So we got a new Netflix original titled Bright with Will Smith and Joel Edgerton and it looked good. But what did I think about it? Well let's get into it. My name is Brandon Hitaveri and this is just my opinion. Hey, what's going on everyone? Thank you so much for tuning in to my opinion slash review for Bright, a Netflix original. I really do appreciate it. But before we get into review, help your boy out by clicking that subscribe button. Also click the little bell so you can be notified when I make uploads and give me that thumbs up. Let's see if we can get this video to 100 likes. Now we have Bright and like I said for like the third time this is a Netflix original. I was really excited about this movie. Of course why because it has Will Smith and I am a big, big, big Will Smith fan. Of course you know Will Smith from Fresh Prince, Bad Boys, Concussion and any other movie that he's come out with.  We also have Joel Edgerton in this movie as well who's been in The Gift, Black Mask and Warrior. Warrior is a fantastic movie I believe that came out in 2011 about MMA or UFC fighting. It's a very underrated film. If you haven't seen that film, I strongly recommend that you do see it. But this is being directed by David Ayer. David Ayer directed Street Kings, End of Watch which I have seen and I own that on Blu-ray. I love that movie. And he also did Suicide Squad which I did not love. I pretty much despise that movie. That was not a good movie at all to me. But this is I believe the second time that Will Smith and David Ayer are working together again on the film. They kind of know how each other works so that always makes it better for a picture in my opinion. This movie is being written by Max Landis. Kind of an outlandish character if you ask me but not out of me that in the bad way. He wrote Chronicle and he also wrote American Ultra and those are two films that I did enjoy as well. I really did like Chronicle more than American Ultra but you really can't compare those films at all. They're two completely different films but both of those films do stand out completely different from any other Hollywood production. The budget behind this movie is $90 million and that makes this movie the most expensive Netflix movie to date. And actually there was a bidding war for this movie. I believe Warner Brothers was closest to grabbing it for the distribution but David Ayer decided to go with Netflix when my research was based because he wanted to have work creative control during the directing and I can't blame him for that because this is a very peculiar film in a good way. I will say that. And actually Max Landis who wrote this he actually wrote the screenplay in the script for David Ayer. He said that he wanted David Ayer to direct this movie. He wrote it for him and Max Landis sold the script for $3.5 million and Max Landis actually turned down an extra million so he could have got $4.5 million for this but he turned down an extra million because he really wanted David Ayer to direct this movie. And Max Landis also said that this movie is kind of like his Star Wars movie and that he and David Ayer really compares this to End of Watch. And if you've seen End of Watch and you've seen Bright which we're talking about you really can't see the similarities as far as the directing style and the tone is concerned. I don't know if this is like an official tagline or like a fan made it up but I kept seeing somewhere that this was like Bad Boys and Mordor and I could not agree with that more because this movie is a mixture of Bad Boys plus Lord of the Rings and Mordor is a place in Lord of the Rings if you haven't seen that franchise and I recommend you do. But not only is it Bad Boys and Lord of the Rings but to me it also has a little bit of running scared mixed in there as well. The 2000, I can't remember if it was 2008 or 2012, I'm sorry I didn't look that up. The one that started in Paul Walker because there is a Richard Pryor movie that came out in the 80s that's called Running Scared as well. You know we don't want to get those films mixed up. But what this movie is about is Will Smith is a cop by the name of Ward a human and Joe Edgerton's character is a cop his partner as well and he's an orc and you know Orc's Lord of the Rings and then you also have elves as well and within the partnership you know Joe Edgerton is happy to be a cop he's happy to be Will Smith's partner and Will Smith is Ward is happy to be a cop as well but he really is not fond of having Joe Edgerton and Orc as his partner and kind of just wants to get away you know from him if he possibly can. And in this movie I mean it's on Netflix you can watch it now if you have Netflix I'm not going to spoil it heavy there may be some slight spoilers towards the end of the view but I will give you plenty of time and you know let you know when I'm going to do that. But what it's about is that they're just not having a buddy cop movie and they kind of just stumble on a bunch of magic and you know and in this movie there's a lot of magic and mysticism and fantasy going around and they find this magic weapon this one that grants though the beholder the wielder pretty much infinite power and you know everybody whether they're a human whether they're orc whether they're an elf a regular civilian a policeman a sheriff FBI or their version of the FBI everybody's just trying to get their hand on this weapon or whatever and Will Smith Ward and Jacoby who's being played by Joe Edgerton the his partner or whatever they're in the middle of it and this experience for me may be slightly different from everybody else because I was I actually saw this movie Thursday night and I'm just not getting to review a sorry and I actually saw it in the theater I was looking up to see it in the theater so I actually got that big screen in that super duper surround sound so with all the chaos and mayhem going around it may pop a lot harder for me and make me like the movie a little bit more than you you know if you're watching it at home and you necessarily don't have the best you know home theater sound system and picture quality you know out there that's available but from the very beginning of this movie I love the way it started I love the scenery I love the imagery I love the contract the cinema target all of that I love the pacing of the movie I love the soundtrack I mean I was bobbing my head I mean this was something that I would not mind buying the soundtrack was great we get to see Will Smith being himself and that's not a bad thing because Will Smith does play himself in a lot of his movies but that is not a bad thing because he just has all that charisma and gala whatever and he can you know just do any role or whatever he's a really charming guy and he's just great on screen he has a very strong presence and he's very funny as well and he really does deliver the lines and he really does deliver the jokes in this movie and it's just funny and it's just and it's just great to see everything because I mean this is a fantasy science fiction magical extravaganza in modern day age excuse me and we get to see everybody you know engrossed into that but tied into the world that we know today or whatever so I mean he's coming out in his front yard or whatever try to get rid of pests and he has you know some people over here neighbors you know just living their lives bumping their music having a good time not bothering anybody but instead of him trying to get squirrels away from his his house of birds or bees or any pets he has to get away magical fairies or whatever and it's just kind of funny the way they integrated all that in and just kind of made just fantastical movie out of all of it and it just kind of flowed smoothly I mean none of it was abrupt or abstract or stood out I mean it looked like it was a belong there and so I mean I just really have to give Max Landis the writer and David air the director for able to you know put all that together and make it seem like something real you know that we all today in the real world can be a part of now the orcs are completely different from the humans of course and the elves are too you pretty much know how they are you know if you've seen the Lord of the Rings but if you if you haven't they kind of give they kind of break it down for you here of course we know who humans are the elves are really snobby and they're perceived as very snobby and rich and kind of run the world orcs are kind of perceived as like the troublemakers and you know the thugs of the community and you know we hear these stereotypes all the time in real life where it talks about black people and so in me as a black man a black American African-American you know that you know kind of just set off an exclamation point you know inside of me I wasn't offended or anything a friend of mine you know kind of said they may have been just a little bit but you know I didn't take it that way because I'm not just going to dive into the stereotypes because I know how I am I know how my people are I'm just seeing how they was trying to kind of compare stereotypes to real life or whatever some of it was on point some of it was not you know but I really did enjoy all of it I talked about what Smith and how funny it was but some you know they really did have a great mixture of the movie being very funny with his jokes being perfectly timed and also the violence I mean there was a lot of violence in this movie a lot of people getting blown up getting stabbed getting shot in the face all kinds of stuff in different sceneries car chases dog chases things like that shootouts gunfights all that good stuff I mean I'm really I was really enjoying all of it I mean just taking it all in there's a lot of social commentary which I just mentioned as well and the story of the film I like how that unfolded as well too I've seen this twice now I saw Thursday night and then I came today I'm recording this Saturday night right now and I watched it again earlier today I wasn't paying attention too much but I had it in the background I was doing some other things on my laptop but it was right there you know and I was watching it earlier today and I really do like the way that the plot unfolded I was able to catch a few things the second time that I missed the first time and I just really liked the lore of everything and how there was this ancient war between humans orcs and elves from 2,000 years ago and some people were on fighting on the wrong side and they're still paying the price and you know still dealing with the repercussions 2,000 years later and I like all that and there is a bunch of prejudice in this movie there's a lot of racism in this movie or species in this movie however you want to say it because you know racism in the real world deals with humans and the human race and humankind but there are different species orcs elves and human beings are different species so some of it is ridiculous but some of