Well, good evening everyone and welcome to Fort Levenworth's Town Hall for October. My name is John Weisner. I work here as a commander. And on behalf of Command Certificate Major Eric Aron Musil, Mr. Johnny Beavers, which is the deputy, we are very excited that you join us tonight and welcome and look forward to sharing with you all some updates that we have going on currently and then also some things that we have on the horizon. We have a great support staff here from across the entire post, not just Garrison, but we've got tenant leaders here, specifically we've got Colonel Shane Middenhall from Munson, and we have reps across from some other organizations that are here tonight to help answer any questions and also put out some great information in providing feedback on questions you may have. So at this time, before we get started on the, I've got a couple topics I want to meet off with, I'd like to ask that this is totally unexpected that Mr. Bill Wall, would you be willing to come up from here? I know I'm going to pay for this dearly, I can see it, Bill's eyes, but I just want to brag on one of our professional leaders here tonight a little bit. So we normally don't do this in the town hall, we normally do this in our internal Garrison events like our all hands in town halls and things like that. Last town hall that we did live though, we did recognize some public service from the Girl Scouts troop here, but this is, I want to take this moment to recognize Bill in this form because he is such a huge influence and a mission multiplier for this community. So if Bill is the director for our public works on posts, and he just received an award from the installation management command, which has close to 100 installations of Garrisons worldwide, right? From here, Colnes to O'Colnes, you name it, right? There is an army installation pretty much out there. And so they put all of the directors of the DPWs into this competition, and he won for the, it's called the 2020 William C. Grobel Jr. DPW Executive of the Year. So it's also referred to as the top DPW director worldwide. So Bill, congratulations. Thank you very much for all of your tireless efforts, tremendous leadership that you've taken on in your, you know, many, many years of service here. You know, I know you served in uniform and you served here as our DPW, as our lead engineer. He's not only the director for public works, but he is no kidding, a modified engineer. So the fact that you've devoted this lifelong service and then just the excellent leadership that you provided, it's really brought success not only to the Garrison, but to the CAC, to all the tenant units. You've kept our lights on, you know, you've kept, I'm serious, right? Well, most of the time, you know, but the only time you turned them off so that we could do exercises to make sure that we are resilient, right? So I'm just kidding, Mother Nature has a vote. But certainly, I mean, when it comes to, for all of you out there that don't really understand maybe what Public Works does, if you look at like a city, Public Works, I mean, it goes from utilities to, they even, they maintained all the barracks, all the public working places, the common areas here on post, you know, responsible for roads and grounds and maintenance for all the contracts that we have for those utility service providers. The list goes on and on. Environmental, housing, oversight, it just, there's a lot of stuff that you and your team touch. So again, congratulations. Thank you for a lot that you do and just want to recognize yourself. No, for 2020 when you were actually wearing something. So just a couple, or not a couple, a few topics that I'd like to just first start out with tonight before we get into the informational and pass the mic as well to the other tenant leaders. So first is, you know, we are encroaching upon winter weather, right? So we've already got a taste of it this week, you know, it's supposed to be one back up this weekend. So we think it's, you know, pertinent just to go ahead and talk a little bit about how closures and delays work here on full level work if you're new. So first off, notifications in the works. I mentioned this during the last month's update, I believe, but just if you are not registered yet, you and your family is not registered on the mass alert system, please make sure that you do so, right? And so that allows you to put your emails, your text, your cell phone numbers, and then you can do text notification, phone notification, and email notification for an event such as any kind of emergency event, whether it be winter weather, maybe our power goes out or even worse, some kind of tornadic activity throughout those types of seasons to road closures and specifically that's what we'll kind of hinge on tonight, right, is when those temperatures drop down and we start getting precipitation that affects the community, whether it's not only our work members here on Fort Leavenworth, but the families and specifically USD 207 that educate our children, right? And so we just want to make sure that everyone is accessible and we can get that notification out effectively. It also is tied into our big giant voices that we test every Wednesdays at 11am as well. So just wanted to at least remind everybody of that and we also post everything on the website as well or as well as Facebook. Let's talk about snow removal real quick. So two efforts that are ongoing during snow removal. So for the housing areas, Frontier Army Housing takes that responsibility on for all those roads and those sidewalks that are in the housing areas. And so their contractor landscaping is Wallace landscaping and so their contract, I believe, is written about where if you start getting accumulation of like two inches of snow that's when they really start getting hot and heavy. But I'll tell you that last year they usually try to look at the conditions, right? And they look at the forecast too. So it's dependent upon that. So if they start seeing that there's a blizzard coming in, right? And they really kind of take cues off of our DPW staff as well. They work in tandem and they communicate and then they knock out and take care of clearing those roads and sidewalks and housing areas. For all other areas across post DPW under Mr. Wall their team gets out there and then they just go work day and night to ensure that our roads are clear to include the parking lots, right? So some of the priorities that you'll see, like Munson's one of those priorities, right? Because they know that we need that medical care. AFI's commissary, you know, they really focus on those areas and they look too at the parking lots for the work areas. So maybe that we have to work, we have a closure, they get busy, hot and heavy on the roads during the day and everybody's like, hmm, the roads look really good. But it could be that the parking lots haven't been addressed yet, right? Or that that freezing temperature is going to come drop right back down and there's some safety concerns. So just know we have two efforts. They really work together. It works great. And I have full confidence that several people will go well this year. The USD 207, I mentioned it. I don't think we have a rep for USD 207 here this evening, but just wanted to remind you so they may actually close school. They don't really do delays. They do closures, right? And the reason is, is because if you think about it, every school on our post, we have three elementary schools, we have one junior high and they are technically all within walking distance even though despite we have some bus routes that they execute. But in reality, by law, every kid could walk to school on our post. And so they have to take into account the kids standing out there in these freezing temperatures. So if it reaches a certain temperature, I can't recall that exact temperature. They will look at closing those schools. And it may be that we don't have precipitation pending. It could just be the severe cold weather. So keep that in mind. And I do believe that the Farmers' Almanac is. Unfortunately, it's predicting a pretty rough cold winter. So we may see that more often than not. Any questions on the snow removal before I move on? Okay, thank you. Just a quick reminder and really I'll defer to Frontier Housing to Arlene tonight because I know she's going to speak, but just know this is the season of cold weather means more maintenance and more order requests, right? So just take that into consideration. Appreciate your patience. I know they're all over it. They're already addressing heating and switching over. They've already done that for infantry barracks. They've done it to some of the individual homes as well that require that, some of the historic homes. But just know that they are on top of that. They'll put priority to heating failures and things of that nature. And then also I want to just touch on the leaf. I jumped the snow, but really I should have probably talked about leaf removal or collection as well first. And just know that's also a concerted effort. We've got the EPW working on the main post. And then we have Michael's Military Housing or Frontier Housing's contractor, Wallace Landscaping, that does the leaf collection. And they've already started, right? So technically the leaves haven't fallen off in mass, but they're trying to get ahead of it. So you may see them out. We probably saw them out this past week. I know that I did. Just know it's going to get dusty, right? So when that happens, just I recommend if you are sensitive and you have allergies, just take that into consideration. There's going to be dust in the air in the neighborhoods. It's going to fall on your cars. It's going to fall on your sidewalks and on your porches. Just be prepared. But that's just all part of the process so that we can get those leaves up so that we don't have them laying dormant throughout the winter. And again, they're going to do a really good job and stay on top of that as well as our DPW team. Any questions on maintenance or a leaf removal slash collection? Okay. And the last thing I have before I turn over the mic is, or before I talk about a few announcements, I apologize, is fall cleanup, right? So we do this annually across the entire installation. It's a concerted effort, not only with Garrison, but amongst every tenant unit. It's a chance to beautify like we do spring cleanup. That'll start 1 November, go through the 18th. And in conjunction with that, our housing partner, Frontier Army Housing, they do the same thing, right? For our villages. And so it's voluntary, really, and it's dependent upon the village mayors, which we met this morning at the mayor's meeting. And it's to collectively just work on area beautification for each of the villages. And the designated week for that is the 14th to the 18th. I know Frontier Army Housing has committed to providing plastic bags for that. And so all you have to do, and I know I don't want to be sewing your thunder all in, but she'll probably talk about that, right? The availability of that. But again, it's just an opportunity. I know that Wallace has that contract for just general mowing and cleanup and snow removal, but it has the, you know, it gives you the ability to take that a step further on the personal level to beautify your yards to kind of get ready for that winter season. You know, if folks have fences, many of the houses here have fenced in backyards. So it gives you the opportunity to do that maintenance maybe. They just haven't had time to do when it's been warm or throughout the summer. And then it also allows us, with these Kansas winds that we have 30 and 40 miles an hour, it blows trash everywhere. It doesn't matter how well you secure your trash.  