly putting pressure especially when you're new and you're just learning to use the tamper and you can rock it and it can cause wear on the drive shaft got it when we get that repair coming in and you can feel the burrs on the drive shaft and I'm like where do you put your other hand when you're using tamper put on top yeah they're almost always grabbing the handle either on top or resting at the base yeah I think that's good for eye hand coordination because it gives you you're less likely to rock with the hand that's holding the tamper that makes sense but um definitely don't put on the handle so it's like little things like that is what we tend to see it coming in for and it's covered by your warranty it's probably going to occur I think inevitably we always get people who've had them for two three four days and they're like all right this thing can handle anything I'm going to put in a brick of frozen fruit and ice no water no water yeah no water and then they say well I think my I think it's broken I think I got a defective one like well did you add any liquid what you're doing like come on this thing this thing can make the best drinks and all the things but like you've got a load absolutely you got to load it properly yeah um I tell people I go there is a learning curve yeah you're not going to be perfect the first time out I tell people to check the recipes on the website even if you're doing your own thing because they're going to give you a sense of proportion yeah and all smoothies are going to be a liquid to frozen ratio yeah so if you're all frozen you're going to want to up your liquid content if you're all got tons of french fresh fruit that are going to liquefy quickly and create that liquid base yeah then you might want to add some ice to it to thicken it up so there is a learning curve sure that's important for people to know oh it's a blender but like it's more than a wonder it's a vitamin you gotta uh figure out how to use it yeah well you guys do some great technique videos thank you great technique videos and itemics.com there's and if you're in solan yeah you can come and take a class with us yeah come visit michelle it's actually really fun and really cool here um there was one other thing I wanted to say is I think people feel like they need to deserve a vitamin or rather they don't feel like they deserve it I'm not living this lifestyle or I'm I don't have a good enough job or I don't I'm not one who can or should have a vitamin but if it's something that you're considering you should it's almost like a fear of failure that if I make this big investment will it be worth it will I have fulfilled the expectations I have of myself with this machine do you feel that it breaks my heart to hear somebody to tell me that they bought it yeah and then they haven't taken it out of the box yeah had a lady come in here and she's like she was thinking about you know returning it because she just hadn't taken it out of the box and you're kind of like you treated yourself to this awesome yeah clients and why are you not using it what's holding you back yeah and so I do see what you mean like there's a fear of use and we got her in here for a basics class and she is on fire yeah she brings us stuff that she's making on her Vitamix now she's like so excited about it right but I tell people I go it it comes with that 30 day when you buy from Vitamix you get the 30 day money back guarantee use it use it every single day yeah and then decide because I think by the end of that window you're going to be successful in so many things that you'll you will use it and that's that whole idea of making yourself first and treating yourself and being able to do the healthy things that you need to and with the new exploring coming out boy there's a price point for everybody yeah yeah it's a really good fit and for people that want the little profile in their container and a new machine that's a really good price point that's that's a great fit for sure it's it's easier than it ever has been we say well and I when we tell everyone at the store when you come in it doesn't matter what full-size Vitamix you're getting they all can do everything equally as well so you kind of have to break it down into you know what's important to you you know do you like working with programs are you comfortable with manual control yeah all the machines have manual control some of them have programs you pay a little bit more for that but it's a convenience feature you don't need them to be able to do hot soup all the machines make hot soup that's right and so I tell people if you love all the gadgets and the technology then top of the line new ascent might be the way though if you're just getting started and you're not sure how you're going to sit then grab a new exploring my gosh you can get in for such a great price what shall we just brought this to our attention from from behind and it's it's that you make this commitment and you're holding yourself accountable it's like having a gym membership and okay I paid for a gym membership every month I'm gonna use it I'm sort of forcing myself to use it because if I don't I've already committed so I have to absolutely it's a it's sort of like a contract with yourself to use this thing absolutely and if you figure out you know if you are stopping at a smoothie place and buying a smoothie you're spending what seven eight dollars yeah yeah the math it definitely doesn't add up and it's like so if you want to get into doing this and you're going home you can even like factor out what you're saving for a blend that you would have stopped somewhere to pick something else up one of my good friends when she went back to college for her second degree she calculated the cost of every class okay from her tuition and that's how she held herself accountable and you can kind of do the same thing with the blender you know you're caught like what what money did I invest that I want to get out of it totally we never buy smoothies and juices out unless we're unless we're traveling and in a pinch but it doesn't make sense it doesn't add up no and look at all the sugar in the ones that are being done at the commercial places it's like if you really read the ingredients list how many times do you see like apple juice as the base component and you can switch that out with something healthier like water or or almond milk or just um and that really changes the calorie makeup and you get such a much healthier and anything that's fresh I mean when they're blending when you're blending it fresh for yourself okay so I totally agree I have two questions one I've always been one to avoid the high-end products the brand name products because I find that the value isn't there what you're buying is a name and the example that I've that's close to us now is with strollers we know that there are very expensive strollers with very fancy names and we can't see the value but it's easy for us to see the value in the best blender the Vitamix right can you can you talk about like one thing that one of the girls that used to work with us and I and I think you heard her say it is I am too poor to buy cheap I cannot afford to have to replace this blender every six months every