it in the way where people have prejudice to a certain character and are very cautious they actually have somewhat of a valid reason to be nervous or whatever because like for for instance the orcs you know they just know for like a fact that the humans are like look orcs they have clan law and they put that above everything else I mean it's just orcs to the day they die they're always going to protect their own so if you have a cop that is an orc like excuse me Joel Edison's character Will Smith's partner if an orc is doing something bad are you really going to take out the orc you know or are you gonna or are you gonna protect the orc because that's your people and you're gonna you know treat your fellow human being police officers as second fiddle and that kept coming up within the film and I like how they put that in there because it just created more tension and thickened the plot as the film progressed on now I talked about how violent is the action is great too that was fantastic I loved all that especially when they came down to these renegade elfs by the by the name of inferny or whatever and when they popped up on the screen or whatever they were not a force to be messed with or whatever it was like kind of like remember when you saw the matrix to come out of 99 and Morpheus played by Lawrence fish room was like in Trinity play was it carry what is I forgot Trinity's name or whatever I was going to say carry Fisher but for some reason I can't think of her name but remember that was explained to Neo or whatever to Keanu Reeves like hey when you see agent you do not engage the agent you do not fight them you run the other way you get out of the matrix you try to escape that is how these renegade inferny elves were portrayed in this movie like whoa you know I mean even if you have a SWAT team you better be careful or whatever because they are quick they are fast they are ruthless they have no regard they have no remorse and they will kill you they may even kill children or whatever in this movie and then it kind of did that off screen which was I think it was smart even though this is rated R but you just run the other way and when these renegade elfs popped on the screen I was like did like everybody remember I saw it in theater so everybody was like oh god damn oh you know gasping back and forth including myself or whatever but you know so I was gonna get to a book but I'm gonna just keep on going as far as the positives are concerned so I talked about the elves the orcs the humans the action the violence the comedy the story of the plot you know all that good stuff they also had something called the shield of light which I liked it as well but towards the end of the film I was like when I was like when I was in the theater I was like man I cannot wait to get home to make a video about this to write about it telling everybody to go see this movie but there was one scene to where Will Smith and Jacobi or war and Jacobi were captured by these orcs and they got the crap beat out of them and they took them until this orcs and this is kind of slight spoilers right here till they're home over their base and they were the one of the king orcs or whatever the the lead bosses or whatever or that street was this kind of like man look you know everything was crazy I wanted to organize my people have some order and to keep the peace you know every month I try to have a party I try to have a celebration you know I get everybody drunk I feed everybody and I just have one rule no guns and you cops messed it up or whatever and doing that scene it kind of you start going down as far as the quality is because at one particular part Will Smith got the living crap kicked out of him I mean just beating down to a bloody pulp and then right after that he's just able to walk away and just shake it off and I was kind of like wait a minute you know what's going on there and kind of like another plot hole that came up early in the film is like the war they're trying everybody's trying to get after this one right and they're in this cop car they just got away from a car somebody chased him in the car with like an automatic weapon just spraying them down right and I love that scene but the one started flying in the car and made the car eject because the wine had a binding spell on it and then could not you know the binding spell made the wine not go the tear away from its original master which is a bright or would have brights or the only people that can you know hold the wine if you know and if you don't if you're not a bright and you try to hold a wine you know you're going to explode and so some people in this movie learn that the hard way and I like the fact that they put that into where there was a binding spell but then right after that that binding spell just went away I mean like it never it didn't it didn't make sense to me unless the owner was just around the corner down the street not too far away I'm just like well okay why are they way over here and then the owner of the elf the renegade the inferny away over here and there's no more binding spell so that was like another inconsistency to me right there and then something else that just kind of turned me off was when the inferny these renegade elves popped up and they're just able to mouse everybody just kick everybody's ass just you know I mean just taking no names blowing the brains or whatever and later I mean seriously later on in the movie when Jacobi and war were engaging them in battle they were able to kind of hang with them just a little bit I'm like wait a minute why are you are why is it these are fernie elves kicking war in Jacobi's butt but they were able just to kill all these other cops earlier with swat teams and things like that were easy but they're kind of struggling towards the end and also the ending it had a lot of action but it was all just a little still anti climatic for me I wanted a little bit more so I was slightly disappointed there and originally I gave the movie like a 7.5 but I'm gonna give it a little bit higher because I learned that there was a sequel already to this movie greenlit before this came out so everything that I would did not see in this movie because I did want to see the big demon raise back or whatever and try to wreck hail on everybody in Los Angeles because this takes place in Los Angeles I did want to see more of the shield of light because there was a character in this movie that was talking about the shield of light so I wanted to see the shield of the light use the magic on these super elves and things like that but if we already have a sequel coming or whatever that makes me like the movie much better um you know because I know it's coming or I hope it's coming but as far as I'm concerned those are my only grires pretty much everything else guys I really did enjoy you know this and I may watch it again since I can watch it home on Netflix now for the third time and I originally I was gonna give it a 7.5 but if I had to write bright out of a 1 out of 10 I would give it an 8 out of 10 yes an 8 out of 10 but guys well don't don't even give a high than that oh no I'm gonna give you I'm gonna give it an 8 out of 10 yeah 8 out of 10 but guys that's just my opinion have you seen bright or do you want to see it have I turned you on have I turned you off do you agree with me or do you disagree with me let me know in the comment section below let's get this conversation going and keep it flowing if you like this video go ahead and give me the thumbs up and if you don't this fine subscribe to my youtube channel also go to my website check me out there bookmarking and look me up on social media facebook instagram and twitter all that good stuff is at the bottom of the screen and I made it easy by providing a link to 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so being able to summon allies is probably your best chance early on in taking down larger enemies for that amazing loot today guys we'll explain to you how you get to summon spirits to assist you in battle how's it going guys my name is dpj and if you're doing enjoyed the video living a like really helps out and if you like what you see and want to see more be sure to subscribe so i won't lie to you these have helped me a ton in battle against those larger dungeon bosses which seemingly destroy your health bar with a couple of hits these are a must now these will obviously use those fp focus points so you need to keep an eye on that solely in tiers and make sure you have them stuck top ready so after you've already obtained your mount torrent a few days cycle in game later you need to turn to the church of ella as you can see on the map what i actually did was i died here and this was my closest respawn point so when i respond here upon doing so there was a spirit waiting for me sitting on this wall now she could be triggered via you unlocking a few sites of graces across the map i haven't unlocked too many to be honest but i assure you has nothing to do with story progression as i'm still exploring the first area so upon seeing her she will give you this spirit calling bell this gives you the ability to summon these spirits she will also give you the ability to summon wolves which is just absolutely amazing my from here guys it's as simple as applying these to your pouch within your menu so what you do is obviously pull up your main menu by pressing start go across to pouch and controller um it's either y or triangle then simply apply to any party d pad it is as simple as that and then you can just call upon them when you need them in battle by holding y or triangle and pressing your sign button now there are many many spirits you can obtain early on and another great one is the jellyfish spirit which can be obtained from a female vendor located here on the map simply head here guys grab this and add it to your arsenal well yes people like i said there's tons of these spirits across the map you can obtain but these are just a few to help you out early on and i hope the video helps you out guys if it does leave a like really helps me out if you're new around here and want to see more out of the ring be sure to subscribe and hopefully people i will see you on that next one deserves someone braver than myself and the spirits look rather fondly upon you it'll be glad of your company i think to let alone


We're not looking at our operation on a one-year basis. I think, unfortunately, that's what happens to a lot of producers sometimes, is they get so focused on, well, maybe for a year or two, we're going to have corn prices that are $8, but then what happens when the prices go down again? Or what happens when there's a severe drought and that land is not producing a good crop? I really think that it's our job as producers to make sure that we're looking at the big picture, that we're not just looking at a snapshot in time. We need to think about what's sustainable in the long haul.