So it gives you the opportunity to do a little bit of a police call as well. So appreciate your efforts. Your village mayors will be reaching out to you shortly. I'll tell you what, before I go into the announcements and the events with Sergeant Major, let me pause there real quick. I'd like to, at this time, pass the mic to our additional team mates here, attended units on post, and see if y'all have some announcements to make. Anyone? Okay, I'll pass it to Orwell in the center. Good evening. For those of you that don't know me, my name's Arlene Ozora, so I'm the Community Director with Frontier Apparedment Communities. And Colonel, thank you for bringing up the ball cleanup and the winds. It does get pretty windy and putting out trash and recycling prior to your pickup day can affect your areas and wanting to keep our areas beautiful, of course. Being mindful of that, you can put out the trash and recycling prior to 8 o'clock the night before and sometimes, depending on what the weather's going to be, maybe holding out until first thing in the morning just so that critters like raccoons aren't getting in. Recycling bins are very light, especially with, you know, the empty containers in them, so those flip over easily and you'll see those all through the villages. With the bags, we can work out the plan with the mayors so they see that these are going to be needed more so that we can have those available and ready during the cleanup dates. So I would like to see some of my staff out there assisting with the cleanup as well. So I hope to see that and look forward to those dates. We have a, as the cold weather's coming up, a reminder of disconnector hoses. You don't want those freezing up and then those that have basements causing water to flood into the basement. So, with those cold weather reminders, we are going to have an increase in work orders as well. Please, if you have an urgent or emergency item, make sure that you're speaking to a live person. Don't leave a voicemail. Please do not put it in through active building. Additionally, when putting in work orders, please don't bunch what it is. It may be an emergency for you and we would definitely like to take care of that, but unless it's a true urgent or emergency item, we're actually hindering other residents from receiving, you know, the attention for not having heat, water, whatever the case of the true emergency or urgent item is. So please be mindful of that. Let's see, that's great with the closures and delays because I need to check my staff the emails and phone numbers, so thanks for that, Colonel. And we also have a referral program going on that we want to touch base. So living on the post, it's great opportunity, of course. Having lived on post as a brat and as a spouse, love that opportunity to be able to be part of the community. And you too now have the opportunity to pick who your neighbors are. So we have a refer friend program. It's a $250 referral. Those that live on post, your name has to be on the application and the person has to move in within 45 days of application. But once they've signed their lease agreement you can get $250 for that neighbor that you've chosen. Anything of anything else we can talk about? Alright, Colonel, would you mind missing anything? Thank you for your time. Is there a limit? Could I refer five people or ten people? There is a limit but if you pace yourself and your friends are moving in periodically we can definitely talk off line. Get the roster for next year's class. So the $250 referral is going to be for those that are moving from off post on within a 50 mile radius. It is current now definitely not going to be available during the summer. But good try, sir. The admission there. I appreciate that. Did you have the other questions? Alright, thank you. Alright, do we have any other service providers in the room that have any announcements that they want to make? Yes, sir. Thank you, sir. I'm John Sprecher. You have the coordinator of Munson. I wanted to talk a little bit about the O'Connor screening process. If anyone at PCS knows the disease. A couple of points. The main question I'm getting right now is what can I do to prepare for an overseas move? And the biggest things I've got to tell people are check your EFMP status or if you have a question about EFMP come talk to me now. I'm on the second floor in Munson. I've got a number 6846770. People can call to come and talk to me see if there's anything we need to do now before the R clothes come out. Families don't know. I can check that tell them what they need to do for off post. I can tell them what they need to do to get those records to me. Third thing, if there's any medical referrals we need those referrals complete or we need notes on what the treatment plan is not a closed referral. There was a reason a medical provider put in a referral. We have to find out what that was for. And then fourth is once the RFO is received for that O'Connor location there's a new process of EFMP. Service members just look that up they submit their request. It goes over to MPV for signature and review then it comes to me and then we do all the other checks and then it goes to the overseas assignment for review. It's a new system there's a lot of bugs that's why I'm trying to get the word out early. I will be briefing CVSC next week and we're going to put out a Facebook live video on the Munson Facebook page as well. It should be out next week as well. Any questions? Thank you so much. All right. One more. Some of the stuff will just be a reiteration from this morning. Pharmacy our drive-up pharmacy closes on the 21st it will be at the last day that it will be open and then on the 24th we're completely closed on that. So there is Windows 7 that's open and that's for bills and then some over-the-counter medications etc. and then all the other ways that we provide prescriptions to beneficiaries. So they can walk up, just have an ID card and get their stuff. That's one based on occupational health for the folks that are running in and out of the facility and then I don't want DES showing up that we've got folks slipping under cars and all kind of stuff like that. So the other piece is that the change in our prescriptions the folks that are getting those prescriptions can actually have a conversation with a provider or actually with the pharmacist to kind of go over those changes in their prescriptions etc. The other piece is and this is one that I've got to push out the CGSC and then also our permanent party. So we've found I don't want to call it a loophole but we've found the right regulatory guidance so that we can do term hiring for LPNs, RNs and then some other care provider specialties that primarily what we're finding are residing within the CGSC population and because they're here for such a short time it's very difficult to get them through the GS system. So we've found a way to kind of bring those providers into our facility on a term employment hiring activity. So we'll send out an email and then we'll put a few other announcements out on our website that will allow for that employment to happen. The way I'm looking at it is it's a win for our community it's a win for months but it's also a huge win for those folks that are graduating through the Department of Defense GS system so once they kind of get into that term system they can go to their next duty station and then get on a regular schedule of either GS employment or at this point if they're a provider it'll be a DMD employment. So we've kind of found that piece. I'm also working I've got to reach out to the Navy and to the Air Force to find out their HRC or their Human Resources Command equivalent but right now I'm working with the Army HRC to find a way to notify inbound students so that they can share that information across their those folks that know they're coming here and then we can start early so we can actually have a great nurse or LPN for 10 months instead of 4 months or whatever it may be. A couple of closure dates kind of see your track and activities so the 28th we've got trunk retreats I think there's a whole bunch of trunk retreats that you'll probably announce so we've got one of those. It's going to be out in the parking lot area there will be games and all kinds of different stuff shout out to MWR they're helping us out we've got a lot of educational stuff just other things that are going on so that's an opportunity so it's 5 to 7 on the 28th of October and then on the 31st we'll be closed just from 1130 to 1 and that's for all of our staff to have a costume parade I guess it is so a little morale builder there they actually really really enjoy that I was kind of pushing the corner to make that happen so which is great it'll be exciting to see what happens and then for the Thanksgiving time period say 24 to 25 months and we'll be closed so on Thanksgiving it will be closed and then on that Friday it will be closed as well really that's just for planning purposes so folks can kind of get out there we'll be right back open on Monday but just that 4 day period Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday we'll be closed for folks to enjoy that or get a little time away as things have opened up after the last 2 years there's a good reason for that and it will give an opportunity back to some of the great civilians that are working there so is there any questions for months or for me no that's not too scary so on the EFMP I just want to hit some of that so if I dig into it and I did this in Hawaii what I'm finding for the most part with that and as we communicate it's after about 7 to 10 days I need to know the commander of the hospital needs to know so if you have soldiers or civilians I need to know because that usually means it's stuck on some desk either a tripler Brian D. Algood