year and have it it's that unknown expense constantly popping up that you're not budgeting for and if you invest in a brand that's proven yeah I mean 96 years old Vitamix has been around yes yes and it's like when you can invest in something that's proven that you know is going to last you have that you make that initial investment but you know it's there for you yeah for a long time to come um and because it morphs with you the Vitamix does it's like you know you can be doing using it as you're starting a young family with your baby foods and your purees and you got you and shall they're used to do your smoothies yeah but then as the kids start to get older and you're going to want to be getting them to eat more vegetables and stuff like that it becomes a great vehicle you can make frozen desserts you can sneak some stuff in there yes so it's going to grow with your family and that's why people say they have them for generations they pass them down yes people come in with their grandmothers Vitamix she remembers what grandma used to make on the Vitamix they will move with you and I think that as a brand that's something that comfort level that it's going to last yeah really pays off and I know it's an intimidating price point yeah absolutely yeah Vitamix is definitely trying to give people options to make it more affordable yeah offering the payment plans but you're and you're investing in something that you're going to be having for a long time I like that yeah last question sure I have a couple friends that have a $20 blender and they use it every day and they say when it dies they'll get a Vitamix and I can't sell them on a Vitamix it's almost as though I'll be winning in a sense I think in their head or they can't or they just can't justify it they are who they are what do you what do you say to them I tell people that feel like my blenders as good as yours I'm like why don't you bring me your ingredients and let me blend them for you a blend off and then and then and then you tell me yeah it's the same experience okay nine out of ten times it's not the same experience they're making a chunky not a smoothie you're right so I mean truly yeah so it's and it's the fact that that little blender they're not they're doing the same thing all the time all the time it's like with the Vitamix you're gonna have you're gonna use it for other things like we did yes you give a lot more value out of it I think you do right I think you do it is you're buying a tool for your kitchen yeah there's no doubt I mean you're not buying a single use machine you're not buying a ice cream maker yeah I mean you are you are buying an ice cream but but it's not that's not its sole purpose it's doing so many different things yeah we use it for the whole gamut of of kitchen needs so food processing we make cauliflower fried rice like you say a detox salad we we make hot soups we make our famous queso hot cheese sauce we make nut butters we make frozen desserts ice creams hummus I mean we it's it's dressing it's the only appliance that we use and yeah that's our job I get it but dressings yeah all the time we make fresh dressings they're wonderful um so there you get more about I mean it's there's more to it than just a $600 smoothie maker it's just it's more than that it's way more than that and I think that that's just it someone once said that she thinks of it as a member of the family yeah if you if something's not there and you miss it when it's gone I like that it's like a member of the family she goes and she feels that way about her Vitamix yeah that when it's not we shouldn't have it she misses it yeah we we we don't push and we just we actually take the opposite approach we just say like we're here whenever you're ready it just as soft as possible like we're gonna we'll be here if it's one month one year 10 years like we're gonna be here this is what we do that's what we get a lot in the in the because it is a high price point yeah people need time to wrap their head around yeah it's like somebody will walk in the store they're typically not gonna buy the first time yeah yeah they're gonna come in they're gonna want a little bit more information we'll explain to them the difference on the models and then they'll go out and they'll look around on their own they'll think about what they're doing but and I always tell people I'm like bring me your groceries bring me your problem you're looking to solve let us help you solve it yeah because I think that that's an important part of being able to justify the machine be able to know do or rather than justify the price point is to know that you can do all those things yeah it can solve a problem don't do it for me don't do it for Michelle even though she like she makes a good case do it for yourself whenever you're ready I think that's I think that's a bottom line yeah absolutely yeah we'll be here it will be here yeah that's right yeah that's right that's right uh listen listen listen to Michelle's words are very good and helpful thank you for watching life is New York goodbye yeah thanks thanks for joining us in the solo store and blah blah blah thank you so what do you think what's so special about the Vitamix is it is it not leave a comment below we'd love to hear from you and thanks for watching


So Michael Moore has been appearing on MSNBC quite a bit lately and it's surprising to me that they keep bringing him back Because he's making incredibly solid points So you'd think that they would feel as if they need to kind of silence him and push him away But nonetheless he appeared again and he made a phenomenal point about Bernie Sanders And why young people are flocking to Bernie Sanders and everything he said here wasn't just Important but it was incredibly constructive because people who tune in to MSNBC They usually don't hear this message They usually don't get to hear about Bernie Sanders in a positive light But nonetheless Michael Moore did a phenomenal job here about educating the MSNBC viewer base Who will be voting in the Democratic Party primary and Democratic strategists who I'm assuming tune in to MSNBC Religiously, which is why they're so terrible at their jobs, but nonetheless, that's a different story for a different day This is what Michael Moore had to say about Bernie Sanders I'll tell you the one person as you've pointed out that remains steady and consistent is Bernie Sanders He has not gone down He only either stays where is or he goes up and he's mostly either in second place Or he's in first place depending on what week it is in which state Nevada etc. Where where he has pulled number one He's number one with 18 to 35 year olds and he's never dropped out of first place with young adults number one with Latino voters So, you know, it's really why don't we just put those numbers up. Yeah. Yeah, he is and we saw this in 2016 young voters He does extremely well. Yeah falls off a cliff when you get to about 45 years old. Why is that? Yeah? I'm jealous scene when the older the older you get He should be sitting there and just watching TV, you know, it's like I don't know but it's a great question Why do the youngest people trust the oldest candidate? I'd pay attention to that because I think my opinion