Hello everyone! Welcome to this session about SouthPetia.wiki, a new tool to listen to wikipedia using QR codes. First of all, a quick presentation about myself. My name is Yemen, I'm from Tunisia. I'm the co-founder of wikimedia Tunisia and the wiki world data user group, and the co-founder of the wiki conference wiki arabia. So today we're going to talk about qrpedia and we'll see the new solution. So as you may know, qrpedia was a project for a mobile web-based system that used qrcodes to deliver wikipedia articles to users in their preferred language. qrpedia was conceived by Roger Bumkin, a wikipedia volunteer from UK, coded by Terran Sweden and invented in IPR 2011. So basically qrpedia server used wikipedia IPI to determine whether there is a version of the specified wikipedia article in the language used by the device. So we scan the qr code and based on the language of the device, the qrpedia system will open the wikipedia page in that language. So this was very useful and it has been used in museums, in England institutions, historical cities like you can see here, the project in Tunisia, in Medina at the old city of Tunis, used also in symmetries. So it was a very useful tool and still a very useful tool. Nevertheless, in some occasion, listening to the article can be better than reading, especially for someone moving around. So for example, if you are in historical city or museum, instead of reading the wikipedia article, maybe it's better to listen to it. So from this came the idea of southpedia.wiki. So what is southpedia? So southpedia is a generated qr code for wikipedia article, will be related to monument, museum collection, anything that has wikipedia page. That once scan by mobile device, allows the user to listen to the wikipedia page available in the mobile and phone language. So in more details, the tool is deployed on toolfirst.org and the load generation of qr code related to wikipedia article that once scan it will fetch the wiki data item for that article and then open if available the audio file from comments for the wikipedia article using the wikipedia data property P989, spoken text audio. If there is no pre-recorded audio on comments, southpedia will generate an audio from the lead of the main entrance of the wikipedia article using CSS text to speech system. The project was a joint development project between wikipedia to ease the wikipedia page and data engineering and semantic research from the University of Svax and myself and my friend Hossein worked on this project for this beta version. So let's try it. So for example, we have this very famous mosaics in the national baritone museum in Tunisia, depicting the poet version. So this mosaics has wikipedia articles in French and English and on wiki data we were able to link pre-recorded audio file that has been uploaded on comments, one in French and one in English. Using the property spoken text audio 989 on wikipedia. Using southpedia we can generate one QR code, so as you can see it on the right hand side of the slide. This QR code if you scan it, if your phone is in English then you listen to the wikipedia article in English. If your phone is in French then you can listen to the wikipedia in French. If there is an article in Arabic and your phone uses Arabic language then you will listen to the wikipedia article in Arabic. Whether you will listen to a pre-recorded file that has been uploaded on comments or text generated automatically by the system. So you can, if you have, currently it's working fine on Android mobile with some issues on the mobile phones. If you have some Android you can check this, you can scan this code and then you will listen to the article. A few seconds to if you try to scan the QR codes. So this tool can be very useful for example to use your phone as an audio device in a museum in a city to scan the QR codes for monuments for mosaics or paintings or statues and listening to the related wikipedia articles. The goal of this tool of course to provide a better experience to the user who is going to scan the QR code but also it can be also motivation to generate more wikipedia articles, to generate more pre-recorded audio files on comments. So it will motivate the community to work and to produce more content. So it has double goal. One for the community to produce more content wikipedia audio files and a better experience to the user who is going to scan these QR codes and to listen to the wikipedia article. What is next for example, we can also improve the tool to be based on augmented reality. So one of the limitations of I mean the south pedia it's based on QR codes. So it requires that there is a generated code that we need to place in front of the monument or in the museum, but using the augmented reality is possible that the system detects the monument or detects the piece exposed in the museum and then trigger automatically the audio file related to the wikipedia article. So this is can be a next step to improve it. Thank you very much. If you have questions. I would be happy to answer them. So again just to the. This tool is inspired from queer pedia and has the advantage to be multilingual so use it one one quote. It's possible to have to listen to different language to different article in different languages can be in English and French and Chinese in Spanish. So, of course, this is what requires that we need to create the wikipedia article and this is a motivation for the community to work and document the document the monument and museums. So, these questions, it's work wonderful in English, however, there is a problem with the other languages. So for the other language, I think the problem when there is no audio file on comments. So, for a better experience, it's, it's good to, I mean, to record wikipedia articles and to upload it in comments. uploading recording wikipedia article and upload to comments can be used but can be also used by by other people who cannot read correctly wikipedia article so they can listen to it so it's a motivation to provide more audio content on comments as well. So, the problem can can happens when there is no pre recorded audio files on comments so that the system will try to generate text to speech audio file and this can can of course it's automatic generation so we can have some issues. But if you are going to use this tool in a project in museum or in a word heritage city. So the community will try to document all the monuments and record articles and upload them on comments and make these audio files available for everyone and it can also be used in relation with the blind user group for example to record this audio files as well. So, I would like to thank my friend for Sam for working on this project together. And we hope to keep working on it and prove it and to also integrate the augmented reality features so we don't need to share it with us anymore and the system will be able to detect automatically the monuments or the So, thank you very much. Thank you for all the team behind Kimania, the COT team and all the volunteers and the production team for this opportunity and goodbye.


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Hey G'day, how you going? My name's Darren. Oh look, last week, Rod, I came in and bought just a bunch of butt plugs from you, and I've just started, it's okay, I've just started using a couple with my misses, and one's just gone. Like I can't, I think it's gone all the way in, and like I don't know what to do like right now, like I thought it's not meant to go all the way in, like I thought it meant a bit of it stays out, but it just went in straight away. Okay, so if that's okay, so you'll have to stay a little bit out, but unfortunately, the only way you're going to be able to get that out is through the transmission at yourself or go to the ER.  Is there something like, you've got like lube or something that I can run in and get, and maybe like I can lube it up or something and then try and pull it out, no? You could give that a shot, but again, like if that's not really going to be the ER.  Yeah, look, what would I even say to them?  Is she a minor? No, no, no, no, no, no, she's 21, she's 21, so no, no, it's all G, but like, I just don't want her parents on it.  Like, I can't go in there like that.  I'm gonna have to bring her in. I'm gonna, oh, Tracy, we're just gonna have to go in, all right? Jerk, can you be able to sit in the car? Okay, last room. Well, look, we're just gonna have to come in, all right? Maybe if you can, is there something like, has this ever happened before? Like, do you guys have something there that can maybe help us get it out or something? Sorry. Well, what do you mean?  Like, I'll put a bit of pressure on with my thumb, right? And gone.   I haven't seen it for like five minutes.  And she can't push it out even. There's no even, like, warning signs and that on the butt plugs, right? It's just, it's just bloody, a bit of pressure. Gone. Fuck, she's gone. Can't see it no more.  Sorry, it depends on the size, unfortunately. Like, that's not something that we can justify for you. He's got, he's got, he's got to start putting warnings on these butt plugs. He's got to start putting warnings on these butt plugs, right? That's the first time we've used one.  Like, that's the first one I've used. And it's just gone.  I understand your stress, but it's not my fault. Yeah, no, no, no, it's not your fault. I'm saying maybe the place you work for, the corporation, right?  Bet it doesn't even pay taxes.   Like, I touch it, I nearly drop it, it's so slippery, right?  Because right now it's completely gone and more misses. She's in real pain right now, you know what I mean?  I don't know how I'm going to get her in the car.  Do you have like pair of tongs or something there? The sex tongs or something? No, we were going to do the only thing. We were going to start to stop at the end, like there is... Yeah, it's all right, OK, it's not that bad. And then there's a little sort of skink that the lube should stop before that skinks. OK, so, but if it's gone, like if it's gone right up her, like surely, surely she'll just like pull it out eventually, right? Like 12 hours or something, like worst case scenario. If I can't, if I can, like there's a chance of tearing, you would have to go to the air.     Stop moving around.  Hold still, hold still. It's going to start fucking.  It's gone.  All right, we're going to have to come in. Hello, are you still there? Yeah, so again, there's nothing that there's still can actually do for you. You don't want to call in. Mate, I might be able to treat it, but we can't. Nothing I can do. I cannot call, like, it is so embarrassing, right? I'm going to, I'm going to, we're going to come to the sex store right now, right? I'm laying around in the truck and we're going to come right in. All right, so get ready in the next five minutes. You sold it, you fixed it. You sold us this, right? You just got to help me fix this, all right? You guys got to, I don't know, like my fingers. No, you need to pull it down. My fingers are massive, right?  Maybe some more petite fingers or something. Don't have gloves on. Help her get, put your, pull it out. Do you know what I'm saying? Like, get your little fingers in there. Maybe you can grab it, because I touched it just then. I felt the end of it, right? But I think I pushed it in deeper. They even helped with that. You got gloves on, right? You got, you've got gloves, but I've seen the gloves in there. All right, I don't know what else to do. I'm going to have to come in, all right? You have to call a paramedic. I'm sorry, I'm coming in first, right?  I will do that, all right?      Again, unfortunately legally I can't help. All right, okay then. All right, well I guess I'll call paramedics. All right, thanks. No worries, see ya. Ha ha ha ha! Do you think they thought that was real? Yeah?  What actually was going on with the screaming? It was the sickest screaming you did. I was trying to do your scream and talk as me at the same time. Yeah, I know. Ha ha ha ha ha! I fully dribbled everywhere. I think that was me. That was probably one of the best.  Ha ha ha ha ha! It's supposed to be real! It's supposed to be real! I'm a mess! An actor!