hospital in Korea launch school in Europe or some other crazy place that I just need to make a phone call and we can make some stuff happen or the other pieces is the young captain major or sergeant first class didn't communicate early and often enough with the EFMP and then we've got to kind of run through some moves but EFMP for me is a hot button item because a whole lot of stuff but it's really important that we help that family meet success and meet that amazing assignment that they're trying to get to you so if it hits 7 to 10 days and you're not getting any action or input then that's something that EFMP coordinator and I will work very closely with them again thank you that's all I got thank you and so he hit the nail on the head so we've got a lot of events coming up over the next few weeks and so at this time Sergeant Major and I are going to kind of tag team I'll start us off real quick but we'll try to do some events that may not be in true chronological order because I'm going to miss a few but we just want to make sure that the community has a good extensive list of things to do if you have some spare time over the next couple weeks and also this stuff is posted so not only are we talking about it this is recorded so you can look at Facebook again but we're also going to there will be a lot of flyers excuse me and things on the webpage to share you know through social media so first off we are in the Frontier Conference Center right now and on every Tuesday and every Friday downstairs in the Solarium we are bringing back I should say the NWR is bringing back the buffet right so I know there's probably a virtual applause that's going to happen when people see this reporting on Facebook is in high demand because of the reputation of this buffet I'm just going to tell you right now you've got to at least try it 100 or so times while you're here no but all kidding aside it's really good food I have not had a chance I've sampled some of the items that are going to be on it but I haven't truly eaten there yet it just started this Tuesday with the main dishes the carved roast I believe on Friday it's going to be shrimp so is it fried or butterfly yes already have folks here saying it is delicious so I can't wait to try this Friday myself but please it's $14.95 it's all you can eat and you can bring your spouse your dependents, family members but that goes from $11.30 to is it $1.30 $11.30 so that's every Tuesday and Friday then this Friday a free event at our movie theater so we're doing that we started that a couple months ago for every other Friday the movie is Thor Ragnarok it's going to be at 7pm and it's in the post-movie theater please dress up as your favorite Marvel character that's not including that's not only kids family please, you're encouraged to dress up and have some fun the installation retirement ceremony is going to be on the 27th of October at 9am, that's here in the front of your conference center in the main ballroom we have 19 retirees as of right now so it should be a great event we've got Colonel Promotable Woodward which is actually going to officiate and host the ceremony we have the 8th East Trunker Tree this is just one of three we have one on the 28th from 5-7pm in the PX parking lot as Colonel Menon called you also have the months going on as well as there's one all post I believe which I think Sergeant Major may have the details on that and I think it's a two day event we also the very next morning we have the retiree appreciation day on 29 October from 9pm to 1pm the main opening starts at Lewis and Clark Center I have a flyer on that and it's on social media as well and it's going to be to take care of all of our retirees it's an appreciation day across posts so you'll get a brief welcome in Lewis and Clark followed by some services from Munson followed by AFI's commissary taking care of our retirees followed by the I.D. Clark facility which is going to be taking care of athletes and I.D. Clarks and things like that dependent I.D. Clarks so a great event for our retirees there was also a competition that USD 207 did started last year their inaugural competition from students they did kindergarten through 2nd and 3rd through 5th grade they submitted the coloring their drawing contest they were selected today and those will also be announced but this art will be displayed and you all will see the talent and it's these kids pouring their heart to thank our veterans our retirees for all that they do and all that they did even if you're not a retiree I encourage you to come out at least maybe in the commissary and you can also thank them by just shaking their hand giving them a fist bump then you have that same morning there's the run going on out at the USDV I believe is that the one Sergeant Major Great Escape Great Escape thank you and so that will be that morning too and then keep calls at 8 and then that afternoon starting at 2 we're going to have an amazing fall festival right so this is installation wide it's over at Pioneer Chapel it's free food it's going to be probably a thousand people there right so last year we had over 600 if the word gets out I think we'll have more I think we have nice weather it's supposed to be up in the 80s this weekend we have all kinds of things for the kids and adult entertainment to include Deja and her last name escapes me Renault Renault Deja Renault okay she's going to be seeing the national anthem for the veterans excuse me the retirees in the morning then she's going to come and sing during the fall festival event she's currently on the voice competing on team Gwen thank you so a great event that's just one one special item but just come out bull riding you name it music free food then let's see on post trick or treating we've got that the following Monday so that's Halloween that'll be going on from 6 to 8 there's a flyer that's posted out there just a reminder about safety right and curfews and supervision please if you're driving watch out for children that are crossing the road and out there on the sidewalks if you're a parent and your child is out there trick or treating just remember the rules that we have on the installation for supervising your children just making sure they're safe you know if your kids four or five they're likely not going to be looking out for vehicles you have to make sure that we got positive control with them so that we can sure they're not running out in the road and in traffic so and then just curfews wise you know remember that if they are 15 under excuse me is it 15 and under 15 and under it's 10 30 p.m. and then those that are older children is it under 18 it's 16 17 service 0030 thank you 16 and 17 year olds is 0030 for one November we've got a career in education fair that's at the frontier tougher center again we've been doing these things quarterly now for several years and if you're looking for a job if you're a spouse or you're going to be retiring or ETS and seeing out in the military it's really a great opportunity we have usually over 100 vendors that's not a good job so please take advantage of that even if you're thinking about retirement you're not you haven't solidified that if you're 18 20 months out come on anyways start talking and it's not only just vendors but there's also organizations there that are there for you to learn that they're educators they help you with resumes just like our transition assistance office does and helps you connect the dots the veterans day grade is from it starts at 10 30 on 11 November that's downtown Leavenworth a great event we'll have a huge formation led by General Beagle and commensurate Major Helton I promise like last year it ought to be a great event when there's tons of marching bands out there community organizations so please come out and support that then the holiday tree lighting here in our Zeiss park on the north end of the housing area on main post the food and the fun starts at 4 p.m. we'll have the 312th Army Reserve fan that'll be playing Christmas carols there'll be horse carriage out there giving rides and then there'll be some food and some hot beverages and things like that so a great event and then the DES holiday our director for emergency services will do a holiday parade full of fire and police law enforcement vehicles on December 16th that afternoon we'll announce the kickoff time but they will go through all of the housing villages and pretty much not leave any kid unturned to get a chance to hear a siren a flashing light to get to see Sparky which is the fire department's mascot huge dog that is super friendly as Santa Claus I heard was coming this year just like last year it may be frosty the snowman and I think there might be one more Christmas or holiday celebrity that's going to show up too so maybe an elf who knows right so you just keep your eyes excuse me your eyes and your ears peeled because it's going to be a great parade I think that's all that I have at this time I will turn it over to command sergeant Major Ryan Russell and she has some additional announcements so I think the chronic cover of much of it I'm going to try my best not to repeat what you've already heard for the essence of time and just repetition for the most part so I'm going to start with the 411 work on it tours so we got that happening this week 21st and 22nd from 5.30 to 10pm the tours will start I think they ran roughly about two hours and they are walking tours the meetup location you can go to the museum website or you can go to the actual museum to see what slots are still available and then if I can jump from post to our 11 work community they got a lot of great things going on too for Halloween the trunk of treat for them is that sportsman field recreation complex it's Saturday on the 22nd from 5.00 to 7.00 and then if you're not trunk of treated out by then there's another trunk of treat at the Kansas City Community College for the kids and they also have a small convoy at that event as well and then if you like mysteries and 11 work we have to have the murder mystery dinner young dead Frankenstein at Holyfield vineyard and winery that's going to be on Friday October 21st from 7.00 to 9.00 p.m. and if you can't make Friday don't worry about it I also do them Saturday at the same time 7.00 to 9.00 p.m. so that's local I'm trying to keep it in order a little bit here on the 29th October we have a Halloween fundraiser and also that day a lot of great things happening 5K for our kids the I do believe a trunk of treat for that too and they also have an opportunity to go into the candy is it a candy reward for all those who are being served yep I think it is our major said that all kids should be allowed to go into the little candy area and grab some handfuls of snacks on the 29th October we have