is it's their future He's fighting for them. It's not his future. He's in his future Whatever he is doing to fight for climate change for better wages Medicare for all go down the whole list He's doing that for them Not for him. He doesn't need free college He doesn't he's he is this is what they love about him is that here is this this this man Who was in his 70s fighting for us so that we get a future so that we may have a planet that we can breathe on In a few years they see that and they know he's the real deal He's not bs-ing them and and he's not going to give in to any of the corporate interests Is there is there there's that word you always hear in politics a authenticity. Yeah, does he come across as Less scripted less packaged is that part of what you're obviously Everything, you know, he doesn't have his own personal stylist. He doesn't he doesn't have somebody telling him what to say He has no large contributors at all You know saying, you know Bernie if you could just cool it a little bit on this or give us a little bit of that Here's the problem. This is what I'm really worried about and I want people to think about over the holiday here is That I know a lot of people they come on the show here and they talk about, you know If we've got to get a more moderate candidate. We've got it. We won't win Actually, this will lose if we go more to the center We're gonna lose This here's what the center is offering. Here's the inspiration that comes from the center I'm not gonna guarantee that health care is a human right, but what I am gonna do is I'm gonna get you vouchers Or there's gonna be these health health Is that is that Biden and Buttigieg? Is that what you're describing? Yes, and the others the others that are in the center the way that even Michael Bloomberg is talking now. They're all about They think that what we need to do is to tell people let's go backward Let's go back to yes, you know, you should be know that we can't have it We can't have free college Well, why not because everybody in my generation who went to college either they went for free the entire UC system in California was free the the SUNY system here in New York mostly free out in Michigan You could go to the University of Michigan for a thousand dollars a year It's it's amazing that these kids have put up with putting themselves 40-50-60 thousand or more dollars in debt That's why anybody who says no we need to moderate and we need to go back to being more Conservative Democrats those days are gone So that first point about young people is incredibly important because when young people turn out to vote general turnout is higher overall and Democrats end up winning up and down the ballot So if Bernie Sanders were the nominee and he got a lot of young people to come out and vote Democrats across the country would turn out in higher numbers and they could retake the Senate and they would probably keep the house like Turnout is incredibly important and I can't stress this enough every single election is one big get-out-the-vote campaign It's not really about defeating the Republicans so much as it is getting out your own base and registering new voters Because the thing about young voters is we don't really realize the amount of power that we have We are going to decide this election regardless if we stay home or come out in droves to vote we will decide this election and we can actually take our future into our own hands if we vote if we Participate in the primary now the thing about primaries is not a lot of people participate in them More people will participate and pay attention to general elections So we just need young people to realize that if they come out and vote during the primary They can make a difference and perhaps make the most amount of difference because I think the primary for Bernie Is going to be the biggest hurdle going up against Donald Trump will be a little bit easier for him But in the primary there's a lot of Democrats with 1718 people still running He's going to need their votes. So if they just realize that coming out to vote will decide this election And they realized how much power they had that really would be a step in the right direction Now why they support Bernie? Michael Moore says it's their future. He's fighting for them. It's not his future He's in his future. Whatever he is doing to fight for climate change for better wages Medicare for all go down the whole list He's doing that for them not for him. He doesn't need free college And that's such an important point and I think this is obvious to a lot of people Bernie Sanders is not running for himself if he had you know ambitions to be president Don't you think that he would have decided to run back in the 90s or early 2000s? We all know that Bernie Sanders decided to be begrudgingly run because back in 2016 Hillary Clinton was a very right-wing conservative democrat and elizabeth warren was too afraid to step up and challenge Hillary Clinton So Bernie Sanders decided to step in and offer voters an alternative and little did he know he catalyzed a nationwide movement So now he has to See his vision all the way through now contrast that with people like pete buddha judge I mean does anyone really believe that pete buddha judge is running because of a particular policy? Or a duty to the country he's running because he wants to be the president He wants to be in a position of power. He wants to be adored in the way that brock obama is adored Usually people who run for president They do it for power and influence and I think that most of the time like if you're running for president You genuinely must be a sociopath because I can't see how anyone would want that job Um, I mean we need someone who really doesn't want to be president and bernie is that perfect person He's not running because he's worried about his career. The man is almost 80 years old He's running because he believes he is the only person capable at this point in time Who can run who's old enough to run Who could actually affect change and even if he's not able to get his agenda passed He knows the importance of galvanizing a movement and just getting us on that trajectory Of social democracy. That's incredibly important. So what michael more said here is accurate Now he also made a point about centrism and how running to the right Is going to be a losing strategy now the fact that we have to remind people of this Is absurd to me because we just tried this strategy in 2016 Trump is president So we shouldn't have to say this the fact that we do really speaks to how horrible american politics has become But nonetheless, michael more said if we go more to the center, we're gonna lose They're telling people we should go backward basically and he's right because even though we haven't actually secured policies like medicare for all of free college to say that you know, we should just settle for a college affordability and a public option We've changed dialogue to where we're starting to really think about these things as human rights But now we've gone back. We've decided, you know what? Maybe healthcare isn't actually human, right? Maybe college shouldn't be free For everyone. Maybe it should just be something that's means