If you want to have a talk show, let's have a talk show. 4 p.m. talk show. This is Think Tech Hawaii. I'm Jay Fidel, and we are having a visit with candidate, or maybe I should say former candidate, Kim Coco Iwamoto. That's the primary election on the 8th of August. Welcome to the show, Kim Coco. Thank you so much, Jay. Appreciate your invitation. Well, I wanted to explore with you how it was. You've been through a number of elections, and you've touched government in many ways. So it's not like, you know, this is strange territory for you. And so I want to talk about your political career. I want to talk about this election. So the first question is, why do you want to serve in government? I mean, have you nothing else to do? Well, you know, I've been a community organizer since I returned home after law school. And I've been working, building relationships with the community, hearing about the hardships that people are having, whether it's, you know, our homeless neighbors, our foster kids, our public school students. I just become more, I feel a sense of responsibility. I think on some level, I feel a sense of gratitude. Like, I've had a lot of support in my life in different ways. And at some point, you just feel like, well, gee, I want to help, and look, I can. I think I can help do something about this. Or I feel like I can communicate what the problem is and identify what the various solutions that the community stakeholders are proposing and put it together in a way that more people can understand and more people can get on board and building those coalitions. And I really enjoy doing that.  I just feel like I'm a born fighter and I just want to get in there and fight. And, you know, I feel like I'm always thinking about a box solutions and just kind of wanting to get in there. And we spoke about this briefly before the show about just getting in there and shaking up the status quo to, you know, like, come on, we need to do something more urgently. So that's why I wanted to get involved in government. The first, the Board of Education was a totally organic kind of transition from foster parent to being a foster parent and having kids who were in the public school system and being their advocate. And from there, I just kind of, I just saw all of the problems in government from that position. And I knew that we needed more people to speak out about how government could and should be. Yeah, you remind me of some of the very short chapters in this book I've been reading called On Tyranny by a guy, history professor at Yale. It's the best seller right now. His name is Timothy Snyder. And he writes, he says, you know, the way to avoid tyranny is speak out. Don't let it happen.  Get in there, get in the mix. And if something bothers you, do something about it. And I'm afraid to say that you're in a little tiny minority because most people don't in Hawaii included, maybe especially. And we have to do that. We have to get out. So what I get is that that's part of your DNA.  You're gonna use your critical thinking process.  So my question is this though, you said fight the fight. What's the fight, Kim Coco? What is the fight about? What is wrong that you're trying to correct? Well, the fight I tried to get into an advocate for initially with this specific race. And as of today, it's Thursday around four o'clock, Thursday after the primary election. And from my understanding, my race still has not been called. So I mean, my opponent does have more than 100 votes than I, but for some reason, even the New York Times has not called my race. And regardless, the work still needs to be done whether it's having an office in the square building or being standing with all of my neighbors in the bottom and in the streets and in front of the building and protesting. But the fight initially was about minimum wage because we spent, all the foundations spent so much money on the Alice report, right? That came out, that was based on 2015 data. So it was already like five years old. And that Alice report said $14 an hour was the amount that families and the person need to make in order just to survive. And then we heard last year, DBED said, oh, it's actually closer to $17 an hour, right? And then we were supposed to have a $15 an hour minimum wage approved last year, but because of leadership, they totally failed us and they sided with the corporations. And then the beginning of this legislative year, you probably remember the legislative leaders came out and said they struck a deal with the Chamber of Commerce and other corporations to continue to pay poverty wages all the way until 2024. And obviously that was not their words. Poverty wages is in fact, the reality of the $13 an hour all the way to 2024. And simply because of this, today, if a single mom sends her kids to the public schools today, her kids would be eligible for free and reduced lunch from the federal government because under federal guidelines today, a person making $13 an hour is considered poverty as in terms of free lunches from the federal government. So to say we're gonna wait till 2024 to offer to allow corporations to continue getting away with paying those low wages. And right now it's $10 and 10 cents. And so with that didn't even pass. I mean, and you know, the first safety net for many working families is their own wages. So if we keep paying poverty wages when disaster strikes or a pandemic hits, people usually tap into their savings like that's where they go to first. But what we've known is that at least 51% of Hawaii residents are living paycheck to paycheck, which means there is no savings. And so then the people who are the lowest wage earners and that's a lot of women, a lot of immigrant women who are getting paid like poverty wages. And we are even the state was doing that. Even the state was paying poverty wages. Like why would, and I asked the superintendent when I was on the board of education, I said, is the state, do we have DOE employees who are earning poverty wages? Whose kids are eligible for free and reduced lunch? And she said, absolutely we are. And I just don't think that is sustainable. And it's not, it's really quite disgusting actually that we would actually build our state budget on the backs of working people like that. I don't think that's acceptable. Why do I feel I'd like to ask you about the cost of occupancy in this state? Cause that's the flip side of all of this, that land prices are too high, rent is too high, as against salaries that are too low. And the result is the poor guy in the middle can't, do you think about that at all? Oh my God, absolutely. And you can trace a lot of those origins to again, really poor government leadership. Number one, you know that 40% of all privately held land is held by people and entities that are not based in Hawaii. That means that local families are bidding against, right?  