drills a terrarium chili golf ground what starting at 10 don't forget about the farmer's market it's near the end I do believe I think they're going to go to the first Saturday of November but we've got the farmer's market still at 8.00 from 8.00 to 12.00 if you decide you want to leave the Leavenworth area on the 1.00 November we want to highlight our education and career favorite here at the FCC 3.00 November we also want to highlight the installation new congress orientation that also be here at the LCC 4.00 November the Buffalo Soldier Memorial Golf Tournament 0800 8.00 November is midterm elections 12.00 November wasted open house and tree light that'll be from 5.30 to 7.00 PM 24.00 November holiday and Father Lights of the Kansas City Father from 6.30 to 8.00 PM and Wednesday will be closed on the 25th of November we have a training holiday for the military soldiers and Wednesday will be closed and on the 4th of December we've got a Disney Princess on Ice concert for all of those who have loved the Disney Princess concerts that'll be at the concert artist bank theater at 2.00 PM and that that'll be at the concert artist bank theater for the 12th of December and a Sunday and a Saturday and a Sunday and on the 4th of November we'll be closed on the 14th of November and on the 4th of December we'll be closed on the 3rd of September and on the 4th of November and on the 4th of November we'll be free and free to better the comment here on the best hometown in the Army, right? Here at Fort Levenworth and, you know, create a better, more approachable service environment. And so with that, I'll just stop talking and I'll look to the audience. If you would like to ask a question, I can just pass the mic. That way we can get it on the recorded audio. Sir, I have a call back. Yes, ma'am. As Icarino was mentioning with Halloween coming up in trigger treating, please be mindful if you're dressing up your pet and taking your pet out with you that there is a leash policy on post. And if your pet tends to get brawled up around others, then you please maybe not bring them out to the trigger treating events as little ones will want to touch them. And we wonder if they have a nice and safe time. Thank you all for bringing that up. Great points. And really too, I can also just add, if you're thinking about a question real quick, but just remember we got a lot of wildlife out too. This cold weather, you're going to see more raccoons and foxes and deer and, you know, coyotes and squirrels, everything. Everybody's foraging right now to survive the winter. So they are really, really active. It's great to see, right? We coexist with nature. Beautiful or no beautiful post with a lot of this brilliant creature. So anyways, just keep that in mind as you drive and revolve around post. All right. I'll pause again. Any other questions or comments? Just to highlight real quick that we do have a great process going with our movie theaters. Everything is going great. We've got a lot of great participation, but we do want to highlight that we are always looking for volunteers to help. So if anyone is out there and want to help with the movie theater or the most part we play them every two weeks from 1900 to roughly I think the longest movie we've played so far has been about two hours. So we ask the volunteers for that. 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G'day, May 40 here. What a lovely afternoon at Clevelle Beach on Sydney's eastern suburbs. And if you were to look at the grand sweep of my body of thought, you would notice a profound change over the past eight years towards more evolutionary explanations about the world books. So prior to 2012, I think I relied on Dennis Prager's presentation of ethical monotheism, my rudimentary understanding of Judaism, to largely inform my understanding about how the world worked. But after reading a lot of Steve Saylor and Kevin McDonald and the biological right wing, increasingly moved towards evolutionary explanations for how the world works. And I think we were evolutionarily designed to eat meat.  It wouldn't be very easy. But I had such a profound experience of the life-changing potential of meat. About 18 months ago, I started taking beef organ capsules. And about a year prior to that, it was reading Nathan Coffness. He wrote a couple of articles, academic papers on the dangers of the vegetarian diet, how raising your kids vegetarian makes them less popular than child molesters. Maybe that's an exaggeration. Maybe it was just homosexuals. And I got to meet Nathan Coffness and he talked about all the health problems he had in his early twenties when he went vegan and how all those health problems went away. And he started eating steak again. And he grew an inch at age 27 after he started eating steak every day. And now it's intellectually convinced by Nathan Coffness on the topic of vegetarianism. Just as I was intellectually convinced by Nathan Coffness on his critique of Kevin McDonald's culture of critique. I find Nathan Coffness an impressive scholar. He's got a very tight Twitter game. And I just got my life back at age 55. And I just started popping six beef organ capsules every day. And I got a whole new level of vitality. And I realized that I had had 55 years of poor health because of the crazy vegetarian diet I was raised with. So I was raised a Seventh-day Adventist. Seventh-day Adventists believe in quite and quite health reform. Yeah, Jordan Peterson and I took in half of Coffness's input. So Coffness would definitely not recommend not eating vegetables, not eating salad, stuff like that. So the Seventh-day Adventist's message of health reform was that we need to go back to the Garden of Eden where apparently there wasn't meat and fish consumed. And so health reform, Seventh-day Adventist means vegetarian. And when Seventh-day Adventist and Seventh-day Adventist influence people talk about being health conscious in a significant part. They mean being vegetarian. So as someone close to me asks, you seem so health conscious at times and other times not at all. You know what's going on? This is as I'm piling Nutella with peanut butter on top of my crackers for lunch. What do I know about the Kellogg cereal family and their Seventh-day Adventist Eugenics wheat diet? I heard a lot about the Kellogg's growing up. I like the novel The Road to Wellville. Very funny novel about Battle Creek, Michigan and the Kellogg family and the whole health reform message. So overall, I look back on my Seventh-day Adventist, quote unquote, healthy upbringing as cranks. All right? My father tried to raise us with the ideal that we should try to get 80% of our calories from carbohydrates, only 10% from fat and 10% from protein. Just like absolute insane. You could have crossed over to meeting that shows not to. Maybe you like being difficult and polite company. They're getting vegetarian would seem quite common among the LA set. Well, you say I could have and yes, theoretically I could have. You could theoretically learn scuba diving. I don't know what your phobias are. All right? But if you don't eat meat for the first 20, 30 years of life, very, very difficult to change over. Some people are able to do it without much problem. Other people find it very difficult. Like I don't know what your weak points are. I don't know where you're vulnerable. Maybe you would feel very ill at ease being half a mile out to sea. All right? I feel very comfortable swimming half a mile out to sea, just floating there and then swimming back. Now, other people would be terrified that situation. Some people love scuba diving. Other people would be absolutely terrified. You know, going underwater with scuba equipment. Some people are very smooth at approaching women. Other people are absolutely terrified about approaching women. Now the terminally shy guy who becomes incredibly tongue tied and faced with the prospect of approaching women. Could he approach women? Yes he could. But it would be 100 times more difficult for him than it'd be for me. So by life experience we get shaped in different directions. I never consciously chose to stay a vegetarian. It was just an ingrained habit like many other habits. Now I did learn to drink coffee. So maybe once every few months I'll have a cup of coffee and that wasn't too difficult. I did learn to swear. I did learn to go to movies. I did convert to another religion. So many things I changed. Some things I didn't. We all have ingrained habits and proclivities and phobias and fears so that what is terribly difficult for one person is nothing for another. So just reflecting on how the health conscious attitude that I was raised with, how anti-healthy it was, how insane it was and how devastating it was. I mean coughness makes some pretty strong points about how it retards mental development. Leads to all sorts of health problems and social problems.  Fair enough I merely object to the blame your parents rhetoric. Ah there's no blame here.  No, I don't blame myself.  I didn't choose to be a love addict.  I didn't choose to be a debtor or an underowner or whatever my other emotional compulsions are. My dad did not choose to crush my life by raising me with a vegetarian diet. My dad did the very best he could with the tools he had at his disposal and guess what? I did the best I could. If I'd known at age 12, 15, 18, 21, 25, 30, 37, 46, 52, that I could get my life back by eating meat, don't you think I would have absolutely forced myself to eat meat? I would have. Would you have been more or less addicted to porn on a meat-based diet? I think a lot of addictions, at least in my experience of addiction, are substantially situation dependent. So if my life is going well, all right, I'm much less vulnerable to my destructive emotional compulsions. So I like the definition of addiction as when you feel compelled to participate in your own destruction. So when my life is thriving, I rarely feel compelled to participate in my own destruction. So when you combine poor health and the isolation, low social status, diminished opportunities, that go along with it, then you're placing someone in a much more vulnerable position where they're going to reach out for a quick fix for their feelings of failure and frustration. So yeah, whether you're in thriving health or poor health, whether you're thriving socially or struggling socially, if you're thriving economically or struggling economically, that will probably play a role for many people in how vulnerable they become to addictions or destructive compulsions. So it's kind of funny to think back. It seems to me, given the information I know at this time, how much better my life would have been if I had not been raised health conscious. There's so many things that if we consciously strive for