What are the best niches to start a YouTube channel? Hey, you want to start a channel, don't you? I knew you did. I can tell by looking at you, you wanted to start a channel. But the question is, what's the best kind of channel to start? And I'll tell you, if you don't pick a niche, you're not going to do well on YouTube, okay?  But it can happen if you pick one of the top niches. And in this video, if you want to know what they are, I'm going to go through every single one of them with you so you have a shot at having a super successful YouTube channel. Hey, I'm Jay R. Fisher, been selling online for over 10 years now, so millions of dollars worth of products. But in this video, what I'd like to do is share with you the niches that are really popular on YouTube right now. Now, this can vary from year to year, but as of right now, 2020, these are super popular. And I believe that most of these are going to be popular from now on. But you know, there's some that are on the fringe. So let's go ahead and go through these right now. I don't want to waste any time. I'm also going to give you a link below where you can download all of these and you can have a list of them. So don't worry about writing them down if you don't want to, click the link below and then that way you can have a list of them. The first one is unboxing videos, unboxing. What is unboxing videos? Unboxing videos is where somebody gets something and it comes in the mail and they open it up and they examine it and they review it and they talk about it in front of you. Yes, that's actually a thing on YouTube, unboxing channels. There's a lot of them, search it. You'll see a lot of unboxing channels. But that is one of the top niches that you can do on YouTube. So if you're interested in electronics or pet products or makeup or exercise equipment or whatever it is, do an unboxing channel. Number two is tech and gadget reviews. Now there's so many tech items now. There's so many gadget items now. There's drones and there's cameras and there's GoPros and there's lights and there's all kinds of different stuff that people will go to YouTube and they will search it. Now some of the best titles are Canon versus Nikon, DSLR, whatever it is. When you take one product versus another product, you're gonna get a lot of hits on that. You're gonna get a lot of views on that because more often than not, people are trying to compare a couple different products. If you do some of these comparison videos, you're gonna do pretty well. Number three is life hacks, life hacks. Ways to make things easier in your life. Life hacks is a big thing and it can be in the kitchen, it can be outside household stuff, it can be home repairs, it can be all kinds of different things. It can be driving, it can be whatever you want. Life hacks is a huge one. The next one, and I'm even gonna give you a link to this one, is TubeBuddy.  But TubeBuddy in itself is pretty complicated to use. So there's a lot of videos on TubeBuddy. Now I'll put a link below for TubeBuddy. If you use my link, you can get an account absolutely free. It doesn't cost you anything. If you wanna get the paid version, it will also give you a 30% discount. Pretty cheap stuff too.  It's the number one software used by the top creators on YouTube. So you do wanna get TubeBuddy. The next one is number five and that's fail compilations, fail compilations. Anybody screwing things up. Maybe a recipe went wrong and the blender threw stuff all over the walls. Maybe it's somebody who's skateboarding that has a terrible accident. Maybe it's car crashes, whatever it is. Fail compilations are very, very popular. Now I would say you're gonna have to aggregate this information from somewhere.  I hope you're not and if so, stay away from me.  That's how that works. Number six, fitness and health. Always has been big, always will be big. People are always looking for ways to exercise. My wife and I exercise and there's several videos that we've watched on YouTube over and over and over again because we do that workout. So if you get a good workout there and people like it, not only will they watch it once, they'll watch it time and time and time again which gives you a lot of views. Number seven, food and restaurant reviews. Everybody eats, everybody does this, okay? So you can review foods from the grocery store, you can review restaurants in your town, you can review restaurants from around the world and you can actually do that by going to a site like Video Blocks and finding B-roll of different places and just talking over it. So food and restaurant reviews is a huge one. Now personally, if I was doing food and restaurant reviews, I would wanna be the one tasting it and eating it so that I knew that I liked it. I don't wanna recommend something if I don't know if I like it or not. Number eight is cooking. Cooking is a great one, okay? There's a lot of cooking channels. A lot of people have made a lot of money on cooking channels and if you're doing these videos on cooking, you can also sell all kinds of supplies, cooking supplies and knives and dishes and pots and pans and appliances and all that stuff so it lends itself to doing a lot of affiliate marketing too. Next one, number nine, kind of falls in that category is kitchen hacks. Things you could do in the kitchen to save time, money and hassle. Those are my three things that I think apply to everything in life. People try to avoid time, money and hassle. If you can help them with kitchen hacks, you can certainly do that. Number 10 is how-to videos. Now, how-to videos I would still recommend that you stay in a niche. Now I guess I technically do how-to videos. I teach people how to make money online. So that's my niche, how to make money online. So how-to videos are huge. People are always looking for ways to do stuff that they don't already know how to do. The next one is number 11 and that's pranks and spoofs. I see a lot of those and they're entertaining every now and then I'll watch some of them. But you gotta be willing to do some of these things and some of these things are pretty outlandish. They can be dangerous. A lot of these people who do pranks have been arrested, they're going to jail, all kinds of stuff, but they are popular. They're immensely popular. If that's something you wanna do and you think you're good at that and you like pranking people, go for it. Number 12 is makeup and beauty. There are tons and tons and tons of videos on makeup and beauty. Women love this stuff. I don't get it, but men are into this too. There's a channel called Alpha M and he talks about how to dress and how to do your hair and all this stuff. And that's a pretty good channel. He's built quite a following. But that's always been a big thing, makeup and beauty, and it probably always will be. The next one up is travel vlogging. If you are somebody who travels around the world and there's all kinds of different travel vlogging, I've watched some ones where people live on sailboats and they're going around the world. I've watched ones where people are just traveling and going to different places. Most of the people that travel will combine some type of food reviews with it.  If you enjoy doing that, you can do that. I've also watched a lot of travel vlog videos and the people were never there. They went and got B-roll of that town, of that city and they list all the things that are in that city and that's their travel vlog and they never leave their house. So you can actually do it that way and you don't even have to be on camera to do that. Next one, number 14, I didn't know this existed. Did a little research and found it. Dash and security cam videos. Now, there's so many security cams nowadays. There's so many dash cams nowadays. You couldn't have done this 15 years ago because these things didn't exist, but nowadays, there's a lot of it.  So if you have access to some of that stuff, people do love it. Number 15, everybody likes to laugh is comedy, comedy.  Maybe you wanna tell jokes. Maybe you want to entertain online, but don't limit it to that.  Be careful on this and make sure you're allowed to use whatever clips you have or YouTube will abruptly take them down, trust me. Number 16, fashion and style tips. Now I mentioned Alpha M a couple minutes ago. He's more fashion and style tip type guy, but that's a big thing. People want fashion and they want to know how to work on their style and all that. Not something I wouldn't spend a lot of time on. However, it's a big area. Number 17 is city tours. Now a couple minutes ago, city tours is a great niche, but a couple minutes ago I mentioned that you can get B-roll from different cities. You don't have to actually be in the city to do a city tour. There's so much B-roll video now. You can go to something like video blocks and you can pretty much find, of any major city in the world, some type of videos of that city, some B-roll that you can use and just talk over it and mention the things that are available in that particular city. Number 18, horror videos, okay? That's a big thing. People love to be scared. They love it. They love to be scared. They love to go to ghost tours and ghost houses and haunted house. They love this stuff. So if you're into horror stuff, that's a great area. Number 19 is not a surprise to anybody and that's sports. Oh my gosh, sports. Sports, sports, sports. People love to watch sports. I look at it as a colossal waste of time. If you disagree with me, you can put it below there. I'd rather play a sport and be healthy than to watch somebody else play a sport and yell at them. Just my way of thinking. But it's a big, big thing. If you're into sports and you wanna comment on sports, that's a great idea. Number 20, pets and animals. Highly recommend this. My wife has a channel. She does pet training for dogs, okay? So she does some training for that. And if you go to Jessica L. Fisher, the furry family coach, you're gonna find that on YouTube. She has some great videos there. I would suggest you subscribing to that, watching that. Free videos, free training, good stuff. Next one is number 21 and that's musical instrument tutorials. People wanna learn how to play the violin. People wanna learn how to play the guitar. They wanna learn how to play the harmonica or the piano or whatever. If you start something that has to do with musical instruments and tutorials, you'll be amazed how many people will watch. If you're good at it, you gotta be good at it, you gotta do these things. But that is a great, great area. If you've got a talent in that area, you can build a whole career on it. My next one up is parodies. Parodies are making fun of other people or other things or other situations. You know, I'm starting to smile because it seems to be really funny ones because of all the political climate that's going on. We're right before an election if you're watching this. And the parodies are great. I mean, if you type in, you know, Trump parody or Biden parody right now, I'm sure you're gonna find all kinds of stuff. No matter what side you're on, they're both pretty funny. Let's face it, come on. Let's put aside all the politics stuff so they enjoy the funny part because that's the thing that I think is so great. Number 23 is DIY and crafts, okay? Do-it-yourself and craft niche is huge, okay? There's tons of channels on this, all kinds of crafting stuff and repair stuff and making stuff. People love watching that. My wife also has a channel on that and it's Homesweet Farmhouse. You can check that out. And that's a great channel and it's gonna teach you all kinds of DIY stuff, really cool stuff. And the last one, the last one I think I fall in this category, two number 24 is education and learning. Education and learning, people need to learn stuff. They say that 40% of the people that come to YouTube come for entertainment purposes. 