And so that really, and all of these government policies really work against local families. And yet we keep electing these leaders back into office. It's because we are not connecting the dots for enough people. And that's what my campaign tried to do, really connect the dots so that more people were making an informed choice this election. But really, so the root cause of a lot of this, when you say, well, it's the cost of living, well, let's start there. Well, why is land so expensive? Because we're competing. First of all, Hawaii's property taxes are in some cases 10 times less than other jurisdictions. And I'm not saying we need to jack up all the property taxes without also increasing the personal home exemption, right? If you live in the home that you own, your exemption should be so high that the only person punished for owning property here would be out-of-state investors. Like that's who we want to dis-incentivize, investing in Hawaii. We want to keep land in Hawaii for local families for their first home so that they can expand and have their families live here too. So many generations are leaving Hawaii, and then who's taking care of the elders?  You should run for office. So it's so simple, right? If you just, if so many just stops and bag pedals and talks about Hawaii. Well, aren't you afraid that if you say these things that people who might support you, the people with the checkbooks might say, oh, no. She's too liberal. She's too progressive. She's going to shake things up and turns to another candidate. So here's the thing that is amazing about this pandemic. I mean, it's horrible in so many ways. But what it's really kind of, it's been a wake-up call to you how interconnected we are. Interconnected in a way that transcends ownership class, labor class, all of that. Because when you go to a restaurant, when you go to a grocery store, you realize that you're dependent on these firsts, on these frontline workers, right? You're dependent on people hopefully putting themselves in positions where they can choose to keep themselves and their families safe.  I mean, there's all of this layers and layers. Is it getting worse? We know it's getting worse. Do you mean are the rates of the disparity? Oh, yes, absolutely. That's exactly what we're seeing. And even now, I know for District 26, some areas are 30% unemployment right now. I mean, obviously we're only 2% in January, 2% unemployment. So now 30%. People are super scared about becoming, getting evicted. A lot of the legal aid organizations are doing these mass trainings for pro bono attorneys to kind of be ready, on the ready, to represent some of the huge wave of tenants who may find themselves in. What's the defense? Active God doesn't really work. Unless there's something written into the lease, what's the defense? Well, one of the things I've been, and everything isn't always, I don't think everything needs to be antagonistic. One of the things I've been, one of my mailers for my campaign, I educated landlords and tenants on the same flyer. I wanted to make sure that tenants and landlords both knew the pros and cons of what's happening right now. For instance, just because you evict a tenant doesn't mean you're gonna find another tenant who can pay the full rent. So many people are unemployed. So the question I would pose to a landlord is, if you get rid of the current tenant you have, who you've built a relationship with all of these years, and you bring somebody else in, who's to say that person you're bringing in is gonna be able to pay their rent? And wouldn't you wanna just continue the relationship you have? Find a way to make it work. Also, one of the things I've noticed that there's been a lot of landlords who've discriminated over the years against tenants with section eight subsidies.  That's very ironic, isn't it? No, and that's important. I mean, my business experience says to have a diversified portfolio, meaning you have half section eight and maybe half not section eight. You wanna make sure that your income stream is somewhat protected, I believe in the strength of diversity, and that goes for business, but also for people and ideas and problem solving, all leads to a stronger solution if it's a more diverse space. So is there a little voice in your head, Kim Coco, that says, gee, I'm glad Josh Green got to be the Lieutenant Governor because this is really a hard time. And gee whiz, it ain't easy being Lieutenant Governor. It's dangerous politically. It's hard to do the right thing. And the end of the day, maybe nobody really appreciates what government does at all in these times. What are your thoughts about that? Well, you know, I liked Josh Green and I was happy for him when he got elected.   No matter the solutions, it's gonna be challenging. And I bet there are some who probably said, what am I getting, why am I returning to this? Why is this gonna be the end of my legacy? I am, however the ballots get counted and the results of the 2020 election, I am gonna run again in 2022, whether it's as an incumbent or as a challenger.  And we, again, you know, I said this earlier during our pre-show banter, but you know, we really need bold new ideas. We cannot rely on the same old, same old, getting us out of this unprecedented crisis. So back to Josh Green, yeah, I think it's great that we have him as Attorney Governor right now. You know, so, yeah. And also I'm really happy that I run because we would have, you know, if the way things work out, if I didn't run, we may have had a different Lieutenant Governor. So there's all of these other kind of things that play out. Yeah, what if, what if kind of things, yeah.  You can actually look at some of the numbers and some of the patterns and stuff like that. Now, and the thing with the 26, I hear you that you would run again. I mean, we kind of all saw that in the first five minutes of this show that you're dedicated to, you know, do some stuff. And will you run for the 26 again? Will you run for another office? What's in your mind at least now? Oh, well, you know, I love District 26. I've loved meeting our neighbors. I felt totally, totally. Well, number one, obviously there were a lot of my neighbors who did vote for me. And I, because they met me because they were able to, and that's the thing that's really interesting. I started door knocking in early February. So before the whole pandemic shutdown happened. And I got to meet a lot of people face to face. And then I started phone calling people, but speaking to them and hearing their stories and their concerns, I really want to make sure that they are heard and represented. So I definitely feel that connection with them. So definitely for 2022, I am running for District 26. I just hope I'm in the district because, you know, with reapportionment arranged here. So we'll see where those lines are drawn and we'll see. But, you know, I'm committed to that seat right now. So when you went around, talked to people, you know, when you put your platform out, this kind of liberal thing that I like so much. I do, I do, I'm with you on this. You know, did you get traction? Did people say, oh, wow, Kim, that's what I'm looking