them, we're much worse off. So take addiction with this medical model that we have a disease. It's an insane sounding model for addiction, like alcoholism is a disease, but overeating is a disease. It makes absolutely no rational sense, but this irrational model seems to work for some people. So there are all sorts of things in life that just seem to work that upon examination don't work. The happiest marriages seem to be where people have a dramatic exaggerated overestimation of their own spouses worth and value and beauty. They're not realistic about their spouse in my experience, in my conversations of the best marriages. Man, these pigeons don't fear me. What's that term that 4chan uses? Keep keeping my powers hidden, trying to keep my powers hidden from these pigeons. I heard one explanation of religion that if you think you understand your religion, you're not religious. I think there's something to that. If you think you understand your spirituality, you're not spiritual. There are some mysteries that are only accessible to those in the dance and are inaccessible to those who demand 100% rational inquiry. Like if we knew what our friends were thinking, we wouldn't have any friends. I had some brilliant nose jotted down, but this is where I love to go swimming there in that Clevelli reservoir. You find the grippers. The party comes back in. Okay, I'll play a little Stephen Cotkin. So what do you need in 12 steps? Is a higher power of your misunderstanding? Yes, I think or a humility that is beyond your understanding. I think that helps some people. I think irrational, non-rational, even false beliefs frequently help people. Like I've always despised the medical model for addiction. We're not bad people getting better. We're sick people getting well. I always despise that. I always thought it was irrational. It just works for a lot of people even though it makes absolutely no sense. I've been listening to a lot of Javi Asher, like the 12-step sex olex anonymous dude. He talks about how prayer can block you from God. Our rationality can block you from God.  But if you can explain the spiritual process or your religious process, maybe you're not really spiritual or religious, why do I think about seed oils? I don't have any opinion on seed oils. Wow, AA doesn't work perfectly, but it works remarkably. Yeah, I like that. But I mean, I'd say the same thing for a ton of other things. This isn't a pro 12-step stream, but a lot of relationships, right? For instance, there are a lot of like plain blokes out there. Now, blokes are just unimpressive when you look at them, when you interact with them, but they're just fair dinkum. They're just honest. They're honest to God. They're unpretentious. They're reliable.   Now, why is my friend marrying this guy? He doesn't seem that impressive. But there's just something about him that works or works for your sister. And so too with religion, right? You can think there's a ton of like irrational, stupid, immoral, unethical, homophobic religion just seems to work for people. And so that just makes me kind of humble. Because I've always been a guy who wants to figure things out. Now, you're probably wondering, 40, what does Steven Kotkin have to say about the Ukraine situation? Let's take away their businesses. Gorbachev didn't do a China. Well, first, they didn't have enough Chinese. Secondly, I think that's huge, right? Why didn't Gorbachev do now a Chinese economic miracle? One, he didn't have Chinese, right? DNA is incredibly important if you want to build some type of prosperous society. Number two, he didn't have the institutions. Like, Hong Kong had institutions that they inherited from the British that allowed the economy to thrive. Gorbachev didn't have that, didn't have the DNA, didn't have the institutions. John Smith says there's a massive meth epidemic right now in Australia. He's going to pray that I stay on the straight and narrow. Thanks. Thanks, John. I really appreciate it. Like, I have a lot of vulnerabilities, but I don't think that meth is one of them. Leah Greenfield has gone silent since May 2022. I haven't been in contact with her, so she was good about answering my emails. And I haven't been listening to her. So I do find her very interesting. So I'll have to have to check up on Leah Greenfield. I find it hard to believe it's because of Ukraine. So can you hear Stephen Kotkin here clearly? I mean, I think he's making some interesting points. Japanese and Taiwanese support, by the way, technology transfer to China is written into the GAT and written into the WTO. It was a goal that we pursued. And then this becomes an across-the-board bipartisan, you know, across-the-isle bipartisan policy. Oh, so there's a question. What do I think of seed oils? So I don't know much about health, but one thing I do think I know something about is how, you know, food affects me. And so I don't notice any deleterious effect from seed oil. So one thing I do notice is a deleterious effect of a, you know, high carbohydrate diet. And I don't function as well on that as I seem to function on the zone, right? So I try to stay in the zone, approximately 40% of my calories from carbs, 30% protein, 30% fat. But there was a huge lack in understanding what was going on. Yeah, okay. This is Neil Ferguson. I'm a good fellow. Let's just celebrate what happened that the billion people escaped horrible poverty. Should that, that should happen to India? That should happen to Africa? This is John Cochran, an economist at Stanford, and earlier was Neil Ferguson, Stephen Cochran, and HR McMaster will also chime in. It was the greatest increase in human welfare we've seen now. Yeah, seed oils aren't bad for you. It's just a heads up. It's an alt-right. Yeah, I noticed that the alt-right's all against seed oils. But I know nothing about it except that they don't have any immediate effect on me. So there we go. Oh, so this talk about China's economic revival and how it brought a billion Chinese out of poverty. I remember listening to my former UCLA economics professor, and we used to have hours of conversations outside of class. And he was an influence on me and played a role in inspiring me to convert to orthodox Judaism. So he was raised a secular Jew, became an orthodox Jew. The alt-rights beliefs are based upon low information, low effort memes. Frequently, yes. Up until about 2015, the alt-right was primarily an intellectual movement. Then it became primarily a podcasting and video movement. And the IQ content, the IQ quality of its productions, dramatically decreased. But back to Russell Roberts, Luke's mango madness, plus beef organ pills. So I was telling a friend from 7th-day Adventism about how my life had been changed by taking beef organ capsules.  And he said, can you honestly look at a cow and a paddock and think it's meant to be eaten? And I thought about it. And I said, yeah, just like you can look at an attractive woman and think that she's meant to be bred with. So anyway, back to Russell Roberts, my econ professor at UCLA. So we'd have all these hours of conversation. And I heard him on a show on NPR about six years ago, make the case for free trade. And half of his case was that it was good for Americans, that Americans like buying cheap Chinese goods. And the other half of his argument, he explicitly said, and just as important, free trade has helped bring a billion Chinese out of poverty. So he said half of his cases is good for Americans, half of his cases is good for Chinese. It's immediately struck. So the welfare of the Chinese is equally as important to you as the welfare of Americans. Like what kind of American citizen are you? If the welfare of another country, particularly one whose America's greatest geopolitical rival has been for approximately 20 years, like the welfare of this country is just as important to you as your own country. There's something about the economics profession that is detached from reality. For instance, when it talks about inputs, it treats all like labor inputs the same, whether they're Japanese or Ashkenazi Jewish or West African or East Asian or South Asian. And of course, different people tend to have different gifts, but economists treat all these inputs as though they're the same. And yeah, a billion Chinese have not come out of poverty. So maybe 500 million half. But the average IQ of kids under 18 in rural China is basically 85. The country is still filled with pollution and problems.  So let's get a little more here from economist John Cochran talking to Stephen Cochran. Just increased in human welfare we've seen. Now, yes, we'll get to the geopolitical. I want to ask is this all over? Are we going back to North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela if the party takes over? But let's not immediately jump to how terrible it was that the US let China escape 500 bucks a person per year and get to 20,000 a year. Look, international politics is sometimes zero sum. All right, allowing the Chinese to become prosperous means that they are a more formidable rival. They make America less safe. Right?  All right? You're in far more dangerous position when your rival becomes rich because then they can buy more guns and missiles and field a more formidable military and threaten you that way. Power is power. Power coerces people into doing things they don't want to do. Why would you want your greatest rival to become increasingly powerful? So John Cochran here is an economist and he's got the blindness of many economists. He doesn't understand that you have political consequences. What he's talking about. There's no doubt that this is a miracle and that millions and millions of lives got better as a result of this and that Americans lost jobs and other Americans benefited from this. And then you could talk about Western Europe benefiting you can talk about Japan benefiting you can talk if you know what you're talking about like John Cochran the inflation effects or non-inflation effects is the case might be. You can talk about all sorts of important really world's historical developments. There's no doubt about that. I would just reduce the billion to the 600-800 million because there's at least 600 million and probably 800 million Chinese who are not part of the world economy. They are not educated. They didn't finish high school. They can't get prescription glasses. They have no health care. This is part of what's known as Okay Bell says sell the activator in Australia instead of hauling back 80 pounds of health gear to America. The activator weighs about three or four ounces. It's not a big deal. Now I've had it for about seven or eight years and it's absolutely changed my life. It saved me thousands of dollars in physical therapy bills and the massage gun man the Bob and Brad massage gun