60% come from education and learning. So if you've got something you can teach, whether it's accounting, whether it's how to make money online like my channel is, whether it's how to play an instrument, whether it's teaching them about history or whatever math, whatever it is, education and learning is huge, guys. It's huge and pretty much anybody can do this. If you don't know something, what can you do? You can learn it and then you can teach it, okay? It's really that simple. Maybe you teach languages, maybe you wanna teach Spanish or French or Italian or whatever you wanna teach, you can do that. We all have these special talents in us. It's just a matter of which niche we're gonna pick. Now, that's my top 24 niches on YouTube. 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Good afternoon, nerd fam, and welcome back to beautiful Barcelona, Spain. We're here at Mobile World Congress at the end of day four of theCUBE's live coverage. It's been an absolutely fantastic week. I'm joined by analyst Shelly Kramer, and we are going to have an awesome last session for you. Someone who sees across verticals. David Phan, thank you so much for being here with us from Salesforce. Thanks for having me. How you doing? How you feeling? You look well. You look like you're holding up well for four days of the show. We'll have a few more days. This is so exciting, right? I mean, between the great networking, Barcelona, and all the fun conversations we're having. And the food. And exactly, the tapas, the vino. I mean, I want to live here now. Can we still move in? Thank you. Tell us a little bit about, I mean, you sit at an apex where you can see a lot of different verticals and things happening. What are some of the trends in the communications industry right now? Yeah, it's very interesting, because if you look at the trends, you can get a lot of the information from this conference as well. There are three repeating themes that we often hear about. One is about customer experience, right? Like the customer expectation keeps rising in a communication space. The service providers are looking at how to keep that up. It's interesting because we did a survey recently in collaboration with Amdia. And as 500 communication service providers and employees, what I thought about mine for you. Yeah. And one of the things they said is about customer experience, digital first self-service. In fact, half of the respondents said that 50% of the sales and service interaction will be made only online in two years. Wow. Yeah, so that's one of them. The second trend that we often hear about is the need to accelerate product innovations, to quickly launch offer to reduce the time to market. The third trend that we often hear about is how to improve the operation efficiency. Yeah. How to make things more productive and how to reduce the cost to serve. You know, I think that when you think about, when we talk about customer experience, of course it's incredibly important that we serve those end user customers. And that's not new, right? That's been a reality forever. But I think also there's the issue focusing on the contact center agent. And when you think about it, they come to work every day and they're, I mean people aren't calling them because they're happy. Because they want to give them a compliment.  They have a problem. They want a solution. And sometimes they may have been trying to do it yourself and you get frustrated and everything else. So every interaction is you're having with someone not having their best day. So being able to have solutions, technology solutions that make an agent's job easier, faster, better, equip them to serve the customer, it's a better end result all the way around. Yeah, I agree, I agree. We need to look after them. They do have a really, really tough job, yeah. And there's so many ways, you know, we think about the user experience as knowledge workers are in other ways. But everyone on a team deserves a great experience, whatever that might be. Kind of sitting there, what are some of the biggest challenges that Salesforce clients are currently trying to solve? Yeah, I think one thing that we can help, like going back to the question earlier, I think that's the wonder about technologies, right? Technology can help people to do things faster. I think AI, everybody's talking about AI. We haven't heard anything about AI this week at all. This is the first actually. What does that acronym stand for? Well, maybe we should extend this and we can spend more time on AI. I think AI is something that will really change the way people work, especially about generative AI. I think in the same research that we did, I think lots of people have already started to use AI, predictive AI, two thirds of the respondents are still thinking about how to use their generative AI. Lot of conversations, but not as much implementation, had a lot of discussions around that and kind of the gap between the hype and the yay, and then also, what are we doing with it? One thing that we constantly hear from our customer is, AI is great, generative AI is great, but how do you make it manageable and deployable? I think that's the key to success. Well, and I think that one of the things to Savannah's point, the question about customer challenges is I think one of the main challenges that customers have is it's a data issue. We have so much data, how do we get our arms around it? How do we use this data? And I think that really is what Salesforce is known for helping solve for, is being able to, especially in the contact center, AI can help quickly pull out important pieces of information and help manage, help use data to solve customer problems more quickly. And I think that's what we need, that's exciting. It is very exciting, speaking of exciting, Salesforce had some announcements this week, yeah? Tell us about those. Yeah, so we announced the first generative AI power application for communications, building inquiry manager. So going back to what we said about how we can help the service agent to be better, that's what this is all about. Leveraging generative AI to ask them to handle some of the most common requests that they get. What is my bill? Why is my bill so high? We want to empower them to allow them to summarize lots of data behind the scene and provide trusted recommendation so that they can communicate back to their customers. I think the key word is about trust. I was going to actually call that out, keep going. Yeah, yeah, because I think AI, I think a lot of people will experiment AI, but how do you actually make it manageable going back to some of our customers' concern? And this is where Salesforce come in. How do you provide a trusted platform so that you can make sure that you ask the right question and the information is protected so that you don't actually share your customer information with other people and make sure that there's no hallucination, not no toxicity of the response and present back to the agent and let them to have confidence to share this information with their customers. That's, you bring up such a good point because there's hype and we're all excited we're technologists, you know, AI is very exciting. However, the general public, there's still a lot of doomerism, a lot of fear, and particularly in these types of roles, people are afraid that AI will unseat them from their job.  But in order to do that, you have to trust it. And I think that's great. What sort of, how does Salesforce help build that trust? Yeah, so Salesforce has been in the AI business for 10 years. We are the number one, we're the leader in AI. We are generating one trillion predictions every week. One trillion. One trillion predictions a week. Right, so we- Casual. Cheapers. Well they're also the biggest CRM, I mean arguably the biggest CRM platform there is. So that's not a surprise really. That's right, that's right. It's still an incredible volume though. Yeah. The beauty of this is all these predictions are embedded into your CRM so that every time when you interact with your customer, whether you want to market something to them, sell them something or service them, you have AI to sort of walk with you. Einstein Co-Pilot was launched because of that to give you the ability to ask the right questions, protect the information and get trusted results back. So the billing inquiry manager, this newly announced offering, this is available in the communications cloud console so it's easy to access, they're already using, agents are already using this, so it's easy to find and use. Yes, yes, it's part of the communications cloud, it's all embedded so that it's available to the agent console as a great tool to guide the agent through those common tasks that they have to deal with. Do you get to hear back from any of these agents on how they're enjoying that experience? We have a lot of feedback from customers this week as we are showing them, everyone just, one is that they like the concept of how you can guide the agents through this, but the thing that they really like is what is underneath the hood, like again, going back to how do you make it manageable, how do you make it deployable so that you don't share information, confidential information externally, and again, going back to the whole trusted recommendation coming back from the engine. Yeah, it's impressive, I mean Salesforce, you've been a leader in so many spaces for a long time, it makes sense that you're the trusted partner, in this case, what's your advice for customers just hearing about this right now who might be interested in going down this path? Yeah, well trust is our number one core value. I think my recommendation to customer who wants to embark on this journey is make sure that you have a right data strategy, right? I think, Shelley, you mentioned about it is important that you have good data, data is the foundation of AI, and to make sure that you have a good data strategy and Salesforce has data cloud to help you to harmonize your data, could be in Salesforce or externally, and allow you to harmonize, allow you to gain insight, and to be able to act upon it. So that's what I would suggest customers to do. Yeah, it sounds like good advice, I would take it if that was them. Awesome. You mentioned that Salesforce has been on the AI path for over a decade, not surprising. How are you looking in the future? Where are you going to be directing the AI ship within Salesforce next? Well we believe that the AI will become more autonomous over time. We believe that every interaction can be powered by AI, and you can see that throughout our applications, whether you are generating marketing content, whether you are generating sales, interaction, email to your customers, or doing case summary through the service scenario. All those can be powered by the genitive AI, and this use case will continue. It will become more sophisticated, more autonomous, and the future is bright. You know I think it's a little bit like you know how we roam around with our devices, and Wi-Fi just happens, right? And it's just kind of, we don't even think about it. It just is there, it's helping us live our lives in every way, and I think really that's what we're seeing, and we're at the beginning stages of it, but I think that's what we're seeing when it comes to AI.  