for. I want to see some disruptive change in same old. We've had enough same old. We've got to reinvent ourselves. And frankly, especially now, especially in COVID. So do you feel that people responding to that message? Oh, absolutely. I think when people, well, first of all, they would say, well, who's our current representative? That was a huge problem. And I would ask, have you met our current representative? And they said, well, who is that? Well, I'm like, that's a problem. And I would have to educate them and say to them, actually our representative district is the smallest or the sole purpose that your representative is actually supposed to speak with you and meet you. And that's why that district is the tiniest. And then there's the state Senate and then there's the city council. And then it just gets bigger and bigger. But your representative is the one you should have the most kind of engagement with because how do they know if they're representing you if they're not speaking to you? Right? So I would start with the education there and make sure they knew what they were paying for and help them kind of evaluate if that's what they've been getting or not. And I have to say that maybe five people who actually spoke to Scott Psyche and then they found out. You know, that reminds me of a poll that was revealed yesterday after, well, maybe a couple of days go in when Biden selected Kamala Harris, took a poll and there was various categories of answer on the poll. But the one that really struck me was the possibility of checking the box that said, I don't know who Kamala Harris is. Okay, 20% is national poll. 20% of the people who answered that survey said, I don't know who Kamala Harris is. I said, it's extraordinary. This is like Jay Leno was Jay walking routine years ago. You would ask people who the vice president was and nobody knew. I said, you know, this is really sad. And I put it back to the schools because although it's nice to hear from your parents at the kitchen table, the school, you kind of assume the school is gonna train people to be sensitive to what's going on in the political system that governs their lives. You know, let me just share with you though that when Obama gave his first State of the Union address, I was on the board of ed and I remember the superintendent was told not to let it air throughout the school because it was too political. I'm like, wait a minute. How is that possible? What are you talking about? Like, as if we're forwarding some kind of democratic agenda and like he is the actual, you know, interesting, right? Like, you know, you should have critical and now a discussion afterwards but people should be able to hear it. So yeah, I was shocked by the lack of civic engagement that kind of discussions about democracy, you know, how we've moved away from that. Yeah, and it is hurtful but also we've just get so bombarded with so much information. Oh, ain't that the truth? So how do you feel about the election coming on? I mean, this is getting crazier and crazier. Our president, maybe not mine or not yours but our president said today that he fully intended to cut off the funds to the post office because he didn't want the mail to arrive because the mail has mail-in ballots around the country and only Democrats use mail-in ballots. That's what he said. You'll see it on the news tonight and I'm saying this is getting crazy. And the question I put to you is how does this affect state politics? How does this affect the way the legislature works? How does it affect the way you think and the choices you make politically? Well, let's start by acknowledging that whenever Donald Trump actually over talks it actually shoots himself in his own foot when it comes to actual litigation, right? So we've seen the courts cite his tweets or cite his, you know, his malintentions that he admits to as being, you know, then they say, well, that's so therefore everything that you're saying now you're saying your reasons have legitimate reasons but you've already disclosed that your reasons were illegitimate. So you can't take that back. And so it's great. I love the fact that he's so open with his contempt for democracy because in theory it makes it easier. And I feel the same way in Hawaii. There are so many times when our democratically, you know, Democratic Party run state makes so many choices that I'm like, isn't that exactly what Trump would do? Isn't that what Linda Lingle did? Isn't that, I mean, I'm just always so blown away by we claim to have a totally blue state but everything they do, like even the Ponzi scheme with the whole rainy day fund is exactly what Lingle did when I was on the board of Ed and we got the rates of the top money and she was supposed to supplement the race of the top is supposed to supplement public education funds, but she used it to supplant, you know, and I called it a Ponzi scheme then and we're still doing the same Ponzi schemes.  And I know you're the same way. That's why we're talking about this issue. That's why I think tech, you know? Right. So, okay, so this 26 that's got Psyche had you, or if you, if you, because they haven't finished counting. So if you succeed or had you succeeded in this, that would have changed, would have changed things in the legislature. It would have had implications beyond just the one race. Am I right? It's not that you intended it that way, but it would have happened that way. Oh, no, I knew what I'm, I know what I'm doing. I mean, I know I definitely knew I was challenging the speaker of the house that I was not naive about that. But, you know, given our close, close numbers, I think this is hopefully inspiring. Maybe I'm hoping it's actually showing that he is not unquestionable. Like he should be challenged, not just by me, just a community activist, you know, a lefty liberal, whatever dismissive term somebody wants to put on me. And if I'm able to get these kinds of votes by connecting with people, real people, what then, what are the jobs of all of the electeds in the house right now?  And I'm hoping this is gonna erode that kind of, that ivory tower element that- Well, how do you feel about the thing with the chair? I've always been interested in that. If the chair says, let's do this, everybody comes right along and does that. Well, I'd love it if there were co-chairs. I mean, that's what I'm really hoping that different actions or different kind of ways of looking at issues are, so if every committee had co-chairs and one vice chair in order to do all of the tabulating, but definitely have co-chairs and not from the same group, like having, again, the diversity, where people are forced to collaborate, where people are forced to say, yeah, let's hear both, or what about if we combine these two bills and we look at it this way, but not, you know, we're all following my lead, and if you don't, I'm never going to tell- Yeah, yeah, totally agree. So what did you learn? You've been through a couple of these elections already, and I'm sure you made an impression on a lot of people. And my question is, you know, what impression did all of that make on you? And what have you learned about the experience? What I was disappointed with, right? I am a little disappointed in some of the media. So I know PBS contacted at first, unfortunately, they first contacted Scott Psyche and said, we want to do a forum with you and Kim Coco. And so Scott, of course, so Scott, because he just did not want to give us any opportunity to have a comparing contrast.  