is so reliable. It is so sturdy. Man I've been exercising so much while I'm here and I've been able to you know do it by getting rid of the muscle tension through the massage gun. Can't get prescription glasses. They have no health care. I'm a dynamism that produces a better life for a lot of people. The question though is who did that and how did they do that? And the answer is if it wasn't the party that did it all along the way as I think there seems to be a consensus here. The party did something smart. It said we're going to copy what Japan did. We're going to partner with the US. Yeah Bell I'm not very entrepreneurial. You know a lot of people would do just what you talk about. You know you buy and sell buy cheap sell. Oh dear right. A lot of people are really gifted that way. I'm just not entrepreneurial and when I've attempted you know entrepreneurship I haven't particularly succeeded but someone I know is gifted that way. So when she went to the Soviet Union in the 1970s like she sold her pair of jeans you know for hundreds of equipment hundreds of dollars. So a man has to know his limitations. Isn't that from the movie Cool Hand Luke? A man's got to know his limitations. Something smart. It said we're going to copy what Japan did as our economic partners sell it to the American middle class. They had to be capable of selling products that American consumers would buy. For example Romania and have a lot of products that the American middle class would buy. But the Chinese ended up having that. But he's the same as now. So that's on the Chinese people. That is credit to them for incredible success credit to Hong Kong right credit to a lot of people and you can argue that it happened much more quickly than we understood. And therefore that was part of the naivete of assisting it. We didn't think that it would happen this quickly. In other words that they would become a bigger competitor within two generations or a generation you would have. We didn't know that the world productive is not a competitor. There's a geostrategic question we're going to get to. Okay how naive is this economist all right. John Cochran at Stanford thinking that wealthy and productive is not a competitor. The wealthier more productive the Japanese were during World War Two. The more of a competitor the more of a threat they were. The wealthier more productive Germany was in World War One World War Two. The more of a threat it was to its enemies.  About competition but simply being wealthy the European Union is wealthy and productive and that is not a competitor to the US. It's not a problem for us at all. Yeah right now it's not a problem all right. In a different circumstance it could indeed be a problem because there are no permanent friends no permanent allies in international relations or in life right they're just interests. So right the Nazis pretty anti-Jewish but they arranged for Jews to move to Palestine and made it really easy for them to move to Palestine so they helped create the Jewish state because it was in their interest to do so. Now over I think we were right that economic freedom and wealth would lead to a demand for political freedom and China had to choose political freedom or clamp down. It's choosing clamp down. The party cannot stay in control of a free market economy. That's correct. Are we now headed to a disastrous decline. That one story is to amplify I think what might be attorney pointed and Stephen I don't think the party understands that the Chinese people should get credit for lifting 600 800 million people out of poverty. They should get the credit so they want more and more common as party right and and and more control. In the last meeting the Trumps visited there during the day of meetings you know he was kind of tired or anybody was a little bit grumpy. At the end of the at the Lee Kishon and he couldn't understand like why am I meeting with Lee Kishon why would we be with the prime premier. I just met with Xi Jinping but it was formality right. He's the nominal head of state. So but Lee Kishon when he basically said we don't need you anymore and and and he said if you're lucky you know you can transfer some more your technology does but mainly you're going to sell us agricultural goods and energy you know hydrocarbons and that's going to be the role of United States in the future. And of course after which Donald Trump said okay thanks stood up and we just all laughed. But I thought but I thought that this meeting was was important because you know Lee Kishon. Yeah there are Australia first gropers all around Australia is not polarized like America right in Australia there's this widespread belief that the government is on your side. The government works for you that the government assists in making life more fair and so cultural issues which are creating explosive divisions between Americans operated about 10 percent of the American level of intensity here in Australia. And Australians are not at each other's throats over abortion or gay rights or tranny rights or you know what's being taught in schools. So politics is much less intense here now there there really aren't particularly significant differences between the two major parties in Australia right. You're just talking about various permutations on the neoliberal consensus. So the Margaret Thatcher revolution it's still the dominant outlook in both Australian politics and British politics. Some pufters bomb the Australian Christian lobby's office when we had the gay marriage referendum. Yeah so when I say that cultural issues operated 10 percent the intensity of of America doesn't mean they operate at zero percent just much less. So I haven't witnessed or overheard or seen any intense political arguments since I've been here. Like the Australian Prime Minister is boring the current Australian governing party the Labor Party is boring. No one's particularly exercised and upset about it. John Smith says because most Aussies are apathetic most Aussies have other priorities aside from politics such as going to the beach having a drink watching some sport having a barbecue having friends over enjoying life and that's not bad right. As opposed to Charles Krauthammer and David Brooks and our foreign policy elite who want to invade the world and invite the world and meddle in other countries and tell them how they should be doing things between those two alternatives much better to be obsessed with 40 and going to the beach and having a barbie then being obsessed with invading the world. So back to H.R. McMaster incredible story. It was important because you know Lika Shanker was always seen right as you know sort of Western meaning and everything was not really Western meaning. He was basically saying that period of partnering with the United States not necessary anymore. We're on our own now and we're going to eclipse the United States as as a preponderant power economically. And I think we'll look back and see the balance then. Yes. Okay John Smith you say Australia's elite are demographically transforming society. So I looked at the Wikipedia entry and Australia is still about an 80 to 85 percent Caucasian country and then it's about a 15 to 18 percent Asian country. So Australia's thriving and Sydney is filled with diversity so there's less social cohesion social trust in Sydney compared to other parts of Australia and there's consequently less volunteering in Sydney compared to other parts of Australia. And yes diverse Sydney is a forecast of what's coming for Australia but overall the country is still working pretty well. Yes. Absolutely. A notion that they actually had more or less achieved parity and that we would do to decline. And that So I get into conversations about geopolitics with people and when I point out that a rising China presents a threat to the United States and to the countries around it and to the world they said well China's not like the United States. China doesn't have this long history of imperialism just because China gets stronger and stronger and builds up its military and its economy. That doesn't mean it's a threat to anybody else. And that's just nonsense. Right. Just like that foreign minister that HR, HR McMaster talked about when he thought that China was in the catbird seat he became cocky and said you know we don't need you guys anymore. You guys are nothing right. People are transformed by having power and just people by countries. Luke have you watched Rambo 4? No. I don't think I have. He teams up with some Aussie mercenaries in Myanmar. Haven't watched that yet. But I have watched the Australian sitcom Fisk which is quite amusing, mildly amusing. 50-something woman joins a law office that does wills. But it's on ABC iView. I'm enjoying that. And then I'm watching this series about this bald guy, a cable TV host who moves to LA. Canada's wasps don't reproduce. 500,000 immigrants. Europeans might be excluded. Well why aren't they reproducing? Are they one of those species who doesn't breed in captivity? Right. We need some philosopher King to unite the world's Anglo-Saxon tribes. And if King Charles isn't up to the task maybe this convert to Orthodox Judaism needs to become the philosopher King that the Anglo-Saxon tribes need to unite them around you know a common message so that wasps, white Anglo-Saxon Protestants can regain their former preeminent position in the world and start operating with due diligence with regard to their own best interests. Maybe a convert to Judaism needs to lead them. Coopers I think reached a climax in 2020 when they thought that the pandemic had exposed us as completely deficient and that their superior zero-carbon policy was going to keep a success. Here we are fast forward a couple of years and they are cracked in a policy that has become so closely identified with Xi Jinping himself that they can't actually end it.  