tested and slightly more affordable Maybe we pour a little bit more subsidies into college and hope that that works so that is essentially Us being regressive if we choose to settle for someone Who is more centrist like pete buddha judge and joe biden I mean, we've worked so hard over the past couple of years, especially people on the ground Fighting for medicare for all canvassing for medicare for all educating people about medicare for all So to just opt for someone like joe biden and pete buddha judge all of the hard work that you put in would be undone So even if we don't have those policies, we are going backwards If we nominate someone who doesn't support those policies and he says it's amazing what these kids have put up with by putting themselves in dead Yeah We're just asking To have the social and economic mobility that our parents and grandparents had That's what we're asking But yet when we ask that our tax dollars benefit us We get lambasted by boomers who suggest that we just want everything for free because we're lazy No, the economy has changed And bernie sanders is the only person who acknowledges the reality of the country and capitalism and the economy And he has the right policy prescriptions that would actually benefit our lives Nobody else has that nobody else is actually going to be effective at fighting For these things because nobody else has a movement behind them. So i'm just surprised that msnbc keeps bringing on michael more Even though he's making these great points even though he's actually speaking truth to power It's shocking to me genuinely And i hope that they continue to invite him on because even if Most people who tune into msnbc probably won't see that segment I mean anytime We're able to penetrate their bubble and get a little bit of progressivism onto msnbc Then i think that that's a good thing because a lot of people like it or not still tune into msnbc religiously And um, that's a problem But until we can get some better alternative that we can turn the left onto Then we have to get as many people on msnbc like michael more As possible who will actually say the right thing and not continue to give democrats horrible advice as everyone else does on that program


Hey guys, it's Nate, A.K. The Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. Happy Monday. Hopefully the week is starting off good for you. We're gonna start it off good here with a market outlook video. The usual Monday market outlook. We're gonna take a look at what could be going on this week in FIFA 21 with the road to the final set to team two being out. Talk about the market crashes going on headed into Black Friday and just stuff that is happening, right? There's player of the month possibility probably more road to the final SBCs and content. And at the end of this week, I wanna talk about that a little bit, what we're expecting because season one ends on Friday and that means a possibility of new objectives and possibly not icon swaps as I originally had thought. Icon swaps are actually in December but new objectives, a new season and possibly just possibly a big time SBC related to icon. So we'll be talking about that kind of stuff this week. Now just to kind of bring you guys in on what is happening right now, squad battle rewards happened about two hours ago when I'm recording the squad battle rewards happened and it looks like from what I am seeing some of the stuff on the market that we looked at that was getting low has rebounded just a little bit not really gold cards but some of the out of pack special cards have risen a little bit. This guy in case in point, some of these rule breakers I was getting a portate tonight about three hours before squad battle rewards. This guy was 430,000 coins. I was able to sell them and a fluctuation back up to 470 and this is what I was talking about in the video earlier yesterday on Sunday afternoon, late Sunday is that a lot of these cards are still gonna fluctuate around even though the market is very low and there's a lot of panic selling that's going on right now you're seeing some of these cards that are bouncing around because people are interested in them, right? They know these are live cards whether it's investors buying them up or it's just people that have coins now and they wanna do something so they're going out and they're trying cards that is something that we are seeing, right? Griezmann's up about 20,000 coins from where he was up 40K from his lowest Salah is up, Klosterman is up, Davies is up. Some of these Europa League row to the finals that are still in packs and Diddy is down but mostly some of the rule breakers and out of packs informs they got really low today some of them have rebounded a bit some of them are still low, right? Pogba was down under 900 he's now back to 965 but other players like Podence is at his lowest to share is a 283 which I think is about his lowest as well. Costa 390 that's pretty low 500 for Mertens is decently low too so a lot of these guys are gonna continue to fluctuate and one team in the week I wanna look at is Walker he was 540, now he's 575 so some of these guys are moving around and that just means potential for you to make coins if the fluctuations are big enough which they are Holland was 130 earlier today you saw two of them on my transfer list I bought at 130 sold them in the mid 140s so just find some players that are gonna fluctuate around that are just rare or just valuable I was kinda surprised that Holland would move around that much to be honest but again he's showing here at 140 this might be somebody you can snag right around that 130 range even on a bid right now or on an undercut and then boom you can probably sell that on a one to two hour swing towards the 145, 147 range like with a shadow or something like that so just be on the watch for some of that stuff in the first couple days of this week it's gonna seem kinda slow probably on the market and probably content wise as well as a lot of people are just gonna be left to think and to ask the question is it time for me to buy my team and that's why I think you're gonna see some of this stuff start to bounce back a little bit now Icons got absolutely destroyed today as well I was watching a lot of Icon prices this is one that stuck out to me as I was watching his price on the 59th minute baby Stoikov was selling at 850,000 coins during the weekend literally Friday and Saturday this guy was 850K I saw him he's under 700K that is ridiculous is ridiculous how much some of these Icons have dropped in price it's crazy index of Icons on footbin this webpage right here is a great place to see that drop 110 points today all the way down into 105 for the Icon so a lot of these cards are down a ton you can check some of them here on footbin and see that but Icons are gonna be decent to trade with as well because again just the whole idea that people have panic sold their teams right a lot of people have not everybody but a lot of people have panic sold their teams they have coins in the top left and they're gonna wanna do something this weekend FIFA right they can do objectives right you can only do so much though until Thursday rolls around Thursday is gonna be an interesting day