I don't know him why I've never had a conversation with him because he doesn't, if he's in a crowded room, he doesn't like come over and talk to, he kind of skirts around and he does it. I think he's generally more of an introvert. And I think he'll come across that way. I think he'll come across kind of a little snarky, a little bit, you know. So I understand why he wouldn't want to do a debate or a forum, a shared space with me, but one of the things I love, like I love debates. I love comparing. I love seeing the way different people answer or don't answer a question. You know, I love to see how they handle all of these and what kind of data they use and how are they reframing or spinning things. And I love the opportunity. Like if I said something that mischaracterized his actions or his record, I would love for him to say, well, actually that's not what happened. You know, I love, I would love for him to have the opportunity to correct me. And then when if he says something like, oh, I, you know, got all these volunteers to go down to work on the unemployment insurance backlog, I could say, well, are they volunteers if they're paid state workers? You know what I mean? And I could correct, you know. I was scandalous, I might add. That was what happened was scandalous. Yes, so all of that, you know, so I would have loved that, but he basically blocked us from having a debate on PBS. He blocked the party from doing a debate and all of these issues. And at the party, let him get away with this, the PBS, let him get away with this. Everyone just let, and I just found that to be unacceptable.  And if one of you doesn't want to participate then the other person will get all the time. You know, there's ways of doing it and they never did that. And I really, and it just kind of basically reinforces the status quo. And then also the political analysts who basically analyze no data and right around, right as people are voting, they basically threw it out there for my race that I was such a long shot. And I'm like, wait a minute. And I actually had to ask the producer, the person who put the piece together, what data did your political analysts analyze in order to come up with that conclusion? Did he look at the polls that were done in 2018 and 2019 when Scott was Speaker of the House that showed that we had the lowest, that the legislature had the lowest approval ratings lower than Trump, lower than, lower than EGAY. I mean, the legislature has such a, you know, like people are obviously disgruntled with our legislature and therefore our leadership and seeing them not doing things and making these huge, like he said, scandals with the unemployment insurance. And you know, that happens because a year after year over decades of basically slapping down departments when they ask for funding to revamp their systems. They, you know, they get hit around and the chairs of finance will say, well, who do you want us to take the money from in order to give it to you? Instead of saying, well, let's close these tax loopholes so that we can pay for government services to repair our safety nets, you know?  So why would they ask for it? So going forward in your next campaign for the 26th or whatever it might be, how would you treat it differently based on, you know, I mean, all experiences are learning experiences. And so what kind of changes would you make in your own campaign? Well, we had no idea. I mean, this campaign when we first started off that we're gonna be limited to like we couldn't do as much door knocking. So obviously you have to be flexible. We had tons of volunteers and we'll have more volunteers even next time. And the thing that's interesting because I came out of a lieutenant governor race and I had the database of 300 volunteers and, you know, I had, I think more donations than Scott did between January and the election. So I had more individual donations, obviously more volunteers on my campaign. So that'll keep on building every, you know, I'm on the board of HAPA, which is Hawaii Alliance for Progressive Action. And one of our programs is the Kuliana Academy. And so we actually get other young, fresh, you know, voices and ideas to run for office and take on some of the status quo legislators. And so one of the things that I would stress to a lot of the people who are entering politics is every single campaign is not about that officer running for, it's about setting up for the next campaign, relationships, infrastructure, knowledge, all of these things you build and you, and you bring to the next campaign. You're in the ecosystem, yeah. You've made a commitment to be there. So what are you gonna do between now and two years from now? And I asked this with one thing in my mind, I just want to add that thing before you answer this.  You would be happy to have you as a host for Think Tech. So you can articulate these views and bring on guests who might also want to articulate these views. Anyway, we're gonna do for the next two years. Thank you. I'm gonna do what I've been doing, which is building community relationships and voicing changes. And most importantly, one of the things I noticed was once I entered this race, Scott Psyche and his role as speaker became way more active on-ish and became more responsive to the community. I wish we had an election every six months. You know what I mean? You need to really keep him responsive to the community, to our community. So I'm gonna keep showing up. I'm gonna keep writing editorials, keep working with other community members, other organizations, businesses. Obviously there's a lot of opportunities to really step in and help our neighbors. Okay, Kim, if we can help you in that, if you have a commentary you wanna make, if you wanna come down and express some views, even if you don't wanna be a host, you can still come around and I will always have you. I only wanna make one other point before we go and that is back in 1965, I met my wife, she was from Kauai and she took me for this fantastic romantic experience at the Coco Palms and little did I know, I don't think you were born yet, little did I know that I would be talking to somebody who was named after the Coco Palms today. Yeah. Yeah, I just had to mention that. Thank you. Yeah, no, that's actually one of the most, I would say that's one of the easiest ice breakers to have is how I got my name. Okay. Thank you, thank you. Thank you, Kim Coco, really appreciate you coming down and I do wanna do it again. Aloha and the best to you. Thank you so much. Thank you.