Consumption is weighed down because it's pretty hard to have dynamic consumption if you've been locked down every other. Yes Australians do have water sprinklers but Sydney on average I think it's about four times the rainfall of Los Angeles and they're not as common as they are sprinklers in California. Sydney can get rain year round so you don't need sprinklers as much and Sydney has just had its wettest year ever in history. And I do think that to answer your question John there's an economic crisis. It's latent but it's there and it's not just about zero COVID it's also about the demographics which are dreadful. I mean the population of China could half between now and the end of the century if you look at the worst case scenario in the U.N. population projections and here's the thing we have students to crack down on the tech sector which is one thing the party never really controlled but it decided it was time to bring John to heel but there's one thing we haven't talked about although we touched on a briefing. Right at the heart of China's economy now is the real estate sector and our friend Ken Rogos was very persuasive and the real estate game where the government would sell the land to the property developers they would get a piece of the action that they built tar blocks and a huge percentage of economic activity was in fact building urban infrastructure. That's game of and considered on future sales. You're building tar blocks for no tar blocks for nobody. That the population's in decline. Right so now they're blowing them up and of course they have Keynesian stimulus number one on one build a tower and blow it out. But John did ask the John did ask the most important question. Is it over Stephen? So building towers and blowing them up reminds me of a story linked from the dredger report today that you know people are talking about that there's a lot of therapeutic benefit from digging a hole and then filling it back up. So have you guys experienced the great psychological blessings that come from digging a hole and then filling it back up again? That's not my idea of a good time. Like I prefer to read a book, go for a swim, eat a mango, just bought some mangoes for $3.90 each Australian. So that's the that's the equivalent of what about two dollars American. Yeah you know this is a great show but you're asking an historian who studies the past now to tell you to predict the future in the next five years. Is that normal? So John says you need to go to the local fruit and veg market. That's where you get the best deals. I'm someone who likes a lot of familiarity in his life. Yeah I got him from Woolies. Got my mangoes from Woolies. So I like to go the tried and true realm. I don't, a farmer's market is just too wild for me. Look so you're activated on the last day or two. Help out Aussies with the secret goods. This chair, I've been a different chair which was a lot more comfortable and expensive. But anyway I don't want to I don't want to make it look like I'm trying to share my dinner and avoid your question. So this is the answer to your question. The extent to which you think the party is able to tolerate private sector wealth and independent power. To the extent that you think the party is not going to tolerate that. They're not going to tolerate the job creation and GDP growth that the private sector provides. When they talk about you can establish a private company but just don't get too big. That is a self-limiting obviously policy right there. And then of course there's. So I'm very much a spur of the moment kind of guy. So I got out Wednesday morning and just one or two things fell into place and then suddenly occurred to me I want to be back in Sydney. And so within within an hour of deciding I wanted to be back in Sydney I'd already booked my flight and I just waited around on pins and needles for three hours to hear back from you know where I was going to stay. If that was kosher like I haven't stayed with them for a few months and so yeah just spur of the moment. So it reminds me one on Sabbath in March of 1984 or April of 1984 I suddenly got the idea I want to go back to Australia for a year after high school and stay with my brother Paul. And it just like hit me and I did it. I went back to Australia for a year after high school and I worked at G.J. Coles which is Kmart. It was an Australian version of Kmart and that was so miserable. Like working at Kmart for three and a half months I'm just not cut out for that kind of thing. So miserable it gave me great determination to go back to America and you know study hard at college and I managed to then get one of the best jobs I've ever had a cleaning contract at the Boine Island Shopping Center. So I did the gardening and the cleaning for about seven months there. I got paid like $35 an hour Australian which was like $30 American then at the time. So at age 18 like I was getting paid as much as I'd make at age 46. All right at age 18 in Australia just for cooking and gardening right I was getting paid as much as I'd done between say age 44 and 50 in America. I was getting paid around no I was getting paid far more than at 18. Getting paid about $30 American at age 18 for this cleaning and gardening contract at the Boine Island Shopping Center. And I also got to read books for about two or three hours a day in addition to the local newspaper because I had a contract as my own boss. Then I went back to America and I thought no way no way I'd cut out for working at Kmart or I mean working in grocery store no way. I came back to America and I thought I was serious I was just pulling B grades at Sierra Community College. Then I worked a winter landscaping and that was so miserable that after that I got straight A's from there now right and then I transferred to UCLA. It was a winter working landscaping that finally convinced me to get serious about my study so absolutely hated working at Kohl's and Kmart or any like grocery store that's not really my thing. And then of course there's the expropriation that continues. He fights corruption of the people he doesn't like and enables the people who are on his side his favorites to acquire property and wealth. So if you think that they need the private sector like oxygen can't give it up and will be compelled by reality to indulge it going forward you could potentially be somewhat optimistic about the Chinese growth model if however you're persuaded. Hey guys I got a very delicate question I see a lot of women wearing like very form-fitting tight shorts I guess they're for workouts and they're just like completely tight across the crotch and first of all for women who have a punch there it's not a good look so this is just my public service announcement ladies if you have a punch don't wear those skin tight you know crotch emphasizing shorts is there like a particular name I asked people they just said I was just workout clothing but is it just because I'm a sex addict I just see these shorts that seem to be you know so tight around the crotch it just seems to I have never dated a Latina woman I've never dated a Hispanic woman I've never dated a Mexican I did go out once I took one Mexican woman she was doing a master's degree she was like very highly educated and beautiful and she'd call me from her from a bath tub when she was taking a bath and it was weird all I could talk to her was about Mexican things like I just kept wanting to talk to her about everything Mexican because it just seemed so weird I just couldn't imagine actually dating a Mexican so any dated at once and then she was beautiful and smart and educated I just couldn't handle dating a Latina and of course she wasn't Jewish and so who needs the agro so anyway what's the name for you know workout clothing that's just so tight around the crotch that it just seems to you know emphasize every every fold every every bump every hillock I am I a pervert am I a bad man that I keep noticing this and like why am I you know looking but it just like my eyes just go boom like why why do women wear this clothing that is particularly tight and revealing around the crotch and help me with a question to etiquette like what's the appropriate response all right so if you are if you're wearing this kind of tight revealing clothing around around the crotch are you crying out for compliments so what would be the appropriate compliment it's like oh you've got a really spelt crotch or your crotch is looking good today or you're looking pretty juicy or nice vagina like what's the appropriate compliment to give to women who wear this really tight workout gear around the crotch and then you know walk up and down the streets well I'm trying to study Torah well I'm trying to think about Torah well I'm trying to stay with my emotional sobriety no I haven't cat called women I'm 56 years of age and I don't think I did I didn't really do it when I was 18 because one I can't whistle I don't know how to whistle but like I need to know the proper etiquette no I'm I'm in Los Angeles my vote doesn't matter right what matters is that I study Torah and I stay emotionally sober and that I learn the proper etiquette what's the proper compliment or you're just supposed to ignore it like they're walking around flaunting the tights felt crotchers and is the appropriate thing just to ignore it I need to know and if there's anyone who knows no etiquette it's the members of this channel or some of the most refined people I've ever known so tell me the proper etiquette what's the right thing to say to a woman who's dressed this way if however you're persuaded that the Leninist system is for real Xi Jinping is for real on top of that that the system selects for certain leaders it's not the personality of the leader per se it's the kind of person that again and again gets to the top of these systems to as it were defend the system against these and then if you want to talk about the larger strategic environment so media heads want to know why no one was commenting on the women doing squats while I was talking November 4 well the reason is that people come to this live stream for the profound ideas people come here for the intellectual stimulation not visceral physical stimulation hey people come here for the wit and the wisdom for the emotional sobriety for the moral uplift all right they don't come here for tawdry reasons make a lot of enemies and they make profound enemies out of people who want to be their friends and we and then you talk about the strategic shift that happened in american policy under the general one he was the national security no media hits I wasn't filming the women doing squats I was filming kudji all right tell her the clothes facilitate the alexander technique and introduce yourself you'd like to be her alexander teacher zero hottie's film luxo's up land whales only in this video thanks like I was filming kudji I was filming Sydney I was filming god's creation I was filming nature I was filming seagulls I was filming a wholesome scene I didn't know why my media hits has to take it into the gutter I mean that's just not what I'm about bro under the general he was the national security advisor and Mike Pompeo was secretary of state and matt pottinger was the general's deputy you want to talk about the fact that things are not going their way but you're right they think things are going their way okay so john smith says he thinks Luke does not appreciate women who are a pound of a skinny look I don't ejectify women john smith I'm not like checking them out I mean what's a pound here what matters is what's on the inside all right what matters is their moral character their their intellectual stimulation the wisdom that they've accumulated along with the wrinkles and the added pounds over the years nice Ethan Ralph got that's Luke's cat call god forbid god forbid I'm looking for a woman you know my age who will stand up to me he'll put me in a place who you know it was loaned so much over her five plus decades of life like what do I need with some teeny bopper 18 22 year old when I could be with a strong independent woman my own age it's not afraid to call me out for my nonsense right there's a lot of wisdom that comes with age not just wrinkles but you're right they think things are going their way and so that is potentially the most important answer to your question but the Russians thought things were going their way for 70 years until all but my point being is that if they're persuaded that they're in the right by strangling the private sector and acting aggressively abroad and that this is working for them that if they're persuaded they're in the right it's likely they'll continue those kind of policies in which case the answer to your question is we look over your portfolio one more time for china exposure okay guys look over your portfolio please one more time for china exposure i'm going to continue on with my walk to Bandai that's where the Jews are