for Thursday flipping as well in terms of will the market go up are people gonna buy teams or are they still gonna be scared to be buying cards so we'll kind of tackle that when it comes that to me depends on what other content comes out this week but quick flipping is gonna be a way of life this week I mentioned ones to watch cards in my video yesterday one that sticks out for me today is Gareth Bale because he was a basically him and David Brooks I think was his name Bale had one assist and was named by some websites as man of the match in the Ireland-Wales game today he was down to 190 post game now he's back up about 10K this might be a card that you see rise a little bit into the hype on Wednesday for team of the week team week this week is actually looking pretty decent but there's more games that are happening early on this week one guy I do wanna point out is Leroy Sane this would be a card I would keep an eye on this week because this guy I bought at 330 which I thought was pretty low he's 350 right now he was 317 earlier today so these guys fluctuate a lot this guy was 370, 380 before his game on I think it was Saturday so just watch out for these ones to watch cards cause they have some international games and some guys like Odegard is one example that I keep thinking of Odegard doesn't play a ton for Real Madrid plays a decent amount but he plays a lot for the national team and that happens with a lot of the other players that are ones to watch as well like Vidal they get a lot more time they get a lot more action and potential for inform when they're on international break so just kinda watch out for that this week team of the week could be spicy from what I've seen maybe a Werner maybe a Gretzger depending on who they put in from that game I heard Mane Wijnaldum could be in so there will be some market movements around that kinda stuff as well but again in terms of content that we could see this week I don't think it will get any objectives because we're at the end of the season this is a promo is ending the road to the final set two packs if you're interested in buying any of those cards Hazard, J-Zeus or Cisoco, Kessie those guys are in packs until Friday at 6 p.m. U.K. November 20th so that's gonna go all the way to Friday that's gonna be just a normal I believe that's just a normal you know two week promo usually what they have been doing with the set twos is they pulled them out of packs a couple days early but that does not look to be the case right here so let's do one other thing and talk about SBC fodder because this is something that has been going up on the market and I can tell you why because some people are saying that today on Monday could be a player of the month Mbappe now we don't exactly know that it's all up to the UNFP for the league one and the Bundesliga for the Bundesliga vote for player of the month when those will be released but I think Bundesliga would technically be released first and then league one will be released later based off the normal release time frames and last month's time frame so we'll see what happens on that but we could have one or two player of the month SBCs this week with Lewandowski and possibly Mbappe or Ben Jeter so that could be very interesting and you can tell and this is what I said earlier on yesterday's video was you're gonna see a lot of this high rated fodder start to go up now I'm kind of kicking myself right now because I did not finish the Hyunmin Sun SBC and right now that SBC is about 60 not quite 60 but about 40,000 coins more expensive because a lot of these cards have gone up right 86's yesterday were 11 to 12K now they're 13 to 14 88's are 28, 29,000 coins 89's are 37K a lot of people are investing in these cards because they think icon SBCs and the player of the month SBCs that could come out this week are gonna in fact affect these prices so the thing I wanna talk about is a possible icon SBC on Friday now of course this is something that would be very smart of EA to do but they released a repeatable icon SBC on Friday what that would do is if it's the like base icon upgrade that kind of SBC that would take a lot of coins off the market and in doing that what they would do is take a lot of coins off the market and get people thinking about hey I just spent all these coins to do these upgrade SBCs the base icon upgrade right before Black Friday and then boom it leaves you with no coins or less coins right before Black Friday and then bang a huge pack promo where you can spend FIFA points and get coins back in your club that's in my opinion that's where EA could be coming and that could be their plan for this promo so I wanna keep that in mind as we head into Friday the only thing that's gonna make fodder rise that much this week is good value player of the month Mbappe a decent value player of the month Levendowski I don't know if there'd be that much hype for that card and a base icon repeatable or some sort of repeatable SBC if we get our first regular icon SBC this Friday I don't really think that's gonna jack up the fodder prices I really don't because if it's not repeatable you're not gonna see that sort of demand continued demand for these fodder cards and they're not gonna go as high as they did last year everybody is looking we looked at it in a video yesterday right we looked at had Danovich's 88 rated card last year went from 19,000 coins to 40,000 coins but it was a repeatable SBC and if it's just one or two icon SBCs that they put out for a single player a base or middle icon unless that icon is very cheap and it's a very big name player that a lot of people would want to do like a drug buzzy Don you know the deal right a croiff somebody it's a huge big name icon that's the only thing it's really gonna make fodder sky so as fodder rises up this week depending on what comes out and if you see it spike one day because of a player the month I would consider maybe cashing out early I know we said if you are still holding your investments that you bought before primarily player the month with Hyunmin's son I mean you might as well just keep holding onto your fodder I told some people this week just hold on to it because it's gonna go higher and if you don't need the coins then why try to cash them out right now when you could see them rise up a decent amount and if you don't mind holding those cards so just kind of keep that in mind this week fodder is probably gonna keep rising unless we get tradable pack supply throughout the week this week that would be something that could make it drop a bit but since I didn't do player the month's son I'm probably gonna be waiting until there's some sort of drop on that stuff I might just have to wait a while to do son then to get that card in my club we'll see but fodder is rising and that's fodder across all levels right and if we think about what is in the game to do this week right what is in the game to do we have the 83 team of the week upgrade SBC that's like one thing that we have to do but 83s really aren't rising because there's no demand for this SBC because it sucks this SBC is terrible you're getting like 81 rated or below almost every time that you do this SBC so it is out for seven more days and you can technically