In this video, we provide the solution to question number seven for practice exam three for math 1030, in which case we are given an election preference schedule with four candidates A, B, C, D, and we're asked to determine who's the winner of the election using Copeland's method, that is, pairwise comparisons. So there are six comparisons we have to do between the four candidates there, so let's do them one by one. So there's the comparison between A and B. So if we're looking at A, A wins this one, B is preferred here, A is preferred here, A is preferred here, and B is preferred there. So B is going to win 30 votes, as opposed to A, which would get 65. So A is the preferred candidate in that matchup, so we give A the win. Then with regard to A versus C, similar thing, A is preferred here, C is preferred here, C is preferred here, A is preferred in this one. And C is preferred in that one. So A is going to get 25 plus 30, so that's 55 votes. C is going to get 20 plus 10 plus 10, that's only 40 votes. So A is the preferred candidate in that matchup as well. And then if we do A versus D, we see that A is preferred here, A is preferred here, and here. D is preferred here. So in this situation, D is preferred 40 times, 40 of the votes. But for A here, you're going to end up with 25 plus 20, which is 45 plus 10, which is 55. 55 is bigger than 40, so A is preferred there as well. So honestly, we can stop at this moment, because since A has won all three matchups with all of its possible pairings, and we only have to find the winner here. A is a condorcet winner, and condorcet winners always win in Copeland's method. You can't get more than three points in pairwise comparison if there's only four candidates. So it turns out that A is in fact the winner of the election. Now for the sake of it, I am going to include the other comparisons just for the sake of practice. But to be aware, we don't actually need this information to determine the winner here. It's going to be A. No one can get more votes than A. So if it comes to B versus C, C is preferred here. We'll do underlined. C is preferred here. B is preferred. C is preferred. B is preferred. C is preferred. B is going to get 50 votes. 20 plus 30 is 50. And then C is going to end up with 45. So B looks like they won that one. If you do B versus D, so D is preferred. Then here's B is preferred. D is preferred. D, D. So D is definitely the winner there. We only got 20 votes in preference. So D won that one. And then finally, if you do C versus D, like so, D is preferred. C is preferred. C is preferred. D and D is preferred. So D got 30 preferences. D got, well, way more than 30. You got 30 just right here. So D is the winner there. And so we notice in this situation that C actually turned out to be a condor say loser. It didn't win any of the pair wise comparisons. So first place was A like we saw before. Second place would actually be D. Third place went to B. And then fourth place went to C. Now, of course, this question only wants the first place winner, but just for the sake of completeness, I provided the complete ordering of the candidates.


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There they are Spencer Jordan with the Rangers Let's sort by column B right there Let's box these up and while you're considering trades Let's get all this on one page, too. While you're considering trades. I'm gonna pop open this fresh case And we're gonna see which five boxes we're gonna do. Oh, you're asking me if I got a haircut. No quite the opposite This is me Not having had a haircut in months Need a haircut though. All right, so we'll roll the dice one two three for the left side I'll select that die right there One two three for the left side four five six for the right side And it's four one two three four five six. So this we will save for next time So we've got a twenty twenty one artifacts Random team breaks marked right here and now there's ten boxes per inner. So let's pop that open And let's see which five boxes we're gonna do Same thing one two three for the left side four five six for the right side And this time it's one left side. So this side we will do For break number two right there. So we marked all those with two Are those you those might be sold out? The second side has ten spots left. So that's on jaspyscasebrakes.com I know I might have to get some new Might have to get some new new combs I mean, I could what's that character in the adams family? That's just all hair Cousin it there you go. Yeah, I'm gonna look like cousin it You saw a musical production of the adams family Nathan Hale, isn't he in the producers? Oh, that's Nathan Lane, right? That's Nathan Lane I don't know what I don't know what a Nathan Hale is Oh, Nathan Lane, okay Nathan Lane did a production of adams family No, I I I thought it would be beneath him. I didn't think late Nathan Lane was TWC trade window close. Let's print and rip. Let's see what we got in here folks Here's the final Print out right here. Thanks everyone for getting in really appreciate it What do we have in the background here? We got sixers Celtics Tipping off kind of tough to open. All right And there's a wild card rookie redemption. There's our first one right here So that'll be the first person on the randomizer And per tradition in breaks where we uh, where we double up names. We're just going to use the original 15 Names for the randomizer Our first relic is going to be threads of time. Phil Kessel That'll be for Pittsburgh. That's going to be for Steve Birch We got Heinrich Zetterberg Detroit. That'll be going to bryan We got brady brady brady caught chick 14 out of 30 That's a name. I should not be screwing up and there's a dallas stars rookie redemption. That's going to go to dallas obviously mike tower With the dallas stars and sharks combo The only bad teams mike are the ones that don't hit out of 175 james van reeds mick For the flyers that's going to be for josh pruce and we've got alexis lefrenier Nice two color dual relic no auto But still a nice one for spencer jordan and the new york rangers He's supposed to be supposed to be a big deal I got a piece of his jersey 95 out of 199. All right. That was box one box two So sky high oh sky high was saying early. He bought a couple