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How's it going everyone Caleb here with late in sports cards? We're gonna be working on 2022 Tom Steinman icons baseball hobby one box break number 33 random hit style the way that this is gonna work guys We are gonna go ahead and open up the box Put out all of the cards here into a spreadsheet type them out That is and then match your name up at the end of the break with one of the hits if we do happen to have 11 hits we will be combing up the lowest two hits As determined by myself and Sam And yeah, that's about it here are the participants for number 33 Let's get right to it. Thank you all and good luck. You can grab guys I'm an icon stuck in there. Just the fillers Nice start. We have a jumbo catcher patch your 10 of 10 will Smith That's sick looking nice one there to start it out You go, it's got the number and the Nike sign. It's gonna be a pre-eminent pieces relic That's really sick nice will Smith there very cool starts Really cool start yes you there next one up is autograph Ryan Sandberg. It's gonna be diamond icons autograph very cool These are believe not numbered Yeah, these are not numbered I'm an icons Ryan Sandberg. What's up, Bernie? How's it going, man? Solid start solid start. Hey, Bernie. Next one out is gonna be autograph of Bryce Harper once again diamond icons Is it thank you? I'll show it in a second guy 23 at 25 Missed it on the top there. These are numbered. Sorry. Yep. Yeah, you guys saw it. I'll show it again in a second I was like, I swear these are numbered. I had hit one in the past It's 25 on the Harper Yeah, the Sandberg was the same thing. It's all sort of 25 My apologies It's four of 25 on the Sandberg I don't know how I missed it. I was looking like here on the bottom. I think that's why I missed it That just deserves an SMH my head. Yeah. Oh, well Next one. Oh Jumbo patch autograph nine of ten Paul Goldschmidt There he is nice one there Hey, thanks buck we appreciate you man, thank you appreciate it nice one there Goldschmidt nine of ten Good to see you man You go good luck on that all next up here it is diamond icons Gold four of ten Brooks Robinson autograph There you go nice Brooks Solid hit there. This is a gold diamond icons now beautiful card Nice one there awesome Jake Next up here is gonna be a David Wright. It's gonna be silver ink autograph one of one There you go. Good luck nice one there silver ink one of one Right man, no joke Stefan nice, right David right there. Good luck on that one all One of one silver ink auto next up is gonna be autograph eight of ten Corey seager red ink auto Corey seager nice one there eight of ten on the ready See you have a good one man Next up we have a P. Delonzo autograph another diamond icons auto one of one this time Holy cow, that's the white one of one. That's a beautiful looking card Nice P. D. Polar bear To that's one of one to imagine I was a random team break two. Yeah, two Mets one of ones But then also like four diamond icons cards in one box. That's kind of wild as well That's kind of wild as well There you go. Good luck on that one. Yeah multiple multiple Mets one of one It is a little bit strange It's gonna be one second guys gonna check one thing Keep going Very interesting autograph this time is gonna be six of 25 David Ortiz Nice one there David Ortiz six of 25 There he is again Hey, what's going on roller if you want to check out the personal boxes link. It's right here in the chat. I Can grab it for you? This would be the personal boxes link There you go They ripped tonight at about midnight Eastern and Last one out is gonna be autograph 19 of 25 Juan Soto Awesome ending there There you go on the Soto very nice 19 of 25 Alright, no, it's 10 hits right and it's so perfect. I'm gonna go ahead and get this random set up Good luck everyone and remember if you do want to watch that random tune into the YouTube or the twitch Layton sports cards on both platforms Okay, let me grab this from Sam All right guys here are the hits ten of them here are the names ten of them Good luck. Thank you Six times on each let's do it Six on each one two three four five and six my guess down to Joe L six on the hits One two three four five and six Bryce Harper auto 23 at 25 down to the Brooks Robinson gold auto four of ten All right, let me grab these guys and read it off All right, Mike S with the Bryce Harper auto 23 at 25 John a the Will Smith patch 10 to 10 and the Ryan Sandberg auto 425 Christie Juan Soto auto 19 at 25 Shaniki S Paul Goldschmidt hatch auto 9 to 10 Alexandro says David Ortiz auto 6 at 25 Braden K had the one-of-one Peter Lonzo white acetate autograph very nice hit Braden Cappuccine M the David Wright silver ain't got a one-of-one. There you go, man John M. Corey seager red ink auto 8 of 10 and Joe L with the Brooks Robinson gold autograph 4 of 10 Thanks all appreciate it. We'll get on to the next time in icons shortly tonight


Welcome to the ITU studio here at the World Ready Communication Conference 2023 in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. I'm very pleased to be joining the studio today by Rio Iwasa, who is the co-founder and CEO of AETA-Link. Rio, welcome to the studio. It's my pleasure to come here. Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you too.  Why is this important to be here? You've come all the way from Japan and I know you've got some products here as well. We'll talk about those in a second. Sure. But why is the World Ready Communication Conference important to you? Yes, because our company is a WPT company. The wireless power transmission is our core technologies. Our company has already started exporting many products to all over the world and the other startup companies also start exporting. In the 6th generation, maybe a lot of the sensors will be connected to the internet, but it's lack of the power sources. I think the WPT technology is an essential technology for the 6th generation. That's why I came here to make the harmonization of the WPT frequency or something like that. You've decorated our studio table here with a number of your products here. Perhaps we could actually tell us a little bit about them. Yes, sure. Our company was born in Stanford University in the US and based in Tokyo. We conducted research for more than 10 years about biomedical implant devices. This is our cardiac pacemaker, which is the smallest size, 1,000 size compared to the conventional one. We insert a load of the implant devices through the catheter inside the heart and transmit from outside to inside the body. This is our origin technology history. Nowadays, we use this technology for the factory automation or building management or something like that. Excellent. What are the other products that you've been talking about? Nowadays, we use our technology for, for example, the factory automation because there's tons of sensors in the factory, manufacturing lines, which are attached to the top of the robotic hand. Of course, every sensor is powered by a cable. That's why the cable attached to the robotic hand keeps moving very quickly. That's why this cable breaks down very frequently. This is a critical problem. That's why we replace from the cable power source to the WPT power sources. Then, many factory companies can reduce the opportunity loss. This is for the factory automation use case. The other application is for the building management. The program of the building management is, for example, 80% of the complain of the building management comes from AC. People feel too hot or too cold. For some people, it's exactly too hot or too cold. What does this do exactly? We just replace from the sensor from the inset AC to the, for example, the individual seats, of course, the wireless powering. Then, people can reduce the 26% of the reduction of the CO2. That's why those applications are for, I think it's 60 applications. We can cover all of the sensors or cameras application by the WPT. Brilliant. That's excellent. Just go back a little bit on that, the pacemaker. What is the difference here? What's the standard procedure on that? Compared to the conventional one, the conventional pacemaker is like this size, because the conventional pacemaker needs the batteries. The patient has to replace the battery every six or seven years. Then this surgeon is very heavy. That's why some patients die. When we insert those of the pacemaker, you don't have the additional surgeon. That's why the patient goes to the hospital once a year and is charging. It's a very peaceful technology or a dissolution. What kind of feedback have you been getting here? I think most of the people coming here don't understand what is the WPT. Then I show those applications, people can understand what is the WPT and why the WPT is important for the 60. Then maybe I'm sure we can make a new agenda as the WRC 2023. In terms of the future, how do you see the future of these kind of technologies evolving? I believe both of the WPT technology is a very important technology for our futures. The WPT technology can save sustainable futures. WPT technology also can improve the human society. Thank you very much for joining us in the studio. Thank you very much. We look forward to catching up with you again very soon. Thank you. If you've enjoyed this interview, then do check out other interviews on our YouTube channel as well as our podcast channels on SoundCloud or Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts from. For further information, please visit our website at www.itu.int. Thanks for tuning in.