stack them to get a team week one through six or a current team of the week player from this so that is one thing that you could do but I don't see really I don't think many people are gonna be doing that after seeing how bad some of these were so again Cranbridge expires today that's why I've been thinking hey it might be time we might be getting 11 Dotsky player of the month and then of course Neane expires in six days so we'll see what happens with those player of the month that's like the biggest question mark for me this week now for the rest of the market this week right will we get any more SBCs we might get one or two more player SBCs maybe like a moments player because we've had two actual roads to the final SBCs but maybe we will get somebody that's actually like a like we had the Forsberg moments SBC another either Europa League or Champions League SBC card as a moments item could come out this week maybe one or two player SBCs this week and then the rest of the time it's probably gonna be little small packs you know kind of like this right a UCL Rare player pack or a premium gold players pack something like that so we'll be kind of keeping it on that sort of stuff this week it might be kind of a quiet week right but as we get later on into the week again we're gonna have to watch Foot Watch on Twitter with the pack code because if there is going to be icon a repeatable icon SBC put out into the game I do not believe that pack code has been or has not been added to the game yet at least I don't remember seeing it from Foot Watch so just to keep an eye out for that if that does come this week that would definitely cause some panic selling in some areas of the market that could pick up throughout the week you definitely would see people go in and buy fodder if that was the case so just kind of keep that in mind but a lot of people right now are asking about gold cards right like some of the higher rated ones even like this Paul Pugba is down a lot right now 150,000 coins I believe for Pugba some of the stuff might rise back up a little bit into the week just because these cards are very meta and people are seeing that they're so low they're just gonna see this price and start to buy right Veran it was 250 right now this Pugba on footband says 160 but other players like Kante like Mbappe is back down under squad battle rewards he is 1.32, 1.31 that is cheap for Mbappe right now this is like right around his lowest Van Dyke is 300K Neymar is still right around a mill so some of these cards are gonna fluctuate up and down it is a bit risky because they're in packs still but as I mentioned in yesterday's video some of the cards that you saw on my transfer list especially the out of packs cards they are fluctuating so I don't think you have to be scared of the market this week I don't think you have to be scared that nobody's gonna be buying any cards at all just because people can't sit still with coins in their top left they can't just sit there and not do anything they're going to do stuff this week and I do think you're gonna see fluctuations on the market but as you can see with me I'm quite liquid I've got some dump freeze here that I put some money into and I have some other I actually have some promes tonight I'm watching promes because this is one of the most hyped up cards from the new promo and if you think about it right this card tomorrow people are gonna wake up a Monday maybe have an objective to do but not really that much to do on the game and they're gonna wanna do something right so promes tonight has dropped a decent amount with squad battle rewards I will pick that up at 240 240K for this promes card you know what it is risky I might lose my butt in it tomorrow but I feel like this card can easily go back to 260, 270 so I'm gonna take the chance on it and see what I can do with a little Quincy promise overnight flip because I think a lot of people are opening their squad battle rewards and their pre-order packs that they're still getting and that's where the supply is coming from for these but there's a lot of demand for a card like this and people might try them out which is also why I bought the dump freeze I've had those since the weekend one little sneaky buy that I might watch as well we bought this card last week because people used they sold this card when they went to do the objective over the weekend and then they bought it back during the week so that they could complete the objectives once again for the USA or MLS foundations this guy last week again went from 37,000 coins to 55K and here he is back down again this weekend at 38,000 coins keep a watch on this card keep an eye on this card it is very possible that he could spike back up into the 40K range he's very rare this card is very very rare if you take a look at the supply here I think if we go all the way up to like 50K or 45K so up almost 10K from where he's at let's do a little you know compare look at all the results in here the market is going to be glitched so it would be easier to check this on PlayStation and stuff but when I was checking the compare price earlier today this guy is really rare so just keep an eye on this card if you see some undercuts or open bids as we head into the week this might get some more demand and it could make the card rise as people do again continue to complete the MLS foundations objective so that's kind of the market outlook for this week boys I feel like it's going to be just a lot of people this week a lot of this week is going to be trying to time the market and when people want to buy their teams and all honestly for me if it's a low rated gold card you keep waiting if it's an out of packs inform you keep waiting a little bit but this next week and this next weekend for the out of packs cards what you're going to see is stuff is going to slightly start to go back up because people are going to get the sense that hey this stuff is too low it's not going to drop anymore and especially if next week whatever content comes once that storm passes and once that whatever that's going to come out whatever it is once that affects the market right away then I think you're going to see start stuff out of pack stuff maybe some icons really meta cards like Mbappe, Ronaldo and Neymar start to climb back up because people are going to realize that hey Black Friday is coming and you know these cards might not get any cheaper after they stayed this cheap for this long so that's kind of my thoughts for this week's market outlook it's a crazy market right now but there's a lot to do in foot man you know what I was just realizing I'm not a huge objective grinder right but I didn't play week only this weekend so I played a few games and I'm almost done with this Correa there are so many objectives out right now this is a big thumbs up to EA especially since it's in the objective mode which is still a bit sweaty but not that sweaty Kunde you've got Silver Stars the Silver Lounge the Shay Adams card looks really good Correa looks really good you've got the Milestone MLS cards that are out right now and I think there's there's something else that's out too that I'm forgetting there's a lot of objectives out right now so if you haven't had time to grind those I think you should get into those because there's some pretty decent cards in there right so those are my thoughts on the market this week boys if you have any questions drop them down below if you enjoyed the video smash the thumbs up on it and of course subscribe to the channel if you are new it's been Nathan Foot account I will catch you guys later peace