of boxes I saw a case open at his local and he was saying that some boxes have too many hits and some boxes have too few hits What are we supposed to get? three autograph memorabilia or arm cards and one rookie redemption on average So they're on average Some boxes will have more some boxes will have less I don't think there's really such thing as too many hits Or two little hits when it's on average All right, there's those are the these are the arm cards, right? Yeah Nice that's steven stomp coast for tampon bay That'll be for jack. Come on joe. All right. Sorry john gibson and the ducks mike tower We've got nick robertson maple leafs to 299. That'll be for douglas and toronto We've got mark shifley For winnipeg that'll be for steve vurch kuznetsov for 99 mitch marner to 299 gay velardi for the kings to 999 brian croft And no redemptions in this box. All right next box bertuzi to 75 for the red wings brian croft with detroit And there is one retro rookie redemption No indication on team. So that's our second mystery redemption I don't know where this retro rookie is going to be So this will be for spot two So when randomized names, it'll be the second one down And there's ryan miller for the blues. That's going to be for brian croft And there's nick schmaltz 59 out of 65 Three color dual relic for arizona for the coyotes. That's going to be for justin gutting A pretty heavy card stock here too Rizanze copetard to 30 These filler cards are killing me here. There's another wild card rookie redemption So that'll be that'll be the third name down There's max packier ready to 145 For vegas That's going to be for steve birch And a one out of five chryslotang Penguins that's steve birch with the penguins. There you go one out of five out of fives and under get the train whistle All aboard the big hit express All right, two boxes to go Spencer jordan in the house. He's saying if it follows suit all the number one rookie redemption should end up being la frenier Second to last box. All right, there's johnny goudreau to 45 for the for a calgary That's going to be for brian croft And there's a sharks rookie redemption That'll be for the combo stars sharks combo mike tower We've got jordan binnington jersey NHL remnants for brian and the blues We've got the threads of time relic artemy panoram blackhawk chicago justin gutting There's petri angelo to 99 for st. louis also for brian and a winnipeg jets rookie redemption going to Steve birch and winnipeg There's andre vasilevsky To 175 double o two out of 175 two-color dual relic for tampa bay jack b We've got nate mckinnon remnants relic for colorado It's for mike g I'm seeing numbers on either Of the no this one did have a number that's they're down here That's to 175 No number here And the last box And then a we randomizer Kind of hard to open Yeah, i'm pretty sure all those redemptions are going to be autograph speed-ups I think that's how the this product is uh design. I think The ink seems like it's going to be all redemptions All right. Oh, there's a live autograph right there spoke too soon jason robertson 43 out of 99 dual relic and auto For dallas dallas stars sharks combo mike tower Got nick robertson to 99 There's thomas tomas Tatar to 299 canadians There's jordan binnington to 299 wait unless Unless it says on the card that it's an auto this one is just Sorry, i think that's just a card And what's that? Is that lefrenier down there? If it has the one on and that's just a wild card how this works, but Yeah, b does keep keep asking about autos. There's adam bow quiz. There's another live auto here These are artifacts auto facts get it Chicago blackhawks that's going to go to justin gutting There's gila flu to 299 wherever the Where does where does kebek stuff go? Colorado maybe Oh, so those those are all just cards unless it specifically says auto on it Where does gila flu or go by the way? It says kebek nordiques on there Avalanche all right, we'll send it to the abs That card will be for mike grizzinski with colorado And the last bit here we got anze copetar And tristan yari at the end okay Now like i said we're gonna take the original The original 15 names and randomize them with a different dice roll top name gets that one second name gets that one third name gets that one So let's go back to this list right here Here's the original 15 right here Let's roll it. Let's randomize it four and a five top three we'll get some of those redemptions in that order four and five nine times One and ninth and final time congrats to the top three right there brian justin and justin brian croft you'll get this wild card redemption here And justin you get the other two you get rookie retro retro rookie redemption number one and you'll get Wild another wild card rookie redemption who knows who they could be hopefully amazing people There you go. I'm joe for joshby's case breaks.com. I'll see you next time for the next break. Bye. Bye


I just slammed a splinter right into my palm. That was an ouchie. Alright, let's get to work. I'm building the rest of this creek Welcome back to the channel everybody. We're on the run. It's crazy out here. I got a tent dry so if you watched the last video you guys know that Process of sealing up that canvas tent you got to water it down and let it dry So it's basically what I'm doing. So I got something fun I'm going to do today something I need to do given all this camping stuff and just organizing Spring cleanup call it if you will maybe a early spring cleanup But I'm gonna build some wooden crates today is actually a day that I have to go Into the doctor and get an MRI every once in a while I got to go in and scan my brain So we got to go get that out of the way first basically just sitting a big metal or a big tube and it sounds like a big Calculator, but something I got to do make sure Willis is under control and not coming back. It's actually a really nice day outside I'd love to be fishing today, but it is a good day to work on wood So let's go get this out of the way, and then we can return to the fun stuff. We've arrived About to go in here and get our brain scanned. Some of you've probably seen these videos before I go in here Big tube and you got to stay perfectly still for about 20 30 minutes while these magnets go