I think that it will just become so ubiquitous, and so we don't even think about it. It's just there, it's just like Wi-Fi. It's just there, it's powering our lives. But the funny thing is, is that when you don't have it, you know, it's like, wow, I forgot how great this was. So I think that we're really in the beginning steps of getting to that point, where it's just everywhere, it's carrying the load, it's making everything we do better, more efficient, more productive, all those sort of things, and it's an exciting time. So yeah, the future is absolutely right. I got a question for you, David.  Well, I think as a person, I think AI just helps me to enjoy information a lot more, right? Because you have information that is readily available to you. So you just are able to get things done quicker. You will be able to spend more time on other things that you would like to do. Right, exactly, more efficiency. More efficiency, exactly. Yeah, more efficiency to have more fun and to eat more tapas. Yeah, have more tacos here, tapas here, and enjoy it outside a bit more so that I can get where I work done quicker. That's what I'm talking about. Speaking of, any highlights for you in Barcelona this week? I think it's all about the customers for us. I think to be able to meet with a lot of industry experts, spending lots of time with customers, learn from them, sharing our visions with them, that is the best part about this conference. And of course, spending time with you too. Well, oh, he's smooth. He is smooth, isn't he? Okay, so. I'll take it day four. What about, as you've kind of walked the show floor, have you seen anything that's really been pertain me? There's a helicopter over there. There's an AI powered ambulance. I mean, there's all different kinds of, what's the coolest thing that you've seen while you've been here? I think the coolest thing for me is seeing the reaction. When people understand how AI can actually work, right? How can we make it deployable and manageable? You can see the light bulb just keep blinking when you show them how underneath the hood. How can you actually make it work in your real life? Making it tangible, making it practical for them? That was, the reaction was priceless in my mind. Oh, I love to hear that. And it is so nice that customer feedback, the sense of community. I will say as a collective community here in the mobile space and even just in tech nerd land in general, I do feel like there's a lot of joy and excitement and curiosity. I hope, yeah, I don't know. Loving the optimistic vibes. It's a great community. There's a lot of innovations as we come together along with our partners. It's so exciting that you can have all these creative ideas and we can push the industry forward. So I think that this is all good. Well, this is a tech nerd's paradise, you know? I mean, that's really part of the joy that you feel is that we're all immersed in this innovative space, doing different things, focusing on different things, but we are really watching the future unfold. So it's easy to get excited about it, you know? Absolutely. Yeah, it really is. Well, David, thank you so much for being here with us. This was fantastic, exciting, insightful. Congratulations on the announcements this week. And we really look forward to having you on the show again, hopefully with some customers and we can see how this is going. Yeah, for sure, we'll love to. In the wild next time. Shelly Kramer, what a fabulous week together. I appreciate all of our time. And thank all of you for tuning in, from home or wherever you are around this beautiful planet. We're here from theCUBE's studio in Barcelona where we've decided to move in at Mobile World Congress. My name's Savannah Peterson. You're watching theCUBE, the leading source for enterprise tech coverage.


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Ableton On Air is a member of the National Academy for Television Arts and Sciences Boston, New England Chapter. Welcome to this edition of Ableton On Air, the one and only program that focuses on the needs, concerns, and achievements of the different label. I've always been your host, Lauren Syler, and on this particular episode, we are talking to Zakey Musa-Dramé, editor-in-chief and chief officer of Park Chester Times, New York Parrot, and the Muslim Community Report, which is part of the Muslim Media Corporation who sponsors Ableton On Air, and we would also like to say special thanks to our sponsors, Green Mountain Support Services, Washington County Mental Health, Muslim Media Corporation, and also with partners as the Sustainable Montpelier Coalition, the Vermont Division for the Blind and Visually Impaired, and the Vermont Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired, and many, many, many others. Welcome to Zakey Musa-Dramé to Ableton On Air once again. Okay, and we would like to, today we are talking about a very important topic, violence, and violence around the world, and violence in the Bronx, and also we are going to also talk about violence and people with disabilities. So why don't we start, what's going on in the Bronx and why is the Bronx, you know, having problems with violence around people with disabilities as well. You say, wait a second, you said unleash, you said unleash. Example, example, not so long ago there was a shooting in Times Square, and also one of the biggest things that they're having now is homeless people are hitting innocent people, and you know, and what about, and what about that, the violence against Asian, the Asian descent, you know, that's happening too. Violence in Brooklyn against the Jewish population, when Jewish people go to synagogue, they're getting hit, they're getting robbed, so there's a lot going on. Um, gotten worse since the pandemic, or was the 1970s, 1980s worse? Which was it, or which is it? That's why I'm asking you, go ahead. To ask you a serious question in terms of this, they want to kind of de-escalate the, the, the, the, the Blasio administration wants to de-escalate police and put more citizens in charge. Yes, you have, in Brooklyn, there's a really well-known group that we know is called Chevrolet Rim, that their citizens, you know, they, they, they carry badges, but they don't, and, and then, and then your organization, Shaquille, you have citizen police patrol, but is it really, is it, yes, citizens should know about what's going on in their neighborhood, but is it dangerous to put citizens in charge of, of really violent crimes? How, how, um, you know, what if those citizens' groups get hurt? How, how do you deal with that? One of the, one of, one of the things, uh, one of the things that I wanted to bring up, which is part of violence, um, you know, domestic violence is also a problem. I found, um, there are six facts, I just want to bring this up, six facts about people with disabilities and domestic violence, you know, violence in the home. People with disabilities have a higher lifetime prevalence of experiencing abuse than people without disabilities. People with disabilities experience violent crimes at least twice the rate of people without disabilities. Then, yeah, number three, uh, people with disabilities are times likely to be sexually assaulted by their peers without disabilities. Number four, in 2008, intimate partners perpetrated, uh, uh, sorry, uh, perpetrated, uh, 27% of the violent crime against women with disabilities and 1.1% of crime against men with disabilities. Number, uh, number five, police are likely to, less likely to respond to reported violence against victims with disabilities than they are to be reported violence, uh, against victims without disabilities. Police respond to 90% of reports by victims without disabilities and 77% of reports of victims with disabilities. Number six, a survey conducted by the Spectrum Institute Disability and Abuse Project found that 70% of respondents with disabilities experienced some form of abuse by an intimate partner, family member, caregiver, acquaintance, or stranger. Of those, 87.2% experienced verbal and emotional abuse, 41.6% experienced sexual abuse, and 37.4% experienced neglect, 31.5% experienced financial abuse, 37.3% experienced, uh, abuse by law enforcement, and 10% were arrested, um, in abuse cases reported by law enforcement, uh, you know, perpetrators. Anything you want to say against domestic violence, because that's part of it too.  But if they're mentally, quote unquote, incapacitated, you can go to jail for a longer time versus a regular, uh, person, you know what I mean? Um, that the laws are more stronger in that way. I mean, violence against anyone is no good, but, you know, but it, it, it becomes more of a problem if there's violence against people with disabilities, especially at nursing homes and hospitals. So, so question what, so, so the main, the main question becomes, are the, are the courts in this case controlled politically? Why are they allowing a person to be arrested seven times and let go, you know, let go, come back in, let go, come back in?  But why is it, why isn't that people sometimes don't want to participate in civic affairs? Is it because they're scared? Well, I would like to, um, before we end, um, where can people contact, uh, Park Chester Times and New York parrot if they want to, you know, write for you guys or send you information. I made a mistake. So what is your title? Publisher. Okay. Okay. So you're the publisher. I apologize. Wait a second, you're the publisher, but, um, also, um, so in New York parrot is www.NewYorkParrot.com. Okay. And what, what about the Muslim community report? Same thing? Okay. Well, I would like to thank Shaquem Musa Jamey, publisher of, um, the Muslim media corporation and, uh, which includes Park Chester Times, Muslim community report, and the New York parrot. And we would like to say special thanks to him and, um, our sponsors, Washington County Meta Health, Green Mountain Support Services, Muslim media corporation, and, uh, many others, including, uh, the partnership with the Vermont division for the blind and visually impaired, as well as, um, Vermont association for the blind and visually impaired, and, uh, the sustainable Montpellier coalition and many, many, many others. Um, this puts an end to this edition of Ableton On Air. I'm Lauren Seiler. See you next time. Ableton On Air is sponsored by Green Mountain Support Services, empowering people with disabilities to be home in the community. Washington County Mental Health, where hope and support comes together. 