Thank you very much. I guess my goal here is to give a very brief description of some of the aspects of inequality as they are currently understood in the case of India. This is work that's drawing almost entirely on work with my colleague Himanshu as well. I've done a little bit of work on this personally myself directly as well. But it's something that we want to develop and explore as part of this project that François has outlined. So let's try to get a more solid and substantive picture of what's been going on in India as well. I guess I pointed to a few elements of the questions around inequality in India in my earlier presentation this morning, which is looking at the village of Palampur. And in this case, what we're doing here now is looking at the all India level. And I'm going to make just a few remarks in terms of some emerging, some initial impressions that we have about aspects of inequality based on consumption inequality trends. It's important to emphasize that in India, unlike many other countries of the world, the sort of workhorse of analysis of income distribution and poverty and so on in India is the National Sample Survey Organization data. These are well respected, highly regarded surveys. The whole infrastructure of National Sample Survey data collection was introduced by Mahalanobis decades back. It's a very highly regarded survey instrument that collects very detailed information from very large samples. And that's really where we get most of our information on income distribution or distribution of living standards and on poverty. And then I'll say a few words about income inequality. There's a question mark there because those data are just not as readily available. In response in some sense to the lack of good income data, there is an interest possibly of exploring some of these factor markets more specifically, looking at trends there and looking at what's happening there to try to get a sense, if not a really precise quantitative sense, at least an overall sense of what's going on in the country in terms of the forces that are shaping the distribution of income. And then there is some interesting work and some potential, I think, also on looking at wealth and India's billionaires to get a sort of sense of what might be happening at that top end of the distribution. So just as a quick background, income in GDP growth in India has been very impressive during the past 20, 30 years or so averaging at around 5% growth during since the mid 1980s. There was an interval during the 2000s when growth was really picking up dramatically. And that seems to have fallen back somewhat in the more recent years. But that's basically the overall growth picture. And that's been complemented by I think as well known fairly impressive declines in poverty in India as well. Again, the most recent data that I've seen between 2008, 2009 and 2011, 2012 suggests a poverty decline in over a short period of time of about eight or nine percentage points. And it's a really dramatic poverty reduction has been taking place in India in recent years. This is what's been happening in terms of consumption inequality. If we go back from 1993 through to 2009-10, we see that rural inequality is the blue line here has been rising. And that's the left axis that we should be looking for the rural Gini coefficient is rising from somewhere just below 22.26 to somewhere above 0.28. It's between 1993 and 2009-10. And in urban areas, it's been higher starting at a Gini of around 0.32 and rising to just somewhat above 0.38 over that time period. So rural inequalities is sort of 0.26 to 0.28 and urban inequality has been rising from 0.32 to 0.38. So there has been a rise in inequality. I think there's been a lot of debate in India as to whether that's telling a fully compelling picture because there certainly seems to be impressionistic evidence and anecdotal discussion around inequality that would suggest a much greater rate of increase of inequality than what we're seeing in these data. But as I said earlier today, there is controversy around inequality estimates in India based on consumption. Does it make sense to be measuring inequality on the basis of consumption? Should we be looking at income inequality? Do these anecdotal debates around inequality? Do they depend more on an absolute notion of inequality as opposed to a relative notion of inequality, which is what we're capturing here? So there's reasons to think and discuss how these trends should be interpreted. If we look at income inequality, there is no official large-scale national survey sort of administered by the statistical organization in India on income, on sort of full income, but there is the Human Development Survey that's sort of administered out of by the National Council for Applied Economic Research, NCAR and the University of Maryland that has been collecting income data over the years, the most recent round that's currently available is from 2004-2005, and that suggests a Gini coefficient at the all India level of 0.52, relative to and then with a rural and urban breakdown both very near the 0.5 level as well. So in terms of income inequality based on these data, the picture is very different from what we're getting from consumption. We have a much higher level of income inequality based on these data. Now there is a new round of IHDS survey data coming. It's not currently available, but presumably in the next half year or so those data will become available and it will be interesting to see what kind of trends we see from those data. There's also work to be done to gauge and probe and assess how reliable these income data are, how good a picture they give of inequality. It should be noted that the National Sample Survey organization does not collect income data in terms of full income, it's particularly self-employment income that are not collected, but earnings data are available. There are data sort of on wage and employment income, so there are prospects for at least some investigation of income inequality in terms of earnings inequality for those who are not self-employed. And of course in India that is a big group, the self-employed including most farming households and so on. So the National Sample Survey data do not give us a good handle on the income inequality that's derised to those households. So let me say a few words. I'll try and go quickly about regional inequality within the country. There has been a rising trend of divergence between states in terms of average GDP per capita income by states. So if you think about breaking down the question that François has posed about global inequality in countries and countries feeding into the global picture, a similar story can be asked about India and say the states underpinning India or as I was suggesting earlier today going all the way down to the village