around you and it creates a Three-dimensional image of whatever they're scanning your brain your bones whatever it is so the idea is I get one of these every I think it's four to six months and If there's no growth no treatment needed and then as soon as Willis if he returns God willing he doesn't then I will go back to the Surgeon and We'll probably do some radiation treatment is is the idea So you don't want to get radiation when you're young. You don't want to get radiation period I mean it's introducing radiation in your body is never good. So It's good to get these checkups. Make sure everything is on track get to go This is just life living with with brain tumors, man Especially ones in difficult spots like I like I have so Willis I Hope you're dead as a door nail. Well, we got her done Wasn't so bad That contrast stuff they put in here your veins. It's uh, it like brightens up the picture Although it's it's weird how that works. I had the signs of paperwork saying that like one in every 400,000 people Has some adverse reaction or something like that, but just it tastes weird it feels weird in your system Like how does it get out? I don't I don't really know but that's just something I got to do Hopefully we have good results. It's all on the CD. I got to take this to the doctor Dr. Kim down and down in Houston at the brain Memorial Herman brain studies place forget the full name in that hospital That's gonna be another video probably on the lake life channel mean me and Steph going down there for the first time with any the last time We were there She was still in the womb. Now. Let's go work on some crates All right We have finally able to start working on these crates after visiting the doctor and running a bunch of errands around town some OSG honey deez You know how it goes guys, but basically what I'm doing is I'm taking leftover Pallet wood some of you may have this already. I'm not going out and I'm buying materials I'm literally going into my garage where I've had just so much wood piled up And I'm using it to make some of these crates and I need these crates I need them to put them in the back of the truck for Tackle boxes tackle trays I want to put my propane take in there my camping accessories you guys saw all the camping stuff that I've got So make multiple ones of these I can also use these in the garage just to store When they're not in my truck, so it just makes them a little bit easier to stack and store and all that fun stuff So I've also got a ton of heart pine in there that I want to do some some lure drawers and some tool drawers crates to go under a workbench Project for a whole nother day point is I got a bunch of wood. I'm trying to utilize it So some of you may have some extra wood at home some scrap wood pallets are really easy to find Tons of people on YouTube make all sorts of furniture and different kinds of Stuff with pallet wood and it's super cheap all this so far that you see right here that I've assembled It's been out of pallet wood. So basically what I did. I took a crowbar And I've wrenched into the pallet wood and I busted it out busted all the nails out and stuff laid out The planks and then taken a couple of pieces of wood on the side and then used a nail gun and also Some wood screws in some areas to attach this What I'm probably gonna do from here is just use this is some leftover wood that I had from Innie's room building her little ball. I've got a bunch of this stuff. This would be perfect It doesn't match the pallets, but it will be really strong sturdy and actually look pretty good And I'm gonna put some holes in the side do a little LFG signage on it. It's gonna look pretty nice It's not just for looks. It's functional too. So the bottom basically looks like this Same sort of setup It's not quite stable It's kind of just roughly in there Once I get the other sides up this thing's gonna be solid as rock So let's finish this one up This one is gonna be for propane tank and other camping supplies and some of the other ones that I'm gonna do like this one Right here. I'm gonna measure those four tackle trays exactly So you can set this up however you want to do tackle trays get them where they fit exactly in there It's just a lot better than those plastic crates. Oh, I just slammed a splinter right into my palm. That was ouchy All right, let's get to work. I'm building the rest of this crate I'm gonna take some wood glue glue these pieces together Wood glue don't end or estimate it the concept on using this box design and there's a bunch of them Out there. This is a nice civic one. Actually. It's kind of a combo. You let a little bit of your Plank that you're attaching the rest of your boards to hang over a bit that gives you a section to attach those planks to so The long planes are attached to the short stockier Planks these are one inch right here So there's enough room there to put your nails in screws whatever you're gonna use Now on the sides. I'm just gonna use a nail gun and just go in here with some wood glue Actually wood glue all around here as well, and then just tap right in with the nails I'm just gonna take the jigsaw clean up the edges just a little bit Reason for using the jigsaw is like that so I can put the wood glue directly on there It's gonna have a nice flush fit well not flush I mean it's a it's a wooden crate out of scrap wood that I'm throwing together kind of quickly But just to give that wood glue a surface to connect with instead of being kind of jagged Just being nails in there that wood glue is surprisingly strong may not think it's very strong But when it connects with the grains and the wood It's holding tight Get this other side put on and we're gonna have ourselves a basic crate Then it's gonna be time To actually put some handles on it finish it off with a little sanding And our own little signature touch This side was much tougher to get into the slats, but Staying together without even having wood glue. So that's nice. Give it a little dabble there actual crate now the only thing I can think of before I do Some other work Add a little support on the innards here and run some boards on the inside It's like a border and then reattach those on the inside and then it will really be set. Here's the inside of our