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Aloha, welcome to Think Tech Hawaii. This show is the state of the state of Hawaii and I'm your host Stephanie Stull Dalton. Today we have a guest to talk to us about the day we are celebrating because it is January 17th. It's our celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. So for this day, I have a colleague who will talk with us about the meaning of Martin Luther King's Day here in Hawaii, perhaps then also around the world. So I'd like to welcome Dr. Wesley Boykin. And welcome, Wesley, and thank you so much for coming. Hello, it's really my pleasure to be here. Oh, I'm really, yeah. We're really pleased to have you join us for this show on Think Tech Hawaii. And Wesley's from Global Vision Connections, which is international learning opportunities and he has a very large CV, curriculum V and I resume that I'm sure he'd be happy to send you any time when you do see his URL for his website come up. So Wesley, let's talk about the Martin Luther King Jr. Day and let's start with you talking about it from your point of view and its meaning for you and your awareness that has grown with it. Yes, whenever I think of this holiday, I have to go back into past history and think and remember exactly how it came about. All of the struggles and the people involved in trying to get civil rights freedom for people of color, particularly African-Americans, black people who live in the United States. So for me, it is a time of reflection. It is a time to think back on those who paid the way for me to be here, paid the way for all of us to be able to live in a pluralistic society, to reflect back on what it truly means to have and to have not and to know the difference between what's important and what's not important. It also is a time for me to reflect on the future of what works and you still need to be done, how to build more positive relationships in this country, not just in this country, but abroad, how to get people more so than ever, particularly in the current climate, to live together and not just get along, but to really relate and understand and to learn about each other in such a way that my child is your child. Your child is my child and that together we will have a much, much better future in America. Well, thank you for that deep sharing. I know that you're not here in Hawaii with us. I believe you're close to the East Coast and maybe in the snow, even. Sorry about that, but it can be beautiful too. So tell us a little bit about how you celebrate. I know you've been here to Hawaii often and you know it well. So with that context in mind too, we're talking, but tell us how you celebrate the day as you've come to know better how to do that over the years that we've had it. Generally, and I say generally because it did not happen this year, I am currently in North Carolina. I am in the eastern part of North Carolina and the celebrations here occurred on Saturday and Sunday. Consist of the usual activities that I'm familiar with, a program, a reflection through poetry, song, and sometimes dance, and a freedom ride where we simply do a commemorative ride to remember those that actually used to walk and struggle through their walks, like the example of Selma, but we do a freedom ride to make sure that we and our youngs stay connected to those days that got us where we are. But I normally take time to reflect on the words of Dr. Martin Luther King. There are so many. It was sometimes I think about all of the sayings, all of the writings that he did in his brief lifetime and the impact that it is still having on all of us all of these years later, these decades later. So I take time to reflect on those words, what meanings it had at the time, what must have happened for people to be able to project through words, heart-filling projections of what's going to be happening in the future, the dreams of it all and that we have actually made a lot of those dreams out of our reality. But I reflect on the good. I reflect on the good things we must continue to do and what it means to our entire nation. It just, again, it's a major time for reflection for me. It's a time of tears and it's a time for tears of joy and tears of pain because there are so many that gave their lives that did not have an opportunity to see the advances that we have made. Wesley, you know, I often, I don't often, but it did occur to me today that from listening to some of the discussions that are pointing on on the media that what if we hadn't gotten the holiday through? What if we hadn't been able to instantiate this holiday in our national calendar? It's a federal holiday that everybody attends to. Do you think that we would be as imbued with King's wisdom and values and would we be where we are? What had difference has that holiday made? It's a real difficult question for me to answer, Stephanie, because I don't, I see the materialistic, I see the opportunistic advances that have been made, but in terms of people relationship, people respect, love and so forth, I don't know how to answer that. I think when Martin Luther King was envisioning his dream and vision for a future, he talked about his little children and they are not being judged on the color of their skin but the content of their character. I really don't know if our advances have achieved the entire dream. Major parts of the dream, significant parts of the dream have been accomplished, but there are a lot of relational aspects of his dreams that will lead to more fair play and equity and equality of governance as well as through love and all aspects of our daily living that I don't yet know if they have been fulfilled. But where we would be if we had not achieved the holiday status, I don't know if that per se would have made a difference but there was a lot of thinking around making it a holiday. It wasn't just a day of celebration to dance and laugh and have fun. It was envisioned that this holiday could some way touch the lives of all people, particularly those people that are in power, political power, economic power, social power and that they would understand why equality is so important in this country, that they will make sure through their understanding that enduring understanding that they would have greater positive regard for all people, not just my children, not just my neighbor's children, but all children and that the award, the highest compliment would be those people of power at any level in any aspect of society would accept all children as our future, all children as my children. And I think that's where we need to be focused. That's the source of my reflection and that's the source of my dreams for a better future. And no matter all of the achievements we have made, we can see, we can feel through the last few years in our society why we need more and greater leaders with greater visions, more positive visions, more inclusive visions. Well, one contribution of Dr. King seems to be very, very, it's significant, if you will agree, is that the concept of a nonviolent approach to revolution. Is that not huge? And is that going to endure Wesley, especially with regard to what we're undergoing now in our country, what are you thinking about that? What's the chance? Those people who live, breathe and really aspire to be good Christians. That will, the concept of nonviolence will always endure. Reason it must endure and will endure is that in order to make sure it happened, those who are quote unquote real Christians, believe in practicing Christians, have to make sure that they are able to identify those that are just simply Christians by word. We have to focus on the deed. And so I really believe that a greater focus on the goodness of people, their deeds, it will sustain nonviolence and any other community building type efforts to achieve long-term enduring success. But I do believe nonviolence will endure. I do believe that there will still be violence in the world. It always has been, but the approach is based upon good, positive community will prevail. Well, that gives us a bit of a segue. I think since you've traveled internationally and studied other countries and visited and convened there, can you tell us a little bit about what, is there an awareness of Dr. King there and his message? Do you think that, can you talk a little bit about what you know of that? I have traveled extensively throughout the continent of Africa, Asia, South America, as well as Europe. As of late, I have been traveling more extensively in Africa and South America, particularly Africa than any other continent. I can say to you that there is a big gap between the consciousness, the awareness, the understanding of the efforts of civil rights. It's my reality through my learning that I can say that there's a greater level of understanding in the young and many African countries than in the young in America. I'm speaking particularly of African American minorities as well as many Anglo-Americans are the young. They assembled street tests randomly done throughout the country. Several questions, who's Martin Luther King, who's Malcolm Mets, and you could go down the line and you would be amazed at the number of I don't knows that you get. You would be impressed by the deep conversations and questions you get from people of the same age in another culture. Particularly the African nations. They study us, they learn us, and they fully understand the struggle we went through to a greater degree, which leads to tremendous appreciation of where we are now. I think we sometimes forget that America, I'm not many people, but it can occur that in America we forget that we were once a colony. So when you're traveling around as we have had our struggle at that level of that 18th century situation. So others have had it for much longer and are still struggling. Do you notice that there's any more awareness with those countries who are out of colonization and struggling still to get independent and democratic? What do you see going on there? It varies by country, but there's a common thread through them all. Ethiopia prides itself in being the only country in Africa that was never fully colonized. They never became a colony of any of the foreign land. So there's some awareness and pride in them being the birthplace of Christian based upon their history, their teaching and philosophy, the birthplace of Christianity and the birthplace of the Christian church that was never disrupted by or through colonization. So they have a connectedness