and quite possibly seeing quite dramatic rising inequality at the village level and that's being masked with a declining or stable inequality at the aggregate level because of between village or between district or between block differences diminishing over time. This is an area I think that's well worth pursuing with further investigation as well. Now just looking at some of the factor shares and looking at sort of different components of the economy and trying to get a sense of what might be happening to inequality based on those, we basically have the private non-farm sector has increased its share of national income over time. Both agriculture and the public sector have declined in terms of the overall pie in India over the years. Employment shares show no growth in the organized employment sector and a sharp decline in agricultural wage employment. So there's been a big decline in agricultural wage employment that's been reflected then as I also suggested earlier today in rising agricultural wage rates which we'll come back to. There's been an acceleration in GDP growth which I pointed to earlier and that has coincided with a very low employment growth in India over recent decades. There's been very little additional employment created during the growth process that's been taking place. The slowdown has been driven by two factors. There's been mainly a falling employment among women possibly associated with rising education levels amongst women and also a general tendency for women to become less inclined to join the enter the labor force as incomes rise. But also a falling employment in agriculture there's just been declining employment in the agricultural sector. Within the organized sector there's been a growing gap between the organized sector salaries and the self-employment wages that this has started in the 1990s and has been growing. So there's kind of growing divergence between the the wage sector and self-employed sector and those who are earning salaried incomes in the in the formal sector. And within the organized sector it's the growth rate of income to managers that has been really rising and a big gap growing gap between managerial incomes and workers wages within the organized sector. Now I pointed to this already this morning the the non-farm sector has been a big part of the story in rural India and there's been a really dramatic increase in non-farm employment in India and it's been the fastest rates of growth in recent history. That's been a really dramatic process. But much of the new non-farm jobs are shifts out of the farm sector which we saw was declining into the non-farm sector so it's not really necessarily a net increase in employment. And most of the rural non-farm employment is in the casual sector relatively little growth in the sort of salaried formal sector over these years. Major part of the major driver of non-farm sector employment is the construction sector as opposed to manufacturing. So it's not been a sort of industrialization led growth process at least as far as we can discern so far. There's been a shift in the relative terms of trade towards agricultural commodities with food prices rising quite rapidly relative to manufactured goods. And we've seen a very dramatic acceleration of agricultural wage rates in rural areas and this is probably what's been lying behind this very dramatic and impressive rate of poverty reduction in rural India over this time period. Now just a few words about India's billionaires because this is quite an interesting story and we're drawing here on sort of evidence that's been presented in various publications by forums. In 2010 there were 69 billionaires and this was up from 13 billionaires in 2004 so a dramatic increase in the number of billionaires in India. And an exercise that Himanshu carried out here which I think is quite interesting is he tried to break down in a somewhat arbitrary way of course but tried to break down who these billionaires are by looking very carefully at their activities then trying to allocate them to either a rent-thick sector or a more sort of knowledge-intensive sector where the knowledge-intensive sector is primarily IT and pharmaceutical sector and the rent-thick sector are these sectors like mining, metals, construction, land, real estate, telecoms and so on where there's some kind of dependence on a relationship with the political class that might have been important. And what we see is that in India a very important fraction of all the billionaires are linked to this rent-thick sector. The IT and pharmaceutical sector do have generated a number of billionaires but it's essentially been disproportionately from these rent-thick sectors. If we were to compare this to say the US where we see that in the US of the top 20 billionaires in the US, eight are from the IT sector, three are from finance, five are from retail and one is from the media and of the remaining three two are from engineering and only one is from the real estate sector. It seems as though there the rent-thick sector is not that big a part of the story but in India of the top 20 billionaires nine are in these rent-thick sectors. So there seems to be something going on there as to how these billionaires have come to where they are. So quickly just a few words about going forward what we hope to do with this work on inequality in India is we would like to probe further the whole consumption inequality story. That's really the bedrock on which we can rest with our standard household survey data and I think there is much more to do including for example looking at alternative inequality measures with some recent interesting proposals by Professor Subramanian along those lines. Also to try to explore to what extent can we correct for under-reporting. I do agree with François that it requires heroic efforts and I'm not sure that I have the courage to do it but perhaps somebody else can be encouraged to participate in that part of the exercise. We want to look at some trends in the income inequality with these new IHDS data. I think there's scope for doing wealth analysis, wealth distribution analysis. I had a few words with Jim Davies in Copenhagen in early June and he was pointing to the data being available in India that do lend themselves to some analysis of wealth inequality so it'll be useful to look at trends and wealth inequality and see to what extent they're consistent with what we know from other sources of data. I think personally I feel that the subnational inequality story is an important one as well. We would do want to pursue that as well to see to what extent we see a similar process underway within India as what François has been pointed to at the global level. I think we will have to pursue and continue working with these factor shares simply because of the lack of very good large scale income data. We do also want to look at non-income dimensions of well-being as well and try to look at some trends in inequality along those dimensions as well and ultimately it would be nice also to pursue further analysis and the line in the direction of mobility and there might be some methods and techniques available to us for that purpose as well. So I'll stop there. Thank you.