crate Look at that folks even holds sawdust a little bit of a gap right there. It's a boo boo. I left you boo boo's Do a whole episode on those but Hey, that'll work. It's gonna hold some stuff. I've only got a few pieces of this bracing this size that was on that pallet wood So I'm gonna have to get creative, but this stuff is perfect. It's like one inch by one inch one by one Stick in this corner right here Give me some glue I'm really windy and the Sun's about to go down, but I was hearing this noise and All of a sudden this water is like gushing in the creek is starting to fill up. This is crazy I think they're working on a water main like higher up Look at all this It's happening the rains They bring life. I don't know what's going on there, but I felt like I needed to update you on my current water situation in the backyard Okay, we got two braces in honestly. I can get one more out of this piece right here One more And that's it. I've been luck. I actually found one more scrap piece It just has a lot of nasty Nails in and I got to get out then this thing's gonna be braced in ready for action Okay, y'all we basically now have a fully functional crate. This thing's heavy-duty I've got to add some other touches to it though. I got to draw those up. I want to do some tapering On the sides.  So I'm going to let this wood glue dry and then I'll see you in just a minute for the magic Of youtube. All right, y'all now that the wood glue is dry. We have a new day It's actually freaking cold out here, but the birds are singing and it's calm So for the rest of the project all I'm going to use is a I say all I'm going to use I've never even used this tool. I'm not going to act act like I'm bob veillard. All I'm going to use is a Dagon plunge cut router here Not that guy. Uh, this is a router that I got for Christmas that I've been wanting to use perfect time To get to know it use it a little bit and I want to do a uh Well, my mount for my deer. I'm going to actually route the wood and and use that so It's better to work on a nice wood crate that I don't really care too much about before I do that You could do the same thing I'm going to do with a drill I could even use the jig saw in there What I for what I'm about to do here, but I want to use the router to make a little In dentsion up at the top so it gives a little bit room for your your hands and then actually make handles With this and this is the perfect tool to use. There's a bit in there As I push down it goes in and it spins at a really high speed so It's able to make plunging cuts into things and you can route designs Um little grooves and things like that with it Finish it off with a little sanding and then a little personal touch And we're good to go man. This is a big crate. I could even put firewood in this crate I was thinking about it this morning since it's so cold would be a good crate to put firewood in when we're camping So without further ado, let's make some cuts There are some shavings Little test cut I went ahead and I added a border Because I quickly figured out Without a little border for some sort of road for this thing to follow.  I'm learning. I'm learning how to use this tool Obviously, uh, I had some boo-boos there um But that that thing is smooth Super smooth. I kind of got the desired look I wanted but Also Didn't I'm gonna do a little cleanup work with the jigsaw and then take the sander and sand it down See how that looks make it make a nice round look to the top So I'm not catching all my sleeves and all that kind of stuff Okay, so we clean that up now I need to make some handles right here Before we flip this thing over probably round that down on the sander and then put me a little Little handle right here in the center There's our little crate handle. I need to make it a little wider So I'll probably just Back this up here or move it up a little bit And then saw through that just the same and we'll have ourselves a nice little plunge There's probably a lot of you. They're much better at doing what I'm doing right now than I am Honestly, I've never done this taking one of my really sharp knives And I'm carving out The lfg logo right now Onto this piece of paper. I think you can guess what's gonna happen after that I've whittled myself out the lfg logo right here So we're gonna tape this on here and give our little stamp of greatness on this crate Really not too concerned about someone stealing this crate and knowing who's it is I don't know who would want to take a A crate like this. I just want everyone in the woods to know That I'm here and I'm ready to dangle. It's a little runny. Hey y'all here. We have it truck crate box This is exactly why I made this thing so I can throw stuff like sleeping bags camping gear Fishing tackle stuff all in this I'm probably gonna make a few more of these just to have around the house and keep them in the truck To have different stuff in I might even use this one for firewood because it's so big But I could also divide this up and put dividers in there and put all sorts of tackle trays Just kind of customize it the way I want it Because I'm constantly having to pick up stuff out of the back of the truck that's sliding around Just hits the back of the truck when I'm stomping on the brakes Or somehow still a sword back here Things like that keep it from sliding around and this thing is freaking tough So I thought this was a creative way to use some pallet wood guys I don't have a specific plan, but hopefully you kind of get the idea of how how to put these together And if you have a nail gun, it's super quick and easy and that is all I have for you today Now, you know, we're going to be taking these crates going out on adventures with the truck with the new boat all the camping gear It's going to be a good fishing hunt and season y'all now If any y'all are curious about my head my brain some of you may wonder How sharp it is at times I'll be heading down to the brain surgeon next week and doing a check up with them And if you want to follow along the lake life family channel, I'll leave a link So you can go subscribe over to that channel and follow that adventure as well Hold another part of life. That's crazy All right. I love you guys. Thanks for tuning in and I'll see you next time