that some other lands in Africa and particularly African-Americans and many people in America that we don't have. The disconnect here is so great compared to disconnect between now Mediapast and our history, our long-term history. The disconnect is so great here and it is even in those countries that were colonized, they never got disconnected from their past. In fact, I can't think of a single country, there are certain individuals or maybe groups that were totally disconnected from their origin as in America. So there's a greater, there's a big divide in Africa and here. And that is one of the reasons why I started the learning tools with Global Vision Learning Tools is because there is no group of people. There's no group of people. And the United States that are more disconnected from their heritage than African-Americans. No group of people in America has ever been banned from understanding, learning and talking and knowing their history by African-Americans. So once civil rights, Martin Luther King, the era of Martin Luther King, the civil rights movement had quote unquote won, it became more of a celebration of now and where we will go with less reflection on where we came from than who we are. So that disconnect still exists to a great degree. I personally believe based upon all that I've seen and learned that that is partially the reason for the big divide, the differentiated divide within the social indicators, educational indicators and many other indicators in America with African-Americans. Well, can you talk about that a little bit more specifically what that means to people maybe in certain places? What does that actually look like? That African-Americans do not have access to information or have never been afforded information about their origins. Is that the? That's it, but not as simply as that. Whenever I was doing my doctoral work, I did a lot of reading, not just always by choice. My professors had a role in that, reading on some of the theories around the culture of poverty.  I use terms like learn helplessness and hopelessness. I use words like community often. That learn hopelessness, learn helplessness exists in large part because people had no idea of their past. It became a point in America where the majority of the people had no knowledge, no awareness of their past other than the immediate past from slavery to where we are. And that impeded their vision of hope for greater connection to their origin. So we had to create a lot of things. Black people in America, enslaved people had to create a marriage ceremony, jump in the broom. We had no knowledge of what it was because it was banned. You couldn't talk about it, you could lose your life. You couldn't speak the language and there were things done to prevent that. So fast forward to where we are now. That sense of learn helplessness, that culture of poverty is compounded by the sense of learn helplessness. Helplessness is helping ourselves at the inability to help ourselves get out of something that we hope for that is more connected, more meaningful. But generally the hopes that we have are built upon this new sense of a culture, not the broad culture that other groups in America still maintain because they were never forced to give it up. And they passed that knowledge, those images, those stories from generation to generation. And that's why you have many groups having pilgrimage back to their motherland.  And you will be surprised at the number of people who will argue with you if you were to use the word African to them. Connection is gone and the hope to connect is a struggle to rebuild. That is astonishing. I shouldn't be astonished, I should have been educated. You begin to feel and see how it impacts learning in our formal learning settings. You begin to see how it impacts community's interaction in areas where people don't feel that they own are really connected. It's somebody else's anyway. So the love, the community isn't the same as if they were part of their own. And by connecting, I reconnecting with the continent of Africa, tribal Africa, people begin to see, well, I really have it better than I thought. Well, see ways of which I can make my home, my community much better. I can refocus, redirect my energies now and think of less of the hope. There are many institutions and many individuals that will still deal with the political hope but we have to deal with community. And it's a combination of the dreams of Martin Luther King, it's a combination of the vision of where we are now as a community by Malcolm X and many others. We thought they were divided so far apart but now fast forward to today, we see how closely connected they were for overall community, not just of African Americans but of all people in America. Well, that is interesting. You take us back to King too. So now, did Dr. King address any of this or was this, there were obviously choices that had to be made about the message and how to focus it, et cetera. But you mentioned Dr. King, did he relate to this immediate culture versus the huge long-term culture that we all have come from? There are scholars who are better able to dialogue on that particular aspect of Dr. Luther King's word than I could ever be. I can only say that in the 50s to 60s and beyond, there were immediate needs that need to be addressed. That, and they did not get addressed immediately, immediate and many times meant one year, two years, three years down the road. But the struggle was real and it was very pervasive and it was immediate at the time. I can say that I like to hope that those conversations took place, that the planning wasn't for if we get bread, what are we gonna do about growing the wheat? I like to think that they talked about making bread but actually getting the ingredients to make the bread and then making the bread as well as growing wheat for the long-term. I like to think that those conversations happened for what I have learned from my reading and my conversations, there were planning for a future beyond the idealistic dreams of one day we will be judged. But we know that Martin Luther King was killed, was assassinated, was murdered far too soon. And we also know that there were many organizations that came about as a result of the successes and the achievement. But we still find ourselves where we are now and we're talking about what we need to do. So that's an indicator as to how much has been done. Yes, yes, and certainly much has been done as certainly we see in his Washington DC, you know, a sculpture where, you know, he's moved mountains, he moved mountains very easily and he managed to be portrayed in that manner which I think is phenomenal. When you're traveling and talking and you're obviously going with others there and some of whom are African-American, do they seek to understand what other countries think of America's civil rights movement? Do you think, and do you find out about what they think of it? Yes, we do, and it varies and some of the opinions are good, some are not so good, but none of them are ugly that I have experienced. Oftentimes, African-Americans get viewed as Americans and whatever associations they have with Americans, sometimes they are transferred to African-Americans. All Americans in some places are rich, period. All of you are rich. So sometimes that is the opinion. Some, Stephanie, I've been in places where people, countries, almost everybody is seen sometimes, so have women. Everybody run up to me asking me for my autograph. So I'm a basketball player and I'm not tall enough to be a Korean and do a jabar, but in certain places, I'm black, I'm tall, I'm slim, I must be a basketball player, give me your autograph. Literally, I hit a long line of about 100 people in Beijing working on their autographs, but to them, I was a mountain. And there are stereotypes even in Africa, some of us. Many people really think that everyone loves rap and that we dance, but for the most part, when we take the time to talk, we visit homes, we visit community centers. We have meetings, convenings with the elderly of the tribes. We go to universities. We go to schools. We always do those things. We participate in the naming ceremony. By showing that level of respect and desire to learn them, we get it right back. By wanting to convene with the elders, we are not leaving this country and I'm not approving this itinerary until there is a meeting with the elders. There is a visit to a minimum of one school and a university and we want to interact. That's why we call it global vision connections and that we want to learn, we want to respect. And you must learn to respect in order to unite. And those are the three key words that we try to convey. And we are learning about them just as they are learning that Wesley Boykin is not a basketball player in America. Wonderful to hear that the Kapuna are high, which we call the elderly in the Hawaiian. They're high on your list for connecting and learning from it. That seems so wise. We're almost out of time. Is there anything else you'd like to say about your organization in relation to Dr. King or just about Dr. King? You're welcome. Yes, the Global Vision Connection works with travel agent. I'm not a travel agent. I'm a planner of educational opportunities, learning opportunities and connecting people with people. But I work with TPT based in California when I do trips to the Middle East, Egypt and countries in that area. I work with our co travel agency out of Chicago when I do West Africa. And for the first time I'm using them to do East Africa, we always leave the group tour, always leave the Saturday after July 4th. No matter what day it is, if July 4th is on a Saturday, we leave the following Saturday. And we range anywhere from 10 to 15 days. This year we would depart, I think Saturday after the 4th is July 9th that we will leave there and we will return around the 22nd, I think we will be visiting Kenya, Tanzania and Ethiopia. There are small groups staying on after Ethiopia instead of coming back to the United States, they would be going to Dubai. And so that's a bonus, mostly for the ladies. We're all eager to get back out there and see the world after all of our containment by this viral threat. So hopefully your trip will be able to go and we'll all be able to join in. So take a look at Dr. Boykin's website and see how much you're interested in going so far away from Hawaii if you are. But I really appreciate, Wesley, you're coming on and sharing on this special day. And I've learned a lot from what you had to say and I think the viewers too will say that they've some new insights from what you've had to say to us. I'm really amazed at how much you have covered in this very brief show. But I really appreciate it and wish you luck. So let's stay in touch and maybe you can come back and tell us a little bit more about it. And I'll sign off as Stephanie Stoll-Dalton, the host for the state of the state of Hawaii. And this is Think Tech Hawaii. And thank you for viewing and mahalo for being here with us. Thank you so much.